Why Elden Ring Nightreign is ALREADY The Best Game of 2025
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
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ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN is a standalone adventure within the ELDEN RING universe, crafted to bring a new gaming experience. Join forces with other players to take on the creeping night and the dangers within. Here is why I think it will be the best game of 2025!
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Slop
The slop in question: 1:50 🤤
The problem truly is that fromsoft used to be niche and not alot of people played it but after elden rings insane success everyone and their mom knows of them. Making all the small brained players coming out of the woodworks telling people its slop when they dont even realize fromsoftware isnt about the destruction of the gaming industry.
Yeah it has a massive pop culture presence now. I think people are just so done with muliplayer bs
@joegella I personally haven't played mp in nearly 6 years last games I played religiously pvp wise was r6 siege and it was so dang toxic it left a bad taste in my mouth so I just stay clear of pvp games. Waste of time and money.
Coop games are superior to pvp games, I am hyped for new battlefield games tho
Are we pretending that NG+ doesn’t allow you to have your new intended build right from the start or…….am I missing something???
Ng+ doesn't allow you to experience leveling and power scaling, so it's a much lesser experience.
This is why the dlc created an additional leveling system
4:50! This sums up my entire mindset when starting any game! Blessing and a curse for me as I'm so focused on completing my build I rarely actually get to enjoy the first quarter of the games!
i actually disagree because in games like elden ring your build is something that is built overtime. every new item you find can change the build.
As someone who loves to re play elden ring and make every single build imaginable (i have the same logic as you, i want to make my build as fast as possible to use it the whole Play through) cheat engine has literally saved my experience of the game. I know some people are going to say that's a wrong way to play the game but i enjoy it so idc..
I limit myself and i only give myself the components that are absolutely crucial to my build and that you can only get late into the game. And that way i can actually take my time in each area to actually enjoy the world et cetera.
PS : i would only recommend using CE if you have already gone through the whole game multiple times and already know it's everything there is to know. I had made a dozen character and finished the game and dlc many times before i started using it
I've thought about using mods like this but untill recently o only had a ps5.
I settled for getting someone from discord to drop a level 1 version of whatever weapon I wanted. And if it was too strong, I'd refrain from upgrading till it felt like it was evenly matched
Yup.. PS4 and Save Wizard.. Then transfer save to PS5
My only problem with ER Nightreign is the battle royale/time limit/shrinking map gimkick.
I feel like exploring won't be as much fun when I know I only have 15 to 20 minutes until I have to fight a boss.
The intention is to keep the pace up. Exploring will be done more to find weapons/equipment rather than to find cool locations and study the environment for lore reasons.
If there wasn't a timer involved, there would be no decision making. You could just explore the whole area and pick the best loot before going against the boss, in which case what's the point because that's what the base game is
@joegella that's fair i guess
And I heard the games will last 40 minutes
It’s more rogue like than battle royal
@DanaWhiteBoym8 for the most part, I agree, except for the shrinking map, which is pretty blatantly battle royale-inspired.
From 0:00 to 0:45 made me laugh so hard, that "SLOP" word always hits, I'm a huge FromSoft fanboy, one of the biggest Elden Glazers & GlazeBorne there is, I have over 2.5K hours in ER, but when I watched Nightreign's reveal live on Game Awards show, I was shocked when I saw how derivative it is, when I saw Nameless King I screamed "WTH IS THIS SLOP?!" lmao, but it looks to have a really great gameplay loop & many changes from previous Souls, it has enough difference to discern itself from OG Elden Ring, I don't agree with your replay value point about ER but hey different views I guess. Love this video overall.
Nightreign is like the cooking of Timmy Turner’s mom, like it might look like shit, but there’s a surprising chance it will taste exquisite.
@@Doommarine-sr8y Why is your comment the best one I’ve read when it comes to Nightreign expectations? It’s so true like I can’t remove nor add anything to what you said, it’s perfect lol. 😭😭😭
I honestly think it's mostly the invader fans of the series calling it slop. If this game had invasions they'd be drooling with anticipation. The "reused assets" issue would be nonexistent as long as they could get their trolling fix.😂
I'm an invader fan too lol
I was already hyped for neightreign and now, oh boy
these are really good points. ive always lowkey just hated everything about the open world and exploration in relation to items and weapons. Why should i go fight a boss and deal low damage when i can go get a better weapon that one shots it. Having the game be hard makes it so that mostly all players will want the meta, because if the game was a medium difficulty, we could use whatever we wanted, and not feel like we're getting crushed by bosses for no reason. Now, in nightreign, if it just gets rid of that entire line of thinking, i will be having so much more fun.
This depends on how good Ninja Gaiden 4 is. If it lives up to my hype, ain’t nothing beating that.
I love coop. But... I need to make my friends addicted to Souls games😅
your statement about the build playtrough stuff i completely agree with, its a shame so many of the coolest items requires the whole game to be played to get, and what is the point of having 400 weapons to choose when they all suck so bad or have so bad weapon arts you cant even cast them in time between boss attacks, makes everyone use the same 10 weapons cause they actually work and dont make you feel like a idiot for choosing like the 390 rest of them. hope these games get better at this balancing.
This was my biggest problem early on in my souls journey. I started with bloodborne, where there were far fewer weapons, but a much higher quality. Pretty much every weapon in bloodborne is a banger. My next game was ds3 and it was an adjustment to filter through so many weapons that simply had worse numbers than others
I’ve decided those long animation ashes of war are best used after you posture break a boss. It’s basically another option to use besides a critical and typically they do much more damage as well. Just something to think about
In general, though, that’s kinda why I’ve never worried about meta builds and going for efficiency. Just use the stuff that interests you and you’ll have way more fun.
You gotta dig into the movesets. Many weapons with inferior stats and AOW are notably different to actually fight with because they have an odd moveset for their class.
I actually find that you can basically use any weapon you want because of how the AoW/affinity system works. You don't need optimal to succeed, not even close to optimal. Hell, ignore stats entirely and pick the weapon with the moves you like.
That is a very strange way to spell Monster Hunter Wilds or Ghost of Yotei
Monster hunter wilds might be nominated but I can't imagine it'll win. And tbh, I forgot ghost of yotei was 2025 I'm hyped for that
I don't get why people want to rush to grab the best stuff right at the start?
If i play the game a second time, i want to use a specific weapon. If that weapon is not attainable till late game, I'll probably rush and go in underleveled to get it ASAP.
Its different than the first time around when everything is unknown. The second time around there's much less taking your time
It’s not that it’s the best stuff, every weapon in the game is pretty busted when built around. People just want to use their weapon against as many bosses as possible
My only problem is it's rogue like which I'm not that fond of, and the build being tied down to a specific character role from the look of it. But let's wait and see how the game goes, it might be a great game to play together with your friends
I hate the fact that its solo or 3ve, but you cant play 2 player coop 😩
Yeah i feel like so many more people have either one partner or like 4 lol.
I suppose you can just ditch the third guy and go off with your buddy
Im only gonna enjoy it if they add real depth to their combat. Action elements were never fromsoft’s strongsuit, so idk how I feel about a game based entirely around them. I’m 50 50 on it.
The combat looks more in depth than any other souls game.
I didn't go into full details of the game here. Look up vaatividyas video on what nightreign will actually be like. There's way more to it than just elden ring combat
Really getting to Rykard is hard 😂😂😂
Maybe you never watched a Speedrun before you can literally beat him in under 30 min from the start
Yeah, i have to watch speedrunners, the people who spend enormous amounts of time and effort practicing, in order to see anyone actually doing that. Perfectly proves my point
Desperately trying to pretend like GTA6 wont be mouth watteringly huge.
Predicting 2026 delay
It'll most probably be mid
Fuck GTA6, PC or bust. All they want to is sell shark cards again.
Rogue likes are great
i played and complete ds3-2-1 bloodborne and elden ring in that order. i am one of those disappointed by the announcement but i can understand that it s a passion project and that others can enjoy it so i just don t complain about it. not every game is for every one and that s ok. i will just wait for the next one. that being said, the appeal for me and my friends who are playing the souls games, is mostly the feeling of being thrown in a new world with lore yes, but also despair and darkness and have to venture through the unknow alone. the exploration and feeling to uncover new hidden locations, types of enemies or shinnies is kinda unparalleled with fromsoft entries. it s not the kinda thing you want to rush, not looking at the speed runners here, but just want to take all in at your own paste. anyways, hating on a game that is just not made for you is childish in my opinion. so i am glad that they are still people hype for this game and i wish you all to have a lot of fun 😊
I get your perspective. The lore is always incredible. I think there is still some lore to discover in nightreign. But you're right it's a passion project.
The way I see it, they either make this smaller scale game with reused bosses and the Elden Ring name, or they don't make it and we wait for their next main project. I'm stoked we get something to cross the gap between armored core 6 and their next big game. It'll be 2 years between AC6 and nightreign
@@joegella i get your point also and i am fully aware that they are plenty of players that need that bridge. for me personally, even tho i love those games, they are my favorites actually, i still suck at them lol. so each run is still just to get better and i am still trying new things since i did not get the chance to try all the builds i want to yet, so i never get tired of the game. currently replaying ds3 and noticed that i forgot a lot of things so it s like rediscovery and i am really enjoying myself with the full package souls rotation ;P. games are expensive now also, so i will still pass on this one but i wish you plenty of hours of fun :)
slop and glaze are overused words everywhere and it’s jus kinda annoying cus people will look at 2 seconds of something and immediately form an opinion. multiplayer isn’t actively bad and this isn’t really anything like most of the games people are comparing it to. also there’s literally a network test and more gameplay coming later, so i don’t see why we wouldn’t just wait till then or the release to say fromsoft is “over” and even then this is one game and not their entire career, they’re still doing singleplayer even within the past year and will continue doing that.
Ikr. This is literally a side project. The alternative to nightreign is just not releasing anything this year
i am not a fan of the concept of nightreign, but I believe in from soft. However, even if the game is good, I don't think it is going to be the best game of 2025 because the concurrence is just too big
Fromsoftware puts out something amazing every time.
And yeah gta 6 is this year, but i feel like it's going to be delayed. Rdr2 was delayed twice
on the topic of replayabilty, elden ring is genuinely my least favourite in that aspect, i find it moreso like a chore to replay the game (on a new character) rather than actually fun
That's exactly my feelings. It was way easier to rerun ds3 or bloodborne because it was more linear.
Elden Ring definitely left the door open to find new things the second time around, because there's simply so much content. But man if you want to make like a moonlight greatsword build, it's a chore to put that together
@joegella yeah i agree, i did enjoy elden ring and think its a great game, but for me personally, the semi open/linear format for souls games works better
the experience is more streamlined this way, its easier for the developers to balance the areas and bosses knowing just how strong a player will be in that area
for example ds3 is one of my all time favs to replay because not only is it linear in an enjoyable way but it has some of the most fun build crafting in the series
I have very low hopes tbh, but I have faith in From Soft and I will give it a fair shot
Network test coming up in two weeks. It'll get you a better idea of what it's actually like
Not going to be GOTY when gta 6 is coming out
Good point.
I mean, Elden Ring Night reign is definitely gonna be one 9f the best games of this year but GTA 6 is also releasing this year...
Idk i just feel like gta6 is gona be delayed. Hopefully not, but rdr2 was twice
@@joegella I agree with that statement
God this complaining about my favorite part of Elden ring is hurting my head. The sheer amount of weapons is one of the best things about the game, if you don’t know how to enjoy that properly it’s on YOU not the game.
After playing Elden ring it’s been hard to get into games which have a very limited weapon selection, that’s the only downside to me and it honestly sucks.
Maybe the way I said it wasn't the clearest, the build variety is fantastic in elden ring and the 100s of weapons is a good thing. I'm not complaining about that.
What I'm saying is that, once you decide on a build, you've narrowed everything down and there's really only a handful of weapons and equipment items that you'll use. The game then becomes a race to get those items as quickly as possible.
If I decide I want to use a blasphemous blade build, then I have to rush to volcano manor to kill the boss. Otherwise, I'll spend an enormous amount of time not using the blasphemous blade.
Do we know if this will have lore?
It will. Mostly through the characters we get to play as
Bro you can't go throwing out warframe out there like it was fortnite XD
I am eager to see how Nightreign will play.
Lmao, it is still a very successful live service game. It's been going strong for years now
COOL
The problem is no pvp, only coop.
That's not a problem. Pvp is not a strong point for souls games. It might be tons of fun, but it's also jank and broken as hell. It's a minor side activity
Nightrign is elden ring but streamlined into repeatable sessions. Pvp isn't in the scope
5:16 no you're wrong. patches can get you to manor volcano from the academy area
Not wrong. Rykard is a mid to late game boss. Not gona kill him by rushing there as soon as you start the game unless you put in hours of practice, at which point, you've grinded the game a ridiculous amount, which is what I said all along
Nah, monster Hunter Wilds all the way.
Can't imagine monster hunter wilds will win when we got doom, death stranding 2, gta6, ac shadows. I'm pretty sure world was the only one that was ever nominated
This title screams fromsoft glaze to me. It looks cool and all but it doesn’t seem like a “huge” game, especially with all the asset re-use, but I do think I’ll like this a lot more than base game Elden Ring because of all the gameplay additions/improvements, just like I did with SoTE.
Honestly I hated Elden Ring's story, which really bittered the game for me.
But NightReign, this is what I was waiting for, the real deal, really the game genre which deserves fromsoft treatment!
that one cerberus boss a;ready sold me this game
That boss looks sick, but t's gona be rough if it's solo tho for sure
The problem I have with it is it just feels lazy af with every asset ripped off from prior games. Might be the first miss from Fromsoft in over a decade.
Is it lazy or is it intentional? Looks like a multiverse type of thing. Or is it the fact that it's only been a year and a half since their last game yet they're already releasing another one?
If nightreign is lazy, then so is elden ring. How many assets from elden ring are literally the same ones from demons souls on ps3? Recycling their assets is a tactic they use to put out games so frequently and at such high quality.
I mentioned in the video that the core systems in the game are so good that all we need is more content. No point in changing what already works so well.
They also showed new bosses in the trailer, and there's likely much more than that too
Everything else is great but blocking is not one of them
Blocking is a core part of the combat experience. You have 3 engagement options: attack, dodge, or block
But stamina management is not good Is just better to roll
I'll give you that for ds3, but in the rest of the games blocking is awesome. In elden ring, I use a shield plus guard counter to repeatedly stagger enemies and land criticals.
Sure, you can't block forever, but you also can't keep dodging forever
Yeah that work in pve but in pvp you better off use something else
GTA 6
Also the thing is that with the class system it doesn't seem like the build creation is going to be a big part of the game I hope I'm wrong too because I love creating build
Youre right and I think it's going to me more limiting than elden ring. What i imagine is that you pick your character/class, which will be like choosing strength or dexterity. And then from there, you can create your build as you find items in your session.
no its gta 6 why u lion >:(( ROAAAR
I think this video misses the point of this new game being 40€… while Boss and Weapon randomizer are free to download on nexus. This is basically Risk Of Rain 2, with Souls games reused content… I totally bet that weeks after this game is out, there will be ER mods that will give a pretty similar experience
My point in talking about randomizer mods is too show there's an appeal to unpredictability.
The current mods are no where near what nightreign will be. Any future mods will be the same.
@ this is a pretty lazy iteration of a game to be 40€… that is my entire point, if this was 20€ I would totally swallow it up and accept it, but the same price as ER DLC?? I still think as soon as this game launches and mods start importing the boss models into Elden Ring, this new game will become obsolete…
@@Luis-bg1hfthe combat in this game is going to be different and the characters are going to have ability’s that are not Anything like the mods currently available in Elden ring
I love FromSoft but the lack of PvP will be the downfall of this title. PvP IS the core of replay value
I love PvP too, but the reason it's the core of replay value is because of the issues I discussed in the video. Nightreign won't have those issues
Bruh.. at least try the playtest, could be shit, could be great. No pvp its a huge turn off for me.
Well I think you're the only one who likes pvp.
@heehee6514 Yep I'm the one guy that invades all the Elden ring players
I love souls pvp and am constantly invading, but I'm not gona pretend it's a robust system. Pvp is pretty crappy, but it's a singleplayer game. Pvp is just a side experience, so I'm not gona turn down nightreign because it doesn't have that side content.
Also, Nightreign has an extremely low chance of being shit based on the decade long track record of bangers
GTA6
30 FPS now that's PURE SLOP
Predicting a delay to 2026
I played silent hill 2 remake at 30fps and it was incredible, but that's a slow paced game. Can't imagine speeding down the highway in gta6 would look good with 30, but can't do anything about it
Slop For various reasons
The main reason is REUSED ASSETS, as a player I don't wont be be sold bosses I already beat. It's lazy and Sloppy, Nostalgia bait.
1 or 3 players, cant do 2 and most ppl played duos........Unforgivable considering the bad netcode will still be a thing and we have seen that you can have a 6 player world in arena. GIT FRIEND
Copying other game systems, Basically (Fort)Night(Risk of)Reign. Imposed time limits. People are excited for this slop? Nothing is original. Copy Pasta, From didn't cook.
Pick x hero, This is the most lamest thing ever. This guts what souls games where Make builds/ collect-athons. Rip fashion souls. Rip player choice. Rip charater customization.
Unconnected lore/ alt universe, GoT tO HaVE MUltiVeRS slop. RIP VIDYAVATI lol. Slapped ER on it to sell more............And little piggies will eat up with 0 thought.
Gutting of pvp. Boss invasions would be perfect for game. They dropped the ball so hard. I want to be invaded and Invade. With hero picks its actually easier for them to balance as much as I hate that. They still didn't do anything to get more player to try pvp............................................................why.
Low Content that wont be updated other than patching. Don't expect to get new content updates it isn't live service, why do the shortest possible gameplay loop?
No crossplay................................its 2025................stop spiting player bases. ER is going to be dead as fuck as well.......great.
There is no real improvements on the system mechanics, more are taken away. What exactly is this trying to accomplish?
Not going to do any fixes that still need to be done in ER so fuck those players. (SUPER FUCK AC PLAYERS)
Could have give all players something but folded for PVERs. Why no baby bitch mode where they cant get invaded, while giving BIG BOY MODE
More downgrades than DS3 to ER, I didn't think that was possible. Yet everyone is ready to Gluck on the Glizzy.
I got 3 beta keys and sold them all, I'm happy as fuck knowing I made money while they wont get a dime of me for this half baked B team game.
Nothing they did is exciting and actually made me not even want to touch this shit. I never had my hype killed this bad for anything. A lot of my friends are disappointed, half aren't getting it, that's sad as fuck we love souls games.
This game is "Finger but hole" because they did everything to fuck up with bad game design. Everyone buying will just show them they can gut what a souls game is. I wouldn't even want a pvp only game if they made it. Its the Full Souls experience or $0 from a fan that double bought every game other than DeS and BB. I cant see passed all the issues they caused for 0 reasons and the 0 answers they came up with for game fixes.......................
Lmao
@@joegella I'm Lmao at the about of slop
@Aronphobia youre going insane about a quickly thrown together B Team side project. Do you really expect it to be as grand and original as base Elden Ring?
Yeah they took some ideas from other games, and reused their own assets, but this is still a completely original experience. There has never been a roguelike done with souls before. If you liked elden ring, then you'll like nightreign. It's solving replayability
@@joegella You just said yourself quickly thrown together. Slop is animal feed that is quickly thrown together, out of what you have at hand. To get the job done.
No one is expect a grand game, I expect not to gut the formula. I expect a further improvement on what came before.
Tell me exactly what are they addressing gameplay wise? They only sped up combat for the time limit.
What is the Chalice dungeons for BB, is that not a very very light roguelike? Random maps right? Reused Bosses Right?
Copying and reusing is not a new original experience. Here is a definition of Original
(created directly and personally by a particular artist; not a copy or imitation)
Gameplay imitation, Reused assets copied and pasted.............All they did was take things away and added 1-2 coats of paint.
Lower content amount and Time constraints isn't solving replayability. Its padding in a different way and worse.
DS2 has more replay then others, as they added upon new game+. More Dark spirits and enemies, but hell they didn't do that for DS3 (ng+ rings sucked) or ER
I won't like it or play as it takes away core SOULS FEATURES that made it what it is.
So what is a SOULS game? Just Combat?
Not Lore? Not Invasions? Not Customization/ player choice? Not understanding world building and connections?
That had 0 reason to be removed. Improvements aren't removals simple as that
that's why people are upset and call it slop as it is quickly thrown together as you just said.
No one cares if u don’t buy it