I am one step closer to becoming an ELDEN LORD! - Elden Ring - Grubby

I am one step closer to becoming an ELDEN LORD! (Game played on 26-March-2024)
Catch me live all days of the week at: / grubby
#EldenRing #Agheel #Dragon

[@combinemanPL]

I really like watching a true blind playthrough. It really makes me appreciate what Miyazaki does to these games in terms of design - nothing is told directly, everything is taught via worldbuilding and level design. Forcing you to take a step back and use your head - the solution is always pretty easy, but we're so used to games explaining stuff that lack of such explanation makes it even more fun. During one of his interviews Miyazaki mentioned that he wanted for the players to have a similar sense of discovery to the one he experienced when he started reading more difficult books as a child, and even though he didn't know the whole Japanese alphabet, the part of discovery and filling in the gaps was even more fun. Really resonates well with lots of players.

[@combinemanPL]

I mean some things are explicitly stated, but they're in form of easily missable messages.

[@andrew-rn9ui]

I got baked andbl the settings are high and it looks so real and the way he plays made me feel like I'm experiencing the game again for the first time in a new way it's weird

[@combinemanPL]

@@andrew-rn9ui I was stoned throughout his whole playthrough lmao. good vibes.

[@Drewster86]

@20:10 omg. Had me rolling dude. Hit the very hard to hit invisible bug by accident without realizing it was an enemy

[@RiverRockRecords]

i saw that.. that shits rare to do on accident haha

[@Gottagoslower]

Dying a lot in FROMSOFT titles IMO is very rewarding as you see really cool new moves and interactions which you could miss if you're searching up best builds and breeze through the game. Not saying I condemn it but as a viewer it's so much more enjoyable watching someone experiencing things for the first time without being spoiled what's the best weapon or what boss is which or if it's a hard one and it makes you start appreciating the story/gameplay/cinematics of the actual fights even more.

[@davidhoyt6198]

Just wanted to say since you specifically asked chat about this in the last vod: upgrading shields does in fact make them better, just not every level. If you upgrade it, I believe, to +3 it will gain +1 to its Guard Boost (If you block D damage D * (100 - Guard Boost) is the amount of stamina you will lose) and typically a further +1 Guard Boost every ~3 levels after that. It scales slowly because Guard Boost is quite powerful. I think they should really have made them gain their first increase to Guard Boost at +1 because some people seem to think there's no reason to upgrade shields because, presumably, they've never leveled one up far enough to see the benefit. I think players are typically more interested in upgrading weapons and all weapons improve meaningfully with every upgrade and since the game never gives you any reason to think shields might work differently it's entirely reasonable to assume that shields will never improve meaningfully by looking at the stats on the first upgrade.

[@ocfish13133]

1000 hrs into the game and I never knew that. Thanks for the info!

[@DarkHarlequin]

I really love how Grubby is just having fun exploring the world, trying things and isn't letting any silly notions in chat hurry him or tell him how to have fun. I can feel the joy of just wandering around in the world and it's contagious. 😊 First time playing a Soulsborne game is just really special 💕

[@adxtn]

My favourite WC3 player becoming my favourite Elden Ring streamer. Love watching your perspective on the game.

[@nomercy8989]

Epic Name Bro, one of the original Souls youtubers had a good way to get better at fighting bosses. He would spend all of his time in the first few attempts just trying to dodge and survive for as long as possible and not attack at all. Basically what Grubby did there with Darriwil

[@codyaaron3371]

Grubby I just stumbled across you playin elden ring and instantly became a fan. Super entertaining to watch and excited for this elden ring journey 💪🏻

[@Purkinje90]

Whenever Grubby says “Hey Chat”: The beacons are lit! Grubtor calls for aid! And Chat-han will answer! Muster the Troll-hirrim!

[@prisoner817]

It's been super fun watching you blindly experience the game, appreciate the no backseating policy even if sometimes the mods are a little heavy handed on it. (Example, explaining very basic mechanics the game will never directly tell him such as "hey you can hit the glowly part when they're stunned for a special attack")

[@just-gaming213]

Doesn't it literaly tell you this in the tutorial?

[@victornguyen1175]

@@just-gaming213 If Grubby actually paid attention, yes. It's not like he doesn't read, he just glazes over stuff sometimes because he thinks he already knows what it's telling him. His experiences solely sticking with RTS frequently narrows his perspective on things and causes him to overlook simple solutions. His curiosity practically doesn't exist so things take longer to solve, but he makes up for it in patience and usually figures things out thoroughly with enough time.

[@just-gaming213]

@@victornguyen1175 a good advice for him would be to literally go back and run the tutorial again, though he's well ahead and probably figured it out by now, saw he sussed crit points on the big enemies. Just gaurd counters now. 😂

[@ctackins8874]

friggin love Grubby. dude is talented af!

[@ETBrooD]

The KZbin comment section of Grubby's Elden Ring videos is filling up with spoilers more and more. I think it might be good to avoid reading the comments from now on. Or maybe write "no spoilers" in the video title, see if that helps.

[@lethal3268]

videos are from last month

[@Mozgodrobil]

20:08 oh man it was painful to watch :D for some odd reason I started to think that the only way Grubby would figure these trails out is if he randomly swung and hit it, lo and behold. And I consider Grubby to be quite analytic and shrewd. But alas, we have our own ways of experiencing things :P

[@blendonator]

The big walking building is called the mausoleum by the way. It was frustrating to see how close you got to getting it before you gave up lol 😂

[@anukthotawatta982]

dude make this a series. its so fun to watch

[@djadas4611]

3:35:20 "We can now loose maximum runes, fantastic..." made me laugh so hard.

[@2JOfficial]

Has bro really not gone back to pick up the Summoning Bell yet??

[@Tend0nin]

I thought I had missed it in an older video. I'm glad I havent. lol

[@AmbivalentRay]

Here’s hoping he never gets it

[@wassimdarwich5918]

It's a completely blind playthrough of his first soulslike, he's gonna miss some stuff and he's better off for it

[@vvvvv6574]

he doesn’t even know that the bell exists dummy

[@Tend0nin]

@wassimdarwich5918 I'm sure he knows. Probably just venting. People can vent about a thing not happening yet and still enjoy the content overall. Looking forward to his reaction of the Renna event itself than I am him getting the bell from her.

[@paradox-6399]

That fight in the evergaol was amazing. The progress you made since the last video is very good. You’ll be a monster at this game in no time. Hope you’re enjoying the game brother!

[@jt12192]

Man I can’t wait to see grubbys face when he discovers guard counters

[@ToNzzOFuN]

Dude. You’re awesome. Elden Ring was my first Fromsoft game as well. It has become my favorite game of all time. Watching you start, and the progression you’re making is making me wish I could experience it for the first time again.

[@Mozgodrobil]

2:45:00 Also wanted to note how you can and should utilize heavy attacks and variations of them for each and every weapon (some are unique, like the lucky 1% drop chance Iron cleaver you got, if you hold down the heavy attack button, see for yourself), as well as jumping attacks, guard counters, because they help breaking enemy guard faster - all these things you've done/learned in the tutorial level at the very start of the game. Some Ashes of War have two variations as well, for one you press light attack for the other heavy attack (square off is one of them, you can pretty much just read the description of it to see this :P), I'm not familiar with KBM inputs, so I'm guessing it would be ctrl+LMB and ctrl+RMB.

[@Mana_Thief]

Never played this game but glad Grubby is enjoying it 😅

[@RiverRockRecords]

i like how you accept and mold into the souls gamer terms and mindset. its kinda sick

[@Drewster86]

The bloodhound fang is the way to go. It can get you through the entire game. Dex & strength boost the damage so leveling Dex is not a loss

[@Mozgodrobil]

3:15:32 *Shroock*

[@TB-jr]

Watching this equally frustrated and impressed. Like how he gradually learns the mechanics of the game by trial, error and determination. But I shout out loud every time he justs waltzes past loot and secrets.

[@ishi...]

read item descriptions for lore stuff, like the armor that is dropped by the guards you were wondering who they work for, its probably not gonna tell you that but something in that domain

[@ChanchoWins]

theres much to learn young Tarnished. And the path is long.

[@throtttheunclean]

blood hounds step is easily one of the best weapons you get early game with it being able to carry you through out the campaign

[@MadaraAMVz]

Immediately after successfully blocking an attack with shiel you can follow with a standard Heavy Attack to perform special counter attack move

[@ADeatonic]

Loving your playthrough Grubby. Glad you're enjoying it!

[@therealruski3906]

Growing stronger by the vid!

[@ChuckMothaEfenNorris]

I'm enjoying his playthrough but his lack of awareness and curiosity to explore makes my heart hurt. So many times things are right in his face and he misses them.

[@hsi-enlee-ez8fh]

No summon run gigachad

[@ViralMag_Ravager]

Well done with the Dragon

[@kirktown2046]

Level scaling is worse than murder.

[@GeTarnished_]

deff got lucky wit that scarab

[@bloocheez3]

these have been my favorite video out of all the ER I've seen on this site.

[@CuddleBuddee]

YES ABSOLUTELY I GET SCARED GRUBBY lol. Its worse on us with fast reflexes. Athletes like me and you as a pro player can relate here. Its a gift and a curse 😂

[@Tirishhai]

When deciding on a weapon look at the movesets, u can always get more dmg or adjust the scaling, a few points dmg are useless compered to being able and confortable to use the weapon.

[@Penrose517]

Oh god I wonder when he'll realize there's a jumping light attack and jumping heavy attack you can do, they are such vital parts of your moveset. Same with heavy and light dash attacks.

[@thanganbabp5570]

elden ring, the game where wearing the best heaviest armor you can find is in fact a challenge run

[@killfail1929]

When you add up the dmg, when you compare heave vs standard you notice that with your stats Heavy deals more dmg , actually only 3 dmg more, but this will increase with the str build up :D

[@marcoderry9349]

Spoilerfree tips: - I will reiterate that you should read item descriptons ALWAYS (the bigger and more detailed version of the description I mean). Reading weapon descriptions will also describe its skill and how to use it - The numbers that indicate damage are a bit hard to read. The first number is the base damage followed by "+ x" where x is the scaling, that needs to be added to the base damage to see what the total gets to. Alternatively, you can change view on the right side of the screen and see the total value already added up under "right armament 1 attack damage" (or whatever armament you're analyzing)

[@rnf_mh]

29:20 grubby slowly realizing how the affinity system works (at least a little bit) is so cool to watch, ngl in my first souls games I never understood what infusions where about and I just picked the bigger number. Just goes to show how smart Grubby is

[@rezaruki3912]

Wow Grubby you playin other than RTS game which is great imo. Perhaps you can stream souls like game like Remnant, Lies of P, Lord of Fallen or other RPG game like Dragons Dogma.

[@dmitryhookins4654]

20:10 he is the chosen one P.S. please learn Vigor

[@lethal3268]

bro would rather go to lategame maps than beat the first story boss

[@just-gaming213]

It's almost like it's an open world game.

[@AspectPL]

Yea I'd say this episode you learned how to play the game. Now the world became opened to you.

[@ViralMag_Ravager]

Very hard too not give away spoilers, especially when someone misses cause and effect actions repeatedly, but if you want to watch an authentic 1st time playthru, just gotta watch mistakes happen it's how people learn.

[@john_wisdom]

One step forward, three steps back playthrough.. quite entertaining!

[@ar-musik183]

I recommend you play at night time, there's many interesting things happening in this time :D

[@roleplayingpain4349]

I just found your channel and am absolutely blown away that people still play wc3 and ontop of that consider themself a wc3 pro. What

[@beef5able]

There are still professional StarCraft 1 tournaments and that shit came out in 1998

[@roleplayingpain4349]

@@beef5able I'm sure there are professional hula hoopers and that shit came out in 1969. And is equally a ridiculous thing to be a pro at

[@michaelmach9515]

I cant believe he accidentally killed the beetle. It takes me forever and ik what they are

[@RyanLBC]

For a tip on the walking mausoleum, the white barnacles you were hitting off of its toes is a some thing worth noticing 😊

[@humbletoxic]

58:45 1:19:55 bro you asked for timecodes for moments where you talk and run of a cliff

[@pukeee3667]

The watchdog boss didn’t have adds with him in the boss room? Am I remembering correctly or I’m just dumb?

[@sage798]

There's another one in the early game that does

[@pukeee3667]

@@sage798 Ahh okay thank you!

[@soulbro55]

Does he find the spirit summoning bell?

[@Old_Man001]

I know you don’t like “backseat drivers” or spoilers but this isn’t that. Because you ran through and missed so much of the tutorial, you should know that when you stagger a boss or large creature, a “lit up spot” appears on them which allows you to get a critical hit. You finally figured out how to do backstabs so now it’s time for critical hits. BTW, I know I’m months late with this but just found your channel. Hopefully in the next episode or two, someone shared this with you or you figured it out.

[@anukthotawatta982]

when you stagger let go of movement controls and hit it once with light attack to perform critical attack

[@Goombario37]

I don't like when people go, "how does anyone think of this???" when seeing a design. Like they just thought, "ok we have mausoleums where you can duplicate boss souls how do we make this more interesting and challenging?". Making it move in an open world game is a natural choice, then they logically go, "ok but if it's moving how will players know when it's nearby?" so they put a bell on it. Then they logically go, "well how will we put guards around it if it's moving?" in which case they put ghost guards that can appear and disappear naturally. All creative decisions are born out of logic and I think just going, "well it's cause they're Japanese" or "well it's cause they're on drugs" is insulting to the creative process artists around the world go through.

[@beef5able]

I don’t think you need to be so bent out of someone trying to make sense of the walking mausoleum, the first time they ever see it

[@pmbbmp]

I can knock these skulls off of it....(YES!) but that's not going to do anything (OOF. Why would you make that assumption...?? 🤔)

[@CuddleBuddee]

Totally off about ashes and scaling oof

[@antoniomanuelpereirogonzal726]

My friend, going into this adventure completely blind is going to be very difficult for you. I advise you to do a small tutorial on some simple mechanics that would allow you to advance without getting frustrated.

[@zmeyagosho]

The one thing I hate about this game is the cliff jumping... It is extremely unrealistic and on top of that it's confusing. You can jump from like a 50 meter tall cliff, but 55 meters kills you. It's almost impossible to judge if you will die from fall dmg, or if you can safely jump off:(( In the previous dark souls games was waay easier to judge whether a jump would kill you or not.

[@basicguy5785]

You are dying too often because you rush into groups of enemies. Sometimes it's better to do one at a time.

[@sahanaru]

holy hell him not at least trying out bloodhound fang is infuriating >_< and also not understanding church tears!!!!! All I want is to see him test it out once.

[@aajuhahalme3710]

Pls Grubby play Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous or Underrail next.

[@aajuhahalme3710]

Or Svarog's Dream :)

[@dotsmada2855]

No need to kill everything

[@deepSilent0]

This guy is the reason devs put yellow paint in games…

[@anukthotawatta982]

hey its his first time. he has been playing gmaes with yellow paint this whole time

[@josephreynolds2401]

Unironically yes. That's why the yellow paint exists. It's for First timers and genre outsiders....

[@atrainace114]

Bro, you dont want backseating, but you'll read every message in the game.

[@CuddleBuddee]

Dislike for not using your best weapon and it being 3 dex to 17 to use it properly because of your arrogance and hubris against dec and magic 😂

[@CuddleBuddee]

Not using magic because... You think it takes no skill? 😂 Dislike *Edit wait you said you wont gimo yourself with not using intended mechanics like magic. Like returned. Hopefully that applies to story appropriate summons and spirit ashesn🤙🏾 *Edit edit Lame spell casting? Dislike lol. You think its easy to play with less armor, stamina, endurance and less armaments/options and damage reduction? Anyone can sit behind a lame shield and cheese a fight 😅😂

[@steviesbadtv]

You can’t be one step closer to being Elden lord. Because you’re going the wrong way. Stop putting the Margot fight off and just get on with it. If I can do it. At level 1. You can too…🫣🤨🤷🏻‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Spenceman2002]

Ya moma

[@Caleb-il7om]

omg these elden ring tryhards think they are so cool lol, go watch someone else if you just want to watch someone lvl1 Margot, weirdo

[@yukino6129]

wow, you can fight a boss. literally nobody cares

[@steviesbadtv]

@@Caleb-il7om I do watch someone defeat Margot at level 1. when I watch my own videos…🤭🤣🤷🏻‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@steviesbadtv]

@@Caleb-il7om try-hard. I’m a Scottish gaming legend. I don’t need to try hard. It’s a natural skill…🤭🤣🤷🏻‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jeffscott7770]

Loving the videos.. it’s almost like playing thru the game for the first time again 🤙

[@iguanaacuatica5543]

38:00 is gold

[@iguanaacuatica5543]

im lovin these so much lmao