Elden Ring Nightreign is INSANE and here's why

[@fromsoftserve]

thank you for once again being my therapist so I can yap about something lol. This is all that I've found out about Nightreign so far, and my theories for where it's going. Plus, just flat out admiring how this game seems SO souls modding coded. I love it.

[@saisame7975]

Imagine Aged Smelter Demon, Fume Knight , and Burned Ivory King adjusted to Elden Ring speeds, I would love that.

[@saisame7975]

I fully agree with you on mods inspired, because year ago I watched Lobos playing with his subs Seemless Co-Op as a group and it felt like a raid against a boss, Carian combo Warriors changed movement and fightstyles, Convergence that overhauls and changes magic. Creator of this game is Froms game director that created level and combat design of souls games, Bloodborne and Elden Ring not only that but he asked Miyazaki himself and he approved so I dont worry about the game but it's get annoying for people who complain and Network test is in February too.

[@Graysett]

I can't wait for this to get its assets ripped for modding baseline ER. One of my biggest complaints when ER first came out was that it didn't rip out ENOUGH from the older games to help fill out its world. Never in my life did I think we'd get updated versions of the enemies in bosses in older games just transplanted into ER officially.

[@kylenader7276]

Dude if they bring back the branders... thats crazy they're bringing back the mimics gonna be scary af

[@zkila]

@@Graysett heavy on this, the modders won't even have to rip nameless from ds3 as they can just rip the updated version from nightreign, shit is gonna be even more exciting man

[@danbardloom]

I can't wait for an Armored Core to pop up in the middle of a duel.

[@MrToothpicks]

There will be a cutscene of Patches obliterating The Hunter using his mech, No Count

[@void5959]

@@MrToothpicks Or he will pussy out like always XD

[@danbardloom]

@@MrToothpicks Handler Walter: "Umbasa"

[@e.v4892]

inb4 nine novem starts playing

[@Kinojutsu]

I would pass out 😂

[@athum2198]

FROMSOFTWARE BRING ME BED OF CHAOS IN ELDEN RING AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

[@literalbunkey2434]

BEHOLD, PINWHEEL 2

[@Graysett]

BoC as a randomly spawned environmental hazard. The sick Soul of Cinder + Gael duo fight. Kalameet + Sinh + Midir trio boss. The sky is the limit. If they bring in Sekiro enemies/bosses too, oh baby.

[@randychristensen1028]

If they do bring Bed of Chaos back at least this time around we can jump over the hands 👍

[@athum2198]

@@Graysett damn the dragon trio would be sick

[@XDarkGreyX]

​@@literalbunkey2434 u need to be a boss in a burning poison swamp

[@raehik]

one thing that stood out to me in the criticism: people were complaining about the trailer's quality. I couldn't understand what they meant. The whole trailer appears in-engine, and focuses a lot on the gameplay and design twists. for me that instantly made it better than most of the trailers shown. That and leaving the camera on Nameless King for five whole seconds-- From knows their playerbase :D

[@BUKUDI]

I didn't complain but its easy to understand why some would. You may not have liked them, but the Elden Ring full trailer & Shadow of the Erdtree full trailer are the most epic, best f*****g game trailers ever made. So naturally people will expect that level when they click

[@XDarkGreyX]

Closing in on a decade and I still only get the hype around the NK in part... what is the deal with him. Hahlp

[@SNESpool]

​@@XDarkGreyX I mean, at the time, he was a really impressive, cinematic boss fight (not to mention extremely challenging, unless you're way over-levelled). In the time since, that level of challenge and cinematic bombast has become the standard for Fromsoft boss fights, but at the time, it was pretty wild to suddenly find yourself in the eye of a hurricane, with no solid ground beneath you, and realize that a wild-haired anime reimagining of Zeus is barreling toward you, hurling lighting bolts and surfing around on the back of a storm wyvern. That shit was crazy.

[@NotoriousICG]

these yapping sessions are the best fromsoftserve content the game looks pretty exciting, glad they’re making a game where they can go crazy without heavy lore consequences

[@n8doggy733]

Lady Maria look-a-like too

[@Pendragon-mz8oh]

legally distinct Lady Maria 🙃

[@XDarkGreyX]

Her vibe can easily be recreated. Even without similar wpns, or the blood, or the flames. Lesssgoooo

[@Noizzed]

Leda × Maria

[@chaoticstarfish3401]

@@Pendragon-mz8oh Madam Mary

[@Philosophicalblackman]

​@@chaoticstarfish3401💀

[@AlphaOmega-jh6ll]

The moment demon of hatred shows up I’m gonna pass out

[@MapleFried]

Demon Prince fight with Elden Ring's added mechanics? Fucking sign me up

[@RandobobandoTV]

This is the furthest thing from slop Everyone was begging for Boss Rush modes and co-op modes So fuck it, throw all the bosses we can and make it a co-op boss raid game It'll be fun as hell and a overall great idea Will it win GOTY? No Will it be a good time? Hell yeah

[@xx_amongus_xx6987]

People also beg for slop, nothing new here. Do you know what slop even is? Because this perfectly fits the definition

[@RandobobandoTV]

@xx_amongus_xx6987 if it were slop fromsoft would have just had a cheap chinese company slap together a gacha mobile game for dirt cheap. The fact that this is "in house" and directed by someone who's been combat director for Bloodborne and has worked on every Souls game since DS1 tells me it will be great.

[@xx_amongus_xx6987]

@@RandobobandoTV You don't know what slop really is. Slop is overdone and unoriginal content that people do to capitalize on a current drama/trend. It's obvious that this new game is filled with reused content without meaning simply so Fromsoft can profit off of Elden Ring's success and the battle royal trend. This is literally slop, it barely has any new content and there is 0 story since it isn't cannon. And this game will be slapped together for dirt cheap since all the work/content has been done for years now. Do you even read your own words? What about this new game is quality and new? The gameplay is the only thing new here.

[@ryanhorton9594]

I hope they're not afraid to just embrace all of fromsoft and use plenty of bosses from the previous games

[@Chris-sm2uj]

This is the very definition of slop. If something like this was made from another company you would riot

[@mizery3885]

I like that they now have the budget and team size to make weird experimental shit like this. My theory is that this is their way of getting their new hires acquainted with their proprietary engine, since we know that they upsized after the success of Elden Ring.

[@cameronfathers]

Imagine an updated Artorias fight but because it's 3 player Sif also fights by his side this time to balance it. There's so many possibilities to update and remix old fights. FromSoftware don't do slop and there's no reason to consider they'd start now. This has Miyazaki's blessing so I wouldn't be too concerned, this feels like a love letter to their catalogue as opposed to a souless (pun intended) cash grab.

[@TheUltimateMachineGod]

Who knows i wouldnt be too suprised if some of the bosses got revamped. Obviously Centipede demon needs to have new AI to compansate for the high mobility comeing form 3 dudes at once. Maybe fromsoft will fix the singlemindedness of the AI in some way. Who knows.

[@theknightofembers1267]

Artorias mounting Sif , once we killed the pup, Artorias using his LEFT ARM...

[@izimbra6735]

I think the people calling it fanservicey would have less of an issue if it didn't have Elden Ring in the title. Makes it sound like they're making all the crossover stuff canon. But after the dev interview it's clear that this game is less "Elden Ring story expansion" and more "Fromsoft Smash Bros" where they conceived a silly non-canon story justification to have a bunch of cool fan favorite characters and ideas in one place. I dig it.

[@bennycaustic5102]

Yeah, but a lot of filthy casuals hopped on with Elden Ring. So the ER title will just help it sell. If they called it Dark Souls, or a unique name, they're just hurting their sales for no reason.

[@xx_amongus_xx6987]

@@bennycaustic5102 But Fromsoft doesn't need to stoop to such low standards. The fact that they did feels wrong

[@XDarkGreyX]

Gotta ride the mainstream awareness wave

[@normanbestboi9117]

Low standards? No, miyazaki gave one of his lowers the green light for this. Its about giving others in his company a chance to show their ideas and take risk that bring forth new ideas. That is the beauty of this experiment. ​@@xx_amongus_xx6987

[@KABLAMMATS]

​@@xx_amongus_xx6987 the whole trailer already feels wrong, its not bad, but its like a mod trailer for the Elden Ring 😂

[@zach8594]

what's really interesting to me is that even though this is supposed to be limgrave, the erdtree is nowhere to be found anywhere in the trailer. the only place where you can see it is at the end, you can see a glimpse of it in the background when they open the door to the night lord

[@NANIKANSEIDORIFTO]

The PCGamer video said that sometimes bosses will "invade" you during the day loot session. I think the example used was Margit. If thats the case, Pursuer would be a perfect candidate for that. From the trailer i knew Ds2 was in because they show a spider that has the same animations as the DS2 spiders. They said it's not gonna be a live service game (thank god) so i hope they make it as content rich as possible in terms of bosses/areas/modifiers and then maybe if the game sells we might get an expansion. From what was said it probably wont be full price and it makes sense since its a more of a new take on Elden Ring so there's a lot of new stuff but also a lot of reused stuff. In that way, if time comes to make some sort of expansion with more bosses, etc it shouldn't require too many resources (in comparison to a full fledged new game) to be financially viable (same ofc for the base game)

[@GoldScale57]

Might actually be insane if Pursuer were an ally in some way in the narrative. He was the first "where we droppin boys" considering he would also drop in from a bird.

[@cavaleiroe]

​@@GoldScale57 I was also thinking about the possibility of having bosses as friendly NPCs. This night lord seems to have dragged these enemies by force into this reality, perhaps to fight for him.

[@ThreePuttMas]

If it’s a random map every run and different bosses each time, the longevity of this game is going to be insane.

[@KABLAMMATS]

Imagine you open the door into the freaking blight town map and then it sucks up all your fos 😂

[@indiedreamsmedia2235]

Not from software dropping one of the biggest surprises last night

[@TheKniteOwl2686]

This might be a good way for them to satisfy the corpos who just see dollar signs while Miyazaki can be free to do other projects he wants to do.

[@LZ02-OVERTURE]

This game was actually the personal idea of the Souls series combat/level designer. Miyazaki asked him if he wanted to make a new game and he proposed that idea. FromSoftware are their own publisher and publush their own games in Japan so there's no Bandai to go through. Different non-Miyazaki games doesnt mean its for corpos. Is Armored Core 6 for corpos for you? Source: New interview with Nightreign director Junya Ishizaki.

[@XDarkGreyX]

Yeah. If the people who rule over the projects a.k.a direct them are fine with spinoffs and do an okay job, this might really be a solid strategy for them and us.

[@XDarkGreyX]

​@@LZ02-OVERTURE chill. It may not be black nor white, but the corps should be able to appreciate this spinoff nonetheless

[@KABLAMMATS]

How do you feed your family if you're a game developer? Besides the real question is, if its good?

[@TheFaqvideos]

@@LZ02-OVERTURE Well pardon me for thinking the cash-grab, lazy-looking glorified DLC full of reused assets looks like something that would appeal to the corpos, you guys need to chill out with the fanboyism.

[@opossumoutlaw7534]

Honestly, I do understand the dissapointment some are feeling just due to how it is a departure from the souls formula while also resusing assets, but i feel like for those reasons im actually quite exited. I think it shows that fromsoft is definitetly willing to experiment with novel concepts, and building on top of a well established base of assets is the perfect way to do that in my opinion. For whats looking to be a 40 dollar combat focused experience, i think this could be good fun if they handle this correctly.

[@zblurth]

It feel like they seen the randomizer and seamless coop and wanted to improve on it It fix the coop obviously but the problem of challenge run is often the prep time and that would fix it Also it feel like they add fun with the idea and making a less serious project, probably used to on-board some news team member

[@MapleFried]

Smash Bros is technically fanservice slop, but you don't see people calling it that due to the amount of care put into it. This game's director was involved with designing combat for Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3, and Elden Ring and wanted to add the older bosses for gameplay purposes. This doesn't even come close to looking like a corporate cashgrab and moreso a dev's love for the games they've worked on coming full circle afyer getting the green light from the Big M himself. I am so excited to go through FromSoft's Greatest Hits and see who they brought back for us to fight.

[@TheUltimateMachineGod]

Now if only we can get Sony to release it's deathgrips so we can have some Bloodborne and Demon souls enemies. Obviously all reused enemies are likely different to compensate for the new movement options for the players and the co-op stuff. But hey a man can dream of an Everybody is here situation.

[@Tolistan]

5:45 this door reminds me of the door from the ds2 ending SOO MUCH

[@mzed561]

it looks uncannily similar to the concept art for Throne of Want

[@satel2650]

Also sekiro gameplay elements its crazy plus ballesta like steakdriver its crazy too

[@tfranklin]

I was up until 3:30AM watching trailer reaction videos. After so many Game Awards where the community watched and waited for any FS news and got nothing, to have this drop and be a surprise is such a gift. I kept crying over how excited people were and the brilliant way the trailer slowly reveals itself and then overwhelms you with one crazy mash-up after another. Every video I watched, people were yelling, "WHAT IS GOING ON? WHAT IS HAPPENING??" Then the frickin Nameless King shows up and everyone screams. I don't even care that much if the game is good; I just love that Fromsoft is taking the shot. They often sacrifice gameplay for the sake of lore, so seeing them blow up lore for the sake of gameplay is exciting!

[@OnionKnightoc]

I love “how nameless king”, “wtf”, and “why are you here” are usually the words that are strung together in people’s reactions 😂

[@XDarkGreyX]

I never watched the awards ever. I randomly woke up at 3 and after a piss I tought I was having the weirdest dream ever when I found that in my feed. I was alienated too much by it however

[@Practicallypreposterous]

The "firekeeper" is definitely inspired by DS3, but it's essentially a recolor of Melina (which you can see particilarly well on the steam page)

[@XDarkGreyX]

I love the ds3 FK but I also took the char for a Melina reskin till now. I don't like rewatching trailers or pondering over them to much anymore. I'm okay with a hybrid approach tho. Melina is amicable enough imo.

[@RandobobandoTV]

Dude if the firekeeper can come back, Solaire and Seigward can come back They could just chill are Roundtable hold

[@Sigh_chedelic]

Perhaps playable Solaire? They did say that the playable characters would have their own storylines.

[@RandobobandoTV]

@Sigh_chedelic the best way they could do this is that each class is a character that is from or represents an older game but in generic Elden Ring outfits, and as you progress the new outfits progressively reveal who the character really is, the final outfit from beating the final boss giving you the full outfit.

[@Pe37777]

If it’s only dark souls bosses returning that basically confirms to me that dark souls is a prequel to elden ring and elden ring is the painted world. They don’t have to tell us but it’s pretty obvious that this is the case. I think fromsoft is just scared if they say it people will get mad in the lore community.

[@RampidWarthogStudios]

I'm so hyped for this game. I think it's just an excuse for a boss rush mode. And how you mentioned Cut content. I really hope O&S and Artorias make it in.

[@ksw8514]

21:26 If this was a normal From Software single player game, I would very much give a shit! Coherent lore and atmosphere are important to me. But in this context I think it's okay. The director pretty much confirmed that none of this is canon and they just decided to reuse assets so they could focus all their attention on the gameplay. I just hope they didn't copy the netcode from Elden Ring. That mess urgently needs an overhaul.

[@natkarmios]

They supposedly hired on the guy that made the seamless co-op mod, so hopefully some netcode improvements there :-)

[@ksw8514]

@natkarmios That's great to hear!

[@KW-ri6yu]

​​@@natkarmios I have found no evidence for this to be true, where does it come from?

[@codymiller4119]

Although we all want another open world Elden ring 2 deeper dive into the lore. We just had the DLC and now probably pretty soon we're going to get this next game maybe by June or July so we are eating good I'm happy to get my hands on anything firm soft that's in the fantasy area

[@are3287]

Honestly I dont want another open world elden ring 2

[@codymiller4119]

@are3287 I've heard some people say that but I think you're in the minority That's why so many people bought it maybe not the veterans but the new people that came into the souls games bought this because it was an open world

[@Kakuruma]

Your yap session helped me feel much better about Nightreign. I'm still a little conflicted about it but I'm kinda hyped for it now. Love your content.

[@XDarkGreyX]

Yeah, same. It's just alienating. And without knowing why the decisions were made internally, I was quick to rant about riding the mainstream popularity wave for some money.

[@Krow2842]

We the nameless king in storm hill I think, and he is called the king of the storm. His lore could be related to stormveil and the stormhawks.

[@GutsNT]

Bloodborne is in this too, the Stake Driver weapon, in the same scene as the Centipede Demon. What else they could bring from BB?

[@zonk834]

I was thinking it reminded me of the flame vent from Sekiro but that works too!

[@GutsNT]

@zonk834 I can see where you're coming from, but I used the Stake Driver too much to say with a good amount of confidence that that is the same animation. And the weapon in the trailer also has a stake that extends.

[@SKOGLO]

I heard that one of the characters were going to be more agility based and have different dodges that sounded like bb dodges.

[@iHaveTheDocuments]

We need trick weapons

[@saisame7975]

I feel you, the stance when he uses that weapon reminds me of stake driver. And it's touching to see that From devs actually look into what community is doing.

[@inimicalintent8825]

"Fan service slop" tbh can be pretty tasty when done right. Elden Ring is pretty ripe for that kind of slop though as seen by the modding community.

[@reimulade]

A modern interpretation of fume-knight is all i ask for🙏🙏

[@TheCongressman1]

Very excited about this, I love that they're experimenting and not just iterating on the same gameplay. Only concerned about the small amount of player classes, I hope that the equipment and upgrades can bring enough replayability and customization.

[@pockystyx4087]

seeing dks2 enemies again like this was interesting lol

[@LordDenning_]

From have found a way test out and iterate new ideas faster than the usual major release cycle. They want to experiment with seamless coop multiplayer so they build a smaller game around it and see how it goes. Win win for everyone!

[@weebster6969]

What’s up bro love your content !

[@sherlockscones]

Ive always dreamed of something like the chalice dungeons returning they were my favorite thing ever, a roguelike-esque experience with more focused polished combat tailor made to specific classes that offer unique playstyles. It was always just a dream so never in my life did i think we would actually get EXACTLY that, WITH A COOP FOCUS AND RETURNING BOSSES FROM OLDER TITLES?!?!?!? Dawg I have never been happier this is genuinely more exciting to me than a new original ip purely because of the fact roguelikes are my favorite genre.

[@athum2198]

14:25 this area reminds me of Nokron and Nokstella, but they aren't underground... this game is probably not canon at all but maybe it's happening before the base Elden Ring? btw, if i'm not mistaken, the director is not Miyazaki, it's Junya Ishizaki, he worked at other souls and bb, read it in an IGN interview

[@TriforceWisdom64]

My first thought was the Nameless Eternal City, still above ground within Leyndell. But the director said in the IGN interview that the whole game takes place in a version of Limgrave where the entrances to different dungeons will appear.

[@athum2198]

@@TriforceWisdom64 Yeah, I wish we got more than Limgrave, but hey, they said the DLC would be the size of "Limgrave", but it wasn't. And that rot swamp thing, the large desert with that wolf fight, and that white gate/door (5:42) don't seem to be on Limgrave. maybe Limgrave+Caelid? Weeping Peninsula? anyway, it's hard to guess with what we have now, we just got to wait

[@Chris-sm2uj]

Its non canon Miyazaki confirmed it.

[@sarielxii]

I liked that it reminded me of the "fake-lore" days before the game released, some of those more fantastical elements. (Witch Hero main btw)

[@WarrenValion]

I think Storm King from Demon's Souls with the flying mechanics might be cool.

[@Sir_Low]

We saw a lot of re-used assets even in Elden Ring, and this is going to be a playground of it. I'm hoping this means that the next big game will be moreso from scratch. This could be the team's way of shipping all their favorite leftovers before baking something fresh.

[@cliffallica]

Honestly, I'm down for this as long as there is no forced PvP/online element. As a souls veteran, I always preferred to play these games offline to avoid the toxic invasions, the messaging system, bloodstains, ect but that's just me. If I could wrangle some friends to play this, I don't want to have to deal with any of that but if not, I'll be dropping in solo. In any case, I'm very excited to see what they do with this idea. Also, great vid. I enjoyed hearing your thoughts about this and thank you for not being a instant hater like the rest of the internet.

[@NA-ke9sl]

They've confirmed there is both a single-player mode and no PvP, it is primarily a 3-player co-op title.

[@Messmer-The-Impaler-n8i]

They suggest a 3 player coop, but solo is possible. Ofc bosses will be scaled down in solo play, but their movesets will remain the same. Also even in coop, there will be no PvP.

[@KABLAMMATS]

The messaging system and bloodstain are the best thing from online mode

[@Messmer-The-Impaler-n8i]

@KABLAMMATS sadly they cannot be in this game due to the environments being randomized.

[@cliffallica]

@@KABLAMMATS I understand why people like it but it ruins the vibe of being completely alone and isolated for be. I'm just weird like that.

[@lillightstruck5378]

ill wait another 5 years for dark souls 4. i hope they make a compact game

[@skrymebruh1401]

into the soulsverse

[@killerking2346]

This reminds me so much of Metal Gear Survive, and it's scaring me.

[@Tatertotsareamazing]

Margit be like: "Do not send me your flame of ambition!"

[@WarrenValion]

I think a small spinoff like this is really cool.

[@Janzkrieg]

2:49 Our boi casually zooms past that the first enemy reveal is the Dark Souls 2 spider mob!

[@Nosh_Feratu]

NightLord? . . . .40k crossover? huge if true!! 😉

[@bennycaustic5102]

I like what they did with the story. It's not just some random disconnected thing, it's a non-cannon alternate timeline. Apparently the events leading up to the shattering are identical between this game, and Elden Ring. So they share a lot of the same DNA and history. But in this timeline, the shattering clearly caused some real wacky stuff to happen.

[@whatsupdoc6358]

I would love to play the old bosses with normal elden ring combat. This will be fun but I would so love to have old bosses redone with normal combat. That would make me so happy

[@ayeeadam9]

Im praying they will have all the greatest bosses like gael, fume knight, artorias and so on.

[@killcount6534]

there’s a cut bloodborne boss being used, and I suspect the first location shown is a beta version of stormveil castle from the first leaks of Elden Ring. The whole “Nightreign” concept is from the cut Dark Souls 3 mechanic where the player would use the ritual sword and start a “battle royale” type of thing, which would change the time of day in-game to night

[@SpectraSkittle]

It's just Garden of Eyes, but corporate.

[@Sochi_Mochi]

This is deserving a “Baldachin’s Blessing” ⚔️

[@dp27thelight9]

My concern is level design, progression and the lore. The combat and bosses will probably be solid, but I'm concerned level design, exploration and lore could take a nose dive with this game.

[@theknightofembers1267]

i swear if the expand this, imagine dlc maps from merging landscapes , one map per individuality , each being from DS1-DS2-DS3-Sekiro-Kings field etc..

[@sgtfigg1]

I’m super excited for this it’s a refreshing way to experience soul difficulty with friends to just hop on and slay out with the peeps

[@scottishzombie]

I have a feeling when they said it would take place in the Limgrave area, they mean that overall biome as a backdrop for the majority of the outside play area. My hope is they include all the biomes and throw in some sort of procedural map randomization generator, but 1) I don't think we're there yet, and 2) this came out WAY too fast. If they do have map randomization, they'd have to limit it to one biome to have it work the best. I think most of the work went into switching from a fully open world to the 3-night rouge-like and all it's associated changes, as well as bringing in/upgrading all the old bosses to fight, as at it's heart, it's going to be a boss battler. And if they do bring a smorgasbord of all the previous games, that'll overshadow most of its initial shortcomings.

[@Noizzed]

"They looked at the modding community" There's gonna be some wild changes to our characters then, specially the female ones...

[@MorganEarlJones]

Fromsoftserve confirmed frequenter of r/shittydarksouls

[@thomasraymond7912]

Don't give me hope about Godwyn, I can't take the disappointment of not fighting him. On a separate note, this is obviously smaller, holding us off until the next big game, but it's also definitely testing things. Imagine another full on Soulsborne with full on coop, and with a randomness. Maybe the first playthrough would be standardized but each new game plus would be completely random to feel different other then just higher difficulty, maybe every playthrough random but with some things required for the story guaranteed to show up some place in your playthrough, even if not always the same place.

[@RandobobandoTV]

Pinwheel 2!

[@KKKuma]

The DS chest is in the DLC. Where the stone sword monument next to the Furnace Golems

[@praticle]

im so hype for this

[@core-nix1885]

I am buzzing at the thought of a remastered Kalameet

[@deka4038]

i really hope there will be more options for interaction between players than it was in other souls games. imagine spells like warmth or soothing sunlight ACTUALLY being USEFUL now. i always really loved these spells and it was so sad to see that there's barely any use for them. (me and my friends even tried to "roleplay" ds3 as "holy trinity" of dd, tank and support, as a support i used war banner and sunlight sword (it was very underwhelming)). i really do hope this part of coop will be explored. and given the "rogues" ability to double the damage of mates i have hopes for this. i would love to see more buffing options. just imagine...

[@lucabarbieri6943]

Really glad this is coming out. I always thought fromsoftware needed to do much more for Elden ring's open world mechanics than just repeating the old souls formula in a bigger scale. I Hope this now brings that good and diverse non repetitive open world flavor to the game!

[@les8947]

Imagine a run where you get the final boss of each game? Soul of cinder for ds. Moon presence for bloodborne. Isshin for sekiro 🤯🤯🤯

[@Zoombeanie132]

I'm actually really hyped for this, If they pull it off I feel like this will be tons of fun. My main concern is its replayability, I hope there's good incentives for multiple runs. I reccomend you check out the Famitsu interview, has good info the western sites didn't cover.

[@Zero-eq7mp]

I got so hyped when I seen nameless king so cool I recently bought ds3 nameless was my favorite fight

[@krauserduke1234]

I like this yap session. As information trickled out I stumbled between excited and concerned, but at this point I'm mostly excited. There's a great foundation here for an Elden Ring Roguelike(lite?) and with it not being sold at full MSRP and confirming no battle pass and MTX, I'm looking forward to it!

[@SNESpool]

Prediction: if the initial release is well-recieved, we're gonna get two or three DLC expansions over time, which will introduce new (old) characters/bosses and maybe even arenas/maps from previous games. I doubt that the Bed of Chaos will act as its own boss fight... But I can imagine it acting as a *sick* arena, in collaboration with another tree-themed boss. Can you imagine a souped-up Erdtree Avatar (or perhaps an Izalith Avatar? 🧐) acting in concert with the Bed of Chaos? Phase 1 would be the more traditional Asylum Demon-esque fight, with a few twists. (its golden buttslam attack will break away a few floor pieces each time it happens, in a way that makes the arena more tricky, but not as ridiculous as in DS1). This also gives players the incentive to finish off phase 1 as quickly as possible, to keep the arena from having too many death pits in Phase 2. ...but then in phase 2, it merges with the Bed of Chaos and starts attacking with its giant tree branch arms. Since we can free jump now, it'll be more feasible to dodge a wide swipe with a well-timed jump, making the fight quite a bit more reasonable than it used to be. Who knows, maybe it'll have a super attack that involves detaching its branches, and letting them morph into Ulcerated Tree Spirits briefly, to thrash around the arena as you try for a desperate sprint to leap the gap and make it to the Bed's heart. Instead of finding a Chaos Bug, you find that the Bed's heart (and the walls of the chamber around it) are being completely strangled and subsumed by deathroot. This game has the potential to be the stuff of both dreams, _and_ nightmares.

[@drinkwater3453]

couldn't stop thinking about the nameless king last night, so fucking surreal to me

[@andreaven2287]

I pray this is not the beggining of the cheap fromsoft franchise era... But i'm getting strong kingdom of hyrule side game vibe out of this.

[@KABLAMMATS]

Bro if this work, oh boy welcome to the fromslops era!

[@andreaven2287]

@@KABLAMMATS I guess brother, I guess !

[@SunbroPulover]

I am extremely excited. I LOVE when Fromsoft tries new ideas. LET THEM COOK!!

[@setsunaes]

While I like what I see, it also makes me remember Metal Gear Survive and that feels like shit.

[@atortarr]

That wasn't even made by Kojima. People need to relax. The director of this game is a veteran Souls developer who was personally selected by Miyazaki to be a director. It's gonna be ok. The people responsible for the Souls magic are making this.

[@XDarkGreyX]

I woke up at 2:99, looked at my feed after taking a piss and thought I was tripping when I saw the PS upload.... Though, as much as I am a fan, it didn't keep me up. It was too alienating for that. I'm not on board just yet.

[@AliKhan-xd2um]

Myazaki is not involved in this project so he s cooking something else

[@iHaveTheDocuments]

The way he's saying almost no bosses are off limits and they are coming in, that would be incredible

[@turkN9NE]

Time is convoluted in Lordran.

[@JKKoneofakind]

It's also amazing, the brand reputation that FromSoftware has developed over the last decade or so. Every reactor to this trailer has lost their minds when the FromSoftware logo dropped. It carries with it a guarantee of quality. No other studio carries a reputation like FromSoftware. Even Bandai Namco gets a hype reaction purely because of it's association as FromSoftware's main publisher. Ever since Demon's Souls, FromSoftware has exclusively released masterpieces. Demon's Souls, Dark Souls+DLC, Dark Souls 2+DLCx3, Bloodborne+DLC, Dark Soul 3+DLCx2, Sekiro, Elden Ring+DLC, Armored Core VI. They just keep winning. More than a decade of excellence, and they just keep going. (For the record, I copypasta'd my own comment, as I don't want to write it all out 3 more times lol.)

[@willostrand6555]

If they put a John Wick augmented human in the game I’m gonna COAM

[@TheEveryDayC]

i am far more interested in the things that can be backported to Elden Ring than the game itself based on the different things i've heard about the game. I've heard the map is randomly generated, which I don't know is the case, but if it isn't, it'd be cool to see the map backported as a bit of a modded expansion.

[@blondegirl7240]

Its amazing ofc!!! more content before a new title :) now I will 100% preorder it

[@EminAnimE1]

Imagine if the final boss is the protagonist from DS1 that took the Dark Lord path.

[@Schmeatboy]

The more I hear about the game, the more I really like it.

[@solomon9655]

The fact that this is being cooked in-house and that it's From's idea confirms (to me at least) that it'll be great and there's nothing to worry about. I am pro-experimentation and I've heard murmurs in the community about stagnation since around when ER released. Besides, considering how From operates everything NEW in this game is likely a teaser of what's to come and that's its own kind of exciting.

[@linhusp2349]

God damnn. Imagine fighting NK, OnS, Atorias and Gael with the Elden Ring kind of movements. And they even remade a more beautiful Fire Keeper. And all the randomizer rouge-like things they inspired from nexus mods and the indie games? Idk about you but ey, whoever doesn't like this, then just don't play, ok? This is what I want, I'm ready for this.

[@MattBaker-o7]

I’ve seen people worried about battle royale esque things are worrying. I mean it seems like the map is gonna be bigger THEN it has to get smaller as it leads into a boss fight. Seems pretty reasonable to just make it a fire ring that closes in.

[@Spellfork]

DS3 Firekeeper is the Gloam Eyed Queen... maybe? :)

[@Omegax35]

Im not a battle royale fan in general but I want an Elden Ring one so bad. Hope there are pvp options in this new title.

[@hedo_mana]

imagine sony completes the kadokawa acquisition and then we get the bloodborne goodness in this game

[@jwest88]

I appreciate this video. I'm too lazy to read articles and such. My main concern is if they provide balance for single player mode. I don't really play coop online.

[@atortarr]

Yeah, based on what they've said it's either solo mode or three player mode. It's gonna be solo-balanced.

[@jwest88]

@@atortarr Nice.

[@natasakoprivica5630]

Better start remastering it 😂😂😂

[@MilkyJoe73]

Bro Imagine A flexile sentry or freja that could attack 2 players at once

[@thatonekid464]

Im really really coping for these new weapons/dark souls boss weapons to be transferable to base ER to be used in pvp Edit: why is everyone so upset theyre making this. This is such a quick turn around from ER SOTE and its not their next big project lol. Even if its weird and re-asseted this a big up from fromsoft. It'll be a fun relxing play with the bros after we rage quit being passive healed swift slashed endure dragon breathed on the base game

[@laizerwoolf]

It felt like, co-op + fortnite + bossrush mod. Not saying that it's bad, but its definitely not in the same lvl of an elden ring dlc.

[@LocoTony64]

basically Elden Ring's take on smash run or city trial.