Current Events > Youtuber challenged his 69-year-old dad to beat Dark Souls.

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https://80.lv/articles/youtuber-challenged-his-69-year-old-dad-to-beat-dark-souls

His dad really disliked video games beforehand, probably because he didn't really understand the appeal, but Youtuber Babe1Babe2 challenged him to beat Dark Souls. He took his son up on the offer and decided to finally play it. After roughly 9 months, he was able to fully beat Dark Souls and he really enjoyed it! It brought him a better understanding of video games, brought him closer to his son, and he's actually now in the process of trying to beat Elden Ring, all of his own choice!

I love heartwarming stories like this. Here's a video the Youtuber made if you're curious, it's cut together like an interview piece with his dad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t76sOtfvgNk

Bump I suppose. Maybe having "Youtuber" as the first word of the title made some people immediately ignore the topic, lol.

BakonBitz posted...

Bump I suppose. Maybe having "Youtuber" as the first word of the title made some people immediately ignore the topic, lol.

Also the 2nd word being challenged

Some people might have glanced at the title and saw something about a YouTube challenge and stopped reading

Some people really hate youtube

Did the 69 year old man beat it on easy mode?

Man I will never not be grateful that I grew up in a awesome video game loving family where every single one of us aside from 1 person (my mom. She tried to play super mario bros., fell down the first pit and never touched a console game ever again. She sticks to stuff like bejewled, farmville, solitaire etc.) was playing vidya' games.

That story is pretty neat though, a parent actually attempting to understand their kid's hobby and bond with them.

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Lol, it's all good. I'm not too pressed if people don't post in the topic.

A_Good_Boy posted...

Did the 69 year old man beat it on easy mode?

He buffed himself with a bunch of flasks, health, and used heavy armor while being overencumbered, so he had a fairly useless dodge roll.

"Youtuber attempts to kill his dad"

Saw this on my feed earlier but hadn't watched it yet.

Another nail in the coffin for the easy mode yappers

haha, 69...

Mad-Dogg posted...

Man I will never not be grateful that I grew up in a awesome video game loving family where every single one of us aside from 1 person (my mom. She tried to play super mario bros., fell down the first pit and never touched a console game ever again. She sticks to stuff like bejewled, farmville, solitaire etc.) was playing vidya' games.

That story is pretty neat though, a parent actually attempting to understand their kid's hobby and bond with them.

My mom was a huge Crash and Spyro fan back in the day. She would even play the games on her own while my sister and I were at school lol. I remember we would get the 4 player adaptor and mom and dad would race us in CTR. Good times

My dad doesnt know shit about gaming but he still looks back fondly on that and always says I like the one Crash game where we race

My mom isn't a gamer, but she did try Super Mario Bros back in the day. I don't think she would ever be able to beat Dark Souls.

BlueBoy675 posted...

My mom was a huge Crash and Spyro fan back in the day. She would even play the games on her own while my sister and I were at school lol. I remember we would get the 4 player adaptor and mom and dad would race us in CTR. Good times

My dad doesnt know shit about gaming but he still looks back fondly on that and always says I like the one Crash game where we race

My dad was the one that got all of us into gaming growing up. His favorite games where the scroll shooters (games like 1942, gradius, r-type etc), run n' guns like contra and metal slug, sports games and beat'em ups. Every single beat'em up you can think of in the 8, 16, and 32 bit days i more than likely beat it on co-op with my dad.

I set up a old PS2 n' some emulators and this openbor program thing on his PC (fans make their own weird n' wacky beatem ups with the openbor stuff) and so even now he'll be chilling in his entertainment area playing some kind of beatem up (he bought his own copy of urban reign and mortal kombat shaolin monks years back) or metal slug.

But yeah I was pretty fortunate and never had a lack of people to game with growing up. I used to do a 4 player run through tales of symphonia on the gamecube with my brother, sister, and one of my nephews or nieces. I do miss those days.

Cant even imagine my dad doing this.

Thats pretty crazy. Its like not knowing how to swim and getting thrown in a pool to do the 1500m.

HudGard posted...

Thats pretty crazy. Its like not knowing how to swim and getting thrown in a pool to do the 1500m.

Right? A game like Dark Souls being the first game his dad ever legitimately played (he mentioned Halo was really hard to control for him so he must've only played it for a few minutes back then) and beaten is crazy.

Dark Souls was a blessing to this earth

BakonBitz posted...

His dad really disliked video games beforehand, probably because he didn't really understand the appeal, but Youtuber Babe1Babe2 challenged him to beat Dark Souls. He took his son up on the offer and decided to finally play it. After roughly 9 months, he was able to fully beat Dark Souls and he really enjoyed it! It brought him a better understanding of video games, brought him closer to his son, and he's actually now in the process of trying to beat Elden Ring, all of his own choice!

Sweet.

Fable 2 got my dad into video games, before he thought they where all just like old arcade games. Short repetative actions for score points.

Fable 2 made him invested and was easy for him to just pick up and play. He actual got all the achievments even the online ones by going to an old man forum and trading the dolls with other old timers.

He now loves games he can get imersed in like subnautica. It's given us alot more to talk about on our weekly walks.

Youtube videos like this is wholesome, i love seeing different generations getting to bond over this sort of thing.

9 months? Geez, his dad should have made a bet about beating it before he gets a kid

I saw this video a few days ago. Pretty funny idea.

BakonBitz posted...

He buffed himself with a bunch of flasks, health, and used heavy armor while being overencumbered, so he had a fairly useless dodge roll.

Poise is broken enough in DS1 that this is actually a completely legitimate strat. I did a run where I was over encumbered for as much of the game as possible (aka I rushed the stone armor right after the asylum) and basically face tanked everything except BoC and Gywndolin and it was one of the easiest runs I've ever done in those games. Barely anything has the DPS to outpace your healing capabilities even before you get the Rite of Kindling and it doesn't use stamina so you can just swing away then heal while your stamina recovers and repeat.

It was a good video, and I liked the stuff at the end where the son indulges in his dad's hobby or work. IT was really sweet. =D

New insult unlocked

My dad could beat your dad in Dark Souls!

A_Good_Boy posted...

Did the 69 year old man beat it on easy mode?

is there one?

FFTHEWINNER posted...

is there one?

Technically most Souls games have "easy modes" in terms of what kind of build to aim for but that's getting into a whole other discussion.

Anyone can do it, these games are not some insurmountable challenge.