Brandon: famous for designing magic system and cool characters working around them Also Brandon: my video game character only knows the power of BONK...

He sounds like he would like monster hunter.

Starts at 2:30

Love the stream and the commentary. Looking forward to book five wind and Truth dropping on December 6th got it pre-ordered.

I so want to see a Fromsoft game with Brandon Sanderson involved. 38:08 is a genius idea

Amaram's final form is basically already a Fromsoft boss

If you want a crazy you level up over the game leveling you up Fear and Hunger 1 & 2 they are hard core RPGs with some genuine crazy brutality.

That Palpatine "Noooo..." at 17:34. lmao

31:46 - I’ve had the same exact thought and question about the dogs. Literally always take them out first because god those things will mess me up.

Jumping over the fire and then jumping again for a heavy attack Also, GRRM contributed the backstory about the siblings to the lore.

42:15 To Brandon's point, the DLC does drop a lot of smithing stones to upgrade these weapons more quickly

dude i cannot believe that brandon sanderson helped write infinity blade i only ever played the games and absolutely loved them but i haven’t thought about them in years and i’ve just gotten into sanderson recently what an insane detail to learn

I disagree wholeheartedly about NPC questlines being their weak point. I think they're obtuse on purpose, and I enjoy that. It's like a puzzle I have to solve. I don't get to just follow an objective marker on a map and finish them. I have to use my brain. From Soft's biggest weakness still remains their camera work I think. Great stream!

I wish we could save Blaid but I don’t think it would be FromSoft grimdark emotion packed if you could

Ac6 has a good ending. Rannis questline is good

Brandon wanted to know about invocations that can be used with str builds. Assuming by invocations he means the ability that Ashes give you on weapons, then these are the ones I recommend. Cragblade, Braggarts Roar, Endure, Lions Claw, Ground Slam and Earthshaker. Ground Slam would be suuuuper funny to see Thog do.

You just have to get the smithing stone bell bearings then you can almost max out each weapon you find. I use a ton of different weapons.

The thing about twists mirrors my opinions on the direction this series is going for different reasons It's just that every race, every faction, everyone, is inherently twisted several times over in a way that combines to make long-term survival impossible at any point, even before the collapse. It's just too varied and small of a world to be anything but ridiculous. It's not all that bad yet because I was well into my second playthrough before it really bothered me But I feel like it's getting there more and more with each game

Noooo! I missed it xD Maybe next time.

Wow, this is amazing, has brandon read berserk yet ?

relaxo sando

38:00 Armored core 6 kinda have a good ending

What happened to fromsoftware showing interest in brandon helping with their next game? Brandon made a whole video opening a package from them with a letter.

Sorry for the repeated comments I'm just playing Elden Ring myself and keep having things to say Anyway, I love how hard he was trying not to have to Openly declare Hoid a Holy Bonk Church Heretic

You should stream Monster Hunter Wilds when it comes out

I MISSED THE STREAM? What's the point of subbing if you're not alerted of lives. Curse you KZfaq, you will rue the day

What is he playing on?

Berserk has some great ideas and concepts. Critique on it would be how the sexual stuff is handled. Its quite bad and overdone. The moment a new girl is shown you just know youll see her without clothes soon. Females purpose is just to be helpless. Which is funny because when the reverse happens, there are a lot of people who cry about it.

Anyone else think for a solid year that the Miyazaki that did Elden Ring is the Studio Ghibli miyazaki?

I think NPC quests are pretty doable if you stop to think about what's going on in the world, try to look at the architecture and lore of the lands to predict the NPCs motives.

Hey I'm sorry about being annoying about the Runes, if you want to hold onto them like points, I get it. It shows how confident you are in your ability, at one point I said baby in chat, that was error from me trying to type faster than I can so sorry that word was not intended. Back to rune horde, I might adopt that as well, it seems as though it adds a bit of excitement because of risk of losing all of them is there and also how many can I stack you know like Benjamin's 😆, just playing but it's awesome that you're streaming Elden Ring.

Dont agree about Malenia. Shes great as is. Also your solution is making an extra step to an already optional boss. I do agree with aspects of difficulty. Fans turn off any critical thinking when its a FromSoft game and hear the trigger word "difficulty". If a boss had 1mil health and you need to pray to the moon, face Mecca and do a 360spin in order to only do 40dmg. They would defend it. As long as FromSoft made the game 😂 And on the otherside. Fans will fight agaisnt difficulty slider menu but they will get mimic tear. Max dmg rivers of blood and one shot bosses. But feel good because there wasnt actual menu item showing that they chose difficulty 😂 its interesting study on the psychology of players

Around 13:40… the phrase describing a “twist for twists sake” could be referring to “subverting expectations.” Think Star Wars The Last Jedi, which ruined Star Wars due to these “twists for twists sake” in that nobody could have guessed what was done in that film.

Honestly the boss reuse is one of my bigger issues with the game.

Melania was easy imo, there were more difficult bosses