"Elden Ring Sucks Because its Too Hard" | 'Reviewer' Rage Quits Elden Ring After 5 Minutes

[@GriffinGaming]

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[@tiefighterscreech5558]

I GOT IT YO YOU THE BEST

[@Ashkihyena]

🙄 of course it’s when I’m at work.

[@GriffinGaming]

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[@tiefighterscreech5558]

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[@dontmatter4423]

This is why we love Griffin Gayming

[@ssvineman]

“I accidentally attacked the guy” You have to hit that guy THREE TIMES to aggro him!

[@killertruth186]

Funny enough in elder scrolls games, that is similar in some ways. Even in Fallout.

[@falseprodigy5361]

Exactly what im about to say

[@grypharmy7256]

That’s what I was thinking but I wasn’t sure if I was wrong as I typically don’t go smacking npcs. I tend to keep my finger off the button like I would keep my finger off the trigger of a gun unless I have the intent to shoot. Of course, there’s also a safety on that

[@vonStalhein2]

Not if you are at a high enough damage output. I aggro NPCs in 1 hit

[@Senko_The_Fox]

@@vonStalhein2 he was 5 minutes into the game, not RL 60 with and ultra greatsword

[@bigbunn_]

Speaking of accessibility, I just saw an article about a firefighter who is paralyzed from the neck down pretty much and he beat this game by blowing into tubes that were mapped to the controls.

[@MilkWaffle]

Yeah I heard about that. It's examples like him that prove that there is no excuse for not getting gud. It is called basic work ethic. You want something? Earn it. None of these wack-a-moles that think the game is to diffucult have even a shred of work ethic.

[@H-Himbo]

Yo, link the article?

[@pizzavictory113]

Yo that’s badass

[@izaya_aaa]

@@MilkWaffle imagine putting that much time into a video game

[@lolicongang.4974]

@@izaya_aaa Imagine putting that much time into high school. Imagine putting that much time into anything but a job lol You can't enjoy your life oml you got to work go home sleep eat work ect. Pfft shut yo ass up.

[@alexeigoulagovitchengelhar9015]

> Skips tutorial > Attacks first peaceful NPC in sight until he fights back > Gets rightfully WASTED > Escapes said NPC only to run into a boss you're supposed to evade > Gets WASTED again > "Game sucks bruh" MAIDENLESS BEHAVIOR

[@XelaReu]

@@renmcmanus the chickens in legend of Zelda

[@Potato_Souls]

I don't know what makes me so special, but first thing I did was drop down in the direction the ghost was looking. Seemed like common sense at the time, and I was dumbfounded when later I heard people talking about missing the tutorial.

[@rruhland]

@@renmcmanus yeah I only found the tutorial because the game hadn’t finished installing after I downloaded it so it wouldn’t load the door into Limgrave yet. I went ahead and dropped in the hole thinking I’d die but didn’t and hey tutorial.

[@joseeguizabal6712]

@@renmcmanus The Witcher 3

[@mickymusa7329]

i don't think tree sentinel should be avoided. he can still be done with a fresh character

[@theskysgoneout9436]

Worst part is you have to attack Varre at least 3 times until he will attack you, AND he has dialogue legit telling you that your actions will have consequences and you don’t know what you’re doing aaaa.

[@CHRF-55457]

Dude's an NPC himself lol

[@Thatoneguyonyt55455]

I think its a bit more like 4-5 times before he gets mad at the player for it making this so called "Reviewer" look even more dumb considering heprobably didnt think he would be punished for being a psycho and trying smack varre around with the wet napkin that is the starting weapons

[@MidgarMerc]

That dude doesn't even aggro until you "accidentally" hit him like 4 times. He warns you after every hit. There is literally no excuse except that this dude thought he'd face no consequences for attacking NPCs

[@jimfcarroll]

He was also about 3 minutes from the beginning of the game and didn't think to start over.

[@damonandersen7494]

I aggroed this dude, but after dying a couple times I just ran from him and everything else was normal

[@misterchess3254]

He said the player is maidenless, and it hit a bit too close to home

[@MarcoPolo10090]

Is he hard to kill at lv 1?

[@TarnishedEldenKing]

@@MarcoPolo10090 a bit, only the swarm of flies is annoying, but you can stagger lock him everytime you have stamina. and i'm talking about level 1 (wretch) straight out of the tutorial area.

[@alec187]

“Guy gives bad review because the game is too hard” From Software: “Thank You… maidenless”

[@krajicsek13]

No maidens? 😕

[@davidmingle5910]

He has -1 maidens, so maidenless it goes into negative numbers

[@acetechnical6574]

Dammit I LOVE this Maidenless meme. It's like Miyazaki just KNOWs. It just fits so well, like "Oh you dont want to put in work and git gud? Thats why you are maidenless lawl" Yo, Im random Tarnished, I got maidens galore You might have a lot of maidens but I got much more

[@Omen-l9k]

*M A I D E N L E S S*

[@Xarxes_]

"I accidentally hit him" it takes 3 hits to aggro an NPC, this man purposefully did it, fucked around and found it. Now he doesnt even have the balls to admit his idiocy

[@ilikerunescape1100]

realised it wasn't skyrim can't load a save lol man got triggered cos he was called maidenless got triggered lol

[@XDfunnyguy]

@@ilikerunescape1100 dude wears Oakley's, that about sums up the situation

[@adrenalineboyzryan]

@@ilikerunescape1100 I bet that guy's Waifu pillow even has it's back to him when they sleep LMAO

[@voldemor007]

Such a maidenless behavior, lol

[@ilikerunescape1100]

@@adrenalineboyzryan you win the internet today XD

[@wiDOmAker04]

“This is not going to be game of the year” that aged well

[@adgeifc]

Age like milk

[@earthnugget7881]

Lmao I love watching all the people who said that make excuses or accuse fraud for goty

[@AaronWOfficial]

I have only seen 2 valid arguments for elden ring not deserving goty. 1. pvp hit registration\lag being inconsistent (it really is, I hate the pvp in elden ring it is trash). 2. framerates suck considering it doesn't even look that impressive visually, I have played many open world games that look far better and manage to get 100 fps or more. But those are 2 major flaws, and I can name many goty games that had way more major flaws than this. The witcher 3 is just one example@@earthnugget7881

[@Tenchi707]

It's a terrible game lol

[@tttttttttttttttp12]

​@@Tenchi707that's just an opinion

[@Gavolak]

You can’t “accidentally hit him” lmao. Go make a new save and try it. You have to get him to half health before he aggros you. He also has 3 dialogue lines warning you to stop.

[@infiniteraide1642]

If only that was the case with dark souls 1 :(

[@UberCletus]

Seriously? In that case this take isn't stupid but insane.

[@todd5purlock497]

Yeah you get about 3 whacks in and can get him mostly dead, can confirm

[@Unapologeticweeb]

That goes for pretty much most npcs something gura figured out the hard way

[@AlphaWolfWreck]

Exactly what I was going to say, dude just mad he can't be an asshat to npc's without getting his sh*t kicked in by them.

[@Arcadelife1]

I’m laughing because I can see how this really went - he hit the friendly NPC once, saw the NPC didn’t immediately aggro so assumed he could get a cheap, cheesy kill and some free runes so he kept on hitting the NPC… who then aggro’d and killed him. Lacking any actual sense or skill or understanding, he instead decided to post his inadequacy on KZbin. Brilliant 😂

[@justinlindfors8512]

Who goes around killing npcs like it's GTA?

[@davidmingle5910]

Lol

[@mynameiswalterhartwellwhite420]

Lmao he spawned in and went after Varré and got dookied on

[@LogicAndCompassion]

@@mynameiswalterhartwellwhite420 Varre should teabag people after he destroys them.

[@jacklife7165]

Lol. My wife wanted to make a character, so she did, immediately gets curb stomped by the avatar, puts the controller down and says im done. I pick it up and after about 10 tries i killed the white mask.

[@jeanpaul2042]

"I accidentally hit him and he attacked me" excuse me sir but you need to attack an npc multiple times before they become hostile so I don't think it was an accident

[@shadedias5563]

Or be near the beastman and roar... though you deserve it if you do XD then he'll kick your head in

[@Fishir.]

You can hit them past a threshold and they will aggro right away. I kind of do it every now and then when I tab out in front of an npc now and then😅

[@idioticfortune837]

@@Fishir. yea but it’s pretty much impossible for a brand new character to dmg Varre that bad

[@Link10103]

a friend aggro'd him somehow and now he gets evaporated whenever he walks by him. he said he was trying to figure out the controls, even after saying he did the tutorial that i assumed he skipped. I...am still confused honestly. He was a bandit to, so im assuming his default was a dagger

[@therealdezza90]

I just created a new Character, same Class as him. I hit Varré T H R E E times until he got hostile. And he did not the Tutorial, he would have known how to use Autofocuse.

[@captainfach]

Imagine making a review of a video game without killing a single enemy

[@Mugthraka]

...So a Kotaku/Polygon journalist?...

[@carlettuce6544]

Whats wrong with that?

[@TheREALHugo4]

Especially Acerthorn.

[@Dominated001]

Typical IGN review

[@catlovingtrio]

Ah, shit, so I can't make a review of Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

[@slothdemon2459]

"I accidentally attacked him" Doesn't the dude take 3 attacks or so before he fights back that's bs and he knows it.

[@jibbily27]

I don't know a single npc that instantly fights back

[@falseprodigy5361]

Yea that literally made like that so people don't 'accidentally' hit them like this dude did lol 🤣

[@eleven9286]

@@jibbily27 doesn't the dude at firelink in Dark Souls fight back instantly?

[@hatefulgaming1800]

@@eleven9286 Nah you have to hit him a few times before he fights back.

[@eleven9286]

@@hatefulgaming1800 hate that guy

[@hazamax2139]

"I accidentally atacked him" My dude, he doesn't attack you until you hit him like, 4-5 times.

[@hikikimoribrother4781]

Exactly 😂😂

[@ThoA45]

it's 4 hits exactly but yeah, "accidentally attacked him" , the guy is the type of moron that just attack ANYTHING he sees and expect it to die. Simple as that. I don't like to say that but for him i'll say : "fucking casual."

[@hazamax2139]

I mean, there's really nothing wrong with that. You can literally just run the fuck away of him to the next grace if you can't beat him. The dude is just plainly expecting to beat anything he comes across with mashing the attack button

[@JayPattTV]

Exactly 😂 it was a deliberate choice at that point

[@GhoulishBrush]

*Complains there isn’t a lock on system* Dude this guy didn’t even do the tutorial!

[@keith9129]

The souls games teach literal life lessons. 1.Adapt from your failures and keep going 2.All challenges can be overcome. 3. It’s okay to get help when you’re stuck

[@SkyW1lker]

well, looks like i don’t learn from lesson 3 lol

[@Sweetluckk]

Yeah gotta scratch off number 3 , summons defeat the purpose for me .

[@Prince_of_Despair]

Me going to fight against the boss who just kicked the hell out of me without changing my strategy

[@randomname4726]

I'm level 150 and smoked Radahn and several great enemy's no trouble at all. Yet I have been stuck on the Draconic Tree Sentinel for over an hour and it has made me so mad I've ragequit and probably won't play again. Extremely poor enemy difficulties, why should great enemy's be super simple and a god damn guard almost impossible!

[@kintaro6037]

@@randomname4726 bro pump points into vigor, use a weapon with bleed than you should be able to beat him. He is not that hard

[@NateMakesMusic]

Bros saying this shit while my 65 year old father is a god at the game

[@Wiz_Outlaw]

"Accidentally" You literally have to commit to attacking him. One hit wouldnt set him off, youd have to hit him 5 times before he actually went after you.

[@ryuknightofflame]

Thank you. I facepalmed when I heard him say that. "It's not an accident if you do it 4 or 5 times you disingenuous fuck!" was the first thing that flew out of my mouth. This is the second Fromsoft game I've played and even I figured out not to screw with the locals on the first run.

[@oigliyj]

@@ryuknightofflame my roommate almost cried when he realized Varre gets you to Mohgs palace early(rune farming) because he killed Varre almost immediately after being called maidenless. It's pathetic.

[@CrowningBrowning]

I was about to say the same thing lol. Yeah this guy legitimately attacked the first npc, probably said something like "oh, he's not going to fight back." And after the 3rd hit he started getting his ass beat.

[@MultiSpin2010]

I'm pretty sure he even warns you that he'll attack if you keep attacking

[@Jason35]

i like to think he got angry after being called maidenless, so he proceeded to attempt to murder him.

[@highlightermarca-texto3281]

Honestly fills my heart with happiness whenever I hear people complain they 'accidentally' hit NPCs.

[@mavvynne444]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@robertarrowood3651]

I'm 80+ hours in and I have yet to accidentally hit an npc lmao!

[@omadselc]

I can't care less when I hear people complain about that lmao. The ONLY situation I can imagine genuinely doing it accidentally is tabbing back in and triggered the light attack with the left mouse button. Even then though hasn't happened.

[@rokairu0-216]

@Omad Selc it's even funnier since you need to hit an npc 2-3 times for them to be enemies

[@danielsnake23]

@@robertarrowood3651 exactly, I hit them on purpose 😈

[@johnforesythe117]

I love that the angry reviewer actually thinks we’ll take his reviews seriously.

[@tylero1689]

that guy in the hate vid is so maidenless that Melina didnt even visit him in game

[@dylhas1]

I love how he calls a dude on a horse, a “minotaur-thing.” Are cops that ride horses minotaur cops?

[@TheHastySlowpoke]

Yes

[@tangomike3681]

Well yeah… what are we supposed to call them?

[@goncalocarneiro3043]

To be fair, as established all turtles are dogs. I'll cut him some slack.

[@mr.m2914]

Nah bro, give him some slack. Given this guy's level of brain power and understanding, I'm sure this isn't the dumbest thing he's ever said. I'm guessing every time he passes a black person on the street he calls them a cotton picker on reflex.

[@therealbalto24]

@@tangomike3681 could just call it a man on a horse or cavalry etc

[@jakobgiancola6549]

It is a reflection of a society that is addicted to instant gratification. This was difficult for every person that played. Some of us like the experience to be extra challenging, it makes beating them feel way more accomplishing.

[@Hekinsieden]

This is so true, People are getting so used to action games where you just hop from one level to another and dominating enemies without changing their gear or skills. Devil May Cry you run into fights on their beloved easy mode and demolish whole groups.

[@jordyrawww8135]

Everyone wants everything to be so easy, it really does show the lack of effort people are willing to put into things but still expect positive results. Its a shame.

[@calvinmcneil9824]

The joy of Souls games is the fact that you get punished for being greedy/not being observant and overcoming a difficult boss

[@gabrielharvey956]

@@Hekinsieden dude dont ever bad mouth dmc, dmc3 original version was hard-core af , agni and rudra walk back was an entire 25 minute mission followed by boss , was so hard that they had the make a special edition with with unlimited continue for casuals to see the end of the game...

[@ashb2483]

I spent almost 4 hours just fighting alberich with my starting spells and sword and refused to come back later and eventually I beat him. Now later in the game I found his armor and I’m wearing it out of principle.

[@azwasp7349]

Not going to lie, this is my first actual souls game. I was surprised on how fun it is 36 hours in. about a million or so deaths and i am still enthralled by the majesty of the game

[@octavianpopescu4776]

I'm also a first-timer... I'm very bad at it, but I can still enjoy just riding around, exploring and killing groups of enemies on Torrent.

[@robertfrye3777]

Same

[@jarethmckeighan4425]

Dabbled myself in other souls games, but never committed to playing till elden ring. I now owe it approximately 350hrs of my life or something ridiculous like that.

[@xeroflarexl]

2nd souls game and ive learned dying is ok lol

[@VanillaBryce5]

It's my first souls game and I've been loving it so far. I just accepted the fact I was going to get my ass kicked around for a while... well I still am but I'm learning! It feels so good when you finally get the kill.

[@smokinggnu6584]

I'm guessing he got to that NPC, he called him maidenless, dude attacked the NPC because of it and got curbstomped.

[@angelolagrutta4679]

How can you “accidentally” Agro an npc. They start getting hostile when they lose a certain amount of health so you must’ve hit the guy 6 times and now you’re looking like an idiot so you gotta cover yourself up and say it was an accident

[@fathersiren9914]

Not true the beast clergyman gets angry at you out of nowhere for no reason and the only way to calm him down is to beat him within an inch of his life(but this guy definitely was covering his ass 😂😂)

[@theendereyes4395]

@@fathersiren9914 well he’s an exception for lore purposes

[@fathersiren9914]

@@theendereyes4395 lol yeah haha

[@weatherman1504]

That's not an accident though. He does that when you give him the 4th deathroot. It's a lore thing.

[@fathersiren9914]

@@weatherman1504 I've only given him two death

[@xRuiNga]

People like him is why game developers make these unbearable unskippable tutorial and dialogue sections before you can actually start playing.

[@FrostRare]

Yeah man people like him are the reason game developers make games like Lego Star Wars lol

[@brokenhearth1826]

For real even Pascal Wager the souls like on mobile also has a bunch of unnecesarry tutorial just like another mobile game

[@onedarnsandyboi1844]

He is way below lego star wars

[@uponeric36]

I actually accidently skipped the tutorial in elden ring, and it was still perfectly playable lol

[@yaboi2500]

@@FrostRare Keep Lego Star Wars’ name out your mouth.

[@Batman-ml1qb]

This is my first "souls" game and I love it. I was a huge fan of the Elder Scrolls games. However, since Morrowind they've just gotten easier and easier. The combat mechanics and graphics have gotten smoother, but even with the difficulty at max, if you know what you're doing by mid game you're pretty much the most powerful character in the game and everything else becomes just a cake walk. I've been dying for an open world game set in a mythical, medieval type world, that was actually a challenge and took skill but was also fun. This game continues to deliver that with every new area discovered, with every new dungeon explored, with every new boss encountered.

[@jarethmckeighan4425]

I checked the comment author 2 times because I genuinely thought it was mine, yes to all

[@GoonShredder9000]

Skyrim magic user npcs on legendary: your existence is a mere shitstain upon my toilet bowl that is the world.

[@HAZYPANCAKES]

Hopefully TES6 isn’t like Skyrim in terms of difficulty.

[@Loremaster28]

oh you should try the other soul games. they are not as open world but still very tightly packed ant interconnected

[@feliciab5019]

Around the same with me except Skyrim was my first introduction into the Elder Scrolls universe. I completely agree and I actually use combat based mods and have increased the overall difficulty in Skyrim so I can still get some challenge out of it. I also have the Dark Souls Anniversary edition for PC. I think I need to create a new character cause I think I made a mistake. My current character is slow LOL. I’ve tried DS on Xbox but only gotten to a certain point. Elden Ring is beautiful and challenging and I enjoy it(well even more so since I got the remove vignette and chromatic aberration mods because CA gives me a headache and Vignette is better in pictures imho).

[@thevo4100]

I've lost count of the number of times that I've gone into a new area in souls and failed, thinking, 'how the hell am I supposed to do this?' Then you learn the enemy attacks, try some spells or gear that you picked up etc and next thing you know you're running rings around them. My best advice for people is that lost runes don't matter. You'll get them back. If you need runes for levels or purchases then just get summoned for a boss a few times.

[@woopus6994]

“Thousands of people have progressed through and beaten Elden Ring but no it’s the game’s fault not mine.”

[@ReverseSpirits]

I’ll

[@gummy3584]

I'll

[@lewispooper3138]

And 90% of those admit that the bosses are unfair and boring when you get past leyndell

[@amscuda7822]

@@lewispooper3138 like which ones? Maliketh and Godfrey are two of the most balanced and fun bosses I’ve ever fought, dragon lord placidusax isn’t boring at all, malenia would be amazing if it weren’t for her waterfowl dance, and Radagon is epic (elden beast needs to stop running tho)

[@firmak2]

Millions*

[@teddyholiday8038]

Same story with every From game. They just aren’t for everyone, yet people still hold that against the games.

[@jei3970]

Yeah that's the part I don't understand. Like why does every game need to be for everyone? Not to mention the weird people getting upset over the massive success that ER is getting. Hell this is basically my first Souls game and I've gotten attack for calling it a masterpiece more than 5 times. You would think a game living up to the hype would make the gaming community happy but it really has brought out the weirdos who just want to hate cause the game isn't for them.

[@DRAG0N1012]

@@jei3970 thats like saying everyone likes mario, i know people who hate mario but some expect games to be for everyone and if so then no games would exist. i dont like microtransactions in paid games so i dont buy paid games that have microtransactions its quite easy.

[@anotherhappylanding4746]

@@DRAG0N1012 I've never met people who hate Mario haha

[@DRAG0N1012]

@@anotherhappylanding4746 I was surprised when they first mentioned they hate mario

[@gehtdichnichtsan2418]

I mean his first peak Game he would rather play is DMC 3, where you play the fricking Uber Devil, where you just have to smash buttons to win. Yeah, what would one expect.

[@c.a.2945]

Here's the thing, this is my first soulslike game. And guess what. After sticking with it and learning to embrace the kind of game this is? The mindset of learning from mistakes and each death, I'm actually loving Elden Ring. It's phenomenal.

[@absoluteandrew398]

Makes me so happy to hear people say this. Fromsoft games are created to portray the harsh reality of life inside a fantasy world. Life is unfair, you’re often unprepared for the challenges ahead, and you will fail. Many times. The only thing you can control is whether you give up, or you press onward.

[@bryantcarnagey9951]

I would say go back and try the others, but you're really going to miss jumping if you do.

[@TahmCrapaud]

Elden Ring is my first Fromsoft game as well and my word i'm having the upmost fun travelling accross the Lands Between and picking every bit of secret, lore,... When i found a bossfight i would be beaten badly, i hover on the map and always get something to look out, it's just breathtaking. You already mentioned fighting mechanics and having to learn from your misstakes, this game is a memorable experience.

[@Old-Deus]

Same here so in love

[@stolasofarsgoetia9444]

Elden Ring is my first souls game too and i absolutely fell in love with it! I'm halfway through my third playthrough and i'm still finding new things to do and quests to complete

[@IronBloodedLion]

I suck at this game and I still love it. Even if you’re bad you do eventually figure out strategies on how to beat bosses. Also sometimes there’s wisdom in going back to a boss later on. You don’t HAVE to beat them right away. It is a great feeling when you finally do though.

[@megnl5725]

I’m 61 y old. The first week I was frustrated with all the “You died” After 2 more weeks I finished the game yesterday. It was a great time. Never played something like this before. Elden Ring is worth every penny.

[@lautarotrefilio4773]

I recommend playing the original Souls games

[@LegendCatx]

What a legend man! it’s rare to see someone your age actually beat one of the biggest souls games. I’m so happy you liked it

[@BgChf-dg5lv]

Fantastic buddy. Good to see the old hats staying in the ring. Congratulations on beating it.

[@juubi249]

Congrats on beating it, man!

[@kibbieVR]

welcome to the fold.

[@twixtwix2915]

I like how people claim you make “one mistake and die” while completely ignoring that if you die once and then return to the spot you lost your souls you can get them back meaning it’s actually if you don’t learn from your mistake you get punished.

[@blacknemesy]

Depends on context, "one mistake and die" is ok for example against an extremely telegraphed attack that send you and email, SMS and requires you to accept the attack in order to do damage but if you are perfectly balanced and something random and common 1-shots you it kind of feels cheap. For me the "cheap" attacks i've seen are the grab from the iron maidens being too fast and having an odd timing and active frames for too long and in one dungeon there is one boss that is all about scarlet rot but the room is so small and the boss so big and hard to see I was having a hard time avoiding his almost 1-shot grab

[@Holygrailprincess]

In my case it was "you make one mistake you are forced to live with it." lol

[@Psychoangel-d23]

@N9neL7ves Grabbing attacks are cheap. Plain and simple. some are stupidly hard to dodge and "git gud" is NOT a justifiable excuse for this nonesense. locking the players movement isnt challenging mechanic it´s cheap.

[@Psychoangel-d23]

@N9neL7ves I had grabs that entire miss my character yet i still got grabbed. Those things are inconsistent as fuck. Hell i had one of those kama wielding little shits grab me after it was ALL THE FUCKING WAY DOWN A PIT. it was easily 10 meters below me yet it´s grab still connected and killed me. Those things are cheap shit.

[@QuanNguyen-nc3gm]

@@Psychoangel-d23 I have seen more time than not people swear in their mother name they dodged the thing. Only to watch back on slow mo that half of their bloody body is inside the radius. Your mind play trick on you more than you think

[@Slick_Tails]

"If you make one mistake, you die." That's straight up objectively false. Even against the hardest bosses there's a tremendous margin of error. That's what Estus flasks are for.

[@brokenhearth1826]

If you make one mistakes, then you're f*cked - HippoCrap Honnestly i see elden ring has slightly more forgiving then the old souls game especially this is an open world take so i'm sure there are some mechanic that should be reballance

[@chloemarlowe3817]

In fairness, with how aggressive some enemies and bosses can be, Estus and whatever the Elden Ring equivalent is (can't remember off top of my head) can be outright worthless.

[@SilverNightbane]

@@chloemarlowe3817 Times like those, it's also down to how little Vigor and what armor that person has.

[@aldusty7373]

I want to agree with your statement, but Malenia's Waterfowl Dance is the only reason I disagree, it's pretty much an instant death sentence if you fail to notice it's wind up, luckily she doesn't use it too often

[@Slick_Tails]

@@aldusty7373 Okay, to be fair I do agree that attack is kinda bullshit. I got by using a greatshield, but certain builds are screwed. It is possible to parry that attack although the window is very difficult to time.

[@ishitrealbad3039]

"you die, you're at the beginning of the game" does this guy not know what bonfires and shortcuts are!?!!!?

[@Gio-mi3hd]

I bet he doesn't, I mean he must never played other souls game other than Ubisoft or EA games such Battlefield 2042 🤣

[@jaryl13]

You literally have to hit Vare a few times for him to attack you. It’s impossible to “accidentally” aggro him. He just made himself look like the biggest, most maidenless fool.

[@aldusty7373]

I disagree, it's definitely possible, my friend loaded up the game, and when he met Varre, he started spamming the attack button thinking he was an enemy, and for the rest of the game, we mocked him for killing "Maidenless Guy"

[@deathstalker549]

@@aldusty7373 that doesn't sound like an accident, that sounds like her purposely swung at a guy he thought was an enemy and was wrong..... sorta

[@voyvoda2292]

@@aldusty7373 "he accidently spammed attacks on an npc for calling him a maidenless guy" that sounds like an excuse a 3rd grader would use.

[@aldusty7373]

@@deathstalker549 I mean that the accident can be asusming Varre is an enemy and going to attack immediately

[@aldusty7373]

@@voyvoda2292 Nah, he didn't even speak to him before going to stab him

[@laydbak2191]

Not gonna lie I literally wanted to return the game within 10 mins of buying it, never played a souls game and was frustrated af BUT I refused to let it beat me and now I have 180 hrs in and love it

[@BertMagurt]

Have you made a suicide bomb pill with the physik (

[@Drbeattles]

welcome to souls. keep with it and you'll learn to love the pain and embrace death.

[@anon1helios]

Sounds like you earned your maiden my friend!

[@yayab6378]

same my first souls game, frustrated at first but its so much fun and addicting.

[@Gipest202]

Same bro

[@ezrarain81]

He's complaining about Elden Ring but saying he'd rather play Ninja Gaiden. This dude has never played Ninja Gaiden 😂

[@Mrcaptainmorgan93]

That's what I was thinking lol

[@denerborba4994]

I played my first ninja gainden game a few years ago and It was pretty hard😂. Theses dudes dont play any games lol

[@maliquedavis7719]

Pardon me

[@gamingcantina9157]

All of the 3d ninja gaiden games are ez , the nes one is a pain.

[@TheSupersmash97]

Yo right? I’ve beaten ninja gaiden and Elden ring. He won’t step into my ring

[@Luna_andSola]

As a person who has beaten The Erymanthian Boar in AC odyssey ten levels under the recommended amount I can confidently say that this man is maidenless.

[@OxidizedNail]

I brought my friend, who never played a videogame before, into Elden Ring. Hilariously, she attacks Varre because he calls her maidenless. Dies like 3 times but then narrowly beats him on her 4th attempt. She is secretly a god gamer or she played the tutorial and understood the game mechanics. This just goes to show this reviewer didn’t even know how to hold a controller.

[@jor840]

Varre actually is a pretty dope npc who allows you to enter a hitten area, shows you the invader mechanic etc. rule of thumb: never attack friendly npcs in from games. this will always cut you out from quests, items and so on.

[@gigachadsam]

Can’t lie dieing from varre is sad my brother sucks at video games and kept dying to him

[@benitoswagolini3827]

@@jor840 I killed the gatekeeper and now I’m locked out of 2 quests

[@RedRumRose106]

@@benitoswagolini3827 you guys are monsters...wait till new game plus then murder the NPCs or at least wait right before you start NG+ murder everyone and start the new run, profit

[@benitoswagolini3827]

@@RedRumRose106 he had coming he took my runes

[@krugerofcause9048]

Imagine calling a game bad because you’re bad.

[@gravyd316]

It's not because he sucks. Well not entirely. He's Maidenless..... literally.

[@TSPH1992]

@@gravyd316 Even the iron Maiden doesn't want him

[@WarHog935itchy]

Well I didn’t find game bad I just look at myself being Dumb and pathetic I know what to expect I’m not a idiot my brother is a idiot and he doesn’t even know what souls games are

[@anthonyf616]

Majority of gamers

[@fjorgyn7438]

Sounds like my brother whenever he gets stuck.

[@Maryus981]

Just imagine being someone like this guy or those "we need an easy mode" when there are others finishing this game in 1-2 hours naked with a +0 torch + 0 damage challenge 😂.

[@brandon10301991]

Thats because they spent 6 hours on every boss learning every in and out and getting their dodges perfect.

[@brandon10301991]

Those people spent hours and hours on every single boss learning all the attacks and getting their dodge timing perfect. Dodge is too cheesy to just use it exclusively. Roll, poke, roll, poke isnt fun, it's boring.

[@brandon10301991]

hi

[@blubeard6914]

“Did that with spiked caestus and parry” - Elden Lord

[@Maryus981]

@@brandon10301991 It is up to you on how do you want to play the game. Do you suck at dodging? Go for a poise tanky build. You're reflexes are great and you don't suck at timing? Go for a dex/faith build. This game offers versatility like no other game of this type. If you're looking for a "imma roll every main boss up in 8h first try" then this game is not for you.

[@Dimli_Gloinssohn]

I saw little Kids parry the shit out of Black knights... I saw ppl beating Souls with a fucking Wheel and pedals.... I saw ppl beat souls that were paralised from neck down.... WITH THEIR MOUTH!!!! Him: ...

[@1810jeff]

He's lying about accidentally hitting White Mask Varre, you have to hit him multiple times to make him aggressive.

[@Unapologeticweeb]

Something a certain shark figured out quite fast

[@Kazuhiro-i]

@@Unapologeticweeb Ah yes, the insta regret in her voice. Satisfying insta karma

[@brokenevolution5426]

I mean, I have an elite controller with the paddles on the back, I dropped my controller and since the paddles were mapped to the triggers for me, It used a multi hit weapon art and caused varre to aggro onto me completely by accident. Luckily I had a Celestial Dew to fix it. This guy however definitely didn't do what I did to aggro him lmao

[@leiderhosen7110]

@@brokenevolution5426 Even without dew, you can just run for it if you can't win.

[@uhoh6706]

What’s even worse about his excuse about the NPC is how they actually become hostile to the player. You don’t accidentally hit them and then they immediately become hostile like he claims, they give you a “what the heck are you doing?!“ line as a warning. They only attack you if you literally connect an entire attack combo to finally make them hostile. This dude actually decided to wail on this dude without even thinking and proceeds to cry and lie about what happened in his video. Makes me upset

[@Thestuffnope]

I accidentally whacked the white mask dude while testing different ashes and took off almost half his health. I think he just chuckled at me and acted as if nothing happened.

[@ddmacc]

Im pretty sure if you do enough damage they will immediately aggro. It was that way in ds3. I know because ive accidently charged a full heavy at npcs

[@uhoh6706]

@@ddmacc It shouldn’t happen with starting gear though since it can’t do that much damage to instant aggro them. They will shrug off at least 1 hit

[@Debilinside]

@@ddmacc As far as I see it, doesnt work that way in ER. Even at level 250 with S scaling max upgraded weapon they wont aggro in 1 hit. 3 hit seems to be the limit for most NPC.

[@goncalocarneiro3043]

I know for sure that in DS1 it was HP based and in DS2 it was quantity of hits based. In Elden Ring I am not sure.

[@MasterFlarg89]

Personally, I'm so happy this guy returned his physical copy, so someone more deserving can buy it up and give it a good home. Also, the sign of a garbage reviewer/debater/discussion is when someone says "I don't care what anyone says". You essential tell the listener that you're not open to any other opinions or points of view, the very thing you're asking your audience to be when they watch you . . .

[@christhefiend]

Good for your condensending ass.

[@kuru-yami9416]

this guys a living breathing definition of Hipocrisy and irony

[@shuga_knips7731]

Yeah and they’ll buy it at pre owned value even tho it was only touched for 5 minutes like this guys a true saint

[@rayvincyful1]

I would not touch that specific physical copy just because he once owned it. Lol.

[@aurumvale9908]

i bought the game without knowing anything about soulsborn games or stuff like that. i liked the trailers and impulsively bought it. wrecked my shit harder than id like to admit. and yes i attacked Vare too. i also spend like 2 hours just clearing the first side dungeon i came across without leveling up. I was confused and pissed off but i made it all the way into Rya Lucaria and even beat Renalla still only halve understanding shit. i quit when i got into redmane castle and got absolutely demolished at every second corner. overall i played around 40hours on my first playthrough. a few months later i started it up again after reading up on it and figuring out what soulsborn even meant and why i had such trouble with it. turns out i was a total dumbass and made absolutely every mistake possible. and somehow i still made it further than this dude

[@TheDarkPeasant]

Redmane castle has enemies?

[@Lunk42]

I love seeing people like him weeded out nothing brings me greater joy.

[@HeyImThorn]

@Chris Parker yeah but people who just shit on the game for their own stupidity? I rather have them gone as well.

[@chiefe6943]

I love to see them lose it. If they think elden ring is bad they would have lost hair playing demon souls or dark souls

[@fruitspunchsamurai_g1148]

@Chris Parker Don’t act like you have anything better going on in your life.

[@johnnygraz4712]

I'd like to thank this dude. I no longer feel like I'm the worst clown to ever play a Souls game.

[@FATHERPROVIDENCEREPORT]

He is proof that people use cheats..n brag on Twitch that thy the best

[@AnimeGamer501st]

After killing like 10 Invaders I went from thinking that I was a s*** played too hey I might not actually be that bad

[@AVeryCrispyApe]

Me too

[@theallaroundnerd9889]

My ultra casual 16 year old brother who's never touched a souls game, has more toleration with Elden Ring than this dude. My brother traveled all the way to Caelid and decided "fuck it, let's explore" he hasn't even gone to Margit yet. What a mad man

[@Joyous395]

I was playing with a guy and his niece and nephews were over and they're like 5 and I can hear them playing it on the other tv and hes telling me theyre killing bosses lol

[@thefull9746]

He's playing the game right somehow🗿

[@theallaroundnerd9889]

@@thefull9746 I've never seen my brother attach to a game like he has Elden Ring. Not even Halo. The next closest thing is probably Spider-Man (2018) He plays like 3 hours a day after track, it's crazy to me

[@onepoundswallowtwopoundcoc3115]

@@theallaroundnerd9889 It’s a fun game. More so rewarding I would say. It just hooks you differently. The only other game that I’ve played like this is DMC3. Which is why it’s weird he uses that as a game to bash this one. They are really different, but far more alike then he realizes. The level of emotion from beating Vergil will never be forgotten honestly. The same will be said for people beating bosses in this game. It is just to good.

[@Spectrum0122]

My favorite excuse is "oh some people tell me to do this and not this. Fuck off." Bro, giving advice on the fundamentals of a game is not back seat gaming loll literally go to the main menu, go to setting, and loom at the button layout lmfao

[@oliviabean8264]

My first soulsborne experience was playing Dark souls 3. Took me 4 hours just to beat the first boss and I loved it.

[@ApparentlyChad]

I had a similar experience. It was my first souls game and I had a friend over when I booted it up for the first time. We took turns trying to beat the first boss. My brother also played a little bit. It took us hours before we finally beat it. The result was that my brother and I became huge souls fans.

[@dwaynehicks6714]

You are going to love watching paint dry then.

[@ghjong001]

This was literally the first souls game I ever played. I lost count of how many times I died in my first hour, but the Tree Sentinel only killed me once because I learned that lesson pretty damned quick. I'm still a long way from gittin' gud, but the game great at always making it obvious in hindsight exactly what you did wrong. Such as poking at the giant armored guy on a horse when you're just a naked dude with a stick. Who could have guessed?

[@coreysmalls4259]

Word..I went at dude that one time and was like 'welp..that didn't work..I'm not fucking wit this dude till I get my weight up'

[@Eking-su3tr]

Im fairly new to soul type games, and i hv to say elden ring is so fun, the feeling u get when u beat a try hard boss is incredible. I beat the tree sentinel and fallen owen dude today after a week of playing and dying a fuk ton. Best feeling in the world

[@koxacbka]

at first i ignored tree sentinel cuz i managed to walk by without noticing him. but later on i've found him and killed in few tries. (imho he is a little bit harder then Gundir from DS3. almost a perfect introductory optional boss with will reward you with an awesome weapon once you'll beat him)

[@ldntbutiiwii]

Hey don't disrespect the naked fvck with a stick sl1 runs are goat

[@blakebridges8989]

It’s like these people don’t know that Elden Ring is an open-world RPG. If your struggling you can go do something else until you level up and then can come back and beat the part your stuck on. But these lazy, whiny losers don’t want a game that requires skill, they want a game that holds your hand and tells you what to do and basically plays itself. They can’t get good so they rage quit and lash out at anyone who dares disagree with them.

[@Mrcaptainmorgan93]

Ya know I could understand maybe accidently hiting him once just messing around or something. But it takes 3-4 consecutive attacks to make npcs hostile. And is he blind? That's clearly a guy on a horse not a minotaur.

[@legallytargeted5688]

Nothing has been more satisfying in gaming than overcoming the learning curve in souls, truly a nightmare to get to that point but so worth it

[@nexus2574]

I have a hunch that this dude didn't "accidentally" kill Varre. He got made because Varre called him maidenless ,and that insult hit too close to home for this guy.

[@feliciab5019]

I know right. I never even tried so much as hitting him once. I usually judge characters by body language and Varre never even gave off the enemy npc vibe.

[@Resident_night]

That’s exactly what he did because you need to hit varre 3-4 times for him to be hostile

[@margaretperry5532]

this quote is the definition of Hard "Heed my words. I am Malenia. Blade of Miquella. And I have never known defeat." getting killed by Varre or the Tree Sentinel is nothing compared to Malenia.

[@phil8821]

Malenia was easy, I just took her on a date. Turned out she was just very lonely.

[@RyuKaguya]

@@phil8821 Ah you rotted my condolences.

[@Lost_Manhood2021]

@@phil8821 I tried to ask her out on a date, but she suggested I abandon Melina although tempting, I ended up declining 47 times, however on my 48 visit, we had tea and I told her about my battle with Starscourge Radahn so she took up her blade and said to me if I can't have you as a consort it'd be an honour to fight such a warrior, but halfway through the fight, she was frozen in time, so I did what I had to do to put her out of her misery but before doing so I bent a knee and said you Malenia Blade of Miquella who has never known defeat I Lost_Manhood2021 soon to be Elden Lord grant thee defeat in hopes that one day we meet again and have a more honorable battle.

[@saudalkaabi3353]

Bruv you triggered a ptsd flashback, I hate Malenia, and she’s 1,000 times harder than Varre, I spent 10 minutes to kill Varre, SHE TOOK ME 2 HOURS

[@icecreamenthusiasts2487]

My God. Making a mistake and actually getting consequences? This is insane! We all know a pat in the back, a "You tried" medal, and an instant pass in everything is all we get when we screwed up!

[@detectingjunkys5803]

Right, and if you make a mistake at work or school you should be smashed in the face with a chair.

[@brianleal87]

? So no other game punishes mistakes The boot licking in elden ring 💍 Is insane

[@detectingjunkys5803]

@@brianleal87 Punished? For playing a game? How absurd is that? You must live a horrible life.

[@HarvestrX]

How about the consequences for bad game design, like skill being replaced far too often with pure luck?

[@MadCrazeTheBlade708]

@@brianleal87 it's ok to admit when you're bad 🥰

[@draugnaustaunikunhymnphoo6978]

60 hours in the game, I've accidentally hit a merchant once. I was so thankful they don't get angry at you if you hit NPCs once.

[@cassynedelisky796]

I am not a good gamer, I normally play every game on easy. But I’m loving Elden Ring. It’s so fun and feels so rewarding when you finally beat a boss.

[@scilio7929]

Welcome to the world of harder games! They're so fun because you know you earned your victory

[@bigtomhanks12]

Its a great rush isnt it? :P

[@foofighter9656]

I remember chatting with my flat mate once about his initial experiences of Morrowind. He said "phew, it took me a while but I managed to clear the first area". It turns out he murdered everyone in Seyda Neen immediately after leaving the boat and getting through customs because he thought it was like Diablo or Dungeon Siege where only enemies can be attacked. Although I found it astonishing (and hilarious) at first, it really goes to show that some people have some pretty serious preconceptions about how games should be played based on other games they have played. I think this video is similar; the angry reviewer is probably just so used to playing games where NPCs can't be attacked that he didn't even think to leave Varre alone.

[@LordIndorilNerevar]

Haha, that's funny! I love Morrowind awesome to see someone talk about it!

[@lightning1776]

I wonder what his reaction would be when he killed an important npc?

[@georgelopes4589]

“You can’t make one mistake!” You’re right, you can’t make one mistake. You can make hundreds, if not thousands of mistakes, because the game gives you the option to learn and overcome your mistakes.

[@yuesu2325]

New comers to the game can't comprehend the fact that dying is progressing. In most other games dying mean loading an older save which mean everything you did after that save was a waste so it conditioned their brain into believing dying=bad and waste of time.

[@browal14]

it also give ways to make it easier your getting hit get, more health, stamina maybe better armor and a shield. Damage too low find a new weapon upgrade an old one try magic try status effects.

[@dilaisy_loone2846]

Playing dark souls blindly because I found it on the Nintendo e shop, killed like 4 ncp before realizing I’m not suppose to do that.

[@ninjafrog6966]

@@dilaisy_loone2846 hey at least you realized that unlike the guy in the video

[@neargrog685]

I made so many mistakes when I killed Margit. I was so shocked when he died

[@nicholasdismukes6741]

I'm so unbelievably late to this. But there's no I accidentally hit an enemy NPC because you actually have to hit them quite a bit before aggro

[@sleepyboi8060]

This was my first souls game, first big boss game, struggled an insane amount. Died to the Tree Guardian like 20+ times remembered 'its open world' so I sneaky sneaky away from the big boi. Find the church, find the camp, go left die ok not that way. Farm camp, ooooo big treasure chest, so on and so forth. Leveled up, got a horsie, figured out how to fight on horseback, got fucked up again by tree boi. Go explore, check shit out, finally come back, destroy Tree Guardian---- bliss. Extasy. Its hard but like omfg just get gud

[@bobbob5007]

i honestly thought he was mandatory rofl and almost gave up on the game since all bosses were usually mandatory rofl

[@CostasSavvides]

elden ring being your first souls game is a terrible first souls game cause it will make you think souls game are easy 😅🥵😅🥵😅

[@SoapboxJerky]

Everything you will ever accomplish in Elden Ring... you're just getting started. Welcome to the chum.

[@MetaphysicalShaMan]

You'd be surprised how easy elden ring is compared to dark souls 1 and demon souls. Dark souls 3 was probably the easiest of the souls. Like elden ring takes away cheesing bosses near cliffs to make it more difficult but u have way more abilities to fight bosses than souls so it balances out. U know all the campfires and map u get in edlen ring? Yea u get like 7 fires in dark souls and no map with a huge map to memorize

[@geraldposter1496]

See this? This shit right here? It's why these games are good. They challenge you. Hey here's this big unreasonably hard enemy. Whatcha gonna do? Fight them and die, get butthurt, or realize you can come back later when you're ready? Because eventually if you persevere regardless of your plan, you will win. And that joy of overcoming something you thought impossible will stay with you. It's a joy only those who have done it can understand. So, new player, are you ready to suffer, cry, and experience a blatantly unbalanced but ultimately fair experience in the name of achieving that bliss you can't achieve otherwise? If yes, welcome to from soft games. If no, have fun elsewhere. This isn't for you.

[@HandofGod440]

“Elden Ring is tooooooo hard!” As Griffin dodges 90% of Margit’s moves without using a summon NPC or Ash.

[@cqb3814]

Even when I killed Margit for the first time I had two flasks left and I was at 1 HP

[@Draffut2003]

So if a game is possible to beat it can't be too hard?

[@TheStrangr]

Margit's not that hard, tbf. The worst thing he does is those goddamn bullshit daggers.

[@Virtual_Vex]

summons and ashes just confuse me lol hard to tell what move the boss is doing if they're not starring at me, ya know?

[@HandofGod440]

@@Draffut2003 I don't think the majority of Elden Ring players would classify it as "too hard." Some difficult bosses and areas, yeah for sure. Sekiro was a pain in the ass however. Ninja Gaiden on high difficulty settings is hard. I know several people who quit Sekiro and Dark Souls because they thought it was too hard but are trouncing through Elden Ring.

[@dog8438]

The funniest part is that he could have literally just restarted his playthrough on a new save. This is _literally_ the first 10 minutes of the game lol

[@todd5purlock497]

Not EVEN, that's 3 minutes if you skip the tutorial cave tops

[@RangerJoe77]

Can confirm just tested just takes 3 minutes to 4 minutes if you skip all cutscenes

[@superstd]

you overestimate him , he might actually took hours fighting the tutorial path 😂

[@lightning1776]

@@superstd He either skipped the tutorial or didn't bother reading the messages there since that would have made it very clear on how to lock on.

[@superstd]

@@lightning1776 you overestimate him , he might actually not reading anything and walk around like a bumbling fool and swing at everything . why else he hit npc ?

[@PlacidusaxTheDragonlord]

This guy is the type of person who mixed their play doh when they were a kid

[@boblarry7879]

This guy clearly didn't grow up playing NES, SNES, or Genesis games because those games were 10x harder than games today.

[@shuga_knips7731]

Nah this guy grew up playing hello kitty island adventure

[@mephistoxarses8585]

I dont think that guy actually grew up.

[@TokenViking]

Total agreement here. Back when video games were designed to be quarter eaters, you had to get good to have any playtime at all.

[@apebeats6631]

@@shuga_knips7731 bruh...that's a bad ass game. I just got the DLC and it's purrfection.

[@archimedes8276]

Absolutely 100% correct!

[@Arcademan09]

"it's unforgiving..." You know what, besides losing runes/money there isn't really any consequences to dying except the occasional checkpoint where you have to run for a bit. The deaths are NOWHERE NEAR as bad as the original Souls games where you have to have specific items or else you lose a huge chunk of health, to the point where it wasn't worth going back to human if you knew you were gonna die. I'm almost 200 hours in and I've only gotten maybe 3-4 main bosses, I keep exploring and I love helping random players

[@yimwee2401]

Thank god for no hollowing haha, this game would be a nightmare with half hp

[@valtiel8383]

Yeah imagine how he would cope with dying on the four kings boss. Having to run through new londo ruins every time 😂

[@TowaMidriffEnjoyer]

Bruh imagine if Miyazaki made losing levels a dying mechanic in the next game, a death means losing a level, then in Ng+ it makes you lose 2 levels then increases with every Ng+.This would basically turn any fromsoft game into jump king,and I feel like any game with a difficulty level is trying to make the game harder artificially instead of just having a fromsoft base game without any difficulty settings unless it matches with the story theme or is found in or after base game completion.Difficulty levels doesn't even make sense unless integrated into the story, and it helps with the feeling like the game is relatively organic or natural.

[@boraozden5875]

holy shit, you really are taking your time mate xD, glad to see someone is having fun.

[@Hekinsieden]

and no fast travel until like half the game is beaten in Dark Souls 1!

[@BlackSteelRaven]

This is my first Souls game that I've committed to and beaten. And I found every minute enjoyable and half of it was frustrating. But in the end, I loved this game more than I thought i would and I don't regret this purchase. It humbled me and taught me patience. It showed me that people are still discovering things in the game and a new supposed ending. It was an absolutely amazing experience to play this game from beginning to end.

[@BoricuaBoy88]

Not my idea of entertainment, but good for you. I prefer lighthearted distractions myself. Years of raging in COD has likely been the cause of some of my gray hairs, lol. No reason for me to replace that source of frustration with another, especially one without a big social element.

[@unpingouinsurlabanquise4574]

@@BoricuaBoy88 there's a big gap in quality between from soft games and cod.

[@thefallout91]

@@unpingouinsurlabanquise4574 Good thing he wasnt comparing quality, just both will make you rage.

[@unpingouinsurlabanquise4574]

Yeah true

[@megalootbags]

"I walk up to this giant golden horse thing and boom... one shot dead." *Shows gameplay of him standing there without dodging drinking health flasks as he gets bonked 4 times*

[@riddlerskull9157]

I'm 14, and have never played a Souls game before. Elden Ring is my first Souls experience. I love it. While dropping your runes upon death is a little annoying, the satisfaction of finally beating that one boss/enemy you keep struggling with far outweighs the annoyances that occur.

[@felixsylvester4266]

The dropping of Runes does sadly feel like a bit of a holdover from the older titles that doesn't fit that well into Elden Ring. In the Open World you can always easily get your Runes back so it doesn't add challenge. But during Boss Battles it is now basically impossible to get them without picking them up for as many times as you die to the Boss. If you haven't played the older titles you probably don't know this, but there was an item you could use to teleport back to the Hub area or last Bonefire and it could be used everywhere-including Boss rooms. I'm not sure why Elden Ring lacks an item like that. Anyway, hope you enjoy the game! If you really crave more gameplay of this sort after finishing it, I recommend either Bloodborne or Dark Douls 3. Bloodborne has the best bossfights out of all their games imo, while DS3 stays consistently very good, but doesn't quite reach the highs (or lows) of Bloodborne or Elden Ring. Dark Souls 1 is also still great, but feels a bit outdated and slow by now.

[@farlonmuentes6004]

just thinking about it makes me feel really old. the first souls game came out when you are about 1 or 2 years old. i think.

[@soulsofwar8985]

@@farlonmuentes6004 Demon's Souls came out when I was 6 and I am 5 years older than the OP so yeah, about 1 or 2. I played Demon's Souls when I was 7 and was absolutely hooked, such an amazing series. I remember waking up several hours before school everyday so I could play it (me and my step-dad shared a PS3 for hte longest time and since it was technically his I couldn't play after school so I went to bed early and woke up early just to play it. No other game got me so hooked at the time that I changed my sleep schedule just to play it lol)

[@runnergo1398]

@@felixsylvester4266 runes don't really matter much. There are so many farming locations. Not to mention that big dragon. Then again, for someone not willing to look up guides, they will be lost and frustrated.

[@BrolyIsTheGoat]

You could always farm up the sacrificial twigs

[@Scendence_]

"People want an easy mode because they don't want to learn how to play the game." You just put into words what I've been thinking for years, thank you.

[@TheTrueVirus22]

Yup and the other problem is that everybody thinks that every single game has to be for them. If you don't enjoy the game as it is, just don't play it. Simple as that. It is not the developers obligation to then change the game just to include every single person. Also, the debate about the difficulty starts everytime fromsoft releases a new game and it is just the same shit over and over again. When are they just gonna drop it? It is the essence of the games and honestly i gotta say that Elden Ring really is only as hard as you make it for yourself. You can play mage and blast everything, you have op ashes that can help out a ton and if everything fails there is still the internet to look stuff up. There are so many options to make it significantly easier if you really want it that bad. Nobody forbids you from using those tools and if you are still complaining about it being too hard, then maybe you are just bad at playing video games. Are people not used to die a few times to a boss? I really wonder what kind of games those people usually play.

[@yololoyo7379]

Even my non gamer sister manage to beat this game (except some optional bosses) 😂. There's a reason souls games are in their own genre, they're not like generic Ubisoft games

[@SonoKurisu]

With all due respect when I first met the Santa merchant I accidentally hit him but the game has a failsafe for things like this like the fact that NPCs DONT ENGAGE AFTER A SINGLE HIT you have to hit them multiple times in a row to make the aggro

[@sadlittlewizard7188]

But bro, his character just started swinging wildly, how was he supposed to know?

[@A_z_r_a_e_l_]

Are you sure you wanna do this?

[@Writhagon319]

One thing to understand though is that not everyone has the TIME to "git gud" I happen to have all day to rage, calm down, and learn but people who have little time probably don't like this game or they have no patience. A close person of mine only has 30-90 minutes tops to play a game and Elden Ring or souls games would not work for him because he is so busy and does not have the time to learn the game like most of us do

[@michaellombardi5831]

If someone takes serious a review from someone that rage quits 10 minutes into a game, I feel bad for them.

[@TJayRZ]

A 15 min video. When he only played 10 minutes 🤣😆

[@AK474000]

The NPCs usually require you to follow up attacks from my experience. This is more forgiving than previous Souls games. So just hitting them once shouldn't have caused him to aggro if this was a genuine mistake.

[@gehtdichnichtsan2418]

Especially with Poise being so prevelant, you can stagger most of the Bosses until your stamina depletes. You yourself are the difficulty curve, if you can't adapt you gonna eat shit for quite some time, but if you exploit it, it becomes a cake walk.

[@Mia-Bunny]

Yeah he fucked himself, you have to hit him two or three times in a row. I love how people that are new to these games just attack stuff. It's so freaking funny 🤣

[@appie4976]

@@gehtdichnichtsan2418 yeah there are loads of ways to cheese the game or simply use bugs by mistake or not, this game isn't hard overal you can make it hard

[@FrostRare]

Yeah man wtf was this guy thinking that this was GTA or something?

[@sternritternovad]

There's so much bs to unpack " he accidentally attacked an NPC" "couldn't lock on" " Couldn't wait for Gran Turismo", a mountain of evidence points to him being a contrarian who didn't buy into Elden Ring's hype and wanted to take it down a peg, and failing miserably.

[@onepoundswallowtwopoundcoc3115]

And he used our great lords name in vain, oh how holy be thine name DMC 3. 🙏 seriously though, I want to see this guys score card in DMC3. If he really hates this game, then their is no way he has even touched hard difficulty on devil may cry 3. Hell I doubt he has beaten Vergil on normal, if even easy. It is an eerily similar experience to ER. So I wonder if he is one of those guys who is a casual that throws out names of games to get cred. I bet he is.

[@bendi9907]

There is a easy mode in elden ring summoning other people to help you

[@Mr.Bendoverr]

I love how critics' reasoning is always "I'm bad, 0/10"

[@ethandaly2455]

Technically speaking, since you can pick up your exp when you die, the game only punishes you for making the same mistake twice

[@zacheryeckard3051]

Unless that mistake is staying in caelid.

[@animeisdead]

@@zacheryeckard3051 on goddddd

[@hyperdimensionbliss]

"You're at the beginning of the game, you make one mistake, it's unforgiving." TL: the game wastes no time in telling you what level of competence you're expected to play at. That's good game design because it's getting you into that expectation early rather than springing it on you later.

[@DRAG0N1012]

Thats literally the point and i dont know why he doesn't see it clearly its supposed to be only the ones who learn and adapt can beat it its ment to test you and your abilities enemies have weaknesses its up to you to test until you find something that works

[@Teuwufel]

and if someone don't like it they can refund the game instead of wasting 2-10h to then realise this is not for them and they don't want to git gud.

[@rezzy8984]

Right it’s honestly the best part the game has no problem telling u , you are in the wrong area u better run or try some different stuff to beat it literally the first 2 things it teaches u don’t hit the npcs and run from the giant horse dude cause u can’t kill him 😭like that are there for a reason

[@eyo8766]

Clearly this fool never played League of Legends

[@SilentSpringz]

@@eyo8766 bruh the illusions of those people are insane. Im jungle main but these fucks die to enemie or the jungle and magically its my dam fault for them not going to deep when not knowing were jungle is or put up wards. Im not going to waste my time baby sitting in a lane as a tank to gank while they suck so bad they prob cant follow up in dmg and we just get killed. Had 4.0.0 kils in 4 min as fiddle. But they feed and all blamed it on me XD. Mostly can keep calm but dam that get me on my nerves lol

[@triippy...6476]

Imo Elden Ring is the easiest of the Soulsborne games. The fact he has obviously never played a souls game and went into this KNOWING it's a new addition to the souls games and DIDNT run through the tutorial, he ruined his own experience

[@MistaBrandoVA]

Truly Maidenless behavior 😂 I can’t wait to buy Elden Ring, I know I’m gonna suck at it at first because Souls titles aren’t usually my cup of tea but it looks like a blast. Plus this one seems to be made pretty accessible with a lot of goofy cheese builds that look fun to try out.

[@BladeRunner031]

I never played Souls games,Elden Ring is my first one.I did suck,I didn't know what the hell Im doing but now,now I know much more,Im understanding the game and I must say that this is the best game I ever played

[@falseprodigy5361]

It's the easiest and more beginner's friendly than the other souls game, there's so much room for trial and error 'cus we can change our build and strategies as much as we want. Also the exploration make grinding less boring, the world is HUGE man, i mean HUGE HUGE

[@pogtuber5146]

I don't use cheese builds at all, and I never beat a souls game after giving up on DS about halfway through teh game, and I'm doing fine. It's easy to go somewhere else do a whole bunch of stuff and get more levels (and Vigor!) and make the mid-game fairly easy. Nothing is ever easy of course but I can soak up a couple large attacks before dying.

[@rokmare]

If you want the easy way out than sorcery is the way to go than once you get a feel of the game you can try out a melee build character that’s what I’m doing right now.

[@megatronsostrong2523]

@@falseprodigy5361 I totally agree. I think the souls games are way more difficult. Plus you can level way higher per area and make bosses dumb easy.

[@carebearkj4320]

Watching the corner footage of him fighting that dude is just painful. No attempts to block, roll, or get behind him. He's just mashing the melee button expecting a different result every time.

[@Xeno_Solarus]

Literal definition of insanity.

[@josephcola9662]

@@Xeno_Solarus exactly

[@Mimsie]

"you die in one hit! it's not fair" brings up the menu, looks at Vigor, levels vigor. now I die in 5 hits. Oh look I was dying too fast learned I can lvl vigor. Look at that I thought for 2 seconds and my experience improved without "getting gud"

[@juanpch2175]

that man didnt even reach a second grace lmao

[@jhemp]

He didn't get to where you unlock leveling

[@octavianpopescu4776]

@@jhemp We all reached Melina to get our own maiden, but I guess... he truly was maidenless. 😀

[@Mortomi]

Took me until starscourge to level vigor, the old souls habits hit hard.

[@CostasSavvides]

If you’re gonna be sensible with your experience and start getting good by critically thinking on how to approach each challenge we don’t need that bullshit and get the fuck out 😂

[@AlexCatable]

I just want a link to the original video. Or was it already removed?

[@weepypeehole8205]

"You make one mistake and you're fucked". Everything they said about eldin ring and dark souls can be applied to Mario bros

[@Duster29to86]

And any game from the 8-bit era.

[@Of-AgeConsentingNon-Related]

"super mario bros is trash game design because no ez mode!" - the maidenless

[@peepeestorm3187]

This guy definitely rolled up to the Tree Sentinel on a fresh save and judged the whole game off of that interaction.

[@dreamchaser5359]

Right after picking a fight with the first npc you see calming he did it on accident

[@NopeP]

Lol defo

[@trexypoo]

The greatest mystery of our time will forever be why this dude didn’t just make a new save

[@alexanderhugestrand]

It's pretty weird that one has to do that. If you are supposed to learn that "I shouldn't attack that guy", then the game should give the player a chance to get away when he respawns.

[@trexypoo]

@@alexanderhugestrand it’s definitely possible to evade him after he’s aggro’d and you have to hit him like 3 times before he becomes aggressive so it’s pretty difficult to do by accident but even still I was just saying in his scenario if he aggro’d him and couldn’t just run past without getting killed he should’ve just started a new save since it was like less than 5 minutes into the game

[@JG09101]

@@alexanderhugestrand why would you attack him anyway is the point lol I mean yeah sure he says you're maidenless but it's literally just a video game npc. I'd say the fault is more on the player than the game or the devs at that point but oh well.

[@Skyflakes05]

@@alexanderhugestrand why the fuck would you even attack the peaceful looking, non weapon wielding npc? i'm guessing you got offended when he called you maidenless lol.

[@AaronWOfficial]

Its not weird at all. The guy is not hostile at all, literally stood there at the site of grace welcoming the player and giving them tips on how to progress. Let me go back in time to the legend of zelda link's awakening on the game boy. If you steal from the shopkeeper, the next time you go into his shop he has some electric gun or something and 1 shots you (cutscene, not even possible to fight or survive). That is far more unforgiving than what happened to this guy and that game was literally made for young children XD@@alexanderhugestrand

[@chelsthegameruiner8669]

Though I'm currently waiting for DLCs to be announced/confirmed, I find it insanely hard to hate games like Elden Ring whenever I die to a boss. Obviously it's frustrating, but it feels great to overcome the bosses

[@DarkTider]

Hearing that rage rant about one mistake and you are dead: "Yes! Thats the point of why we love it and scream when we finally take down a boss." *Dark souls veteran enjoying the tears of people not realizing what they walked into.*

[@Threaldaveoss]

Not only that it also helps humble you. alot of games you can just skill through.. Not souls games, there are the exception players of such skill that the general rule of thumb does not apply. but typically you have to earn your victories and souls, blood echo's, sen and runes.

[@averagesoul8256]

the funny part is that even if you accidentally atack varee ,and pretty much any npc for that matter, at first they shrug it off, and you have to atack them like 4-5 times until they start atacking, so no he went out of his way to try and kill varee. Truly maidenless

[@LoDaFTA]

You can obviously see that he did not even go down the tutorial cave where they explain the basic mechanics of the game. Dude can't even lock-on the enemies.

[@__TK___]

Lol on my first playthrough I didn’t went down in the tutorial cave also. Guess what? I’ve beaten the Elden beast and I’m on new game plus already

[@hatefulgaming1800]

@@__TK___ Well I’m guessing you try to jump Varre.

[@themysterykid1]

I didn’t even know the tutorial was there but still figured everything out and didn’t bitch and cry like this dude

[@DragonballZDeep215]

The difficulty is the best part. It makes you feel like youve actually acheived something.

[@billybatts8283]

I was having trouble with a boss, died a few times. So I took a moment, checked my talismans, changed a couple to suit the fight. Changed my wondrous physick to suit the fight, went back in and killed it first time. These games have always been about dying, learning, adapting and then conquering.

[@beasthaven1571]

Me and friend going co op through game.. explored academy found renalla died to dog boss many times kept exploring found main boss died so many times on first phase. Slowly learned patterns and adapted finally reached second phase it was hard learned about summon and kept retrying. Then we swapped weapon to them having blood and us rushing the golden aura people no longer being scared after solar flared was able to skip her tombstone phase (which was what killed us the most without realizing till we spotted it out) then we were finally able to phase 1 her after two phases of golden people. Did phase two for 20 more times( additional to phase one learning lost count) till we beat her and it felt soo good after so many hours learning it. Then we did it on other persons since aggros different took 15 tries to kill Now we just dont know how to use the rememberance at all so trying to figure that out but its been a blaaast

[@Reesanicole83]

I think everyone remembers their first time attacking an NPC - accident or not. That's a lesson you only need to learn ONCE. I'm a very casual player - I'm a working mom - and I love it. I've actually had to ground MYSELF off the game bc I've spent almost 200 hours in it already and have only gotten to the beginning of the snowy area. I'm not even mad, I'm just enjoying the journey and scenery 💖💖

[@MattBG67]

It really is a very beautiful and surreal experience

[@incius8341]

True, not as bad as their older games too. You have to Actively attack an NPC 3 times to aggro them so It's not like dropping your controller will do it. Played demon souls on ps3 and laid the controller on the shoulder button near an important merchent. Not a good day.

[@postproductions2466]

For me it was the Male undead merchant in DS1. It was an accident, he just startled me is all. I was so heartbroken seeing his body there and just having no merchant for such a long stretch. A hard earned lesson

[@MichaelWilliams-oi5bx]

Being mad at Elder Ring for being difficult, is like being mad at McDonald’s for shitty food

[@RH_Collective]

Or going to the gym & saying that working out to lose weight is too difficult.

[@BohrokKiller]

Asking Elder ring to have a "easy mode" is like asking Bethesda to not release a buggy game

[@WarHog935itchy]

@@BohrokKiller it’s like people don’t want to watch happy tree friends because it’s violent

[@thesterben5573]

Its like complaining spicy food is spicy

[@mezuki64]

@@RH_Collective you just described California in a nutshell