Dark Souls remake made by 2024 From Software: >go to the rooftop to fight the gargoyles >rooftop is now a big circular arena >first gargoyle comes flying across the arena at mach 12 while spinning like a beyblade for 37 continuous seconds >any time you try to take an action at the end of the spinbo it extends another 11 rotations >somehow whittle his health down to half >"zanzigoyle forgive me" >other gargoyle flies down >"ah together once again!" >now there are two gargoyles spinning endlessly spinning except with huge fire aoes that also explode covering the whole arena
>enter Capra Demon fog wall >the dogs now have 10k hp each >no thought given to when the player is supposed to get an attack in, just not stop overlapping swings from all three at once >finally get the dogs down >fades to a cut scene >"aaaah...izalith was within me....all along. forgive me, Queelan... " >leaps 40 feet into the air, hangs for 10 seconds, them slams down coating the entire zone in chaos lava blobs >instakilled >"i am Capra, blade of Quelaag.
>fight Sif >instead of starting to limp after a certain amount of damage a cutscene starts >black and red energy starts emerging from Sif's body >"forgive me, my dearest master Artorias" >Sif bites his right wounded leg and tears it from his body >where the wound is, a huge clawed arm appears, made from red and black energy >Sif's eyes glow red and his sword also gains a red glow and starts hovering over him >"now...let us walk the Abyss....together" >new health bar: Sif, best friend of the Walker of the Chasm >immediately lashes at you 8 times in a row with random delays between each hit >each hit triggers an AoE >all while his floating swords shoots homing energy flames at you >starts howling and the entire arena gets hit by 20 red AoE lightning >while you die after two hits, you hear "maybe i wasn't such a good boy after all" over fainted generic orchestra sounds and latin chants
Elden Ring fans: "You can't complain about difficulty because the game gives you all the tools to win!' *Synth uses the tools the game gives him to win* Elden Ring fans: 🤬🤬🤬
Used ashes? Used summoning? Used weapon arts/that one ice weapon art? Beat it after whatever patch? Used seamless coop? Used *insert whatever thing you want*? "YOU DIDN'T BEAT THE GAME!!!!!!"
I remember years ago when dark souls was first starting to get popular, there was a message board where people were sharing their experiences and advice about the game. One guy chimes in about how he beat the game for the first time. Everyone was quick to congratulate him and ask him what build he used. When he replied that he was a sorcerer everyone started ripping on him and saying he cheated or didn’t experience the game properly. Yeah. The soulsborne fanbase has always been full of self-important entitled idiots.
Synthcells: ''Gatekeep your hobbies!'' Soulsborne fans: *Gatekeep their hobbies* Synthcells: ''Not like that, bigots! Now our overlord gets filtered, and we don't want that 😢''
It has the same problems of the original game. I liked and hated this dlc in equal part. Its crazy cause i have never felt a game to be such a rollercoaster of quality in all my life.
This DLC illustrates something fundamental that Fromsoft fanboys will never admit and it is that they basically designed ER to be ABSOLUTELY cheesed. I RARELY see a honest, basic, simple build. You will likely find cheese strats. And the people who defend it saying "Fromsoft gave you those tools you should use them" don't understand that BEFORE people didn't need it. If you play Co-op you will realize how HORRENDOUS at the game your average player is, why? Because the game REINFORCES BAD BEHAVIOURS. "Skill issue, get good" bro, NOBODY NEEDS to get good EVER in ER, all you need is a cheesy build and you win. And why is that? Because Fromsoft fundamentally made this game harder than it needed to be, so they allowed ALL of this crap to circumvent it. Horrible design, they cattered the experience of the game SO MUCH into being cheesable they make the basic combat completely worthless, your enemy is a twirling raging monster who can 3 shot you, and you have a basic b1tch moveset, and your L2. And people say this game is perfect, FUCK NO, this game pleases NOBODY, PvP is sh1t, and PvE is either an exercise of crashing your head against the wall, or completely rolling over everything in 3 hits. To give an example of how bad this design is, they made Radahn the hardest boss ever, and what did people do? Fucking cheese him whit Greatshields, if Miyazaki INTENDED the game to be hard, HE FUCKED UP, PEOPLE ARE COMPLETELY NEGATING THE DIFFICULTY. This is not even making the boss fair, people are rendering the FINAL BOSS into a complete JOKE, because the game has cultivated a culture of cheesing bosses. Remember when all you needed was a bigass weapon and any gear you wanted? Yeah, lets pretend your average player will kill Radahn whit an average build.
And all i did was use the golden halberd 99% of the game lol i didnt even think jump attacks were worth it, cause i could hit 2 or 3 times in the same time frame. I only had to change may strat with all of the holy immune bosses later. I see every op build and i just want to be a halberd using knight like when i played demon souls. when it comes to builds, I think bloodborne is better, where there is quite the build variety, but none of them shut every boss down like the sword of flame and sorcery(pre nerf) or bleed buildsor even jump attack builds.
I also think Dark Souls 2 actually parodied what people thought Demon's Souls and DS1 were originally like way back in 2014, because DS2 was overwhelmingly cheap and unfair with every single mechanic, feature and design choice.
Dark Souls is not difficult. Dark Souls is easy. What made it difficult was people were used to "just mash the buttons" gameplay like Kingdom Hearts or God of War. They were not used to careful decision making gameplay. Elden Ring is ACTUALLY difficult. Difficult does not mean fun.
If the FromSoft games are for troons (they aren't), then what should the white, Aryan, cis, straight man play? Ubislop shit? EA? Gacha? Yet another Doom clone? Battle royale? Yet another survival game? I am honestly worried about some of you guys. Some of y'all are lost in the sauce and there is no going back.
You mean getting slammed against the wall by Commander Gaius and dying as soon as you call your spirit summon was a poor design? Who would have thought!
@@VarthalabauHair I think he's talking about NPC summons, which are even worse. With spirits you can at least decide WHERE you summon them, but its still ass, as you described. But with NPCs you gotta find their summon sign, get to it, activate it and follow up with pressing the "YEAH I ACTUALLY WANNA DO THE THING THAT I JUST CLICKED TO FUCKING DO" button in the middle of battle. Which is just pure AIDs-cancer. Its quite bizarre that FS do that crap, meanwhile there are pre-fight summons in this very DLC and Siegward in DS3 who "summons" himself for the Yhorm fight or even jumps into arena if you start the fight with a Fire Demon first. They can do it better, they can make it cinematic, but for some reason choose to make it bad.
@@cookiebaker2660 Almost as if Fromsoft doesn't do the exact same thing every time you can fight alongside an NPC. Summons inside a boss fight are as old as DS1 DLC and they're not often, they are special interactions that varies how you engage with the NPCs. You can dislike it of course but that doesn't make it bad design, is just one of MANY ways NPCs are summoned. The only time you don't need to confirm an NPC summon, as far as i remember, is against Radahn and is because everything around him revolves around a big party made just to kill him and summon people, this doesn't apply to every boss, if you don't want to summon accidentally you can cancel, with Radahn it doesn't matter, they die in seconds and it doesn't buff him or reduce your runes gained
@@NuggetsNBAChamps Agreed. Elden Ring was the final nail in the coffin or more likely, the developers taking a steaming dump on the grave of the games that came before.
@@torchlight3173 I don't see how it's gone "full anime". Unless you're suggesting that flashing colors, bright lights, and flashy moves are "anime"? By such logic, the whole series was that from the get go with its references to berserk - or the artorias of the abyss DLC where the bosses had flashy movesets and started the rollspam crap we see now. Especially Artorias and Manus, which were glorified rollspam bosses in which you couldn't tank them with armor or a shield - you had to lose the weight and press the circle button. The DLC absolutely sucked yet normgroids praised it because the bosses moved quicker and required you to spam roll, lol. Demon's Souls was the only worthwhile game of the franchise - and holds up really well even now. Everything after was goyslop for the dumb masses. Don't confuse modern anime and its "fans" with retro anime and the true fans of the medium. We want no part of these normgroids who hype modern anime for the sake of being part of the crappy reddit communities before moving on within a year or two. I'll bet not one of them has watched an anime that released before the year 2000 nor has played any actual anime games. Modern anime is akin to western goyslop, rushed out to maximize profits by going over the usual checklist instead of doing something unique.
*CURSE YOU, BAYLE!* ✊ Btw, "skill issue / git gud" was a meme that newcomers took seriously and got tricked into believing unironically. I'm surprised you didn't show off that little goblin bastard with the green glow blade that does animu bullshit and kills you. He's not even a boss. The game could be improved if they worked out internally how animations are tied to specific weapons, actually hardcoded. Their overall engine technology could use an overhaul instead of hand-crafting specific animations to specific weapons - I suspect that's why a lot of assets are reused. There is a FromSoft reverse engineering & modding Discord, if one is so inclined to deep dive on it. 🤷♂
@@cocknballtorture777 I went outside catching some rays and a FromDrone came by with their smug superior attitude _"You're using suntan spray? You ain't black!"_ He left as quickly as he came. Angry and impotent. 😥
23:50 this so fucking much, my biggest gripe with the game was that bosses have infinitely cooler movesets than me, and few spells/armaments that do look and feel cool are useless because bosses won't give you any time to execute them, so you're stuck with pressing R1 once or twice in-between the boss spazzing out, and this shit just ain't fun at all.
@@based-ys9um yes but these people are acting like this has the worst bosses in the series and I just have to point out that dark souls has mostly mid bosses
Did every boss need a 2nd phase that is just >Can fly now >Projectile spam I remember when 2nd phases were a surprise, now it seems a tacked on necessity and wearisome to see.
It's just become a jrpg at this point. Miyazaki said he wants to make a traditional jrpg next which makes sense, he can do those big flashy moves for bosses and still have it fit the gameplay.
Yeah some bosses absolutely did not need a 2nd phase. Like the Gold Hippo. The 2nd phase for that just feels like a bad joke at the expense of the player. Especially whith it comedically jumping through the air firing projectiles while the camera freaks out
@@DedAlexFive Dark Souls 2 did it right A lot of bosses were 1 phase, and then you'd have some that would crop up with a 2nd phase which made them feel more special, even if the 2nd phase sometimes didn't drastically change the boss. Rather see more of that then every single boss having 2+ phases and turning into a anime light show that deletes your health bar in 2 hits
>didn't drastically change the boss A good thing imo DS2 had bosses that expanded on their movesets come a phase 2, think Fume Knight doing stronger variants and a few (just a few) catches. Making moves more powerful (now that you should have learnt to dodge them) and catches, adds to the fight, a final boss being re-used, 2nd form re-used, and reductively being a T-Pose, spam magic, spam light attack, mess is comical at best.
Not all hard is created equally. Elden shit has artificial difficulty due to bad boss balance. Fair difficulty is good game design. shmups may not be for me but they're well designed video games. The "It's too hard" talking point is so shallow, reduced by journos that can't actually analyze mechanics.
@@GreyFeather9 That little non-boss bastard gremlin with the green knoife that does the anime moves was ridiculous. It seems like the DLC is OK, play something else if one has Soulsborne fatigue. Synthetic Man is correct but people misunderstand him on purpose. They don't realize he often hams up stuff on stream - he was very fair in this assessment even if half of the things were his subjective opinions. He could have really baited but he didn't. At the very least the DLC gave us some nice memes: perfume, Igor's CURSE YOU, BAYLE! and Griffith/Miquella has always been a twink bastard. There are probably more that I've missed.
@@GreyFeather9"Artificial difficulty" is equally shallow lmao. All difficulty is technically artificial, the types of difficulty people like always come down to your personal preference. There's entire genres of games built upon unreactable difficulty (I wanna be the guy, super meatboy, etc). Where Elden Ring sits on the spectrum in terms of reactability, randomness and pattern recognition is just not for you, and that's fine, just don't act like you're the arbiter on some arbitrary measure of difficulty and act like it's objective in any way lol.
@@julien5189 Not the AoW attack, but you can parry most of his normal attacks. It saved me a lot of headache for most DLC bosses and I learned how to use L2 after Relanna lol. He won't get into riposte mode right away, but you can get a free hit every time you parry him.
Best parts from the DLC was Igon’s generational hatred against Bayle, fighting a Lord of Frenzied Flame and Ansbach helping you end Miquella’s mind-graping crusade once and for all.
Soulsborne has to be one of the most flanderized video game genres ever made. All the games do anymore is try to one-up each other in stupid difficulty over and over because “difficult = good” apparently? Bosses that have 15 different attacks, do crazy anime flips with a 100 foot sword, have a massive near-unavoidable AOE explosion move and 2 shots the player is considered “fun” by so many ppl now.
Massive unavoidable AOE explosion mechanics is a trend that needs to be cut off from boss design with extreme prejudice (next to infinite minions, looking at you Doom Eternal). Alatreon in Monster Hunter World was where I realized how stupid such a mechanic is, especially when the developers needlessly kneecap you to pretend it’s “challenging” when in actuality it’s just awful game design. “Git gud” has been turned from mockery against idiot journalists into defending bad developer decisions.
Not true, all dlcs bosses are in fact not harder than much end game bosses in ER if you optimized your character and lv up Scadutree Blessing levels. Bosses not often can one shot you even you play 3ppl coop. Unless your character isn't optimized or the host has
I like difficult games too but atleast the gameplay must have mechanics inside that opens up the gameplay instead lets you limit with the badic gameplay while bosses go crazy anime shenanigans that looks much cooler but wastes too much time time too . Ninja Gaiden had a deep system , Devil may cry goes totally bonkers , Godhand is still King of its own deeper gameplay- mechanics amd also Unreal Tournament 99 offers depth while its not challenging whatsoever. The Souls-franchise is rather limited and bores to tears compared to older difficult games.
Synthetic's detractors are something else man. Video has been up for less than a day and already there's some literal-who doing a callout response about the >4 minute Miquella segment. Framing it to his redditor audience how that one segment was the entire 39 minute video. When your gifters are this deluded and dedicated, you must be doing something right.
Because Radahn was an actually cool character and they needed to shit on him by making him pedo gay zombie. While his arc was perfectly concluded in base game festival in a raid like fight.
As much as I love Fromsoft I do agree its overrated. Not bad by any means and still great in fact but they literally doubled down on the BS that plagues late game Elden Ring. The problem is too many people think they are god and can do no wrong. Try pointing out any flaw and you will get called a casual lmao.
I didn't have any of these issues people are complaining about. Elden Ring is a little too easy for me, even in the late game. And I'm only a mid-tier Souls player with old-man hands. So to see people complain about non-issues is baffling. Sometimes "git gud" is the only way. Or maybe, if you don't like it, play something you do.
For real. I pointed out that Fromsoft still hasn't fixed their camera issues and I got told to "git gud casul" even though I beat the game using no summons except for Godskin Duo and mainly a melee build. They would rather die then admit Fromsoft isn't perfect.
@@chainuser1774 There's no way fanboys can't even accept camera criticisms. Fromsoft has the worst camera in any fucking video game. They refuse to ever fix it. They fixed in Sekiro but then completely regressed in ER for some fucking reason.
Daily reminder most of them who say both are in fact redditors who haven’t played the game,and just want to see people get annoyed because they legitimately have fetish for making people annoyed.
the biggest part for me, is the constant 10/10 over glazing everyone is giving the dlc its sickening. and the second you say otherwise to the elitists or try to speak with some level of objectivity they slam you with "skill issue" its so off putting
@@TheCristianalvarez I find it funny how fromsoft fanboys love to shit on western slop (ubisoft and ea games) without realizing that their games are also slop but japanese
Its a great DLC tho. Yes its hard but if you build right its not that much more than base game. Ppl are glazing but the other side of "its tooooo harrrrd pls nerf" from game journalists is sad
I beat Radahn in 12 tries. No greatshield, no perfume, no summons, no spirit ashes. Parries and a Smithscript Cirque. He's been no hit countless times already. You all really just circlejerk this opinion because you're dogshit at the game. Sad.
@@kopfdertoten466 mimic tear is peak CUCKOLDRY. youre summoning in a stronger version of yourself to show you what life would be like if you werent such a miserable failure.
Bro Act Man on twitter just agreed with you saying the open world and items are bland and boring af. But on twitter they aren’t getting mad at him for saying this but are mad at you for saying it 1st on TH-cam.🤦🏽♂️
This. I enjoy fromsoft but even I can admit Elden ring has GLARING faults. The DLC compounds those faults a bit/but also fixes em a bit. People who get upset over the opinion of synth haven’t matured. Plus I and others can be his fan and not agree with 100% of his takes. Totally fine too
See he keeps saying that, but it's just because HE'S trash at it. I don't throw myself against a boss for hundreds of tries. I beat every single one of them within 1-12 tries in this DLC, no cheese needed. For him it'd be masochism to fight them the way countless others do with perfect success.
@@TheStraightestWhitest Definitely dude, you are being absolutely honest. In fact, please show us how you defeated Radahn fair and square in less than 12 tries.
@@TheStraightestWhitest “Trust me bro I beat every boss in 1-2 tries bro like everyone else……what do you mean there’s multiple mixed/negative reviews on cross platforms, the game & dlc sold millions bro!!!”
I'm glad that you mocked the stupid mentality of these hard-core souls fans. and the last couple of minutes of the video with the rant about gamers in general was on point. People forgot the whole purpose of video games which is to have fun, now it's all about stupid achievements hunting,speed running and finishing the game with a stick to prove that you are good in a freaking video game for God sake 🤦🏻♂️
It is fun. Just cause you don't like it doesn't mean it should change. It's for a niche audience since their first game, it's fine if you don't like it, there are literally hundreds of other games.
@@denishrg9843 More people liking the niche, doesn't mean it stops being a niche. It's whether or not *everyone" likes it, which evidently is not the case.
@@OutlawOtaku really almost any game now because some doofus who don't know anything and most likely is bad at the game will say "git gud" and "skill issue" when that's not even the problem nor the topic
@@DeadpoolX9 Are you saying the origin of git gud was somehow benevolent as opposed to what it is now, which is a way to trivialize or dismiss actual meaningful criticism?
@@trisbane4086If you're critism is "it's too hard😭" and "its unfair 😭" when there's people completing no damage runs with a few days of it coming out then yes the only proper response is "git gud" and "skill issue" cause it it truly was too hard and unfair nobody would be able to do no damage runs.
The DLC just feels like it doubled down on a lot of the problems from the base game. You have hyper-aggressive enemies, with bloated health and damage numbers, that you need to confront using the traditional Souls mechanics that aren't designed for that. In lieu of actually changing the base mechanics to suit faster gameplay, like Bloodborne or Sekiro did, Elden Ring opted for Ash Summons, in the base game, and Blessings in the DLC. One adds extra bodies to pull aggro - effectively for free -, and the other reduces the number bloat. I enjoyed the DLC well enough, but it does have me concerned about what kinda of impact it'll have on From's design mentality going forward.
It's hilarious to me that they "balanced" the game around summoning when its effectiveness relies entirely on exploiting the same old boss AI that we've had for 15 years now, the bosses still aren't designed to handle multiple opponents at once. That really tells me that this game's main goal was to attract a larger and more casual audience that could just enjoy the spectacle of the fights and get by without much hassle, and judging by the sales numbers, they succeeded big time. The addition of the pointless copypaste open world also supports this, it's really just normie bait. I can see how this game would blow your mind if you've never played a souls game before, there is that hands off approach and special vibe that fromsoft's known for, but for someone who's played these games since 2010, this game just doesn't hold up when compared to the ones that came before.
@@InkyMuste I'd actually make the argument that the AI has gotten worse in some regards, largely owing to the increased aggression. Bosses frequently spin on their heels and snap to entirely new targets on a whim. They also frequently get stuck in animation loops (usually pursuit or gap closing attacks) when you attempt to gain a little space.
This DLC is a fucking disaster. It improves on absolutely none of the criticism people had for the main game. It's like they actively decided to make this an "Elden Ring's worst hits" safari, with more fucking terrible dragon and tree sentinel fights, almost every main game enemy getting reused, and doubling down on the terrible crafting and cookbooks nobody uses or cares about. What's worse is that this time you can't ignore the open world slop because you have to check every corner for blessings so you don't get 2- or 1-hit by every boss. So the DLC has 0 replayability on new characters, once again designed to appeal to the normies that don't replay games anyway. I think you're right about fromsoft designing their bosses for those "streamer moments" now more than anything, so all the tourists playing through this game one time and never coming back can rave about how much they and Asmongold raged when that one boss did a 30 hit combo followed by an arena-wide AOE. The bosses are basically DMC fights now - some like Rellana or Radahn can literally air juggle you with some of their attacks, while you're stuck with sub-DS3 mobility and attack speed. Fromsoft have lost the plot. Miyazaki used to talk about how the difficulty wasn't the point of these games - it was the feeling of joy when you overcome it. Unfortunately the crowd of "dis game so hard!!!!" moron streamers and normies have infiltrated the fandom to the point where we're being treated as the outsiders. And honestly, if this is the direction this game is going to go now, with open world ubislop exploration and ragebait bosses, with no good lore because normies don't care about that, I think I'm done with these games.
That last part about feeling like an outsider to a game community you've been a part of for so long is too true, man. So many game companies and developers straying away from the roots and perfection of what made their original games so good. Becoming diluted and homogenized for the casual masses. I don't think i'd be able to list off the amount of times this has personally happened to me but games like Halo, destiny (tbf it was always shit from release, but d2 and everything after forsaken just completely irredeemable), For Honor, rainbow six, Dark souls, Call of duty, borderlands, battlefield, Resident evil, silent hill, Final fantasy, tomb raider, Wolfenstein, Ark Survival, God of War. Hell, there's prob so many more im forgetting right now. And each and every one of em affected by dev studio greediness to hone in on the mass consumer casuals that have no respect or gratitude for what made these series so amazing in the first place. The masses coming in and acting like everything that we adored is some kind of nostalgia bias. I'm fucking sick of it. I just sail the high seas for every single goddamn game atp, knowing my money will likely go towards dev teams that don't give a shit bout the art and creation of entertainment. Just another day at the job for them working underneath for their multi-billion dollar studios.
@@Arcessitor My favorite is ''Is the Elden Ring DLC "too hard"?'' But there's also ''Brutally Honest Elden Ring DLC Criticisms...'' These are actual criticisms. They're from fans, but objective ones.
What's the most frustrating part is that fromsoft won't change these issues because the normies worship this game like they can do no wrong. The empty world, the constant super armor, having to wait 10 seconds just to hit the boss one time, useless moves/weapons that only work on normal enemies. You're one of the only people talking about this which is frustrating. Customers REFUSE to advocate for themselves because "game development is expensive and harddd, be nice to them 🥺"
In a sense From has always gotten a pass on a lot of stuff that people would rake other devs over the coals for. Like DS1 being unfinished and rushed after you beat Andor Londo. On one hand it was because it was so unique and at the time you could forgive a lot. Now that Elden Ring made souls mainstream the normies forgive From for a lot even though the series is no longer unique and bought into the meme of being hard for hard's sake.
@@Flyon86 this. As much as I like fromsoft and enjoy most of their games,I will never understand the throating that the most braindead and rabid fromsoft fans have towards DS1 and Elden ring. Making them the best games ever to be made. DS1 is the worst souls. Literally unfinished and unpolished. Elden ring is all their issues compounded due to being Open world slop
@@KingOfhearts72 DS1 I think at least was incredibly unique for its time. Now we have tons and tons of the "soulslike" knockoffs in addition to From's later games so its lost a lot of the shine it once had. I still think the 1st half of DS1 is great. Although as other people are saying here, a bigger problem is how bad most big releases are now days that From stuff looks a lot better by comparison. Like compared to recent Ubisoft shovelware, From games look like a masterpiece.
@@Flyon86 it’s unique no doubt and I absolutely see the love for the 1st half and I agree with people on the 1st half. The 2nd half burned me badly on it,so it became my least favorite of the DS games.
@@SerbianLifter997 She did a genocide against the omens and travelers which are based on gypsies and worship a jewish demon. So I think she gets an honorary based
So Mohg and Radahn got Miquellested. Miquella wanted Radahn to be his consort, he apparently refused, so Miquella sent Malenia to kill Radahn to resurrect him under his control. That didn’t work out, so he put Mohg under his control and then waited for us to kill them to resurrect Radahn under his control in Mohg’s body. I think a lot of retconning happened, because Miquella was originally in the base game with a questline and ending, but yeah, they made him evil.
"The Age of Compassion" sounds somewhat similar to communism, I'm just saying... Taking away people's free will & individuality, not cool Miquellester. A lot of weirdos have latched on and are making fan art & lewd art of Miquella. Very bizarre.
@@SerbianLifter997 ever notice the prominent Dom/Sub dynamics? The subs typically seem to be smaller and more feminine. Definitely a fetish going on, probably some kind of coping mechanism too. But we aren’t supposed to discuss the how or why.
the days of jolly co-op are sorely missed. i think bringing back covenants could have helped with that. an incentive to join in on that mechanic in the game used to be there. it's gone in Elden Ring.
Which is odd considering how “let me solo her/let me tank him” were redditfied,but yeah I do notice FAR less rando dudes ready to help. Imo it’s due to there not being covenants. Yes I know Elden ring “technically” had covenants but they sucked compared to the already flawed ones of early games. There is zero reason to help people with bosses now. You can get rune arcs elsewhere.
its impossible to help people with co-op because when you summon people in, they're absolute dogshit that expect to be carried (players like synth). they die instantly and then thats it.
@@TaddiestMasonbut the days of jolly cooperation are still here. Don't let the online crowd fool you. Summoning is a huge aspect, and many people use it.
The best point ya made is at the end. One I didn’t think of. The irony and hypocrisy of how when a game caters to normies and gets way more people to it,(and those people are supposedly progressive and accepting)it suddenly becomes MASSIVELY more toxic. It’s true how yeah,back when it was genuinely seen as a good thing to help people with bosses. Now you’re scum who didn’t beat the game if you use summons. I’ve made example of it before,but we noticed it INSTANTLY when MH world broke records with normies. Suddenly long sword users/dual blade users were loathed and non “meta” builds were kicked. (Rage gaming was a DISASTER for MH due to all their “ZOMG BROKEN BUILD” vids)
It’s mind-blowing seeing the mental gymnastics the redditors in this comment section go through to defend the bosses and difficulty in this DLC. The scadutree leveling system is busted. How are you supposed to know where any of them are if you don’t explore the game, while getting one hit killed by random mobs that take your entire 60 vigor health bar? Then there’s the bosses. Half of them are random without any major ties to the game’s lore and it’s hard to care about any of them. A random hippo, a sunflower, a sentient piece of rotting flesh that was guarding St. Trina for some reason- who are these random creatures and why should the player care about them or their ridiculous 15-hit combos? You have to dodge through 10+ attacks to get a single clean hit in. That is not balanced gameplay. The story is the worst part of it all. Gay incest pedophilia is not good lore
@@titustheboxer2364 So you’re just going to ignore what I said. The DLC is unbalanced in the beginning and expects you to explore while getting killed in 1-2 hits by random mobs. This was not good gameplay and Fromsoftware realized this. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have done an update where they balanced the damage in the DLC.
@@jmc7788 yeah it had a couple balance issues it’s a fromsoft game. Have you never played another from soft game? There’s always broken shit. The games meant to be broken and overpowered. I thought the dlc was challenging but nothing more than that. It legitimately sounds like you just need to get good and get the call of duty dick outta your mouth. If you don’t like the game don’t play it but don’t bitch about it for being too hard when it’s not.
They didnt even bother to put cutscene or something when you enter the dlc. 2 years in wait and they didnt even bother putting some story before they drop you in.
Exactly! It’s like what’s the point of the 3 different endings in the base game with a cutscene if they didn’t even pick up the storyline for the players who chose 1 of the 3 endings from the base game entering in the DLC. 🤦🏽♂️ That’s why I’m so glad I didn’t buy this shit dlc.
@@rjproduction486 not just any still images either, it's obviously repurposed concept art. I understand doing that for demon's souls considering it was a budget title assumed to be a failure. Maybe it was supposed to be a nod to demon's souls but it just feels cheap and lazy. It amazes me how much better dark souls 1's opening cinematic is and that game came out over 10 years prior.
There's a good amount of streamers that play Erdtree for their break game currently , it is kind of jarring to see pro gamers get nowhere for hours on some of these bosses and I wouldn't fair better. It really did become "Prepare to Die" the game while forgetting elements that made the older games .. well actually enjoyable to learn the process of.
@CC-xh1ok The first Dark Souls from 2011 originally coined the tagline "Prepare To Die" as a message that goes both ways. At first, the enemies are saying that to you, as your armor, weapons, and stat levels are extremely low and can't withstand much damage. However, the more you explore and discover better armor, upgrade your weapons, and level up your stats, the tables turn and you'll actually be saying that to the enemies.
@@NexusKin Also to hammer home the mentality that death is a learning experience and should be used as an opportunity to gather intel rather a statement about how much of a jobber you are.
FromSoft is in that same place that Neversoft and Infinity Ward were years ago. They had a fresh take on a genre and were innovative with their first hit but now that formula is what defines them.
@@Red_IX i think miyazaki does his best when he doesnt remain on the same project fotmr more than a game. Demons souls was good and so was dark souls (which was surely similarnbut expanded and perfected in a metrovania system). Then Bloodborne which changed the way you play andnthe setting. Then comes dark souls and you see the crack in wall (i liked the bosses though) Then sekiro, another drasticallyndifferent game. Finally here we have Elden Ring, a game that uses the old gameplay in an open world (a genre miled to death by this point).
They just released a game that was praised as a legendary all time great with a fresh innovative take on open worlds 2 years ago. What more do you want?
@robertpayne6781 We want a game that isn't glazed by the accsess media as a 10 when it's really a 7. We also wanted a fresh take on an open world game where as this game is just "dark souls 3 but open world."
Funny thing is Michael Zaki admitted in an interview that the Souls formula in an open world has been put to its limits with Elden Ring and they will not attempt another one and instead focus on Sekiro like games that are smaller but have multiple coming out.
I wouldn't mind another Sekiro-inspired game, as that game genuinely felt like its own unique thing completely separate from all the other Soulslike entries.
I can’t believe those game journalists gave this clearly flawed game a 10/10. If this game was not made by fromsoft and was a souls like game they would definitely gave it a 7/10 or even lower😂
“I feel no shame in using all these exploits when the bosses are just not fun to fight” I’m with you 100%. For me I use co op. From Soft should be ashamed not me
Why continue playing if you didn't like it? I'm not going to say your opinion is wrong as its an opinion but if I don't like something I would just not continue.
I think the peak level design of FromSoft Soulsborne games is Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1, and Bloodborne. So many secret areas and paths to discover, yet you still had a generally linear direction to push towards.
Ah yes Dark Souls 2, The game where you go to a giant windmill, go up an elevator, and arrive at a huge castle in a pool of lava. Truly peak level design.
What's the point of having a healthbar in soulslikes anymore? Just give the player 3 hearts and make every enemy deal 1 heart of damage, while a sip of estus restores 1.
Likely just mind games. It’ll look more exciting/impressive to see a huge chunk taken off a health bar than to see one unit depleted. Even if it is effectively the same thing.
@@mrshmuga9 The only reason to have a health bar is to give full facetank builds a chance, someone beat the final boss of the DLC without blocking or dodging, but for everyone else the bosses are 2-3 hit deaths.
>40$ plus tax price tag >Nearly 3 years of dev time >Vast amounts of reused content and bosses from the base game. >Dogwater performance on a 5000$ PC on mid to high settings >Blank barren open world no one asked for, least it looks pretty. >Failed abortion of a progression system solely exists to justify the empty open world and fix a problem Fromsoft has never had in any of their prior entries, AKA they gave up balancing endgame scaling. >Waste life exploring just to find Somber smithing stone +2/3 :^) There’s plenty of valid factual and objective critiques of the DLC people could be making, people wasting time complaining that hard game continues to be hard isn’t one of them, I'm honestly worried this is going to mark the downward spiral of Fromsoft if base game Elden Ring hadn't already.
First ER, then AC6, now SotE. I'm afraid to see we are entering a new From era, and not a better one. I doubt they'll go back to their original philosophy on design and difficulty now.
Elden Ring has cool looking zones but they aren’t intricately built like their older titles and the most damning thing to me is the bosses aren’t fun to fight, like ever. I miss more compact, detailed zones with zero torrent. Fuck I hate Torrent he’s basically everything wrong with this game.
the final area of the game where you fight Radahn has like a Smithing Stone [6] or 7 on a difficult to reach (kinda hidden) place, it's like they randomly placed crappy loot to fill spaces and lengthen the game, so much pointless "exploration"
I think the open world is beautiful and isn't that empty. There r certain areas that r empty and were completely wasted like the Abyssal Woods, the Finger ruins and the area under the Ancient Ruins of Rauh, but the rest ain't that bad. Plus the layout of the land is perfect. Way better than the base game. The fact that they reward u with the most basic items is really disappointing. Enemies should've had higher drop rates. And the fact that even in the dlc, they're fucking stingy with dragon smithing stones is an abysmal choice to make.
Old-school Soulsborne purists are far less annoying than normie Elden Ring bandwagon jumpers who never played Dark Souls or Bloodborne but scream "GIT GUD" and "SKILL ISSUE" while they're all using the same bloodhound-step-rivers-of-blood-mimic-tear build to face-roll every boss and smugly condescending to anybody who dares to suggest that Elden Ring isn't the greatest game of all time. I've seen these smooth-brains call it a "masterpiece", then admit that they thought most of the bosses suck. Everything that goes mainstream turns into garbage because normies are idiots.
@@iloveblackC yes, main comment is right. Elden Ring made Fromsoft more mainstream, which brought a lot of tryhards with FOMO into the mix turning the fanbase even more toxic
Final boss is such a slop, 80% aoe's, unrelenting combos that let you hit him 1 time every 30 seconds, and being weak to- guess what- BLEED, FROST AND SCARLET ROT. It's like fromsoft WANT us to cheese him.
honestly should have made his moves be more badass and slower + add CASTING for him, to make it more interesting but also easier if you keep your distance at the right moment (but slows down the fight, this rewards casual players but punishes speedrunners)
@@SebastiansSebastian-fc4pj i think his first phase meteor, drill move and basic combo is fine, the cross slash mixed in is a bit much. second phase needs to have some rhythm changes, i think the light aoes could even be fine as long as its improved graphically or not go behind the boss
Also can't even roll fast enough to dodge each attack so you pretty much have to use a shield (which has its own issues). You pretty much have to use a mimic tear/NPC summon but the boss will either just ignore them to focus on you- or he will be so distracted by them that you have to spend a lot of your stamina just trying to run to where the damn boss is lol.
bro every time I see boss doing crazy shit I'm envy and jealous of them, I wanna do cool shit too I love crazy mobility in games but all I can do is roll and swing just once before boss starts doing cool shit all over again :/
@@Suryus94 Funny cause I seem to do just fine using bloodhound on my offhand quickly switching to my right hand weapon and using its near skill just fine. Sounds like people just aren't willing to develop the skills necessary to use the cool skill in conjunction with each other.
This. Never understood why you couldn’t be a fan of synth and a fan of fromsoft games,and not be mature enough to not melt down when he voices his critiques. Even more so when he’s right on Elden ring and the DLC. (Imo it’s not their usual quality due to falling for the open world slop curse)
@@roachdoggjr8399 dang shame. It’s just maturity per usual. Synth calls out both. Obviously he calls out people who have meltdowns about his opinions,but he calls out people who just brainlessly meat ride him too and white knight for him.
You can make a game challenging while still making it fun, but Fromsoft drones have been conditioned to think pressing circle at the right time is supposed to be fun. I swear them and speedrunners have optimized how to suck the fun out of games. When even their god Miyazaki sucks at his own game and uses every tool at his disposal. Why shouldn’t I use Perfume bottles?
If difficulty was much more multifaceted you'd be complaining about the unnecessary complexity. I do think the world building, environment, lore, and immersive experience of feeling like just another person is fun, overcoming the odds is the entire point of the gameplay loop who knew? But I guess neither of our opinions really matter, the numbers have spoken.
@@brandongillette35 the numbers have spoken? I guess that means Taylor Swift is a great artist and the Fast and Furious franchise consists of good movies. Damn, who knew. Ad populum fallacy who?
Miyazaki inspiring in Berserk is overrated Like on this point he can make a 1:1 Berserk adaptation and would be better than the lore of this "Elden DarkSouls-Bloodborne" (even DS and Blood are very cool and unique in the story and world) Has no unique story except maybe the family of gods and the "other gods" but the lack of lore makes a shitty fanmade story
@@noway6633 yes superficial in the Dark Souls and bloodborne, you have Ludwin or some Demon design BUT THIS GAME COPY ALL BERSERK ALL Miquella is just Griffith with incest, Rykard is straight from BERSERK without a good explanation, the world has a lot of animal-humans and the Lore is ALMOST almost Dark Souls with the dragons being the kings of humanity and the "Grace" being a TP without reason in this world Thats why im mad because Sekiro and Bloodborne are more original and this Game is just LAZY could be a Dark souls 4 smash with Bloodborne and changes nothing
@@Morfe02 You mention Griffith which is valid, but then you mention Rykard? What? You could only think of one point the game took from berserk. At least do your research if you're gonna have a meltdown.
I got into a twitter fight on Endymion's post abt the game, and the guy saying he was just bad for not liking the piss poor boss design lost his shit when I said I beat Artorias in the first attempt. These people, they're not simply masochists, they're zoomers who got eviscerated in the first games and developed this mentality that trying every other boss 40 or even SIXTY times is just normal and if you disagree you're bad at the game
What I find funny is when people make claims they beat the toughest bosses second or even first try. I'm sorry but that's damn near impossible. And even funnier when they complain a boss is BS because it took them 10 attempts to beat. I'm sorry but if you can defeat a boss in so little attempts then you cannot state its difficult, and makes me wonder why they bother playing in the first place as the challenge is the whole point
artorias isnt shit compared to anything in elden ring, what do you mean? he was difficult when dark souls 1 was current but is an absolute cakewalk compared to even middling bosses in DS3/ER.
@@r.r.r.r.r.r.r. Yep, the guy just proved my point, he got his ass kicked by mid-difficulty bosses and thought it was normal to die 40 times to half of the bosses in the game. He also claimed that the challenge is the whole point of the game, so we know he didn't even watch the video as Synth proves this is false, and the challenge was merely a highlight of FS' games. Bro made my day lol
The more I play elden ring the less I enjoy it. I did really like my first playthrough up until lyndell capital, but everything after that sucked. I recently went back and replayed dark souls 3 since they were doing a community event at the time and I realized how it's just better than elden ring in every way. Fromsoft and Miyazaki have really lost touch with what make their older games so good. Plus the "souls" style of game only works as a linear game or a metroidvania, not as an open world.
I did the same thing literally one hour before they patched it haha. I would most likely not have bothered finishing the DLC if I could not cheese it with the parfume.
My main problem with the bosses of the dlc isn’t the crazy health or high damage attacks. It’s the terrible camera angles and attacks that get frame caught. Even in the base game the craziest attacks were all able to be dodged with practice. But this dlc completely throws that philosophy out the window. 50 plus deaths just to die to something unfair. Nothing is more demotivating than that.
Yeah, that's been a major From criticism for years, but fanboys have got Miyazaki sniffing his farts at this point so nothing changes or things regress. Also, at least the prison team will always have a crowd, with their fans being in prison with them.
I miss the time when bosses were strong, but rather simple. Remember the time when Artorias and Manus were a big deal, because of their speed and aggressiveness? Manus' temper tantrum wombo-combo? Yeah, that was tough. But it was one boss, not every single major boss. Even Gwyn's moveset is rather simple. Artorias was almost on your level. Now every boss has to be flashier, more crazy than the last to the point where even logic is now thrown out of the fucking window as a cheap way to "subvert expectations." One ten minute long ballerina bullshit combo after the other. Have the boss delay the attacks to mess up your timing deliberately. That's basically the From Software formula today. Plus add some cheap ass, awkward, vague, remorseful dialogue somewhere to make the character more sympathetic or something. Reuse ideas from previous titles if you are creatively bankrupt. Have some bombastic orchestra in the background. Name the boss something like "XY, the [INSERT TITLE HERE]" and you have an instant classic boss. I want a boss called fucking "Bob" for once... Plus listen to what players criticize about the areas and do exactly the same thing again, only more. Poison swamps? Check. Shitton of "GOTCHA!" moments? Check. Winter Lanterns from Bloodborne which were terrifying the first time, but absolutely tedious on repeat playthroughs? Check. SlopSoftware fans will eat it up anyway. That delicious, delicious slop. They'd rather commit the most heinous, most nefarious crimes than say one bad word about FS games. You can bet your ass if Dark Souls 1 was made today, even the god damn Taurus Demon would have some bullshit anime move where it flies up in the sky and spins around and you have less than a second to dodge, but it delay the attack mid air and instakills you, and you have to listen to some fucking dialogue every death. God help the poor fool that dares to criticize them publicly... I was way too harsh with Dark Souls 2.
After playing Elden Ring (I did not complete it, mind you), I went back to DS1, and it was a night/day difference. DS1 was unforgiving but fair. Elden Ring is just punishment.
@@Yayofangamer16 Well no he wrote the entire backstory / mythology for it. Pretty much all of it. The gods and their incestuous relationships, the dragons, and yes, the names. But he wrote them and Miyazaki created a game out of it, and this particular DLC was already contained in that original story but cut because it would be too much extra content to put in.
I love waiting 3 mins to get one hit on a boss before they do another 12 hit delayed combo followed by AOE spam. Fromsofts boss designs suck ass now, very uninspired, more of the same. 4/10
@@Igorsbackagain-c6qi think some of us will from now on, but we wanted this to be "good"(subjective term). I miss the older boss designs, the more deliberate combat not the roll spam fest the game has become. The only boss i really truly enjoyed in the dlc was midra, because he reminded me of an older style boss. I'm using this dlc as a sort of wakeup call that I don't particularly enjoy the direction from is going with their boss design. Some people might, and im happy for them that they get the fights they want. Unfortunately I think a lot of long term souls fans, people whove been around since DS1 or DeS are feeling more and more disenfranchised.
What really grinds my gears about Elden Ring as a whole is wasted potential for Fromsoft to actually break away from the bleak post apocalyptic dying world stuff. I enjoy the gameplay loop, I love traversing these beautiful/cool designed areas they make and even the spectacle of some of the bosses, but after five games all falling into the same kind of nihilistic premise and all plot being delivered through lore tidbits, I'm tired of the formula. Imagine if Elden Ring didn't take place in yet another world where everything already went kaput and instead the player's normal goal was preventing the Shattering and saving the world in a more straightforward Dragon Quest/Legend of Zelda "Adventurer sets out to defeat the big bad or gets thrust into it by circumstance" manner (alternate questlines for different endings and outcomes still present). Imagine if instead of a big open world populated 99% by things that wanted to kill you, there were towns, settlements, castles, etc populated by normal NPCs going about their life that reacted to you and your deeds in between the areas full of stuff that only wants you dead. Imagine if instead of the Ashes, you could actually find party members with their own personalities, dialogue, reactions, objectives and trials to overcome akin to Igon and Bayle (I mean, that Radahn fight in the base game where you can join forces with a bunch of NPCs on a battlefield shows some potential if they made said NPCs more than just silent one-off ghosts). Imagine plotlines that don't require the average person to watch a youtube video where someone compiles and makes sense of every item description in the game to paint a picture and you could actually experience most of it in-game or at least have the footnotes given to you by a town crier or a scholar in a town. Basically imagine a Dragon's Dogma like game experience as done by From Software only replace the Arisen by a Chosen Undead. It's really saddening how FromSoft just keeps churning out these bleak worlds instead of trying to put their level design, detail and polish into a living, less cynical world, and apparently Miyazaki says the open world design was a one and done thing so something like what I said above is definitely never happening.
Imagine a Majora's Mask like Fromsoft game, where you have 3 days to save the world, a straightforward story which is easy to understand and emotive. Imagine legendary quests like reuniting Kafei and Anju before Armageddon..... Right now, Fromsoft games feel like an empty shell, slop for the dumbed down masses.
@@Cyberpsych0_ Interesting ideas from both you & Toaster. Did Majora's Mask do that well, though? When it came out, I remember hearing about the time limit and being iffy on that. I don't think I was alone. It's been a long time, so... But the ability for a company that is selling a luxury item that is also a piece of art (vidya game) to take chances is well appreciated. I think a lot of people are disappointed in terms of the DLC because FromSoft didn't take much in the way of chances, if any: - lore is just nonsense (of the stupid, non-forshadowed kind) - extra weapons, spells are cool but like base ER, many seem useless, niche, or PvP only - empty areas, bosses & regular enemies with more animu flashy attacks that are hard to do anything about - reused assets - empty areas & mindless drops (a problem in some areas in base ER, also legacy dungeons with boss drops have little rhyme or reason usually) - overall poor execution It would have been pretty cool of them to update the base game with SOME of the DLC weapons for free, somehow. Or if they were working on a smaller, cheaper DLC in secret. In summary: FS seems to be hesitant to take any chances because they've built up a specific customer base & reputation.
@@PaulieMcCoy it wouldn't be a huge risk for FS to implement some changes to it's base formula while retaining boss battles / PvP which have built up the fan base. Things like interesting puzzles you find in Zelda games which force you to find a solution before you can proceed accompanied by the legendary Zelda 'problem solved' sound effect, dynamic events occuring based on the time of day (such as the thief Sakon in Majora's Mask stealing from the old lady at midnight), realistic NPC schedules and routines like Zelda / Skyrim / Oblivion rather than everything being braindead and trying to kill you like in Souls games (as the original poster mentioned). Basically I'm looking for a grown up Zelda, and FS are the closest to making it.
Elden ring is that game people like to say is good but hide the fact that 90% of the game is literally an easyer egg hunt to be cabable of doing anything relevant to the harder parts of the game. Anyone who steps into elden ring as someone with only a little info on the souls games will shelve this game indefinitely due to its hard ball idea that it needs to be CHEAP to be hard. That right i said it, CHEAP DIFFICULTY. Elden ring is cheap difficulty and not even on par with any previous souls titles difficulty where it was down to user faliure rather than some arbitrary gear set issue. And to those naked fugg with sticks trying to come here arguing that angle you memorized the game to fair with that set shut up about get gud, memorizing isnt souls titles are not only difficulty angle.
I think From basically expects people to look at a wiki now to get meta builds and find the broken OP items. If you want to complete a lot of the sidequests you basically have to look at a wiki.
It seems cheap because they literally expect you to be reading guides on reddit and wiki to optimize everything in the game. dark souls one expected people to share info but it clearly wasnt designed around internet meme meta builds. Most gamers wouldnt be able to beat elden ring normally without reading guides online and it expects you to do so extensively
I won't pretend dark souls lore wasn't messed up in areas but seriously, after Martin entered the scene almost all of the politics in the lore has to deal with incest it's just getting creepy. Also please review binary domain it's a very good old school shooter.
@jeankirchstein2552 You're not wrong about that in real world mythology however I'm just sick of the amount of sibling shagging in this games lore. It was weird enough when Marika and mohg tried or did engage in it but at least those were side bits of the lore. Now this is THE main narrative of the game and it's just disgusting. Not to mention the fact this clearly has to do with Martin's influence since this lore has more incest than the entire dark souls trilogy combined.
@@kaiserrichard2017 Does George have siblings by any chance, and has anyone checked on their welfare of late? Sure they arent chained up in his sex dungeon or something? Dude thinks about incest way to much.
Bro...in house of the dragon daemon sleeps with teen rhanaera, who is also his sister? Cousin? Idk the ppint is look at all the incest in game of thrones and now elden ring@@kaiserrichard2017
Why has gaming changed into either being baby brain easy, or soul suckingly hard? People who like casual games are crazy and neurotic, and people who like the hard games are obnoxiously competitive and aggro to the point that it makes me wonder if they're on steroids. Edit: Oh, and I refuse to change my mind on the fact that Miquella should have been a girl. Because apparently that's a controversial take. 🙄
Game balance is hard to get right so it seems like it's easier for the devs to either go for the ultra casual crowd or the "hardcore" crowd with difficulty.
@@Flyon86I call BS when fan mods exist. Super Mario RPG is a remake, and they made it easier (ignoring the new, extra moves). That’s not a screwup, you literally have all the numbers and whatnot made for you. It’s a choice. Heck, I’ll play some games and the Normal mode is too easy so I’ll switch it to Hard (if available). This isn’t because I’m some highly-skilled player, I’m not. It’s because they basically relabelled Easy mode as “Normal” and Normal to “Hard”. And then added an even EASIER mode under that if you’re somehow too lazy to watch a playthrough/cutscenes on TH-cam. We basically have “Very Easy, Easy, Normal”. Except, sometimes the “Hard” (Normal) difficulty isn’t available until AFTER you beat the game. I don’t want to play it again just so it’s at a MODERATE difficulty level, especially if it’s a long RPG. And said games let you rotate between currently accessible difficulties at anytime anyway. Honestly, just take away any trophies relating to difficulty if that’s the hangup. Have them all available at the start. Or, if you REALLY want a “hard” mode that once you select you’re stuck with it, then have it as its own thing but still offer a regular sort of hard mode. Or a damage multiplier. Playing through FF7 Rebirth. I’m only in the grass area, fine, but enemies die well before you get into the groove, even with dynamic difficulty on. I like the combat of these games, but being allowed to actually engage in it shouldn’t be limited to mid-boss/boss fights. Even something like Paper Mario TTYD lets you engage with basic enemies longer. It also doesn’t help that your other party members not actively in your team can hit them from the sidelines too. At any time you have 2-4 NPC’s fighting on your behalf to fight 2-5 enemies, and some of those enemies can be really weak (like plants and whatnot). I hope it improves, but according to some forums, only in the last 3rd. Shouldn’t have to wait that long just so I can’t sneeze and miss a battle.
@@mrshmuga9 Fan mods are usually harder than base game because it's for "enthusiasts" more than casuals. Like I've played a lot of mount and Blade mods and most of them are harder than base game.
@@Flyon86 I get that, but your point was it’s hard to balance, as if games haven’t done balancing well for at least 20 years. It’s not something new that has to be learned. And I wasn’t even talking about fan mods making an _actual_ hard mode, I mean mods that balance the game properly. You know, what the devs are supposed to do, and sometimes try to fix after-the-fact with a patch (to individual segments, not the entire game).
@@mrshmuga9 Games have been trending to easier and easier since the beginning of the xbox 360 era. That's why people liked dark souls in the first place, games at the time were becoming incredibly easy and hand holdy.
Finally I've been waiting for someone to give this DLC the s*** it deserves I'm so exhausted with people giving it 10 out of 10 when it not only exacerbated a lot of the problems the bass game had also introduced total new ones like stupid busted one-hit kill ashes of war that have little to no oversight by this game's combat designer if one even exists.
Nope, SB's bosses were extremely enjoyable to fight, unlike anything in ER. It's just so damn ironic that they used FROM's own solution to the aggressive bosses, and even improved upon it with all the flashy combos and skills
"..the mechanics cant support the complexity of the boss fights.." This is so spot on, you are stuck playing dark souls, while bosses play a fighting game, pummeling the shit out of you.
You're not supposed to play it like ds, tho Elden ring aims to have you attack in between a bosses combos alongside using jump attacks,aow heavy and charged heavy attacks to break their posture Seeing synths gameplay, he's just using r1 and mashing dodge, and I'm assuming most who bring up this point are too as they're gameplay is very similar. Of coruse your gonna have a bad time you chosing to play in the most boring, way possible it's like how Under the Mayo aruged Ultrakills combat was bad, since he refused to use anything other then the starter pistol. Yes it's possible but it's unfun and tedious to play that way. Using those mechanics I was able to easily beat bosses who I struggled with fighting like they were ds1 bosses with just the guts greatsword. And I'm not saying it to brag. I'm actually pretty mid at most games I play. I'm simply pointing out there's loads of mechanics people are simply not using. You're essentially doing a challenge run for the first playthrough " The boss complexity doesn't support the mechanics" yeah cause you're not using most of them Elden rings problem with boss design isn't that they're BB/Sekrio bosses paired with ds combat it's that the game fails to explain to you how important these systems are.
@justsomeguyontheinternet7134 The issue is that meta builds and over leveling are the solution , not actually getting better at the game. If they added ralley and deflect it would've been fine. Instead we got ashes of war and spirit ashes.
@Christianbaker3564 Meta builds and levelling are a way to overcome this, yes, but it isn't the only way, just the easiest. Again, I explained how Synth,Asmon, and other youtubers who argue bosses combos are too long aren't using mechanics built into the game. They don't use charged attacks or any moves that can break boss poise while playing far too passively, You're not supposed to wait for the boss to finish a combo before they kindly let you hit them. You have to attack in between attacks to break their poise and allow you to control the fight Watch moronic boc and loopines response to Joepsh Andersons review, and you'll see what I mean Even Maleina hardest boss in the base game can be easily destroyed if you play like this and aim to break her poise alongside many other bosses. I did it with a basic colossal sword str build, and I'm honestly not that good. The proper argument isn't bosses are too aggressive and don't give you openings. it's that the game doesn't teach you how to play correctly.
I agree with everything you said except for the gay and incest stuff. I'm not 100%, but what I believe they were going for with those lore elements is something akin to what you'd see in Hinduism rather than Woke culture. Wokeness is unambiguous as hell, and the lore here is (somewhat ambiguous) but generally denoting a functional aspect to the god-consort partnership. Much like a tarnished and maiden, there was just a poorly explained and fleshed out idea.
I’d like to think the term consort isn’t used in a sexual way but as a formality since the God being in Elden Ring must have a consort. That said, this is still made by Japanese Miyazaki so homosexual incest fan fiction is feasible.
I miss the design of the original Demon's Souls, where the design and features actually supported and allowed you to explore the entire stages as long as you wanted and find all the hidden secrets and collectables.
@@gameurai5701 they always complain bro . There’s plenty of Ubisoft & EA games they can flock to. Miyazaki already said “if we wanted everyone to play our game-“ .. meaning not everyone is built for it. Yet here they are
@@crazypkm They came so far. I actually think everybody can play the game, but they actually need to put in effort. There's no "press x button to win" option. Main character syndrome destroyed. You're just a lowly tarnished in this universe, so why would it be any other way lol?
i sincerely hope from software sticks to the "no making sequels" mentality after this, even if its a big success and publisher will prolly beg for it, maybe at least they can get away with making it not as open world? it just seems like being open world was this game's biggest mistake, completely incompatible with the quest design imo.
@@gldntchr7122 the locations of some npcs is actually bonkers at times for er, legit in the middle of nowere, i could understand them making a sound like alexander or generally grouping close to important roads in the map but for many locations they just hang out in this supposedly really important spot that i would totally find on my own cough cough millicent cough
Dark Souls elitism is overrated as well. I enjoy breaking the game more than being an obnoxious sweaty try hard (You used Mimic, you didn't beat the game.) Yeah, how about this, if you level up, you didn't beat the game. If you use Torrent, you didn't beat the game. If you use a weapon of any kind, you didn't beat the game, so on and so forth. Their logic is pretty flawed to begin with, a cherry picking at it's finest but i digress. I'm 100% agree with this. The open world is just meh. I do enjoy some of the boss fights and some are just annoying like repeated boss fights.
@@degayify I'll take that as a compliment. Now would you kindly decommission your limbs since you don't look like you want to use everything at your disposal to make your life easier. Try that since you like being a try hard.
Fromsoft really should have stopped after bloodborne. Since then, basically every boss has either been an abnormally-fast combo machine or a screeching, flailing thing that takes up way too much of the screen. Everything has to be bigger, flashier and more powerful than the next thing. There was a line, and it was crossed some time ago.
@arkworthy8594 Sekiro was the only entry I'd consider to not be a Souls-like game. It was more of a stealth action-adventure game with none of the limitations and RPG restrictions of all the other entries.
I hate that fromsoft fell for the open world slop meme, I would say that I hope that the next game isn’t open world, but normies buy open world garbage and fromsoft does want to make money, sad.
@@slynt_no, open world is garbage and the worse way to design anything. The only real way for open world to “work” is to make the game for +10 years so that you don’t have problems like Elden ring and every other open world game has, sparse or repeated content. Open world is done for 2 things, artificially inflate play time, and have devs brag about “no load screens” which is incorrect because you are essentially running through the load screens. I have yet to see a game improved by its open world segments and I’ve only seen games hurt by it. edit: I legitimately can not believe I forgot the GOAT of fallout games, New Vegas, and the early Elder Scrolls games, really goes to show how much starslop and to a degree skyrim ruined my impression of Bethesda and their IPs.
@@slynt_ true. But it’s clear it’s not fromsoft’s strength. Or not the cup of tea if I and others who felt this dev is at their best with smaller packages. There is a reason I and others feel bloodborne/sekiro are their best titles. (And dark souls,even if 1 is my least favorite of the souls games funnily enough. Due to being incomplete ).
@@Nyver253 does fallout new vegas count as open world? Prob the one game i'd say I think is the best at it. But even that game has problems considering the movespeed of the player and how long it takes to get back to and forth from locations, even when fast traveling. Open world can work perfectly if you have a variety of different areas/content in a 30 sec- 1 minute radius where you can discover something completely new. When u look at the fnv map, u see a location/ POI on literally every inch of the map. There's always some kijd of new discovery that rewards with either a quest that gives u new weapons or shit ton of XP. The worst open worlds are prob ubislop games lmao. Bunch of filler garbage everywhere with "collectibles" that give u nothing.
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Dark Souls remake made by 2024 From Software:
>go to the rooftop to fight the gargoyles
>rooftop is now a big circular arena
>first gargoyle comes flying across the arena at mach 12 while spinning like a beyblade for 37 continuous seconds
>any time you try to take an action at the end of the spinbo it extends another 11 rotations
>somehow whittle his health down to half
>"zanzigoyle forgive me"
>other gargoyle flies down
>"ah together once again!"
>now there are two gargoyles spinning endlessly spinning except with huge fire aoes that also explode covering the whole arena
>enter Capra Demon fog wall
>the dogs now have 10k hp each
>no thought given to when the player is supposed to get an attack in, just not stop overlapping swings from all three at once
>finally get the dogs down
>fades to a cut scene
>"aaaah...izalith was within me....all along. forgive me, Queelan... "
>leaps 40 feet into the air, hangs for 10 seconds, them slams down coating the entire zone in chaos lava blobs
>instakilled
>"i am Capra, blade of Quelaag.
>fight Sif
>instead of starting to limp after a certain amount of damage a cutscene starts
>black and red energy starts emerging from Sif's body
>"forgive me, my dearest master Artorias"
>Sif bites his right wounded leg and tears it from his body
>where the wound is, a huge clawed arm appears, made from red and black energy
>Sif's eyes glow red and his sword also gains a red glow and starts hovering over him
>"now...let us walk the Abyss....together"
>new health bar: Sif, best friend of the Walker of the Chasm
>immediately lashes at you 8 times in a row with random delays between each hit
>each hit triggers an AoE
>all while his floating swords shoots homing energy flames at you
>starts howling and the entire arena gets hit by 20 red AoE lightning
>while you die after two hits, you hear "maybe i wasn't such a good boy after all" over fainted generic orchestra sounds and latin chants
I love these!
These are hilarious
Lmao this reads like a cheap anime
Moral of the story: use perfume and you won't become gay
@@f1shze4lot Truth.
Unless you use Jean Paul Gauliter
@@milleniumeye8050 I sprayed some le beau on five minutes ago. How much time do I have? Will I still love my wife?
I prefer my natural musk
Real.
Elden Ring fans: "You can't complain about difficulty because the game gives you all the tools to win!'
*Synth uses the tools the game gives him to win*
Elden Ring fans: 🤬🤬🤬
Used ashes?
Used summoning?
Used weapon arts/that one ice weapon art?
Beat it after whatever patch?
Used seamless coop?
Used *insert whatever thing you want*?
"YOU DIDN'T BEAT THE GAME!!!!!!"
I remember years ago when dark souls was first starting to get popular, there was a message board where people were sharing their experiences and advice about the game.
One guy chimes in about how he beat the game for the first time. Everyone was quick to congratulate him and ask him what build he used. When he replied that he was a sorcerer everyone started ripping on him and saying he cheated or didn’t experience the game properly.
Yeah. The soulsborne fanbase has always been full of self-important entitled idiots.
It’s more of an easy mode. It’s not cheating but relying on them just makes you seem like you’re not up to snuff with the game
Synthcells: ''Gatekeep your hobbies!''
Soulsborne fans: *Gatekeep their hobbies*
Synthcells: ''Not like that, bigots! Now our overlord gets filtered, and we don't want that 😢''
@@TheStraightestWhitest
you are gay.
and brown.
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Can't stand em
How much?
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Radahn got roofied by his brother😭😭😭😭
and graped.
Even Fromsoft nerfed him hard. So much for "general" lol
Nah he's a true Synthcell. He tore right into that attractive femboy.
Mohglester? More like Mohglested.
Miquella was tryna grape everyone. He is griffith but WAY more pride month and creepy.
remember kids overrated dosn't mean bad
yes it does.
It has the same problems of the original game. I liked and hated this dlc in equal part. Its crazy cause i have never felt a game to be such a rollercoaster of quality in all my life.
no need to sugarcoat it, the DLC is both bad and overrated
@@SerbianLifter997it literally doesn't bro, it could mean "just okay" and that's probably what it is
@@koichitrump4147
it's not "just okay".
Synth already stated the DLC is awful.
Rest in peace Rolling Sparks (2024-2024)
You were too good for this world.
amen
This DLC illustrates something fundamental that Fromsoft fanboys will never admit and it is that they basically designed ER to be ABSOLUTELY cheesed.
I RARELY see a honest, basic, simple build.
You will likely find cheese strats.
And the people who defend it saying "Fromsoft gave you those tools you should use them" don't understand that BEFORE people didn't need it.
If you play Co-op you will realize how HORRENDOUS at the game your average player is, why? Because the game REINFORCES BAD BEHAVIOURS.
"Skill issue, get good" bro, NOBODY NEEDS to get good EVER in ER, all you need is a cheesy build and you win.
And why is that? Because Fromsoft fundamentally made this game harder than it needed to be, so they allowed ALL of this crap to circumvent it.
Horrible design, they cattered the experience of the game SO MUCH into being cheesable they make the basic combat completely worthless, your enemy is a twirling raging monster who can 3 shot you, and you have a basic b1tch moveset, and your L2.
And people say this game is perfect, FUCK NO, this game pleases NOBODY, PvP is sh1t, and PvE is either an exercise of crashing your head against the wall, or completely rolling over everything in 3 hits.
To give an example of how bad this design is, they made Radahn the hardest boss ever, and what did people do? Fucking cheese him whit Greatshields, if Miyazaki INTENDED the game to be hard, HE FUCKED UP, PEOPLE ARE COMPLETELY NEGATING THE DIFFICULTY.
This is not even making the boss fair, people are rendering the FINAL BOSS into a complete JOKE, because the game has cultivated a culture of cheesing bosses.
Remember when all you needed was a bigass weapon and any gear you wanted?
Yeah, lets pretend your average player will kill Radahn whit an average build.
Perfectly put.
Compare Radahn to Gael. The difference is palpable. Quality has gone downhill.
More proof that the average player is shit? I love getting summoned for levels but 9/10 times the host dies in the boss almost immediately.
And all i did was use the golden halberd 99% of the game lol i didnt even think jump attacks were worth it, cause i could hit 2 or 3 times in the same time frame. I only had to change may strat with all of the holy immune bosses later. I see every op build and i just want to be a halberd using knight like when i played demon souls. when it comes to builds, I think bloodborne is better, where there is quite the build variety, but none of them shut every boss down like the sword of flame and sorcery(pre nerf) or bleed buildsor even jump attack builds.
Now this is a rant to frame on the wall.
I always felt like this dlc was parodying what people thought dark souls was like
This is a perfect description lmao
Bayle and the final boss surely are
I also think Dark Souls 2 actually parodied what people thought Demon's Souls and DS1 were originally like way back in 2014, because DS2 was overwhelmingly cheap and unfair with every single mechanic, feature and design choice.
Uhh, sir this is Elden Ring, not Dark Souls.
Dark Souls is not difficult. Dark Souls is easy. What made it difficult was people were used to "just mash the buttons" gameplay like Kingdom Hearts or God of War. They were not used to careful decision making gameplay.
Elden Ring is ACTUALLY difficult.
Difficult does not mean fun.
FROM troons coming and saying how their favourite slop is a masterpiece and why rollspamming and anime boss bs is absolutely cool
If the FromSoft games are for troons (they aren't), then what should the white, Aryan, cis, straight man play? Ubislop shit? EA? Gacha? Yet another Doom clone? Battle royale? Yet another survival game?
I am honestly worried about some of you guys. Some of y'all are lost in the sauce and there is no going back.
@@alifahran8033 Good games like Ninja gaiden, God Hand, Rage 1, Max Payne, Dead rising etc.
Just play XenoVerse if you want anime boss fights.
I was here before the arrival of the dislike redditor brigade
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keep going for daddy synthetic
It's amazing how you can type that comment with one hand on synthetic man's shaft and the other cradling his nuts.
You didn't discuss the super fun meta-game of trying to summon NPC's inside the boss arena, while trying to avoid pulverization by the boss .
You mean getting slammed against the wall by Commander Gaius and dying as soon as you call your spirit summon was a poor design? Who would have thought!
@@VarthalabauHair I think he's talking about NPC summons, which are even worse.
With spirits you can at least decide WHERE you summon them, but its still ass, as you described. But with NPCs you gotta find their summon sign, get to it, activate it and follow up with pressing the "YEAH I ACTUALLY WANNA DO THE THING THAT I JUST CLICKED TO FUCKING DO" button in the middle of battle. Which is just pure AIDs-cancer.
Its quite bizarre that FS do that crap, meanwhile there are pre-fight summons in this very DLC and Siegward in DS3 who "summons" himself for the Yhorm fight or even jumps into arena if you start the fight with a Fire Demon first. They can do it better, they can make it cinematic, but for some reason choose to make it bad.
@@cookiebaker2660 Almost as if Fromsoft doesn't do the exact same thing every time you can fight alongside an NPC. Summons inside a boss fight are as old as DS1 DLC and they're not often, they are special interactions that varies how you engage with the NPCs. You can dislike it of course but that doesn't make it bad design, is just one of MANY ways NPCs are summoned. The only time you don't need to confirm an NPC summon, as far as i remember, is against Radahn and is because everything around him revolves around a big party made just to kill him and summon people, this doesn't apply to every boss, if you don't want to summon accidentally you can cancel, with Radahn it doesn't matter, they die in seconds and it doesn't buff him or reduce your runes gained
If you play on Playstation there's this neat little button called the circle button. It allows you to DODGE.
@@DrJones0801 It sure does. Go ahead and elaborate on how your comment relates to my comment.
Elden Ring only looks like peak gaming because the entire industry is a mountain of shit.
So true
@@torchlight3173 They sold out with Dark Souls 3.
@@NuggetsNBAChamps Agreed. Elden Ring was the final nail in the coffin or more likely, the developers taking a steaming dump on the grave of the games that came before.
@@NuggetsNBAChamps Wrong.
They sold out with Dark Souls One DLC. The series was always bad - except for Demon's Souls.
@@torchlight3173 I don't see how it's gone "full anime". Unless you're suggesting that flashing colors, bright lights, and flashy moves are "anime"? By such logic, the whole series was that from the get go with its references to berserk - or the artorias of the abyss DLC where the bosses had flashy movesets and started the rollspam crap we see now. Especially Artorias and Manus, which were glorified rollspam bosses in which you couldn't tank them with armor or a shield - you had to lose the weight and press the circle button. The DLC absolutely sucked yet normgroids praised it because the bosses moved quicker and required you to spam roll, lol.
Demon's Souls was the only worthwhile game of the franchise - and holds up really well even now. Everything after was goyslop for the dumb masses.
Don't confuse modern anime and its "fans" with retro anime and the true fans of the medium. We want no part of these normgroids who hype modern anime for the sake of being part of the crappy reddit communities before moving on within a year or two. I'll bet not one of them has watched an anime that released before the year 2000 nor has played any actual anime games.
Modern anime is akin to western goyslop, rushed out to maximize profits by going over the usual checklist instead of doing something unique.
*CURSE YOU, BAYLE!* ✊
Btw, "skill issue / git gud" was a meme that newcomers took seriously and got tricked into believing unironically. I'm surprised you didn't show off that little goblin bastard with the green glow blade that does animu bullshit and kills you. He's not even a boss.
The game could be improved if they worked out internally how animations are tied to specific weapons, actually hardcoded. Their overall engine technology could use an overhaul instead of hand-crafting specific animations to specific weapons - I suspect that's why a lot of assets are reused. There is a FromSoft reverse engineering & modding Discord, if one is so inclined to deep dive on it. 🤷♂
Um… sweaty do you touch le hecking grass often???
@@cocknballtorture777 I went outside catching some rays and a FromDrone came by with their smug superior attitude _"You're using suntan spray? You ain't black!"_
He left as quickly as he came. Angry and impotent. 😥
@@PaulieMcCoy they don’t want you to know this, but horse semen acts as a melanin antagonist, that’s how I lost my welfare benefits n shiet
The sword master goblin guy is a boss as well though, you fight him at the end of belurat goal
@@PaulieMcCoylmfao
23:50 this so fucking much, my biggest gripe with the game was that bosses have infinitely cooler movesets than me, and few spells/armaments that do look and feel cool are useless because bosses won't give you any time to execute them, so you're stuck with pressing R1 once or twice in-between the boss spazzing out, and this shit just ain't fun at all.
The first dark souls game had BED OF CHAOS that is worse than any boss in both Elden Ring or any other dark souls game
@@Igorsbackagain-c6qand everyone knows that and has always called it out 😮😮😮 crazy right?!?!?
@@based-ys9um yes but these people are acting like this has the worst bosses in the series and I just have to point out that dark souls has mostly mid bosses
@@Igorsbackagain-c6q because souls games are becoming anime roll slop. We fighting anime ish and still using demons souls combat. That's the problem.
@@based-ys9um you don’t have demon souls movement and attacks I have beaten demon souls and it is wayyyyyy slower
No souls game has a good camera but holy cow is ER’s awful
Hey darran, good to see you're on the Synthetic Side.
Did every boss need a 2nd phase that is just
>Can fly now
>Projectile spam
I remember when 2nd phases were a surprise, now it seems a tacked on necessity and wearisome to see.
Yeah I remember when in the well made and very liked game where they were perfected, Dark Souls 2, were surprising.
It's just become a jrpg at this point. Miyazaki said he wants to make a traditional jrpg next which makes sense, he can do those big flashy moves for bosses and still have it fit the gameplay.
Yeah some bosses absolutely did not need a 2nd phase. Like the Gold Hippo. The 2nd phase for that just feels like a bad joke at the expense of the player. Especially whith it comedically jumping through the air firing projectiles while the camera freaks out
@@DedAlexFive
Dark Souls 2 did it right
A lot of bosses were 1 phase, and then you'd have some that would crop up with a 2nd phase which made them feel more special, even if the 2nd phase sometimes didn't drastically change the boss.
Rather see more of that then every single boss having 2+ phases and turning into a anime light show that deletes your health bar in 2 hits
>didn't drastically change the boss
A good thing imo
DS2 had bosses that expanded on their movesets come a phase 2, think Fume Knight doing stronger variants and a few (just a few) catches.
Making moves more powerful (now that you should have learnt to dodge them) and catches, adds to the fight, a final boss being re-used, 2nd form re-used, and reductively being a T-Pose, spam magic, spam light attack, mess is comical at best.
How dare you not worship hard equals good. I am going to complain to Hidetaka Miyazaki about you.
How is this hard xD, every enemy has clear weaknesses and the boss combos are so readable and easy to parry is insane
Not all hard is created equally.
Elden shit has artificial difficulty due to bad boss balance.
Fair difficulty is good game design. shmups may not be for me but they're well designed video games.
The "It's too hard" talking point is so shallow, reduced by journos that can't actually analyze mechanics.
@@GreyFeather9 That little non-boss bastard gremlin with the green knoife that does the anime moves was ridiculous. It seems like the DLC is OK, play something else if one has Soulsborne fatigue.
Synthetic Man is correct but people misunderstand him on purpose. They don't realize he often hams up stuff on stream - he was very fair in this assessment even if half of the things were his subjective opinions. He could have really baited but he didn't.
At the very least the DLC gave us some nice memes:
perfume, Igor's CURSE YOU, BAYLE! and Griffith/Miquella has always been a twink bastard. There are probably more that I've missed.
@@GreyFeather9"Artificial difficulty" is equally shallow lmao. All difficulty is technically artificial, the types of difficulty people like always come down to your personal preference. There's entire genres of games built upon unreactable difficulty (I wanna be the guy, super meatboy, etc).
Where Elden Ring sits on the spectrum in terms of reactability, randomness and pattern recognition is just not for you, and that's fine, just don't act like you're the arbiter on some arbitrary measure of difficulty and act like it's objective in any way lol.
@@GreyFeather9Skill issue, give one example of artificial difficulty in elden rings main game
zoomers, if you don't like synth go back to ack ma'am
@NickASchwab when is he not, exactly?
@@solace2679 hrt treatment going well i hope?
@NickASchwab Thats why we love him
Ack ma'am 😂
Millenial cope
The final boss is so bad wtf where they thinking ?
Maybe try pressing L2 for once.
@@gameurai5701 you mean doing an AOW that will take 3 seconds to complete while the boss two shots me with his fps dropping attacks ?
@@julien5189 Not the AoW attack, but you can parry most of his normal attacks. It saved me a lot of headache for most DLC bosses and I learned how to use L2 after Relanna lol. He won't get into riposte mode right away, but you can get a free hit every time you parry him.
Fr i remember when he was leaked and everyone who saw it thought it was so bad that thought it was fake 💀
It’s one of the greatest bosses of all time
Best parts from the DLC was Igon’s generational hatred against Bayle, fighting a Lord of Frenzied Flame and Ansbach helping you end Miquella’s mind-graping crusade once and for all.
This. Says a lot when those are the only real takeaways.
@@KingOfhearts72 really good takeaways
The only boss I really liked to fight was messmer the rest is just not worth remembering
Igon hype only thing I enjoyed at all.
Is your pfp a vivziepop character?
Soulsborne has to be one of the most flanderized video game genres ever made.
All the games do anymore is try to one-up each other in stupid difficulty over and over because “difficult = good” apparently?
Bosses that have 15 different attacks, do crazy anime flips with a 100 foot sword, have a massive near-unavoidable AOE explosion move and 2 shots the player is considered “fun” by so many ppl now.
Massive unavoidable AOE explosion mechanics is a trend that needs to be cut off from boss design with extreme prejudice (next to infinite minions, looking at you Doom Eternal). Alatreon in Monster Hunter World was where I realized how stupid such a mechanic is, especially when the developers needlessly kneecap you to pretend it’s “challenging” when in actuality it’s just awful game design. “Git gud” has been turned from mockery against idiot journalists into defending bad developer decisions.
Not true, all dlcs bosses are in fact not harder than much end game bosses in ER if you optimized your character and lv up Scadutree Blessing levels.
Bosses not often can one shot you even you play 3ppl coop. Unless your character isn't optimized or the host has
Elden Ring is a comedy
These games are only as hard as you make them, theres so many options you can use to make this game easy.
I like difficult games too but atleast the gameplay must have mechanics inside that opens up the gameplay instead lets you limit with the badic gameplay while bosses go crazy anime shenanigans that looks much cooler but wastes too much time time too .
Ninja Gaiden had a deep system , Devil may cry goes totally bonkers , Godhand is still King of its own deeper gameplay- mechanics amd also Unreal Tournament 99 offers depth while its not challenging whatsoever.
The Souls-franchise is rather limited and bores to tears compared to older difficult games.
In before the REES
tsmt
Their coming, prepare for battle!
Ree ree, tarded as F
I cant believe this was the goodbye to the story support of Elden Ring. F Miyazaki.
No reees. It's pity.
Synthetic's detractors are something else man. Video has been up for less than a day and already there's some literal-who doing a callout response about the >4 minute Miquella segment. Framing it to his redditor audience how that one segment was the entire 39 minute video. When your gifters are this deluded and dedicated, you must be doing something right.
The only girfter is him
@@Igorsbackagain-c6q "No u" Riveting response, Two First Names Man. Go back to your hugbox.
@@Xandemar51 he 100% right. Synthetic man ain't your guy
@@Murillable and synthcels are any better 😂😂
@@Xandemar51 killing every boss with cheap weapons that are not even intended because “boss too hard” is exactly what a grifter would do
why did we have to get another radahn fight
They could have put anyone else, the dlc would have been mid either way, it lacks content
Radahn is the biggest disappointment of this dlc
Because Radahn was an actually cool character and they needed to shit on him by making him pedo gay zombie. While his arc was perfectly concluded in base game festival in a raid like fight.
@@TyphonNeuronI mean it does help give us more reason to hate Miquela
@@TyphonNeuronhe ain't a pedo gay by any means, he got manipulated by miquela, still a goat character in my book
As much as I love Fromsoft I do agree its overrated. Not bad by any means and still great in fact but they literally doubled down on the BS that plagues late game Elden Ring. The problem is too many people think they are god and can do no wrong. Try pointing out any flaw and you will get called a casual lmao.
I didn't have any of these issues people are complaining about. Elden Ring is a little too easy for me, even in the late game. And I'm only a mid-tier Souls player with old-man hands. So to see people complain about non-issues is baffling. Sometimes "git gud" is the only way. Or maybe, if you don't like it, play something you do.
Casual
Redditors and Fromsoft fanboy elitist groupie brigade coming in the comments with "git gud" and "Skill issue" as arguments
For real. I pointed out that Fromsoft still hasn't fixed their camera issues and I got told to "git gud casul" even though I beat the game using no summons except for Godskin Duo and mainly a melee build. They would rather die then admit Fromsoft isn't perfect.
@@chainuser1774 There's no way fanboys can't even accept camera criticisms. Fromsoft has the worst camera in any fucking video game. They refuse to ever fix it. They fixed in Sekiro but then completely regressed in ER for some fucking reason.
Bruh some people like actually need to get good tho like they be out here rocking Elon musk build and complaining about the easiest boss
Daily reminder most of them who say both are in fact redditors who haven’t played the game,and just want to see people get annoyed because they legitimately have fetish for making people annoyed.
@@xcxmafai Elon Musk build isn't that bad. Or did you forget how to use shields
the biggest part for me, is the constant 10/10 over glazing everyone is giving the dlc its sickening. and the second you say otherwise to the elitists or try to speak with some level of objectivity they slam you with "skill issue" its so off putting
that's just from soft fanboys in the modern day. They are the equivalent of Kojima fanboys. Basically "jap slop good"
The fanbase is terrible now.
@@TheCristianalvarez I find it funny how fromsoft fanboys love to shit on western slop (ubisoft and ea games) without realizing that their games are also slop but japanese
Its a great DLC tho. Yes its hard but if you build right its not that much more than base game.
Ppl are glazing but the other side of "its tooooo harrrrd pls nerf" from game journalists is sad
@@Lakata125in what sense ? Elden ring doesn't take you by the hand like Horizon
miyazaki gay fantasy = destroyed
elden ring normies dying 100 times to the end game boss = annihilated
synthetic man = winning
I cant believe this was the goodbye to the story support of Elden Ring. F Miyazaki.
@@Yayofangamer16 i was so excited for the new lore
I beat Radahn in 12 tries. No greatshield, no perfume, no summons, no spirit ashes. Parries and a Smithscript Cirque. He's been no hit countless times already. You all really just circlejerk this opinion because you're dogshit at the game. Sad.
Elden chuds, millions must rune
@@Yayofangamer16was your..HEART STOLEN!?🤪🤪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
This bouta get flooded with redditor cope tears
Maybe the Bethesda bucks dried up for them.
TRD to that, I say.
this comment section reeks of reddit too lol
When doesn't it?
Very reddit to mention reddit
"Skill issue" is the fromsoft femboys version of disney calling everyone "ists and phobes" anything to deflect actual criticism.
These people are so bad they don't even know that the mimic tear is in the game
I never die lmfao skill issue
" fromsoft femboys " 💀
It’s also unironcally loads of redditors/toons who never played the games trying to “own the chudcels”
@@kopfdertoten466 mimic tear is peak CUCKOLDRY. youre summoning in a stronger version of yourself to show you what life would be like if you werent such a miserable failure.
Femboys lol I know you meant fanboys but still a funny slip.
Bro Act Man on twitter just agreed with you saying the open world and items are bland and boring af.
But on twitter they aren’t getting mad at him for saying this but are mad at you for saying it 1st on TH-cam.🤦🏽♂️
bugmen trying not to give breadtubers premium treatment for 5 seconds (impossible)
because act man didn't talk about gay femboy sex💀
I have been saying it for over 20 years.
@@nordicwarriorgaming4953 👍🏽
Actman sucks
Respect to synthetic for not being afraid of the NPCs and expressing his opinion.
I cant believe this was the goodbye to the story support of Elden Ring. F Miyazaki.
Respect to your toddler for coming out as trans
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Bruh, this channel is literally a hive mind. Nobody EVER disagrees with Synthlord. Pretty sure that makes you guys the NPCs.
This. I enjoy fromsoft but even I can admit Elden ring has GLARING faults. The DLC compounds those faults a bit/but also fixes em a bit. People who get upset over the opinion of synth haven’t matured. Plus I and others can be his fan and not agree with 100% of his takes. Totally fine too
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@@mystriddlery😭😭😭😭😭
"Challenging" is one thing, "masochism simulator" is another.
That's the difference between Blasphemous and that game.
See he keeps saying that, but it's just because HE'S trash at it. I don't throw myself against a boss for hundreds of tries. I beat every single one of them within 1-12 tries in this DLC, no cheese needed. For him it'd be masochism to fight them the way countless others do with perfect success.
@@TheStraightestWhitest enlighten us oh souls lord Supreme on your ultimate no "cheese" build 😂😂
@@TheStraightestWhitest Definitely dude, you are being absolutely honest.
In fact, please show us how you defeated Radahn fair and square in less than 12 tries.
@@TheStraightestWhitest “Trust me bro I beat every boss in 1-2 tries bro like everyone else……what do you mean there’s multiple mixed/negative reviews on cross platforms, the game & dlc sold millions bro!!!”
I'm glad that you mocked the stupid mentality of these hard-core souls fans.
and the last couple of minutes of the video with the rant about gamers in general was on point.
People forgot the whole purpose of video games which is to have fun, now it's all about stupid achievements hunting,speed running and finishing the game with a stick to prove that you are good in a freaking video game for God sake 🤦🏻♂️
It is fun. Just cause you don't like it doesn't mean it should change. It's for a niche audience since their first game, it's fine if you don't like it, there are literally hundreds of other games.
@@Dude-ni3vk it literally stopped being niche with dark Souls 3
@@denishrg9843 More people liking the niche, doesn't mean it stops being a niche. It's whether or not *everyone" likes it, which evidently is not the case.
The "get good" circlejerk ruined any sort of meaningful discussion around Souls games.
By saying "git gud" they actually mean to get a good game and play that instead of this steaming pile of 🐕💩.
you don't understand the origin of the "git gud" mentality.
It's becoming the pickle rick of memes.
@@OutlawOtaku really almost any game now because some doofus who don't know anything and most likely is bad at the game will say "git gud" and "skill issue" when that's not even the problem nor the topic
@@DeadpoolX9 Are you saying the origin of git gud was somehow benevolent as opposed to what it is now, which is a way to trivialize or dismiss actual meaningful criticism?
@@trisbane4086If you're critism is "it's too hard😭" and "its unfair 😭" when there's people completing no damage runs with a few days of it coming out then yes the only proper response is "git gud" and "skill issue" cause it it truly was too hard and unfair nobody would be able to do no damage runs.
Can’t believe we got this bloated mess but never got sekiro dlc.
Truly sad
With how the 'canon' ending in Sekiro went, it's very likely they're quietly working on a sequel in the background.
I love sekiro but I love Elden ring too
Elden Ring and this DLC completely shits on Sekiro.
sekiro is extremely overrated as well but yeah i'd take sekiro dlc over this any day of the week
The DLC just feels like it doubled down on a lot of the problems from the base game. You have hyper-aggressive enemies, with bloated health and damage numbers, that you need to confront using the traditional Souls mechanics that aren't designed for that. In lieu of actually changing the base mechanics to suit faster gameplay, like Bloodborne or Sekiro did, Elden Ring opted for Ash Summons, in the base game, and Blessings in the DLC. One adds extra bodies to pull aggro - effectively for free -, and the other reduces the number bloat.
I enjoyed the DLC well enough, but it does have me concerned about what kinda of impact it'll have on From's design mentality going forward.
The direction they're going is clear, it was clear since dark souls 3. The future is anime.
It's hilarious to me that they "balanced" the game around summoning when its effectiveness relies entirely on exploiting the same old boss AI that we've had for 15 years now, the bosses still aren't designed to handle multiple opponents at once. That really tells me that this game's main goal was to attract a larger and more casual audience that could just enjoy the spectacle of the fights and get by without much hassle, and judging by the sales numbers, they succeeded big time. The addition of the pointless copypaste open world also supports this, it's really just normie bait.
I can see how this game would blow your mind if you've never played a souls game before, there is that hands off approach and special vibe that fromsoft's known for, but for someone who's played these games since 2010, this game just doesn't hold up when compared to the ones that came before.
@@TyphonNeuronthey are a japanese company btw
Speaking facts
@@InkyMuste I'd actually make the argument that the AI has gotten worse in some regards, largely owing to the increased aggression. Bosses frequently spin on their heels and snap to entirely new targets on a whim. They also frequently get stuck in animation loops (usually pursuit or gap closing attacks) when you attempt to gain a little space.
This DLC is a fucking disaster. It improves on absolutely none of the criticism people had for the main game. It's like they actively decided to make this an "Elden Ring's worst hits" safari, with more fucking terrible dragon and tree sentinel fights, almost every main game enemy getting reused, and doubling down on the terrible crafting and cookbooks nobody uses or cares about.
What's worse is that this time you can't ignore the open world slop because you have to check every corner for blessings so you don't get 2- or 1-hit by every boss. So the DLC has 0 replayability on new characters, once again designed to appeal to the normies that don't replay games anyway.
I think you're right about fromsoft designing their bosses for those "streamer moments" now more than anything, so all the tourists playing through this game one time and never coming back can rave about how much they and Asmongold raged when that one boss did a 30 hit combo followed by an arena-wide AOE. The bosses are basically DMC fights now - some like Rellana or Radahn can literally air juggle you with some of their attacks, while you're stuck with sub-DS3 mobility and attack speed.
Fromsoft have lost the plot. Miyazaki used to talk about how the difficulty wasn't the point of these games - it was the feeling of joy when you overcome it. Unfortunately the crowd of "dis game so hard!!!!" moron streamers and normies have infiltrated the fandom to the point where we're being treated as the outsiders. And honestly, if this is the direction this game is going to go now, with open world ubislop exploration and ragebait bosses, with no good lore because normies don't care about that, I think I'm done with these games.
That last part about feeling like an outsider to a game community you've been a part of for so long is too true, man.
So many game companies and developers straying away from the roots and perfection of what made their original games so good. Becoming diluted and homogenized for the casual masses.
I don't think i'd be able to list off the amount of times this has personally happened to me but games like Halo, destiny (tbf it was always shit from release, but d2 and everything after forsaken just completely irredeemable), For Honor, rainbow six, Dark souls, Call of duty, borderlands, battlefield, Resident evil, silent hill, Final fantasy, tomb raider, Wolfenstein, Ark Survival, God of War. Hell, there's prob so many more im forgetting right now. And each and every one of em affected by dev studio greediness to hone in on the mass consumer casuals that have no respect or gratitude for what made these series so amazing in the first place. The masses coming in and acting like everything that we adored is some kind of nostalgia bias.
I'm fucking sick of it. I just sail the high seas for every single goddamn game atp, knowing my money will likely go towards dev teams that don't give a shit bout the art and creation of entertainment.
Just another day at the job for them working underneath for their multi-billion dollar studios.
People were literally complaining about Elden Ring being to easy.
You explore the world to get new weapons and permanent upgrades it’s still customizable and not just hard for the sake of being hard
@@Igorsbackagain-c6q The thing is, it is enough. It was nearly unbearable before they patched it, but it's fine now.
@@RipVanWinkleJr yeah I played this game way later than most and have loved most of the fights I have had
You're one of the few guys who can actually criticize FromSoft games properly, everyone else is stuck in a permanent honeymoon phase.
There's literally like five DLC critiques already, and they're all a thousand times better than this misinformed slop opinion of a filtered man.
@@TheStraightestWhitest Can you give me one? I need to hear some bashing of this DLC from a more normie perspective.
@@Arcessitorpersonally it feels like it went through rewrites and I think it’s unsatisfying being the only dlc
@@TheStraightestWhitest "Filtered!" Umm he beat the game. do you know what filtered means
@@Arcessitor My favorite is ''Is the Elden Ring DLC "too hard"?'' But there's also ''Brutally Honest Elden Ring DLC Criticisms...''
These are actual criticisms. They're from fans, but objective ones.
What's the most frustrating part is that fromsoft won't change these issues because the normies worship this game like they can do no wrong.
The empty world, the constant super armor, having to wait 10 seconds just to hit the boss one time, useless moves/weapons that only work on normal enemies.
You're one of the only people talking about this which is frustrating. Customers REFUSE to advocate for themselves because "game development is expensive and harddd, be nice to them 🥺"
In a sense From has always gotten a pass on a lot of stuff that people would rake other devs over the coals for. Like DS1 being unfinished and rushed after you beat Andor Londo. On one hand it was because it was so unique and at the time you could forgive a lot. Now that Elden Ring made souls mainstream the normies forgive From for a lot even though the series is no longer unique and bought into the meme of being hard for hard's sake.
@@Flyon86 this. As much as I like fromsoft and enjoy most of their games,I will never understand the throating that the most braindead and rabid fromsoft fans have towards DS1 and Elden ring. Making them the best games ever to be made. DS1 is the worst souls. Literally unfinished and unpolished. Elden ring is all their issues compounded due to being Open world slop
@@KingOfhearts72 DS1 I think at least was incredibly unique for its time. Now we have tons and tons of the "soulslike" knockoffs in addition to From's later games so its lost a lot of the shine it once had. I still think the 1st half of DS1 is great. Although as other people are saying here, a bigger problem is how bad most big releases are now days that From stuff looks a lot better by comparison. Like compared to recent Ubisoft shovelware, From games look like a masterpiece.
@@Flyon86 it’s unique no doubt and I absolutely see the love for the 1st half and I agree with people on the 1st half. The 2nd half burned me badly on it,so it became my least favorite of the DS games.
"Normies worship these games"
Mixed reviews 🤡
On the Bright side, Queen Marika and Mohg cleared all allegations and are innocent.
And the main antagonist is homosexual, so unintentionally based
marika is a female so no, still guilty.
@@SerbianLifter997 She did a genocide against the omens and travelers which are based on gypsies and worship a jewish demon. So I think she gets an honorary based
A villain who converts others into being gay for him.
I knew there was a reason they released this game towards the end of pridemonth
@@KingOfhearts72 Unfathomably based.
He looked through so much femboy miquella ruIe 34 to find that thumbnail pic 😂😂
So Mohg and Radahn got Miquellested.
Miquella wanted Radahn to be his consort, he apparently refused, so Miquella sent Malenia to kill Radahn to resurrect him under his control. That didn’t work out, so he put Mohg under his control and then waited for us to kill them to resurrect Radahn under his control in Mohg’s body.
I think a lot of retconning happened, because Miquella was originally in the base game with a questline and ending, but yeah, they made him evil.
"The Age of Compassion" sounds somewhat similar to communism, I'm just saying... Taking away people's free will & individuality, not cool Miquellester. A lot of weirdos have latched on and are making fan art & lewd art of Miquella. Very bizarre.
@@PaulieMcCoythe dlc makes it clear he’s basically evil too and needs to die
@@PaulieMcCoy
specifically drawing him with a female phenotype despite being a guy and essentially a permanent child.
Very telling.
@@SerbianLifter997 ever notice the prominent Dom/Sub dynamics? The subs typically seem to be smaller and more feminine. Definitely a fetish going on, probably some kind of coping mechanism too. But we aren’t supposed to discuss the how or why.
@@SerbianLifter997usually some kind of Dom/Sub fetish going on.
That ending statement about players not helping each other anymore was so true 😢
the days of jolly co-op are sorely missed. i think bringing back covenants could have helped with that. an incentive to join in on that mechanic in the game used to be there. it's gone in Elden Ring.
Which is odd considering how “let me solo her/let me tank him” were redditfied,but yeah I do notice FAR less rando dudes ready to help. Imo it’s due to there not being covenants. Yes I know Elden ring “technically” had covenants but they sucked compared to the already flawed ones of early games. There is zero reason to help people with bosses now. You can get rune arcs elsewhere.
its impossible to help people with co-op because when you summon people in, they're absolute dogshit that expect to be carried (players like synth). they die instantly and then thats it.
that's why death stranding was not completely average
@@TaddiestMasonbut the days of jolly cooperation are still here. Don't let the online crowd fool you. Summoning is a huge aspect, and many people use it.
The best point ya made is at the end. One I didn’t think of. The irony and hypocrisy of how when a game caters to normies and gets way more people to it,(and those people are supposedly progressive and accepting)it suddenly becomes MASSIVELY more toxic. It’s true how yeah,back when it was genuinely seen as a good thing to help people with bosses. Now you’re scum who didn’t beat the game if you use summons. I’ve made example of it before,but we noticed it INSTANTLY when MH world broke records with normies. Suddenly long sword users/dual blade users were loathed and non “meta” builds were kicked. (Rage gaming was a DISASTER for MH due to all their “ZOMG BROKEN BUILD” vids)
Then just ignore the meta
@@Igorsbackagain-c6qhard to ignore the meta when you get kicked for not using the meta
It’s mind-blowing seeing the mental gymnastics the redditors in this comment section go through to defend the bosses and difficulty in this DLC.
The scadutree leveling system is busted.
How are you supposed to know where any of them are if you don’t explore the game, while getting one hit killed by random mobs that take your entire 60 vigor health bar?
Then there’s the bosses. Half of them are random without any major ties to the game’s lore and it’s hard to care about any of them.
A random hippo, a sunflower, a sentient piece of rotting flesh that was guarding St. Trina for some reason- who are these random creatures and why should the player care about them or their ridiculous 15-hit combos? You have to dodge through 10+ attacks to get a single clean hit in. That is not balanced gameplay.
The story is the worst part of it all. Gay incest pedophilia is not good lore
Yup, it's a pretty bad game overall, it's why it earned it's mixed review score.
Maybe it’s like the game wants you to explore the fucking game and learn about it. What are you even on dude
@@titustheboxer2364 So you’re just going to ignore what I said. The DLC is unbalanced in the beginning and expects you to explore while getting killed in 1-2 hits by random mobs.
This was not good gameplay and Fromsoftware realized this. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have done an update where they balanced the damage in the DLC.
it is for the normie media and.thats what from is now, normie slop
@@jmc7788 yeah it had a couple balance issues it’s a fromsoft game. Have you never played another from soft game? There’s always broken shit. The games meant to be broken and overpowered. I thought the dlc was challenging but nothing more than that. It legitimately sounds like you just need to get good and get the call of duty dick outta your mouth. If you don’t like the game don’t play it but don’t bitch about it for being too hard when it’s not.
They didnt even bother to put cutscene or something when you enter the dlc. 2 years in wait and they didnt even bother putting some story before they drop you in.
That's why I am skipping that
Exactly!
It’s like what’s the point of the 3 different endings in the base game with a cutscene if they didn’t even pick up the storyline for the players who chose 1 of the 3 endings from the base game entering in the DLC. 🤦🏽♂️
That’s why I’m so glad I didn’t buy this shit dlc.
this really bothered me too I wish there were more boss cutscenes too
The base game of elden ring, the opening is just still images!
@@rjproduction486 not just any still images either, it's obviously repurposed concept art. I understand doing that for demon's souls considering it was a budget title assumed to be a failure. Maybe it was supposed to be a nod to demon's souls but it just feels cheap and lazy. It amazes me how much better dark souls 1's opening cinematic is and that game came out over 10 years prior.
There's a good amount of streamers that play Erdtree for their break game currently , it is kind of jarring to see pro gamers get nowhere for hours on some of these bosses and I wouldn't fair better. It really did become "Prepare to Die" the game while forgetting elements that made the older games .. well actually enjoyable to learn the process of.
@CC-xh1ok The first Dark Souls from 2011 originally coined the tagline "Prepare To Die" as a message that goes both ways. At first, the enemies are saying that to you, as your armor, weapons, and stat levels are extremely low and can't withstand much damage. However, the more you explore and discover better armor, upgrade your weapons, and level up your stats, the tables turn and you'll actually be saying that to the enemies.
@@NexusKin Also to hammer home the mentality that death is a learning experience and should be used as an opportunity to gather intel rather a statement about how much of a jobber you are.
Synth is seriously the only reviewer I can expect an honest opinion out of these days. Whether I agree or not (which I usually do).
This game is gay
Like Tetris
FromSoft is in that same place that Neversoft and Infinity Ward were years ago. They had a fresh take on a genre and were innovative with their first hit but now that formula is what defines them.
I dont think they know what defines them anymore. they lost their way. they dont know what they doing anymore. ER prime example
Freaking nailed it dude.
@@Red_IX i think miyazaki does his best when he doesnt remain on the same project fotmr more than a game.
Demons souls was good and so was dark souls (which was surely similarnbut expanded and perfected in a metrovania system).
Then Bloodborne which changed the way you play andnthe setting.
Then comes dark souls and you see the crack in wall (i liked the bosses though)
Then sekiro, another drasticallyndifferent game.
Finally here we have Elden Ring, a game that uses the old gameplay in an open world (a genre miled to death by this point).
They just released a game that was praised as a legendary all time great with a fresh innovative take on open worlds 2 years ago. What more do you want?
@robertpayne6781 We want a game that isn't glazed by the accsess media as a 10 when it's really a 7. We also wanted a fresh take on an open world game where as this game is just "dark souls 3 but open world."
Funny thing is Michael Zaki admitted in an interview that the Souls formula in an open world has been put to its limits with Elden Ring and they will not attempt another one and instead focus on Sekiro like games that are smaller but have multiple coming out.
Oh thank God 🎉 hope thats true
Thank fuck.
God I hope that's true at the least
Open World slop did nothing good for Elden Ring
I wouldn't mind another Sekiro-inspired game, as that game genuinely felt like its own unique thing completely separate from all the other Soulslike entries.
Where is this interview? If it's true, then at least he understands that this formula has nowhere else to go.
I can’t believe those game journalists gave this clearly flawed game a 10/10. If this game was not made by fromsoft and was a souls like game they would definitely gave it a 7/10 or even lower😂
Games journalists don't do the optional stuff so they didn't see all the repeating bosses and dungeons that drag the game down with bloat.
They are paid off.
@@Flyon86i rushed a new save so i could play the DLC. Ignoring 90% of the game made it way more fun lol
“I feel no shame in using all these exploits when the bosses are just not fun to fight”
I’m with you 100%. For me I use co op. From Soft should be ashamed not me
skill issue
@@Monkerz_ yup
Why continue playing if you didn't like it? I'm not going to say your opinion is wrong as its an opinion but if I don't like something I would just not continue.
@@dantevic idk man i have issues. you’re probably right
I miss the old level design. Even dark souls 2 had that forest castle and no mans wharf with shortcuts.
I think the peak level design of FromSoft Soulsborne games is Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1, and Bloodborne. So many secret areas and paths to discover, yet you still had a generally linear direction to push towards.
dark souls 2 has aged well. I miss non-adhd dark souls with miyazaki "traps"
Ah yes Dark Souls 2, The game where you go to a giant windmill, go up an elevator, and arrive at a huge castle in a pool of lava. Truly peak level design.
@@DrJones0801 Exactly, Dark Souls 2 episode 2 when?
What you're talking about is world design, not level design. And yes, while not as good as DS's level design, DSII was still peak in that regard.
What's the point of having a healthbar in soulslikes anymore? Just give the player 3 hearts and make every enemy deal 1 heart of damage, while a sip of estus restores 1.
Exactly it’s pointless having a health bar.
Likely just mind games. It’ll look more exciting/impressive to see a huge chunk taken off a health bar than to see one unit depleted. Even if it is effectively the same thing.
@@mrshmuga9 The only reason to have a health bar is to give full facetank builds a chance, someone beat the final boss of the DLC without blocking or dodging, but for everyone else the bosses are 2-3 hit deaths.
yea that.guy wont be doing that on ng4
@@mrshmuga9It would look impressive if only the bosses did that, but when even the regular enemies kill in three hits, I just became desensitized.
>40$ plus tax price tag
>Nearly 3 years of dev time
>Vast amounts of reused content and bosses from the base game.
>Dogwater performance on a 5000$ PC on mid to high settings
>Blank barren open world no one asked for, least it looks pretty.
>Failed abortion of a progression system solely exists to justify the empty open world and fix a problem Fromsoft has never had in any of their prior entries, AKA they gave up balancing endgame scaling.
>Waste life exploring just to find Somber smithing stone +2/3 :^)
There’s plenty of valid factual and objective critiques of the DLC people could be making, people wasting time complaining that hard game continues to be hard isn’t one of them, I'm honestly worried this is going to mark the downward spiral of Fromsoft if base game Elden Ring hadn't already.
First ER, then AC6, now SotE. I'm afraid to see we are entering a new From era, and not a better one. I doubt they'll go back to their original philosophy on design and difficulty now.
Elden Ring has cool looking zones but they aren’t intricately built like their older titles and the most damning thing to me is the bosses aren’t fun to fight, like ever. I miss more compact, detailed zones with zero torrent. Fuck I hate Torrent he’s basically everything wrong with this game.
the final area of the game where you fight Radahn has like a Smithing Stone [6] or 7 on a difficult to reach (kinda hidden) place, it's like they randomly placed crappy loot to fill spaces and lengthen the game, so much pointless "exploration"
I think the open world is beautiful and isn't that empty. There r certain areas that r empty and were completely wasted like the Abyssal Woods, the Finger ruins and the area under the Ancient Ruins of Rauh, but the rest ain't that bad. Plus the layout of the land is perfect. Way better than the base game.
The fact that they reward u with the most basic items is really disappointing. Enemies should've had higher drop rates. And the fact that even in the dlc, they're fucking stingy with dragon smithing stones is an abysmal choice to make.
I gotta agree on 3 points here strongly 1. > 3 yrs dev time > 2.vast amount of reused content 😢 **** (this one hurts) 3. > dogwater performance .
Old-school Soulsborne purists are far less annoying than normie Elden Ring bandwagon jumpers who never played Dark Souls or Bloodborne but scream "GIT GUD" and "SKILL ISSUE" while they're all using the same bloodhound-step-rivers-of-blood-mimic-tear build to face-roll every boss and smugly condescending to anybody who dares to suggest that Elden Ring isn't the greatest game of all time. I've seen these smooth-brains call it a "masterpiece", then admit that they thought most of the bosses suck. Everything that goes mainstream turns into garbage because normies are idiots.
Bro get off the internet
@@Mr_Mistah me whenever someone says a harsh truth "gEt off zhE inTeRnet duuud" 😂
@@Dan_KanervaHe's right
@@iloveblackC yes, main comment is right. Elden Ring made Fromsoft more mainstream, which brought a lot of tryhards with FOMO into the mix turning the fanbase even more toxic
I knew my crappy carian sword build was Chad
Final boss is such a slop, 80% aoe's, unrelenting combos that let you hit him 1 time every 30 seconds, and being weak to- guess what- BLEED, FROST AND SCARLET ROT. It's like fromsoft WANT us to cheese him.
Just got to the final boss my hits onlt do 678 damage per hit its insane.
hehe that's why I destroyed his hp so easily, now it makes sense coz I used double frost+rot weapon while mimic tear used double bleeding katanas
honestly should have made his moves be more badass and slower + add CASTING for him, to make it more interesting but also easier if you keep your distance at the right moment (but slows down the fight, this rewards casual players but punishes speedrunners)
@@SebastiansSebastian-fc4pj i think his first phase meteor, drill move and basic combo is fine, the cross slash mixed in is a bit much. second phase needs to have some rhythm changes, i think the light aoes could even be fine as long as its improved graphically or not go behind the boss
Also can't even roll fast enough to dodge each attack so you pretty much have to use a shield (which has its own issues). You pretty much have to use a mimic tear/NPC summon but the boss will either just ignore them to focus on you- or he will be so distracted by them that you have to spend a lot of your stamina just trying to run to where the damn boss is lol.
Miyazaki sus count:
DS1 - Gwndolin
DS2 - Gender-bending coffin
DS3 - Twincest
ER - Trans God and Miquella
All considered evil and are killable in game. What did he mean by this?
The transgender coffin is unintentionally based.
@Debaucherry or bloody sperm, giant naked rolling fat men, an actual sex doll...
@Debaucherryalso considered evil shit
Wait lorian and lothric are incestous? Gay.
Elden Ring fans are literally THE tourists. Their game is the most normie Souls game ever made.
This. Sums up why I can’t enjoy it as much as bloodborne or sekiro. It’s normie as hell
Oh my science, how could you not like empty open world??
They just don't want to admit what they played wasn't a masterpiece it was dark souls 3.5 with a horse and a empty world.
@@H0mework It's just Ubislop with a Soulslike skin.
@@KingOfhearts72 Bloodborne was so much better than Elden Ring that it makes me want to cry
bro every time I see boss doing crazy shit I'm envy and jealous of them, I wanna do cool shit too I love crazy mobility in games but all I can do is roll and swing just once before boss starts doing cool shit all over again :/
Have you tried Bloodhound's Step?
@@Dude-ni3vkBloodhounds locks you from using the cooler weapon arts, you just dodge faster and press R1 twice instead of once
It has been like this since Demon's Souls. What were you expecting...
@@Suryus94 Funny cause I seem to do just fine using bloodhound on my offhand quickly switching to my right hand weapon and using its near skill just fine. Sounds like people just aren't willing to develop the skills necessary to use the cool skill in conjunction with each other.
All the bosses give you opportunities to use your cool items, you just have to find that opportunity.
You used game mechanics in a way the developer intended? You didn't beat the game.
I see it as using easy mode. It feels cheap imo
You had audio via headphones? You had your monitor on? YOU DIDN'T BEAT THE GAME!!1111oneoneeleven
@@roachdoggjr8399lmao fuck Elden gay
@@roachdoggjr8399 You are a PD Peter voter. YOUR OPINION IS INVALID
@@roachdoggjr8399 I feel like beating the game without using the mimic tear is cheating.
Fromsoft games are both enjoyable and full of issues, and the 'hardcore fans' are absolutely obnoxious. Nothing's perfect, not even Miyazaki.
Miyazaki has rat/goblin/masochist physiognomy. Not trustworthy
He is still by far the most talented game director in the video game industry.
This. Never understood why you couldn’t be a fan of synth and a fan of fromsoft games,and not be mature enough to not melt down when he voices his critiques. Even more so when he’s right on Elden ring and the DLC. (Imo it’s not their usual quality due to falling for the open world slop curse)
@@KingOfhearts72 there’s a lot of people acting like you can’t enjoy both in the comment section
@@roachdoggjr8399 dang shame. It’s just maturity per usual. Synth calls out both. Obviously he calls out people who have meltdowns about his opinions,but he calls out people who just brainlessly meat ride him too and white knight for him.
You can make a game challenging while still making it fun, but Fromsoft drones have been conditioned to think pressing circle at the right time is supposed to be fun. I swear them and speedrunners have optimized how to suck the fun out of games. When even their god Miyazaki sucks at his own game and uses every tool at his disposal. Why shouldn’t I use Perfume bottles?
If difficulty was much more multifaceted you'd be complaining about the unnecessary complexity. I do think the world building, environment, lore, and immersive experience of feeling like just another person is fun, overcoming the odds is the entire point of the gameplay loop who knew? But I guess neither of our opinions really matter, the numbers have spoken.
@@brandongillette35 popularity is an awful metric of value...
@@brandongillette35the billy Madison meme is how I feel about what you wrote 😂
@@brandongillette35 the numbers have spoken? I guess that means Taylor Swift is a great artist and the Fast and Furious franchise consists of good movies. Damn, who knew. Ad populum fallacy who?
@@brandongillette35 numbers aren’t a shield from criticism.
When niche hobbies ( or in this case a niche game genre ) becomes more popular and mainstream it gets ruined.
TOTAL IRON PINEAPPLE DEATH!
when I saw his thumbnail calling the dlc peak I laughed
Reminder that iron pineapple loves 🏳⚧
Pineapple = the hardest shill
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@@asepsisaficionado7376 TBF dark souls fandom is full of troons so its understandable
Miyazaki inspiring in Berserk is overrated
Like on this point he can make a 1:1 Berserk adaptation and would be better than the lore of this "Elden DarkSouls-Bloodborne" (even DS and Blood are very cool and unique in the story and world)
Has no unique story except maybe the family of gods and the "other gods" but the lack of lore makes a shitty fanmade story
The inspiration is superficial at best. Much like these games "story" and "lore".
@@noway6633 yes superficial in the Dark Souls and bloodborne, you have Ludwin or some Demon design
BUT THIS GAME COPY ALL BERSERK ALL Miquella is just Griffith with incest, Rykard is straight from BERSERK without a good explanation, the world has a lot of animal-humans and the Lore is ALMOST almost Dark Souls with the dragons being the kings of humanity and the "Grace" being a TP without reason in this world
Thats why im mad because Sekiro and Bloodborne are more original and this Game is just LAZY could be a Dark souls 4 smash with Bloodborne and changes nothing
@@Morfe02fym rykard doesn't have an explanation
@@Morfe02 You mention Griffith which is valid, but then you mention Rykard? What? You could only think of one point the game took from berserk. At least do your research if you're gonna have a meltdown.
I got into a twitter fight on Endymion's post abt the game, and the guy saying he was just bad for not liking the piss poor boss design lost his shit when I said I beat Artorias in the first attempt. These people, they're not simply masochists, they're zoomers who got eviscerated in the first games and developed this mentality that trying every other boss 40 or even SIXTY times is just normal and if you disagree you're bad at the game
What I find funny is when people make claims they beat the toughest bosses second or even first try. I'm sorry but that's damn near impossible. And even funnier when they complain a boss is BS because it took them 10 attempts to beat. I'm sorry but if you can defeat a boss in so little attempts then you cannot state its difficult, and makes me wonder why they bother playing in the first place as the challenge is the whole point
artorias isnt shit compared to anything in elden ring, what do you mean? he was difficult when dark souls 1 was current but is an absolute cakewalk compared to even middling bosses in DS3/ER.
Yeah Artorias was completely reasonable. I believe it took me 3, maybe 4 tries? Manus is a pain just because getting to his fight is horribly tedious.
@@r.r.r.r.r.r.r. Yep, the guy just proved my point, he got his ass kicked by mid-difficulty bosses and thought it was normal to die 40 times to half of the bosses in the game. He also claimed that the challenge is the whole point of the game, so we know he didn't even watch the video as Synth proves this is false, and the challenge was merely a highlight of FS' games. Bro made my day lol
I agree with you mate, but please do not get into twitter fights anymore.
The more I play elden ring the less I enjoy it. I did really like my first playthrough up until lyndell capital, but everything after that sucked. I recently went back and replayed dark souls 3 since they were doing a community event at the time and I realized how it's just better than elden ring in every way. Fromsoft and Miyazaki have really lost touch with what make their older games so good. Plus the "souls" style of game only works as a linear game or a metroidvania, not as an open world.
Quadruple mimic tear = shadow clone jutsu
Pay to win dlc item, don't give them ideas.
Watching him cheese the last boss with perfume was hilarious 😂
I wish I knew about that before it got nerfed. I woulda farmed helping people on bosses
I did the same thing literally one hour before they patched it haha. I would most likely not have bothered finishing the DLC if I could not cheese it with the parfume.
My main problem with the bosses of the dlc isn’t the crazy health or high damage attacks. It’s the terrible camera angles and attacks that get frame caught. Even in the base game the craziest attacks were all able to be dodged with practice. But this dlc completely throws that philosophy out the window. 50 plus deaths just to die to something unfair. Nothing is more demotivating than that.
Which attack is un-dodgeable?
@@theramblinmahoney2316just from the last boss
Yeah, that's been a major From criticism for years, but fanboys have got Miyazaki sniffing his farts at this point so nothing changes or things regress.
Also, at least the prison team will always have a crowd, with their fans being in prison with them.
@@theramblinmahoney2316 You were the one who said "undodgeable" so you tell us please
You can dodge / block/ parry, there is always one which is easier than the others
I miss the time when bosses were strong, but rather simple. Remember the time when Artorias and Manus were a big deal, because of their speed and aggressiveness? Manus' temper tantrum wombo-combo? Yeah, that was tough. But it was one boss, not every single major boss. Even Gwyn's moveset is rather simple. Artorias was almost on your level.
Now every boss has to be flashier, more crazy than the last to the point where even logic is now thrown out of the fucking window as a cheap way to "subvert expectations." One ten minute long ballerina bullshit combo after the other. Have the boss delay the attacks to mess up your timing deliberately.
That's basically the From Software formula today. Plus add some cheap ass, awkward, vague, remorseful dialogue somewhere to make the character more sympathetic or something. Reuse ideas from previous titles if you are creatively bankrupt. Have some bombastic orchestra in the background. Name the boss something like "XY, the [INSERT TITLE HERE]" and you have an instant classic boss. I want a boss called fucking "Bob" for once...
Plus listen to what players criticize about the areas and do exactly the same thing again, only more. Poison swamps? Check. Shitton of "GOTCHA!" moments? Check. Winter Lanterns from Bloodborne which were terrifying the first time, but absolutely tedious on repeat playthroughs? Check.
SlopSoftware fans will eat it up anyway. That delicious, delicious slop. They'd rather commit the most heinous, most nefarious crimes than say one bad word about FS games.
You can bet your ass if Dark Souls 1 was made today, even the god damn Taurus Demon would have some bullshit anime move where it flies up in the sky and spins around and you have less than a second to dodge, but it delay the attack mid air and instakills you, and you have to listen to some fucking dialogue every death.
God help the poor fool that dares to criticize them publicly...
I was way too harsh with Dark Souls 2.
Subtlety used to be from's bread and butter, not so much these days.
skill issue
From knows no restraint anymore with Elden Ring and its DLC. Everything has to be the hardest of all time now
The player base got better in the last 10 years wtf are you talking about, they had no choice, what were they supposed to do ?
After playing Elden Ring (I did not complete it, mind you), I went back to DS1, and it was a night/day difference. DS1 was unforgiving but fair. Elden Ring is just punishment.
The Berserk incest fanfiction really feels off for a Souls game.
@@KingEgyptian the Game of Thrones guy contributed to the story.
tbh the game of thrones guy probably are to blame but I'm pretty sure it's Miyazaki choice to make it's gay
@@misterdeer5261The dude that hasn't finished his novels yet only helped with names.
@@Yayofangamer16 Well no he wrote the entire backstory / mythology for it. Pretty much all of it. The gods and their incestuous relationships, the dragons, and yes, the names. But he wrote them and Miyazaki created a game out of it, and this particular DLC was already contained in that original story but cut because it would be too much extra content to put in.
@@mitchryan257 GRRM writing is peak and if you disagree you're an illiterate braincel
Mohg beat the allegations.
Him and Radahn were Miquellested.
Justice for my boy Mohg, he didn't do nothing!
Dr. Mogh
I love waiting 3 mins to get one hit on a boss before they do another 12 hit delayed combo followed by AOE spam.
Fromsofts boss designs suck ass now, very uninspired, more of the same. 4/10
Then just play something else I am not trying to be mean but why waste your time and money on something from a game you feel mixed on
@@Igorsbackagain-c6qi think some of us will from now on, but we wanted this to be "good"(subjective term). I miss the older boss designs, the more deliberate combat not the roll spam fest the game has become. The only boss i really truly enjoyed in the dlc was midra, because he reminded me of an older style boss.
I'm using this dlc as a sort of wakeup call that I don't particularly enjoy the direction from is going with their boss design. Some people might, and im happy for them that they get the fights they want. Unfortunately I think a lot of long term souls fans, people whove been around since DS1 or DeS are feeling more and more disenfranchised.
I just love when haters exaggerate to get their points across.
Skill issue. I actually learned Radahn instead of whining on the internet and managed to get fully charged R2s after every combo with my Claymore.
@@Marikus_Eternal wow thats too cool man
I instantly laughed at the new thumbnail. I thought you would tone down the thumbnail. But you made it so much better. Omg
The one were Radahn is wearing a leash 💀...
Scarlet Rotting , Mimic Tearing, Perfuming, Cheesing, Brave, Stunning, Glistening Gemerald of a Thumbnail for modern audiences.
Oh no more content and options :(
You understand that you are not forced to use them, right?
"U used tools that are in the game? BAD!!!!!1"
@@kopfdertoten466 I'm not saying you're bad for using any tool's, use what you like, I'm just saying that you are not forced to use cheesy items.
Idk why mimic tear is considered so good. I've used it ten times or more and every time it's absolute garbage.
What really grinds my gears about Elden Ring as a whole is wasted potential for Fromsoft to actually break away from the bleak post apocalyptic dying world stuff. I enjoy the gameplay loop, I love traversing these beautiful/cool designed areas they make and even the spectacle of some of the bosses, but after five games all falling into the same kind of nihilistic premise and all plot being delivered through lore tidbits, I'm tired of the formula.
Imagine if Elden Ring didn't take place in yet another world where everything already went kaput and instead the player's normal goal was preventing the Shattering and saving the world in a more straightforward Dragon Quest/Legend of Zelda "Adventurer sets out to defeat the big bad or gets thrust into it by circumstance" manner (alternate questlines for different endings and outcomes still present). Imagine if instead of a big open world populated 99% by things that wanted to kill you, there were towns, settlements, castles, etc populated by normal NPCs going about their life that reacted to you and your deeds in between the areas full of stuff that only wants you dead. Imagine if instead of the Ashes, you could actually find party members with their own personalities, dialogue, reactions, objectives and trials to overcome akin to Igon and Bayle (I mean, that Radahn fight in the base game where you can join forces with a bunch of NPCs on a battlefield shows some potential if they made said NPCs more than just silent one-off ghosts). Imagine plotlines that don't require the average person to watch a youtube video where someone compiles and makes sense of every item description in the game to paint a picture and you could actually experience most of it in-game or at least have the footnotes given to you by a town crier or a scholar in a town.
Basically imagine a Dragon's Dogma like game experience as done by From Software only replace the Arisen by a Chosen Undead.
It's really saddening how FromSoft just keeps churning out these bleak worlds instead of trying to put their level design, detail and polish into a living, less cynical world, and apparently Miyazaki says the open world design was a one and done thing so something like what I said above is definitely never happening.
Imagine a Majora's Mask like Fromsoft game, where you have 3 days to save the world, a straightforward story which is easy to understand and emotive. Imagine legendary quests like reuniting Kafei and Anju before Armageddon.....
Right now, Fromsoft games feel like an empty shell, slop for the dumbed down masses.
Sloploser
@@Cyberpsych0_ Interesting ideas from both you & Toaster. Did Majora's Mask do that well, though? When it came out, I remember hearing about the time limit and being iffy on that. I don't think I was alone. It's been a long time, so...
But the ability for a company that is selling a luxury item that is also a piece of art (vidya game) to take chances is well appreciated.
I think a lot of people are disappointed in terms of the DLC because FromSoft didn't take much in the way of chances, if any:
- lore is just nonsense (of the stupid, non-forshadowed kind)
- extra weapons, spells are cool but like base ER, many seem useless, niche, or PvP only
- empty areas, bosses & regular enemies with more animu flashy attacks that are hard to do anything about
- reused assets
- empty areas & mindless drops (a problem in some areas in base ER, also legacy dungeons with boss drops have little rhyme or reason usually)
- overall poor execution
It would have been pretty cool of them to update the base game with SOME of the DLC weapons for free, somehow. Or if they were working on a smaller, cheaper DLC in secret.
In summary: FS seems to be hesitant to take any chances because they've built up a specific customer base & reputation.
@@PaulieMcCoy it wouldn't be a huge risk for FS to implement some changes to it's base formula while retaining boss battles / PvP which have built up the fan base. Things like interesting puzzles you find in Zelda games which force you to find a solution before you can proceed accompanied by the legendary Zelda 'problem solved' sound effect, dynamic events occuring based on the time of day (such as the thief Sakon in Majora's Mask stealing from the old lady at midnight), realistic NPC schedules and routines like Zelda / Skyrim / Oblivion rather than everything being braindead and trying to kill you like in Souls games (as the original poster mentioned). Basically I'm looking for a grown up Zelda, and FS are the closest to making it.
I hope thats true and they never make another open world
Elden ring is that game people like to say is good but hide the fact that 90% of the game is literally an easyer egg hunt to be cabable of doing anything relevant to the harder parts of the game.
Anyone who steps into elden ring as someone with only a little info on the souls games will shelve this game indefinitely due to its hard ball idea that it needs to be CHEAP to be hard.
That right i said it, CHEAP DIFFICULTY. Elden ring is cheap difficulty and not even on par with any previous souls titles difficulty where it was down to user faliure rather than some arbitrary gear set issue.
And to those naked fugg with sticks trying to come here arguing that angle you memorized the game to fair with that set shut up about get gud, memorizing isnt souls titles are not only difficulty angle.
I think From basically expects people to look at a wiki now to get meta builds and find the broken OP items. If you want to complete a lot of the sidequests you basically have to look at a wiki.
It seems cheap because they literally expect you to be reading guides on reddit and wiki to optimize everything in the game. dark souls one expected people to share info but it clearly wasnt designed around internet meme meta builds.
Most gamers wouldnt be able to beat elden ring normally without reading guides online and it expects you to do so extensively
Give us an actual example of the cheap difficulty. Also you need to look up the word arbitrary.
Dark souls elitists are just playing a rhythm game with extra steps.
As a working class dark souls2 player, I believe that osu is truly just a simplified version of Elden ring 2
Every souls game has been a rhythm game though 😭
I won't pretend dark souls lore wasn't messed up in areas but seriously, after Martin entered the scene almost all of the politics in the lore has to deal with incest it's just getting creepy.
Also please review binary domain it's a very good old school shooter.
Well they are gods pretty sure in most mythologies gods are all related to each other in some way
@jeankirchstein2552 You're not wrong about that in real world mythology however I'm just sick of the amount of sibling shagging in this games lore. It was weird enough when Marika and mohg tried or did engage in it but at least those were side bits of the lore. Now this is THE main narrative of the game and it's just disgusting. Not to mention the fact this clearly has to do with Martin's influence since this lore has more incest than the entire dark souls trilogy combined.
@@kaiserrichard2017 Does George have siblings by any chance, and has anyone checked on their welfare of late? Sure they arent chained up in his sex dungeon or something? Dude thinks about incest way to much.
Bro...in house of the dragon daemon sleeps with teen rhanaera, who is also his sister? Cousin? Idk the ppint is look at all the incest in game of thrones and now elden ring@@kaiserrichard2017
The obnoxious girlbossery juxtoposed with the weak, pathetic male characters is also more apparent than ever in Elden Ring and its DLC.
Why has gaming changed into either being baby brain easy, or soul suckingly hard?
People who like casual games are crazy and neurotic, and people who like the hard games are obnoxiously competitive and aggro to the point that it makes me wonder if they're on steroids.
Edit: Oh, and I refuse to change my mind on the fact that Miquella should have been a girl. Because apparently that's a controversial take. 🙄
Game balance is hard to get right so it seems like it's easier for the devs to either go for the ultra casual crowd or the "hardcore" crowd with difficulty.
@@Flyon86I call BS when fan mods exist. Super Mario RPG is a remake, and they made it easier (ignoring the new, extra moves). That’s not a screwup, you literally have all the numbers and whatnot made for you. It’s a choice.
Heck, I’ll play some games and the Normal mode is too easy so I’ll switch it to Hard (if available). This isn’t because I’m some highly-skilled player, I’m not. It’s because they basically relabelled Easy mode as “Normal” and Normal to “Hard”. And then added an even EASIER mode under that if you’re somehow too lazy to watch a playthrough/cutscenes on TH-cam. We basically have “Very Easy, Easy, Normal”. Except, sometimes the “Hard” (Normal) difficulty isn’t available until AFTER you beat the game. I don’t want to play it again just so it’s at a MODERATE difficulty level, especially if it’s a long RPG. And said games let you rotate between currently accessible difficulties at anytime anyway. Honestly, just take away any trophies relating to difficulty if that’s the hangup. Have them all available at the start. Or, if you REALLY want a “hard” mode that once you select you’re stuck with it, then have it as its own thing but still offer a regular sort of hard mode. Or a damage multiplier. Playing through FF7 Rebirth. I’m only in the grass area, fine, but enemies die well before you get into the groove, even with dynamic difficulty on. I like the combat of these games, but being allowed to actually engage in it shouldn’t be limited to mid-boss/boss fights. Even something like Paper Mario TTYD lets you engage with basic enemies longer. It also doesn’t help that your other party members not actively in your team can hit them from the sidelines too. At any time you have 2-4 NPC’s fighting on your behalf to fight 2-5 enemies, and some of those enemies can be really weak (like plants and whatnot). I hope it improves, but according to some forums, only in the last 3rd. Shouldn’t have to wait that long just so I can’t sneeze and miss a battle.
@@mrshmuga9 Fan mods are usually harder than base game because it's for "enthusiasts" more than casuals. Like I've played a lot of mount and Blade mods and most of them are harder than base game.
@@Flyon86 I get that, but your point was it’s hard to balance, as if games haven’t done balancing well for at least 20 years. It’s not something new that has to be learned. And I wasn’t even talking about fan mods making an _actual_ hard mode, I mean mods that balance the game properly. You know, what the devs are supposed to do, and sometimes try to fix after-the-fact with a patch (to individual segments, not the entire game).
@@mrshmuga9 Games have been trending to easier and easier since the beginning of the xbox 360 era. That's why people liked dark souls in the first place, games at the time were becoming incredibly easy and hand holdy.
Finally I've been waiting for someone to give this DLC the s*** it deserves I'm so exhausted with people giving it 10 out of 10 when it not only exacerbated a lot of the problems the bass game had also introduced total new ones like stupid busted one-hit kill ashes of war that have little to no oversight by this game's combat designer if one even exists.
Its weird there aren't any duplicate Scadutree blessings. The base game had tons of duplicate seeds for flasks.
Thats a good point tho.
there are approx 3 or 4 places you can pick 2 up, mostly defeating optional bosses, there is one you can pick 5.
Am I insane for finding Stellar blade more fun to play than ER's DLC?
Nah the dlc was probably a cash grab while SB was made with love.
Nope, SB's bosses were extremely enjoyable to fight, unlike anything in ER. It's just so damn ironic that they used FROM's own solution to the aggressive bosses, and even improved upon it with all the flashy combos and skills
"..the mechanics cant support the complexity of the boss fights.." This is so spot on, you are stuck playing dark souls, while bosses play a fighting game, pummeling the shit out of you.
As said before, they are making sekiro/BB bosses while you are playing DS
You're not supposed to play it like ds, tho
Elden ring aims to have you attack in between a bosses combos alongside using jump attacks,aow heavy and charged heavy attacks to break their posture
Seeing synths gameplay, he's just using r1 and mashing dodge, and I'm assuming most who bring up this point are too as they're gameplay is very similar.
Of coruse your gonna have a bad time you chosing to play in the most boring, way possible it's like how Under the Mayo aruged Ultrakills combat was bad, since he refused to use anything other then the starter pistol. Yes it's possible but it's unfun and tedious to play that way.
Using those mechanics I was able to easily beat bosses who I struggled with fighting like they were ds1 bosses with just the guts greatsword.
And I'm not saying it to brag. I'm actually pretty mid at most games I play. I'm simply pointing out there's loads of mechanics people are simply not using.
You're essentially doing a challenge run for the first playthrough " The boss complexity doesn't support the mechanics" yeah cause you're not using most of them
Elden rings problem with boss design isn't that they're BB/Sekrio bosses paired with ds combat it's that the game fails to explain to you how important these systems are.
@justsomeguyontheinternet7134 The issue is that meta builds and over leveling are the solution , not actually getting better at the game. If they added ralley and deflect it would've been fine. Instead we got ashes of war and spirit ashes.
the bosses are playing metal gear rising while you play dark souls 1
@Christianbaker3564
Meta builds and levelling are a way to overcome this, yes, but it isn't the only way, just the easiest.
Again, I explained how Synth,Asmon, and other youtubers who argue bosses combos are too long aren't using mechanics built into the game.
They don't use charged attacks or any moves that can break boss poise while playing far too passively,
You're not supposed to wait for the boss to finish a combo before they kindly let you hit them. You have to attack in between attacks to break their poise and allow you to control the fight
Watch moronic boc and loopines response to Joepsh Andersons review, and you'll see what I mean
Even Maleina hardest boss in the base game can be easily destroyed if you play like this and aim to break her poise alongside many other bosses. I did it with a basic colossal sword str build, and I'm honestly not that good.
The proper argument isn't bosses are too aggressive and don't give you openings. it's that the game doesn't teach you how to play correctly.
Fromsoft: We're proud to releas-
Synth: Pride month is dead
you forgot the chud emote.
forgive me, gayzibart
Black Family Guy: 👨🏿👩🏿👦🏿👧🏿👶🏿
@@TheDankGiraffe In Black Family Guy, who is Meg?? 🤔 I'm thinking "Denise" but looking for other answers.
I agree with everything you said except for the gay and incest stuff. I'm not 100%, but what I believe they were going for with those lore elements is something akin to what you'd see in Hinduism rather than Woke culture. Wokeness is unambiguous as hell, and the lore here is (somewhat ambiguous) but generally denoting a functional aspect to the god-consort partnership. Much like a tarnished and maiden, there was just a poorly explained and fleshed out idea.
I’d like to think the term consort isn’t used in a sexual way but as a formality since the God being in Elden Ring must have a consort. That said, this is still made by Japanese Miyazaki so homosexual incest fan fiction is feasible.
You should see what the yaoi and fetish artists are doing with this... Disturbing, to say the least.
Cope harder regard
@@nafinbomb we have a consort and it’s torrent so there is no gay insest to my knowledge
@@Yayofangamer16 Smartest synthetic loser fan
I miss the tight dangerous claustrophobic DS1 design. The scale is to big it feels boring. Pretty but to open… especially the dungeons
I miss the design of the original Demon's Souls, where the design and features actually supported and allowed you to explore the entire stages as long as you wanted and find all the hidden secrets and collectables.
Don’t buy anymore future open world fromsoft games then.. problem solved.
Who wants atmosphere, just give us a shitty dungeon we've seen 16 years ago AGAIN. Thank fuck nobody looks to incel redditors LOL.
@@gameurai5701 they always complain bro . There’s plenty of Ubisoft & EA games they can flock to. Miyazaki already said “if we wanted everyone to play our game-“ .. meaning not everyone is built for it. Yet here they are
@@crazypkm They came so far. I actually think everybody can play the game, but they actually need to put in effort. There's no "press x button to win" option. Main character syndrome destroyed.
You're just a lowly tarnished in this universe, so why would it be any other way lol?
i sincerely hope from software sticks to the "no making sequels" mentality after this, even if its a big success and publisher will prolly beg for it, maybe at least they can get away with making it not as open world? it just seems like being open world was this game's biggest mistake, completely incompatible with the quest design imo.
The quest design absolutely does not work for a From open world game. You basically need a wiki to figure out what to do for a lot of the side ones.
FS questing was always shit. It's just even worse in an open world.
@@gldntchr7122 the locations of some npcs is actually bonkers at times for er, legit in the middle of nowere, i could understand them making a sound like alexander or generally grouping close to important roads in the map but for many locations they just hang out in this supposedly really important spot that i would totally find on my own cough cough millicent cough
The marketing of Dark Souls 1 Prepare to Die Edition and its consequences have been a disaster for FromSoft boss design
Elden Ring SotE: Prepare to have your HEART STOLEN.
Dark Souls elitism is overrated as well. I enjoy breaking the game more than being an obnoxious sweaty try hard (You used Mimic, you didn't beat the game.) Yeah, how about this, if you level up, you didn't beat the game. If you use Torrent, you didn't beat the game. If you use a weapon of any kind, you didn't beat the game, so on and so forth. Their logic is pretty flawed to begin with, a cherry picking at it's finest but i digress. I'm 100% agree with this. The open world is just meh. I do enjoy some of the boss fights and some are just annoying like repeated boss fights.
Nice cope because you're bad at video games of all things
@@degayify
Sounds like you have an ego issue.
@@degayify I'll take that as a compliment. Now would you kindly decommission your limbs since you don't look like you want to use everything at your disposal to make your life easier. Try that since you like being a try hard.
Fromsoft really should have stopped after bloodborne. Since then, basically every boss has either been an abnormally-fast combo machine or a screeching, flailing thing that takes up way too much of the screen. Everything has to be bigger, flashier and more powerful than the next thing. There was a line, and it was crossed some time ago.
Sekiro was good though.
@arkworthy8594 Sekiro was the only entry I'd consider to not be a Souls-like game. It was more of a stealth action-adventure game with none of the limitations and RPG restrictions of all the other entries.
How do you make boss harder then ?
@@waiz0231 Why do you need to make bosses harder at all? Why not just make them good?
I hate that fromsoft fell for the open world slop meme, I would say that I hope that the next game isn’t open world, but normies buy open world garbage and fromsoft does want to make money, sad.
Mitazaki has flat out said they ain't doing that again it was just something they wanted to do for once
@@slynt_no, open world is garbage and the worse way to design anything. The only real way for open world to “work” is to make the game for +10 years so that you don’t have problems like Elden ring and every other open world game has, sparse or repeated content. Open world is done for 2 things, artificially inflate play time, and have devs brag about “no load screens” which is incorrect because you are essentially running through the load screens.
I have yet to see a game improved by its open world segments and I’ve only seen games hurt by it.
edit: I legitimately can not believe I forgot the GOAT of fallout games, New Vegas, and the early Elder Scrolls games, really goes to show how much starslop and to a degree skyrim ruined my impression of Bethesda and their IPs.
@@slynt_ true. But it’s clear it’s not fromsoft’s strength. Or not the cup of tea if I and others who felt this dev is at their best with smaller packages. There is a reason I and others feel bloodborne/sekiro are their best titles. (And dark souls,even if 1 is my least favorite of the souls games funnily enough. Due to being incomplete ).
@@slynt_there’s nothing inherently good about open world
@@Nyver253 does fallout new vegas count as open world? Prob the one game i'd say I think is the best at it. But even that game has problems considering the movespeed of the player and how long it takes to get back to and forth from locations, even when fast traveling.
Open world can work perfectly if you have a variety of different areas/content in a 30 sec- 1 minute radius where you can discover something completely new. When u look at the fnv map, u see a location/ POI on literally every inch of the map. There's always some kijd of new discovery that rewards with either a quest that gives u new weapons or shit ton of XP.
The worst open worlds are prob ubislop games lmao. Bunch of filler garbage everywhere with "collectibles" that give u nothing.
Look at all these Dark Souls Redditors and furries in the newest comments section. 🤓
Glad you used the nerd emoji to describe yourself
@@ArizonaIcetea123 Says the guy who looks like a gay clown that would graped animals in the park