I think Miyazaki is speaking from a self satisfaction angle. He’s not making games to be huge hits, he’s making something he wants to make and share it with us. That vision just happens to be really fire all the time
Maybe he wasn't at first but he definitely is now. Didn't he say he thinks more people will finish Elden Ring and they have? Millions of them. When you hit that kind of market you are definitely trying to make a huge hit. You are definitely trying to enable more people to get into your game.
My Shadow of the Erdtree hot take: you can play it however you want. Don’t handicap yourself only to die over and over again, and then complain that the game is too hard.
@@casetheace8494DLC is post game content, if you're below level like 150 when you enter it and then ignore the scary fragments, you're gonna get, expectedly, horribly f*cked
The Miyazaki quote proves to me he’s a real artist. Anyone who pursues art knows that even your greatest works are never good enough. Artists are perpetually insecure and dissatisfied with their creations. That’s how to git gud as an artist.
He says in that same interview that the perfect game would not be made by himself, because if it is made by him he already knows everything before playing.
@@TheActManYeah true but... why would he cripple the performance with locked a 60FPS / FOV and lack of current tech like DLSS, FSR, Frame Generation and motion fluidity with unlocked FPS Gsync. Which all further enhance the Graphics Art Direction immersion and experience. The base game when those mods worked made the game so much more enjoyable:) Cheers.
@@TRONiX404 That's not Miyazaki, you bozo. The dude is a writer and director, not a programmer or graphics designer. Also, if you need stupidly "hyper realistic" graphics to enjoy a game, that says more about yourself, not the game. Open your mind up a bit and don't be such a stuck up graphicslave.
The guys complaining its too hard, refusing to use a non strength/greatsword build: "CURSE YOU MIYAZAKI! I HEREBY WOW YOU WILL RUE THIS DAY! BEHOLD A TRUE KEYBOARD WARRIOR, I! YOUR FEAR MADE FLESH!" "SOLID FANBASE YOU MAY HAVE, FOUL GAME DIRECTOR! BUT I WILL RIDDLE WITH COMPLAINTS, YOUR ROTTEN GAME! WITH A HAIL OF INCOMPOTENCE! WITH EVERY LAST DROP OF MY BEING"
@@pipi-fc5lbI honestly found easy and yes I have the charm to Kuro and rung the bell and yet the boss that took me the most tries was the ape is shin and all the inners bosees took me like 10 tries or less
"We bitch, we moan, we brake our controllers, we give up, we call it quits and then we boot up the game the next day" lol, I so can relate, I had given up at Messmer, and nearly shelved the DLC forever, then started to hunt for scadu the day after and finished it in less than a week. This video is so fun and already having DLC/Elden Ring nostalgia!
Nostalgia might seem like a weird term, but I actually know exactly what you mean. That first walk into (spoilers) the Hinterlands with the Tree Sentinels was like a bolt of awe for me.
I got to Radhan and as soon as I hit him and saw how beefy his health bar was I knew that the fight was going to take me a couple tries and I’m just not ready for it lmao
The full quote about Miyazaki sucking at games is the definitive answer on the "intended" way to play the game. To the people that say things like using summons takes away from the game devs intentions on how to fight bosses or some shit. “But in preparation for Shadow of the Erdtree, I played through the main story of Elden Ring. I want to preface this by saying I absolutely suck at video games, so my approach or play style was to use everything I have at my disposal, all the assistance, every scrap of aid that the game offers, and also all the knowledge that I have as the architect of the game … the freedom and open-world nature of Elden Ring perhaps lowered the barrier to entry, and I might be the one who’s benefiting the most from that, as a player, more than anyone else.”
That doesnt really say the intended way to play. It just says that Miyazaki likes to play that way. The devs expect some people to play with summons. They also expect some people to play without summons though. Thats why they are optional. There isnt any one true way to play the game.
It actually does. He's essentially saying, play what works for you. There isn't a wrong way to play. Using all your options available is admission to there being no deniable way to play. Play what way works for you. @@burntivoryking
@@spongebobgod2128no summons is a weird topic because they do make the game significantly easier, but no magic???? It’s literally a build you invested points into and it’s arguably worse than strength builds, don’t listen to them
@@spongebobgod2128What makes magic OP in this game is summons imo. Magic with no summons doesn't trivialise the game and a pure spellcaster with no summons is arguably harder to play than a basic strength build.
too be fair, he'll never be able to make one thats ideal for himself. he said he wants one to go into blind but he makes them so its hard to be blind at something you make. so to do that it would have to be like alot of RNG
I feel like a pause button shouldn't be a problem if the person plays offline. Especially since the game kicks you out of your session after a period of inactivity because of the online system.
The last guy is most definitely a god tier troll. The greasy hair, bad posture, dubbing himself as a hardcore gamer. He’s either a god tier troll or the reasons for many of his family members’ headaches
Harman is a giant Nintendo fanboy and has been comparing Elden Ring to Zelda since ER came out and coping about it. If there are games from Nintendo that are even slightly comparable they win by default and the other game is dead, sucks and has never been relevant. He also always advertises his books at the beginning of every video, does basically 0 editing and regularly pulls numbers, percentages and "facts" out of his ass.
Man, the whole discourse around the DLC made me feel crazy. Like I'm the one that's insane, because it feels like I'm surrouded by crazy arguments. Like the people who complain about having a hard time dodging, but refusing to block. Or people bying an expansion to Elden Ring and then being upset that it's just like Elden Ring. Or the whole tirades about "input reading". Or you know, someone going into the area that's basically post-game content but having the most barebones character and then complaining how hard it is for it to beat it. That one's completely on you fam, you chose to make a character like that.
**Miyazaki looking at elden ring** "We can go even further beyond" All I wanted was that the seamless coop mod was implemented in the game already and being able to coop without limitations
But Elden Ring is a game for everyone disguised as a game for niche audience. They just hid the training wheels a bit too much with the expansion from what I see, haven't got to it yet.
@@Iamkeev There are training wheels. You can increase in power, you can use spirit ashes. It's not a fixed difficulty. The game CAN be hard at times but it requires you purposefully not using the mechanics that are put in the game to make sure everyone can beat it.
My Sulyvan experience was that I, no joke, killed him on my first ever try and have since struggled with him on every subsequent play through I’ve ever done. I still have no idea how I killed him so easily that first time though.
@@jwebcoding7289there are always those super rare godlike first attempts so having one of those end in first trying a boss isn’t too surprising (I had a very similar case with Godfrey where I almost first tried him)
I beat Slave Knight Gael on my first try, and I will not ever fight him again cause I'm sure that one single super victory will seem tiny once I stack high the failures lol
I was admittedly one of those people saying it was too hard. Then I realized they were trying to encourage you to explore. Once I found enough Scadutree fragments, I changed my mind. Still hard but amazing!
the boss fights aren't as fun as ds3, sekiro or bloodborne and that is mostly due to how they try to force in more difficulty despite elden ring having for more tools than the other games.
Yes I noticed with alot of streamers too, they were complaining and I was like maybe dont die 300 Times and explore the world and come back later. I think you can kill every boss and enter nearly every area before fighting Messmer and entering the last area.
@@caliberkat I agree, 98% of the DLC was great for me. I really didn't like consort radahn, because of his splash dmg. He feels fine most of the time, just a little overturned with a little to much aoe
@@hylianglitchmobber7570 he also enjoys writing gRape fanfiction about characters he doesn't like (Batman, Kratos, Disney Princesses) and underage characters (Disney Princesses)
@@hylianglitchmobber7570 it's a big reason why Cow Wrangler and the rest of the LoLCow community hates him...of course it also didn't help Harman's case that he posted a link to his AO3 account on UA-cam...he's downright proud of it.
Ngl he was kinda right about a lot of Elden Ring fans though. They come into the series and just talk about how Elden Ring is the greatest game ever and nothing about it can be criticised. I personally think FS dropped the ball on SotE because it had so much potential but extracted so little of it.
@@102ndsmirnov7 those are definitely the fanboys but they aren’t the majority. The rest of us do welcome criticism and we have our own. The thing is, he does the same thing when it comes to his beloved Nintendo games and he’s even worse. So he’s a massive hypocrite or lacking self awareness. I’ve seen him go after other content creators and getting pretty emotional for some pretty tame criticisms. As for the DLC, I have my issues with it but overall I’m happy with it.
The big thing about pausing for me is... It does exist you pause when you read menu tool tips. So if the game has to break immersion to explain how an item works, then there isn't too much of a jump... I get it, a boss fight should be an investment of time and that is totally understandable, maybe have a mechanic where pausing isn't available in boss fights but is in open world Personally I played if Steam Deck so could sleep the console whenever I needed to step away, I didn't feel it broke my immersion... I don't have kids, but life does happen sometimes and that option is sometimes needed, it doesn't take away from the difficulty or challenge, it's literally a quality of life feature
I know what you mean, but they don't want to add one obviously - so I can respect that since it isn't a big deal and I respect and enjoy their design decisions. It's their game design decisions not ours. If not during boss fight, it's really not a huge problem to just die in the open world if you need to drop it and are in a dangerous situation in game. It's easy to get back to your runes 9/10 times if you have a bunch. This isn't DS1 or DS2 where if you would die you could lose significant progress. There are graces all over the place and if you lose runes, you are just going to be able to get them back very quickly. I just don't think it is a big deal if enemies respawn in this game either. I love fighting them and if there are ones that are giant pains, just run by.
As someone with kids... I would like to have pause button. I really understand that lady. But on the other hand, it is not AS much a problem as with Monster hunter. In ER, you die and you loose like.. 5 minutes? Okay, you nearly killed that boss, but hey, you did that 39 times before, one more is not gonna change things. In Monster hunter, where you track and fight some dragon flying all around and you will lose an hour... I stoped playing MH when my kid was born, but I am able to enjoy ER.
@@jajsem1109hey not sure if this will be helpful but Illusory Wall has a video showing that elden ring can be paused by open your status screen and hitting the explanation button. So if you need a pause the option is available to you at will
Miyazaki: "I'll make souls veterans feel like they are playing for the first time" People got exactly what they were promised and they aren't happy with it. You can't make this up.
Aside from poor balance of gaius and migraine flashing redahn the dlc wasn’t THAT difficult. Don’t complain if you don’t use skibidi fragments, summons, or co-op.
No I literally cannot believe the amount of criticism from these gamers. Practice gratitude. They didn’t have to give us more, I’m just happy the dlc exists.
@@RenegadeVash bro I HATED Gauis too until I learned you can JUMP over his boars attacks to end up on his other side and not only punish but be better positioned to dodge his next attack. It's 🤌 when you pull it off
An actual take: it isn’t optimized. My computer ran the first game at 60 in most areas, and only dropped in a few parts but was never unplayable. Some areas in shadow of the erdtree aren’t properly optimized even though I meet the spec requirements. I’ve checked all hardware, updated drivers, even reinstalled windows for the first time which was scary as hell and still didn’t fix the issue.
@@kevinferdian746 idk what its called but the forest area I was rocking a stuttering 30 fps, and rennala’s arena I was at around 40 with stutters. I just got to Messmers arena and thank god I can play at 60 fps there.
Yeah I just upgraded my pc and it runs fine for me but, my buddy I coop with his has stutters all the time and his pc is a bit older. They definitely need to look into optimization for it.
Idk the whole game is kinda like that, I actually had to look up guides for pretty much every quest because my first play through I missed almost everything
That being a trend enforces you to explore. It's almost like they give you buffs and more ways to play the game for doing so? Also realizing that I'm fucked out of a certain quest automatically guarantees a second or third playthrough. Works for me.
I also find it odd that no one thinks about the age-old advice from DS1; Dont do the dlc on NG+ or higher unless you're prepared for the butt touching. Your optimization works for the base game, but DLC is a new monster with you in mind SPECIFICALLY.
Yea I was about to come and say, Monkey Ball can be fucking brutal.... It has that old arcade mentality where it feels like it wants to kick you in the balls and steal all your lunch money.
Miyazaki is a true gamer. Striving for perfection. He knows every game he makes gives him clues/insight to his end goal. Falling down 7 times to get up 8 times is something gamers and everyone who has struggled in life will understand that sense of elation when you can say "YES I did it!"
And it could easily be solved by stopping this lie that the game only has one difficulty. Not that there's anything wrong with that but beating something overleveled and with spirit ashes is not the same difficulty as beating it underleveled and with straight up tactics. Just do three difficulty settings and stop trying to manipulate people into thinking they beat a hard game so they tie their egos to it. Hard mode, level scaling, no summons, no multiplayer. Easy mode, more help, more health. All valid.
@AryReviewFilm Sure. Make monsters level scale with you, remove spirit ashes and all cheese and let's see what you think after that. The game already doesn't have one difficulty.
@@albert2006xpoh yeah no one has ever beaten these games without summoning, cheesing, or level farming. Bro said “remove those things Let’s see what they think after that” like that’s not just a regular playthrough lmao.
@@lopeshick9607 That's not what I said but sure. It's just that I know for a fact 90% of people that beat Elden Ring would suddenly not be able to beat it/next one and it would cause a massive backlash. Bro. Personally I'm all for it, I would love a level scaling no summon harder setting to just tick on. But if you still want to sell millions of copies, maybe just give people settings to customize their experience and stop being silly.
That guy is Harman Smith, an avid Nintendo fans. I can't even confrim if this guy play elden ring. He will suck Nintendo games so hard, even the flop one
1:45 I actually respect what this man is saying a lot. The video game industry is missing ambition on the AAA game side. It's not entirely devoid of ambition but lacking in most upper end studios. This is a man who truly cares about his craft and is actively looking for ways to innovate on his formula in ways that simply improve and add to an already great experience and even sometimes take it to the next level.
People don’t know this but Elden ring does in fact have a pause feature. You go into your inventory screen and press “help” it’ll pause the game to show micro tutorials.
I’m almost convinced that people are throwing a fit over the pause button because a woman brought up the point and because she dared mention “accessibility”. Like a pause button would literally do nothing.
And the "immersion" argument is terrible. Does the immersion suffer in every other game cause there is a pause feature? No, of course not, so it wouldn't in Fromsofts' games.
My hot take is that I’m pretty bummed out we didn’t get more lore-wise for Godwyn and Melina. Also kinda wack that it doesn’t have achievements or any effect on the main endings.
We did get a sliver to speculate about Melina. She's Messmer's younger sister and was likely born before Godwyn and the rest. I was hoping for more Melina stuff, too, especially concerning the Black Flame.
@@denisn8336 but he can kill you bajillion time. Is one time enough? Btw you can just choose a female character but then ranni would make you lesbian I guess, lol.
The thing about a pause button is that the game widely accepted to be the hardest FS game, Sekiro, has a pause button. And, in my opinion, it doesnt make the game and the flow feel hindered in any way. Its really funny to me that sekiro has some design choices that would otherwise be seen as too easy and unacceptable in a dark souls game, like only losing half your xp on death, retaining level up points on death, resurrecting on death (which you can earn back), partial animation cancelling, etc. Sure theres a lot of nuance to the point than im making out, but its interesting to see the discussion around and what is omitted so people can make their points valid.
True but I wouldn’t call Sekiro a souls game, which is what he’s saying. It’s a design choice for the souls games to not have it. But I’m sure it’ll make people angry I said that but whatever.
@@shadowxhero4953I just think it’s a bad design choice. At this point you just accept it and expect it and see it as part of the souls DNA. It’s like Stockholm syndrome though. I’d even accept if we could only pause outside of boss fights.
@@EggEnjoyer Dude I like it what do you mean lol I know I said people would be angry about my opinion but I didn’t expect someone like you to be that die hard about it lol
Okay, we need a compromise for the pausing thing though. They have a great point that some people don't have time to sit down and play for however long they need to to get to a site of grace, and they might have other things they need to do that are obviously more important than a video game. Important enough to interrupt gameplay, at least, and in any case, it's not our place to decide if they're reason for needing to pause is valid enough or not. But, i agree with your point about being able to pause in a fight, and especially boss fights. So what i propose is a system where you're not allowed to pause if you're in any form of combat, or if you have any aggro at all on your tarnished, but if you don't have aggro or you're not in a fight, then you should be allowed to pause whenever you want. For traps/trapped areas or similar, there could just be an area where pausing is disabled until you get to an area not made to disable pausing. This compromise does not cover saving, this is only a solution for pausing. There are other ideas for that but it is not relevant to the pausing discussion.
The thing is, you can stop playing whenever and pick up where you left off as long as you're not mid fight. pause doesn't change this whatsoever. You don't need to find a site of grace before you stop playing
@@BarryBBensonBBangin You could argue some people could find it too tedious to have to exit and open, specially if you're playing from PC, and you mostly pause when you must be gone by like 5 minutes, it could kind of suck to have to close the game, then go whatever trivial thing that takes 2 minutes of your life, come back, reopen the game, watch steam load it, then see the loading screen so you can play again
@@tommynson440 idk, I'm new to souls games and have been playing elden ring for about a month and i feel like it's pretty easy to find a spot where you are going to be safe for a few minutes, even if it isn't a site of grace. Almost every area is safe after you kill what's in it unless you're in an area that has a patrolling enemy. And also saving and going to menu and loading back up takes like 30 seconds, it's not that big of a deal
That one Brazilian comparison with rdr2 was followed by a huge thread of Brazilians mocking that first guy's focus in redundant shit. It was marvelous to see
RDR2 and Elden Ring aren't even comparable in the slightest. The only thing they have in common is the open-world That's like comparing Battlefield to Fortnite because they're both shooters
To the argument of the pause button: Imo If what is happening outside the game is so much more important than the game you NEED to give it your attention, does a lost boss try in a video game really matter? It's not like losing the fight has any real consequences for you, you get reset 500m back with full health, full heals. Not to go on too deep into the sauce but it's still just a video game you know?
Thank you lol what I’ve learned from people if it’s not one thing it’s another. Another thing is people are like crabs in a bucket. Pulling each other down especially the ones at the top. They will try to
"Why do you need an immersion-breaking action when you can let the game do an even MORE immersion-breaking thing to you?" Pausing is one of the least immersion-breaking ways to disconnect from a game; you come back exactly as you left it. It's implemented specifically to avoid situations like you're describing where players end up punished for the crime of having a life.
@@lukebytes5366*sigh..* I actually think your argument is valid enough, heck, Sekiro has a pause feature, and it's not a problem at all. But also.. is this truly a discussion worth having? I feel like people just trying so hard reaching the bottom of the barrel to look for anything to bash the game. I agree with what OP said, if it's truly an important matters, then just leave it, yes you'll get punished a bit "for having a life", but so what man.. It's Elden Ring, not Dark Souls 1 or 2, where the "punishment" is that severe anyway.
@@plipplop728 i think the issue is that there is no logical reason to not have a pause button. Its makes the person seem dumb at worst and very elitist at best. The pushback you see in regards to the discussion of a pause button is mainly because the elitists somehow think a pause ruins anything in the game for them, like they are forced to pause or something. Its the same thing as saying a tutorial shouldnt be in the game because it ruins the "integrity" of the game.
I think you could argue it is one of the easier fromsoft games but it can also be one of the hardest. Depends on how you play/what you choose to use. Want to have fun and not spend hours on a boss, use a cheesy strat/build. Want a more challenging experience, dont use summons or OP weapons. I love that they designed the gameplay in a way that lets you choose how hard it is.
@@tresjackson3027 I may have referred to him as a troll, but I thought he was being serious the whole time. Nintendo fanboy or not, I don't see where he's getting his reasoning from. I wasn't trolling when I indicated that he's probably never kissed a girl. Full size waifu body pillows don't count.
The guy saying Elden ring is easy and casual is actually right about this, and it's a good thing, that's what makes it so popular and is the reason why it doesn't need a difficulty modifier. For instance, Jedi Survivor is light years harder than Elden rings on max difficulty, but it's not fun for this reason, fighting a fuc*ing frog for 10 hours or a random trooper while being shot by 10 guys in the background is insanity, so it's harder yes, but doesn't make it more fun.
''Sir, you've worked for years almost decades, dont you want to relax?' Miyazaki:does line of coke. ''I got at least one more in me, so shut up. The people need me"
I think the idea behind it is that the world is constantly moving around you. Going into a menu or navigating your inventory doesn’t magically stop everything. The player exists within the world, not the other way around. I still think that a pause function could be implemented well, though there are many more safe zones in Elden Ring and the price for dying is becoming less and less severe.
Love the content bro and I agree with your take fully. Honestly I just see it as a beneficial accessibility feature. Those who want it would use it and those who don't wouldn't. I don't necessarily feel like it would make the game any better or any worse but it would help people in situations that call for the need to pause while you're mid dodge-roll or someshit. Immersion is its own thing and if you're truly immersed you wouldn't pause it regardless if the option was there or not. Kind of glad I saw someone else with a similar take to mine, and bonus its from a creator who's content I enjoy so much.
Absolutely pause buttons have nothing to do with immersion or even locking yourself into a boss. Its all about the online stuff, even Sekiro had a pause button, which I think proves that. Honestly I think there could be a compromise, maybe making it so fromsoftware games will pause whenever you arent doing online stuff and temporarily stop you from engaging in online stuff, it'd be like quitting the game anyway, just better and more convenient.
At least on PC there is a mod for that, it's dumb having to mod in or defend the lack of a basic feature? Yes, absolutely! But it beat having to listen or read the "muh immersion" reason from soul-players.
@@EngieMak I agree that its dumb to be required to mod in a pause button, but let those souls-player get mad all they want lol. I just want a pause button, and its not like console players can mod the game anyways.
He cried it was too hard cause he couldn’t spam jump attacks. Cried he was feeling stressed because people called him out on his BS about the game. And if you pointed it out you would get banned. Kai suffered for his wins and I respect him as a gamer was more than asmond now.
One thing at 9:45 I wanna point out is unless its changed you CAN actually pause the game. If ur alone in ur own world, go into ur menus, and activate any kind of help/tutorial prompt, itll actually pause whats going on, you can see this at the very start of the game when you go thru the tutorial cave
3:50 you know what, I know a classmate of mine said rdr2 is better then ER. He never played anything outside of roblox. He says rdr2 has better story. He doesnt know the lore of both games. That day, my hope in humanity just got sliced in half
@@moldilocks2904cause he so delusional on games. The guy thinks that every game should be only playable on nintendo consoles. As well as saying that every game should run on the switch
Miyazaki (shaking hands) Swen Vincke Dropping back to back absolute bangers and sweeping award shows over AAA juggernauts and having the mindset of "This isn't even my final form."
I think the pause feature should be an option you can turn on in accessiblity just for people who don't have that kinda time or more urgent responsiblities. But honestly, people forget that dying in videogames doesn't matter. Just putting the controller down is a choice to make
Just exit the game back to the main menu(everything auto saves so there's no need to pause when you can just exit and relaunch when ready to play). Or go into the Help/Menu Explanation and the game will be paused.
@@roachdoggjr4648 I don't have kids and even I know what you said was wrong. A parent could put their kid to bed. Decide to play for an hour or two before they themselves go to bed. 30 minutes into the game the kid wakes up and goes to the parent's room asking for something.
@k9commander yes, which is a different situation entirely, and does happen to every parent. But a kid requiring some tucking in again after they've been out to bed is different from just sitting down to play games during their waking hours when you know they need at least a mild level of monitoring. When they're a little older and more independent, then it's not as much of an issue.
@@roachdoggjr4648 5:37 PM, 15 Years old daughter comes home fuming mad. She slams the door to her room. Does the parent keep playing their game until they reach a save point, or do they go be parents and find out why their child is so mad? It's cliche, but it's true. Being a parent is a full-time (24/7) job. Parents need to watch over their kids, but also need to find time to live their lives. The real world doesn't pause. It would be nice if the game does.
You think a pause button would ruin immersion? Damn. I can’t believe Miyazaki personally broke into every Sekiro player’s house and held them at gunpoint to make them pause the game. A pause button is literally a quality of life feature. I can’t think of a single game where a pause button “breaks immersion.” If you need to pause, your immersion is already broken. Quitting out arguably breaks immersion more than a pause button because it resets enemy placements.
You shouldn't be able to pause during boss fights in Sekiro. Open world, mini bosses? Sure. But having the option to immersion break to spam Jizu statues and Divine grass in a boss fight really enables mal behavior in boss fights
@@brianvillatoro6588brother there’s a ton of games with a pause button with boss fights it doesn’t do anything for the fight you still have to have the right timing and knowledge on when to strike it’s crazy how fromsoft fans think even a pause button is a bad thing
The irony that Elden Ring already HAS a fully functioning pause feature that really only doesn't work if you are actively using multiplayer services. Even online, as long as you're solo, it works. also, 99% of the situations people would be pausing in AREN'T mid boss fight. They just want to be able to, say, be a short distance away from a wandering enemy and not have said enemy wander to where they're standing while they're gone. I highly doubt it would open up a "pause 50 times during the boss fight" playstyle. I say since we already HAVE pause via View Menu Explanation, just tie the pause to the map. When you open the map, you're already 2 button presses away from a true pause, why not just have the map true pause? You can't open the map mid combat anyways, so it's not like it would hinder that, and it would allow pausing in the 99% of situations where it would actually be used that you can already use VME to pause in the first place. Another thing people forget is that fights are a dance where you get in a rhythm. If you're constantly pausing and unpausing, you are not going to be able to get into said rhythm. I'd actually be impressed if someone could pause spam and still win, especially since those menus usually have delays after the close before inputs are recognized, so you'd honestly still have to learn the fight to be able to pause with the right timing to then unpause and still have time to dodge an attack. Tying it to the map also would prevent people from using flasks while paused, so helps counteract that argument of being able to do the Skyrim thing of stopping to eat 100lbs of cheese mid combat.
@@sHmAaa Elden Ring is offline as well lmao. Even when connected to the online servers, the most you're doing is seeing messages and death/recent phantoms of other people. Also what on earth does that have to do with the pause conversation? The current Elden Ring pause feature of View Menu Explanation already doesn't function when you are in another person's world or people are summoned in yours. Also, last time I checked entering the boss door prevented invaders / sent invaders home, which is where the biggest "noooo not a pause button" responses come from. Offline vs Online means fuck all to this entire conversation. Every single Soulsborne game is, first and foremost, an offline solo experience. Games like Dark Souls and Elden Ring just happen to also have online features that you can interact with. I think pretty much everyone understands pausing online games is just not really possible outside of the boomer / gen x parents and grandparents that don't even have a clue about gaming in general.
Biggest issue I and many others had with Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom was that you could just pause and heal up during any boss fight. Made most fights pretty much light work once you had enough hearts. Having to use flasks to heal makes the fights more immersive imo. Shits gas.
Btw a correction to "these games have never had a pause function" is very wrong. Sekiro had a pause since it was strictly offline and ER does technically have a pause but in a dumb way. If you open a submenu like equipment and go to the explanation function the game is completely paused. Demon's Souls remake also has a quasi-pause with Photo Mode.
Yeah sure but it is a basic feature to have a designated pause button. Just because u have to go through menus to get the game to “pause” doesn’t mean it’s intuitive or smart.
10:40 they gave us a pause button in armored core 6 and it did basically nothing to take away from the boss, if anything it made it better because unpausing made me so nervous, it was like flying into the arena again
You can simply exit back to the menu if you absolutely need to stop/pause the game. Its so simple that it blows my mind people are complaining about a pause feature when you can literally exit to the main menu and relaunch the game when ready.
Armored core is a completely different type of game though. You play missions rather than exploring a world and fighting bosses. I dont even know why people complain about this. I have played every fromsoft game (except demon souls) and I havent had one problem with not being able to pause the game
Harmem Smith is no troll. I've seen too much of him, to the point where I can safely say that he genuinely belives every word coming out of his own mouth
The tear and shackle that turns mohgs fight into a cake walk goes to show each boss is so unique not just down to the movesets or their natural weaknesses. But to the degree that the lore and the world it self is set up for you to use all tools at your disposal. Those big mfs aren’t gonna fight fair you don’t have to either. The amount of different builds I’ve made and beat the game with and the fact that I still see new stuff I want to try shows this series and fromsoft as a whole is such a gamers game company. And we as a community couldnt ask for anything better
i was fighting orphan of kos it had 🤏 this much health like one attack away then my mom called and i stood up put controller down very CALM and went to grab some things from the car You got a prioritize things man
@@melissazadrozny5167 I've seen plenty of people and streamers alike complain about Messmer, saying how he hits back-to-back and doesn't allow you to heal. Which isn't true but I've seen people say that. Same with his move that lifts you in the air and cooks you, I've seen people say that's a bad mechanic too, which again isn't true but I've seen it said. Point is, he's arguably the hardest boss and arguably one of the least experienced streamer killed him, without summons and without a cheese build.
I just wanna take the time to say thank you Act Man for always making high quality, entertaining content for your audience/viewers. I know this UA-cam/Influencer thing hasn’t always been a blast for you and it’s taken a toll on you, but I can always see the effort put into every video, every meme, every bit, every script, every thumbnail, every cosplay. You’re not a saint, no one is, and you don’t have to be one- have your ideologies, values, morals, humor, and don’t give a fuck about what people say unless your open to discuss about it- you’re human and humans cannot be perfect beings. However, please *never* forget or every doubt that you’re a *goddamn good UA-camr* and game enthusiast that respects the fun, creativity and artistry that goes into gaming instead of just the materialistic gain and capitalism. Be your own person and rejoice in it. I can *always* watch a video of yours and be confident that it’ll be entertaining, and that’s saying a lot. Whether from this channel or Act Man TV. I truly hope life is going well for you, brother. Cheers to another banger video.
That's always been prevalent in souls titles. They don't really have good anticheat and they aren't trying to make anything overly hardcore or invasive. Back in DS1 save editing was almost guaranteed in the latter half of the game's life due to honor rules. Back then invaders didn't have access to healing and so if the host decided to pop flasks or healing items you'd be up shit creek unless you were just way better. The only work around was to pop humanities and that was a super limited item so the only way to deal with it was to save edit and spawn in stacks as needed.
Bro, I laughed so hard at the kid part. "Let 'em". I'm a dad, and I simply don't play Elden Ring or any FromSoft game until my kid goes to bed. Really, I don't play any game until my kid goes to bed. I personally don't see a problem with not having an ability to pause the game, but that's just me.
The long-awaited sequel is here! Maybe I'll have a hot take of my own in this video....
Sounds like a plan act man! 👍🏻
Guys I haven’t peed in seven days is that normal?
I'm having Dejan vu
Can't wait for the second saga
Act man I beg have my children
Inbefore QuantumTV 2 electric boogaloo
I was about to say that😂😂😂
This time it won't be a Spiderman mask, no, it'll be a Miles Morales mask
Here we go again
He posts his long awaited SoTE review (hasn't played it obviously)
Holy shit I forgot about that
I think Miyazaki is speaking from a self satisfaction angle. He’s not making games to be huge hits, he’s making something he wants to make and share it with us. That vision just happens to be really fire all the time
Maybe he wasn't at first but he definitely is now. Didn't he say he thinks more people will finish Elden Ring and they have? Millions of them. When you hit that kind of market you are definitely trying to make a huge hit. You are definitely trying to enable more people to get into your game.
100% this. Dude just wants to make the game he wants to make.
@Krypto121 Spirit Ashes.
@Krypto121bloodborne is another exception. The rest follow the same formula, yet always evolve it in some way.
@Krypto121right, dark souls 1 is exactly the same as elden ring.. No new mechanics, level design, or anything.
To this day I still can’t hear the Elden Ring main theme without hearing Quantum saying “the graphics are dogshit” lol
I literally was just thinking that! Followed by "Dog Models" lol
For real
“even the way the textures are (has stroke)…produced!”
He should add Fromslop to his vocabulary...
Same!
"Pauses during messmer" "eats 50 watermelons and 24 cheese wheels"
Peak design
The Tarnished: "I should follow the glowing lines of grace to spend my runes..."
Tarnished 5 seconds after killing a boss: I should visit a site of grace and meditate on my travels....
Thing is elden ring has a pause button.
@@Graine01 I think people are complaining because it's too vague.
My Shadow of the Erdtree hot take: you can play it however you want. Don’t handicap yourself only to die over and over again, and then complain that the game is too hard.
The problem is that the game is horribly balanced.
@@casetheace8494bs youre just trash
@@casetheace8494it’s not
@@casetheace8494DLC is post game content, if you're below level like 150 when you enter it and then ignore the scary fragments, you're gonna get, expectedly, horribly f*cked
@@casetheace8494git gud
Other game studios: "We can make a masterpiece in nine years."
Miyazaki: "I can make one in three."
Well Elden Ring was in production for a much longer time than 3 or am I wrong?
Amd have enough in the tanl for one more game after thqt
hardly a masterpiece. one of the most overrated games of all time. shit aint even hard like it was advertised.
@@BenganGamer 4 years in development
@@BenganGamer
And the dlc is bigger than present games.
1:45 when you said "the man himself", I thought you were about to say "Quantum TV" 🤣
LOL
Same haha
The ghost of Quantum is totally haunting this video. Absolutely the first thing I thought of when he said that hahaa
Fun fact: someone tried to start the whole elden ring quantum tv again for some dumb reason
Same.
Scadu of the Erdtree vindicted Mohg's innocence and exposed Dr. Disrespect's PDF fileness
to take something, something must be given, it is the law af alchemy
The way I found your channel was through the very first Elden Ring Hot Takes/Quantum shit, so it's awesome to see this sequel! Love your vids man
Thanks for watching! 😁
@@TheActManYou think he’s bad? Synthetic Man is way worst and way more unhinged
@@rickyrackey7930your absolutely right but they have yet to cross paths. One day it’ll happen though I bet
@@rickyrackey7930 no hes not synth is the goat 🐐
The Miyazaki quote proves to me he’s a real artist. Anyone who pursues art knows that even your greatest works are never good enough. Artists are perpetually insecure and dissatisfied with their creations. That’s how to git gud as an artist.
He says in that same interview that the perfect game would not be made by himself, because if it is made by him he already knows everything before playing.
TRUUEEEE
@@TheActManYeah true but... why would he cripple the performance with locked a 60FPS / FOV and lack of current tech like DLSS, FSR, Frame Generation and motion fluidity with unlocked FPS Gsync. Which all further enhance the Graphics Art Direction immersion and experience.
The base game when those mods worked made the game so much more enjoyable:)
Cheers.
@@TRONiX404 That's not Miyazaki, you bozo. The dude is a writer and director, not a programmer or graphics designer. Also, if you need stupidly "hyper realistic" graphics to enjoy a game, that says more about yourself, not the game. Open your mind up a bit and don't be such a stuck up graphicslave.
@@TRONiX404 I swear you pc guys can't play a game unless it's 12'000 fps and melting your fucking eyeballs
The guys complaining its too hard, refusing to use a non strength/greatsword build:
"CURSE YOU MIYAZAKI!
I HEREBY WOW YOU WILL RUE THIS DAY!
BEHOLD A TRUE KEYBOARD WARRIOR, I!
YOUR FEAR MADE FLESH!"
"SOLID FANBASE YOU MAY HAVE, FOUL GAME DIRECTOR!
BUT I WILL RIDDLE WITH COMPLAINTS, YOUR ROTTEN GAME!
WITH A HAIL OF INCOMPOTENCE!
WITH EVERY LAST DROP OF MY BEING"
😂 ( why is this funny to me?)
Igon is indeed the best NPC in Elden Ring
You seriously saying people shouldn't use the build they want to play? Kind of on the game to make all builds/classes balanced in an RPG.
Ironically, a strength build with the Greatsword is probably the easiest way to get through the DLC.
"Swamps made flesh " might work
"These game have never had a pause button and likely never will"
*laughs in Sekiro*
Quite literally the hardest one, yet it’s got a pause feature.
@@pipi-fc5lbI honestly found easy and yes I have the charm to Kuro and rung the bell and yet the boss that took me the most tries was the ape is shin and all the inners bosees took me like 10 tries or less
@@Bob-m4s I find Sekiro to be easier as well, but that’s because I’m just really good at it, it’s still the hardest one by far.
@@pipi-fc5lb I find it second hardest but yeah it’s definitely close
@@Bob-m4s I’m guessing you have Bloodborne as the hardest?
"We bitch, we moan, we brake our controllers, we give up, we call it quits and then we boot up the game the next day" lol, I so can relate, I had given up at Messmer, and nearly shelved the DLC forever, then started to hunt for scadu the day after and finished it in less than a week.
This video is so fun and already having DLC/Elden Ring nostalgia!
Nostalgia might seem like a weird term, but I actually know exactly what you mean. That first walk into (spoilers) the Hinterlands with the Tree Sentinels was like a bolt of awe for me.
Messmer was easy for me, it's Gaius that's fkn me up, swear that charge is broken.
What are you a child, who breaks their personal belongings because they need to get better at a video game?
I got to Radhan and as soon as I hit him and saw how beefy his health bar was I knew that the fight was going to take me a couple tries and I’m just not ready for it lmao
My issue with Scadutree fragments is that there is only just enough to reach 20
Like the seeds, there should have been extra
Collectathon’s ain’t fun
SOLID OF SCALE YOU MAY BE, DLC, BUT I WILL RIDDLE WITH HOLES YOUR ROTTEN DIFFICULTY!
WITH A HAIL OF SCADUS!
WITH EVERY LAST DROP OF MY CRIMSON TEARS
CURSE! YOU! FROMSLOP!
CURSE YOU FROMSOFTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!
@@tblood1312FromSlop*
I don't usually summon ...but for you Igon...just this once
The full quote about Miyazaki sucking at games is the definitive answer on the "intended" way to play the game.
To the people that say things like using summons takes away from the game devs intentions on how to fight bosses or some shit.
“But in preparation for Shadow of the Erdtree, I played through the main story of Elden Ring. I want to preface this by saying I absolutely suck at video games, so my approach or play style was to use everything I have at my disposal, all the assistance, every scrap of aid that the game offers, and also all the knowledge that I have as the architect of the game … the freedom and open-world nature of Elden Ring perhaps lowered the barrier to entry, and I might be the one who’s benefiting the most from that, as a player, more than anyone else.”
That doesnt really say the intended way to play. It just says that Miyazaki likes to play that way. The devs expect some people to play with summons. They also expect some people to play without summons though. Thats why they are optional. There isnt any one true way to play the game.
It actually does. He's essentially saying, play what works for you. There isn't a wrong way to play. Using all your options available is admission to there being no deniable way to play. Play what way works for you. @@burntivoryking
@@reagenlionelnaw i got peer pressured by the bros to do no summons and no magic
@@spongebobgod2128no summons is a weird topic because they do make the game significantly easier, but no magic???? It’s literally a build you invested points into and it’s arguably worse than strength builds, don’t listen to them
@@spongebobgod2128What makes magic OP in this game is summons imo. Magic with no summons doesn't trivialise the game and a pure spellcaster with no summons is arguably harder to play than a basic strength build.
I appreciate Miyazaki's quest for knowledge and improvement
*Releases great game* "It's not the greatest, i need to do better"
What an absolute lad
ELDEN MAN YOU LOOK SO YOUNG
Thank you 😂
fresh out the womb
@@Dozzy76 Same here
@@TheActManhow much was the armour?
It’s the adrenochrome
Miyazaki saying “Elden Ring isn’t my ideal fantasy RPG” is honestly the greatest thing I’ve ever heard
Bro already planning our downfall and thats why we love him 😅
I mean its not. It's lacking the immersive aspect. It's a 10/10 as an arpg but as an rpg it doesn't quite get there and Miyazaki knows it.
@@im2arrogant118its like the most immersive game out there what do you mean man?
@@youtubeterminatedmyaccount8882 that it can be even better.
too be fair, he'll never be able to make one thats ideal for himself. he said he wants one to go into blind but he makes them so its hard to be blind at something you make. so to do that it would have to be like alot of RNG
I feel like a pause button shouldn't be a problem if the person plays offline. Especially since the game kicks you out of your session after a period of inactivity because of the online system.
Definitely, if sekiro could do it i domt see why other fromsoftware titles cant.
Because it's an artwork, not an Ubisoft game.
That is a very reasonable take. If you play offline and only play it as a single player game then a pause function is good.
@@knightartorias4487 🤓☝
Theres actually a small known pause if you just go to inventory hit the help button and click menu explanation it actually pauses
I literally got goosebumps when I heard him saying " it's getting close" are you outta your mind, you bloody genius.
The last guy is most definitely a god tier troll. The greasy hair, bad posture, dubbing himself as a hardcore gamer.
He’s either a god tier troll or the reasons for many of his family members’ headaches
He's not a troll, he legit believes everything he says...he even sided with QuantumTV during that controversy
Oh how I wish he was trolling😂
@@evilrollo oh no...
Harman is a giant Nintendo fanboy and has been comparing Elden Ring to Zelda since ER came out and coping about it. If there are games from Nintendo that are even slightly comparable they win by default and the other game is dead, sucks and has never been relevant. He also always advertises his books at the beginning of every video, does basically 0 editing and regularly pulls numbers, percentages and "facts" out of his ass.
I know who he is, I just think he made an entire internet career on rage baiting.
Final guy is the love child of Phil Spencer and Chael Sonnen
Thank you! The first thing I thought was Chanel sonnen 😂
Oh my god you’re right
@@MrAwEsOmE145770 I could close my eyes and imagine Chael crossing his legs before rambling about Erdtree for 12 mins and say nothing
Chanel Sonnen! That’s who I’m seeing
Dude is hilarious 😂
Miyazaki really just hit us with a "This isn't even my final form"
As any game dev should be. Especially if it still has tons of bad design in it. It's only healthy.
Man, the whole discourse around the DLC made me feel crazy. Like I'm the one that's insane, because it feels like I'm surrouded by crazy arguments.
Like the people who complain about having a hard time dodging, but refusing to block.
Or people bying an expansion to Elden Ring and then being upset that it's just like Elden Ring.
Or the whole tirades about "input reading".
Or you know, someone going into the area that's basically post-game content but having the most barebones character and then complaining how hard it is for it to beat it. That one's completely on you fam, you chose to make a character like that.
**Miyazaki looking at elden ring** "We can go even further beyond"
All I wanted was that the seamless coop mod was implemented in the game already and being able to coop without limitations
Let him cook.
Will never happen. The invasion community would absolutely lose their minds if seamless co-op was added to the game proper.
Good, let them cope @@qu1253
@@qu1253also add seamless co op pvp, 2v2 invasions
@@qu1253 I mean didn't seamless co-op receive an invasion update recently?
As the Helldivers homepage says: “a game for everyone is a game for no one.”
Suck it QuantumTV!
But Elden Ring is a game for everyone disguised as a game for niche audience. They just hid the training wheels a bit too much with the expansion from what I see, haven't got to it yet.
@albert2006xp there no training wheels. The cave of knowledge???!? It gave you the tools and its up to YOU to decipher your strategy
@@Iamkeev There are training wheels. You can increase in power, you can use spirit ashes. It's not a fixed difficulty. The game CAN be hard at times but it requires you purposefully not using the mechanics that are put in the game to make sure everyone can beat it.
@@albert2006xp not its not. It has a severe lack of base building
Parrying pontiff sulyvan for the first time made me feel invincible, he then proceeded to kick the crap outta me
hahaha. nice. I had to cheese him with the help of gold summons after 10 tries. he is too swift
My Sulyvan experience was that I, no joke, killed him on my first ever try and have since struggled with him on every subsequent play through I’ve ever done. I still have no idea how I killed him so easily that first time though.
@@jwebcoding7289there are always those super rare godlike first attempts so having one of those end in first trying a boss isn’t too surprising (I had a very similar case with Godfrey where I almost first tried him)
Same with me I destroyed Shadow of Yarnham on first playthrough then struggled on subsequent ones
I beat Slave Knight Gael on my first try, and I will not ever fight him again cause I'm sure that one single super victory will seem tiny once I stack high the failures lol
The troll guy was so good 😂😂 I wasn’t even mad I was legit laughing and at the edge of my seat of what else he was gonna say
I was admittedly one of those people saying it was too hard. Then I realized they were trying to encourage you to explore. Once I found enough Scadutree fragments, I changed my mind. Still hard but amazing!
the boss fights aren't as fun as ds3, sekiro or bloodborne and that is mostly due to how they try to force in more difficulty despite elden ring having for more tools than the other games.
Yes I noticed with alot of streamers too, they were complaining and I was like maybe dont die 300 Times and explore the world and come back later. I think you can kill every boss and enter nearly every area before fighting Messmer and entering the last area.
I'm about the same. I'm still on that hill that the final boss of the dlc has been tuned up a bit far, but everything else I enjoyed a lot ^^
@@caliberkat I agree, 98% of the DLC was great for me. I really didn't like consort radahn, because of his splash dmg. He feels fine most of the time, just a little overturned with a little to much aoe
@@marvinmoeller3170I did exactly this. Explored everything but Rauh before Messmer, 80 hour playthrough. It was amazing.
Oh no. Here we go again…
Glaze
@@Nblackburnn
Quantum, is that you?
this is where the fun begins
"Ah shit, here we go again"
Phase 2 LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO🔥🔥🔥
All I heard from Harmon Smith was "I've never played a Souls game, but I do play Monkey Ball & I suck at it."
@@hylianglitchmobber7570 he also enjoys writing gRape fanfiction about characters he doesn't like (Batman, Kratos, Disney Princesses) and underage characters (Disney Princesses)
@@evilrollo Jesus that's gross. I shouldn't be surprised though. That dude needs professional help
@@hylianglitchmobber7570 it's a big reason why Cow Wrangler and the rest of the LoLCow community hates him...of course it also didn't help Harman's case that he posted a link to his AO3 account on UA-cam...he's downright proud of it.
Ngl he was kinda right about a lot of Elden Ring fans though. They come into the series and just talk about how Elden Ring is the greatest game ever and nothing about it can be criticised.
I personally think FS dropped the ball on SotE because it had so much potential but extracted so little of it.
@@102ndsmirnov7 those are definitely the fanboys but they aren’t the majority. The rest of us do welcome criticism and we have our own. The thing is, he does the same thing when it comes to his beloved Nintendo games and he’s even worse. So he’s a massive hypocrite or lacking self awareness.
I’ve seen him go after other content creators and getting pretty emotional for some pretty tame criticisms.
As for the DLC, I have my issues with it but overall I’m happy with it.
The big thing about pausing for me is... It does exist you pause when you read menu tool tips. So if the game has to break immersion to explain how an item works, then there isn't too much of a jump...
I get it, a boss fight should be an investment of time and that is totally understandable, maybe have a mechanic where pausing isn't available in boss fights but is in open world
Personally I played if Steam Deck so could sleep the console whenever I needed to step away, I didn't feel it broke my immersion...
I don't have kids, but life does happen sometimes and that option is sometimes needed, it doesn't take away from the difficulty or challenge, it's literally a quality of life feature
I know what you mean, but they don't want to add one obviously - so I can respect that since it isn't a big deal and I respect and enjoy their design decisions. It's their game design decisions not ours.
If not during boss fight, it's really not a huge problem to just die in the open world if you need to drop it and are in a dangerous situation in game. It's easy to get back to your runes 9/10 times if you have a bunch. This isn't DS1 or DS2 where if you would die you could lose significant progress. There are graces all over the place and if you lose runes, you are just going to be able to get them back very quickly.
I just don't think it is a big deal if enemies respawn in this game either. I love fighting them and if there are ones that are giant pains, just run by.
As someone with kids... I would like to have pause button. I really understand that lady.
But on the other hand, it is not AS much a problem as with Monster hunter. In ER, you die and you loose like.. 5 minutes? Okay, you nearly killed that boss, but hey, you did that 39 times before, one more is not gonna change things. In Monster hunter, where you track and fight some dragon flying all around and you will lose an hour... I stoped playing MH when my kid was born, but I am able to enjoy ER.
@@jajsem1109hey not sure if this will be helpful but Illusory Wall has a video showing that elden ring can be paused by open your status screen and hitting the explanation button. So if you need a pause the option is available to you at will
@@awes0me_rex Found it recently and it is great help. Thank you for sharing it :)
@@jajsem1109 which monster hunter? cuz monster hunter rise has a pause button
Miyazaki: "I'll make souls veterans feel like they are playing for the first time"
People got exactly what they were promised and they aren't happy with it. You can't make this up.
Aside from poor balance of gaius and migraine flashing redahn the dlc wasn’t THAT difficult.
Don’t complain if you don’t use skibidi fragments, summons, or co-op.
No I literally cannot believe the amount of criticism from these gamers. Practice gratitude. They didn’t have to give us more, I’m just happy the dlc exists.
because it didn't feel like the first time playing souls lol
@@RenegadeVash gaius is weak to holy, you will melt him in no time bro, and hes perfect for deflect tear too
@@RenegadeVash bro I HATED Gauis too until I learned you can JUMP over his boars attacks to end up on his other side and not only punish but be better positioned to dodge his next attack. It's 🤌 when you pull it off
An actual take: it isn’t optimized. My computer ran the first game at 60 in most areas, and only dropped in a few parts but was never unplayable. Some areas in shadow of the erdtree aren’t properly optimized even though I meet the spec requirements. I’ve checked all hardware, updated drivers, even reinstalled windows for the first time which was scary as hell and still didn’t fix the issue.
Same here. For me one of the worst case of performance issue are around the area of castle Ensis and almost the majority of Ancient Ruins of Rauh.
@@kevinferdian746 idk what its called but the forest area I was rocking a stuttering 30 fps, and rennala’s arena I was at around 40 with stutters. I just got to Messmers arena and thank god I can play at 60 fps there.
Yeah I just upgraded my pc and it runs fine for me but, my buddy I coop with his has stutters all the time and his pc is a bit older. They definitely need to look into optimization for it.
Divine Beast Dancing Framerate 😔
Tell me ER was your first fromsoft game without telling me. The games have never ran well on PC Playstation has always been their main focus.
Messmer tossing his pocket fire into my eyes to temporarily flash bang me is just laughs.
Snek boi
Shi-shi-sha!
Pocket fire😭😭 honestly the best way to describe that
MONGREL INTRUDER
SNAKE TACTICS
I love how the final boss of the dlc is just miyazaki saying "ok you fought him at his lowest, now fight him at his prime."
the funniest part is, everyone in the comments on Radahn-centric videos was saying they WANTED to fight prime Radahn before the DLC
I released 37.4 gallons of a white fluid upon seeing the drip
I am honored
🤨
Ayo??
I was about to make a comment about your mother but I put a lot of points in the blue bar of the morality system so I won't
You mean you dropped your milk because you were so shocked at how good it was right? RIGHT?
Miyazaki about to learn necromancy, just so he can bring back JRR Tolkien to do a collab 💀
I NEED a middle earth soulslike where we play as Turin Turambar, and the last boss is Morgoth
@@jamesbassett2388that’d be sick, I’d def pay to see Miyazaki’s take on Dagor Dagorath.
My only criticism for the dlc is how easy it is to miss a part of a side quest, especially for Miquella followers
Idk the whole game is kinda like that, I actually had to look up guides for pretty much every quest because my first play through I missed almost everything
Probably because the map is so bad that you end up in places you weren't meant to be in yet and beating the boss erases all npc quests from existence.
Feels like the whole game is like that, but it isn't a complete detriment
Welcome to fromsoft sidequests
That being a trend enforces you to explore. It's almost like they give you buffs and more ways to play the game for doing so?
Also realizing that I'm fucked out of a certain quest automatically guarantees a second or third playthrough.
Works for me.
I also find it odd that no one thinks about the age-old advice from DS1;
Dont do the dlc on NG+ or higher unless you're prepared for the butt touching. Your optimization works for the base game, but DLC is a new monster with you in mind SPECIFICALLY.
Yeha my first try on the DLC was NG+7 lol it was crazy but I loved it
I hope Quantum is guest starring in this! :)
You know, I could've put him in but decided not to. Maybe I should have but didn't feel the need to bring up all that again lol
@@TheActMan my favorite Alpha Male UA-camr.
@@TheActMan t-1 week till Quantum respawns with a "Shadow of the Erdtree is a shit DLC to a shit game" type of video
@@TheActMan I NEED IT!!!!
Quantum learned his lesson from last time...some asshole tried to bait him into doing a review and Quantum just banned him.
if were being completely honest, ive 100%ed ER, Sekiro, ds1+3, and bloodborne. ive never beaten an entire monkey ball game.
Yea I was about to come and say, Monkey Ball can be fucking brutal.... It has that old arcade mentality where it feels like it wants to kick you in the balls and steal all your lunch money.
@@bio0linkI’ve never played but I’ve seen how brutal it can be
you tilt the wrong way and it’s over
He put Messmer’s spearhead on the pole. Rejoice!
LOL I had it I'm his hand for some reason like a dingus
@@TheActMan np man. It was funny!😅
Miyazaki is a true gamer. Striving for perfection. He knows every game he makes gives him clues/insight to his end goal. Falling down 7 times to get up 8 times is something gamers and everyone who has struggled in life will understand that sense of elation when you can say "YES I did it!"
The debate on difficulty is the one curse we hollows can never be free from.💀🐱
And it could easily be solved by stopping this lie that the game only has one difficulty. Not that there's anything wrong with that but beating something overleveled and with spirit ashes is not the same difficulty as beating it underleveled and with straight up tactics. Just do three difficulty settings and stop trying to manipulate people into thinking they beat a hard game so they tie their egos to it. Hard mode, level scaling, no summons, no multiplayer. Easy mode, more help, more health. All valid.
@AryReviewFilm Sure. Make monsters level scale with you, remove spirit ashes and all cheese and let's see what you think after that. The game already doesn't have one difficulty.
Jajaja ice reference
@@albert2006xpoh yeah no one has ever beaten these games without summoning, cheesing, or level farming. Bro said “remove those things Let’s see what they think after that” like that’s not just a regular playthrough lmao.
@@lopeshick9607 That's not what I said but sure. It's just that I know for a fact 90% of people that beat Elden Ring would suddenly not be able to beat it/next one and it would cause a massive backlash. Bro.
Personally I'm all for it, I would love a level scaling no summon harder setting to just tick on. But if you still want to sell millions of copies, maybe just give people settings to customize their experience and stop being silly.
10:05
I will make one point here, you COULD pause Sekiro, if you weren't in the middle of an animation you could open up the menu to take a shart
you can pause elden ring if you are not connected to another player and you open up the tutorial popup
@@seanxyzs I mean yeah but compare to sekiro that's so many button pushes it's barely a pause
Demon Souls also had it with the camera function
@@historicflame972 des remake wasnt made by fromsoft that's why it even had a photo mode
@@dziosdzynes7663 Ok cool Miyazaki take notes
@@historicflame972 While og Demon's Souls didn't have that, at least it had a lot of breathing space between enemy encounters
Elden Ring? You don’t know the difficulty of Super Monkey Ball 💀
Ever heard of Iridion 3d for the Gameboy Advance? No? Pathetic casual...
@@BaldorfBreakdowns pfft. Didn’t even reference Battletoads? What are you, a kid?
They guy, harman, is completely serious, he's a real fucking doozy.
That guy is Harman Smith, an avid Nintendo fans. I can't even confrim if this guy play elden ring. He will suck Nintendo games so hard, even the flop one
@@chadnarukami1942
Don't forget, he thinks emulation is illegal and thinks that voice actors have as much worth as prostitutes.
“You sound like abuse victims” is out “you sound like Adam Sandler movie enjoyers” is in
lmao
1:45 I actually respect what this man is saying a lot. The video game industry is missing ambition on the AAA game side. It's not entirely devoid of ambition but lacking in most upper end studios. This is a man who truly cares about his craft and is actively looking for ways to innovate on his formula in ways that simply improve and add to an already great experience and even sometimes take it to the next level.
I stuck a fork into a live socket when I was a kid... I can now count to blue.
Nice. My best one is fish
I can only count to green and I'm 44... 😔
@@angelofrngesus8618 little math quiz: how old were you red years ago?
@@revengance4149cotton candy ice cream
People don’t know this but Elden ring does in fact have a pause feature. You go into your inventory screen and press “help” it’ll pause the game to show micro tutorials.
Also sekiro literally has a pause button, and no one cares. People who don't want a pause button in souls games have to be trolling.
Yeah but they need to make it convenient and obvious lmao, why hide behind a bunch of menus? It’s so unintuitive…
I’m almost convinced that people are throwing a fit over the pause button because a woman brought up the point and because she dared mention “accessibility”. Like a pause button would literally do nothing.
And the "immersion" argument is terrible. Does the immersion suffer in every other game cause there is a pause feature? No, of course not, so it wouldn't in Fromsofts' games.
I don’t like pausing because I spent all those years back in the day practicing hotswaps and don’t want them to go to waste
I love the "Noble Knight Outfit" you got on for this vid.
My hot take is that I’m pretty bummed out we didn’t get more lore-wise for Godwyn and Melina. Also kinda wack that it doesn’t have achievements or any effect on the main endings.
The achievement is finishing the dlc
That's not a hot take, that's a based take.
We did get a sliver to speculate about Melina. She's Messmer's younger sister and was likely born before Godwyn and the rest.
I was hoping for more Melina stuff, too, especially concerning the Black Flame.
Seriously, I think it would have been cool if she actually had dialogue if you decided to go through the DLC before igniting the Erdtree.
Yea and more Volcano Manor plot would have been nice.
my personal favorite: "Miquella Makes You Gay, therefore the game is woke."
But you can kill miquella so that’s based.
Wait what 😐
But you can literally choose a female character as your main character but in that case, ranni would make you lesbian then.
@@denisn8336 but he can kill you bajillion time. Is one time enough? Btw you can just choose a female character but then ranni would make you lesbian I guess, lol.
As if the Tarnished is canonically male.
"...and here from the man himself."
"Quantum T-"
"Miyazaki"
The thing about a pause button is that the game widely accepted to be the hardest FS game, Sekiro, has a pause button. And, in my opinion, it doesnt make the game and the flow feel hindered in any way. Its really funny to me that sekiro has some design choices that would otherwise be seen as too easy and unacceptable in a dark souls game, like only losing half your xp on death, retaining level up points on death, resurrecting on death (which you can earn back), partial animation cancelling, etc. Sure theres a lot of nuance to the point than im making out, but its interesting to see the discussion around and what is omitted so people can make their points valid.
True but I wouldn’t call Sekiro a souls game, which is what he’s saying.
It’s a design choice for the souls games to not have it.
But I’m sure it’ll make people angry I said that but whatever.
@@shadowxhero4953you right
@@shadowxhero4953I just think it’s a bad design choice.
At this point you just accept it and expect it and see it as part of the souls DNA. It’s like Stockholm syndrome though. I’d even accept if we could only pause outside of boss fights.
@@EggEnjoyer Dude I like it what do you mean lol
I know I said people would be angry about my opinion but I didn’t expect someone like you to be that die hard about it lol
@@shadowxhero4953 I’m not mad or die hard. I was just giving my take
10:15 “Let him fry” -Charles Darwin
Imagine if QuantumTV got to play this dlc 😂
He didn't even play the base game
His ass aint beating Mogh or Radahn
@@monsus-battlebus1413 he not even beating margit
@@anthony-sf4tphe not even beating Soldier of Godrick
He's not even watching the first cutscene
Okay, we need a compromise for the pausing thing though. They have a great point that some people don't have time to sit down and play for however long they need to to get to a site of grace, and they might have other things they need to do that are obviously more important than a video game. Important enough to interrupt gameplay, at least, and in any case, it's not our place to decide if they're reason for needing to pause is valid enough or not.
But, i agree with your point about being able to pause in a fight, and especially boss fights. So what i propose is a system where you're not allowed to pause if you're in any form of combat, or if you have any aggro at all on your tarnished, but if you don't have aggro or you're not in a fight, then you should be allowed to pause whenever you want. For traps/trapped areas or similar, there could just be an area where pausing is disabled until you get to an area not made to disable pausing.
This compromise does not cover saving, this is only a solution for pausing. There are other ideas for that but it is not relevant to the pausing discussion.
The thing is, you can stop playing whenever and pick up where you left off as long as you're not mid fight. pause doesn't change this whatsoever. You don't need to find a site of grace before you stop playing
@@BarryBBensonBBangin You could argue some people could find it too tedious to have to exit and open, specially if you're playing from PC, and you mostly pause when you must be gone by like 5 minutes, it could kind of suck to have to close the game, then go whatever trivial thing that takes 2 minutes of your life, come back, reopen the game, watch steam load it, then see the loading screen so you can play again
@@tommynson440 idk, I'm new to souls games and have been playing elden ring for about a month and i feel like it's pretty easy to find a spot where you are going to be safe for a few minutes, even if it isn't a site of grace. Almost every area is safe after you kill what's in it unless you're in an area that has a patrolling enemy. And also saving and going to menu and loading back up takes like 30 seconds, it's not that big of a deal
That one Brazilian comparison with rdr2 was followed by a huge thread of Brazilians mocking that first guy's focus in redundant shit. It was marvelous to see
RDR2 and Elden Ring aren't even comparable in the slightest. The only thing they have in common is the open-world
That's like comparing Battlefield to Fortnite because they're both shooters
lol talk about the taboo of comparing diff genres cus it leads to a divisive discussion.
I should start a tv settings review channel
Sounds lucrative!
Maybe you should wear a Deadpool mask to protect your anonymity
Don't forget to get married
And make sure you tell everyone that you're a Christian straight man too.
It's gonna be year 2460, and Mr. Miyazaki is gonna be cooking up Elden-Souls-Borne 6 as a freaking Futurama head in a jar
To the argument of the pause button: Imo If what is happening outside the game is so much more important than the game you NEED to give it your attention, does a lost boss try in a video game really matter? It's not like losing the fight has any real consequences for you, you get reset 500m back with full health, full heals. Not to go on too deep into the sauce but it's still just a video game you know?
yeah, but in older souls games, you had upwards of 20 minute plus runbacks (looking at you ds2)
Thank you lol what I’ve learned from people if it’s not one thing it’s another. Another thing is people are like crabs in a bucket. Pulling each other down especially the ones at the top. They will try to
"Why do you need an immersion-breaking action when you can let the game do an even MORE immersion-breaking thing to you?"
Pausing is one of the least immersion-breaking ways to disconnect from a game; you come back exactly as you left it. It's implemented specifically to avoid situations like you're describing where players end up punished for the crime of having a life.
@@lukebytes5366*sigh..* I actually think your argument is valid enough, heck, Sekiro has a pause feature, and it's not a problem at all.
But also.. is this truly a discussion worth having? I feel like people just trying so hard reaching the bottom of the barrel to look for anything to bash the game.
I agree with what OP said, if it's truly an important matters, then just leave it, yes you'll get punished a bit "for having a life", but so what man.. It's Elden Ring, not Dark Souls 1 or 2, where the "punishment" is that severe anyway.
@@plipplop728 i think the issue is that there is no logical reason to not have a pause button. Its makes the person seem dumb at worst and very elitist at best. The pushback you see in regards to the discussion of a pause button is mainly because the elitists somehow think a pause ruins anything in the game for them, like they are forced to pause or something. Its the same thing as saying a tutorial shouldnt be in the game because it ruins the "integrity" of the game.
I think you could argue it is one of the easier fromsoft games but it can also be one of the hardest. Depends on how you play/what you choose to use. Want to have fun and not spend hours on a boss, use a cheesy strat/build. Want a more challenging experience, dont use summons or OP weapons. I love that they designed the gameplay in a way that lets you choose how hard it is.
That troll is just a heaping serving of "Wrong Salad."
Absolutely maidenless.
His mom and her sweet basement doesn't count.
Sorry to disappoint but he’s not trolling. He’s being 100% serious and been like this for years, dude is a insane Nintendo fanboy
@@tresjackson3027channel name?
@@tresjackson3027 I may have referred to him as a troll, but I thought he was being serious the whole time.
Nintendo fanboy or not, I don't see where he's getting his reasoning from.
I wasn't trolling when I indicated that he's probably never kissed a girl.
Full size waifu body pillows don't count.
The guy saying Elden ring is easy and casual is actually right about this, and it's a good thing, that's what makes it so popular and is the reason why it doesn't need a difficulty modifier. For instance, Jedi Survivor is light years harder than Elden rings on max difficulty, but it's not fun for this reason, fighting a fuc*ing frog for 10 hours or a random trooper while being shot by 10 guys in the background is insanity, so it's harder yes, but doesn't make it more fun.
In my opinion the only hard boss in ds3 is the dancer I'm stuck lol
I have beat every boss so far with just strength
f*ck me, the double Oggdo Bogdo fight xD
@@justanothershirerat7584and double rancor 😭
Im pretty sure Oggdo was bugged and I played that game on max it was definitely not harder lol
''Sir, you've worked for years almost decades, dont you want to relax?'
Miyazaki:does line of coke. ''I got at least one more in me, so shut up. The people need me"
The most immersive games I've ever played had pause buttons. Never really understood that angle tbh
I think the idea behind it is that the world is constantly moving around you. Going into a menu or navigating your inventory doesn’t magically stop everything. The player exists within the world, not the other way around. I still think that a pause function could be implemented well, though there are many more safe zones in Elden Ring and the price for dying is becoming less and less severe.
Love the content bro and I agree with your take fully. Honestly I just see it as a beneficial accessibility feature. Those who want it would use it and those who don't wouldn't. I don't necessarily feel like it would make the game any better or any worse but it would help people in situations that call for the need to pause while you're mid dodge-roll or someshit. Immersion is its own thing and if you're truly immersed you wouldn't pause it regardless if the option was there or not. Kind of glad I saw someone else with a similar take to mine, and bonus its from a creator who's content I enjoy so much.
Absolutely pause buttons have nothing to do with immersion or even locking yourself into a boss. Its all about the online stuff, even Sekiro had a pause button, which I think proves that. Honestly I think there could be a compromise, maybe making it so fromsoftware games will pause whenever you arent doing online stuff and temporarily stop you from engaging in online stuff, it'd be like quitting the game anyway, just better and more convenient.
At least on PC there is a mod for that, it's dumb having to mod in or defend the lack of a basic feature? Yes, absolutely! But it beat having to listen or read the "muh immersion" reason from soul-players.
@@EngieMak I agree that its dumb to be required to mod in a pause button, but let those souls-player get mad all they want lol. I just want a pause button, and its not like console players can mod the game anyways.
Oh no ... there's going be an heir to Quantum TV's throne isn't there?
A tarnished will rise and become the new Quantum Lord
Synthetic Man😂the guy who says shadow of erdtree is woke because there’s ONE female boss and Miquella is a femboy😭
No king could fit that throne
Kai cenat is better than asmongold at Elden ring is a wild realization
Oh my God you're right
Wdym? It takes a whole ton of skill to spam jump attacks without ever learning dodge windows
Is it really?
Asmon lost his gamer licence when he bought runes and had a temper tantrum on stream about people giving him advice.
He cried it was too hard cause he couldn’t spam jump attacks.
Cried he was feeling stressed because people called him out on his BS about the game.
And if you pointed it out you would get banned.
Kai suffered for his wins and I respect him as a gamer was more than asmond now.
I wish you had linked that final dude's video. I wanna give that man a like. That entire rant, is so gold.
that last guy is exactly how i expect the guy on reddit telling me to git gud cause i use summons, to look like
Straight outta South Park
One thing at 9:45 I wanna point out is unless its changed you CAN actually pause the game. If ur alone in ur own world, go into ur menus, and activate any kind of help/tutorial prompt, itll actually pause whats going on, you can see this at the very start of the game when you go thru the tutorial cave
No, nooo, the prophecy, it says the more we suffer, the stronger Miyazaki becomes.
Gotta love the "Let's.... GOOO!" pause in wait for Renalla lmao 9:32
That last one feels like it was specifically targeted at Act Man
I hope you told Mom you were making another one of these.
LMAOOOO
I see you have found Harman Smith, Act Man. He is unlike any fanboy you will ever meet.
*“Anyone who didn’t like Elden Ring. Had their gamer card officially revoked.”*
-The Acting Male
Quantum: 🤡🤡🤡
That DS3 Intro music hit me where I itch
3:50 you know what, I know a classmate of mine said rdr2 is better then ER. He never played anything outside of roblox. He says rdr2 has better story. He doesnt know the lore of both games. That day, my hope in humanity just got sliced in half
So glad you found Harman. And no, he’s not a troll. Thats genuinely him 😭
You're serioud? He's serious?
Who?
@@moldilocks2904 oh yes. He’s serious. He’s been at this for 4+ years now
@@Boomvoomboom jesus christ. How can he be so sure and so wrong in everything he says.
@@moldilocks2904cause he so delusional on games. The guy thinks that every game should be only playable on nintendo consoles. As well as saying that every game should run on the switch
Miyazaki (shaking hands) Swen Vincke
Dropping back to back absolute bangers and sweeping award shows over AAA juggernauts and having the mindset of "This isn't even my final form."
That grease pit is actually the world's greatest troll. That monologue is shockingly infuriating. Boutta go igon on that man.
I think the pause feature should be an option you can turn on in accessiblity just for people who don't have that kinda time or more urgent responsiblities. But honestly, people forget that dying in videogames doesn't matter. Just putting the controller down is a choice to make
Just exit the game back to the main menu(everything auto saves so there's no need to pause when you can just exit and relaunch when ready to play). Or go into the Help/Menu Explanation and the game will be paused.
Or just don't play video games while your kids may require your attention or assistance.
@@roachdoggjr4648
I don't have kids and even I know what you said was wrong.
A parent could put their kid to bed. Decide to play for an hour or two before they themselves go to bed. 30 minutes into the game the kid wakes up and goes to the parent's room asking for something.
@k9commander yes, which is a different situation entirely, and does happen to every parent. But a kid requiring some tucking in again after they've been out to bed is different from just sitting down to play games during their waking hours when you know they need at least a mild level of monitoring. When they're a little older and more independent, then it's not as much of an issue.
@@roachdoggjr4648
5:37 PM, 15 Years old daughter comes home fuming mad. She slams the door to her room. Does the parent keep playing their game until they reach a save point, or do they go be parents and find out why their child is so mad?
It's cliche, but it's true. Being a parent is a full-time (24/7) job. Parents need to watch over their kids, but also need to find time to live their lives. The real world doesn't pause. It would be nice if the game does.
You think a pause button would ruin immersion? Damn. I can’t believe Miyazaki personally broke into every Sekiro player’s house and held them at gunpoint to make them pause the game.
A pause button is literally a quality of life feature. I can’t think of a single game where a pause button “breaks immersion.” If you need to pause, your immersion is already broken. Quitting out arguably breaks immersion more than a pause button because it resets enemy placements.
You shouldn't be able to pause during boss fights in Sekiro. Open world, mini bosses? Sure. But having the option to immersion break to spam Jizu statues and Divine grass in a boss fight really enables mal behavior in boss fights
@@brianvillatoro6588brother there’s a ton of games with a pause button with boss fights it doesn’t do anything for the fight you still have to have the right timing and knowledge on when to strike it’s crazy how fromsoft fans think even a pause button is a bad thing
The irony that Elden Ring already HAS a fully functioning pause feature that really only doesn't work if you are actively using multiplayer services. Even online, as long as you're solo, it works. also, 99% of the situations people would be pausing in AREN'T mid boss fight. They just want to be able to, say, be a short distance away from a wandering enemy and not have said enemy wander to where they're standing while they're gone. I highly doubt it would open up a "pause 50 times during the boss fight" playstyle.
I say since we already HAVE pause via View Menu Explanation, just tie the pause to the map. When you open the map, you're already 2 button presses away from a true pause, why not just have the map true pause? You can't open the map mid combat anyways, so it's not like it would hinder that, and it would allow pausing in the 99% of situations where it would actually be used that you can already use VME to pause in the first place.
Another thing people forget is that fights are a dance where you get in a rhythm. If you're constantly pausing and unpausing, you are not going to be able to get into said rhythm. I'd actually be impressed if someone could pause spam and still win, especially since those menus usually have delays after the close before inputs are recognized, so you'd honestly still have to learn the fight to be able to pause with the right timing to then unpause and still have time to dodge an attack.
Tying it to the map also would prevent people from using flasks while paused, so helps counteract that argument of being able to do the Skyrim thing of stopping to eat 100lbs of cheese mid combat.
Lmao, Sekiro is an offline game. Playing Elden Ring offline is an after thought, the game is meant to be played online.
@@sHmAaa Elden Ring is offline as well lmao. Even when connected to the online servers, the most you're doing is seeing messages and death/recent phantoms of other people.
Also what on earth does that have to do with the pause conversation? The current Elden Ring pause feature of View Menu Explanation already doesn't function when you are in another person's world or people are summoned in yours.
Also, last time I checked entering the boss door prevented invaders / sent invaders home, which is where the biggest "noooo not a pause button" responses come from.
Offline vs Online means fuck all to this entire conversation. Every single Soulsborne game is, first and foremost, an offline solo experience. Games like Dark Souls and Elden Ring just happen to also have online features that you can interact with. I think pretty much everyone understands pausing online games is just not really possible outside of the boomer / gen x parents and grandparents that don't even have a clue about gaming in general.
Biggest issue I and many others had with Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom was that you could just pause and heal up during any boss fight. Made most fights pretty much light work once you had enough hearts. Having to use flasks to heal makes the fights more immersive imo. Shits gas.
Thunderblight’s still a prick though
@@leoultimaupgraded9914 yeah. Some things never change 😄 even after putting over 1000 hours in botw the dodge timing is still tricky as hell.
Btw a correction to "these games have never had a pause function" is very wrong. Sekiro had a pause since it was strictly offline and ER does technically have a pause but in a dumb way. If you open a submenu like equipment and go to the explanation function the game is completely paused. Demon's Souls remake also has a quasi-pause with Photo Mode.
Yeah sure but it is a basic feature to have a designated pause button. Just because u have to go through menus to get the game to “pause” doesn’t mean it’s intuitive or smart.
@@shawnthomas6492it’s a multiplayer game
I went to the comments just to say this and I'm so glad someone else did
10:40 they gave us a pause button in armored core 6 and it did basically nothing to take away from the boss, if anything it made it better because unpausing made me so nervous, it was like flying into the arena again
You can simply exit back to the menu if you absolutely need to stop/pause the game. Its so simple that it blows my mind people are complaining about a pause feature when you can literally exit to the main menu and relaunch the game when ready.
Armored core isn’t dark souls though lol
@@obredaanps3or let you pause offline…
@@sekiro_the_one-armed_wolf arguably it's even more stressful though
Armored core is a completely different type of game though. You play missions rather than exploring a world and fighting bosses. I dont even know why people complain about this. I have played every fromsoft game (except demon souls) and I havent had one problem with not being able to pause the game
The sequel is here
Harmem Smith is no troll. I've seen too much of him, to the point where I can safely say that he genuinely belives every word coming out of his own mouth
The tear and shackle that turns mohgs fight into a cake walk goes to show each boss is so unique not just down to the movesets or their natural weaknesses. But to the degree that the lore and the world it self is set up for you to use all tools at your disposal. Those big mfs aren’t gonna fight fair you don’t have to either. The amount of different builds I’ve made and beat the game with and the fact that I still see new stuff I want to try shows this series and fromsoft as a whole is such a gamers game company. And we as a community couldnt ask for anything better
i was fighting orphan of kos it had 🤏 this much health like one attack away then my mom called and i stood up put controller down very CALM and went to grab some things from the car You got a prioritize things man
would you like an award?
If Kai Cenat can kill Messmer (without summons), then you don't have an excuse to complain. GET FUCKING GUD!
Messmer isn't the boss people are complaining about, it is in fact the most well received boss out of all of them.
@@melissazadrozny5167 I've seen plenty of people and streamers alike complain about Messmer, saying how he hits back-to-back and doesn't allow you to heal. Which isn't true but I've seen people say that. Same with his move that lifts you in the air and cooks you, I've seen people say that's a bad mechanic too, which again isn't true but I've seen it said. Point is, he's arguably the hardest boss and arguably one of the least experienced streamer killed him, without summons and without a cheese build.
Yeah but my job isn’t content creation, I don’t have the patience or time to fight a boss for 10+ hours so I’ll use my summons if need be
I just wanna take the time to say thank you Act Man for always making high quality, entertaining content for your audience/viewers.
I know this UA-cam/Influencer thing hasn’t always been a blast for you and it’s taken a toll on you, but I can always see the effort put into every video, every meme, every bit, every script, every thumbnail, every cosplay.
You’re not a saint, no one is, and you don’t have to be one- have your ideologies, values, morals, humor, and don’t give a fuck about what people say unless your open to discuss about it- you’re human and humans cannot be perfect beings.
However, please *never* forget or every doubt that you’re a *goddamn good UA-camr* and game enthusiast that respects the fun, creativity and artistry that goes into gaming instead of just the materialistic gain and capitalism.
Be your own person and rejoice in it.
I can *always* watch a video of yours and be confident that it’ll be entertaining, and that’s saying a lot. Whether from this channel or Act Man TV.
I truly hope life is going well for you, brother.
Cheers to another banger video.
My only complaint is the overwhelming number of hackers now present in online play.
yea that super sucks, hard to deal with though
That's always been prevalent in souls titles. They don't really have good anticheat and they aren't trying to make anything overly hardcore or invasive. Back in DS1 save editing was almost guaranteed in the latter half of the game's life due to honor rules. Back then invaders didn't have access to healing and so if the host decided to pop flasks or healing items you'd be up shit creek unless you were just way better. The only work around was to pop humanities and that was a super limited item so the only way to deal with it was to save edit and spawn in stacks as needed.
Oh, that's definitely not unique to souls games. It's a problem in general.
Seethe and cope Quantum, seethe and cope.
Seath the Scaleless
Bro, I laughed so hard at the kid part. "Let 'em". I'm a dad, and I simply don't play Elden Ring or any FromSoft game until my kid goes to bed. Really, I don't play any game until my kid goes to bed. I personally don't see a problem with not having an ability to pause the game, but that's just me.
Do you remember what happened the last time you made a video like this? XD alright, all bs aside, I love your content. Thanks for another banger.