Elden Ring Then vs Now (Two Years Later)
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
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This is the largest project I have tackled for Elden Ring. An entire year, matter of fact, an entire journey from 2019 to 2023. The perception, the bad endings, the end goodening, the expectations, reactions, trailers, the game itself, what worked, everything in one large video! Welcome to Elden Ring One Year Later.
Special thanks to Yagaminoue for letting me use this art piece for the thumbnail: / yagaminoue
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Edited by: Creators studio
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Intro: 00:00
2019: 01:25
2021: 08:08
Release Day: 10:11
Celebration: 21:08
Post Ring Effect: 25:44
Game of the Year: 30:15
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give the people maliketh merch. "Oh death, become my blade once more"
Jesus
The elevator was also that one moment that really amazed me. Just that moment when you slowly realise it's not stopping and then you suddenly see the one thing you expect least to see in a cave hundreds of meters below the earth: Another sky. Absolutely beautiful feeling.
bruh i was literally flabbergasted.i played it late after it became goty and i found that elevator pretty early before first or second main boss.understood why it became goty right there tbh
@@yammegaThe game is insane 😮
it just kept going!
Which elevator? Because there’s too many, and I love all of them
"omg this is art" is what audibly came out of my mouth
People talk about the well being THAT moment in the game. But for me it's when you exit stormveil castle and enter liurnia of the lakes. It's just beautiful. You see the erdtree, Raya lucaria, the moon. The game just opens up at that moment and that was the moment that I knew this was something special
For me it was after I fell for the teleporter trap in the ruins by the lake in limgrave, and finally managed to escape the prawns in the tunnel. Riding all around the Lake of Rot without a clue how to escape and being incredibly underleveled, I came to fear Caelid so much that it is still my favourite area I have discovered in Elden Ring to this day.
Going up the Ruin Strewn Precipice and take the lift up to see Altus Plateau, then later realizing it was merely the back way was probably my favorite. Another was how FROM applied their looping design to the open world with the ring around Volcano Manor, where you drop down to where you started.
For me it was getting teleported to Caelid. First time I opened the map I was like wait, that's it? Then I ended up in Caelid. I struggled quite a bit to escape that dungeon but when I did, I looked at the environment and that was my "yeahhhh ok" moment. Especially after I then opened the map again, just to find out it pretty much doubled in size. That's when I knew I was in for something special
@@noahstobbe9814haha, thought for a moment I would never be able to escape from those prawns... 😅
You might be interested in knowing that you dont _need_ to beat stormveil to unlock liurnia by the way. You can just walk beside the castle.
Elden Ring didn't live up to our expectations, it went beyond.
Damm did it ever! Top 3 for me. Best treasure hunt game of all time. There's just so many awesome weapons and gear to find. Not to mention play styles.
It’s like a SSJ 3 Goku moment
@@JohnSmith-ip6kcdamn right
Our expectations didn't live up to Elden Ring.
Souls like games are a low standard in gaming
I'm 44 years old, gaming since I was 16-17, when the PS1 released.
There's 3 games I will forever remember; Metal Gear Solid, Silent hill and Elden Ring.
When I played Elden Ring the first time I felt as if I was 18 watching LOTR for the first time.
Where's Baldur's Gate 2 and Neverwinter Nights 1? Or Legacy of Kain: Defiance.
They don't make games like they used too. These have some of the best writing in history.
@@I-Will-Destroy-U Unfortunately. Now it's all "Pew pew, pretty shiny lights" in games.
The best writers know pain and death. Used to be in the war or something. George Lucas for example. Perhaps we're get some game writers now that the war in the middle east is over. Someone that can really pull off the character depth like Kain And Raziel. Or Luke and Vader. Or Sarevok from BG2. I need my amazing story in a game that doesn't break immersion fix.
I actually thought abuout being a script writer. I'd only do that if a game was self published though. It's done when it's done. Not when it's rushed out.
Maybe a game with dragons. From their perspective. Shadow of War and ARK with certain dinos shows the tech is there to do it. Three factions... Yea. I can pull it off. If nothing else I could make a story book about it.
If we want things to change we got to do it ourselves.
I’m 43 and your experiences are exactly my experiences. The Silent Hill and MGS games have my heart. And I was not expecting Elden Ring to do what it did. Played it through and got the same overwhelming feeling of wonder and awe.
Come see us pros when you can say ur first system was an Atari 😉
@@dougfoster445 we were Uber poor, no money for gaming consoles unfortunately 😭😭.
I bought my PS1 with my very first summer paycheck. Best money spend ever.
This is the kind of games you wish to forget so you can experience discover them again.
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Good thing Ive never played it... yet.
10 years dude , 10 years later and its as good as fresh
10 years is too long. Just get blackout drunk 100 days in a row to delete your brain.
I wish I could forget malenia every single duo fight and fire giant
Discovering the eternal cities, Farum Azula, Caelid are moments I will never forget. What a legendary game. And our minds are yet to be blown by the DLC, because From Software is extremely unpredictable.
Absolutely cannot wait for the DLC and I haven't even beaten Elden Ring yet because there a couple bosses that I'm still stuck on lol. I've uncovered 100% of the map and have crawled through every dungeon/cave though (honestly discovery was the greatest aspect of this game for me, even moreso then beating bosses after dying dozens of time's first lol)... the moment I realized there wasn't anything else to "see" I shed a tear... every new area and enemy I discovered in this game gave me some of the most satisfying feelings I've ever experienced playing a video game. 11/10 MASTERPIECE.
Mine is SO yet to be blown
The first time we discovered The Tower of Return 🤯
@@AnthonyDoesUA-camu must have been rooting for God of war 😂
@drewdabrew4745 no, I'm saying my mind is yet to be blown by that DLC!
Its so sad to see the ubisoft devs criticize Elden Ring and realize they genuinely believe they are doing good games...
Ubisoft didn't truly believe a word they said lol. They knew Elden Ring destroyed every single game Ubisoft has ever made an attempt at. Elden Ring/Fromsoft is the Mona Lisa, Ubisoft is a John Wayne Gacy clown painting.
Everyone has their own opinion of this game. Me the only thing the game had going for it was graphics and some decent battle. The rest it's just Cobble together. just my opinion. I know others it just couldn't stand it. Then you got groups like yourself that liked it. That's why there's such a wide range and variety.
Elden ring is mid tho lol
Elden Ring is the GOAT, but Valhalla was very very good. Not a big fan of AC games, but that one was the best of the series.
@@steele09they definitely put a lot into that AC Valhalla game
I don’t think i’ll ever get to experience a game like elden ring again in my life time. Not just playing it, experiencing it in the community and seeing the whole world playing it
Unless Fromsoft makes another entirely new open world game like Elden Ring again. Though for it to retain that same magic it would have to be an entirely new world. But it's going to be so hard to outdo Elden Ring even by Fromsoftware. But then again Fromsoft has just been releasing hit after hit after hit. They even figured out how to make Armored Core absolutely amazing and insanely fun to play, not that the old games weren't good but imo after Sekiro and Elden RIng they're probably the top 3 most talented devs in the entire industry
That's something people never mention the game is amazing but playing the game while the whole community is experiencing it with you was the cherry on top. For one moment gaming was alive again.
Yea it's alright.
Guess you missed Skyrim
@@nhkk2893skyrim? I felt like I was hacking on air, there was no weight to tge attacks, it was boring for me. Then I tried dark souls and never looked back. Until it released on vr I tried it again and did loved it, the exploring and lors was great but tge fighting mechanics still sucked, if it wasn't for vr I'd never had given it à second chance tbh.
Launch weekend was insane. Every streamer pulled crazy hours and binged it until they beat it. If you played video games, you dropped whatever you were playing and picked up ER and talked with your friends and compared notes about whatever unbelievable shit you ran into over the weekend.
Was the only thing getting me to work at the time , was an electrician and the whole crew played, went to work just to talk about it and give echo their tips where to find shit and how to beat bosses secret passageways ahh good times
@@mrorganic13it's really was bro the nostalgia I have for ER is bittersweet
It's a streamer thing to beat the game. 80% of people who purchased ER never finished it.
It really felt like those moments people talked about with the original zelda
Till today I’m actually still playing, just when you have no games, you pick up your controller and Elden ring is the go getter. I still help people online and also exploring different builds and to be honest I always discover something new each time I play a new build. Amazing game.
Yoo same, I recently started playing again but on pc for the first time and have already clocked about 200 hours
same about 140 hour and 199 level with a full tank build
a guy from playstation messaged me that how am i so tanky 50% dmg red armor and more with ashes of war and incantaions
@@davidbenitez9633 I played elden ring on ps4,ps5 and pc and have like 200 hours on the 3 main characters at least, and my other 3 characters got like 40-60 hours
100% truth.
Boring
I never thought, that after 40 years of playing video games I could be drawn in as much as Elden Ring did. I still play it every single day, I have over 40 full playthroughs with all rememberance bosses, getting all great runes, and it still doesn’t dull me to repeat all the story parts, that I now know so very well. As a FromSoft noob I struggled mightily in the beginning, but got through the early hard part and after over 2.000 total hours in the game, I now even can parry Malenia and discover new builds for me to play (ever tried fist weapons?) and enjoy the variety of possible play styles. I never could imagine, once i got the Blasphemous blade, Moghs spear, Rivers of blood, that I would use other weopons, cause hey, why make the game harder on yourself, but these weapons are now well storedin the inventory and I have so many more to really make full of use of. I‘m so excited that FromSoft didn’t exploit the players wallet and even gifted use the PvP arenas for free and with the DLC probably not too far away, I‘m hyped for what comes next, how they are gonna tie the story together and the sufferings the new bosses will bring to us. Summed up: For me the best game ever, no mind change possible.
Use enough commas?
Same. I had never been so hooked on a game, I had never even played any soul, so elden ring was my first. Then I played ds1 2 3 I liked them all.
I hope that for elden ring they make at least 3 DLC haha
Same here. 44 years old, playing video games since I was 10. My first From game was Sekiro. Then I played DS I, DS II (only one not finished yet), DS III, Bloodborne. I've played Elden Ring every single day since release. It's like my official hobbie of something.
@@ramen7998 ...that was very sad to read. Games are great and Elden Ring is the GOAT, but dude, prioritize Life.
@@steele09 ? What do you mean? I play every day (if I can), i don't play all day. I've got a job dude. Lol
The standout moments for me are getting teleported to Caelid at like level 12, the Siofra River elevator, and, most of all, descending to the Lake of Rot then the Grand Cloister and finally facing Astel. That really made me feel like I was somewhere I wasn't supposed to be more than any previous From game, which is really saying something since every area in Bloodborne makes you feel that way.
Getting transported to Caelid early doors was a nightmare 😂 made me so scared of Caelid I thought it must be an endgame area
It was the one game I got by accident and fell in love with beat every other fromsoft game multiple times since getting it.
Astel was an incredible boss that for some reason was more difficult to me than radhan lol. But when he fell to my blade it was an excellent feeling. What a crazy journey
That feeling of "exploring somewhere you aren't supposed to be" is a drug that I'm always chasing and never finding. After The Frigid Outskirts (which for me was the best iteration of this idea), nothing else has really compared.
I wish Tanimura would be lead director for a Souls game again. I don't doubt that Lake of Rot was Tanimura's creation and the linear obvious easy path through it was Miyazaki stepping in to avoid another public backlash like with the Frigid Outskirts.
The world itself was really the showstopper in ER...IMO in ER2, they need to focus more on the combat as it really did feel like DS3 with jump and a horse. Flesh out jump attacks and mounted combat. They have a great base to work from. Also, innovate more in normal combat. I think we are years away from ER2 but I really hope it's not just Elden Ring but in a new world(that ironically WOULD be very Ubisoft to do)
My biggest memory with the game is collecting the map pieces. Everytime I was just "that must be it, right?", and it never was. Limgrave into Caelid and Liurnia. Then Leindell (Oh, here's the tree, so that must be it), mountain tops, Farum Azula (Where even am I?). Find the albinauric woman, here is the consecrated snow fields, now another great tree. Oh, where this elevator go, a dungeon that I missed? (Welcome to the map under the map). It was surreal.
Stoked to have been a part of this! Glad to see the final video!
Thanks for your help with this ❤️
Phenomenonal job!!!👍
This is my first souls game, i really wish i can turn back the time and start over this game from stratch again. What an incredible journey🎉
Definitely recommend Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne, and Sekiro to further your journey into From Games. Just be wary, Bloodborne is fast-paced and rewards being aggressive and Sekiro is definitely a more patient game, a lot of parrying and countering. They aren’t your usual Souls combat.
Best moment for me was once you’d completed the castle and entered Liurnia of the lakes. Man, that view of the academy, the erdtree etc was just absolutely breathtaking.
This game made me want to complete everything in it because it rewarded exploration and overcoming difficult challenges. It made me want to look for those little pieces of lore and try to figure out the story. It lets you have your own journey through an amazing open world and doesn’t hold your hand. For me personally it’s one of those games that changed how I looked at how a game should be in the best way possible.
23:09 , wow this guy really sounds like me. Awesome video
I found the pants!!!
I am playing through it for the first time now and I absolutely love it already. I've just started Ranni's quest and made it to the underground area. That lift ride was one of the best gaming moments I've had in a long long time.
I'm counting the minutes until I can get off work and go continue my playthrough!
I still think ER is the best game ever made, in every aspect. The only open world game that I didn’t get bored of, In fact I memorized every last corner in the whole map because it’s just beautiful, I played the game and finished it dozens of times, I play with different character, different builds, different ideas to create my own fun because ER gave me the options to create it. I never played a single mod because they’re fake and feels like too much. it’s like using drugs, you start with a weak one then you get stronger and stronger until the first one you tried feels nothing, so I don’t want to ruin Elden ring for myself, I believe I will still play this game in five years from now and I don’t want to keep remembering that one weapon or that one spell from that one mod that isn’t part of the game.
Lastly, I wish they will bring Malenia and Radahn as difficult as they were before. same with weapons, like moonveil and rivers of blood back to their broken glory (i’m not talking about more damage. I want the speed, range, accuracy and all of that).
I agree, it truly is, the best game I've ever played, I'm still replaying it over and over with new builds & stuff. Can't wait for Shadow of the Erdtree DLC OMG!!
I agree with EVERYTHING you said, lol. The crazy thing is that I was just saying to someone last week that it would be cool to fight some of the bosses in their prime, and specifically Malenia and Radahn. The fact that they are both battle-worn, bruised, and physically nowhere near their peak yet they are STILL responsible for many player deaths really makes you wonder how they once were!! 😮😮😂😂
I fell in love with the game when I was teleported to a random cave with miners and the Kindred, only to emrge onto the red skies and ominous theme of Caelid.
I pulled up the map to check where I was and my jaw dropped.
I have since put in over 1000 hours into the game.
Elden ring is one of those games I wish I could play for the first time again. I played it after the game of the year hype, so I had heard alot about it. It was such a fun experience to explore the map and it's secrets.
Incantation = Spirit Ashes*
Yes, that was cringy AF. The title of the video implies that a lot of time has passed since release and "hints" upon the narrator knowing the game well. Uhmmm, yeah, nah.
The editing is good tho... 🥴.
after so many years of half-baked, uninspired games, we get elden ring and BG3 in back-to-back years. Here's to hoping starfield lives up to the hype. we all deserve it after the "live-service, ubification" era of gaming.
starfield will be epic in 2024 when all the mods come out for it
@@thechozenfew1273😂😂😂😂
Don't forget tears of the kingdom! I'm a PC player for the most part but having played all of them I would absolutely put ToTK on the same level as Elden Ring and BG3, we're getting fed well.
You guys are overrating BG3 too much. I like the game but im in act 3 and I can tell its rushed and still filled with bugs.
@@scrublord7922larian and there last act
This could be the best game EVER made
Agreed
agree. at the VERY least it's up there with morrowind and witcher 3 (both of which i preferred the story and characters of)
The Witcher 3 💪
says a complete fool
I won't argue if someone considered this their GOAT of games. It has such a strong case. It's definitely my favorite game of the 2020's so far, and tied for my favorite Fromsoft game (next to bloodborne)
Masterpiece video!
played it for 4 months straight since the day it launch, was able to get platinum and got to lvl 713 i miss elden ring 😔😔
Elden RIng destroyed all other games for me. It is so phenomally fantastic.
Also the elevator down to the underground was just.. W O W
I'm having a hard time getting back to open world games beside TOTK because of Elden Ring. I've put like 800 hours in this game already, and in every new run I discover new things
@@Luismayer77Elden Ring kinda ruined TotK for me tbh. It’s a great game, but it doesn’t come close to ER imo.
@@dogfood142 I would not say "ruined", just I did not enjoy It as much as BOTW bc of Elden ring, mostly its difficulty and enemies variety. I could beat TOTK with one hand and a blindfold
Dark Souls 3 pulls the final boss as a surprise better. That pulls it off. Radagon not so much. The 2nd phase could have been done better too. It's a good looking fish, but it's doing a lot of swimming away.
... Now I want a giant fishing hook. Someone mod that in. A fiant rod with a big hook for the giant fish.
This is my favorite game of all time! I loved everything about it the background, the characters and soundtrack everything is perfect
I get goosebumps just re-experiencing the reaction to the ER trailers ❤️🔥
UI is great imo. I wouldn't want a flashy modern looking/feeling UI. Something about it is charming. Adds to the difficult dungeon crawl "feel" to me.
i remember doing a perfect playthrough right before my first trip in like 4 years. It was a bad year for me ... November 2022 so much fun this playthrough was. I managed to kill every boss in the world (probably not every but almost all of them yk) and it went the exact way i wanted it to. Then the day i left that night i did the final boss and oh my gosh i still remember this moment. It wasn't my first playthrough but it was the first playthrough where I didn't need help for any bosses and man that moment where radagon pull his hammer up and the ost kicks in is probably one of the most peak moments of my entire life combined with going on that trip right after. Thank you for the memories elden ring.
There are a lot of parallels between ER and Hollow Knight. The exploration, sense of wonder and discovery giving me very similar feelings.
its because Hollow Knight was inspired by Dark Souls.
i’m currently on another playthrough after i took a long break to play other games which included older Souls games and it’s still breathtaking.
The first steps out inot the overworld, the first time you approach Stormveil and Margit drops down in front of you to stop your venture, the first time you start walking right into Caelid and you see the drastic difference in landscape and aesthetic. It all just comes together beautifully
Personally one of the coolest moments in gaming ever to me, was cruising around Liurnia and hearing some crazy awesome singing coming from a random rock, and walking in there and realizing it’s a grotesque bat/human hybrid and getting owned by it, went from beautiful and mysterious, to a horrible discovery almost immediately and that’s so epic to me. I’ll never forget that moment.
Elden Ring had already abused me into constant paranoid vigilance by that point that I dove down that cliff swinging. "Beautiful singing? Definitely wants to kill me."
Yeah it took me forever to figure out what that singing was lmao. I couldn't connect it to the bats until I was dicking around a rock farming that thorn sorcery staff and decided to get to the bottom of things and figure it out.
@@The_Novu lol 😂 I had pretty much the same experience that’s a wild moment
Yeah the mini-moments that were unique to our own playthroughs are some of my favorites. I remember my showdown with the Dungeater ended with a crab appearing out out of nowhere and proccing him with destined death. It was a perfect ending for him.
my favorite game because it dropped on my birthday - will forever be connected to this classic
Sounds like a weird reason to like a game. Especially if you're older than 9 and still obsessed with your own birthday.
Elden Ring has left an unmatchable impression in my memory. I feel like I lived an actual other life in that game, and I can’t explain what that truly feels like.
Exploring the Lands between for the first time is a one of a kind experience. NG+ is great too feeling all powerful but nothing would top that first playthrough where the sense of exploration and mystery is all over every corner. Such a great world they made. Elden Ring is my top choice if I can forget a game to replay it again fresh from the start.
That first time Caelid experience from the chest is so aepic
As the game ages it's only gotten better. Knowing what to do, forgetting about things just to rediscover them again, awaiting the DLC which might just change the entire game as we know it with the amount of content and items it could bring. This game just like past Dark Souls games is going to live on for a very long time for fans of the series and for everyone else it was an amazing one and done experience.
I’ve got 500 hours and still find stuff I’ve never seen or done. It’s wild.
Playing through as a wizard vs playing through as a swordsman is pretty damn fresh. I think it has plenty of replay value.
High quality video brother. Damn fine editing.
Great video thanks so much!
When Malenia stood up and gave that absolute BANGER of a speach, favorite moment in gaming, hand downs, and it's not even close 😂
Speech*
Hands down*
Maliketh's phase transition was it for me.
When she said "you Will witness true horror" man literal chills
@@TheStraightestWhitest He's such a handsome beast. Why would he hide that?
... I'd probably sleep with the bugger. You heard me.
@@Veldazandtea Most people would. Especially white women.
The only thing i wished ER had was more to offer in NG+, Other than that it's perfect in my eyes, and it will be even better when DLC arrives.
I also love ER bosses the most in terms of their approaches, because of how much they offer in combat, their also the most complex in their moveset, the variety is crazy, and even the mini-bosses are phenomenal, bosses like Crucible knight, or Zamor's heroes are amazing and feel so fun to fight, better than like 50% of past soulsborne bosses, and the main bosses are so distinct, from both theme, music, spectacle and it just feels refreshing to fight each one of them, and based on how much build options you have, It just gives you more.
Here's one more to help, subbed.
This was my first dark souls play though not done yet but absolutely love this game. After I finish my first play as Ranni ending I'm going for thr rest as well.
After saying Bloodborne and DS3 are my top 2 favorite games of all time, i had no idea how Elden Ring would top it. Especially after i played 50 hours of Elden Ring and kept dying easily to early bosses and took forever to get around and look for decent weapons and builds early on. Once i managed to get better. I was non stop playing Elden Ring that i would spend a lot of time in certain territories like Radhan areas to farm souls and find upgradeable stones 😅
And was excited to get to bosses like Melania, Godfrey 🦁 and Malekith
Elden Ring is my favorite game of all time and i cannot wait to see the DLC finally release 🙌
Elden Ring is, in my opinion, definitely the most replayable game.
After playing it for months I was legit sad that I collected just about everything and seen it all. Can't wait for the dlc to do it all over again.
I put a little over 300 hours into all the while getting 100% so I haven’t touched it seriously in probably almost a year, but I plan on picking it back up to play through with my bro so we can get our dlc characters prepped!
@@dawsong5208 hell yeah man
Getting to the underground in Elden Ring for the first time and doing ranni's questline as it kept taking you deeper and deeper into the ground, seeing the eternal cities and facing Astel. This was one of the most amazing gaming moments ive ever experienced.
Experiencing ER for the firsr time will be one of my fondest memories
This video is getting recommended aggressively to me for some reason, I see it on every refresh. I don’t even search for elden ring anymore
Playing this game one year ago was crazy, the community felt so alive the game was so fun. So many zones to explore, bosses to fight and objects to get.
ER took me a while to get into, as I never played Souls games before and the first section up to Margit was pretty tough... but man, once I boosted my character level a bit at the hallway Grace before Margit, after that the game was one of the best I ever played! Totally amazing! Platinumed it loving every moment!
Knowing Fromsoft the dlc is going to be amazing
There's not even word on it yet, meaning that by the time it releases, it'll have had over a year of development time.
Even The Old Hunters and The Ringed City were made in about 4 months... So if that's any indication, then Shadow of the Erdtree is going to blow our balls and our minds all at once. Imagine TOH and TRC but in a new open world like Blood and Wine from The Witcher 3.
I'm expecting something like that.
@@TheStraightestWhitest I didn't even think about it like that. Fromsoft is going all out on this game and i love it.
I started playing Elden Ring about 10 ago. Still on my first game and currently lv.98. I am just amased and overwhelmed how beautifull and great this game is. The things you discover, the look of the massive world, different types of enemies you discover from little ones to gigantic terrifying ones, quests you can do and npc's you come across, different builds you can make, magic what is the best aspect for me personaly and huge arsenal of different weapon types that are made for different builds and NG+ which you can start as a realy powerfull character so that you can use some different build. I just love this game and easily the best game I ever played. I thought no rpg could ever top Witcher 3 until I started playing this masterpiece of a game.
This game has put me on to the souls series/genre and I’d never have it any other way. Elden Ring will be in my top 5 games of all time. Thank you Miyazaki!
The two masterminds Miyazaki and Martin met, gave it a handshake and really said „let’s do it“ as if they haven’t created masterpieces before
Would love a vid like this about lies of p, great content brother 🤘🏻
still the best experience I had to this day. Very thrilling
The boss fights of this game are actually my favorite in the series despite the criticisms you mentioned. I understand that balance in the 3rd act of the game is bad, I have a problem with that too, but one thing I don't like more is the duo fights. I'm fine with bosses repeating when it's convenient (ex. Erdtree avatar guarding every tree), but the ones that serve basically no purpose should've been replaced with an entirely new boss. I also feel like the game suffered from some of it's balancing patches. I think Radahn should've never been nerfed, and even more so I think he should've set a bar for the scaling by making Caelid a late game area. But you're able to get there so easily and can already fight Radahn as early as... well, as soon as meet Blaidd or Ranni. If you made it so, Radahn could be your first great rune boss. If they had a way to lock Caelid behind something like the lift for Altus Plateau, less people would've got their ass kicked that early. So yea, this all being said, they shouldn't have nerfed Radahn, but he should've been a transition from the second to the third act. That way third act bosses would've felt more balanced, and going through Caelid for the first time will get you ready for bosses like Maliketh and Malenia.
But it is what it is in the end. The Radahn Festival is still a really fun thing to do, and he can still definitely one shot you if you haven't leveled vigor. He's still a pretty fun boss because of that, its just a shame remembering how good it felt overcoming his challenge.
I kinda just turned this into a Radahn rant, but to speak on more bosses, Godrick was my favorite early game boss specifically because of his delayed attacks and his design. You learn from Margit how telegraphing will go, and even though it makes Godrick easier by comparison, he still has some really good patterns that I find fun to learn.
My favorite midgame boss is Morgott. I could say it's because I defeated him my first try on my first playthrough in a really badass way (we hit each other at the same time and both fell, but obviously, only one of us came back), but it's more than that. Once again, his moveset is very fun to learn and he's quite a well designed boss. His second phase adds so much to the fight, and everything about it is familiar, because it's like a beefed up Margit (who is a beautiful first boss, may I add). And for the late game, my favorite boss is Malenia. I hated her on my first playthrough and thought anybody who would like a boss like that is cynical. Absolutely crazy. Then, I got good. Got better, I should say. Even now, I'm able to defeat her without summoning.
And I could fight these bosses, and more, a million times. I don't see the problem where other people do (besides the balancing of the third act; it really is like a jumpscare). My genuine main problems stem from connectivity and PVP (as well as duo fights, but I covered that). Connectivity, as in how the game connects each area, which has to do earlier with what I said about Caelid. It also has to do with the hub. I'm talking about the Roundtable Hold. It's just like Dark Souls 3's Firelink Shrine. It should've been an actual area you could travel back and forth to instead of an area you can teleport to. It makes you feel too safe, especially with that that (almost) no one can hurt you there. It also feels anti-exploration in the sense that you can get a majority of things there that you would normally work your ass off collecting. On top of it not being connected to the rest of the game world, so you cant really look at an area and think about going there unless you're already in the thick of it all. Idk. I just think it's kinda boring to make the Hold this place far and out of the way.
As for the PVP, this is probably the worst we've had from FromSoft in years. First things first, they really should've learned from complaints and made the co-op experience better and more like how the co-op mod does it. Back to PVP, the balancing is atrocious. I know they nerfed RoB, but there are still a lot of builds in this game. Sometimes those builds one shot you in the most shitty way possible, or ultimately stun lock you until you die. But that's all I really have to say about it.
Honestly, all in all, I really feel like people now are making Elden Ring worse than they remember in their minds without even such as giving it a replay and seeing if something is as bad as they remember. That's why I recently started replaying the game. And guess what? I still love it. On a new character, and I'm enjoying exploring the world again. Plus, its been long enough that I don't remember where everything is, and I will go back and suck at some of the bosses because it's been so long. So basically, in conclusion, Elden Ring is still basically the perfect FromSoft game in my eyes, and I can hardly go back to previous games because I'm spoiled by just how much they've added and improved on pretty much everything. Despite my very few problems with the game, there's so much more I like about it, and the fact that we can all sit here and name things we don't like without even saying the things we do like is kind of a shame. Put the whole picture together. Realize that this game is still amazing. Remember what it felt like beating it the first time, then go back and try it again.
Radahn was accidentally nerfed and put with his initial stats right after, what was corrected on him were his hitboxes.
I almost brought this game. Then I seem that fight with those 2 giant monsters with wings and thought hell no I get wasted 😂
@@cookdislander4372 it's an optional fight, you don't have to fight them, you should document yourself on the game and reconsider playing it, it's truly one of the greatest games of all time.
''Honestly, all in all, I really feel like people now are making Elden Ring worse than they remember in their minds without even such as giving it a replay and seeing if something is as bad as they remember. That's why I recently started replaying the game. And guess what? I still love it.'' This is so incredibly well noted, and the sentiment is shared. All this weird hate just came outta nowhere. Personally, I don't think it's actually Elden Ring players saying it though. It's the hateful minority whose voices were utterly drowned among a sea of praise during the game's first year, but now that it's been 18 months and most will have stopped playing, they are finally allowed to be heard.
@@cookdislander4372 They're wasting you already. IN your nightmares. Winning. When you don't have the courage to face them.
Get the game. Or live in fear.
Your video gave me goose bumps all throughout, this game was a life changing experience for me - It made me want to experience EVERYTHING from From Software, played DS1 for the first time, DS2, Sekiro, Demon's Souls, etc. I even started the Bersek manga and I really don't usually like anime/manga. When I tell my friends why this game is important; I almost feel like a Cult Guru trying to get them in my Cult but it is for a reason, this game is underrated even when we mention it as a masterpiece especially for its message to the game industry - I'm glad I became a fan of From Software, my last dying light was CD Projekt RED and after Cyberpunk 2077, it left me.. Hollow ;). Glad From Software reignited the flame of my love for video games again. Alright I'm done with Dark Souls metaphor,
Thank you for the video, really enjoyed it!
My second play through has been magical . This game has amazing replay ability due to the fact you will not find every nook and cranny on first run
If Ubisoft devs don't like your game, it suggests that you've probably made something pretty special.
i would give my kidney to go back to when elden ring dropped all over again during the hype.
Thanks for making this look back. It took me awhile to finally get this game, after I got my PS5 it was my first purchase. It was everything I imagined it to be and so much more. I've barely scratched the surface, but I wanted to revisit the hype that everyone else was experiencing at the time.
My memorable moments are: open the door and first time seeing Limgrave, the overview of Liurnia after defeating Godrick, the elevator to the eternal city in Limgrave, the trap chest that takes you to Caelid and the Godskin fight in windmill village (my first encounter). There are probablly a few more but thats all i can think of rn.
I enjoyed the video a lot! As a heads up, maybe check if your microphone is clipping or not before recording since it's (at least for me) really distracting with the constantly clipping mic
Keep going buddy 🙏🏻
Still love this game
I can't stop playing. I depatched to 1.00 to see how different it was on release day. I'm absolutely loving it. Shadow of the Erdtree is gonna slap too. I can't wait.
Elden Ring is an amazing game ill never forget that there's a sewer maze under the city or a hole other section on a hidden wall.
Totally agree with your point on anti-ubisofrification. I really felt although there was a linear path with the guidance of grace to show you the "proper" route, I could genuinely take whatever route I wanted.
I forgot how that felt when watching the first real game plays of elden ring. Thank you.
The real maiden was the pots we smashed along the way
I'm very interested in this game although I haven't played it in some months. As such, I have subbed in the hopes you will reach your goal
There are so many painting-like moments in this game I love it so much
I think it should also be mentioned that one of the aspects that really made Elden Ring stand out above every other open world game (except BOTW for similar reasons) was that it didn't hold your hand and give you 50+ tutorials you had to finish before you could enjoy the game. It let you discover everything on your own, from the story to the gameplay. It is also a nearly truly open world that is fully available to explore, there are only 2 areas that require you to beat a boss to access.
I had hoped so badly that Breath of the Wild would influence other open world games going forward after 2017. I just didn't know that Fromsoftware which had become one of my favorite game devs ever would literally take the best parts of BotW and fuse it with Dark Souls. It basically combined both of my favorite games of all time into something I didn't even think could have existed
It's still funny to me how these western devs had the gall to call Elden Ring a bad game when they're the ones puking out half assed games that are broken at launch. They can only hope to sell half of what Elden Ring sold. What a bunch of clowns. 🤣
Very well said brother loved the video 110% spot on
Nogi San Elden Ring merch would be absolutely sick! I need it. Can you believe I still play this from time to time? I don't even play PVP.
Delayed attacks are the only way these enemies can stand a chance against a typical Souls player.
After a while, you get too good at dodging or parrying.
Exactly, they want to harshly punish the old outdated ways of the Souls veterans because in DS3 especially, you could fight any boss by just literally rolling and R1 everything to pieces, you just ha to worry about the timing to roll, now you have to worry about positioning & extreme combo flow-charts that the bosses can deal.
pretty cringe that actual good games are now being described as "anomalies"
I never used the mimic tear my first playthrough simply because i never found it lol. I used Lhutel the headless which felt cool cause to unlock her you have to beat her. With my mage it felt like a great build since she can disappear which helped her stay alive longer in boss fights.
Thanks for having me brother!
The underground parts of Elden ring are SO much better than TotK depths....
I love TotK but man there is something that game is lacking. Idk what it is.
@@spacecowboy1881 ikr. I feel they put so much time into the abilities and build mechanics, which ARE fun, but forgot to make the rest of the game fun n just rely on ppl making their own fun which, from Nintendo and any AAA developer, I expect more....
I will never be able to agree with the game's end game being unbalanced or too hard. I did notice a damage increase of enemies towards the end game, but never felt it was too much or unfair, it felt fitting. In general I found Elden Ring's boss and enemy balancing to be pretty good for an open world game. And it's one of my absolute favorite fromsoft games when it comes to boss battles.
Same, I feel like that criticism comes from people being underleveled, not leveling Vigor enough or ignoring defense stats which contrary to popular belief actually do matter. Hell, on my first playthrough I didn't even learn to fight half the bosses properly and just stumbled my way through them, if the endgame really was as brutal as some people say that wouldn't have been possible. Malenia aside, NG+ cycles is where I actually had to start learning the fights to get through them.
I do still think they went a bit overboard with the movesets and combo chaining on some bosses, and that was my main criticism of the game on my first run, but you eventually learn how to handle it and the game is actually forgiving enough to the point where it still feels balanced for the most part. I'd say only Maliketh is really a problem in terms of crazy damage output.
I think that if I had to level any criticism towards Elden Ring, it would not be that the game's bosses are poorly designed, nor that the endgame is unbalanced - instead, my main issue is that the game fails to teach you how to overcome those challenged (Lemme preface by saying Elden Ring is one of my favourite games ever, and I love nearly every fight that features in it) - Elden Ring boss design, for example, rewards good positioning and posture-breaking massively, but the various open-world side bosses, lack of posture bar and so on do absolutely nothing to point the player in that direction - so many of the complaints I see levied at late-game bosses stem from the fact that Elden Ring reinforces the wrong habits, and then players aren't equipped to handle late-game.
In hindsight, I love bosses like Maliketh and Malenia because I've learned how to beat them, but I think the game is unintuitive when it comes to the 'intended' means of play. @@PositronCannon
Yeah, even DJ Peach and Noah Cardwell said it in their reviews: the endgame is not an impossible challenge like most makes it out to be; the game gives you all the means necessary to survive and keep up. In fact, you can get so many runes that you could easily get up to rl 170 without grind.
I do agree that there's some questionable instances that makes some encounters tedious, but you can tackle those in many ways to not feel tedious, so it's not as bad as DS2.
@@Skippy2603 no offense, and alot of what im going to say isnt necessarily pointed at you personally, but this sounds like a regurgitation of the youtuber's feeble kings arguments against the games design, by your logic non of the games actually teach you how to beat bosses except sekiro, you either do or you dont beat elden souls, its a trial and error process and its always been as simple as that, whether you discover the mechanics that allow you to beat the game is up to the player. problem is alot of fragile souls vets thought that its just bb/ds3 boss design and stuck to that logic while getting destroyed throughout the game, not the games fault, this is just souls veteran error and ego.
"for example, rewards good positioning and posture-breaking massively, but the various open-world side bosses" all the bosses, including the open world ones, reward that, and the game isnt about telling you how to defeat bosses, a posture system isnt really needed and wont make fighting the bosses any easier anyway, the same complaints by fragile souls vets about bosses never stop attacking and have too many combos will remain with or without it, but this is subjective and some ppl need the posture system to be visible, personally the hundres of smaller enemies before margit that stagger in 2 or 3 hits are enough of a lesson about posture imo.
" I see levied at late-game bosses stem from the fact that Elden Ring reinforces the wrong habits, and then players aren't equipped to handle late-game." this is only from some souls veterans that didnt get this games combat cuz they thought it was darkborne 4, it never reinforces the wrong habbits, souls vets just did that to themselves and blamed the game for it.
" I love bosses like Maliketh and Malenia because I've learned how to beat them, but I think the game is unintuitive when it comes to the 'intended' means of play" none of the games are intuitive when it comes to beating their bosses, and those statement especially applies well with souls vets, playing bb like its ds1 will make you lose, playing ds1 like ds3 will fuck you up, playing ER like its ds3 will fuck you up, and alot of souls vets hate certain games cuz they didnt realize each game is played slightly differently and have their own "clicks" so to speak, i remember alot of complaints levied at ds3 when it first came out because it "had bb bosses but were playing the dark souls character" same with sekiro where alot of players played it like souls and got destroyed in the process. its always been and always will be a player error. ER just gets the most BS because its the most successful and talked about of the games by a gigantic margin, and that invites alot of empty critique and click bait, im not saying the game is perfect though, i have series of complaints about the game myself but overall i think its easily the best fromsoft game and one of the best games of all time.
@@PositronCannon"I do still think they went a bit overboard with the movesets and combo chaining on some bosses" disagreed immensely, to me thats what puts ERs bosses above the static bosses of the older games, where u just dodge till they stop attacking, throw in an R1 or maybe 2 then back off, that design was getting stale and predictable, ER feels like the true evolution of DS/bb boss design, after ER fighting most of the older games bosses just feels kinda stale and almost boring, they are no where near as dynamic as ER bosses, where they incentivize dodge direction and positioning and using attacks that arent just R1 for 40 hours. even bb and its trick weapons felt boring after ER and its attack options, from dual wielding with an AOW on each weapon or 2 handing, to light/heavy jump attacking and charged R2s, all of which feeds in to the posture system, bb does incentivize using attacks that arent R1 but nowhere near as well as ER does. you can easily manage to finish bb with just R1, while in ER it just gets much harder if thats the only attack you use.
frankly the only games that scratch my combat itch now are ER and sekiro, the rest i got back to from time to time and play a few hours out of nostalgia or boredom, but ofcourse to each there own.
Sick name dude, props
I just wanna take a moment to appreciate the music in the background from the greats like ghost of tsushima and God of war. Can't help but notice that kinda contextual love.
I stopped playing every game I had for elden ring and didn’t touch any other game till I finished it
How was the overall experience?
@@night-v5258 I finally put Elden ring down after 115 hours after it came out so very good lol
This game has become my favorite of all time
The meme with them large rolling balls got me 🤣 great vid.
The dreamlike battle against Rennala, that's when it hit me
Love the game and platinum it ❤
i have two more trophies to platinum it
First game in a long while I cared enough to platinum
No way in hell Elden Ring has the weakest boss line up. All of the major bosses in ER except the foreskin duo are very good to exceptional. Even some minor bosses like the crucible knights, leonine misbegotten, Zamor heroes, etc. are better than most bosses in DS1, DS2 and DeS. Even Sekiro, Bloodbourne and DS3 had a run for their money. Only when you also count all the "bosses" in the mini dungeons, ER does have the worst bad/good bosses ratio. But that's to be expected as the game is much much bigger.
Edit: The gank fights are all ass. I have to admit that
I’m like 10 hrs in and still don’t know how this game works but have explored a lot of the beginning map
the moment where Elden Ring truly hit for me was as soon as you kill Maliketh. The next 3 minutes are the most powerful minutes im the game.
the Flame of Frenzy ending is the only one that compares. It's so good.
Incantations are the Miracles of this game, not the Spirit Ashes.
Top five game of all time
I adore these kinds of videos, it's really interesting hearing about the production and build up of marketing/hype and what our expectations were. Great content!
Made a small mistake at 13:48, they're not incantantions, but spirit ashes :)
Great video about the history of Elden Ring!
I'm sorry but Elden Ring has the best bosses by far, being blinded by nostalgia of previous games and playing the game like ds3 aren't valid factors to judge the bosses of the game. Elden ring's base game has better bosses than previous games DLC lol
Best bosses👆🏾😭 its up there but definitely not the best bosses definitely when it comes to mechanics when compared to bloodborne, dark souls 3 or sekiro your probably new and playing the older games is literally a valid factor I’d argue only people who have played the older games can truly judge if the boss design is good or bad
@@quanmedley6839 I played all the other games way before Elden Ring, except Demon's souls. And mechanically Elden Ring bosses are more complex and still working as intended, so no ds3 and Bloodborne are not better mechanically.
@@lahunica2726
Imagine the day you discover complexity doesn't equal quality...
@@HopefulNihilist imagine discovering someone who likes complexity in boss fights and therefore puts it as a factor of quality...
@@lahunica2726
You can like and dislike whatever the F you wan't. But you ain't doing that. You're claiming a Boss being "complex" automatically makes it good. Which is ridiculous.