You literally just press a button to get out ot it why do so many people complain about this? Lol like you cant press a button before pressing another? After it happens once the problem is solved unless you're an idiot.
I mean his statement is kinda true. You can summon torrent once before it uses a flask. I had a moment in a fight where torrent died, I revived him, he died again and I tried to revive him again which I did but didn't realize that in my panic I just instinctively clicked yes for the prompt and used my last flask to get him back. I ended up getting smacked again and dying. When I could have at least had a chance or even beat the boss with that last flask. I think this is one of the exact examples the devs thought would happen. I'd rather get fucked a few times because I'm trying to read a prompt rather than just accidentally spam through a prompt and not read it. And if say the devs agree as well. I mean the name of the game is Pain, what else are you expecting from it? 🥲
For any mages who don't know about this, make sure your favorite/bread and butter spell is the first one memorized. If you hold the cycle magic button for a second, it will instantly go back to slot one. It's not a big fix for cycling magic, but it can get you back to that spell quicker
@@newt2120 unless you're a faith build lol. My lightning paladin had the basic lightning bolt there. Quick to get back and Zeus a baddie when needed lol
@@newt2120 The first two hours of playing, yeah. By the end of the game you'll use comet, which is like... a very big glinstone pebble. Or night comet, which is like a glinstone pebble which doesn't trigger evade animations on enemies.
One of my biggest annoyances in the game so far is the messages that pop up when you open doors. They don't go away until you hit y but it doesn't prompt you to do it so if you are being attacked whem you open the door and run through to try and heal it wont because the message is still there.
Yes! I'm shocked this isn't on the list! This is really my No 1 and it's even worse in coop because say I open a door then everyone get's that message even people who are in battle... the only fix is to yell "PRESS Y" (on Xbox) to your friends anytime you open a door 😂
Honestly, it's a shame we've gotten to this point at all where people feel like they are required to preface legitimate criticism with a disclaimer about how great the game is before they are allowed to have an opinion on it. It seems like an obvious symptom that state of discourse around the game has some fundamental problems.
ill always be glad my favorite game of all time is kingdom hearts 1. Its genuinely impossible to ignore the flaws in that game. Makes it easier to adopt this mindset for other games.
Cyberscam was trash and no one wants to admit it but elden ring was a masterpiece and everyone seems like they wanna pick it apart. These are definitely not game breaking issues
And totally, the annoying dialog boxes that locked you out of your attack controls. So many times, there was so much going on, I didn't even realize there was a dialog box open, and I'm screaming at the screen because my character is not doing anything but running around getting the crap kicked out of him..
They could totally just let you do normal actions and have the dialog box naturally disappear after 5 seconds. But no, they had to let you do an extra button input. Seriously why do I even need to be reminded that "a door opened *somewhere*" when I just pulled a lever?
BIG correction here: it's not the invaders that are AFK farmers, it's the HOSTS, they use the invader's taunt item to draw them in, and use the summon blues to fight invader's item to have them fight endlessly, also they use the horse to get to unreachable places before doing these, something invaders don't have
I was hoping someone would say this. This is a big problem that needs addressing asap. There are so many ways to quickly and easily farm tons of runes so just don’t be that coward that hides and then draw invaders.
yeah, had one yesterday. the fucker hid on top of the bridge at Raya Lucaria and all the summons spawned down in the swamp area. in the end i just chilled around smacked some blues until a dumbass red came and spammed Dragon Breath
The lock-on issue in my eyes is that with large enemies the camera should zoom out, which would also make these fights more epic, but would give you a grasp of what's happening in the fight. That would be the solution the way i see it.
The camera is adjusting a bit but not much. I think it's hard to balance this cause it would affect gameplay. I don't think it would be that comfortable if you go into a boss that is Hugh and you zoom out insanely far ... Also this would break the illusion of it being big and powefull at some degree.
@@RedjieTV I don't think it would break the illusion, quite the opposite. I wanna see the beautiful animations and scale ratio compared to my character, but most of the time I'm just staring at their feet and only imagining what's going on above. I'm not saying they should turn it into God of War, but I wanna fight the boss, not the camera
A good quality-of-life change would be if you could interact with ladders/chests/etc while crouching. It's just a wee bit annoying, sometimes dangerous if you accidentally crouch in combat, still a great game.
3:05 this is the other way around, it's the HOSTS that are afk farming, if an invader enters a game he gets nothing if the host disconects. The actual thing that happens is hosts hide in places that aren't accessible without a horse, and since horse is not available in MP, invaders can do nothing but leave.
@@surrealsalamander1384 yeah it's kinda bad since the invasion mechanic is already frowned upon by some people, misinformation like this could make it worse (and very anoying) with the new players that are just getting into souls games.
yea that was very unprofessional and shows they don't even know what they're talking about. like there's no bloody point for the invader to hide and remain AFK if that's the case then that makes 0 difference for the host whether there's an invader or not. also "Attacking through walls" (proceeds to show a clip of the old destructable wall thingy) and "shooting from range" bruh wtf are they even on about?
Agreed. Theres no reason you shouldnt be able to at least look at your map. Some times you'll spend thirty seconds travelling in the wrong direction just to de-agro an enemy you cant even see. They even have a map mode (like when in dungeons) that locks you out of fast travel. Just do the same thing.
my least favorite feature of elden ring is the input reading bosses have. This is when the AI waits for an input and generates a response. Its particularly egregious in the godskin duo fight but can also be seen in morgot and godfrey. I also don't like that they strayed away from a more combo based fighting style to a more random-chaotic style with the bosses attacks. DS3 in my opinion has far better boss fight design by a decent margin.
This and the Bosses tend to spam or truecombo you a lot more than in other games. Mohg for example likes to spam his thrust attack multiple times in a row even though he just knocked you down with it and his overhead can hit you at any place in the arena if he's in the center because of its bullshit range. Also DS3 managed to make dual bosses a lot more fun to play than Elden Ring. Fighting the two Gargoyles is nothing else than a pain because they permanently jump out of range, attack while moving and even if you finally are in range there is a chance your swing misses because of their high hitbox. On top of that all of their attacks are aoe with bullshit range and speed and they can carpet bomb you with contact damaging poison through the entire arena. Elfriede and Ariandel were a hard but really cool and manageable bossfight with almost any playstyle. Demonprince was really tough in phase one but gave you enough space and different states to keep the fight dynamic while also giving you a chance to fight them one on one. These guys are just all of From Softs bullshit combined in a boring and purely annoying gank boss. Their original version from DS1 was not that easy, but it was an even fight with fair range and speed and you could summon Solare to help you out and basically beat the boss for you. In Elden Ring at least with ashes and NPC summons you just get fucked even harder and it barely does any good for you.
the biggest problems are attacks that can only be dodged by predicting they would happen 10 seconds prior, and input reading being way too ridiculous since bosses will just stare at you until you press a button sometimes.
I've got 3 pretty annoying gripes. 1st is the lack of tracking in your attacks. Bosses will track you to the top of the great erdtree with ease but if an enemy is slightly elevated because of hilly terrain my attack is going right into the ground and god forbid they slightly side step during a jump attack, lol. Also the outrageous amount of time you spend on the ground after getting knocked down. I can take hits from demi gods but if you knock me off my horse I'm seemingly going to need to sleep it off for a minute. Last but not least, enemies can attack through anything, be it wall or ground, but if my attack glances a tombstone it's done for.
For number 5 they didn’t just “add markers to show npcs” they added markers to “found npcs.” This means you have to be within a certain distance of them, or have talked to them at that location for them to show up. If they move their marker will vanish and will only show up when you find/get near them in their new location. It just saves players having to waste limited markers on npcs
The number one offender for this is Diallos. He stands on a random building rooftop in the Raya Lucaria village that's so easily missable. Nowhere does he mention the location in his dialogue, he's just placed in a random spot on the map. Nothing about his story or dialogue points to that random ass rooftop in that location. Honestly, I feel like the game was designed to be played with Google open on the second monitor.
"I don't like when games hold my hand!" *has Google opened up to show them where to go next, then gets called out for it and panic responds* "well it builds an amazing community to figure all this out."
@@mutt-the-barbarian most, if not all, npcs don't explain to you through dialogue what the next step in their storyline is. Diallos doesn't mention the Raya Lucaria Town, Fia doesn't tell you who to give the dagger to, Dung Eater just talks crazy... it's one thing to drop a logical hint, it's another to hand-hold.
Cause the game is poorly designed and requires a wiki open 24/7. All it has going for it is the combat, which is clunky at times due to the input lag and buffering.
@@TheLux008 oh you don't have to tell me, and it hurts the game in more ways too, not only is it going to be logically frustrating to the average player that I'd objectively classify it as bad game design. But the npc's and story feel so shallow. They're barely even characters, they're just Easter eggs. There's no emotional investment, like who gives a damn that Diallos servant was murdered? Literally most of the so called depth comes from people watching TH-cam videos that amount to fanfiction then claim it as gospel.
It does seem like often times From Software games get free passes on rushed or poor game design/balancing in the name of, "oh they meant to do that, it's supposed to be a challenge, this sort of game must not be for you." With Elden Ring it felt like this to the extreme because of how much insane hype there was, it just had to do nothing horrendously bad, and the community would make it a 10/10, even though due to certain design decisions it could be argued to be an 8 or 9.
Yes I never get that, but it's not just From Software, it's gaming in general now. When The Last Of Us II was released, so many people were either giving the game a 10/10 or a 0/10, although is was honestly a solid 8 or something like that. So called Journalists do that for gods sake... I love Elden Ring and its probably my GOTY, only contender might be GoW Ragnarok, but it was not perfect. A 9/10 for me.
There is no „perfect“ game. No game deserves a 10/10 if only perfect games should have ...For many Elden Ring is simply one of the greatest games ever made regardless of certain design choices etc.
@@sirdidimus23 Exactly. Even look at the Cloud services like GFN or Stadia. A lot of people absolutely hate them, which is fine, but then you see people make shit up abou them. I couldn't understand it. Going to effort to not only hate a product that you don't have to use but to then use more energy to lie about it.
None of these really bother me as much as the magic selection option. If only I could cast different spells with ease like ofnir it would make mage builds feel so much more dynamic
It does suck having to cycle through a bunch of spells only to miss the one you want and have to mash on the D-pad to get back to it. A spell wheel would have been nice... like the option to hold UP on the D-pad to trigger a spell wheel and then just flick the right joystick in a direction.
how about hit box or whatever its called? I honestly do not like this game at all, I dont get what is good about it and regret buying it, but I will not go into that, but even if you like the game, there is no way you disagree with me how annoying it is to go near the enemy, and I mean near that you basically making out with him at that point, swing your axe or whatever, and miss him. Enemies hit u even if you are 2 meters away from their hit animation, I guess hit force hits you, but when you swinging a weapon, half the time you are hitting the air. Like seriously, this stupid game wouldnt be that gloriously hard if it had tolerable combat hitting.
@@abyssawalker true but with how fast physical attacks are and how quickly bleed etc. can proc I think it might make things a bit more balanced. Being a mage kinda stinks because the casting time is so slow you literally have to be a good distance away just to get the spell off which in turn usually makes me put my staff away and rush in two handing my sword in serious combat situations. Idk just feels like mage builds could be a little better. but ofnir levels would be silly admittedly.
One of my biggest problem with the game so far is the way that lock on works. I can be in the most intense 1v1 fight and then i lock on to an enemy that is miles away at random.
I totally agree, why would the game switch lock target in the middle of a fight? Especially fast moving small creatures can often steal the lock and make you swing and miss your primary target.
Also, whoever at FromSoftware thinks that failing to lock on an enemy should result in the camera making a 180 turn… come on man. That was in every souls game I played and it sucks so much
I love this game (~240 hours and I still haven't finished it, but I love exploring and this game is great for that), but that's a solid list. For me, the biggest single issue is the camera and how it intersects with the lock on system. I'm not great at these kind of games (this is the first Soulslike I've ever gotten really stuck into, because of the aforementioned exploration) so I die a lot, but I swear 1/4 to 1/3 of those deaths are because of camera/TL shenanigans. Things like either being unable to lock on to an enemy because of something like skinny little tree in between us, or not locking onto the giant field boss that's right in front of me and instead looking onto some trash mob 100m in the distance, or not locking on at all because...reasons? It's infuriating sometimes, but the game is so good I can deal with it, I just wish I didn't have to. Second is the spell selection thing mentioned in the video. I've settled into a dex/fth build, full Godslayer mode 'cause it's a fun hybrid style, but man, cycling spells is a PITA. Why don't we get a "spell wheel" sort of thing? Crazy. Third is the quests. I *do not* want a bunch of glowy markers in the distance, but as someone with a crappy memory I think an in game log of NPCs you've met and their conversations would be really nice. That would only give you access to information you've already learned, so I don't think it'd be any kind of difficulty nerf. That's the main thing I've had to use the wiki for...along with "shopping" for gear, heh. ;)
@@Nonlethal106 Exploring everything without using a guide. (I'm at almost 90 hours and haven't even really made it far into the Altus Plateau.) There is NO WAY anyone got a platinum trophy or all achievements without using a guide. Anyone that says otherwise deserves the, "Liar ahead" message. There are still people like us that like to enjoy and explore a game. Not just use dozens of guides and try to brag on any and every type of forum.
@@alexsmith6914 I get what your saying, however the focus isn’t so much on achievements or guides. If you were to say you have 240 hours played and your currently in new game+ or have beaten game and now trying to 100% without a guide then that makes sense. I beat the game and have 68 hours playtime and I’m not good by any means; play causal, take my time exploring,side quests, etc. But 240 hours and haven’t beaten the game is troubling lol
@@Nonlethal106 If you beat the game in 68 hours, you definitely didn't come close to doing and exploring everything. (Or as much as possible) You may have followed, "the path" with a grave or cave here and there. Even trying to figure out what to do for Ranni's quest was a chore and I destroyed my chance at completing Nepheli's quest while in the middle of Ranni's quest. (While people are out there saying, "I completed all NPC quests and they were all easy!" Yeah... They just, "magically knew all the right choices and where to go," right? Running outlines of terrain, beaches and wide open areas takes time. There is also no type of grid on the map to keep notes on areas explored. I find myself still finding items in areas I thought I fully explored from circling outward from graces. It's pretty reasonable to be systematic if we want to do and see as much as possible. That all takes time.
My biggest gripe with Elden ring is the lack of enemy variation. In other souls games, practically each and every new area had new enemies to match. In elden ring, so many of the same enemies and similar enemies just slightly modified, are re used through out the whole game
Well with 175hrs of exploring every inch of the world and not done yet, I don't really agree. I've been finding a larger variety of enemy types than any other souls game.
@@SplittingProductions Why are there so many re-used bosses then? Why does every single soldier in each area look the same with minor tweaks? They re-use enemies and bosses all over the game. You can't tell me they don't
@@shanelovelace5636 At no point was I denying they reuse enemies. You claimed this game lacks enemy variety. The game is so freakin huge that with those 175 hrs I haven't even seen it all yet. To expect absolutely nno reused enemies at all is ridiculous. Though variety most certainly exists. And as for the why, lore wise, would it even make sense to only have 1 guardian for all the smaller erdtrees? Or have only 1 crucible knight in all of the service? I mean ever played Skyrim? That was definately far worse than this game in terms of reused enemeis. It was basically will this dungeon be drauger, falmer, or dwemer? And yet that game is one of the best. There is definately a highly impressive amount of variety available in this game should you explore it more, regardless of there being repeats.
@@SplittingProductions which is exactly correct unfortunately. The game is huge, so no I don't expect a ridiculous amount of variation. But I would have definitely wanted more variation in the bosses. Game is still amazing, but I don't need to fight 5 ulcerated tree spirits lol
@@shanelovelace5636 Maybe you'll hate me, but I love the tree spirits xD Idk, I think it's just the fact that this is open world where the past games have been linear so it's just how the genre works. But at the end of the day, I hope you still have fun! Praise the sun!...I mean tree!
As a melee character, my biggest gripe was the targeting system, for sure. It was especially frustrating to target large boss-like foes... because the camera can't handle it if the limb or body part you are targeting moves in front of you and behind you in a second, rapidly flipping the camera 180 degrees in the process... changing which direction is forward, etc. Target a dragon's head for an attack, and you'll quickly find the camera just nonstop spinning wildly. People say "oh... don't target bosses" but equipment doesn't work... say... shields... if you aren't just about perfectly facing the foe you are using it against. You are forced to lock, drop target, lock, drop target, and that in itself can be really hit or miss. Also... with a boss like the gargoyles... the lowest place they can be targeted is their upper abdomen/chest. Your weapon doesn't even reach that high. I need to hit the boss in the legs, and in order to do so, i need to swing at his chest, and hope that the legs are between me and my target. its just bad design, and was clearly only tested with caster builds. Fighting the ancient dragons is an absolute nightmare, too. (where nothing you can target can be hit with a melee weapon) put a target in the legs for the love of god.
The worst part about melee classes is their borderline useless skill in combat. Just comes off as lazy that enemies can throw out three, four or even five hit combos while the player is forced to flail around like their character learned their attack techniques from the Star Wars sequel trilogy
I accidently complete the game with ranni's ending on my first run through. after looking it up later on I found out how intricate it was and Im confused on how I managed it
i did so much to try to get the lord of frenzied flame ending, even getting naked in front of the stone door, which is supposed to lock you out of other endings. beat the final boss and walk up to the last bonfire thing to find ranni there as the only option. i picked her ending, and i have no idea how it was even possible.
Am the only one who find the map incredibly hard to see sometimes like especially in the capital city, who thought a yellow cursor for your character was a good idea?
Would’ve been a good idea if they made it so it kind of glistened and shimmered, like Grace does anyway. I mean you are a Tarnished following sites of Greece so wouldn’t it make sense for your character to be glowing?
I love this game but One problem I have is that a lot of mini bosses are random mob enemies you can find anywhere else in the world for example two caves where the boss is cleanrot knights in short quantity of quality also looting could be slightly better For example I don’t want to spend 2 hours in a dungeon only to be rewarded by an arteria leaf or some other material unless it’s an ancient dragon smithing stone
Yeah and when it came out they were hyping up the 80+ bosses and the "main bosses being a relative few" but by the end of playing it it's mostly all you remember of being novel exciting experiences
@@ash20453 Literally can't take another Godskin, Erdtree Avatar, or Snake Tree Monster thingy ... I love the game, it's easily one of the best ever made, despite the various issues, but quantity over quality IS my biggest criticism. That goes for the "normal" enemies as well. In pretty much all other DS games you had unique areas with unique enemies only found in those areas. In ER you fight the same enemies in pretty much every area with some noticeable exceptions, like the T-Rex dogs, but there's knights, rot maggots, dogs, giants/trolls everywhere. My biggest gripe is Farum Azula here. Such an interesting zone with THE most boring enemy design.
Biggest issue i have is connectivity issues, me and my friends play every single souls game together as a trio, but when the game disconnects us constantly or can't summon it all, it becomes what we spend the most time dealing with and it can be very frustrating.
I agree with #1 for sure! The repeat boss thing is annoying and confusing as hell. Because I killed Mohg at the bottom of the sewer. A month later, I looked at my missing trophies, it said I didn't get it. I went back to the sewer, saw he was dead and wondered why I didn't get the trophy for it. I later learned that he was the wrong Mohg 😡 At least this helped me discover an entirely new area. Still though, this is very off-putting to say the least. I love the game but the repeat bosses remind me of DS1 with the repeat Taurus Demons and Asylum Demons. And not in a good way
I love Elden Ring. Played through 10+ times with multiple characters. I've took a break from the game though , went back to diablo 2 to try and get my hardcore character to 99. My only issue with Elden Ring is waiting for a dlc to be announced. New bosses , new areas , new weapons & more rage quits. I know that game is recent but still , I'd love an update on future dlc.
Basically “my only problem with the game is that I want more game” this is not a complaint, nor is it a problem with Elden ring. The only “problem” here is how much free time you have 💀
@@beemelonhead1 close to 40 years old. Yeah it took quite a while to finish first playthrough with all dungeons / caves but after that , you can speed through pretty damn fast to endgame.
Another thing is when you and your friend are trying to play and u die they have to leave and do it all over again, or when ur trying to play with your friend and some random guy joins and screws u because they beat the game. I also wish the had a set quest line for players that never played before. Ik not every game is perfect but i feel like that would be a major positive or an option for people like me who never played a souls game before.
One thing about elden ring is it's more forgiving with quest chains. You can miss some slight steps but still complete the quests unlike other souls games.
Yeah, quests honestly suck in Elden Ring, and they don't deserve praise for them. This is NOT something I want other open world games to emulate. I'm not saying we need to keep the "Ubisoft Formula," but something as simple as a journal that records all the NPC conversations you've had so far would go a LONG way in making quests easier to complete!
#1 for sure! When you go through a fog gate that feeling of wonder is at it's peak and in elden ring a lot of the time it just ends up in "oh this guy again". You fight the godskin boys each three times before they show up as a duo, with little to no change in their moveset.
@@brightnight8831 guys what did they love about the souls games. Hey I know they loved all the repeat bosses remember how happy they were to fight asylum demon 3 times or smelter demon 2 times? Omg you're right genius idea. probably went something like that.
@@AH-vm8yo in ds1, at least it felt like there was some lore reasons for the repeated demon bosses/enemies. ER just felt more like copy/paste for no real reason
The biggest issue my friends and I have is co-op. Through our testing, it seems that certain site of grace/location are broken. The server is another issue. This is a great game, but playing with friends required a PhD in Computer Science.
LukeYui released a seamless coop mod (for PC) the other day. It’s fantastic, and it works really well for being in beta. I’d recommend it for MP. Nexus Mods.
@@snarkwave Glad to hear that someone is having success with it. Elden Ring is my first FromSoft game and though I did beat Margit. . . I just wasn't able to progress even against the regular mobs in the area (I'm terrible with pattern recognition). After a 2-3 hour session where I literally didn't progress at all I had to put it away for a while. With this mod (hopefully working well) I'll be able to play with my fiance like I had originally wanted in the first place.
You don't need a PhD in computer science to have notice how poorly it performed on a technical level on all platforms. The frame rate fluctuations and pop in on ps5 and series x were rough. What annoyed me was all the review outlets that had faulted other titles for far less but gave ER a pass. That and the fan base that refused to admit the issues existed despite the developers themselves issuing statements stating they were working to address the issues.
I despise getting stuck on every gravestone, tree, pole, twig leaf etc. I wish when dodging, there was a bumper effect on the surrounding obstacles, so I can maneuver around them a bit better. Fighting for 5 straight minutes just to get killed because you rolled into a post, is so infuriating.
Though frustrating it's not a valid gripe of game design. It's on you, the player, to have better situational awareness. Pay better attention to your surroundings. The alternative makes no sense, which is to either remove most or all of the environmental objects or remove the collision of those objects, which we all know people would complain over. Your suggestion to change how the collision works is bad too. You want coders to waste time and resources changing collision properties because you can't pay attention to your surroundings in a fight... it's assanign. Sorry, but i believe bad ideas should be criticized. I think it's annoying to get stuck on game geometry too, but the solution is to be more aware while in battle, not to criticize game design dude. Try and look at it from another perspective mang, that's all I'm saying.
@@masterninja1667 ummmm ok? U really took that one in the feels. Wasn’t a matter of “wanting coders to waste time” It was just an opinion that I have. Sorry that my sharing, is so “wrong” “bad” “criticizing”. I’ll be sure to be extremely well thought out, in my next TH-cam comment lol. P.S: the correct spelling is asinine ;)
One of the most annoying things about gaming is that whenever a game is popular especially when it hits the mainstream is that there's a massive cult mentality for everyone to just attack and be extremely biased / childish to anyone that argues against the game not being good perfect or just simply not to their taste. Of course there are definitely those who just like to be a naysayer and hate on things just to hate it. But then there are those who definitely understand the game's accomplishments and success and can definitely see the appeal but the game itself as well as the genre just isn't for them. But nope, it's big it's popular its mainstream and the vast majority of the gaming side of TH-cam Raves about it and act like it's the best thing ever. SO YOU BETTER LIKE IT OR ELSE! Dude, I swear people like that are so annoying because it makes everyone else in the community of said game look bad. I myself am not a fan of Elden ring but a lot of my friends are and they enjoy it a crap ton. While the game is most definitely a success no game is perfect every single game has flaws. And Elden ring is no exception. Game on everybody and have a great week.🖥😃🎮
One of the things that makes elden ring "great" for so many people is that it's a "complete" game when compared to unfinished, broken, MTX-filled games that have been released last decade (battlefield, cyberpunk, fallout 76,....). But yes, hardcore fans are often the bane of gaming in general. Just look at the console wars... whenever a game is hyped and praised like elden ring i tend to not get into it for some reason. But i only buy complete or GOTY at a discount nowadays so maybe 1 day i might pick it up.
@@voiceofreason4551 Agreed, it still annoys me to this day that console Wars are still going on let alone are still even a thing to begin with. This is coming from a guy who was the youngest out of all of my siblings and I was fortunate enough to grow up with siblings who were all Gamers and also had neighbors who were also Gamers as well. To us it didn't matter if it was Nintendo Sega Xbox PlayStation or PC. We all just liked to play games. Sometimes we would go over one kids place and play some Xbox or another time we would hang out and play Playstation or Sega Genesis/Dreamcast. Other times my brother and I would bring some neighbors over and we would show them that kind of games we had on our Nintendo 64 or GameCube. It really didn't matter. To us it was always fun trying something new especially if you didn't own the console before! Then I got into Middle School... and it was some of the most pathetically childish crap I've ever heard of. I thought it was a man or something until I ran into this one kid who actually took it serious... some of my closest friends and I still joke about the big fight that happened in the cafeteria over "console wars". As for games being released unfinished, that's just frustrating. "Free DLC" my @$$. More like: "We're lazy and just fix it later."
The game is great. All Souls games are great. The community are just toxic. I hate Souls fans. It made me hate all Souls games including Sekiro because of the fanboys. Unfortnately I like most souls game
One disagreement I have is the cross play thing. It’s honestly not as simple as doing an on-off switch. There’s infrastructure and licensing agreements that need to be made and multiple parties involved need to agree to the same terms and it becomes an expensive process. Then you consider that online multiplayer in these games has no marketability and therefore no way to make up for the expense of putting crossplay together. So you have this super expensive feature with no way to monetize it in a game where the main focus is PVE content and you’ll quickly realize it has nothing to do with hackers or stability, it just doesn’t make sense. Fighting games can’t even get crossplay because getting it together is a nightmare and it’s just sort of industry known that it’s a hard thing to make happen and it’s built into the networking infrastructure of the game and isn’t really even something you can just easily patch it. I mean you could but the patch would need to be so intimate with the current game build that it’s basically a rebuild of the networking if the game doesn’t already have it implemented.
Pulled an intense all nighter finishing up my first full playthrough. Started the night with melekith then dunked on Gideon, had an epic first try win against Godfrey, liked the fight so much i spent a few hours after helping other tarnished crush him then proceeded to move on to rad/Elden Beast. Slightly dissapointing for a grand finale fight but it was still unique and enjoyable. Have been dragging ass all day at work, my wrists and hands are even sore lol. What a game. On to NG+ after some down time to recover. See you in the lands between tarnished.
I can understand why you found the Radagon/Elden Beast finale disappointing, but I found at least Radagon to be a breath of fresh air after so many bosses with so many BS mechanics. Here was a 1v1 fight that boiled down to old school Dark Souls fighting: They attack, you dodge, then counterattack. It took me 3 days of attempts, maybe 2 hours+ combined across those 3 days, to beat Radagon, and that was because I learned I couldn't rely on my shield because of the holy damage, so I ended up focusing on getting my dodge rolls perfect and only attacking when I needed to. Radagon felt FAIR because of this. Almost everything could be avoided if you reacted appropriately. If I died, it was my fault, not the boss's. This is in comparison to fights such as Malenia or Margit, where your i-frames only last so long before the next attack nicks you. Elden Beast, on the other hand... Suffered from being a LARGE FromSoft boss where you wouldn't be able to read all of its attacks even if you were locked-off. So on my winning attempt I did resort to using Mimic Tear, if only so I could have some moves directed away from me. But otherwise, I beat Radagon 1v1, and that is good enough for me to feel proud!
@@blitzgirl6522 I agree completely, his fight did have more of a classic dark souls boss vibe, his attacks were all very strong and varied but generally felt fair and learning his different timings and openings was fun and rewarding, Da Beast sadly brought the vibe down and hurt the overall encounter more then it helped imo.
@@blitzgirl6522 only thing I really dont like is when he throws those projectiles really fast, cause never have time to react, but even then it does like no damage
Lol I agree with #9 so much. Why the hell does it default to being on “No” when asking if you want to use flask to revive the horse. What were they smoking with that decision?
im 99% sure you described afk farming wrong... its when hosts go to a part of the map that invaders cannot get to, so it forces the invaders go home and the hosts can go afk cause they cant be attacked. like hosts go on top of a building in liurnia and invaders cant attack them unless they have a ranged weapon.
@@KainYusanagi How I mean you can enter a boss and they are gone. You can still play through the level. I mean if they are staying just to prevent you from resting at a site of grace that is scummy but I doubt that happens much if at all
@@micah329 Yeah, they don't do it just for that purpose. They're just hoping you'll die so they can leech some benefits without having to risk a gank squad, is all.
Every criticism of Elden Ring starts with something like "actually we love the game"... is that because everyone is affraid of being roasted by fanboys? Besides its flaws Elden Ring definitely has no shortages of those.
Fall heights, one of the most annoying things is jumping of a huge cliff and nothing happens or a 10 foot drop and dying on the spot. I also hate it when you stop in place but it doesn’t count that as negating fall damage, this sucked when dropping down to the fingers behind mohgs thumb, I’d just barely touch the end of a tombstone, my character would stand, and I would fall as if I never stopped.
I know exactly what you mean. My game had the same issue, and I was able to quickly fix it... My game I use raycasting downards to get distance and be able to determine if the player is on the floor or not, but this raycast is just one ray coming from the center of the character, so if the player is on the edge, the raycast counts it as free-fall. I simply took into consideration the character collider to reset the fall speed too. And it sucks that I noticed this on this game... I usually play other games on PC and I analyze them and try to see how can I do something like that for my game, I set a standard based on my favorite games on how my game should work and interact with itself... And the more I analyze elden ring, the more I realize I'd be downgrading my game in so many ways.
I think armour stat variety is a problem too. If you get Radahns armour early on, there's almost no reason to use anything else. It has such good stats Thanks the replies guys (or girls)
I mean stats help to an extent, but in the long run, it's not going to matter much save for the exception of unique effects. It basically turns into: This armor gives me 100 defense but this armor gives 150 defense but it really doesn't matter since the boss does 200 damage you're dead either way, you shoulda leveled up vigor :p edit: Referring to physical damage btw. Elemental is a different story.
Armor in general seems pointless. They aren’t upgradable, most don’t improve your stats in any meaningful way and you spent most of the time avoiding hits. What is the point beyond weighing you down?
I would have to say that I have probably died more to random dialog boxes opening up than anything else! Absolutely love the game but this is incredibly annoying!😑 P.S. It would also be nice to have the option to turn off headgear appearance, some of the ones with good buffs are goofy af looking🤣
I think it's so you can tell what people are doing in PvP. "Oh that's Marais, using Arcane stuff" "It's a Varre so bleed weapons" and things like that. They make weapons and armor with buffs distinctive.
I feel like the repeat bosses works in with the copy and pasted dungeons you have to explore, don’t get me wrong some are unique but others are completely undistinguishable from each other
Refreshing to see you guys speak up about some of the game's flaws, brave move considering the expected fan backlash. No game is perfect & whilst you might love it, you can't be blind to the few blemishes on an otherwise great game.
Brave sure but half of these are some deep ass pulled "flaws" half of them really can't be considered flaws lmao like people in the comments have come up with better things then they have
It's not like fans not admitting there are problems, it's just the problem doesn't worth fussing about, like it needs to be treated as a first-world problem. And I bet some of the list here already sent in feedback page since first week,,by the fans.
It is not that brave though :) I am not a fan of how these guys act like they are some kind of trailblazers in this area (you guys don't want to admit this, but there are flaws... patronizing much?). There has been a wealth of Elden Ring critique for the last month on various channels. It is actually trendy now.
Its not brave most of the hype has died so it is now safe to now point out the gigantic problems this game does have now that the rabid fan base has dissolved. Fromsoft now have our money and as someone who has been playing from-software games for ever...they are never ever going to fix any of these problems as the fan base will line up to sux they cox.
For me the biggest issues involve multiplayer. The fact that you can dodge an attack but the status effect still builds up is WILD. But that’s just one of many issues with it.
@@chrishouterman4772 I'm not saying they shouldn't improve upon things trust me this game needs alot of love if it has any hope to have even remotely any longevity and compete with Dark souls 3. But really in all honesty this is such a minor issue in the pvp side of things it's part of the combat system I have no idea how the hell you go about fixing something like that. I'm no developer but I can promise you there's so many other improvements and balancing fixes thag would inherently make shit like this far less of a threat because this game is so overturned any kidn of damage source is way too strong but something simple like reducing status buildup all round would make it far more enjoyable.
Also let's not forget you think that's fucked wait til you find out they gave people the ability to inflict poison in bloodborne by just rolling into another player and shit still works to this day.
Biggest flaw is the dungeons having so many repeatable enemies and layouts. Sure, they add a few more mechanics here and there as you get further into the game.. but it's basically the same thing over and over again.
The dungeons are the equivalent of Oblivion dungeons. Done one done them all. Really hit hard in a mine when I felt myself jumping down the sides of a mineshaft for the 5th time it was like huh i can't gush over dungeon design to friends anymore.
I think for the sheer volume of bosses and the fill of awesome bosses I can accept repeats and the lore of the game helps smooth over why certain fights are more common than others. I never minded reuse in FromSoftware games bc it helps reinforce how far you've come.
I've been exploring every inch of the world, doing every single boss, and I'm about to fight Morgott now. With 175hrs, I really don't feel like the repeat bosses is a big issue. A lot of repeats in dungeons still mix things up by either adding additional enemies, or a different damage type of that enemy, they always drop a unique item, and honestly repeats don't feel that frequent to me. For how huge the world is repeats make logical and lore sense anyways, and even so, like with godskin or crucible duos, thank the elden lord I get a chance to practice on them alone before having to do them together xD Feel like repeats is just not nearly as bad of an issue as it was in Skyrim, and I really love Skyrim too. I think it's just most people aren't actually checking out everything possible to see in this game so they aren't getting the full picture with the repeats.
I feel like it cheapens the bosses' personality and atmosphere. They used to be connected to their environment, boss arenas and specific parts of the game. Now you can find them in random copy-paste dungeons, sometimes even sooner than you get to the main boss fight. It's quantity over quality.
I actually had an easier time finding npcs because the game expects you the explore an area completely and that is what I did. They won't be absurdly far away always.
@@jakeelliott9636 I'm level 347 and the game is still fairly hard at moments with certain bosses .. there are areas where I absolutely cannot get killed like limgrave but there are areas still like caelid and the weird tornado dragon keep world can still catch me slipping
if I'm not mistaken on repeat boss fights, is that only about 10% of the bosses in the game are actually unique and only fought once. What makes this even more egregious is that even main quest boss fights are reused. Morgot, Mogh, Haroax Lou, and Estel are the main culprits but its really a bummer when you see amazing fights ligh Radahn and Melania.
Yeah, it'd be more than acceptable to have things like the Leonine Misbegotten or the Mausoleum Dogs repeated over and over again, because they're just a type of Misbegotten or a crafted necro-golem-thing. Not so much the unique bosses. Godefroy was especially galling, because it's literally just Godfrey rehashed. Even Godwyn has his shade fought first, before you actually fight him. Just so disappointing.
Honestly the overall boss count in the game is incredible and more than any other game in recent memory, so I can look past the reuse. In terms of overall enemy variety I'm over 100 hours in and still find new enemies to face every session.
This is not an issue in the slightest for those of us who have fought a boss and thought, "I would love to do that fight again without having to replay the entire game..." God, the dumb ass shit people choose to complain about is absolutely astonishing. Keep fighting the good fight fellas.. 👍😂
@@jaybro7530 The issue is that I would say that a LOT of (perhaps even most) people do NOT want to replay the same boss fight in the same playthrough. If it was a mechanic where the boss would run away after a point, then fine. But these bosses are beaten, and then just get reused. Hell I can even understand if a boss or 2 are reused once, but MANY of the bosses are reused 2, 3, 4 or even more times. TheDemodcracy made a video in which he specifically counts the number of unique bosses. These were Placidusax, Maliketh, Malenia, Radagon/Elden beast, Renala, Radhan, Rykard, Ofnir, and the Red Giant. In a game that boasts 80+ bosses, 9 being truly unique bosses, with the rest either being bosses that were reused at least once (if not 3-4 times in some instances), or just regular enemies with boss health bars, is kind of sad. I enjoyed the game but the level to which they bloated it with bosses that were simply reskins of previous bosses or regular enemies is too much for anyone to excuse or forgive.
Photo mode will never happen from From because it involves freezing the game world in place, aka pausing. That's verboten, since it messes with their design intent that the world acts around you even when you are rummaging in your inventory, or taking a squat to go pee, or whatever. If you want to walk away without risking something happening, save and quit. Similarly, the lock-on has remained as it is because of design intent; Locking on is equivalent to focusing your concentration on that one point, and that means risking blindsiding by large foes who can swing outside your peripheral view. It's the equivalent to looking both ways before crossing the road, rather than just focusing on where you're going to cross; active awareness. Elden Ring is actually much better at telling you where people are going to go to compared to, say, Dark Souls 2, for example. They generally tell you the specific zone they're travelling to, like Diallos mentioning going to Volcano Manor, or the blinded priest/oracle mentioning going beyond the Great Elevator of Rold in search of Goldmask (and his position is right beside where the map stele is, so if you miss him there, sorry, you're blind; not the game's fault). There are some quests that are a little more obscure towards the end of them, like trying to figure out Fia's location if you haven't interacted with Radahn yet, but finding Blaidd after Ranni tells you to find Nokron? When you enter Ranni's service, you are forced to speak to Blaidd, who tells you that he's still in Limgrave and Nokron lies 'at the bottom of this land", and that he plans to enter it through "the well in the Mistwood". Once you find the well in the Mistwood, which isn't that hard at all, it's pretty much a straight path right to Blaidd under the cliff that looks like it could lead to Nokron proper, to the west of the Ancestral Remains.
I like how you're presenting these to flaws as FromSoft's motto even though it's just laziness on their part. Case in point: Sekiro. Sekiro literally made both of your arguments invalid. 1. Sekiro lets you casually pause the game by going to the menu. It's likely they never had such intent in mind. But rather because it cannot pause when online (like any other online game) and they were probably too lazy to implement pause specifically for offline. 2. When locked onto a bigger enemy (like the guardian ape or the divine dragon), the camera zooms out so you can see your surrounding better).
The menus don't pause in Souls games because managing inventory is part of gameplay, and they wanted to not give players safety when adjusting gear. Adding a pause for photo mode would confer absolutely no benefit to the player and wouldn't counter the aforementioned game design philosophy, From is just lazy
@@sharif47 Sekiro isn't a Souls game. Yes, it does share some design elements with the Souls series, but it's a separate experience entirely, and their design philosophy was different with it, just as it has differed with other games, both single entities and series that they have put out before.
The lock on in Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 was the best because it was consistent and easy to understand. Sure, there were issues, but it was easier to lock back in after you disengaged the lock on, because you didn't even have to face the enemy. Therefore it was easy to work around those problems.
It May Be me, but i Guess that in DS1 in particular It was cause we didnt really have "big" bosses so the camera didnt really get messy i mean yeah, the dragon in the depths Is big but you dont really find a problem with that cause most of its attacks are slow af so you dont notice.
@@DjPerryful I replayed ds1 after beating ER, and I noticed that the camera actually zooms out a fair bit when locking on to the gaping dragon, which makes a whole lotta sense. Why doesn't ER do that lol
They really need to up their MP game. It's a cool immersive mechanic with doing all the finger stuff but aside from that I'd really like to see an update letting friends run around wherever they want, however long they want. Seriously this would fix the "people leaving the game" problem. I'm not leaving anytime soon but it sucks that my friend and I have to find another game to play together when Elden Ring is the game we want to play together.
The game could really use an in game journal to help keep track of who you have talked to and what they said. I was literally writing stuff down on a notepad while playing and eventually gave up when I accidently started the frenzied flame ending. Figured I had done stuff other NPCs didn't like before and it didn;t cause problems, and din't really understand why this decision was so much worse than the rest until someone explained some of the lore stuff. I know being vague is kind of Fromsoft's thing but it just makes me lose interest in the story, the bits they drip feed the players just aren;t interesting enough to keep digging through all the items you find for more info :/
no please stop. you have a brain. do you forget what you read in a book without having to take notes? will you forget the contents of this youtube video if you don't write it down?
It sucks that you have to preface with "it's not an attack to the game"... Criticizing this game is nearly sacrilegious as criticizing rings of power or she-hulk.
Bloody hell, I don't know how many people tried to defend the input queuing on the forums. Why getting hit doesn't interrupt your queued roll is beyond me.
you should be able to assign spells to the attack buttons (LB, LT, RB, RT) so that you can use them more dynamically when the catalyst is in your main hand. imagine how much more viable spellcasting would be if you could use it like a "moveset" on a melee weapon
That’s not a dark souls or fromsoftware game then lol, and a spells in these games are much more viable than any previous game. These spells don’t have move sets so it would make no sense to slot them like that, you can literally charge and chain cast most spells which is probably only viable having spell slots (like they have always had). They don’t just keep doing it this way because they want to, its because it works.
@@mrcupcake2139 what I meant was to slot different spells into the different attack buttons, to make movesets out of your chosen spells. just because they're more viable in ER than other fromsoft games doesn't mean they couldn't be even more viable. and I very much disagree that the need to cycle thru a carousel of spells as if they're items is what makes it a fromsoft game.
After ~400 hours of mainly PVE and some PVP, I would rank the top 3 biggest problems as such: 1. Overpowered weapons and skills, which make the game trivially easy. This is bad for the overall experience, as people are not learning how to overcome challenges anymore, which is the main thing that makes these games so enjoyable. Things like Rivers of Blood and Bloodhound's Step are also extremely detrimental to the PVP experience. 2. High damage in general, both you and late game bosses and enemies deal such absurd amounts of damage that it almost forces a big part of the playerbase to make use of broken gear like mentioned in point 1. In Dark Souls 3, a duel could easily take 2 or 3 minutes while in Elden Ring if you hit your opponent 2 times, they are dead. Damage in general needs to be tuned down by at least 30%. 3. For a lot of useful items you need ingredients that are not infinitely available in-game, or you need to painstakingly farm certain mobs for drops. Especially in PVP this severely restricts item usage. My suggestion is that most ingredients could be purchased from vendors after beating the game. I'm not willing to farm demi-humans for an hour just so I can craft 30 roped bombs.
I’m somewhat relieved to learn that I’m not the only one experiencing the stuttering gameplay at times. After overpaying for a decent GPU and CPU a while back, my buyers remorse was setting in all over again. Phew…
It was one of the biggest complaints during PC launch so you're definitely not alone. There wasn't even a reason why. It just randomly appeared on different system regardless of specs.
@@sws212 The reason: Unreal Engine, shader compilation. Either devs didn't have the time to fix foundational issues, or the publishers didn't care. But the devs knew...
Hilariously the stutter bug appeared as a result of the day one patch as reviewers said it wasn’t there until it launched Three months later it’s still there 🤔
@@Bust_A_Nut_barone of the great gods of youtube, digital foundry, over exposed this issue already. Namely, Alex, exposed various titles over the years and in most cases, lending from his expertise attributed to shader compilation. I think they are a great resource to learn about some of the known and other overlooked issues.
@Wrulol the game is made on a modified edition of Unreal 4 engine. This info is public and all over. Unreal Engine 4.27. 2 to be specific. Do you have a different source?
Right now I’m in my 5th play through of the game and It’s a masterpiece, but My biggest complaint with the game is the damage scaling at end game most bosses can one shot you if you have less than 60 VIG I think damage taken needs to be reduced at least 20 to 30 percent,
Amen to that! God, it just feels sooooo cheap at times! And I think it ruins the rythm of combat too, because in most boss fights, you spend more time running away, evading and drinking potions than actually fighting! I wish we had only 3 potions max, but that we wouldn't have to rely on them that much. To me, it's an old mechanic that needs to be reworked.
Umm, no. Please NO! I completed my 1st playthrough with level 20 VIG, and my 2nd with level 25 VIG. What can I say? I love my melee glass cannon character. Anyway, even with my low VIG, only very few of the bosses' attacks could one-shot me. They are typically huge AOE with very long charging time, and easy to dodge once I learned the timing. So yeah, IMO, the bosses' damage output is fair.
I disagree with you a little here. The scaling at end game is fine, but enemies at mid game are still too easy. I'm a FromSoft vet, but I was caught off guard by the massive difficulty spike in Mountaintop and Crumbling Farum Azula. Still a fair challenge, but everything else up to that point was far too easy.
@@AmericanRoads We've not played the same game then. If you survived any of the late game enemy (let alone boss) attacks with just 25 VIG then either you know some crazy secret or you're cheating. In any case most people aren't GODS at this game, even amongst "veterans" and NG+ exists for a reason. Dark Souls for the most part was about resources and strategy, not about restarting a fight, because you got hit once and then had to spend the next 2 minutes waiting for a window to heal if you could even survive that long. I think the game could do with a re-balancing and re-doing of the late game zones, at least Mountaintops and Farum Azula. It almost seems like they ran out of time and just cobbled something together with all the enemy assets they had. At least I don't remember a single "new" enemy after Leyendell and even THAT was just reskinned knights for the most part. For me the game stopped being unique right after reaching Altus Plateau (Mt. Gelmir not included). There's tons of repetition in it.
@@Diree I can assure you that we played the same game and no cheating is necessary. Try Ritual Shield Talisman. It boosts your defense when your HP is full. In late game zones and NG+, I also used Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman to further boost my physical defense. If I could achieve that with only 25 VIG, so can anybody else; even more so if you have 60 VIG. Capping my VIG at such a low level FORCED me to really learn the enemies' attack patterns and punish their openings, instead of mindlessly spamming jump attacks and healing.
I’m so tired of everyone needing to give their opinions a “disclaimer”, to ward off toxic fans. It should be obvious that an opinion is an opinion, and it doesn’t ruin YOUR fun if someone has a different one. Yet, I know we have to tiptoe around the internet these days. Fans are so rabidly vicious about their entertainment, as if liking a video game validates them or something.
That's exactly the feeling I get from all the "ouh, we obviously love the game of course" - like you are not allowed to have a negative opinion on a game only because it got flooded with 10/10 reviews somehow. ER definitely has its flaws and I completely agree with the list. Especially the repetitiveness of boss fights in this game is just boring plain an simple.
@@ricksanchez5794 No shade, but I think a lot of those 10/10s came from reviewers who stuck to the critical path (mostly), or had only seen the first half of a huge game. Because it is a great game, just not a perfect game, and I think the dracks don’t really appear until much later in the game. I’d give it an 8 or 9. But with all the copy/paste mini dungeons, repeat bosses, unbalanced group bosses, and the damage/health spike in the last couple areas… it’s definitely not a 10.
There's no such thing as a flawless game. Not just games, everything in the world has flaws. Only the spoiled complains about flaws that are minor and non-game breaking.
@@squidward8125 see? A spoiled one complaining about a very minor flaw in my statement. Also, 'complains' is the right wording here, so I think you should consult mr. Google or TheSaurus before you complain about something.
Exactly, I love Elden Ring but I think some people simp for it a bit much. All I need to know is that it's the most fun game I've played in years, and because of that I'm compelled to slug through some of the things that annoy me.
I bet you I'd be willing to admit a lot of things concerning these kinds of games. How many of these I list will be in the vid? Attacking through walls. Inexcusable game design. Terrain navigation issue for the fire giant fight. It would step onto the elevated sections to make fighting it impossibly difficult than needed. Invulnerability frames (I feel it's lazy game design). Damage sponge enemies. This is true lazy design. Can't make the enemies better, so just up their HP so they can stick around long enough to do something. Camera focus. Some enemies are just so big it screws with the camera trying to focus on the target (which is generally the mid point of the creature). It means the one thing this function is meant to do (keep focus on the enemy) becomes an aspect a player needs to fight with on top of everything else. Player messages attempting to block ladders. Not a problem when not under attack. Unable to co-op the game entirely without disconnection. It was advertised as a mutliplayer open world game. Because this was a lie these following points all stem from this: +Forced pvp when just wanting to play co-op. The PvP in this game detracted from the game experience. Not fun to be unable to save, or make progress because of the near constant invasions occuring each time my friend, and I switched being hosts. So many players would run off and hide behind NPCs, or attack us while we were occupied fighting a damage sponge NPC. We did on very rare occasions get some pretty nice people who would duel us one on one in an NPC free area. Those were cool, but far too rare to be worth the rest of the PvP experience. It got obnoxious to the point we'd bunker ourselves into a nice area and wait for the idiots to either disconnect or come find us to fight (which had us waiting a fair amount of time too). In few cases we'd just shut off our game, and reboot it because it would be faster to resume our co-op session. +Invisible walls during multiplayer forcing disconnects to continue. +Unable to summon friends if a main boss is defeated in an area. This required looking up a guide to avoid the boss of the boxed off region so everything else could be taken care of first co-op. There is no reason for this game rule to be in place as you could freely explore large chunks of land with friends prior to the boss battle. +Having the gather resources to summon people which is completely pointless if those resources are super easy to hoard. This is like having weapon durability when said durability never comes into effect. This doesn't promote exploration in the least. +obnoxious invasions after every reconnect with a friend. +The wait times for seeing each other in our games to be summoned sometimes took a while. More wasted time waiting...
#1 should have been "everything multiplayer about this game is 15 years old." Coop in this sucks BALLS, PvP is whatever... They have a HUGE opportunity to update the Multiplayer for this game with GOOD multiplayer, but they didn't. And while most of the other points on here ARE true... I find most of them, except for the Performance stuff and the AWFUL multiplayer to be negligible. Not even worth bothering talking about. LOL
My only thing against Elden Ring is that blue hunters can be summoned in taunter's tongue lobbies. I want to help players (who want coop but hate pvp) deal with invaders. But it's really discouraging when you look to help people like that but get summoned to a random fight club where invaders are not only more plentiful but welcomed too. I just hope there's an update that'll disable the white ring if you use the tongue
I really like being summoned to help a taunting solo host deal with invaders, it's pretty cool killing 4 invaders in a row. The blue system still needs a rework, cause right now you have such long wait times that you get summkned at the most inconvenient times
A gripe i have is that ambient music and boss music are not separate sliders in the audio settings. I loved the immersion in the previous games that came from only being able to hear your environment. On top of that, I think the ambient tracks get pretty repetitive. In the same way that the HUD drops away, I wish there was no music when it’s not necessary (any time that’s not a boss fight)
It is an interesting aspect of spell casting to optimize the placement of spells. It is not immediately obvious but some slow spells can be cast faster than normal when cast after a different spell. I haven't really tested it too much but to me it feels like casting comet after glinstone shards is quite faster than casting comet directly.
I like the fact that the game doesn't hold your hand, BUT! At the same time, the fact that (When I played the game at release the was nothing so if anything has been changed to add guidance then never mind) there is almost no guidance, is tedious. Immersion is one of the biggest things about a game but when I want to 100% the game I hate that I often have to keep google at the ready and I have to constantly alt+tab out the game to google things.
Dude that’s my main gripe about this game is how it’s impossible to play without my cell phone right there with me. It got so bad I had to keep a notepad next to me to keep notes on wtf I was doing in certain quest lines so they didn’t intersect and fuck one up… Also having no story narration sucks ass; I don’t wana have to look up a games story because they don’t tell it IN THE DAMN GAME!! Gimme at least a LITTLE exposition dammit!!!!
@@SonicBoy14 I agree, and the story that IS there is presented in Shakespearean-esque dialog which I believe must be a cheap way at disguising the lack of story, making it sound cryptic and mysterious. I love this game, one of the best ever IMO, but it definitely isn't perfect. Also about the googling that we both experienced, I literally snapped and ranted to my friend about it in discord for about an hour while we were playing. The point in videogames is to be immersed. Googling starts to make it feel like a chore instead of a form of entertainment.
I personally didn't enjoy elden ring but before anyone flames me, I did play it, all the way through, but I understand why people love this game, if you like souls minus what sekiro brought, you'll like elden ring, I however personally prefer sekiro.
To be fair though, I feel like Sekiro is more of a Tenchu game (an old samurai game series by Fromsoft) with Souls difficulty and elements sprinkled into it, but I mean hey, we like what we like right?
I feel like there's a larger issue that nobody talks about in regards to why people use Rivers of Blood and Moonveil: It's because a large portion of the things in this game have too much fucking health. There are a lot of good weapons that do good damage. Case in point I use the medium size bubble blower and I love that thing on my face build, but when you get to bosses at the end of the game like the freaking fire giant that have 45,000 health, No one's going to sit there and stab it using a sword that does like 400-700 damage of swing, especially when all the boss has to do is breathe in your general direction and you are dead. It just becomes joyless. You either miss out on fun weapons because you know they won't be good enough in the long run, or you go for the weapons that are good in the long run but then it gets repetitive. What I'm saying is that the game is a damn boss balancing update. Hell, the whole end game needs an update.
I agree. That's what makes bleed SO good in this game, the giant health bars on everything. You can spend hours getting the stones and runes to make a weapon and build you want, but then you got to fight a boss and suddenly it's going to take 15 minutes to whittle down it's health bar. Like the giant Rune bears, or the fat guys under the capital, these things have way too much health. It's a slog to fight.
The only flaw I had was bosses I don’t mind the bosses turning into mobs later in harder areas What bothers me seeing them a lot as bosses in boss arenas Like legit they made the imp boss 8 times Wtf So boring
I don't know how but I managed to only find one of them in my first playthrough. That perfectly shows how everyone can experience this game differently and give different reviews^^
@@JoGigaDump aso DOTM want them to be The idea seeing a boss in early areas be a normal non boss later pretty much shows that how some areas are for low level while in higher areas is not Like I get the idea of making the boss in one area appear in other But they did it a lot I get it if the boss in lore ain’t the only one .. makes sense since a kingdom would not make 1 species be only 1 But major bosses that were like a god .. yes let’s make it appear multiple times
great game but bad boss variety and broken weapons making the game less fun. also after the capital you're basically forced to use an OP weapon or weapon art because the bosses are too fast and strong to beat with regular mechanics
I'd say one of *my* biggest problems with the game is the lopsided stat comparison; you can compare the stats of different unequipped *weapons* to those of the weapons you have equipped, but the same can't be said of *armor* . It makes REALLY hard to avoid buying armor that turns out to be WORSE than what you have equipped already that you essentially got for *free* .
@@maybeiamepic2263 like when I saw plate armor in a shop in the Roundtable Hold, I had to keep switching between "selling" my equipment (selling in quotes because I had no intention of doing that, and the purchase menu *just* to compare the plate armor's stats to what I already had equipped to see if it was better (and by extension, worth spending all my hard earned runes on); that wasn't the case with the *weapons* though.
@@ezrafaulk3076 well the problem is you think Amor matters when it doesn't like amor is just for aesthetic in Souls games it doesn't matter to compare stats because it won't help anyways
My only issue is how late game you lose a lot of the thrill and excitement. Without the exploration element it just becomes any standard from soft game and that’s when it’s incredible atmosphere just becomes meh.
I wish the coop multiplayer was drop in/out. Would love to seamlessly play start to finish with a friend. Also really don't like that you lose the shop bells on starting ng+, especially for smithing stones.
LukeYui released a seamless coop mod (for PC) the other day. It’s fantastic, and it works really well for being in beta. I’d recommend it for MP. Nexus Mods.
@@garlicgh0st I looked a few days ago but I couldn't find anything other than the mod for PC. It would be awesome if Fromsoft makes an update but I don't really expect it to happen
I actually appreciated the repeat bosses part, since elden ring is a hard game it gives you good insight on how strong you´ve gotten from the first time you fought them.
Other than godrick and godefroy I don’t think repeat bosses are a bad thing. Like, it would be weird af in a whole open world to only have 1 godskin apostle or 1 tree sentinel or 1 nights cavalry. Like a whole army of knights and you only see and fight one of them? That’s bs
the interface i hate is not the Torrent revival, but the item interface when we pick up an item from a gathering spot, it still pops up even though we already knew about that item (i.e. not a new item).
Personally really like that enemy. But I mean do you really think it would make sense that only 1 guardian to the tree would exist? It's kinda canon for there to be several. And considering they drop the items to lvl up your estus flask, shouldn't you be happy you know how to deal with the enemy rather than having to learn a whole new move set each time?
I imagine the only reason they don't give a photo mode is because it could potentially be used to see things like secrets or other stuff the devs just don't want you to see for one reason or another
They had one in demons souls and because of it players found a secret armor set that led to a several month reddit excavation on how to unlock the door it was pretty interesting
@@thelostmetaphorz5211 You mean the remake ? That was made by Bluepoint and not FromSoft, thats why that game has a photo mode and runs at 60 fps cough cough....bloodborne (favorite game btw from the franchise).
It runs fairly well on the ps5. I haven't had any problems yet... The only con that I really have is I wish that there was an icon letting you know that you have completely completed a dungeon. IOW when you get every main item and defeat the boss it should display "cleared or complete." So that way when you hover over the icon on your map, then you know that dungeon is completely done. Excluding crafting items, like cave moss, mushrooms, etc... Skyrim did this as well. It displayed "cleared" when you completed the dungeon. Basically so you don't waste time on going back and trying to remember if you got all the items from that dungeon.
I played & beat all of the Dark Souls games and compared to those, Elden Ring kinda has um... a "boss balance" problem. It was for the most part not the issue in DS, but in Elden Ring it seems like there are bosses that: Move fast, attack fast, deal a lot of damage fast & are tanky on top (bullet sponge effect). It is fair if the boss has a lot of HP, but has slow animations to compensate. But not if a boss has it all (not just the final boss, even the lesser ones often have something like this). I guess it is because Elden Ring is open world (instead of linear like DS games). So it is made to kinda "Force" player to go somewhere else & level up a bit. Still, a bit annoying that I can not "clear the map" fully, and have to go somewhere else to level up. After a while It is hard to memorize what stuff was not cleared.
I have the same problem as you my friend 😀 When I started to use markers at places that still had the boss left it became way easier to find them again.
I think if FromSoft really wants to make OP weapons in the game, the best way to do it would be to have equally OP weapons for different builds so you have people trying new strategies rather than everyone rocking a blood build.
They have OP weapons because people complain the game is too hard, so they make a weapon that can carry those players... and players still complain. It's an RPG you can make it whatever you want.
The thing is by virtue of being videogame something will always be a dominant strategy in PvP there's nothing Fromsoft can really do and honestly PvP being something you can't opt out of entirely balancing anything around it is kind of a mistake to a degree there are reasons to do it but I don't think what your proposing is a reason. And for just the act of playing Elden Ring yah you don't have to use the strongest thing in the game to beat it
@@addex1236 All they'd need to do is increase blood resistance while in pvp combat. It would still let people beat the game with their spams while making it less annoying to the pvp community.
Not just locking onto large enemies, but also fighting against multiple enemies. Easy to lose sight of the ones you are not locked onto. Could really use a free camera mode, just letting the player character always face the camera direction (maybe except for sprinting) will do a lot of good. The player can aim the camera to keep things in view and attack/guard/dodge in most directions.
to be fair, that's already part of the game... it's called not-being-in-lock-on. You can aim your spells on free camera mode. Unless you mean like old games where you could be in lock on but still change attack direction
A lot of these could be solved with on/off setting options. Like turning on a switch that auto selects yes to use a flask to re-summon torrent, or messages that disappear after a set time. If crossplay was a thing you could restrict it to the platform you play on or allow for all. I’m sure there’s something you do with the npc quests as well. Perhaps a magic/tool system like Nioh 2 had would have been better. I really appreciate Horizon FW allowing for auto run. Best game setting ever.
I’d say the biggest problem isn’t just the boss repeats, but the design philosophy of bosses in this game. Many are hard with gimmicks added on top rather than being one or the other to add artificial difficulty
Ehh I disagree. I'd rather say the duo bosses are jackshit but aside from Malenia and Maliketh none really have such mechanics. And even then maliketh's health reduce only happens on a few easy to dodge projectiles and malenia's healing only makes it a bigger endurance fight(fuck waterfowl tho).
There is also a problem with torrent's double jump for example sometimes when you do the jump its like hitting an invisible wall and you'll stop med jump.
I had some pretty atrocious screen tearing when I first started the game on PC about a month ago. I was really considering just setting it aside for a while and letting them sort it out before returning to it but I got sucked in so quickly that I just decided to keep playing. Once I was about 50 hours in, I kind of randomly noticed that the screen wasn't tearing or stuttering anymore. I think I just sort of got used to it and tuned it out, only to notice later that it wasn't happening anymore. Now, the stutter is virtually non-existent. I'll still experience some brief slowdown, particularly when the weather effects are really going crazy but its very minor. All in all, I think they really buttoned up the PC port rather quickly, all things considered. Performance for me has been pretty damn good, especially considering some of the experiences I've had with other recent games/ports.
I always hear people say the PC performance is terrible even on their $5000 gaming rigs. Meanwhile I play the game on a Lenovo Ideapad 3i gaming laptop and I very rarely get any noticeable lag. Maybe it's just people who refuse to play anything less than 4k 60fps? I've never messed with the graphics settings either, they're exactly where the game decided to set them.
I feel like the skill ceiling good be way higher. I know that these suggestions are NOT “soul-like” the gamification of Souls games is the art….blah…blah. I get it. 1. Allowing cancelling 2. Not taking control away from the player. I am not talking about being knocked down, I am talking when you run out flasks and the character just scratches their head, preventing me as the player from continuing. At level 120 my character has used the flask thousands of times it doesn’t make narrative sense. He shouldn’t be wondering what is going on. I as the player should be able to cancel that animation and continue, now knowing I am out of flasks. The punishment is already baked in, I thought I had a heal, I don’t have a heal, I mis-calculated my heals, I am fucked. I can after all waste a charge when the flask is full by rolling.
#6, that's why you toggle aim lock. I hold my controller with a claw grip, specifically so I can always do that, and so I can turn and run and the same time. The amount of times this comes in handy is nuts, and I had several people come in my chat asking me how I was doing some stuff. Lol. 5. They make the lore and quests like they are, intentionally. And they don't care if players don't see everything.
My biggest problem with the game is the "stone sword key has been lost with use" message not letting me attack or heal
Press a or x depending oh which console, found this out a last week 🤝
You literally just press a button to get out ot it why do so many people complain about this? Lol like you cant press a button before pressing another? After it happens once the problem is solved unless you're an idiot.
Agreed! Or any dialogue/info box that pops up during a fight is annoying!
Any pop message tbh, the amount of times I've died because I get a pop up and press the wrong button cause I'm not expecting it.
i hate that its so pointless to keep it up more than a couple seconds
“I wouldn’t press square to summon torrent if I didn’t want to revive him dammit!”
*gets crushed by fire giant*
I mean his statement is kinda true. You can summon torrent once before it uses a flask. I had a moment in a fight where torrent died, I revived him, he died again and I tried to revive him again which I did but didn't realize that in my panic I just instinctively clicked yes for the prompt and used my last flask to get him back. I ended up getting smacked again and dying. When I could have at least had a chance or even beat the boss with that last flask. I think this is one of the exact examples the devs thought would happen. I'd rather get fucked a few times because I'm trying to read a prompt rather than just accidentally spam through a prompt and not read it. And if say the devs agree as well. I mean the name of the game is Pain, what else are you expecting from it? 🥲
@@noahedwards3090 fully agree! A simple off/on switch in the settings would solve the division in the fans
Fire giant got that strong people's elbow ngl, he oneshotted me at 50 vigor.
For any mages who don't know about this, make sure your favorite/bread and butter spell is the first one memorized. If you hold the cycle magic button for a second, it will instantly go back to slot one. It's not a big fix for cycling magic, but it can get you back to that spell quicker
Glinstone pebble? Its literally the best spell in the whole game lol
@@newt2120 unless you're a faith build lol. My lightning paladin had the basic lightning bolt there. Quick to get back and Zeus a baddie when needed lol
Wow had no idea
@@newt2120 The first two hours of playing, yeah. By the end of the game you'll use comet, which is like... a very big glinstone pebble. Or night comet, which is like a glinstone pebble which doesn't trigger evade animations on enemies.
Yeah and put your FP flask on one of your dpad quick slots
One of my biggest annoyances in the game so far is the messages that pop up when you open doors. They don't go away until you hit y but it doesn't prompt you to do it so if you are being attacked whem you open the door and run through to try and heal it wont because the message is still there.
That might be one of the worse things in the game.
I agree
Yes! I'm shocked this isn't on the list! This is really my No 1 and it's even worse in coop because say I open a door then everyone get's that message even people who are in battle... the only fix is to yell "PRESS Y" (on Xbox) to your friends anytime you open a door 😂
Yup
yep and switches
I feel like if you truly love a game you can see its flaws without being blinded by fanboy syndrome, I was happy to see this list.
Honestly, it's a shame we've gotten to this point at all where people feel like they are required to preface legitimate criticism with a disclaimer about how great the game is before they are allowed to have an opinion on it. It seems like an obvious symptom that state of discourse around the game has some fundamental problems.
ill always be glad my favorite game of all time is kingdom hearts 1. Its genuinely impossible to ignore the flaws in that game. Makes it easier to adopt this mindset for other games.
@Private117 Love Souls borne and Sekiro they are master pieces in their own ways. Don't let those idiots keep you from enjoying great games.
Cyberscam was trash and no one wants to admit it but elden ring was a masterpiece and everyone seems like they wanna pick it apart. These are definitely not game breaking issues
@@hansomesolo1136 Exactly, specially after the shit show releases we have seen in the past with other games.
And totally, the annoying dialog boxes that locked you out of your attack controls. So many times, there was so much going on, I didn't even realize there was a dialog box open, and I'm screaming at the screen because my character is not doing anything but running around getting the crap kicked out of him..
They could totally just let you do normal actions and have the dialog box naturally disappear after 5 seconds. But no, they had to let you do an extra button input. Seriously why do I even need to be reminded that "a door opened *somewhere*" when I just pulled a lever?
@@michaelp4387 For sure! So annoying!!!
BIG correction here: it's not the invaders that are AFK farmers, it's the HOSTS, they use the invader's taunt item to draw them in, and use the summon blues to fight invader's item to have them fight endlessly, also they use the horse to get to unreachable places before doing these, something invaders don't have
I just don’t play the multiplayer, so much better that way
I was hoping someone would say this. This is a big problem that needs addressing asap. There are so many ways to quickly and easily farm tons of runes so just don’t be that coward that hides and then draw invaders.
Thanks man I literally paused the video and looked for this type of comment lol
Dang of course IGN but now Gameranx is dropping the misinformation
yeah, had one yesterday. the fucker hid on top of the bridge at Raya Lucaria and all the summons spawned down in the swamp area.
in the end i just chilled around smacked some blues until a dumbass red came and spammed Dragon Breath
The lock-on issue in my eyes is that with large enemies the camera should zoom out, which would also make these fights more epic, but would give you a grasp of what's happening in the fight. That would be the solution the way i see it.
They even did it in DS3 so it wouldn’t be too difficult to implement
The camera is adjusting a bit but not much. I think it's hard to balance this cause it would affect gameplay. I don't think it would be that comfortable if you go into a boss that is Hugh and you zoom out insanely far ... Also this would break the illusion of it being big and powefull at some degree.
@@RedjieTV I don't think it would break the illusion, quite the opposite. I wanna see the beautiful animations and scale ratio compared to my character, but most of the time I'm just staring at their feet and only imagining what's going on above. I'm not saying they should turn it into God of War, but I wanna fight the boss, not the camera
fire giant aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuughhh
They just wanna shove the biggest fucking bosses in the smallest of arenas
A good quality-of-life change would be if you could interact with ladders/chests/etc while crouching. It's just a wee bit annoying, sometimes dangerous if you accidentally crouch in combat, still a great game.
3:05 this is the other way around, it's the HOSTS that are afk farming, if an invader enters a game he gets nothing if the host disconects. The actual thing that happens is hosts hide in places that aren't accessible without a horse, and since horse is not available in MP, invaders can do nothing but leave.
glad someone spotted this out it really pissed me off when he said it was the other way around
@@surrealsalamander1384 yeah it's kinda bad since the invasion mechanic is already frowned upon by some people, misinformation like this could make it worse (and very anoying) with the new players that are just getting into souls games.
yea that was very unprofessional and shows they don't even know what they're talking about. like there's no bloody point for the invader to hide and remain AFK if that's the case then that makes 0 difference for the host whether there's an invader or not. also "Attacking through walls" (proceeds to show a clip of the old destructable wall thingy) and "shooting from range" bruh wtf are they even on about?
@@artorias7588 chill out dude, nobody *really* cares
what do the host gain though, what is he farming?
I'd really like to be able to open my map even in combat. Not fast travel in combat just be able to see the map as I try to flee a Runebear.
Agreed. Theres no reason you shouldnt be able to at least look at your map. Some times you'll spend thirty seconds travelling in the wrong direction just to de-agro an enemy you cant even see. They even have a map mode (like when in dungeons) that locks you out of fast travel. Just do the same thing.
my least favorite feature of elden ring is the input reading bosses have. This is when the AI waits for an input and generates a response. Its particularly egregious in the godskin duo fight but can also be seen in morgot and godfrey. I also don't like that they strayed away from a more combo based fighting style to a more random-chaotic style with the bosses attacks. DS3 in my opinion has far better boss fight design by a decent margin.
This and the Bosses tend to spam or truecombo you a lot more than in other games. Mohg for example likes to spam his thrust attack multiple times in a row even though he just knocked you down with it and his overhead can hit you at any place in the arena if he's in the center because of its bullshit range.
Also DS3 managed to make dual bosses a lot more fun to play than Elden Ring. Fighting the two Gargoyles is nothing else than a pain because they permanently jump out of range, attack while moving and even if you finally are in range there is a chance your swing misses because of their high hitbox. On top of that all of their attacks are aoe with bullshit range and speed and they can carpet bomb you with contact damaging poison through the entire arena. Elfriede and Ariandel were a hard but really cool and manageable bossfight with almost any playstyle. Demonprince was really tough in phase one but gave you enough space and different states to keep the fight dynamic while also giving you a chance to fight them one on one. These guys are just all of From Softs bullshit combined in a boring and purely annoying gank boss.
Their original version from DS1 was not that easy, but it was an even fight with fair range and speed and you could summon Solare to help you out and basically beat the boss for you. In Elden Ring at least with ashes and NPC summons you just get fucked even harder and it barely does any good for you.
Facts. I find it more fun to go through DS3 bosses than Elden Ring.... Though Malenia boss fight is the best for me in Elden Ring.
@@prime1773 There are some really good bosses, but also an insane amount of bullshit that you wouldn't find in the older games.
The fact that you couldn’t read boss attack patterns doesn’t mean they weren’t there lol
@@leotox6423 That is because Elden Ring is open world and 50x the size of the older games
the biggest problems are attacks that can only be dodged by predicting they would happen 10 seconds prior, and input reading being way too ridiculous since bosses will just stare at you until you press a button sometimes.
I've got 3 pretty annoying gripes. 1st is the lack of tracking in your attacks. Bosses will track you to the top of the great erdtree with ease but if an enemy is slightly elevated because of hilly terrain my attack is going right into the ground and god forbid they slightly side step during a jump attack, lol. Also the outrageous amount of time you spend on the ground after getting knocked down. I can take hits from demi gods but if you knock me off my horse I'm seemingly going to need to sleep it off for a minute. Last but not least, enemies can attack through anything, be it wall or ground, but if my attack glances a tombstone it's done for.
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Im with you bro
Facts
you can attack through objects with jump attacks.
yeah... rules only apply for players, bosses are exempted
For number 5 they didn’t just “add markers to show npcs” they added markers to “found npcs.” This means you have to be within a certain distance of them, or have talked to them at that location for them to show up. If they move their marker will vanish and will only show up when you find/get near them in their new location. It just saves players having to waste limited markers on npcs
The number one offender for this is Diallos. He stands on a random building rooftop in the Raya Lucaria village that's so easily missable. Nowhere does he mention the location in his dialogue, he's just placed in a random spot on the map. Nothing about his story or dialogue points to that random ass rooftop in that location.
Honestly, I feel like the game was designed to be played with Google open on the second monitor.
"I don't like when games hold my hand!" *has Google opened up to show them where to go next, then gets called out for it and panic responds* "well it builds an amazing community to figure all this out."
@@mutt-the-barbarian most, if not all, npcs don't explain to you through dialogue what the next step in their storyline is. Diallos doesn't mention the Raya Lucaria Town, Fia doesn't tell you who to give the dagger to, Dung Eater just talks crazy... it's one thing to drop a logical hint, it's another to hand-hold.
Cause the game is poorly designed and requires a wiki open 24/7.
All it has going for it is the combat, which is clunky at times due to the input lag and buffering.
@@TheLux008 oh you don't have to tell me, and it hurts the game in more ways too, not only is it going to be logically frustrating to the average player that I'd objectively classify it as bad game design. But the npc's and story feel so shallow. They're barely even characters, they're just Easter eggs. There's no emotional investment, like who gives a damn that Diallos servant was murdered? Literally most of the so called depth comes from people watching TH-cam videos that amount to fanfiction then claim it as gospel.
It does seem like often times From Software games get free passes on rushed or poor game design/balancing in the name of, "oh they meant to do that, it's supposed to be a challenge, this sort of game must not be for you." With Elden Ring it felt like this to the extreme because of how much insane hype there was, it just had to do nothing horrendously bad, and the community would make it a 10/10, even though due to certain design decisions it could be argued to be an 8 or 9.
Yes I never get that, but it's not just From Software, it's gaming in general now. When The Last Of Us II was released, so many people were either giving the game a 10/10 or a 0/10, although is was honestly a solid 8 or something like that. So called Journalists do that for gods sake... I love Elden Ring and its probably my GOTY, only contender might be GoW Ragnarok, but it was not perfect. A 9/10 for me.
There is no „perfect“ game. No game deserves a 10/10 if only perfect games should have ...For many Elden Ring is simply one of the greatest games ever made regardless of certain design choices etc.
@@sirdidimus23 Exactly. Even look at the Cloud services like GFN or Stadia. A lot of people absolutely hate them, which is fine, but then you see people make shit up abou them. I couldn't understand it. Going to effort to not only hate a product that you don't have to use but to then use more energy to lie about it.
This. So many issues get hand waved away because “it’s a souls game” and it pisses me off.
@@multivact3729 I mean, a 10/10 game is a game where the creator did exactly what he intended, like, Pong lol
None of these really bother me as much as the magic selection option. If only I could cast different spells with ease like ofnir it would make mage builds feel so much more dynamic
Yea...they kinda did that on purpose. I mean a Gideon Ofnir with brains would be pretty overpowered.
It does suck having to cycle through a bunch of spells only to miss the one you want and have to mash on the D-pad to get back to it. A spell wheel would have been nice... like the option to hold UP on the D-pad to trigger a spell wheel and then just flick the right joystick in a direction.
@@oppos727 they haven't changed the UI since Demon's Souls
how about hit box or whatever its called? I honestly do not like this game at all, I dont get what is good about it and regret buying it, but I will not go into that, but even if you like the game, there is no way you disagree with me how annoying it is to go near the enemy, and I mean near that you basically making out with him at that point, swing your axe or whatever, and miss him. Enemies hit u even if you are 2 meters away from their hit animation, I guess hit force hits you, but when you swinging a weapon, half the time you are hitting the air. Like seriously, this stupid game wouldnt be that gloriously hard if it had tolerable combat hitting.
@@abyssawalker true but with how fast physical attacks are and how quickly bleed etc. can proc I think it might make things a bit more balanced. Being a mage kinda stinks because the casting time is so slow you literally have to be a good distance away just to get the spell off which in turn usually makes me put my staff away and rush in two handing my sword in serious combat situations. Idk just feels like mage builds could be a little better. but ofnir levels would be silly admittedly.
One of my biggest problem with the game so far is the way that lock on works. I can be in the most intense 1v1 fight and then i lock on to an enemy that is miles away at random.
YES. I don't ever see anyone else talking about it and even here, I'm the first person to reply. Ffs man
I totally agree, why would the game switch lock target in the middle of a fight? Especially fast moving small creatures can often steal the lock and make you swing and miss your primary target.
Also, whoever at FromSoftware thinks that failing to lock on an enemy should result in the camera making a 180 turn… come on man. That was in every souls game I played and it sucks so much
this would be so less nerve wrecking if you auto lock on the neeearest enemy, not the 2 pixels and 10 miles away enemy. this system is a bit fiddling
It locks on to the dragonfly instead of the damn dragon.
I love this game (~240 hours and I still haven't finished it, but I love exploring and this game is great for that), but that's a solid list. For me, the biggest single issue is the camera and how it intersects with the lock on system. I'm not great at these kind of games (this is the first Soulslike I've ever gotten really stuck into, because of the aforementioned exploration) so I die a lot, but I swear 1/4 to 1/3 of those deaths are because of camera/TL shenanigans. Things like either being unable to lock on to an enemy because of something like skinny little tree in between us, or not locking onto the giant field boss that's right in front of me and instead looking onto some trash mob 100m in the distance, or not locking on at all because...reasons? It's infuriating sometimes, but the game is so good I can deal with it, I just wish I didn't have to.
Second is the spell selection thing mentioned in the video. I've settled into a dex/fth build, full Godslayer mode 'cause it's a fun hybrid style, but man, cycling spells is a PITA. Why don't we get a "spell wheel" sort of thing? Crazy.
Third is the quests. I *do not* want a bunch of glowy markers in the distance, but as someone with a crappy memory I think an in game log of NPCs you've met and their conversations would be really nice. That would only give you access to information you've already learned, so I don't think it'd be any kind of difficulty nerf. That's the main thing I've had to use the wiki for...along with "shopping" for gear, heh. ;)
but is it as bad as Ocarina of time camera 😂✌️
240 hours and haven’t beat it? How is this even possible? There’s is not that much content in the game, wtf are you doing
@@Nonlethal106 Exploring everything without using a guide. (I'm at almost 90 hours and haven't even really made it far into the Altus Plateau.) There is NO WAY anyone got a platinum trophy or all achievements without using a guide.
Anyone that says otherwise deserves the, "Liar ahead" message. There are still people like us that like to enjoy and explore a game. Not just use dozens of guides and try to brag on any and every type of forum.
@@alexsmith6914 I get what your saying, however the focus isn’t so much on achievements or guides. If you were to say you have 240 hours played and your currently in new game+ or have beaten game and now trying to 100% without a guide then that makes sense. I beat the game and have 68 hours playtime and I’m not good by any means; play causal, take my time exploring,side quests, etc. But 240 hours and haven’t beaten the game is troubling lol
@@Nonlethal106 If you beat the game in 68 hours, you definitely didn't come close to doing and exploring everything. (Or as much as possible) You may have followed, "the path" with a grave or cave here and there.
Even trying to figure out what to do for Ranni's quest was a chore and I destroyed my chance at completing Nepheli's quest while in the middle of Ranni's quest. (While people are out there saying, "I completed all NPC quests and they were all easy!" Yeah... They just, "magically knew all the right choices and where to go," right?
Running outlines of terrain, beaches and wide open areas takes time. There is also no type of grid on the map to keep notes on areas explored. I find myself still finding items in areas I thought I fully explored from circling outward from graces.
It's pretty reasonable to be systematic if we want to do and see as much as possible. That all takes time.
My biggest gripe with Elden ring is the lack of enemy variation. In other souls games, practically each and every new area had new enemies to match. In elden ring, so many of the same enemies and similar enemies just slightly modified, are re used through out the whole game
Well with 175hrs of exploring every inch of the world and not done yet, I don't really agree. I've been finding a larger variety of enemy types than any other souls game.
@@SplittingProductions Why are there so many re-used bosses then? Why does every single soldier in each area look the same with minor tweaks? They re-use enemies and bosses all over the game. You can't tell me they don't
@@shanelovelace5636 At no point was I denying they reuse enemies. You claimed this game lacks enemy variety. The game is so freakin huge that with those 175 hrs I haven't even seen it all yet. To expect absolutely nno reused enemies at all is ridiculous. Though variety most certainly exists. And as for the why, lore wise, would it even make sense to only have 1 guardian for all the smaller erdtrees? Or have only 1 crucible knight in all of the service? I mean ever played Skyrim? That was definately far worse than this game in terms of reused enemeis. It was basically will this dungeon be drauger, falmer, or dwemer? And yet that game is one of the best. There is definately a highly impressive amount of variety available in this game should you explore it more, regardless of there being repeats.
@@SplittingProductions which is exactly correct unfortunately. The game is huge, so no I don't expect a ridiculous amount of variation. But I would have definitely wanted more variation in the bosses. Game is still amazing, but I don't need to fight 5 ulcerated tree spirits lol
@@shanelovelace5636 Maybe you'll hate me, but I love the tree spirits xD
Idk, I think it's just the fact that this is open world where the past games have been linear so it's just how the genre works.
But at the end of the day, I hope you still have fun! Praise the sun!...I mean tree!
As a melee character, my biggest gripe was the targeting system, for sure. It was especially frustrating to target large boss-like foes... because the camera can't handle it if the limb or body part you are targeting moves in front of you and behind you in a second, rapidly flipping the camera 180 degrees in the process... changing which direction is forward, etc. Target a dragon's head for an attack, and you'll quickly find the camera just nonstop spinning wildly. People say "oh... don't target bosses" but equipment doesn't work... say... shields... if you aren't just about perfectly facing the foe you are using it against. You are forced to lock, drop target, lock, drop target, and that in itself can be really hit or miss.
Also... with a boss like the gargoyles... the lowest place they can be targeted is their upper abdomen/chest. Your weapon doesn't even reach that high. I need to hit the boss in the legs, and in order to do so, i need to swing at his chest, and hope that the legs are between me and my target. its just bad design, and was clearly only tested with caster builds.
Fighting the ancient dragons is an absolute nightmare, too. (where nothing you can target can be hit with a melee weapon) put a target in the legs for the love of god.
Yes, I found that it's so much easier without lock-on when fighting large enemies
The worst part about melee classes is their borderline useless skill in combat. Just comes off as lazy that enemies can throw out three, four or even five hit combos while the player is forced to flail around like their character learned their attack techniques from the Star Wars sequel trilogy
My target usually switches to the least threatening enemy half a block away when I'm in the middle of a field boss fight.
Fighting the freaking fire giant is annoyingggggg because of the camera
I accidently complete the game with ranni's ending on my first run through. after looking it up later on I found out how intricate it was and Im confused on how I managed it
i did so much to try to get the lord of frenzied flame ending, even getting naked in front of the stone door, which is supposed to lock you out of other endings. beat the final boss and walk up to the last bonfire thing to find ranni there as the only option. i picked her ending, and i have no idea how it was even possible.
@@TakeJanner maybe you reversed the flame ending doing the needle thing
Same dude same
It’s really not that intricate lol. Just go wherever they send you.
@test_cles hurt you needed to look it up XD lmao
The most hated thing for me is the lock on switch on a animal during a fight against a boss
you can turn that off
Gotta be honest here, never happened to me, must've been extremely lucky the whole game but i've heard that complain a lot so idk
Ya, The Surge did that WAY BETTER. And had an actual proper PC interface port.
@@ZatoichiBattousai surge trash tho
@@mryupjup2203 whatever dude, that's like, just your opinion
Am the only one who find the map incredibly hard to see sometimes like especially in the capital city, who thought a yellow cursor for your character was a good idea?
Would’ve been a good idea if they made it so it kind of glistened and shimmered, like Grace does anyway. I mean you are a Tarnished following sites of Greece so wouldn’t it make sense for your character to be glowing?
Also if they made the map in high definition. It's so blurry!
Have you considered using the quick grace menu?
I love this game but One problem I have is that a lot of mini bosses are random mob enemies you can find anywhere else in the world for example two caves where the boss is cleanrot knights in short quantity of quality also looting could be slightly better For example I don’t want to spend 2 hours in a dungeon only to be rewarded by an arteria leaf or some other material unless it’s an ancient dragon smithing stone
Yeah and when it came out they were hyping up the 80+ bosses and the "main bosses being a relative few" but by the end of playing it it's mostly all you remember of being novel exciting experiences
@@ash20453 Literally can't take another Godskin, Erdtree Avatar, or Snake Tree Monster thingy ... I love the game, it's easily one of the best ever made, despite the various issues, but quantity over quality IS my biggest criticism. That goes for the "normal" enemies as well. In pretty much all other DS games you had unique areas with unique enemies only found in those areas. In ER you fight the same enemies in pretty much every area with some noticeable exceptions, like the T-Rex dogs, but there's knights, rot maggots, dogs, giants/trolls everywhere. My biggest gripe is Farum Azula here. Such an interesting zone with THE most boring enemy design.
2 hours in a dungeon?? Damn u must be checking everything in there.
sucks
I never once spent 2 hours in a dungeon and had a loot that wasn’t rewarding.
Biggest issue i have is connectivity issues, me and my friends play every single souls game together as a trio, but when the game disconnects us constantly or can't summon it all, it becomes what we spend the most time dealing with and it can be very frustrating.
try the seamless co op mod. it's amazing and almost feels like a whole new game
I agree with #1 for sure! The repeat boss thing is annoying and confusing as hell. Because I killed Mohg at the bottom of the sewer. A month later, I looked at my missing trophies, it said I didn't get it. I went back to the sewer, saw he was dead and wondered why I didn't get the trophy for it. I later learned that he was the wrong Mohg 😡
At least this helped me discover an entirely new area. Still though, this is very off-putting to say the least. I love the game but the repeat bosses remind me of DS1 with the repeat Taurus Demons and Asylum Demons. And not in a good way
I love Elden Ring. Played through 10+ times with multiple characters. I've took a break from the game though , went back to diablo 2 to try and get my hardcore character to 99. My only issue with Elden Ring is waiting for a dlc to be announced. New bosses , new areas , new weapons & more rage quits. I know that game is recent but still , I'd love an update on future dlc.
👍🏼👌🏼
Basically “my only problem with the game is that I want more game” this is not a complaint, nor is it a problem with Elden ring. The only “problem” here is how much free time you have 💀
Who has this much free time? Are you 10 years old?
@@beemelonhead1 close to 40 years old. Yeah it took quite a while to finish first playthrough with all dungeons / caves but after that , you can speed through pretty damn fast to endgame.
You could say the same about Diablo 2.
Another thing is when you and your friend are trying to play and u die they have to leave and do it all over again, or when ur trying to play with your friend and some random guy joins and screws u because they beat the game. I also wish the had a set quest line for players that never played before. Ik not every game is perfect but i feel like that would be a major positive or an option for people like me who never played a souls game before.
One thing about elden ring is it's more forgiving with quest chains. You can miss some slight steps but still complete the quests unlike other souls games.
I think i missed minimum 50% of the quests with npcs just disappearing or unknowingly doing something that ends other quests
A quest book would be so helpful, instead of Googling everything
Probably because the quests are so poorly designed you have no clue what's happening.
Yeah, quests honestly suck in Elden Ring, and they don't deserve praise for them. This is NOT something I want other open world games to emulate.
I'm not saying we need to keep the "Ubisoft Formula," but something as simple as a journal that records all the NPC conversations you've had so far would go a LONG way in making quests easier to complete!
@@Joel82 yeah that annoyed me sk hard, I don't want to miss these great quests
#1 for sure! When you go through a fog gate that feeling of wonder is at it's peak and in elden ring a lot of the time it just ends up in "oh this guy again". You fight the godskin boys each three times before they show up as a duo, with little to no change in their moveset.
agreed, idk what the conversation in the FS conference room was like on that one... dumb lol
@@brightnight8831 guys what did they love about the souls games.
Hey I know they loved all the repeat bosses remember how happy they were to fight asylum demon 3 times or smelter demon 2 times?
Omg you're right genius idea.
probably went something like that.
@@AH-vm8yo in ds1, at least it felt like there was some lore reasons for the repeated demon bosses/enemies. ER just felt more like copy/paste for no real reason
The biggest issue my friends and I have is co-op. Through our testing, it seems that certain site of grace/location are broken. The server is another issue. This is a great game, but playing with friends required a PhD in Computer Science.
LukeYui released a seamless coop mod (for PC) the other day. It’s fantastic, and it works really well for being in beta. I’d recommend it for MP. Nexus Mods.
@@snarkwave Glad to hear that someone is having success with it. Elden Ring is my first FromSoft game and though I did beat Margit. . . I just wasn't able to progress even against the regular mobs in the area (I'm terrible with pattern recognition). After a 2-3 hour session where I literally didn't progress at all I had to put it away for a while. With this mod (hopefully working well) I'll be able to play with my fiance like I had originally wanted in the first place.
You don't need a PhD in computer science to have notice how poorly it performed on a technical level on all platforms. The frame rate fluctuations and pop in on ps5 and series x were rough. What annoyed me was all the review outlets that had faulted other titles for far less but gave ER a pass. That and the fan base that refused to admit the issues existed despite the developers themselves issuing statements stating they were working to address the issues.
If your on pc they got a mod that makes it real co op and not the dumb vanilla system
Try seamless coop, really good mod for that
I despise getting stuck on every gravestone, tree, pole, twig leaf etc. I wish when dodging, there was a bumper effect on the surrounding obstacles, so I can maneuver around them a bit better. Fighting for 5 straight minutes just to get killed because you rolled into a post, is so infuriating.
The rage almost took me over yesterday from this
Though frustrating it's not a valid gripe of game design. It's on you, the player, to have better situational awareness. Pay better attention to your surroundings. The alternative makes no sense, which is to either remove most or all of the environmental objects or remove the collision of those objects, which we all know people would complain over. Your suggestion to change how the collision works is bad too. You want coders to waste time and resources changing collision properties because you can't pay attention to your surroundings in a fight... it's assanign.
Sorry, but i believe bad ideas should be criticized.
I think it's annoying to get stuck on game geometry too, but the solution is to be more aware while in battle, not to criticize game design dude. Try and look at it from another perspective mang, that's all I'm saying.
@@masterninja1667 ummmm ok? U really took that one in the feels. Wasn’t a matter of “wanting coders to waste time” It was just an opinion that I have. Sorry that my sharing, is so “wrong” “bad” “criticizing”. I’ll be sure to be extremely well thought out, in my next TH-cam comment lol. P.S: the correct spelling is asinine ;)
@@casino9240 ass is a nine
Yeah it sucks but the name of the game is Pain.
You can hold down “Up” on the D-pad and it will reset to the first spell in the list. Same with potions and the “down” key on d-pad.
One of the most annoying things about gaming is that whenever a game is popular especially when it hits the mainstream is that there's a massive cult mentality for everyone to just attack and be extremely biased / childish to anyone that argues against the game not being good perfect or just simply not to their taste.
Of course there are definitely those who just like to be a naysayer and hate on things just to hate it.
But then there are those who definitely understand the game's accomplishments and success and can definitely see the appeal but the game itself as well as the genre just isn't for them.
But nope, it's big it's popular its mainstream and the vast majority of the gaming side of TH-cam Raves about it and act like it's the best thing ever. SO YOU BETTER LIKE IT OR ELSE!
Dude, I swear people like that are so annoying because it makes everyone else in the community of said game look bad.
I myself am not a fan of Elden ring but a lot of my friends are and they enjoy it a crap ton. While the game is most definitely a success no game is perfect every single game has flaws. And Elden ring is no exception.
Game on everybody and have a great week.🖥😃🎮
One of the things that makes elden ring "great" for so many people is that it's a "complete" game when compared to unfinished, broken, MTX-filled games that have been released last decade (battlefield, cyberpunk, fallout 76,....). But yes, hardcore fans are often the bane of gaming in general. Just look at the console wars... whenever a game is hyped and praised like elden ring i tend to not get into it for some reason. But i only buy complete or GOTY at a discount nowadays so maybe 1 day i might pick it up.
@@voiceofreason4551
Agreed, it still annoys me to this day that console Wars are still going on let alone are still even a thing to begin with.
This is coming from a guy who was the youngest out of all of my siblings and I was fortunate enough to grow up with siblings who were all Gamers and also had neighbors who were also Gamers as well.
To us it didn't matter if it was Nintendo Sega Xbox PlayStation or PC. We all just liked to play games. Sometimes we would go over one kids place and play some Xbox or another time we would hang out and play Playstation or Sega Genesis/Dreamcast. Other times my brother and I would bring some neighbors over and we would show them that kind of games we had on our Nintendo 64 or GameCube. It really didn't matter. To us it was always fun trying something new especially if you didn't own the console before!
Then I got into Middle School... and it was some of the most pathetically childish crap I've ever heard of. I thought it was a man or something until I ran into this one kid who actually took it serious... some of my closest friends and I still joke about the big fight that happened in the cafeteria over "console wars".
As for games being released unfinished, that's just frustrating. "Free DLC" my @$$. More like: "We're lazy and just fix it later."
Prime Example: Ghosts of Tsushima
The game is great. All Souls games are great. The community are just toxic. I hate Souls fans. It made me hate all Souls games including Sekiro because of the fanboys. Unfortnately I like most souls game
I remember doing this for botw and I regret that
One disagreement I have is the cross play thing. It’s honestly not as simple as doing an on-off switch. There’s infrastructure and licensing agreements that need to be made and multiple parties involved need to agree to the same terms and it becomes an expensive process.
Then you consider that online multiplayer in these games has no marketability and therefore no way to make up for the expense of putting crossplay together. So you have this super expensive feature with no way to monetize it in a game where the main focus is PVE content and you’ll quickly realize it has nothing to do with hackers or stability, it just doesn’t make sense. Fighting games can’t even get crossplay because getting it together is a nightmare and it’s just sort of industry known that it’s a hard thing to make happen and it’s built into the networking infrastructure of the game and isn’t really even something you can just easily patch it. I mean you could but the patch would need to be so intimate with the current game build that it’s basically a rebuild of the networking if the game doesn’t already have it implemented.
Pulled an intense all nighter finishing up my first full playthrough. Started the night with melekith then dunked on Gideon, had an epic first try win against Godfrey, liked the fight so much i spent a few hours after helping other tarnished crush him then proceeded to move on to rad/Elden Beast.
Slightly dissapointing for a grand finale fight but it was still unique and enjoyable. Have been dragging ass all day at work, my wrists and hands are even sore lol. What a game. On to NG+ after some down time to recover. See you in the lands between tarnished.
I can understand why you found the Radagon/Elden Beast finale disappointing, but I found at least Radagon to be a breath of fresh air after so many bosses with so many BS mechanics. Here was a 1v1 fight that boiled down to old school Dark Souls fighting: They attack, you dodge, then counterattack. It took me 3 days of attempts, maybe 2 hours+ combined across those 3 days, to beat Radagon, and that was because I learned I couldn't rely on my shield because of the holy damage, so I ended up focusing on getting my dodge rolls perfect and only attacking when I needed to. Radagon felt FAIR because of this. Almost everything could be avoided if you reacted appropriately. If I died, it was my fault, not the boss's. This is in comparison to fights such as Malenia or Margit, where your i-frames only last so long before the next attack nicks you.
Elden Beast, on the other hand... Suffered from being a LARGE FromSoft boss where you wouldn't be able to read all of its attacks even if you were locked-off. So on my winning attempt I did resort to using Mimic Tear, if only so I could have some moves directed away from me. But otherwise, I beat Radagon 1v1, and that is good enough for me to feel proud!
@@blitzgirl6522 I agree completely, his fight did have more of a classic dark souls boss vibe, his attacks were all very strong and varied but generally felt fair and learning his different timings and openings was fun and rewarding, Da Beast sadly brought the vibe down and hurt the overall encounter more then it helped imo.
@@blitzgirl6522 only thing I really dont like is when he throws those projectiles really fast, cause never have time to react, but even then it does like no damage
Holding up or d9wn on the d pad resets to your first option so placing them in your order is a little more helpful
Lol I agree with #9 so much. Why the hell does it default to being on “No” when asking if you want to use flask to revive the horse. What were they smoking with that decision?
im 99% sure you described afk farming wrong... its when hosts go to a part of the map that invaders cannot get to, so it forces the invaders go home and the hosts can go afk cause they cant be attacked.
like hosts go on top of a building in liurnia and invaders cant attack them unless they have a ranged weapon.
Definitely was backwards on the explanation
How would that be farming?
And that's assuming that they can even get line of effect on you. That said, invader AFK farming is a thing too.
@@KainYusanagi How I mean you can enter a boss and they are gone. You can still play through the level. I mean if they are staying just to prevent you from resting at a site of grace that is scummy but I doubt that happens much if at all
@@micah329 Yeah, they don't do it just for that purpose. They're just hoping you'll die so they can leech some benefits without having to risk a gank squad, is all.
Every criticism of Elden Ring starts with something like "actually we love the game"... is that because everyone is affraid of being roasted by fanboys? Besides its flaws Elden Ring definitely has no shortages of those.
Fall heights, one of the most annoying things is jumping of a huge cliff and nothing happens or a 10 foot drop and dying on the spot. I also hate it when you stop in place but it doesn’t count that as negating fall damage, this sucked when dropping down to the fingers behind mohgs thumb, I’d just barely touch the end of a tombstone, my character would stand, and I would fall as if I never stopped.
I know exactly what you mean. My game had the same issue, and I was able to quickly fix it... My game I use raycasting downards to get distance and be able to determine if the player is on the floor or not, but this raycast is just one ray coming from the center of the character, so if the player is on the edge, the raycast counts it as free-fall.
I simply took into consideration the character collider to reset the fall speed too.
And it sucks that I noticed this on this game... I usually play other games on PC and I analyze them and try to see how can I do something like that for my game, I set a standard based on my favorite games on how my game should work and interact with itself...
And the more I analyze elden ring, the more I realize I'd be downgrading my game in so many ways.
I think armour stat variety is a problem too. If you get Radahns armour early on, there's almost no reason to use anything else. It has such good stats
Thanks the replies guys (or girls)
A lot of armours better than radahn's armour , depending on your build , and if you have leveled up endurance a lot or not.
fashion > poise
@@jackto123 hmm, okay. I'm a Soul's newbie so I'll take your word for it
I mean stats help to an extent, but in the long run, it's not going to matter much save for the exception of unique effects. It basically turns into: This armor gives me 100 defense but this armor gives 150 defense but it really doesn't matter since the boss does 200 damage you're dead either way, you shoulda leveled up vigor :p
edit: Referring to physical damage btw. Elemental is a different story.
Armor in general seems pointless. They aren’t upgradable, most don’t improve your stats in any meaningful way and you spent most of the time avoiding hits. What is the point beyond weighing you down?
I would have to say that I have probably died more to random dialog boxes opening up than anything else! Absolutely love the game but this is incredibly annoying!😑
P.S. It would also be nice to have the option to turn off headgear appearance, some of the ones with good buffs are goofy af looking🤣
Gravity: Am I a joke to you?
Kidding aside, I agree with your point as I have had my fair share. Even the good give yet goofy-looking headgears lmao
You must pay the price for ultimate fashion souls
I got a dope headpiece but man am I tired of seeing this imp head for 100 hrs
I think it's so you can tell what people are doing in PvP. "Oh that's Marais, using Arcane stuff" "It's a Varre so bleed weapons" and things like that. They make weapons and armor with buffs distinctive.
I feel like the repeat bosses works in with the copy and pasted dungeons you have to explore, don’t get me wrong some are unique but others are completely undistinguishable from each other
Refreshing to see you guys speak up about some of the game's flaws, brave move considering the expected fan backlash. No game is perfect & whilst you might love it, you can't be blind to the few blemishes on an otherwise great game.
Brave sure but half of these are some deep ass pulled "flaws" half of them really can't be considered flaws lmao like people in the comments have come up with better things then they have
It's not like fans not admitting there are problems, it's just the problem doesn't worth fussing about, like it needs to be treated as a first-world problem.
And I bet some of the list here already sent in feedback page since first week,,by the fans.
@@flextape7323 lmao true how dare they have easy weapons but remember the time we were crying for the game being not new players friendly
It is not that brave though :)
I am not a fan of how these guys act like they are some kind of trailblazers in this area (you guys don't want to admit this, but there are flaws... patronizing much?). There has been a wealth of Elden Ring critique for the last month on various channels. It is actually trendy now.
Its not brave most of the hype has died so it is now safe to now point out the gigantic problems this game does have now that the rabid fan base has dissolved. Fromsoft now have our money and as someone who has been playing from-software games for ever...they are never ever going to fix any of these problems as the fan base will line up to sux they cox.
For me the biggest issues involve multiplayer. The fact that you can dodge an attack but the status effect still builds up is WILD. But that’s just one of many issues with it.
That's how souls games have always operated my guy
@@AshenHollow7 That only makes it worse. “That’s how its always been” is a terrible excuse not to improve things.
@@chrishouterman4772 I'm not saying they shouldn't improve upon things trust me this game needs alot of love if it has any hope to have even remotely any longevity and compete with Dark souls 3. But really in all honesty this is such a minor issue in the pvp side of things it's part of the combat system I have no idea how the hell you go about fixing something like that. I'm no developer but I can promise you there's so many other improvements and balancing fixes thag would inherently make shit like this far less of a threat because this game is so overturned any kidn of damage source is way too strong but something simple like reducing status buildup all round would make it far more enjoyable.
@@AshenHollow7 I totally agree!
Also let's not forget you think that's fucked wait til you find out they gave people the ability to inflict poison in bloodborne by just rolling into another player and shit still works to this day.
Biggest flaw is the dungeons having so many repeatable enemies and layouts. Sure, they add a few more mechanics here and there as you get further into the game.. but it's basically the same thing over and over again.
The dungeons are the equivalent of Oblivion dungeons. Done one done them all. Really hit hard in a mine when I felt myself jumping down the sides of a mineshaft for the 5th time it was like huh i can't gush over dungeon design to friends anymore.
Digital Foundry has done a pretty good job of documenting the performance issues across all platforms.
I think for the sheer volume of bosses and the fill of awesome bosses I can accept repeats and the lore of the game helps smooth over why certain fights are more common than others. I never minded reuse in FromSoftware games bc it helps reinforce how far you've come.
I've been exploring every inch of the world, doing every single boss, and I'm about to fight Morgott now. With 175hrs, I really don't feel like the repeat bosses is a big issue. A lot of repeats in dungeons still mix things up by either adding additional enemies, or a different damage type of that enemy, they always drop a unique item, and honestly repeats don't feel that frequent to me. For how huge the world is repeats make logical and lore sense anyways, and even so, like with godskin or crucible duos, thank the elden lord I get a chance to practice on them alone before having to do them together xD
Feel like repeats is just not nearly as bad of an issue as it was in Skyrim, and I really love Skyrim too. I think it's just most people aren't actually checking out everything possible to see in this game so they aren't getting the full picture with the repeats.
I feel like it cheapens the bosses' personality and atmosphere. They used to be connected to their environment, boss arenas and specific parts of the game. Now you can find them in random copy-paste dungeons, sometimes even sooner than you get to the main boss fight. It's quantity over quality.
I actually had an easier time finding npcs because the game expects you the explore an area completely and that is what I did. They won't be absurdly far away always.
Unfortunately when you explore every area completely you’re wayyyyy over leveled by the time you hit the next area. Huge problem for me
@@jakeelliott9636 I'm level 347 and the game is still fairly hard at moments with certain bosses .. there are areas where I absolutely cannot get killed like limgrave but there are areas still like caelid and the weird tornado dragon keep world can still catch me slipping
@@llIIIIlllIlIlIlIll are you on new game +?
That is what I did but in the wrong order, so to the wiki I went and started backtracking.
if I'm not mistaken on repeat boss fights, is that only about 10% of the bosses in the game are actually unique and only fought once. What makes this even more egregious is that even main quest boss fights are reused. Morgot, Mogh, Haroax Lou, and Estel are the main culprits but its really a bummer when you see amazing fights ligh Radahn and Melania.
Yeah, it'd be more than acceptable to have things like the Leonine Misbegotten or the Mausoleum Dogs repeated over and over again, because they're just a type of Misbegotten or a crafted necro-golem-thing. Not so much the unique bosses. Godefroy was especially galling, because it's literally just Godfrey rehashed. Even Godwyn has his shade fought first, before you actually fight him. Just so disappointing.
Honestly the overall boss count in the game is incredible and more than any other game in recent memory, so I can look past the reuse. In terms of overall enemy variety I'm over 100 hours in and still find new enemies to face every session.
This is not an issue in the slightest for those of us who have fought a boss and thought, "I would love to do that fight again without having to replay the entire game..." God, the dumb ass shit people choose to complain about is absolutely astonishing. Keep fighting the good fight fellas.. 👍😂
@@jaybro7530 for alot of people playing a boss that's the same more then once is quite boring and honestly I kinda agree
@@jaybro7530 The issue is that I would say that a LOT of (perhaps even most) people do NOT want to replay the same boss fight in the same playthrough. If it was a mechanic where the boss would run away after a point, then fine. But these bosses are beaten, and then just get reused. Hell I can even understand if a boss or 2 are reused once, but MANY of the bosses are reused 2, 3, 4 or even more times.
TheDemodcracy made a video in which he specifically counts the number of unique bosses. These were Placidusax, Maliketh, Malenia, Radagon/Elden beast, Renala, Radhan, Rykard, Ofnir, and the Red Giant. In a game that boasts 80+ bosses, 9 being truly unique bosses, with the rest either being bosses that were reused at least once (if not 3-4 times in some instances), or just regular enemies with boss health bars, is kind of sad.
I enjoyed the game but the level to which they bloated it with bosses that were simply reskins of previous bosses or regular enemies is too much for anyone to excuse or forgive.
Photo mode will never happen from From because it involves freezing the game world in place, aka pausing. That's verboten, since it messes with their design intent that the world acts around you even when you are rummaging in your inventory, or taking a squat to go pee, or whatever. If you want to walk away without risking something happening, save and quit.
Similarly, the lock-on has remained as it is because of design intent; Locking on is equivalent to focusing your concentration on that one point, and that means risking blindsiding by large foes who can swing outside your peripheral view. It's the equivalent to looking both ways before crossing the road, rather than just focusing on where you're going to cross; active awareness.
Elden Ring is actually much better at telling you where people are going to go to compared to, say, Dark Souls 2, for example. They generally tell you the specific zone they're travelling to, like Diallos mentioning going to Volcano Manor, or the blinded priest/oracle mentioning going beyond the Great Elevator of Rold in search of Goldmask (and his position is right beside where the map stele is, so if you miss him there, sorry, you're blind; not the game's fault). There are some quests that are a little more obscure towards the end of them, like trying to figure out Fia's location if you haven't interacted with Radahn yet, but finding Blaidd after Ranni tells you to find Nokron? When you enter Ranni's service, you are forced to speak to Blaidd, who tells you that he's still in Limgrave and Nokron lies 'at the bottom of this land", and that he plans to enter it through "the well in the Mistwood". Once you find the well in the Mistwood, which isn't that hard at all, it's pretty much a straight path right to Blaidd under the cliff that looks like it could lead to Nokron proper, to the west of the Ancestral Remains.
Theres a secret pause option in the game, but it only works when you’re not using the furled finger remedy obviously
I like how you're presenting these to flaws as FromSoft's motto even though it's just laziness on their part.
Case in point: Sekiro.
Sekiro literally made both of your arguments invalid.
1. Sekiro lets you casually pause the game by going to the menu. It's likely they never had such intent in mind. But rather because it cannot pause when online (like any other online game) and they were probably too lazy to implement pause specifically for offline.
2. When locked onto a bigger enemy (like the guardian ape or the divine dragon), the camera zooms out so you can see your surrounding better).
The menus don't pause in Souls games because managing inventory is part of gameplay, and they wanted to not give players safety when adjusting gear. Adding a pause for photo mode would confer absolutely no benefit to the player and wouldn't counter the aforementioned game design philosophy, From is just lazy
@@Evarakeus It ticks all the same boxes that you claim for menus otherwise, mate.
@@sharif47 Sekiro isn't a Souls game. Yes, it does share some design elements with the Souls series, but it's a separate experience entirely, and their design philosophy was different with it, just as it has differed with other games, both single entities and series that they have put out before.
The lock on in Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 was the best because it was consistent and easy to understand.
Sure, there were issues, but it was easier to lock back in after you disengaged the lock on, because you didn't even have to face the enemy. Therefore it was easy to work around those problems.
I find giving us multiple areas to lock on to has made things worse rather than better.
It May Be me, but i Guess that in DS1 in particular It was cause we didnt really have "big" bosses so the camera didnt really get messy
i mean yeah, the dragon in the depths Is big but you dont really find a problem with that cause most of its attacks are slow af so you dont notice.
@@DjPerryful I replayed ds1 after beating ER, and I noticed that the camera actually zooms out a fair bit when locking on to the gaping dragon, which makes a whole lotta sense. Why doesn't ER do that lol
They really need to up their MP game. It's a cool immersive mechanic with doing all the finger stuff but aside from that I'd really like to see an update letting friends run around wherever they want, however long they want. Seriously this would fix the "people leaving the game" problem. I'm not leaving anytime soon but it sucks that my friend and I have to find another game to play together when Elden Ring is the game we want to play together.
If you’re on pc you can try the seamless co-op mod.
@@TheOfficialMarioGalaxyFanclub But that's the problem, it's only ducking pc😢😢
@@bradmace6144 Pc gets all the mods. Pc master race.
@@TheOfficialMarioGalaxyFanclub Ik🤣 it's so shit for us console lot.
The game could really use an in game journal to help keep track of who you have talked to and what they said. I was literally writing stuff down on a notepad while playing and eventually gave up when I accidently started the frenzied flame ending. Figured I had done stuff other NPCs didn't like before and it didn;t cause problems, and din't really understand why this decision was so much worse than the rest until someone explained some of the lore stuff.
I know being vague is kind of Fromsoft's thing but it just makes me lose interest in the story, the bits they drip feed the players just aren;t interesting enough to keep digging through all the items you find for more info :/
no please stop. you have a brain. do you forget what you read in a book without having to take notes? will you forget the contents of this youtube video if you don't write it down?
@@chucklestorm does it negatively affect you if this is added to the game? You can just decide not to use it. If no, then stop whining
It sucks that you have to preface with "it's not an attack to the game"...
Criticizing this game is nearly sacrilegious as criticizing rings of power or she-hulk.
I love Elden Ring. That said, my biggest issues with the game is input reading, and roll storing.
Bloody hell, I don't know how many people tried to defend the input queuing on the forums. Why getting hit doesn't interrupt your queued roll is beyond me.
The boss thing is definitely the biggest flaw for me. I could look past all those other issues if there was more unique bosses
you should be able to assign spells to the attack buttons (LB, LT, RB, RT) so that you can use them more dynamically when the catalyst is in your main hand. imagine how much more viable spellcasting would be if you could use it like a "moveset" on a melee weapon
That’s not a dark souls or fromsoftware game then lol, and a spells in these games are much more viable than any previous game. These spells don’t have move sets so it would make no sense to slot them like that, you can literally charge and chain cast most spells which is probably only viable having spell slots (like they have always had). They don’t just keep doing it this way because they want to, its because it works.
@@mrcupcake2139 what I meant was to slot different spells into the different attack buttons, to make movesets out of your chosen spells. just because they're more viable in ER than other fromsoft games doesn't mean they couldn't be even more viable. and I very much disagree that the need to cycle thru a carousel of spells as if they're items is what makes it a fromsoft game.
@@mrcupcake2139 You're right, good control schemes and FromSoft are two mutually exclusive things
Remember when we could manually aim spells with a reticle? That didn't last long.
After ~400 hours of mainly PVE and some PVP, I would rank the top 3 biggest problems as such:
1. Overpowered weapons and skills, which make the game trivially easy. This is bad for the overall experience, as people are not learning how to overcome challenges anymore, which is the main thing that makes these games so enjoyable. Things like Rivers of Blood and Bloodhound's Step are also extremely detrimental to the PVP experience.
2. High damage in general, both you and late game bosses and enemies deal such absurd amounts of damage that it almost forces a big part of the playerbase to make use of broken gear like mentioned in point 1. In Dark Souls 3, a duel could easily take 2 or 3 minutes while in Elden Ring if you hit your opponent 2 times, they are dead. Damage in general needs to be tuned down by at least 30%.
3. For a lot of useful items you need ingredients that are not infinitely available in-game, or you need to painstakingly farm certain mobs for drops. Especially in PVP this severely restricts item usage. My suggestion is that most ingredients could be purchased from vendors after beating the game. I'm not willing to farm demi-humans for an hour just so I can craft 30 roped bombs.
I’m somewhat relieved to learn that I’m not the only one experiencing the stuttering gameplay at times. After overpaying for a decent GPU and CPU a while back, my buyers remorse was setting in all over again. Phew…
It was one of the biggest complaints during PC launch so you're definitely not alone. There wasn't even a reason why. It just randomly appeared on different system regardless of specs.
@@sws212 The reason: Unreal Engine, shader compilation. Either devs didn't have the time to fix foundational issues, or the publishers didn't care. But the devs knew...
Hilariously the stutter bug appeared as a result of the day one patch as reviewers said it wasn’t there until it launched
Three months later it’s still there 🤔
@@Bust_A_Nut_barone of the great gods of youtube, digital foundry, over exposed this issue already. Namely, Alex, exposed various titles over the years and in most cases, lending from his expertise attributed to shader compilation.
I think they are a great resource to learn about some of the known and other overlooked issues.
@Wrulol the game is made on a modified edition of Unreal 4 engine.
This info is public and all over.
Unreal Engine 4.27. 2 to be specific.
Do you have a different source?
Bro ng+ is the most boring thing imo
Right now I’m in my 5th play through of the game and It’s a masterpiece, but My biggest complaint with the game is the damage scaling at end game most bosses can one shot you if you have less than 60 VIG I think damage taken needs to be reduced at least 20 to 30 percent,
Amen to that! God, it just feels sooooo cheap at times! And I think it ruins the rythm of combat too, because in most boss fights, you spend more time running away, evading and drinking potions than actually fighting! I wish we had only 3 potions max, but that we wouldn't have to rely on them that much. To me, it's an old mechanic that needs to be reworked.
Umm, no. Please NO! I completed my 1st playthrough with level 20 VIG, and my 2nd with level 25 VIG. What can I say? I love my melee glass cannon character. Anyway, even with my low VIG, only very few of the bosses' attacks could one-shot me. They are typically huge AOE with very long charging time, and easy to dodge once I learned the timing. So yeah, IMO, the bosses' damage output is fair.
I disagree with you a little here. The scaling at end game is fine, but enemies at mid game are still too easy. I'm a FromSoft vet, but I was caught off guard by the massive difficulty spike in Mountaintop and Crumbling Farum Azula. Still a fair challenge, but everything else up to that point was far too easy.
@@AmericanRoads We've not played the same game then. If you survived any of the late game enemy (let alone boss) attacks with just 25 VIG then either you know some crazy secret or you're cheating. In any case most people aren't GODS at this game, even amongst "veterans" and NG+ exists for a reason. Dark Souls for the most part was about resources and strategy, not about restarting a fight, because you got hit once and then had to spend the next 2 minutes waiting for a window to heal if you could even survive that long. I think the game could do with a re-balancing and re-doing of the late game zones, at least Mountaintops and Farum Azula. It almost seems like they ran out of time and just cobbled something together with all the enemy assets they had. At least I don't remember a single "new" enemy after Leyendell and even THAT was just reskinned knights for the most part. For me the game stopped being unique right after reaching Altus Plateau (Mt. Gelmir not included). There's tons of repetition in it.
@@Diree I can assure you that we played the same game and no cheating is necessary. Try Ritual Shield Talisman. It boosts your defense when your HP is full. In late game zones and NG+, I also used Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman to further boost my physical defense. If I could achieve that with only 25 VIG, so can anybody else; even more so if you have 60 VIG.
Capping my VIG at such a low level FORCED me to really learn the enemies' attack patterns and punish their openings, instead of mindlessly spamming jump attacks and healing.
I am on my knees begging them to fix co-op. It would literally be my number 1 game if they did.
Look into the Seamless COOP mod that was released into Beta on Nexus.
My biggest problem? Not being able to romance Morgott.
I’m so tired of everyone needing to give their opinions a “disclaimer”, to ward off toxic fans. It should be obvious that an opinion is an opinion, and it doesn’t ruin YOUR fun if someone has a different one. Yet, I know we have to tiptoe around the internet these days. Fans are so rabidly vicious about their entertainment, as if liking a video game validates them or something.
The disclaimer doesn't even do anything to stop the worst offenders.
That's exactly the feeling I get from all the "ouh, we obviously love the game of course" - like you are not allowed to have a negative opinion on a game only because it got flooded with 10/10 reviews somehow. ER definitely has its flaws and I completely agree with the list. Especially the repetitiveness of boss fights in this game is just boring plain an simple.
@@ricksanchez5794 No shade, but I think a lot of those 10/10s came from reviewers who stuck to the critical path (mostly), or had only seen the first half of a huge game. Because it is a great game, just not a perfect game, and I think the dracks don’t really appear until much later in the game.
I’d give it an 8 or 9. But with all the copy/paste mini dungeons, repeat bosses, unbalanced group bosses, and the damage/health spike in the last couple areas… it’s definitely not a 10.
There's no such thing as a flawless game. Not just games, everything in the world has flaws. Only the spoiled complains about flaws that are minor and non-game breaking.
Ok buddy
and it is complain not complains
@@squidward8125 see? A spoiled one complaining about a very minor flaw in my statement. Also, 'complains' is the right wording here, so I think you should consult mr. Google or TheSaurus before you complain about something.
Exactly, I love Elden Ring but I think some people simp for it a bit much. All I need to know is that it's the most fun game I've played in years, and because of that I'm compelled to slug through some of the things that annoy me.
I bet you I'd be willing to admit a lot of things concerning these kinds of games.
How many of these I list will be in the vid?
Attacking through walls. Inexcusable game design.
Terrain navigation issue for the fire giant fight. It would step onto the elevated sections to make fighting it impossibly difficult than needed.
Invulnerability frames (I feel it's lazy game design).
Damage sponge enemies. This is true lazy design. Can't make the enemies better, so just up their HP so they can stick around long enough to do something.
Camera focus. Some enemies are just so big it screws with the camera trying to focus on the target (which is generally the mid point of the creature). It means the one thing this function is meant to do (keep focus on the enemy) becomes an aspect a player needs to fight with on top of everything else.
Player messages attempting to block ladders. Not a problem when not under attack.
Unable to co-op the game entirely without disconnection. It was advertised as a mutliplayer open world game. Because this was a lie these following points all stem from this:
+Forced pvp when just wanting to play co-op. The PvP in this game detracted from the game experience. Not fun to be unable to save, or make progress because of the near constant invasions occuring each time my friend, and I switched being hosts. So many players would run off and hide behind NPCs, or attack us while we were occupied fighting a damage sponge NPC. We did on very rare occasions get some pretty nice people who would duel us one on one in an NPC free area. Those were cool, but far too rare to be worth the rest of the PvP experience. It got obnoxious to the point we'd bunker ourselves into a nice area and wait for the idiots to either disconnect or come find us to fight (which had us waiting a fair amount of time too). In few cases we'd just shut off our game, and reboot it because it would be faster to resume our co-op session.
+Invisible walls during multiplayer forcing disconnects to continue.
+Unable to summon friends if a main boss is defeated in an area. This required looking up a guide to avoid the boss of the boxed off region so everything else could be taken care of first co-op. There is no reason for this game rule to be in place as you could freely explore large chunks of land with friends prior to the boss battle.
+Having the gather resources to summon people which is completely pointless if those resources are super easy to hoard. This is like having weapon durability when said durability never comes into effect. This doesn't promote exploration in the least.
+obnoxious invasions after every reconnect with a friend.
+The wait times for seeing each other in our games to be summoned sometimes took a while. More wasted time waiting...
#1 should have been "everything multiplayer about this game is 15 years old." Coop in this sucks BALLS, PvP is whatever... They have a HUGE opportunity to update the Multiplayer for this game with GOOD multiplayer, but they didn't. And while most of the other points on here ARE true... I find most of them, except for the Performance stuff and the AWFUL multiplayer to be negligible. Not even worth bothering talking about. LOL
Otherwise, I really enjoyed a lot of this game, and think it's still a solid 9/10! but yes, it ain't perfect, and a couple elements, SUUUUUUCK.
My only thing against Elden Ring is that blue hunters can be summoned in taunter's tongue lobbies. I want to help players (who want coop but hate pvp) deal with invaders. But it's really discouraging when you look to help people like that but get summoned to a random fight club where invaders are not only more plentiful but welcomed too.
I just hope there's an update that'll disable the white ring if you use the tongue
I really like being summoned to help a taunting solo host deal with invaders, it's pretty cool killing 4 invaders in a row.
The blue system still needs a rework, cause right now you have such long wait times that you get summkned at the most inconvenient times
@@ziggystardust1973 I kinda wish there was an option for hunters in multiplayer settings. Something to switch to taunters/no taunters or both
A gripe i have is that ambient music and boss music are not separate sliders in the audio settings. I loved the immersion in the previous games that came from only being able to hear your environment. On top of that, I think the ambient tracks get pretty repetitive. In the same way that the HUD drops away, I wish there was no music when it’s not necessary (any time that’s not a boss fight)
The spell cycle is to nerf the sourcerers. Sourcery is easy to play, run and cast. The hardest part is cycling through spells
I agree, spell cycling is perfect, you might as well be complaining about cast times.
Like shuffling trough a deck of cards. I have no Idea how they could have done it better though.
It is an interesting aspect of spell casting to optimize the placement of spells. It is not immediately obvious but some slow spells can be cast faster than normal when cast after a different spell. I haven't really tested it too much but to me it feels like casting comet after glinstone shards is quite faster than casting comet directly.
@@cvrator I think cast times can be upgraded by leveling dex
@@RedjieTV like a weapon wheel
I like the fact that the game doesn't hold your hand, BUT! At the same time, the fact that (When I played the game at release the was nothing so if anything has been changed to add guidance then never mind) there is almost no guidance, is tedious. Immersion is one of the biggest things about a game but when I want to 100% the game I hate that I often have to keep google at the ready and I have to constantly alt+tab out the game to google things.
Dude that’s my main gripe about this game is how it’s impossible to play without my cell phone right there with me. It got so bad I had to keep a notepad next to me to keep notes on wtf I was doing in certain quest lines so they didn’t intersect and fuck one up… Also having no story narration sucks ass; I don’t wana have to look up a games story because they don’t tell it IN THE DAMN GAME!! Gimme at least a LITTLE exposition dammit!!!!
@@SonicBoy14 I agree, and the story that IS there is presented in Shakespearean-esque dialog which I believe must be a cheap way at disguising the lack of story, making it sound cryptic and mysterious. I love this game, one of the best ever IMO, but it definitely isn't perfect. Also about the googling that we both experienced, I literally snapped and ranted to my friend about it in discord for about an hour while we were playing. The point in videogames is to be immersed. Googling starts to make it feel like a chore instead of a form of entertainment.
This game basically tells me that no matter what level I am or my gear is that I "cannot do this on my own" at pretty much every boss area.
I personally didn't enjoy elden ring but before anyone flames me, I did play it, all the way through, but I understand why people love this game, if you like souls minus what sekiro brought, you'll like elden ring, I however personally prefer sekiro.
To be fair though, I feel like Sekiro is more of a Tenchu game (an old samurai game series by Fromsoft) with Souls difficulty and elements sprinkled into it, but I mean hey, we like what we like right?
It's one of my least favorite From games. It was good, not the masterpiece everyone makes it out to be though, not even close.
@@DarkPassenger you mean Sekiro?
I lost interest after 65 hours. Loved Bloodbourne and Sekrio.
I feel like there's a larger issue that nobody talks about in regards to why people use Rivers of Blood and Moonveil: It's because a large portion of the things in this game have too much fucking health. There are a lot of good weapons that do good damage. Case in point I use the medium size bubble blower and I love that thing on my face build, but when you get to bosses at the end of the game like the freaking fire giant that have 45,000 health, No one's going to sit there and stab it using a sword that does like 400-700 damage of swing, especially when all the boss has to do is breathe in your general direction and you are dead. It just becomes joyless. You either miss out on fun weapons because you know they won't be good enough in the long run, or you go for the weapons that are good in the long run but then it gets repetitive. What I'm saying is that the game is a damn boss balancing update. Hell, the whole end game needs an update.
I agree. That's what makes bleed SO good in this game, the giant health bars on everything. You can spend hours getting the stones and runes to make a weapon and build you want, but then you got to fight a boss and suddenly it's going to take 15 minutes to whittle down it's health bar. Like the giant Rune bears, or the fat guys under the capital, these things have way too much health. It's a slog to fight.
The only flaw I had was bosses
I don’t mind the bosses turning into mobs later in harder areas
What bothers me seeing them a lot as bosses in boss arenas
Like legit they made the imp boss 8 times
Wtf
So boring
I don't know how but I managed to only find one of them in my first playthrough. That perfectly shows how everyone can experience this game differently and give different reviews^^
I mean bro there's 156 bosses they can't all be different
@@JoGigaDump aso DOTM want them to be
The idea seeing a boss in early areas be a normal non boss later pretty much shows that how some areas are for low level while in higher areas is not
Like I get the idea of making the boss in one area appear in other
But they did it a lot
I get it if the boss in lore ain’t the only one .. makes sense since a kingdom would not make 1 species be only 1
But major bosses that were like a god .. yes let’s make it appear multiple times
great game but bad boss variety and broken weapons making the game less fun. also after the capital you're basically forced to use an OP weapon or weapon art because the bosses are too fast and strong to beat with regular mechanics
I'd say one of *my* biggest problems with the game is the lopsided stat comparison; you can compare the stats of different unequipped *weapons* to those of the weapons you have equipped, but the same can't be said of *armor* . It makes REALLY hard to avoid buying armor that turns out to be WORSE than what you have equipped already that you essentially got for *free* .
dont mean to be rude, but could you clarify? This really doesnt make any sense to me
Pretty sure fromsoft just expects people to get all armors. Fashion souls bro
@@maybeiamepic2263 like when I saw plate armor in a shop in the Roundtable Hold, I had to keep switching between "selling" my equipment (selling in quotes because I had no intention of doing that, and the purchase menu *just* to compare the plate armor's stats to what I already had equipped to see if it was better (and by extension, worth spending all my hard earned runes on); that wasn't the case with the *weapons* though.
@@ezrafaulk3076 well the problem is you think Amor matters when it doesn't like amor is just for aesthetic in Souls games it doesn't matter to compare stats because it won't help anyways
@@ezrafaulk3076 ohhh I see what you mean. Here’s a tip: if one piece of an armor set is better than another, then the whole set is better
My only issue is how late game you lose a lot of the thrill and excitement. Without the exploration element it just becomes any standard from soft game and that’s when it’s incredible atmosphere just becomes meh.
I wish the coop multiplayer was drop in/out. Would love to seamlessly play start to finish with a friend. Also really don't like that you lose the shop bells on starting ng+, especially for smithing stones.
LukeYui released a seamless coop mod (for PC) the other day. It’s fantastic, and it works really well for being in beta. I’d recommend it for MP. Nexus Mods.
i thought i saw an article saying they were adding more modern style coop. look it up
@@garlicgh0st I looked a few days ago but I couldn't find anything other than the mod for PC. It would be awesome if Fromsoft makes an update but I don't really expect it to happen
@@snarkwave I saw that, it looks really cool. Unfortunately I am a console guy so can't get the mod.
@@marcuskennedy313 ohhhh maybe it was the mod the article was talking about lol i merely skimmed. my bad
I actually appreciated the repeat bosses part, since elden ring is a hard game it gives you good insight on how strong you´ve gotten from the first time you fought them.
Other than godrick and godefroy I don’t think repeat bosses are a bad thing. Like, it would be weird af in a whole open world to only have 1 godskin apostle or 1 tree sentinel or 1 nights cavalry. Like a whole army of knights and you only see and fight one of them? That’s bs
Plus I just like fighting them again. I love finding a new tree spirit because I love fighting those goofy things.
But it feels the same. There's low variety. It just feels like they got lazy and said "fuck it, just reuse that boss fight from the other region"
the interface i hate is not the Torrent revival, but the item interface when we pick up an item from a gathering spot, it still pops up even though we already knew about that item (i.e. not a new item).
Yeah I'm pretty sick of fighting ulcerated tree spirits over and over in this game.
Personally really like that enemy.
But I mean do you really think it would make sense that only 1 guardian to the tree would exist? It's kinda canon for there to be several. And considering they drop the items to lvl up your estus flask, shouldn't you be happy you know how to deal with the enemy rather than having to learn a whole new move set each time?
I imagine the only reason they don't give a photo mode is because it could potentially be used to see things like secrets or other stuff the devs just don't want you to see for one reason or another
It's more likely that they just didn't want to invest money, time, and manpower into it over something actually important.
They had one in demons souls and because of it players found a secret armor set that led to a several month reddit excavation on how to unlock the door it was pretty interesting
@@thelostmetaphorz5211 You mean the remake ? That was made by Bluepoint and not FromSoft, thats why that game has a photo mode and runs at 60 fps cough cough....bloodborne (favorite game btw from the franchise).
You can buy a telescope
It runs fairly well on the ps5. I haven't had any problems yet... The only con that I really have is I wish that there was an icon letting you know that you have completely completed a dungeon. IOW when you get every main item and defeat the boss it should display "cleared or complete." So that way when you hover over the icon on your map, then you know that dungeon is completely done. Excluding crafting items, like cave moss, mushrooms, etc... Skyrim did this as well. It displayed "cleared" when you completed the dungeon. Basically so you don't waste time on going back and trying to remember if you got all the items from that dungeon.
I played & beat all of the Dark Souls games and compared to those, Elden Ring kinda has um... a "boss balance" problem. It was for the most part not the issue in DS, but in Elden Ring it seems like there are bosses that: Move fast, attack fast, deal a lot of damage fast & are tanky on top (bullet sponge effect). It is fair if the boss has a lot of HP, but has slow animations to compensate. But not if a boss has it all (not just the final boss, even the lesser ones often have something like this). I guess it is because Elden Ring is open world (instead of linear like DS games). So it is made to kinda "Force" player to go somewhere else & level up a bit. Still, a bit annoying that I can not "clear the map" fully, and have to go somewhere else to level up. After a while It is hard to memorize what stuff was not cleared.
I have the same problem as you my friend 😀 When I started to use markers at places that still had the boss left it became way easier to find them again.
I think if FromSoft really wants to make OP weapons in the game, the best way to do it would be to have equally OP weapons for different builds so you have people trying new strategies rather than everyone rocking a blood build.
They have OP weapons because people complain the game is too hard, so they make a weapon that can carry those players... and players still complain. It's an RPG you can make it whatever you want.
The thing is by virtue of being videogame something will always be a dominant strategy in PvP there's nothing Fromsoft can really do and honestly PvP being something you can't opt out of entirely balancing anything around it is kind of a mistake to a degree there are reasons to do it but I don't think what your proposing is a reason. And for just the act of playing Elden Ring yah you don't have to use the strongest thing in the game to beat it
@@addex1236 All they'd need to do is increase blood resistance while in pvp combat. It would still let people beat the game with their spams while making it less annoying to the pvp community.
I’ve only ever played on a steam deck but I don’t notice any performance issues at all
Not just locking onto large enemies, but also fighting against multiple enemies. Easy to lose sight of the ones you are not locked onto. Could really use a free camera mode, just letting the player character always face the camera direction (maybe except for sprinting) will do a lot of good. The player can aim the camera to keep things in view and attack/guard/dodge in most directions.
to be fair, that's already part of the game... it's called not-being-in-lock-on. You can aim your spells on free camera mode.
Unless you mean like old games where you could be in lock on but still change attack direction
A lot of these could be solved with on/off setting options. Like turning on a switch that auto selects yes to use a flask to re-summon torrent, or messages that disappear after a set time. If crossplay was a thing you could restrict it to the platform you play on or allow for all. I’m sure there’s something you do with the npc quests as well.
Perhaps a magic/tool system like Nioh 2 had would have been better.
I really appreciate Horizon FW allowing for auto run. Best game setting ever.
Least favourite thing about the game is how shit colossal weapons are
I’d say the biggest problem isn’t just the boss repeats, but the design philosophy of bosses in this game. Many are hard with gimmicks added on top rather than being one or the other to add artificial difficulty
Ehh I disagree. I'd rather say the duo bosses are jackshit but aside from Malenia and Maliketh none really have such mechanics. And even then maliketh's health reduce only happens on a few easy to dodge projectiles and malenia's healing only makes it a bigger endurance fight(fuck waterfowl tho).
Using a stack of runes also annoying, why is “ no” highlighted first ? Kinda weird
I don't think lack of photo mode is a problem, i mean i get why people want it but it's simply not
There is also a problem with torrent's double jump for example sometimes when you do the jump its like hitting an invisible wall and you'll stop med jump.
I had some pretty atrocious screen tearing when I first started the game on PC about a month ago. I was really considering just setting it aside for a while and letting them sort it out before returning to it but I got sucked in so quickly that I just decided to keep playing. Once I was about 50 hours in, I kind of randomly noticed that the screen wasn't tearing or stuttering anymore. I think I just sort of got used to it and tuned it out, only to notice later that it wasn't happening anymore. Now, the stutter is virtually non-existent. I'll still experience some brief slowdown, particularly when the weather effects are really going crazy but its very minor. All in all, I think they really buttoned up the PC port rather quickly, all things considered. Performance for me has been pretty damn good, especially considering some of the experiences I've had with other recent games/ports.
I can confrim it is still horrible performance wise at least for me
I always hear people say the PC performance is terrible even on their $5000 gaming rigs. Meanwhile I play the game on a Lenovo Ideapad 3i gaming laptop and I very rarely get any noticeable lag. Maybe it's just people who refuse to play anything less than 4k 60fps? I've never messed with the graphics settings either, they're exactly where the game decided to set them.
@@jacobg5122 I was playing on very low settings so no
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Don't know what to tell you then
@@jacobg5122 stop lying on the internet. maybe :)
I feel like the skill ceiling good be way higher.
I know that these suggestions are NOT “soul-like” the gamification of Souls games is the art….blah…blah. I get it.
1. Allowing cancelling
2. Not taking control away from the player. I am not talking about being knocked down, I am talking when you run out flasks and the character just scratches their head, preventing me as the player from continuing. At level 120 my character has used the flask thousands of times it doesn’t make narrative sense. He shouldn’t be wondering what is going on. I as the player should be able to cancel that animation and continue, now knowing I am out of flasks. The punishment is already baked in, I thought I had a heal, I don’t have a heal, I mis-calculated my heals, I am fucked. I can after all waste a charge when the flask is full by rolling.
#6, that's why you toggle aim lock.
I hold my controller with a claw grip, specifically so I can always do that, and so I can turn and run and the same time.
The amount of times this comes in handy is nuts, and I had several people come in my chat asking me how I was doing some stuff. Lol.
5. They make the lore and quests like they are, intentionally. And they don't care if players don't see everything.
U can just delock if u dont see anything. I dont get it... Just basic skill
"It's intentional" doesn't magically negate criticism lol
@@Evarakeus And them not caring if you see everything doesn't warrant criticism.
Play the game more or fuckin don't