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The Blades of Mercy is quite legit the best weapon in Bloodborne because it teaches you the point of its gameplay. BE AGGRESSIVE, BE BE AGGRESSIVE

Im at beginning of video but ill keep watching but u said eldens end game...? Elden has no end game, an area doesnt constitute end game i.e farum azula, haligtree, bloodborne does, chalice dungeons to go deeper and deeper and get sometimes better versions of weapons and grinding for gems to improve your build. Elden has nothing at all of the sort to further your build. Just the campaign and its over. Thats why no reason to play afterwards unless your a pvp fanatic which im not pvp is sooo boring after the millionth invasion. I need something to work toward to chase to make me stronger. All i have is make stat go higher by leveling thats not any type of longevity. Im not bashing ya im just talking really

when you talked about Malenia's difficulty and you said "I'm a guy with a job"...I felt that, mate. I felt that.

Elden ring should have ended at the capital. Everything after that was a chore

On the topic of having Marika and Radagon as the final 2 stage fight: I feel like Marika should be the 1st stage, but almost apathetic (either as not wanting to actually win the fight or having to focus so hard on maintaining control of the body) but when you're about the land the final blow, THAT'S when Radagon takes over

elden ring is the proof that miazaki and from software were always bad, and they just got lucky ... everything good they did was an un-intended accident xD also ... that is not exploration ... this is PRESSING W ... and you are all praising that x_x ... gaming is officially dead

Imagine unironically criticizing ER for requiring 'farming' (it doesn't you are simply wrong on this point) while praising Bloodborne which has a healing system which will ABSOLUTELY require farming on a first playthrough. I'm serious, Bloodborne is my favorite game as well but this video is rife with smooth brained takes like this. Either you didn't see the glaring hypocrisy while making this point, which says a lot about you and your critical thinking skills, or you're simply being disingenuous.

Did you seriously try to claim Bloodborne doesn't have animation reading...?🤦‍♂️ I swear every person that makes videos about this games is woefully under qualified to be doing so. MANY BOSSES IN BLOODBORNE ANIMATION READ AND IT HAS BEEN A STAPLE OF THE SERIES SINCE AT LEAST DS1! Stop pretending this is something unique to ER, it isn't... How about if you get hit for backing off and healing in neutral you simply stop doing that? No... It's way better to just blame the game.

take down your scholar of the first sin video, it's full of misinformation whether you did it on purpose or not

Elden Ring "Failed" with damn near 30 million sales, game of the year award 2022, numerous other awards and considered one of the best video games ever made by the vast majority of the gaming world. But Bloodborne, a game that didn't even sell 8 million copies, did NOT win game of the year and is actually rated lower according to by critics and fans than Elden Ring, succeeded? I'm sorry mate, common sense and logic would like a word 😂.

Most Souls fans can’t accept criticism because in their minds it diminishes their victory over these super hard bosses. They want difficulty at all costs and bad mechanics and gameplay are just “skill issues” you have to get over.

Obv entitled to your opinion, but I feel like people are just jaded nowadays. I went into Elden Ring with no expectations or assumptions. I thought they created a fantastic 10/10 'open-world' souls game. And I don't mean to boast but a lot of the game was almost too easy past the halfway point since I explored a lot. I welcomed any challenge that I could get. I felt the same about the DLC. My thought about the Melania and Radahn criticisms was "these mf's never fought The Nameless King" lol. That boss made me take months breaks from DS3 multiple times before I finally gottem. But beating the king is probably why I was so prepped for Elden Ring. In the end, it really seems like you're nitpicking when the reality is that you have to ship at some point when you're making a product and I think they really delivered us a fantastic product on ship. There were so many different bosses and experiences and there's so much content that you don't have to play if you don't want to. Comparing the full content of a massive open world game to any of the other souls games just seems like a misnomer. But I'm the kind of player that only does one playthrough in 99% of games I've ever played.

Sucks off this trash heap. Lies about DS2 and Sotfs. Gets called out for it and tries to do damage control by pausing comments. Lmao you're something else. A yapper with an accent that sounds like you have peen in your mouth

i forgive all wrongs with elden beast cause i really liked the ost and the visuals and also the way it appears and you never expect it :D also the way that dlc uses that ost is heartbreaking for some reason too, loved it

Fantastic video full of fantastic points. I think a major issue is that ER moves around the plot points it took from its sources of inspiration- I think it's clear a lot of the plot is based on Norse mythology, Ragnarok and the infighting amongst Gods, but that story ends with the Ice Giants burning the world down with their flame. In ER, the burning of the Erdtree felt to me like the most significant single occurrence and should have been at the very end for the most impact. You also make good points about Radagon and the Elden Beast. It would have made so much more intuitive sense to fight Radagon/Marika at the same time as they struggle against each other.

I never really had an issue with the Ghostflame Dragons. Sacred blade absolutely decimates them, even without any faith investment. Pair that with a striking weapon and they don't stand a chance.

I disagree with so many of your takes & I don’t want to type a 40 long paragraph comment, I think it’s a 9.5/10 DLC, it still has some flaws (just like any game ever), and I think it’s the best DLC From Software has made, it’s got an undeniable amount of quality & quantity.

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Another banger of a video! Honestly dude, you are so thorough with your look at the games that you always make me realize a lot of things I missed. For example, believe it or not, I never actually registered or paid attention to the fact there's something moving underwater in the flooded section of Shadow Keep! Getting to see that here, with the occasional tree falling, is awesome, and something I'd never have noticed if not for the video (even if it seems obvious). So thanks, loved watching it! Here's some comments on specific points: - Dude I did the SAME THING as you when starting the game: walked to the mausoleum, got wrecked and instantly realized what I had signed up for with this DLC lmao. Other specific notes: - I agree, Lamenter's Gaol was ASS. Not what you said exactly but I'm pretending it was for my own validation. - Rellana was one of the hardest bosses in the DLC for me for some of the reasons you mentioned. It's wild because most people I know had no problems with her??? - I hated the specimen storehouse for some reason... especially the damn rafters. - Gaius is like, the most frustrating boss I had the displeasure of fighting in this game, god damnit. I also think this fight was meant to be fought on horseback but... horse combat is ass. Like this boss. - Yes, the stone coffin fissure seal gets broken when you approach shadow keep and get the great rune text. - I really didn't like Ancient Rauh Ruins for some reason... - The ladder near the boats in Shadow Keep that leads to the area that eventually ends up in Abyssal Woods was apparently surprisingly easy to miss. Two of my friends never found it until we told them about it. - HOW WERE YOU RECORDING YOURSELF AT 1:58:00 ??? DO YOU HAVE 3 ARMS????? Seriously though, loved the video! Thank you for making it, and I'm looking forward to the next one!

I had to go from level 114 to 136 just to try and beat Elden beast, shit i didn’t upgrade through most of the game until godskin duo, most fights were pretty fair (besides the fire giant)

The very end of the game really throws off the pace for me. Everything “wrong” with the bosses is IMO a function of how much patience I have for the battle. Having 4 bosses in a row (Tree Sentinal 2, Malekith, Godfrey, Radagon) is just too much. Even some more things to do in the ashy capital would help. Doesn’t help that the 3 last bosses ALL have 2nd phases that might as well be separate bosses with no shared moves. So each of the 3 have the problem of beating phase 1 just to be murdered by shit you haven’t seen before immediately.

you paused comments on your last video so i have to come here to laugh at you. git gud is for people like you. who suck and like to blame others.

I don't understand the problems people seem to have with the Scadutree fragments, especially since they patched the scaling. The advantage you get from levelling beyond 12 is basically negligible at this point, so pretty much all the fragments you need can be found along the obvious paths and finding more than half of them is unnecessary. On my second playthrough I deliberately stopped levelling at 8 because it was starting to make it too easy. I think they work as a pretty good form of scaling late game difficulty, and once you know how they work they are really good for regulating exactly how difficult you want it to be. Whatever you need and what the bosses are balanced around you can find on the main path. If you need more, you can get an extra edge from looking around a bit. If you find they are making it too easy you can just hold them in reserve until you find a challenge which seems to warrant levelling. If they had one problem in my experience is that on your first playthrough you don't really know how they scale so you can easily find yourself overlevelling with them (at least pre-patch). On my first playthrough I found there to be an inverted difficulty curve, where it got gradually easier through the DLC (until Radahn), I started killing late-game bosses like Romina and Metyr on my first attempt, and bosses like Messmer and Midra, once I got a feeling for their moveset, felt really undertuned for late-game encounters (although I loved them both). This is why I limited myself to around level 8 on my second playthrough, which I found an ideal level of difficulty for the late game, and basically required almost no exploration beyond the main path. Additionally, I know some people think it would be better if they treated them like golden seeds, having more in the world than what you need to get to max level, but personally I think this would make it even easier to accidentally overlevel encounters.

I've had this discussion with a couple of different people and reached the conclusion that From is reaching the limits of what they can do with the traditional DS combat system unless they fundementally overhaul it or just try something new. Armored Core VI and Sekiro showed that the newer FromSoft devs can make other combat systems that are both a complete change of pace as well as being incredibly fun. Personally, I'd love to see them return to something in the vein of Kings Field or just a first person dungeon crawler in general.

I don’t get the hate for the messmer attack with the fact the timings on the actual snake heads are spaced apart enough to read and dodge it if you just take a look at the actual attack and you’re also trying to punish him in the middle of the attack, even if their is waiting while you dodge it he literally repositions himself infront of you for a free heavy attack afterwords as well, in the case of radahns meteors that was an attack that was nothing but downtime and detracted from the fight since he ended the attack miles away from you in phase 1(though the main talking about radahn is basically just phase 2)

The heck are you on about with NPCs? Not a single one of them requires being summoned to advance their quest line. At most summoning them get some extra, but entirely optional dialogue. Also, if anything, I found the NPC quest structure in the DLC far more streamlined than in the base game. Pretty sure none of them appear at more than two locations, and it's really only the second location where any critical progression occurs. The first location is generally just for optional dialogue that gives more insight into their background and motives, but isn't otherwise required to complete anything.

I think the dlc is a solid 7/10. But I think that's gonna piss people off. Its because it has 11/10 moments but then it will have 5/10 moments. So its in a weird place. DS3 and BB dlcs are just more focused and consistent.

Sacdu felt weird, and bosses are WAY overtuned. But, the looks are cool and the new items are baller

Is this even a question? This by far the best fromsoft dlc

Nah fuck bayle 21:50

jump button makes ER easiest souls game

It's worth playing for sure. I am not excited to revisit this world though.

this video is too kind. are you afraid of the fans? I don't see how it's fun exploring a massive empty map looking for fragments, and I don't know how you can call the bosses well designed when they're some of the most abhorrent bosses from has ever designed

I haven’t watched everything yet but I just wanna say greatsword gang

Yes.

I loved most of Elden Ring but what dropped my enjoyment of it immensely were the reused bosses… sometimes a bit less is more.. it just ruined my immersion of this otherwise awesome world somehow :(

I'm confused, why is he talking about Malenia input reading as if attacking *any* boss while they're idle is a good idea in this game? You don't attack bosses if they're not in a endlag animation, isn't that Elden Ring 101?

Guess dude didn't beat Margit first try

17:35 Sony won't make Blodbrone PC a thing, but the community has finally.

I still think about Bloodborne on a weekly basis 9 years later. Elden Ring... i struggle to remember most parts from the story and world. Apart from the legacy dungeons, those were fantastic. The story is just so bad..

The orphan is the source of the nightmare. A lot of npcs will claim its Kos but the game shows/tells you its the orphan.

Wtf?? I was able so summon torrent vs elden beast. Did they add this or what?

I like volcano manor's shortcut where you activate a draw bridge to access the last site of grace instead of just slapping a stake of Marika outside the boss room. It felt way more interactive and I wish they fleshed it out more to justify the enemies being so hard in some places.

100% agree. The moment I walked through the cave boss veil to a second Astel, I was mad. Up until then, I was into exploring and delighted with new creatures … and then I was pulled out of it by what was clearly a copy paste to inflate an unnecessarily large world.

BB>ER

"i'm a normal guy with a job. i can't invest that time [to learn waterfowl dance]" > makes a 45min video

32:10 - I know this is old, but I gotta point out that Elden Beast IS foreshadowed. I wasn’t necessarily waiting for Elden Beast, but the second it started to appear I went “Oh, fuck. That’s right. The star beast!” In Deeproot Depths at the end of the cave with all the ants, you find the Elden Stars incantation and it reads: “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.”

Elden Ring is the greatest Souls Game for me. Having played it all, Elden Ring has been my favourite. DLC was a bit of a let down i feel. But it''s fine. Bloodborn combat is the best combat i agree.

Personally I dont feel like the Animation Reading is that big of a deal, all games have ai, all bosses are designed to lose. I am also a solo only player, it took me 280 attempts to take out melania at SL149, with 60 vigor and 50 strength. No Magic, No Summons, No Enchantments, No Status Effects, No Pots, Nothing. A 2 handed dismounter. While I do agree with a lot of the points here, I think this comes down to you being too greedy. I saw MULTIPLE times where you just take a hit because of your own greed in half of this footage. You talk about rules, but then praise Hoarah Loux when he breaks literally all fundementals outside of his stomp buff from the phase prior. What exactly are these "rules"?