Elden Ring feels like the End 

Have you read the manga "Blame!", basically grimdark cyberpunk architecture porn, as opposed to the grimdark gothic architecture porn of FromSoft games, and with that I suspect you already know where I'm going with this, heck even the plot of the manga reads like a FromSoft game as it alternates between horror, poignancy and boss battles. It wouldn't even be that different in terms of game mechanics, perhaps more ranged weapons than melee but FromSoft games have already been heading in that direction as boss battles become increasingly bullet-hell like and magic/bows become more prevalent.

Can I smoke"meth" in a spiderman mask in your discord vc?

Legit thought this was gonna be an announcement of you being dissatisfied with youtube, and wanting to quit lmfao

To be honest even if they did do a dog I like to think they'd do it right A fire that doesn't burnout with a dim But one that grows brighter as it grows ever so small

I don't like this pessimistic outlook from you man.

How long are we gonna have to wait for that one?

Behold, leg

Do you know if they've already set up a pre-order page? If not, can someone send me the link when it shows up?

I don't think there will be an Elden Ring 2. Bloodborne 2 is probably the next logical step.

​@@RichMobb Both of your comments are wrong... There's been no announcement of Bloodborne coming to PC, and only around the top 20-ish best selling games of ALL TIME have reached/surpassed 30 million in sales.

Intimidated***********

I don’t want bloodborne 2 i just want 60 fps bloodborne 👀

Go outside Wayne, they already said they're making a sequel/expanding the world

Tbh I’m still impressed they released 3 games in three years (with plenty of great dlc on top of that) without any of them being objectively terrible (yes that includes DS2). I’m glad there taking longer breaks between games though since such output isn’t sustainable without complete stagnation of the type of game you make (despite its quality this was starting to be evident with DS3).

It’s true that they’re amazingly creative and innovative in many aspects of their design but let’s not act like they only do new things. They’ve used the same UI for every game they’ve released since demons souls. They use the same animations every game. Shit they even have a poison swamp in every game. This isn’t to shit on from software, I love them with my whole heart, this is to say that their creativity could totally come to an end. What else can you do with the souls formula? Going open world really is the last thing they could do to really genuinely change it up.

Havent you played ds3? The more the fire is linked the more the ash builds, and the more desperate the plea for it to end

@@joshuanigpuawszik8889 That line is actually spoken at the end of ds3 in the age of dark ending. its the fire keepers prophecy for what will come long after the age of fire and the age of dark. basically saying the fire has faded and dark has fallen but even in total darkness one day hope will dance on it's horizon. There's plenty of theories what this means practically and like with any from soft story ending it's very much up to interpretation. i like to think of it as a kind of prequel to irl. those tiny flames being us humans rising from the primordial ooz

That made no sense, word salad. Although...... All fires die out till there is no evidence of it having ever existed.

-Fire Keeper (ds3)

in other words, the utter darkness of the depression born of flying too close to the sun will eventually erode our memories down to the point that what was old will seem new again.

They didn’t do it with Elden Ring, in a time of constant shilling, they held their ground It’s gonna be a LONG while before they EVER hit that point, if it ever happens at all

Coming up next! Elden Ring Immortal!!! DON’T YOU GUYS HAVE PHONES?!?!? Jk i hope they never reach that point but who knows, if the company is sold/bought/merged with something else it could easily fall into a Blizzard scenario.

I mean, they didnt do it when all other companies made the big bucks with micro transaction bullshit, so I doubt they will do it in the Future. Not as long as miyazaki is the CEO. Maybe they will later when someone else becomes CEO, and turns the Company to shit, for more Money

They will keep trying to keep the fire alive, sacrificing more and more creativity to try to fuel it, but the fire wasn’t supposed to go on for this long, and so the age of dark will eventually meet present.

I mean even by Dark Souls 3 the formula was getting repetitive. I legitimately thought that was the end of soulsborne because it seemed like they had no more interest to make more games (and only even made 3 due to contractual obligations with Bandai Namco).

I strongly agree

They seem to know what they’re doing it’s real fun

Next game they have you play as a lowly Fromsoft employee who must travel into the mind of a Miyazaki himself to find the last good idea for a Souls game. He falls into a coma, but fortunately you have the ability to share his dream, which would mix beautiful scenes from his childhood with the most depraved of Berserk panels.

The next game will be a souls game but without killing, you will be playing as a merchant in a souls game before any war/fighting happens.

@@93hothead there next game is Armored Core. I don't know how it will end, but I'm interested to see.

The end is nearer than we realized and we fear not what it holds... but what it doesn't...

@@wilymuppet8941 Doesn't it hold a...dog snack?

@@lostinmyworld Throw your dog an invisible bone.

Behold, dog!

What turtles?

Clearly he's never looked at the sun before

@@Prinz_Kasper coming back to this comment in five billion years to prove you wrong

@@curbcheck6562 coming back from 10 billion another star is forming

@@Prinz_Kasper Imma come back to this comment after the heat death of the universe to prove you wrong.

@@peacefindersimply5001 coming back during the heat death of the universe when the only thing left in the universe is Black Holes

But it could be easily reheated in the microwave of evil

I agree with your sentiment, however I'd argue that "punchline" might not have been the word you were looking for. It was absolutely poetic, and a clever nod to the fan base for sure, but the intent of the message was for us viewers to feel exactly what Peach feels when he thinks about the matter at hand, which is a deep sense of sorrow and bitterness for knowing that nothing lasts forever, and that this particular franchises downfall with be especially wounding for a lot of us hardcore Souls fans. I think maybe the accurate word would've been "conclusion". Not trying to be a twat lol, I really related to what you said and I just think calling it a punchline suggests that it was a joke to some degree, which I can most assuredly say it was not.

**cough** minecraft *couhg cough**

The profaned flame doesn't fade. Unfortunately it's completely evil and wrecks things it touches or is hijacked by evil executives like Sullyvan.

A nicely done nod to dark souls

as long as you have leadership like miyazaki that didnt end up being a lap dog for investor, I think they could make a good game, maybe not elden ring level. but new IP with fresh story and setting with a liltle bit souls formula is enough we cant expect they make GOTY level game every release lol, the fact that they got GOTY back to back is already highest achievement in video games studios

Now I just need to see the world of Elden Ring with the gameplay of Sekiro. My life would be complete. And I think mods alone could provide that: like what if successfully dodging resets your roll cooldown and dropping your shield after a hit negates a portion of the attack's staggering effect and stamina drain. Imagine Dark Souls 1's importance of shields, but with a skill check.

Sekiro was developed for 3 years and elden ring 5years. They started full development after the ring city dlc was done. What 2ish lmao

@@textexadecimal9340 Sekiro has the best combat in any game of it's type period, no need to overcomplicate it.

They most certainly have. The view in this video is just very limited. Human creativity can go nuts if there is a framework for it to spark. And there couldnt be a better framework than From Software.

I trust pikmin, they kept the bulbie design there’s still hope.

After about an year, I can thankfully say, Pikmin 4 was awesome. Some dogs are good dogs.

Came here to say pikmin 4 goes hard with the dog

What about the sun ?

That too, is destined to implode into a black hole.

@@paultheviewer white dwarf* but close enough

It really does

There is no fire. Really its not the fire that faded. Its yourself...

Cod is actually an extremely similar scenario

"I love the Beatles" these are words you hear right before you watch an entire video essay on death stranding

autism is a hell of a drug

@@schizophrenicgaming365 u rite

Gotta love a 20 minute video about elden ring that doesn't start talking about elden ring until 16 minutes in.

Halo nuts an bolts got me 😂😂😂

Neither has the writers. Seriously, the writers openly admit to not have played the games.

@@Noperare I would bet any amount of money that it tries really hard to push ... _THE MESSAGE_

@@Noperare nah fr bro they probably had their kid play the game to start to finish, chances are high they are just used to writing scripts.

@@channingtaintum ah a fellow drinker viewer I see

Turns out the show has nothing to do with the games or the Cannon, so he had nothing to worry about.

the show made me rethink the entire franchise and sadly i have lost all investment in that franchise.. its been run into the ground.

@@iceicejay9569 It really has. Sad to say but infinite just couldn’t rekindle that spark I had playing 2,3, and Reach all those years ago. Maybe a focus on campaign would’ve been a stronger option than MP alone. And I HATE to say it but a Halo BR might’ve actually helped them out here. I wouldn’t have played it more than once like all BRs but it just can’t be denied that the formula works.

No fuck that keep making more so long as they keep making it quality and it’s not cash grabs who cares if they keep going

@@OhImSaucy I actually agree, I think fromsoft and Miyazaki have a talent of making things that should have become old and rotten by now feel great and new and fresh. I bet you there’s a thousand ideas in that man’s brain on how they can innovate the formula further, and I am all in on seeing how they do it.

@@OhImSaucy Nothing lasts forever, and only the naive look forward to being a glutton for more of the same. Besides, even if Miyazaki has "am million ideas in his head" like some say, do you really think he's also so close minded that he's going to keep making the same game but a little different with more "refinement" to the formula? I for one look forward to the day Miyazaki makes a game that's not only different from his Souls games, but basically isnt one. A game that has no dpad for equipment and item switching, no bonfire mechanic or estus flask stand in, no death mechanic where you lose xp/currency but get a chance to retrieve it. None of that. I want it to be as inscrutable and confusing and hard to get into as a game like Pathologic 2. Miyazaki is a very smart creator. Once he feels he's done everything he can do with Souls games, he WILL stop making them once he feels they stifle his creativity. He won't keep making what you like forever, and its nothing but stubbornness to say otherwise.

@@theantsaretakingover While its a beautiful thought, the Dark Souls games can't last forever. That's the whole theme of the games- holding on is futile. The reason I think Cobbler would say Elden ring is the end it because it doesn't add anything new to the tried and true Souls formula, or at least, nothing too substantial. It combines them in a way. Dark Souls 1 set the stage for both the story/themes for future games, all of them being set in a once grandiose world plagued with disease or corruption, as well as setting up the challenging but overall fair combat. Dark Souls 2, while focusing more on gank fights and quantity over quality, which can go fuck itself sideways, did improve on lots of systems of the first game as a sequel should, like weapon repair at bonfires. Dark Souls 3 combined difficulty, improved systems, and the best story out of all the games. Bloodborne flipped this all on its head, changing the gameplay from defensive, dodge 'til you get an opening sort of combat to fast-paced fighting that rewarded you for aggresiveness by restoring health as well as flat-out removing shields as a defensive option. You cannot be passive in that game, and that's why it's so fantastic. Elden Ring takes most of these concepts and combines them, in what feels like a curtain call to the series. But it doss not make the future look bright, because it does not add anything new besides an open world, which the games cannot bank off of as their new identity. It simply would not work.

@@zer0026 buddy Todd Howard has made the elder scrolls into his own universe. Doing the same game since 1994 and people eat that shit up, seems to be doing something right.

Elden Ring actually reminds me a lot of DS2. Massive weapon and build variety and a whole ton of bosses, except the quality is just way higher.

This has been my thought since the beginning (plus the piece of concept art for a divine tower that looked like Heide's Tower). This feels like a refined, Miyazaki-directed DS2, even down to the tutorial cave.

They brought back build variety especially with DSIIs powerstancing.

We finally got ds2 2 boys

@@anaguma90 I'm a ds2 fan and I was thinking the same thing, reminds me so much of dark souls 2

I feel like whenever Miyazaki hits a ceiling, he just goes to another room to hit another ceiling there 😂

@@mackybell14 i think he did exactly that with sekiro

@@micalzoncillo249 oh god yes! thank you for reminding me about that masterpiece! I was sad as hell thinking maybe there will never be another darksoul game but Sekiro 2 eh!!! and 3 and 4!! oh god a new age of awesome Fromsoft games!!!

@@ucnguyenquang9030 Bruh, they're gonna revive the mech genre with the leaked Armored Core 6.

The game still has close to 0 narrative, dialogues and quests. There's a lot to add... Imagine this world design with witcher's quality of characters and the above.

Comparing halo to Cod is really unfair. Cod is an anual release that its around is 26th? game Halo is just on his 6th main entry game, 8-9 if you count the spin-offs that most "casuals" did not play (Wars, Assault, ODST) I get what you mean but man, comeon, it has been 6 years since halo 5.

It’s like CoD now they’ve gone free to play and launched a barely moving husk of a game where the store is the main focus.

@@toobig7150 Halo is not as awful as Cod but it would still be better imo if they never made a new Halo game after Reach as all the 343 games feel like they were just rushed out for profit

I want armored core back so bad it hurts

yeah all the companies he cited are western, asians have a different mindset and it makes all the difference.

@@yellowcard8100 I think this, sekiro and bloodborne very much still fall into the 'soulslike' category, while I have faith FROM could probably create successful new IPs I don't necessarily think Elden Ring is evidence of that, it's the final product which is a collection of ideas that they've worked on for over a decade now.

Elden Ring is truly the Dark Souls of the Dark Souls trilogy.

@@yellowcard8100 It's a sense of finality because it's very hard to recreate the experience you have first time with a game. Not trying to be corny it's just facts. Mechanics can only ever be refined to a certain point until it becomes another game entirely. Its final in the idea that the series can never really evolve from this point, except like cobbler said the addition of a dog, or building. I mean it's not bad, it's just not unique or BOLD anymore. Hopefully the team at FromSoft are excited to make something they really enjoy next :D

@@yellowcard8100 except they didn't change up the formula with those games? It's the same formula just a different setting and maybe a couple slightlyodified mechanics

@@yellowcard8100 What does Doom do that's so different or new? I played like 60% of it and then got so over the pacing, platforming, upgrades. I'd honestly rather play an early 2000s WW2 shooter.

Everything end eventually, only god is eternal.

@@General540it takes a long time, but God dies too.

@@keef920 big claim from a small humen, but hey... you will meet him someday, so think about that.

"but of course time did that most terrible thing it does and passed cruelly onward" ~ DJ Peach Cobbler

@@chrism4403 yep its really not

laughs in profane flame

It's also a paraphrase of a dozen traditional quotes.

If you think the whole "link the flame to become the new age of fire or dont for an age of darkness" wasnt a take on the game industry, BOY have i got news for you.

"There's a black man that follows me around when it's sunny, I call him Leon." - Brick from Anchorman 2

crazy this is a real quote wtf

It's just a melancholic take that focuses on how other developers have faired, so FS MUST do it too. Guys, they've been hitting the ball out of the park since Demon Souls. That's an incredible track record, especially when you compare it to its peers.

@@CanadianYeti69It really is, I'm absolutely dumbfounded by how many amazing games FS have made. Its just hit after hit with them.

@@PauloGarcia-sp5ws Hidetaka Miyazaki has a certain method to his madness you just can't find with other developers. Even when heading in different styles of action adventure (Dark Souls to Sekiro), there is a specific underlying philosophy that keeps everything together. It is a combination of the near endless creativity of the Fromsoft team, Miyazaki's excellent writing and worldbuilding, and the unrelenting passion he and his team have for gaming as a medium. Even with games that are more controversial like Dark Souls 2, I think it is a great game in its own right.

I honestly just wish to play a new armored Core by fromsoft

@@soutomaioraway666 honestly, I wouldn't mind playing that either. I grew up playing the splitscreen versus on those games with my brother. But I was too dumb a kid to master the mechanics and finish any of the titles. A chance to try again would be phenomenal.

same here

My dog has covid

I would love the revival of Armored Core. With a lot of genres gaining momentum, the Mecha genre needs to be revived!

Oh, Armored Core. What a nostalgia... I hope they would revive it so that I can relive the experience once more.

Ehh I’d honestly prefer a new Game like metal wolf chaos, just a balls to the wall mecha game that’s written like a mix between late night talk show political commentary and jojo levels of insane bullshit thrown into a blender and then hidden from the legal team and PR department until after its already released. That’s my only explanation for how that game released out of Japan during that time. Imagine the conversation between the project director and his direct supervisor. “Did you run this by legal?” “No…..” “You’re going to run this by legal though right?” “Fuck no! Did you read the synopsis? Legal can deal with it after release.”

Next from soft game is probably gonna be armored core 6. And about time too.

we still have DLCs to wait for as well im hoping for 4 of them with on being a pvp focused one

i feel like people miss things like the jump attacks, poise mechanics similar to sekiro and the level direction of the game as well as many art direction similar to bloodborne, soul like games are very similar because the gameplay is so thight that if you were to mask elden ring with a 1800s feeling you'd be like "man this doesn't feel like darksouls but more like bloodborne"

They might be done with the Souls genre, but I'm not sure. In two years, it'll mark the 30 year anniversary since FromSoft first started exploring this concept, with King's Field back in 1994. There is clearly something about the whole medieval dark fantasy and high difficulty formula that typifies Souls games that FromSoft, and perhaps Miyazaki in particular, is consistently drawn to. It's held their interest for almost 3 decades now, so I don't think it'll be something they shift from too easily.

DS3 ended with a potential for a new world. Elden Ring's two out of three major endings open a potential for a new world. I think they'll just keep trying to evolve the games. Although I wouldn't mind if they made something different again like Sekiro...

wrong timestamp you mean 14:20

Lol. Not remotely. Bungie set up the next story arc. Bungling gameplay, storytelling, and game design wasn't due to Halo being obsolete. It was due to 343 not having a clue. Apologetics disguised as philosophy are a bad look.

I agree with everything but the last point. Companies don't just fade away, they violently die. Even if Miyazaki retires or moves on or whatever, there will still be plenty of artists there clinging to a sinking ship.

Elden ring is not better than anything they made before, DS1, BB and sekiro are all superior to ER because ER became a bloated mess after the capital and the boss design was much worse than those 3 games I mentioned.

you have to account their fans as well, no matter how sometimes some of the gameplay mechanics seems tedious or flawed that will kill you for multiple times, they'll play through hell and back out of those games. afterall there is a reason on why dark souls is called "stockholm syndrome: the game"

@@Aaron-g9b You were definatly playing the wrong game,bro

@@DatLazyBoi you going to sit there and tell me that the doesn't fall apart after the capital? Elden ring was your first fromsoftware game. Dumb fucking zoomer.

There are good AAA games. Tlou2, god of war, Horizon Zero Dawn. All unique. All hand crafted from the graphics, to the story to the characters. Elden ring follow suit, although it doesn't come close to the story of those games, but I don't think they are even going for that. From isn't exactly the greatest story writers in the world to put it mildly, but for RPG, story isn't the key element, the world is and it is far easier to write/design worlds than it is to write intricate deep dives of specific characters. But since they put the same amount of detail in their world as aforementioned games put in their story, they produce a good quality AAA game.

@@simonfarre4907 I never said there weren’t good triple A games, but they are very few and far between. Two of the games you cited as examples are almost half a decade old, with the exception being The Last of Us 2. Even still, you can’t ignore the controversy surrounding whether or not that game is considered “good.” It is loathed by many and I would hesitate to throw it in with unanimously beloved titles, despite having enjoyed the game myself. I would also disagree that world building and environmental storytelling is “easier” than a deep character dive. I don’t think one takes less craftsmanship than the other, but I do know that to enthrall someone in a world you’ve created, you have to master subtlety and the environment must engage with the player beyond being a “set piece.” These are two things very few writers achieve. Skyrim, on a surface level, is very basic and almost laughable mechanically and narratively and, yet, it is one of the most beloved games of the decade because of its capacity for environmental storytelling and sense of adventure. I consider that an astounding feat in game design despite its flaws, and I would argue that it has as much merit as a game that puts more emphasis on character than world. I believe that Elden Ring achieves the same thing, and I think the story that IS present, albeit simple is enough to grip the player and get them asking questions about the deeper lore. Complexity is not always akin to quality, and Elden Ring is nothing more than it needs to be. Moving forward I hope that this series continues to expand upon its simple premises, in depth mechanics and fantastic world.

way to ride the fence

@@bluewizard8318 What side is there to pick? There isn't even a fence to ride here, the dude literally just acknowledged that they can't milk the Souls formula forever and then followed it up with "This game is good at least, I'm going to enjoy it while I can," and your immediate gut reaction was to [incorrectly] throw out a buzz phrase. Is _pretending_ to be retarded a hobby of yours, or are you the real deal?

@Pinko Slink Let me guess, you're the same type of person that thinks the Simpsons are still good aren't you?

The point is that big doesn´t equal good. You can´t just make every souls game open world from now on. Remember Elden Ring and Sekiro were in development at the same time. This game took ages to make. There will be a fight at bandai about money for their next project. They will expect huge revenue from now on. Which simply cannot be achieved by games like Sekiro or Bloodborne. They are too specific. Even alot of core souls fans did not play Sekiro because of the setting or limited gameplay options (weapons). It´s either they will trust Miyazaki and let him do whatever he wants OR they will push him out since he won´t change his mind for anyone (probably).

@@Spinexus That implies Bandai Namco makes decisions for FromSoftware, which they don't. They have no authority over FromSoft, because they're completely separate companies. Miyazaki is completely free to do what he wants, and that doesn't mean the next game will be a massive open world game. It's only a proof of concept that did insanely well, market-wise, and with how FromSoft makes games, we can only really expect great things from here- following a track record of great things. I also don't see, even if Bandai Namco did have creative control over FromSoft, why they wouldn't have tried forcing Miyazaki earlier to conform to the rest of the industry if money was an issue. FromSoft has always made niche games with high difficulty, and has carved a path of success by doing so. Their latest game follows none of the modern gaming conformities, and yet was a massive success. If Bandai Namco was keen on forcing conformity, Elden Ring wouldn't have come out the way it had. Elden Ring doesn't feel like the end. It's another beginning for FromSoft, just like Sekiro was another beginning, just like Dark Souls was another beginning, and just like Bloodborne was another beginning. Unlike most companies, FromSoft lets every beginning have an end by not making sequels- DS3 excluded because Miyazaki was sore over DS2. FromSoftware have proven an ability to take the concepts and mechanics from every game they make and adapt them for a new game, set in a similar genre but with a different story.

How many times can you do that while keeping it fresh and inspired? Yeah ubisoft can shell out multiple large open worlds a year, but they all end up feeling the same and purposeless. Bethesda proved time and time again that they could make good open worlds and Skyrim proved that they could be massively successful, but Fallout 4 still felt passionless and creatively bankrupt to me.

@@gutar5675 But none of these comparisons actually connect with FromSoftware, which doesn't release multiple games a year and instead takes the time to truly create every game they have so far released. Elden Ring doesn't even imply that their next game will be an open world, and they certainly won't release their next game in the next few years. This is the same problem that the video itself had, "Well, all these companies are terrible at doing this, so FromSoft is going to do it poorly too!"

@@RyANWaLlEt exactly!!!

Remember the end of The Ringed CIty DLC? When you gave the paintress the blood of the Dark Soul and she says "I'll build a new place. A cold and very gentle place."? That's when the series really ended - but it didn't really. When i saw the first streamers play the online test my feelings were "they are straying too far from the formula, i hope they don't overdo it." Now that i've played it 250h, it feels WAY TOO MUCH like DS3. I wish they would have overdone it. We need something else. Although it is a bittersweet goodbye. It is all i could ever ask for, yet not satisfying me like other entries in the series did. I feel fatigue.

@@donfuan76 "When the world rots, we set it afire. For the sake of the next world. It's the one thing we do right..."

@@donfuan76 My man you played 250h in just a month of the game being out, I'd say the fatigue is just from playing it nonstop. Believe me, give the game a rest and you will come back in a few months no doubt.

@@donfuan76 The Painter in Dark Souls 3 was Miyazaki himself. Burning down the old world using the ashes to make a new painting, rather than just making direct sequels. And yet at the same time, all the Souls games, and Bloodborne/Sekiro *ALL* have themes of entropy and sacrifice. Especially for a past, you cant bring back. Souls-like has become something of a subgenre. Can more and better games be made in it, like they were for Roguelike/roguelite?

@@jacobg8870 I have 173 hours. *I'm still in Liurnia* . Still enjoying every minute of the game.

Armored core was fun as hell too, one of the best mech games around

I would love to be able to play a new AC game.

They made skeiro and Elden Ring at the same time. They are probably working on that and another souls type right now.

jesus christ the game looks sick

"From the creators of Elden Ring" in the trailer. I can see it now.

Next video he showcases his dog

@@Darko807 it's too late. Look at the thumbnail, this _is_ his dog video. And it's pretty over the top. Next I'm afraid we'll get an "ancient Rome 2" video.

It only serves to remind me that eventually, video games may not be a part of the future.

This video actually has several wrong conclusions. Ill name one which is that Bethesda doesn’t care about Fallout anymore. There is literally no reason to believe that

@@victor_734 "Fallout 76"

They're not going to do that. According to recent news, they're apparently going back to an old series of theirs under the name of Armoured Core.

@@starhammer5247 And as an old Armored Core fan, believe when I say: That's a good thing. Armored Core was the best damn mech series ever made, and it was made when there were actually a bunch of mech games as competition.

@@MidlifeCrisisJoe And I don't fucking doubt that especially considering the few gameplay snippets I've seen of Armoured Core and how Armoured Core V had the first Patches. I'm interested to see what they do with this new instalment with their extra decade of experience.

This is what i want bloodborne 2 to be, the decline of yharnam

@@CWFDSmokeEater There won't be a Bloodborne 2. But there will be an Armoured Core VI.

Nice DS2 reference

Fromsoft does make other games too, they even made a VR game in recent years. But i guess by fromsoft you mean "miyazaki games", After the great DS1, He did a weeb game, a HP lovecraft game, ds's fanservice normie game aka ds3, and now the open world souls game too. What can he do more with soulslike formula? I still think as long as he can come up with new idea for new settings and even plot we can exoect good soulslike genre of games from him. Maybe no more of true "Souls" souls games of medieval fantasy but more like sekiro and BB , U know

@@btchiaintkidding7837 You calling ds3 a fanservice normie game. Tf. Pray tell why you dislike it.

They can't possibly top this and they don't have to, they might just make big Bloodborne lmao.

I dunno man, DS3 felt more like the end than Elden Ring. Then they made Sekiro! I don't think they'll ever stop making cool sword games.

tf aer u meaning

What

I feel like after finishing a peach cobbler video everyone who watched it now talks and writes like him for the next 15 minutes of their life

@@Cheesepuff8 Same thing happening under Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation videos.

@@Cheesepuff8 literally bro lmfao, like chill

Manz goated with the sauce

your comment is way to intellectual for me to understand any word also i hate punctuation but im here because i find the idea of a talking pie funny

lets just hope that the world wide inquisition of "Raid Shadow Legends" doesn't turn it's cash grabbing head and convert our great pastry man into the light of random mobile game sponsors

Cobbler is the lord of spice. Like seriously I don't know off the top of my head what the perfect amount of spice in a normal peach cobbler is but I'm guessing in this case it's more than the rest of the ingredients combined. The topics are usually challenging and the delivery usually makes me feel like someone is being verbally slapped. But unfortunately I know that one day even this will end. To paraphrase: "one day the spice shall fade and only crumbs shall remain"

Perfectly put.

I just, can't agree with you. I feel your feeling optimistic about the next big FS game that'll comes out, but I just feel this would be the best and its peak. Just can't feel more than grateful and blissful that I am alive at this exact era where Elden Ring is released. Which this video vocalize my feeling really well

@@rouyzaki3758 Next up,bloodborne open world with even more trick weapons, platformin and stealth kills.

Botw and skyrim too ig

Dog this game fuckin sucks and you're an open world shill lol. Go play Assassin's Creed again.

Why tf people write fucking thesis in comment sections

Facts.

Sekiro didn't feel like the end. Sekiro feels more like the future. Making tighter and more focused experiences in its vein seems like a good direction to take for the time being. Long term though I think they want to make Miyazaki's true dream game. It's why they're returning to Armored Core. Miyazaki's ultimate dream is to combine the gameplay of Souls and Armored Core.

@@INTCUWUSIUA HORRRRY SHIIIIIIT!!!

It’s a genre, not a series. They can change whatever they want. I think that Zelda is the best example of a game that lasted forever, and never really jumped the shark. Its still going and every piece is at least good if not awe inspiring, because they know how to change things

Dude it’s all speculation.

I absolutely agree it started about elden ring then he proceeded to shred every hated game and dead franchise he could

@Kyle Kyle Kyle

@@Albert-_117 not really, the main point of focus might be. (as in, souls-like games ending). but not the actual truth behind the other dead games he was talking about.

@@xptv11 okay

From the sounds of things, we're gonna see Armored Core again soon.

@@ltcuddles685 Fuck yeah

The devs decided to add some cool and unique things and you nerds consider it to be selling out😂😂

The story is a bit janky though Also if they’re done with their usual stuff I hope they come out and say it rather than surprising people with something unexpected cause that usually doesn’t go well

@@Cheesepuff8 Just no. Elden ring already pushed the story harder than any other souls game. If you want the story pushed harder, go play sekiro or some other story driven game. People play souls games not for the story but for the gameplay and the feel.

According to a recent Survey by From Soft, they're already working on a new game, and it looks nothing like an EldenSoulsBorneSekiro game. The reason I say this is because the accompanying screenshots contain a mech.

@@starhammer5247 😭

@@johndoe7017, They're going back to Armoured Core, the game series that originally put them on the map before Demon's Souls.

Fallout just needed the job rpg aspect to go full on new controls fps mode with iron sights and slide moves etc

Nah fallout fell off, its trash

You’re right. It’s not about fallout, or even gaming. Once a medium reaches a certain point in its life, the bottom line becomes the only metric it is judged by. Sadly, video games crossed this threshold. The minute something makes a crap load of money, it becomes the expectation. So risks are adverted, and costs kept down, and they try and do the same thing over and over with minor “tweaks” to entice people.

​@@MrSkeltal268 Yeah totally - but just in the AAA/AAA-adjacant space - it's an unholy alliance because you need a ton of money to make a massive polished game and that money comes from people who only care about that metric. I worked at CCP when there was a shitshow around microtransactions (back when that was a new concept) and tbh CCP got it wrong and messaged it badly but they had good intentions - management legit saw it as a way to avoid being beholden to those interests. I think this is why From is so refreshing - they just do what they do regardless of whatever trend is happening (I mean- how late are they at an open world game? In 20 years will we have a battle royale Dark Souls???) - it's like someone who has their own personal style they like which goes in and out of fashion. I play way more indie & open source games these days. Being in game development I still see indie studios who knocked something out of the park on some bootstrapped project and pick up financing for a new project thinking they'll be the ones to buck the trend and always a year later it's the same story. Not gonna name names, but these are good people it happens to, but they're always the ones to take the blame when the project ends up disappointing.

True, they could have done nothing after DS1 and I would have accepted it

Ya dark souls 3 felt like the biggest end for me. Elden ring feels like another game in the post dark souls 3 era for from software where they make games that all feel seperate from eachother like sekiro and that new sci fi game that i heard rumors about.

@@ziggytheassassin5835 the sci fi game is an armored core reboot

@@willvermillion1025 god I hope so. Can't wait to see how they would handle the series in the current day.

@Abandon Ship FromSoftware will keep reigniting their flame until all that is left is ashes, and, just like the world of Dark souls, no one knows how many cycles it will take before they truly reach the end. Every journey will be new, and every journey will captivate, even when we're treading on the ashes of glory. Or something like that.

@I have no mouth And i must scream find god

there is NG. Up to NG+6. There are 3 or 4 endings. Not to mention, probably DLC coming in future.

Link the first flame… duh bruh.

Okay game through again in ng+ as a whole new build. But I don’t care about some philosophical nonsense about something ending, hitting the peak. I have played and beaten dark souls 3 over a dozen times, and have played bloodborne through almost double that many times. And I’ll sure as hell play Elden ring multiple times going on. If they don’t make any souls like that’s fine, if the remake the souls like experience with a modern spin from dark fantasy that’s fine too.

@@tonyphills6075 yeah that’s crazy but language and graphics design are different.

@@tonyphills6075 Uhh... because ur implying that the technical skill of graphic design is the ONLY thing that's needed to produce the video "with ease". Completely ignoring that being articulate is the skill the OC was focusing on. You can be the best graphic designer in the world and not be able to put this video together if u lack this skill. Point being, the features on Adobe won't make you a more articulate person, so your comment makes no sense.

@@tonyphills6075 yo chill tony, he was complimenting the man’s work

Literacy is a god damned super power.

Also I can quash the beef here. Homie #1: made the comment about his articulation. (Note that part) Homie #2: made the adobe/video edit learn. Comment. Now here we must note that homie 2 in a way did go "over" Homie #1's point. Homie #3 was the one to point this out. Please see homie #1's comment. HOWEVER Homie#3 went farther, calling out homie #2 in a fashion for his oversight. However we can come around here in a truce where we agree that while Homie#2's comment was past the target. It did add a tangible possibility an extra facet to the conversation that was before just admiration of articulation...worth reflecting on.... Combining articulation AND Adobe....(kden lite for my linux using ass i guess) to make videos...could be cool. I have hoped with these words to achieve comment world peace. Proving that these comments together... Are in fact captain planet.

To add one from software makes fantasy/rpg games which are the main genre that is for open world games and all there games have always been open world tbh they just removed the very view restrictions that they had. Blood borne and dark souls and sekiro have a lot the same openess just they take place in cities and similar stuff so it feels smaller and more linear they just removed that. But saying cause this their highest selling game and they went open world is like saying rockstar was gonna bomb after gta v (which rn is the highest grossing media rn) but they came back did it again with red dead 2 and has ppl waiting patiently for gta 6. And from software takes the same time and care making the their games as rockstar they’ll be fine. Yes all flames die but there are thousands of reasons they die out. Some just get old and new guys come on the block but doesn’t mean their skill or artistic approach vanishes. And art is about highs and lows every artist or company has had low moments cod was low for a while but they came back in force with cod ww2 this feels very much like it’s getting popular now so it has to be bad

I read that they may return to the armored core series, I think that would be pretty awesome

I’ve been saying the exact thing. Sekiro is still my favorite From game and needs a sequel. I would absolutely love a Bloodborne inspired open world game as well.

Please god give me sekiro 2

Armored core is dope. I'd like to see that return.

Not fromsoft, won't happen

@@draconiandraco the only dogs they have are ones with 5 hit insta-poise-break-combos of death

@@andrej13666 that and turtles.

@@draconiandraco No series can be the "all-important, special snowflake diva" forever, lmfao. Except maybe Elder Scrolls since we can do literally almost whatever the fuck we want with the Creation Kit. :3

yeah pretty much

Cyberpunk 2077 was also in production for a really long time. I guess good things just aren’t supposed to last forever.

@@lovedeepthandi3154 If word gets around that From is rapidly losing talent and directors are abandoning ship left and right, leaving fresh employees under horrible management to try and scrape a game together, then I'll be worried that a cyberpunk situation is around the corner. Cyberpunk and ER took forever to make for different reasons.

@@lovedeepthandi3154 this is untrue, the actove development phase came in in 2017-2020 which is not long in open world titles. they came up with concepts and a little here and there in mid 2016, but they didn't really do much on the project. the deadline was april 2020 so the target development span was 2 1/2 years, which only works when you already have a good foundation (engine,asset library) which they didn't. this is the only reason ubisoft can pull off assassin's creed in a 1-2 year cycle, because they reuse the same shit. elden ring was in development since 2017. and the side project was an entire different game which made it to game of the year. this is how you take time, you don't give release dates until your game is polished and everything until then is closed testing and smaller bug fixes. if cd project red started development in 2013 because they wanted to get familiar with next gen consoles at the time, they would have a banger game that would probably go down in history as one of the best.

Fall out 76 also took a couple years to make and it was trash

@@MrMarttivainaa oh I wasn’t aware of this

Never played Star Control, but beside that I like your list ;) Morrowind is what I seek in every other Open World after it (Morrowind and Gothic, but it feels like no one knows it beyond Germany). I feel somilar for the other listed games - I do play AlttP to this day at least once a year, maybe more (randomized). But I do not think I will ever feel the same way about Elding Ring. Elden Ring is a culmination. A best practice. I feel the good old Morrowind and Zelda in Elden Ring. I feel Dark Souls in it. Things I missed in games. But nothing new I have to admit. I love it for that. But I am curious how people look back on it in ten years. Will they think of it like now if Dark Souls? Or Link to the Past? I don't think so...

Play botw

@@JackStacks_1 Did. Wasn't that impressed actually. It was an interesting shift for Zelda, but the dungeons hardly deserved the name, and a great deal of the game felt like it was...everywhere else. Very little distinctiveness. I have hope for botw2, with the years of open-world innovation since then.

Sadness ahead

I'm not a part of the game's industry outside of being a consumer, but I've been an avid consumer of PC games since 1990. I also went back and played a lot of the 80's backlog in my teens, as well as most of the NES and SNES catalogue through emulation. I can't say I agree with your take exactly. I think things are more nuanced. First, we have to acknowledge that games are masterpieces in relation to what was available for their technology, and their competition at the time. Games which iterate on what came before, and refine it to a sharp edge. Morrowind is a janky awkward mess that fails on nearly every level for most of its storytelling outside of a few key threads, and its combat. But man was it a mindblaster for its day in terms of its presentation, exploration, and sense of wonder. I think there are a lot of games in that category. Even its predecessor Daggerfall did really similar things in terms of pushing the boundaries of a large world with a lot of explorable space with roleplaying opportunities. So yeah, if Morrowind's a masterpiece, I think Daggerfall is too, just for its day. OG Doom also fits into this category. It was derivative of Catacombs3d and Wolfenstein 3d, sure. But what it did pushed things so far in terms of presentation, pacing, and level design that I don't think Doom could be considered anything but a masterpiece for its day, unless you want to call Doom 2 the masterpiece with its much broader range of level design. There are tons of games in this sort of iterative category: Starcraft: Brood Wars, Baldur's Gate 2 TOB, Thief 2, Civ 2, Fallout 2, Ultima 3, 4, or 7 depending on preferences, Final Fantasy 6, 7, or 10 depending on preferences. And of course, bother Super Mario, and Super Mario 64 for what they did for 2d and 3d platformers respectively. Then we have games which come along and risk doing something totally new, and maybe don't quite pull it off but are so innovative that they inspire a lot going forward. Deus Ex, Ultima Underworld, Left 4 Dead, Smash Brothers, Dune 2. Ultima 1. Knights of the Old Republic. Diablo. Sim City, or The Sims. Do these games get their due in spite of their jank? I usually use the term classics. Games which are important parts of gaming history either because they're important for the evolution of games, or because they honed their craft to the point of near perfection for their day. I can't disagree with your choices in regards to quality. I've played all of those games, and they're some of my favorites. I think The Ur-Quan Masters is quietly one of the best games ever made (though its combat is not great). They have a consistent theme though. All of those games encourage nonlinear exploration, and reward you with forms of progression, lore, or teases of new playable space or spectacle. They're games you wander through being awed, not sure what you'll find with the next away mission, or in the next cave or chest. But those aren't the only kinds of games which are subjectively great. They're not the only masterpieces in the history of gaming. I mean Starcraft: Brood War was an iterative magnum opus for real time strategy design and balance, a breakout success for e-sports, a new bar for storytelling and worldbuilding in games outside of the graphic adventure or RPG space, visually stunning for its day, nearly unparalleled for its depth of user created content and modability, and just fun to play for millions of people. It's hard to call it anything but a masterpiece, but it doesn't evoke wonder or awe. I guess the way I see it is, I don't like the idea of boiling the complex stew that is gaming down to a few key points of success. These four games are the good ones. There's good, bad, and great all over. There are loads of games which I think match the quality and presentation of your list for their day, and have different strengths and weaknesses. And all the games you listed fit that mold as well. Morrowind's visuals and exploration were astonishingly good, but its combat and storytelling even for its day were decidedly less good. Link to the Past's presentation, pacing, and exploration were all top notch, but its combat was just serviceable, and a lot of the exploration was smoke and mirrors for how linear it really was. Star Control 2 is still my gold standard for exploration, right alongside Ultima 3 and 4, and now Elden Ring, but the storytelling was... quirky. Sometimes it landed, sometimes it didn't. Some of it aged well, some of it didn't. And the combat was basically a bolted on minigame which didn't mesh well with the resource management side of exploration when you could just master a single ship and kill any enemy fleet of any size with it without taking a loss. Chrono Trigger.. Yeah ok that game's pretty much perfect, I have little to add. The thing that blows my mind about Elden Ring, is that it's the first game in a very long time to just blow me away across the board. Storytelling, tone, lore, visual presentation, Combat, exploration, pacing, non linearity. I haven't found myself this all around impressed by a title since I first played Mass Effect 1 and 2 back to back. Elden Ring feels like they made 3 games worth of content, kept quality and presentation up for all of it, and released it as one game. It feels like an indie game from a really passionate dev who got an unlimited budget to realize his vision. I strongly feel like this is a milestone game. This game is going to be important for inspiring the next generation of developers. It shows itself as a shining example of what games CAN be with time, vision, budget, good management, and artistic integrity. I think it likely that a decade from now people will be comparing games to this game. Two decades from now people will be going back and playing this as classic in a way reminiscent of how I went back and played Wasteland or Ultima 4 in the 2000's, or how people still go back and play Link to the Past. Anyways sorry for being so long winded. Good health, and good gaming my dude.

that sounds accursed

@@stick1869 and brutally painful.... i want it

Make it an FPS and I'm in

That sounds fucking awesome

Why does it have to be souls like??? Unless you're making big changes like in Sekiro, where it feels like something different, then don't do it. I'm burned out on souls and ER was the final one for a while for me.

That's the feeling of experiencing perfection. Of something without lack. A masterpiece. It's a rare feeling, and one that is becoming rarer still... Perhaps that's why this one hits so strongly. Rushed games, and broken promises across the medium have ruined the artform. But not this. This... This is perfection.

It's called releasing a finished game. Lol kids of now didn't really experience.

lets just say yet, there aren't going to get another game out in years, your point of view can vastly change with time

Just wait for big Bloodborne

@@ProfessorLandjo its already been stated that bluepoint are making bloodborne 2 which sucks and means it'll probs suck ass. Fromsoft are working on armoured core right now

@@bobbob-cd9yl Do you mean the remake ?

@bob bob That sounds like the 100th BB2 rumor that's repeated every single time, don't think that's true

@@ProfessorLandjo nah it's from colin moriaty who also knew about the new biochock

Who hurt you, cobbler, who hurt you, who hurt you, who hurt you..m

Wtf dad

They already did though with the dogs that hit you 85 times in two seconds (literally) inflicting massive bleed. That said, when they main stream the dog, I'm going to be more terrified than anything.

@@ImperialGuardsman2 i was going to say we technically got the dog in DS3, it was grey wolf sif.....

Dogs are pretty sick ngl

They showed the dog in the first Dark Souls.

Made you kill the dog 👀

It's not flawless, it is a new begin.

That's what patches and DLC are for. I don't really see the point in a new soulsborne game atm

@@Vermbraunt Yeah "at the moment" but these games take like 4-6 years to release.

IMO the mechanics added open up a lot of new possibilities. Also rebalancing old mechanics like weapon arts being very strong (or at least useful), powerstancing unlocking more movesets, quicksteps and jumps giving i-frames, posture system for those sweet crits, etc, all of that makes Elden Ring feel like not like the end but a new beginning for me. If fromsoftware refines and balances all these mechanics the genre can still evolve, personally I love the minimalistic DS combat of just rolling until you can eventually press R1 and repeat, but I'm more of a Doom Eternal fan where you have a wide set of tools that are useful and being witty on using them all is half of getting good. Though It could be as Peach says and Elden Ring is just as good as it's gonna get. We'll have to wait to know.

Tbh man, im having a hard time seeing what From will do with the DS formula next. (That said, id love a scifi soulslike game from fromsoft)

@@zeallust8542 I fucking love this idea, and if anyone can get the atmospheres right to pull it off, its Fromsoft

@@zeallust8542 Don't take this as fact, but I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere that they're planning for their next step to be a new Armored Core game

@@zeallust8542 The thing is they can do literally anything now. They can do something bat shit crazy. Dark Souls in space. Dark Souls in hell. They can take their perfected formula and do whatever they want because they’ve created it and mastered it. Dark Souls in the future. Of course it has to be very well thought out but I wouldn’t say the devs are going to fail because they havent yet. I personally give a studio one bad game to see how well they bounce back. Currently doing that for CDPR. I think Cyberpunk will be great someday but that doesn’t forgive the shitty release of it but more importantly we need to see how they do with the Witcher 4 to actually judge them since they had a near flawless record so far. FromSoft has that perfect record and delivered with Elden Ring. Nothings stopping them from toning it down and making a more narrative driven souls-like next time around. That would be interesting tbh. A Souls-like with a Nier type of story? Would be insane

@@Nick-kc4pb i agree man, one bad game isnt the end of a company for me, tbh im still waiting to see if bethesdas next game id great, sometimes you land bad, and it happens. But man, hopefully our next few games from From are fantastic. And until then, well, Elden Ring has so much more for me to find.

🙏

They did have their fuckups. They made kingsfield with guns, for example.

I loved Elden Ring, but let's not act like it perfected the open world formula. You're penalised for not exploring: flask of wondrous phisicks, golden seeds, tears, summons, and important items are mostly on side areas. But the loot in main areas is absolute garbage, and you're penalised for exploring these. Just look at Haligtree: the area is huge, and a maze. It literally only has one boss, and the majority of the loot is garbage. It's a waste of time to explore main areas, I just found myself rushing to the endgame bosses because that was the only thing that felt like a challenge at that point.

@@loladas9 correct. You have to go out of your way for power. Kind of core to the fromsoft formula.

@@heszedjim9699 yeah, but it would feel nice if main areas had nice loot. You can find a lot of decent items in Dark Souls by exploring alternative routes, while in Elden Ring, the alternative routes feel devoid of useful items. Plus, finding a Sacred Tear in an alternative route is fun, having to hit every single church just to leave after? Not so much (it's a minor detail but relevant to the whole debate) Every time I explored I asked myself "is this really worth my time"?

malenia also exists only once

Not true. With a new engine and a larger team, amazing things could be done to make this series even better.. It's just a matter of whether or not Fromsoft is willing to dump the time and money into it.. They could easily profit off another rehash, but if they put quality and artistic integrity before profit, this series could still be elevated even higher.. It's rare to see anyone do that though, eventually everyone caves to the money once enough success is brought about..

I really do hope they return to smaller scale games like Dark Souls 1. Elden Ring just wasn’t focused enough, and that scared me. It feels like less of Fromsoft learning what worked and what didn’t with their previous games, and more of them just throwing lots of elements together (to extremely varying degrees of success).

My personal best case scenario is that they release a dlc that consist of a smaller single area thats as polished and focused as can be to sunset the souls series. Not really that wild considering theyve released amazing dlc thats usually better than the base game.

@@eldenlean5221 DUDE your name is so cursed

lol they rereleased 2 games with barely any changes at full price. "Integrity".

​@@meepk633demon souls was rereleased a decade later as a graphical showcase for PS5 and everyone was demanding for DS1 to get the remaster since DS2 released... plus DS remastered was 40$ never 60. I don't think either was the best rerelease or 'remaster' I've ever seen but you have impossible standards if you think FROM has ever sold out their audience...

@@OpaqueNihilist I'm not talking about Demons Souls. That was an actual remake. I'm not talking about it BECAUSE it's an actual remake. DSR and SOTFS are not remakes. They are blatant cash grabs by a massive corporate game studio. I don't have impossible standards. I have the standard used by From when they ordered a remake of Demons Souls.

@@meepk633 fair enough. I forgot about Scholar but then again, wasn't that just a rerelease for PS4 and Xbox1 they ported over to PS3 and 360? It also did significantly change the overall amount of gank in DS2 as well as the accessibility of the DLC content. Not gonna defend SOTFS tho, it isn't better than vanilla DS2. I don't think changing Lost Izalith and Bed of Chaos would have actually changed the perception of the remaster personally. Maybe if it came out around DS3 and Bloodborne, but it came out right before Sekiro. Changing DS1 to that degree and fixing it to be the 'perfect' game might be what the purists want, but having a 10+ FPS Blightown and the enhanced contrast is REALLY nice in some areas while not taking away from the world of the first game at all. I think Demon Souls was a really good remaster but I actually prefer the origin atmospherically, it just feels more claustrophobic and limited. I feel like it would have been a cash grab if they charged 60$ and it wasn't on any newer consoles fs, since it would have been a literal performance patch, but Sekiro releasing and that being so different from the FROM formula thus far really gave DS1 a good niche to fill in the ecosystem. Also replacing the amount of reskined models (particularly in lost Izalith) and trying to replicate the amazing interconnectivity of the first half of the game would be a monumental task, especially using the nearly decade old assets. It's not a bad product at all, even on a Nintendo Switch which is a bit of a mind fuck coming from someone who played it on the PS3 originally.

@@meepk633 tbh man I don't know of a even semi large developer that would have had superior business practices. Rereleases have absolutely flooded the market the last two decades really... Some games are on their 3rd or 4th 'remaster' at this point, and many sequel games are basically remastered nostalgia bait by any other name. I'm not trying to suck them off, but at least From makes very high quality games

Tbh I thought it was going to be a dumb joke about all the "Dog" messages left near anything with more than 2 legs.

You didn't pay attention then.

@@Aqueox everything in this video was personal opinion 🤷‍♂️

@@joeydunn1867 That has nothing to do with what I said. Disappear.

@@Aqueox Careful not to cut yourself with all that edge, youngin'.

@@the-man-who-bites-his-tongue Lol Okay redditor.

They already released something DRASTICALLY different already (Sekiro) to an amazing effect. They'll be fine dw.

@@noobatron2663 Yeah I know, I've played every game from Demon's Souls forward minus Bloodborne

@@sheevpalps66 ugh will they release it on Xbox?

@@Sorrowdusk Probably not, Demons Souls and Bloodborne are PS exclusives and arent even on PC (minus emulators)

damn hella shilling

Yup. Same with BOTW. They could've easily made more traditional zelda games and they would've still been good. Plus its basically a 2017 version of original 1986 Zelda.

the premise of the video is wrongheaded. look at nintendo, a company that has iterated on the same design ideas since the 80's and still produces some of the greatest games. comparing a title like CoD that comes out nearly every year to a game like Elden Ring is foolish. That's like comparing it to madden and being like "well madden has been the same game every year so I guess thats whats gonna happen to FromSoft games" Elden Ring is certainly the culmination of various fromsoft games and design experimentation, but drawing the conclusion that they aren't going to put out anything as good or better by looking at what has happened to activision and ubisoft titles is pretty stupid when the studio has given no indication that they are trying to make the same game every year like those publishers are.

Only 22 likes shows how many snowflakes are in here....

@@MyTardisGoWhoosh wtf how the hell do snowflakes come into this? Lol

He’s saying Elden Ring is like Far Cry 3, Modern Warfare, etc. a franchise which has leapt into greatness and wild success. The stagnation hasn’t happened yet. The problem is in thinking that all giant franchises will inevitably stagnate like CoD and Far Cry have.

The game was spoiled tho, the ending was spoiled. Like honestly did you even watch the video?

@@noodle7725 it just showed radan which is a cover art boss and also a mid game boss, not a spoiler

@@danielson1463 bro what, you definitely did not look then, it showed end game cutscene, Leyndell, bosses. I’m only saying this because you said that the game wasnt spoiled “at all” which isn’t true

@@noodle7725 Who the fuck's Leyndell? If he's important, don't namedrop him and don't start explaining his existence because, as it stands you're the one who's spoiling the game more than DJ did. DJ put in a few cutscenes that don't mean shit to me. You put out a fucking name.

" I cried watching this" my god...

@@airbo793 gaming and RU-vid videos are pieces of art. It is no more wrong to cry to a good game or video than it is to a song or movie. Powerful art draws out emotions, and if you don't feel emotion from art you're probably an NPC

@@sagereef I had the same response to that linne as ol' Airbo here too though - because it just reeks of zoomer lol. And no no, youtube videos are not pieces of art, although some of them certainly are - just the same with music etc. So yeah if you cry over youtube vids like this (being very much not art), you're probably an NPC etc etc blah blah

@@DistrictWitch I can agree that not all are, I think the og commenter is crying not because of the video but because of the idea of the video and his strong points to back the idea up. Not exactly the video itself ya know

@@sagereef I think those other guys are hollows not npc’s. And yes I teared up as well multiple times on my first play through because I knew this was it. This would be the last time I get to experience what made the Souls genre unique. It had just enough pandering for the new players to “feel” like they have accomplished something impossible. Most of us struggled in DS1 and have been used to the poundings these games offer but keep coming back anyways. I just hope elden ring gets its Ring City dlc and let’s the game rest till a new generation can spark the next age of fire

Try replaying Dark Souls and you may find a fleeting taste of nostalgia's sweet ambrosia to take the edge off. Also, I'm really happy to hear you had that moment in the sun with your dad.

At the very least I’m sure we will be getting DLC, and I trust from software to make good games, even if it isn’t a souls-like. I do hope the pvp scene in elden ring gets better though, or at least have the DS3 servers come back on.

The sun is beautiful everyday because you’re seeing the sun one day less before you die. It’s the loss that gives pleasure.

I can't bring myself to beat it. I've beaten almost everything. I was in radagon's arena, and I just stood there while he pounded on me. I wanted to die. Maybe there is a small alcove I missed somewhere, or an npc quest I could still do. Anything to prevent myself from finishing it. I've created 6 different alts slowly progressing through the world, taking the time to appreciate every vista, every boss, everything. I'm sure one day I'll finish it, but not today.

@@CharlieKellyEsq did you ever finish it?

Unnerving because 16 minutes was about other games?

Agreed. I feel like there is absolutely still space to polish this formula, both in regards to how the gameplay works and how the story is told. Both new innovations that can be made, and good parts of previous iterations that weren't kept into the immediate sequel. Handled well, I think we can get at least one more installment out of this series before the dog moment is truly inevitable.

Yup. It's almost there. We just need one or two more games for them to completely iron out everything

Yes. As as much as Elden Ring improved upon mechanics and styles from the games before it, I'm excited to see how they polish systems and things from ER even more with their next massive release (if they ever make something of this scale again). I share a lot of these concerns despite loving the ever-living fuck out of this game (120 hours and counting and just started NG+)

Agreed. Elden Ring is a fantastic game, I haven't felt like this playing a game in at least 10 years. That being said though, there's still definitely room for improvement. And like you said, with all the cash coming in from elden ring the next game could truly be refined to perfection

Yeah and I believe From has said they aren’t even done with this game yet.

the two fallout games you were talking about were open world

@@channel45853 but they were also rpgs. Fallout 4 was just open world. It called itself an rpg but it was a piss poor excuse for one

@@channel45853 Filthy casual. :P No, but having three dialog options that ultimately lead to the same place doesn't make an RPG, no matter how open and big the worldspace is.

Don't ever expect anything close to an RPG from Bethesda again. All they're interested in making is mass-market appealing, heavy handed, poorly written narrative filler with endless missions. Starfield will be more of the same, ES6 will be more of the same. They don't have the talent or ambition to ever try making anything meaningful like they (kind of) did when releasing the early ES games up to Morrowind. Fallout 3 is okay, but that and Oblivion were the turning point for them into modern Bethesda.

@@themadtitan8379 yeah, but his comment was flawed by itself. I know Fallout 3 and NV were way more open than 4, I'm just saying his comment is flawed.

Its even funnier considering it basically happened irl when the celeb holograms were a thing

@@Thedownedmachines They were a thing?

@@Sorrowdusk ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7vqiRl5afgQ.html Yeah, it was pretty big after he died, but i guess it ran out of steam or something

As I was reading this he said it lol

I agree with the thesis but not the analogy. If we take michael jackson to represent "the hitmaker" (aka game studio) and the records to represent "the product" (aka the games) the analogy breaks because Fromsoft is still alive. It's poetic and helps get across the message of the video but is a bad analogy in my opinion. Personally I think a metaphor involving depleted mines or conquered lands would have worked better. Edit: To clarify, I agree with the idea that ER is more refinement than breaking new ground and doesn't appear to have much interesting room to grow. I disagree totally that this means a decline in quality is imminent after all benign stagnation is possible too.

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Its Friday

@@zeflr122 bruh wdym it's obviously Wednesday my dudes

eloquently put.

Well said, sir.

Literally no one remembers sekiro.

add a TLDR bruh, n as long as they evolve the formula of evolving formulas, theyll be fine, keep that consumerist cope to yourself.

@@Johnson-br2lw lmao sekiro is fromsoftware's goat

Miyazaki will definitely try new things, but Souls? Maybe not, at least for a good while

@@aleshofastora440 take the new thing and combine it with souls

@@binbows2258 that's later

FromSoft made like 30 fucking armored core games and the way they kept them interesting was by completely reinventing the series every once in a while. The next soulslike game can be good, but it can't be another dark souls.

@@binbows2258 dark guns of the patriots