@@SharkofGames45 "Some fans told me that Pat has damage resistance to Red Bull which apparently will be useful coming up, I don't know anything specific about that but I decided I should unlock him for the next stream so we don't hit a roadblock."
I had the stone sword key as a starting gift, so imagine my shock when I used it in the tutorial area and unlocked a side dungeon in the Fringefolk Hero’s Grave with a fucking poison swamp area…mf is getting bolder, this has to be a new record lmao
@@bigbrowski410 I got so lucky I bugged out that boss. I poise broke it during the transition into phase two and the ai broke, so it just stood there doing nothing for half it's health bar.
I got 86 hours in. Level 70-ish. This game is amazing. So amazing. The emotions and WANDERLUST I experience in this game is unmatched. I haven’t felt like this while playing a video game since I was a teen. They captured the “choose your own adventure” style PERFECTLY! THE SIDE QUESTS, MAN!!! THE SIDE QUESTS!!!
Sure, the Lands Between is "euro-centric" in its mythological and cultural makeup, but they straight up have Tarnished who have traveled from other, distant lands from across the sea; and as Woolie pointed out, one of which being a blatant analog of Japan. Where else do people think the Samurai and bushido accoutrement came from? Putting any "blame" on GRRM is also suspect, because the world of Song of Ice and Fire is incredibly diverse in terms of culture and ethnicity. So it's really just a case of From Software just carrying on with what assets they already have. It's honestly incredible they even graphically updated them.
Elden Ring is like everything I've ever loved about Dark Souls, except polished to a perfect shine and covered in frosting and sprinkles with additional Christmas and Birthday presents thrown in. It's insane.
yeah I actually made a character I really liked in that one, plus since the game's chapters are time periods and you can change any time I would edit appearance slightly once I hit a new zone, it felt cool
I have a list of complaints, and almost all of them are relatively small things that were also present in previous games. By far my biggest complaint is that for some reason you can't cancel out of spell start up animations like you could in DS3 (and I think DS2 and maybe BB). The fact that THAT'S the top of the list is the biggest compliment I could give. God this game is good.
And also the worst bosses in the series. That Erdree Watchdog has shown up 4 (5) times already. Most other bosses are also re-used, re-skins or normal enemies as bosses.
@@MegaPieru3000 and even then, I did some spoiling of myself and those reskins don’t take away like real ass bosses, some appear to even be locked to specific ending paths with some being Yhorme style set pieces. And even THEN some of those mini bosses are super unique like the teleport ones
Its funny that he mentioned NBA, which was the one game they did an LP of with a black-focused character creator (maybe 2, with the other being FFNY, wherein they also made Rage) and not only did he NOT make a Woolie in that, he went and created a monster.
Nioh has the best character creator I’ve ever experienced, by far. My only criticisms are there’s little you can really do with the body, and that there’s no way to fix Hide’s neck. God’s sake, Shiftling, stand up straight!
@@jackpollard550 meh, it's alright, Dynasty Warriors empires is honestly better for me. Atleast it get's close to Dragon's Dogma body changes, Monster Hunter World (specifically Iceborne) currently has the best hair options in my opinion, followed closely by Nioh 2's, Code Vein's or Dynasty warriors empires
criticizing woolie for being disappointed in the lack of hair options because "he tries to create himself" is missing the point entirely like there are SO many types of straight and wavy hair, and literally a single curly one. like come on, it's kind of lame. also, we do not know that vikings had dreads. that's speculation based on one account who described one particular group as having "hair like snakes" and in no way proven. tbh, given scandinavian hair quality, i doubt it since turning straight hair into dreads is a lot of work (i am a white scandi and used to have dreads when i was 16), i think it was just braids.
The jellyfish summon is great it basically negates some of the most annoying aspects of certain bosses who spam swirling attack chains as it constantly inturrupts them. Infinate poise damage!
Jellyfish-chan was my go-to summon for a while. Sure, it didn't do much damage, but it was tanky and the poison spray staggered the enemy. But it all changed once I fell in the degeneracy of the mimic summon.
Important tip for new players: the wrong way is the right way, especially at the start. If you decide to just go straight to that first real boss, you’re gonna suffer. The game wants you to explore and get stronger BEFORE you go barreling into those big boss fights, otherwise you’re just gonna have a shitty time.
Yea. Margit pushed my shit in for an hour before I realized there was more to it than just running from bonfire to bonfire and throwing myself at bosses till I beat them. There is no accidental trek to New Londo Ruins. You actually want to go there to get more shit for your character.
One problem I have with the game is that it REALLY wants you to go north to an extent, to the point where going anywhere else will cause you to lose out on key features. Not going north means no level ups, no torrent, no ashes of war, no crafting kit, no blacksmithing bench, and no hub. It's kind of ridiculous how many core systems you can just miss through that. It's one of the main flaws I see people identifying once the honeymoon phase is over and people start making additional characters. Easily fixable, but still.
I don't really see that as a flaw. If anything, I find it interested that you can just ignore core features or even just straight up opt out of them. I imagine speedrunners will appreciate not being railroaded to an area just to unlock something they don't need. The game also includes secondary means of getting most of those things, though some of it isn't exactly consistent. I've heard that your level up girl is supposed to automatically find you once you've rested at enough Grace sites...but I'm not sure if it counts Grace sites outside of the Limgrave-Stormveil area. Most of my early sites were on the other side of the world and I had to go back to unlock leveling up.
I know a lot of people are making tired comparisons to BotW, but the “there's the big boss over there, you can do it now but you should go do as much of the side content as you can” thing really does remind me of Breath of the Wild's exploration and progression. I like the way Elden Ring does it better, but both games have a very satisfying sense of exploration that most open world games just don't have for me.
People complaing about woolie's monster hunter CC critiques, he is right, some of the hair dlc is free, but SOME is paid, and Iceborne is required for the good hairstyles in World
Watching you guys get through Dark Souls 2 at the same time as I started my own souls journey , to 10 fucking years later today, watching you guys play Elden Ring as I play it as well. Then it was Super Best Friends. Now Its Castle Super Beast. Either way. I love you guys for the rest of my days. Raise your estus, brothers !
The lack of hair styles is a pain coming from DES remake. I really wish there were better choices because I choose to not wear a helmet to show off my cute lady characters, so the shitty hair choices is a sad sticking point for me.
First thing I wanted to note, is that this is the second podcast that Woolie has brought up the DLC black hair styles for Monster Hunter Rise. Both times, he has insinuated that they are paid, when they are not now, nor when they launched, have ever cost a cent. They are completely free. Either he saw them, and didn't click, or the old lore about him being unable to read is more real than we thought lmao. That being said, the Demon's Remake really set a crazy high precedent FS was not going to aim for, especially that late in development lol. FS should consider also adding free DLC for character creation, especially since the hub allows you to remake yourself at any time. Elden Ring is fantastic so far and I look forward to seeing how Woolie and Reggie tackle it.
It's only 3 and the 4th style IS PAID, so he's got a point, plus for world you have to pay for Iceborne to get the afro/curly hair styles in that. Capcom needs to do better, not just ok
I've found that sorcery spells currently do not scale properly or something. Your strongest spell is the starting pebble. Things like barrage cost several times more magic, do less damage than a single pebble, and you need 24 intelligence to use it.
Now this isn’t a slight, but the new character creator looks like fromsoft looked at demons remake and said “yeah that’s good, do that”. And that’s pretty alright, no more purple characters perhaps. Also 2:00 I like playing as a lady sometimes because customization options are every now and then just better
I'm only 8 hours into the game but hearing Pat talk about it, he really is making it sound like it's the "forever game" lol... It honestly is reminding me of when I was younger and would get like, the one game every one or two years. I'd still play other games via renting them and whatnot, but that one game I got in either christmas or for my birthday would be *the* game I would play the most for that year. Of course, back then, games weren't necessarily super loaded with content, so oftentimes it was about beating them over and over for a different ending or getting a higher score or whatever other challenge was still present within the same game. I feel like getting a game like Elden Ring back then would have had me set for a year or two... It really does feel like there's a LOT to see, and a LOT to miss. It's rather unfortunate, then, that nowadays I simply do not have the time for games of this scale. I think Woolie makes some mention of the type of player who just has to come to terms with the fact that they just will NOT see everything the game has to offer, and I feel like that's just me. Oh but this isn't to say that I'll just be gunning it for the required bosses only, no. I will still explore as much as I feel like, but I just can't comb through EVERYTHING. As an aside, I was surprised to see the game lacked dreads, so I was just as surprised as Woolie in the regard... lol.
I'm 50 hours into the game, and while I don't think it's as much of a forever game as Witcher or Fallout New Vegas, there is a certain level of realization where holy crap this game map is HUGE. I think I'm at the 70% mark but I just realized that there's a whole other area that is almost as big as Liurnia, Limgrave and Caelid combined and I just got there.
Honestly I'm 70 hours in and I just... I still haven't unlocked about 3-5 zones. I'm debating on going in and ending it because I can. I just don't have the time to spend another 2-3 weeks on it exploring everything and then think about DOING IT AGAIN. It's so good that I need to cut this thing out before I become addicted. My library is backlogged as it is I can't let it put a full stop on everything.
@@SteelBallRun1890I bounced off of new vegas and witcher cuz I thought the combat was weak in them. Third playthrough of elden ring. It's definitely a forever game for some players who have little want for copious amounts of npc dialogue that just desire bonking cool enemies with a huge variety of visceral weapons.
From what I understand, you get Torrent at the third overland site of grace, which is usually the one by Stormgate, and you get access to the hub either after you beat Godrick or after you rest at an overland site of grace outside of Limgrave. I got access to the hub after getting teleported to Sellia crystal tunnel from a chest in Dragonburnt Ruins, and then resting at the Sellia understair grace. That is probably a way faster way to get there than beating Godrick, because you can go to the Dragonburnt Ruins almost immediately, and as far as Sellia crystal tunnel is concerned, you can just run past everything until you get to a grace.
In regards to the beginning, unfortunately when it comes to the fantasy genre, there's a very adamant aspect of the fan-base that seems to be perfectly fine with dragons, elves, magic, polytheistic intractable/kill-able gods, demons, ghost, goblins,orcs, merefolk, dwarfs, angels, giants, shapeshifters, animal people (dog, bull, fish, bird, cat, bug, rhino, hippo, snake, lizard elephant etc..), centaur, fairies, genies, gnomes, satyr, rock people, and even actual full autonomous robots. But Black people are seen as a step to far. You can MAYBE get something that's like off-brand Arabic, but that's all. Ancient Samurai's a Continent Away seem to get a pass, but according to "certain people" there was basically no interaction with any people from the African continent by Europeans (the Continent right under Europe, that's actually visible to from the coast of a large portion of southern Europe) until basically the slave trade.
I don't know enough about Elden Ring's situation specifically, but more generally it just needs to make sense within the story's worldbuilding (which is almost always possible, it just requires thought). And for several modern series, it unfortunately doesn't. Meanwhile, Tolkien's work -- despite the false narrative about it being strictly monoracial -- is a masterclass at it. To illustrate, consider how relatively few people quibble about various races and mixed groups being present in cyberpunk settings -- that circumstance immediately makes sense in high tech settings without any explanation. For fantasy, in contrast, authors really should address how various visually distinct people groups coexist within a space without modern transportation, especially if we are led to believe they have cohabitated within the same territory for many generations without significant interbreeding bluring those visual differences. The alternative is that your fictional world doesn't feel properly lived in and alive -- it feels artificial. That's the real writing problem: Fantasy stories by definition aren't realistic -- nor should they strive to be -- but they should feel "alive" by having a coherent history of their peoples.
@@hieronymus4120 how is Tolkiens work not monoracial? the only brown people in the lord of the rings all happen to be super evil. literally every time a brown person comes on screen they are fighting for evil. Like there is this WHOLE WORLD here but we only focus on the white people and even when the fate of the world is at stake its LITERALLY white people fighting against brown people. Tolkien certainly is a classic but he's also the progenitor of one of the worst aspects of fantasy world building with too much focus on the European white people being the protagonist of the entire world and the rest is ignored
I got my Maiden after hitting the grace point infront of the exit of the tutorial, after the Church and finally at the Grace before the canyon. Walked around the Castle and rested at a Grace granting me the Hub prompt.
I think it just comes down to that fantasy is so Eurocentric to a point that there is just a whole cross section of people that its easier for them to imagine a man who is half dragon than imagine a black person existing in a fantasy setting. And on top of that, every fantasy game uses the exact same Eurocentric setting so its even less of a reason to include those options even though they establish in the lore of the game that there are foreign lands where people come from to go to the setting of the game to partake in the events of the story. But it always boils down to "Its European fantasy, black people dont exist or are too far removed from the setting" and im like yeah ok fam, boats exist and so do literal dragon people but pop off. Im not saying Elden Ring is a bad game because of it, just that it's an over arching issue in fantasy games as we go forward.
In the case of Elden Ring, it’s not even the dragon people. You can literally make an Asian guy as a samurai. There’s no lore reason in this game to not have other kinds of people.
@@Zach0451 I mean, not really crying? just saying that the arguments presented are a poor reason for not including them and that maybe people should try something new? Also Europe isnt the only setting for fantasy? 0w 0
@@willadkins1354 Thats kind of my point, you can include any other pale skinned culture but its like peoples fantasy brains break when you put someone in who is dark skinned. That includes people of Hispanic, Native, or even Indian descent XD
Character Creation is funny to me. As long as I can have pale skin, green eyes and terrible facial hair, I'm happy. That's until I'm in the game and I try to cover myself head-to-toe into whatever robed, edgy armour or just full armour set I can find so I don't have to see any sort of skin ever again because armour styling is life. Still, if you're giving us CC, give us more stuff, ranging from realistic to absurd. This is a game where you can run around as a naked, pink Moe Syslak character wielding a club.
Character creation is one of those things where, once you’re in the game proper the camera is pulled back enough that the little details won’t matter, to say nothing of a helmet or hood. But while you’re in character creation, it’s just plain fun to work with.
well yeah, but you'll almost always be happy, because almost every CC will accommodate those aspects. that's the issue. it's not something you even have to think about unless you _don't_ belong to the group of people that don't have pale skin and straight hair. hence why it's so easy for people to go "no big deal to me": cuz it really ain't.
@@lewa3910 Theyre not making excuses, its more like its not that big of a problem and people dont get too hung up on it. More like stop being a little bitch because you take too long at CC.
When it comes to European fantasy you can have dragons, goblins, sorcerers, ents, zombies, serpents, living objects, double jumping horses, giants, and even Samurai which geographical speaking live a continent away. But afro-textured hair? Woolie are you out of your fucking mind.
Immunity, Robustness, Focus, and Vitality are ALL listed on the character sheet, right under your Defenses, as your Resistances. It's really not that obtuse or hidden. It's RIGHT THERE, and the help button tells you what they do. They each govern your resistance to 2 different status effects, except Vitality, which is only Instant Death resistance.
I think the lack of black hairstyle is not a race thing it was a “Ok we finished developing the game all we have left to do is make the character creation system” “Just throw in the NPC creator system we used and call it a day” “Alright done” And it just so happens that none of the NPCs that are in this game inspired by medieval European/Norse mythology are not black or have black hairstyle so when the controls are shifted to the player it just is not there
It really did. It had so many options for everybody. And we should have known, because it was a different company, that this would be a downgrade in that regard.
@@alanguillermo3145 i mean its also a remake with console exclusive money to be fair. they had way more resources to splurge on stuff like that. while in turn its not nearly as important for elden ring
I'm on PC and the framerate hasn't really bothered me, but I'm pretty much immune to that since I beat Dark Souls 1 at 5-10 fps with keyboard and mouse
I disagree so hard with Woolie It isn't on top of you...It is behind and above you. You are conjuring a towering dragon head before your enemies before you reduce them to ash. That is the raddest shit, and I will not tolerate slander, sir!
PC version hasn't been too bad for me, just those Frame Stutters when fighting any BIG enemy with really crazy animations. Thankfully the patches have fixed it a bit
Moonveil katana + Carian slicer + rock sling = everything you need But seriously, rock sling is busted, it does physical damage so it makes it super easy to stagger bosses, it has an insane FP to damage ratio, it has ridiculous range and homing, and the AI doesn't know how to dodge it.
mellena showed up at the 6th grace that i sat at... thought i was doing something wrong. i think its the leading graces that count towards her, cause most of the graces i sat at were off trail or in dungeons
Really? I did the same and I'm having a decent time thus far. Been kinda fun going in with nothing and building my character based off what I find. Been leaning on the Dismounter and just even split Str/Dex to 20 to be able to decently use most other weapons I find.
So in regards to armor in what Pat said somewhat yeah I agree wear what you want but it most definitely does make a difference. Bosses still could kill you in like 3-4 hits compared to 2 if your not wearing armor but it certainly does help against mobs plus DS2 poise is back. So if you want to poise it up wear armor now that poise actually works.
big armor actually is useful for melee because of poise yeah. the bonuses are there but it isn't meant to be something you have to force on to yourself.
I love the contrast between Pat and Woolie at the start for a whole episode Woolie should be in a bright room with his nice book case behind him, and pat is in a black dungeon with a single skeleton and Monster Energy and they don't bring it up at all.
Considering the number of mispronounciations this game is going to lead to (Blaidd reads the same way as "Blythe" because it's Welsh and the Welsh are gonna Welsh), props to starting on a good note with "Evergaol", which it probably going to mess with a bunch of people.
only big stat ive noticed for armor is poise. My starter set even the slightest hit would make my character reel, and id get hit by followups super easy. I got something with more poise and I could shrug off hits and made it a lot easier to fix mistakes.
Melina appears to invite you to the Roundtable at the first grace you sit at after your first attempt at beating Margit, whether you lose or beat him first try.
its wild hearing abt all the pc issues ppl were having, bc i got it on pc at launch and had zero problems. it was running at 60fps the whole time with no stutters or anything lol
I've heard the occasional complaint from people having issues with the PC version which is WIERD cus I loaded up PC day one and have had literally 0 issues since. I don't know if my hardware is just magic but I had the same thing with Cyberpunk 2077. No glitches since day one.
Spoilers about the evergaol boss they were talking about... In case you don't already know. Don't fight him, find the character named blaidd first. he's in the mistwood, you have to get a gesture from kalé first to talk to him. After you find him, blaidd will give you a quest to find the evergaol boss. Go there, then summon him in the fight. Its way easier if you're trying to fight him under leveled. Idk how to progress blaidds quest after that. Still trying to figure it out.
@@caliscearleon9540 not sure I've met her yet. The game is so big im sure I've walked by at least a couple npcs. Im really tempted to look up a guide but I dont want to spoil anything. Im torn
From my experience with magic, it's really slow going at first but there's a LOT more flexibility with spell type. And the spell that essentially acts as a sword feels like it was tuned perfectly
The stupid thing with the concept that it's meant to be a Eurocentric game is that in Game of thrones and George RR Martins other works there's always black characters who are explicitly called dark skin so he obviously doesn't have have any problems having prominent black characters in his other works. Thinking of it there really are no main characters in the game who are black and that kind of stinks...
Grum's smart about it too. "Black folk" aren't just one group in GoT, there's several different races cause hey what do you know, that's historically how it's been.
My poor PS4 has been chugging it out with this game but this is one of the few games along with tales of arise that make it sound like a jet engine lol.
"Well clearly george r. r. martin and fromsoft wanted to design a norse euro centric game" Immediately goes into character creator and makes squidward. I would have put it this way. Part of the process of creating the character creator is creating the assets you want to use to create the npcs in the game. If none of your npcs are black then there isnt a need to make black hairstyles unless you put in the extra effort for your players. Thats why even when there are black hairstyles they usually are reeeeeally low quality. Thered be more incentive to do nice quality black hairstyles if the game had more black characters in it. I heard somewhere that Blackguard Boggart is black? But even if he is hes wearing an iron mask so again conveniently dont have to make any black hair assets for that :/
sorcery works better for mobile characters since more of the spells let you move more freely compared to faith. but it seems overall sorcery is higher single target damage for less FP costs while the good direct damage spells for faith costs WAY more
I legit think they forgot black people exist. Like Japanese people often do. I mean on the opposite end making asian characters in western games tend to be extremely difficult.
When i first got ER on PC it ran at 10fps with invisible enemies, massive stuttering, and screen artifacting so bad I couldn't see. Found a TH-cam video that changed the shadow cache in Nvidea settings and one other thing, now it runs at a solid 60fps with no issues. I hope Fromsoft fixes these issues soon for people who still have issues
I might be wrong. But to trigger the Hold I think you might have to attempt to beat Margit (Win or Lose) then rest at a Grace. Also you can talk to Melina at (Not all) certain bonfires. I got the option at the Church of Marika in the Mistwood and she gave me a bit of lore about Marika.
I got the Hold WAY before I went to Margit, but I spent like 2 hours in the starting zone before getting whisked off into the eastern section of the map and going on suicide loot runs across as much of it as I could access (which was SO MUCH, DEAR LORD) for the next 12ish.
@@Graysett Yeah I was throwing a wild guess out there. Maybe it's the same as getting a Maiden and tied to the amount of Grace's you find? Again, wild guess.
I would find it hilarious if they just put Afro Samurai and Bob Makihara Tenjou Tenge as NPC's somewhere. I have to agree that I don't get why most games don't allow for you to go back and remake your character. I really don't feel like spending three hours right off the bat making a good looking character but I will come back and play with it 30 minutes at a shot till I'm happy. My PC can handle the high level settings but randomly it kept dipping to 23 fps so I put it on low setting it still drops to 48 in some places. I don't even think it's during combat it seems to be more when I'm very quickly moving from one area to another so like the bear forest I just ran through that at top speed which the game doesn't like me moving that fast. I'm still walking into areas and having the issue where I don't feel like I'm doing any damage so I leave after a few enemies.
Elden ring does let you. At two different locations even. One is in the main hub and the other is where you respec, which all I will say is that it isn’t in the main hub weirdly enough
I can't write an essay on how DX12 works and how it's handled in Elden Ring, but basically, every time you run into something "new" the game will stutter at a variable amount. Once you've experienced that stutter in that area, you'll likely not run into it again. However that still amount to a lot of stutter, some of which lasts several seconds.
I've been having an awesome bug where all of the normal enemies turn invisible and visible as they feel. Hoping it's just the fact that I don't quite meet the minimum ram requirements, so I bought more, so hopefully this will no longer an issue once that gets here.
I had the same issue despite having 16gig of RAM. Found a video called Elden Ring PC Performance fix, it has you change some settings in Nvidia and it seemed to fix the issue totally.
Woolie, the reason games make it a big deal that you can change your character's appearance after the fact is because the lighting is always different in the character creation screen compared to in game.
I must be lucky because I haven't had any problems on my pc version. A few framers stutters fighting the tree guardian but after that everything has been smooth.
@@malum9478 Well yeah, that's why I said sounds like an article, as in a real thing someone would write about. (And just so you know, I'm one of those affected. As a light skin, my only options for preset faces are usually dark or vaguely Chinese).
it's sad that people seem to be unaware of the fact that Vikings traded with and married to people in the Byzantine Empire. As well as travelled so far as the New World, before Industrial Europeans.
After a point unawareness becomes willful ignorance cause they tend to get really angry at the idea of trade hubs being multicultural and that's traders settled down instead of evaporating the moment their businesses were done
Off the bat, have to salute Woolie for calling out the woefully lacklustre options available for Black hair in Elden Ring. Sapped my interest in the game, beyond the terrible PC optimisation.
I like how Wooly calls it white European hair. When it probably has just as much to do with the game being made by the Japanese who have the same hair as us whitey. Not saying he shouldnt be sad for wanting more options. Just saying its weird to assume it's all because whitey lol
Wow who ever said From and GRRM were making a eurocentric game, well clearly they havent read Martin. Yea, the stories are Westoros centric, but often there is a lot of multiculturalism in the setting (not as much as today, obviously, but it was there), which is actually pretty true to life. Like...Moors existed, for one. And in the books, Dany's entire plotline is in the east and then Tyrion goes east. Theres literally a ton of black cultures in the Song series.
pretty sure we're focused on the game and not his books. none of the multicultural stuff from his books are really seen in Elden Ring but we're mostly talking about character creation
If you mod the game to remove their helmets you can see they're white. They could be placeholders I suppose but Siegmeyer's face actually fits him pretty well so it seems to be by design. Catarina apparently isn't monoethnic but they didn't put anyone in the game who represents what you see in the character creator.
Amateur hours in this podcast, Woolie didn't unlock Pat until about a minute in. He should be doing that off stream.
"So I did a little grinding off camera..."
@@SharkofGames45 "Some fans told me that Pat has damage resistance to Red Bull which apparently will be useful coming up, I don't know anything specific about that but I decided I should unlock him for the next stream so we don't hit a roadblock."
Nah, Woolie was just trying out the Noir color pallet for Pat, he didn't like it so he changed it
They are cancer…
I had the stone sword key as a starting gift, so imagine my shock when I used it in the tutorial area and unlocked a side dungeon in the Fringefolk Hero’s Grave with a fucking poison swamp area…mf is getting bolder, this has to be a new record lmao
... but did you see the OTHER poison swamp? or rather, did you fall for the teleportation trap
Wait, is the Grave not just the Tree Snake boss? There’s more down there?
@@bigbrowski410 if you go up instead of down at the one junction, you get a Faith trinket that boosts dragon shit
@@bigbrowski410 I got so lucky I bugged out that boss. I poise broke it during the transition into phase two and the ai broke, so it just stood there doing nothing for half it's health bar.
Also the hidden area by dropping down instead of following the bridge is real sneaky...
“Maybe if you got rid of that old yee-yee ass haircut, you'd get some maidens”
Tarniiiiiiiished...
I thought Pat was pretty monochrome but Woolies insane shade at the beginning of the episode took the cake
I wonder if they made the first merchant look like Santa so players wouldn't instinctively attack him
I got 86 hours in. Level 70-ish.
This game is amazing. So amazing. The emotions and WANDERLUST I experience in this game is unmatched.
I haven’t felt like this while playing a video game since I was a teen. They captured the “choose your own adventure” style PERFECTLY!
THE SIDE QUESTS, MAN!!! THE SIDE QUESTS!!!
Definitely didn't expect the wanderlust and feeling of wanting help and save people more than in previous titles.
Sure, the Lands Between is "euro-centric" in its mythological and cultural makeup, but they straight up have Tarnished who have traveled from other, distant lands from across the sea; and as Woolie pointed out, one of which being a blatant analog of Japan. Where else do people think the Samurai and bushido accoutrement came from?
Putting any "blame" on GRRM is also suspect, because the world of Song of Ice and Fire is incredibly diverse in terms of culture and ethnicity. So it's really just a case of From Software just carrying on with what assets they already have. It's honestly incredible they even graphically updated them.
It's a great game but yea they really gotta update that engine at this point...
Elden Ring is like everything I've ever loved about Dark Souls, except polished to a perfect shine and covered in frosting and sprinkles with additional Christmas and Birthday presents thrown in. It's insane.
yeah I actually made a character I really liked in that one, plus since the game's chapters are time periods and you can change any time I would edit appearance slightly once I hit a new zone, it felt cool
I have a list of complaints, and almost all of them are relatively small things that were also present in previous games.
By far my biggest complaint is that for some reason you can't cancel out of spell start up animations like you could in DS3 (and I think DS2 and maybe BB). The fact that THAT'S the top of the list is the biggest compliment I could give. God this game is good.
And also the worst bosses in the series. That Erdree Watchdog has shown up 4 (5) times already. Most other bosses are also re-used, re-skins or normal enemies as bosses.
@@MegaPieru3000 and even then, I did some spoiling of myself and those reskins don’t take away like real ass bosses, some appear to even be locked to specific ending paths with some being Yhorme style set pieces. And even THEN some of those mini bosses are super unique like the teleport ones
@@MegaPieru3000 nah that still belongs to DS 2
Love watching woolie skillfully evade saying why he calls it a grace hole specifically
He hates talking about holes nowadays...RIP WoolieHole
Grace point...........very easy. Doesn't have to be a hole.
Why is it always hole.
"Oh, a ~Site of Grace~. A Site of Grace, everybody! Ooh lah-de-dah Mr. Frenchman!"
"Well what do you call it?"
"A Grace Hole!"
We all need 4 hours of Elden Ring Talk
Eh, I won't rain on others' parade but as for me personally I'm already starting to feel burnt out on Elden Ring being everywhere.
@@Kektus1 It's one of the biggest games ever made you're gonna keep hearing about it for the next forseeable future.
Literally can't stop talking about it in game chats.
That was basically this podcast ep
Plague is uploading his lp of elden ring.
Those horse mounting and dismounting i-frames are SO handy
I didn't realise there were i-frames for that! Good to know! 😄
@@happyjam92 There's actually a lot of i-frames, like a really, really good amount.
Its funny that he mentioned NBA, which was the one game they did an LP of with a black-focused character creator (maybe 2, with the other being FFNY, wherein they also made Rage) and not only did he NOT make a Woolie in that, he went and created a monster.
Woolie is a lying, pie-stealing monster
He also complained about it for 5 minutes and then proceeded to pick the character who covers his face with an iron mask. gotta love it.
@@Drago5899 The iron mask is incidental to the character class. He did it for the stats.
@@tymelthompson4182 the joke was that he didn't remove it to see his character's face, so his complaining was a non issue =P
Final Fantasy New York
In regards to the character creator even though I never make my own likeness. Nioh 2 has an amazing character creator
Nioh has the best character creator I’ve ever experienced, by far. My only criticisms are there’s little you can really do with the body, and that there’s no way to fix Hide’s neck. God’s sake, Shiftling, stand up straight!
@@jackpollard550 meh, it's alright, Dynasty Warriors empires is honestly better for me. Atleast it get's close to Dragon's Dogma body changes, Monster Hunter World (specifically Iceborne) currently has the best hair options in my opinion, followed closely by Nioh 2's, Code Vein's or Dynasty warriors empires
nioh 2 supremacy
@@lewa3910 I mean DW9 Empires uses the Nioh 2 creator so yeah
I expect nothing less than 3 parts
criticizing woolie for being disappointed in the lack of hair options because "he tries to create himself" is missing the point entirely
like there are SO many types of straight and wavy hair, and literally a single curly one. like come on, it's kind of lame.
also, we do not know that vikings had dreads. that's speculation based on one account who described one particular group as having "hair like snakes" and in no way proven. tbh, given scandinavian hair quality, i doubt it since turning straight hair into dreads is a lot of work (i am a white scandi and used to have dreads when i was 16), i think it was just braids.
Not to mention that in games like this, a significant number of people TOTALLY want to make themselves to play as
@@RocRolDis yeah it's kind of the point of having face generation options
The jellyfish summon is great it basically negates some of the most annoying aspects of certain bosses who spam swirling attack chains as it constantly inturrupts them. Infinate poise damage!
Jellyfish-chan was my go-to summon for a while. Sure, it didn't do much damage, but it was tanky and the poison spray staggered the enemy.
But it all changed once I fell in the degeneracy of the mimic summon.
Important tip for new players: the wrong way is the right way, especially at the start. If you decide to just go straight to that first real boss, you’re gonna suffer.
The game wants you to explore and get stronger BEFORE you go barreling into those big boss fights, otherwise you’re just gonna have a shitty time.
Yea. Margit pushed my shit in for an hour before I realized there was more to it than just running from bonfire to bonfire and throwing myself at bosses till I beat them.
There is no accidental trek to New Londo Ruins. You actually want to go there to get more shit for your character.
The game tells you north. Go south.
One problem I have with the game is that it REALLY wants you to go north to an extent, to the point where going anywhere else will cause you to lose out on key features. Not going north means no level ups, no torrent, no ashes of war, no crafting kit, no blacksmithing bench, and no hub. It's kind of ridiculous how many core systems you can just miss through that. It's one of the main flaws I see people identifying once the honeymoon phase is over and people start making additional characters. Easily fixable, but still.
I don't really see that as a flaw. If anything, I find it interested that you can just ignore core features or even just straight up opt out of them. I imagine speedrunners will appreciate not being railroaded to an area just to unlock something they don't need. The game also includes secondary means of getting most of those things, though some of it isn't exactly consistent. I've heard that your level up girl is supposed to automatically find you once you've rested at enough Grace sites...but I'm not sure if it counts Grace sites outside of the Limgrave-Stormveil area. Most of my early sites were on the other side of the world and I had to go back to unlock leveling up.
I know a lot of people are making tired comparisons to BotW, but the “there's the big boss over there, you can do it now but you should go do as much of the side content as you can” thing really does remind me of Breath of the Wild's exploration and progression. I like the way Elden Ring does it better, but both games have a very satisfying sense of exploration that most open world games just don't have for me.
In most japanese games you are lucky to get corn rows, dreads, and an afro
People complaing about woolie's monster hunter CC critiques, he is right, some of the hair dlc is free, but SOME is paid, and Iceborne is required for the good hairstyles in World
Watching you guys get through Dark Souls 2 at the same time as I started my own souls journey , to 10 fucking years later today, watching you guys play Elden Ring as I play it as well. Then it was Super Best Friends. Now Its Castle Super Beast. Either way. I love you guys for the rest of my days. Raise your estus, brothers !
The lack of hair styles is a pain coming from DES remake. I really wish there were better choices because I choose to not wear a helmet to show off my cute lady characters, so the shitty hair choices is a sad sticking point for me.
As a guy who’s had very long hair for most of his life, hair choices in general do suck.
First thing I wanted to note, is that this is the second podcast that Woolie has brought up the DLC black hair styles for Monster Hunter Rise. Both times, he has insinuated that they are paid, when they are not now, nor when they launched, have ever cost a cent. They are completely free. Either he saw them, and didn't click, or the old lore about him being unable to read is more real than we thought lmao. That being said, the Demon's Remake really set a crazy high precedent FS was not going to aim for, especially that late in development lol. FS should consider also adding free DLC for character creation, especially since the hub allows you to remake yourself at any time.
Elden Ring is fantastic so far and I look forward to seeing how Woolie and Reggie tackle it.
It's only 3 and the 4th style IS PAID, so he's got a point, plus for world you have to pay for Iceborne to get the afro/curly hair styles in that. Capcom needs to do better, not just ok
I've found that sorcery spells currently do not scale properly or something. Your strongest spell is the starting pebble. Things like barrage cost several times more magic, do less damage than a single pebble, and you need 24 intelligence to use it.
Now this isn’t a slight, but the new character creator looks like fromsoft looked at demons remake and said “yeah that’s good, do that”.
And that’s pretty alright, no more purple characters perhaps.
Also 2:00 I like playing as a lady sometimes because customization options are every now and then just better
I'm only 8 hours into the game but hearing Pat talk about it, he really is making it sound like it's the "forever game" lol... It honestly is reminding me of when I was younger and would get like, the one game every one or two years. I'd still play other games via renting them and whatnot, but that one game I got in either christmas or for my birthday would be *the* game I would play the most for that year. Of course, back then, games weren't necessarily super loaded with content, so oftentimes it was about beating them over and over for a different ending or getting a higher score or whatever other challenge was still present within the same game.
I feel like getting a game like Elden Ring back then would have had me set for a year or two... It really does feel like there's a LOT to see, and a LOT to miss. It's rather unfortunate, then, that nowadays I simply do not have the time for games of this scale. I think Woolie makes some mention of the type of player who just has to come to terms with the fact that they just will NOT see everything the game has to offer, and I feel like that's just me. Oh but this isn't to say that I'll just be gunning it for the required bosses only, no. I will still explore as much as I feel like, but I just can't comb through EVERYTHING.
As an aside, I was surprised to see the game lacked dreads, so I was just as surprised as Woolie in the regard... lol.
I'm 50 hours into the game, and while I don't think it's as much of a forever game as Witcher or Fallout New Vegas, there is a certain level of realization where holy crap this game map is HUGE. I think I'm at the 70% mark but I just realized that there's a whole other area that is almost as big as Liurnia, Limgrave and Caelid combined and I just got there.
Honestly I'm 70 hours in and I just... I still haven't unlocked about 3-5 zones. I'm debating on going in and ending it because I can. I just don't have the time to spend another 2-3 weeks on it exploring everything and then think about DOING IT AGAIN.
It's so good that I need to cut this thing out before I become addicted. My library is backlogged as it is I can't let it put a full stop on everything.
@@SteelBallRun1890I bounced off of new vegas and witcher cuz I thought the combat was weak in them. Third playthrough of elden ring. It's definitely a forever game for some players who have little want for copious amounts of npc dialogue that just desire bonking cool enemies with a huge variety of visceral weapons.
You do not understand how happy I was seeing the powerstance moves back. Actual best combat feature in any of the games
a little nerfed tho. :(
i liked my spear+lance powerstance build in dks2. now you can only use two of the same weapon type
From what I understand, you get Torrent at the third overland site of grace, which is usually the one by Stormgate, and you get access to the hub either after you beat Godrick or after you rest at an overland site of grace outside of Limgrave. I got access to the hub after getting teleported to Sellia crystal tunnel from a chest in Dragonburnt Ruins, and then resting at the Sellia understair grace. That is probably a way faster way to get there than beating Godrick, because you can go to the Dragonburnt Ruins almost immediately, and as far as Sellia crystal tunnel is concerned, you can just run past everything until you get to a grace.
The community just needs to make Grace Hole a thing for woolie and his woolie hole
Omg it has to be Woolie of all people to say that
I was about 20 hours in before I realized the mount can double jump.
Found it pretty early when I walked off a cliff and panic jumped back onto the cliff
I didn't realize until Pat brought it up.
Serious question do you not read?
@@caliscearleon9540 Did you get it out of your system?
His stream time in the Character creator didn't result in a Woolie, but it did produce a lot of Justin Trudeaus!
Black face justin Trudeau is quite realistic, and the character creator does that extremely well.
Another great thing about Elden ring, infinite sprint and rolling! Neither actions cost any stamina while out of combat
In regards to the beginning, unfortunately when it comes to the fantasy genre, there's a very adamant aspect of the fan-base that seems to be perfectly fine with dragons, elves, magic, polytheistic intractable/kill-able gods, demons, ghost, goblins,orcs, merefolk, dwarfs, angels, giants, shapeshifters, animal people (dog, bull, fish, bird, cat, bug, rhino, hippo, snake, lizard elephant etc..), centaur, fairies, genies, gnomes, satyr, rock people, and even actual full autonomous robots.
But Black people are seen as a step to far. You can MAYBE get something that's like off-brand Arabic, but that's all.
Ancient Samurai's a Continent Away seem to get a pass, but according to "certain people" there was basically no interaction with any people from the African continent by Europeans (the Continent right under Europe, that's actually visible to from the coast of a large portion of southern Europe) until basically the slave trade.
You said it. People’s ideas of medieval fantasy are thoroughly Eurocentric most of the time. I hate to say it, but... we all know what it is.
I don't know enough about Elden Ring's situation specifically, but more generally it just needs to make sense within the story's worldbuilding (which is almost always possible, it just requires thought). And for several modern series, it unfortunately doesn't. Meanwhile, Tolkien's work -- despite the false narrative about it being strictly monoracial -- is a masterclass at it.
To illustrate, consider how relatively few people quibble about various races and mixed groups being present in cyberpunk settings -- that circumstance immediately makes sense in high tech settings without any explanation. For fantasy, in contrast, authors really should address how various visually distinct people groups coexist within a space without modern transportation, especially if we are led to believe they have cohabitated within the same territory for many generations without significant interbreeding bluring those visual differences.
The alternative is that your fictional world doesn't feel properly lived in and alive -- it feels artificial. That's the real writing problem: Fantasy stories by definition aren't realistic -- nor should they strive to be -- but they should feel "alive" by having a coherent history of their peoples.
"certain people"
@@hieronymus4120 how is Tolkiens work not monoracial? the only brown people in the lord of the rings all happen to be super evil. literally every time a brown person comes on screen they are fighting for evil. Like there is this WHOLE WORLD here but we only focus on the white people and even when the fate of the world is at stake its LITERALLY white people fighting against brown people. Tolkien certainly is a classic but he's also the progenitor of one of the worst aspects of fantasy world building with too much focus on the European white people being the protagonist of the entire world and the rest is ignored
@@joedatius Considering he was writing an English mythology...
I got my Maiden after hitting the grace point infront of the exit of the tutorial, after the Church and finally at the Grace before the canyon. Walked around the Castle and rested at a Grace granting me the Hub prompt.
Ps4 versions got like one issue i found, occasionally grass and bushes take a second when spawning in to pop up
Otherwise its great
Been experiencing that with the PS5 version, too. FromSoft are experts at many things but optimization is not one of them.
I think it just comes down to that fantasy is so Eurocentric to a point that there is just a whole cross section of people that its easier for them to imagine a man who is half dragon than imagine a black person existing in a fantasy setting.
And on top of that, every fantasy game uses the exact same Eurocentric setting so its even less of a reason to include those options even though they establish in the lore of the game that there are foreign lands where people come from to go to the setting of the game to partake in the events of the story.
But it always boils down to "Its European fantasy, black people dont exist or are too far removed from the setting" and im like yeah ok fam, boats exist and so do literal dragon people but pop off.
Im not saying Elden Ring is a bad game because of it, just that it's an over arching issue in fantasy games as we go forward.
This why I love Wheel of Time, fuck Eurocentric fantasy
In the case of Elden Ring, it’s not even the dragon people. You can literally make an Asian guy as a samurai. There’s no lore reason in this game to not have other kinds of people.
Eurocentric fantasy is based and crying over a lack of a "black" hairstyle is cringe as fuck
@@Zach0451 I mean, not really crying? just saying that the arguments presented are a poor reason for not including them and that maybe people should try something new? Also Europe isnt the only setting for fantasy? 0w 0
@@willadkins1354 Thats kind of my point, you can include any other pale skinned culture but its like peoples fantasy brains break when you put someone in who is dark skinned. That includes people of Hispanic, Native, or even Indian descent XD
It would bring justice for them to know that they can return to the first area for a round 2.
Character Creation is funny to me. As long as I can have pale skin, green eyes and terrible facial hair, I'm happy. That's until I'm in the game and I try to cover myself head-to-toe into whatever robed, edgy armour or just full armour set I can find so I don't have to see any sort of skin ever again because armour styling is life.
Still, if you're giving us CC, give us more stuff, ranging from realistic to absurd. This is a game where you can run around as a naked, pink Moe Syslak character wielding a club.
Character creation is one of those things where, once you’re in the game proper the camera is pulled back enough that the little details won’t matter, to say nothing of a helmet or hood. But while you’re in character creation, it’s just plain fun to work with.
@@jackpollard550 stop making excuses. Eldens' CC sucks major ass
well yeah, but you'll almost always be happy, because almost every CC will accommodate those aspects. that's the issue. it's not something you even have to think about unless you _don't_ belong to the group of people that don't have pale skin and straight hair. hence why it's so easy for people to go "no big deal to me": cuz it really ain't.
@@lewa3910 Theyre not making excuses, its more like its not that big of a problem and people dont get too hung up on it. More like stop being a little bitch because you take too long at CC.
This was just the first chat they had in this podcast. They had 2 more later on
When it comes to European fantasy you can have dragons, goblins, sorcerers, ents, zombies, serpents, living objects, double jumping horses, giants, and even Samurai which geographical speaking live a continent away.
But afro-textured hair? Woolie are you out of your fucking mind.
The graphical artists of elden ring used their time wisely.
I fucking LOVE my Afro to death
Wait so it is four hours of Elden ring talk?! DMANIT
From soft games have always had a hard time with making black characters, especially DS2.
Ds2 had braids tho
@@LargeInCharge77 yeah but like, the black skin wasn’t black. It was dark red.
On one hand literally no black skin options, on the other hand a single dreadlocks style. Yeah it’s not great.
It's hard enough making any character vaguely human looking
@@kneeofjustice9619 isn’t that the true form?
Immunity, Robustness, Focus, and Vitality are ALL listed on the character sheet, right under your Defenses, as your Resistances. It's really not that obtuse or hidden. It's RIGHT THERE, and the help button tells you what they do. They each govern your resistance to 2 different status effects, except Vitality, which is only Instant Death resistance.
Man your so right about the hir styles no braids Afro like damn but I will say the game is fucking amazing
500 hours for me is gonna be like 15% sitting around like plague, waiting til I feel comfortable enough to perform well
Thanks for cutting that strange black silence that I always thought was crazy for seeing since no one ever commented on it.
I think the lack of black hairstyle is not a race thing it was a “Ok we finished developing the game all we have left to do is make the character creation system”
“Just throw in the NPC creator system we used and call it a day”
“Alright done”
And it just so happens that none of the NPCs that are in this game inspired by medieval European/Norse mythology are not black or have black hairstyle so when the controls are shifted to the player it just is not there
The demons souls remake spoiled us all
It really did. It had so many options for everybody. And we should have known, because it was a different company, that this would be a downgrade in that regard.
@@alanguillermo3145 i mean its also a remake with console exclusive money to be fair. they had way more resources to splurge on stuff like that. while in turn its not nearly as important for elden ring
Oh baby, can’t wait for Elden Ring Chat Part 15 because this game is so fucking long that it will be talked about all year.
I'm on PC and the framerate hasn't really bothered me, but I'm pretty much immune to that since I beat Dark Souls 1 at 5-10 fps with keyboard and mouse
I disagree so hard with Woolie
It isn't on top of you...It is behind and above you. You are conjuring a towering dragon head before your enemies before you reduce them to ash. That is the raddest shit, and I will not tolerate slander, sir!
Nah that shit definitely looks goofy as hell dawg😂 does some good damage though!
yeah, I don't see how having your character grow a tiny animorphs dragon head is supposed to be cooler.
PC version hasn't been too bad for me, just those Frame Stutters when fighting any BIG enemy with really crazy animations. Thankfully the patches have fixed it a bit
Enchanted knight build hella fun
Finally able to justify using moonlight greatsword and the spells are sick
Moonveil katana + Carian slicer + rock sling = everything you need
But seriously, rock sling is busted, it does physical damage so it makes it super easy to stagger bosses, it has an insane FP to damage ratio, it has ridiculous range and homing, and the AI doesn't know how to dodge it.
mellena showed up at the 6th grace that i sat at... thought i was doing something wrong.
i think its the leading graces that count towards her, cause most of the graces i sat at were off trail or in dungeons
i dont know why but coming back to a souls game i thought, "why not be a deprived fuck, im feeling indecisive". boy that fucked me up
Really?
I did the same and I'm having a decent time thus far. Been kinda fun going in with nothing and building my character based off what I find.
Been leaning on the Dismounter and just even split Str/Dex to 20 to be able to decently use most other weapons I find.
I didn't get the hub prompt until 11 hours into my save running around the red place after that one trap.
So in regards to armor in what Pat said somewhat yeah I agree wear what you want but it most definitely does make a difference. Bosses still could kill you in like 3-4 hits compared to 2 if your not wearing armor but it certainly does help against mobs plus DS2 poise is back. So if you want to poise it up wear armor now that poise actually works.
big armor actually is useful for melee because of poise yeah. the bonuses are there but it isn't meant to be something you have to force on to yourself.
I finished the last boss at around 105 hours, and I've still got several huge secret areas left
It’s shocking revisiting this, in that the only crazy talk I could find was that armor doesn’t matter.
I love the contrast between Pat and Woolie at the start for a whole episode Woolie should be in a bright room with his nice book case behind him, and pat is in a black dungeon with a single skeleton and Monster Energy and they don't bring it up at all.
the boys looking very robust and focusable
Considering the number of mispronounciations this game is going to lead to (Blaidd reads the same way as "Blythe" because it's Welsh and the Welsh are gonna Welsh), props to starting on a good note with "Evergaol", which it probably going to mess with a bunch of people.
Is no one gonna mention how much this game feels like dragons dogma? Jump attacking wolves while exploring cliffs and collecting pinions.
only big stat ive noticed for armor is poise. My starter set even the slightest hit would make my character reel, and id get hit by followups super easy. I got something with more poise and I could shrug off hits and made it a lot easier to fix mistakes.
Melina appears to invite you to the Roundtable at the first grace you sit at after your first attempt at beating Margit, whether you lose or beat him first try.
its wild hearing abt all the pc issues ppl were having, bc i got it on pc at launch and had zero problems. it was running at 60fps the whole time with no stutters or anything lol
I've heard the occasional complaint from people having issues with the PC version which is WIERD cus I loaded up PC day one and have had literally 0 issues since. I don't know if my hardware is just magic but I had the same thing with Cyberpunk 2077. No glitches since day one.
Spoilers about the evergaol boss they were talking about...
In case you don't already know.
Don't fight him, find the character named blaidd first. he's in the mistwood, you have to get a gesture from kalé first to talk to him. After you find him, blaidd will give you a quest to find the evergaol boss. Go there, then summon him in the fight. Its way easier if you're trying to fight him under leveled.
Idk how to progress blaidds quest after that. Still trying to figure it out.
Need to go talk to ranni at her tower to continue blaidds quest
But he's kind of easy though. killed him a long time before I found Blaidd.
If only he coulda helped with Crucible Knight instead.
@@caliscearleon9540 not sure I've met her yet. The game is so big im sure I've walked by at least a couple npcs. Im really tempted to look up a guide but I dont want to spoil anything. Im torn
You can Also use the spell the prisioner has to destroy him
I'm going for samurai. Not sure yet about doing magic with this character
From my experience with magic, it's really slow going at first but there's a LOT more flexibility with spell type. And the spell that essentially acts as a sword feels like it was tuned perfectly
@@SharkofGames45 cool
There's a pair of katanas that scale off dex and int. They're practically begging you to use them with spells.
We're gonna get these for the next several weeks huh?
41:07 The robustness stat increases defense against the heteroskedasticity status.
See my prompt to go to the round table didn't come until the stormvale lift grace sat down inside and prompted to talk.
DS2 has dreads therefore it is the most approved funny enough.
but it also didn't have black skin colors outside of weird brown red
The stupid thing with the concept that it's meant to be a Eurocentric game is that in Game of thrones and George RR Martins other works there's always black characters who are explicitly called dark skin so he obviously doesn't have have any problems having prominent black characters in his other works. Thinking of it there really are no main characters in the game who are black and that kind of stinks...
Grum's smart about it too. "Black folk" aren't just one group in GoT, there's several different races cause hey what do you know, that's historically how it's been.
My poor PS4 has been chugging it out with this game but this is one of the few games along with tales of arise that make it sound like a jet engine lol.
"Well clearly george r. r. martin and fromsoft wanted to design a norse euro centric game"
Immediately goes into character creator and makes squidward.
I would have put it this way. Part of the process of creating the character creator is creating the assets you want to use to create the npcs in the game. If none of your npcs are black then there isnt a need to make black hairstyles unless you put in the extra effort for your players. Thats why even when there are black hairstyles they usually are reeeeeally low quality. Thered be more incentive to do nice quality black hairstyles if the game had more black characters in it. I heard somewhere that Blackguard Boggart is black? But even if he is hes wearing an iron mask so again conveniently dont have to make any black hair assets for that :/
Faith is the Best in Elden Ring. Sorcery gives you damage but Incantations give you Buffs, Debuffs, Healing AND Damage
sorcery works better for mobile characters since more of the spells let you move more freely compared to faith. but it seems overall sorcery is higher single target damage for less FP costs while the good direct damage spells for faith costs WAY more
@@joedatius Sorcery is for cowards afraid of getting close.
Incantations are for cowards afraid of the swamp gas experience
I legit think they forgot black people exist. Like Japanese people often do. I mean on the opposite end making asian characters in western games tend to be extremely difficult.
Me who's had zero problems on PC with my 1060. But I'm not also streaming it. That brings it own problems.
I tend to get the hub option in the red dead horror radiation zone
Not gonna lie, I haven't been having much issues with the PC version. It sucks that some folks are dealing with that
When i first got ER on PC it ran at 10fps with invisible enemies, massive stuttering, and screen artifacting so bad I couldn't see.
Found a TH-cam video that changed the shadow cache in Nvidea settings and one other thing, now it runs at a solid 60fps with no issues. I hope Fromsoft fixes these issues soon for people who still have issues
The were so close to finally having my bebop fro in a game with that one curly short hairstyle but it’s TOO SMALL 😭
I might be wrong. But to trigger the Hold I think you might have to attempt to beat Margit (Win or Lose) then rest at a Grace.
Also you can talk to Melina at (Not all) certain bonfires. I got the option at the Church of Marika in the Mistwood and she gave me a bit of lore about Marika.
I got the Hold WAY before I went to Margit, but I spent like 2 hours in the starting zone before getting whisked off into the eastern section of the map and going on suicide loot runs across as much of it as I could access (which was SO MUCH, DEAR LORD) for the next 12ish.
@@Graysett Yeah I was throwing a wild guess out there. Maybe it's the same as getting a Maiden and tied to the amount of Grace's you find? Again, wild guess.
I would find it hilarious if they just put Afro Samurai and Bob Makihara Tenjou Tenge as NPC's somewhere.
I have to agree that I don't get why most games don't allow for you to go back and remake your character. I really don't feel like spending three hours right off the bat making a good looking character but I will come back and play with it 30 minutes at a shot till I'm happy.
My PC can handle the high level settings but randomly it kept dipping to 23 fps so I put it on low setting it still drops to 48 in some places. I don't even think it's during combat it seems to be more when I'm very quickly moving from one area to another so like the bear forest I just ran through that at top speed which the game doesn't like me moving that fast.
I'm still walking into areas and having the issue where I don't feel like I'm doing any damage so I leave after a few enemies.
Elden ring does let you. At two different locations even. One is in the main hub and the other is where you respec, which all I will say is that it isn’t in the main hub weirdly enough
Omg...
I thought the whole podcast this week was gonna be elden ring!
Kind of surprised people on PC are having issues. There's a bit of lag in a couple places but running really well for me so far.
its mild but certainly noticeable in Limgrave
I can't write an essay on how DX12 works and how it's handled in Elden Ring, but basically, every time you run into something "new" the game will stutter at a variable amount. Once you've experienced that stutter in that area, you'll likely not run into it again. However that still amount to a lot of stutter, some of which lasts several seconds.
@@leithaziz2716 sounds like its compiling shaders
I've been having an awesome bug where all of the normal enemies turn invisible and visible as they feel. Hoping it's just the fact that I don't quite meet the minimum ram requirements, so I bought more, so hopefully this will no longer an issue once that gets here.
I had the same issue despite having 16gig of RAM. Found a video called Elden Ring PC Performance fix, it has you change some settings in Nvidia and it seemed to fix the issue totally.
Have you found hard mode?
@@Lunarice98 Only real gamers can play Elden Ring using echo location
Woolie, the reason games make it a big deal that you can change your character's appearance after the fact is because the lighting is always different in the character creation screen compared to in game.
I must be lucky because I haven't had any problems on my pc version. A few framers stutters fighting the tree guardian but after that everything has been smooth.
That 0.1% African really coming out with pats side
im level 100 and im still using the prisoner starting spell, quite often
"Are character creators black people friendly?" sounds like a Polygon or Vice article.
you mean it sounds like a valid question that literally millions of people on the planet ask themselves when going into a game?
@@malum9478 Well yeah, that's why I said sounds like an article, as in a real thing someone would write about. (And just so you know, I'm one of those affected. As a light skin, my only options for preset faces are usually dark or vaguely Chinese).
@@malum9478 nice projecting.
it's sad that people seem to be unaware of the fact that Vikings traded with and married to people in the Byzantine Empire. As well as travelled so far as the New World, before Industrial Europeans.
After a point unawareness becomes willful ignorance cause they tend to get really angry at the idea of trade hubs being multicultural and that's traders settled down instead of evaporating the moment their businesses were done
most people know that.
What does that have to do with anything here?
barely 5 min in and woolie hyper focuses on hair
Have had zero problems with the PC version but I have heard all the stories from others, it's just weird, for whatever reason mine runs great
GRACE HOLE LMAOOO, jesus christ
Off the bat, have to salute Woolie for calling out the woefully lacklustre options available for Black hair in Elden Ring. Sapped my interest in the game, beyond the terrible PC optimisation.
I like how Wooly calls it white European hair. When it probably has just as much to do with the game being made by the Japanese who have the same hair as us whitey. Not saying he shouldnt be sad for wanting more options. Just saying its weird to assume it's all because whitey lol
He didn't blame whitey.
@@JoseRS1186 who should we blame then?
he never said that though woolie is just blaming lazy developers
Wow who ever said From and GRRM were making a eurocentric game, well clearly they havent read Martin. Yea, the stories are Westoros centric, but often there is a lot of multiculturalism in the setting (not as much as today, obviously, but it was there), which is actually pretty true to life. Like...Moors existed, for one. And in the books, Dany's entire plotline is in the east and then Tyrion goes east. Theres literally a ton of black cultures in the Song series.
pretty sure we're focused on the game and not his books. none of the multicultural stuff from his books are really seen in Elden Ring but we're mostly talking about character creation
Aren't Siegmeyer, Sieglinde, and Siegward black because they're from Catarina?
Yes, but they’re also covered in the biggest most covered set of armor to hide the fact that the character creator doesn’t like black people
If you mod the game to remove their helmets you can see they're white. They could be placeholders I suppose but Siegmeyer's face actually fits him pretty well so it seems to be by design. Catarina apparently isn't monoethnic but they didn't put anyone in the game who represents what you see in the character creator.