A Non Soulsborne Players Opinion On 'Elden Ring'

[@TylerByler]

Thank you all for the support on this video I really appreciate it! :D

[@mrnatas2486]

Play dark souls 2

[@skullton1121]

@@mrnatas2486 bros gonna hate the souls series after that 💀

[@GhostofAvarax]

Now play armored core 6 🤘🏻might be my favorite game in the last 5 years

[@steamworkfox4564]

Actually as a Souls Purest it's perfectly fine if you have friends help you in dark soul games XD your still improving over time, and if you happen to start killing bosses on your own good on you 🫡

[@fabiobreh]

elden ring is the only game that allowed me to marry a witch,so thats why it won 2022 goty

[@c1deon363]

Bro you can easily do this IRL 💀

[@CITYZEN50]

@@c1deon363 It's always a bitch never a witch😔

[@Im-lost-pleaese-help]

DAMMIT, IM PLAYING FOR FIRST TIME AND J CKMPLETED RANNI QUEST BUT I WANNA BE ELDEN LORD BUT I GOGTS KILL ELDEN BSASTTTXTSGS

[@pedropaulo174]

with 4 hands, FOUR!!

[@Im-lost-pleaese-help]

Mannn idk, do i do normanal ending or ranni, she DOES have 4 handns and is very cool but i dont wanna let down the blacksmith guy in roundtable

[@PlatStratsINC]

Anyone who says you're playing elden ring wrong missed the point entirely

[@Shenzi504]

i think if you are streamrolling eveything with 4 people, you are a d*mb*ss for paying so much for elden ring. 60percent of the development time for this game, and therefore its price, is gone towards balancing the bosses and the npcs, carefully designing their animations. You are basically throwing all of that away.

[@Julez60]

@@Shenzi504 oh no it's the fun police 🐖

[@unidentified2026]

Or they don't want players to miss out on an amazing game by handicapping their experience.

[@hollowollowyeet886]

“You’re not playing the game right!!!” Shit bro didnt know miyazaki didn’t want me to go intelligence, faith or anything remotely ranged/ has an attack speed higher than a greatsword, people who say that probably “cheesed” the game aswell and wanted to feel better about themselves Even then strength builds are just as broken, if not more broken than most int mage or faith cheese builds, just look at magma blades or double giant crushers

[@WOLFxLORD]

Lol "don't use anything that might make your experience even remotely easy or fun, if you arent suffering over pointless bs, or playing exactly like me, you didn't play it right" I'm glad we've finally reached the stage where the community just flat out ignores the idiots who spout this shit.

[@Eternal_Placidity]

Elden Ring is one of those rare games where everyone says it's that good, and it is actually that good.

[@scarvello]

It’s good but lots of things feel weird because of the changes they stripped from it like changed quest lines etc. We know fs games are known for this though.

[@scarvello]

@Noctislolig no need to for anyone’s who played the alpha and can compare the things they’ve changed or taken out.

[@Ale-ey3xv]

@@scarvellodudes gatekeeping an opinion lol

[@InMaTeofDeath]

@@scarvelloBut we don't/can't know what you specifically don't like about it and that's something only you can tell us. If you're afraid to share your opinion it's probably not a good idea to let people know you have one.

[@theunderdog9353]

​@@scarvelloYou: gives opinion without context Also you when asked to elaborate: no! You should already know! Buddy, we won't know what you're talking about until you actually talk about it. Like someone else said, what's the point in giving an opinion when you don't even want to discuss the opinion? 😂

[@wanderinglich7561]

To your comment on parkour, elden ring’s actually one of the easier ones in fromsofts history to actually parkour in, mainly cause we actually got the ability to jump.

[@Cricket0021]

Jumping in dark souls 1-3 is total aids.

[@SecundaMFX]

@@Cricket0021 Jumping being on the dodge button in Bloodborne was the worst to be honest

[@Cricket0021]

@@SecundaMFX haven't played bloodborne so i wouldn't know

[@alprazolam1446]

@@SecundaMFXyea that’s the worst. In sekiro the movement is great

[@SecundaMFX]

@@alprazolam1446 Facts, all the animations and movement in Sekiro felt so seamless

[@tylerpeterson19]

I think they add random enemies that are either too hard or too easy to make it a little more immersive. Like the easy mobs make you feel like you can get comfortable, and then the hard mobs remind you that you can never get comfortable.

[@flexfuhyobih1353]

Just wait for the dlc they will kick your ass!

[@KSharp2]

@@flexfuhyobih1353 The new power scaling mechanic they are adding in the DLC should be interesting.

[@fuzzyhair321]

​@@KSharp2yeah they knew we would go into it super buffed and ready to go to town

[@FeintToParry]

Random bears feel harder than Malenia when they’re mauling my ass lmao

[@Yorikoification]

You lot really come up with the wildest, most elaborate excuses to defend bad scaling huh.

[@deepbreeze9058]

Well, I'm not Miyazaki, but I'll take a stab. Mountaintops of the Giants are..on top of mountains. Mountains have wide bases, so...

[@TylerByler]

Ik that’s the logical answer but come on it’s a valid critique

[@MLWJ1993]

​@@TylerByler Part of that large circle includes Elphael (Brace of the Haligtree) which is explorable, but also misable. 🤔

[@GREATGAIWAIN]

​@@TylerBylerIs it though? If you'd said the Mountaintops are too barren, I would agree but saying you wanted MORE of it? Damn. I guess you're a bigger fan than me.

[@TylerByler]

@@GREATGAIWAIN no I was saying that before you unlock it, it looks like this HUGE playable area but when you unlock it it’s tiny.

[@GREATGAIWAIN]

​@@TylerByler Ahh. That is very different, yes. That I can agree to. A lot of the Mountaintops and Consecrated Snowfields are so empty I'm glad they didn't make any bigger but I see your point more now.

[@Noizzed]

If you think Elden Ring parkour is bad just wait until you play Dark Souls where there is no jump button but you have to run first to jump in a locked direction

[@benjaminmendy-cadol2706]

It don't make the parkour better

[@DanteHanma-l6q]

@@benjaminmendy-cadol2706 U can parkour! Damn i was just quickstepping through the rot pool...

[@whyit6158]

really cool thing about elden ring is, depending on your build an argument could be made for like 5 or 6 different bosses being the hardest in the game

[@legion3800]

I'm so glad my friend at the time made me play the game, I fell in love with the souls series and I've now played all the dark souls, and it's my favourite series of all time, these games genuinely helped me through such a hard time

[@jonaswest6993]

Yep it's a good series of games. I'd even argue the difficulty that the games are marketed on ends up putting people who would otherwise enjoy the games off. Because once you know how these games work that's it the difficulty disappears since you solved it in your own way already

[@SolareofAstora]

U played bloodbourne and sekiro too right

[@jaylucino8890]

Experiencing this game for the first time is magical. Knowing that I'll be able to experience it once again when the dlc comes out really pust a smile to my face.

[@fobie7913]

I beat malenia in 12 attempts my first playthrough using blasphemous blade +10 and mimic tear +10. on my ng+ I did a dual ruins great sword strength build with no summons, and it took me 65 attempts. I think not using summons in parts of the game, like malenia, make the experience so much more rewarding, as I also found malenia very anti-climactic after beating her on my first playthrough.

[@forwardmoving8252]

Beat her in 6 attempts with a twinblade bleed build and mimic tear. Didn't use summons on any other boss aside from gank bosses. Plan to fight her with no summon this playthrough - and I'm sweating hard thinking about it. Just got to haligtree. Hope I'm not stuck on her for several days.

[@GraaD-87]

I actually happened to overlevel my character up to 180+ RL at this point, so... I killed her on my very first try (80 strengh build, great stars +24, mimic tear +10, bloodflame, flame cleanse me). But it was a close one (with only 1 "Estus" remaining) and I imagine she's really tough when you fight her with a low level character.

[@MLWJ1993]

I had Mogh's Spear with blood boon ritual & the mimic tear. That's after the AI patch for her though, I completely missed the area on my blind playthrough where I used an intelligence build (with Moonveil as my melee weapon).

[@paulbunions8580]

​@GraaD-87 the level isn't a big deal its the mimic, mimic trivializes the entire game

[@GraaD-87]

@@paulbunions8580yes, it definitely does. I mean, it's outright better than any other summon for almost any situation, and it can solo most bosses in the game. That said, having such a high RL means both me and my mimic tear have reached soft caps in all the important stats. My point is: me having killed Malenia on my first try with a STR melee build have very little to do with my skill. It's mostly due to the mimic tear benefitting from my character's stats (high RL) and equipment choices.

[@johnmarshall2091]

Elden Ring was my first Souls, too... Sekiro was my second. I've platinumed both and STRONGLY encourage you to walk the same road. (Mastering Sekiro trumps the feeling of mastering Elden Ring, btw. Both legendary games).

[@Mori-ey8wj]

After Elden Ring which was my first aswell I also went through the whole catalogue even bought a PS5 just to play Bloodborne and Demon souls. Sekiro is my least favourite however, I still enjoyed it but throughout the whole tine I kept wishing for deeper role-playing, buildcrafting and other weapons

[@johnmarshall2091]

@Mori-ey8wj I can appreciate that. My first run through Sekiro was exhilarating but I was so busy parrying (parrying is a lot harder in Elden Ring) that I didn't pay much attention to more than the basic prosthetics (shuriken, firecrackers, spear, umbrella, sabimaru, etc). But around NG+1, I started to play a bit more with these, and exploring them makes the game a hell of a lot deeper... It'll never be varied in the way any of the others are, but there's more than enough to give huge amounts of creative freedom. The mistraven is great to master and distracting enemies with the whistles is a blast. Even the fistfuls of ash get used now when I play. But none of this is to disagree with you at all. It's definitely not a buildcrafting game in anything like the way you mean, and if that's the *main* attraction, then I get that Sekiro isn't going to rank high. For my part, I'm hoping that the expansion is a bit more Shadows Die Twice of the Erdtree than it's likely to be, because of the mention of martial arts ... but it's definitely going to be amazing either way.

[@Kburn1985]

Beating genichiro is #1 in satisfaction. It's a wall you cannot luck or cheese your way through, you need to parry, stomp and mikiri counter each and every one of his moves to win him. You know you got the game down when you beat him, till you reach the next wall, isshin. Isshin taught a lot less, and you could use a lot more strategies, and even semi cheese, so even though he was a wall I found him much less challenging. Malenia is part luck, part AI exploit. You need to run far when she's at 70% health because she'll waterfowl you. After that, you keep dodging close and into her, but if she hasn't done waterfowl for awhile, just approach cautiously and run away. It's a lot of luck frankly.

[@SUCCUB0I]

I didn't play Sekiro until after Elden Ring and honestly I found it mostly easier to me with a few exceptions. I never beat Sekiro though because well I got kind of bored of it after awhile. I'm not sure what it was about it but it just couldn't hold my attention like Elden Ring or DS3 did.

[@coneuman]

I’ve done basically the exact same run. Maybe a little over a year ago, tried Bloodborne (which was great for what I played) but got distracted by all the ER content I was seeing and NEEDED to play it. Played Sekiro somewhat recently, absolutely adored that as well. Need to get around to finishing bloodborne though, I just keep getting reeled back in by the replayability of ER.

[@Undeadsheperd]

I’m suprised how many people have an issue with “Mountain tops of the Giants” for being a mountaintop only . It still has plenty to explore and experience.

[@islandguy2535]

imagine when they fought melinia for the first time

[@zaidb4296]

Speaking on the post-ending gameplay, apart from new npc dialogue, I wish the game would've changed depending on the ending you went for to see how the landscapes changed etc,

[@theyeetmeister4019]

The only reason i tried er is cause i didn't know it was a souls game and i wanted a gameworld like botw after i finished botw, and im so glad i did, its my goat game, i've now bought every souls game including sekiro except ds2, i cant get enough of this gameplay

[@junoglrr9119]

play ds2 too you coward....

[@GraaD-87]

Why not DS2 as well? Some people (myself included) consider it to be THE best of them all, despite dated graphics and somewhat unconventional game mechanics. Nonetheless, welcome to the series! Hope you'll have a great experience with those, especially Bloodborne.

[@Super_Death]

Good lad. We don't talk about ds2. It's the clunkiest game of all souls like. The movement is extremely awkward (the devs for some reason made it an 8 way movement with weird position snapping when turning) and the combat feels worse than ds1. I beat it one time and that was it. I tried to replay it on several occasions and it's just not it. And I've beaten ds1, ds3, bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden ring several times. Major of players agree that ds2 is the worst in the series

[@GraaD-87]

@@Super_Death Spent well over 800+ hours in DS2. Having played through every Souls game (except Sekiro) starting with DeS in 2009, I must say DS2 is still THE best in the series for me.

[@theyeetmeister4019]

@@GraaD-87 i dont have a ps4 😭

[@samdan406]

Dark souls one cured my depression

[@hollowollowyeet886]

Mf it replaced your depression with suffering, unless you’re the canon tarnished who rolled up, beat every boss using a sword they found after washing up and no hit god itself

[@octavianpopescu4776]

@@hollowollowyeet886 I've heard stuff like this before from multiple people, that playing From Soft games like DS1 or Bloodborne helped them with depression or with some hard period in their lives. I was surprised to hear this, since From Soft games usually have gloomy/dark settings, but apparently the feeling of achievement they got from beating bosses/games made them feel better about whatever challenges they were facing in real life. It gave them more confidence.

[@Force-Multiplier]

A billion times better than Elden Mid FromSoft's best selling Demon Souls copy paste the original Dark Souls had many things from Demon's Souls but back then it wasn't the shameless copy paste fiesta that From Software did with 90% of each of their non Sekiro IPs

[@demontan123]

⁠​⁠@@Force-Multiplier💀 we sure about that one bud. This is the first time I can confidently say that someone hated seeing anor Londo again in ds3. Like I would never have guessed ds2 and 3 were sequels (hence the numbers) I guess you want ds4 to be a persona game and maybe ds5 baldurs gate . Crazy to think the games are all similar like they should be since it’s the fucking franchise. Even then what is so copy paste that you hate Elden ring lol

[@Paladin_Lawbro]

@@demontan123probably seemingly random boss copies

[@Mwuff7775]

We've all felt the call of the blue doll gush

[@diegobrando492]

As Gideon said: the blue cunny

[@quadromplis]

With her four arms, think of all she could do it - your tarnished tackle

[@JASON--VOORHEES]

Y'all are weird asf

[@diegobrando492]

@@JASON--VOORHEES shut up or lurk moar

[@Mwuff7775]

@@JASON--VOORHEES You're cringe. Get over yourself.

[@im2arrogant118]

Deserved GOTY more than any other game in the last 10-20 years tbh. Hoping AAA studios learn something from it and start making good games again. If everyone tried to compete with Fromsoft quality we'd get so many bangers.

[@freeranger00]

I was a bit skeptical, I'd never really played the Soulsborne games and didn't think that they looked very fun. Well, I got to Margit in my first Elden Ring run after having been talked into trying it by a friend, beat Margit on my sixth or seventh attempt, and was hooked. The storytelling is really good if you allow yourself to interact with it and the main bosses are all extremely interesting. Yeah, there are faults, but Elden Ring has become my cozy game to play when I'm feeling down, messing with some other build or other.

[@skullton1121]

You should definitely play bloodborne, it’s my favorite souls game and you should try it, the gameplay, atmosphere, enemy and boss design, bosses, MUSIC, lore , WEAPONS AND THE FUCKING DRIP YOU GET etc, it’s fucking amazing, it’s not perfect but it’s damn near.

[@MrJueKa]

but Bloodborne is only exclusive to PlayStation and that's a shame for everyone who doesn't have it

[@skullton1121]

@@MrJueKa but he played god of war so I assume he got a PlayStation

[@MrJueKa]

@@skullton1121I`ve played GoW on my gaming PC

[@ThePeetzerGuy]

Bloodborne is good but is massively overrated, Elden Ring is a far better entry point to the series and just a much better game overall. I think most people who got into the series with Bloodborne look back on it with rose-tinted glasses (and this is coming from someone who got into From with DS1 so I know I have my own biases) but it's since been surpassed on pretty much every front between DS3, ER, and Sekiro.

[@skullton1121]

@@ThePeetzerGuy I mean it is all really subjective, I mean there’s things that bloodborne does better than Elden ring but there things Elden ring does better than bloodborne, but personally I like the things bloodborne does is better than Elden ring, to the atmosphere, lore, areas, enemy and boss design, weapons, drip, music, va, gameplay, and even tho most bosses in bloodborne aren’t the best, the best in bloodborne are some of the best in the whole series, but Elden does have consistently better bosses, but to me the rest is subjective. And also I do kinda hate when people say their opinions and kinda state it as facts, it all really is opinions, if you like ds2 and it’s your favorite in the souls series, I wouldn’t have a care in the world, but don’t bring the others down

[@alexsantiago3181]

Haha Elden Ring was also my first soulsborne game. My first playthrough also ended with Ranni's questline. And my 2nd ending was the Lord of the Frenzied Flame with a female character to try new outfits. It was amazing. Absolutely amazing bosses, music, exploration, customization, visuals and story.

[@kofu1267]

Welcome to the fold, fellow tarnished.

[@ThePorkchopExpress975]

im just getting back into it after giving up two years ago. i went back and beat ds1,2,3, and bloodborne and demon souls to get more experience. now im enjoying this. i got past godrick and now just roaming around grinding runes, beating mini bosses etc.

[@dollarindimes]

this is almost exactly what happened to me, i started playing maybe a month ago after having the game for over a year and have put in 120 hours

[@dollarindimes]

amazing video btw

[@IndyMotoRider]

Same, I bought it on Steam due to the hype, didn't install it until a couple months ago. I'm over 200 hours in and haven't beat it yet (getting close).

[@Braylenc123]

greatest video game i’ve ever touched absolutely beautiful, your player moves fluid, engaging combat to you point you’re sweating in real life, and obviously the amazing open world

[@adamalkarkhi8099]

Your video was very accurate to my play through and Alexander is also my favorite character he's the reason I found out about elden ring

[@ryandesmarais3659]

This was my same experience. I played Darksouls2 five years after it came out and quit within three hours. Years later my brother is loving Elden ring and bought it for me (even though I told him that I won’t enjoy it at all and he wasted his money) trial and error, many hours later and it changed how I view games. I recently beat dark souls 1 and playing through dark souls 2, slowly calling myself an actual souls player.

[@Hellosh]

Great video man, love to see this kind of love for souls games! It gets missed when you look at PvPers' channels. Definitely deserved the 2022 GOTY

[@bleedszn]

repetitive on 2nd playthrough is an insane statement im on ng+8 still discovering new areas and bosses i never fought

[@GretgorPooper]

Welcome to the Souls pain train! I'm glad you had a good first experience, I hope you keep at it!

[@ZeallustImmortal]

The only time I see any issue with co-op is if youre being flat out carried, standing back and watching your mates beat the boss. Even then, its really not my business how somebody decides to go through the game.

[@Super_Death]

The problem in this game isn't co-op if you play it on official servers with no mods, the game scales perfectly. The problem is seemless co-op mod that allows you to play up to 6 people in one world and the difficulty doesn't scale very much or at all and remains single player difficulty. There are mods that you can stack with seemless co-op to make it extremely hard but most don't do that. Then they bitch that its way too easy

[@TylerByler]

Ngl I found some bosses harder on Seamless co-op compared to single player

[@ZeallustImmortal]

@@Super_Death seemless co-op has more scaling than the default game does, even with the same amount of players

[@asdfghjkllkjhgfdsa8725]

I mean it's not an issue I just feel bad carrying people because they don't really get to experience the combat. But some people want that. I always tell them I'll beat whatever you want but we are robbing you of the game you were playing before I came to help you. They can always replay it legit if they want to.

[@asdfghjkllkjhgfdsa8725]

​@Super_Death password summons are broken in the base game.

[@Z3pticon]

It was exactly the same for me. Never touched a soulslike game, nor even heard of the genre. But OH MY GOD how epic of an experience this game was.

[@death2sion333]

I don’t believe you

[@Z3pticon]

@@death2sion333what is there not to belive? I was a PC gamer and spent my time in WoW and various FPS games, and the consoles i have owned is N64, GameCube and PS5. So not very updated on anything else untill Shadowlands cured me from wow, and i got the PS5 and started trying other things ;)

[@sanyogitanegi3881]

Hands down my favorite game to be ever made

[@CITYZEN50]

same

[@frozen_potato6957]

​@CITYZEN50 yoo a city supporter Manchester is blue

[@CITYZEN50]

@@frozen_potato6957 ayy a fellow cityzen, manchester is indeed blue

[@AlexCatable]

What I really loved about your experience with Elden Ring is how firmly you have grasped the lore digging aspect of the game, how enchanted you've become by the world's history and secrets. That's really commendable . So many people just dont bother reading the descriptions, listening what NPCs say or just looking around.

[@MarkedUpMedia]

While I think the best experience is a solo one, I’ve had some of the best Souls experiences playing with my brother and cousin. These games are such a blast when playing with friends, seeing what armor sets and weapons they use, seeing individual play styles melding together, getting new perspectives on challenges that you wouldn’t have known about playing alone. Also, as a lover and experienced player of these games, elitists need to get over the summoning for help shit. Get over it. It’s a function in the game to be utilized as the player sees fit. If you want a hardcore experience play a challenge run. 😂

[@gk4428]

If Miyazaki didn't want you to co-op it, he wouldn't have had that game mechanic. Like in Sekiro

[@Jepegish]

I recommend Lies of P because... it's not FromSoft and I think that is really cool because they managed to capture that same magic FromSoft games have. Besides Lies of P I strongly urge you to give the original trilogy a spin too, of course. Yes, that inludes Dark Souls 2.

[@HijoDelHongo]

I'd also like to chime in with a often overlooked and older Souls Like... Ashen. Great unique art for a souls like, very stripped down in combat, but still difficult & rewarding.

[@HaohmaruHL]

The reason why some enemies feel easy while others are hard is because there are several types of physical damage (standard, slash, strike, pierce) and several types of elemental damage. Different enemies can be resistant or weak to different types of damage so your one build won't be uniquely powerful against every enemy in the game. Rivers of Blood is a Slash/Pierce weapon, meaning that armored or stone enemies would be resistant to it and would require something like a club/hammer to deal with properly. Not only that, but some enemies are completely immune to bleed status, meaning you're left with raw physical dmg output with your katana. Plus the same enemy can have various health pools and resistance multipliers depending on the area they are in (ie, early game area like Caelid vs later game area like Haligtree). Malenia is your typical Ninja Gaiden boss and the fight reminded me of Alma (NG1) and Elizabeth (NG2) boss battles. So if you play those games a lot Malenia would pretty easy/familiar. The hardest boss was the platforming section leading to Three Fingers and the Frenzied Flame ending.

[@justinbraggs4058]

I 💯 percent agree with this personal testimony because man this was my first souls game and it opened up the Pandora’s box to souls and soul like games… lords of the fallen which was amazing and even lies of p…. I don’t think I would ever get tired of this style of game as long as they keep the stories so amazing tbh

[@aggymatt]

Elden ring was my first souls game as well and it’s safe to say I am healthily obsessed with it. THEN I went to bloodbourne next and I fell in love all over again. It gave me that same feeling when I walked intonlimgrave for the first time

[@SimplyStave]

I’ve had an almost identical experience. I went from never playing a FromSoft game, then started playing this with friends using the co-op mod, then ended up dumping about 100 hours in the game in the span of a few weeks. I agree with you on every point you made here, ESPECIALLY the bit about parkour being a nightmare. I kid you not, I spent more hours of my life trying to jump down to the three-fingers than I did fighting any of the main bosses 😤

[@j.r.b7661]

Great video! So interesting how everyone’s experience with the bosses is different. I beat Maliketh in like 4 tries, but it took me like 50 to kill malenia lol

[@bearsmisfits444]

yeah oddly Renalla and Maliketh was the hardest for me and i was a melee user.

[@felixmeyer899]

I’m glad you had fun man that first play through on good games is always great

[@namo2403]

watching non-soulsborne players first entry being elden ring is always great soulslike games are miyazaki giving you a bunch of chili for you to eat but elden ring = miyazaki giving a plate of chili with varying levels of spice(build options with varying difficulty) while telling you that you can eat those at your own pace(tempo/pace of open world exploring) you get to choose your own spice level depending on what you want as well as how chili you want to consume in one setting boss is difficult? well you could change your build or you could fight the boss later when you're at a higher level and have better equipment, perhaps you could use spirit summons to help draw aggro or you could bash your head into malenia for hours till you get a good run if you wanted to, fromsoft gives you tools to choose your own adventure lowering the level of entry while keeping the same level of difficulty is the best thing fromsoft has done to their game which resulted in it being less intimidating to a non-soulslike player

[@meebo8014]

5:37 theres a huge underground cave system under that part of the map, which is why it’s so large

[@bigppyuh8063]

i cant believe its been 2 years since elden ring released holy shit

[@chuexsy672]

As someone who gave up on DS1 and then years later loved Elden Ring and came back to finish DS1, I love the game. Elden Rings entire fundamentals were genius, and the ambiguity in its story telling made the game even more interesting.

[@Supaawesomeification]

I think something that’s really cool about these games is how everyone struggles on a different boss. Sure the majority hate Melania, and I am in that category admittedly, but I also breezed through Maliketh. Maliketh and Placi were actually my favorite fights by far in my no summons run. It’s just kinda cool to see who people hate to fight the most

[@Shantri]

We had very similar experiences - First souls game, malekith my worst enemy, game felt awesome, and truly appreciated the game and other souls after, when I actually got good.

[@daringutknecht7463]

The respect for Alexander is amazing

[@ispyviidz8069]

I played it for the first time bout a month ago having game shared from my nephew. I now get it. It's one of the most fun experiences i've ever had in gaming.

[@daviddesalvo623]

My fav soulslike games are Dark Souls 1, and Demons Souls. The reason for Dark Souls 1, is because the map is REALLY satisfying to figure out and put together, and there are these magic moments where you find shortcuts and can get around the map really quickly. It's like if metroidvanias were 3d, and good. Demons Souls is because it DOESNT have an open map, you can select whatever area you want to go to, and so it gives you that agency to back off and try something else that you get in elden ring. Also the maps are pretty expansive in demons souls, despite it being like a level selection type system, so it still feels open world, especially in the lava area. Oh yea, and the lore behind the bosses in Demons Souls will tear your heart out, big fan of that.

[@FlyingFox86]

Regarding cutscenes, Souls games never have many of those. But what I found strange in Elden Ring is the cutscene at game start. They were just slides of artwork with a voiceover, while the trailers had amazing real cutscenes. It doesn't really detract from the game for me, but I find it an odd choice.

[@landocity7]

Great video! If you loved the music you should absolutely play DS3. I’m a veteran of the series and have played all of the FromSoftware games and I can say that the score is DS3 is by far my favorite. I honestly thought the music in Elden Ring was a little underwhelming compared to it.

[@victorrychkov2839]

I've never played any souls-like games. Kinda scared and excited at the same time to give it a try. Your video gives me hope it's doable, although it'll be a pain in the ass.

[@Java_94]

Man up and play

[@The69Oskar69]

As a non soulslike player as well (the only soulslike I beat was Stranger Paradise but you have difficulty settings there so idk if that even counts), Elden Ring is one of the best games I have ever played. The design of basically EVERYTHING is so damn good I cannot stop playing. I picked up this game 10 days ago and play about 6h every single day.

[@Taubogason.40]

I love how similiar our first time playing a game like this experiences are so far (except for the fact you started with your friends). I picked Samurai cuz Katana+Bow sounded nice and parry is not in my skills at all. What I love about games like this (or RDR2, God of War 2018/Ragnarök,...): you can have so much fun doing nothing (for story or progress) at all. Already thinking of playing all the other masterpieces by FromSoftware (if I got time for that, would love to try other games too ofc)

[@Java_94]

Do ds3 bro

[@penngwinn]

Elden Ring was my first Souls game. It's now easily my favorite game. I've played through it about a dozen times now. Still trying to get good. It's so fun.

[@keeganoakes262]

Thank you!! I fully agree Malikth is way harder than Rot Mommy

[@platinum_vault]

Elden Ring was my last FromSoftware game, but I could feel the magic you described. The first FromSoftware game is always the hardest, but also the most memorable. Enjoy the open door. Behind it lies a world of great games, with great settings, great world design and great bosses (or great feelings after you beat those bosses).

[@Cbrunning849]

By far my favorite game of all time

[@joels5150]

According to my research, the point of the game is not to ‘try and get better’, it is to ‘try finger but hole’ 🤷‍♀️

[@azuolasaniulis8570]

Also to “try rump”

[@Recedinghairline180]

The best part about the game design is how they dont force the story and lore down your throat like every other game. No map markers or questline objectives..its up to you to find the lore. Read notes you find, item descriptions, talk to NPC's. This is also my fist FS game and man, what a ride. This is a work of art. Something that is missing in modern gaming.

[@Soulute367]

Shadow of the Erdtree hype

[@CITYZEN50]

3 and a half more months bro😭

[@Soulute367]

@@CITYZEN50 yes June cannot come fast enough

[@zachariusfrost337]

Great video, I love seeing new people get in to fromsoft games.

[@Astrophobia88]

Maliketh is literal DEATH!!!!! He should be an absolute beast to fight. I struggled with Maliketh and Godfrey the most like.

[@rily2885]

elden ring was made thinking more on players outside the fanbase than previous games don't feel bad or out of place for not being a veteran fan, that was part of the point for elden ring, but feel welcome to try the rest, just have in mind the older games are great too but they have some serious rough edges or have a more centralized mechanic of game loop than elden ring making it potentially more frustrating or difficult, there are many options and paths to take but nothing as crazy as elden ring

[@biko6158]

The only souls game I played a little before Elden Ring was Sekiro. I got humbled and thought these just weren't my cup of tea. I got Elden Ring when it dropped, the hype got to me. And I don't regret it at all. I dropped it for many months, and picked it back up recently. It inspired me to get Sekiro again and actually beat it

[@vincentlorusso689]

As a person who was also new to the genre and loved this game, I appreciate another player not being affected by the old-school community. I love and respect lots of veteran FromSoft fans but lots of hardcores can be frustrating.

[@xRoeJogan]

Never played FromSoft. Bought it a couple months ago. Have 100+ hours in. Love it!

[@RealNefastus]

It's really cool and feels great to see a non-Fromsoft fan figure out why us fans love the games We love. Don't let anyone tell you how to play the game. But I gotta correct you on one thing. Boc is the best character. Alexander is the second one.

[@robertpawlowski4548]

Eyy, glad I’m not alone. I started with DS2, then Elden Ring and done the other 2 after that. Edit: you were banished longggg before the shattering broke out bro.

[@AlexanderLupo]

Started playing 2 weeks ago as well, never touched a souls game ever. I always thought they would be too difficult and I wouldnt like them. Well I’m on new game+ 1 now and its incredible. What an amazing game.

[@franknberries7639]

Bro the meme with the guy throwing the shield in the trash had me DYING LOL. God, thank you hahah

[@thomasdevlin5825]

I think this is hands down the best game to get into the soulsborne genera, I went into elden ring as someone that had only ever watched a playthrough of DS3 several years ago and now I'm on my second playthrough of the dark souls trilogy

[@nazmo_za9654]

shoutout to the best weapons. iron balls! glad you enjoyed it

[@mh_golfer]

Elden Ring was my first souls game and I loved every minute of it. I played Sekiro afterward and have to say it is almost as good just in a different way with the focus being on parry instead of rolling.

[@blegoin2662]

You should absolutely try Sekiro next. It focuses on the opposite spectrum of the Souls experience and is like a more compacted version of ER.

[@goukhanakul]

I haven’t ever played a soulbourne game before but I was hooked from the first step

[@dandymatt]

I've never played a souls game before either, and Elden Ring has become 1 of my favorite games ever too. There's just something magical about that first playthrough experience.

[@killerteddybear7]

Hey man, great video and a very warm welcome to the souls community. I'd just like to put my two cents in, even though you probably won't see this comment seeing as how you're getting bombarded with them (most of which seem deservedly positive). Firstly, you didn't cheese the game in any way. The game gives you thousands of different options on how to approach any given boss or combat scenario and just because you decided to advertently or inadvertently use some strong things in your playthrough, that doesn't mean your experience was lessened in any way. Hell, you even admit to still having problems with Maliketh despite your "cheese" strats, showing that even the strongest items in this game can still lead to incredibly challenging fights that you just haven't mastered yet and probably won't for hundreds more hours. Anyone telling you otherwise is just a sweaty tryhard who can't get over their shallow views of how these games are "meant to be played". Secondly, while I would agree that nothing beats the first playthrough when it comes to the exploration side of this game, I have unironically found myself having the most fun in this game on many subsequent playthroughs. Purely because of the fact that the skill ceiling of it is so astronomically high. Ignoring how many boss attack wind ups and attacks you can safely attack and heal inbetween, it wasn't even until 200+ hours in the game that I stopped thinking late game enemies (especially Maliketh, I hated that dude for a while like you, now I love the boss) dealt too much damage to me. That's when I really started to delve into support incantations, consumables, ashes of war, managing Talismans for certain fights and carrying side weapons. The game does everything in its power to give you as many possible ways to dictate your own difficulty and once you understand that, you'll see yourself going for playthroughs using "underpowered" weapons and experimenting way more, which will probably lead to you loving many aspects of the game even more and finding dozens of playstyles that suit you. And thirdly, parkour is as easy as it has ever been in these games... And you're right it still fucking sucks from time to time lol. P.S. Once you get good enough at the fight, IMO Malenia unironically becomes the best fight in the game, whether you fully dodge, block or outspace Waterfowl Dance or take the like two or three necessary hits when just light rolling it (that's what I do). Every other attack is dodgable with medium rolls. You can literally even beat the boss while never dodging, just having a 100% block shield in front of you, have her heal with every attack and you just poke her from behind the shield and outdamage her healing and still win.

[@lucasmorgan4379]

One of the most relatable thing you said in this video is that parkour sucks in elden ring...just remember all souls games before elden ring didnt have a legit jump button, and they still had parkour areas smh gravity in a souls game is the real end boss 😂 Side note loved the video really well put together

[@ETBrooD]

I hope Fromsoft continues to add parkour sections. They're super helpful for practicing the controls so you become a much better player as a result.

[@chargedbowl]

Its funny that hardest bosses for me was Astel (the centipede rani questline boss and the elden beast. Honestly melania was pretty easy to dodge even the water fowl dance.

[@abyss1138]

I think what really pulled me into this game was the fact that if you get stuck on something there is ALWAYS something else to go do. You can always come back later when you’re stronger. Made it a lot less frustrating than other fromsoft games.

[@Entertainment-ev6ob]

If you do rannis ending and then go to a site of grace in her manor I believe she gives you additional dialogue which was cool

[@ama9385-w2g]

The waterfowl doesn't even require anything complex you can roll through the first bit normally with a very good timed roll or just a decent one and you take 1 maybe 2 hits, or the other option of running away. Most people just panicked during it and got hit by absolutely every part of the move and then called it bad

[@TylerByler]

I know it’s not even that difficult but I still fumble most of the time I try dodging it lmao. Skill issue I guess

[@blegoin2662]

If you dodge back immediately when her feet lift off the ground then start running away you don’t even get hit. This works with medium roll. She does almost catch up to you though so you have to jump.

[@domin8tion651]

The thing is it’s so unclear on how to dodge it the move is bad game design

[@ama9385-w2g]

It doesn't require anything fancy though, either do an extremely well timed roll forward like any other attack or run away the second it starts, again like any other big attack. It just demands a lot more precision from the player@@domin8tion651

[@C_O_N_C_E_P_T]

Is that light roll? Because medium roll is an entirely different animal. Everyone light rolls because it makes things much easier.

[@jei3970]

Play however you want. Its part of the game. I highly recommend that you go and play there games before. Start with DS3, BB and Sekiro. Sooo worth it!

[@MaxHaydenChiz]

I'm a long time fan of Fromsoft. So it's interesting to see what someone with a new perspective has to say. Welcome to the fandom! I think their best games are the smaller ones with more crafted experiences. For me that's Sekiro and Armored Core 6. (Though half of youtube and all of Twitch will yell Bloodborne at you non-stop.) But all of their modern games are great. Even the ones the community likes to dunk on are better than 95% of the games out there. In terms of *non-From* games, Hollow Knight took a lot of inspiration from Fromsoft's design ethos, and while it's a different genre of game, people who like Elden Ring almost always like Hollow Knight. If you specifically want more Souls-style combat, I really liked Lies of P. For me it felt like a game made for series veterans by series veterans, but I've seen a lot of people who started with Elden Ring say they enjoyed it. That said, it's very linear in terms of progression and has a high skill ceiling. So, you'll have to judge for yourself if the game is for you. Still, once that game clicked for me, it clicked hard and I blew through the last 3rd of the game feeling like a god. Wonderful experience. It's hard for real though. Souls feels harder than it is. Lies of P is actually that hard. I personally liked Nioh 2 (Nioh 1 was deeply flawed), but people have pretty mixed opinions on that. Haven't played the new Lords of the Fallen or Remnant 2 so can't comment.

[@leanderwassilikos830]

5:39 it's called mountaintop of the giants, so the map shows the whole mountain

[@Whoevrr]

I think its great that you loved the game and interacted with the world in the way you wanted.

[@lonelySires]

wel~commmh to OUR famii~ly, TOGETHAAAAAA!

[@leoncca]

It's interesting you took 15-20 tries on Malenia with a summon and I took 4-5h alone, split aggro is huge. Tbf a buddy took four whole days with summons and doubling her recommended level. But I honestly wish playing with summons or coop had better scaling 'cause playing with pals is a lot of fun. There's mods for it, sure, I just wish the team's idea of making the game easier would be different. And THANK YOU, that bit about the level scaling, it actually made the experience quite a lot worse for me, for example, I killed Radahn my first try just because I explored too muh and robbed me of having a hyped up fight :( . But, overall, regardless of the flaws here and there, the game's amazing.

[@AegisKHAOS]

I don't have any real issue with the scaling. The difficulty spike in the late game was a massive shock for me when I went to Farum Azula and the Haligtree. I understand WHY the spike, but it still felt overwhelming the first time. That said, never played a Souls game till Elden Ring, and I have no regrets buying it. I actually played it as soon as I got it despite some hesitation to dying alot simply because, at that point, I was ready for a change of pace. Platinumed the game and sank ALOT of hours into it ever since.

[@TylerByler]

It’s not really that , I understand some areas being harder but sometimes I’ll go into a cave or something in an easy area and get WIPED

[@Ghorda9]

@@TylerByler patrolling tough enemies is a sign for you to sneak past them.

[@AstralLaVista]

Maleketh is my favourite boss, I did the RoB build on my first play through, I've replayed it on unga bunga and the game was far more interesting without a cheese build

[@StarlordCoffee5]

Same story for me, only after two runs I started speedrunning, I expect a sub 4 hour glitchless summonless run within 3 weeks

[@MrJueKa]

for me, one of the best first impression videos about Elden Ring

[@AMVSD]

i took like 50 trys on Melania but 2 shotted Maliketh with the Greatsword. For me she was the hardest by far.

[@Handholdy]

Same here. Never blinied twice at fromsoft before. But elden ring is my fav game ever kinda. Crazy!