To be truthful, Fromsoft and the Souls series taught me a life lesson. After playing their games, instead of judging a problem based on wether or not I can do it, now I judge a problem based on how many times I’ll probably have to try.
I’m 30 years old and honestly stopped gaming in 2016, I would buy games and literally never play them so I figured I just lost interest. My friend convinced me to try Elden Ring last month, and now I’m over 100+ hours played. Got me hooked like how World of Warcraft had me back in 2007
Same, dude. I have now gone back through the catalog (except for demon souls… don’t have ps5 or ps3). They are the best games I’ve ever played and I can’t get them out of my head.
@@jlmeyer7 There is a emulator that runs Demon Souls from PS3 perfectly on PC. You can download the game already configured with the emulator from torrent as well, with upscale, widescreen, 60 fps. Its a way to play this masterpiece on PC as it was back in the day.
Never felt so sad after finishing a game like elden ring , the feeling of experiencing everything for the first time is exceptional and cant be replicated , this is truly a masterpiece easily best open world RPG i have ever played
Not bashing you but I've beaten the game about 15 times and I still can't remember how to get to all the optional places. I have even found new areas with coop people guiding me. I kinda wish it wasn't so difficult to find some of these areas bc they are fun but without knowing or watching a vid they are easy to miss.
@@smed4900 Ha, I know for a fact, that there is one dungeon, that I have never found. I have even gone looking for it and still not found it. (without the wiki, just going off of descriptions.) And I have played this game a lot as well.
bruh what? I'm on my third playthrough and I'm STILL finding new things, and I had a pretty comprehensive first two playthroughs. this game is ginormous, it's not over after the first playthrough by a long shot. you probably didn't even get 200 hours in; I finished my first at 285 hours and continue to find new places and weapons/items in subsequent runs. if you think you're done after one playthrough you're deluding yourself
And unfortunately this may be the end of it. Open world generally means the game developer pushed the game to the boundaries of fun in every way in other titles. It's kind of a Hail Mary to just give the title one last push before letting it rest.
Just fought and beat the Elden beast for the first time today and godamn did that theme hit hard as well as the cutscene, However the fight was extremely stressful because I didn’t want to fight Radagon again
“Elden ring is a love story between a game and it’s fans, a developer and their community” that's deep and so true we wish other developers do that too I'm a fromsoftware and soulsborne fan since 2017 here were my love story with them started. I started with bloodborne then I jumped to ds series 1, 2 then 3 and we kept waiting for this masterpiece for years it was like a dream waiting for elden ring we just hear some rumors about it and finally it is here I never bought a 60$ game except this one Thank you fromsoftware and myazaki ❤
I also began my Fromsoft obsession with Bloodborne man. I also, in a moment of sheer luck and adrenaline, had one of only 2 boss one-shots on the Shadow of Yharnam. The most unlikely one to do and I didn’t do the whittle down health on each one and then drop them altogether strat. I had no idea about that at the time. I took them one at a time so they were getting the the buffs!
@@Agent-mb1xx you do realize the enemies stop getting stronger after NG7 eh? i always just had a bunch of different characters for different builds at about NG10. my best achievement in gaming was getting a LVL 1 character up to NG 10 haha i'll never forget it
It’s amazing to see how games continue to evolve with time and how some mange to reinvent the wheel. Super Mario NES, Ocarina of time, Goldeneye, Original MW and MW2, Halo and GOW are a few that changed the game…..literally. Are there others? Sure but I’d be here all day trying to list them all. Now to see ER come onto the scene and show these soulless Triple A gaming companies that this is how it should be done and they have incredible success because of it gives me hope for for the future of gaming.
@@masonthunkwell9786 sacrifice my children at the alter????? It ain’t even close to being that serious and it’s only my opinion. So chill out, Mr Salty man.
Could you imagine spending 80 hours a week building a game just to have some rando calling you “soulless” because they didn’t like your work? 99% of games do nothing for me. Do I whine about it? Rarely. I find games I like and play those.
ER was my first souls game too. I was drawn in by the trailer and the fact that GRRM was involved in the story. The name 'Elden Ring' made me think it might have a LotR vibe too, which some areas do. The Haligtree/Elphael has some very Peter Jackson-esque Elven architecture, and Leyndell gave me some Minas Tirith/Gondor vibes. Also, I knew what Souls games were like, and I had this odd expectation that Elden Ring would be different by having an ever-evolving "faction war system" due to it being open world. Although I was a little disappointed it didn't have this, I realized a faction system is unnecessary and that its absence didn't detract from how incredible my first playthrough was. And now, 200 hours in, I am addicted to the PVP, the music, and the lore. Best $60 ever spent.
Mine was dark souls 2, and it’s still in terms of tone and narrative far and a way the best in my eyes, but Elden ring is probably second in that regard.
I think ER hit a good balance of appeal to both hardcore people of the genre, and the more casual player or those who didn’t previously like souls games. The world of the game itself is good, very good. So much that you enjoy playing it, and the difficult bosses is just a temporary road-block to get back to the world-play. And it has a lot of options for approach with varying levels of challenge.
For years I had admired the Dark Souls lore. So many great videos dedicated to the lore of these games but I never thought I would enjoy them personally due to their reputation of difficulty and my proclivity towards being less patient. But Elden Ring had such hype and excitement from the content creators I watched for the previous games that I gave it a shot. I fell in love with the game and its the only steam game I got full achievements for. This made me want to go back and experience the Souls series for myself, to see and experience them first hand instead of by proxy. I finished Dark Souls 1 and am almost done with Dark Souls 2 (Just need to do the Sunken King DLC). The games show their age when compared to Elden Ring but I love them and understand why they are so beautiful. So I am grateful to Elden Ring for opening up the Souls world to me.
exactly. i never thought i'd enjoy a souls game because of their difficulty, but elden ring is simply outstanding because you can play it however you want--it doesn't have to be difficult. and after over 600 hours in elden ring, i have decided i should check out the other dark souls games!
Literally in the same boat, Elden Ring is the first souls game i started to play and was not disappointed and it was the only ever game where i started ng+ immediately and after that Sekiro..masterpiece with the best combat in a game so far.
Even as a big RPG fan I have to admit Elden Ring knocks it out of the park! Great visually with lots to do and amazing playability due to lots of character adaptations.Well done From Soft 👍👍👍
What a heartwarming/wholesome video. I started playing FromSoft games back in 2012 with the first Dark Souls... it changed me. The day I finished it I said to myself "these guys are gonna be big"... and I'm so happy they did, giving us brilliant games on the way.
was telling my friends a few months ago that elden ring changed the entire gaming industry. new precedent set. games (like starfield) getting pushed back to reach the same level. absolutely love to see it. 2023+ is going to be beyond imagination for gaming
I’m glad that souls games got the attention they deserve after Elden Ring. I’m also glad that new players that enjoyed Elden Ring, starts playing the old souls games and enjoy them too
I heard about elden ring, saw that it was a spiritual successor to the souls games which i never got around to playing and i purchased the trilogy and sekiro. Slowly making my way up to it. i am on Dark Souls 3 atm after completing the first 2. Its a shame because i wanted to try demon souls and bloodbourne but i own an xbox so i have to watch some playthroughs on youtube for those. Don't really want to get a new console for two games lol. Still looking forward to elden ring.
I remember when the first trailer dropped for the game in 2021, after such a long silence from the studio that people even begun to speculate that Elden Ring might had been cancelled. And what an amazing trailer that was. It did such a great job at showcasing how incredible this game was going to be, that for some people, me included, it almost had the opposite effect. After the initial hype, I was legit skeptical. "This just looks way too good to be true, there is no way a game could be able to offer as much as shown here". And I kept that skeptical excitement all the way until the network test. That was the point where it sunk in, that holy shit, it looks like From Software will actually be able to jump this absurdly high bar they set for themselves. But even that was nothing compared to the actual full game. It's extremely rare, almost unprecedented that a game doesn't just live up to such levels of hype, but manages to exceed already unreal expectations. I'm convinced that Elden Ring and it's success will be considered as the turning point where From Software's game design philosophy went from an immensely successful and beloved "alternative path" in the gaming industry, to becoming something that won't just inspire the indie and double-A scene, but also the triple-A developer giants to actually put time, money, effort and trust into understanding and inplementing parts of it into their own games.
As much as we love games like Elden Ring. For every 1 company that wants to make a game like Elden Ring that doesn't try to sell you something pointless like game currency, there are 50 greedy companies creating unfinished trash with a battle pass. So sad.
This vid is crazy accurate. I just got elden ring 2.5 weeks ago and I already gave 70 plus hour I'm addicted the world they created it mind blowingly beautiful. I've nvr been addicted to a game like this before n ive been gaming since since the 80s. Praying for dlc n I haven't even finished the game yet I don't want it to end lol
I still feel bittersweet about the open world. On one hand it's fun to explore at first but gets tiring later on, obviously speaking from my experience. It's a tedious chore to get through on later playthroughs just because of the distance you have to cover and the setup can take like 2 hours on a new character (if you already even know where flasks etc. are). In that time a decent player can run through all of the Ds3 base game and you can include al DLCs if you take sub 4 hours. I have to say that the bosses really are great BUT I do sometimes have to ask myself if it's worth the hours that are needed to get to some of them, assuming the average person doesnt use a SpeedSouls save manager. Don't take me wrong my criticism isnt that the game is too big, it's just not as compact as the other ones which I just enjoy more. For me Sekiro is still the most polished and mechanically sound one out of all the From games but hey maybe the ER Dlc will just slam so hard that I wont have a choice but to put it even above that one.
I think the main problem is Torrent speed On a first playtought you don't really mind it, but at later NG+ it starts to feel really slow, and with no way to upgrade him, it does get kinda tiring ueah
I felt this way about the game for a long time. I played to NG+7 on my main character, and filled every single character slot with a 150 character. Played A LOT. It did become little more than a checklist of ways to make the game as easy and fast as possible. Grab the seeds, grab the tears, kill the big dragon, yadda yadda yadda. Most recently I decided to make a character where I purposefully DON'T do that. I didn't run to the peninsula, I didn't immediately run to the smithing stones. I decided I would kill every roving gang of enemies I see, and clear every camp and cave I find. Within 2 hours, I had found 5 or 6 different encounters I didn't remember, used consumables I never had before, found new ways to bully enemies I never bothered to fight. It brought back a lot of the mystery and wonder of my initial playthrough. It grounded me, and made me realize that I don't have this game fully memorized like I thought I did. I actually really recommend it
@@buckyhurdle4776 Yeah, I see a lot of the tear and seed collecting at the start from people and it seems really tedious. As I want more resistance anyway, I tend to play much more like you do. And that is just closer to my first playthrough, where I always struggled with ressources, as I didn't know where to find them.
You are just describing replaying any game. I havent played elden ring yet i am working my way up to it i am on DS3 atm. But i imagine if you are replaying an open world game and just going from point a to b because you know where things are you are losing half of the fun of playing the open world. The point of them is to get immersed and explore, stumble across things and discover secrets. If you know all the secrets and you are skipping areas you are essentially playing a dot to dot horse gps lol.
Yesnt. So I play From games mainly for the bosses (and nice views) and I dont really care about exploration. I just want a challenge that I can master. Just a way to refight bosses like in Sekiro would be huge and no I dont want to be summoned I want a 1v1 with the boss. The thing is bosses unlike the explorable content dont get boring the moment you beat/find them once. For most games youre correct, you play the game once and there's likely not much more to see after the first playthrough.
Well, my friend watched me playing ER and got inspired by it :D he decided to Complete Star Wars Fallen Order on hardest diff to prepare for ER (btw he never before played SWFO)
Elden ring is truly a masterpiece and will most definitely go down in gaming history as one. There is with out a doubt in my mind not a lot Fromsoftware can do to improve this perfection.
My first entry in the Souls series was Demon Souls, I only got it because of the cool looking knight on the cover. As a kid when I first started it I died, then I died again, then again and again. eventually I got so mad I quit the game... Finally I came back after 4 days and made it all the way to the big knight with the shield. I remember being so focus on the screen that my eyes were almost about to pop out. dodging and weaving and finally killing the big bastard. I felt elated and overjoyed. After I beat the big knight I stopped playing because if I kept going I knew I was going to die and then be all mad about it again. So I went on to play other games, but in that very moment I realized why so many people loved dark souls 1. So growing up and seeing all the souls-like games I'm glad that I had that little moment to understand why people were so hyped whenever Fromsoft releases a game. Even though Souls-Like game's are not my cup of tea, I can definitely recognize the dedication and effort of the developers from Fromsoft to make a great game, as well as why fans love said games.
It’s sad that a lot of peoples first game is elden ring and then they go back and play the games (which in my opinion are better) and it feels like a major step back due to technical advancements
Im glad people are hopping into the series but yeah, I agree with you 100%. You have more appreciation for what the recent games do when you've played the older stuff first, and these people aren't going to get that feeling.
@@ParkerRat yeah, I tried to get one of my friends to play DS1 after elden being his first fromsoft game and he didn’t even get through undead burg before putting it down because he said the game was too slow and clunky. But, that’s just the nature of gaming, obviously the quality of games get better over time, especially when it’s a company like FromSoft who is going to produce a great game no matter what. It’s just a shame because DS1 was such a groundbreaking game for its time, even more so then elden ring. With the prominence of social media and the popularization of gaming, it was impossible for any of the souls games to reach this level of hype that elden ring has, plus all of those great games layed the groundwork for the studios reputation which really helped convince the masses to buy elden ring
@@DreyfusLagoon Absolutely. DS1 or 3 would've been the topic for this video if they had the same following Elden Ring has. In terms of weight on the community, Elden Ring's only leg up is the hype train that drove in millions of new players. It is my personal belief that the most impactful souls game is DS1 and the most polished FromSoft game is Sekiro. I just wish either of those games were more popular or had the weight of Elden Ring's player influence.
@@ParkerRat yeah but honestly that’s the power of a big open world game. People know about the Witcher, breath of the wild, gta, and many other games with these massive open worlds to explore and it makes approaching the game way easier for new fans. Dark souls uses a very old video game structure (the Metroid and Mario style) and evolves it into a 3D dungeon crawler. That type of game seems sort of lost to time in the current landscape of video games so elden ring appeals to the “casuals” who were looking to play a new open world rpg as well as the old school fans who love the series for the incredible level design
@@DreyfusLagoon Open World and its consequences have been a detriment to modern gaming. I want more old stuff, open world was cool for a very short amount of time. Same with battle royale. Its a shame that ER falls to the same open world thing that modern games do, but for Miyazaki it makes sense considering he wanted to try it out as a new development style. Something that team has never done before.
My first soulslike was code vein with 400hrs, made me very very interested in trying out the real souls games. My first actual fromsoft game was ds1, and then played ds3, sekiro and finally ER.
personally i think dark souls 1 and demons souls are the easiest in the series. And that's just due to the dated Ai. i would even say bloodborne and Sekiro are easier than dark souls 3. for me elden ring was just a little bit more difficult than than dark souls 3 because the bosses just aren't designed as fairly. With how long their combos are and how little time they give you to respond with an attack.
It's funny, because most of this things you mention at around 8:00 are things Deep Rock Galactic has been doing for a while now, before Elden Ring even released, even though its popularity is not on the same level. Definitely something worth checking out though, I believe.
This is my first introduction to a “souls type game”. It is definitely my favorite compared to Skyrim, Witcher etc. I went full send on the game and got burnt out and just recently getting back into it. It’s just too damn good. I just wish the story was a little more engaging and didn’t feel so empty at the end cutscene. It’s just full of a million theories but in the end it is the subtle details after slowly learning the game that make it so good as well
DS3 isn’t the easiest in my opinion, it’s the most responsive and most balanced levels. It’s more about the mastery of balancing the bosses/enemies and players speed. The “simplicity” of Sekiro shows how good From is at mastering this dance. That being said, Madir, Friede, and Nameless are all top 10 hardest bosses in the series and maybe even Gael so it’s really hard for me to call DS3 easiest. I would say DS1 is the easiest especially if you use Drake sword and scythe. Elden ring might be easiest too with spirit ashes and broken builds too. Sekiro is easily the hardest
My order was Elden Ring, Sekiro, BloodBorne, DS3. ER being the first souls game I had some trouble with it, had to have a friend help me out for a bit. Then I got the hang of the FromSoft style and went on a months' long binge lol.
Nice video. I played and enjoyed Elden Ring obsessively. It was one of those games, very much like Breath of the Wild, that took over my life, to the point that I just wanted it to end so I could take care of my neglected real life responsibilities. In that sense, I think it doesn't have the replayability of Dark Souls 1, which was more concise. I still can't quite tell if Dark Souls 1 on PS3 is my favorite game because it was my first, or because it's a better game. What I can say is that it will always be my favorite because of the gameplay and because the amount of players playing it lasted for so long, affording it nearly a decade worth of online activity. Elden Ring is great, and a windfall for the company, but From needs to come up with something genuinely new to compete with the glory of Dark Souls 1. I hope they do it, but at this point I think it's actually impossible.
Why though? I don't get it. To me it's like an unfinished rpg. It's not like they can't make a game that plays the same but isn't full of bs. Enemies obviously positioned to ambush the player when the devs know the consequences of death. Quests you have to use a guide to know what to do and that make no sense while using the guide. Why did I have to lie down to get that dragon to show up? How do I know the street is actually finished with no hints? I feel no sense of accomplishment with the game.
@@semitope I dont mean to offend, but it sounds like u may have not finished the video/ the game To me, i dont like the fact most games these days are just holding my hands from the start til the end It is suffocating Everything u pointed out is the beauty of this game. Just like in real life, u almost never get to understand the reality to avoid mistakes until it is too late. Life is unreasonable, u dont truly understand what is going on beyond ur immediate surrounding, it can be hard to tell what is the right thing to do, and there is no 2nd chance. U can often sow seeds today and see absolutely no progress, only to reap ur harvest in a distant future when the time is right U can never know the agenda of the greater will until u have suffered enough The enemies hidden at every corner will strike down even the most cautious tarnished This game will break u, and u must learn to accept defeat in order to come back stronger This is why I feel accomplished when i finally conquer the enemies after countless defeats This is what the game wants to give u, what Miyazaki wants u to experience No longer are u treated as a child, u shall walk the path of grace as a lord Or u could just say fuck it because u already had enough in real life Nobody can tell u how u should feel At the end of the day, if u cant enjoy it, then u cant We are not the same, and that is not a problem
My first fromsoft game was sekiro and I didn’t really like it due to difficulty . Now I bought elden ring recently knowing what I was getting into and absolutely love it
The biggest reason I am sorry people go to DS3 first and maybe then, go backwards to DS is the fact that DS3 is full of DS references and it robs them of delight and wonder when you catch one. Final boss, The Soul of Cinder, hits you hard when you realize who he is and Gwyn's music starts and so on.
Well said brother. My first fromsoft game. I was cryin' and wailin' about the turn that the Video Game Industry had gone. Exactly as you said, unfinished pay 2 win crap, and here comes The Savior to deliver us from Our Burdens. Elden Ring! Glorious.
From Software really out here making multiple goddamn masterpieces, one after another. Seriously it amazes me how they can continually crank out unbelievable gaming experiences, they LITERALLY never miss. No game has absorbed me so completely into its world since Skyrim. Fucking masterpiece.
In terms of consistency From Software does the job that so many other studios also had the chance for but fumbled the ball. Yes I think of you Blizzard, Rockstar and CD Project Red
There's a lot that I'd like to argue, but "quality over quantity"? Really? Like 40% of Elden Ring is a copy-paste of itself. I dunno, if all you have to do to change gaming forever is make the same game you've been releasing for 10+ years but bigger and with a jump button, then video game industry must be truly fubar
Elden Ring was my first souls like game, while I for sure found it hard, it's honestly been one of the most entertaining game I've played in a while. Never thought I'd put 120 hours into a souls game.
Thats been happening since dark souls, elden ring isn't exactly innovative as well btw, still great as all fromsoft games are but let's not act like elden ring is the savior of gaming
Elden ring was 100% goty. I finished it twice one month into its release. One of the greatest games of all time. Elden ring did not revolutionize open world games. It revolutionized SOULS games. Not all open world games. And that’s not a bad thing.
My first souls game, I played ds2 sofs on acid. When I came through the tunnel to get to heide tower of flame my life was changed. I spent the whole trip grinding those knights and aggroing all the heides knights. Didn't know anything about weapon scaling, fat rolled and blocked my way through the whole game.
I started my Souls journey in 2012, one year after its release in 2011, playing Dark Souls. I knew about it, but had heard of the difficulty and so decided to wait. 1 year gave me the time! After that, I bought a PS3 just to play Demon’s Souls and am so glad I did! It was a great game! Since the, I’ve played all the Soulsbourne games and sunk 200 hours into Elden Ring! Like your videos and and have become your newest subscriber!
I have absolutely loved FromSoft games for years, starting with Demons Souls right before the launch of Dark Souls 2 and then working through them each from there. I’m so glad that they have had such monumental success with Elden Ring. I think that this will be their magnum opus for many years to come, maybe forever. And it’s such an achievement that if they never soar this high with a game again, it will still be enough. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic take on the soulsborne series, this amplifies the inspiration of me sharing with others through streaming the great epics that these games are. Thanks for bringing us this awesome content.
I played every souls game before Elden Ring (fan since 2016) and ER is definitely a fantastic title and is going to change gaming going forward. However I am still in the camp that their best game is Bloodborne.
9:00 This game is the exact opposite of that. Almost all bosses are lacking in all departments and are frustrating to play against. I think that the majority of bosses weren't even playtested. Remember Margit's insta punish (punishment for what exactly?) after you sneak a hit in after one of his combos? Is that "quality over quantity" or just another mechanic used to draw out the game and artificially increase difficulty? Do you have dementia? Because the same enemies are copy pasted across the entire game. Footsoldiers are everywhere. I feel like DS3 had more enemy variety than elden ring.
I understand. The title statement I will admit was more for clicks than anything. I will eventually change it to something more fitting for the overall topic.
@@kingklipo well let's see if next Assassin's Creed will be any different? Original Dark Souls changed gaming, yet we didn't see ER starting a new trend in gaming. Will it change open worlds? Will other games get rid of in-game shops? How it affected gaming?
@@kingklipo No it didn't? Demon souls was the start of the change your talking about, without it we wouldn't have an entire genre and obviously wouldn't have Elden ring or sekiro or Even Dark souls
I started 8 years ago but never actually tried until November of last year. Im pretty much still just starting out. Went to college for writing and video editing, but I have tons more to learn still. Its been a great ride and Im sure I'll get more subs as I go on.
I've just subscribed after watching this and your DS2 video. They are really well written and your analysis is spot on. Good work and good luck with the channel! I've been on a similar souls journey since Dark Souls on PS3. I'm just waiting for that Bloodborne PC version to complete the set...
So you telling me you just gotta build a Ubisoft open world…… and just hide the map icons and it will blow everyone’s fcking minds???! Cause it’s the same caves, save damn, one of two hidden floors, same log cabin used 47 times, and your huge choice of reward is….. ring or weapon??? What twighlight zone am I in??? This game no damn thing special and lacked in sooo many areas compared to other games, rip gaming
Something’s off with Dark Souls 3 for me. At least Dark Souls 2, with all its jank, feels like its own thing. Dark Souls 3 is like Bloodborne wearing Dark Souls 1’s skin minus everything that made Dark Souls 1 and Bloodborne enjoyable.
Video is immediately wrong. Bloodborne is the foundation for DS3, Sekiro, and Elden Ring. The speed of combat in the game shifted what it is to play a souls title. I was curious about what you thought ER has done to gaming but I'm guessing it's the usual. Hype of shit that's been in one game or another for years and pretend like.. The Witcher 3 Red Dead Redemption 2 God Of War 2018 Breath of the Wild And other games don't exist. Red Dead in particular is still on social media and it came out in 2018. Every single open world title is compared to it and it's physics . A direct comparison between the two shows just how lifeless ERs characters are. In Red Dead, They have lives. They go about their business independent of the player. The main character isn't a faceless voiceless vehicle for the player and people have genuine interactions with the player. The world is a living thing and anything can happen. Even copy paste games like Far Cry have better world design. In Far Cry 3, a game from 11 years ago, you set a house or field on fire and there are consequences. Things burn, missions fail, etc. In ER, you can't kill anyone but those the game allows. Everyone in the round table is protected unlike Demon's souls from 2009. The story is fine but a repeat kd that we have seen over and over from this franchise. Questing had to be fixed with a patch to add noc markers. Otherwise, you wouldn't even know you've missed a step unless you scour every inch of the game after the tired exhaust all dialog and beat a boss formula. The world itself is so scripted and built for farming that there are no surprises unlike DS2 which thoughtfully changed things based on player choice. Same group of mobs walking about Limgrave are doing the same shit no matter what. The bosses... worst in the franchise aside from DS2. There's really only 9 unique fights the entire game and Malenia is a product of get gud hype. You have stuff in this game like Erdtree Avatars which are really re-skinned Asylum Demons. Rollo and mini bosses like him are the Kapra Demon. The discount Bell gargoyles are here. Walmart Ornstein and Smough that you fight multiple times then they sandwich in a gank fight where they are resummoned until a generic health bar is depleted. Loretta is basically the first boss in Sekrio and they make you fight her twice! Margit just walking around the capitol. 37 ulcerrated tree spirits. The game is filled with filler. Your first encounter with the Leonine Misbegotten is a fun learning experience. Then they force feed you him multiple times and then in a gank boss fight in Redmane. Then there's the state of the game at launch. You know it was busted with mausoleums not working and people lying about having to use a specific rememberence on a specific mausoleum. Or bleed not functioning as intended. Or shit Luke mimic tear and hoarfrost being so broken, it has to be nerfed as it trivialize everything. Or the fact that you can break Elden Ring in 10 minutes at launch without a wrong warp. I have the platinum on Elden Ring and it's a great game worthy of its game of the year. But it's not in any way life altering or game changing. It's not even the best souls. It's definitely not top 10 open world games and it's combat is pathetic compared to action games it's trying to be like. This game is cruising by on hype and good will and people that believe it's the hardest game ever played when games like Devil May Cry exist.
Im playing this on PC in 2023, got a 144hz mod, a photo mode mod, and a DualShock 4. I swear if you don’t have a photo mode mod you’re missing out on 90% of the details!
Aside from the high blood pressure and heart palpitations, this game is the best game I’ve ever played. I switched over to the Dark Souls series for a bit to get a feel for those games. Returning to Elden Ring shortly. It’s also a game i see being talked about for a long while. Everything about it is awesome. I like the fact that even going through the whole game, things are still yet to be discovered.
IMO DS2, Bloodborne, and Sekiro are the most important games in understanding Elden Ring. Whether or not someone likes DS2 is my litmus test for whether they get what makes FromSoft great or not. DS2 is great because they didn't just give us Dark Souls again. They experimented and evolved the formula. Some of the changes were mistakes that they reverted in DS3 but others are foundational to Elden Ring.
Absolutely, DS2 is a core part of the series and it is especially a core part of ER. I was very sad when DS3 didn't include hardly anything from DS2 and was similarly hyped when I found out ER would include those abandoned mechanics
ER is for sure a ground breaking game just not in the traditional sense. It is a title that has rediscovered what it means to be a video game in that it doesnt hold your hand and point out every single thing on a map for you to do and there are dozens of ways to go about playing the game in what ever fashion you desire. Want to be some weeb samurai? You can do that. Want to cosplay Guts? You can do that. Want to literally obliterate enemies with magic Kamehameha's? You can do that. Theres an endless supply of ways to go about the game and 80% of the content you see in videos are completely optional and are nonessential to the game, Malenia, dont need her. Renalla, only for a different ending, the dung eater stuff only for a seperate ending. The whole game allows you to play it and do so many things within it its crazy by modern western standards that are all very stock and formulaic by comparison, look at every single ubisoft game over the last 10 years, theyre all open world, boring, bubble filled maps with no soul to them whatsoever and most every other game is on the fast track to follow suit. Elden Ring has re-taught what it is to be a game in that its not some pre-made and prepackaged game that will be the exact same experience for everyone involved. The game allows you to do what you want with it in all facets outside of the main story which even then is kind of all over and can be played anyway you want it to. Elden Ring is text book on how an open world game should be handled, its not a game with a compass and five thousand colored icons telling you exactly where to go to get whatever exact item or weapon you want but its also not a mindless sandbox with no direction at all, the game lets you go where ever you want whenever you want but will give nudges on whether or not you need to be a higher level judging on enemies health and overall difficulty. Regardless of being whatever a souls like is the game just sits back and let you steer the car for once and not have the developer force feeding you the same repetitive gameplay 5000 thousand times, looking at Valhalla on this one 150 hours to just beat the game is mind numbing but elden ring has been beaten within 3 hours by just focusing the main bosses and being as fast as possible not including glitches of course but just main bosses and beating the game can be done in a very short amount of time and that just proves the point that the devs dont care if you miss 90% of the content they want you to do with the game what you want and thats huge. The problem is that most other studios STARES AT UBISOFT* wants you to experience everything the game has to offer, not what you want, what they want you to so youll be in for an exhilarating 100+ hour journey of going to markers on a map following your GPS to a T just to progress the story. My point being is that ER is a game that has defined its own space as a fantastic game I just dont think other studios are going to do what Fromsoft have in they dont care enough to put out an enjoyable experience just one that makes people clock in more hours than they do working a month.
"Doesnt hold your hand and point out everything" that's not a good thing when everyone just looks the stuff up on the internet, ah yes alt tab out of the game to Google what to do, peak game design. I mean look at steam achievements, people have done the secret and convoluted as hell ranni ending in their 1st playthrough more than the normal ending lmao. Also your take is pretty meh like nothing you stated is new or special to elden ring, like it being text book open world? What like having over 150 randomly recycled bosses or copy pasted caverns and such, like what is a giant magma wyrm doing at the bottom of a cavern he is too big to enter or leave , or even the terrible balancing that ruins your experience of some areas, I could go on with issues it has but its tiresome, it's definitely a one of a kind amazing game but it shares many issues with other open worlds and issues of its own.
it’s perfectly fine and if that’s the way people want to play the game that’s their own thing, if you decide to do that and you spoil it for yourself that’s not the devs or my problem and it’s not an issue it’s the design. That’s no different from any other game in history, don’t know how to do a COD zombies Easter egg? Watch a video or a guide, don’t know how to get an item in a game? You watch a guide but that’s if you want to and if people do that’s on them. You can’t critique a game for the same issue that every game has in some sense which is just outside knowledge. I’m not going to say it’s cheating but you’re just cheating yourself. Along with that you bring up poor balance when in reality you need to go rank up your stats also the fact that dungeons are just there for funsies and are side content that have some items of interest in them and aren’t copy paste they all have different layouts a similar goal yes find switch open door but they’re all different, regardless of the logistics of a huge work fitting into the space lest we remind ourselves there are giants with fire and huge chunks of metal through their chest and a guy who using magic to float so he doesn’t crush is precious pony so if you really wanna get into the “realism” of things you can go ahead lol. And ER really isn’t the standard for open worlds by todays standards it by and large separates itself by not having 500 meaningless points of interest for the sake of wasting the players time hence why I mentioned Ubisoft who makes 99% of open worlds today because all those games are is climb radio tower simulator today. Plus Elden Ring is way more linear than you’d give credit for once you have a grasp on the map and what to do and where to go genuinely. The game for the most part is focused down a single stream of grace that you grace to the capitol. Regardless ignoring semantics the game has rediscovered what it means to be a fun and engaging open world as I said previously and is one of the best if not the best out there today just on the simple fact it doesn’t rely on pointless time sinks where you ride a horse for 10 minutes one way following your gps and has more depth to its customization than any other open world game before it in how you can play and approach it.
@@Koi_Swirl I say that because in the traditional sense Guts is a medieval character in a dark fantasy, juxtaposed to the typical position of weebs who see anything “Japanese” and want to mimic it and make it their whole identity. Sure Guts is written by a Japanese man but he isn’t in that realm of being a Japanese character nothing about Berserk is about Japanese culture it’s all European as far as style and art go. Along with there’s literally 1-1 objects and moves within the game to be Guts like the huge slab of metal and the knights cavalry armor.
I think y’all are giving it too much credit. It’s really just open world dark souls. So many reused bosses and worthless gear drops in dungeons. It’s fun and pretty good, but a bit overhyped in my personal opinion. Cue all the turbo nerds telling me I’m wrong lol.
I resisted because of the hype. Closest I have gotten to a fromsoft game was fallen order I enjoyed the hell out of that. I finally got Elden Ring a couple days after Christmas because it was on a PS4 digital sale. Been playing games for 36 years since I was 5. I've never played anything like this. The discovery being rewarding almost every time (damn Asteria leaf) is commendable. I'm at level 106 with 150 hours in. First and probably only playthrough. I understand the appeal of NG+ but I don't think it will ever be for me.
People claiming Elden rind didn't deserve game of the year have never played Elden ring. This game is a masterpiece and more than just a game. It's an experience.
had my ps4 pro for 5 years when this game dropped. walking out of the place you start the game in, the crypt or whatever, was the first time i ever took a screenshot. this game is fucking amazing. it is the best game ever made. i dont care what anyone says. name a game with scope even close to this games ill wait bro.
Elden Ring is amazing. I heard alot about Bloodborne, but couldn't get into it. I couldn't make it further than a few hours into that one. I'm 150+ hrs into Elden Ring and still playing every day. And watching UA-cam videos about it when I'm not playing 🤷♂️.
It's amazing that FS was able to create such an amazing open world. 343 couldn't do it for Halo Infinite even though they had a bigger team, budget and development time.
I came in with DS 3 and have no played all of them except for Sekiro. I have hundreds of hours in Elden Ring. They got me excited about games again! I would complete a couple games per year as an adult, and now I constantly try new games and genres. Elden Ring is insane. The scope, the scale, the story, the combat and mechanics, the feeling of exploring and finding something new. I started a new game recently and found so many things I missed the first time through and I felt like I hit it all. Deserves all the accolades!
I'll be honest, I started with Dark Souls and didn't like my time with it. I finished it with clenched teeth and more then enough headaches but at least I finished it. It was enough that I was put off from any "souls-like" for a while. So when my friend said I'd like Elden Ring, at first I was skeptical. Of course this was the same guy who got me into Monster Hunter I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, so I bit the bullet and tried it...The moment I picked Astrologer, I didn't realize how much I'd break the game. It was like the revenge story I didn't know I needed. Bosses fell before, unable to withstand my arcane assault. It was at that point that I realized that Dark Souls wasn't hard, I was just playing it in the worst way possible for a first run. None of the souls games are hard, they are only as hard as you make it for yourself.
The fact that Elden Ring is a brand new franchise makes it's success even more amazing. Botw, Mario Odyssey, and Ragnarok for example had lots of longevity backing them up.
My favorite game, it beat out Dark Souls, Dark souls wins Nastalgia, but the fact I introduce a friend to it and say "Wasn't that fun? that wasn't even 1% of the game" after completely finishing Stormveil Castle gives credit to the fact that It is a masterpiece.
Personally, I think Fortnite should have won game of the year
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To be truthful, Fromsoft and the Souls series taught me a life lesson. After playing their games, instead of judging a problem based on wether or not I can do it, now I judge a problem based on how many times I’ll probably have to try.
Practice makes perfect!
damn that’s crazy
So true !!!!
Yes! A truly powerful lesson to take from a video game.
Wow, so deep‼️😩💔 😭‼️
I’m 30 years old and honestly stopped gaming in 2016, I would buy games and literally never play them so I figured I just lost interest.
My friend convinced me to try Elden Ring last month, and now I’m over 100+ hours played.
Got me hooked like how World of Warcraft had me back in 2007
Same, dude. I have now gone back through the catalog (except for demon souls… don’t have ps5 or ps3). They are the best games I’ve ever played and I can’t get them out of my head.
@@jlmeyer7 There is a emulator that runs Demon Souls from PS3 perfectly on PC. You can download the game already configured with the emulator from torrent as well, with upscale, widescreen, 60 fps. Its a way to play this masterpiece on PC as it was back in the day.
Lol, same
@@pablosrf3881 where's the link?
It felt like a classic game the moment I started playing. We didn’t change. Games did.
I love Elden Ring as much as the next guy but it's really sad that we need to applaud developers for putting out complete games
Never felt so sad after finishing a game like elden ring , the feeling of experiencing everything for the first time is exceptional and cant be replicated , this is truly a masterpiece easily best open world RPG i have ever played
Good thing you get to finish it 6 different times. Not including all the unlimited ng
Not bashing you but I've beaten the game about 15 times and I still can't remember how to get to all the optional places. I have even found new areas with coop people guiding me. I kinda wish it wasn't so difficult to find some of these areas bc they are fun but without knowing or watching a vid they are easy to miss.
@@smed4900 Ha, I know for a fact, that there is one dungeon, that I have never found. I have even gone looking for it and still not found it.
(without the wiki, just going off of descriptions.)
And I have played this game a lot as well.
play it again, you discover new areas each time it’s wild
bruh what? I'm on my third playthrough and I'm STILL finding new things, and I had a pretty comprehensive first two playthroughs. this game is ginormous, it's not over after the first playthrough by a long shot. you probably didn't even get 200 hours in; I finished my first at 285 hours and continue to find new places and weapons/items in subsequent runs. if you think you're done after one playthrough you're deluding yourself
Elden Ring is a masterpiece. Well done open world combined with top notch art style and atmosphere. I loved every moment playing it.
Souls games have made it hard for me to enjoy most other games at this point. They just have something that I can’t find anywhere else.
Yes, it's amazing. I loved doing the caves and catacombs with my friends
@Pointlessly Necessary Yeah I feel you there
@@PointlesslyNecessaryConvos the stupidity of beating a combat virtuoso with 3 moves and a dodge?
And unfortunately this may be the end of it. Open world generally means the game developer pushed the game to the boundaries of fun in every way in other titles. It's kind of a Hail Mary to just give the title one last push before letting it rest.
I still remember that feeling of amazement, and goosebumps all over my body when the Elden Beast theme started playing
Just fought and beat the Elden beast for the first time today and godamn did that theme hit hard as well as the cutscene, However the fight was extremely stressful because I didn’t want to fight Radagon again
@@Antpoison yeah having to go through Radagon, and then the Elden Beast right after is always stressful
You mean the Radagon theme (main theme)?
It's truly a beautiful song. They should have won an award for music alone.
When legends are born
“Elden ring is a love story between a game and it’s fans, a developer and their community” that's deep and so true we wish other developers do that too
I'm a fromsoftware and soulsborne fan since 2017 here were my love story with them started.
I started with bloodborne then I jumped to ds series 1, 2 then 3 and we kept waiting for this masterpiece for years it was like a dream waiting for elden ring we just hear some rumors about it and finally it is here
I never bought a 60$ game except this one
Thank you fromsoftware and myazaki ❤
I also began my Fromsoft obsession with Bloodborne man. I also, in a moment of sheer luck and adrenaline, had one of only 2 boss one-shots on the Shadow of Yharnam. The most unlikely one to do and I didn’t do the whittle down health on each one and then drop them altogether strat. I had no idea about that at the time. I took them one at a time so they were getting the the buffs!
I'm doing my NG+101 in DS3 and I will never get tired of it. Even at SL 534 I still find people and get invaded
This is really sad bruh
@@evan_7376 How so?
@@Agent-mb1xx liking and enjoying things is sad and cringe, didn't you know?
@@Agent-mb1xx you do realize the enemies stop getting stronger after NG7 eh? i always just had a bunch of different characters for different builds at about NG10. my best achievement in gaming was getting a LVL 1 character up to NG 10 haha i'll never forget it
@pandaangry1267 I have probably more than you can think, lockdown. 2 playthrough in 3 hours a day
It’s amazing to see how games continue to evolve with time and how some mange to reinvent the wheel. Super Mario NES, Ocarina of time, Goldeneye, Original MW and MW2, Halo and GOW are a few that changed the game…..literally. Are there others? Sure but I’d be here all day trying to list them all.
Now to see ER come onto the scene and show these soulless Triple A gaming companies that this is how it should be done and they have incredible success because of it gives me hope for for the future of gaming.
Reinventing the wheel? Jesus Christ just make an altar and sacrifice your children to FromSoft already, I'm tired of all the hyperbole.
@@masonthunkwell9786 sacrifice my children at the alter????? It ain’t even close to being that serious and it’s only my opinion. So chill out, Mr Salty man.
Could you imagine spending 80 hours a week building a game just to have some rando calling you “soulless” because they didn’t like your work?
99% of games do nothing for me. Do I whine about it? Rarely. I find games I like and play those.
@@Saje3DRando?? Talking about calling the kettle black.
ER was my first souls game too. I was drawn in by the trailer and the fact that GRRM was involved in the story. The name 'Elden Ring' made me think it might have a LotR vibe too, which some areas do. The Haligtree/Elphael has some very Peter Jackson-esque Elven architecture, and Leyndell gave me some Minas Tirith/Gondor vibes.
Also, I knew what Souls games were like, and I had this odd expectation that Elden Ring would be different by having an ever-evolving "faction war system" due to it being open world. Although I was a little disappointed it didn't have this, I realized a faction system is unnecessary and that its absence didn't detract from how incredible my first playthrough was. And now, 200 hours in, I am addicted to the PVP, the music, and the lore.
Best $60 ever spent.
Mine was dark souls 2, and it’s still in terms of tone and narrative far and a way the best in my eyes, but Elden ring is probably second in that regard.
The big Lord of the Rings vibe I got was in the Ruin Strewn Precipice when I first heard one of those Siren birds sitting there singing
Elden ring is my first SoulsBorne game and I’m planning on streaming all from software games this year
dont forget to play the doc for bloodborne and the 2 dlcs for dark souls 3!:)
Same, I’m on my ng+1 run right now, it’s amazing!
A heartfelt tribute to a great work of art. If the renaissance masters were game developers, they would have made Elden Ring.
I think ER hit a good balance of appeal to both hardcore people of the genre, and the more casual player or those who didn’t previously like souls games. The world of the game itself is good, very good. So much that you enjoy playing it, and the difficult bosses is just a temporary road-block to get back to the world-play. And it has a lot of options for approach with varying levels of challenge.
For years I had admired the Dark Souls lore. So many great videos dedicated to the lore of these games but I never thought I would enjoy them personally due to their reputation of difficulty and my proclivity towards being less patient. But Elden Ring had such hype and excitement from the content creators I watched for the previous games that I gave it a shot. I fell in love with the game and its the only steam game I got full achievements for. This made me want to go back and experience the Souls series for myself, to see and experience them first hand instead of by proxy. I finished Dark Souls 1 and am almost done with Dark Souls 2 (Just need to do the Sunken King DLC). The games show their age when compared to Elden Ring but I love them and understand why they are so beautiful. So I am grateful to Elden Ring for opening up the Souls world to me.
exactly. i never thought i'd enjoy a souls game because of their difficulty, but elden ring is simply outstanding because you can play it however you want--it doesn't have to be difficult. and after over 600 hours in elden ring, i have decided i should check out the other dark souls games!
Literally in the same boat, Elden Ring is the first souls game i started to play and was not disappointed and it was the only ever game where i started ng+ immediately and after that Sekiro..masterpiece with the best combat in a game so far.
Even as a big RPG fan I have to admit Elden Ring knocks it out of the park! Great visually with lots to do and amazing playability due to lots of character adaptations.Well done From Soft 👍👍👍
What a heartwarming/wholesome video. I started playing FromSoft games back in 2012 with the first Dark Souls... it changed me. The day I finished it I said to myself "these guys are gonna be big"... and I'm so happy they did, giving us brilliant games on the way.
was telling my friends a few months ago that elden ring changed the entire gaming industry. new precedent set. games (like starfield) getting pushed back to reach the same level. absolutely love to see it. 2023+ is going to be beyond imagination for gaming
I’m glad that souls games got the attention they deserve after Elden Ring. I’m also glad that new players that enjoyed Elden Ring, starts playing the old souls games and enjoy them too
I heard about elden ring, saw that it was a spiritual successor to the souls games which i never got around to playing and i purchased the trilogy and sekiro. Slowly making my way up to it. i am on Dark Souls 3 atm after completing the first 2. Its a shame because i wanted to try demon souls and bloodbourne but i own an xbox so i have to watch some playthroughs on youtube for those. Don't really want to get a new console for two games lol. Still looking forward to elden ring.
I remember when the first trailer dropped for the game in 2021, after such a long silence from the studio that people even begun to speculate that Elden Ring might had been cancelled. And what an amazing trailer that was. It did such a great job at showcasing how incredible this game was going to be, that for some people, me included, it almost had the opposite effect. After the initial hype, I was legit skeptical. "This just looks way too good to be true, there is no way a game could be able to offer as much as shown here". And I kept that skeptical excitement all the way until the network test. That was the point where it sunk in, that holy shit, it looks like From Software will actually be able to jump this absurdly high bar they set for themselves. But even that was nothing compared to the actual full game. It's extremely rare, almost unprecedented that a game doesn't just live up to such levels of hype, but manages to exceed already unreal expectations. I'm convinced that Elden Ring and it's success will be considered as the turning point where From Software's game design philosophy went from an immensely successful and beloved "alternative path" in the gaming industry, to becoming something that won't just inspire the indie and double-A scene, but also the triple-A developer giants to actually put time, money, effort and trust into understanding and inplementing parts of it into their own games.
As much as we love games like Elden Ring. For every 1 company that wants to make a game like Elden Ring that doesn't try to sell you something pointless like game currency, there are 50 greedy companies creating unfinished trash with a battle pass. So sad.
This vid is crazy accurate. I just got elden ring 2.5 weeks ago and I already gave 70 plus hour I'm addicted the world they created it mind blowingly beautiful. I've nvr been addicted to a game like this before n ive been gaming since since the 80s. Praying for dlc n I haven't even finished the game yet I don't want it to end lol
I hope you took the time to experience siofra well. Deep earth has some beauty to admire. And death. Lots of death
First game I have buyed 60 bucks since a decade. First From Software I play.
WORTH. EVERY. PENNY.
I will always remember seeing the sky after opening the hero's grave's doors for the first time. What a sight it was !!
I still feel bittersweet about the open world.
On one hand it's fun to explore at first but gets tiring later on, obviously speaking from my experience. It's a tedious chore to get through on later playthroughs just because of the distance you have to cover and the setup can take like 2 hours on a new character (if you already even know where flasks etc. are).
In that time a decent player can run through all of the Ds3 base game and you can include al DLCs if you take sub 4 hours.
I have to say that the bosses really are great BUT I do sometimes have to ask myself if it's worth the hours that are needed to get to some of them, assuming the average person doesnt use a SpeedSouls save manager.
Don't take me wrong my criticism isnt that the game is too big, it's just not as compact as the other ones which I just enjoy more.
For me Sekiro is still the most polished and mechanically sound one out of all the From games but hey maybe the ER Dlc will just slam so hard that I wont have a choice but to put it even above that one.
I think the main problem is Torrent speed
On a first playtought you don't really mind it, but at later NG+ it starts to feel really slow, and with no way to upgrade him, it does get kinda tiring ueah
I felt this way about the game for a long time. I played to NG+7 on my main character, and filled every single character slot with a 150 character. Played A LOT. It did become little more than a checklist of ways to make the game as easy and fast as possible. Grab the seeds, grab the tears, kill the big dragon, yadda yadda yadda.
Most recently I decided to make a character where I purposefully DON'T do that. I didn't run to the peninsula, I didn't immediately run to the smithing stones. I decided I would kill every roving gang of enemies I see, and clear every camp and cave I find. Within 2 hours, I had found 5 or 6 different encounters I didn't remember, used consumables I never had before, found new ways to bully enemies I never bothered to fight.
It brought back a lot of the mystery and wonder of my initial playthrough. It grounded me, and made me realize that I don't have this game fully memorized like I thought I did. I actually really recommend it
@@buckyhurdle4776 Yeah, I see a lot of the tear and seed collecting at the start from people and it seems really tedious.
As I want more resistance anyway, I tend to play much more like you do.
And that is just closer to my first playthrough, where I always struggled with ressources, as I didn't know where to find them.
You are just describing replaying any game. I havent played elden ring yet i am working my way up to it i am on DS3 atm. But i imagine if you are replaying an open world game and just going from point a to b because you know where things are you are losing half of the fun of playing the open world. The point of them is to get immersed and explore, stumble across things and discover secrets. If you know all the secrets and you are skipping areas you are essentially playing a dot to dot horse gps lol.
Yesnt. So I play From games mainly for the bosses (and nice views) and I dont really care about exploration. I just want a challenge that I can master. Just a way to refight bosses like in Sekiro would be huge and no I dont want to be summoned I want a 1v1 with the boss.
The thing is bosses unlike the explorable content dont get boring the moment you beat/find them once.
For most games youre correct, you play the game once and there's likely not much more to see after the first playthrough.
Well, my friend watched me playing ER and got inspired by it :D he decided to Complete Star Wars Fallen Order on hardest diff to prepare for ER (btw he never before played SWFO)
That's sick! I did the same after I beat Bloodborne. It was a very fun experience!
Elden ring is truly a masterpiece and will most definitely go down in gaming history as one. There is with out a doubt in my mind not a lot Fromsoftware can do to improve this perfection.
perhaps stop nerfing the bosses , radahn is so weak now is kinda not fun to fight him anymore
Dark souls 2 gave us powerstancing weapons. Never forget.
Nice video! Thanks for sharing!!
If Elden Ring had a midnight release. I would've been there.
My first entry in the Souls series was Demon Souls, I only got it because of the cool looking knight on the cover. As a kid when I first started it I died, then I died again, then again and again. eventually I got so mad I quit the game... Finally I came back after 4 days and made it all the way to the big knight with the shield. I remember being so focus on the screen that my eyes were almost about to pop out. dodging and weaving and finally killing the big bastard. I felt elated and overjoyed. After I beat the big knight I stopped playing because if I kept going I knew I was going to die and then be all mad about it again. So I went on to play other games, but in that very moment I realized why so many people loved dark souls 1. So growing up and seeing all the souls-like games I'm glad that I had that little moment to understand why people were so hyped whenever Fromsoft releases a game. Even though Souls-Like game's are not my cup of tea, I can definitely recognize the dedication and effort of the developers from Fromsoft to make a great game, as well as why fans love said games.
It’s sad that a lot of peoples first game is elden ring and then they go back and play the games (which in my opinion are better) and it feels like a major step back due to technical advancements
Im glad people are hopping into the series but yeah, I agree with you 100%. You have more appreciation for what the recent games do when you've played the older stuff first, and these people aren't going to get that feeling.
@@ParkerRat yeah, I tried to get one of my friends to play DS1 after elden being his first fromsoft game and he didn’t even get through undead burg before putting it down because he said the game was too slow and clunky. But, that’s just the nature of gaming, obviously the quality of games get better over time, especially when it’s a company like FromSoft who is going to produce a great game no matter what. It’s just a shame because DS1 was such a groundbreaking game for its time, even more so then elden ring. With the prominence of social media and the popularization of gaming, it was impossible for any of the souls games to reach this level of hype that elden ring has, plus all of those great games layed the groundwork for the studios reputation which really helped convince the masses to buy elden ring
@@DreyfusLagoon Absolutely. DS1 or 3 would've been the topic for this video if they had the same following Elden Ring has. In terms of weight on the community, Elden Ring's only leg up is the hype train that drove in millions of new players. It is my personal belief that the most impactful souls game is DS1 and the most polished FromSoft game is Sekiro. I just wish either of those games were more popular or had the weight of Elden Ring's player influence.
@@ParkerRat yeah but honestly that’s the power of a big open world game. People know about the Witcher, breath of the wild, gta, and many other games with these massive open worlds to explore and it makes approaching the game way easier for new fans. Dark souls uses a very old video game structure (the Metroid and Mario style) and evolves it into a 3D dungeon crawler. That type of game seems sort of lost to time in the current landscape of video games so elden ring appeals to the “casuals” who were looking to play a new open world rpg as well as the old school fans who love the series for the incredible level design
@@DreyfusLagoon Open World and its consequences have been a detriment to modern gaming. I want more old stuff, open world was cool for a very short amount of time. Same with battle royale. Its a shame that ER falls to the same open world thing that modern games do, but for Miyazaki it makes sense considering he wanted to try it out as a new development style. Something that team has never done before.
My first soulslike was code vein with 400hrs, made me very very interested in trying out the real souls games.
My first actual fromsoft game was ds1, and then played ds3, sekiro and finally ER.
Trust me, you got to play bloodbourne
Truly believe elden ring is the best game ever made. I just can’t get enough even after 3 completions.
Darksouls 3 was better
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@@BasedRoots it's the worst of the whole series.
Scott Martin what a delerious person you are. Shame on you. Elden ring is a 5/10 for me. Absolutely disgusting game!!!
@@PessiIsPinished bros name is ben williams no wonder you are angry at the world
personally i think dark souls 1 and demons souls are the easiest in the series. And that's just due to the dated Ai. i would even say bloodborne and Sekiro are easier than dark souls 3. for me elden ring was just a little bit more difficult than than dark souls 3 because the bosses just aren't designed as fairly. With how long their combos are and how little time they give you to respond with an attack.
It's funny, because most of this things you mention at around 8:00 are things Deep Rock Galactic has been doing for a while now, before Elden Ring even released, even though its popularity is not on the same level.
Definitely something worth checking out though, I believe.
This is my first introduction to a “souls type game”. It is definitely my favorite compared to Skyrim, Witcher etc. I went full send on the game and got burnt out and just recently getting back into it. It’s just too damn good. I just wish the story was a little more engaging and didn’t feel so empty at the end cutscene. It’s just full of a million theories but in the end it is the subtle details after slowly learning the game that make it so good as well
DS3 isn’t the easiest in my opinion, it’s the most responsive and most balanced levels. It’s more about the mastery of balancing the bosses/enemies and players speed. The “simplicity” of Sekiro shows how good From is at mastering this dance. That being said, Madir, Friede, and Nameless are all top 10 hardest bosses in the series and maybe even Gael so it’s really hard for me to call DS3 easiest. I would say DS1 is the easiest especially if you use Drake sword and scythe. Elden ring might be easiest too with spirit ashes and broken builds too. Sekiro is easily the hardest
My order was Elden Ring, Sekiro, BloodBorne, DS3. ER being the first souls game I had some trouble with it, had to have a friend help me out for a bit. Then I got the hang of the FromSoft style and went on a months' long binge lol.
Nice video. I played and enjoyed Elden Ring obsessively. It was one of those games, very much like Breath of the Wild, that took over my life, to the point that I just wanted it to end so I could take care of my neglected real life responsibilities. In that sense, I think it doesn't have the replayability of Dark Souls 1, which was more concise.
I still can't quite tell if Dark Souls 1 on PS3 is my favorite game because it was my first, or because it's a better game. What I can say is that it will always be my favorite because of the gameplay and because the amount of players playing it lasted for so long, affording it nearly a decade worth of online activity.
Elden Ring is great, and a windfall for the company, but From needs to come up with something genuinely new to compete with the glory of Dark Souls 1. I hope they do it, but at this point I think it's actually impossible.
I have been a gamer for over 20 years and Elden Ring is one of the best games Ive ever played
Same here... Elden ring is a new experience that no game has ever given me before...
Why though? I don't get it. To me it's like an unfinished rpg. It's not like they can't make a game that plays the same but isn't full of bs. Enemies obviously positioned to ambush the player when the devs know the consequences of death. Quests you have to use a guide to know what to do and that make no sense while using the guide. Why did I have to lie down to get that dragon to show up? How do I know the street is actually finished with no hints? I feel no sense of accomplishment with the game.
@@semitope I dont mean to offend, but it sounds like u may have not finished the video/ the game
To me, i dont like the fact most games these days are just holding my hands from the start til the end
It is suffocating
Everything u pointed out is the beauty of this game. Just like in real life, u almost never get to understand the reality to avoid mistakes until it is too late.
Life is unreasonable, u dont truly understand what is going on beyond ur immediate surrounding, it can be hard to tell what is the right thing to do, and there is no 2nd chance.
U can often sow seeds today and see absolutely no progress, only to reap ur harvest in a distant future when the time is right
U can never know the agenda of the greater will until u have suffered enough
The enemies hidden at every corner will strike down even the most cautious tarnished
This game will break u, and u must learn to accept defeat in order to come back stronger
This is why I feel accomplished when i finally conquer the enemies after countless defeats
This is what the game wants to give u, what Miyazaki wants u to experience
No longer are u treated as a child, u shall walk the path of grace as a lord
Or u could just say fuck it because u already had enough in real life
Nobody can tell u how u should feel
At the end of the day, if u cant enjoy it, then u cant
We are not the same, and that is not a problem
My first fromsoft game was sekiro and I didn’t really like it due to difficulty . Now I bought elden ring recently knowing what I was getting into and absolutely love it
Just a skill issue tbh
Do you think you will get back into Sekiro?
I started with DS1, then Demon Souls... being invaded by a lvl 5 character with a maxed out weapon was a rush.
The biggest reason I am sorry people go to DS3 first and maybe then, go backwards to DS is the fact that DS3 is full of DS references and it robs them of delight and wonder when you catch one. Final boss, The Soul of Cinder, hits you hard when you realize who he is and Gwyn's music starts and so on.
I never thought I'd like a game more than Witcher 3
From Software put all the other AAA devs to shame last year.
Well said brother. My first fromsoft game. I was cryin' and wailin' about the turn that the Video Game Industry had gone.
Exactly as you said, unfinished pay 2 win crap, and here comes The Savior to deliver us from Our Burdens.
Elden Ring! Glorious.
From Software really out here making multiple goddamn masterpieces, one after another.
Seriously it amazes me how they can continually crank out unbelievable gaming experiences, they LITERALLY never miss. No game has absorbed me so completely into its world since Skyrim. Fucking masterpiece.
In terms of consistency From Software does the job that so many other studios also had the chance for but fumbled the ball. Yes I think of you Blizzard, Rockstar and CD Project Red
There's a lot that I'd like to argue, but "quality over quantity"? Really? Like 40% of Elden Ring is a copy-paste of itself.
I dunno, if all you have to do to change gaming forever is make the same game you've been releasing for 10+ years but bigger and with a jump button, then video game industry must be truly fubar
I’m one of those that ER was my first “souls” game. I took a chance and I’m glad I did. I’m close to 100 hours at this point and loving it.
Elden Ring was my first souls like game, while I for sure found it hard, it's honestly been one of the most entertaining game I've played in a while. Never thought I'd put 120 hours into a souls game.
Its because it has a jump button , has a mount and open world , and has an easy mode - mimic
Let's hope it changes gaming to a point where we start getting good fun innovative games instead embarrassing hand-holding movies
Thats been happening since dark souls, elden ring isn't exactly innovative as well btw, still great as all fromsoft games are but let's not act like elden ring is the savior of gaming
Just because the game doesn’t hold your hand doesn’t mean it won’t put you on a leash
Elden ring was 100% goty. I finished it twice one month into its release. One of the greatest games of all time. Elden ring did not revolutionize open world games. It revolutionized SOULS games. Not all open world games. And that’s not a bad thing.
FromSoft is the only company with artistic integrity. They don't compromise their vision for anyone. Not the fans, not the executives, no one.
My first souls game, I played ds2 sofs on acid. When I came through the tunnel to get to heide tower of flame my life was changed. I spent the whole trip grinding those knights and aggroing all the heides knights. Didn't know anything about weapon scaling, fat rolled and blocked my way through the whole game.
I can't be the only person looking forward to an open world armoured core. That is story based instead of missions.
I really hope they do this
jump button and horse, truly innovative
Cope
@@dynamicflashy no thanks :)
I started my Souls journey in 2012, one year after its release in 2011, playing Dark Souls. I knew about it, but had heard of the difficulty and so decided to wait. 1 year gave me the time! After that, I bought a PS3 just to play Demon’s Souls and am so glad I did! It was a great game! Since the, I’ve played all the Soulsbourne games and sunk 200 hours into Elden Ring!
Like your videos and and have become your newest subscriber!
1:50 There's truth in this joke. Actually the substantial feeling is unchanded since the first 1994 King's Field.
I have absolutely loved FromSoft games for years, starting with Demons Souls right before the launch of Dark Souls 2 and then working through them each from there. I’m so glad that they have had such monumental success with Elden Ring. I think that this will be their magnum opus for many years to come, maybe forever. And it’s such an achievement that if they never soar this high with a game again, it will still be enough. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic take on the soulsborne series, this amplifies the inspiration of me sharing with others through streaming the great epics that these games are.
Thanks for bringing us this awesome content.
I played every souls game before Elden Ring (fan since 2016) and ER is definitely a fantastic title and is going to change gaming going forward. However I am still in the camp that their best game is Bloodborne.
People forgetting what dark souls was about 😢
Good content you got a new subscriber!!! I started playing on Dark souls remastered. But Dark Souls 3 and eldenring I have over 3000 hours in both !!!
Dark Souls 3 is the hardest in the souls trilogy, hands down. but it also does away with some of the bullshit making DS1 and DS2 more TEDIOUS.
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This game is the exact opposite of that. Almost all bosses are lacking in all departments and are frustrating to play against. I think that the majority of bosses weren't even playtested. Remember Margit's insta punish (punishment for what exactly?) after you sneak a hit in after one of his combos? Is that "quality over quantity" or just another mechanic used to draw out the game and artificially increase difficulty?
Do you have dementia? Because the same enemies are copy pasted across the entire game. Footsoldiers are everywhere. I feel like DS3 had more enemy variety than elden ring.
Dude, it's been less than year since ER release, Changed Gaming Forever is a very bold statement.
I understand. The title statement I will admit was more for clicks than anything. I will eventually change it to something more fitting for the overall topic.
And yet he's correct.
It changed gaming forever the moment it released. Why does how long its been out for matter in this?
@@kingklipo well let's see if next Assassin's Creed will be any different? Original Dark Souls changed gaming, yet we didn't see ER starting a new trend in gaming. Will it change open worlds? Will other games get rid of in-game shops? How it affected gaming?
@@kingklipo No it didn't? Demon souls was the start of the change your talking about, without it we wouldn't have an entire genre and obviously wouldn't have Elden ring or sekiro or Even Dark souls
how do u only have 520 subs? your content has quality you would expect to find with 1 million+ subscriber channels
I started 8 years ago but never actually tried until November of last year. Im pretty much still just starting out. Went to college for writing and video editing, but I have tons more to learn still. Its been a great ride and Im sure I'll get more subs as I go on.
I've just subscribed after watching this and your DS2 video. They are really well written and your analysis is spot on. Good work and good luck with the channel!
I've been on a similar souls journey since Dark Souls on PS3. I'm just waiting for that Bloodborne PC version to complete the set...
So you telling me you just gotta build a Ubisoft open world…… and just hide the map icons and it will blow everyone’s fcking minds???! Cause it’s the same caves, save damn, one of two hidden floors, same log cabin used 47 times, and your huge choice of reward is….. ring or weapon??? What twighlight zone am I in??? This game no damn thing special and lacked in sooo many areas compared to other games, rip gaming
Beat elden ring 7 times, have two trophies left, jus hopped on and hopped off in less then 30 minutes. Best game ever
Something’s off with Dark Souls 3 for me. At least Dark Souls 2, with all its jank, feels like its own thing. Dark Souls 3 is like Bloodborne wearing Dark Souls 1’s skin minus everything that made Dark Souls 1 and Bloodborne enjoyable.
Video is immediately wrong. Bloodborne is the foundation for DS3, Sekiro, and Elden Ring. The speed of combat in the game shifted what it is to play a souls title.
I was curious about what you thought ER has done to gaming but I'm guessing it's the usual. Hype of shit that's been in one game or another for years and pretend like..
The Witcher 3
Red Dead Redemption 2
God Of War 2018
Breath of the Wild
And other games don't exist.
Red Dead in particular is still on social media and it came out in 2018. Every single open world title is compared to it and it's physics .
A direct comparison between the two shows just how lifeless ERs characters are. In Red Dead, They have lives. They go about their business independent of the player. The main character isn't a faceless voiceless vehicle for the player and people have genuine interactions with the player. The world is a living thing and anything can happen.
Even copy paste games like Far Cry have better world design. In Far Cry 3, a game from 11 years ago, you set a house or field on fire and there are consequences. Things burn, missions fail, etc.
In ER, you can't kill anyone but those the game allows. Everyone in the round table is protected unlike Demon's souls from 2009.
The story is fine but a repeat kd that we have seen over and over from this franchise.
Questing had to be fixed with a patch to add noc markers. Otherwise, you wouldn't even know you've missed a step unless you scour every inch of the game after the tired exhaust all dialog and beat a boss formula.
The world itself is so scripted and built for farming that there are no surprises unlike DS2 which thoughtfully changed things based on player choice. Same group of mobs walking about Limgrave are doing the same shit no matter what.
The bosses... worst in the franchise aside from DS2. There's really only 9 unique fights the entire game and Malenia is a product of get gud hype. You have stuff in this game like Erdtree Avatars which are really re-skinned Asylum Demons. Rollo and mini bosses like him are the Kapra Demon. The discount Bell gargoyles are here. Walmart Ornstein and Smough that you fight multiple times then they sandwich in a gank fight where they are resummoned until a generic health bar is depleted. Loretta is basically the first boss in Sekrio and they make you fight her twice! Margit just walking around the capitol. 37 ulcerrated tree spirits. The game is filled with filler.
Your first encounter with the Leonine Misbegotten is a fun learning experience. Then they force feed you him multiple times and then in a gank boss fight in Redmane.
Then there's the state of the game at launch. You know it was busted with mausoleums not working and people lying about having to use a specific rememberence on a specific mausoleum. Or bleed not functioning as intended. Or shit Luke mimic tear and hoarfrost being so broken, it has to be nerfed as it trivialize everything.
Or the fact that you can break Elden Ring in 10 minutes at launch without a wrong warp.
I have the platinum on Elden Ring and it's a great game worthy of its game of the year.
But it's not in any way life altering or game changing. It's not even the best souls. It's definitely not top 10 open world games and it's combat is pathetic compared to action games it's trying to be like. This game is cruising by on hype and good will and people that believe it's the hardest game ever played when games like Devil May Cry exist.
Devil May Cry and Elden Ring are some VERY different games lol
Im playing this on PC in 2023, got a 144hz mod, a photo mode mod, and a DualShock 4. I swear if you don’t have a photo mode mod you’re missing out on 90% of the details!
Aside from the high blood pressure and heart palpitations, this game is the best game I’ve ever played. I switched over to the Dark Souls series for a bit to get a feel for those games. Returning to Elden Ring shortly. It’s also a game i see being talked about for a long while. Everything about it is awesome. I like the fact that even going through the whole game, things are still yet to be discovered.
Great video, subscribed!
IMO DS2, Bloodborne, and Sekiro are the most important games in understanding Elden Ring. Whether or not someone likes DS2 is my litmus test for whether they get what makes FromSoft great or not. DS2 is great because they didn't just give us Dark Souls again. They experimented and evolved the formula. Some of the changes were mistakes that they reverted in DS3 but others are foundational to Elden Ring.
Absolutely, DS2 is a core part of the series and it is especially a core part of ER. I was very sad when DS3 didn't include hardly anything from DS2 and was similarly hyped when I found out ER would include those abandoned mechanics
I played 'Souls games' since DS2 but this is the first one I have played so many times. A true masterpiece!
ER is for sure a ground breaking game just not in the traditional sense. It is a title that has rediscovered what it means to be a video game in that it doesnt hold your hand and point out every single thing on a map for you to do and there are dozens of ways to go about playing the game in what ever fashion you desire. Want to be some weeb samurai? You can do that. Want to cosplay Guts? You can do that. Want to literally obliterate enemies with magic Kamehameha's? You can do that. Theres an endless supply of ways to go about the game and 80% of the content you see in videos are completely optional and are nonessential to the game, Malenia, dont need her. Renalla, only for a different ending, the dung eater stuff only for a seperate ending. The whole game allows you to play it and do so many things within it its crazy by modern western standards that are all very stock and formulaic by comparison, look at every single ubisoft game over the last 10 years, theyre all open world, boring, bubble filled maps with no soul to them whatsoever and most every other game is on the fast track to follow suit. Elden Ring has re-taught what it is to be a game in that its not some pre-made and prepackaged game that will be the exact same experience for everyone involved. The game allows you to do what you want with it in all facets outside of the main story which even then is kind of all over and can be played anyway you want it to. Elden Ring is text book on how an open world game should be handled, its not a game with a compass and five thousand colored icons telling you exactly where to go to get whatever exact item or weapon you want but its also not a mindless sandbox with no direction at all, the game lets you go where ever you want whenever you want but will give nudges on whether or not you need to be a higher level judging on enemies health and overall difficulty. Regardless of being whatever a souls like is the game just sits back and let you steer the car for once and not have the developer force feeding you the same repetitive gameplay 5000 thousand times, looking at Valhalla on this one 150 hours to just beat the game is mind numbing but elden ring has been beaten within 3 hours by just focusing the main bosses and being as fast as possible not including glitches of course but just main bosses and beating the game can be done in a very short amount of time and that just proves the point that the devs dont care if you miss 90% of the content they want you to do with the game what you want and thats huge. The problem is that most other studios STARES AT UBISOFT* wants you to experience everything the game has to offer, not what you want, what they want you to so youll be in for an exhilarating 100+ hour journey of going to markers on a map following your GPS to a T just to progress the story. My point being is that ER is a game that has defined its own space as a fantastic game I just dont think other studios are going to do what Fromsoft have in they dont care enough to put out an enjoyable experience just one that makes people clock in more hours than they do working a month.
Funny how you say being a samurai is being a weeb but Guts is just cool cause he is cool, but more of a weeb thing to do.
"Doesnt hold your hand and point out everything" that's not a good thing when everyone just looks the stuff up on the internet, ah yes alt tab out of the game to Google what to do, peak game design.
I mean look at steam achievements, people have done the secret and convoluted as hell ranni ending in their 1st playthrough more than the normal ending lmao.
Also your take is pretty meh like nothing you stated is new or special to elden ring, like it being text book open world? What like having over 150 randomly recycled bosses or copy pasted caverns and such, like what is a giant magma wyrm doing at the bottom of a cavern he is too big to enter or leave , or even the terrible balancing that ruins your experience of some areas, I could go on with issues it has but its tiresome, it's definitely a one of a kind amazing game but it shares many issues with other open worlds and issues of its own.
@@mooddd2684 ON GOD
it’s perfectly fine and if that’s the way people want to play the game that’s their own thing, if you decide to do that and you spoil it for yourself that’s not the devs or my problem and it’s not an issue it’s the design. That’s no different from any other game in history, don’t know how to do a COD zombies Easter egg? Watch a video or a guide, don’t know how to get an item in a game? You watch a guide but that’s if you want to and if people do that’s on them. You can’t critique a game for the same issue that every game has in some sense which is just outside knowledge. I’m not going to say it’s cheating but you’re just cheating yourself. Along with that you bring up poor balance when in reality you need to go rank up your stats also the fact that dungeons are just there for funsies and are side content that have some items of interest in them and aren’t copy paste they all have different layouts a similar goal yes find switch open door but they’re all different, regardless of the logistics of a huge work fitting into the space lest we remind ourselves there are giants with fire and huge chunks of metal through their chest and a guy who using magic to float so he doesn’t crush is precious pony so if you really wanna get into the “realism” of things you can go ahead lol. And ER really isn’t the standard for open worlds by todays standards it by and large separates itself by not having 500 meaningless points of interest for the sake of wasting the players time hence why I mentioned Ubisoft who makes 99% of open worlds today because all those games are is climb radio tower simulator today. Plus Elden Ring is way more linear than you’d give credit for once you have a grasp on the map and what to do and where to go genuinely. The game for the most part is focused down a single stream of grace that you grace to the capitol. Regardless ignoring semantics the game has rediscovered what it means to be a fun and engaging open world as I said previously and is one of the best if not the best out there today just on the simple fact it doesn’t rely on pointless time sinks where you ride a horse for 10 minutes one way following your gps and has more depth to its customization than any other open world game before it in how you can play and approach it.
@@Koi_Swirl I say that because in the traditional sense Guts is a medieval character in a dark fantasy, juxtaposed to the typical position of weebs who see anything “Japanese” and want to mimic it and make it their whole identity. Sure Guts is written by a Japanese man but he isn’t in that realm of being a Japanese character nothing about Berserk is about Japanese culture it’s all European as far as style and art go. Along with there’s literally 1-1 objects and moves within the game to be Guts like the huge slab of metal and the knights cavalry armor.
All the ubisoft devs getting racist because of ER lmao
7:32 OMG did you just no-hit Soldier of God, Rick?
I think y’all are giving it too much credit. It’s really just open world dark souls. So many reused bosses and worthless gear drops in dungeons. It’s fun and pretty good, but a bit overhyped in my personal opinion.
Cue all the turbo nerds telling me I’m wrong lol.
Leaving out Sekiro was a very odd choice
He probably couldn’t finish it
I resisted because of the hype. Closest I have gotten to a fromsoft game was fallen order I enjoyed the hell out of that. I finally got Elden Ring a couple days after Christmas because it was on a PS4 digital sale. Been playing games for 36 years since I was 5. I've never played anything like this. The discovery being rewarding almost every time (damn Asteria leaf) is commendable. I'm at level 106 with 150 hours in. First and probably only playthrough. I understand the appeal of NG+ but I don't think it will ever be for me.
I hardly ever do NG+. Instead, I make new characters to ty out different build and follow NPC questlines. Been playing Souls since 2011 :)
you also don't have to do everything, just focusing on your build and remembrance bosses in enough for a replay.
People claiming Elden rind didn't deserve game of the year have never played Elden ring. This game is a masterpiece and more than just a game. It's an experience.
had my ps4 pro for 5 years when this game dropped. walking out of the place you start the game in, the crypt or whatever, was the first time i ever took a screenshot. this game is fucking amazing. it is the best game ever made. i dont care what anyone says. name a game with scope even close to this games ill wait bro.
Nice video. Good luck with channel.
Thank you!
Absolutely amazing video. Good job with this👍
Thank you!
It all makes sense once you realize, that Elden Ring is Dark Souls II II
Elden Ring is amazing. I heard alot about Bloodborne, but couldn't get into it. I couldn't make it further than a few hours into that one. I'm 150+ hrs into Elden Ring and still playing every day. And watching UA-cam videos about it when I'm not playing 🤷♂️.
ER is my first soulslike and honestly i think its a piece of art rather than just a game .
It's amazing that FS was able to create such an amazing open world. 343 couldn't do it for Halo Infinite even though they had a bigger team, budget and development time.
I came in with DS 3 and have no played all of them except for Sekiro. I have hundreds of hours in Elden Ring. They got me excited about games again! I would complete a couple games per year as an adult, and now I constantly try new games and genres. Elden Ring is insane. The scope, the scale, the story, the combat and mechanics, the feeling of exploring and finding something new. I started a new game recently and found so many things I missed the first time through and I felt like I hit it all. Deserves all the accolades!
Hey very good vid man keep it up!
Thank you! I really appreciate the encouragement!
@@ParkerRat no problem I love seeing new channels on the come up I’m also preparing an Elden Ring video and yours was very well made!
Playing elden ring is currently a magical experience, didnt feel like this since oblivion
I'll be honest, I started with Dark Souls and didn't like my time with it. I finished it with clenched teeth and more then enough headaches but at least I finished it. It was enough that I was put off from any "souls-like" for a while. So when my friend said I'd like Elden Ring, at first I was skeptical. Of course this was the same guy who got me into Monster Hunter I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, so I bit the bullet and tried it...The moment I picked Astrologer, I didn't realize how much I'd break the game. It was like the revenge story I didn't know I needed. Bosses fell before, unable to withstand my arcane assault. It was at that point that I realized that Dark Souls wasn't hard, I was just playing it in the worst way possible for a first run.
None of the souls games are hard, they are only as hard as you make it for yourself.
The fact that Elden Ring is a brand new franchise makes it's success even more amazing. Botw, Mario Odyssey, and Ragnarok for example had lots of longevity backing them up.
My favorite game, it beat out Dark Souls, Dark souls wins Nastalgia, but the fact I introduce a friend to it and say "Wasn't that fun? that wasn't even 1% of the game" after completely finishing Stormveil Castle gives credit to the fact that It is a masterpiece.