Why Is Elden Ring SO SUCCESSFUL?! 

Ok.

@@turtlinator9801 agreed

I have been very busy helping people who are having trouble finding certain bosses and locations with 145 hours of game-time on Elden ring best 60 bucks I ever spent

act man, please get sponsored by hellofresh so that this mobile junk food apps don't clog your arteries

Over bloating health and damage dose not equal interesting game play. If i have to use the exact same handful of basic tactics that I have been using since ocarina of time from first mob to final boss then I am not overcoming a challenge, beacsue their is nothing challenge. It nothing but tedious busy work that holds my hand costly telling me no i have to do the exact same thing 100 more time.

love ur vids dude

thank god I stopped going to work before I got this

The zanman is here boii

Same here Zanny, same here

redirected and your hidden potential revealed. not corrupted.

God do I wish that was the approach CDProjekt took with 2077

Who couldve thought?

Wish Halo had someone like that

@@TheActMansame

Except ds2, he came in at the end. He was working on bloodborne, ds2 had a different lead. Play al the games. It’s blatantly obvious.

Thank god for that !!

Yeah it was a better design choice than what they did in DS3

It's mid and nobody talks about it anymore

@@Jeff_Biden Damn gunny, don't do it to em

@@Jeff_Biden That's just objectively false on both fronts sir.

I really don’t understand what makes it so great Red dead 2 open world is so greatly detailed and the graphics are astounding well above expectations God of war has a magnificent narrative I really am confused if I should buy elden ring or not Because i’ll be honest here, what i have seen about the game has not impressed me one bit but the praises are so high If someone can suggest me about buying or not buying elden ring?

@@seniorgun9452 those worlds are good only through the visuals. But if you want a truly 'open' open world game it doesn't really get a whole lot better than elden ring. The sense of exploration, suprise, how rewarding it feels to explore sets it apart from its competition. It does not hold your hand like red dead does. It just throws you into this massive world.

i wish i was in that timeline.

Give what they want, and surprise for the benefit

Imagine giving customers a finished product. What a concept

And more

@@commander2552 not hard to finish a glorified reskin. Don’t get me wrong I’m still enjoying elder ring tho

You even hear Blackguard tell how he was in "gaol" with Dungeater, and pronounces it "jail". Makes it fun when some Evergaols have Stonesword key goblins, and you then technically just remove one of the locks that would keep them in, just to make their life sentence a death sentence >:D

That's Yanks for you. One even managed to mess up the "Who are ya?" chant

@@Grandmastergav86 that’s a bit stereotypical don’t you think

@@cyrusmuller6502 Don't bother. Brits love stereotyping other countries but when people do the same thing to them they go ape shit.

@@Grandmastergav86 What do you mean? Y'all were spelling jail with an o

I’m pushing 500 hours, got the platinum and nearly every weapon, I’m still having a time of my life. This is my number one game of all time.

⁠@@ataylor345 I have 400 hours on my main and 100 on my alt and 70 on my other alt and I have got the platinum a few months ago. Despite all this I am still playing this game. As a matter of fact I’ve played it so much I even tried a BOW BUILD and still had a blast with it. Elden ring is without a doubt the greatest… game… ever… made.

@@PewDieFatyra that is a wonderful idea, welp time to start another Playthru😂

How? It doesn't have a years of content? Let alone 2?

​@@everythingponyL+Ratio+TrashTake+Maidenless+Fatherless+Motherless+Cope+Mald+Seethe

The question is; how do you feel about souls games now? 😮

Now go back and try the older ones again 😈😈

I’ve never played a souls game but this game makes me feel like I should give it a go

@@cormacbrowne9308 You most certainly should!

@@cormacbrowne9308 play DS1 at least. it's very different and such an epic, but also brutal experience. DS3 on the other hand, not that much different. you dont really need to play it, if you've already played ER, imho.

There is something like that in ds3 but it's a lot more rare and less generous

Dude, when I discovered that I was so pumped. I think it is natural and acceptable for people to 'not care' beyond baseline success. That allows for a very healthy range of choices and reactions ranging from "you failed to even give the most basic shit" to "under no circumstances were you required to do this, but you did so anyways". Miyazaki & co may not be everyone's cup of tea, but as someone who abandoned Bloodborne on release only to come back later due to the RU-vid lore community and become absolutely addicted to the entire franchise, holy shit my guy, FromSoft is like the AboveAndBeyond train that has no brakes. They are the living embodiment of the long, hard, sure road to success; they've shown unapologetic commitment tempered by disciplined authenticity, a humble love for the moments of joy and awe their games have virtually become a byproduct for, as well as a dash of malicious, predatory, grounded realism. In a way, FromSoft acts a lot like a real-life cell or immune system in the critical ways that are abjectly lacking in the majority of the industry. Namely, once FromSoft decides what is good, they have stayed true to that vision regardless of peer pressures. For Demon's Souls (OG game), it was the Vice President of Sony saying the game was dogshit. For Sekiro, it was seemingly every games propagandist *cough* I mean journalist and their brother/uncle/mother/daughter. A cell without a cell wall is the most inclusive thing on earth. It is also dead without exception. Likewise an immune system is trusted absolutely with defense of the greater whole and must be absolutely ruthless in its simple recognition of what is/isn't 'the body'. The immune system isn't attacking anything as much as it is simply reinforcing the original image of what the body should be. If you choose to paint a picture and another brush comes along and actively interferes with your vision, yeeting it off your canvas is the most basic possible requirement to self-validating your vision as a painter, if you will. Within the uncompromising harshness of these borders, however, there is a true opportunity for life in abundance to take root and flourish. Souls players KNOW the sheer "come, taste, and see that it is good" X factor under the 'git gud' surface, which is why I think so many players readily hop into the gatekeeping trenches. It isn't arbitrary - it is a voluntary sanity check for those who can't be told why overcoming adversity is a good thing - we all have to experience it to truly taste and see it is good for ourselves in a way that words alone will always fail to convey. Sorry for the rant. The long & short of it I guess is that there's probably nothing I love more than someone who chooses to do an unbidden good thing, above and beyond any expectation of duty or reward, especially when done in the face of peer pressures/when it is explicitly unpopular/when doing such will earn you open scorn & ridicule. FromSoft seems to manage an incredible resilience overall to both internal rot (level of effort and love they pour into their games; e.g. dare I say the Souls games HAVE soul) and external rot (coercive, manipulative, ill-fated influences to conform or otherwise abandon FromSoft's chosen principles). ant over

@@HailThanagor a choice i regret to this day is that i dropped Bloodborne in 2018 after finishing it because of how intimidating the damage was but when i came back to it last month i was so engrossed with it, the cosmic horror and the things you see when you thoroughly explore it, is so fuckin good it's like I'm getting real life insight everytime i explore and discover things, and if you want to breeze through things go to the old hunters dlc and hit the legs till you get the beast hunter saif the attacks of that weapon is so goddamn good

I don’t blame him for leaving out the pussy parts of this game that gift you easy mode all the time

@@d-turn3314 as it should be. There’s like 10 features in Eldon ring that make it easy mode. 🤦‍♂️

Tbf, the multiplayer in this game (although a bit clunky) is incredible, obviously playing with friends is great but invading someone and being able to act and feel like an in-game boss yourself and fighting against players with wildly different sets, skill, classes, and playstyles is incredible, plus using the already beautiful and incredibly wide array of backdrops, areas and locations in this game make every invasion so unique and incredible, or frustrating of course, but still, the things you can experience in this game are incredible.

@@kappadestiny638 Still, you can't deny that this is primarily a single-player focused game, and thos usually die in a week at most in terms of player numbers. Not Elden Ring though, it just keeps going and going.

@@beetheimmortal It would be a lot like Skyrim in terms of how there's still a massive player base because the game is just so massive, not really sure if it's possible to even mod elden ring but if it is then this game would have a really lengthy lifespan.

@@kappadestiny638 Well, FROM games are not really known for their moddability, then again, Cinders exists, so who knows

Well, given that Halo infinite is experiencing the DOOM Eternal effect (Releasing in a solid state, but not having a whole bunch of stuff to keep people busy) other multiplayer games releasing in sorry states, and overall a lack of solid games. Obviously people are going to play the best, and arguably only great game out right now.

But was it finished tho?

@matin hasan IF YOU WANNA GET UP...

>playable on release there are still tons of people with bricked saves, invisible enemies, and terrible performance i love the game but i wish people would stop pretending it had a perfect release

@@Michael-zp6hq Idk where the fuck is that but I've never encountered anything like you said. Maybe it is on PC where it actually is pretty hard to play on and has some big problems, but here on console I have zero problems whatsoever.

@@professionalsimpdestroyer4135 have 150 hours on pc and never had any bugs. There is a lot of frame drop but not the worst performance Ive seen. Its still very playable and I dont have a high end pc

@@Michael-zp6hq Large majority have not experienced those issues, and there is no game that is comparable in size that didn't have some issues like that after launch, especially when you compare to Bugthesda games.

Sorry bro I really want to like your comment but the numbers are too good

@@akabara3119 a true gentleman

What did you think?

@@callumanderson6373 my copy arrived yesterday. I like it a lot so far

elden ring is terrible and i regret wasting 60 dollars on it

Well said.

I truly think Fromsoft has made entirely “completed” games. Not that they’re not sometimes missing content but that the games ARE what they envisioned when they’re released not months later or at the end of their lives. Everything we get after is bonus stuff.

Lets not even talk about Halo infinite 😭

​@@NotSoSerious69420 I think you're right. Fromsoft isn't perfect, but their games are very well thought out, and like 99% finished on release. I'm also thankful they aren't 200gb lol

@@prodbylewis2308 Why do AAA games keep screwing up 😭

Did I just go the wrong way or something, world feels mega empty to me?

Proceed to use mimic tear

@@alastatious5460 play how you want. I prefer being mr macho big sword guy with no help >:)

An experience and feeling you'd get playing the very first souls game lol

not when ita takes literally 4500 years , endless grinding and dying is dogshit

@@BrainDrainProduction doesn't take long at all. The game doesn't feel even remotely like a grind. Git gud

Expect why Elden ring is a masterpiece in 5 years

50 hours brother isn't a lot, hell I'm currently over 50 hours on Wolfenstein The New Colossus and that's a chapter based single player game

I was 120 hours in and still seeing new zones and new normal ass enemies.

Bet ya wished he would've put up a Spoiler tag though

@@Summer_Tea Yeah, well I'm 250 hours in, and I smell terrible

@@jmarra07 I prolly wouldn't have noticed it anyways

what about madness

is it good for complete Massachists like me how only play hard games because we hate ourselves, cuz the its the easiest fromsoft title kinda throws me off

@@acidiccow.63 Yes. There are talismans that enable the game to be more difficult. I.E. trading a buff to a stat for taking more damage etc.

@@jamescarr9347 ah yes, snake girl talisman

@@acidiccow.63 but it definetly is the most fun one,its also easier because of how open it is, in ds3 once you reach a boss or either explore a bit and try to prepare( that rearely does anything tbh) you have to fight him to pass to the next part, so you will have to hit your head agaisnt a wall until it breaks, but elden ring says "ay bro, come back later if you dont mind, take your time".

Yep

If only I could be so grossly incandescent

yeah, my friends discord ended up having a dedicated elden ring channel because everyone was playing it lmao.

Praise the Sun!

But first, but hole

The last part of your comment is spot on. It's an unbelievable feeling playing such a landmark game and you're going through it with so many other people at the same time, you're discussing the path you've taken and bosses you found (and haven't found lol). Everyone's experience of the game is so unique and you could talk about it endlessly, overall just a great feeling of community I haven't had in any videogame for a long time and this is coming from a person who's played mostly multiplayer games since forever, apart from FromSoft games and miscellaneous single player games like TW3 here and there. This is my second FromSoft game I've gotten to play right from its release, the first one being Sekiro, and I can't imagine how people must've felt when they've released their previous titles. Although Elden Ring has really captured the whole gaming world for almost a month now and it's yet to show signs of stopping. I think this game came at the perfect time in terms of the gaming industry and the real world itself, things are looking really dark but at least we have this to raise our spirits.

I’m 70 hours in and just beat Radhan but haven’t even fought Godrick or Renalla yet just because I’ve been absolutely in love with the exploration and discovery 😂

im 30 hours in and brute forced the Firegiant

That's the best thing about this game. Anyone can play at their own pace and still have something new and/or challenging to deal with. It caters to the hardcore brute forcers and over-leveled cheese-strat players with the same amount of respect.

150 hours in and still farming limgrave. I’m lvl 220 getting ready to beat Margit.

@@TropicJesus If you have fun this way, its totally fine. I must say: you're so ridiculously overpowered, it won't be fun

I mean... Microtransactions aside, infinite had pretty fun gameplay. That's all it has going for it though..

@@noobnoob8922 all Halos have great gameplay, if they messed that up Microsoft would probably shut down 343

@@Suumac_ exactly

@@Suumac_ Halo 4 and 5 sucked, Halo hasn't been good since Reach and hasn't been truly great since Halo 3.

We neeeeed more content!!!!

Ong

What's the song in the the background at 17:06

@@sidthemid_yt9123 Some Zelda song.

Normally you're cringe but here you're objectively correct

@@iHaveTheDocuments Cringe are the people who keeps repeating "how are you everywhere", "I see you everywhere" etc

Yep. Miyazaki has flat out lied to upper management/business in order to implement mechanics and features in the souls games. Wheras any other dev team would have just just rolled over and let the business-side tell them what to do. For example, Miyazaki didn’t tell upper management about the “souls” system when he was working on demons souls, because he knew they would tell him to remove it. They also asked him to not include the praise the sun gesture in dark souls, because they said it was “too uncool”. So he lied and told them that devs removed it even though they didn’t lol.

@@Micolashcage1 a legend he is And at that time he didn't care if it failed, he has nothing to lose and besides the game was already a failure Until he directed and lied to the higher-ups It's another one of those things where original vision matters So imagine if more directors get more freedom and don't always have to listen to the demands of the suits

@@Micolashcage1 i cant even imagine life without the praising the sun, miyazaki is a wondrous body, like a magnificent father.

Miyazaki also didn't come from a game development background. He was originally an office manager who also worked in programming for financial software. Unlike creatives in roles of authority who can't lead worth a flip (Ken Levine, Swery65, etc) Miyazaki already had real world experience in a position that necessitated merit for the hire. Many people in the western entertainment industry today just fail forward over and over again for non meritorious reasons, ruining absolutely everything they touch before getting a golden parachute right back into another role.

@@Micolashcage1 The first time I see Solaire standing firmly under the sun, that feeling is so great, indescribable, this is one of most iconic scenes in souls games

Holy, 11+ hours each day? I wish I had that time

@@Furtner5 everything is a choice my friend

WOW. Honestly jealous I wish I had the time, because I definitely would do that too lol

215 on one playthru? How tf lol

That’s absolutely ridiculous I couldn’t imagine

Sekiro has one of the most fun combat systems I have ever played *hands down,* and that's coming from a *100%* new souls player after recently falling in love with Elden Ring. That led to the introduction of Sekiro, and although I *do* prefer Elden Ring, I 100% agree with you. Not enough people give Sekiro a shot. If they did, and actually spent a *BIT* of time practicing combat, they'd realize that it is certainly one of the most underrated games of all time.

@@stefdezy1562 the reason why its one of the best games that surpasses a lot of other soulsborne game is because of the thrill it gives, like how many times you have finished the story? and then you want to do it again, over and over, and yet never get bored.

@@mohdshahariar5833 I haven’t even fully beaten the game yet and I can certainly already see that. It’s an absolute gem.

That's a defeatist attitude. Go play it

@@t2av159 What? Not everyone likes every single genre of games. I for one can’t stand sim/civilization type games. If he don’t like souls games, how they play and what they’re about, then so be it. Who tf cares?

@@biffbroham you sound like the whiners/journalists in act man's original video on darksouls and elden ring easy mode.

@@t2av159 you should play ghouls n ghosts if ur not a baby casul, if you hate side-scrollers its cause your a loser irl. I am going to write this comment not realizing I sound like a douche for failing to comprehend what I'm replying to and spewing rhetoric that isolates me from others by labeling them with a preconceived negative stereotype that either drives people away or draws equally charged responses.

@@t2av159 it’s more just a distaste for specific genres, really. I personally love coop and roguelike games, but have little to no interest in RTS and moba games. And y’know, bein like that is perfectly okay, as the person isn’t saying they’re bad, just going out and stating “eh, I tend to get much more enjoyment out of other genres than I typically do from games like these”. No need to judge them for being like that

Right all my brothers and cousin and my uncle all so far have had very unique experiences from one another and we build each other up from all of our experiences

Every copy of elden ring is personalized

No microtransactions & no agendas

@@milkymilkman This too. No politics, just a big ass world filled to the brim with cool and/or weird enemies and npcs

Same! Good luck with the rest of your journey, brave tarnished!

I’ve also never played a souls type game, but this one is appealing. I think it’s the fantastical and more colourful environments

Im so glad this is bringing people to souls. They are hard but SSSSOOOO rewarding. Keep going, im glad your having fun with this game!!!

@@TheWayBesst I’ve only played darks souls 3 and sekiro but those both have great colors and environments as well

How is it on the series s? Does it run fine?

Army or not, you must realize... you are doomed.

DS1 and 3 bro. go for it

Same here, bro

Well, we at least had Hollow Knight. 🙃

I feel the same exact way bro. This game is a true blessing

You voiced my feelings better than I could have

The curses from the AAA devs is more reason to get it.

dont be, everything happens for a reason. Maybe you wouldnt have liked them back then, like me, I didnt dark souls 1, but then came back and played it again years later and loved it

You're lucky to be able to do it for the first time. Dark Souls is something special, enjoy.

@@MTLGSE I've really enjoyed the four or so hours I've played. I kind of knew what to expect when getting into it but I'm having a lot more fun learning the game then I thought I would.

@@whatdoyouwantfrommegoogle Just one thing I thought I should mention: The second half of Dark Souls 1 feels incomplete, so don't blame yourself if you aren't feeling motivated enough to finish DS1. It's still really freaking good though. :)

I got Bloodborne for free on psplus and bought Sekiro thinking it was Ghost of Tsushima so I got both on my library. I never played either however. Having such a great time on this game, I'm definitely gonna go back to them and try em out.

@@BG-mv7vm Nice thing is that after you beat Elden Ring, you will have the skills to take on sekiro and bloodbourne. There will be a learning curve with new mechanics but you are basically half way there.

I would kill to have a PC bloodborne port. I hear it's a great game but I'm not trying to buy a playstation for just that

@@brickfan3565 I´m pretty sure you should do it. thank me later.

I have never played any game made by Fromsoft and i'm still a very happy man who played other old gems of videogames. I hope to play Bloodborn and Dark Souls someday but it's not like I'm going to die for not playing the most popular and difficult series of games.... and it's not like I've not played or beaten challenging games before.

@@hashimrahman51 No shame in being scared by this game, I've had mini heart attacks with enemies either jumping me from unseen angles and/or boss music suddenly starting lmao. It's hilarious how this is more efficient at being terrifying than most horror games are, I'm 25 and I jump at a lot of small enemies I didn't see especially since I play with my volume quite high.

I apreciate the citation

@@TheBakingYeast Its legit. This is from an interview like 10 years old at this point.

i mean coop wasnt invented by dark souls lol

@@kirururik it's more about the way it works. Fully integrated into the game world, no microphones and matchmaking, no menus. Along with the ghosts, messages and bloodstains Souls asynchronous multiplayer is fairly unique. Even more so when Demons Souls released in 2009.

and to think, there are people nowadays that see summoning as a bad way to fight a boss. imagine if you see someone with their car stuck asking for help and then someone comes along to laugh at them for not being able to get it unstuck on their own

I agree, i mean all games that are considered the greatest of all time have flaws and this is up there with them.

And all this without......DLC!!! LOL

The easy mode is present in the form of spirit summons/ npc summons. Also souls farming to level up

@@acr7780 Yup. It's just like old school JRPGS, want to get through it quickly? Buckle up buckaroo you're goin level grinding then

Literally magic build is the easy mode of this game with summon behind it

@@acr7780 You kinda need to farm some to have hp and endurance to face the boss, just don't go crazy and its fair.

Twitter has a hate boner for pretty much anything that isnt virtue signalling.

Would be ironic if George died from a diabetic heart attack before the awards show lol...Edit: Nobody has a sense of humor lol

@@jmarra07 Bruh who even thinks that

@@jmarra07 that’s awful :(

I doubt grrm would be there

@@billydeeznuts what did they say?

i realized you can rest at the round table only after beating the game,to start the journey 2 :D

You can rest at the round table lol??? 130hrs in

Im 110 in you can rest there wtf! Ah just realized im in my first playthrough. Puh ;)

20 hours found out how to get spirit bell

@@legamerfish49 That's rough...Stormveil early must've sucked then

tell that to ubisoft

Not necessarilly

No one is really asking for quest markers or UbiSoft style/MMO vomit all over the map. That's just RU-vidrs needing something to talk about claiming "THEY" want it. Who's they? Its a strawman. We have custom markers to help somewhat and the NPC patch was VERY welcome. Many would have loved a simple quest log of sorts to keep track, because the writing is cryptic enough, especially when most of the quests refer to places or things you haven't even seen yet, so you have no frame of reference. Google solves that, but it would be nice to stay in-game. Look what Last of Us and Uncharted did with their journals. Extremely well crafted and immersive. It would have fit right in here. Its not like there are that many quests, so an artfully created journal of your interactions with NPC would have been 100X better. But then that's what WIKIs are for and FromSoft knows the players would do their job for them=)

Markers showing what you have discovered is what I want. They already do it for points of interest, and they just implemented it for some NPCs and merchants, which is good. It doesn't take away from the discovery of things, but does help the player remember things that would be impossible to remember otherwise without a wiki, guide, or notepad. All they need to do from a quest perspective and let you look up the last lines of dialogue NPCs said to you so you can try to continue quests. The fact the game doesn't give you that is a huge oversight.

@@AlexTaldren They literally already have markers for things you've discovered. Open your map and place them manually

@Hare75 The Lowly Tarnish You're absolutely correct but just like 2020 and 2021 Doom, Infinite, and Elden Ring will all be the winners for those years in the hearts of us gamers. 🙏🙏🙏

@Hare75 The Lowly Tarnish btw nice pfp lmao

@Hare75 The Lowly Tarnish Who gives a crap about a meaningless industry award? Here's the thing: TLoU2 may have won GOTY of 2020 (completely undeservedly), but Doom Eternal outsold it massively. People are still talking about Doom Eternal; meanwhile, nobody's talking about TLoU2 anymore.

@Hare75 The Lowly Tarnish Who cares? As long as great games make money that's all that matters. The game awards are worse than the Oscars.

Both Doom Eternal and Elden Ring are somehow exactly what I want a video game to be like.

honestly. i fucking wheezed when forbidden west and ubisoft devs attempted to slam er on twitter only to lock down their accounts from how much they got clowned on

@@Lu-bc3pl when I found out that the Ubisoft dev that complained about elden ring's UX worked on *battlefield 2042* out of all games, I pissed myself laughing. If you worked on any part of battlefield 2042, you should not have a right to talk about game design

@@Lu-bc3pl they got mad because everyone forgot about their forgattable games when elden ring came out

@@Lu-bc3pl You can like your game without crapping on all other games. It doesn't show confidence in your game if you're going after others and putting games against one another.

@@Lu-bc3pl I'd probably do the same if I got ratio'd by a fucking furry. That shit was great.

Oh hello garuga, can’t wait for sunbreak.

Nice name and pfp. Love Garuga, even with its instant attacks and terrible hitboxes in 4U lol

Wait till you discover the other 3 😁

One of the underground areas suddenly opens up a bit and revealed a red lake from afar and I was like *WHAAAAAT THE FUCK IS THAT??* It reminded me of seeing Ash Lake and Izalith from Tomb of the Giants in DkS1, it was a amazing experience!

There are multiple underground regions 😏

Yeah, they're a safe bet always

It's from from software

@@MonkeyDefenceForce amen agreement absolutely wonderful

I pre order Horizon Forbidden West and I didn’t regret it my personal GOTY

@@MalikATL don't worry it's your opinion and I respect it but Elden ring is my personal game of the year

I suggest playing through the rest of the Souls franchise. Demon's Souls (remake or orignal), DS trilogy, Bloodborne, and Sekiro are a must play

Welcome to Souls games. Now play Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Sekiro.

@@solidarity9371 u dont have to torture him/her

@@catodes1295 I wish they make an open world Bloodborne. I prefer the gothic/Cthulhu theme of it than the medieval theme of souls.

Rogue: welcome to the club!

Metroid says hi.

Castlevania Be like

souls fans always said that the difficulty of these games were hard but fair, and once you got the mechanics down it wasn't even that hard, but the difficulty was greatly exaggerated by being a meme and by people who didn't play the game. also yeah the community is great, the message of congratulations or 'i did it!' after beating a hard boss or the classic 'don't give up skeleton' they always made me feel part of a community that supports each other. I love reading comments from people new to the genre, I hope you have a good time

Truely said, brother. I barely touched a FromSoft game until now with ER. I didn't expect to be playing 100 hours of the friggin thing, yet I am. There's still moments I want to tear my hair out, but balanced out with moments of triumph, that shudder in your breath telling you succeeded against something mighty. And, in both beauty and beastly, the game just looks goddamn gorgeous.

All it took was a new coat of paint to get your money so clearly it couldn't have been all that

Welcome to the club m8, good to have you! The past Souls games are pretty tough, but they aren’t exactly “impossible” either, try em out when you finish with Elden Ring

That's exactly why we love those games too much, they don't feel impossible, but they're hard and require you to best yourself to stand upon foe after foe. And every successful encounter makes you feel absolutely great, and every defeat makes you want to go back and do better next time, to study the movement and the timing of your enemies go overcome them. That's what I love about these games, and if you like them I'm sure you'll love them as well. Try Dark Souls one or Bloodborne. Both of them are great games from Fromsoftware.

“in my opinion” People should really stop saying this and have more confidence in what they are saying. No “ifs” and “buts”, FromSoft absolutely deserves that success. I can think if every other company a decade ago, and they’ve all stagnated since. But they’ve always made new games even knowing Dark Souls success. That IP in every other companies hands would have been milked to death and its direction would have been absolutely destroyed because every current major game companies always chase current trends to put into their game. Look at Demon Souls remake. The graphics look really good, but they sacrificed the art direction the game had. And the UI and menus look like absolute MMO tier garbage with no aesthetic. It’s insane to say how it’s a breath of fresh air seeing a video game company that actually wants to make a game first and foremost. The game industry really has regressed a lot.

So.... where u now?

@@benfrank9622 I beat margarit the fell. Next part of the map and I am really struggling 😂😂😂

@@16maze I suggest lvling up first. there are plenty of good places to farm runes like caelid

Keep it up

You know what i did to that Tree Sentinel after it tortured me for an hour when i started? I took my bitchass to the Church of Elleh, bought a whole stack of arrows, jumped up and squeezed myself between two pillars there and started blasting arrows at his golden booty because he couldn't do shit but stare. over my 130 hours of playing Elden Ring, that moment was the proudest of my time spent on that game

That's legitimately sad lol

@@lockhart7813 legitimately? that's beyond sad if he believes that the way of life(not to be rude Its just that this should not be the path games are going)

@@lienomzekon4763 yeah fully agree man, it really is the worst how people have become so accustomed to stuff like micro transactions and we no longer get the full content of a game we probably paid $60+ for.

you should said I bought all of them when i bought the game 😂

@@CostasSavvides giga chad.

Because its Bloodbourne with a new coat of paint and your comment basically says this outright, "the same joy and rage inducing moments" new releases are supposed to bring new experiences not rehash the same old ones, that's what's wrong with gaming. Why make a new game when we can just rehash Bloodbourne, change it slightly and make bank

@@ShutUpBubi Troll harder and more creatively.

@@Zeburaman2005 for real lmao.

Proceeds to inspect every area **Gets mushroom**

Yeah but you can also see why some people don’t want to search the entire map over and over again just to finish a storyline

@@TheFlamingoBird playing a souls game for storyline alone is a bad idea maybe the games not for you if that's the only thing that peaks your interest

So how you figure out how to get through the story

Not worth venturing :)

@@mathajar9563 I wish I could but I truly appreciate that game, elden ring being my first Souls like game

@@mathajar9563 nah he's right same boat here

Play souls 3 or sekiro

Skyrim is like the sweet in-between. Quest markers can be disabled individually.

I do like the addition of showing where npcs are. Could never remember where all those merchants were

Same, I really got into JRPGs these past couple of years but I get exhausted by the quest fests. Especially when you can literally see the quests, so you feel you miss out if you don't see them. In Souls games, even if you miss npcs and quests it doesn't matter cause you don't even know they exist lol. And when you discover them you really feel the sense adventure and that you stumbled onto something great by accident

@@furiousturtl3 I like how they've done it too. You found that NPC? Alright, we'll mark it for you on the map. That fucker moves? Well too bad, the mark is gone. Go find them again.

@@buggart too bad skyrims combat is boring as shit

Elden Ring can only really be easy if yeah, your overleveled or boost runes. Trying to play the normal way and progressing from level 1-10+ zones, then 10-20+ etc is actually hard asf because you can die in like 1 or 2 hits from almost anything lmao.

They're gonna get the wrong signal and copy FromSoft again

Lol, Elden Ring has co-op and pvp. I love the game, but it's not the best example to hold up for single player games.

@@GeraltofRivia22 but it’s not a live service games

@@toshibiswas3115 you know the argument isn't single player or live service, right? Elden Ring isn't a live service, but it has some live service elements. Just recently they released a patch that buffed and nerfed equipment, and added some npcs and extended other npc questlines.

Not going to happen. Elden Ring is extremely successful, yes, but microtransactions are still FAR more profitable while requiring far less investment and risk. EA, Activision, Ubisoft, and Take-Two make almost all of their money from microtransactions now. Until and unless you can convince the masses to stop buying this garbage, microtransactions and live service will never go away.

Well said

Well said but no shit tbh. Former gen oldschool devs who have been around forever are the greatest. Nothing compares to the xbox 360 era in the modern online world plain and simple. These mainstream ps4 new gen fans and developers that AAA teams have been letting in/hiring over the years would never understand what makes a great simple game thats not some boring graphics or walking simulator that feels like an interactive movie rather than a actual game.

@@Slurpified An interactive movie can be an actual game, nice goalpost move tho.

@@Slurpified Sorry but that just isn't true. It's not the developer's fault that modern games suck, it's the fault of the corporate leadership who will do anything to maximize profits. This includes rushing games out the door unfinished, aggressive microtransactions, and cutting out pieces of the game to sell as DLC. Games with "boring" graphics and interactive movie games are what sell well. I'm not interested in them either but those games appeal to the largest possible audience and therefore make the most money. Back in the day the only way to make money was to release a good game. With the advent of DLC and microtransactions that is no longer the case. Unfortunately the best way to make money now is to pump out mediocre games, market the shit out of them, and load them full of monetization.

Didn't they literally charge $70 though? I paid 70 digitally on Xbox.