the most annoying thing in this game is when bosses do a combo, leave an opening after the combo for you to attack, and then the next time they do that that same combo they immediately pull a slash too quick to react to, basically turning finding openings into a complete dice roll
@@StarmenRock You dont have to make excuses for every facet of the game, it's an unnecessarily frustrating addition to quite a few of the bosses that makes more than a few of the players deaths seem cheap rather then earned. Smugness like this isn't going to impress anyone.
That's why I prefer Sekiro combat. Attacks you have to dodge are few and far between and the attacks you can block and parry do damage to the enemy's posture bar, which - when filled - gives you the oportunity to preform a death-blow, thus resulting in the boss fight/enemy encounter ending much faster.
Evergoal is just pronounced ever jail. In old English, jail is goal and fromsoftware uses it in Bloodborne also. It's why those enemies are trapped within the evergoals
I used to pronouce them as "everga-ol" up until Dung Eater told me to free him for his jail, but ingame subtitles spelled it as "gaol". Thats when i also finally understood what these things are lol.
This is one of those games you wish you could just memory wipe yourself so you can experience it all over again. The magic of that first playthrough exploring the world was like nothing else I've ever experienced in a game.
42:00 Hi, I'm the guy who liked the Graves more than any catacombs so far. I liked that the difficulty came from something other than just avoiding attack damage, and I enjoyed the one-off mechanics they introduced, whether or not they were balanced.
I think what stood out to me was when you said "it could've ended at the Erdtree" when you get there the first time. That's pretty much what I'd say too. That would've been a good ending and the game would've felt complete enough - maybe have a legacy dungeon in the tree or something. However, everything you need to do to enter it felt kinda sorta a little too much - it's already been 100hours for me at this point I think, and I was looking forward to the big finale. The game is amazing, but by the end (especially if you explore everything) it started to drag out a tad too long. However, that's complaining on the highest level. And of course there are minor other problems - balancing throughout the game can feel odd, getting (the right) upgrade materials can be a hassle and some minor other things like the camera at times. Still, overall, this whole experience was one of the most memorable in my over 20+ years of playing videogames. Now, what do we learn from all of this? Easy. We need Dragons Dogma 2.
i think people overexaggerate the drop in quality after leyndell, sure it's worse, but it's not even near the drop quality in lost izalith (or ds2 as a whole lol), besides, the rest of the game is really short anyway, i mean aside from optional stuff like haligtree, you just ride to the fire giant, kill him, go through the farum azula and that's it, you can do it in a few hours. And it's not like the endgame doesn't have good moments - the whole haligtree is really well designed, farum azula is cool too, malenia is an amazing boss imo, dragonlord, godfrey and radagon are all great bosses too, dragonlord being the best dragon fight in the series imo
@@ehrtdaz7186 I don't really see a big drop in quality, for me it was just more like "yeah, uh, gimme my big payoff please?" and then it was like "no, u gotta ride up there and do other stuff before that." and then at the end the Erdtree was just a Bossfight - I kinda sorta hoped for some more buildup there, with a dungeon inside the tree or something. Something was just missing for me there, can't 100% point the finger on it, it just felt "dragged out with a not too built up finale". Also, as I've mentioned, if you play the game with an Explorer-Mindset, you probably have clocked in well over 100 hours for the first playthrough, so maybe some fatigue has settled in by then? I don't know. In other word: Everything you said isn't really my problem with the last quarter of the game. :)
@@Bibi_effin_Blocksberg oh i understand, i personally expected that there will be more after morgott and leyndell, so it's maybe the case of the right mindset. But i have to admit that the pacing at the end was off, because at the end of farum azula you suddenly fight dragonlord, maliketh, gideon, godfrey, radagon and elden beast in a row with basically no breaks, it kinda became a boss rush right at the end
Huh. Im at the beginning of the Mountaintops and I just don’t….want to continue? I’ve already restarted and am really enjoying Limgrave again. Having not beat the game, I think I agree.
I personally thought that the areas past Leyndell were some of the best From areas I've ever seen. Mt Top of the Giants and Consecrated Snowfield were like the best yet versions of the Painted World and the DLC from DS3 and DS2. The Haligtree area was by far one of my favorite places just for how tough all the enemies are there, and Farum Azula is competing with my favorite ever Souls levels. When I got into and then through Leyndell, I had this horrible feeling of dread, that I was nearing the end of my first playthrough. I was DEEPLY happy and satisfied when I realized how much game I still had ahead of me.
Elden Ring earned its overwhelmingly positive reception and critical acclaim, it's a brilliant game, however I'm glad to see that more and more reviews are pointing out the flaws it does have, notably the balancing issues when it comes to late-game areas and bosses. I really hope From Soft takes note of these criticisms because this is something that can be fixed very quickly and easily. Hopefully, they'll keep all that in mind when creating any potential DLC for the game, and I really hope they end up delivering bossfights on the same quality as all-time favorites like Gael, Isshin, Orphan of Kos, Artorias..etc
It's not going to happen and they already have shown that. They nerfed an OPTIONAL boss because... Well he's over fucking tuned, and the player base revolted because either: 1). Well you're just RUINING the experience for new players! Or 2). Well I HAD to do it when it was OP so why doesnt everyone else??!!!?!?!! And because of that: the nerfs got reverted. FromSoft fanbase is a bunch of 30 year old men that cry if you use a certain weapon, build, or god forbid don't emote at them in PvP. Don't expect any logical changes to the game. It breaks their mental.
they actually patched alot of the issues out in the first month. theres still some balance shenanigans at end game but its better now especially with the increased animation speeds, poise damage and normal damage on most weapons. what ppl dont understand is this is the first game fromsoft does with such a staggering amount of XP you can potentially get before reaching end game. theyll never lower end game damage that much becuz for ppl that explored everything before getting there, the entire place would be an utter joke. i know ppl that got to mountain tops with level 220 characters, thats just how much runes you can get before mountain tops, it isnt just a bad balance issue, its also a mathematical one thats almost impossible to balance correctly all the way through.
They already made among the best bosses ever, bosses except gank bosses at release are fine in their gameplay. A lot of the critics that were made are now debunked like combos, bosses agressive behavior, etc
I've been in kind of a bad headspace for a while now and Elden Ring sort of became my comfort game. I'm just shy of 500hrs, got the platinum, and am on my 5th new game cycle. Currently collecting all the items in the game. It's been weirdly relaxing and I'm sure this game will go down as one of my favourites of all time.
theyre laughably better designed than the cheap shite that is the chalice dungeons. hell even the mediocre crypt dungeons get much better than those XD
Thank you! I still haven't finished my first playthrough, but have been excited to hear your thoughts. Elden Ring has some of the best exploration I've ever experienced in a game (and especially in an open world title of this size), and the variety of playstyles, moment to moment freedom, and emergent gameplay seem to give it a great deal in common with immersive sims. That may explain why I find it so engrossing.
I still think Lady Maria from Bloodborne is my fave boss fight of the series but Malenia was pretty fun. But if you have the blood hound dash it becomes ridiculously easy
About unique open world approaches, Kingdom Come Deliverence's Hardcore mode is amazing, They go next level and you can't even see yourself in the map. Its really immersive. It works surprisingly well.
Elden Ring Reforged mod on Nexus adds a BUNCH of options for returning players and remixes the game to keep you on your toes. Highly recommend if playing on PC.
While I know that with the success of Elden ring they probably will be sticking to open world for a long while, I hope they remember to still at some point return to the tighter new IP experiences of Sekiro and bloodborne while also staying inspired by those games evolution of their souls like combat Style
I definitely went into Elden Ring with open world fatigue, after I beat the godskin twins I went back and finished dark souls 1 and haven't touched it since
Me too, had been trying to 100% complete Pokemon Legends Arceus as it came out. Still managed 130 hours hahaha, but I hadn't even got to Morgott before I drifted away from it.
Assuming youve explored the haligtree, there’s really not a lot else left after the godskin duo. Just a bit more of the farum azula and basically like a boss rush.
@@bootmanbill2362 Well I messed up most of the side quests and didn't do all of the optional bosses so there's still a lot to do aside from beating the game
honestly the moment you kill morgott the game nosedives in quality I loved exploring the haligtree castle and fighting all 3 bosses in the last area, but everything else is just riddled with reused enemies, reused or unfun bosses and reused puzzles on boring areas that smell of open world padding
Man I loved elden ring and the boss fights were great and many memorable ones my favorite being Maliketh,morgott,mohg,all the crucible knights,Godfrey,dragon lord,lichdragon and some more
elden ring is the greatest game ive ever played, that said its far from perfect 1. bosses like malenia and lord of blood are unfair to a lot of builds and would not pass the quality control of darksouls 3 2. the mounted combat is bad and unfinished 3. the mountaintop of gaints/consicrated snowfields being large and mostly empty 4. pvp, ruined
@@sfogel i say lord of blood rather than mhog to say that i have no problem with his fight under leyndell, my problem with this fight is even if you play basicly perfect theres a good chance you will die to the attack he does with the 3 rings unless you have prior knowlage, not as bad as melania because his fight is only unfair once
Lord of blood is far far easier than Malenia. Depending on your positioning, there is nothing you can do to dodge some of her abilities. Mogh is annoying because of how much shit he throws in the field. Fire that builds hemorrhage which causes frame drops and cause input delay. It’s more annoying that unfair.
This review was right on the money about this game and Shadow of the c Colossus. That's more accurate in my opinion than Dark Souls and Breath of the Wild. I think it's a fantastic first attempt at an open world. And I think there is more enourmous potential both in this game with some patches and dlc. Yeah lots if the reskins like the dragons, godrick, astel, caelid dogs, trees, suck. But some stuff such as Dragonkin Soldier, Beastmen of Faram Azula, Loretta, Mohg, Godfrey, Niall and O'Niall, Margit and Morgott break a trend that From Software has had with reskins in that they're movesets or mechanics change. That one is slowly getting tuned out. But I noticed why the Dark Souls servers weren't back online, it was because of trying to finish Elden Ring. From Software hasn't had trouble with being good or creative, it's going way too far at points and not having some restraint. ER's second half has trouble in that regard. Another thing about Souls games is that they aren't always going to be convenient. Their worlds will have counters to bosses, but you might it in some other location.
I think for me, the games biggest flaw is trying to tell you where to go. I have sunken a good 150 hours in wanting to try and get most things done. And I'm not sure if I had a really bad sense of direction or it's something else, but when trying to find the "Albanian woman", I spent an hour trying to find a cabin, and it ended up being a cave that lead to a cabin. Like... I know there were secrets in the previous dark souls games that were stupid, but I think trying to find a needle in a haystack in some of these areas is not conveyed enough. But once again, I think it's me trying to explore as much as I can.
A game like Elden ring is just too big to not have flaws. Especially big flaws that would destroy entire other games. The Witcher 3, Breath of the Wild, Red Dead Redemption 2 have these as well. But those games and Elden ring I still would put in my top 20 favorite games of all time simply because of the ambition and the fact that these studios were actually able to match it for the most part which is more than I can say for most games that are usually released. They're messy masterpieces, but undoubtedly one of a kind achievements. I would say that all 4 of from softwares masterpieces aren't perfect but who cares, they're outstanding titles. Only reason I doubled down on that statement is because I think people tend to forget that you can both love something dearly while also being critical of it
things annoy me the most: repetitive dungeons and bosses especially the tree guy end game mini bosses and bosses hits your once and it takes away (way) more health than 1 chug of estus big bosses that look cool but I can't see what they are doing so I have to take a guess when the hits land and roll blindly now imagine all these combined.
at 5:39 you mention ubisoft clutter and its funny because breakpoint has one of the most interesting systems for open world questing where you can disregard almost all UI and even the map does not give you objective markers instead opting to tell you cardinal directions and locations in reference to landmarks. I cannot for the life of me find a game that does something similar.
What a great review! Was easy to understand and well laid out. I think the repetition is what hurts this game the most. At least more unique enemies and less reuse would have come a long way. I don't agree on AOE, delayed attacks or damage being 100%. Vigor and talismans comes a long long way, so people being punished for not building their character is valid. Same as the attacks: this is not DS3 and positioning and jumping attacks will help you avoid most if not all of this attacks. Let's hope the dlc up the game bosses as great or better than Godfrey, Malekith and Radagon. Thanks for the review.
This game was truly one of the greatest experiences I’ve had with a video game. I couldn’t help but make comparisons to Zelda Breath of the Wild since it’s foundation so similar to Elden Ring.
elden ring fixed one of my most hated things in from games, and that's having a boss and essentially having to run all across the level just to get back to said boss, and that's if you don't use any healing items in the process.
I struggled with the Godskin Noble. I dusted the Apostle. The Noble I would kick his ass and get about 3/4 to 2/3 of his health down and then he'd spam attack me. Jumping, doing the black flame ring, belly flopping and rolling, and doing the sword thrust. Was a huge pain in the ass. The rest of the bosses were tough and some were easy. But that one fight just felt unfair at times.
Malenia is undoubtedly my favourite boss in this game and among my top 5 FromSoftware bosses of all time (and perhaps one of my favourite video game bosses ever, and I’ve beaten a lot games with a lot of great bosses), but I’m glad someone shares my sentiment in some of the bosses pros and cons, the only thing I suggest with the waterfowl dance is to equip a weapon with the Bloodhound step ash of war, when Malenia jumps in the air switch to that weapon and spam the skill button until the attack has ended, you will avoid most if not all the damage from the attack. I do get sick of hearing people complain about that attack when there are items in the game to help avoid it, plus Malenia is easily staggered and highly susceptible to bleed so it’s not like she’s impossible.
It's way too complex a feeling to explain in a comment, but I just don't vibe with Edlen Ring. Then again, Dark Souls 2 is my favorite so that discounts me from most Souls-like conversations anyway! Great video, as always!
One of my favorite things to come out of Elden Ring is other devs getting all pissy over it for absolutely DUNKING on the last decade of open world design. This was Fromsoft's FIRST ATTEMPT and they just *destroyed* Ubisoft and it's hilarious.
Agree to disagree. Elden Ring UI looks like it’s still in pre-alpha, you can’t walk around the world without dropping to 25fps on any platform, and you know, it’s amazing how you can’t double jump if you are equipping 75% of the weapons in the game. “Dunked on” is an overstatement. Elden Ring is a good bad game. And hey, you can like bad games, but it’s still… bad.
Really good review and I agree with your point that you should be able to go into the tree after Morgott and just be able to get like the bear bones ending. Even though I disagree with your opinion that it falls in the backend. Also very interesting that in one sentence you say you wanted more variety in the catacombs/caves and then the next sentence you say you want the hero dungeons outright removed entirely, when those by far had the most variety between them.
@@OneLastJellyGuy no! what chase said is an objective fact you cant disagree with it. what i say is fact too so it makes it double fact, sorry if facts hurts your subjective feelings, nothing personal kid.
it only falls in mountaintops for me, and frankly i think they shouldve cut down on the small side dungeons a tad, maybe 30 dungeons wouldve been better than 55 jesus. overall its still easily the best game fromsoft made, imo at least.
Love that scene from the Sopranos. I always thought it was cool, Tony's love for animals. I haven't made it to that boss fight yet but I have a feeling I'll share some of that guilt you felt for killing it.
@@BBQcheese fax elden ring has so much great things about such as great replay value great exploration great combat great enemy/boss variety great visuals great areas great bosses great accessibility as well as getting rid of annoying aspects of the games while adding everything that made them great into a open world it does have some problems sure but when compared to all the pros they fall flat short well except the balancing but then again there’s so many ways to overcome challenges such as summoning range combat heavy combat magic weapon arts sneaking over leveling summoning and more
@@BBQcheese also about repetitive bosses can’t say I am that mad about it look at botw that game gets praised high af but there is a huge lack of enemy variety in it (although still a great game) and comparing elden ring to other open world games it ain’t that bad and it’s basically unavoidable in open world games
Just want to point out that there are multiple bosses with shockwave attacks that you can dodge by jumping. Fire Giant, Radagon, and Godfrey all have them just to name a few
is kinda hilarious how alot of souls veterans expected darkborne 4 combat, as in just spamming R1 and circle in random directions for 40 hours, then got their asses handed to them in ER and proceed to whine about the game like the newbies alot of them hated and chastised with "get gud" logic.
@@flamingmanure some attacks are made to be exploitable by the player to get in a hit, like the shockwave attacks and low attacks like crucible knight tail and some/one of margits swings.
I think the dmg curve increase in the end part is temporary because it doenst make sense to only being able to tank 2 attacks from normal enemies with 60 vit. I think they made like this just to try to become a meme
i can understand those UX developers having a life crisis, when they realize they dedicate their precious time on this world to something that almost everyone hate to experience on modern games.
Nah, I think somethings should just not have Sequels like Demon's Souls. It will always be compared to the first one. And the game won't live up to the first one because Bloodborne is so unique. Take the Dark Souls trilogy as a whole, most say one is the best because of how original it is. I think new ips are fine with From Software, they can pretty much make what they want now. Bloodborne should just have one entry.
@Searching for Ufos No, Remake is not a sequel. I'm talking about Dark Souls 2 not living up to the first one because of the expectations. Dark Souls 2 is really good, it's problem is that it has Dark Souls in it's name and a short ass development time. If it was done after Bloodborne. Great, but I think From Software kills it with new ips and can bend their formula in any way they want.
I'm only about 25 hours in but I feel like regular life work and family obligations are just getting my my way of playing this game I haven't felt that in a long time
Dark Souls 2 is awesome. My headcanon was it was some ages/cycles after Dark Souls 1 but nowadays it's kinda sideways and parallel skewed. My guy with the dark hammer/s and lightning/bleed greatswords is gonna reincarnate in Elden Ring... soon ... DkS3 always felt fan-service-y and Noah Gervais-Caldwell made me feel better for all the arguments I lost on that topic. Still a grand ending to an amazing series 🤠👌 Like another good note I just upvoted... Bloodborne PC port when!?! XD
I wasn't hyped for this game at all. Not that I thought it was gonna be bad. Just that the open world wasn't gonna do it any favors. Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time and Sekiro and DS3 are a couple of my favorites as well. And to be honest it took way too long for the game to hook me. I would only play for 30 minutes at a time and get bored. I started half a dozen new characters before deciding on Vagabond I think the class is. Played through Limgrave and still wasn't particularly impressed. Then I got to the Weeping Peninsula, specifically Morne Castle, and that caught my attention. It felt like a level. A short one but very cool. Once I got to Stormveil Castle I wasn't too interested in it. Unfortunately I happened to go every right direction in the level and it ended super quick for me. The turning point for me was absolutely The Academy of Raya Lucaria. That turn into the front entrance revealing a towering cathedral like structure with the glow of the windows in the fog and rain. That moment I was hooked. I wanted to explore everything about the place. The boss was a bit gimmicky but I still love the second phase with the huge moon and watery ground. After that i was playing hours at a time on my days off from work. Wildly enjoying my time. Now I would put this game in third place of my favorite Fromsoft games after Bloodborne and Sekiro. When I started a second playthrough I'm still unimpressed with Limgrave. I dunno what it is. It bores the shit out of me. Maybe it's me but I feel like the game doesn't make a good first impression. Good thing I stuck with it because I really like this game as a whole.
I was playing Nioh 2 the other day and the Ubume enemy is very similar to Rennala. They both hold an unborn child in a cocoon/egg. I wonder if the yokai Ubume is the inspiration behind Rennala.
Sometimes I feel a wave of absurdity wash over me when either myself or someone I know/TH-camr/etc who are able to play an amazing new release that are basically miracles of creation with a look of near-boredom. Maybe drop a couple complaints here and there because nothing is perfect so wouldn't be right not to point out a few issues. I'm guilty of this sorta thing too, but man, what the hell happened to the magic? I played Fallout 3 in a state of wonderous awe, but these days that feeling is difficult to attain although not entirely absent, thankfully. (Red Dead 2 and Control activated my joy almonds) I think we should just go back to the Atari or playing with sticks for a couple years, and then bring back these games so we can at least feel a slight change in pulse from that rush they can bring. Not sure why I chose here to say all this shit since Boulder is one who seems to have genuine appreciation for the medium and those working within it. I see so many channels speak in a dismissive tone toward so much within the industry so maybe I just had to come here and bitch so I don't get beat up by some musclehead gamer gainer on the warpath lol.
Yeah, the downside of this TH-cam Essay/critique/retrospective, as much as I like that content and some creators, sometimes treats games as products rather than pieces of art with the hole being grander than it's parts. Criticism is important, even essential, but it becomes partial and inconsistent with some games, like Hollow Knight, being and untouchable masterpiece with no flaws, whereas Soulsborne, while imperfect, gets sometimes some strong criticism. I would say: enjoy what you play, regardless of it's weak elements, but always remember that there's always flaws with any piece of media
I know you get this question a lot and you’ve answered it just as many times. Still, how the hell do you keep up this crazy output?! You’re a downright video-making machine
It's amazing if you think about it, DSP beat Elden Ring, even beat Malenia tho it took more than 160 tries for him to beat her but, he ragequit the new Kirby games optional final boss while screaming "this is literally dark souls, why did they made it dark souls!?!?" and he even had a lifestealing sword in that fight 😂😂
In my opinion, Elden Ring is the Bioshock Infinite of 2022. Can't wait to see everybody look back at it in 5 years and see how okay but not so amazing it was. A good game overall but definitely not as good as all the hype and critics it got.
If there's something that's really annoying is that in 10 years the gameplay loop remained the same, I can also see the open world nature of this game becoming a real pain in the rear on repeat playthroughs, then there's the added annoyance of reused animations, enemies (looking at you Basilisks), weapons and spells. Elden Ring isn't really a bad game, but it sure isn't the masterpiece everyone seems to portrait it as
My main complaint is the boss mechanics and how they can downright cheat at times. The way they can combo into another combo then another attack then a combo meanwhile you have to wait forever to hopefully get a single hit in. Rinse and repeat. The bosses have been made too fast, one-shotty and able to cancel their punish window and go straight into another combo. Past games had a nice back and forth balance to battles.
Personal ranking from best to worst: Sekiro > Bloodborne > Elden Ring > Dark Souls 3 > Dark Souls > Demon`s Souls >>>>>>>>> Diarrhea > EA and Loot boxes > Dark Souls 2
Can’t wait to see more from FromSoftware, but if I had to rank all the Soulsborne games (excluding Senior) from least favourite to most favourite it would be as such… Dark Souls 3 Elden Ring Dark Souls Dark Souls 2 Bloodborne
Great game and great video, but I'll wait to do a second playthrough until a major patch comes out that fixes those late game bosses and areas. These games are always about being "difficult but fair", and those later areas are just aggravating to get through simply because the damage scaling is WAY too high. If they patch these issues, then this game will be damn near flawless.
I like a challenge but some of the bosses have straight-up bs moves. The way they can leave an opening after an attack but sometimes they will say screw it and follow up straight into another attack or combo. You can’t confidently attack because bosses can cheat basically. This forces overly-defensive play and is not near as fun compared to past games.
Best ER review so far. Man dude. You sound very similar to myself, much respect. Check out BotW, I was playing that before Elden Ring and is a definite inspiration.
ER isn't a masterpiece but it is a Classic that should be learned from. Like UI/UX should be limited/sacrificed/stylized for immersion's sake. Gameplay-wise I think ER is DS4 and that it doesn't evolve the gameplay as it does make it approachable, the fact that animation cancels and deflects from Sekiro wasn't carried over is a crime. If there is one thing I'd give ER a knock on ER is interactivity dialogue-wise, I'd like to talk with NPCs on various topics, it doesn't have to be exposition like with Giddon but I want to know what makes these guys tick, I'd like to ask Godfrey; "what's your motive here?" "How do you feel about your wife shagging herself?" (If you found out before you fought with him) "Your a national hero and first of my race, why are we fighting?" Edit: For the sequel, I think they should down-scale the size and increase the depth of interactivity; have side missions that link into each other and affect one another Fallout NV/Deus Ex style, maybe weather conditions that can change the landscape (BOTW as an example), have branching story events that change how you interact with future and past areas (FNV, Deus Ex, Baulders Gate, Skyrim to a lesser extent)
Disagree on combat it is pretty innovative it adds a lot from the series such as crouching and jump attacks from sekiro large groups of enemy’s from bloodborne summoning to help players out and experiment and a huge variety of weapons and armor and magic which creates great replay value and a connected open world with so much content even if it’s not perfect although I can see why people thinks it’s a masterpiece I think it’s very close but not 100 percent but it’s a phenomenal game and anything lower than that is just dumb
Honestly, this game i really hated when i played it for the first time, even more than DS2, but i must say, i've really warmed up to it, and also as a souls veteran who has been here for over a decade, i must say, i approached the game with the wrong expectations and a closed mind. I really should have been more open minded, and i'd have enjoyed my playthrough instead of it being a 200 hour slog.
Got bored after getting to the cold area and doing most of the content up to that point. Now I can't play longer than 2 hours without wishing I was doing something else.
The Ranni fixation the fans have will be this games greatest mystery. We all know the popular waifu characters and generally we can understand their appeal. Ranni has none. She's not fun or interesting. Not "pretty" in the way popular waifu are. She's a doll that becomes a ghost as outer gods can create flesh. God's (which she presumable becomes in her ending) cannot. Guess this is for the Bloodborne guys who liked the doll? Ranni is a non factor. Iji and Blaidd made that quest. Both very interesting and fun characters. Lovable too unlike Ranni. Ranni says she loves them but walked a path knowing that it'll indirectly cause their destruction. That is incredibly hypocritical and she can fuck off with that lie. Ranni can burn in the eternal flames where she belongs.
Everybody commenting "waaah it's jail" like they knew that before somebody telling them, seriously guys, if the top comment corrects him on that there's no need to comment it again lmao Great video btw
One thing that constantly boggles me is how accepting are people of issues in those game still occuring since Dark Souls 1, I like the games but I got insulted pointing out things From Refuses to fix or general bullshit design ideas, like I call Bloodborne "the actually good one" but bosses still bosses that completely obscure the camera, camera itself that's often more enemy than anything else, dogs which sucked in Bloodborne yet still were in fucking DS3, my arch nemesis homing arrows, Torch guys, fuck torch guys, wonky hitboxes, roller skating attacks that suddenly change attack angle, all of those would be alright if not for fragility of your guy. It's all more bullshit than it's worth it, it's not even that it's hard as much as it it's extremely overrated and Elden Ring just seems to iterate on it all yet gets perfect scores all over. It's worse than Witcher 3 hype.
Unique games that fill a specific niche can get away with having more flaws than something more ubiquitous. Like if a shooter has a lot of issues that have been addressed by other games it's a lot easier to criticize. But with Souls it's like yeah this enemy might be annoying or the input buffer issues have been around since Demon's Souls, but no other games really play like this in terms of level design, atmosphere, and committal combat.
@@jackgarland643 I can't agree honestly, those issues really took away from my experience, the games been hyped up to be some beacon of combat while when I'm playing I see lots of bullshit moments that are unfun type of challenge, like jumping satyrs in DS3 with jumping grab attacks Jesus, I'm much more prone to remember irritating fuck than I'm gonna have fond memories of some level, grab attacks teleporting you into the arms, teeth, mouth, tentacles of the enemies are absolutely unforgivable yet somehow it's fine iterating on those and my issue is less that it happens but that it barely gets mentioned at all,I feel like Souls fans developed some sort of Stockholm Syndrome, since as you said, it's a niche (not really anymore). It's like people giving perfect 10s to RDR2 even tho Rockstars iterating on their outdated gameplay and pointless open worlds and somehow it's fine too.
Horrible in literally every single aspect, the only thing that it has going for it is it's undeserved popularity among people with extremely low standards and fanboys of the software house behind it 💩
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the most annoying thing in this game is when bosses do a combo, leave an opening after the combo for you to attack, and then the next time they do that that same combo they immediately pull a slash too quick to react to, basically turning finding openings into a complete dice roll
@@StarmenRock I think the word you’re looking for is ”tedium”.
@@StarmenRock You dont have to make excuses for every facet of the game, it's an unnecessarily frustrating addition to quite a few of the bosses that makes more than a few of the players deaths seem cheap rather then earned. Smugness like this isn't going to impress anyone.
which bosses do that?
That's why I prefer Sekiro combat. Attacks you have to dodge are few and far between and the attacks you can block and parry do damage to the enemy's posture bar, which - when filled - gives you the oportunity to preform a death-blow, thus resulting in the boss fight/enemy encounter ending much faster.
Sounds like your standard souls game. Complete trash.
Evergoal is just pronounced ever jail. In old English, jail is goal and fromsoftware uses it in Bloodborne also. It's why those enemies are trapped within the evergoals
Heard this and scrolled down to the comments lol. I thought it was pronounced goal, like in football for so long man.
Gaol*
It's spelt the way it sounds.
There were several things throughout where I'm sure my pronunciation was off. That was one of them.
Thanks so much for saying this! The mispronunciation was giving me conniptions.
I used to pronouce them as "everga-ol" up until Dung Eater told me to free him for his jail, but ingame subtitles spelled it as "gaol". Thats when i also finally understood what these things are lol.
This is one of those games you wish you could just memory wipe yourself so you can experience it all over again. The magic of that first playthrough exploring the world was like nothing else I've ever experienced in a game.
It's 3rd person Hollow Knight
42:00 Hi, I'm the guy who liked the Graves more than any catacombs so far. I liked that the difficulty came from something other than just avoiding attack damage, and I enjoyed the one-off mechanics they introduced, whether or not they were balanced.
I think what stood out to me was when you said "it could've ended at the Erdtree" when you get there the first time.
That's pretty much what I'd say too. That would've been a good ending and the game would've felt complete enough - maybe have a legacy dungeon in the tree or something. However, everything you need to do to enter it felt kinda sorta a little too much - it's already been 100hours for me at this point I think, and I was looking forward to the big finale.
The game is amazing, but by the end (especially if you explore everything) it started to drag out a tad too long. However, that's complaining on the highest level. And of course there are minor other problems - balancing throughout the game can feel odd, getting (the right) upgrade materials can be a hassle and some minor other things like the camera at times. Still, overall, this whole experience was one of the most memorable in my over 20+ years of playing videogames.
Now, what do we learn from all of this?
Easy. We need Dragons Dogma 2.
i think people overexaggerate the drop in quality after leyndell, sure it's worse, but it's not even near the drop quality in lost izalith (or ds2 as a whole lol), besides, the rest of the game is really short anyway, i mean aside from optional stuff like haligtree, you just ride to the fire giant, kill him, go through the farum azula and that's it, you can do it in a few hours. And it's not like the endgame doesn't have good moments - the whole haligtree is really well designed, farum azula is cool too, malenia is an amazing boss imo, dragonlord, godfrey and radagon are all great bosses too, dragonlord being the best dragon fight in the series imo
@@ehrtdaz7186 I don't really see a big drop in quality, for me it was just more like "yeah, uh, gimme my big payoff please?" and then it was like "no, u gotta ride up there and do other stuff before that." and then at the end the Erdtree was just a Bossfight - I kinda sorta hoped for some more buildup there, with a dungeon inside the tree or something. Something was just missing for me there, can't 100% point the finger on it, it just felt "dragged out with a not too built up finale".
Also, as I've mentioned, if you play the game with an Explorer-Mindset, you probably have clocked in well over 100 hours for the first playthrough, so maybe some fatigue has settled in by then? I don't know.
In other word: Everything you said isn't really my problem with the last quarter of the game. :)
@@Bibi_effin_Blocksberg oh i understand, i personally expected that there will be more after morgott and leyndell, so it's maybe the case of the right mindset. But i have to admit that the pacing at the end was off, because at the end of farum azula you suddenly fight dragonlord, maliketh, gideon, godfrey, radagon and elden beast in a row with basically no breaks, it kinda became a boss rush right at the end
Huh. Im at the beginning of the Mountaintops and I just don’t….want to continue? I’ve already restarted and am really enjoying Limgrave again. Having not beat the game, I think I agree.
@@ehrtdaz7186 "(or ds2 as a whole lol)" Oh shush, band wagon jumper. DS2 is brilliant.
I personally thought that the areas past Leyndell were some of the best From areas I've ever seen.
Mt Top of the Giants and Consecrated Snowfield were like the best yet versions of the Painted World and the DLC from DS3 and DS2.
The Haligtree area was by far one of my favorite places just for how tough all the enemies are there, and Farum Azula is competing with my favorite ever Souls levels.
When I got into and then through Leyndell, I had this horrible feeling of dread, that I was nearing the end of my first playthrough.
I was DEEPLY happy and satisfied when I realized how much game I still had ahead of me.
Elden Ring earned its overwhelmingly positive reception and critical acclaim, it's a brilliant game, however I'm glad to see that more and more reviews are pointing out the flaws it does have, notably the balancing issues when it comes to late-game areas and bosses. I really hope From Soft takes note of these criticisms because this is something that can be fixed very quickly and easily. Hopefully, they'll keep all that in mind when creating any potential DLC for the game, and I really hope they end up delivering bossfights on the same quality as all-time favorites like Gael, Isshin, Orphan of Kos, Artorias..etc
The fact that shit games like this and the witcher 3 get glowing reviews is why we can't get decent games anymore....
It's not going to happen and they already have shown that.
They nerfed an OPTIONAL boss because... Well he's over fucking tuned, and the player base revolted because either:
1). Well you're just RUINING the experience for new players!
Or
2). Well I HAD to do it when it was OP so why doesnt everyone else??!!!?!?!!
And because of that: the nerfs got reverted.
FromSoft fanbase is a bunch of 30 year old men that cry if you use a certain weapon, build, or god forbid don't emote at them in PvP.
Don't expect any logical changes to the game. It breaks their mental.
they actually patched alot of the issues out in the first month. theres still some balance shenanigans at end game but its better now especially with the increased animation speeds, poise damage and normal damage on most weapons. what ppl dont understand is this is the first game fromsoft does with such a staggering amount of XP you can potentially get before reaching end game. theyll never lower end game damage that much becuz for ppl that explored everything before getting there, the entire place would be an utter joke. i know ppl that got to mountain tops with level 220 characters, thats just how much runes you can get before mountain tops, it isnt just a bad balance issue, its also a mathematical one thats almost impossible to balance correctly all the way through.
They already made among the best bosses ever, bosses except gank bosses at release are fine in their gameplay. A lot of the critics that were made are now debunked like combos, bosses agressive behavior, etc
I've been in kind of a bad headspace for a while now and Elden Ring sort of became my comfort game. I'm just shy of 500hrs, got the platinum, and am on my 5th new game cycle. Currently collecting all the items in the game. It's been weirdly relaxing and I'm sure this game will go down as one of my favourites of all time.
You know what would help.....try getting a job. 500hrs jesus, do something with your life.
Glad you’re enjoying the game
Same! I love the game ❤
@Irraya Don't blame me because he's a leech who plays games 12 hours a day in diapers.
@@drunkhusband6257 lmao I was just out of the hospital man chill
There is no way anything else that releases this year will win GOTY. Elden Ring has it in the bag without question.
I'm one of the few masochists that really liked the Hero's Graves xD
it was like mini Sen's Fortress, it was quite fun
theyre laughably better designed than the cheap shite that is the chalice dungeons. hell even the mediocre crypt dungeons get much better than those XD
Thank you! I still haven't finished my first playthrough, but have been excited to hear your thoughts. Elden Ring has some of the best exploration I've ever experienced in a game (and especially in an open world title of this size), and the variety of playstyles, moment to moment freedom, and emergent gameplay seem to give it a great deal in common with immersive sims. That may explain why I find it so engrossing.
Waited til i had some free time to watch this beast! HELL YEAH! Also, loving the 1440p brother, looks great
Can of coke to ya!
WTF OSW Review!
What Bar is Elden Ring!
I still think Lady Maria from Bloodborne is my fave boss fight of the series but Malenia was pretty fun. But if you have the blood hound dash it becomes ridiculously easy
About unique open world approaches, Kingdom Come Deliverence's Hardcore mode is amazing, They go next level and you can't even see yourself in the map. Its really immersive. It works surprisingly well.
That would be so awesome in Elden ring
@@DonutSwordsman yeah havibg modes and ootions is always a good thing. I dont care what some elits say lol
Elden Ring Reforged mod on Nexus adds a BUNCH of options for returning players and remixes the game to keep you on your toes. Highly recommend if playing on PC.
While I know that with the success of Elden ring they probably will be sticking to open world for a long while, I hope they remember to still at some point return to the tighter new IP experiences of Sekiro and bloodborne while also staying inspired by those games evolution of their souls like combat Style
They basically confirmed Armored Core as next game.
@@jiririnagl302 Source?
I definitely went into Elden Ring with open world fatigue, after I beat the godskin twins I went back and finished dark souls 1 and haven't touched it since
Me too, had been trying to 100% complete Pokemon Legends Arceus as it came out. Still managed 130 hours hahaha, but I hadn't even got to Morgott before I drifted away from it.
Assuming youve explored the haligtree, there’s really not a lot else left after the godskin duo. Just a bit more of the farum azula and basically like a boss rush.
@@bootmanbill2362 Well I messed up most of the side quests and didn't do all of the optional bosses so there's still a lot to do aside from beating the game
honestly the moment you kill morgott the game nosedives in quality
I loved exploring the haligtree castle and fighting all 3 bosses in the last area, but everything else is just riddled with reused enemies, reused or unfun bosses and reused puzzles on boring areas that smell of open world padding
@@teratoma. The endgame bosses were the best ones
That DSP cameo lmfao. I can’t wait for TIHYDP: Eldern Ring
Man I loved elden ring and the boss fights were great and many memorable ones my favorite being Maliketh,morgott,mohg,all the crucible knights,Godfrey,dragon lord,lichdragon and some more
elden ring is the greatest game ive ever played, that said its far from perfect
1. bosses like malenia and lord of blood are unfair to a lot of builds and would not pass the quality control of darksouls 3
2. the mounted combat is bad and unfinished
3. the mountaintop of gaints/consicrated snowfields being large and mostly empty
4. pvp, ruined
I wouldn't say mhog but yes malenia is very unfair, and I don't really care about mounted combat, but i agree with the others things you said
@@sfogel i say lord of blood rather than mhog to say that i have no problem with his fight under leyndell, my problem with this fight is even if you play basicly perfect theres a good chance you will die to the attack he does with the 3 rings unless you have prior knowlage, not as bad as melania because his fight is only unfair once
Honestly besides the waterfowl dance I found malenia very fair personally all of her attacks had fair dodge timings and her boss felt fair
Lord of blood is far far easier than Malenia.
Depending on your positioning, there is nothing you can do to dodge some of her abilities.
Mogh is annoying because of how much shit he throws in the field.
Fire that builds hemorrhage which causes frame drops and cause input delay. It’s more annoying that unfair.
This review was right on the money about this game and Shadow of the c
Colossus. That's more accurate in my opinion than Dark Souls and Breath of the Wild.
I think it's a fantastic first attempt at an open world. And I think there is more enourmous potential both in this game with some patches and dlc.
Yeah lots if the reskins like the dragons, godrick, astel, caelid dogs, trees, suck.
But some stuff such as Dragonkin Soldier, Beastmen of Faram Azula, Loretta, Mohg, Godfrey, Niall and O'Niall, Margit and Morgott break a trend that From Software has had with reskins in that they're movesets or mechanics change. That one is slowly getting tuned out.
But I noticed why the Dark Souls servers weren't back online, it was because of trying to finish Elden Ring. From Software hasn't had trouble with being good or creative, it's going way too far at points and not having some restraint. ER's second half has trouble in that regard.
Another thing about Souls games is that they aren't always going to be convenient. Their worlds will have counters to bosses, but you might it in some other location.
I think for me, the games biggest flaw is trying to tell you where to go. I have sunken a good 150 hours in wanting to try and get most things done. And I'm not sure if I had a really bad sense of direction or it's something else, but when trying to find the "Albanian woman", I spent an hour trying to find a cabin, and it ended up being a cave that lead to a cabin. Like... I know there were secrets in the previous dark souls games that were stupid, but I think trying to find a needle in a haystack in some of these areas is not conveyed enough. But once again, I think it's me trying to explore as much as I can.
A game like Elden ring is just too big to not have flaws. Especially big flaws that would destroy entire other games. The Witcher 3, Breath of the Wild, Red Dead Redemption 2 have these as well. But those games and Elden ring I still would put in my top 20 favorite games of all time simply because of the ambition and the fact that these studios were actually able to match it for the most part which is more than I can say for most games that are usually released. They're messy masterpieces, but undoubtedly one of a kind achievements. I would say that all 4 of from softwares masterpieces aren't perfect but who cares, they're outstanding titles. Only reason I doubled down on that statement is because I think people tend to forget that you can both love something dearly while also being critical of it
I never thought about stacking heavy armor on horseback. I guess it's balanced cuz if u get knocked off you're vulnerable so risk reward
things annoy me the most:
repetitive dungeons and bosses especially the tree guy
end game mini bosses and bosses hits your once and it takes away (way) more health than 1 chug of estus
big bosses that look cool but I can't see what they are doing so I have to take a guess when the hits land and roll blindly
now imagine all these combined.
10:40 This is definitely one of the defining moments of Elden Ring. And I love just how many people have shared that experience.
at 5:39 you mention ubisoft clutter and its funny because breakpoint has one of the most interesting systems for open world questing where you can disregard almost all UI and even the map does not give you objective markers instead opting to tell you cardinal directions and locations in reference to landmarks. I cannot for the life of me find a game that does something similar.
What a great review! Was easy to understand and well laid out.
I think the repetition is what hurts this game the most. At least more unique enemies and less reuse would have come a long way.
I don't agree on AOE, delayed attacks or damage being 100%. Vigor and talismans comes a long long way, so people being punished for not building their character is valid. Same as the attacks: this is not DS3 and positioning and jumping attacks will help you avoid most if not all of this attacks.
Let's hope the dlc up the game bosses as great or better than Godfrey, Malekith and Radagon. Thanks for the review.
This game was truly one of the greatest experiences I’ve had with a video game. I couldn’t help but make comparisons to Zelda Breath of the Wild since it’s foundation so similar to Elden Ring.
elden ring fixed one of my most hated things in from games, and that's having a boss and essentially having to run all across the level just to get back to said boss, and that's if you don't use any healing items in the process.
They just switched it to having to run a mile in the actual boss arena ala: elden beast lol
This was fixed in Sekiro.
Horse combat in this game felt clunky. Especially using magic
Been waiting for this one 😃 Happy Easter everyone
How someone could complain about faram azula????man.....it's so good! Anyway tho man good review.
I struggled with the Godskin Noble. I dusted the Apostle. The Noble I would kick his ass and get about 3/4 to 2/3 of his health down and then he'd spam attack me. Jumping, doing the black flame ring, belly flopping and rolling, and doing the sword thrust. Was a huge pain in the ass. The rest of the bosses were tough and some were easy. But that one fight just felt unfair at times.
Can't wait for DLC. There are so many things they can expand on.
Malenia is undoubtedly my favourite boss in this game and among my top 5 FromSoftware bosses of all time (and perhaps one of my favourite video game bosses ever, and I’ve beaten a lot games with a lot of great bosses), but I’m glad someone shares my sentiment in some of the bosses pros and cons, the only thing I suggest with the waterfowl dance is to equip a weapon with the Bloodhound step ash of war, when Malenia jumps in the air switch to that weapon and spam the skill button until the attack has ended, you will avoid most if not all the damage from the attack.
I do get sick of hearing people complain about that attack when there are items in the game to help avoid it, plus Malenia is easily staggered and highly susceptible to bleed so it’s not like she’s impossible.
It's way too complex a feeling to explain in a comment, but I just don't vibe with Edlen Ring. Then again, Dark Souls 2 is my favorite so that discounts me from most Souls-like conversations anyway! Great video, as always!
One of my favorite things to come out of Elden Ring is other devs getting all pissy over it for absolutely DUNKING on the last decade of open world design. This was Fromsoft's FIRST ATTEMPT and they just *destroyed* Ubisoft and it's hilarious.
Agree to disagree.
Elden Ring UI looks like it’s still in pre-alpha, you can’t walk around the world without dropping to 25fps on any platform, and you know, it’s amazing how you can’t double jump if you are equipping 75% of the weapons in the game.
“Dunked on” is an overstatement. Elden Ring is a good bad game. And hey, you can like bad games, but it’s still… bad.
Really good review and I agree with your point that you should be able to go into the tree after Morgott and just be able to get like the bear bones ending. Even though I disagree with your opinion that it falls in the backend. Also very interesting that in one sentence you say you wanted more variety in the catacombs/caves and then the next sentence you say you want the hero dungeons outright removed entirely, when those by far had the most variety between them.
That’s an objective fact you can’t disagree with it.
@@OneLastJellyGuy no! what chase said is an objective fact you cant disagree with it. what i say is fact too so it makes it double fact, sorry if facts hurts your subjective feelings, nothing personal kid.
it only falls in mountaintops for me, and frankly i think they shouldve cut down on the small side dungeons a tad, maybe 30 dungeons wouldve been better than 55 jesus. overall its still easily the best game fromsoft made, imo at least.
@@flamingmanure wtf are you talking about
You can still get rivers of blood post fire giant. The invader spawns south of the entrance to the fire giant arena.
Love that scene from the Sopranos. I always thought it was cool, Tony's love for animals. I haven't made it to that boss fight yet but I have a feeling I'll share some of that guilt you felt for killing it.
Elden Ring isn't Dark Souls 4 Open World Edition. It's Dark Souls II Open World Edition.
@@BBQcheese fax elden ring has so much great things about such as great replay value great exploration great combat great enemy/boss variety great visuals great areas great bosses great accessibility as well as getting rid of annoying aspects of the games while adding everything that made them great into a open world it does have some problems sure but when compared to all the pros they fall flat short well except the balancing but then again there’s so many ways to overcome challenges such as summoning range combat heavy combat magic weapon arts sneaking over leveling summoning and more
@@BBQcheese also about repetitive bosses can’t say I am that mad about it look at botw that game gets praised high af but there is a huge lack of enemy variety in it (although still a great game) and comparing elden ring to other open world games it ain’t that bad and it’s basically unavoidable in open world games
Just want to point out that there are multiple bosses with shockwave attacks that you can dodge by jumping. Fire Giant, Radagon, and Godfrey all have them just to name a few
is kinda hilarious how alot of souls veterans expected darkborne 4 combat, as in just spamming R1 and circle in random directions for 40 hours, then got their asses handed to them in ER and proceed to whine about the game like the newbies alot of them hated and chastised with "get gud" logic.
@@flamingmanure some attacks are made to be exploitable by the player to get in a hit, like the shockwave attacks and low attacks like crucible knight tail and some/one of margits swings.
I think the dmg curve increase in the end part is temporary because it doenst make sense to only being able to tank 2 attacks from normal enemies with 60 vit. I think they made like this just to try to become a meme
been watching your whole videos for a week now, and seriously this channel is super underrated. !
i can understand those UX developers having a life crisis, when they realize they dedicate their precious time on this world to something that almost everyone hate to experience on modern games.
I don't want Bloodborne 2. One is enough.
Bloodborne can do much better, even if it's nearly perfect. I'd love to see more of it, specially considerint the patchwork the game currently is.
Nah, I think somethings should just not have Sequels like Demon's Souls. It will always be compared to the first one. And the game won't live up to the first one because Bloodborne is so unique. Take the Dark Souls trilogy as a whole, most say one is the best because of how original it is. I think new ips are fine with From Software, they can pretty much make what they want now.
Bloodborne should just have one entry.
@Searching for Ufos No, Remake is not a sequel. I'm talking about Dark Souls 2 not living up to the first one because of the expectations. Dark Souls 2 is really good, it's problem is that it has Dark Souls in it's name and a short ass development time. If it was done after Bloodborne. Great, but I think From Software kills it with new ips and can bend their formula in any way they want.
“i’m redfield” -chris redfield 2016
Hilditree is so good for catch up and pay outs of runes. 3k a pop with basic enemys. So smack a few and get swol
I'm only about 25 hours in but I feel like regular life work and family obligations are just getting my my way of playing this game I haven't felt that in a long time
Someone needs to make a mod to replace Renalla with the main character of death stranding (Norman Reedus) and the baby. It would be gold
why does the intro give me chills everytime
Interesting tier list, mine is probably the exact opposite. Crazy!
Dark Souls 2 is awesome. My headcanon was it was some ages/cycles after Dark Souls 1 but nowadays it's kinda sideways and parallel skewed. My guy with the dark hammer/s and lightning/bleed greatswords is gonna reincarnate in Elden Ring... soon ...
DkS3 always felt fan-service-y and Noah Gervais-Caldwell made me feel better for all the arguments I lost on that topic. Still a grand ending to an amazing series 🤠👌
Like another good note I just upvoted... Bloodborne PC port when!?! XD
I wasn't hyped for this game at all. Not that I thought it was gonna be bad. Just that the open world wasn't gonna do it any favors. Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time and Sekiro and DS3 are a couple of my favorites as well. And to be honest it took way too long for the game to hook me. I would only play for 30 minutes at a time and get bored. I started half a dozen new characters before deciding on Vagabond I think the class is. Played through Limgrave and still wasn't particularly impressed. Then I got to the Weeping Peninsula, specifically Morne Castle, and that caught my attention. It felt like a level. A short one but very cool. Once I got to Stormveil Castle I wasn't too interested in it. Unfortunately I happened to go every right direction in the level and it ended super quick for me. The turning point for me was absolutely The Academy of Raya Lucaria. That turn into the front entrance revealing a towering cathedral like structure with the glow of the windows in the fog and rain. That moment I was hooked. I wanted to explore everything about the place. The boss was a bit gimmicky but I still love the second phase with the huge moon and watery ground. After that i was playing hours at a time on my days off from work. Wildly enjoying my time. Now I would put this game in third place of my favorite Fromsoft games after Bloodborne and Sekiro. When I started a second playthrough I'm still unimpressed with Limgrave. I dunno what it is. It bores the shit out of me. Maybe it's me but I feel like the game doesn't make a good first impression. Good thing I stuck with it because I really like this game as a whole.
Objectively speaking. Would you agree ds3 had better ost and bosses than elden ring?
Was just re watching your Deus Ex video. One of my favorites. Looking forward to watching this the next hour.
49:00 They gave you plenty of time to get away from it (The large aoe attack)
*Footage of him getting hit by this attack xD*
I was playing Nioh 2 the other day and the Ubume enemy is very similar to Rennala. They both hold an unborn child in a cocoon/egg. I wonder if the yokai Ubume is the inspiration behind Rennala.
She was based on the Greek demigod Nyx
Sometimes I feel a wave of absurdity wash over me when either myself or someone I know/TH-camr/etc who are able to play an amazing new release that are basically miracles of creation with a look of near-boredom. Maybe drop a couple complaints here and there because nothing is perfect so wouldn't be right not to point out a few issues. I'm guilty of this sorta thing too, but man, what the hell happened to the magic? I played Fallout 3 in a state of wonderous awe, but these days that feeling is difficult to attain although not entirely absent, thankfully. (Red Dead 2 and Control activated my joy almonds) I think we should just go back to the Atari or playing with sticks for a couple years, and then bring back these games so we can at least feel a slight change in pulse from that rush they can bring.
Not sure why I chose here to say all this shit since Boulder is one who seems to have genuine appreciation for the medium and those working within it. I see so many channels speak in a dismissive tone toward so much within the industry so maybe I just had to come here and bitch so I don't get beat up by some musclehead gamer gainer on the warpath lol.
Yeah, the downside of this TH-cam Essay/critique/retrospective, as much as I like that content and some creators, sometimes treats games as products rather than pieces of art with the hole being grander than it's parts. Criticism is important, even essential, but it becomes partial and inconsistent with some games, like Hollow Knight, being and untouchable masterpiece with no flaws, whereas Soulsborne, while imperfect, gets sometimes some strong criticism.
I would say: enjoy what you play, regardless of it's weak elements, but always remember that there's always flaws with any piece of media
You can check if fall damage is fatal with rainbow stones.
I found out late in the game that Evergaol is pronounced "Ever-jail" its Middle-English so the spelling is weird
I figured out dodging by jumping and it was a glorious moment
I know you get this question a lot and you’ve answered it just as many times. Still, how the hell do you keep up this crazy output?! You’re a downright video-making machine
This one I was poking on and off at for the last month or so. Every other game was like 5ish hours to get through.
It's amazing if you think about it, DSP beat Elden Ring, even beat Malenia tho it took more than 160 tries for him to beat her but, he ragequit the new Kirby games optional final boss while screaming "this is literally dark souls, why did they made it dark souls!?!?" and he even had a lifestealing sword in that fight 😂😂
In my opinion, Elden Ring is the Bioshock Infinite of 2022. Can't wait to see everybody look back at it in 5 years and see how okay but not so amazing it was. A good game overall but definitely not as good as all the hype and critics it got.
If there's something that's really annoying is that in 10 years the gameplay loop remained the same, I can also see the open world nature of this game becoming a real pain in the rear on repeat playthroughs, then there's the added annoyance of reused animations, enemies (looking at you Basilisks), weapons and spells.
Elden Ring isn't really a bad game, but it sure isn't the masterpiece everyone seems to portrait it as
My main complaint is the boss mechanics and how they can downright cheat at times. The way they can combo into another combo then another attack then a combo meanwhile you have to wait forever to hopefully get a single hit in. Rinse and repeat. The bosses have been made too fast, one-shotty and able to cancel their punish window and go straight into another combo. Past games had a nice back and forth balance to battles.
Personal ranking from best to worst: Sekiro > Bloodborne > Elden Ring > Dark Souls 3 > Dark Souls > Demon`s Souls >>>>>>>>> Diarrhea > EA and Loot boxes > Dark Souls 2
Can’t wait to see more from FromSoftware, but if I had to rank all the Soulsborne games (excluding Senior) from least favourite to most favourite it would be as such…
Dark Souls 3
Elden Ring
Dark Souls
Dark Souls 2
Bloodborne
Would you agree ds3 had better bosses and ost? Objectively speaking.
We really are messed up for waking up the ancestral spirit just to kill it
6:26 Hold on, you can parry those guys of their horse? Awesome.
Great game and great video, but I'll wait to do a second playthrough until a major patch comes out that fixes those late game bosses and areas.
These games are always about being "difficult but fair", and those later areas are just aggravating to get through simply because the damage scaling is WAY too high.
If they patch these issues, then this game will be damn near flawless.
if anything this game is too easy, not too hard, so patching these later areas would make this game a complete breeze
@@ehrtdaz7186 I'm only talking about a couple specific boss fights, nothing more.
I enjoyed the game but I wish the game was more of a unique IP like Sekiro behaved. It's an identical but legally distinct Dark Souls
How DSP would handle Radahn pre nerf?
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Sees Malenia
Did anyone else use the item to deflect maliketh’s slicing power?
I did 🫠
I just want a Sekiro Sequel
I like a challenge but some of the bosses have straight-up bs moves. The way they can leave an opening after an attack but sometimes they will say screw it and follow up straight into another attack or combo. You can’t confidently attack because bosses can cheat basically. This forces overly-defensive play and is not near as fun compared to past games.
wish I could subscribe to you again just for that Sopranos reference.
LMAO that elden ring with ton of hubs and handholding is killing me. Mockery to Ubisoft.
gaol is pronounced jail
Best ER review so far. Man dude. You sound very similar to myself, much respect. Check out BotW, I was playing that before Elden Ring and is a definite inspiration.
ER isn't a masterpiece but it is a Classic that should be learned from. Like UI/UX should be limited/sacrificed/stylized for immersion's sake. Gameplay-wise I think ER is DS4 and that it doesn't evolve the gameplay as it does make it approachable, the fact that animation cancels and deflects from Sekiro wasn't carried over is a crime.
If there is one thing I'd give ER a knock on ER is interactivity dialogue-wise, I'd like to talk with NPCs on various topics, it doesn't have to be exposition like with Giddon but I want to know what makes these guys tick, I'd like to ask Godfrey; "what's your motive here?" "How do you feel about your wife shagging herself?" (If you found out before you fought with him) "Your a national hero and first of my race, why are we fighting?"
Edit: For the sequel, I think they should down-scale the size and increase the depth of interactivity; have side missions that link into each other and affect one another Fallout NV/Deus Ex style, maybe weather conditions that can change the landscape (BOTW as an example), have branching story events that change how you interact with future and past areas (FNV, Deus Ex, Baulders Gate, Skyrim to a lesser extent)
Disagree on combat it is pretty innovative it adds a lot from the series such as crouching and jump attacks from sekiro large groups of enemy’s from bloodborne summoning to help players out and experiment and a huge variety of weapons and armor and magic which creates great replay value and a connected open world with so much content even if it’s not perfect although I can see why people thinks it’s a masterpiece I think it’s very close but not 100 percent but it’s a phenomenal game and anything lower than that is just dumb
And agree with the dialogue would have been cool to talk with certain people that changes the world around you
TY for that Sopranos clip.
Honestly, this game i really hated when i played it for the first time, even more than DS2, but i must say, i've really warmed up to it, and also as a souls veteran who has been here for over a decade, i must say, i approached the game with the wrong expectations and a closed mind.
I really should have been more open minded, and i'd have enjoyed my playthrough instead of it being a 200 hour slog.
Man when I saw that title I thought this was a Joseph Anderson video
Got bored after getting to the cold area and doing most of the content up to that point. Now I can't play longer than 2 hours without wishing I was doing something else.
I still don't know how to use the ashes of war to be honest... after 100 hours of play time, I never used them...
PUT TORRENT IN THE ELDEN BEAST FOR. FUCK. SAKE.
bro really said ds1 is worse than demon souls and ds2 💀
The Ranni fixation the fans have will be this games greatest mystery. We all know the popular waifu characters and generally we can understand their appeal. Ranni has none. She's not fun or interesting. Not "pretty" in the way popular waifu are. She's a doll that becomes a ghost as outer gods can create flesh. God's (which she presumable becomes in her ending) cannot. Guess this is for the Bloodborne guys who liked the doll?
Ranni is a non factor. Iji and Blaidd made that quest. Both very interesting and fun characters. Lovable too unlike Ranni. Ranni says she loves them but walked a path knowing that it'll indirectly cause their destruction. That is incredibly hypocritical and she can fuck off with that lie. Ranni can burn in the eternal flames where she belongs.
Fifa and Madden are going to be an open world games of the Elden Ring.
Hey! I love your videos and i was wondering if you would ever do one for Final Fantasy X?
Everybody commenting "waaah it's jail" like they knew that before somebody telling them, seriously guys, if the top comment corrects him on that there's no need to comment it again lmao
Great video btw
Bloodborne was better imo
Godskin duo is easy lol
Malenia I felt like would’ve been great without the lifesteal even when using 100 block shields.
Elden ring is literally perfection, getting the platinum trophy was perfection, at least for me
Correct on every level imaginable
One thing that constantly boggles me is how accepting are people of issues in those game still occuring since Dark Souls 1, I like the games but I got insulted pointing out things From Refuses to fix or general bullshit design ideas, like I call Bloodborne "the actually good one" but bosses still bosses that completely obscure the camera, camera itself that's often more enemy than anything else, dogs which sucked in Bloodborne yet still were in fucking DS3, my arch nemesis homing arrows, Torch guys, fuck torch guys, wonky hitboxes, roller skating attacks that suddenly change attack angle, all of those would be alright if not for fragility of your guy. It's all more bullshit than it's worth it, it's not even that it's hard as much as it it's extremely overrated and Elden Ring just seems to iterate on it all yet gets perfect scores all over. It's worse than Witcher 3 hype.
skill issue
@@arbiter- have I just gotten Git Guded? Low blow man
@@PedroElPolako Try not dying, that usually works
Unique games that fill a specific niche can get away with having more flaws than something more ubiquitous. Like if a shooter has a lot of issues that have been addressed by other games it's a lot easier to criticize. But with Souls it's like yeah this enemy might be annoying or the input buffer issues have been around since Demon's Souls, but no other games really play like this in terms of level design, atmosphere, and committal combat.
@@jackgarland643 I can't agree honestly, those issues really took away from my experience, the games been hyped up to be some beacon of combat while when I'm playing I see lots of bullshit moments that are unfun type of challenge, like jumping satyrs in DS3 with jumping grab attacks Jesus, I'm much more prone to remember irritating fuck than I'm gonna have fond memories of some level, grab attacks teleporting you into the arms, teeth, mouth, tentacles of the enemies are absolutely unforgivable yet somehow it's fine iterating on those and my issue is less that it happens but that it barely gets mentioned at all,I feel like Souls fans developed some sort of Stockholm Syndrome, since as you said, it's a niche (not really anymore). It's like people giving perfect 10s to RDR2 even tho Rockstars iterating on their outdated gameplay and pointless open worlds and somehow it's fine too.
"for better lack of a term" you've said this in so many videos it has to be a running joke, right?
You really should play bloodborne it´s the perfect game. The only flaw is the 30 fps but after 3 hours in you will get used to it.
"gaol" is pronounced the same as "jail"
Legendary gamer DSP 😂😂😂
Horrible in literally every single aspect, the only thing that it has going for it is it's undeserved popularity among people with extremely low standards and fanboys of the software house behind it 💩
Does anyone know how it plays on ps4?
Sorry, but Borderlands 3 is NOT well regarded for its writing. Quite the opposite. The biggest complaint of the game was the crap, childish writing