วีดีโอ

Awesomenauts is best then HOTS

man I should have expected Grubby to get some of these really solid subversive catches. Understanding the Elden Beast is a foreign entity to the Lands Between, meaning the Erdtree is too, is really important for understanding the motivations of the likes of Marika and Ranni

The game is a huge cosmic horror when u move closer to the throne Like The entities or sth above cant influence or rule the land between directly. They need speaker or translate aka 2 fingers. They need something to rule the land aka golden order. They also need a guardian the link between them and the land, something do their dirty work when things happen aka elden beast. So when u destroy the elden beast, mean that u destroy the last link between them and the land, cut off them dont let them influence the land anymore

Piracy of this game is justified

Cant wait for more lore videos this was amazing!

Grubbzy, you need to dive in deeper, it is way way deeper than this just one video, watch more videos by Vaati

Did anyone tell him about the Carbot animations? As a SC2 players he is surely aware of them?

It's great to see you get into the lore, you misconstrued a lot of things which is very understandable, a little clearing things up sounds good.

You're doin much better than most of us understanding and figuring out the lore. love to see how the big and deep lore unveil more and more to you! awesome after this 160h long first playthrough.

I want a tier list of all the WC3 Orc tier lists.

I like how you think man, nothing pacific great video man

Who hasn't fallen in love with your opponents, I was a warcraft 3 progamer, I get it. Fitting names, Grubby of the 4k order and his rival.... spirit_Moon

Hey Grubby! Just wanted to mention, there's dispute on the nature of the various Outer Gods (Whether it's as it's stated here, or if the Greater Will is a supreme god, with the others like the God of Blood or Rot or Chaos being more akin the embodiment of those concepts that have been excluded) and of the nature of the Crucible (whether it, and life before the Erdtree, was an earlier incarnation of the Greater Will's order). Basically, the argument is between whether or not these are cosmic gods playing King of the Hill, or if it's a capital G God, with its incomprehensible divinity, and with everything else being subordinate (Lands Between and all who dwell within) or without substance (God of Blood, Chaos, the Rot, etc)

Grubby, the Radagon is Marika is part of Goldmask's questchain who I don't think you ever met. Goldmask is who Brother Corwin leaves the Roundtable Hold to find in Lyndell.

I recommend the last protagonist’s videos

8:59 - endurance aura affects everyone around him - no cap 🤣🤣🤣 Unsure if that was intentional but it was brilliant

Ziostorm does some pretty decent lore videos also, same with Tarnished Archeologist. but the latter might be too long form for you. Vaati is definitely the authority of Soulslike Lore, but Elden Ring is unique that a LOT of other lore YTers happened and Vaati did a good and honorable job of not stepping on their toes with his established community. Props to him for that, and props to you for taking the first plunge into the deep dive that is Elden Ring Lore and Souls Lore in general.

45 minutes in, and I was done with it. I hate the combat, and I'm not a fan of the world at all. I hate parrying and rolling as a combat tool. I'm kind of surprised that I tolerated 45 minutes and mouse and keyboard is a shit scheme.

souls games have this thing where early game bosses end up becoming late game regular mobs. Youll see a ramp up in the victory screen too from just enemy felled all the way to legend and god felled.

One thing Grubby you are missing is viewing the word "God" in Elden Ring as literal, it's just a royal title. The game is a race on who will take the throne and marry Marika, that's it. Look at the candidates for "Godhood", they are all women with royal bloodline, who can legitimize your rule. The "mending runes", are just whatever philosophy you will adopt in your rule. Ranni has no mending rune, because in her ending you do not become the "king", so to speak. Both of you leave the population to decide their fates for themselves, which is why "fear, doubt and loneliness" just means the uncertainty of not having your fate dictated to you anymore. I really dislike Vaati and many lore creators because they treat the story as this cosmic grand thing, instead of a story about royal succession, fighting for your own fate, just generally human themes and stories filtered through grand fantasy.

Grubby A-Z again?

Fabulous!

I don't get why Malenia is describe as a "bad loser" for using rot against Radahn. Like, they at war what do you expect? It's like saying Radahn is cheating cuz he oneshot Malenia with a Meteorite. They have an all out war but you are supposed to nerf yourself?

well.. you're mostly right. we are the tarnished, what are the tarnished? well, you can look it up elsewhere. why do we go there? we want to be the lord of the lands between, why not be the god of the land replacing marika? we physically cant. or... can we? well.. about death, the runes that govern death is keep safe in the hand of maliketh, it was removed by marika from the elden ring, so basically noone can trully die in there, unless well.. unless marika decided to order maliketh to kill someone, he is the only one who can trully kill anyone. but it was stolen from that furry beast, and those assassin use it to kill the blonde demigod. have fun deep dive into the lore, its very interesting, as most hints about the lore can be found from the descriptions of the spells, or armaments. or well.. from someone you meet along the way

Important thing to remember: basically all lore videos about Elden Ring are interpretations. I'm only ten minutes in and I'm not going to analyze the whole vaati's video, but several things said by him are already pretty dubious: 1) "the greater will is an outer god" - we don't know if greater will is an outer god, it's never called an outer god in the text. Maybe it's similar in nature to outer gods. The problem is we don't know what "outer god" even means, especially the "outer" part: perhaps it's a relative term - for example, outer gods are every god that isn't ruling the lands between, or simply every god considered heterodixical by the golden order 2) "the elden beast became the elden ring" - the description of elden stars says: "It is said that long ago, the Greater Will sent a golden star bearing a beast into the Lands Between, which would later become the Elden Ring". When you carefully read that sentence, it becomes obvious that there are 2 valid interpretations: a) the golden star became the elden ring; b) elden beast became the elden ring. The game is full of ambiguity like that by design These may seem like pedantic nitpicks, but my point is only that: both statements could be true just like both of them could be false. And it holds true for much bigger lore claims. Ultimately it is the player's choice to decide what's the truth

42:58 I very much disagree on his point on 'credible evidence', and I believe it is mostly weird speculation xD although there is evidence of Marika plotting the mission of the tarnisheds. What we are sure of is: Rykard and Ranni stole a fragment of the rune of death for their own reasons. Ranni imbued weapons using the fragment for the Black Knife Assassins, so they got rid of Godwyn at the same moment she 'disposed' of her own body. (Source:Blasphemous Claw, Cursemark of Death, Rogier's words and Ranni's words)

Lore video let's goooooo!

So happy seeing Grubby getting into the lore! Enjoyyyy. It probably means u will start reading item descriptions even further in the dlc

I do enjoy Grubby's lore exploration and this is probably the only way I could ever force myself to watch hours of lore explanations xdd Now, I'd like to be a party pooper and give my opinion on Elden Ring's score. I'll try to give scores to several different game aspects and elaborate a little. Open world: 9/10. Of course, it's hard to make a perfect open world and thus even in Elden Ring you can't just go wherever you want right from the start, but it's pretty close, so - a pretty high score! Storytelling: x/10. Absolutely subjective since the manner is so roundabout and the gameplay is so repetitive. Unlike most old traditional games, where you'd be given a story and then gameplay to go with it, ER feels like it gives you gameplay and then a story to go with it - if you're interested in it; if you aren't, you feel free to just fight enemies all you like and grow for the purpose of growing. Exploration: 7-7.5/10. Why not so high? Well, while the process of exploration feels great because of atmosphere and gameplay, it doesn't feel rewarding much. I would say that an average player will only use 10-15% of what they find during exploration in a single playthrough, and that's probably a high estimation - some people might just stick to 1-2 outfits and a single weapon setup from the get-go and to the end. Quest system: 4/10. Getting even 50% of the available in the game quests on your first playthrough sounds like a huge success; in reality, you might end up getting only 20-25% of the quest content if you're not wiki gaming. All because of how quests operate with the openworldiness and with eachother. Not only that, but also some quests offer literally no ingame reward, and those which do reward you, do so mostly with not-so-important-for-your-gameplay things, such as ending enablers or one-time consumables, which certainly do not encourage you to do more quests. Gameplay: 8.5-9/10. Fighting system is a little too heavily reliant on abuse, which makes battles rather repetitive (add to this the inability to upgrade more than 2-3 weapons and you get even more repetitiveness). At the same time, most boss arenas are TERRIBLE and offer a great multitude of inconveniences: bad lighting - rough edges, which tend to trap you - weird shapes (includes both strange 2d templates, which are different from a normal circle / square and surface undulation, such as the chalicelike shape of Malenia's arena). Overall the game has a great action part, which, combined with open world and exploration, might hold you captive for many playthroughs, but I wouldn't give it a high score as an rpg (which makes sense - hence the soulslike genre). Solid 8/10 game in my book, but I'm always a bit suspicious of 10/10 scores SusgeClap

27:00 Occasionally he adds a name on the central lower corner of the screen, meaning thats the source of his info. Usually you can 100% trust in the source (being it an item or NPC dialogue), but it is needed to consider the context and who is saying. Sometimes the info is just vague enough to make people have different interpretations. So everything taken into account, it is more his interpretation of the lore than the lore itself.

I recommend a recent video from the youtube channel "The Disputed Lands" that explains a lot of similar lore from the Elden Ring DLC and A Song of Ice and Fire. There you can really see George RR Martins work on this game.

GRRM had little to do with it. The style isn't even close to what he writes. This is miyzaki through and through. I once upon a time liked GRRM's writing but in the... 13 years? since he hasn't released his final book I have no interest in it. I dislike that his name is even attached to this game in anyway. The only part I am willing to believe is that he named the characters and the places. He himself has gone on record to say he had very little to do with it and again, this games lore is miyazaki through and through. I see nothing from GRRM and I've read everything he has done, including several re-reads of GoT... before he decided that he can't finish it whilst he is alive because his stock with drop so much that no one will be interested in any of his BS spin-offs. Also chat is full of complete idiots. Vaati's videos are mostly outdated at this point, I would suggest smoughtown as someone who keeps ontop. Vaati is better known but he does not do the best videos. in terms of actual breakdowns and in-depth information. Watching this though there are many incorrect takes and his time-line is all messed up. also you really don't pay attention. it's kind of crazy, but this playthrough has showcased how oblivious you are as a person.

Imagine not watching “The ENTIRE Lore of Elden Ring” by SmoughTown. In one sitting ofc.

Really enjoy your dive into Elden Ring lore and I hope you do more of them :)

Grubby, ranni ending was mistraslate in english and never been fix for some reason

Grubby about to become top 10 AoE 2 player now oh boy oh boy

More Elden ring on twitch please … ng+ sir

The death thing, is basically like this. It was removed from the laws of the Lands Between.

Would be sick if u watched some of the more cinematic lore videos from Vaati like the frenzied flame one

Lol grubby is so warcraft brained any NPC is a creep

Miyazaki once said in an interview that the mythos written by GRR Martin was very vast. They picked parts of it to build the game, but there's enough in it to still build more if they want to. Up to a sequel if they want to.

Grubby: what is the story of Elden Ring? VaatyVidia: prepare to cry

I really wish grubby would play DLC at launch or close to launch (maybe like on 1st July etc). I will be playing on launch ofc. I've even planned health leaves (LOL) from 21st to 24th June to play the expansion. I wanna watch grubby along side playing because most others who will play it at launch are souls veterans like myself and will progress similarly and at a faster pace so watching grubby is great as he's not a souls vet his gameplay and progression is different, slower but still digestable because he's a good gamer nonetheless.

"What an incredible set! Tell us Grubby, what was going through your head before the start of your unbelievable comeback in game 3?" 2:39

This is one of the major reasons i dont play dota 2 as much as i used to. The community of dota 2 is just full of men crying about every single thing and getting emotional while i try to keep them calm and ask them to sometimes have fun in the game. People always forget that their enemies can be good players too and that not everybody is going to be as skilled as them to keep up

Algorithming the algorithm

fun fact: radahn's horse is called leonard and radahn learnt gravity magic so he could still ride him after becoming giant

It's also the Miyazaki way of storytelling and world building, not only grr martin

first

All Blizzard game tierlist