Eldin Ring Aeldon Ring Yieldon Ring Fixed the title. Y’all are the worst/best

I like Eldin Ring but Elden Ring is better.

Like the words of MoistCritikal: “Either you die a gamer, or live long enough to see yourself become a game journalist.”

FromSoft Facts: -DLC is *always* harder than base game. -The more you ask for an “easy mode,” the more difficult Miyazaki will make it because he isn’t satisfied until he breaks your body _and_ spirit. -Your tears sustain Miyazaki You brought this on yourselves. Miyazaki will show no mercy. He’s out for blood.

Kai Cenat embracing this game and hitting y’all with the Git Gud noob was not on my bingo card for this year! Wild!

You got ppl on Steam, Twitter, and Reddit saying stuff like "This DLC is way too hard even for soulsborne standards, and I should know cuz I'm a souls fan". Then we got Kai Cenat, who has NEVER played any souls game before Elden Ring, saying "This is the 1st major release since the actual game 2 years ago, correct? If you went through all that hassle 2 years ago, why tf would they make a DLC for you to breeze pass and be done with in a day or 2?" Kai literally understands the game better than some "souls fans" can, and he's been playing for only 2 or 3 months

It only takes about five seconds in the shadow realm to realize the importance of the scadutree tree fragments

I love how it seems people forgot they put Cealid right next to limgrave lol

People just refuse to explore the map/collect the stuff, instead they go straight to the boss and then cry that they do no dmg and the bosses are hard...

You know the Soul is Dark when you start to agree with the “just git gud” crowd

-Artorias of the Abyss DLC -Scholar of the First Sin DLC -Ringed City DLC -The Old Hunters DLC Fromsoft has been warning us all this time, DLCs are here to kick ass! And now, Shadow of the Erdtree DLC is out for blood.

The worst thing that happened to gaming was that it became popular, which drew the gaze of greedy suits.

A buddy of mine got me to play Elden Ring. I started yesterday and even though I've died a lot, I'm having fun so far.

The fact that Kai Cenat, the guy who is literally a newcomer to the franchise beat all of the bosses with a nerfed, weak weapon and a lot of resilience really surprises me.

The funny thing about Fromsoftware's meteoric rise in popularity is thanks to the disastrous early stage development of Demon Souls being so bad that they just let Miyazaki just step in, take over development, and do whatever he wanted because they thought it would just be a flop. Even more hilarious is the fact that Sony, of all companies, refused to publish Demon Souls in the west because they thought the west would hate it, giving Atlus the opportunity to step in to publish it in the west. Now we have a whole new gaming category of games thanks to Souls games. Fromsoftware is the only company that can release a completely new game that is nothing like what they normally do and it will still so well. I hope they return to making survival horror games and the Tenchu series.

Once that big burning furnace one shot me twice I took my ass to get them scadutree blessings 😂

Even Dark Souls 2 shits on most AAA games.

the dlc may have been hard.... but i was harder 💀

If DSP of all people can beat Elden Ring and its DLC then the so called gaming journalists can but they wouldn't put in the work to beat the game.

I don't see how anyone can ruin the lives of 600 people and then be okay with getting 25 mil I have way too much hope for humans I think :/

As a famous Dragon Warrior once said "Skadoosh".

"We don't talk about Dark Souls 2" What??? Dark Souls 2 had an amazing PVP meta with the most diverse builds!

The salaries of CEO's should be tied directly to the profits of the products they produce. NOT revenue or whatever other nonsense, but profit that comes directly from units sold.

Lmao. They expected to just walk through this DLC. 😂

This is like when Armored Core 6 came out, I remember people complaining that they cant kill the first boss.

DLC is amazing, literally all people have to do is explore and upgrade the skibidi blessings to not get 1 shot. To be fair the game is still challenging but its not impossible. PS: make sure to not only collect the scooby doo treats but actually use them to upgrade the skadoodle blessing level. ALSO skill issue.

People got spoiled with the mimic tear, blasphemous blades and could cheese the base game when it got hard. They completely balanced all that in the dlc and it’s back to being a hard game. Which is how it should be.

The Fact Kai ordered a Therapist on the game at 900 deaths made me lose it 😂

The problem with the other game companies is that they will just make a souls like thinking that’s all gamers want. That’s not the case, we just want well made complete games.

In other words Miyazaki let the golden goose continue to lay golden eggs instead of killing it and taking what it had. EVOLUTION IS REAL

I wish more people realized that’s it ok to not like fromsoft games. Over the years I’ve realized they’re just not for me because I don’t like getting frustrated so much (I am easily tempered), but that doesn’t mean I don’t recognize how revolutionary and how great of a game Elden Ring is. I wish more people like me had this mindset.

You are totally right about these publishers over-forcasting their game sales. But how can Sony justify spending $200-300 million on developing a game if they don't expect massive sales totals?

Miyazaki is such a Sigma. I was hoping to see King's Field revived, but he said that From Soft's older games were so intrinsically tied to their director's visions that it would be hard for them to make new entries without them, which is a policy I actually respect because you now see sequels of older games by western developers that run into the ground those franchises. Still, some re-releases of their older catalogue would be sweet.

It's like whenever I see an Ubisoft or EA label on the newest game, my immediate instinct now is to avoid and ignore. The games themselves may be great, but the stink of the publishers behind them just turns me off.

With an amazing dlc like this, it really makes me wish that armored core 6 got the same treatment

My dude looking like Ben and Casey Affleck's long lost brother 😂

"No assumption is made that, hey, we did it once, it's going to happen again." _meanwhile, at EA:_ "Bioware magic!"

I am loving dlc. Haven’t struggled too much but I am still exploring after only finishing two legacy dungeons and killing two rememberence bosses

I waited 2 and a half years to get dogged on by insane boss fights. I was expecting no less. And they delivered! 30 hours in and only 2 main bosses defeated. I'm taking my sweet ass time 😊

The biggest problem I have with the DLC is that there’s an arrogance with the design even if you level up to the max in the DLC those scattered earth trees. There’s no reason why the scaling should feel like it’s new game +7 every other DLC in its past was decently fair, this game has such poor scaling that speed runners who do challenge runs are having problems

I need more Alex videos!!! This was too short lol. Good shit man

What Miyazaki said was so wise and contrary to what the greedy execs from other studios seem to portray-Miyazaki is a treasure. People b*+chin about the difficulty- it’s funny how a Souls virgin like Kai gets it-we all encountered that moment we realized these games are not just a typical RPG-what did we do? When Margit was taunting us with “putting these foolish ambitions to rest” what did we do? That’s right we “got gud” everyone does and why should the DLC be different? We should be welcoming the challenge.

It was hard in the beginning until I found and used two dlc talismans and one ash of war. The lion's ragin claw talisman from the dlc. And the two ashses of war do the following: Increases attack power with each successive attack. Increases attack power after killing an enemy. Once these two ashes of war stack up on top of Lion's claw insane 8 spin attack by using L2 attacks twice in succession, you can literally one tap mini bosses with an average melee build. And guess what? I just found these in the four 4 hours. I have yet to discover so much more that will trivialize the difficulty. The Dlc provides you with all the necessary tricks to figure out how to tackle an insurmountable challenge but people are too busy complaining about difficulty 😅

Also, you got to remember that the same makers of Elden Ring also has made Armored Core and made the recent game with elements of the Soulsborne and Sekiro incorporated into it.

The first BOSS took me 8 hours to beat.

I went into DLC at level 97 with only plus 18 weapons.. and I ve been able to fight my way through mostly.. still working on killing some of the main bosses killed a few side bosses though now 129

Craziest part is. I’m on new game plus 3. The dlc is very hard. But I made it to the final boss on the second day. Most of the bosses took 3-4 hours to beat. But if you explore, get the blessings. And actually work for it. Anyone with a decent build can make it to the final boss. But the final boss is a whole different beast. No cheesing him with mimic tear. Best you can do is summon the mimic tear in second phase and maybe try to dps him to death.

Will the live stream from last saturday not be uploaded to your youtube channel? great video like always

WHY WE NOT TALKING ABOUT DARKSOULS 2!!!??!!?? because its way to hard to enjoy??

The xbox tax is real

By adding the tree which both boosts your dmg and dmg reduction is an excellent form of making the DLC area feel new and fresh. Your character essentially resets to lvl 1. You have to now explore again and become stronger. You are given another chance to experience the "early game" and relearn the game. I would much rather get a DLC that lets me actually have a challenge then just breeze through it because you already have max gear and levels to kill anything in the base game in 10 seconds..... Also they really encouraged an overlooked aspect of elden ring too... the Armor and Dmg mitigation system. Those elemental resistance and dmg reduction talismans are looking really good now isn't it, rather than going full glass cannon mode.

I was at new game plus 3 at level 355 and the dlc was still a struggle. This is why I went and explored the area to find Scadutree fragments and revered ashes for my summons to make the game easier.

Elden Ring never fails to give the salt 😂 It's not my type of game but I respect it. Get good

I welcome difficulty but when it gets to the point that it isn’t fun or engaging it’s a problem. I think the combat is so limited and relies so much on dodge-roll spam, attack, repeat. Too many bosses in this DLC had me saying I’m so glad that’s over so I can move on. I didn’t enjoy it one bit.

Love your insight on this man. Subbed! Congrats on your current and continued success.

I fought the dancing lion for two days. I fucking love the game!

I grew up with games from 1977 through the 80's and 90's where you did not have button prompts on screen (you had a 20 page manual to learn stuff in and use your brain/memory to remember button actions.) These days games are weak they handhold you through everything, so it's nice to see a game/DLC put down the hammer to weed out the not so good and make you play/learn how to play.

There are also people misconstruing difficulty as an accessibility issue. I got very upset at that, because refusing to get good is not the same as being unable to walk.

Whoa. Didnt expect a shoutout to Fritanga

Quick note: “Scadutree” is pronounced “shadow tree” by the npc’s themselves Not a big deal in the long run but it’s interesting to note

If I can beat the DLC in two days on 5 hours of sleep on NG+3 so can everyone else

"Eldin" 😂

the staricase up to the spiral rise site of grace in enir elim took me 57 tries i beat radahn 2 days later and i couldnt be happier

Will be getting on this dlc this weekend cant wait to jump in with my sorceror knight build

If I was an Elden Ring player, I wouldn't buy this DLC because of its price tag. No way am I willing to pay more than CAD$40 for a DLC, and this one costs CAD$53.49. I understand there's a lot in it, but I've been noticing that games from Japan are already getting to be more and more expensive outside the US (instead of CAD$90(USD$70), it's CAD$94, for example). Pricing is fucked, and I'm not paying $55 (with tax) to get a third of the content of the $80 base game.

People still crying over this game, for god sakes Dark Side Phil has beaten a boss or two. Unless Elden Ring has an Arcade mode where u start at the beginning everytime u die, I dont see the point of all this controversy.

I experiment with builds solo (making sure not to kill the boss to kill it with friends). I cleared half of the scadutree avatars 1st bar with 1 gelmirs fury.

I understand were your anger is coming from, but some times is not the Dev they are in a PC doing what there bosses tell them to do, it is the manager , CEO and some shareholders that is to blame.

why celebrate filtering out gamers and restricting an audience ? isn't that what the ponies try to do?

Souls-likes aren't for everybody. Some folks can handle the difficulty. Others can't.

great video!!! keep up great work.

im the guy who made that original meme (before the devs criticism), it's always funny to see it pop everywhere years later

people and even critics have every right to point out and complain a game is too hard for them. idk why people deserve to be mocked for this.

I'm finding the difficulty to be fine. But I could understand the criticism that there might be some balancing issues between solo play vs using summoning.

as someone thats played pretty much every souls game, there were like a few instances where enemies/bosses in SOTE seem actually somewhat broken with their attacks, like they'll swing, it looks to you as if you just barely dodged it, and wham, you get hit when it looks like nothing made contact, not a melee attack, projectile, passive effect or otherwise. The attacks timing was literally just off. That happened to me a couple times. But besides that, I've enjoyed the hardship. Even made a level 1 wretch character to go from zero to hero less than a week before the DLC came out. Beat Mogh @ level 75 with a Heavy Club +24

I suck at these games, but I learned to be patient and lvl and lvl and lvl and lvl until I can kill a boss in 3 trys… If I get stomped 3 times, I leave and go lvl up 5 points… and continue lvling that way until I beat a boss in 3 trys… Needless to say, I was 221 when I started NG+, beat radahn, got to altus and left my char there for almost a year. Came back and killed mohg and started the dlc in NG+ and got stomped at 228 by the first curse blade… I left, went back to moghs area to lvl up 5 points,,, literally took less than 10 minutes in NG+… Those albinurics (spelling?) each gave almost 7k a piece with the rune talisman and fowl foot buff… I went back into the dlc at 233 or so and found some of the scadu fragments and got to lvl 2… I beat the fuck outta the curseblade and only popped 1 potion… That continued smoothly until I got to Rellana, I was scadu lvl 4 or 5 when I got to her and lvl 247… I fought her 11 times… I left 3 times to lvl up 5 points each time… I was 262 when I beat her lol. The game is hard but the journey is incredible. I tried getting good, I got patient instead lol. OH AND hell yes Ive had mimic the whole time for all the bosses lol

I am Level 713 and I still get my ass kicked everyday. Even after getting all those new Scadutree fragments

Miyazaki did this to sekiro, back in the first release there was no [enemy scale to player level] but then the update happen they implemented [enemy scale to player level] thats when things got intense especially to master shinobi owl the mad-fxcker became a mad-unit every slash is a huge block of hp.

Scadutree is old English & actually pronounced “ShadowTree” . My character is like a god & that first Gaolknight humbled humbled the shit out of me lol . Absolutely love this game . I still defeated him before picking up any scadutree fragments .

Crazy to think folks was going into the dlc and not picking through the new items.😂 I'm still pre dlc but I'm getting to the point where the boss battle I need to finish is within reach. Started a new run on Xbox.

Coming from a guy who has played cod his whole life , I remember vividly picking up Elden ring in 2022. I was so bored of first person shooters, and was super curious about Elden ring and had never played a souls game before. Now fast forward to the dlc and with over 700 hours in the game I still don’t know what the heck I’m doing but I’m having fun because I feel like I’m picking up the game for the first time again.

The best filter of all is the one Miyazaki uses for his own personal success. We as souls fans are stark raving mad over how amazing the countless journies through elden ring and now the dlc have been and Miyazaki after selling 24million units has also said, in that exact same article no less, something to the effect of "its alright, maybe one day I'll make what I think is the perfect game" Miyazaki said its fucking mid😂 He is truly an artist before he is anything else. W.

I love how all Fromsoft games filter the shit out of the player base. Let’s not forget the notorious PCA Helicopter from AC6. God I loved that so much. The complaints were so deliciously good. If their pain was lotion, I’d rub it all over my body. Even the one loser who got caught fapping till completion on stream manàged to beat some bosses. If he can do it, so can you.

triple A companies suffer and think firing people is what will fix it when the real fix would be to actually listen to their creatives rather than the ceo's making decisions about stuff they dont know

You are speaking out of my heart truly

I could play FromSoft exclusively for the rest of my days and die happy

We need more of you in the Colloseum!!! Finish the game and DLC and test out your gear and skills in pvp arena!

For any game with a leveling system, what do you do if a boss is too hard? You grind. You get stronger. You try a different strategy. Like I don’t understand some people that just don’t engage in the game functions, and then wonder why everything is so hard. It is a hard game, but there are tools to make things easier.

I beat and I feel great I’m just grinding armor and weapons then start another run

lol I thought the mic was fake until you grabbed it

Went in on NG+4 , was told the DLC is the hardest thing my friends have ever played . Breezed through half of it until things finally started seeming a little tuff . Explored more for scardutree frags and breezed through the rest . Hella HOT take , but should've made it even harder . With that being said , one of the best DLC'S I have ever played .

For all the shitty things Nintendo has done, I will always commend Satoru Iwata for taking not one but TWO 50% pay cuts during the WiiU era in order to avoid having to lay off any lower level employees, citing his own leadership decisions as the main reason why the company was going through such a financial rough patch. I believe several of the top level execs like Shigiru Miyamoto also voluntarily took 25% pay cuts for the same reason. You would NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS see an American corporation do that. Ever. As for Elden Ring, I know full well that I'm not good enough at videogames to even attempt playing a From game. I am under no illusions when it comes to my skill level or lack thereof if it's any non-puzzle game other than Zelda. lol

I went in at level 374 and its still quite tricky.

I was surprised when Josie Woah (Gen Z Nintendo Streamer) at the SpawnCast podcast said Donkey Country 2 was too hard.

5:26 finally understood that what makes the company not have full investment is because some millionaire uses it to buy a mansion and luxury item

I went into the DLC at RL30, thinking that it would be somewhere near Mountaintops/Haligtree level. No It Was Not. I was getting dog walked by the BIRDS until I Scadued up. Lion Dancer took 3-4 hours and I wven took it up to level 35. I beat Rellana in 1 1/2 hours on stream, and thought "Man, i thought this was going to be much easier. And then i changed characters and went up the Jagged Peak. Bayle took me 2 DAYS. I was thinking about how hard it was going to be to come back at level 35 the entire time XD.

Not that i thought i was gonna 1 shot everyone going in but damn i was humble by that weird thing with the circle blades dude took me out like 5 times before i locked it in 😂😂

great vid!!

If anything, the camera movement might be the hardest boss in the game. Most of the bosses are just relentless with their combos 😂

To be fair. Historically He isnt afraid to hop on stream with his joystick and really put his all into it in front of a live audience.