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Dude I wasn't ready to cry today. Hearing you talk about these two games brings back memories of my own favoured, now defunct game: Worlds Adrift. I still get melancholic when I scroll by it in my library, now five years dead.

This man made me watch for 40 minutes to learn that the point of Elden Ring And what makes it good is... BugFace... 😆

congrats, you got gud.... what next?

As a guy who took a while to fall in love with this game, and is probably in the thralls of his love for it, this is a bit tough to watch. But, it makes sense, and like you said, growth is a weird and unpredictable thing. Who knows, maybe one day we'll summon each other, but we'd never know it. Good luck.

"From the beginning, you knew how it was going to end"

”I don’t care if that Aliens are invading. I just want to know if you love me.” Hit me somwehere deep. Such an amazing video!!!

I first noticed the changes when I was running through the prologue the second time because I was dialogue hunting. If you kill no one in your escape then they only mention what you were framed for, but if you go on a killing spree, they mention that you killed several guards.

You say it a couple times in the video and it drives me up the wall every time you do. Games are not about having fun They are about engaging the player these are different

You mother f###er that was you who killed me in the garden. You killed me 4 times in a row. I was a kid at the time and you whopped my ass so much. But gg I love this game so much

Personally I had the most fun with the sneak dual wield build, but it's a bit cheesy because you want to max out stealth by sneak attacking some immortal npc early on, but then you just duck, turn invisibile, and one shot anything in front of you in one hit even while in the middle of a fight lol, maybe a power attack it it's a dragon or something. On the other hand, this doesn't always work, and doesn't seem to work with companions, meanwhile archery doesn't really require cheese, and with enough enchantment or whatever it's very deadly anyway, and from time to time there are is some enemy in an annoying hard to reach spot, and why walk when can just shoot them

Looks like you went hollow. Shame. I think you need some Bloodborne.

Its only burning out in your world bra.

Other than not mentioning the ice spike spells, I 100% agree with this. Very well articulated!

You need range to fight successfully in the game. There's flying dragons as the whole theme of the game to begin with. Which means your two options are destruction magic or archery. I did go a purely melee build, using dual wielded axes, and it was genuinely one of the strongest builds I've ever run. Level of armor to make me practically immortal, and with the Ork's rage could practically one combo any enemy in the game with a flurry of swipes.... .... But then again... every time a random dragon appeared... it was a very not fun 1-2 minutes of sitting around waiting for it to land. Meanwhile any follower or horse I tried to take with me would inevitably just die to long range attacks.

IDK man... playing 150 hours and saying you didn´t enjoyseems a bit self delusional, in the best of cases, and just an edgy look at me moment in the worst. Imma call bullshit on it... I still find your analysis interesting and worth it tho, just wanted to comment on this issue cause it doesn´t add up, but that´s me

The game does not tell you who you are. You tell the game who you are.

I mean a lot of people play spell swords. It's like the best of both worlds.

u were just trash at elden ring. its not the games fault at all.

i call cap. u dont play 150 hrs of a game u dislike

wish more games would adopt Deus Ex brutal approach to assigning skill. i.e. unless you invest a substantial amount of XP into a skill, you're functionally or literally useless at it. rather than every character always being able to swing a sword and throw a fireball and pick a lock and navigate through hyperspace (which allegedly ain't like dusting crops) it hurts my soul to spin up a purely sword-and-armour fighter only to be shown how to cast fireballs in the game's opening chapter

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As the only skyrim player to never do a stealth archery. I can say two handing is still fun with the recovery cancel heavy attacks

This video is great! i never thought about the topic in this way, but i could relate to everything you've said. My thoughts on the topic were more about the positive sides of archery, but i've never compared it to the oversimplified melee combat the way you did. I always hated that i can't choose my favourite spell as a mage and just level up the damage... it would have made magic much more interesting to be able to choose the best spell by the situation and not just use the one that deals enough damage.

This is why most relationships die. Once the spark goes out, people call it quits, and so they miss out on the truest magic... Which Dark Souls is the Prophet of... Delayed-Gratification and Commitment. You hit a rocky patch with your BAE, so now you can call it quits or double down in SHEER INSANELY BOLD COMMITMENT and power through your distaste; and soon HATRED, of the thing you love. Thing is... Both Stockholm Syndrome and Addiction via omnipresence, are things. So, your commitment will ensure your spark comes back sooner, but you gotta play the long game... and work on it slowly. In your case, I'd say beating the game 6 times in a month with grueling challenge runs that punish you more than reward you, with sporadic but daily short game log ins... would probably reignite your spark. I think your problem is that you simply fell in love with someone else and now you keep comparing your old love to your new one. Your ability to be charmed by all the little things she does has diminished, and you are expecting things to just click automatically. They won't, until you come back in a year or two later. That's how the natural process works. Do whatever you like, Dark Souls is worth the commitment, but that's a "YOU" thing to decide. Let Mme just say though, the more times you commit COMPLETELY to something, the taller you grow, as the deeper your roots expand and probe the depths of existence.

That Thor edit is the first time to ever see that and I'm trying not to roll laughing

When I was a kid playing oblivion I could never not-play a sneak-maxing stealth Archer with a minor in conjuration. Something felt good about how overpowered it was and the way it felt like cheating felt like I was outsmarting the game with my strategy. I did the same in Fallout 3, sneak and guns. In retrospect, it kind of ruined the games for me. Every encounter played out the same, every strategy in every playthrough was pretty much identical. I would loot bodies I one-shot from a mile away and see all the environmental hazards in the area, traps I could have activated, alternate paths I could have snuck through, especially in fallout where explosive barrels or terminals with hackable turrets would be sitting around but here I'd killed everything in the least interactive way possible already..

Skyrim combat has a lot more depht than you might think on the surface... Problem is Skyrim is offline therefor people dont feel forced to improve and challenge themselfs. Skyrim combat by poormanspruduction.

I find it interesting how Bungie has already made the Guardian tenants before Destiny was a thing. “Devotion inspires Bravery, Bravery inspires Sacrifice, Sacrifice leads to Death.” There UNSC is Devoted to win the Human-Covenant War, which leads to the Bravery of Mankind and the creation of the Spartans. The Spartans and the rest of mankind were willing to Sacrifice everything to win, and in the end their Deaths were not in vain, they were honored, commended, their deaths justified with the death of the Prophets and the destruction of the Covenant.

This is the one game I played 3 times in a row, doing nearly everything each time, and then got the DLC very soon after, like within 2 weeks, and played it again. It's still a mess, even after 2.0, but the world and characters kept bringing me back despite all the bugs clearly leeching fun out of the game each play through. If this game hadn't failed so hard mechanically on launch, if it had more fleshed out rewards for things like non-lethal, it could have potentially been the greatest game of all time

Glorious vid Going out on a limb here and reccomending the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, think you’ll dig it 👍

Primarily stealth archer ended up being my first real play through. There's a reason my magic build was lightning bolt, the only one I didn't hear you address. It's single target and basically if not actually hit scan. I saw a recommendation to not prestige or whatever exactly it's called for your main damage skill, and I can't count how many times I did that and barely noticed overall. It was still frustrating getting to the point I could have and use lightning bolt consistently.

Idk if anyone remembers, but 2008’s Age of Conan had an archer class that was deffo favored towards stealth. Also bow and arrow/sniper rifle is my all time favorite playstyle. It’s so much fun

ayyy ranger's apprentice

Felt like everyone hated ODST back in the day but I always knew it was the best of the franchise. The peak. It was Halo's version of Republic Commando and Star Wars.

I ain't pouring one out for Scorch. It didn't happen. Fuck Disney. They don't decide canon. WE decide canon, and that shit isn't canon.

Buck finds out about dare being there due to Romeo mentioning the tunnels being loaded with buggers. Him asking what's more important that the carrier earlier is foreshadowing. Now he realizes what is due to Romeo mentioning the tunnels flooded with buggers. There would only be 1 valuable thing under the city, the city's AI.

The book is so good too

PL IS a great narrative. But man was my v Out after the black Saphire. I left with Reed, talked with him, got into my car, took two breaths and drove straight to embers, for the Meeting with the devil i know.

14:50 I ddint know about this one. Always find smth new even if I played like 5 times.

"Everything gets worse when Jackie dies. " idk why that simple line hit so hard. Guess cause it was one I'd the few charecter deaths in video games where I felt genuine guilt. (I took out parthanax aswell. )

"Was it red-red-green, or red-green-red?" "And he's supposed to be our explosives expert..."

Ranged builds are certainly not meta in souls games/elden ring, but having a ranged weapon still lowers the difficulty of the game a great deal. A lot of toxic areas (in the figurative sense) get trivialized, and a surprising number of otherwise complex bosses have a very narrow range of threats when the player is just trying to create space and shoot during something committal. I suspect there are a few reasons plinking a boss to death with a light crossbow isn't a popular approach to the game. It's slow, you don't get to actually interact with full boss move sets, and even comes with a small logistics tax to buy the bolts/arrows. Nevertheless, I have been surprised quite a few times just how much less skill it takes to "run backwards + occasionally time roll, then shoot" to beat various Dark Souls 2/3 and Elden Ring bosses. Especially the latter, where it's a lot easier to come by status ailments on ranged weapons too.

Jesus Christ I'm only 10 seconds into the video and I'm cracking the fuck up having to pause it so I can laugh at that Skyrim glitch.

Mods are what made Melee viable. Thank you modding community!

There's a video on GMTK's channel that shows how ODST was limited by the time it came out since it did many things future games did, but more "primitive." And yet, the game still feels so unique and special, kind of (to me) the same way the Ori games do. None of them have the deepest story, or the most complex characters, but what they do have, they deliver. It's amazing how a bunch of details and great dialogue can drastically change how you perceive a game, and how music alone manages to make you feel lonely but also willing to do everything it takes to survive, despite the failures of the many people that preceded you.

Fantastic video. Halo means a lot to me, too. Been playing CE since it launched. Great work. Seriously.

Sounds like a lot of nit picky griping.

For your magic section, impact is basically required for mages to progress, unless you download a mod to specifically scale your damage with your level.

Mindless copypasta npcs, 5 mission main storyline, no reaction from the world or other characters based on who I work for or side with. Mediocre shooting, driving, quest design. All shiny ray-tracing and neon lights but no actual substance. Open map drive to map marker, very easily kill whoever is there, repeat. I wanna like this game but it’s not interesting at all.

Dishonored: to the player, it's a game. To the Outsider, it's a movie.