If you want to be a loser weirdo in your loser weirdo groups then that's your god given right but just leave the normal functioning people alone. Not everyone has the luxury of being unemployed, living rent free in their mothers basement, never to touch a woman or see the light of day again. Sadly some of us actually have to live in the real world so that these parasites can continue to be dickheads to everyone who even thinks about using a spell in their magic fantasy game.

Fighting Cowboys's opinion should matter in souls community , look his channel for once and as a strenght build player , I never promote this kinda divide in the community , afterall it's a game and you can play however you want.

Truthfully a run without using spirit ashes imo makes Elden Ring the most difficult in the series! Spirit ashes make most bosses a lot easier to deal with and I’m an average skilled player but in my experience it definitely does. However my opinions never get pushed onto other gamers because it doesn’t matter if you enjoy beating end game at lvl 10 or if you use mimic tear in every fight because it doesn’t effect my play through! I’ve met a lot of cool people in souls community but unfortunately like any fan base you will encounter a lot gamers who get way too riled up over video games and what other players do! Again at the end of the day…..it’s just a video game!

Fighting cowboy actually does strength builds. So he has an idea whether strength or magic is right.

Great idea. Add a skip boss button just to trigger these people

Just play the game how you want and have fun with it. I dont really care what people think about Fromsoft games beyond that

I don’t care about gatekeeping, using any build is legit, but still - having a ranged attack trivializes most of the boss fights

Nah, the annoying gate keepers and elitists have always been here. Elden ring just exposed them to the masses bc it was so widely praised and liked

I'm glad people are telling the toxic side of the community to kindly eff off! They can say people are trash for using developer implemented game devices but I'll continue to enjoy the game to it's fullest and talking to my friends and coworkers about the crazy hard bosses we suffered through and beat and the fun stories of weird happenings we've encountered. It's not about punishing ourselves by hindering our abilities, it's about not giving up!

Who the fuck is the "community"? Who gives them such power to control you and how you must play and enjoy a game? I played all my souls like (except for a bit of help during bosses on ds3) alone offline... Maybe not being anglophone helped me to stay away from all this bullshit. Anyway, if people is so soft to be uncomfortable with what people say then it's not just this "community". Just play your fucking game, don't follow anyone and don't be a snowflake...possibly get a life also and don't rely entirely on videogames.

the most likeable mage user

Love this. My piers told me I cheesed the game by making a frenzy build. So I beat the game as a mage. Then they said I cheesed the game with magic. Then I beat the game with a strength build holding nothing but a 2 handed sword just to prove a point. I capped all my characters at level 150. Got the platinum trophy. I did all of that. You know what my piers told me? They told me I should beat Sekiro because Elden Ring was peanuts compared to Sekiro. Fuck this community.

I like the Strength vs Dex vs Magic vs Faith “conflict.” It’s the whole “Don’t use summons, don’t wear armor, don’t use good weapons, don’t level up, etc.” People who piss me off. They’re people who sit there watching those shitty “Can I beat Elden Ring while juggling crack rocks with my ass cheeks?” slop videos all day and then they pretend they can do it too.

If they were really "veterans" theyd beat it with a DDR dance pad and a guitar hero controller

2 years in, dlc is here, and after all this time I just made my first int build focusing on the moonveil. What a beautiful and fun weapon that I avoided because I didn't want to be one of those guys. I hate myself for letting the community get under my skin but I hate this side of the community even more.

100% but still... Git gud

FromSoft games revealed warriors and cry babies

literally its all in the game none of it is modded it was all put there for you to use and you are perfectly okay beating the game that way.

Fromsoftware games are unfair. Good news, you can be too. Knowledge is power.

This entire rant is wild lol. 99% of the souls vets dont care what you use. But to deny that summons objectively makes the game easier is just wrong. And the only time ive seen people consistently dunk on someone is when they say "x boss was easy, i just used mimic and beat it on my 3rd try" Honestly its not that big a deal if you want to make the game easier. I see more insecure takes like summons arent easy mode than actual elitism in the souls community

Moral of the comment section? People are just sneaky assholes at their core

I've been playing this game too much. I knew it was the treespear from the thumbnail and watched the whole vid to confirm 👀

Flightincowboy is my guy! In all the souls/ER games I've never done anything but bonk builds and I'm no better or worse than anybody.

I love cowboy, his videos are the best souls vids and his opinion is always on point. 100% agree

lol git gud

Souls fans are the Juggalos of gaming lmao

Gotta say I’m right there with Cowboy on this one. Have fun however the hell you want. You spent the money on the game, why would you stress over how other people think you ought to play it?

It's all ableism.

3:36 he knows about the USB steering wheel technique!

Reminds of of the chess community, and how some of the higher skilled players were vehemently against and furious that a Grandmaster was teaching ordinary people how to recognize patterns and their counters through streaming. They all acted like chess was a "dignified" game where only the most intellectual and refined people were allowed to climb to the top. They were furious that their little niche was being made more readily accessible to the wider masses; it was slowly making them not as special as they'd have liked

cowboy is a real life solaire

Whatever anyone says, summoning on your first playthrough doesn't count as beating the game

Gatekeeping is necessary, otherwise you get Veilguard

Bro even Miyazaki himself is bad at HIS OWN game yet he still ENCOURAGES PLAYER TO USE ALL THE TOOLS THEY HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSAL to make the game easier.

Imagine thinking level 1 no weapons and armor without stuffing your shirt with spider eggs that will hatch in 2 hours makes you good at the game.

What's wrong about calling certain builds as easy mode? They actually are, and there's no shame in playing games in easy mode. Why let the term 'easy mode' offend you in the first place.

lmao so bitter l2p

Naw if you used summons you didn't really beat nothing 😂

I like mage builds and thing the sorceries are the beat thing in this game and don't give a f..k what others think.

"Didn't do it blindfolded? Pft, easy mode. What, you BREATHED as you beat the game? Nah you didn't b e a t the game."

the problem is with the game itself. the game itself is balanced around cheese, so most people can bulldoze the entire thing by spamming an ash of war, magic, jump attacks, etc. most people never learn the basics/mechanics of the game. If you've played some number of invasions you realize that this is the case because they do they do the same thing against real people(invaders) & get their shit pushed in because their L2 spam isn't working on someone who actually took a little time to learn the fundamentals. so yes you did beat the game with (insert whatever strat you used here) but beating the game itself is a very low bar to overcome. Another thing that points to this fact is the perceived difficulty by the community of this game when it was first released, when people only had access to basic equipment. whereas now all of the cheese is well known & any dork can L2 their way to elden lord.

Deadass, I WISH mages were easy mode.

Every skilled player can make a build work-that’s true. But not every beginner can. Noobs can pick up something simpler, and if you don’t see that, you’re just being ignorant, salty, or maybe not as good a player as you think. At the end of the day, who cares? Let people play how they want; it doesn’t really matter.

Bro really gets upset and people just being people. Bill got trolled hard here.

Im actually more used to the reverse happening unfortunately stopped talking to this person who basically viewed you as a loser if you didnt min/max and have a really easy time with the game.

So I'd like to say your opinion is trash, because playing as mages on a Souls game is easy mode. You're the one getting butt hurt about hearing people tell the truth. You can play however you want, that's fine, but you're going to have to deal with it that you're just playing easy mode. The reason why they didn't add easy mode is because there's already an easy mode. I myself think Bloodborne is the easiest game in the series by far, but some people don't, because you can't use magic. Those people tend to cry about how it's the worst because no magic. Bloodborne while being the easiest game has no easy mode. It has no magic. Now, magic use in pvp on the other hand is going to get you rekt as human players don't have the limitations of AI, but against AI that will just follow you by quickest route, won't spend time dodging magic and will just be a standing target for you to cast spells at while you're safely at a distance, that's a lot easier than melee damage. Finding and using the most cost efficient magic will make your magic pool go a long long way, having magic for large aoe if necessary, etc. It is a literal fact that playing through the main game with magic use on any game is easier. So two years late, I am calling you out on your trash opinion. Why do you think Sword of Renais was one of the most popular weapons, evade and wreck bosses from the safety of a distance while they're still in or recovering from attack animations; destroy multiple enemies with a powerful straight or aoe attack. Obviously those people are hypocrites, as they also played the game on an easy mode by using one of a few of the most broken weapons in the game for pve, but still. Magic use allows you to do this same spell and more, very easy mode of play.

this guy suffers from internalized feminism.

Plane and simple, it’s skill. But I did complete all “souls games” demons souls, DS I, DS II, DS III and Elden ring naked, fist only, no healing, no rolling, no sprinting, no summons, no consumables …. And I used only my cock (no hands) with the controller.

A lot of words to say you are bad

"epic" rant lol