The Dark Souls of Idea Channel Episodes
YouTube
- Creator
- PBS Idea Channel (Channel)
- Watched
- 2016-06-02
- Published
- 2016-06-02
- Category
- Education
- Duration
- 13m 48s
- Link
- Watch on YouTube ↗
- Tags
- dark souls dark souls 2 dark souls 3 difficulty ds3 franz kafka games gaming hard idea channel kafka kafkaesque metaphor mike rugnetta pbs pbs digital studios pbs idea channel philosophy playstation praise the sun sony soulsian video games videogame
Description
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea The Dark Souls of Everything Tweet us! http://bit.ly/pbsideachanneltwitter Idea Channel Facebook! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelfacebook Talk about this episode on reddit! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelreddit Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelirc Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com Dark Souls is constantly used as a metaphor. Anything resembling the game’s design or difficulty is dubbed the Dark Souls of its ilk. But why is this the case? What is it about Dark Souls that makes it so easy for people to stand it against such a wide array of things? Much like Franz Kafka and the Kafkaesque, Dark Souls has the “Soulsian,” and the comparisons are even applied to things that predate its time. In today's episode we explain why we think this is the case, and it's not just because it's a difficult game! Let us know what you think in the comments below! Click here to skip past the Dark Souls game backstory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaJb5juMiNY#t=3m13s -------------------------------------------------------------------- CHECK OUT OUR NEW T-SHIRT! http://bit.ly/1U8fS1B Designed by: http://artsparrow.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- TWEET OF THE WEEK: https://twitter.com/SFBTom/status/735858391545970688 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ASSET LINKS: Assets used in this episode can be found in this doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GzVY62KWsZ6J_cTXhhQ92SQTvCtVQJjDD7ViOKqOlEI/edit?usp=sharing -------------------------------------------------------------------- MUSIC at 5:06 Monotone - Minimalist https://soundcloud.com/montone-2/minimalist -------------------------------------------------------------------- Written and hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) (who also has a podcast! Reasonably Sound: http://bit.ly/1sCn0BF) Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com)