What exactly was his DS3 stream? What are the key points that made it so bad?
A little history of his first playthrough and his thoughts on the series for context.
- he thoroughly enjoyed his first playthrough, saying it was potentially the best in the series
- he received criticism that Arbiter held his hand too much by telling him where everything was and fighting most of the bosses for him, said it wasn't true
- after finishing DS3 he rated the series: DS3 > DS1 > DS2, or DS1 > DS3 > DS2 depending on when he was saying so
- eventually Robs patented contrarianism kicked in and now claims DS3 is the worst in the series(with sometimes DS1 being the worst) and DS2 is the best
- he began watching cheese tutorials on YouTube on how to effortlessly cheese bosses, even streaming DS1 and cheesing the Capra Demon without even entering the boss door (this will be relevant for his DS3 second playthrough)
- he finally admitted that Arbiter did hold his hand too much during his first playthrough so he was going to play it a second time, basically a DSP style "redemption run"
Now to his second playthrough.
- it was immediately obvious that he went into his second playthrough wanting to hate it, criticizing every minor thing many of which are present in DS2 which he now suddenly loves
- it was also immediately obvious that he looked up everything beforehand, where to go, how to fight bosses, and cheese tactics
- Rob had looked up videos on how to cheese bosses, which he essentially even admits to doing
- it was Robs first time playing through the DLC since he never did with his first playthrough
- the most obvious and egregious cheezing was his first time fighting Slave Knight Gael, often cited as one of the best fights in the franchise
- he didn't even attempt to fight Gael a single time, instead he cheesed the fight by using the weapon that causes a poison mist and poisoned him and ran away the entire time
- not even one swing on him, just poison, run away, when the poison wears off poison him again, repeat until Gael died
- Rob then claimed that it was a bad boss fight and that DS3 was the worst
I don't even care if he doesn't like DS3. It's his constant flip flopping that has a clear contrarian tint to it that's the problem. How do you go from jerking off DS3 claiming it's possibly the best in the series to saying DS3 is the worst in the series, while ALSO going from DS2 is the worst in the series to DS2 is the best in the series? All while never touching DS3 until he started his second playthrough? What changed that caused that sudden drastic shift in both games switching positions? That second playthrough was painful to watch. Constant bitching and crying. Constant YouTube tutorial knowledge. All while this was supposed to be a "redemption run" due to having his hand held the first time. He made DSP look like an expert.