Elden Ring Becomes Most Awarded Game Ever, PS Fanboys Protest 

It really rings true and the same attitude happened when Last of Us 1 came out. I never understood the praise it got and how ppl called it "mature". It blew my mind. It really makes me believe that anyone who thinks like that just has not played many video games or they're just simply easily entertained.

@@gregrothschilds8453 last time it was about politics, this time it’s overwhelming love

They only hate it because it dont have ps5 and sony as the developers/publisher. Thats the whole reason.

They do it because its an easy pre packaged way to dismiss the game. They can’t deal with the difficulty of the game and want a way to say its bad without revealing that they suck at the game. They don’t want to put in effort to understand the story anymore than they want to put effort in to play the game.

@@Mr.Eldric you know who published Bloodborne? 🤡

@@hawkeyedsentinel4648 and bloodborne has the most pathetic, obnoxious and delusional fanbase between all the fromsoft games by a laughable margin, mostly cuz its a combination of sony clowns and fromsoft fanboys, whats your point exactly?

I have had my friends trying to drag me through souls games for years, only ever got half way through the first one but after a play through of elden ring I went back to go through the first dark souls and just finished yesterday. Man it’s just as good and some of the bosses are awesome to get through, especially some of the dlc.

Welcome to the fold, my friend. Prepare for jolly cooperation!

whats even funnier is theres more innovation in the fromsoft formula in elden ring than the last 6 naughty dog games combined, hell these clowns dont know the effort of converting the fromsoft formula into an open world, not only that to make it the most handcrafted and most intricate open world (level design wise) to date is a titanic and monumental feat.

I'd say the closest franchise they have is Kratos from God of War and Crash Bandicoot in terms of iconic game characters. I do agree though they do not have a lot of big juggernaut level icons like the other companies.

Just boot up the Netflix interactive experience

I believe that there is a correlation between the two. The success of story-driven over-acted games might be a consequence of the bulimic approach that some audience has with binge-watching. I feel the same when I'm playing Death Stranding for instance. Lovely game, but ffs why there is a 15 minutes cutscene every half an hour of gameplay?

I also care about gameplay But I guess Elden Ring's gameplay wasn't as effective as it should have been, considering the huge amount of people who dropped it without finishing it

@@quagliarellasnitch nah people like you just don't know how to get good. Have fun with your playable movies buddy

​@@TrollyMcGee my man chill, he didnt even say anything remotely close to that. He said that so many people dropped the game because of the gameplay, which can be true without saying the game is bad. Its just not to their taste, and dont tell me its because they are weak, its because they dont have as much free time as you or me or most dark souls players.

Reminder that there's a guy on youtube who posted an angry video about how he was returning Elden Ring after he attacked Varré the moment he set foot on the first step, perma-aggroing him

I've played this game for 40+ hours and while it is fun I don't understand how it won goty. I like the game enough but it's not my favorite

@@bofo408 40 hours is respectable however that just isn’t enough time on the game to find all the cool secrets and trinkets in the game there is new stuff I am learning about the game still with 300+ hrs in it the way you can create different builds and do different things at a vast level is what makes the game charming imo and the PvP only got better with the addition of the coliseum I would say go back and keep playing it give it another go

Have you ever played GTA, Fenyx Rising, BOTW or any free roam games? I love Elden Ring, but I find your comment hard to swallow

@@Ayixlia BOTW is the only comparable game for the sense of exploration imo. Although since it is much more of a sandbox I think it actually detracts from the overall experience. Thats just my opinion though.

Even as a Metal Gear fan (a series known for long cutscenes), I'm interested in Elden Ring.

@@Soup-man To be fair, Metal Gear has very compelling stealth game play to go along with those cutscenes.

Even bosses' visual designs and mechanics tell their story and characterize them, making you feel like you're fighting something special. Except the gank fights. F*CK THOSE CRAP

Yeahhh with GoTY's like that I see why elden ring wasn't for you hahahahah

@@Monorat ....you got something you wanna say?

@@lilsoonerfaninmo no no... I'll let you be

@@Monorat Way to act like the people Joe is making fun of in this video

@@gobgonson8053 in the words of Walter White, "heh, you got me"

You know you can just do the combat encounters after you beat the game right?

@@inminecraft8430 i mean sure but compared to hopping right back into an open world of endless combat with completely different builds + multiplayer? no contest.

@@PixelatedCatMan Elden ring is a fromsoft rpg, of course it will have those things compared to a linear story based game. I’m not going into the last of us for build variety just like you don’t go into Elden ring for stealth mixed with brutal grounded gunplay. You acted as if you were forced to go through boring story stuff every time you want to enjoy combat. I was simply informing you that you don’t have to do that

@@inminecraft8430 and i'm saying Elden Ring has more incentive to revisit combat as you'll likely uncover more lore/story while doing so. I think this conversation has sorta strayed from the original point (probably on my part, I'm too tired to analyze rn lol) so I'll just say both games are two of my favorites and both are the best at two very different things.

@@PixelatedCatMan I definitely agree on that!

thats just untrue, we havent seen this much innovation in a souls game since ds1, its almost like its an open world or something, completely changing souls level and exploration design. as for the enemy rehashes, it has over 150 unique enemies and 70 unique bosses, half of which have actual reskins and new moves unlike the older games, thats literally the most enemy variety in gaming history i think, astel and the spirit worm thing are the only rehashes i hated, but its still better than ds1 and bb rehashing enemies in their second half with no new moves or even new skins, i actually loved fighting the dragons, to me all those were just mini bosses, the only thing not making them a boss fight is a life bar on the bottom, at that point the term 'boss' in this game is arbitrary and useless barring the actual obvious boss fights. it doesnt actually rehash many enemy move sets, and adds far more to ds3s weapon move sets with dual wielding, having 4 R1 animations rather than 2, smoothing out and improving on ds3's weapon animations, jumping, crouching, horse with a double jump, horse back combat and stealth, how that didnt enter your thought process perplexes me, so no, they didnt just rehash ds3, what assets does it rehash from ds3 exactly? none that i notice, could you point them out? it rehashed about 5 enemies from ds3, and theres 145 enemies they didnt rehash, so theres that, this statement applies to most of your argument actually, theres laughably more content they didnt rehash vs what they did, kinda making your argument empty and without merit if you ask me. theres already a youtube video with plenty of in game examples disproving alot of what you say, i think youre being extremely hyperbolic here, miyazaki stated that ER is to dark souls what dark souls was to demons souls, which ds1 takes alot from, ER adds laughably more things than ds1 did regarding what it rehashed from demons, its a straight up evolution of those 2 games specifically, it wasnt meant to be anything else, thats an expectation issue on your part, contrasting the amount of new things they didnt rehash vs the things they did, then its 5% vs 95%, the amount of new things you can do in this game is unrivaled. this "unoriginality" argument holds no weight when you consider ds1 was a "rehash" of demons souls, yet the 3 rpgs of fromsoft (ER, DS, demons) are the most innovative games they made, bb was just a fast grey reskin of DS with combat tweaks so its even less original, sekiro is an action game and is not a souls game at all, the only thing it has in common is the estus and fog gates so its not even in the conversation, hell ER took from sekiros level design, making it even more original than bloodborne. "ER is way more obvious (to me, at least) in what it repurposes" compared to tlou2??? cuz that would be laughable, all the games repurpose alot of stuff from each other, by your logic dark souls is a rehash of demons souls, hell it actually took alot of enemy move sets from demons and just slowed them down, i also half disagree with the game needing to be smaller, then we wouldnt have gotten the most artistically hand crafted open world in gaming history, what i think they shouldve done is cut down on the caves and crypt dungeons by 30%, that way they wouldnt have to recycle enemies as much. " it's not perfect, even within it's own genre, due to just how much it recycles stuff." none of the games were ever perfect, no game is, they all rehash stuff from each other, and the rehashing is fine considering its an evolution of dark souls specifically, which rehashed quite alot of things from demons souls. as far as im concerned, ER is easily the most original of them all barring demons souls, the games feel and art design is unrivalled in my eyes, the art, the feel, the variety, the open world, the unrivalled exploration moments that no other game matches imo, all things that can only exist in ER, which fromsoft game can take you down an elevator for 5 mins only to end up in a gigantic star studded cave and a city within it? which game has a double jumping horse? the open world alone makes it more original than all the other fromsoft games barring demons since it created the series and its really sad how alot of ppl lik u convinced themselves it aint original cuz it took swing animations and like 5 enemies from ds3...

"I'll be a bit more understanding, though. I don't know if Elden Ring would have gotten the praise it has if the fanbase was not previously exposed to Dark Souls 1, 2, or 3." the games sales says otherwise, ER by far has the largest fanbase between the games, last i checked it sold 22 million, ds3, the highest selling fromsoft game prior, only sold 10 million in 6 years, and ER has the highest achievement rates than all the other games, meaning more ppl actually finished it than the other games, last i checked only about 40% of ppl that played bb beat gascoine, while 40% of ppl that played ER actually beat it, check trophy data if you wana confirm what im saying.

Elden ring did a lot of innovative gameplay stuff like Adding a jump Button, horse, stealth, spirit ashes and of course ashes of war. The open world innovates on how you tackle things on your own without being guided. They made giant entirely optional areas for you to explore which cannot be seen in modern gaming. I think the Storytelling is perfect because people that aren't interessted in it can just ignore it very easily and focus on other elements while people that wants to dig in have a lot of secret meanings to little elements of the game to find. And that's cool.

" The others have been around, " hell i would go far as to say most of tlou2's designs were done far better in other games that are more than a decade old, like stealth and gun fight mechanics.

@@flamingmanure I was talking about the accessibility features.

Well ER did have a lot of bugs and performance issues on launch, but that's what people should expect for a game this big

"I do wanna say that TLOU2 might've not gotten dethrone if it wasn't excusive." nope, exclusivity has no bearing when it comes to awards, thats just the sony fanboy in you talking, and tlou2s story was pretty bad all things considered, it mostly won awards based on its political leaning, which coincides with alot of journalists political leanings, how many "tlou2 is so brave for adding gay/trans etc ppl in it" were there again? imo its a cringe story about how overcommitting to revenge is VeRy BaD. "I don't know a single thing about the story in it." that just means u never actually payed attention to the level design, architecture, npc dialogue and item descriptions, there are entire youtube channels that kickstarted their career purely for elden souls' story and lore, thats how intricate and deep it is. ERs story and lore is far deeper than tsushima and tlou2 by a gigantic margin, it just takes actual effort to get into it, kinda like the difference between reading lord of the rings vs watching it. reading it gives you far FAR more world building and story than watching it, but it takes actual effort to read, sony games are good games, but frankly most of them arent that deep barring tlou1.

I'd argue the same thing Cr1TiKaL did about TLOU2, it's the possibility of a great story told in the worst chronological order, shoulda had the father daughter stuff happen first instead of showing us those moments as flashbacks, we should have had time to see a little of Abby's story and played as her for a bit before she practiced her golf skills so we build up some care towards her as a character, Joel should have died towards the middle of the story, and we should have seen Abby struggling with the choice of revenge after traveling with Joel and Ellie so it makes Ellie's choice at the end carry more weight instead of it feeling like a moral lesson being shoehorned in.

It's not an exclusive and these people are obsessed with console exclusivity

@@gobgonson8053 well, that's dumb.

God of War Ragnarok plays the same as 2018 which was an amazing game, Elden Ring is generally an improvement on the Dark Souls Formula as a whole, both have a new story but only one was able to reinvent itself in such a way that it finally captured the attention of a more casual audience without compromising on the things that people loved about the series, towards the end you say Elden Ring isn't something new and special and I ask you this as a counter point, if Elden Ring didn't do something new and special then where did all these new fans who never thought about getting into Souls games before come from.

You aren't a PS fanboy - I don't know whether I agree with you (I haven't played a God of War game since the first one), but everything you said seems reasonable and fair. Fanboys almost by definition tend to be dismissive and unwilling to explain themselves, and you haven't done either.

@@snowpegasi It had a better marketing and word of mouth plan behind it. The game isn't easier than other Souls games at its core, that would be Demon's Souls, yet you don't see many pushing to play that game before Elden Ring. The fact that more people played is a testimony to how good marketing can be. But the main point is that while Elden Ring is a very good game and does many things well it isn't new with most of it. Pretty much everything has roots in the past games.

@@gobgonson8053 God of War 2018 is on PC and I'd highly recommend giving it a go. It will give you a good idea of what Ragnarok is all about if you don't own a PS5.

@@a-aronander-son5861 Oh, it’s on my bucket list for sure. Problem is, that list is 300 miles long lol

So someone who doesn't like what you like is "not smart enough"? Same can be said for elden ring. You're simply not smart enough to understand its combat and the variety of ways to fight. I beat the game 12 times and I've found so many ways to fight. I beat totk twice and felt nothing but boredom the second time. Guess that means i'm not smart enough, biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiich. 🤣