I Played Elden Ring and Now It's All I Want
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 พ.ย. 2021
- I think Elden Ring just moved to the top of my hype list.
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Arlo covering Elden Ring is so great
I feel this game is going to have a much broader reach than Dark Souls ever did.
Seriously. Games going to be huge.
Don't read my name:#-#++°°%
Now you need to make a Pikmin video to keep the universe balanced
Fancy seeing you here, you legend. Your Elden Ring video was one of the best, by far.
What a glow up, Arlo going from “I don’t know if I’m gonna finish Dark Souls it doesn’t seem like my kinda game” to this
Kinda is but also it is kinda like skyrim
Top 10 Anime Crossover for sure
What a what?
when I gotta step back?
@@Chamelionroses more like breath of the wild mixed with sekiro and ds3 than Skyrim. It only shares aesthetics with Skyrim and that just because Skyrim is a pretty basic medieval fantasy game.
Arlo bein' a passion lad and posting some non-nintendo stuff on here because it makes him happy makes me happy.
it’s so refreshing to see TH-camrs break off from the fraction of games in the Nintendo bubble
It's nice seeing creators creating content they want and not just whatever aligns with the brand/product they feel aligned to. I don't just watch arlo to find out about nintendo, I watch because they're a cookie-monster-patton-oswalt-gamer who seems genuine and lovely
Wish the algorithm wasn't mean towards people who dare talk about things that aren't their main subject. It's a factor as to why Arlo barely does stuff like this.
Don't read my name'15##--*-#
I would like to hug arlo.
Having a checkpoint next to the boss is exciting because it means there’s nothing stopping them from making them even harder lol
Sekiro was just like that, I’m glad they’re still going in this direction!
@@larsnyman2455 Same! The fact that they're continuing with some of the best things about Sekiro (checkpoints, sneaking, parrying, etc.) is simply fantastic. I'll miss the japanese setting, but oh well.
@@larsnyman2455 Every Dark Souls is like that, there is a fast way to get to them from the nearest checkpoint every time, you just have to discover it yourself.
It's a really welcome addition to me because most of the time the road back to the boss is not necessarily dangerous but just time-consuming often times in souls games. Now I'll feel really pumped to attempt a boss again and again.
@@TheMetalOverlord *Gets PTSD flashbacks from Dark Souls 2 multiple DLC bosses with god awful lead up to boss areas*
I’m glad there is someone outside of this fandom that is gushing over this game
When I see people griping about the graphics I honestly don't know what game they're looking at, because this game looks gorgeous to me.
People are complaining about the graphics? Why?
People are complaining about this game’s graphics?? Are they blind?
Yeah I feel like those people are either PC Gamers or people who've only played video games as of recently. Because for us Nintendo fans these are just unimaginable graphics 😂
Compared to other next Gen games its underwhelming but too be expected such a large world and its not finished yet either
I mean, I'm looking at the graphics, the one thing that stands out to me is that the world doesn't look as dark and dull as a lot of From Software games look. Nothing wrong with that, but Elden Ring feels like a dramatic departure from that.
Arlo: Plays Elden Ring.
Souls fans: One of us! One of us! One of us!
And Monster Hunter fans earlier in the year: One of us! One of us! One of us!
No he ain't
Palpatine voice: Goood, GOOOOOD, let Miyazaki's hate flow through you!
True though. When I saw he played Elden Ring I immediately went “I didn’t know Arlo was a fellow chosen undead/bearer of the curse/ashen one/hunter/slayer of demons/one-armed-wolf/tarnished”
Arlo covering Elden Ring. We aren’t worthy.
The messages and bloodstains, aside from actual co-op, are some of my favorite things about FromSoft games because it shows you that you're not alone on your journey, there are other people struggling alongside you. It helps the community bond more.
Having Kentaro Miura pass away this year was very sad, I'd love to have seen his reaction when playing Elden Ring, in a weird way it would be an almost more sincere version of the Berserk world than the handful of actual Berserk games (abominations all) that were made.
It'd be wonderful if they could do a Berserk themed DLC Expansion or something in the future, or better yet, just have From Software get the Gaming Rights and have them make a proper Berserk game. They could even start in The Golden Age, Bazuso as your first boss battle would still be awesome.
(And if they REALLY wanted to push boundaries, maybe even make Donovan & Gambino a first boss pair if you know what I mean... ... Maybe as a flashback though... Cause, you know, that's a pretty intense way to start out a game.)
A Berserk game by From with a character-focused skill tree and its own distinct combat system, like in Sekiro, would be a masterpiece.
From Software is historically reliable. Very level headed and consistent. Everything I've seen so far leads me to believe that their track record will remain untarnished for years to come.
Nice
Even when they fuck up, they still knock it out of the park. Dark Souls 2, considered to be the series low point, is still incredible and my personal favorite in the series.
the tarnished will rise....
in all seriousness yeah I love from soft. I'm planning on playing all the souls games except maybe not demon souls
@@Kale13000 demon’s souls is really good. I don’t like the art style of the remake (it looks like Shrek 2), but the quality of life improvements make it worthwhile. If you do play the original I still recommend that one too. It’s really beautiful. I prefer it to Dark Souls 1 ^.^
@@WildHart_z never heard it described like that, but yeah you are right it really does kind of have a Shrek 2 animation vibe 😂
I recently got into sekiro and bloodborne and Elden ring is now easily my most anticipated game next year. It looks like from soft took all the elements that worked so well in their past games and put them in a massive open world
I highly recommend Dark Souls 3 as well!
@@LoomDoom getting the entire trilogy this Christmas
Don't read my name@-#-#-#-#*--*-$";"8;
Breath of the Wild 2 is gonna have some steep competition, that’s for sure.
@@heyitsyaboi8419 relax lol, zelda in its own league
My husband got me into Dark Souls and we've played II & III together so we're SO hype for Elden Ring
Highly recommend Bloodborne if you haven’t tried it. Might be my favorite game of all time
My brother got me to play Bloodborne. Fell in love with the game. Now, almost a year later I got platinum of BB, DS1 and DS3 😁
Elden Ring will be the best thing to happen
Arlo transitioning into his "it's not a phase!" phase.
They sure do grow up so fast.
I have been deliberately avoiding news on this game because from software is my absolute favorite developer. I heard they were making a game called elden ring and i have not looked at anything since because I knew the waiting would kill me. Yours is the first video i have watched on the game and i am so happy to hear you giving it such high praise. Can wait to play it!
Seeing Arlo go from “dark souls isn’t for me” to being more excited for Elden ring than breath of the wild 2 is amazing. Don’t get me wrong I love Zelda and am incredibly excited to play the new one. But man souls borne games hit different. And playing with friends is the best! I made a new friend just from summoning a random dude in dark souls 3 and we did the classic spam the shield button to communicate and we did multiple bosses and dungeons together and now we are irl friends
Yeah I’m ngl the sequel has got to deliver this game is serious competition
@@ThatDudeDavid252 Elden Ring is probably more anticipated than Zelda anyways.
So Nintendo has to deliver to also appeal to an audience outside of its lifelong fans. Which is easier said than done considering BotW2 will run on ancient hardware
@@redlfclegend24 they made botw for the wiiU originally so I’m staying pretty optimistic but honestly we just need weapon skills magic and new enemies I’m hoping it kinda does what twilight princess did with the whole expanding on the ocarina of time world
@@ThatDudeDavid252 Yeah that’s never a bad thing to do. Still I believe It’s going to look basically the same. Maybe a bit polished in some areas. It’s art style and lighting effects really carried the atmosphere for me. It was somewhat beautiful despite its blurry look. Unfortunately the frame rate was worrying at times.
There were definitely some led downs they could improve on. As you mentioned the enemy variety was a joke in the first game. Even though they were well designed, you got the feeling that they never really changed during the game and so it got repetitive pretty quickly. With the weapons it was pretty much the same.
The world also lacked content for me and the side quests were mostly poor and unrewarding. Also proper dungeons were fairly missed and the main story didn’t deliver, especially the ending.
Overall it was still a very good game, but they have so much room for improvements for its sequel.
They surely will expand the world, the question is to which extend they will do so. I have my doubts if the switch is able to handle it..visiting basically the same world again for most parts of the game doesn’t really feel right.
That is good you made friends. Diablo3 is like that for my husband.
I still rather play solo. Just my personal style I guess.
On the topic of Dark Souls 2 and 3 being more linear than Dark Souls 1, that is true, but there's still a ton to explore in the other games as well and multiple paths and hidden areas/bosses. They're all worth checking out and playing for sure, if you liked the first one, I think you'd like the others too.
Dark Souls 2 is gonna feel way different than everything else though, since SOTFS enemy placement is so much more brutal than the rest
i'll just tack on: Dark souls 2 is deinitely a little lower on quality, because it got a "rebuild from the ground up" halfway through it's dev cycle, but I'd argue its DLC shines MORE than ds3's. it feels like a grand continuation of not the story, but the themes and background of ds2
All souls games are linear essentially. DS1 and especially Demon's Souls let you some freedom of choice in which areas you want to tackle first but levels themselves progress in linear fashion and everything converges into a single path muttiple times before finishing the game. The specialty of Souls game worlds and levels in my eyes are their complex, sometimes labyrinthian design that are interesting, challenging and rewarding to explore and get your head around. All Souls games have this quality. I am curious whether Elden Ring will be able to incorporate this kind of design into an actual open world game.
@@weaverquest I get what you're saying but you're a little off the mark there. DS1 has several areas like Dark Root Garden and Blighttown that can be accessed and progressed through in multiple different ways. Its true theres often a conventional way to progress but theres also several ways to go off the beaten path. The same simply can't be said about DS2 and 3
@@pissant42 Still very little opportunity to go off the beaten path even in DS1. In fact I can't really think of any other example except Dark Root Garden through the dragon valley and into Blightown shortcut/skip which was probably just a by product of the effort to connect levels with shortcuts (which was crucial since you can't warp in DS1 until the second half of the game unlike every other Souls game). So what I am basically saying is that all Fromsoft games up until now emphasized linear level design.
They are calling the dungeons "legacy dungeons" and have said they will have the dark souls, big interconnected vibe, so I wouldn't worry about that
“Ever since I played the first Dark Souls, I’ve been dying for more of it”
Now you know the true meaning of *Prepare to Die*, Arlo.
I highly recommend trying out Dark Souls 3 while you wait for Elden RIng. That game's so awesome and while it may be more linear than 1 you still get that same sense of exploring that you get in the first. It's just that now each singular area has more stuff to find in it while the order in which you go through each one is more limited.
I felt that botw energy of putting a waypoint saying "I'm gonna go there" and 2hs later you remember "Oh, I got distracted so much... well, I don't care"
Game of the year potential.
Arlo/Elden Ring crossover is something that I did not know that I needed.
I can understand not liking the online stuff but nothing is ever gonna beat how funny it is seeing bloodstains by a edge and then a note that says Try Jumping is such a unique experience
I’m happy to see Arlo talking about some non-Nintendo stuff. I can’t wait to play it, the game looks amazing.
Arlo playing other games than Nintendo? Dissing Evil Emperor Andre from GameXplain in another video?
*MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE SOULFUL CHAD MODE ACTIVATED*
What video was that?
@@Kango234 the one complaining about TH-cam removing dislikes
Dude you absolutely have to go back and play the other From games. Easily some of my favorites of all time.
just commenting for the engagement! happy to see u making non Nintendo content bc it makes you happy arlo :)
You really should play Bloodborne! Personally one of my favorite games of all time. The DLC is worth it too!
Bloodborne is an absolute masterpiece. Fact not opinion
Yeah. Bloodborne is the final form of the formula that Hidetaka Miyazaki concocted... before he was promoted to fu*king president of the company (something fully deserved, but unheard of in Japan, because he had only been in FromSoftware for a decade, at that point). Sadly, his successors didn't fully understood that formula and have been merely trying to replicate it with varying levels of success since then.
@@SystemBD really? Dark souls 3 and sekiro were nice. Heck sekiro practically won goty 2019. We shouldn't discourage from soft from experimenting with the formula. It allows them to gain the experience to create better ganes like elden ring here which is a culmination of all past from soft games over the past decade from demon souls to sekiro.
@@SystemBD Dark Souls 3 lol. But Sekiro was its own beast and I think it did a great job of what it tried to do. Once you get into it of course. The learning curve is frustratingly high.
So cool to see you covering a Souls game Arlo, if you ever need a hand, wanna hang out or do some sparring in any of the Souls games on PC, I'd love to tag in for some jolly cooperation.
Love seeing Arlo feel free to talk about what he wants!! Can't wait to see whatcha think of Elden Ring!
Oooooooooooh you’re so so lucky!!
I’m so damn excited for this to come out, I fell in love with Sekiro earlier this year, first game I ever platinumed, and now I’m slamming through Bloodborne
I'll be honest, if you play ds1, you'll enjoy ds3. I find ds2 to be extremely different to them enough to be its own thing. Not something for all souls fans. If you play another souls game I really do recommend 3.
I love to see Arlo just blabbering about something he loves.
I've been wanting to hear your opinions on Elden Ring, this game looks so good! Fromsoft hasn't disappointed me yet. I know you played DS1 a while back, if you haven't played some of their other games you should definitely check them out! Bloodborne is right up your alley I think.
Bloodborne is so… soooo good
DS3 is epic too so he should definitely check that one out too
This network test has been amazing! This really feels like an amalgamation of all the best parts of the recent fromsoft titles. I can’t wait to hear your opinion after you play more.
It’s the breath of the wild treatment for the dark souls series basically lol. I’m all for it!
Im completly with you about the social aspects with dem ghosts and messages and bonfire locations. its good to hear that they seem to finaly fix the respawn problem.
and the design looks sooooo good.
Heck yeah! So happy that you got access!
It makes my day when I see a notification for one of your videos! Thanks for doing what you do!
Really appreciate the Hunter’s Dream music in the background ❤️
Thank you dude. I was wondering what that was.
@@johngregory5580 welcome
that's not the hunter's dream, that's firelink shrine from dark souls 1
“The one single thing that it’s missing so far” was honestly expecting him to say pikmin
God dang, how can i avoid spoiling myself when even arlo played elden ring
This is nice to hear seeing that i tried playing dark souls 1 and quit at the first boss but I was very young and now I’m interested and also more headstrong.
Did not expect this video. Happy alto got to play it early I’m so excited for this game.
I remember years ago when I had my switch watching your vids and I also started out with dark souls 1 on switch and fell in love I'm in Xbox now and I have all the souls game available for Xbox and I'm so excited
I did not expect to see Arlo covering Elden Ring, let alone enjoying it! Unfortunately I don't think there is a network test for PC, so I didn't get in, but I've been watching every Elden Ring video that comes my way to try and sate my thirst for this game!
Honestly, the things on the ground make it more rich, and bearable. Yeah, it's hard, and it sucks, but you aren't alone. If others can do it, I can strive to reach those same heights. Without them, it's even more of a depressing and hopeless experience. Good metaphor for life really
Thank you for the spoiler warnings, Arlo. As a very big Fromsoftware fan, I don’t want to be spoiled the same way you didn’t want to be spoiled for BotW and Dread. I thank you kindly
"Really dying for it" should be Fromsoft's company moto
From what I have read the “main dungeons” are where you find the mega bosses and those “dungeons” are like the areas of a normal souls game. So you have your mini dungeons like shrines in breath of the wild and your open world to explore with big scary monsters and over world bosses. But the traditional souls areas are spread around and you fight the main bosses in them
glad to heat you had fun. Im so excited for it myself!
Thanks for covering this game Arlo!
It looks great! Glad you had a good time! But I have to beat Demon's Souls (original PS3 version, also the only Souls I own) before I even THINK of touching this. It's been mocking me from my backlog for far too long 😂
Perhaps you can play the FromSoft backlog to tide you over. I’m itching for another DS3 run
It's a fromsoft game, ofc it's going to be magnificent
DS2
The game will be great but From soft definitely has some weird junk in their catalogue, look at some of their pre Demon Souls titles for example.
It's a fromsoftware game that isn't Armor Core. They gave up on that series a long time ago.
@@_-Lx-_ dark souls 2 is the best dark souls game
@@bluffk
There's stuff to like but it's *extremely* rough around the edges, probably too rough honestly, have you seen those Mimic hit boxes?
Aside from Sekiro pretty much every souls entry has had jank but 2 dials it up to a 10.
It's not valueless of course but it has many glaring issues, the hate bandwagon may be excessive but the fanboys who claim it's some kinda spectacular masterpiece are in denial.
It is a very flawed and rushed experience with some solid aspects but also sorta misunderstands the point of its series, not an irredeemable blight nor a well produced execution of game design.
Added to my playlist to watch when I get to play it myself. Want to go in semi blind, so I won’t be watching the video, but you got the like and a comment to help out with the TH-cam.
Really want to see an Arlo video on Bloodborne. Something tells me it will get at that same part of him that Resident Evil does.
Totally with you on playing offline. Even apart from not being interested in invasions or engaging in PvP, I always hate seeing the messages and bloodstains and ghosts littering MY GAME when I’m trying to take in the world’s atmosphere and layout. Most of these games offer the offline option from the start, but when they don’t, I just turn off my network settings.
Oh my god a puppet loving elden ring is everything i wanted to see today haha and u are right to be excited man , this is easily GOTY next year
Giddy like a child. Bravo my friend, you've kept your youthful awe and it's shining in full form here. Fantastic recording ❤
Love you Arlo!!! 🙌🏻💯🔥
As soon as I saw the gameplay I thought “this looks great and also looks like something Arlo would like”
This is the first Elden Ring video I’ve actually clicked on. I didn’t want to get hyped while we have to wait, but goddamnit this is Arlo!!
Love that you're getting into this game as I love your content and love FromSoftware :)
Seriously, you should give DS3 and Bloodborne a chance though. They are more linear in terms of the core structure, but you still do a whole lot of exploration and getting lost since every ''level'' folds into itself in a labyrinthic fashion and they are still great at that.
As for Elden Ring, we already know it will have (at least) 6 ''Legacy Dungeons'' that'll be the more classic Dark Souls experience you are asking for.
I’m glad Arlo is discussing Elden Ring. I wasn’t chosen for the network test so it’s good that I’m hearing good stuff about the game. It just sucks we have to wait 3 months
Would love to see you give Elden Ring the full BOTW treatment
Thanks for always speaking your mind and never choking on the corporate d. I no longer have a switch, but i still watch every vid and love each vid you produce. Keep it up.
Glad to see you do a video on something you just love that much
Elden Ring feels like FromSoftware coming full circle back to their King's Field games + Shadow Tower. Those games were open-world Western RPGs with very dungeon-esque designs (although they were played from the first-person on the PS1).
Wow. Arlo loving Elden Ring is such a welcome surprise.
I'm currently playing Bloodborne, my first From Software game. I'm absolutely in love with it. Can't wait to play the Dark Souls series, and really looking forward to Elden Ring!
Glad to see you enjoyed it!!
I have been watching everything there is to see and I am ready to dive in man. It just sucks that we now have to wait til February.
You are in luck arlo, there are gonna be many very large dungeons that are equivalent to like 2 OG dark souls areas combined! I’m so excited for this game!
The game looks fun and glad you made content that’s not just Nintendo.💪🏽
The reason I have a lot of faith in from software for an open world game is their games always have massive enemy variety and a ton of bosses, so you know when you explore you're going to find all kinds of new and interesting enemies everywhere you go, on top of interesting environments as well. And since the games are challenging and finely balanced, finding rewards will be even more rewarding. Those are some of my biggest gripes with breath of the wild, you have a beautiful and interesting world to explore with really cool landscapes and different ways of traversing them and interacting with them, but you only ever find the same enemies, more shrines, and the game is easy enough that rewards don't feel as rewarding as they should.
I could listen to Arlo talking about anything. Yes, this includes reviewing every campbells canned soup flavors.
7:34 jumping was always in these games, it was mapped to the left stick and felt terrible, but it was there
So happy I found your channel
I've heard some people say that Sekiro was basically their test demo for this game, and that they were testing out all of the things they wanted to put in Elden Ring in Sekiro. And Sekiro was an amazing game, so if thats true, I can't wait for this to come out.
Omg Arlo! For some reason (TH-cam's algorithm is absolute trash) I haven't been seeing your content in my feed for a really long time. I keep YT notifs turned off so that's on me but still I love your channel and have been missing it.
If you ever find yourself some time, I highly recommend checking out Dark Souls II and III before Elden Ring release. Maybe if you do, you could also make a video about what you liked and disliked with each of them. Would love more Dark Souls & Elden Ring videos!
I would describe this game as: Darksouls breath of skyrim the wild hunt 3
Arlo can you make a masterclass about crafting youtube video titles? They're always perfect
I sometimes fall asleep with Arlo videos on in the background
Dark Souls' hardness is overhyped when you accept the fact that dying in souls games is a mechanic and not a setback.
I've never really been a soulsbourne guy, but Arlo you have converted me. As a patron I've gotta say I actually really like it when you cover non-nintendo stuff. I'll always be a Nintendo kid myself, but sometimes there is just more fun interesting things to be said by taking a break from that.
I just finished playing the network test for my first session and it was incredible. I'm most excited about the ashes of war feature. What an awesome customization option.
This game looks incredibly amazing to play! I might try it out!
I hope them great success and many sequels.
I'm with Arlo. It took me 3 years since I first played part of Dark Souls Remastered, but now I finally get it. I understand the series. I get the draw, the appeal, and making a Souls game in an open world that capitalizes on that mystery, beauty, and engrossing nature of the world without losing the difficulty sounds incredible. Hopefully the dungeons, especially the bigger ones, have that same tight and interwoven level design of the previous games. If it does, then I'll be head over heels with this game
can't wait for this one
I've played all the dark souls, bloodborne and sekiro, and this game just looks like a solid mix of all of them and zelda. Can't wait to play this
"touch grace" haven't heard that yet, made me burst out laughing.
Come on Arlo fans. Like this video and get this video going. I don’t know about you, but extra content as well as Nintendo stuff from Arlo sounds good to me!
@arlo at the beginning of every video of yours (it seems), there is a second of audio of you. What is the story?! Curious minds want to know!
I just can't wait, I love souls games and Elden Ring looks sooo good, the open world, the horse, the return of power stancing and the new mechanics look so much fun
I didn't get in unfortunately, but it's awesome to see everyone having a blast!
I wasn't able to get in to the network test and I still have that ravenous feeling to check out the game.