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Back to the ol' grind. What is this game? Dark Souls 2 is an action RPG released by FromSoftware in March 2014. The game is the sequel to the original Dark Souls, which is in turn the spiritual successor to Demon's Souls. You play as an undead character in a fairly open-world. Exploration is a major gameplay element, and finding new paths to old places is common, similar to the Metroid and Castlevania series. Otherwise, you pick up a weapon, beat dudes up, and take their weapon to go beat up more dudes. The plot is pretty minimal, as least for what the game actually shows you. A long time ago, there was a shiny city. Now it's not so shiny, and we (the hero?) jump into a whirlpool. Then some ugly old lady shows her gnarly mouth and we get plopped into Things Betwixt. Another one? Geez, hasn't this been done enough? Shut up. Yes. But we've done this once, and now we're doing it again. Double Blind? What is this bullshit about? It means our results will be statistically significant!  This time, it's not just me playing. Nietzschean is behind the controller as well, and he's as blind as I am going into this. We'll be trading control every death/bonfire rest. Most awesomely, we're not going to be agreeing on a plan for the character. As far as my style goes, I played Dark Souls with heavy armor and the biggest, baddest sword I could find. This worked well. I'm going to switch it up this time, but I have NO idea what that crazy basket-case Nietzschean is going to do. So what's the story? Hell if we know! We're dead. We jumped into a whirlpool (because reasons, I guess?) and now we're punching and slicing our way through the world. Spoiler Policy No spoilers. Laugh at us later for missing that totally obvious thing how did you not see it you baddies, but don't tell us ahead of time. If we get stuck, feel free to point us in the right direction. Hopefully with two sets of eyes, this doesn't happen too much. Upload Schedule We'll update two episodes at a time, twice a week. That's roughly two hours of game play, barring unforeseen circumstances. We're going to aim for Tuesdays and Saturdays. EPISODE LIST Episode 1: Hold On to your Souls! Episode 2: The Left-Hand Path Episode 3: Barrels of Fun Episode 4: Nietzschean is Terrible Episode 5: Talk This Way Episode 6: This Old House Episode 7: Ready, Steady, Go Episode 8: It Might Be Giant Episode 9: Whip It Episode 10: Dead Ends Episode 11: You Died Episode 12: Again. You Died Again Episode 13: F*cking Finally Episode 14: Storming the Bastille Episode 15: Hats for Everyone! Episode 16: Invisibullshit Episode 17: Curses! Episode 18: A Sober Player is an Unhappy Player Episode 19: Covered with Scorpions Episode 20: The Dog That Never Ends Episode 21: Surprise! You're Dead. Episode 22: The Peasant Uprising Episode 23: ...So Where's the Dragon? Episode 24: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Badger! Episode 25: Not the Deadmines Episode 26: Drunk Souls 2: The Lance Edition Episode 27: AI Abuse, You Say? Episode 28: All Hail the Undead Pope! Episode 29: Arachnophobia Episode 30: Laserachnophobia Episode 31: Starring Badger Sutherland Episode 32: Pope Maul Episode 33: *Lightsaber Sounds* Episode 34: Gravity Episode 35: Rat King Cole Episode 36: Guess Who? Episode 37: We're Back! Episode 38: Kentucky Smith and the Man-Eating Box Episode 39: Back to Square One Episode 40: The One Where We Get Another Whip Episode 41: The Adventures of Master Glencour Episode 42: Harvest Valley: Friends of Majula Town Episode 43: Sun Brodger Episode 44: Like a Like Like Episode 45: More Gutters! More Prizes! I Love It! Episode 46: Toro! Episode 47: Copse-Camping Episode 48: Almost 33 Minutes of Bashing our Heads into a Wall and Dying Over and Over: Part 2. Episode 49: Back in the Saddle Episode 50: It's Time to D-D-D-D-D-Dead. Episode 51: Mild-Mannered Pate by Day... Episode 52: The Hard Way Episode 53: The Stupid Way Episode 54: The Smart Way Episode 55: The Easy Way Episode 56: Try Hitting It Episode 57: Nothing to See Here, Move Along Episode 58: Nietzschean Goes Crunk Episode 59: Kninjas! Episode 60: Do It Again! Do It Again! Episode 61: We Live! Episode 62: E-Quality Builds Episode 63: Double Boss Rush! Episode 64: The Pursuit of Hap-YOU DIED Episode 65: Midget: Single. Episode 66: Poison Bullet Hell DrTempest fucked around with this message at 09:39 on Nov 13, 2016 |
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Feb 27, 2016 23:11
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Episode 1: Hold On to your Souls! and Episode 2: The Left-Hand Path now up!
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Feb 27, 2016 23:14
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Episode 5: Talk This Way and Episode 6: This Old House now up! Lots of backtracking on these episodes. Also talking with cats. So I tried at one point to find an illusory wall, hit "X" and drank an Estus. Is it "X" on the Playstation or Xbox controller?
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Mar 5, 2016 23:06
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Episode 7: Ready, Steady, Go and Episode 8: It Might Be Giant now up! We're finally onto new areas to explore! Now watch as we miss that totally awesome item.
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Mar 10, 2016 01:03
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Episode 9: Whip It and Episode 10: Dead Ends now up! Stay tuned for us beating our faces into the next boss!
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Mar 13, 2016 07:55
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Thanks for all the information, guys. Now have two deathreel episodes! Episode 11: You Died and Episode 12: Again. You Died Again
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Mar 16, 2016 01:18
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Episode 13: F*cking Finally and Episode 14: Storming the Bastille now up! I'll upload my notes here in a bit. Less drunk than Nietzscheans, though.
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Mar 20, 2016 04:37
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Episode 15: Hats for Everyone! and Episode 16: Invisibullshit now up! Nietzschean loves this zone.
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Mar 24, 2016 01:57
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Episode 17: Curses! and Episode 18: A Sober Player is an Unhappy Player are up! My bad. Forgot about this whole... thing. Life getting in the way. Anyways, enjoy!
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Mar 30, 2016 14:08
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Episode 19: Covered with Scorpions and Episode 20: The Dog That Never Ends now up!Lprsti99 posted:So, I might be jumping the gun a bit, but I'm worried I'll forget to say something by the time you post the episodes: Enemies in the Doors of Pharros area (and another we've yet to see) respawn infinitely, for a very specific reason. Funny you mention that.
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Apr 3, 2016 05:42
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Episode 21: Surprise! You're Dead. and Episode 22: The Peasant Uprising now up! The moment we've all been
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Apr 10, 2016 00:03
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Episode 23: ...So Where's the Dragon? and Episode 24: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Badger! now up! I think we're going to drop down to one set of two videos per week for a bit. Life has been a bit rough lately. But enough of that! Enjoy, guys!
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Apr 18, 2016 00:07
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Episode 25: Not the Deadmines and Episode 26: Drunk Souls 2: The Lance Edition now up! Oh man, we got lost. We got better, though.
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Apr 25, 2016 08:51
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So far we have a gimmick going where I end up being the only one that the Pursuer actually pursues. And every time I get loving murdered by him.
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Apr 29, 2016 20:54
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Episodes out! Episode 27: AI Abuse, You Say? and Episode 28: All Hail the Undead Pope! now up!
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May 3, 2016 15:17
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Episode 29: Arachnophobia and Episode 30: Laserachnophobia now up! Hope y'all like spiders. I know I do.
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May 10, 2016 18:57
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Fixed! Sorry about that, guys.
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May 10, 2016 20:58
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Episode 31: Starring Badger Sutherland and Episode 32: Pope Maul now up! We're back! And going to be updating more. Life problems have given a cease-fire for now.
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May 19, 2016 23:36
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Episode 33: *Lightsaber Sounds* and Episode 34: Gravity now up!
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May 21, 2016 20:04
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Episode 35: Rat King Cole and Episode 36: Guess Who? now up! Enjoy!
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So, bad news, guys. Sorry about the severe lack of updates. The LP's done, technical issues. My computer decided it wanted to upgrade to Windows 10, freak out, and need a fresh installation twice. So somewhere in that, the savefile went missing. I wish we could've finished this, and honestly, I could probably work my way back to get everything caught up by watching the videos, but that's a lot of work, and I don't want to hate the game. Plus, I'll be getting a second job here soon and I've been into other things lately. Thanks for tuning in, at least! And remember: Remember to make backups.
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We are alive! Kinda. I've been talking with NGDBSS, who was kind enough to offer making our save file, roughly, from scratch. So now that it's opportune, we're going to start posting the last of our reservoir while we get the files going! Enjoy Episode 37: We're Back! and Episode 38: Kentucky Smith and the Man-Eating Box. Again, thanks NGDBSS! DrTempest fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Jul 25, 2016 |
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Jul 25, 2016 03:27
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Episode 39: Back to Square One and Episode 40: The One Where We Get Another Whip now up!
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Episode 41: The Adventures of Master Glencour and Episode 42: Harvest Valley: Friends of Majula Town now up!
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Aug 3, 2016 22:37
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Episode 43: Sun Brodger and Episode 44: Like a Like Like now up! Just four more episodes until we're ready to go.
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Aug 10, 2016 22:40
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Episode 45: More Gutters! More Prizes! I Love It! and Episode 46: Toro! now up!
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Aug 20, 2016 21:27
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Episode 47: Copse-Camping and Episode 48: Almost 33 Minutes of Bashing our Heads into a Wall and Dying Over and Over: Part 2. now up! Next set of episodes starts us with our new file. Until then, enjoy!
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Episode 49: Back in the Saddle and Episode 50: It's Time to D-D-D-D-D-Dead. now up!
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Aug 30, 2016 19:44
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Episode 51: Mild-Mannered Pate by Day... and Episode 52: The Hard Way now up! Watch us butcher ourselves through Earthen Peak some more! We're great at this game.
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NGDBSS posted:Ouch, that sequence of runs with Mytha made me wince. Though at least you dealt a lot of damage on the one buffed run. (I really need to try out lances at some point to make them work, because in your hands they seem to be engines of destruction when aimed properly.) There's a way to make that fight easier elsewhere in the tower, though it's obtuse enough that as with Adaptability I will generally reveal the spoiler in person regardless of how much they might otherwise care about playing blindly. At the least, keep in mind that poison is actively being pumped into the tower in both Mytha's boss chamber and the Pharros Lockstone face. How do you think it got there? We found it, actually! The next episode is called "The Easy Way" for this reason.
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Sep 2, 2016 06:08
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Episode 53: The Stupid Way and Episode 54: The Smart Way now up! I swear, this had us tripped up longer than it should have. Ah, well. Enjoy!
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Sep 7, 2016 22:44
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Episode 55: The Easy Way and Episode 56: Try Hitting It now up! We're slowly reverting back to DS1 styles.
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Sep 13, 2016 04:54
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Episode 57: Nothing to See Here, Move Along and Episode 58: Nietzschean Goes Crunk now up! I hate lizards like Nietzschean hates sobriety. Enjoy!
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Sep 15, 2016 05:09
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Episode 59: Kninjas! and Episode 60: Do It Again! Do It Again! now up! Watch us be spectacularly bad at fighting stuff in Iron Keep.
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Sep 24, 2016 05:44
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Episode 61: We Live! and Episode 62: E-Quality Builds now up! Iron Keep was a grand ol' time, once we got past the furnace room.
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Oct 1, 2016 05:12
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Episode 63: Double Boss Rush! and Episode 64: The Pursuit of Hap-YOU DIED now up! So, on the topic of exploration, we'll be going back to a couple places we didn't really explore in about 10 episodes. I've been playing on another character without going farther than we've already got on here and WOW we missed a lot of obvious stuff.
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Oct 4, 2016 22:10
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Gimbal lock posted:I'm real sad that they turned tail and fled that fog door at the top of the lift, past the old iron king. We go into this area very soon, by episode 70! And oh god, fun times are ahead...
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Oct 5, 2016 23:39
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Episode 65: Midget: Single. and Episode 66: Poison Bullet Hell now up! So next update cycle is a bit odd. Episode 68 got lost in the laundry, but we didn't really... do anything. Also, the opening post is updated with all episodes listed there again, because  .
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Oh yeah, updates! Sorry, been stuck on a boss and hating this game. Episode 67: Drangleic Castle, Finally! Episode 68 is missing, but we didn't really DO a whole lot. We ended up walking into the DLC area in Shrine of Winter, noticed it was foggy like in Shaded Woods and Noped the gently caress out of there. I think we started Brume's Tower, got the Dex Ring and did a few preliminary deaths. Nothing too exciting or important. Episode 69: Right Up There Episode 70: Oh, THIS Place Episodes are back on track, at least for now! Sorry about the delay, guys. Back to this game's 4 hour+ boss attempt.
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