Dark Souls 3 - Let's Play Part 1: Cemetery of Ash

Dark Souls III is an action role-playing game set in a third-person perspective. According to director Hidetaka Miyazaki, the game's gameplay design "follows closely from Dark Souls II". Players are equipped with a variety of weapons including shortbows, explosives like fire bombs, greatswords and dual-wielding swords to fight against enemies, and shields that can be used to deflect an enemies' attack and protect the player from suffering damage. In addition, attacks can be evaded through dodge-rolling. Bonfires, which serve as checkpoints, also return from previous installments.

Ashes, according to Miyazaki, will play an important role in the game. Magic is also featured in the game. Each attack has two different styles. One of them is standard attack, while another provides power-ups to players, and is slightly more powerful. When performing miracles and spells, the players' magic points are consumed and decreased. In order to refilled these points, they need to consume Ash Estus Flask. There are two different Estus Flasks in the game. One of them can help refill magic points, while another refill hit points. Combat and movements were made faster and more fluid in Dark Souls III. Several players' movements, such as backstepping and swinging heavy weapons, can be performed more rapidly, allowing players to deal more damage in a short period of time.

Throughout the game, players encounter different types of enemies, each with different behaviors. Some of them change their combat pattern during battles. New combat features are introduced in Dark Souls III, including "Ready Stance", which are special abilities for players that allow them to deal much more damage to enemies than ordinary attacks are capable of. Small gravestones are also introduced. These gravestones light up when interacted with and not only serve as players' torches, but also provide additional lore to the game.

The game puts more focus on role-playing, in which the character builder is expanded and weapons are improved to provide more tactical options to players. The game features fewer maps than its predecessor Dark Souls II, but levels were interconnected and were made larger, which encourages exploration. The agility stat from Dark Souls II was removed from Dark Souls III. The game also features multiplayer elements, like the previous games in the series.

All recordings are on an Elgato HD60.

Dark Souls 3 Let's Play

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All recordings are done using OBS, an Elgato HD60 Pro, and a Logitech Pro X Headset.

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Dark Souls 3 - Let's Play Part 1: Cemetery of Ash

FightinCowboy

[remy]

This game is so solid, I died during the character creation.

[berrybrospodcast]

In every let's play I seen, it's been the same way

"Everyone's gonna play the knight, so I won't play the knight"
*nobody ends up playing the knight*

[GTL]

For about two weeks, I wasn't able to log in to the ds3 game server. The game was so hard I couldn't even beat the goddamn menu

[briarjensen]

You should know any true gamer spends atleast a full hour creating the perfect facial features on their character.

[nikolamilojic]

My friend, its 2023, and for some of us, you will always be relevant and we will always rewatch this videos to relive them with you

[mikeskates]

This is one of those games that no matter how old it gets its still exciting to come back to. The music, atmosphere, and gameplay just all around a masterpiece

[MrNottyNotty]

spends 15 minutes creating character face ... spends the rest of the game looking at the back of the character's head

[CorruptLeviathan]

back again in 2022, watching on my birthday and the nostalgia is real. I tried dark souls because of your channel and I think this was the first video of yours I watched. Thanks for all the years of content.

[jurgenbuntinx]

First boss took me 12 tries... the guy with the samurai sword on the stairs took me over 30

[Heyitdave]

You deserve as much credit as the Rad Brad lol. Your actually really really good at games and provides great details and useful tips! Love that your still here and providing fresh content and new play guides!

[kippstudley]

The “Yes. Indeed.” Hits all the memories of this game. Countless new characters, its the dialogue you hear before you ‘skip’ each time.

[johnroome]

Everything about this game is so fluid and beautiful, it almost puts the past two to shame

[motkineko]

This is one of the things I appreciate about you Cowboy - you are not afraid to post your first experience - with all the mistakes and deaths. Which matters a lot. It's easy to see YouTubers as these perfect players which is discouraging. With vids like these, it helps knowing that you too are human, you too struggle and you grow. And so can anyone else.

[wulfila]

"You can design your character's appearance to make him look however you want"
Me: Just makes Geralt

[ItsKomical]

my favorite dark souls youtuber is back in action, i could shed a tear

[TheRealHades]

Cowboy : *Picks Pyromancer*

Me : *Sighs as I search for his strength build playthrough.*

[JessFromMead]

Boss Grows a third arm, and a dragon

Slaps $60 down on the counter

[JiangJoker]

It's genuinely heartwarming how excited you are during the opening cinematic!

[kaymojohnson]

So glad to come across a lets play of a good game with a commentator who's actually familiar with said game AND skilled with the sticks!

[theepicsniperminecraftte]

14:05 is when he's done with character creation :)