Revealing the Glorious World of Elden Ring
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Melina: "I offer you an accord."
Vaati: "An Accord is a mid-size sedan originally developed in 1976. A staple of automotive reliability, it will be your main mode of transport throughout the game."
😂I read that in his voice
Honestly, I wouldn't be upset if From did a Soulslike where you can summon cars.
Ok I pull up
This is the best commebnt
Is the joke that he is grossly over analyzing it?
cant wait to hear the complex lore of how roger got his big hat
More like a medium hat
Isn't it how big hat logaan got his name???
@@mjolnirrequiem7356 Logan left it in the clothes dryer
They don’t call him big hat Roger for nothing
He's rogere' lol
14:05 Ah yes, that's what dark souls was missing. A boss that does not only have a deadly unblockable grab attack, but ALSO laughs like an absolute madman the whole time you're dying
i love cbt in games.
Well there are definitely bosses with deadly unblockable grab attack in the dark souls games so they weren't really missing it
@@Funeral65 he was being sarcastic.
if we're using video game logic then Grab beats Block like Paper beats Rock.
@@rasheedh.8972 That... actually works way to well. I mean that's essentially some of the beginner logic I use to teach smash bros.
It seems like a small thing, but that dedicated jump has me excited. I don’t know how many times I’ve died or missed loot because of the clumsiness of the thumbstick-click jump in Souls games.
The jumping/fall damage is a real game changer. Sekiro felt way more kinetic than souls games, speed and zipping around. Added verticality to level design. Can't wait to play this.
Let's not forget the DS1 jump of running and then mashing the run button cause you wanna get the key for big hat logan
Same here!
Forget Dark Souls trauma, just falling from that kind of height with so much speed sends shivers down my spine! I have a lowkey fear of heights that I mostly overcame, but when I experience that kind of fall with so much perspective in a video game, even thought it's all just virtual reality, I still get instinctual goosebumps! X__X
That's a good thing, it will definitelly make my experience much more memorable, but BOY am I better be prepared! _(mentaly)_
Thumbsouls
“Dismounting to attack the dragon is also viable”
As the player gets fucking flat backed three times in a row lol
@@arbiter- I hope that mounted combat is balanced with projectiles, wonder if it will have any drawbacks other than a slight slowdown. A damage and spellcast debuff would make sense here.
LOL no doubt
Lmfao
@@arbiter- the player was probably getting demolished because these are just tough games haha
It looked like he blocked or something in that last hit with the sparks
What build are you going to aim for in Elden Ring? Shorserer?
Meleeee!!!!!
🤣 love it
Music is dope af!!!
I think I just might.
Definitely melee , i just don't know if I should go with strength or dex for the first play through
This might be the first game I try a spell build, they look so cool.
Omg thats what i thought as well 🔥🔥🔥
So we are "tarnished" and Godric is "the lord of all that is golden." Looking up tarnished I learned that copper, brass, and aluminum tarnish for sure but pure gold does not. I have no clue if this matters at all.
Real world applications like that tend to always matter when dissecting the lore of these games, helps us feel out the game world's internal logic that way. I'm sure Godric would like to believe he's pure gold, whether or not he still is with all those accoutrements
@@snickpea97 You get a like because of your use of "accoutrements" :D
@CastratedBeaver gets a like because they're invested ^^
It most likely DOES matter. Vaati has already dug a bit how the Tarnished are viewed in a bad light by people in general on Elden Ring's world, yet they still had the audacity to call back this banished kind to deal with the Demigods that screwed up.
@@shanehaworth6090 Interesting distribution, not gonna lie! ^_^ XD
I hope that Tarnhishing is a system similar to Hollowing, where you start to tarnish more and more as you die
I was honestly waiting for that giant pot to say "I am Seigpot of Catarina!"
Please let me see my boy!
I would try rolling but my lid would spin
I thought he was inside the pot
steppot, I'm stuck!
Wouldn't be surprised if Siegward pops out of the pot at some point
One thing I love is how the world feels more populated compared to the souls-borne games. It's not just enemies, but random animals just doing their thing. It adds a different kind of atmosphere to this game, one with less isolation.
Which is a downside tbh.
Isolation is exactly the kind of feeling one expects from a Souls Game.
@@SaithMasu12 different opinions man
@@SaithMasu12 that sounds like a bad thing to me "a feeling one expects from a souls game" you don't want them to innovate and try new things? you just want the same old expected feeling of past games? that's pretty fucking boring i'll be honest
People may hate on me for saying this, but the large open world populated with animals reminds me of Breath Of The Wild. I love that game, but love the "darker" feel of From Software games more 😉
Beserk, a major influence for dark souls is extremely dark but the world is vastly populated. For me it adds a nice feeling of life to the world, while still maintaining your solidarity. I really didn't want dark souls 4 I want a new experience.
This just looks like a combination of Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro, all thrown into a high fantasy open world, and I'm totally here for it. Like they're taking all these elements they've experimented with and perfected, and combining them into one big game.
Well.... They are all made by the same developer
This looks like call of duty tbh
@@meestersecure9060 looks more like gex
@@euanharrison7125 actually a weak sauce Pandemonium clone
Wish they would've kept the parrying from sekrio
“A sorcerer, you might have guessed” is a clear nod to the players. Soul’s fans see that big hat and think “sorcerer sage” Big Hat Logan.
And the pot is just a catariana knight. And always we need to help him out to get him to progress. This is the worst thing about it imo. It's not a new interesting world to discover... it's dark souls 4 😑 with the same 11 year old out dated chest from ds1 and 3
@@stirringlemur And that is exactly what 90% of the fans want.
@@stirringlemur you haven’t even played it? How can you even know that yet?
@@stirringlemur I fear the same, but have hope. I think there is more than meets the eye here.
@@sugartoothYT The stereotype for wizard hats is broad rimmed pointy hats. But the comically large hats of the souls series are unique on their own. Normally wizards are wizened serious characters, occasionally some are quite mad, but their clothing is not usually so bold. The Sorcerers of souls come in many forms, however, you can tell the lineage and skill of some by the size of their hat. Generally big hat sages and sorcerers follow teachings of Big Hat Logan, a Master sorcerer of great power. Also note, A Sorcerer is not a Wizard, wether or not Wizards will make an appearance in Elden Ring, time will tell, but souls games primarily utilize sorcerers, pyromancers,sages,clerics, priests, and witches.
The coolest thing about that boss' second phase is, if you notice, the dead dragon's head is the one from the corpse he was looking at in the start. The dragon corpse has it's head at the start of the fight, but has been ripped off in the second half. Looks like he literally rips the dragon's head off it's body, grafts it to his arms and revives the being back into consciousness when it fuses to his body. That's so awesome.
It also looks like the dragon attack the phantom uses Is the same dragon head, it must be a boss weapon/spell.
I wanna know if that dragon corpse is the same dragon you fight in the open world showed at the first of the video, becuase if so then perhaps if you skip that boss, he won't have the option to use it against you
@@SEXCOPTER_RUL it looks smaller then the dragon you fight on the field. Seems like the cut scene also makes It a point to show him touching the dragon with his left hand asking for it's power when later in the fight that same hand becomes a dragon head. It also might be the same species/type of dragon, hope too see multiple designs of dragons.
Nice catch!
@@SEXCOPTER_RUL i wonder too as he calls it a dragon but the one that lands is a wyvern as it’s front feet are on it’s wings.
I think it's obvious but this seems like Fromsofts culmination of every previous game stretching back to kings field all the way to sekiro. I'm excited to experience a new rendition of old ideas, I'm just glad to see that they are still being original with much in the trailer. Cant wait for this to come out!
God dam it better have sekiro mechanics to some degree.
Can't wait to get my Moonlight Blade again lol
@@galaleo2126 "Aah, you were at my side, all along.
My true mentor...
My guiding moonlight..."
@@ronthorn3 one shot silent assassinations please
@@ronthorn3 it said you can break enemy "stance", and theres sneaking and stuff
I hope they have an option to replay bosses like how they did in Sekiro. Sometimes I just wanna experience a boss again without having to start a new run.
13:49 Godric cuts off the head from the dragon he was just rubbing and attaches it or absorbs it to his body. You can see after it’s attached to his arm, the dragon corpse is now headless. I guess it will occur at a mid battle point after taking enough damage.
Was thinking the same, didn't realize you could see it. Thanks!
A couple of weeks ago I went to a store that specializes in Gaming merch, the guy behind the desk had a DarkSouls sleeve tattoo and we ended up talking about the SoulsBorne games and in the conversation @VaatVidya got mentioned and we both agreed that what you do for this community is HUGE. Just leaving this post to let you know, that even in Belgium you are connecting people by your video's so keep it up.
He’s the most famous Soulsborne person lol s he’s aware of it lol
What was the guy's tattoo of specifically?
@@wolfcat8632 it was a whole sleeve but a big part of is was 'getting darker' inspired by artorias' and sif's story. Hard to explain it tbh.
I can support that claim that even here in Belgium, VaatiVidya is the reference when it comes to Souls in general, especially Lore !
Knowing Fromsoft, Alexander is gonna save us like 3 times, say some iconic line that we'll be referencing for 20 years, then disappear so we can learn about his tragic and noble backstory, then go mad and we have to kill him... and when we kill him his adorable child will see us cut down their dad and make me cry.
Exactly how I imagined. Let’s cherish the time we will spend with Alexander until something bad happens
Praise the pot!
.... it's not going to play out EXACTLY like in Dark Souls ... :D
That Pot ? Im pretty sure there is a corpse inside and its a DS dreadnought....
Actually it’s been confirmed that he’s the final boss and isshin is inside
sneaking through the woods and seeing that HUGE cloaked enemy TERRIFIED me.
Also that map is gigantic and beautiful. I need it framed.
I certainly hope it's not a Bloodborneesque Snake Monster, i can't with that 😂
@@TheDanielk4 it looks more like the dragon things from dragons peak in ds3. Like exactly like them but MASSIVE
You need to get out more
@@captianharlock5239 not the face though, just the silhouette
I died when the narrator saw this massive knight in a horse and he just says in his monotone voice "oh look a boss". He definitely is a souls fan.
He's so used go FS and their awesome insanity that they can show him the craziest and most terrifying creature ever and he'll be like "oh, another normal enemy".
Is anyone else getting super heavy dream/dreamscape feelings from Elden Ring? The sorta soft lightning of everything, the strangely lit sky with roots running through it, the ethereal combat with lots of summons, our horse being purely magic, the fact that the Tarnished is from "beyond the fog." The forest scene in particular gave me dream vibes, with the serene autumnal shot juxtaposed by the nightmarish tentacle faced creatures.
Perhaps it's just me, but I wonder if Elden Rin will be heavily dream themed
Same feeling here
It's definitely the most high fantasy souls game yet, nails that vibe
I think it is to do with the Celtic roots of Elden Ring, The Western Isles, Tir-Na-Nog were and are depicted as having a dreamlike quality.
Reminds Me Of The ELF Realms In Lord Of The Rings
Can't wait to see how they made the Moonlight Greatsword in this game!
wasn't in sekiro tho :(
@@WASD_ii the everlasting dragon's sword was kinda like a MLGS
@@WASD_ii I'm not sure if Sekiro counts since it's basically a testing ground for all of From's new gameplay systems.
I hope it’s more like the Bloodborne one. I freaking love that thing.
@@WASD_ii I think the divine dragon had a version of it but we just couldn’t use it
Some of the platforming in Souls was already tricky enough; I imagine actually adding in a proper jump mechanic and reduced fall damage is going to lead to some very tricky secret areas / items
Oh you can count on it. It's frankly one of the things I'm looking forward to the most. I've always liked how it feels like I'm doing it in previous games. Though I know it's not really the same and that pprevious FS games are technically linear games that are basically the same each playthruogh. I'm just eemensly looking forward to actually exploring, and finding the secrets of, an open world FS game.
I don't really care about invasions, but I definitely want an arena for static 1v1 pvp. It would be fun to set up a new build and head over to the arena to compete.
Seriously, since this is an open-world, why not have an area that is literally an abandoned colosseum? That'd be perfect, honestly!
Tbh itd be amazing if there was an actual Colosseum! Like a physical place where people actually battle, and you can sign up to be in PVP and PVE battles! Maybe there would also be an announcer, that would announce who is fighting ("On the left side we have an unknown Tarnished [maybe he changes his statements depending on what you have done], and on the right we have their opponent, the deadly ogre!"), and maybe even comments on the battle? ("Oh, what a strong hit!" "I dont think he'll be coming back after that!" "And the Ogre has won again!")
@@thatguy7340 _Please stop, dude... You're setting me up for tears once we do not find that feature (specially the announcer) inside the game._ 😢
*But yeah, dude, that'd be so rad.*
And then an audience cheering everytime someone landed a strong or critical hit.
@@MrDibara
Yeah, I hate that I always do that but omg if it's in itd be such a cool feature
Pvp arenas have never really took off in previous games.
People don't want 1v1 fair fights with no estus. Thry say they do, but what thry want is the opportunity to cheat and ruin someone's day.
Which is why many choose to pvp with signs. As you kind are rolling a dice and seeing what you get.
I'm happy for how cool Elden Ring looks but also because we're going to get a lot of new content from Vaati about the game.
Vaati right now bout to live off from Souls games 5 more years🗿
Don’t forget about zullie the witch!
It looks lovely, but it doesn't wow me (visually) like the Demon's Souls remake. I do look forward to the exploration aspect. I miss getting lost in a world and this looks like a great place to go and get killed a lot.
@@alexsolesbee6214 Zullie the witch is by far my favorite channel right now. Vaati comes off a bit pretentious and stretches his "theories" too much. Most people take what he says as gospel, which is incredibly frustrating when they spout his content as canon.
@@Sohelanthropus maybe longer this game seems more live service oriented and could last for years with updates
Something to point out: You're told by the wizard that Tarnished Hunters sacrifice the Tarnished for Grafting. The master of the castle has tons of arms *grafted* onto him, and in his second phase he *grafts* a dragon's head onto his body. It's just a neat detail.
That’s not a detail, that’s most probably the core of the lore of that place
In the footage near the end it looks like the Dragon he was stroking before the fight started is missing its head once he starts using the dragon head attack, so I think we can guess where he gets it from.
@@Majere613 *aggressviely strokes dragon in graveyard*
"Neat detail" LMAO
@@victarionwinter1998 Not everything is forbidden lore, guys.
I have a theory about the "grafting" that npcs mention, refers to the act of taking a body part of a tarnished and attaching it to one's self. It is evidently shown on the boss designs the fact that they have many arms and one actually shown attaching an arm to herself. Concepts about trees are definitely a predominant theme in Elden Ring.
Elden Ring is what those Dark Fantasy mods for Skyrim try to accomplish. I'm very psyched for this game.
Finally, we get to see Vaati talking about Elden Ring gameplay
Excellent 👏
Finally, we get to comment on seeing Vaati talking about Elden Ring gameplay
Exactly what I was yhinking
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😂😂😂
The miracle build is looking promising hopefully
another hollow...
I just want lightning spears to be as good as launch DS2 again.
@@raknikmik more like broken unrefined spell
@@mrdeafter but can we agree that lightning spears in ds2 and ds3 are dogshit now?
@@thesupreme8062 *YES*
Now for the big questions
1.Will we finally have a Fromsoft game that has no poison area?
2. Where and how can I obtain the Moonlight Greatsword?
3. Patches?
Patches will steal your moonlight greatsword, and throw you in a massive poison pit that is an utter ball-ache to get out from.
Considering this game is much more open-world then I’d say expect many poison area’s.
1. Quoting Jaime Lannister on the first season of Game of Thrones, _"I doubt it."_
2. THAT is indeed one of the misteries right now.
3. *Don't worry. You KNOW he's gonna show up in one form or another, just you wait.*
He's going to be one of the pot people lol
"combat in melee is also viable"
shows player being slapped around 3 times in a row.
(a viable way to get killed)
[insert mandatory "git gud" trash talking here]
Seems mobility is key in this game.
Yeah because mages die in just one so kinda balances it
"Bro, help me, I'm stuck!"
- big pot
Hit me from the back
omg no
*What are you doing step tarnished?*
big round cutie!
Step pot
This trailer is more addictive than coke, I can't stop watching it.
Ya say that for every brand new games....
@@wasupman777 huh
@@ascension230 what?
They Should Release This On December 15 - They'll Make A Killing In Sales
clearly youve never tried coke. dont worry you arent missing anything
I think this demonstration confirms a lore theory I've had for sometime. I think Godrick is emulating the tree. He's been grafting arms or "limbs" onto himself. The area is Limgrave. And the gate npc and his enemy type have books around their necks. Books are filled with pages or "leaves".. Seems pretty obvious that there is a connection here. lol
Godrick and his multitude of arms and hands certainly reminds me of a tree and all of its branches.
3:27
" Dismounting and dealing with the dragon melee is also viable "
Tarnished gets slapped around repeatedly *
Ah good! Now we have Alexander, the Iron Fist of Ceramia. I would also like to point out that the NPC that offers an alternate entrance to the super-giga-dungeon mentions that the enemies within are Tarnished Hunters and that they take back Tarnished "for grafting". And we see that Papa Golden Bone has tons of arms grafted to him. This begs the question of why specifically Tarnished limbs, that is if they are exclusively limbs from Tarnished. He also seems to be able to graft to himself anything organic, hence giant fire breathing dragon head. I'm curious to see what lore can be uncovered on this!
Also remember the orange haired woman from the first trailer is missing an arm…arms are actually everywhere in that trailer. Hmmm
I think the Godrick is also tarnished but of higher class hence he is a lord and the tarnished hunters are a nobles hunting lower tarnished for trophies used by their lord to make him more powerful and extend his might
It's like only lord's can beat lord's
And we are like lost lord heir and that's why he calls us lowly tarnished playing a lord but the day he acknowledge player is a child of lord's will be his last
Epic is literally the only way I can describe this game... like playing a Tolkien book
Exactly what i was thinking
I mean, the lore was written by the “modern Tolkien”, so…
@@jamesohearn2364 no, he is nothing of the sorts and both authors would recent such descripton.
Has Hidetaka Miyazaki ever mentioned what kind of music he listens to? Just curious.
@@Sordatos, resent it or not, he’s often described that way.
Man I'm so excited to check out how viable riposting/deflecting is with weapons, I wonder if a pure Dex character can just go through the whole game by blocking attacks with a sword instead of only dodging. Maybe you can even make a Sekiro type build using only a katana, that would be so sick.
"This guy has a pretty big hat"
Nothing else really needed to be said about Rogier.
Except the rest of his attire looks like a Landsknecht instead of a classical wizard. :\ Come on, am I the only one thinking that? Give him a pike or a zweihander, then tell me he doesn't look the part?! (aside from the hat, of course)
@@MrDibara I mean, you can nitpick just about anything into something else. Just because his outfit is a little puffy doesn't mean he would be serving the Holy Roman Empire if you gave him a Zweihänder.
Fine, it does kinda look like it. But maybe it's intentional, who's to say he doesn't actually have a Zweihänder when you attack him? Or a pike? Or even an arbalest? (I wouldn't trust FS to give the dude an Arquebus.)
@@hitlord Hahahahahaha! Fair enough. That's a valid point. 😆
LOL! Dude, can you imagine a wizard, suddenly pulling a full arquebus out of his robe and shooting people in the face?! 🤣
@@MrDibara We once had it's equivalent in Dark Souls with Dark Bead, then Souls Spear Barrage in DS2... Not sure what we had as a shotgun in DS3, but maybe it's time FS updates the concept to an actual weapon. 🤣
"Well we can't use onion knight anymore as a funny npc so what now?"
"What about onion pot?"
*GASP* "DEAR GOD"
I also saw a big head summon. Big heads, big hats, big bois
@Mitsuko Ch 2 Yeah the armor looks so next-gen from DS3, im so excited! The details look stunning!
Siegpot is already my favourite NPC
A combination between sekiro fishmen pot and siegwerd
I see Elden Ring and Vaati, my neurons activate. Indeed the gameplay reveal earlier was epic!
You and me both.
Anybody else excited about the return of Twinblades? To date, Dark Souls 2 was the only game that had it. It's nice to see that class back in some form.
“This npc man, I have no words”
Goes on to explain about how “discovering something so light hearted” in the world gives so much character to the game.
Lots of words.
That npc sounds lime hagrid from harry potter
As for the lightning event, I sort of got the impression they were more like lightning rods. Some sort of plant that attracts lightning or something? Perhaps it’s a special sort of material that you can only collect on stormy days, since it needs to be electrically charged?
Maybe it also grounds lightning to prevent it from hitting the people that live in the land around them, or they use it to charge things. The former is rather far fetched, but you never know what things may exist in the world.
If you played zelda breath of the wild the sword attract lighting
100% gonna be a material for lightning buffs, hopefully thunder plant juice can be added to arrows or something
@@scorpmk I also can’t help but wonder if they might be used to craft weapon skills. Some, namely the wind slash seen in the gameplay trailer, appears to be enemy drops since we see an enemy use the same move. But I wonder if we’ll be able to craft some, possibly using those for electric based ones. But yeah, most likely going to be used for electric weapon buff items and throwables. Hopefully arrows because that would be cool
Just an homage to the artist Walter de Maria's 'Lighting field'. 🤔
I was waiting for the 5 hour long thesis on this gameplay reveal.
Definitely going to try to incorporate 1 form of magic in my first playthrough...i wonder what the arcane stat is though
I'm beyond excited to see the character creation and what that's like! Including developing your own build/builds/character! I love the map, its nostalgic and like Vaati said like it has been drawn and graphed on parchment! I am also curious what types of armor, weapons, and abilities we will see and have! 🥳🤯🤯🤯
This is honestly the most excited I've been for a game since Skyrim releasing back in 2011.
This gives me the same feeling like I had infinity war and joker trailers
Well now you have Skyrim special, elite, anniversary, next-gen console, Board game to look forward to if you haven’t heard! Pre-order now to get an actual board.
Witcher 3 for me.
@@davet2825 don’t forget the very special edition
You can joke all you want...but still that game is a standard to compare. Every year all rpg action adventure games are compared to Skyrim. There's a reason for that. The thing has so much content people are still on the news this week discovering new stuff. That game deserves all those versions.
I hope they bring back Sekiro's Lightning Reversal to Elden Ring, it's such a badass move that I hope to use against a lightning dragon or the calvary boss from the gameplay reveal
I seriously hope there’s just a sekiro 2, or dlc. I’m stoked for elden ring just pre ordered the collection, but man after the fast paced gameplay of sekiro it’s going to be hard to go back to this style, hopefully it’s a bit of a mix.
Agreed, just an fyi you misspelled lightning🤙
I just want Sekiro's combat back. It was by far the most fun and engaging combat of any fromsoft game.
@@cloudbloom thanks lol
Lightning reversal was way too powerful for how easy it was to do.
if you look closely at the champion in the playtest class reveal you can see it has something(hard to tell what, perhaps some sort of talisman?) in the champions free hand, the champion is also wearing the same armor as the dragon head using coop summon so its likely they will be our arcane spellcaster
The Dragon Head attack the phantom uses at 9:15 seems identical Godric's dragon arm at 13:50.
Could be a reward for killing him...
It could be a reward from the dragon too.
Magic looks so cool. I might finally be able to run a spellsword build and actually use spells.
I felt that lol.
It’s ‘The Elder Souls’
P.S. We must protect Alexander at any cost, all other concerns are secondary 💛
honestly when he got into that underground tomb i got the same feeling than when i entered my first crypt in Oblivion
Kool aid man
gotta smash pots for money, sorry bro
I liked Melina more 😊
I can't wait to take that sHorsery build to the max.
It looks so good in general.
Miyazaki is a genius, and he belongs in the Game Designer hall of fame.
Watching this gave me a happy feeling more fitting for a child than an adult and I absolutely love it. I wasnt as excited for a game since Dark Souls III, I really look forward to Elden Ring.
If you look closely, the Dragon Head on the boss appears to have been severed by the boss from the Dragon in his cutscene. This leads me to believe that his additional appendages are also part of this "Grafting" mentioned by not big hat
And it also looks similar to the spell or weapon that your red friend is using when battling the mounted ennemy. Could a spell crafted if you defeat Godric?
@@Mimsism personally I think the Dragon Head Stone will make a return, and that Arcane is probably for item Spells, like the DHS or possibly the Axe summoning the three skeletons.
Your channel was my favorite channel back when i was playing dark souls and bloodborne
And now since elden ring is around the corner looks like we are in for a treat ma guy
I'm really glad they're expanding the combat options. One of my main criticisms of the Dark Souls series is how the combat got more limited in each game (though DS2 had dual wielding at least). Imagine being a dex build and fighting bosses with bow and arrow on a horse's back!
Imagine being a dex build lol
@@eutriV33 Honestly I get the dex build meme but I'd much rather not play a pure melee strength build as it will just be DS3 II, which has my least favorite combat in the souls series.
Just seeing the character able to jump alone has me failing NNN. In general, this does look like peak Souls, but still so much new to the series to keep it interesting. From how the character moves and fights, to the ambition of having a larger world.
It is funny. When Breath of the Wild was announced, peopled compared it to LoZ meeting Souls. But Elden Ring does seem like they took some notes for themselves. Added with what they learned from Sekiro.
Yeah, I mean, BotW kinda nailed the formula for creating an engaging open-world, and it's nice to see Elden Ring incorporating a lot of aspects from it into their open-world game.
Ppl compare anything to Souls since Dark Soul, and now they compare any open world with BotW.
@@Gatchu137 yeah, a fairly empty sandbox populated by interchangable ppl and where nothing you do has any concequence; don't get me wrong, is fun, but hardly the perfect formula for "engaging world"
@@Sordatos It gives players complete control of how they explore the world, with absolutely no artificial forms of guiding players. It gives you complete freedom, and still manages to guide most players to each objective by placing a variety of interesting landmarks that each point you towards where you're "supposed" to go.
It allows a lot of variety for how each person wants to handle each encounter, and has a lot of ways in which you can interact with the environments. It also has a pretty good formula for rewards, between needing a constant supply of weapons, shrines offering stat upgrades and fast-travel locations, and rare materials being necessary for crafting.
I didn't say it was a perfect game, I said it handles its open-world aspects perfectly. Balancing player freedom, naturally guiding players to each location, and giving proper rewards to entice exploration are all necessary, and the systems BotW implemented to achieve those were incredible. That's why Fenyx Rising, Genshin Impact, and now Elden Ring have all taken so much from it.
@@Sordatos Also 99% of sandbox or open-world games could be argued as "empty". I can't think of many areas in BotW other than one section of field near the center of the map that I'd think of as empty. It had systems in place to populate the world with things to do, and while things like the shrines got old pretty fast, it was still a good idea, just not implemented the best.
I don't know what "consequence" you expect to happen from things you do. That's such a vague and nothing statement. And "interchangable ppl", you mean NPC's? The game had recurring characters, and even quite a few of the NPC's are still pretty memorable to me, because of their side-quests.
The line about Tarnished Hunters and grafting has me so excited for the lore!
Makes me think that the wolf howling is the player that’s been grafted, like a transformation and we just go wolf until death like the dragon covenant 🤔
@@Bichote2382 pretty sure its referring to godrick using the parts. The npc is in stormveil
@@Bichote2382 it's referring to Godrick. He's grafted the limbs of fallen tarnished to his own body resulting in his multiple arms and legs and we know he grafts that dragon's head to his arm in phase 2. So the grafting dialogue line is just referring the skin graphs godrick performs on the deceased.
Ahh ok, he looks pretty cool and super aggressive 🤩
111 Days left now. I can't wait to simply get into the game, just walking around discovering everything, getting smacked by a field boss and then taking 37 trys to beat it 😂 I wonder if there are oaths and especially if there will be pyro spells or something, cause fire seems to be a thing, but there wasn't any evidence the player could use it. I'm so very exited.
4:35 I really love Alexander already. the way he gets up and folds his arms shows a flood of personality I don't see often.
To be honest I'm more happy and proud of how fromsoft improved through the years, I remember playing dark souls with it's semi linear progression, I didn't expect that they would make open world game.
They’ve definitely played with progression with each entry. Souls 1 had the master key that allowed you to skip bosses on a second play through, Souls 2 by the B team was more open to begin with, linear later. Bloodborne and Souls 3 ended up more linear with entire extra areas and bosses if you chose to explore each corner. This game looks like an evolution of Sekiro the most to me, which while linear at times has a lot of branches you had to go down in order to complete the game, rather than just a straight path.
It’s great to see how they have tried different things while keeping a pretty similar gameplay loop to their games.
Dark souls 1 is not linear at all , you can obtain a +15 weapon before kill the gargoyles. The first boss you kill after the tutorial can be taurus demon, the capra demon , the gargoyles, Queelag, pinwheel , Sif, the hydra and the butterfly . You can kill 8 diferent bosses just at the start. In dark souls 2 , despite all the hate, you have even more options, the only one linear is dark souls 3.
Why does ds2 get hate ?
@@G.Giorgio I don’t see DS2 hate here. The game is fine and fun but has its fair share of criticisms.
*Demon Souls
I can only imagine the feelings that a guy like Vaati must have going into one of these games fresh. Like, his artistic *endeavor* and livelihood depend on these games. Must be kind of an cool feeling having Elden Ring around the corner I mean, for reasons besides it just being an obviously transcendent game that we're all excited for.
Yeah, his creative content and income is pretty much secured for the next 5 years, lol.
@@NavidIsANoob yeah, you can almost guarantee that this game will have, like, lore levels of DS1 and 2 combined lol. It just looks so good dude holy shit
I like that they kept the sound of an enemy dying. That metal clank noise as the dragon kills multiple enemies is so good.
The Dragon Artwork heavily reminds me of Fatalis and Castle Shrade which is very cool!
I love how it still looks like a From game. The art style, the world, the buildings. Even the spells and weapon arts seem re-used, which isn't a bad thing. I also think that one dude is the Patches of this game. Trying to trick you into going the wrong way
He is absolutely not Patches.
@@aaronhillaker7036 We are ALL Patches
If Patches is on Elden Ring, it will definitely be the exact classic Patches (in bizarre spider shaped or like a "normal Human")
I would love to see Patches as the big pot
Neh
The dude by the gate was fully honest unlike patches and actually tried to help you
We'll get real patches
For some reason hearing your voice over this gameplay just gave me the biggest dopamine hit.
Magic definitely seems to be more emphasized across all builds and weapons so we might have to plan more often on what spell and weapon combos work best for the build we choose.
The major dark souls 2 art style vibes this game gives off has me in love with it
One of the a rare occasions your actually just as excited for the ‘Review of the preview’, just as much as the ‘Preview’ it’s self 😊
The sword weapon skill at 11:34 has a neat detail in that you cut yourself (notice the bleed) before actually slashing forward, potentially to indicate a boost in damage at the sacrifice of HP. The blood wave might actually even be part of the attack!
The bird (eagle?) at 12:40 potentially might just be another bird summon that may or may not be available; notice that it has...amazingly, two swords attached to its legs, which the summon in the screenshot doesn't.
I can't wait for this game.
I was wondering if anyone else noticed that. The blood wave animation is definitely part of the attack. At first I noticed the blood pattern and was like "wtf, why is there enemy blood behind the character, and before the enemy is even hit", and that's what made me actually notice he was cutting his hand to begin with.
Ah yes bringing back the bloodtinge builds
Yeah, that looked really cool. My favorite part about these skills are how usable the look by their “casting” speed
I think it's a damage boost based on the damage you take while channeling the skill. It makes me hopeful that HP builds will finally have a place in the game without necessarily gimmick weapons.
Damn that dragon fight looks good. I don't think I've ever seen a dragon's physical power captured that well in cinema let alone in a video game.
Midir would like a word
I'll raise you a dark eater Midir
You should check reign of fire, that movie demostrate dragon power pretty amazingly
What about your mom? Surely that counts as a dragon.
5:59 the things you refer to as grace icons, I think they are a plant that has been charged by lightning and we can harvest it to craft a lightning weapon buff consumable item.
The biggest jaw drop for me is that I knew it would look and play brilliant but it looks and plays miles better than I was imagining!! Thank you Hidetaki and the rest of From for giving me something that is looking like my best ever game I'll ever play. This could be a Dark Souls 1 beater
@toptier bryan Not really. DS2 was objectively worse. Bloodborne while amazing in it's own way had far lesser different styles of combat, magic is the easiest comparison for this, along with a less interconnected world. Sekiro is an entirely different genre and can't be compared.
Finally DS3 has neutered magic all around and strength builds, and exploration. So it definitely wasn't a DS1 beater either. It did plenty better, but it did plenty worse. So while one can like it more in some areas, to say it's a 'beater' of DS1, is just false.
Saying it's nostalgia to say otherwise just shows a major amount of ignorance of how the games all work.
@UCqV0ZVgraCII5ALwfnJiFeQ The game's objectively not a mess. And it's not clunky, it's slower, there's a difference and it existed purposefully.
Those three games as 'games' are objectively not way better in every way. All around their exploration is worse. All around they have less viable player builds. All around they give less options to the player. These aren't opinions they're facts.
Now if you don't care about player expression or magic actually hitting harder than a wet fart, or poise not being worthless, or an interconnected world built for exploration, then yeah, in your opinion those games are better. But that's just it, that's only your opinion.
This game looks like it just may be a DS1 beater, as in not an opinion, as in, it's actually superior in every important way regardless of nostalgia or opinion. Rather than just specific areas like the 3 games you mentioned. Especially Sekiro, since it's an action game. You going to start calling DS3 a clunky mess because it's not as fluid as Devil May Cry 5?
I have a feeling that the people who're dismissing dark souls 1 probably started dark souls with the remaster. Myself and I'd say 90% of the people who understand what ds1 did and was, played the original days, weeks of it's original release. Nothing tops seeing the skyline of Anor Londo, managing to struggle through the terrible framerate of Blighttown, eventually beating Smough and Ornstein and overall experiencing the game from start to finish then realising what a unique and unbelievable title we'd just played. I agree Bloodborne is a very very good game but nothing has ever made me want to get home and get my xbox 360 turned on to get back to it. With me saying all that, (I apologise for the long reply!), I've got a feeling Elden Ring is going to be Myazakis 2022's answer to his masterpiece.
@toptier bryan Exactly, Sekiro has only one main weapon, no magic, no real stat investment. If we compared Sekiro to DS1, it would be shit on so much, as Sekiro would be an absolutely GARBAGE RPG.
And I like Sekiro, I don't want to quantify it as garbage, because it's not. You know why? Because it's an action game. Not an RPG.
@@drewgarvie08091976 Most of the one's who dismiss DS1 started with DS3 or Bloodborne, which are very different games. Linear, less options for viable builds, but also faster and smoother. They're lean more towards action in the ARPG, while the souls games prior lean towards the RPG of ARPG.
Hence the disconnect.
The magic looks fantastic.
Caster builds being finally viable will be god tier.
@@Crowald bro magic builds are really good in all games
@@JoltinJoe only one game but I getcha
A shame it won't be getting used much in pvp for long, since people will quit invading because of constant 3 v 1 scenarios.
@@picklewart5382 I live for 3v1 mage invasions, but I hear you.
3:32 Didn't notice it before but looks like the tarnished has a different animation after that hit. Looks like he blocked and was rewarded a faster recovery animation.
Seeing everything this game has to offer in terms of skill and build variety I can't wait to get into everything. Definitely making a spellsword build for the first playthrough.
Seeing the sea on the map with some icon's make me dream about we having underwater combat. I would love to see sea monsters in this game.
It was in sekiro so I believe it
Swimming and diving for sure.. Maybe we have access to a boat to get to those isles ?
*Monster Hunter Tri would like to know your location*
I gotta say, games that come out these days really don't excite me. It's as if my heart is already dead.
But this, Elden Ring....I'm shaking with excitement. It's been far too long since a beautiful, AAA game has made me feel like a kid on Christmas again. This is looking like the real deal.
Also, build ideas for me will probably be whatever I need to specialize in scythes (did that with first char in each souls).
Today games are just boring in terms of lore and gameplay
Same feeling here
Elden Ring and S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 have me excited, nothing else thou..
Have you ever dived into the world of indie gaming? They make some incredible games and in many cases they are not at all afraid to take the kind of risks that AAA studios are generally not allowed to. If you’re interested I’d be happy to recommend you some games that are not just very good but totally different from stuff that the big companies constantly churn out
@@Perjoss, that's why I specified AAA game. No need to sell me on the merits of indie gaming. It's where most of my game time goes.
This is going to be a masterpiece. My god the love and detail to every little thing
So glad to jump back into your channel 💯
I hope there is a way to do a wyvern/dragon build. The dragon head spell thing looks great on the player
Possible the Pyromancies of Elden Ring might be using the powers of dragons instead.
I absolutely hope for more transformations like the ones from Bloodborne, that actually affect weapon movesets unlike the Dragon forms in DS
The best part is that siegward turned into a giant pot
bro I coulda swore he was gonna break the pot and siegward 4.0 would come out but it was just the whole ass pot
he straight ballin'
He has the Catarina accent, so he must own that armor if he’s a knight
Siegward got rebirth into a pot.
he turned himself into a pot, funniest thing I have ever seen
I hope they brighten up the markers for the map. I could myself struggling to see them on greener parts of the map.
Also, seeing a familiar chain next to the chest tells me that Mimics are returning as well.
Hopefully your mom returns too.
Miyazaki said "It's they can't ignore combat arts if they're all combat arts!"
Finally! The magic shoots from the tip of the staff! All I have dreamed of
I was watching this gameplay sneak preview and was super excited to see what you had to say about it!
13:53 surprised you didn't comment on the dragon in the background suddenly having it's head lopped off, explains where the arm dragon head came from at least.
This is so beautiful. I can't wait to spend hours running around the map on my mount & taking it all in
They removed vitality? I hope that means they're going back to how Dark Souls 1 did it, with Endurance affecting both stamina and carryweight, it made it easier for me to make my heavy armoured knights without being doomed to fat roll.
I suspect they have, only official word we got is that strength will have some impact on equip load.
Tho I personally believe that will be a minor, secondary way to increase equip load.
@@Awoken_Remmuz It would make sense, strength builds should be wielding heavy armor and heavy weapons, imo, but Idk where that would leave dexterity users.
Oh well, I'm excited either way
Honestly I don’t know if I’m more excited for the game or your lore videos! Can’t wait!
Godric the Golden's design is actually S+ tier, whoever came up with that shit deserves a medal
I just love how From used all they learned from thier previous games in making this game
i think arcane may be used for this games version of pyromancy like how a lot of pyromancys weren't fire related but wouldn't work as spells lore wise.
like arcane may be like primal magic or some other form to truly differentiate itself
Heard it was going to be something similar to luck
Just wanted to say thank you Vaati for the incredible videos you make. They're so thoughtful, respectful, and informative. I also wanted to say thank you to FROM SOFT for creating these games that just rock so fucking hard.
Can’t wait for vaati to have a full lore guide February 25th at 1201 am