Havent seen a DW video in 6 year. Had to watch this to see if he hasnt changed. Glad to see hes still a hot take machine. Dont ever change DW.

Amazing video! Keep up the amazing work!

Fromsoft's games are my all time favs and while I did enjoy elden ring alot, you're not wrong! There was a lot about elden ring that was just overbearing and daunting to me after about 80 hrs I had to make myself finish it, I was so fatigued that I barely was barely able to, I prefer the traditional souls games design much more

how did you even find the first main quest after the intro dungeon? I tried looking around for a long time and only found so place that the girl told me and honestly I just couldn't navigate my way through it call me a noob I just couldn't!

Coming back to this video after the DLC is out and some folks finally seem to have woken up to the games problems is funny. Anyway will you do Amored Core 6 as a review as well DW? Would be interesting to get your thoughts on that, I think.

I don’t mind the short attack windups but I hated the obnoxiously long wind ups of certain attacks

I enjoyed listening to your thoughts of Elden Ring. I find them interesting.

it won goty more than once, and recently won goty at tga’s, any thoughts on that ??.

I _did_ meet the mine version of Astel before the other one, and that ended up being a pattern for me, since I even would often stumble on trash mob versions of an enemy before meeting the recycled dramatized boss version. This means that the game was essentially serving me content in reverse, and while it can be argued that it was my fault for "sequence breaking", the counter argument is that the game is designed around doing that.

How much GDDR5X 256bit memory does your GTX 1080 have?

Will DWTerminator make an MTO on the Elden Ring DLC?

I actually liked Elden Ring, but your criticisms are on point. The games quality dips heavily towards the end, too.

people don't usually spec into faith alone in these games, faith is always tagged onto something else, faith/strength faith/dex faith/int, going pue faith is actually very hard lol

58:03. Yea, I think I met that boss at the beginning of the game, at lvl 10-25 and he wrecked me. I played the game but I lost interest in it. A lot of your points are valid.

I heard about Elden Ring through friends on Discord.

The fact it was fixed to 60 FPS was ridiculous

no way bro called morgott the same boss with some extra moves. Dude's got an entirely new moveset

Have you played hellpoint??? It has good co-op for a indie souls like game.

Review Made in Abyss Binary Star Falling into Darkness (comes out september 2)

"If i ever create another Dark Souls game, it'll be at the end of my career". That sentence made me think the director wanted to create a new concept or at least improve seriously the gameplay loop now but here we go again. For many people it's fine to continue playing what they like (people still play Dark Souls over and over) but already from Dark Souls 3 i was tired of it. Will we have another 3-4 Elder Ring games now? I really hope they create some side stuff, smaller in scope with different paradigms in fighting style and so on. They should have the money to try that. Fewer equipment but that matters, new enemies archetypes, dungeons with less copy&paste (artistic vision can help to a degree). Bosses that aren't dodge challenges and little else.

Dw termantior you ever played the panzer dragoon gsmes ever

Good video. Agreed with some but not all. Personally I think the reused assets becomes a bit of a bummer due to just the sheer size of the world. 11 ulcerated tree spirits is just a bit much IMO. I can handle the other reused assets as most of them have a lore reason to explain why they’re there. At least it isn’t like Destiny 1 where Bungie sold you DLCs that literally were just the base game maps but ran backwards with maybe a variation to mob spawns. That’s the worst case of assets reuse I’ve ever witnessed. The input lag is absolutely terrible. 💯 agree with that. Most of my deaths are due to input fuckery from the batching system. Late game balancing is nonexistent. I don’t know whether to blame that on open world finally being funneled into a more linear state so they have to account for 1shot comet azure builds or if development crunch hit and that was the last thing worked on. It definitely is frustrating to the point of shut the game off and walk away screaming. And I love the game and I’m saying that. Elden ring was a good first attempt at the open world soulslike, ER2 will hopefully not be a repeat of DS2.

I played all FS games, Dark Souls 1 is still one of my favourite games ever, it brought me back to gaming, i was like 25 back then i tought im getting too old for gaming/was getting burned out. I can and still do go back and play DS1, DS3, Bloodborne, for so many years. I played through Elden Ring once, and i have no intention or willingness to play it again. Mediocre, bloated copy pasta. The only really amazing thing about this game is the world, but it only lasts for your first playthrough, everything else, from NPCs, to bosses, is mediocre and forgettable. Also - why bring George R.R. Martin to make this game? WTF, how is the story any different than any other souls game lol. 90%+ people who play it will miss it anyways, if they dont watch 1hr long lore videos on youtube or read the wiki. FromSoft basically did a Bethesda with Elden Ring when it comes to assets reuse, models, textures, animations. 100 bossess or something like that, only 8 are unique, rest is copy pasted over and over, no - thanks.

Though I love the Souls/Sekiro combat and these game wowed me in the early hours, the combined design flaws (some are NES-old and obsolete) became so exhausting and these games became unrewarding to play. Glad to hear someone actually critiques Elden Ring. Most critics either want to have From Soft's babies or are too afraid of the fanboys.

Question for the next Q&A. When’s the next Q&A?

How do you not get that they don't want you to care about becoming elden lord lol

I enjoy hearing you articulate yourself when it comes to these games cause I have a similar perspective. I don’t necessarily mind “hard” games but I for sure don’t like “hard” games that don’t feel good or fun during the process of playing them. I recently beat Sifu on hard and had fun even though I kept dying because the flow to combat is fun, same with god of war. But these souls games don’t feel fun to me.

The frame rate drops are annoying because the visuals are nowhere near as good as other games (Cyberpunk,Dying Light 2) that run way smoother on my rtx 3060 ti. As for the game itself,it's basically Dark Souls 4,so many things have been recycled from previous games.The story is cryptic again,you having to read item descriptions in order to have an idea about the world.

This is a very fair review. I got to take my hat off to you for being able to do a video this spot on despite not getting much out of the game. I kinda wish this game didn't have the issues you talked about in this video. I wasn't able to finish this thing either, mostly because i couldn't be bothered with the filler by mid to late game either. Supposedly the very late game story bosses are said to be very good again. But much like you, i didn't enjoy the gameplay anymore after 122 hours in my case and i did play a dex build with dual Katana's i can tell you it wasn't very interesting of a playstyle either. Bloody slash was what the game told me worked the best, so even after looking into what else blood type ashes i could switch to i didn't find anything worth using instead of that. It feels like they just bloated the world with stuff in the last stretch of the dev time, but somehow never upgraded the arsenal the player could use per playstyle at least. I can imagine some hybrid builds like you can find videos for here on youtube working very well, sure, but this type of game should incentivize you to find these builds and combinations of mechanics working out on your own not going to a wiki and just copying what someone else tells you gets the job done!

Elden Ring is one of my favorite and most played games. But I can't, unsee all the flaws and issues it has. It's nowhere near a masterpiece. The videogame industry, kept disappointig gamers for so long, that said gamers, lowered their standards and a game like Elden Ring, might be called a masterpiece, if it's going to be compared to some recent titles.

i have no hope for a salt and sanctuary review and honestly i dont think i want it anymore as likely terminator wouldnt like it

WOW, you haven't done something like this since like FO4 (or FO76). Congrats on you pushing through it anyway, must be an...... interesting experience.

Plus fromsoft fanboys need to realize that from's games just ain't everyone's cup of tea and that's ok! I'm a die hard fan and have friends that just don't care for them and I respect it

I definitely get all your points and felt them while playing, too. But ultimately I actually did love the game and had a 130h playthrough, while most of my online friends were playing it too and that was quite an experience, uncovering the mysteries of the game together like this. Sometimes it frustrated me to an extent I normally cannot endure, but somehow I came back to it again and again. For me personally it was the beauty of the world, the secrets, the artdesign in every corner and the atmosphere that kept me going - and after playing it I really had a problem playing games with inferior combat, because it simply didn't feel good. I also think this game isn't a masterpiece, but it certainly is a unique and intriguing game, for me despite all the problems that come with it. At the end of the day it's really a question of how much shit you can take from From Software and I perfectly understand quitting this game after a while. However I really wish for a second title in this series, there's so much promising stuff here and if they take their time, use their unbelievable ressources they now have after the game skyrocketing sales and really improve on this base that they built here... There might be a masterpiece coming. As a sucker for Open-World-games this was so refreshing and I want more.

I thought the Game of Throne writer wrote the lore

The second astel fight really dose suck ass. Its grab attack dose 9999 wtf

I like the game a lot ...but it feels overrated, the pc port was bad ... I got bored halfway through , it felt repetitive, after the amazing. Hell like the area... the side quest system was awful. I wasted so much time online looking up quests, I think people got hypnotised by the open world , which happens a lot with games , the feeling of freedom is very appealing to most people, but I've seen experts say that bosses were very formulaic

I still playing Word Of Warcraft...

I agree re using bosses really cheapens the memory off the original encounter

Thank you DW, you addressed every gripe I had with this game. I am baffled reviewers are giving this game 10s and 9s. It's by no means a bad game, but there are so many problems with it, and previous Souls games in my opinion have done it better. If this game gets Game of the Year, I am going to lose my mind... -The lag during combat -My game hard-crashed more times than any other FromSoftware games combined -I had to restart once because my save file got stuck in an endless loading loop. -Ardus Plateau region's ground didn't have collision, so I fell through the map whenever I explored there -Game hard-crashes whenever I enter phase 2 of the Fire Giant boss -Greatsword + Heavy Armor build (the "Ongabunga Warrior") doesn't work in late game; late game bosses are super quick and aggressive, and it takes a calendar year to swing the heavy weapon and recover from the animation. Bleed builds are pretty much the only way to go if you plan to solo the game, because bosses have so much health.

I have about 2 characters with the game beaten save for Rot Queen so I have just been invading/Pvp, but its just not for me. Granted, I am new to Soulsgames, but I just didnt enjoy it. The combat was sluggish and the platforming was just ughh. The reused assests werent a huge issue for me though. Also You cant spam Comet azure since most bosses are mobile. It actually takes a lot to setup comet because it fires in a straight line and a boss needs to be pinned down.

Wait until you play Shadow Tower D Dub 😂

Don't know why I prefer Arena over this

I have beat all of the FromSoft games and while I don’t agree with your general criticisms of Soulsbourne mechanics, your criticisms of Elden Ring are spot on, particularly recycled content and not playing by its own rules. It’s such a bloated and repetitive experience and it baffles me that the community isn’t picking up on these issues and are branding it the best game ever made

FromSoftware Games could've easily made a good open-world dungeon crawler game had they not reused enemy assets from previous areas with an extra move, different ability, or more health points or both in different, fixing the attack buffer delays, create a perfect version of Morrowind's journal system, intuitive buttons, diversifying the loot for each player build for almost every place, adding an extra layer of gameplay for the horse-like creature, better in-game information as to why this world needs fixing from multiple perspectives instead of just one albeit in a vaguely prophetic manner, toning down the nihilistic parts by the NPCs, and so on. All of these stuff FromSoftware could've done and fixed would've helped them make Elden Ring into a 7/10 or 8/10 game in my book instead of getting yet another mediocre Dark Souls-like game.

Would you rather be forced to play Elden Ring, generic Ubisoft game or Genshin Impact?

Yeah, the reused content and bullshit like enemies hitting you through the walls (something that should have been fixed in the second game by FS) does sour the experience, but overall the game is great. And dude, wtf are you talking about resistances and defence? The game clearly shows you information about what resistances are, like, increased bleed resistance gives you a bigger bar so you won't get affected by blood loss that quick. The game does explain these stats. Heavier armor clearly reduces damage, where did you get that it doesn't? It seems to not give that much because enemies in later areas are stupidly strong (overtuned more like). About the dragons (wyverns more like), what did you wanted exactly? 20 fucking dragons with different visuals and attacks? The game has a fuckton of enemies, unique enemies already. So i don't think FS is being lazy in this point. Also, you said that your build wasn't good enough for the game, my first time playing ER was like in all the other Souls games: medium to heavy armor, Claymore and a good shield, even a greatshield. I was able to deal with the enemies fine with some hard moments here and there, for example, i killed the two gargoyles on my first time. About reusing bosses. Margit or Morgott uses a projection of himself the first time you encounter him and in the second time too (in the open world close to the royal city). The ghost of Godfrey i see as a remembrance created by the Erdtree to protect it. I do understand that this can be seen as lazy but you need to see/take in account the story/lore in this part. For example, i find it very lazy and bad to have TWO Astels, like you said, TWO Moghs and the Godskin dudes. Some bosses and certain parts of the game are clearly designed to be done with a ash spirit (summon), and that is kinda "meh" imo. And yeah, i agree with the bad side quest design, like, the lack of information gives by the NPCs, that doesn't work well in an open-world game. The dark fantasy setting doesn't work well for open-world imo. I agree that the game should have given you some type of journal system, because in the game you have recipe books, so of course our character can read and write. The fact that some enemies don't abide by the game's rules, the fact that your character should have been faster and that would have worked way better for the combat because of certain enemies and bosses.

The Japanese seem to be very good at filler content .

lmao still seething about the souls backlash

Did you hear that Dragons Dogma 2 is in development?

It's strange to see all these recent titles with state-of-the-art graphics, books of 'lore', enormous hypetrains, enormous worlds and presumably hundreds of thousands of man-hours poured into them, only to barely touch a janky, amateurishly acted, 'linear', braindead AI having old game like Deus Ex blowing it out of the water in story, atmosphere, gameplay, everything.

Is this a critical video about a Souls game on KZfaq? Is this even allowed? Should i report this?

Elden ring has technical issues no doubt. They’re constantly patching new bugs all the time. However you’ve been running into technical issue more and more frequently in these reviews/thoughts/infuriate videos. An it’s because your hardware is woefully outdated at this point. A 4790k is getting beaten by current i3s now adays, an 80 dollar cpu. It’s literally 8 years old and only 4 cores. You don’t even have access to ddr4 ram, which is on its way out. Games stopped being developed for 4 cores a whole generation ago. An as for 16 gigs of ram, it’s woefully little for gaming nowadays. The days of 16gigs being Enough ended a 2-3 years ago. An that was at 16gigs of ddr4. We have games like the division 2, which at this point is 3 years old taking advantage of 16 cores. You’d be better off playing games on a modern console then your current machine. I’m not saying this to be a dick, especially with inflation not everyone can finically afford to do an upgrade. However I don’t think it’s fair to in all these videos keep mentioning performance issues on a machine that can barely keep up with modern i3s/ ryzen 3. The new high end cpus expected to launch this year are in the 24 core range.

It seems like another case of a developer having a formula that "works" and using it over and over again.

Cluncky controls and horrible hitboxes. Same was true for Elex but that game got hammered by critics while this gets 10/10.

FromSoft is notorious for delivering technically underdevloped Shovelware. Their ports are simply trash. And Modders had to fix what the inept developer couldn't or is not willing to do. Its simply BS anti consumer behavior. And that is why i don't give them money. They don't deserve it! All Souls like FromSoft games suffer the same issues. Probably because the same incompetent assheads keep dishing out the same game in different colors all the time. The gameplay in all their games is bad by design, sluggish at best. That is a fact. The strawman combat system is as barebones as it can get. The animations are wonky and just feel wrong. If any Sword Fighter in history would swing any sword like you do in the Souls games, none of them would have survived even a single battle. And unlike in Severance Blade of Darkness, blocking is either very subpar or completely useless, later in the game. Also, you don't really fight enemies, you roll over the floor like an idiot. Waiting for a very short time frame where the enemy stops attacking, and your genius stamina bar has refilled enough, so you can strike two, maybe three times. Then you have to wait and roll again. That is not fighting, that is waiting! (In Blade of Darkness, you fight, you trade blows, you actively Block until your shield shatters!) On small enemies you can use Reposte, but that doesn't work on bigger critters. Reposte is also what should completely recplace backstabbing during combat! And there is so much wrong with the BackStabbing mechanic by design and its implementation, everyone who says that was a good idea should be punched in the face at least three times a day. Backstabbing can work, but definitely not the way this trash company designed it, namely as a cheap abuse system. Tell me what you do, do you do battle? Or do you cheese/backtab your way to victory!? Backstab should only be allowed when unnoticed by enemies. And NEVER in the middle of a fight. Unless you crack some kind of pseudo Dexterity RPG number, that unlocks an ultra skill for being the most agile shadow ninja in da hood or something. Then there is the Art Style, and thats the only point where they deserve credit, in all their Souls games. But the Level Design on the other hand most of the time, is just abysmal! From stairs and bridges that lead to nothing or simply pit falls, to none of it has any kind of railing to prevent the people who live there to fall off etc. So many areas don't even make sense. Not even for Fantasy worlds! Thats bad. Holes in the ground coverd by textures for the player unable to see. Thats cheap and BS level design. To cliffs that look like you'll die when jumping down. But you have to jump down. But still take damage in the process. BS game design. Or walking down stairs, just for the camera being locked into a position where you cannot see the hole in the stairs, because your character blocks your view. $hit like that is what the cucks at FromSoft do on purpose. They probably get a hard on by designing that. General navigation in FromGames are a hassle to say the least. The gamebalance is also all over the damn place, pointless armors, bullet sponges galore etc. etc.. And they give you pseudo missile weapons like bows and crossbows. But none of these are actually viable as a character build. They are only there to "kite" enemies out of groups. What kind of arsehole gamedesigner you have to be, to not only come up with $hit like that, but also do this in all the games your trash company produces? Enough of this. If anyone wants to play the only good Souls Game available. Then you only have one choice, and that is Demon's Souls! The Remake is even better. The game is hard, but it is fair. Its the best there is.

Thanks for your videos on the souls games, why many people praise soulsborne like they're the second coming of christ is beyond me.

When it comes to 30 FPS, I just play it normally. I can tolerate 30 FPS.

“Am I so lame and out of touch? No, it’s everybody else who is wrong”

The reasons people love these games are the same reasons people dont love them so especially with the older games theres no reason to debate with someone on either side, for example the only critiqe with this game i see as legitimate coming from someone who loves these games is the open world design and how it affects the balancing of the difficulty, everything else is just what makes them appealing to its target audience so the devs obviously wont listen to it and shouldn't

These r the types of games we want after a hard days work, instead of stress relief even more frustration. I guess they r designed for dumb kids with too much time at their hands.

I have friends that play Elden Ring.

I'm surprised you even made it to Rykard playing a build worse than Elon Musk lol damn come on man

I think Elden Ring is everything good and bad about From's "Souls" games, multiplied by 10. As a fan, I like most of it, but its problems also became more annoying and hard to ignore, and I hope they listen to the actual critical feedback they've been getting. The game has a severe drop in quality after you go down the elevator at the end of Leyndell (Godefroy is lame, but I still enjoyed the Margitt/Morgott rematches). The Mountaintops/Snowfield areas are just awful, and I think removing them from the game,and replacing them with nothing, would have just improved things overall. The Haligtree was enjoyable as a "hard secret optional dungeon" and the final mandatory dungeon is maybe my favourite in the series, but the bosses of both of them are horrible frustrating messes that seem to have been designed to be fought with Sekiro's controls (which ER doesn't have, obviously). Before Leyndell there were still some notable issues, like the reused dragons, and those "Boss Fights" that consisted of 2 mini-bosses that were not designed to be fought together, so their attacks overlapped and never gave you a window to fight back, but my main issue is that despite the world being non-linear, if you want a consistent difficulty curve, you have to tackle the areas in a specific linear order. I really wish there was an optional way to buff weaker enemies up to your level (similar to DS2 and Sekiro's dificulty options), so I could make an Inquisitor, head for Volcano Manor to get Inquisitor-themed gear, and then be able to head back and have a fun fight with the bosses in Limgrave and their intricate movesets, instead of having them attack me once and explode from the vibrations of their swords hitting my armor. The first time playing, I cleared Caelid before Liurnia, and going back I had to shelve my main weapon and deliberately abstain from "over-upgrading" my other gear so the enemies had a chance. (PS: The second Astel made me sad.)

Keeping playing crappy new games so we don't have to, DW

So do you think this game is more overrated than Breath of the Wild?

While I really loved Elden Ring, you're absolutely correct is saying it's not even close to a masterpiece. It's just a good game. Terraria is a masterpiece - That should be the standard of that term.

Just stop playing souls like. Really just stop. The game is like a torture chamber

Im starting to think you should just stop playing these games if you dont like them. ...Am I wrong? Just a suggestion.

I’ve never seen such a disparity between reviews and the actual quality of a game. Perfect scores across the board without acknowledging obvious flaws within the game. Elden Ring is unequivocally the most overrated game ever made.

DaS1 is one of my favorite games and even I couldn't bring myself to finish this bloated hog. MGS V, BotW, Witcher 3 and now this pile of crap, besides sucking what do they all have in common? Horse mounts. This once gentle beast who helped humanity by providing us with increased mobility way before the time of the diesel engine, and even going as far as working our fields or dying by our side in our pointless wars, is now ruining videogames and I don't like it. Our equine friends sure pulled a fast one on us and if this continues I can clearly see us galloping towards a dark age of electronic entertainment.

Fan boys: Get good!

Most overhyped piece of garbage of the last decade for me, hands down. The PC port is an absolute fucking joke (not being able to stay at 60fps on a 5k gaming rig) and the controls are still complete fucking dogshit. I want the 50 hours I tried to put into this game back.

If you think Nioh is more tightly designed than Elden Ring you've no idea about what a good Souls like is. Nioh is a 80 hours linear game where you face the same reskinned enemies and bosses at nauseum. Gameplay is super clunky, bosses have 1 million hp and there are only 4 weapon classes with the same movesets but different stats. I dropped the game way before the end because of how repetitive and clunky the game was (Sekiro's gameplay is way better). Nioh is one of the only RPGs that bored me after the first level. If anything, Nioh is everything wrong with those kinds of games. I heard Nioh 2 was better but I never played it.

I can't help but feel you really did find the game too hard, which is funny because of how hard-core you otherwise are with gaming. The "It's not skill, it's patience" comment really indicated that to me, because you really can learn your weapons' attacks, how much hits you can take, character movement especially rolling, range to fight efficiently, and then enemies and bosses have patterns and their own ranges and movement style you can analyze and counter with your own. It's just a matter of building skill overtime

Disliked it also. Bloodborne is my jam

90% of questlines in Elden Ring are rather straightforward. Do you really need a journal for that? You can also read any letters / maps to remind yourself. There is a tab dedicated to quest items. I beat the entire thing without looking up a single thing online. It’s really not that complicated lol

I think Elden Ring is overrated and not game of the year. I would give game of the year to Xenoblade chronicles 3 or LiveAlive.

Just like good creamers your points are only half and half. I agree the programming is wacky af but like a good amount is you didn't like some of "boo hoo it's not built for things I want :( and I can't leave attacks I put in myself so I can spammy wammy."

Maidenless

So here we have the 5 people who didn't like elden ring lol

Do you even enjoy gaming? All your reviews are negative. Maybe you should try a different hobby.

This game is trash enough said

souls game are google games. without it youre fakkd

It’s a tedious slog with some cool highlights, the art design is mostly exquisite, other than that there are other games to play. 🫥