1 Thing Elden Ring did better than every Soulsborne Game 

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I love that feature so much, it's just a shame it doesn't take effect in dungeons

DS2 did this too, no?

@@alastor8091 In DS3 also, but it is random after killing any non-boss enemy

@@JuanAntonioGarciaHeredia i remember it more in 3 than 2 now that you reminded me it was there. Got some back after killing invaders so your session could go on even longer if you engaged to win.

It doesn't matter because I always just use wretch

​@@theofficialnationwidehaterthat's a dumb take when you don't try anything else

@@lilramennoodle8056 idc

On what metric?

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Since the head was reachable without going into the lava, I did the serpent fight without the Serpent Hunter but then lava made it tedious for Rykard so I just used it there hahaha

let’s cheese the boss TOGETHAA

i didn't know about the weapon , i went straight ahead with my katana and killed him from the first time

To be fair you don’t HAVE to use the serpent hunter (it took me a good 3 playthroughs to figure out the serpent hunter so instead I just tanked the lava damage)

Rykard, Radahn and Fire Giant fights were so good and Elden Ring surely has the best gimmick bosses in all their games.

How dynamic some bosses move sets flow. The majority of Elden ring bosses feel so smooth. That consistency is more than any other game so far bar sekiro.

​@@henrypaleveda7760 I agree, Sekiro and Elden Ring have the best bosses in the series by far.

Hi, what is "the boss run backs"? I just played elden ring and sekiro

@@ElGitarico its like when you die fighting a boss and you have to run back to the boss room to fight it again

@@gmafnpls9727 ah ty. In sekiro its a little bit like that isn't itM

​@@ElGitaricoit's kind of like that but not really, because in sekiro you can just sprint through all the monsters, in Dark souls 1 you have much slower movement speed and some areas make it really difficult for your to ignore monsters on the way to boss, making you fight and lose ressources on the way to the boss

I don't know if I would call that an error but it's definitely a good quality's of life that's for sure

Me in ds3 with the chaos broadsword and the same 3 pyromancies.

that's so true. in ds3 I can't help but to use the claymore (partly bc I love it) but in elden ring I can't help but to try new build after new build bc almost all of them are viable

I think Ds2 did it better

@@mattmab25 this is why I don’t buy it when people say ER has less replayability than the other souls games, if anything it’s superior in that aspect than all the other ones (except Sekiro for different reasons) because of the overwhelming amount of viable builds.

@idespiseamajorityofhumancr8504 the main reason I prefer to replay ER is the difference in mobility. like sure I love ds3 but feeling so clunky by comparison feels bad. but I agree there's only so many times I can use 1 of 5 builds

Yeah that's definitely a good call, especially since even if its been nerfed, it still completely outclasses Double Slash. Only thing that maybe makes it stronger is Bloodflame or something, but it still doesn't have the range

@@BertoPleaseNagakiba with double slash is very strong and arguably is preferable to RoB. They nerfed the ranged part of Corpse Piler so you’d want to be landing with the weapon anyway and Nagakiba is longer

​@@grimreefer213plus, Bloodflame Blade on a Keen Nagakiba w/Double Slash is genuinely horrifying.

@@nebulous9280 Nagakiba with double slash and bloodflame blade with successive attack buffs deals insane damage. It’s just as good as pre nerf RoB, perhaps even better

I briefly mention Legacy Dungeons in the previous video, but not as a con, I do give it praise for those still being mostly solid aspect of Elden RIng 👌

I appreciate people like you, willing to say “hey I like Elden Ring”. I know it doesn’t seem big, but I know people who’d crucify anybody who doesn’t think Elden Ring is complete garbage.

@@khaosinkorporated9493 Yeah Elden Ring seems to have caused a bit of a divide between the old Souls vets (I hate that name) & the ones that loved Bloodborne, Sekiro & kept an open-mind, it’s mostly due to how different it is (open-world design & new boss combat design which is an evolution from the previous Souls games), while both aspects have massively improved over the linear exploration with little to no branching paths (BB had some, I’m looking at you DS3), it made some of the old fanbase feel home sick a little, and decided to take the stuff that the game’s did really good as if it’s a bad thing, which is completely ridiculous, it is coming from that Joseph Anderson video for the most part, it inspired & misinformed a lot of people’s opinions in a really concerning way to where you just can’t have a single discussion about the game without someone criticizing it one way or another, it’s really upsetting, but it’s mostly in the comment sections, look at Ember, Prez, SmoughTown & many other RU-vid channels’ polls, you’ll see Elden Ring plowing through these votes winning almost all the time as the best Soulsborne game by far, most of the criticism coming to ER can be applied to other souls games and it’s ridiculous to see many people pointing them out while announcing their fave souls game is either BB or DS3, it’s so hypocritical. Put simply, Elden Ring has made very audacious game design efforts, and From Software has successfully achieved it in ways no other game developer can do, albeit with some mistakes here and there, it destroys the past Souls games in so many ways it’s not even funny, but at the same time, some older souls fans didn’t like some of the decisions it took which is to be expected because it’s a pretty big departure, and a departure that has (IMO) sullied the older Souls games, made them feel outdated.

@@HeyTarnished I also feel like many of the complaints came from all the copy-pasting, which is fair. Also not all of the unique bosses were hits either. I always loved Elden Ring for the sheer creativity, the variety, and all the different and fun ways to play. Also, I can see what you mean by other FromSoft games feeling outdated by comparison, but honestly, I don’t mind. The original Spyro the Dragon games for example may feel outdated in terms of graphics and some of its controls, but they’re still good games. Dark Souls has some stuff that can be considered outdated but I still enjoy the game quite a lot. Elden Ring doesn’t ruin that. It takes a while to get used to each FromSoft title, that’s just part of their philosophy. If you play Elden Ring and then play Dark Souls, you’ll have to adapt to Dark Souls again. If you play Elden Ring after Dark Souls, you’ll have to get use to the Elden Ring controls again. These games just take a while to get used to, the more you play them, the more used to them you get, and often, the more you enjoy them. That’s just kinda the philosophy of these game’s design. I kinda went on a rant there, and what I’m saying may be a little scattershot, but I just thought since you gave such a detailed response I may as well do that too.

@@khaosinkorporated9493 Thank you for your response, and yeah I agree there are negatives with Elden Ring for sure but it's like they're so overblown by some of the people in the Souls community that it gets really annoying to have a civil discussion about the game, and it always happens with the newest From Software game, happened with BB, DS3, Sekiro and now Elden Ring. Thanks again.

I wish I could agree with that and that's how it was, but there's plenty of things they did worse than previous games too

@@BertoPlease It doesn't matter, in the end it's a plus, weather it's a big improvement or a down grade, the series is progressing forward and that's what's important, not the small details.

@@lastexilegaming I agree to an extent. Elden Ring just does a lot of things right, while previous games shine in a handful of things yet fail in others. It's not a perfect game, but the amount of positive elements can outshine the positive of individual titles.

I'm glad you enjoyed it regardless, it's just definitely not an ideal way to do this kind of gimmick, it missed a lot of the nuisance of Storm king, and def think they made it more clear what to do in ER

@BertoPlease for sure, I get your point. It could have been a better design. Great video btw!

you should try the convergence mod, it replaces the gimmicky side of dark souls 3's bosses for something more regular. Yohrm gets an actual fight and so does Wolnir. The cursed great tree is even repalced with a character with part of sekiro's Owl's moveset. It's an especially good mod for its expanded magic gameplay systems

I did the same but I had onion bro, fight was over before I even realized it was a gimmick boss

I DO really enjoy the ember buffing, it gives like the opposite feeling that getting HP halfed in DeS or DS2 does, giving you more confidence, even if they are both balanced accordingly

Solo host invasions is a mechanic that should be on by default in every Souls game

@@Sohelanthropus For real!!! You can get solo invaded with Taunters Tongue, but invaders know you deliberately wanted to get invaded and they switch their mentality and start tryharding like hell. In DS3 invasion occured randomly and both the host and the invader were more laid back

Yesss! DS3 is by far the best game for invasions. Players are occasionally eligible for invasions just by progressing, but it's still completely voluntary. I always loved occasionally being surprised by an invader after beating a boss, and I feel like I encountered them at just the right frequency

@@JuanAntonioGarciaHeredia not just DS3, but DeS, DS1 and 2 too And DS2 perfected it, it made it so the invader couldn't heal with Flasks or any other consumable, which made solo host invasions actually balanced (although squads not so much) Solo host invasions must return, but make it balanced like DS2 so that the invader can't use healing items if he invaded a solo host; if the host then summons or a blue comes in, the invader can now be allowed to heal Very simple concept

true, but iirc DeS storm Ruler does good KB (bad durability tho), and you can still use it for soul farming

Ah yeah thats another good point, didnt think of adding that 👌

Rykard hitbox is horrible though

@sini0071 fair, I hate Rykard so I'll agree Well I don't hate him. But he's meh.

@@ironmaiden93ofangmar Try hitting rykard with any melee weapon other than the serpent hunter, his hitbox is legitimately horrible

​@@sini0071you're not supposed to fight rykard with another weapon bruh

Hitboxes? God no. There are bosses who will get you if they land a leap attack 10-15 feet away with no visible shockwave. Don’t tell me that any of the agheel dragons, fire giant, the death birds, dragonkin soldiers, ulcerated tree spirits, runebears or fallingstar beasts have fluid and fair hitboxes

yeah that already sounds so much more interesting to me, though I can also see that falling apart very easily, would need a tooon of testing

Definitely would need to do wayyy less damage too, yhorm already takes way more damage hitting him in the head with any weapon. So maybe lower his dr% and have Siegward mostly only there to knock him down with longer stagger times?

@BertoPlease Yeah, but everything should have a ton of testing anyways

@BertoPlease Now that I think about it, you could also just kill Siegward for it. That would work, too. His questline would need to change at some parts as well, like him being caged. If you were to free him from his prison, you would receive a reward, but if you miss him he'll just be around the boss fog, and when you go back to the cell, the door would be open with the key on the floor, adding a layer to his character. Siegward was able to escape the whole time, but upon nearing completion of his old friends wishes, he was getting cold feet and pretending he was trapped. Also, when killing Siegward, you instantly receive the storm ruler, but not the armor set. So, I guess the reward would simply be getting his armor set. This would also explain how giving back his armor gave him the strength to escape the well, he could've escaped the whole time, but the armor gave him the motivation to continue. Essentially, Siegward has cold feet all throughout his quest. HELL, if you enter the boss room after killing Siegward, wearing a piece of the set without Siegward present will cause Yhorm to jump into second phase, showing even in his state, Yhorm still has Siegward in his heart somewhere. And if that doesn't make sense, you wearing Siegwards armor could really only mean one thing. Idk, now I'm just shipping Yhorm and Siegward. Let's add a love triangle with Pontiff as well. Pontiff secretly had a crush on Yhorm, and upon killing Yhorm, you receive a jar full of Pontiffs...

I think all the games have their merits, and there's always something to take away from all of them 👌

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I also think people can have nostalgia AND see the flaws in something, but they can live with them, etc, but thats definitely not me, im nostalgic for way older things than the souls series lmao

but u shouldnt let nostalgia cloud ur bias and make u hate the newer games, getting so bad that you falsely critique a certain new game because of blind bias... cough cough!! **ds1 and especially bloodborne fanboys** cough cough!!

I understand, I'm very forgettable 😔 Jk d'aww I appreciate it 😌 Slowly but surely! I think I started with like 1.5k or 2k, and I'm almost at 5k by halfway through the year!

I've always preferred the games that have a coop group as the main invading target for that reason, if I invade someone solo who clearly doesn't know what they're doing, it just felt like bullying to me. Whilst in a 2v1 and 3v1 scenario at least you have to have SOME skill to be able to defeat the group, and hopefully, like it sounds like it did for you, it at least feels more balanced or even. Unfortunately a good vocal chunk of the community doesnt see it this way and just complains about invaders "ruining their jolly coop" with no regard to the fact that coop can really break the game in your favor, yknow, the game thats supposed to be *hard*

@@BertoPlease I love the ER invasions, they definitely feel more balanced for my taste. If someone playing ER wants that DS3 feel, they should just use the Taunter's Tongue. I'd wager that a good number of people complaining about not being able to invade like they used to in DS3 are the same types who loved to set people back like what happened with me, just beating up on people who may or may not know how to even play the game.

Idk if I'd say best because some of the prior games were really good at it too, but yee those are good

​@@BertoPleaseFor me its my favorite, seeing a lot of races with their own cults, enemies doing their business, so many lore interations between bosses... It is a new way to appreciate this game apart of the combat.

@@BertoPleasethe older games were pretty good at that but ER is easily the best, one example among thousands is why you dont see giant trolls in chains in liurnia, trolls were on good terms with the carians and in fact joined forces to fight against the golden order in the shattering war, trolls were never enslaved there, u can see so many trolls in liurnia with magic spells and even magic helmets in that area. theyre one of the reasons the golden order never won against the carians and resorted to marying off radagon to the queen to achieve some peace between them, the older games dont really have this type of density in environmental story telling, the fact that its this big and retains this type of quality in environmental storytelling makes it better than the older games in that regard as far as im concerned.

Completely agree. I think the only thing I would fault Elden Ring for in this sense is its failure to communicate what is different about its combat systems. For instance, I discovered that Elden Ring played differently from DS3 by sheer coincidence. In Margit's fight after a while he starts doing a double slash + cane stab into the ground combo, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to dodge all three attacks. One try by pure chance I dodged two times away from him instead of towards him and completely avoided the attack, which made me think "If I have to dodge away from him then I can't punish him, which means that attack is bullshit", but then I remembered I had the jump button. Next time he did the attack, I dodge twice backwards, and then did a jump + light attack as a punish, and it worked. That really opened my mind about how different Elden Ring's combat systems could be, simply because in Bloodborne/DS3 dodging towards the enemy is the answer 99% of the time. Another key difference between how I played and how every other Souls veteran played was how I avoided slow attacks. While others tried to dodge all slow attacks exactly in time, I simply ran away. Turns out Elden Ring has much better mobility when compared to other Soulsborne titles (I suspect that is the case because of the open world), and I used that so every time a boss held an attack I would simply avoid it entirely instead of potentially being struck while trying to dodge it. As a result, I had way too much fun weaving out of bosses' movesets and coming back to punish with a running attack/jump attack. The problem really isn't how different Elden Ring's combat experience can feel, but rather the fact that the game never made any efforts towards communicating these changes to old players. I saw hundreds of people thinking ER's bosses were bullshit because of the seemingly unavoidable combos and the dragged out attacks, when all it took for me to enjoy those fights was getting my head out of the Soulsborne box. If not for Margit's seemingly unavoidable three hit combo and my own stubborness, maybe I would have been on the same boat as the disgruntled Souls veterans.

@@Erick-tv8oq That's an amazing summary of the issue, yeah. I managed to figure it out partly because I happened to have just finished a Sekiro run, so I was primed for combat that demanded more than rolling, and partly because my first boss was the Ulcerated Tree Spirit in the Hero's Grave you start at, and that boss basically forced me to use all the game's tools to beat it, including running (because of the explosion attack), and that required the most letting go of old habits. Did teach me very quickly that with ER's shorter roll distance, if you roll more than once in a row in order to reposition, you would have been better off running.

agreed completely.

@@Erick-tv8oq i mean... when i was a souls noob i thought the same thing of the older games, then a figured out that i can dodge to the side or into certain attacks, figuring things out is part of the process of mastering the combat system and i dont think they failed to communicate anything because they never did that to begin with, its always been like this since demons souls. im glad to see more souls vets getting over their fragile souls egos cuz they couldnt figure out elden rings far better and deeper combat system and blamed the game for it, im not talking about u 2 though, im talking about alot of souls vets, especially on youtube, that bitched and moaned and blamed ER for their own failures and never attempted to actually master ER combat before judging it.

Ds3 pissed me off, rarely punished spamming rolling. Plus, cancelling the longer, harder attacks is fucking garbage; completely removes the rule of having to commit to actions, again rewarding spamming rolls (also incentivised from having higher stamina, lower poise). It feels more based off of just one's reflexes than planning/positioning or strategy. I like that Elden Ring tried to course-correct this design decision, often successfully too. Unfortunately to me it sonetimes feels genuinely artificial; the input reading is straight-up nonsense sometimes, I've started my movements, then the enemies/boss uses their delayed attacks... they read this prior input, and I'm immediately hit. Plus the timing messes up the fast-paced flow of gamefeel.

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are you saying the rykard fight lasts 20 seconds? I bet you upgrade serpent hunter to +10 before you fight him....try fighting him without upgrading it then you'll get to see his moves

@@ramen3643 No, I was not saying that Rykard lasts 20 seconds. Quite opposite, actually. I've never upgraded SH past +0. I was saying that you can see more cool moves from Yhorm if not using storm ruler. And, as I said, I like the spectacle of Rykard.Skull rain is a sight to see for sure. But in terms of gameplay, I don't like dodging his attacks. Like this lava wave in first phase. But I do like dodging Yhorm's attacks. And they are cool too.

Yhorm moveset is poor, when you hit his head he mostly repeats the same attack, the double hand weapon slam. The arena is pretty uninteresting, ost is good, you only do one attack with the storm ruler. Rykard's fight is better in every single way.

@@lahunica2726 I can agree that Yhorm have poor moveset. But Rykard's fight isn't better in every way. Rykard's arena feels small to me(but looks cooler), because I always getting backed up to the walls or to the pillars. Also, while he has more attacks, some of them are just unfun, like magma wave in first phase and rancor in the second, skull rain while looks cool, can be dodged by only running, and Rykard can still hit you with his other attacks,so you have to run away from him. Overall, you have to run much more in Rykard's fight, which isn't all that fun to me. For the most part, I just skip Rykard. OST are good on both, can't deny that.

​@@dimpizz1525 rykard's arena isn't too small if you keep circling him, the rancor is easy to deal with if you just stay out of it's way and most of his sword swings you can just jump over while running from the skulls.

Is that legitimate criticism about my favorite game? Sounds like a skill issue to me ☝️🤓

@wowdogeful oh, you don't like how fast elden rings combat is? Have you tried dodging attacks? Meanwhile the person saying it either spams RoB or just uses comet azur to insta kill every boss

Yeah, not taking criticism or just not understanding that people just have different opinion is something awful in souls community. Like for example, for me Bloodborne never was my favorite game and I never enjoyed it like most people (I'm not hating it, it's still very good game and I like it a lot), and when I'm saying that BB is on 4th place for me a lot of people are reacting like "what?!? How you dare to not love BB! ". I never understood why people are reacting like that.

Bloodborne and Dark souls fans are the most annoying in this aspect, many of them will try so hard to disguise their hate and biased, nitpicky takes as "valid criticism" towards Elden Ring which is really annoying, and when you try and also direct valid criticism towards their game, they'll lose their shit.

BASED also yeah I think due to the game being open world, they didn't try as hard as normal to have enemies block your path. To some degree I get it in those games, though they do go overboard at times, but yeah this game it woulda made it awful

ooh spicy

I appreciate it 😌

Yeah fun thought experiment is how I'd put it, I never claimed one game is actively better than the others in the last video haha so far its my top video out of the last, including the last one, so if the momentum keeps going, it might do just as good or better! Fingers crossed indeed 🤞

As I said, Storm King is one of my favorite bosses in the series, you don't need to sell it to me I guess that explains the pile of them in 4-2 🧐

@BertoPlease Same, I never thought about that pile interesting

Yeah that's what irks me about people who complain about the pvp in this game in particular, the 2v1 aspect to it still does a lot of carrying in terms of balance towards the host's team, and it's pretty much a balancing mechanic because coop always makes these games easier, especially if you have an overleveled friend. It's just funny to me because they'd probably hate it even more in the previous games where you can be invaded solo haha

i never did understand the flame against the invasion, because me and my homies have been invaded dozens of time when we were just playing the game(one of them was new), and we only got wiped once, al the other invaders were there one second and gone the next.

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It's not griefing, it's justice.

@@mojus2890 Justice? Because you need 2 overpowered teammates to take on one guy? Sounds boring

⁠@@ChuckFinelyForeverif you chose to invade you are kinda of the asshole sense the point of invading is griefing people that just want to play with friends. If you really want to play pvp you have the collesiums where the games are fair 1v1

@@ChuckFinelyForever If ur invading people, don't expect them to give a shit about fair play. Go colliseum if you want pvp.

That's mostly and internet discourse thing. People are so fixated in what they like and dislike without having a middle ground or impartial though of why things are like they are. Regardless of what people think, Elden Ring is highly awarded, highly regarded and considered the culmination of Soulsborne design.

In fairness a lot of hosts and their summons will do that too lol, but given that its usually a 3v1 gank its just ridiculous when THEY get cocky. But yeah nah both sides can be toxic

@@BertoPlease yeah I know what you mean, but then it's usually intended pvp. I'm more pissed off when I get invaded half through an area, low on estus, get killed by the invader and he Acts cocky about it. Even more frustrating when I'm sginaling that I'm clearly not interested in pvp but forgot to go offline/want to play with messages/stumble upon some summon signs cuz traversing an area in coop is fun af

Baaaaased, I do like how backstabs are skill based generally

@@BertoPlease On that note, as well, I think BB had the perfect fix for backstabs, the only problem being that critical hits were way too powerful. Why they didn't stick with this is beyond me... I really like what Inferno Plus did in his "remastest" mod, where he made backstabs executed by kicking, instead of R1. He also gave daggers a shorter window, allowing them to properly utilize their critical bonus.

@@paradigm_sh1ft In some ways you can backstab similarly to Bloodborne in Elden Ring, but only on mobs. At least in the stealth way. You get more poise damage if you're undetected, so a charge attack after sneaking up from behind will usually give you a stance break and opportunity to riposte. That's the most efficient way to do stealth, as you are actually be able to immediately kill some soldier types this way. Just a shame, that players can't stance break.

The one thing I will say that is in detriment to elden ring is the difficulty. I found it to be far and away the easiest souls like game I’ve played thus far(haven’t played ds2 or des yet) and it’s sorta not even close. I’m not sure if it’s because of my builds or what (and no I’m not comet azuring or using RoB), but between spirit ashes and the ability to literally go anywhere at anytime allowing for any number of upgrades before you even face your first boss just made ER that much easier. I understand why the mechanics are there and I don’t dislike them, I suppose I’m just a little more partial to a linear and grounded experience because the difficulty curve is fine tuned and crafted for one sort of experience. Equally, I think these things are also why this one is the most played/purchased souls game, it just didn’t feel quite as rewarding as ds3, ds1, or sekiro for me. Still, it’s in my top 10 games I’ve ever played

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Much more respect for acknowledging the flaws and still loving it than blindly loving it and getting angry when someone else tries to critique it 👌

@@BertoPleasecritique is fine, but theres alot of unfounded misinformation and poorly thoughtout critique regarding elden ring especially, that and theres been a circle jerk on hating ER from alot of souls vets as of late, so ER fans got fed up and react badly to it.

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Ah yeah boss weapons were a bit more tedious than necessary in the first few games. Now that would be kinda okay if they were really strong but most of them tended to be average at best lol

I do wish there was an area or two that were automatically taunter-ed tongue, but besides that I don't mind it personally

@@BertoPlease like many people suggested over the months since the game release; treat the rune arcs as embers, if you use it you can get invaded, if you use taunters tongue you can get an extra invader

Yup I went two playthroughs feeling like something was off only to realize I hadn't been invaded once.

I didn't miss it, it's just a non-factor because only like 5% of invasions or less are taunter tongue-ed

@@BertoPlease apologies

even this games mini bosses can be on par with alot of the fodder main bosses of the earlier games, bosses like morgott, maliketh, godfrey, radagon and fortisax are on par with the dlc bosses of the older games too.

wait wtf???? if its the volcano manor assassinations it shouldve spawned you at the grace, was it a bug? lmao

Same thing happaned to me too once

whenever I was getting footage I tried a ton of different level ranges in BB and corresponding areas and it still took sometimes like 15+ minutes to match up with anyone, and it certainly doesn't help that there's no indicator of where there's activity in your level like in DS3 or something. Genuinely surprised it took you longer in ER, but there's also a ton of factors that affect it (platform, weapon level not matching level range, areas unlocked, etc)

@@BertoPlease central yharnam lamp is usually pretty active. elden ring matchmaking too inconsistent tho

My main issues is the exploration and how linear the map is, I definitely prefer the way they did that in most other games, but it genuinely makes me hesitate replaying it at times. The bosses are great ofc but to me the souls series is more about the sum of its parts, and exploration is a HUGE aspect of that for me

Hard agree on the reasoning. Both are the pinnacle of Soulsborne and each stand out in different categories. I personally feel Elden Ring just improved a lot from previous games, while having its own strength and weaknesses.

tbf ds1 did the connected areas far better than bloodborne by miles, bb is a step back from that.

@@enman009 absolutely agree

@@flamingmanure I don't know maybe it's over all feel of the connections then because I think bloodborne better at making the world all feel connected. By connecting areas via new paths. To be fair DS1 and 2 are my lease played from soft games.

Haha maybe that would've been the better option 😤 but another way to put it i guess is kind of like when you see a crystal lizard or scarab, you know what reward to expect so generally you know its worth, but of course its a bit harder with erdtree avatars. But its worth it for the physic tears imo

@@BertoPlease that makes sense 😄

there are PLENTY of things ER does better than ds1 though.

@@flamingmanure name some

@flamingmanure animations, scope. I think it's mostly technical improvements

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Yeah I love Elden Ring but that's just straight cap

i agree imo elden ring is their magnus opum. almost everything great about the previous games is present in this one.

agreed, not a single area in the older games, including their dlcs, come even close to a single legacy dungeon in level design complexity, and thats because theyre designed with jumping in mind, now add the open world and underground to the mix where theyre designed for your double jumping horse, and i find it laughable to say the older games have better level design.

I kind of agree, though The layouts of things (Enemies, etc) oftentimes lack strategy since they're non-specific to the space (instead theyre reused, hence the messed up agro-ranges/targetting distances also); it feels like the enemies came afterward the level planning; sonetimes like they just threw them in, and their layouts lack strategy/planning. It feels mostly like the opposite in their other videogames. The pairings of types of Enemies/bosses more so than other Fromsoft feel genuinely awful. Since they're not specifically designed around one another's movesets, their movements often contradict each other, making reactions to them unfair. Their proximity makes getting ganged feel un avoidable. Rewards obtained through items/chests oftentines felt kind of useful (Useless material/items, or build specific unlocks that personally were worthless).

Yeah. Compared to previous games, which always had 1 or 2 terrible levels, Elden Ring just has a high level of quality. Even the mediocre ones like Lake of Rot and parts of Mountaintops, are much better designed than Lost Izalith, Farron Keep and Nightmare Frontier/Mentis.

Jfc you almost had me in the first line lmao

@@BertoPlease It means that I ALMOS accomplish my goal. Great video by the way, both of them.

tyty 😌

DS2 kinda laughs at ER "build variety" tbf

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not even close to true but u sekiro fanboys need a little encouragement due to how irrelevant and barely talked about the game is... all jokes aside i love sekiro and it saddens me that its not really that talked about overall.

I LITERALLY dreamed about that build, then i had to put it together, was wild

glad some people understood that haha