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I am going through the game for the first time, and the quest design is frustrating. I have pretty much given up on doing them by myself, and I look now at the wiki a lot. Unless you go through the game in an exact order, you will never find most of them by yourself. Many will be in places you don't need to return to again. There has to be a compromise between complete handholding, and this. More breadcrumbs, and maybe some place where the already discovered breadcrumbs will be saved for later(yes, some sort of a quest book), so I don't have to keep it all in my head, having to remember it 20-50 hours later. I don't use summons and I play offline, but I honestly don't care how other players kill the bosses. There seem to be a lot of very strong builds floating around anyway, dual greatswords, bleed builds, mage nukes, etc., even without summons. I do keep a mimic tear and upgrade materials for it in the backpocket too, in case I get really stuck.(I haven't so far) I do agree it changes the dynamic a lot though. Especially with the mimic, that many players seem to use. Easier healing, intermittent tanking, a lot of damage they don't have to deal themselves, even if the summon doesn't survive until the end. I am not completely sure about "gentle AI", it looks more proximity based. I haven't fought the dreaded Godskin Duo yet, but both the Misbegotten + Crucible knight and the Gargoyles duo would attack at the same time if they got too close to me. It was very easy to drag the Misbegotten away from the knight though, and the knight would mostly just slowly walk towards me. The Gargoyles mostly alternated between attacks, one attacking, while the other did the cancerous poison breath. They comboed me in very ugly way several times though, when both were close.

Stop not trying to step on eggshells. Summoning is a disservice to the player.

Really liked your difficulty level osbervation

Strongly agree with you about obscure NPC questline design. It's nigh impossible to intentionally complete just about any questline in the game without a guide, and if you do it likely came down more to luck than anything else. I typically don't use spirit ashes as a self-imposed rule so I could be mistaken about this, but I think you overestimate the effect using spirit ashes has on player skill. Your spirit will generally die before the end of a boss fight so you'll inevitably be required to fight it solo and learn the fight "properly" at least to a certain extent, and even while you have your spirt active the boss will target you some of the time so you'll still be forced to learn how to deal with it. If you replace spirit ashes with summoning players however, I 100% agree with your point. I have a friend who relied heavily on summoning players through her playthrough of elden ring and she finished the game, but I watched her play one time and frankly, she was terrible. Her approach to fighting any given enemy was to run at them and mash the attack button no matter what they do, likely because that's an effective way of dealing with them in a party of three. Player summons have always been the "easy mode" in FROM software titles and players who rely on them will inevitably become less skilled at the game compared to those who don't, because doing so sets the bar of skill required to succeed so much lower. It is ultimately the same with spirit ashes I suppose, just to a lesser extent. Medium mode, if you will.

Apparently, he is not Rykard's son.

This is really well explained and interesting! Deserves a hell of a lot more views

There was a lever behind the first robot in the hallway. The lever will drain all the poison, to make fighting The puppet of the Future possible.

I dont understand how people say this games so hard. Sekiro parry plus BB dash AND blocking normally is effective? Maybe people feel like they have too many options but the best is always parry. Gamble a bit and lose to get it down. So worth it later when you're fatal attacking the final boss twice.

Is is Block? Not Parry like Sekiro?

I think it's worth noting that Elden Ring PvP has gotten alot better because of all the patches its received. Still flawed in a lot of areas, but the balance has been massively improved since launch.

Great video. Wish my schedule had allowed me to come along so I could ask some questions about the PvP. Personally, I mainly play single player, but they've already convinced me that's in good hands.

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I revisited the demo this weekend to try and get a better understanding of the mechanics. My initial playthrough I was trying to dodge everything and of course it wasn't quite working. Then the perfect block started to click, and everything changed. I immediately understood that offensively you play like your typical souls but defensively its more Sekiro. So once I got the perfect block timing down for his attacks, I had to then figure out how to navigate the lighting strikes. And surprisingly there was some instances where if you position yourself in the right spot you can stand there and get a heavy charged attack. This was a well-designed "let me teach you how to play" boss. After being underwhelmed with Elden Ring I'm actually excited for this and Lords of the Fallen.

Actually this boss teach you how to play... of course with the perfect block as main mechanic, the dodge is a secundary mechanic that you need to upgrade later if you want to use it but the perfect block makes the game pretty easy and enjoyable

The first thing i do on new bosses is look for his move timings and openings. After i see his whole first move set. I will push the boss the the next phase if i can. Then i just rinse and repeat that til i win.

Great video the 11 or so minutes learnt me and explained things to just watch the enemies in souls like games to beat them watched a lot of tips and tricks but you seem to have the knack I'm just getting into souls like games, THANKS there needs to be more tutorial like videos like yours on TH-cam you've got a SUB my friend

Do u no I have enjoyed this run down of the boss so much compared to bigger youtubers ..... keep at this and when the game comes out we will all need your help with the rest of the bosses ...Great video

Some people haven’t tried the free demo and keep saying it’s shameless bloodborne copy. They can just wait 30 years until bloodborne pc port with 60fps lmao. thoughts on the new weapon variety and gameplay trailers? I thought it’s really cool.

If the video is 13 minutes plus a number of seconds, technically you are in the 14th minute, so yeah it is lol. Keep up the vids

The lamp acts like a portal if you shine it on an enemy in the umbral they can attack you through said portal

Made some great points in the video! I dont agree with all but i agree with most. I love how you categorize mechanics by tiers. Imo i feel like perfect parry is 1st tier, blocking is 2nd tier, and dodging is 3rd tier (ordered by how often they the best option to use during boss fights). Many souls vets dont have a grasp on this so they call the game cluncky or bad because they dont understand its essence (of course one can criticize, just plz have a basic understanding of the mechanics first). Im so excited for this game, cant wait and great video!

the sounds are really not great. the environment and props, as the illumination cooking is really a lousy job.

Couldn't last 20 seconds watching this... all I could hear was the saliva in your mouth

When I come to a new boss that I've heard is really hard, I spend some tries just moving, dodging, and watching with no attacks. I see how long I can stay alive, then when I feel like I have a good handle on the bosses attacks, I start fighting.

I played Demons Souls back on PS3 and missed the rest of the souls craze until it was mainstream. The problem for me isn't the challenge it's the constant fail-state required to learn how to navigate that challenge. I don't like roguelikes either for this reason. Some games are so good I try to get over it (Risk of Rain 2, Caveblazers, Slay the Spire). I appreciate the Legacy of Kain style gameplay in Dark Souls where there's actually new things to discover in death, and maybe I wish a game like this would take it even further and put you in more and more harmless levels of purgatory or grind your character down into a weak NPC more than just a ghost form to reflect that failure -- so you could just explore that lore without threatening the mobs. As it is though, making levels harder when you die kind of roots you in that sense of it being "your" challenge to overcome. I know I could beat these games, but don't have the heart to go through the kind of rage that has always come with losing. Other people compose themselves differently but I've made people leave the house after seeing me smash a controller into a pulp and then grab another one and keep playing. It's compulsion, video games in general are relying on healthier forms of that compulsion and I'm just tired of the way it manifests in my demeanor. Ignore my youtube comment therapy sess but sometimes we avoid these challenges exactly because it's not about the game, but about what we were accomplishing by playing it.

I find it very uninteresting and bland. Seems like another souls like that will bore the crap out of me in two hours.

Dodge it’s so bad make the game bad if them fixes will be amazing

I watched a lot of people react to that trailer and I watched it many times and I didn’t even see the boos do that weird movement or the water going through the big bell. Good catch

Dark crusader without head 👑

Good game is coming👑

lmao baldy Mc Fivehead baldhead, go read books dork!!

Gunner brought his A game. The rest brought their Autism game.

I think a big part of it is the re-casting of the talent for the characters as well as what you are saying with the writing. They had regular actors that are talented, but for some reason they didn't bring them back :(. Good video.

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This footage, when Isaac bumps into piping, and jumps out was probably the escape from exploding USM Valor xP Made into a cutscene.

Also it seems like there ditching the turret sections because you never fight the slugs outisde it was in the turret sections

The voice actress that plays Nicole is the original voice actress also I think the glitchy necromorph is them fast statis ones on the military ship

Those twitcher necromorphs are a type of enemy in the game that were affected by stasis which made them faster

Big guy at the the end is the Hivemind, they make the Necromorphs use actual strategy lore wise.

THANK YOU, I have seen so many people who don’t understand what these events would do to someone’s face.

I loved the game but agree with your suggestions to enhance combat..great video.

I really like the ideas you presented. The fallout ideas especially. Having to limp around if they break your leg or something like that. Omg that would be perfect for Callisto

I agree with how its been taken is a little off but in a single player game at, Mind you, FULL PRICE, being ok with "Season Pass" is outright freaking dangerous. They might say how its a 100 percent new never worked on before content and even if we gave them the benefit of a doubt, you think devs like EA and Ubisoft deserve that trust ? Let single player games come to that and you'll see how fast games will turn to a real shitter. Its already horrible that we need ultimate edition or pre order edition or something like to access locked stuff from day 1 and allowing season pass into single player is big straight no. Also, I think the word they used here is completely wrong. Just call it DLC and launch it when its done instead of telling me that its gonna exist before the game is even out, with how greedy suits are and how bad the gaming industry has gotten in terms of monetization, its only natural that people HATE the thought of season pass, ESPECIALLY for a single player game. ALSO, now that it has released to an ABYSMAL launch for Pc, I'm sorry if I don't trust that for a second ... a 60dollar game with 12 hours of story and repetitive enemies and scares... I really wanted to love this game but was holding off till it launched like I do with all my games and its an utter disappointment in the state it launched.

Hi Guys, Hex The Hardcore Casual congrats, excelent video. If you guys hope see more videos reaction, go to my channel, There I will make some videos about reaction, in this moment only have talk in the tongue portuguese, but, I swear make in english or at least subtitles in english.

A perfect example of lying is Michael does life and he still believes what the game journalist say and makes video like don't buy the callisto protocol and the cracks are starting to show and a few of his videos have been taken down by the devs due to false information. And I pre ordered the callisto protocol digital deluxe edition cause the games looked fun

This game is gonna utilize HDR for sure LOL lighting looks amazing

Good Video!

THANK YOU!! a voice of reason. I’ve seen a couple of videos trashing the whole game based on them being too stupid or just malicious to look into this behind the headline It would be like saying gels were paywalled in portal 2 from portal.

Wait and see. People rushing to conclusions. Glen hasn’t started work on dlc. Hope they put all kinds of goodies including episodes, skins, death animations, weapons, etc.

Bro thanks for trying to clear this shit up. I started reading about this "controversy" and I've been disappointed how easy people have been misled. The language on the steam page is pretty black and white, but I guess people just regurgitate what they hear instead of just clicking on a steam page.