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Death stranding did for me and it really builded for me in immersion. But ELDEN ring? I played bloodborne and demon's souls during the hardest of pandemic, and i didnt even once got the same idea..
Cant believe its come to this but the guy in the Cuphead incident now looks good in comparison. "Yeah he was garbage at the game, but he at least pressed start and actually played it."
Game journalists are generally much more experienced players than most. They play hundreds of thousands of games to completion and judge them and often have only a few days or a week to try and complete and write about a game before game launch. That one video of the cuphead 'journalist' was not a professional game reviewer playing for a review. Completely different things.
"In Elden Ring, the struggle feels real" Out of context, that doesn't feel too bad. It sounds like a game reviewer who feels the game's difficulty is juuust right "Elden Ring has outlasted its critics, and so will Bitcoin" Well that took a hard turn into 'what the fuck' in pretty short order
@@Hauntaku here here. Like everyone is still trying to say crypto is this brand new form of tech when it has already been more than a decade. Like tge only ones who benefitted it were thise early adopters. There is still some positives in it but it has essentially become an unregulated stock market.
@@toledochristianmatthew9919 And Crypto is still a shitshot of scams and idiots. Seriously it has nearly no utility at all, it's just pure speculation.
@@toledochristianmatthew9919 Not really. NFTs are scams, many things going on in the crypto space are scams, but crypto currency is what it always has been, a decentralised currency. The point isn't to "benefit from it". Yes some people did make millions from it's rise, but people treating it like stock (as they do with NFTs) are just morons who don't understand how to trade real stocks. The point of crypto is as an alternative to fiat money which can be controlled by the issuing government. Right now it still doesn't have a great deal of value to the average person because it's mostly only accepted for illicit or shady transactions. But as we saw with the canadian trucker protests, the west is becoming more and more openly authoritarian and the government will freeze dissidents bank accounts on a mass scale, they will render your fiat based finances inaccessible if you cross them. You no longer own your money if the government disapproves of how you use it. The big problem for crypto right now is exactly those fucking idiots who think it's a stock (as well as general volatility in the concept). Whilst the price of coins can fluctuate wildly, it will never be a widely accepted currency, shops wouldn't know how to price things, who's going to accept a currency that could potentially plummet to half it's value in a week? But to dismiss it entirely is foolish. I certainly HOPE it can gain stability and thus traction and that we'll see more and more real life applications of the big cryptocurrencies, with every day goods and services payable with bitcoin. Because when western governments go full China against dissenters and people who disagree with the prominant political narrative, I want us to still have the ability to live our lives without the government first giving approval.
It’s so obvious this guy wanted to write a piece on the pandemic but knew it wouldn’t get noticed among the million other articles. He looked around for a topic that was trending on the net and crowbarred it into his article with little research. It worked. Good journalism sacrificed for SEO.
it really didn't, making everyone shit on and think less of and buy less of his companies shitty paper/"journos", how the actual fok is that working? maybe if 'aNy PrEsS iS gOoD pReSs iS gOoD pReSs" was true, but it's not. proven totally and completely beyond any shred of a speck of a tiny shadow of a doubt by artisan builds, harvey weinstein, jeffrey epstein, blizzard activision, bobby kotick, and so so so so so many more over the last few years.
Man they're just complaining about a game that does not insult its customers with microtransactions it doesn't lock off huge portions of the game behind DLC pay Gates isn't broken so much on launch like cyberpunk 2077 also the fact that they're using Elden ring for their stupid New York Times articles
What they don’t get about Elden Ring or video games in general. Video games are a fun temporary escape from the real world. They can have narratives that reflect your real life experiences in some way but playing a wonderful game like Kirby And The Forgotten Land is meant to be a fun get away or Elden Ring is an escape into this incredible fantasy world.
@@MalikATL although elden ring constanly kicking my ass, idk why i'm still really love this game and any other fromsoft or soulslike games, i'm just really love this genre, especially this game
"Elden Ring has a story that has something to do with a ring." *audible slow clapping in an empty auditorium* Oh yeah, great stuff... 10 out of 10 journalism right there.
@@ohexenwahno5652 It actually does, though you don't see the ring itself -- the Elden Ring was broken apart, its pieces fell into the possession of certain demigods (the bosses we know and love).
i felt bad for the first writer because i've been there, being assigned to cover on something i had no interest or background knowledge in. The resulting article was pretty much this but the difference is they didnt publish mine lol that school paper had more sense than the NY Times
I don’t understand the dog piling over that article. It’s kind of vapid but it’s just a thought the writer had over the game, there’s nothing unethical or offensive in there and making fun of them seems very strange and unjustly mean spirited. The second article however was insane.
@@TrueGamer22887 The first article was trying to say that a video game (a form of escapism) has something to do with current day events which made no sense as the development of this game probably started before the pandemic anyway
"It's hard to imagine this level of success for Elden Ring in any other era." You mean a video game coming out during a time when everyone and their dead grandmother like video games would result in a successful video game? How. About. That.
Gaming is fully mainstream, and at the same time the quality of games is at an all time low. In that context it's hard to imagine a game like Elden Ring, which is an actually good game coming out into a massive market that's almost completely bereft of them to a waiting audience who want to play anything that's ACTUALLY A GAME instead of a microtransaction shop with a stillborn "live service" attached to it, doing anything less than absolute gangbusters. Any idiot could tell you that.
No no, that's not even the biggest point. The big one is that Dark Souls is a generation-defining series, one of the most important in the entire history of videogames, and assigning a writer who doesn't understand the position Elden Ring occupied within gaming culture to write about Elden Ring makes it immediately obvious that they don't understand the entire culture of the subject they're writing about. It's like an American writing about Japanese Noh plays and saying "Wow, it's weird that they move so slowly."
@@ninetailedfox579121 That's a discussion point of subjective Opinions. Dark Souls has had a massive Influence on Gaming, that is objektively true. So it can't be denied it is important in the Video game history, it's only questionable if it's the most important.
"Elden Ring has a story that has something to do with a ring." Halo has a story that has something to do with a halo. Call of Duty has a story that has something to do with being called to duty. Lego Star Wars has a story that has something to do with legos. Cuphead has a story that has something to do with cupheads. I could keep going but this one sentence has plenty of meme potential.
Halo also has a story that has something to do with a ring. In fact, is has more to do with a ring that Elden Ring, as there are multiple rings in the story,
NYT was correlating the “die and try again” of soulsborne games with the wave after wave hardship of the pandemic. I see what they TRIED to do but failed at one thing. The Point. The article didn’t know if it wanted to be a game article about the pandemic or a pandemic article about games and it just turned into “yea, i get what your saying but what’s your point?”
Exaaaaactly. Came across as a lazy and poorly-thought-through attempt to fill space and, well, bait clicks. Yong is right to point out that Death Standing would've made for a much more poignant point of comparison. They could've compared Elden Ring to the general struggle of life, if they really just wanted to write about the general idea of community support within difficult games. The connection to the pandemic in particular felt incredibly forced.
I like how being able to play elden ring in many different ways with a bunch of different builds so you can play the game your way is supposed to be a negative
@@598019001 that’s what’s been living rent free in my head with all these bad take reviews. I get it’s not for everyone but you can’t get butthurt that it doesn’t have a sense of direction when the whole point of a from soft game is to explore the world that they’ve built
@@lsant1997 Yeah, any _open world_ that gates your options behind long plot exposition in specific orders and tells you where you're "Allowed" to go, is not an *"open"* world and definitely not a "sand box" game (LOOKING AT YOU, FinalFantasy-14!)
"Dying again and again, sometimes for hours." I'm not a souls gamer. Elden Ring is my first Fromsoftware game and it took me about 3 tries to realize I was too under leveled to take on the Tree Sentinel. I went around killing soldiers and monsters in the open world to level up a bit, got my horse, and got my first summon. Then I came back for revenge. If you choose to beat your head against the wall in elden ring I have no sympathy for you. I understand some people actually enjoy the challenge and actually embrace fighting things that are over powered. More power to you if that's your thing. But the people that complain about the difficulty, I can't get behind that. If you're that frustrated you just simply aren't utilizing all the tools. There are many ways to deal with difficulty in this game. You can leave a boss fight, level up and come back to it later. You can summon. You can even pull two other players in to help you in co-op.
My first souls game 2 im 217 hours in beat the game and about to work on new game plus its not hard it will let you know if you are able to take on the bosses
That's not even taking into consideration all of the different builds you can use. The only encounter I can think of that really is "too hard" is Malenia, and even then she's a secret boss encounter, in a secret dungeon located, in a secret area in the end game.
Leveling up early in Elden Ring is a very slow, tedious and boring process if you're struggling with the enemies UNLESS you look online for a powerleveling method.
Hate how people always go on about "die all the time because its hard" when - especially - elden ring is by far the easiest in the series, due to all the options a player has. the option to freely explore the world and therefor being able to find all kinds of things to help you out makes it far easier than any other souls.
Yeah, I know the journalists don't know this, but the endgame is super hard as the final few bosses are way to aggressive, have too much health, and damage (i would give specific examples but I don't wanna spoil)
@@randomninja7632 disagree. Mr. Loux is slow and easily dodged. you can just jump over most of his attacks. Mr. Redhead hits hard but is also very slow. The beast is just a test of patience as it likes to keep a long distance. no matter what problem one might have with ANY boss however, can be mitigated by all the options the player has. no matter what your strong/weakpoint as a player is, the game gives you enough stuff to overcome any given wall. also any boss can be made light off simply by summoning ash.
@@abandon4 Not so sure about that. remember the very first time you played demons souls? playing it now for the 231412 time is childs play but imagine your very first souls game being demons OR elden ring. which would be easier for a first timer? technically you could hop into world 4 and get some gear that melts everything in the first few worlds but a new player doesnt know that and would be crushed by skellies in 2 seconds. in ER however a new player can ignore fights and just explore, while casually finding better gear that will help him out. oh a new demons player would also make the game more difficult by dying in body form without understanding WT. Demons is what gave the series its reputation as difficult and ER is now played by millions because it is far easier (accessible)
@@TheScratcherStudios to be fair, I did a STR build so Mr.redhead was faster then me, one shot me with *that* attack, Mr.Loux I mostly agree with because I was constantly jumping anyway, most of the time the beast would jump away after barely hitting him once and sometimes not hitting him at all, so it's probably just the build that made the game so hard but I still think that those two and the final boss have problematic things about them
@@randomninja7632 High five buddy. So did I. Too lazy for multitasking as well so I never used items or spells either, only pure oogabooga. Still found Redhead to be slow. He has lots of openings between/after attacks. Beast killed me just 2-3 times for the reasons you stated but then I got lucky...actually have a video of the fight and can upload if you want...basically mimic and I got into a perfect rythm and we stunlocked the beast to death. It was really comical. It never moved from its spot, just got bashed from left to right till death
As someone with an English degree, it's absolutely embarrassing that something that poorly written was called an article, regardless if it was for a tech publication. I understand tech is not a study of the humanities but when it's your literal job to write, you would think that author could create something that would at least pass High School English standards. Smh my 10th grade nephew has better mastery of punctuation and grammar than the author.
Ya, got one too and gotta say that barely qualifies for a logic statement in a paper that my 5th grade teacher would have accepted. Hell I said it in another comment but I only got through Limgrave so far but from that area alone I could easily make a 25 page paper on that area alone if i wanted to (don't really want to spend the time right now though unless someone would pay me lol)...hell from what i was taught in highschool i could easily do 15 pages minimum (honestly probably could do 25 pages even from just highschool knowledge that'd be on par with any knowledge i got in college as the English degree was kind of a joke imo as outside of 2 classes all o them were read and review style classes (fairly useless for what i wanted from the degree tbh) with the other 2 actually focusing on the editorial process/strengthening my grammar/writing (which was my main goal tbh as i wanted to get into book editing...granted any editorial jobs i could find needed the degree on top of 3 to 5 years experience even for entry level jobs (BS imo, they just want experienced editors out of work desperate for a job)). Granted likely another example of a failing public education system in the country imo (may be some areas where it's good but they're the outliers from what I've seen...in Dem states though the result is almost always failure). So happy nowadays my mom and dad shelled out the cash for a private school where more focus was put on thinking critically and making sure we had a strong foundation step by step in the language before progressing further and rushing class subjects. Basically a good comparison to my education and theirs could be the story of the tortoise and the hare: in order to get everyone to graduation the public schooling system (hare in this case) rushes all the subjects taught to get out as many as possible, on the other hand my school (at least when i was a student...after seeing what my sister, who is 10 years younger than me, was taught there it seems like they started to follow the public school approach as well (maybe not by choice) and she was struggling with far more things than i ever did due to some topics not being covered long/well enough) took the slow and steady approach (tortoise's) and made sure the students understood what was taught before moving to the next subject/topic so when i got into Highschool and the distribution of public and private school students was about 50/50 i noticed all the kids that came from my school/other private schools had a far easier time understanding and excelling in the school than the public school students where only the top of the top students from there were able to compete for the most part with the private school students when it came to grades. As for college it became even worse for the public school students where most of the top students were either coming from private highschools or were adults with years of experience to help them learn topics properly and the worst were mostly students from public schools in my city (heavy Dem city btw which is likely why it's as bad as it is as their education policies suck).
Dude I actually was thinking this and got pissed lol…like yo how my English teacher lie to me in highschool tellin me writers have to write perfectly for articles etc etc…n now look at the articles we get in the paper and such lol…written at an elementary school level some of these are. If I knew I coulda got away with just writing about things I want anyway I want, I woulda been a journalist shit
I know this is probably a tired point by now, but they get away with this because they're not hired based on their merit as a writer and rather on their ideological compatibility with the people running the media outlets they apply to. It is pretty well documented at this point that mainstream video game journalism is extremely cliquey, nepotistic and rife with quid pro quo arrangements between writers. It's why you'll often see more or less the exact same article pushing the same viewpoint pop up on half a dozen different sites all within a few hours of each other. Because many of the writers are all in the same group chats, despite working for different companies, coordinating what to cover and, often less scrupulously, what not to cover.
I'm from Denmark, where the pandemic is pretty much forgotten at this point. No restrictions, no testing, no masks etc. And this is the first FromSoftware game I've played. I've always been intrigued by them, but with the open world and possibly to mitigate the difficulty more than previous titles, I finally jumped in and I'm enjoying it very much.
lmao yea i feel you also Elden ring is drastically easier than any of the other fromsoft titles honnestly I over leveled so much that ive been one shoting every boss ive come against even Radahn the one that seemed to give everyone and major issue
It’s forgotten in most of the US at this point too. I’m in NJ one state down from NY and I haven’t seen a mask since Xmas. But regardless the article was a sham
@@acedianihil8208 Am I wrong though? Boomers tend to think they are right about every little subject that comes to mind. What better way to get an A in a class taught by them than to agree with them? Unless they happen to be a good teacher, of course.
I used to do that but with death metal. Even did that in university. I would compare a book (I was a lit major) and the message to the bleak vibes in some song or album.
@@halcyon6098 There is a mod that does just that for The Witcher 3 - where you and the enemy are either same level as you or +5 (or skulled), nothing is ever lower than your level
He's trying to characterize the toughness of Elden Ring to the struggles everyone faces during the pandemic. I get where he is trying to get at because I've also made some shit ass essays in my day.
My guess is that they had to write an article about a game they've never played and another one about the pandemic and then they had to write an article in the tech industry. They just mashed it all together and called it a day.
“It is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of needle, than for a man to beat Margit on his first try.” - Jesus, probably, when questioned about Elden Ring 2000 years ago
I beat Margaret the level 21 with a plus 3 weapon on my first try. On my first playthrough. And yes I summoned wolves and the NPC phantom and I have no shame. A win is a win.
@@Darkhartx1 An upgraded weapon is all you really need to be able to make the fight manageable. Also, don't feel shame for using summons. People who bitch about other players using summons are nothing but maidenless sods. You play the game however you want, within the confines of the game, as should anyone else.
The eye of the needle was a side gate into Jerusalem. It was low enough that you had to get off the camel and guide it through instead of just riding it in on auto pilot. That expression really just means you have to be intentional and put in minimum effort. Not that it's impossible
This interpretation is an urban myth that has been refuted most reputable biblical scholars. There is no evidence that such a gate existed at all at the time of Jesus' life, nor that it would have been well known enough to be an effective metaphor. The most likely interpretation is that Jesus was decrying the practices necessary to accumulate massive wealth as being antithetical to the religious and spiritual practices he was teaching.
Sounds like they watched the official game trailers and wrote the article. “You face a dragon”. Yeah, one of the previews shows you fighting “A dragon”. If you (as you said) played the game, there’s waaaaay more dragons of all sizes and abilities too. Even a dragon god.
I think the reason why they chose to record with a camera instead of the in-built recording function is to MAYBE bring home the fact that "Hey I'm at home, playing a video game! The comfort of my living room, that has a TV, from which I play these video games!"
These journalist should stick to their "top 10" and "X you would not believe" clickbait articles than to branch out to topics they have no knowledge about.
The first article reminded me of my old church youth group leaders trying to draw spiritual parallels from pop culture, to keep our interest. Sometimes it worked, but more often it was a horrible stretch and they didn't really get what we liked in terms of pop culture, or why we like it.
For the same reason people like sugar and fast food, you like pop culture. It’s garbage designed to release dopamine as cheaply as possible. Elden Ring isn’t pop culture. It’s the actual inverse. It has meaning that requires strength of will to find, to understand. It makes you think, observe, learn. Elden Ring succeeds BECAUSE it isn’t the consumer meme.
@@TheSpicyLeg Well said. I haven't played it yet as my finances are tight. I installed Dark Souls 3 yesterday though. I haven't played it before and needed a new game to play. I bought it on sale awhile ago. It will actually be my first game by that studio. I wanted to play DS 1 first, but it is also too expensive.
@@dmikewilcox There’s two schools of thought in regards to Soulsborne. Play the games in whatever order, or the fans’ way, starting with Demon’s Souls. I recommend starting with Dark Souls if you don’t have a PS, as Dark Souls 1 is the cleanest distillation of Miyazaki’s design philosophy. In truth, it doesn’t really matter. But Dark Souls, despite not being a trilogy per se, has a meta narrative, and it is a grand one. You’ll get the references and see what has happened to the gods, Anor Londo, individual human nations, etc. Elden Ring is outside Dark Souls (many argue that Dark Souls and Bloodborne are in the same universe, and there’s evidence for this) but there are narrative flavors that hint to Dark Souls. It’s a masterful game. It’s worth a play now or later, for sure. But if you learn how and why Miyazaki designs the games, it’ll make it better.
Elden Ring made me realize just how lousy of a father I had an how I could have done better in life had I ignored the bird and pulled some cheesy no talent move in comparison to apples ruining the global dental industry by spreading mouth fungus. At what point did anyone reads those articles before they got shoved out? The writers should look into different jobs like bagging groceries and the editor should just be fired and not allowed near anything journalistic ever again.
It gets harder and harder to read and treat these real "journalists" when they're being the joke itself. I mean it is funny but it is so painful to read them through while taking them seriously...
@@jackhazardous4008 It's worse than that imo. Much of the game industry, but particularly companies based in US, is held hostage by them. Despite repeatedly proving themselves unfit for purpose, they still hold sway over a large amount of the public perception towards video games in the west. If a company or developer does something they don't like, they coordinate with each other to run damaging news cycles targeted against them.
@@jackhazardous4008 And that's why MTX is still terrible. If gamers were put in charge, then there'd be no microtransactions in any video game. Maybe DLC and expansions but never MTX.
It feels a lot like those writers' bosses said: "Elden Ring is popular, write about it!" "But... I don't even play games..." "I don't care, write something, anything."
I toss a coin to Novara Media, a plucky bunch of anarcho-socialists based out of the UK, but yeah American institutional journalism is shit. Helps that Novara sticks solely to actual news instead of writing thoughtless thinkpieces about games they haven't played and movies they haven't watched.
The biggest boost to Elden Ring's success was the release of other long awaited AAA titles that failed to impress and were mostly underwhelming. I was really looking forward to Dying Light 2 and Horizon Forbidden West, didn't even think about Elden Ring. After playing the first two I found myself bored and disappointed. About a week later I was playing Elden Ring and I was thinking "now this is more like it!"
As someone who wanted to become a journalist, these articles made me think twice because of shame. Not because I wouldn't do better than them, but because on how terrible the reputation of journalism is because of articles like this.
@@hihowrya370 Well it's never going to get better unless talented people start taking up these jobs again. You'd probably just have to lie about a bunch of personal stuff to get hired, because they care more about that than your capabilities as a writer nowadays.
1:40 - Elden Ring definitely does not get harder. If anything, it gets easier, due to a combination of getting used to the mechanics, and also finding better gear and abilities that are often times ridiculously powerful, if not completely broken.
Not a souls guy or fan. I picked up Elden Ring expecting that I would find it hard to get into. Ive now spent 40 odd hours with the game. Its not flawless but there is a lot of flexibility in how you approach a given situation. Progress has been slow but its allowed me to immerse myself. Each boss I fell feels satisfying. You feel yourself becoming stronger and better at the game. So for someone like me who is entirely fresh to the series to get stuck in for 40 hours? It must be doing something right.
Same for me. I played some of the older souls games as well as soul type games and I never enjoyed the combat. ER combat is mediocre as well. What sets it apart though is the open world. Souls games are on rails and that is what bored me and made me drop them. I love to explore the world and find interesting locations and cool treasures with unique enemies. That's what kept me in WoW for so long even though it's honestly not that fun to play. Having a huge environment filled with stuff to find keeps it entertaining. They succeeded with the open world because they understand what it's about. It's not like many huge open world games that are vacant and offer nothing of interest. Creed games are a perfect example of doing it wrong. While ER is how to do it right. I'm near the end on ng+ at around 180 hours and still having fun. I have a couple more build ideas I want to try out (on #5 right now)
Ya...I'm 40 hours in and only got through most of the Limgrave stuff (from what i saw online there's some stuff i haven't done yet there too) and a bit of Calvard and the Lake regions (probably gonna focus on Lakes as the levels are lower there so Caelid feels more like it's intended as the 3rd or 4th region you explore). I got the game day 1 and have been taking it nice and slow with swapping around to different games or no games at all to avoid burnout and will likely be playing this game up until late 2022, maybe even into 2023 (which means I'll likely get spoiled quite a bit but don't mind it that much in this type of game tbh, so far kept spoilers on late game bosses to a minimum though and only know their names at best not their fighting styles or appearance). While not my first Souls game (DS1 would be but never got far and played Bloodborne and Sekiro too which i also didn't get too far in) Elden Ring is the Fromsoftware game I've enjoyed the most so far for similar reasons as you. As far as difficulty goes though not really too hard as long as you don't deliberately handicap yourself and stick to specific levels/levels of equipment/skills at specific parts of the game and don't mind going with any method possible to win and don't mind grinding (especially at cheap spots like the Iron Ball in Caelid)/looting higher level equipment and skills early. Everyone trying to say it's too hard are likely those that refuse to do either and likely complained that even Pokemon Red and Blue were hard back in the day/playing it now even though they're easily some of the easiest games out there as long as you either grind a bit and, more importantly, focus on setup options as well as pure offensive options (basically stat boosting skills or skills that impair enemies...i use Pokemon for this example but a game that does it better due to not having a 4 move limit would be some of the older Final Fantasy games, Dragon Quest game, Falcom's Trails series, etc)...basically they only look at the brute force method to win and nothing else (hell even Namco's Tales series, one that many call a mindless hack and slash, has many games where you need to put a bit more thought into what you're doing when playing above the Normal/Medium difficulties (those two mindless play can work i guess) as you need to understand the length of a spells casts, whether the artes knock down/knock away opponents or if they can knock them into the air/off from lying on the ground to follow up with a combo, what artes easily combo into each other and flow well by positioning you the right way for follow up attacks, do some artes haver properties that are strong or weak against specific types of enemies, how does the respective game's or character's gimmick mechanic work (most games or characters have 1 new gimmick unique to said game or character that can drastically change how 1 game is played to the next game while keeping the same basic combat system in most cases (sometimes the combat systems take a more drastic change such as the shift from directional inputs plus the artes button to arte trees in some games), and so on).
When I was an undergrad, one of my colleagues was a journalism major. Following our midterms in Shakespeare, I found him swearing up and down that our professor was horrible and several other expletives I don't feel like sharing. I asked him if I could give his paper a look-over and he obliged. What followed was a meandering text not unlike this NYT article. When I read his submission I was baffled how we were in the same course. Eventually I asked him if he knew what the prompt was. When he replied in the negative, I asked him why he hadn't asked for confirmation from the professor. He just shrugged at me. I recommended that he visit during office hours, but I don't know if he ever did. I asked myself how the hell someone expected to get into journalism if they they didn't know a thing about what they were writing. I now find myself asking the same question.
Had the writer said something along the lines of "The pandemic has been difficult for me but playing Elden Ring gave me comfort when I needed it" it would have been fine but this just feels like trying to make connection where there isn't one.
The article reminded me of the kind of essay I have to wrote for some class that I don't care about. So I just made random connection between things just for the sake of having essay to turn in and move on.
Heck of they wanted to find a game that relates to the pandemic, it could have been something like Death Stranding where you literally play as delivery man in a post apocalyptic America after a pandemic has devastated the country.
Bruh, Fromsoft made Elden Ring more accessible to any audience than their previous and most challenging titles and yet people are still posting terrible Hottakes over an easy mode. These dudes need a life
Bullshit. Selectable Difficulties would make things more accessible, but FS are too damn stubborn & stuck in the the 80s to do it, and their niche "community" filled with "git gud" assholes will always gatekeep it. Certain mechanics, spells or weapons will never equate to an actual Easy Mode. Especially when FS brings out nerfs because fun isnt allowed in their games. Seriously, how is ER more accessible than previous entries(especially Bloodborne), when FS nerfs everything & ruin what little fun there is? Last I heard, Mimic Tears got nerfed. They also nerfed a specific sword & greatshield. So FS' going after all kinds of builds. Why? Because they cannot quit it with fake challenge from the 80s if they tried.
I get so annoyed when I mis-click on Polygon, Kotaku, Verge, IGN, ResetEra or any of the other 'Vaulter' websites when they come up in Google searches. I wish there was a way to filter out those sites from the results.
@@DoggyHateFire Even a writer isn't really needed. They're going to tell me, across the THOUSANDS of employees in NY Times, not ONE is an avid gamer who likes Elden Ring? Really? The writer couldn't just pull them aside like "Ayo do you wanna contribute to an article?! It's about your favourite hobby!"
The second article reminds me of this one time i was at the skatepark. Some teen in a suit comes up and asks me "Hey, so you like skateboards?" Me being polite, answers "Yeah". Kid then says "You know who else likes skateboards? JESUS!" I replied, "Kid, Jesus was born like 2000 years ago, skateboarding started in the 60s, he had NO IDEA what a skateboard is." LMAO! I finished typing just as Yong was referring to Jesus haha!
As a Christian I can say that Jesus would be fine with skateboarding as long as you don't make it an idol and use it for his glory. But to say he "loves" it makes no freaking sense lol
@@rabble_rousdower If Jesus were here today he'd probably be doing kickflips down stairs, or at least appreciate the passion for personal expression of true skaters. For me personally, and many others, 'praying' with skateboard actions at the skatepark every day out of love is a more spiritual cathedral experience than being pressured into marching lockstep into a church to be told authoritarian fairy tales about an invisible man in the sky once a week then forget about it for 6 days. I think Jesus would rather each of us find our own spiritual path to enlightenment than follow others, i've never felt anything concerning organized religion's fairy tales, but skateboarding and other related stuff, snowboarding, bmx, mtb, etc had a real, deep, and spiritual meaning and was the thing that inspired me to better myself, overcome challenges, slay the demons of fear, insecurity ans such, and basically give me a reason to live. Skateboarding saved my life like 1000 times over already, and continues to do the same today.
This story may sound hyberbolic, but its not. I was 29 years old, working a dead end job and was honestly heading toward a life of a complacent underachiever. One day, I picked up Bloodborne, got immediately crushed and put it down. However, something about it stuck in the back of my head and I picked it back up only to get crushed again. However this time, I stuck with it. I got better and as the credits rolled after the final boss and that rush of endorphins finally wore off, I had a major, life changing epiphany. I realized that even though I've never stuck to anything, that if I put my mind to it, I am capable of doing difficult things. All these years later and I just graduated college at 36 and I'm now working as an electrical engineer on the long road to getting my P.E. To me and many people, these games are genuinely special us and although I can only speak to my own experience, these games literally changed my life.
This author writes in a style that aims to adapt any subject to whatever angle that suits NYT’s narrative. They could have said “Elden Ring is a love letter to Putin” and I wouldn’t have batted an eye.
They hired an openly myssandric racist (anti-white) feminist pro-communism Korean, why should I take anything in the NYT seriously? They jumped the shark many years ago.
Someone once said: "unlike in the past a lot of game journalists nowadays are just journalist who failed to get into the big publication, so they took a job writing about games. They have to write about game, but they really want to write about the big societal events of the day." Seems to be another proof of that
My guess as to what happened? The NY Times editors probably had their weekly meeting and were stunned by the sales for this video game and reluctantly decided it was news that should be covered. They probably in turn assigned the article to some reporter that was on the hot seat or close to retirement or something. IT is obvious that the reporter was pissed at having to write an article about video games for the NYT.... most likely felt like their talents were being wasted. I would be shocked to learn that the by-line is someone less than 55 years old. Then again I'm in my 50's and I understand the cultural importance of video games. It is snobbery like this reporter and his/her/their editor demonstrated that actually hurts gamers because they literally don't think of video games or the industry as important AND as a result this lets executives of those companies fly under the radar for consumer practices that would sink a chief executive of almost any other industry.
If I was the boss of the "journalist" who wrote that drivel, I would INSTANTLY fire them for incompetence. I've seriously seen better essays from elementary school kids. I'd sure as hell dunk on the "writer". Even calling them a writer is insulting to actual writers.
As a souls fan im glad the game is doing well but at the same time im upset that its going too well that new people that dont understand it is talking shit about it in masses.
Or bashing the community. Like I have seen some reviews bashing the community. Like I get that there are problems in this game. It is okay if you didn't have fun with it. It is okay if you don't like some aspects about the game. But bashing people who don't agree with you or have a different opinion is just cringe. That the consumers are idiots for purchasing elden ring, that is where I tell those people to 'fuck off'.
I mean on one hand it's really fun to watch new arrivals try things out and seeing where they struggle as well as where they excel and the unexpected tricks they find that we wouldn't think to try. On the other you have a boomer algorithm trying to be hip with the kids.
Meanwhile a lot of people who have never played a Souls game in their lives are being introduced to Elden ring and are enjoying it just we have a bunch of new players that are complainers and don't understand up this game was made to be mysterious where you have to work hard to find the story and come up with your own interpretation of what's going on in the story instead of being spoon-fed like Horizon forbidden West in other open world games where you already know what's going on in the plot in the first 10 minutes of the game
This is what I think happened - both of these news outlets were trying to make a news article about Elden Ring due to its popularity and to hopefully draw traffic from the gaming demographic. However, the writers didn’t want to write a positive or negative review as either will draw negative criticism, so they wanted to write something relating Elden Ring in a new way, and/or didn’t have anyone experienced enough with playing the game (likely both). Of course, they instead wrote news articles that had most Elden Ring players, whether they liked or hated the game, to band together and ridicule the ridiculousness of the comparisons. Side note: Especially in regards to the NYT article, absolutely reminded me of a middle school essay I wrote when I couldn’t access any sources for my topic and completely BS’d it (which I unsurprisingly received a low grade for)
Once again, those butthurt about not being able to hack and slash through Elden will point to literally anything but themselves for why they didn't enjoy it.
Most of these video game journalists tried to get a job at CNN or any other big news outlet but failed so they got a job as a video game journalist and you see how they can't play video games they hate video games they hate us
Is funny how those failures always find themselves working on entertainment and polluting it. Is like how most translators and localization workers are actually failures in other more lucrative forms of the translation world
I think people are so desensitized to games having shitty releases and mediocre gameplay, that when a game comes out that’s a complete banger and no baggage, they have no idea how to react… It’s both concerning and pathetic that the gaming industry/community had progressed to this, shits fucking sad man
...the saddest part of it...at least in my opinion...is the fact that these major game studios put out mediocrity at best and garbage at worst...and when people don't buy it because they can see from the poor saps who did buy it that the game is trash...the studios get mad about it. It's like they expect us to drop to our knees and praise them for the trash fire they dumped in front of us...
Very likely honestly, looking for obscure stuff or older things is probably the way to stick unless new good games come out. My brain died from all the only okay at best releases and only came back to life to play games to two titles on my own. Inscryption made me bother buying and playing a game again on pc, eldenring made me actually use my ps4 for a game after years.
I forget who said it in a review of this game but they nailed it: Elden Ring has some of the cheapest bosses. It also allows the player to be the cheapest of any player character in a From Software game. This nails it to me. Everything is tough but you can become an OP God as well.
I remember in school having to write about things I didn’t care about, instead of what I’m interested in. They wanted to write something about geopolitics but teacher said “no Elden Ring.” The Bitcoin thing was just sad. Outlasting the critics? Good grief.
I'm not in highschool anymore, but a family member is and got essays similar to this. I can only imagine the amount of people who wrote how the pandemic is connected to every other thing.
Attaching random crap to Elden Ring reminds me of when news articles used to try to attach things to zombies. That was a weird time, but I used to see headlines that would mention zombies or try to attach something to the popularity of zombies, but the actual article would be about something else.
@@loldoctor While that's true, I saw articles like one that had a headline like "how a zombie found a job" and the article was about job fairs, and the zombie thing was just some tiny paragraph about someone who got a gig job dressing up as a zombie for some costume thing.
Well I mean there have been groups doing that. Idea/concept being THAT if you are prepared to survive where anyone could become your enemy out of desperation...you are prepared. A touch of "preppers" (crazy) + pop culture + getting public crisis ready (lil more sane)
Elden Ring just takes a massive dump over all the problems that plague modern gaming. No microtransactions, no live service, no game breaking bugs, zero wokeness, not a broken unplayable mess at launch, no generic open world formula, no hand-holding, the list goes on.
Or how they would release a broken game on launch but the in-game store with the microtransactions would be functional on launch but the game itself is broken
I agree except for the zero wokeness - Male and Female don't exist. But even for their best efforts, men (Type A) are still first when compared to women (Type B) in character selection.
Yup,also it’s interesting how there are so many powerful female characters,yet you can’t see those pesky sexist that always complain about strong women,it’s almost like if you make compelling characters no one cares about genitals.
@@Paandaas Eh, they still have the characters refer to the characters by the correct pronouns. In the beginning cutscene, Melina will refer to you either as he (Type A) or she (Type B). It might be a translation thing but it's not really a problem of wokeness, more like conveyance.
Live services aren't inherently a bad thing. You see, if Battlefield 2042 had no bugs, glitches, and/or performance issues, it would have been ranked as one of the best games of 2021 for being an extremely fun, fast-paced, no-limits FPS.
I just find it funny that "gets harder as you play" is a notable aspect to them. What kind of game makes bosses and enemies weaker the further you go into it?
"Elden Ring has a story that has something to with a ring." The funny thing is, the people who know the story of this game would know that the Elden Ring ISN'T EVEN A RING THAT'S JUST ITS NAME. So, yeah, you can really tell that they didn't play it that much.
I can tell the NYT writer this: If Elden Ring released during an earlier era, it would be even more relatively popular than it is now. Probably even revolutionize games of the future.
@@Sorrowdusk i already know this . but he said if elden ring dropped an earlier era i’m guessing that’s around when those two titles dropped it would’ve been more popular but i think it would’ve got the same success as demon souls /ds1 because like in the video said fromsoft got more popular as the years went on .
I think elden ring really came out at a perfect time though, so many other dissapointing AAA game releases recently just made this a whole new breath of fresh air to play, it came out at such a great time imo
What nobody get about elden ring. Is that a developer tried something different with a formula and it worked. They didn’t add micro transactions or filler material. They added an open world to their formula. They spent extra time developing side quest and things to explore without paying extra it
Elden ring is a challenging game, however that challenge is one hundred percent up to the player. I sailed through the game with pretty good ease only hitting a wall against Elden Beast because I didn’t want to respec and that is completely my self imposed difficulty.
I finally played through Death Stranding this January and it really got to me, depending on what mood I'm in either it or Elden Ring is my all time favourite game right now. I wish Death Stranding hadn't fallen off so hard due to people being like "it's about delivering packages lol boring Amazon Driver Simulator haha" cause it's so much more.
The connections are so clear that I scarcely need mention this at all, but the pandemic and bitcoin are exactly like the game bubsy 3D. critics said that bubsy 3d wasn't even a real game, and twenty years later, it just keeps existing. Had the pandemic happened twenty years ago, bubsy 3d would have been the most successful game of all time!! For those who don't know, the story of bubsy 3d is about a cat or whatever. In conclusion, bubsy 3d, bitcoin, the pandemic, and the metaverse all exist, and for that reason, they're basically the same thing.
NYT: We're a highly reputable source of news and well researched information on current topics! Also NYT article: Elden Ring is really hard... like the pandemic... it's about a ring or something... and bitcoin... Holy crap NYT! At least make sure your writers are actually sober.
The nyt article reminds me of an article that came out when the first Dark Souls was new, maybe it was from the nyt or forbes, it was called something like “I beat the breakout game of the year and hated every minute” the whole thing just completely misunderstood souls ands games in general. I think it was one of the authors first games and I don’t understand why they thought they were the target audience. I might try and find that article again, does anyone else remember it?
The media and the news that do NOT know anything about gaming should not be talking about gaming period. It makes as much sense as a person who hates cakes and is not good at them, try to get a job at a cake-shop. EDIT: "You can beat a boss by defeating it with skill or by CHEEZING it with no skill involved." Wait a minute, I thought that the difficulty made this game "inaccessible" and the people being told to "git gud" were people who were dying/losing all of the time. Does that mean that the SJWs that were claiming that "difficulty = inaccessible" were lying the whole time? Which they were always wrong to begin with.
How they going to struggle in a game that literally has a built-in mechanic for calling helpful strangers to your world to help you out and a community that frankly usually respects that system
Can I just point out that there's a difference between Story and setting. Story is what you do during the course of gameplay, the cutscenes being used to convey dialogue among other things. The item descriptions, backstories and lore are all part of the setting. Soulsbourne's have several stories all grounded in a rich and deep setting, but they're fairly simple to tell on the surface You're a cursed hollow who can't die, and you want to have a word with the manager. You can rekindle the flame, let it die out, I think you can lead Solaire to it, it has a few endings. I've heard Elden Ring has 7 endings, which are the basics of the story. Whatever triggers you have to hit are key plot points for that story. The setting doesn't change between play throughs, but as a video game, the story should
Trying to find similarity of the pandemic in videos games is a fail compared to the first three minutes of the show "The last man on earth". The article is all trigger intended, good job.
I haven’t played Elden Ring and I don’t really plan on it because I tend to get too angry at difficult games but this take absolutely baffles me 😂 comparing the criticisms of fromsoft games to that of cryptocurrency is such a reach that Odell Beckham Jr. would be proud
Can I give you a little advice. Elden ring is not a hard game just like I see the Souls game are not a hard game series. They are challenging I'll give you that but if you take your time and play them like what they are an RPG level up here in there no matter how high your level is in Elden ring you'll never be invincible but at least you'll be tougher to kill the higher your level is also you can summon other players into your game there's no shame in that or let yourself be summoned by other players you do not drop your experience points upon death if you're a cooperator so you can just help players back-to-back and watch as your experience points goes up I've already grinded 17 million runes it's enough for me to level up 34 times but I want to be within summoning range of most players so I can help with boss fights. I hope you give Elden ring a try someday
Lol i fought the first boss after 10 hours 😅 because the open world is something different...it takes another 2-3 years something similiar will come out.
ah yes, i love walking to the store during the pandemic only to fall into 5 traps, get jumped by 10 enemies, accidently roam into a boss room, die, and get set back 10 blocks because i forgot to light the bonfire down the alleyway.
This just feels like a pair of college students bullshitting their way to finishing a last minute essay they've procrastinated on.
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Even with an entire region covered in a cursed plague, I never once thought of COVID while playing Elden Ring.
Death stranding did for me and it really builded for me in immersion. But ELDEN ring? I played bloodborne and demon's souls during the hardest of pandemic, and i didnt even once got the same idea..
COVID lives rent free in these people’s heads. It’s hilarious.
Lol the message was just so damn subtle,these peeps are fruitcakes
@@F4Wildcat Now Stranding did make me think of covid lockdowns, but mostly because I was amazed that Kojima released it *before* the virus.
@@cybertruckeralpha aye man. Everyone locked in? Check.
Everything delivered by couriers? Check
End of the world vibes? Checl
"The article, unfortunately, continues." Excellent throwaway line there
The New York Times in a nutshell
@@rabble_rousdower nonono, it's "american news media in a nutshell"
@@stefanforrer2573 No no no, it's "Western media in a nutshell". This bs has spread all over the west.
@@stefanforrer2573 Not just American News Media, but News Media in general, unfortunately.
I chuckled on that line, too
“The story of elden ring has something to do with a ring”
4 year degree in journalism at its best
And he just can’t figure out why he’s stuck having to write about video games instead of global politics,blames racism probably.
"You have to fight a fire breathing dragon" lol this game has about 20 different dragons that breathe more than fire
College graduates have less experienced in jobs than actual passionate people.
The funny thing is it's not even
The Elden Ring is a giant rune in the shape of a circle. It's just called a ring.
🤣
I remember the good old day when “game journalists” struggle to beat the tutorial. Now they can’t even beat the character creator!
Cant believe its come to this but the guy in the Cuphead incident now looks good in comparison. "Yeah he was garbage at the game, but he at least pressed start and actually played it."
Wasn't there a time 3-5 years back where game journalists actually had to see only a game's opening cinematic because the game itself was too hard?
@@Zhiloaxeman touche
Game journalists are generally much more experienced players than most. They play hundreds of thousands of games to completion and judge them and often have only a few days or a week to try and complete and write about a game before game launch.
That one video of the cuphead 'journalist' was not a professional game reviewer playing for a review. Completely different things.
not even the disk insert part, when is not even a physical copy!
"In Elden Ring, the struggle feels real"
Out of context, that doesn't feel too bad. It sounds like a game reviewer who feels the game's difficulty is juuust right
"Elden Ring has outlasted its critics, and so will Bitcoin"
Well that took a hard turn into 'what the fuck' in pretty short order
Cryptocurrency is dead and it is weird how people are still trying to trick people into it
@@Hauntaku here here. Like everyone is still trying to say crypto is this brand new form of tech when it has already been more than a decade. Like tge only ones who benefitted it were thise early adopters. There is still some positives in it but it has essentially become an unregulated stock market.
@@toledochristianmatthew9919 And Crypto is still a shitshot of scams and idiots. Seriously it has nearly no utility at all, it's just pure speculation.
@@toledochristianmatthew9919 Not really. NFTs are scams, many things going on in the crypto space are scams, but crypto currency is what it always has been, a decentralised currency. The point isn't to "benefit from it". Yes some people did make millions from it's rise, but people treating it like stock (as they do with NFTs) are just morons who don't understand how to trade real stocks. The point of crypto is as an alternative to fiat money which can be controlled by the issuing government.
Right now it still doesn't have a great deal of value to the average person because it's mostly only accepted for illicit or shady transactions. But as we saw with the canadian trucker protests, the west is becoming more and more openly authoritarian and the government will freeze dissidents bank accounts on a mass scale, they will render your fiat based finances inaccessible if you cross them. You no longer own your money if the government disapproves of how you use it.
The big problem for crypto right now is exactly those fucking idiots who think it's a stock (as well as general volatility in the concept). Whilst the price of coins can fluctuate wildly, it will never be a widely accepted currency, shops wouldn't know how to price things, who's going to accept a currency that could potentially plummet to half it's value in a week? But to dismiss it entirely is foolish. I certainly HOPE it can gain stability and thus traction and that we'll see more and more real life applications of the big cryptocurrencies, with every day goods and services payable with bitcoin. Because when western governments go full China against dissenters and people who disagree with the prominant political narrative, I want us to still have the ability to live our lives without the government first giving approval.
@@Hauntaku The pyramid scheme always needs new suckers.
It’s so obvious this guy wanted to write a piece on the pandemic but knew it wouldn’t get noticed among the million other articles. He looked around for a topic that was trending on the net and crowbarred it into his article with little research. It worked. Good journalism sacrificed for SEO.
So basically he appropriated something from another culture lol.
@@gokux75...excuse me?
it really didn't, making everyone shit on and think less of and buy less of his companies shitty paper/"journos", how the actual fok is that working? maybe if 'aNy PrEsS iS gOoD pReSs iS gOoD pReSs" was true, but it's not.
proven totally and completely beyond any shred of a speck of a tiny shadow of a doubt by artisan builds, harvey weinstein, jeffrey epstein, blizzard activision, bobby kotick, and so so so so so many more over the last few years.
@@gokux75 kinda, yeah.
Man they're just complaining about a game that does not insult its customers with microtransactions it doesn't lock off huge portions of the game behind DLC pay Gates isn't broken so much on launch like cyberpunk 2077 also the fact that they're using Elden ring for their stupid New York Times articles
And probably didnt use their advertising to boost sales. Reputation alone sells this series.
Dont knock no dlc yet. At least any possible dlc isn't day one bullcrap
This is why you should avoid this ignorant journalist’s dumb article. They had been playing dirty for several years now.
@@gregwestmen4902 you sound like someone who quit.
@@gregwestmen4902 its also true for many other game's fans
What they don’t get about Elden Ring or video games in general. Video games are a fun temporary escape from the real world. They can have narratives that reflect your real life experiences in some way but playing a wonderful game like Kirby And The Forgotten Land is meant to be a fun get away or Elden Ring is an escape into this incredible fantasy world.
For me Elden Ring isn’t fun but I’m not going to talk shit about it cause it’s not for me
Amen. I am so tired of modern, real world issues (especially political ideology) being forced into games.
@@MalikATL although elden ring constanly kicking my ass, idk why i'm still really love this game and any other fromsoft or soulslike games, i'm just really love this genre, especially this game
The issue is these people are prisoners of their own viewpoints. Having any mindset other than oppressed loser is beyond them.
@@MerlosTheMad it's so sad. I used to be that way myself.
"Elden Ring has a story that has something to do with a ring."
*audible slow clapping in an empty auditorium*
Oh yeah, great stuff... 10 out of 10 journalism right there.
Ironically, Elden Ring has nothing to do with an actual ring xD
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Halo is a game about Angels
@@ohexenwahno5652 It actually does, though you don't see the ring itself -- the Elden Ring was broken apart, its pieces fell into the possession of certain demigods (the bosses we know and love).
@@Noobzlikeu the elden ring is not a physical object, though, it's more of a metaphysical concept
i felt bad for the first writer because i've been there, being assigned to cover on something i had no interest or background knowledge in. The resulting article was pretty much this but the difference is they didnt publish mine lol that school paper had more sense than the NY Times
Yo, that last roast is vicious 😂
When it's incredibly clear that a writer has been thinking about one thing, then assigned to write another.
Maybe he is a big fan and plays it nonstop, he was supposed to write an article purely about Coronavirus. 🤔
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every writer in Marvel Comics currently.
I don’t understand the dog piling over that article. It’s kind of vapid but it’s just a thought the writer had over the game, there’s nothing unethical or offensive in there and making fun of them seems very strange and unjustly mean spirited. The second article however was insane.
@@TrueGamer22887 The first article was trying to say that a video game (a form of escapism) has something to do with current day events which made no sense as the development of this game probably started before the pandemic anyway
"It's hard to imagine this level of success for Elden Ring in any other era."
You mean a video game coming out during a time when everyone and their dead grandmother like video games would result in a successful video game?
How. About. That.
Gaming is fully mainstream, and at the same time the quality of games is at an all time low. In that context it's hard to imagine a game like Elden Ring, which is an actually good game coming out into a massive market that's almost completely bereft of them to a waiting audience who want to play anything that's ACTUALLY A GAME instead of a microtransaction shop with a stillborn "live service" attached to it, doing anything less than absolute gangbusters. Any idiot could tell you that.
@Gud Phrog Proof the writer knows nothing about video games.
No no, that's not even the biggest point. The big one is that Dark Souls is a generation-defining series, one of the most important in the entire history of videogames, and assigning a writer who doesn't understand the position Elden Ring occupied within gaming culture to write about Elden Ring makes it immediately obvious that they don't understand the entire culture of the subject they're writing about. It's like an American writing about Japanese Noh plays and saying "Wow, it's weird that they move so slowly."
@@FelisImpurrator No, Dark Souls is most definitely not one of the most important series in the history of video games.
@@ninetailedfox579121 That's a discussion point of subjective Opinions. Dark Souls has had a massive Influence on Gaming, that is objektively true. So it can't be denied it is important in the Video game history, it's only questionable if it's the most important.
“This game really makes you feel like a black teen with exaggerated amounts of swagger” 1/10 - IGN
what in the actual fuck doest even that mean????
You somehow found a way to make the original quote sound even worse
I think OP is also referencing the dunkey video about game journalism.
Are you referring to that one black guy review of this game?
Can't remember his channel but it had the word 'tv' or something.
To much water 7/10
"Elden Ring has a story that has something to do with a ring."
Halo has a story that has something to do with a halo.
Call of Duty has a story that has something to do with being called to duty.
Lego Star Wars has a story that has something to do with legos.
Cuphead has a story that has something to do with cupheads.
I could keep going but this one sentence has plenty of meme potential.
Bloodborne has a story that has something to do with blood.
Ah yes, the floor here is made out of floor
Halo also has a story that has something to do with a ring. In fact, is has more to do with a ring that Elden Ring, as there are multiple rings in the story,
NYT was correlating the “die and try again” of soulsborne games with the wave after wave hardship of the pandemic. I see what they TRIED to do but failed at one thing.
The Point.
The article didn’t know if it wanted to be a game article about the pandemic or a pandemic article about games and it just turned into “yea, i get what your saying but what’s your point?”
Exaaaaactly. Came across as a lazy and poorly-thought-through attempt to fill space and, well, bait clicks.
Yong is right to point out that Death Standing would've made for a much more poignant point of comparison.
They could've compared Elden Ring to the general struggle of life, if they really just wanted to write about the general idea of community support within difficult games. The connection to the pandemic in particular felt incredibly forced.
In the NYT’s defense, they can’t seem to hire anyone who knows anything about any subject matter, much less video games.
I'm not sure that's a defense, lol.
that doesn't work as a defense though xD
OP 🤣👆🏼Tough, but fair … and definitely true
That's how outrage media works, if they made a proper and respectful article it would have seen a total of 100 times tops
If it wasn’t for the Times, people like David Brooks and Brett Stephens would starve.
That’s not a bad thing, by the way
New York Times: "I spake"
Everyone else: "The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."
"I have spoken."
@@Sorrowdusk Kuiil's the exception.
NYT: "I don't think, therefore I'm not."
@@Qushu92 "I spake" is a new depressed level of journalism! No wonder journalism is getting shittier!
Correct Jar Jar Binks and Qui-Gon jinns first conversation applies to New York Times
I like how being able to play elden ring in many different ways with a bunch of different builds so you can play the game your way is supposed to be a negative
Did they hire the cuphead guy to write this?
Commas and Periods. Use them, for fuck's sake!
@@598019001 that’s what’s been living rent free in my head with all these bad take reviews. I get it’s not for everyone but you can’t get butthurt that it doesn’t have a sense of direction when the whole point of a from soft game is to explore the world that they’ve built
@@598019001 As far as I'm aware, Dean Takahashi hasn't written anything about Elden Ring.
@@lsant1997 Yeah, any _open world_ that gates your options behind long plot exposition in specific orders and tells you where you're "Allowed" to go, is not an *"open"* world and definitely not a "sand box" game (LOOKING AT YOU, FinalFantasy-14!)
"Dying again and again, sometimes for hours." I'm not a souls gamer. Elden Ring is my first Fromsoftware game and it took me about 3 tries to realize I was too under leveled to take on the Tree Sentinel. I went around killing soldiers and monsters in the open world to level up a bit, got my horse, and got my first summon. Then I came back for revenge. If you choose to beat your head against the wall in elden ring I have no sympathy for you. I understand some people actually enjoy the challenge and actually embrace fighting things that are over powered. More power to you if that's your thing. But the people that complain about the difficulty, I can't get behind that. If you're that frustrated you just simply aren't utilizing all the tools. There are many ways to deal with difficulty in this game. You can leave a boss fight, level up and come back to it later. You can summon. You can even pull two other players in to help you in co-op.
👏👏👏👏 preach it homie
My first souls game 2 im 217 hours in beat the game and about to work on new game plus its not hard it will let you know if you are able to take on the bosses
This game has more accessible avenues to help than any previous Souls game. No, the "too hard" people don't have a leg to stand on.
That's not even taking into consideration all of the different builds you can use. The only encounter I can think of that really is "too hard" is Malenia, and even then she's a secret boss encounter, in a secret dungeon located, in a secret area in the end game.
Leveling up early in Elden Ring is a very slow, tedious and boring process if you're struggling with the enemies UNLESS you look online for a powerleveling method.
Hate how people always go on about "die all the time because its hard" when - especially - elden ring is by far the easiest in the series, due to all the options a player has. the option to freely explore the world and therefor being able to find all kinds of things to help you out makes it far easier than any other souls.
Yeah, I know the journalists don't know this, but the endgame is super hard as the final few bosses are way to aggressive, have too much health, and damage (i would give specific examples but I don't wanna spoil)
@@randomninja7632 disagree. Mr. Loux is slow and easily dodged. you can just jump over most of his attacks. Mr. Redhead hits hard but is also very slow. The beast is just a test of patience as it likes to keep a long distance.
no matter what problem one might have with ANY boss however, can be mitigated by all the options the player has. no matter what your strong/weakpoint as a player is, the game gives you enough stuff to overcome any given wall. also any boss can be made light off simply by summoning ash.
@@abandon4 Not so sure about that. remember the very first time you played demons souls? playing it now for the 231412 time is childs play but imagine your very first souls game being demons OR elden ring. which would be easier for a first timer? technically you could hop into world 4 and get some gear that melts everything in the first few worlds but a new player doesnt know that and would be crushed by skellies in 2 seconds. in ER however a new player can ignore fights and just explore, while casually finding better gear that will help him out. oh a new demons player would also make the game more difficult by dying in body form without understanding WT. Demons is what gave the series its reputation as difficult and ER is now played by millions because it is far easier (accessible)
@@TheScratcherStudios to be fair, I did a STR build so Mr.redhead was faster then me, one shot me with *that* attack, Mr.Loux I mostly agree with because I was constantly jumping anyway, most of the time the beast would jump away after barely hitting him once and sometimes not hitting him at all, so it's probably just the build that made the game so hard but I still think that those two and the final boss have problematic things about them
@@randomninja7632 High five buddy. So did I. Too lazy for multitasking as well so I never used items or spells either, only pure oogabooga. Still found Redhead to be slow. He has lots of openings between/after attacks. Beast killed me just 2-3 times for the reasons you stated but then I got lucky...actually have a video of the fight and can upload if you want...basically mimic and I got into a perfect rythm and we stunlocked the beast to death. It was really comical.
It never moved from its spot, just got bashed from left to right till death
As someone with an English degree, it's absolutely embarrassing that something that poorly written was called an article, regardless if it was for a tech publication. I understand tech is not a study of the humanities but when it's your literal job to write, you would think that author could create something that would at least pass High School English standards. Smh my 10th grade nephew has better mastery of punctuation and grammar than the author.
Ya, got one too and gotta say that barely qualifies for a logic statement in a paper that my 5th grade teacher would have accepted.
Hell I said it in another comment but I only got through Limgrave so far but from that area alone I could easily make a 25 page paper on that area alone if i wanted to (don't really want to spend the time right now though unless someone would pay me lol)...hell from what i was taught in highschool i could easily do 15 pages minimum (honestly probably could do 25 pages even from just highschool knowledge that'd be on par with any knowledge i got in college as the English degree was kind of a joke imo as outside of 2 classes all o them were read and review style classes (fairly useless for what i wanted from the degree tbh) with the other 2 actually focusing on the editorial process/strengthening my grammar/writing (which was my main goal tbh as i wanted to get into book editing...granted any editorial jobs i could find needed the degree on top of 3 to 5 years experience even for entry level jobs (BS imo, they just want experienced editors out of work desperate for a job)).
Granted likely another example of a failing public education system in the country imo (may be some areas where it's good but they're the outliers from what I've seen...in Dem states though the result is almost always failure). So happy nowadays my mom and dad shelled out the cash for a private school where more focus was put on thinking critically and making sure we had a strong foundation step by step in the language before progressing further and rushing class subjects. Basically a good comparison to my education and theirs could be the story of the tortoise and the hare: in order to get everyone to graduation the public schooling system (hare in this case) rushes all the subjects taught to get out as many as possible, on the other hand my school (at least when i was a student...after seeing what my sister, who is 10 years younger than me, was taught there it seems like they started to follow the public school approach as well (maybe not by choice) and she was struggling with far more things than i ever did due to some topics not being covered long/well enough) took the slow and steady approach (tortoise's) and made sure the students understood what was taught before moving to the next subject/topic so when i got into Highschool and the distribution of public and private school students was about 50/50 i noticed all the kids that came from my school/other private schools had a far easier time understanding and excelling in the school than the public school students where only the top of the top students from there were able to compete for the most part with the private school students when it came to grades. As for college it became even worse for the public school students where most of the top students were either coming from private highschools or were adults with years of experience to help them learn topics properly and the worst were mostly students from public schools in my city (heavy Dem city btw which is likely why it's as bad as it is as their education policies suck).
Haven't got my degree yet but even so, it's still incredibly embarassing.
Dude I actually was thinking this and got pissed lol…like yo how my English teacher lie to me in highschool tellin me writers have to write perfectly for articles etc etc…n now look at the articles we get in the paper and such lol…written at an elementary school level some of these are. If I knew I coulda got away with just writing about things I want anyway I want, I woulda been a journalist shit
I know this is probably a tired point by now, but they get away with this because they're not hired based on their merit as a writer and rather on their ideological compatibility with the people running the media outlets they apply to. It is pretty well documented at this point that mainstream video game journalism is extremely cliquey, nepotistic and rife with quid pro quo arrangements between writers.
It's why you'll often see more or less the exact same article pushing the same viewpoint pop up on half a dozen different sites all within a few hours of each other. Because many of the writers are all in the same group chats, despite working for different companies, coordinating what to cover and, often less scrupulously, what not to cover.
As someone who straight C's in English I can write an article that would at least have the correct spelling.
I'm from Denmark, where the pandemic is pretty much forgotten at this point. No restrictions, no testing, no masks etc. And this is the first FromSoftware game I've played. I've always been intrigued by them, but with the open world and possibly to mitigate the difficulty more than previous titles, I finally jumped in and I'm enjoying it very much.
Honestly most nations have stoped caring about the pandemic with the exception of those who benefited from it that is
lmao yea i feel you also Elden ring is drastically easier than any of the other fromsoft titles honnestly I over leveled so much that ive been one shoting every boss ive come against even Radahn the one that seemed to give everyone and major issue
Welcome new and fellow tarnished! I’m glad you are enjoying the game, Soulsborne games are awesome.
Welcome aboard! Don't forget to go back and give the trilogy a chance. The souls games are very special.
It’s forgotten in most of the US at this point too. I’m in NJ one state down from NY and I haven’t seen a mask since Xmas. But regardless the article was a sham
Hidetaka Miyazaki: call me 007
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Well played
This reminds me of something I would write in high school with a super forced connection just so I could come up with an excuse to talk about zombies
I was thinking of something I would write if I desperately needed an A in a class taught by your textbook boomer
do you feel funny? is haha old is boomer the best you have?
@@acedianihil8208 Am I wrong though? Boomers tend to think they are right about every little subject that comes to mind. What better way to get an A in a class taught by them than to agree with them? Unless they happen to be a good teacher, of course.
@@acedianihil8208 Ok, Boomer
I used to do that but with death metal. Even did that in university. I would compare a book (I was a lit major) and the message to the bleak vibes in some song or album.
Imagine a game getting more difficult as you progress. I do believe I've never heard of any game outside Elden Ring even trying to do that.
Yeah that bit got me chuckling pretty hard lol
Theres some that let a.i. scale w character progression. Just to keep it hard. I forget the games tho...
@@halcyon6098 There is a mod that does just that for The Witcher 3 - where you and the enemy are either same level as you or +5 (or skulled), nothing is ever lower than your level
He's trying to characterize the toughness of Elden Ring to the struggles everyone faces during the pandemic. I get where he is trying to get at because I've also made some shit ass essays in my day.
My guess is that they had to write an article about a game they've never played and another one about the pandemic and then they had to write an article in the tech industry. They just mashed it all together and called it a day.
Didnt we all
I also submitted some shit essays at uni. The only difference is that this was made by paid journalist and got published by NY Times XD
“It is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of needle, than for a man to beat Margit on his first try.” - Jesus, probably, when questioned about Elden Ring 2000 years ago
I did just that. I beat Margit first try.... I just wandered around the map and explored for 60hours before even going to stormveil castle. :D
I beat Margaret the level 21 with a plus 3 weapon on my first try. On my first playthrough. And yes I summoned wolves and the NPC phantom and I have no shame. A win is a win.
@@Darkhartx1 An upgraded weapon is all you really need to be able to make the fight manageable. Also, don't feel shame for using summons. People who bitch about other players using summons are nothing but maidenless sods. You play the game however you want, within the confines of the game, as should anyone else.
The eye of the needle was a side gate into Jerusalem. It was low enough that you had to get off the camel and guide it through instead of just riding it in on auto pilot. That expression really just means you have to be intentional and put in minimum effort. Not that it's impossible
This interpretation is an urban myth that has been refuted most reputable biblical scholars. There is no evidence that such a gate existed at all at the time of Jesus' life, nor that it would have been well known enough to be an effective metaphor. The most likely interpretation is that Jesus was decrying the practices necessary to accumulate massive wealth as being antithetical to the religious and spiritual practices he was teaching.
Oh my Elden Lord, the absurd amount of "how do you do fellow kids ?" energy present in these articles
Or maybe it’s a zoomer or a millennial trying to act like a boomer.
@a proverbial lemon by your definition someone born in 1995 is a Zoomer millennial
@a proverbial lemon zoomer, or a millennial*
@@sirspookybones1118 That is a millennial yes.
Sounds like they watched the official game trailers and wrote the article. “You face a dragon”. Yeah, one of the previews shows you fighting “A dragon”. If you (as you said) played the game, there’s waaaaay more dragons of all sizes and abilities too. Even a dragon god.
I think the reason why they chose to record with a camera instead of the in-built recording function is to MAYBE bring home the fact that "Hey I'm at home, playing a video game! The comfort of my living room, that has a TV, from which I play these video games!"
Or one other possibility is that they have don't know how to use the in-built function.
These journalist should stick to their "top 10" and "X you would not believe" clickbait articles than to branch out to topics they have no knowledge about.
These articles ARE their new clickbait,
They want The Gamers attention
You mean OTHER topics they have no knowledge of. Let's face it, they don't even have a clue about the trash they specialize in.
The first article reminded me of my old church youth group leaders trying to draw spiritual parallels from pop culture, to keep our interest. Sometimes it worked, but more often it was a horrible stretch and they didn't really get what we liked in terms of pop culture, or why we like it.
Same Energy.
For the same reason people like sugar and fast food, you like pop culture. It’s garbage designed to release dopamine as cheaply as possible.
Elden Ring isn’t pop culture. It’s the actual inverse. It has meaning that requires strength of will to find, to understand. It makes you think, observe, learn.
Elden Ring succeeds BECAUSE it isn’t the consumer meme.
@@TheSpicyLeg Well said. I haven't played it yet as my finances are tight. I installed Dark Souls 3 yesterday though. I haven't played it before and needed a new game to play. I bought it on sale awhile ago. It will actually be my first game by that studio. I wanted to play DS 1 first, but it is also too expensive.
@@dmikewilcox There’s two schools of thought in regards to Soulsborne. Play the games in whatever order, or the fans’ way, starting with Demon’s Souls. I recommend starting with Dark Souls if you don’t have a PS, as Dark Souls 1 is the cleanest distillation of Miyazaki’s design philosophy.
In truth, it doesn’t really matter. But Dark Souls, despite not being a trilogy per se, has a meta narrative, and it is a grand one. You’ll get the references and see what has happened to the gods, Anor Londo, individual human nations, etc.
Elden Ring is outside Dark Souls (many argue that Dark Souls and Bloodborne are in the same universe, and there’s evidence for this) but there are narrative flavors that hint to Dark Souls. It’s a masterful game. It’s worth a play now or later, for sure. But if you learn how and why Miyazaki designs the games, it’ll make it better.
@@TheSpicyLeg Maybe I better wait for a sale on DS 1. I got 2 & 3 on a good sale last year. Thank you for the advice. (I only have a pc.)
When something becomes so successful, people become desperate to find reasons to shut it down in hopes they'll obtain a fraction of said success..
If their intent was to get noticed by doing this then they did in fact succeed.
Elden Ring made me realize just how lousy of a father I had an how I could have done better in life had I ignored the bird and pulled some cheesy no talent move in comparison to apples ruining the global dental industry by spreading mouth fungus.
At what point did anyone reads those articles before they got shoved out? The writers should look into different jobs like bagging groceries and the editor should just be fired and not allowed near anything journalistic ever again.
I find it hilarious that they gave him an excuse in being a tech reviewer but they didn't know about the capture button
“Foul Tarnished, in search of the Elden Ring,
emboldened by the flame of ambition,
someone must extinguish thy flame.”
"Lowly Tarnished, thou'rt unfit even to graft".
"Miquella is mine and mine alone."
It gets harder and harder to read and treat these real "journalists" when they're being the joke itself. I mean it is funny but it is so painful to read them through while taking them seriously...
@@jackhazardous4008 It's worse than that imo. Much of the game industry, but particularly companies based in US, is held hostage by them. Despite repeatedly proving themselves unfit for purpose, they still hold sway over a large amount of the public perception towards video games in the west. If a company or developer does something they don't like, they coordinate with each other to run damaging news cycles targeted against them.
@@jackhazardous4008 And that's why MTX is still terrible. If gamers were put in charge, then there'd be no microtransactions in any video game. Maybe DLC and expansions but never MTX.
Leftists aren't people let alone journalists. 😂
Collusion is real - on the Left.
They are called propaganda salesman not journalists stop reading their narratives
It feels a lot like those writers' bosses said: "Elden Ring is popular, write about it!"
"But... I don't even play games..."
"I don't care, write something, anything."
I get the impression he just dove right into Stormveil Castle without doing any side areas or upgrading
And THAT is why I absolutely refuse to pay for news articles just to read BS like this.
The only money I spend on news is for Ground News.
I toss a coin to Novara Media, a plucky bunch of anarcho-socialists based out of the UK, but yeah American institutional journalism is shit. Helps that Novara sticks solely to actual news instead of writing thoughtless thinkpieces about games they haven't played and movies they haven't watched.
@@0816M3RC Yes! Ground News!
"All the dirt that's fit to print!" Yes!
This isn't a news article.
It isn't even presented as a news article.
It's a poorly written opinion piece. We need media literacy classes ffs.
The biggest boost to Elden Ring's success was the release of other long awaited AAA titles that failed to impress and were mostly underwhelming. I was really looking forward to Dying Light 2 and Horizon Forbidden West, didn't even think about Elden Ring. After playing the first two I found myself bored and disappointed. About a week later I was playing Elden Ring and I was thinking "now this is more like it!"
I thought forbidden West was pretty good. Sure it's lacking in some ways but I'm having fun.
Battlefield 2042 comes to mind
We don’t mention battlefield 2042, let it die.
i had fun with dying light 2 but horizon 2 was boring AF! garbage characters, trash story and trash gameplay 👎
@@SCHIERKE_252 TODD WHERE IS MY 15TH RELEASE OF SKYRIM
It’s crazy how journalism has fallen so low that they don’t even bother doing any research on the topic they’re writing an article about
It's because they aren't journalists they are propagandist.
@A lol
Research? They don't need to do that.
They just need to tell you how to think according to party policies.
As someone who wanted to become a journalist, these articles made me think twice because of shame. Not because I wouldn't do better than them, but because on how terrible the reputation of journalism is because of articles like this.
@@hihowrya370 Well it's never going to get better unless talented people start taking up these jobs again. You'd probably just have to lie about a bunch of personal stuff to get hired, because they care more about that than your capabilities as a writer nowadays.
1:40 - Elden Ring definitely does not get harder. If anything, it gets easier, due to a combination of getting used to the mechanics, and also finding better gear and abilities that are often times ridiculously powerful, if not completely broken.
Yes, after I got Moonveil I almost never died.
"At one point you fight a dragon"
Anyone who played more than 5 minutes of the game: Which dragon??
Not a souls guy or fan. I picked up Elden Ring expecting that I would find it hard to get into. Ive now spent 40 odd hours with the game. Its not flawless but there is a lot of flexibility in how you approach a given situation. Progress has been slow but its allowed me to immerse myself. Each boss I fell feels satisfying. You feel yourself becoming stronger and better at the game. So for someone like me who is entirely fresh to the series to get stuck in for 40 hours? It must be doing something right.
40 hours in is not even half way. Just wait till you put 100 in. The game gets very hard at times.
Same here, it's really good. I couldn't get into Bloodborne but the setting and the freedom here really makes it.
Same for me. I played some of the older souls games as well as soul type games and I never enjoyed the combat. ER combat is mediocre as well. What sets it apart though is the open world. Souls games are on rails and that is what bored me and made me drop them. I love to explore the world and find interesting locations and cool treasures with unique enemies. That's what kept me in WoW for so long even though it's honestly not that fun to play. Having a huge environment filled with stuff to find keeps it entertaining.
They succeeded with the open world because they understand what it's about. It's not like many huge open world games that are vacant and offer nothing of interest. Creed games are a perfect example of doing it wrong. While ER is how to do it right.
I'm near the end on ng+ at around 180 hours and still having fun. I have a couple more build ideas I want to try out (on #5 right now)
Im not one of these guys too, but this game has been on my wishlist since the 1st trailer dropped
Ya...I'm 40 hours in and only got through most of the Limgrave stuff (from what i saw online there's some stuff i haven't done yet there too) and a bit of Calvard and the Lake regions (probably gonna focus on Lakes as the levels are lower there so Caelid feels more like it's intended as the 3rd or 4th region you explore). I got the game day 1 and have been taking it nice and slow with swapping around to different games or no games at all to avoid burnout and will likely be playing this game up until late 2022, maybe even into 2023 (which means I'll likely get spoiled quite a bit but don't mind it that much in this type of game tbh, so far kept spoilers on late game bosses to a minimum though and only know their names at best not their fighting styles or appearance). While not my first Souls game (DS1 would be but never got far and played Bloodborne and Sekiro too which i also didn't get too far in) Elden Ring is the Fromsoftware game I've enjoyed the most so far for similar reasons as you.
As far as difficulty goes though not really too hard as long as you don't deliberately handicap yourself and stick to specific levels/levels of equipment/skills at specific parts of the game and don't mind going with any method possible to win and don't mind grinding (especially at cheap spots like the Iron Ball in Caelid)/looting higher level equipment and skills early. Everyone trying to say it's too hard are likely those that refuse to do either and likely complained that even Pokemon Red and Blue were hard back in the day/playing it now even though they're easily some of the easiest games out there as long as you either grind a bit and, more importantly, focus on setup options as well as pure offensive options (basically stat boosting skills or skills that impair enemies...i use Pokemon for this example but a game that does it better due to not having a 4 move limit would be some of the older Final Fantasy games, Dragon Quest game, Falcom's Trails series, etc)...basically they only look at the brute force method to win and nothing else (hell even Namco's Tales series, one that many call a mindless hack and slash, has many games where you need to put a bit more thought into what you're doing when playing above the Normal/Medium difficulties (those two mindless play can work i guess) as you need to understand the length of a spells casts, whether the artes knock down/knock away opponents or if they can knock them into the air/off from lying on the ground to follow up with a combo, what artes easily combo into each other and flow well by positioning you the right way for follow up attacks, do some artes haver properties that are strong or weak against specific types of enemies, how does the respective game's or character's gimmick mechanic work (most games or characters have 1 new gimmick unique to said game or character that can drastically change how 1 game is played to the next game while keeping the same basic combat system in most cases (sometimes the combat systems take a more drastic change such as the shift from directional inputs plus the artes button to arte trees in some games), and so on).
Saying Elden Ring has something to do with a ring is like saying Starwars has something to do with stars
The Walking Dead has something to do with death.
When I was an undergrad, one of my colleagues was a journalism major. Following our midterms in Shakespeare, I found him swearing up and down that our professor was horrible and several other expletives I don't feel like sharing. I asked him if I could give his paper a look-over and he obliged. What followed was a meandering text not unlike this NYT article. When I read his submission I was baffled how we were in the same course. Eventually I asked him if he knew what the prompt was. When he replied in the negative, I asked him why he hadn't asked for confirmation from the professor. He just shrugged at me. I recommended that he visit during office hours, but I don't know if he ever did. I asked myself how the hell someone expected to get into journalism if they they didn't know a thing about what they were writing. I now find myself asking the same question.
Had the writer said something along the lines of "The pandemic has been difficult for me but playing Elden Ring gave me comfort when I needed it" it would have been fine but this just feels like trying to make connection where there isn't one.
The article reminded me of the kind of essay I have to wrote for some class that I don't care about. So I just made random connection between things just for the sake of having essay to turn in and move on.
Heck of they wanted to find a game that relates to the pandemic, it could have been something like Death Stranding where you literally play as delivery man in a post apocalyptic America after a pandemic has devastated the country.
My brain literally hurts after just listening fragments of those articles...
Some people are dumb.
Bruh, Fromsoft made Elden Ring more accessible to any audience than their previous and most challenging titles and yet people are still posting terrible Hottakes over an easy mode. These dudes need a life
its journalist, of course they want journalist mode~
What if you're legally blind or have muscular dystrophy?
@@Sorrowdusk Git gud
Bullshit. Selectable Difficulties would make things more accessible, but FS are too damn stubborn & stuck in the the 80s to do it, and their niche "community" filled with "git gud" assholes will always gatekeep it.
Certain mechanics, spells or weapons will never equate to an actual Easy Mode. Especially when FS brings out nerfs because fun isnt allowed in their games.
Seriously, how is ER more accessible than previous entries(especially Bloodborne), when FS nerfs everything & ruin what little fun there is? Last I heard, Mimic Tears got nerfed. They also nerfed a specific sword & greatshield.
So FS' going after all kinds of builds. Why? Because they cannot quit it with fake challenge from the 80s if they tried.
@@Walt_Xander94 Git gud
I get so annoyed when I mis-click on Polygon, Kotaku, Verge, IGN, ResetEra or any of the other 'Vaulter' websites when they come up in Google searches. I wish there was a way to filter out those sites from the results.
Yes if ONLY one could search. Lol
Just stay in your bubble I'm sure you'll be fine little fragile white boy
What is a “vaulter” website? Just never heard that term
They should really out source their video game article to people that actually play games. Hell just pay skill up he does a great job
@@DoggyHateFire
Even a writer isn't really needed. They're going to tell me, across the THOUSANDS of employees in NY Times, not ONE is an avid gamer who likes Elden Ring? Really?
The writer couldn't just pull them aside like "Ayo do you wanna contribute to an article?! It's about your favourite hobby!"
The reason people like Yong and Skill Up thrive is because they’re doing the kind of work outlets like the Times used to do
Justice for Lost Judgment
Would they pay them IGN-style or would they pay them properly?
i dunno. seems like whenever money is involved ShillUp's jounralistic integrity goes out the window. That nickname stuck for a reason...
They're acting like this is Lord of the Rings, its not a ring more like a giant Rune that has a physical form.
My thought was: "Are these guys going somewhere with this? Because if they are, they are going alone."
The second article reminds me of this one time i was at the skatepark. Some teen in a suit comes up and asks me "Hey, so you like skateboards?" Me being polite, answers "Yeah". Kid then says "You know who else likes skateboards? JESUS!" I replied, "Kid, Jesus was born like 2000 years ago, skateboarding started in the 60s, he had NO IDEA what a skateboard is."
LMAO! I finished typing just as Yong was referring to Jesus haha!
Ugh 😩 he probably had Jack Chick tracts in his intestines.
As a Christian I can say that Jesus would be fine with skateboarding as long as you don't make it an idol and use it for his glory. But to say he "loves" it makes no freaking sense lol
@@rabble_rousdower If Jesus were here today he'd probably be doing kickflips down stairs, or at least appreciate the passion for personal expression of true skaters. For me personally, and many others, 'praying' with skateboard actions at the skatepark every day out of love is a more spiritual cathedral experience than being pressured into marching lockstep into a church to be told authoritarian fairy tales about an invisible man in the sky once a week then forget about it for 6 days.
I think Jesus would rather each of us find our own spiritual path to enlightenment than follow others, i've never felt anything concerning organized religion's fairy tales, but skateboarding and other related stuff, snowboarding, bmx, mtb, etc had a real, deep, and spiritual meaning and was the thing that inspired me to better myself, overcome challenges, slay the demons of fear, insecurity ans such, and basically give me a reason to live. Skateboarding saved my life like 1000 times over already, and continues to do the same today.
This story may sound hyberbolic, but its not. I was 29 years old, working a dead end job and was honestly heading toward a life of a complacent underachiever. One day, I picked up Bloodborne, got immediately crushed and put it down. However, something about it stuck in the back of my head and I picked it back up only to get crushed again. However this time, I stuck with it. I got better and as the credits rolled after the final boss and that rush of endorphins finally wore off, I had a major, life changing epiphany. I realized that even though I've never stuck to anything, that if I put my mind to it, I am capable of doing difficult things. All these years later and I just graduated college at 36 and I'm now working as an electrical engineer on the long road to getting my P.E. To me and many people, these games are genuinely special us and although I can only speak to my own experience, these games literally changed my life.
Congrats on your journey!
This author writes in a style that aims to adapt any subject to whatever angle that suits NYT’s narrative. They could have said “Elden Ring is a love letter to Putin” and I wouldn’t have batted an eye.
"Fill in the blanks" templates.
"Mayonnaise is a sign of rising fascism in America"
They hired an openly myssandric racist (anti-white) feminist pro-communism Korean, why should I take anything in the NYT seriously? They jumped the shark many years ago.
"Sushi is a sign of the new Reich in the US"
Welcome to propaganda.
Someone once said: "unlike in the past a lot of game journalists nowadays are just journalist who failed to get into the big publication, so they took a job writing about games. They have to write about game, but they really want to write about the big societal events of the day." Seems to be another proof of that
My guess as to what happened? The NY Times editors probably had their weekly meeting and were stunned by the sales for this video game and reluctantly decided it was news that should be covered. They probably in turn assigned the article to some reporter that was on the hot seat or close to retirement or something. IT is obvious that the reporter was pissed at having to write an article about video games for the NYT.... most likely felt like their talents were being wasted. I would be shocked to learn that the by-line is someone less than 55 years old. Then again I'm in my 50's and I understand the cultural importance of video games.
It is snobbery like this reporter and his/her/their editor demonstrated that actually hurts gamers because they literally don't think of video games or the industry as important AND as a result this lets executives of those companies fly under the radar for consumer practices that would sink a chief executive of almost any other industry.
If I was the boss of the "journalist" who wrote that drivel, I would INSTANTLY fire them for incompetence. I've seriously seen better essays from elementary school kids. I'd sure as hell dunk on the "writer". Even calling them a writer is insulting to actual writers.
As a souls fan im glad the game is doing well but at the same time im upset that its going too well that new people that dont understand it is talking shit about it in masses.
Or bashing the community. Like I have seen some reviews bashing the community. Like I get that there are problems in this game. It is okay if you didn't have fun with it. It is okay if you don't like some aspects about the game. But bashing people who don't agree with you or have a different opinion is just cringe. That the consumers are idiots for purchasing elden ring, that is where I tell those people to 'fuck off'.
The broader the audience the more complaints there will be. Welcome to life.
I mean on one hand it's really fun to watch new arrivals try things out and seeing where they struggle as well as where they excel and the unexpected tricks they find that we wouldn't think to try. On the other you have a boomer algorithm trying to be hip with the kids.
Wait til they try to make a META souls world.
FUCKING NFT SOULS INSPIRED.
OH GOD, OH LORD.
Meanwhile a lot of people who have never played a Souls game in their lives are being introduced to Elden ring and are enjoying it just we have a bunch of new players that are complainers and don't understand up this game was made to be mysterious where you have to work hard to find the story and come up with your own interpretation of what's going on in the story instead of being spoon-fed like Horizon forbidden West in other open world games where you already know what's going on in the plot in the first 10 minutes of the game
This is what I think happened - both of these news outlets were trying to make a news article about Elden Ring due to its popularity and to hopefully draw traffic from the gaming demographic. However, the writers didn’t want to write a positive or negative review as either will draw negative criticism, so they wanted to write something relating Elden Ring in a new way, and/or didn’t have anyone experienced enough with playing the game (likely both).
Of course, they instead wrote news articles that had most Elden Ring players, whether they liked or hated the game, to band together and ridicule the ridiculousness of the comparisons.
Side note: Especially in regards to the NYT article, absolutely reminded me of a middle school essay I wrote when I couldn’t access any sources for my topic and completely BS’d it (which I unsurprisingly received a low grade for)
Once again, those butthurt about not being able to hack and slash through Elden will point to literally anything but themselves for why they didn't enjoy it.
Imagine describing Tolkien's works as "a story about a ring"
If the same guy wrote the review LOTR, that's probably how it would start....
Remember, a lot of these game journos were failures in journalism
are*
So are the non-game joirnalists
And thats is a really low standard.
Most of these video game journalists tried to get a job at CNN or any other big news outlet but failed so they got a job as a video game journalist and you see how they can't play video games they hate video games they hate us
Is funny how those failures always find themselves working on entertainment and polluting it.
Is like how most translators and localization workers are actually failures in other more lucrative forms of the translation world
I think people are so desensitized to games having shitty releases and mediocre gameplay, that when a game comes out that’s a complete banger and no baggage, they have no idea how to react…
It’s both concerning and pathetic that the gaming industry/community had progressed to this, shits fucking sad man
...the saddest part of it...at least in my opinion...is the fact that these major game studios put out mediocrity at best and garbage at worst...and when people don't buy it because they can see from the poor saps who did buy it that the game is trash...the studios get mad about it. It's like they expect us to drop to our knees and praise them for the trash fire they dumped in front of us...
Very likely honestly, looking for obscure stuff or older things is probably the way to stick unless new good games come out.
My brain died from all the only okay at best releases and only came back to life to play games to two titles on my own. Inscryption made me bother buying and playing a game again on pc, eldenring made me actually use my ps4 for a game after years.
Kotaku: Jeez Louise!! And we thought we were BAD at making Gaming Articles!!!
NYT makes Kotaku look like Shakespeare.
The "article" actually broke YongYea's poise at 17:37
Reading through those Articles feels like a fever dream
"Elden ring. Truly an allegory for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen 🤔"
Literally everyone " *huh* "
I forget who said it in a review of this game but they nailed it:
Elden Ring has some of the cheapest bosses. It also allows the player to be the cheapest of any player character in a From Software game.
This nails it to me. Everything is tough but you can become an OP God as well.
I remember in school having to write about things I didn’t care about, instead of what I’m interested in.
They wanted to write something about geopolitics but teacher said “no Elden Ring.”
The Bitcoin thing was just sad. Outlasting the critics? Good grief.
Yeah, cryptocurrency is dead
I'm not in highschool anymore, but a family member is and got essays similar to this. I can only imagine the amount of people who wrote how the pandemic is connected to every other thing.
This is "Who is this 4chan?" Level of journalism, someone with no writing abilities who did 30 minutes of research could have written better articles.
"The article continues, unfortunately,..." Yong I almost choked on my dinner, you're too funny xD
Attaching random crap to Elden Ring reminds me of when news articles used to try to attach things to zombies. That was a weird time, but I used to see headlines that would mention zombies or try to attach something to the popularity of zombies, but the actual article would be about something else.
Except zombie movies (and horror movies in general) have a long history of parodying or commenting on social issues.
@@loldoctor While that's true, I saw articles like one that had a headline like "how a zombie found a job" and the article was about job fairs, and the zombie thing was just some tiny paragraph about someone who got a gig job dressing up as a zombie for some costume thing.
Well I mean there have been groups doing that. Idea/concept being THAT if you are prepared to survive where anyone could become your enemy out of desperation...you are prepared. A touch of "preppers" (crazy) + pop culture + getting public crisis ready (lil more sane)
Is it in any way related to that joke of "when x political party is elected, zombies are popular, and whe the other is elected vampires are popular"?
Elden Ring just takes a massive dump over all the problems that plague modern gaming. No microtransactions, no live service, no game breaking bugs, zero wokeness, not a broken unplayable mess at launch, no generic open world formula, no hand-holding, the list goes on.
Or how they would release a broken game on launch but the in-game store with the microtransactions would be functional on launch but the game itself is broken
I agree except for the zero wokeness - Male and Female don't exist. But even for their best efforts, men (Type A) are still first when compared to women (Type B) in character selection.
Yup,also it’s interesting how there are so many powerful female characters,yet you can’t see those pesky sexist that always complain about strong women,it’s almost like if you make compelling characters no one cares about genitals.
@@Paandaas Eh, they still have the characters refer to the characters by the correct pronouns. In the beginning cutscene, Melina will refer to you either as he (Type A) or she (Type B). It might be a translation thing but it's not really a problem of wokeness, more like conveyance.
Live services aren't inherently a bad thing. You see, if Battlefield 2042 had no bugs, glitches, and/or performance issues, it would have been ranked as one of the best games of 2021 for being an extremely fun, fast-paced, no-limits FPS.
I just find it funny that "gets harder as you play" is a notable aspect to them.
What kind of game makes bosses and enemies weaker the further you go into it?
"Elden Ring has a story that has something to with a ring." The funny thing is, the people who know the story of this game would know that the Elden Ring ISN'T EVEN A RING THAT'S JUST ITS NAME. So, yeah, you can really tell that they didn't play it that much.
Chasing trends became the norm for mainstream publications for clicks and clout, and suffice to say, it just doesn't work.
I can tell the NYT writer this:
If Elden Ring released during an earlier era, it would be even more relatively popular than it is now. Probably even revolutionize games of the future.
i don’t think so . because why didn’t demon souls /dark souls 1 do that it’s just as good
@@thotslayer9493 it created a subgenre .
@@Sorrowdusk i already know this . but he said if elden ring dropped an earlier era i’m guessing that’s around when those two titles dropped it would’ve been more popular but i think it would’ve got the same success as demon souls /ds1 because like in the video said fromsoft got more popular as the years went on .
@@thotslayer9493 because elden ring is more technically advanced, of course. Graphics and shit.
I think elden ring really came out at a perfect time though, so many other dissapointing AAA game releases recently just made this a whole new breath of fresh air to play, it came out at such a great time imo
What nobody get about elden ring. Is that a developer tried something different with a formula and it worked. They didn’t add micro transactions or filler material. They added an open world to their formula. They spent extra time developing side quest and things to explore without paying extra it
I'm pretty sure over 12 million people got it.
yeah dude nobody get it...
@@Nels_77 meant to say mainstream
3:33 it's more of a game that has something to do with a tree
Meanwhile Miyazaki: "I think I'll add more poison swamps and feet in the DLC"
Elden ring is a challenging game, however that challenge is one hundred percent up to the player. I sailed through the game with pretty good ease only hitting a wall against Elden Beast because I didn’t want to respec and that is completely my self imposed difficulty.
Tell me you had a faith build without telling me you had a faith build
I agree, it's way too easy and dumbed down for a wide audience.
@@loldoctor Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
Then go beat the game as a level 1. You can make ER every bit as "hard" as any prior Souls game.
Correct depending on your build choice a boss fight could be very very challenging or relatively minimal challenge based on your choices
I finally played through Death Stranding this January and it really got to me, depending on what mood I'm in either it or Elden Ring is my all time favourite game right now. I wish Death Stranding hadn't fallen off so hard due to people being like "it's about delivering packages lol boring Amazon Driver Simulator haha" cause it's so much more.
I honestly keep forgetting about buying DS, thanks for the reminder
Yeah, that'd be like saying that "Helltown" is just about delivering packages and that there's a doggo
I just beat Elden Ring for the 3rd time and I need something new. Any ideas on games worth giving time to on Steam??
Fortnite
If you're looking for a souls-like, there's the Nioh series. Also Monster Hunter.
But what are you looking for in particular? Something like Elden Ring or different?
If u just wanna chill, the new Lego star wars is prolly the next best game and if u have a kid / gf / bf it's pretty fun getting them into it too
Risk of Rain 2
Or
Tales of Arise
The connections are so clear that I scarcely need mention this at all, but the pandemic and bitcoin are exactly like the game bubsy 3D. critics said that bubsy 3d wasn't even a real game, and twenty years later, it just keeps existing. Had the pandemic happened twenty years ago, bubsy 3d would have been the most successful game of all time!! For those who don't know, the story of bubsy 3d is about a cat or whatever. In conclusion, bubsy 3d, bitcoin, the pandemic, and the metaverse all exist, and for that reason, they're basically the same thing.
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Also NYT article: Elden Ring is really hard... like the pandemic... it's about a ring or something... and bitcoin...
Holy crap NYT! At least make sure your writers are actually sober.
The nyt article reminds me of an article that came out when the first Dark Souls was new, maybe it was from the nyt or forbes, it was called something like “I beat the breakout game of the year and hated every minute” the whole thing just completely misunderstood souls ands games in general. I think it was one of the authors first games and I don’t understand why they thought they were the target audience. I might try and find that article again, does anyone else remember it?
The media and the news that do NOT know anything about gaming should not be talking about gaming period. It makes as much sense as a person who hates cakes and is not good at them, try to get a job at a cake-shop.
EDIT: "You can beat a boss by defeating it with skill or by CHEEZING it with no skill involved." Wait a minute, I thought that the difficulty made this game "inaccessible" and the people being told to "git gud" were people who were dying/losing all of the time. Does that mean that the SJWs that were claiming that "difficulty = inaccessible" were lying the whole time? Which they were always wrong to begin with.
This must have been written by Reed Richards with how much of a stretch these articles are. Gotta love game journalists I tell ya WHAT!
Thank you dude gave me a laugh
@@proxy90909 Glad I could help my friend!
Doom is amused by this! Richards!
“COVID-19 is the Dark Souls of pandemics!”
“Crypto currency is the Dark Souls of economic structures!”
How they going to struggle in a game that literally has a built-in mechanic for calling helpful strangers to your world to help you out and a community that frankly usually respects that system
Can I just point out that there's a difference between Story and setting.
Story is what you do during the course of gameplay, the cutscenes being used to convey dialogue among other things. The item descriptions, backstories and lore are all part of the setting.
Soulsbourne's have several stories all grounded in a rich and deep setting, but they're fairly simple to tell on the surface
You're a cursed hollow who can't die, and you want to have a word with the manager. You can rekindle the flame, let it die out, I think you can lead Solaire to it, it has a few endings.
I've heard Elden Ring has 7 endings, which are the basics of the story. Whatever triggers you have to hit are key plot points for that story. The setting doesn't change between play throughs, but as a video game, the story should
Trying to find similarity of the pandemic in videos games is a fail compared to the first three minutes of the show "The last man on earth".
The article is all trigger intended, good job.
I haven’t played Elden Ring and I don’t really plan on it because I tend to get too angry at difficult games but this take absolutely baffles me 😂 comparing the criticisms of fromsoft games to that of cryptocurrency is such a reach that Odell Beckham Jr. would be proud
Can I give you a little advice. Elden ring is not a hard game just like I see the Souls game are not a hard game series. They are challenging I'll give you that but if you take your time and play them like what they are an RPG level up here in there no matter how high your level is in Elden ring you'll never be invincible but at least you'll be tougher to kill the higher your level is also you can summon other players into your game there's no shame in that or let yourself be summoned by other players you do not drop your experience points upon death if you're a cooperator so you can just help players back-to-back and watch as your experience points goes up I've already grinded 17 million runes it's enough for me to level up 34 times but I want to be within summoning range of most players so I can help with boss fights. I hope you give Elden ring a try someday
Lol i fought the first boss after 10 hours 😅 because the open world is something different...it takes another 2-3 years something similiar will come out.
Here's some advice for ya .....get good
@@BIGDAWG91331 Yeah I think I’ll pass
@@BIGDAWG91331 Here's some advice for you: Don't be a jerk.
“Elden Ring story has something to do with a ring” imagine the backlash if they had said this with lord of the rings...
ah yes, i love walking to the store during the pandemic only to fall into 5 traps, get jumped by 10 enemies, accidently roam into a boss room, die, and get set back 10 blocks because i forgot to light the bonfire down the alleyway.