It takes a special breed of gamer to playDark Souls. The kind of gamer that played throughꦺ all of the originalContrawit✅hout using a single continue. The kind of gamer that playedSnaketo the point where the entire screen was complete𓂃ly full. The kind of gamer that playedFaster Than Light, andwon.
In other words,Dark Soulsgamers are masochists of the highest order; they derive the most pleasure from games that put them in the most pain. And fromꦬ that pain also comes comedy as those players try to justify the torture they put themselves through.
Let me clearly stateꦅ for the record that I am not aDark Soulsplayer. I don’t get any joy from making it to the first boss and dying horribly, of then having to march back to where I’d died to regain all my collected souls, only to die horribly to that same boss all over again. I don’t get pleasure from making it just another few inches into a world filled with terror and death at e🙈very turn. I like my games to be whimsical and story-driven and not make me want to tear my eyeballs out with a rusty spoon.
But I do appreᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚciate the blood, sweat, and endless tears that comprise the steady diet ofDark Soulsplayers, anꦗd the equally endless memes that diet produceꦯs.
Her𝓀e are some of the dankes🌳t memes you can find forDark Souls.
16 To Purgatory And Beyond
We begin o🤪ur journey through the valley of death - er, I mean Lordran, with this meme that is probably familiar to you if you’ve been on the internet for any length of time sinceToy Storycame out🔯. Which was coincidentally aಞround the same time the internet became a thing.
The irony of the meme is that the original movie doesn’t even have anything remotely close to the same line in it. While the image itself is based off a scene i🌳nToy Story 2, Buzz never actually says “X everywhere” at all, and instead simply makes🦋 a vague pronouncement as to the relatively pl꧒entiful amount of “shmos” at summer camp.
Like many things on the internet, it wasn’t until another website, 420chan.org, made🌱 an outline template based on🌺 the scene from the movie that the meme actually took off.
15 How To Catch The Sun In Dark Souls
Dark Soulsis one of those games that become so prolific that crossovers are basically inevitable. Take this one here as Solaire tries to capture the Pokémon Solro🏅ck. Note his clever use of poffins to lure the Solrock in and the perpetually skeptical expression of the Solrock. However, his use of a cardboard box as the capture implement seems ill-advised as Solrock can learn several fire and psychic moves that would easily allow it to escape. Thus, Solaire’s quest to capture the sun seems doomed to continue.
We’ll ac𒆙tually be seeing a lot of Solaire as he🍨 seems to be a fan-favorite of theDark Soulsseries. Just somet🐎hing about his sunny disposition seems to have that effect on peop🎀le, I suppose.
14 Friendly Players Leave Helpful Notes… Sometimes
One of the more interesting aspects toDark Soulsis its multiplayer capabilities. Players can’t communicate directly via vocal or text chat commands, but they can communic🏅ate by gesture or by leaving helpful notes on the ground.
Well, not always helpful. As you can see above, sometimes players can leave less than altruistic messages for other players to find and fall prey to. In this case quite literally as this hapless knight is tricked by another player’s message into diving headlong into a M𝄹imic.
In case you're 🍷new to the game, you can leave messages by grabbing the Orange Guidance Soapstone and then using it from 🐻your inventory. But try not to leave awful messages like this one -Dark Soulsis hard enough without other players settingಞ their own traps for people.
13 Most Games Have A Tutorial. Dark Souls, On The Oཧther Hand…
If you were to sit down and ღplay any modern game, there’s usually a section where the game will coddle you like a newborn babe and ease you into the game’s mechanics by showing you what each button does and how to maneuver within the game world. Often they’ll even let you go about learning for as long as you want and not force you out into the cruel outdoors until you’re good and ready.
NotDark Souls. Sure, there’s a brief written explanation of what your buttons do as you run past, but the game doesn’t stop to let you figure out the limits of your abilities - you learn that on the fly. You’ll also run 💝into your first boss in the initial 5 minutes of playing, and the game doesn’t give you any help in figuring out how to kill it.Dark Soulsis a very “learn by doing” kinda game.
12 All Those Russian Mimics Are Ruining My Game
Mimics are hardly unique toDark Souls. Y𒅌ou can find those treasure chest-shaped monsters in countless other games, fromFinal FantasytoCastlevania, but they’re usuall🤪y also repositories for tons of loot so the cost of a good scare is usually worth it🦩 for what the Mimic is holding.
NotDark Souls. InDark Souls, Mimics are just plain ‘ol jerks, looking almost like a real chest but will siphon off a good amount of your health if you fall for its clever disguise. That’s why you learn pretty quickly that chests can be just as much a trap as anything else, and it’s a good idea to sit around for a few seconds to see if that chest moves before deciding to slip your hand inside. A❀ mimic will usually give itself away if you’re patient enough.
11 How Not To Die In Dark Souls
Being aDark Soulsplayer is lꦑike being in ♛an exclusive club that the only requirement for membership is that you suffer through its challenging learning curve until you finally begin to make progress. While playerscangive advice to help new players along, they usually don’t. It goes against the ethos of the game to provide more assistance than the game ♓itself does, and players tend to use ⭕a standard refrain when asked for guidance or encouragement.
“Git gud” has thus become the rallying cry ofDark Soulsplayers. Why should anyone else help you if nearly everyone else who’s be𝔉aten the game has done so completely on theꦕir own, with only their wits and reflexes to help them?Dark Soulsdoesn’t coddle you, and neither will they.
10 As If The Game Wasn’t Hard Enough…
At any time, at any moment, you could become the target of an assassin. Not an in-game monster (since everyone and everything is ﷽out to kill you having a specific assassin seems to be a lit🌳tle redundant), but an actual player.
Players can “invade” oth๊er games to take on💙 the host of that world in honorable combat. Or dishonorable, as is often the case.
Thankfully, mostDark Soulsplayers are the honorable type and will only engage in player versus player combat if the other guy is of a similar level. After all, players only get into aꦛ game likeDark Soulsfor the challenge, and killing a newbie is hardly challenging. But if you’re still having trouble with online players coming 🐲to ruin your day, you can always cut the cord and just play offline.
9 Skyrim Vs Dark Souls
There’s a lot of comparison betweenSkyrimandDark Souls, which seems odd as they’re completely different games. One is a third person action RPG that’s more difficult tꩲhan trying to extract a rabid weasel from your grandmother’s corpse, and the other isSkyrim. And yet, due to their shared fantasy setting and ubiqu🌼ity amongst gamers, you’ll see the two games compared more often than not.
And most often the compar𒁏ison has to do with how much more punishingDark Soulsis overSkyrim. Whereas Skyrim can often feel like a g🃏ame without consequen🎉ce to your action, allowing the player to have fun in literally any way they want,Dark Soulsconstricts that fun into a very narrow and focused ban꧒d actions. There is less to do inDark SoulsthanSkyrimsimply becauseDark Soulspunishes play💙ers for misbehaving far more harshly thanSkyrimever does, such as with an arrow to the knee.
8 Vitality, The Forgotten Stat
I admit that I often forget about Vitality as I’m making a chꦐaracter in any game, but inDark SoulsI pay attention to my vitality as much as I do every other stat. If that makes me an un-gud player then that’s🌄 fine - I never said I was aDark Soulsfan.
BecauseDark Soulsis a game of trial and error and memory as much as anything else, Vitality is often seen as 🐽a stat unworthy of a trueDark Soulsplayer. A trueDark Soulsfan has already memorized the attack patterns of every foe and boss they could come against, so putting points into Vitality is tantamount to ad💟mitting that there areꦅ gaps in your knowledge of the game.
Plus Dexterity is the one true stat anyways.
7 Touch The Darkness Within Me
Uh. Yeah. That’s a double entendre I wasn’t expe💞cting from a𒅌 game as macabre asDark Souls. I me♕an, you basically turn into a zombie every five minutes (or at least I do, since as I’ve mentioned, I’m not “gud”).
However, as a game that’s targeted at the typical gamer audience of young males, there are still some examples of ra🔴mpant sexism. A common practice amongstDark Soulsplayers is to place a message on the ground saying “Gre𓃲a𝔉t Chest Ahead” just before reaching a cutscene featuring a female NPC.
Which seems a tad disrespectful co🉐nsidering the🐽 player can just as easily be female and also have a great chest. But this isDark Souls, and🍰 if you’re not into a bit of antagonism you probably shouldn’t be playing this game.