ELDEN RING - Opening Cinematic @ 4K 60ᶠᵖˢ ✔
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Elden Rings coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and PC Digital February 25, 2022
ELDEN RING, A NEW WORLD CREATED BY HIDETAKA MIYAZAKI AND GEORGE R. R. MARTIN. Developed by FromSoftware, Inc. and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.
ELDEN RING is a is a fantasy action-RPG adventure set within a world created by Hidetaka Miyazaki - creator of the influential DARK SOULS video game series; and George R.R. Martin - author of The New York Times best-selling fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. Within the world of ELDEN RING, danger and discovery lurk around every corner in FromSoftware’s largest game to-date.
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This hits differently after you faced every boss and know their story
Yeah, I was wondering what the heck was up with that guy and the snake crawling over him. That snake really grew up to be a big boy.
I’m really glad they didn’t name drop the demigods, coming back with context feels a lot better
@@KeiosKod understantment of the freaking century
And there’s the really cool foreshadowing of
SPOILERS
Marika switching to Radagon right at the very start of the cutscene
@@4LegCrotch omg she really switched in the intro cinematic.. 😅 Coming back after my first ending and this opening really hit differently
"SIR GIDEON OFNIR THE ALL-KNOWING!" goes way too hard
Perhaps it has to do with the narrator giving voice to Gideon in the actual game? Im not sure, perhaps its only my wrong impression, but If so then it makes sense how doew the guy brings empowerment to the line spelling Sir Gideon Ofnir! The All Knowing!!!
@@FalcondelSur i did some research and it's actually an entire different character we never see...basically just a narrator
@@bigjohnson10 ooohhhhhh, great to know!
Didn't know that he should have brought more than 1 estus tho lmao
@@bearok89 it would had helped to stop talking to the tarnished while being smashed the first 15 seconds or so,lol, save the nice backstory telling for later!
2:04 is the most epic moan in video game history
?
😩😩😩😩😩rise!.
@@lucastozo9184 what? Can't you read kid?
“Auuuuugrise Ye Tarnished. Ye dead…who yet live..!”
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Obviously the name "Dung Eater" us funny but I think it fits perfectly. They could have named him "The Defiler" or something else similar but the choice just really shows the filth and depravity of his character. When you meet him in game he threatens you, sits in a room of decay, and you're even warned by another NPC to avoid him. A truly despicable character just from short interaction.
I love him, he's my favorite character other than Alexander the Jar boy
He's so despicable and vile even in the grim world of Elden Ring his title is literally just, "The Dung Eater"
Imagine how perverse you have to be for everyone to know you as, "that one fucker I saw getting it on with grandma's corpse"
@@ariannathatdawg3400 I find that most of the Tarnished from the intro are pretty despicable in their own ways. Dung Eater is obvious, Fia siphons life from people like a succubus, Gideon is completely self centered and back handed. Don't know Gold Mask and Horah Loux yet but no doubt they'll be about the same.
Edit: okay Gold Mask and Hoarah Loux are based
@@thatrobedude1023 gold mask is a total bro. He knows that deep lore of the erdtree
@@thatrobedude1023 but from what i understood Fia also wants to make golden order "recognize" those who live in death... so she seems like she has her own noble goal
@@ariannathatdawg3400 actually dis is the one with such an interesting in corpses.
Elden Ring story wise (to me) is the first time there's a genuine sense of hope for the world, if it was more Dark Souls I'd feel like the goal would be to stop the shattering from happening, but because it's already happened and it's actually been a very long time since, the world feels like it's between ages and you're coming into it to finally let things progress instead of everything being stagnant, it's even shown with how the stars aren't moving, people are trapped unable to die, and despite everything being in ruins nothing is able to be rebuilt
I have messed with my save files somewhere around 150 hours of playing, I corrupted them and had to start from scratch. I am now at around 280 hours of playing this game...and I don't regret any second of it. I have watched this opening cinematic many times, and every time the canvas is getting more complex and complete. Every day I still discover levels of depth and complexity I have never experienced before and I am in complete awe.
2:51 just perfect like wow
Get so much damn goosebumps when he names the other tarnished especially THE ALL-KNOWING
The dung eater
I just finished the game for my second time, I havent done everything yet but I would love to explain some of the harder to understand paintings during this opening. Spoilers ahead, ye Tarnished~
0:08 Marika shatters the rest of the Elden Ring
0:12 Radagon attempts to repair the Elden Ring
0:33 The Runes of the Ring are sent across the Lands Between
1:10 Lunar Princess Ranni casting aside her Great Rune
1:16 Morgott fighting General Radahn
1:22 Mohg kidnaps Miquella
1:32 Praeter Rykard feeds himself to the God Devouring Serpent
1:43 Malenia, Blade of Miquella and General Radahn fight
2:05 Tarnished rise at a stake of Marika
2:31 Godfrey is kicked out from the Lands Between, becoming Tarnished
2:40 Fia just had sex with a corpse lol
2:45 The Dung Eater is hung for his crimes
2:51 Gideon rises from his grave, guided by grace
Thank you !
I don't think Radagon was trying to repair the Elden Ring. **SPOILER** By following Gold Mask questline you discover Radagon's secret, that is "Radagon IS Marika". This is why we see both Marika and Radagon shattering the Ring. Why though? Don't know lul
@@luizpk22 No, in Marika's Hammer it quite literally says "The hammer used by Marika to shatter the Elden Ring, and the hammer Radagon used to try and repair it". Radagon is the embodiment of the Golden Order inside Marika, hence his title "Radagon of the Golden Order". He literally works for the Greater Will and the Elden Ring, of course he'd try to repair it if it broke.
so it seems Miquella wasn't asleep and already in the cocoon when he was kidnapped. idk why but i originally thought he was unconscious during the whole thing. lowkey i could see Malenias fight with Radahn being a effect of the kidnapping and not because Radahn just simply wanted her rune. if im not mistaken Mohgwhyns palace is under Caelid so it would make sense why she was there in the first place.
I don't know if its a stupid question, but if the dungeater is hung in the cinematic why do we see him in the game ?
Game of the decade 2010s - Dark Souls
Game of the decade 2020s - Elden Ring
Calling it now.
Na, GTA 6
*THE DESPICABLE DOO-DOO DEVOURER*
"the fallen leaves tell a story" causes me goosebumps everytime
When video games transcend fun an add the additional layer of good storytelling transcends it into art.
I've now noticed that at 1:25 the art depicts Mogh stealing Miquella in his child form from the Haligtree
Is showing Ranni at the same time as talking about ”Marika’s offspring” a hint that Marika and Radagon are the same entity? Ranni being the daughter of Radagon and Rennala.
This intro cinematic is so so good. Shivers and awe. Perfect voice, perfect music, perfect imagery. True art.
2:27 Hi Godfrey.
I laughed when I realized Sir Gideon introduces himself with the most dramatic voiceline in the game :D
We got so many revelations from the intro . “Children of Marika “ shows Ranni OG body
“the ever brilliant goldmask!!” *followed by lots of voices whooping and cheering loudly in the background*
This intro grew on me so much, you only learn to appreciate it after finishing the game and learning the lore
I came here cuz i skipped the opening cinematic and damn, that voice acting lol
2:04 Arise now = “UUUHHHHH….Rise now”
2:04 oOooooh...
2:54 yoooOooooh!
Holy shit look at Mohg's eye in this cutscene; it's the colour of Unalloyed Gold
The truth was in front of our eyes the whole time, but we never realised
This opening is hilarious, cuz literally the first thing they show you is a MASSIVE spoiler for the endgame, but you wouldn't even realise it until after facing the final boss.
@@lrsb1678 I mean, you get a bunch of lore dumps on both Marika and Radagon throughout the game, but it's not until you follow the Goldmask side quest (or just face the final boss itself) where it's revealed that they are actually the same person, or at least that they occupy the same body. So seeing Marika in one flash trying to break the Elden Ring, and Radagon in the next flash trying to fix it is neat foreshadowing. But you wouldn't even know it without the context the rest of the game gives you. Just a fun little detail to notice when starting a new playthrough/NG+ lol.
You can see 1:18 that Morgott and Radahn fought against each other. It seemed like Radahn tried to conquer Lyndell but failed. Considering Morgott was residing in the Lyndell capital when the whole Shattering War was going on.
Whoever narrated this needs an award
I listen to this every morning before starting my shift
“Arise, ye Tarnished!”
Chills every time
Epic as fuck.. Then suddenly " The loathsome Dung eater".
Just realized tarnished introduced in this cinematic each related to a different ending. You replace Godfrey as his kinfolk in Age of Fracture ending, Fia, Goldmask, Dung Eater questlines each lead to different ending. I don't know about Gideon tho, maybe because his role is different, as a rival for you to become the Elden Lord and also the head of the Roundtable, or Gideon's ending yet to be found.
My favorite part is coming back after learning all the characters and events, and then recognizing them all in the cinematic.
THE LOATHSOME BARF DRINKER
Nice compact streamer reference
2:03 onwards the narrator gives it 110%
I have never played Elden Ring but this gives me goosebumps
THE OPENING SHOWS MARIKA AND RADAGON HOW DID I MISS THIS HOLY SHIT
Much as I love this opening cutscene, I wish we’d had a proper cinematic like the official trailer, rather than essentially a slideshow of admittedly beautiful art.
I didn't noticed the intro tells you about the endings. that's pretty cool
Aparently the into they used in one of the trailers had incorrect information in it so it was scrapped as the game intro. So they threw together some concept art and made a new more accurate intro
1:18
Morgot beats up Radahn?
I have never seen this intro before in my life I’m on ng4 woah
Jimmy Livingstone did amazing job.
This intro hits different once you’ve finish the game for the first time
This is how the NBA needs to announce their yearly drafts.
I wish the others generic endings had some of these arts
Best intro they've done yet. Got me hype AF to play.
Not even close to the best. This was actually very underwhelming.
@@timetravelingoldman6839 bad opinion, this fits the vibe of elden ring perfectly
@@timetravelingoldman6839 underwhelming to who? You? Oh well. For me it's the best one yet.
I’m gonna have to disagree… Don’t get me wrongs these are great paintings but, I just can’t pick a slideshow over beautiful animation that took way more time and effort to put together.
@@stayhydratedwalter You took the words out of my mouth.
I am gonna start introducing myself as "the tarnished of no renown"
i like how the intro tells you marika is radagon instantly we just dont realise it in the moment
The narrator continues to give me chills no matter how many times i watch it.
In the Age of Ancients the world was unformed, shrouded by fog. A land of gray crags, Archtrees and Everlasting Dragons. But then there was Fire and with fire came disparity. Heat and cold, life and death, and of course, light and dark. Then from the dark, They came, and found the Souls of Lords within the flame. Nito, the First of the Dead, The Witch of Izalith and her Daughters of Chaos, Gwyn, the Lord of Sunlight, and his faithful knights. And the Furtive Pygmy, so easily forgotten
With the strength of Lords, they challenged the Dragons. Gwyn's mighty bolts peeled apart their stone scales. The Witches weaved great firestorms. Nito unleashed a miasma of death and disease. And Seath the Scaleless betrayed his own, and the Dragons were no more.
Thus began the Age of Fire. But soon the flames will fade and only Dark will remain. Even now there are only embers, and man sees not light, but only endless nights. And amongst the living are seen, carriers of the accursed Darksign.
Yes, indeed. The Darksign brands the Undead. And in this land, the Undead are corralled and led to the north, where they are locked away, to await the end of the world... This is your fate.
God this gives me chills, such an intense intro
Behold the only person more hyped than me for Elden Ring
Legit was laughing for 5 mins straight when I heard the "The Loathsome Dung Eater"
Notice how in the first strike of the iron it’s a woman, and in the second strike it’s a man?
Also I notice that Margit is pinning Radahn under his staff. Probably coincides with the invasion of Leyndell
So any theories why Godrick is not in this cinematic?
The VA who did this is amazing
You only realize how brilliant this cutscene is after you‘ve beaten the game.
They were pretty much telling us straight up who Hoarah Loux is from the start. The lion's face is a dead giveaway.
And yet, by the time you've either gotten his Talisman or gotten to the end, it's been somewhere between 40-100 hours of gameplay.
I completely forgot about him from the intro. His big reveal and who he was related to blew my fucking mind.
Faaaacts
@@FireTalon24
My reaction to Hora Loux's reveal went as followed:
"Wait...Hora Loux? That sounds really famil-holy shit you're the first dude mentioned in the intr-" *gets grand slammed to death*
@@joshuakim5240 Oh yeah, he throws you around like a fucking football.
Every squad got the:
-Hoarah Loux, chieftain of the badlands
-the ever-brilliant Goldmask
-Fia, the deathbed companion
-the loathsome Dung Eater
-Sir Gideon, the all-knowing
-A Tarnished of no renown
To translate
-Gymbro
-Weird Kid (conspiracy theorist)
-Femboy
-The Racist
-Group Leader (smart ass)
-That one dude that always hangs with squad but always silent
@@hatman3445 nah Fia's the slut. Tarnished is spot on tho
@@hatman3445the final one is ironically the most dangerous of the bunch but also ironically the kindness
deathbed companion is like the hoe of every gang
I'm the Tarnished of no renown irl except I'm not a secret and dormant badass 🧍♂️
shoutout to goldmask,
clearly hustling hard to be narrated this epicly in the game's introduction only to never speak a single word ever
*total order pose*
Fun fact he has the same voice actor as horace the hushed from DS3 lol. Not even a joke.
Leave him alone he's thinking.
My man’s fixed the entire problem with the golden order and human condition by T-posing. Put some respect on his name.
Bro was bussing it down sexual style, of course he’s goated with the sauce
Calling him Dung-Eater is like calling a guy who shoots a man with a gun, sexually defiles his corpse on live television, and starts claiming that heaven is real and he just made sure that the guy he killed isn’t getting in, The Shoplifter.
*”THE LOATHSOME SHOPLIFTER”*
*Sitting amidst a pile of hundreds of corpses*
"Yeah I eat shit wanna fight about it?"
What?
@@sarahwolfe1154 dung eater doesnt actually eat dung. What he does is way more messed up.
@@meh1331 No spoilers please but I'm here for the depravity. I've read death metal lyrics and about dark topics since I was 10.
"We've gathered all these renowned people and one random loser nobody"
Random loser nobody who has the rare ability of seeing the guidance of grace
Waste of skin
I think the player also had some hidden details depending on the class but the nobody wrench more blank…
To be honest, I think that makes the nobody all the scarier. The fact that he / she is amongst such legendary / infamous company, yet you know absolutely nothing about them or what they will / will not do. You know they must be stupidly powerful, but how much danger you're in at any given time is something you just cannot gauge at all with them. "The devil you know" and all that.
@@NomDatBass Well no, there's many other unknown Tarnished like you, it just means that you are one of the potential people to make a name for themselves and become something.
"Arise now, ye Tarnished."
Man, the chills
More like...
"AAAAHHHHHH......RISE NOOOOWW, YE TARNISHED!"
“UuuGGg 😩😩…RISE”
*ohh...* Rise now. Ye, tarnished.
Ye dead, who yet live
Bro he ejaculates then says rise it is not arise
Let us introduce to you:
An imposing bandit lord
A creepy possessive mask
A mystical and beautiful death maiden
A GUY THAT EATS SHIT
And finally an undead knowledge god
Yeah do we ever even meet these guys
@@jaketucker2559 yeah in the round table, at least 2 of them
@@richy9589 I only need to meet the Chieftan and the Gold mask, then Ive met them all
@@jaketucker2559 Gideon and Fia can be found at the round table keep. Gideon is the leader of the assembled tarnished there.
Dung Eater S tier name
Love how instead of being told from a bystander perspective, like in Dark Souls, it feels like the narrator is actually emotionally involved, because it's "his" world. It sounds more like an appeal to the Tarnished than a history lesson, which is a nice change of pace.
nice insight
@@SeekSeekLest Good point, makes you wonder who that guy actually is if he lived through all of it from the very beginning
I thought it was too structurally similar to DS3's intro.
I think it’s because the shattering is more recent than the cataclysms of dark souls. In dark souls it’s been so long and the fire has been linked and reset so many times that there is barely anyone alive who remembers the kingdoms former glory. While in elden ring the shattering happened relatively recently compared to other fromsoft games.
@@datguyleon7871 the shattering was roughly a year prior to the events in Elden Ring, according to the story trailer. Could be any random
"The loathsome Dung Eater"
W-We literally just have a guy who eats shit?
...well,
To be fair, Hollow Knight _did_ have a "Dung Defender" of sorts. He was quite literal in what he did, and what he was.
Elden Ring's
"Dung Eater"...? (Who the narrator calls "loathsome"...)
_Could_ have more to do with - -I don't know - -
Eating meat? •Like those 'Death eaters' from the Harry Potter series.
*I don't know; I'm just spit-balling based on what... this introduction shows.
(Feb).2.24th.2022, Thurs.
@@danielmork1989 what?
@@leethejailer9195 shhhh. I think he's high
@@danielmork1989 I guess we won't know until we see it. Though I must say, you have an interesting way of formatting your comments.
@@marialuke2116 literally lmao
The first hammer smash being Marika, to the second being Radagon is proof that videogames can be high art.
Marika trying to destroy the Elden Ring and Radagon trying to fix it...
and not shitty rule34 maker like overwatch
who sadly stole the throne of GOTY from ds3
Pretentiousness
@@goldgunscantshoot973isn’t most high art pretentious at first?
@@Juandon1989 Just lazy authority arguments. "It's HIGH ART bro! Not LOW art"
Just call it great and move on instead of pretending to be sophisticated or something
I love how he lists all these epic fantasy names and titles and then right in the middle you get "AND THIS NASTY LAD WHO EATS POOPOO!"
And then it turns out the Dastardly Doodie Devourer is legitimately one of the scariest characters in the game.
Best comment here
how am i supposed to take him serious when you call him dastardly doodie devourer lmaooooooooooo
@@zaimhassan6490trust me. It is knowledge you will not want to learm
@@zaimhassan6490 Would you prefer we call him the Feared Faeces Feaster.
@@kaelkirkby9191
THE SICKENING SHIT SNACKER
You know it's good narration when you feel a tingle everytime the narrator raises his voice. This is what a dark fantasy cinematic openening should feel like. I can say nothing else but superb.
It's the music that does this. It's good composition
@@d.a.5845 agreed
Like a Hitler speech. He would basically whisper until he got to his point.
Honestly man. I am a sucker for dark fantasy games. This shit is so satisfying to watch.
@@d.a.5845 it couldn’t possibly be a well executed combination of elements could it. Saying it’s just the music that makes it work is stupid
The narration was sick af
"😩😩😩😩😩😩UHHHHH-RIIIIIISE"
THE DUNG EATER
@@liluminati9791 his performance was so good that he came
Sir Gideon Ofnir THE ALLLL KNOWING!
@@MrYogiLopez THE LOATHSOME DUNG EATER!
The voice talent went fucking all in on this.
Word
The alllll knowing !
It's Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) doing the voice !! Nah just kidding lol
Absolutely and it makes a big difference. He makes it sound so fucking epic, he got me so hyped.
*Orgasm noises* Rise now! Ye Tarnished!
*_' ' T H E L O A T H S O M E D U N G E A T E R ! ! ! ' '_*
*"T H E N E F A R I O U S N U M B E R T W O N I B B L E R ! ! !"*
"A N D S I R G I D E O N O F N I R, T H E A L L K N O W I N G!!!"
They seriously couldn't have picked a different name? 😂 he could of been more badass without the name Dung Eater
“Arise, ye tarnished.” The absolute emotion that is displayed by the voice actor. Whoever they cast deserves a raise.
The way he says "arise" is actually quite bad and makes me wonder if the script he read said "Ahh, rise ye tarnished"
he did say rise
@@oculargoose7361he just spread the pronunciation of Arise “ahhhrise”
😩…RISE NOW, ye tarnished!
what is that accent? Irish?
Subtitles: Arise now
Narrator: AAAHHHHHH RISE NOW!
ahhh~~ RISE YE TARNISHED!!!!
Yamete kudasai Tranished 😩
The way he calls the tarnished in makes it feel like he is calling them and not just quoting Marika. It’s beautiful.
So the narrator is Radagon?
@@thestranger4894 Radagon tried to FIX and keep Golden order, it wouldn't make sense to battle us at the end if it was him.
Who is the narrator?
@@nero6198 The LOATHSOME dung eater
@@nero6198 G. R. R. Martin
2:03 - 2:05 The sound made by gamers across the world on release (of the game)
😂😂
“on release”💀💀😭
And the DLC
Arise now, ye soulstubers
Ye gamers who yet play
The call of a new souls game speaks to us all
Iron Pineapple, chieftain of the soulslikes
The ever brilliant Illusory Wall
Zullie, the From Software companion
The loathsome ymfah
And sir VaatiVidya, the all-knowing!
Aww man, you doing my man ymfah dirty bro 🤧
Hahaha that hit different
😂
Man can’t do that to ymfah
I can’t exactly explain why but “the loathsome ymfah” makes perfect sense to me yet I can’t verbalize why. Made me laugh though.
2:29 is what gives me the most chills. How tf Godfrey/Hoorah Loux manage to not only get killed, but also crucified? What was in the Bad Lands that was powerful enough to kill Hoorah Loux? That’s what interests me the most. We definitely need a dlc that lets us live through the Long March.
I wholeheartedly agree with this
Lord Reizart I feel like it's more of like the people outside the Lands Between gathered together and put a stop to him. I mean, he was banished, correct? Him and his men were war-hungry, and most likely terrorized the other lands, which would eventually result in his demise.
@@glovedgamer4982 I don’t think their need for war was directed towards innocents, or peaceful people/living beings. We can safely assume that Godfrey was open minded, as he doesn’t resent us tarnished, and loves his son Morgott, despite him being an omen. If I had to guess, he probably didn’t want to banish Morgott/Mohg, but Marika had more leverage/political power.
Nepheli Loux also seems to have a strong moral compass, seeing as she shows regret towards the banished knight she killed, i.e. her saying something along the lines of “you were a fine warrior, but chose the wrong master to serve”. She definitely did not agree with Godrick’s rule. We also see that she heavily disdained the slaughtering of the albinaurics, enough for her to leave Gideon.
@Black Iron Tarkus While yes, he didn't war against those he wasn't told to, Marika specifically told him to wage war against those outside the Lands Between.
The camera killed him
The voice acting in this cinematic is so on point! especially when Gideon comes into shot, the way he says all knowing.
I love this game so much!
Yeah but he doesn't know jack, you have to tell him about half the demigods and at the end he doesn't even have a great rune yet he demanded you retrieve one to prove yourself
yea this game is awesoem ritght friend
Reminds me of that one line ulfric had in skyrim
@@benglaser1345 until you fight him and he starts using every spell in the game...fits the description I'd say.
@@jaggerjackize all knowing after you beat all the bosses that give him that magic
I keep coming back here, this part still gives me chills 2:05 the music is simply magnificent and builds up a feeling of hope
fr the narrator was going crazy before but it went to a whole other level after 'Arise now, ye Tarnished! Ye dead, who yet live!'
the passion is absolutely insane!! how could somebody put so much emphasis. chills to my bones
my favorite part too
I liked when he gave the guy who eats shit a shout out
I mean, all these guys have of course but it’s funny to just come out and say it in the name
The little shard of light on sir gideon looks like a lost grace. The fact it’s so small makes me think gideon’s tomb is actually gigantic, which is all the more terrifying
That shard is on all of them tho.
@@noobatron2663 this
Spoiler: you meet him very ewrly on and hes a normal sized old man
everyone else is as cool as in the art but GIDEON OFNIR! What a cool name, what a cool piece of concept art, ofnir's even one of odin's names, related to the word "oven" or "hearthfire"! but then you meet him and he's so normal-looking! fucker's armour isnt even as cool as all that
How tall can he be, those are human ears all around him. The little shard is on everyone of them.
*SPOILERS ABOUT THE LORE*
I've just realized literally the first two shots of the game tell us the Marika/Radagon twist. The first shot is Marika shattering it and the second is Radagon probably trying to fix it. Never realized before that the first shot is a woman and the second is a man lol.
When I first saw this cinematic I thought that he/she was the godwyn not Marika lol
@@lrsb1678 You can tell Ragadon from Godwyn because Radagon has long red hair. He’s also always shown topless
I think it was intentionally misleading, the way shadow is cast over Radagon's chest in the second shot to hide the fact that Marika is distinguished by her dress, and even Godwyn having a similar design to both of them, I think they were planning that twist for a very long time
T H E L O A T H S O M E D U N G E A T E R
2:03 this part got me so fucking hyped the first time I saw it, made it feel like I was in for a glorious adventure and so far it is
What's crazy is I'm 25 hours in and i only know who one of those characters is
When you make the same sound as the intro. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I feel like an arsehole for laughing at this because he sounds like he's blowing a load or something
@@Jack_______oh and that character is you 😂
They went back to their roots with this one, straight up a homage to Demons Souls. The traversing into a land through fog, the still art shots with exposition. The giant Erdtree reminds me of a good version of the Old One in Demons Souls. I love it.
Is the erdtree good?
@@granthefato340 To eat? Yes. A good tree? Maybe, you can't really knock it down with an axe. A nice force? I don't know.
@@advertisingadrian I ate before it tastes like nutella
@@granthefato340 its a symbol of an age. thats all
@@Micolashcage1 ah alright, i dont really know the lore very much for eldne ring as vaati still hasnt done a prepare to cry series lol
The fact that the cutscene straight up tells us even DEAD Tarnished and THE #1 KING OF THE TARNISHED were brought back to life as a last ditch effort and some, if not most folks forgot until they finished the game is amazing.
And for some fracking reason we are the one dealing with it how ironic we have no claim to fame, we are just noone a body dead and yet grace decided that yes this unknown tarnished who has no great deeds is worthy to be risen makes ya think it was a bet between the gods themselves to see if you would join them and honestly that's scarier then anything else
@@theenderdestruction2362the grace seems to bring back any tarnished that was part of or descendant of Godfrey's army though
D, Rogier, Patches, Boggart and Corhyn are all tarnished too and they don't seem to have any particular renown
What's different between most tarnished in the game and the ones we see in the intro (including our own character) is the ones in the intro never stopped seeing the light of grace.
So the question is: why does everyone but these six characters lose their ability to see the guidance of grace? (Seven characters if you include Vyke who almost managed to become Elden Lord/Lord of the Frenzied Flame)
@thiago292 im certain patches isnt even normal like at all, D was seemly a famous undead hunter, boggart was probably a criminal of royal decent or a magician that and he surived the damn dung eater and i have no idea who corhyn also no tarnished is really gunning for the elden ring really so i guess the grace just kinda fucks off that or the greater is playing favorites
I wondered when I might find a first glimpse at R. R. Martin's writing, and when I read "Night of the Black Knives", I chuckled, understanding that he wrote the narrative frame and the world before it all went to hell. That's when FromSoft took over. What a magnificent crossover.
Yeah if he was asked to write the rest of the story it'd take another hundred years
@Martin Toledo If Blaidd the Half-Wolf isn't a reference to Robb Stark, I'd eat my hat.
@@jmcu17 Blaidd is based from Guts of Berserk. His silhouette resembles that of Guts when he dons the berserk armor, sword and armor.
@@dharmdevil Blaidds ending is definitely inline with Berserk too. Tragic to say the least.
@@jmcu17 I can totally see that happening: George RR Martin describing Blaidd with a Robb Stark type of character in mind, and Miyasaki listening carefully and got to the conclusion: "Oh ! He wants Guts from Berserk. Excellent idea."
the use of paintings for an opening cinematic was unexpected but VERY fitting. It does the job just as good as their usual pretty animations
dude agreed. I managed to avoid this before the release and it left me absolutely floored at midnight.
@@applecorp that sucks for you bro. That shit left goosebumps on me the whole way through. Definitely my favorite intro by them, followed by DS3
@@applecorp it fits perfectly, it’s like a fairy tale being narrated, which is exactly the vibe elden ring gives off, a dark fairy tale
@@liljay3019 Sucks for you that you have such low standards. Still frames with a bit of narration? Come on guy 😂🤣
@@datatsushi2016 lol hopefully one day you’ll grow out of absolute statements/stances like these. Until then, just try your best to not wear your immaturity on your sleeves. It’s ok though, I used to be there, so i get it
Ah yes, my favorite Elden Ring character.
The Loathsome DUNG EATER!
I love how the music calms when you are introduced. The tarnished and the God’s have names. They have legacy. But you don’t, not yet. You will earn your theme.
And that's makes us the scariest of them all because I'm like 99% certain the greater will revived us as a last resort
Something I didn't notice at the very beginning was the second flash of light you see Queen Marika, but in the third you see Lord Radagon.
Considering the story that's pretty neat.
that’s some crazy foreshadowing
“Radagon is Marika”
*T-pose intensifies*
Spoilers--
All the demigods and some of their backstory is shown in the intro,
Godrick and radahn fighting(correction, Morgot and Radahn, didn’t realise they had even fought), malenia and radahn fighting, Miquella being taken by Mohg, Snakeboy being eaten, watching the intro second play thru hits even harder
@@BONAH42 looked more like morgott and radahn fighting
@@BONAH42 no way Godrick would be fighting the goat radhan when he ran away from him
I enjoy the style of it, it’s not veering towards forgettable realism like every other modern game. It has a vibe and they know that
they took cues from Nintendo,
@@MidnaZ lmao no, every soulsborne game had this charm
@@MidnaZ FromSoftware's time machine is hype af🔥🔥
@@MidnaZ souls game have a charm of their own, but it is known that miyazaki was inspired from Zelda for its first works
@@aber1812 no ICO is what got him into game development
When they announced the squad just like back in dark souls 3 I got so hyped.
except this time its YOUR squad, feels hype as hell having your "teammates" being shout out as badasses of their own
@@filipecordeiro7109 wait they are on our side? I’m very early game, haven’t even fought the first story boss.
Edit: no spoilers but if it’s somethingg I should already know an explanation would be cool
@@dirtyclickers7649 haven't beaten the game yet but: the cinematic tells you that the Elden ring shattered, the offsprings of queen Marika claimed the shards and then started a war between them to be the new God/lord/whatever but it ended in a draw.
Then "something revived" all the named characters at the end + your character. All of you (and some others npcs) form part of the round table and you are supposed to get all the pieces of the Elden ring (from queens Marika's offsprings) and become the Elden Lord
@@dirtyclickers7649 yes the named tarnished are your allies in order to beat the demigods, its not a spoiler, theyre literally on the same journey as you are and have the same end goal.
you can safely assume that any tarnished you meet that isnt invading you is your ally and will at some point help or request something of you.
Unless there’s a major twist the named characters aren’t the bosses, which is interesting……
Gideon Ofnir All-knowing my ass. He wasn't reading those papers on the table like he already knew everything lol.
kinda easy one too lol thought he would be some difficult bosses
As he said himself, he isnt all knowing. He seeks to be and is probably the closest to it in the world we live. Other than the greater will.
@@novicebreath if he had more HP you would find him insane ^^
@@novicebreath Damn, people actually killed him easily? Fucked kicked my ass over and over with his spells. Couldn’t see him through all his zoning bullshit
just use summon spirit to interrupt him
I like how it’s more of a Demons Souls intro, gives a more “ancient” feeling versus a typical cinematic. Not to say this is better than a cg cinematic, it just fits the tone/ feeling more IMO.
Personally I prefer the dark souls intros. They felt like creation myths with more detail, not sure why they went with pictures here instead.
For me its literally the ds 3 intro. Literally the exact same structure lol
@@Shakenmike117 in my opinion it gives it a more fantasy vibe, kind of like its narrating a fairy tale, which fits the whole vibe of elden ring
I thought it would be a typical cinematic but with this intro it really feels like we're more integral to the story with the narrator actually acknowledging us. The art was really cool too.
@@Shakenmike117 i personally didnt couse we actually never see those graves couse the retail version has a different layout from the version that was created with the trailer
Even the intro cinematic has a second phase 2:00
🤣🤣🤣
Jajajjajjajajjaa
he started edging
I love how there are all these awesome and mysterious fantasy characters/names and then there's "Dung Eater."
Now the question is, was it GRRM's or Hidetaka "Dung Pie" Miyazaki's idea?
"Rise now, ye badasses:
Badlands chief badass.
Brilliant incantations badass.
Comfortable mommy badass.
*Shit eater.*
All knowing badass."
Who the hell voiced this narration? It’s honestly one of the best narrations I’ve ever seen for anything in my entire life. I can’t find who it is and I’ve been searching a little!
Tim Cartwright maybe
Jimmy Livingstone
Anyone remember Headhunter? He voiced Jack Wade... abolute legend...
Yeah, the guy voicing here is totally on par with the narrator from Darkest Dungeon (who was my favorite of all-time before Elden Ring came out)
hes a fucking legend. Set the tone perfectly of what we are experiencing
This guy GOES FUCKING HARD.
He set the tone RIGHT AWAY.