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ShillUp - dont you play Elden Ring on PC with a 4090 and Ultrawide? My review is negative because of the stutters/hitching + no native FOV slider, fps unlock, ultrawide support - I have to mod all this in...
Elden Ring - it’s almost like people have various tastes for what kind of difficulty they find enjoyable. Wouldn’t it be crazy if like someone came up with an option or something you could select from the game’s menu that you could tune the difficulty to your preference. Wild idea I know.
Implying Mikami leaving is why Tango was shut down is insane when he stayed at that company longer than he would've otherwise wanted to ensure that it was ready to run without him.
It's the typical corporate bullshit.. "leadership changed so the quality won't be as good" .. but when a game fails, it's the developers fault, "leadership" gets a payrise
@@umphreak9999 Actually, according to the man himself, getting the studio to the point that it could thrive without him then leaving them to it was always his goal with Tango. Microsoft mention him leaving as their reason for shuttering the studio is just a bullshit corporate excuse to cover their asses.
Closing tango reminds me of that office episode where the boss gets wasted and closes a branch while drunk then acts like it was the plan all along. lol
Booty's comments were right... if he was talking about Arkane Studios that lost most of its leaders and talent. It dumb founds me that he keeps describing his perfect studio... and its the Tango he let go. Like did he destroy a whole studio cause 1 person quit?
@@boxhead6177 much more likely MS execs wanted to cut costs, looked at Japanese Labour Laws, and said 'actually, i do not think we need a studio in japan afterall' - but they can not admit that, without an even more intense backlash. similar as to how square enix removed large chunks of its european divisions (with mostly support staff).
Fun fact with Banana Rumble's release: the reason RGG was the studio of choice was because they're actually the creators of Super Monkey Ball (back when the studio was known as Amusement Vision). It's basically what they were best known for (that and partnering with Nintendo to develop F-Zero GX) before they started making the Yakuza / Like A Dragon games.
Does "indie" mean something different in gaming than elsewhere? I would think that if a game is being funded and published by Square-Enix - one of the most prominent companies in gaming - then it is by definition _not_ an indie title, no matter what size game it is.
Dave the Diver winning "Best Indie Game" shows that, for a lot of people, a game being "indie" is more about having an "independent spirit", experimenting with gameplay outside of AAA gamedev norms, and less about how a game is actually published. That's what the term "indie game" means to a lot of people now. Not commenting on whether that's good or bad; language evolves over time, words take on new meanings.
It's best to look at "indie" as a stylistic or commercial term. Senua's Sacrifice is an indie commercially, Dave The Diver is not - stylistically, it's vice versa
Got a 4070 and 12700k by no means a high end system but still a decent PC and occasionally getting dips and the last boss brings fps to 30 with one particular attack something is wrong, other games i have no issues with
When Elden Ring released, there were huge performance issues for some people and as many people forgot, there was also quite intense debate about difficulty and about easy mode mods. I personally am not sure what do I think about the DLC. I changed my build, having fun, all good. But also some of those boss combos are really a bit insane. I dunno, gonna have to finish it first I guess.
Performance aside the difficulty can be sidestepped by exploration seems a lot of people forgot elden ring is an open world game or are just too stubborn and would rather slam their heads against a brick wall then you have people who gaslight themselves and others that using spirit ashes/summons is cheating when it's not cause its in the game they want you to use em I fully intend on going in the dlc using my mimic tear and black knife tiche on every boss even if they're not as strong against the dlc bosses they should prove a decent distraction long enough to get a few hits in or healing done
@@jeankirchstein2552 Oh you are totally right, no doubt about that. I do not mind the difficulty in itself, my personal issue is just with the combos. I love exploring ER world, the scadutree mechanic imho could have been a bit deeper than just collect = bigger bonk, but it´s ok. I am just saying, some of the combos are (again, imo) just a tad too much. That´s it :)
@@Scarecr0wn no I get it I've only seen a few clips of a couple of the bosses myself trying to keep the spoilers to a minimum and they do look ridiculous but fromsoft loves their dlc bosses having insane combo strings with little to no room for error remember orphan of kos or slave knight gael? I wouldn't rule out them nerfing the bosses in the dlc they did it to radahn and I think malenia? I do fully expect them to nerf a lot of weapons into the ground so enjoy em while you can 😂
@@jeankirchstein2552 Yeah, orphan was a massacre xD You are probably right, they already increased the damage and damage negation from fragments so I guess more changes are coming
As a business owner - it’s glaringly obvious Tango and the other studios were dissolved primarily to facilitate the purchase of Activision - you could make a case Arkane were in trouble - but not tango.. most egregiously 2 weeks after those closures Mcsft turned around and opened Activision a new studio to make single player AAA games… no one mentions that but it’s so obvious what happened there
@@kaingates what’s your point? The deal was CLOSED as in cash moved in October 2023… you pay when you close… so that creates a $75.4 Billion dollar deficit in your operating capital… so as a business, how can you immediately recoup some of that operating capital + open an entirely new studio for Activision? Terminate 3 or 4 studios you think you can do without. Pretty simple.
@@mattengland653 that doesn't really explain the full-stop dissolution of Tango though. If all they wanted to do was make it look like the money was shifted from A to B, why not shift the employees as well from A to B? Like, your process didn't grant them any new money, the resource hole they have created is in the shape of Tango Games. So why wouldn't just put a mustache on and go back into business as Tonga Games, Activions subsidiary Ltd.
Indie in gaming now just means low budget. Because it's impossible to give out awards otherwise. Baldurs gate 3 is indie (i.e. independent), should it be in the same ballpark as, let's say, last year's Dredge?
I'll say this... I went through the DLC pretty easily. However, I've been playing these type of games since Dark Souls 1 and I have to say that this DLC is rough. I really believe it's challenging even for the most experienced players. The bosses in the DLC do have openings but they're very limited and I can understand that being a critique of the game feeling gimmicky rather than an actual fight. With the success of Elden Ring, it really brought a more wide scale audience introducing more casual like players who are new to the Souls-like genre who just want to experience the hype behind it. I honestly think that's why the reviews are mixed... because we have an actual mixture of newborn Souls-like players saying it's too hard, and veterans scratching their heads going like "this might be a bit TOO much".
I'm also a veteran and I mostly agree with this view. It's not that the DLC is too hard, it's just the the power scaling is off. You don't add more challenge to the game buy nerfing the player's damage as well as his health (effectively). Soulsborne games should always feel hard, but fair (the best example of this is Sekiro). Adding the power scaling might artificially inflate the playtime a bit by forcing players to explore to get scadutree fragments in order to get their damage potential back, but other than that it adds nothing but frustration because you have to spend 80% dodging and 20% of the time dealing a pathetic amount of damage to the boss. Boss fights suddenly feel like a choir and each mistake is overly punished, especially when you just start learning the boss' moves.
My opinion on the difficulty is in some spots it’s too much with how the windows to deal damage were. If I wasn’t using a summon it wouldn’t of been a fun experience for me as I was doing the exploration had all 20 blessings for my character but still feel like like I was tickling some bosses
The difficulty in Elden Ring in 1 on 1 boss fights is unlike much else I've experienced in the series and I've played literally every fromsoft souls game and sekiro as well. Boss aggression is cranked to the moon with openings so tiny that strength builds just aren't even viable in the first place. I'm just not sure why people are only just reviewing ER poorly now because of it it because it was certainly present in the base game especially once you got to Farum Azula. Really not a fan of the direction FromSoft took their bosses in this title although I think they've done a good job adapting the games to the open world outside of that.
It's the wrong type of 'difficulty'. It went from 'get good' to 'get an arbitrary number of collectibles to have a fair chance'. It's not good design - From acting like they're getting paid for every time someone dies like it's a coin-op arcade game - it doesn't resemble the original games at all. It's not a skill check, it's a stat check. Elden ring was like this, but the DLC amped it up to 11, and it stopped being fun for a lot of us. Fromsoft got high on its own supply, and turned the dial from fun to infuriating - this shit isn't my job and I'm not a masochist - I get a few few hours a week to do this shit and I ain't trying to spend it making ZERO progress because I haven't optimised some opaque spreadsheet. I repeat: this is not my job. My job is what I do to buy this game to have fun. It isn't fun, I honestly haven't been this pissed off at a game since Wonderboy in the arcade - if your game makes me think about Wonderboy then you might have gone too far.
Do you remember Kena: Bridge of Spirits and Stray? Do you remember how those games did have an exclusivity deal with Sony and were all over State's of Play and Showcases? If Black Myth really did have some contract with Sony then the game would be all over Sony events, which it isn't. I'd sooner believe the actual developers regarding the XBOX port than XBOX themselves who are desperately trying to convince consumers that their console isn't a sinking ship. Its also insane that this same thing happened before with BG3 but nooooo its definitely a secret Sony deal.
Exactly. You don’t pay a bunch of money for an exclusive and then just… keep it a secret? Also, even if there was some secret deal, why the fuck is anyone asking Xbox? The deal doesn’t involve them. Jez corden also indicated that while their response about “can’t speak to deals our partners may have” was unprompted in the moment, the people answering the questions were aware of that particular rumor. Their response reads like typical corporate spin nonsense to me.
Precisely. If it truly was a timed console exclusive, Sony would be marketing the game as such. They have never been secretive in that regard. If anything, timed exclusives sometimes omit the "timed" part and the potential release onto other consoles, which is not this situation. I would also bet it's a BG3 situation, and that developing for the Series S is presenting issues.
@14:58 PSVR 2 will get a PC adapter, BUT it won't have support for: HDR, Eye tracking (and other features that come with it), headset haptic feedback, controller haptic feedback and adaptive triggers. Basically next to everything that made PSVR 2 a great VR headset won't be on PC, I really don't see why they've even bothered to make an adapter.
As a racing game fan who purchased PSVR2 for Gran Turismo, I’m really disappointed that no other racing game supports it. In that sense, i was actually looking forward to the adapter, as it could let me use psvr for racing on the PC. But even then, lack of eye tracking probably means no foveated rendering - which would be the killer feature separating the PSVR from e.g. meta quest. But now i’m sceptical and don’t think i’ll be buying the adapter. Shame that Sony can’t support their products properly and hate to see PSVR join PS Vita in that great trash heap in the sky.
@@foob4thoughtread somewhere that lack of those features out of the box are due to PC side and not PSVR2 and that it will be solved on the PC end eventually.
They made it to expand the market for the headset since hardly anyone bought them for ps5, its basically a sign that they're pretty much done with VR support. Gotta clear out the warehouse somehow
News of layoffs is always sad to hear, and now the company I'm working for is being shut down which means I'll be out of a job by the end of next month. To say its soul crushing is an understatement and the job market is looking grim right now. I have rent/bills to pay and I'm really scared 😢
The Elden Ring situations actually reminds me of a controversy that's been largely forgotten with DOOM Eternal. At release, "The Ancients Gods Pt 1", the first DLC, was largely criticized for it's difficulty. What happened is that, we had a very vocal but also very small part of the fandom who was really deep into that game. RUclipsrs making videos about the combat and so on, people who by default, played the game on max difficulty and conquered all of the toughest challenges of that game, who were left wanting more. And Id Software listened to these people, especially. Ancient Gods Part 1, turned everything to 11. It bragged about doing so, too, it was very clear who Id Software wanted to appeal to. The people who complained about the Marauder? Well, now there's two of them at the same time! The super aggressive quick switching style of play became a must. And those players, were happy. However, they were not really the majority. For a ton of people, myself included even though I was used to the max difficulty, this DLC was absolutely exhausting to play. With relentless enemies constantly pushing toward you, arenas with enemy composition that sometimes bordered on being cruel, every fight felt like a test of your abilities and worse, it had this constant thing : "You thought it was over? Here's more." which can be exhilarating when done right, but it was just too much here. It felt Id Software doubling down on everything that made the game great, but also all of the things that made some people give up on it. When the second DLC was released, it came with a patch that revamped the first one. Some called it an over-correction. Some even said that the second DLC was an over-correction. I played the second DLC but didn't enjoy it, I feel like something broke with my experience of the first DLC and I haven't been able to enjoy the game at all ever since. But still, if I try to understand, I honestly can see both sides here. Some people saw it as a step in the right direction, some people saw it as a massive over-correction. It all resulted from something that maybe, shouldn't have happened in the first place. Knowing which people to listen to in your game's community is a tricky thing to do, it's easy to let yourself believe that a vocal minority actually represents a majority of your player-base.
I agree with your comparison. However, Doom Eternal still had difficulty levels and playing the Ancient Gods DLC on easy (no shame) was doable for most people. I think that's the main issue with difficulty on Elden Ring, no difficulty levels. This would shut up everyone without losing what makes it special IMO.
@@walalon8719 Bro, Sekiro was 10 times harder than base elden ring and yet it won game of the year and has a overwhelming positive rating on steam. That game wasn't review bombed and in that game, you couldn't even leave and get stronger, it was the true "get good" game. Clearly this DLC is over-tuned in many ways because you can't get 40% negative reviews without messing something up.
@@razvanzamfir1545 But there already is a difficulty selector in Elden Ring it's called spirit ashes and magic, but for some reason people who struggle refuse to either use them or adapt to the challange.
I'm a HMP/Ultra Violence player and honestly, I'm glad TAG was so damn difficult. I managed Nightmare on TAG 2 and the dense of accomplishment was crazy good. Can only imagine how good you'd feel doing that with TAG 1. Not every game is made for every person. I personally had to let go of my intention to not play horror games when Alan Wake 2 released. Ended up loving it, so worth it.
My biggest problem with Shadow of the Erdtree was the camera on some big bosses (but that's always been the case) but most of all I had no Idea if the scadutree fragments helped me out or not, I don't know if I just overlooked something but if I went into a boss I didn't feel a slight increase to damage just to my health, so it would have been far better if they made it more clear what is getting buffed!
16:55 SMT V Vengeance actually sold 500k copies in the first three days, with the 1.6 million number being their first week sales. I imagine a large portion of the sales of this game were off the switch, as SMT V's first outing back in 2021 had much lower sales figures, and I can't imagine switch copies alone attributing to 1.1 mil in sales after a week
It’s the sales of Vengeance PLUS the original Switch release from 3 years ago. So that would mean sales were already at 1.1 million from the Switch version before the addition of vengeance. At no point did Atlus claim the switch version sold 1.1 million in a week, it was over its lifetime
@@Frank-li8ujI’ve beaten both and the furnace takes FOREVER to kill. Honestly not a fan but I love his visual design so much. Like seeing those giants walk through the world is fucking breathtaking, but I don’t enjoy fighting them
Honestly the part I think I agree with the most about the complaints about Erdtree is just that some enemies feel like damage sponges for no particularly great reason, to the point I end up running past a bunch of them rather than deal with it. The thing is though, that was also present in the base game, and in the case of the bosses, I feel like the extra health largely replaces bosses whose health bars you drain only for them to completely refill in their phase 2, which I think FromSoft has gone a bit overboard with the last while.
if the only thing that bothers you is the enemy hp.. well.. thats what scadutree blessings are for.. the damage negation bonuses is not a lot per level.. but damage dealt is noticeable you can easily get to lvl 4 scadutree blessings without much difficulty in first big area of the game.. by scadutree blessing lvl 10 you are doing damage numbers that you would never see on the base game..
Well that’s because the game really isn’t that long if it wasn’t for “difficulty for difficulty sake”. These are maybe 6 hour games artificially lengthened by unnecessary difficulty
@@toptiertech7291 that’s the worst take ever. I spent 10% of my time playing actually fighting bosses. If a boss takes you 10 hours you’re playing blindfolded
To be clear, performance is fine for me on my PC and From's DLCs have always been like this in terms of difficulty but I respect the right of other players to judge for themselves. So its not "review bombing" if people dont like a game and give it a downvote because of either bad performance or finding the difficulty curve too high. The games media and always trying to paint paying customers, the gamers as whinny kids!
Let's be real, though, the "whiny kids" demographic of gamers have grown over the last 10 years. People were complaiming that we didn't have DLC for ER merely a month after launch. You can go back to SkillUp's own videos and see him do the "when DLC?" joke not even 3 months after release. So many gamers act like they're deserving of anything at all.
Like how everyone is ignoring the RAM requirements for Black Myth. PC MINIMUM requirements says 16gb. The X & PS5 have 16 (really only 12/ 13 for games) while the S has 10 (8 for games). Xbox still requires games release on both at the same time. So it’s delayed. My concern is the minimum requires 16, how is the performance on all platforms.
Am I missing something or has the definition of "Indie game" changed? I thought it stood for "Independent" game, as in: an independent studio. An independent developer. By this definition 11:37 the first Super Mario game is an indie title.
It kinda has, yeah. Dave the Diver winning "Best Indie Game" at the game awards (despite the developers being wholly owned by Nexon, one of the biggest video game companies) underscores that, for a lot of people, a game being classified as "indie" is more about having an "independent spirit", experimenting with gameplay outside of AAA gamedev norms, and less about how a game is actually published.
Yes skill up discussed this during the game awards. While he believes that it should be an industrial definition, based on publisher, like you are saying -- as time goes on "indie" is becoming a design definition, based on the games aesthetics and other user perceived aspects. And while he disagrees, he wants to use the terms that his viewers will use
I'd argue it's changed indeed, meaning "low budget / low staff" now or something along those lines. Maybe similar to "Indie Rock" as a genre of music. You can make Indie Rock but be signed to a bigger label.
Big movie studios have had one or more "indie film" branches for decades. Indie pop and indie rock are being sold by Sony Music. So yeah, you can argue that this hasn't been the case in the games industry but I don't know if I would say the meaning of "indie " has changed. I'm not saying the waters aren't muddy. I'm saying they've been muddy for decades.
Today's script was minimally edited from a ChatGPT output, I bet. There are too many things like this in it: calling genuine criticism "review bomb", lauding LimitedRunGames like they don't fuck up regularly etc.
I tried the final boss fight in DLC a couple of times with a mage build but got a feeling that it's basically impossible and ridiculously unfair, even for a fromsoft game. Phase 2 was nonstop attacking from the boss and the only thing I can do is rolling if his aggression is on me. Then I tried a shield and thrusting sword build and it was a breeze, got him in one try. I don't know what fromsoft is doing here. and I do think this boss is NOT well designed. Final boss in the DLC makes Malenia and Orphan of Kos look laughably easy, and cheers and huge respect for anyone who defected him with a normal build.
My issue with Limited Run is the lack of support outside the US, shipping and the prices going up and up for basic physical editions of games ... hoping they don't gate-keep the market and raise the prices even more.
The thing I learned about Erdtree difficulty is this: You need to retool your build and weapons to make sense of the new dynamics. The thing about the base game is that you can sleepwalk through the back half of the game once you’ve sorted out your build and weapon set. Erdtree aims to undo that, and it’s great. I came in with a pretty typical bleed build and though I was able to maintain that, I had to branch out and use new weapon arts and update how I approach situations. Now in at the end and I’m just kinda sleepwalking through most things again. But the difficulty curve was welcome while it lasted.
Same here, i think way too many people forgot that eldenring is actually difficult when you dont have an optimized loadout. The past year+ of people knowing how to get OP quickly seems to have lead to people forgetting that you sometimes how to change up your build for the boss you are fighting. The first half of the dlc had me switching weapons, talismans and armour for each boss. Now that im near the end of the dlc, my build is refined and scadutree upgrades made me OP again. Havent changed my build at all for the past 4 bosses ive fought
The DLC area is not scale with ng+ Here's some tips if its too hard: Shield with barricade, collosal weapons, or AOW that knock down enemies (giant hunt, lion claw, etc), are your best friends for exploration, you can stunlock every npc battle (the solitude knight) Furnace giant is doable with torrent, just focus your build to dmg (scorpion talisman, mounted combat talisman, etc). You can bleed the dancing lion, and try fighting it with lock off and on, because the camera is wonky. You can bleed Rellana, and use lighting is good since there's a water pond and sometimes rain in the arena, dont fight her with magic or fire unless you're a god gamer. You can fight Rellana "sekiro style" with guard tear, the perfect block will negate the dmg, and guard counter dmg is increased. You can get i think 5 scadu fragment in the first area before the boss. Just use summons bro, there's nothing wrong with that, you will get more bs weapon with bs move later on. And the last thing is perseverance.
There is a lot wrong with using summons. Summons break the gameplay loop that many of us have come to love from the genre. Hitting a boss on their back while your clone tanks all the damage simply isn't as satisfying for most of us. I couldn't care less about other people using them to beat the game, that doesn't devalue my own experience, but when the bosses are so overtuned that summoning is basically required, that does worsen the game for me and it is a perfectly fair criticism that many people are making.
To be frank, I do agree with most of the criticisms against the DLC you used as example. My problems are not inherently that the game is difficult, but that the way it is designed to be difficult encourages a rather boring playstyle that goes against the game's philosophy of having so many options. It just makes me wish I was playing Sekiro or Bloodborne instead. Those games are hard too, but I find its systems to be a lot more suited against the level of aggression that's similar to the DLC here.
Similar feelings here going to bloodborne’s dlc at endgame level I felt the difficulty was well tuned as I’d still die a lot but it was my own skill issue as it was more than fair. Sekiro tho the balancing is great between doing damage and engagement with the fight due to the parry system letting you turn your well time defense is an ult offense
yeah totally agree and to expand on that, whats the point of all these different summons when using the mimic is the only option i feel is viable. A lot of people have complained about Rivers of Blood spam (or calling them casuals) but missing the point that a lot of people feel pushed to use these broken weapons because of how hard the game is.
@@Hel1mutt The mimic tear definitely isn't the only viable summon. I've only used it for two, maybe three bosses, and one of them was Rykard without the serpent hunter, which is a self-imposed challenge in itself. There are plenty of other spirit ashes that will provide a nice counterpoint to your build instead of just cloning it. As a spellcaster I love to have a big tanky armor summon to draw aggro from me.
The only issue i have with shadow of the erdtree bosses is the instant you cross the fog wall 90% of them either jump slam you or shoot you with a death beam INSTANTLY. So its... press Y to enter fog, DODGE DODGE DODGE DODGE, DONT BLINK, DODGE... ok... now you can start the fight.
@@moonknight2865 skill issue if I ever heard of it. Beat most of them without summons without using all my blessing to. Yes you can cheese them but that up to the player if they want an easy clear or not. Not the game fault if you don’t want to learn the fight.
So, i beat the DLC and killed all bosses. I had 18 scadutree blessings at the endboss, 75%+ dmg reduction for all necessary dmg types. Still can get oneclapped by a certain combo the endboss does which is, if you don't dodge the first hit, unavoidable. That is simply not fun. Most of the DLC is fine, but due to that boss and a some broken hitbox bosses I also left a review that doesn't recommend it, detailing that and also the base game issues are still there with boss and mob reuse etc.(They literally copy pasted some side bosses from the main game which we already fought mutliple times there, and even a new rememberance boss got copy pasted another time for some reason) Also my high end pc can't run the game at 60 fps continously (7800x3D and 7900XTX) during some boss fights due to their full arena encompassing particle effects.
the fact that you already beat the dlc not even a week after release tells me you’re enjoyment is only tied to how easily you can beat a boss. why the fuck would prime radahn not have a one shot combo (that’s incredibly easy to see coming) it makes 0 sense from a narrative setting considering this is the same guy who stalemated malenia.
@@Mongrelntruderm8 you need to go touch grass yourself it’s videogame we are all allowed to have opinions. I just finished the dlc yesterday night but that was due to me just playing non stop past couple days from the moment I woke up to the evening
My take on Shadow of the Erdtree is that I love it. Its like one of the best dlcs ever. This could be a standalone expansion and I feel like I stole from FromSoft. Though I do feel now a slight "annoyance" to From's design philosophies now. They have been playing an arms race against players with their games. Upping the challenge ante while doing little to meaningfully push their base gameplay. The biggest changes for Elden Ring since Demon's Souls has been jumping, guard counters and customizable weapon arts from Dark Souls 3. I guess I could say that because the Scadutree blessings work as intended because with some levels you start to treat the game like you were as a high level in the base game but enemies stay a threat because the dmg is so high. Once you "got gud" at Demon's Souls it was pretty much knowing the dodge timings or just positioning with large boss recovery periods. Well From is still leaning on s to balance their movesets and now that previous single swing from the boss now has a delay to throw you off and roll catch. It has a follow up to roll catch. The boss varies to sometimes not commit to a follow up. It has an aftershock AoE to roll catch. Its the first attack in a 5 string combo from the boss. If you get caught by 1 hit you may very well be hit by the follow ups and on top those attacks hit like a truck with medium armor and high vigor even in the base game. Then on top of that bosses are very aggressive and after you get hit once and try to find a quick sip of estus the boss is likely doing a fast charge to close the distance. Oh and some of those fights that have summon signs in the boss arena? The bosses are so aggressive as soon as you go through the fog gate that you may very well eat a hit trying to summon them. Bayle's fight as an example, Im grateful that Igon was so fucking goated with their VA that I just wanted to summon him. Now that is just a complete dick move. So From is upping the bosses without meaningfully improving player kit. I feel like some From bosses are far more demanding than DMC bosses Ive played because of the kits of the player vs the boss. Hell I feel like From wants to make DMC bosses but want to stick to Souls limitations. Im making my way through the dlc pretty well. I thought I was having a hard time but seeing how others have been struggling online I guess Im doing pretty well with like at most 30min to an hour on a boss. Its still like my favorite game these past few years. This is like the best expansion ever. Im just now more so annoyed. A "Miyazaki you hack" (affectionately) because what design of the game is breaking if you make less enemies 1-2 shot you. Also I feel like From needs to not be given a pass over their absolutely horrendous lockon/camera they havent even attempted to fix since Demon's Souls. So for From's next game of course Im still excited and will likely play it but I am very wary of the kind of bullshit From will likely throw at me. Update: Beat the final boss. Holy shit what a noisy and damn near unfun 2nd phase. The dlc overall is still amazing but that boss killed any enthusiasm I had to replay it. I felt nothing beating that boss. I agree that final boss feels like it was difficulty for difficulty sake in an unfun way. I only hope that was From getting that shit out of their system for their future projects because I dont think I ever want a boss like that again with Dark Souls combat framework.
I like your criticism but I do think that you're missing some key features (probably because you haven't explored them) ER made magic use viable: it went from a buffing system with some shitty spells to a viable tactic in fighting bosses. I don't like this style but it's a viable style that should be acknowledged and used. Talismans are more important than ever: the weapons, builds and armor is now shaping after the talismans you set for a build you could do. Like the Alexander's innards is key if you want to use ashes of war effectively, but useless if you're running a frost melee build.
nah i think people need to just git gud. Your complaint about timing and aoe attacks after shock doesnt make sense, isnt the point of fromsoft bosses to learn the boss attack pattern and timing? I was able to learn the timing of the final boss after like 10 tries (who has multitude of delayed attacka and aoe aftershocks), its not that difficult to learn it, and i found it quite satiafying once i was able to learn their timing
@@kaingates I have not been ignoring them. I had the dlc fire dmg talisman and it did next to nothing in my fight against Messmer. Magic use being made viable? Its still the same, boring use as previous games, mostly as just a dmg cast with time commitment. I will say this dlc made me use guard counters more to mix things up and shields are in fact still good, especially barricade.
I do think with this DLC Fromsoft has pushed the difficulty and complexity of enemies as far as it can acceptably go. Which leaves me wondering what they'll do next as their current formula has reached its conclusion with nowhere else left to go. I personally hope they scale back to more focused and linear games like Sekiro and Bloodborne again.
when do we call it review bomb and when it is just reviews for a new release. doesn't review bomb mean negative reviews for things unrelated to the game itself?
The review bombing is actually around the cn player base with easy anti cheat. So it is in a sense review bombing just not in how the video presented it. review from 21st, 2nd most helpful review for simpl cn on elden ring community hub.
yeah, it's crazy to me how many reviews that very reasonable explain the performance issues (that also seem to affect the base game in my case, at least) are being swarmed with the clown emoji. like what? The DLC does perform like shit. I have experienced huge fps drops. From 60 to 40 all the way into the 20s in some areas and instances. the Rellana boss fight never goes beyond 45 fps for me. Then there are micro-stutters and even freezes. I had freezes as long as 10 seconds. Something that I never experienced in the base game or so rarely that I can't remember.
@@DatAsianGuy for me there have been a bunch of times where the music just drops off, havent had the frame stutters fortunately, hopefully they fix these things soon
@@Hel1mutt yeah, I hope so. I also just experienced a crash for the first time. the DLC is genuinely fucked on a technical. I can't even remember if the base game ever crashed for me.
This really needs saying: Review Bomb definition. to manipulate an online rating system with a semiorganized campaign of unfavorable user reviews, often as a general statement of disapproval for a creator, a publisher, or other business, rather than a genuine opinion about a specific product or experience. Its not being review bombed. If people give it a negative review because of GENUINE OPINION ABOUT EXPERIENCE that's just a review.
Well, the term review bombing is typically used for when a product is getting negative reviews, regardless of actual quality. The people posting the negative reviews are doing so because they can't progress without exploring and improving their Shadow World Blessing, meaning they can't progress without interacting with a mechanic the devs intentionally put into the game to promote exploration. it's like complaining that they can't beat Sekiro without parrying. The game is not "Too Hard" if you're actively engaging in a play style that makes the game harder than the devs intended. These are the same people who complained about the difficulty of endgame bosses when those bosses were balanced around the idea that that you'd actively be using Spirit Ashes, and they refused to use Spirit Ashes because "that would be cheating". Using anything powerful was "cheating". Everything was "cheating" except a pure strength build, and only when using approved weapons. Approved by who? By them. Gatekeepers trying to police other peoples' fun. Well, this time, Miyazaki is not having it. He basically said "F-ck you, you will engage with all aspects of the game or you will not progress", and more power to him. Gatekeepers one and all, bear witness! The would-be gatekeepers who say that you're not "really" beating the game if you use spirit ashes or powerful builds are suffering for their choices and their hubris, and learning that Miyazaki does not, in fact, support them. This is likely to clear out a very toxic part of the Souls fanbase, and I'm all for that. The people who try to bully others online for playing the game the way they enjoy instead of "Level One, No Armor, No Weapons, No Hit, No Dodge, Blindfolded, With A Guitar Hero Controller" are an extremely vocal minority and need to be humbled. Whether intentional or not, Miyazaki has humbled them, and they hate that. Thus, it is review bombing because they aren't complaining about the game, they're complaining that Miyazaki does not love them.
@@snookzilla 😂 I know I'm not good enough to do the DLC, I have a job and getting good enough requires far to much time and commitment (full respect to those who do). My problem is with people throwing the term around 'review bombing!!' Just because someone didn't like a thing the same way they did. It delegitimises every review (not that anyone should be listening to reviews anyway)
the very concept of a "review bomb" is fraudulent. as if the externalities of the product arent included in the product itself. when you buy the product you are funding the producer of the externalities that caused the disapproval.
Your description of Flight Simulator is exactly that of me attempting to play the original floppy-disk version on the Amiga back in the day. Fun that nothing's changed 😂
Is it really a review bomb if people just don't like a thing and give it a negative review? I've not played the game as its just not my cup of tea so I can't judge it but we see the term review bomb used far too much normally when a company doesn't like the feedback they're getting
@@NepBeard Yeah that's fair. Just figured it was fair to point out the majority of the negative Reviews are coming from the chinese section. I'm not sure if you'd consider it being bad reviewed heavily due to anticheat being a review bomb.
From a design standpoint I like the Scadutree Blessing, because by the time you reach the DLC, your most important stats should be soft capped. At that point, levels mainly offer a horizontal benefit, so adding a broad vertical boost makes sense.
A small correction: Soulstice is not souls-like. It is basically DMC 3-4 - a classic slasher with a locked camera. It's good, if you like that type of game.
Shoutout to the homie Scott Jund for making that video that where he, in a much more polite way, tells you to EAT YOUR FUCKING BOILED CRAB. You dont have to do the Boiled Crab-Opaline hard tear-Golden Vow trifecta he mentions in the video, literally just 2 of those 3 made a world of difference for me personally. I straight up just forgot about Boiled Crab even existing.
I can confirm the performance issues are real. The final boss had me dropping to 10 fps. It's nothing to scoff at, and the stutter issue on PC was never fixed since launch. Not really related, but the camera might be messier than it's ever been. With a lot of 2nd phases, it just does not give a good view to be able to see what's going on.
@@leithaziz2716 Game needs an FOV slider so badly, specially for those big arenas against very tall enemies (and maybe tune down the visual effects too, P2 of the final boss in particular lol)
Let me preface this by saying I have beaten Shadows of the Erdtree. The problem I had is that the DLC breaks or ignores certain rules of the base game in order to deliver a lot of its 'difficulty' and a lot of that specifically is targeted at the accessibility the main game gave. Some bosses charge you instantly for high damage, not allowing you any time to set up, cooperator signs are inside of the arena combined with the previous hyper aggressive bosses, and bosses will straight up ignore aggro to continue hammering you, while hitting an aggroed boss will instantly, often in mid attack, switch target to you. Most bosses have super wide area sweeping attacks that make dodging at the very least difficult and bosses now often have ridiculously long attacks chains that don't give you any time to breathe and insanely fast gap closers. At this point I've beaten it both solo and using spirit ashes and those particular fights aren't fun, they are just frustrating.
The thing that kinda annoyed me about the Elden Ring DLC was the fact that all my endgame equipment was rendered useless. I understand the need to gather Scadutree fragments, but I find that I needed to upgrade twice before reaching a point where the difficulty seemed reasonable. I also hate the fact that all the shiny new weapons you find in the DLC are basically useless in their base forms until you spend a whole bunch of Smithing Stones to upgrade them. It's a real bummer cause I would find a cool new weapon only to be dissapointed that it does like 1 dmg and I need to hold out until I gather enough mats to upgrade it before giving it a go.
Find the smithing stone bell bearings and you now have unlimited upgrade mats, with the amount of runes the dlc gives you for helping someone kill a boss it takes almost no time to upgrade a weapon to 24 or 9. My issue is that finding new weapons like the meteoric ore gs is awesome but it scales with arcane, and switching builds entirely is annoying due to the limited nature of larval tears. Armored core does buildcrafting the best though so I wish From would take more notes from itself and streamline the process
You realize you can get bell bearings so you can just buy the smithing stones from the roundtable hold? They are not that difficult to find, and they dont cost that many runes to buy either.
Difficult? I mean the dlc does push a tighter line up of moves with needing to identify roll catch moves and prediction rolls. Some combos are so tight that you can get an immunity window but roll too late to immunity the next attack. Playing a faith build I can feel the lack of abusing bleed or unga bunga quality builds using counter thrust damage. After looking through my own feelings I point at the world size as the problem. Scadutree fragments are far and few since the map is so huge. You have a half dozen hours or more of searching to do to find your boss prep. For each major boss. Have fun. I am mostly having fun but as someone who prefers exploration rather than open world I much prefer the base game to the dlc for looking around. Scadutree has made every corner mandatory as opposed to the original where exploration was just finding new toys and secrets. Now that I have enough fragments (and have redone my build to leave behind Radagon's soreseal) things feel good.
Might want to read again. I said scadufrags are a problem. The problem is people end up fighting bosses that expect them to have way more fragments than they've found. An item more mandatory than even the seeds for extra flasks since it effects everything you do to a boss. This changes the dynamic of exploration where in the base game missing something like an extra flask worth of seeds or some weapon/spell options isn't a huge deal into a necessity to avoid essentially doing a challenge run. Every fragment you miss is making the game harder. With the size of the map its very easy to miss fragments because there's not a lot of consistency with where they are. The bosses are balanced around people finding all of the fragments, btw. Its an inverse of past challenge options where the option is active by default and you have to complete a game wide treasure hunt to slowly weaken the effect. Only its even stupider because it makes you do magnitudes less damage to boot.
I realized on launch day my "dlc ready character" was actually in early ng+; I'm now playing through with a new character, I'm not great at these games so may take me a bit; once I beat valiant gargoyles I should be able to get mimic tear soon to speed things along.
@@1MaxCats thank you so much! I forgot how helpful mimic tear really is. Having a mimic tear plus 6 and rediscovering the ring of sacrifice effect for the wondrous phisic really revitalized my run. Needed that a lot right now.
The Elden Ring difficulty balancing is kinda weird to me. Usually highly aggressive, long combo enemies have smaller health bars so you don't spend the majority of the fight standing around with your dick in hand, waiting to attack. But this DLC has *very* aggressive, very healthy bosses. I had to switch off from my comfy PvP quality build to a full strength build just to get reasonable damage (with like 17 Scadu Frags). Most of my friends (all of whom are experienced FromSoft players) have either had to switch up their build or use Mimic + Summon after getting stonewalled by a boss. We all love the DLC but we don't all love the balancing.
Historically, some of the most difficult sections of each FromSoft game have been in the DLC. I haven't had the chance to play SotE just yet but I fully expected it to be more challenging than the base game
Challenge isn’t the issue. People keep using that term without delving into specifics. The sandbox in which the insanely aggressive bosses exists is very clunky because there is no parry or rally system as a core part of the players kit. Many of these would be amazing in Bloodborne, Sekiro, or Lies of P because they have the same type of bosses but have those systems mentioned above implemented. And they are very hard. Elden Ring has weird options that can kind of unlock parrys, or weapons that kind of use a rally system, but because it’s not a core part of the sandbox it leaves the sandbox having an identity crisis. Hence why it has swung from too easy to now this. Great game, but From should learn from the Lies of P sandbox since it blended Bloodborne, Dark Souls, and Sekiro in a borderline perfect game. There are boss moves ripped straight out of that game and Wo Long in this DLC, we know where they are benchmarking their boss design from. FromSoftware needs to better execute their vision because the discourse stems directly from everyone not understanding, because it isn’t obvious what the sandbox is supposed to be.
@@caleb1038there are both parry ashes of war, rally talismans. The animations are longer because you have to keep building up their stagger. Watching their movements is good until you learn how to punish and keep punishing. I play a bleed build and with unsheath I have a hard time with the bosses but not too hard. You can also summon other players.
@@caleb1038You can infact parry hard bosses like rennalla, and by either engaging with scadutree blessings or learning how damage mitagation works the agression of bosses becomes much less difficult. Not even discussing summons and npc assistants, most people infact are either too stuborn to switch playstyles or too ignorant of the mechanics to learn how to make their playstyle work. Also worth pointing out that most negative reviews are about easy anti cheat and it's impact on performance so the Internet's perspective on boss difficulty is skewed in a negative light. Despite this most people infact are perfectly happy with how the bosses are handled, this especially clear on platforms other than steam which aren't impacted by the chinese review bombing.
Imo it’s fine, it’s a typical fromsoft dlc difficulty wise, they’re always harder than the game. It’s the margit problem again I think. Most people have run headlong at the main path straight to shadow keep and are getting blitzed rather than exploring and getting stronger. The stuff off the main path isn’t really unreasonably hard, the more upgrades you get the easier the rest becomes and there is A LOT off the main path. Like a whole game’s worth of stuff
4:30 The problem is that rather than pushing yourself most people will just cheese due to how hard the bosses are, that's how I got through most DLC bosses mimic tear and nuking with magic while boss is busy with that summon. So like you said later there are op weapons and strats and for me this DLC was balanced for them, so if you don't have that then you are dying more..
On Elden Ring difficulty: I still absolutely love the game and I welcome the challenge, and I don't think it takes away from the masterpiece the game AND DLC are! That being said, it could be better. The biggest difficulty comes in the form of limited defensive options, and no way to bridge the gap between defense and offense, like in Sekiro, and that's my main criticism. Bosses in Elden Ring (most prominently in the DLC) have the speed and aggression of a Sekiro, but your character is stuck with the Dark Souls 1-3 defensive options. The guard counters are really cool, and there's even a cracked tear added in the DLC that basically gives you Sekiro's deflects, however guard counters limit your build options, specially most weapons have terrible block stats (some weapons can't even block while dual wielding), and the cracked tear is just a temporary buff (3 minutes if I'm not mistaken). If the cracked tear was actually a talisman for you to have it active at all times and you could block with ANY weapon (or at least the perfect block), it would go a long LONG way in making the combat more enjoyable without needing to change the difficulty of the bosses themselves. I envy PC players who will eventually be able to download a mod to add Sekiro's deflects to the game.
Every time we call genuine criticism review bombing, we diminish the value of the term and can't use it to properly describe group initiatives to hurt a game's image anymore. People expressing opinions on actual issues, whether performance or balancing related, are not review bombing.
Having a nuanced discussion about a FromSoft title is next to impossible. I love their games but understand and accept that it has problems. There's a vocal group that believe FromSoft can do no wrong.
Sorry it was review bombed. The reviews based on technical problems were and are very valid, but the “too hard” aren’t. I’m a potato and managed the DLC with 11 blessings until the end area. For that area I had to farm for more
as someone who's almost done with the DLC, I'd 100% say that the Rellana, Twin Moon Knight fight was just insufferable, every other boss was in the realm of "difficult, but fair", that particular fight was straight out of Sekiro but you're fighting with EldenRing controls and timing. The fight was either your 1st or 2nd major boss fight and I'd 100% understand why people are frustrated with that shit.
Scadutree is just pronounced shadowtree btw. Since it’s the old English spelling of the word. Don’t know why they can’t just spell it shadow since the title of the expansion goes by that name. Maybe they didn’t want to confuse people? But who knows
scadutree fragments end up making you feel like you are often exploring in a "wrong" direction because tons of areas end up having none of those fragments you need to buff your character with that juicy global dmg/def multiplier that you NEED.
Less to do with performance or difficulty and more to do with it not being that great an experience. Feels like most critics played it for 1-2 hours and wrote a glowing review because they knew not doing so would probably face backlash.
@toptiertech7291 I want to see some of these critics livestream their game for 10 minutes just to clear this up lol. Wouldn't be surprised if half of them are less than 10 hours in.. "This review won't show story spoilers or any late game boss fights, so don't worry!" In the bag.
it’s an incredible experience and some of the best content they’ve ever released most reviewers played it for more than 40-50 hours as stated in their review you are wrong
Just to explain the issue, the base game of Elden Ring was just about the right difficulty wise and if you struggled, there were many mechanics to help with that, also you could skip it and coming back later. It attracted a big audience who enjoyed that difficulty tuning, and many for the first time were able to play and complete a From software game. Something that From Software never seemed interested in the past, they didn't want any gamer playing their games only hard-core. Come the dlc, which is more difficult, has enemies that are more aggressive, have more health, you have less time to heal and is less forgiving, even the developer says this is the case regarding difficulty. So why are youtubers surprised that a large audience who enjoyed the formular of the base game don't enjoy a different approach to the new content. It's the contradiction between the base game and the dlc that people have issues with. They just wanted more of the same. It's like enjoying a film, then going to watch the sequel, and the sequel changes things up, and people end up not enjoying it as much. I'm shocked how difficult this is to comprehend and isn't helped by some of the worst gamers out there who just say get good or it's your problem, they add little to nothing to the conversation and are just looking down on people who dare to play a From Software game, their own private domain, along with elitists like the developer.
@@SideQuestStoriesas someone who loves Fromsoft stories and the lore, and who has disabilities that impact gaming, I thought going into ER would be a good idea cause “open world” souls where you can go somewhere else would alleviate some of the difficulty I had with their overall game design of “git gud” mentality the fans have. I got halfway through elden ring base game and just got burnt out on how little enjoyment I got from sometimes having to grind levels to make up for my own physical shortcomings and limitations. A hard single player game like this should have difficulty options for those that want to get the overall experience, but due to time restraints or problems they can’t overcome fully by “getting gud” cause I really like the story and vibe of elden ring but I look at what the DLC bosses move sets are in videos and go “oh yeah fromsoft’s game design of pushing the hardcore fans to an ever greater degree just makes me feel I’ll just watch the games from the sidelines.” And it’s not like soulslikes don’t have accessible options- I’m playing Stellar Blade now and having an overall wonderful time because it has difficulty options to make the game as difficult as you want. I also played Rise of the Ronin and had a great time cause of said difficulty options. Difficulty options just add more accessibility and makes sure you don’t age out of being able to play them- cause I wonder how enjoyable souls games will be when the average person starts growing older and losing their reflex speed
The Ivory King dlc isn’t looked back on with universal fondness, is it? I dunno why Erd Tree being critcized is a surprise. Fromsoft is an excellent studio, but they are far from a perfect one.
That eurogamer article is the exact reason I stopped playing these types of games. I have played Dark Souls 1, 2, 3, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden ring. Not once after having banged my head on a boss for hours have I ever felt satisfied. It’s always “thank god that was awful”. I always played the game for something else not the bosses. At this point I don’t have the energy to just keep playing. So I ended my Elden Ring play through after getting the moonlight great sword and am happy at that. Edit: I think what really did it for me was Dark Souls 3’s hidden DLC Black Dragon boss. That took me so long it completely burnt me out on the genre.
This is the reason why I hate that the games get these insane scores. This will entice everyone to try out these games and give negative feedback over things that are pretty baked into the genre.
To me, the whole problem with the scadutree fragments is that it *is* kind of an arbitrary increase in difficulty. You NEED to take them to have a fair fight against a lot of these new bosses, because without them they have an unreasonable amount of health and damage output
It’s arbitrary in the sense that all RPG progression systems are arbitrary. If rewarding exploration with important progression rewards that increase damage and defense is considered arbitrary, the whole core of the genre comes into question. Fromsoft needed to find a way to give players new forms of progression while also giving them control over their own difficulty, the way their classic level up system does. And thanks to this decision, players of all levels can tweak their own experience as they see fit, and dodge the issue of stat softcaps limiting your normal level progression. There is room for gentle rebalancing but the system isn’t the issue. People seem to be mostly upset that their “complete” build has to work for progression again - but why play an enormous DLC roughly the size of a whole smaller game if not to make progression and continue building your character?
Been playing sporadically since d1 alpha and honestly the only time I rage quitted was the new fragment fight against a tormentor. It's a huge open platform with 0 cover and I didn't wanna get help with it but then quickly realized it's above my skill tier lol. 30 minutes of whittling away and then failing regardless was sssooooo unfun
Rather than implying some secret exclusivity deal, the Microsoft quote to me reads like they are trying to defend their Series S system parity requirement. The "deals with other platforms" part is just them saying that they aren't going to talk about what other platforms require or allow, because this is about Microsoft making sure no version of the Xbox gets left behind.
Regarding Arkane Austin, I remember noclip crew saying how there was barely any talent drain if any with regards to Redfall. The checked the credits and found most people they spoke to for their Arkane doco were on that project. Plus for one bad game out of all their games made is no excuse to shutter them since you’re losing trained talent anyway. Love your work shilly and look forward to the next news round up 😊😊
I honestly don't think Black Myth Wukong has struck any deals with Sony. What Microsoft said was just them being Microsoft as usual, throwing some dirt at the opponent at every possible opportunity. Sony is on the same level so to speak
Was I having fun with Shadow of the Erdtree? Hell fucking yeah I was! This dlc kicked my ass just as hard as From’s other dlcs and I loved every minute of it. I had some issues with some of the base game bosses but honestly thought the dlc bosses fixed almost all of those issues, it felt very fair. This is my new favorite piece of souls, content? Idk I feel like this could be considered its own game with how gargantuan it is. Once again, Fromsoft have put many AAA studios to shame and shown just how much they have mastered the Souls genre.
yeah i love this dlc and i expected it to be as difficult as this. Im surprised so many people are surprised that the dlc bosses are harder than the base game. No fucking shit, its end-game content, its meant to be difficult
The thing that I don't get about the tango closure is that Mikami set up the studio to foster new talent which I think he was successful at so Mikami leaving wouldn't cause an implosion
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ShillUp - dont you play Elden Ring on PC with a 4090 and Ultrawide? My review is negative because of the stutters/hitching + no native FOV slider, fps unlock, ultrawide support - I have to mod all this in...
Just talk about sweetbaby inc everyone wants to hear what you got to say and we are all sick of you avoiding the topic. Thank you
You getting involved in charity after one of your besties pulled a charity scam for 10 years is a really good joke!
Elden Ring - it’s almost like people have various tastes for what kind of difficulty they find enjoyable.
Wouldn’t it be crazy if like someone came up with an option or something you could select from the game’s menu that you could tune the difficulty to your preference. Wild idea I know.
Implying Mikami leaving is why Tango was shut down is insane when he stayed at that company longer than he would've otherwise wanted to ensure that it was ready to run without him.
This is the correct answer.
I'm willing to bet he ultimately left because he either knew or could see the writing on the wall that they were a lame-duck studio after the merger.
It's the typical corporate bullshit.. "leadership changed so the quality won't be as good" .. but when a game fails, it's the developers fault, "leadership" gets a payrise
Mikami didn't even have much involvement with Hi-Fi Rush
@@umphreak9999 Actually, according to the man himself, getting the studio to the point that it could thrive without him then leaving them to it was always his goal with Tango. Microsoft mention him leaving as their reason for shuttering the studio is just a bullshit corporate excuse to cover their asses.
The actual real way to play MS Flight Sim is - getting a small plane, take off, "oh, that's my house", crash into it intentionally, uninstall
pretty much what I did lol... except landed on my street and hit the old folks home across the street by accident.
The gamepass xcloud version doesn't support flight controller....
You can click anywhere on the map and start in the air, already set-up and flying. No idea why he was talking about taking off as if it's mandatory.
@@croneryveit9070 I tried the game for two days and watched multiple tutorials and I don't know what 'click anywhere on the map' means.
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I'm pretty sure that was kind of tongue-in-cheek...
Obviously there are tutorials to teach you how to take off and fly, as well.
Closing tango reminds me of that office episode where the boss gets wasted and closes a branch while drunk then acts like it was the plan all along. lol
Booty's comments were right... if he was talking about Arkane Studios that lost most of its leaders and talent.
It dumb founds me that he keeps describing his perfect studio... and its the Tango he let go. Like did he destroy a whole studio cause 1 person quit?
@@Magnus_Magnesium They haven't made a financially succesful game since 1st Evil Within. Even their PS5 exclusive Ghostwire Tokyo failed.
Is that the UK version?
@@mdalion nah later in the American series after Michael leaves
@@boxhead6177 much more likely MS execs wanted to cut costs, looked at Japanese Labour Laws, and said 'actually, i do not think we need a studio in japan afterall' - but they can not admit that, without an even more intense backlash. similar as to how square enix removed large chunks of its european divisions (with mostly support staff).
21:00 you kicked the hornet's nest there, saying it's set in England when the major city in the game is the capital of scotland.
😂😂😂😂 you know Australians
Scots aren’t real though so it’s fine
same shit
What's the difference
@@StakeFromJateFarm One is England, the other is Scotland. Hope this helps!
Fun fact with Banana Rumble's release: the reason RGG was the studio of choice was because they're actually the creators of Super Monkey Ball (back when the studio was known as Amusement Vision). It's basically what they were best known for (that and partnering with Nintendo to develop F-Zero GX) before they started making the Yakuza / Like A Dragon games.
Did not know that huh 🤔😮
Does "indie" mean something different in gaming than elsewhere? I would think that if a game is being funded and published by Square-Enix - one of the most prominent companies in gaming - then it is by definition _not_ an indie title, no matter what size game it is.
Funding and production are separate and no this is a debate regardless of media. Indie has always been a vague term.
Dave the Diver winning "Best Indie Game" shows that, for a lot of people, a game being "indie" is more about having an "independent spirit", experimenting with gameplay outside of AAA gamedev norms, and less about how a game is actually published. That's what the term "indie game" means to a lot of people now.
Not commenting on whether that's good or bad; language evolves over time, words take on new meanings.
people don't care what the funding structure is, what they care about is it a like the other games that are called indie.
It's best to look at "indie" as a stylistic or commercial term. Senua's Sacrifice is an indie commercially, Dave The Diver is not - stylistically, it's vice versa
Got a 4070 and 12700k by no means a high end system but still a decent PC and occasionally getting dips and the last boss brings fps to 30 with one particular attack something is wrong, other games i have no issues with
When Elden Ring released, there were huge performance issues for some people and as many people forgot, there was also quite intense debate about difficulty and about easy mode mods. I personally am not sure what do I think about the DLC. I changed my build, having fun, all good. But also some of those boss combos are really a bit insane. I dunno, gonna have to finish it first I guess.
Make it support wide-screen.
Performance aside the difficulty can be sidestepped by exploration seems a lot of people forgot elden ring is an open world game or are just too stubborn and would rather slam their heads against a brick wall then you have people who gaslight themselves and others that using spirit ashes/summons is cheating when it's not cause its in the game they want you to use em I fully intend on going in the dlc using my mimic tear and black knife tiche on every boss even if they're not as strong against the dlc bosses they should prove a decent distraction long enough to get a few hits in or healing done
@@jeankirchstein2552 Oh you are totally right, no doubt about that. I do not mind the difficulty in itself, my personal issue is just with the combos. I love exploring ER world, the scadutree mechanic imho could have been a bit deeper than just collect = bigger bonk, but it´s ok. I am just saying, some of the combos are (again, imo) just a tad too much. That´s it :)
@@Scarecr0wn no I get it I've only seen a few clips of a couple of the bosses myself trying to keep the spoilers to a minimum and they do look ridiculous but fromsoft loves their dlc bosses having insane combo strings with little to no room for error remember orphan of kos or slave knight gael? I wouldn't rule out them nerfing the bosses in the dlc they did it to radahn and I think malenia? I do fully expect them to nerf a lot of weapons into the ground so enjoy em while you can 😂
@@jeankirchstein2552 Yeah, orphan was a massacre xD You are probably right, they already increased the damage and damage negation from fragments so I guess more changes are coming
As a business owner - it’s glaringly obvious Tango and the other studios were dissolved primarily to facilitate the purchase of Activision - you could make a case Arkane were in trouble - but not tango.. most egregiously 2 weeks after those closures Mcsft turned around and opened Activision a new studio to make single player AAA games… no one mentions that but it’s so obvious what happened there
Activision was bought before Tango
@@kaingates what’s your point? The deal was CLOSED as in cash moved in October 2023… you pay when you close… so that creates a $75.4 Billion dollar deficit in your operating capital… so as a business, how can you immediately recoup some of that operating capital + open an entirely new studio for Activision?
Terminate 3 or 4 studios you think you can do without. Pretty simple.
@@mattengland653 that doesn't really explain the full-stop dissolution of Tango though. If all they wanted to do was make it look like the money was shifted from A to B, why not shift the employees as well from A to B? Like, your process didn't grant them any new money, the resource hole they have created is in the shape of Tango Games. So why wouldn't just put a mustache on and go back into business as Tonga Games, Activions subsidiary Ltd.
@@kaingates no it wasn't , BGS deal closed in March 2021 , ABK deal wasn't even in court at that time
ah yes, the indie game studio square enix
Maybe they barely fund the teams that make smaller games, really making them feel like an indie studio
Indie in gaming now just means low budget. Because it's impossible to give out awards otherwise. Baldurs gate 3 is indie (i.e. independent), should it be in the same ballpark as, let's say, last year's Dredge?
I'll say this... I went through the DLC pretty easily. However, I've been playing these type of games since Dark Souls 1 and I have to say that this DLC is rough. I really believe it's challenging even for the most experienced players. The bosses in the DLC do have openings but they're very limited and I can understand that being a critique of the game feeling gimmicky rather than an actual fight. With the success of Elden Ring, it really brought a more wide scale audience introducing more casual like players who are new to the Souls-like genre who just want to experience the hype behind it. I honestly think that's why the reviews are mixed... because we have an actual mixture of newborn Souls-like players saying it's too hard, and veterans scratching their heads going like "this might be a bit TOO much".
I'm also a veteran and I mostly agree with this view. It's not that the DLC is too hard, it's just the the power scaling is off. You don't add more challenge to the game buy nerfing the player's damage as well as his health (effectively). Soulsborne games should always feel hard, but fair (the best example of this is Sekiro). Adding the power scaling might artificially inflate the playtime a bit by forcing players to explore to get scadutree fragments in order to get their damage potential back, but other than that it adds nothing but frustration because you have to spend 80% dodging and 20% of the time dealing a pathetic amount of damage to the boss. Boss fights suddenly feel like a choir and each mistake is overly punished, especially when you just start learning the boss' moves.
My opinion on the difficulty is in some spots it’s too much with how the windows to deal damage were. If I wasn’t using a summon it wouldn’t of been a fun experience for me as I was doing the exploration had all 20 blessings for my character but still feel like like I was tickling some bosses
The difficulty in Elden Ring in 1 on 1 boss fights is unlike much else I've experienced in the series and I've played literally every fromsoft souls game and sekiro as well. Boss aggression is cranked to the moon with openings so tiny that strength builds just aren't even viable in the first place. I'm just not sure why people are only just reviewing ER poorly now because of it it because it was certainly present in the base game especially once you got to Farum Azula.
Really not a fan of the direction FromSoft took their bosses in this title although I think they've done a good job adapting the games to the open world outside of that.
It's the wrong type of 'difficulty'. It went from 'get good' to 'get an arbitrary number of collectibles to have a fair chance'. It's not good design - From acting like they're getting paid for every time someone dies like it's a coin-op arcade game - it doesn't resemble the original games at all. It's not a skill check, it's a stat check. Elden ring was like this, but the DLC amped it up to 11, and it stopped being fun for a lot of us.
Fromsoft got high on its own supply, and turned the dial from fun to infuriating - this shit isn't my job and I'm not a masochist - I get a few few hours a week to do this shit and I ain't trying to spend it making ZERO progress because I haven't optimised some opaque spreadsheet. I repeat: this is not my job. My job is what I do to buy this game to have fun. It isn't fun, I honestly haven't been this pissed off at a game since Wonderboy in the arcade - if your game makes me think about Wonderboy then you might have gone too far.
Just imagine if some day a PC version of Bloodborne gets released, with mixed reviews, because some zoomers can't get their instant gratification.
10k and not even a namedrop? RIP "that one guy"
(FR tho mad respect, legends deserve some props)
Maybe that one guy didn't want his name blasted across the internet 🤔 I damn sure wouldn't.
It was on the screen, SlipperyJim8... but yeah just saying "one person" and not their name sounded odd to me.
@@sj1547 his name would've been on the stream, chief.... but I see you are new to humanity and humour, welcome to Earth.
@@SA80TAGEI am also new to Earth… anything u recommend doing/seeing while here?
@@Michael-fs1cwProtip- to avoid being in a war zone while visiting, do a quick scan for "oil". By a wild coincidence, all the terrorists live there.
Do you remember Kena: Bridge of Spirits and Stray? Do you remember how those games did have an exclusivity deal with Sony and were all over State's of Play and Showcases? If Black Myth really did have some contract with Sony then the game would be all over Sony events, which it isn't. I'd sooner believe the actual developers regarding the XBOX port than XBOX themselves who are desperately trying to convince consumers that their console isn't a sinking ship. Its also insane that this same thing happened before with BG3 but nooooo its definitely a secret Sony deal.
Exactly. You don’t pay a bunch of money for an exclusive and then just… keep it a secret? Also, even if there was some secret deal, why the fuck is anyone asking Xbox? The deal doesn’t involve them. Jez corden also indicated that while their response about “can’t speak to deals our partners may have” was unprompted in the moment, the people answering the questions were aware of that particular rumor. Their response reads like typical corporate spin nonsense to me.
xbox simply isn’t needed when the PC exist. Sony and Nintendo are smart to keep their exclusives.
Precisely. If it truly was a timed console exclusive, Sony would be marketing the game as such. They have never been secretive in that regard. If anything, timed exclusives sometimes omit the "timed" part and the potential release onto other consoles, which is not this situation. I would also bet it's a BG3 situation, and that developing for the Series S is presenting issues.
@14:58 PSVR 2 will get a PC adapter, BUT it won't have support for: HDR, Eye tracking (and other features that come with it), headset haptic feedback, controller haptic feedback and adaptive triggers.
Basically next to everything that made PSVR 2 a great VR headset won't be on PC, I really don't see why they've even bothered to make an adapter.
Sony yet again showing their complete failure to understand the PC market, mindset and ecosystem
@@rankcolour8780 Sony constantly thinks they must maintain the closed garden, regardless of how much actual sense that makes.
As a racing game fan who purchased PSVR2 for Gran Turismo, I’m really disappointed that no other racing game supports it. In that sense, i was actually looking forward to the adapter, as it could let me use psvr for racing on the PC. But even then, lack of eye tracking probably means no foveated rendering - which would be the killer feature separating the PSVR from e.g. meta quest. But now i’m sceptical and don’t think i’ll be buying the adapter. Shame that Sony can’t support their products properly and hate to see PSVR join PS Vita in that great trash heap in the sky.
@@foob4thoughtread somewhere that lack of those features out of the box are due to PC side and not PSVR2 and that it will be solved on the PC end eventually.
They made it to expand the market for the headset since hardly anyone bought them for ps5, its basically a sign that they're pretty much done with VR support. Gotta clear out the warehouse somehow
Some of those bosses are a bit flawed though. Especially the dancing lion, the camera struggles to keep up with some of those moves.
Yeah him and rellana are the only bosses I didn’t like. Commander gaius is also pretty bullshit his hit boxes are terrible
@@shquankinket8068 beat him but never did get the timing right on dodging his initial charge, felt like bs to me
@@Hel1mutt you supposed to use a horse. I was able to dodge the initial attack consistently by getting on torrent
skill issue bozo
@@PuthySlayer69420stop being a suck up. Bosses are designed horribly. miyazaki ain’t perfect and it shows.
News of layoffs is always sad to hear, and now the company I'm working for is being shut down which means I'll be out of a job by the end of next month. To say its soul crushing is an understatement and the job market is looking grim right now. I have rent/bills to pay and I'm really scared 😢
The Elden Ring situations actually reminds me of a controversy that's been largely forgotten with DOOM Eternal. At release, "The Ancients Gods Pt 1", the first DLC, was largely criticized for it's difficulty.
What happened is that, we had a very vocal but also very small part of the fandom who was really deep into that game. RUclipsrs making videos about the combat and so on, people who by default, played the game on max difficulty and conquered all of the toughest challenges of that game, who were left wanting more. And Id Software listened to these people, especially.
Ancient Gods Part 1, turned everything to 11. It bragged about doing so, too, it was very clear who Id Software wanted to appeal to. The people who complained about the Marauder? Well, now there's two of them at the same time! The super aggressive quick switching style of play became a must. And those players, were happy.
However, they were not really the majority. For a ton of people, myself included even though I was used to the max difficulty, this DLC was absolutely exhausting to play. With relentless enemies constantly pushing toward you, arenas with enemy composition that sometimes bordered on being cruel, every fight felt like a test of your abilities and worse, it had this constant thing : "You thought it was over? Here's more." which can be exhilarating when done right, but it was just too much here.
It felt Id Software doubling down on everything that made the game great, but also all of the things that made some people give up on it.
When the second DLC was released, it came with a patch that revamped the first one. Some called it an over-correction. Some even said that the second DLC was an over-correction. I played the second DLC but didn't enjoy it, I feel like something broke with my experience of the first DLC and I haven't been able to enjoy the game at all ever since.
But still, if I try to understand, I honestly can see both sides here. Some people saw it as a step in the right direction, some people saw it as a massive over-correction. It all resulted from something that maybe, shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Knowing which people to listen to in your game's community is a tricky thing to do, it's easy to let yourself believe that a vocal minority actually represents a majority of your player-base.
If people wanna cry... They are going to cry.
Some Elden Ring DLC reviews are saying the world is empty... Did they really play the game? 😂
I agree with your comparison. However, Doom Eternal still had difficulty levels and playing the Ancient Gods DLC on easy (no shame) was doable for most people. I think that's the main issue with difficulty on Elden Ring, no difficulty levels. This would shut up everyone without losing what makes it special IMO.
@@walalon8719 Bro, Sekiro was 10 times harder than base elden ring and yet it won game of the year and has a overwhelming positive rating on steam. That game wasn't review bombed and in that game, you couldn't even leave and get stronger, it was the true "get good" game. Clearly this DLC is over-tuned in many ways because you can't get 40% negative reviews without messing something up.
@@razvanzamfir1545 But there already is a difficulty selector in Elden Ring it's called spirit ashes and magic, but for some reason people who struggle refuse to either use them or adapt to the challange.
I'm a HMP/Ultra Violence player and honestly, I'm glad TAG was so damn difficult. I managed Nightmare on TAG 2 and the dense of accomplishment was crazy good. Can only imagine how good you'd feel doing that with TAG 1.
Not every game is made for every person. I personally had to let go of my intention to not play horror games when Alan Wake 2 released. Ended up loving it, so worth it.
My biggest problem with Shadow of the Erdtree was the camera on some big bosses (but that's always been the case) but most of all I had no Idea if the scadutree fragments helped me out or not, I don't know if I just overlooked something but if I went into a boss I didn't feel a slight increase to damage just to my health, so it would have been far better if they made it more clear what is getting buffed!
16:55 SMT V Vengeance actually sold 500k copies in the first three days, with the 1.6 million number being their first week sales. I imagine a large portion of the sales of this game were off the switch, as SMT V's first outing back in 2021 had much lower sales figures, and I can't imagine switch copies alone attributing to 1.1 mil in sales after a week
It’s the sales of Vengeance PLUS the original Switch release from 3 years ago. So that would mean sales were already at 1.1 million from the Switch version before the addition of vengeance. At no point did Atlus claim the switch version sold 1.1 million in a week, it was over its lifetime
Nice to see that gamers did NOT learn the tree sentinel lesson back when the game released
Except Tree sentinel is actually fun to fight. Furnace golem is really tedious and boring to fight.
@@Ozzie143get good then normy
@@Ozzie143 No the lesson was that if something if too tough to fight you can come back later stronger with a better plan and it's ok to do so.
@@Ozzie143 Fighting the furnace golem fresh into the DLC is a nice way to check and see if you have working brain cells.
@@Frank-li8ujI’ve beaten both and the furnace takes FOREVER to kill. Honestly not a fan but I love his visual design so much. Like seeing those giants walk through the world is fucking breathtaking, but I don’t enjoy fighting them
Honestly the part I think I agree with the most about the complaints about Erdtree is just that some enemies feel like damage sponges for no particularly great reason, to the point I end up running past a bunch of them rather than deal with it. The thing is though, that was also present in the base game, and in the case of the bosses, I feel like the extra health largely replaces bosses whose health bars you drain only for them to completely refill in their phase 2, which I think FromSoft has gone a bit overboard with the last while.
Every enemy is spongy until you get more scadutree
if the only thing that bothers you is the enemy hp..
well.. thats what scadutree blessings are for.. the damage negation bonuses is not a lot per level.. but damage dealt is noticeable you can easily get to lvl 4 scadutree blessings without much difficulty in first big area of the game.. by scadutree blessing lvl 10 you are doing damage numbers that you would never see on the base game..
Well that’s because the game really isn’t that long if it wasn’t for “difficulty for difficulty sake”. These are maybe 6 hour games artificially lengthened by unnecessary difficulty
Get more fragments and make a good build
@@toptiertech7291 that’s the worst take ever. I spent 10% of my time playing actually fighting bosses. If a boss takes you 10 hours you’re playing blindfolded
To be clear, performance is fine for me on my PC and From's DLCs have always been like this in terms of difficulty but I respect the right of other players to judge for themselves.
So its not "review bombing" if people dont like a game and give it a downvote because of either bad performance or finding the difficulty curve too high.
The games media and always trying to paint paying customers, the gamers as whinny kids!
A significant portion of the negative reviews are from Chinese players having issue with the game’s anti cheat, so it’s neither
Let's be real, though, the "whiny kids" demographic of gamers have grown over the last 10 years. People were complaiming that we didn't have DLC for ER merely a month after launch. You can go back to SkillUp's own videos and see him do the "when DLC?" joke not even 3 months after release. So many gamers act like they're deserving of anything at all.
Imagine leaving a review saying a souls dlc is too hard. That's the point my guy
unfortunately, you will have to eventually come to terms with the fact that gamers are indeed a bunch of sweaty whiny bitches
@@666slateran666a game being hard and a game being unfun or unbalanced are not mutually exclusive.
Like how everyone is ignoring the RAM requirements for Black Myth.
PC MINIMUM requirements says 16gb. The X & PS5 have 16 (really only 12/ 13 for games) while the S has 10 (8 for games). Xbox still requires games release on both at the same time. So it’s delayed.
My concern is the minimum requires 16, how is the performance on all platforms.
Am I missing something or has the definition of "Indie game" changed? I thought it stood for "Independent" game, as in: an independent studio. An independent developer. By this definition 11:37 the first Super Mario game is an indie title.
It kinda has, yeah. Dave the Diver winning "Best Indie Game" at the game awards (despite the developers being wholly owned by Nexon, one of the biggest video game companies) underscores that, for a lot of people, a game being classified as "indie" is more about having an "independent spirit", experimenting with gameplay outside of AAA gamedev norms, and less about how a game is actually published.
Yes skill up discussed this during the game awards. While he believes that it should be an industrial definition, based on publisher, like you are saying -- as time goes on "indie" is becoming a design definition, based on the games aesthetics and other user perceived aspects. And while he disagrees, he wants to use the terms that his viewers will use
I'd argue it's changed indeed, meaning "low budget / low staff" now or something along those lines. Maybe similar to "Indie Rock" as a genre of music. You can make Indie Rock but be signed to a bigger label.
Big movie studios have had one or more "indie film" branches for decades. Indie pop and indie rock are being sold by Sony Music. So yeah, you can argue that this hasn't been the case in the games industry but I don't know if I would say the meaning of "indie " has changed. I'm not saying the waters aren't muddy. I'm saying they've been muddy for decades.
Today's script was minimally edited from a ChatGPT output, I bet. There are too many things like this in it: calling genuine criticism "review bomb", lauding LimitedRunGames like they don't fuck up regularly etc.
GOG timed the OG Resident Evil announcement too well
I tried the final boss fight in DLC a couple of times with a mage build but got a feeling that it's basically impossible and ridiculously unfair, even for a fromsoft game. Phase 2 was nonstop attacking from the boss and the only thing I can do is rolling if his aggression is on me. Then I tried a shield and thrusting sword build and it was a breeze, got him in one try. I don't know what fromsoft is doing here. and I do think this boss is NOT well designed. Final boss in the DLC makes Malenia and Orphan of Kos look laughably easy, and cheers and huge respect for anyone who defected him with a normal build.
Define "normal" build. I beat him with 1 bell spirit and i have arcane/bloodloss build. 17lvl blessing. Not too hard not too easy
My issue with Limited Run is the lack of support outside the US, shipping and the prices going up and up for basic physical editions of games ... hoping they don't gate-keep the market and raise the prices even more.
I did drop by the Fundraiser and you guys ran an absolute madhouse!
I've been calling them Skibidi Tree blessings, because I am a child.
lmao
Fair enough
Do you also play Scatman by Scatman John in your head every time you pick one up?
The thing I learned about Erdtree difficulty is this:
You need to retool your build and weapons to make sense of the new dynamics. The thing about the base game is that you can sleepwalk through the back half of the game once you’ve sorted out your build and weapon set. Erdtree aims to undo that, and it’s great. I came in with a pretty typical bleed build and though I was able to maintain that, I had to branch out and use new weapon arts and update how I approach situations. Now in at the end and I’m just kinda sleepwalking through most things again. But the difficulty curve was welcome while it lasted.
Cool. Now make it support ultrawide and unlock the framerate.
Same here, i think way too many people forgot that eldenring is actually difficult when you dont have an optimized loadout. The past year+ of people knowing how to get OP quickly seems to have lead to people forgetting that you sometimes how to change up your build for the boss you are fighting. The first half of the dlc had me switching weapons, talismans and armour for each boss. Now that im near the end of the dlc, my build is refined and scadutree upgrades made me OP again. Havent changed my build at all for the past 4 bosses ive fought
@@Joe-ti7qd Stop spamming this everywhere, nobody in this comment section can actually do that
@@Joe-ti7qd nerd
Wait til you meet the final boss
The DLC area is not scale with ng+
Here's some tips if its too hard:
Shield with barricade, collosal weapons, or AOW that knock down enemies (giant hunt, lion claw, etc), are your best friends for exploration, you can stunlock every npc battle (the solitude knight)
Furnace giant is doable with torrent, just focus your build to dmg (scorpion talisman, mounted combat talisman, etc).
You can bleed the dancing lion, and try fighting it with lock off and on, because the camera is wonky.
You can bleed Rellana, and use lighting is good since there's a water pond and sometimes rain in the arena, dont fight her with magic or fire unless you're a god gamer. You can fight Rellana "sekiro style" with guard tear, the perfect block will negate the dmg, and guard counter dmg is increased.
You can get i think 5 scadu fragment in the first area before the boss.
Just use summons bro, there's nothing wrong with that, you will get more bs weapon with bs move later on.
And the last thing is perseverance.
Let me guess: You read all of that on a guide?
Lol its nice to be considered God tier since I beat her with Fire Perfume bottles 😅
There is a lot wrong with using summons. Summons break the gameplay loop that many of us have come to love from the genre. Hitting a boss on their back while your clone tanks all the damage simply isn't as satisfying for most of us. I couldn't care less about other people using them to beat the game, that doesn't devalue my own experience, but when the bosses are so overtuned that summoning is basically required, that does worsen the game for me and it is a perfectly fair criticism that many people are making.
False info. It does NOT scale with ng+
@@Wariyaka ok fine, i dont search about that scale
To be frank, I do agree with most of the criticisms against the DLC you used as example.
My problems are not inherently that the game is difficult, but that the way it is designed to be difficult encourages a rather boring playstyle that goes against the game's philosophy of having so many options. It just makes me wish I was playing Sekiro or Bloodborne instead. Those games are hard too, but I find its systems to be a lot more suited against the level of aggression that's similar to the DLC here.
Similar feelings here going to bloodborne’s dlc at endgame level I felt the difficulty was well tuned as I’d still die a lot but it was my own skill issue as it was more than fair. Sekiro tho the balancing is great between doing damage and engagement with the fight due to the parry system letting you turn your well time defense is an ult offense
yeah totally agree and to expand on that, whats the point of all these different summons when using the mimic is the only option i feel is viable. A lot of people have complained about Rivers of Blood spam (or calling them casuals) but missing the point that a lot of people feel pushed to use these broken weapons because of how hard the game is.
@@Hel1mutt The mimic tear definitely isn't the only viable summon. I've only used it for two, maybe three bosses, and one of them was Rykard without the serpent hunter, which is a self-imposed challenge in itself. There are plenty of other spirit ashes that will provide a nice counterpoint to your build instead of just cloning it. As a spellcaster I love to have a big tanky armor summon to draw aggro from me.
@@Hel1mutt There are tons of viable summons. Also you don't actually need a summon if you are good enough at the game.
@@Chameleonradio im talking dlc, i only used the jellyfish for almost every single boss in the base game
Getting jumped the millisecond I step through fog gates and the Scadutree fragment system are kinda annoying.
The only issue i have with shadow of the erdtree bosses is the instant you cross the fog wall 90% of them either jump slam you or shoot you with a death beam INSTANTLY. So its... press Y to enter fog, DODGE DODGE DODGE DODGE, DONT BLINK, DODGE... ok... now you can start the fight.
The hippo fight, rennala, that one guy at the abyss, Gauiss. So many of them do this shit. It’s obnoxious.
@@moonknight2865 skill issue if I ever heard of it. Beat most of them without summons without using all my blessing to. Yes you can cheese them but that up to the player if they want an easy clear or not. Not the game fault if you don’t want to learn the fight.
So, i beat the DLC and killed all bosses. I had 18 scadutree blessings at the endboss, 75%+ dmg reduction for all necessary dmg types. Still can get oneclapped by a certain combo the endboss does which is, if you don't dodge the first hit, unavoidable. That is simply not fun. Most of the DLC is fine, but due to that boss and a some broken hitbox bosses I also left a review that doesn't recommend it, detailing that and also the base game issues are still there with boss and mob reuse etc.(They literally copy pasted some side bosses from the main game which we already fought mutliple times there, and even a new rememberance boss got copy pasted another time for some reason)
Also my high end pc can't run the game at 60 fps continously (7800x3D and 7900XTX) during some boss fights due to their full arena encompassing particle effects.
I'm 100% with you on your assessment.
the fact that you already beat the dlc not even a week after release tells me you’re enjoyment is only tied to how easily you can beat a boss. why the fuck would prime radahn not have a one shot combo (that’s incredibly easy to see coming) it makes 0 sense from a narrative setting considering this is the same guy who stalemated malenia.
@@Mongrelntruder Calm down. It's just a video game.
@@opethmike says the loser who’s already commented multiple times on this video alone complaining about an internet community. touch grass i dare you
@@Mongrelntruderm8 you need to go touch grass yourself it’s videogame we are all allowed to have opinions. I just finished the dlc yesterday night but that was due to me just playing non stop past couple days from the moment I woke up to the evening
My take on Shadow of the Erdtree is that I love it. Its like one of the best dlcs ever. This could be a standalone expansion and I feel like I stole from FromSoft. Though I do feel now a slight "annoyance" to From's design philosophies now. They have been playing an arms race against players with their games. Upping the challenge ante while doing little to meaningfully push their base gameplay. The biggest changes for Elden Ring since Demon's Souls has been jumping, guard counters and customizable weapon arts from Dark Souls 3. I guess I could say that because the Scadutree blessings work as intended because with some levels you start to treat the game like you were as a high level in the base game but enemies stay a threat because the dmg is so high.
Once you "got gud" at Demon's Souls it was pretty much knowing the dodge timings or just positioning with large boss recovery periods. Well From is still leaning on s to balance their movesets and now that previous single swing from the boss now has a delay to throw you off and roll catch. It has a follow up to roll catch. The boss varies to sometimes not commit to a follow up. It has an aftershock AoE to roll catch. Its the first attack in a 5 string combo from the boss. If you get caught by 1 hit you may very well be hit by the follow ups and on top those attacks hit like a truck with medium armor and high vigor even in the base game. Then on top of that bosses are very aggressive and after you get hit once and try to find a quick sip of estus the boss is likely doing a fast charge to close the distance. Oh and some of those fights that have summon signs in the boss arena? The bosses are so aggressive as soon as you go through the fog gate that you may very well eat a hit trying to summon them. Bayle's fight as an example, Im grateful that Igon was so fucking goated with their VA that I just wanted to summon him. Now that is just a complete dick move. So From is upping the bosses without meaningfully improving player kit. I feel like some From bosses are far more demanding than DMC bosses Ive played because of the kits of the player vs the boss. Hell I feel like From wants to make DMC bosses but want to stick to Souls limitations.
Im making my way through the dlc pretty well. I thought I was having a hard time but seeing how others have been struggling online I guess Im doing pretty well with like at most 30min to an hour on a boss. Its still like my favorite game these past few years. This is like the best expansion ever. Im just now more so annoyed. A "Miyazaki you hack" (affectionately) because what design of the game is breaking if you make less enemies 1-2 shot you.
Also I feel like From needs to not be given a pass over their absolutely horrendous lockon/camera they havent even attempted to fix since Demon's Souls. So for From's next game of course Im still excited and will likely play it but I am very wary of the kind of bullshit From will likely throw at me.
Update: Beat the final boss. Holy shit what a noisy and damn near unfun 2nd phase. The dlc overall is still amazing but that boss killed any enthusiasm I had to replay it. I felt nothing beating that boss. I agree that final boss feels like it was difficulty for difficulty sake in an unfun way. I only hope that was From getting that shit out of their system for their future projects because I dont think I ever want a boss like that again with Dark Souls combat framework.
I like your criticism but I do think that you're missing some key features (probably because you haven't explored them)
ER made magic use viable: it went from a buffing system with some shitty spells to a viable tactic in fighting bosses. I don't like this style but it's a viable style that should be acknowledged and used.
Talismans are more important than ever: the weapons, builds and armor is now shaping after the talismans you set for a build you could do. Like the Alexander's innards is key if you want to use ashes of war effectively, but useless if you're running a frost melee build.
nah i think people need to just git gud. Your complaint about timing and aoe attacks after shock doesnt make sense, isnt the point of fromsoft bosses to learn the boss attack pattern and timing? I was able to learn the timing of the final boss after like 10 tries (who has multitude of delayed attacka and aoe aftershocks), its not that difficult to learn it, and i found it quite satiafying once i was able to learn their timing
@@kaingates what if i dont want to use magic?
camera is definitely more annoying in this dlc than any other From game ive played
@@kaingates I have not been ignoring them. I had the dlc fire dmg talisman and it did next to nothing in my fight against Messmer. Magic use being made viable? Its still the same, boring use as previous games, mostly as just a dmg cast with time commitment.
I will say this dlc made me use guard counters more to mix things up and shields are in fact still good, especially barricade.
I do think with this DLC Fromsoft has pushed the difficulty and complexity of enemies as far as it can acceptably go. Which leaves me wondering what they'll do next as their current formula has reached its conclusion with nowhere else left to go.
I personally hope they scale back to more focused and linear games like Sekiro and Bloodborne again.
Disagree. I just want it to run better and support ultrawide.
@@Joe-ti7qd 👍
Miyazaki said he regret how linear Dark Souls 3 was so I don't think I'd be holding my breath for more linear games.
I'm excited for whatever Fromsoft cooks up next. But I have a special hope for something like Bloodborne.
@@kaingates well, not necessarily linear. But I do prefer their smaller and more tightly tuned games.
when do we call it review bomb and when it is just reviews for a new release. doesn't review bomb mean negative reviews for things unrelated to the game itself?
The review bombing is actually around the cn player base with easy anti cheat. So it is in a sense review bombing just not in how the video presented it. review from 21st, 2nd most helpful review for simpl cn on elden ring community hub.
Because they're Chinese that means that it's review bombing? But if it was black lesbians in wheelchairs doing it then it would be okay right?
Any time people have a strong negative opinion it gets called a review bomb by defenders
1* reviews without text = review bombing.
5* reviews without text = all good.
It's called review bombing because there's a weird culture of "toxic positivity" in video games.
Its obviously because of the parity between Series X and S
thank u for mentioning the performance issue reviews, a thing most people like to ignore for the sake of "content"
yeah, it's crazy to me how many reviews that very reasonable explain the performance issues (that also seem to affect the base game in my case, at least) are being swarmed with the clown emoji.
like what? The DLC does perform like shit.
I have experienced huge fps drops. From 60 to 40 all the way into the 20s in some areas and instances. the Rellana boss fight never goes beyond 45 fps for me.
Then there are micro-stutters and even freezes.
I had freezes as long as 10 seconds.
Something that I never experienced in the base game or so rarely that I can't remember.
@@DatAsianGuynot to.mention the black bars of doom of you have an ultrawide monitor.
@@DatAsianGuy for me there have been a bunch of times where the music just drops off, havent had the frame stutters fortunately, hopefully they fix these things soon
@@Hel1mutt yeah, I hope so. I also just experienced a crash for the first time.
the DLC is genuinely fucked on a technical. I can't even remember if the base game ever crashed for me.
its only a pc issue tho. On PS5 the DLC runs buttery smooth
Honestly, the Games on Cancer Console debate was something of the best RUclips I've seen in YEARS and I believe EVERY gamer needs to see it. 😄
16:46 Bandai when Fromsoft starts self publishing worldwide:
Skills up told not to do a Black Myth Wukong review by their DEI handlers?
This really needs saying:
Review Bomb definition.
to manipulate an online rating system with a semiorganized campaign of unfavorable user reviews, often as a general statement of disapproval for a creator, a publisher, or other business, rather than a genuine opinion about a specific product or experience.
Its not being review bombed.
If people give it a negative review because of GENUINE OPINION ABOUT EXPERIENCE that's just a review.
Most of the time the term is used it's being used incorrectly then
Well, the term review bombing is typically used for when a product is getting negative reviews, regardless of actual quality. The people posting the negative reviews are doing so because they can't progress without exploring and improving their Shadow World Blessing, meaning they can't progress without interacting with a mechanic the devs intentionally put into the game to promote exploration. it's like complaining that they can't beat Sekiro without parrying.
The game is not "Too Hard" if you're actively engaging in a play style that makes the game harder than the devs intended.
These are the same people who complained about the difficulty of endgame bosses when those bosses were balanced around the idea that that you'd actively be using Spirit Ashes, and they refused to use Spirit Ashes because "that would be cheating". Using anything powerful was "cheating". Everything was "cheating" except a pure strength build, and only when using approved weapons. Approved by who? By them. Gatekeepers trying to police other peoples' fun.
Well, this time, Miyazaki is not having it. He basically said "F-ck you, you will engage with all aspects of the game or you will not progress", and more power to him. Gatekeepers one and all, bear witness! The would-be gatekeepers who say that you're not "really" beating the game if you use spirit ashes or powerful builds are suffering for their choices and their hubris, and learning that Miyazaki does not, in fact, support them.
This is likely to clear out a very toxic part of the Souls fanbase, and I'm all for that. The people who try to bully others online for playing the game the way they enjoy instead of "Level One, No Armor, No Weapons, No Hit, No Dodge, Blindfolded, With A Guitar Hero Controller" are an extremely vocal minority and need to be humbled. Whether intentional or not, Miyazaki has humbled them, and they hate that. Thus, it is review bombing because they aren't complaining about the game, they're complaining that Miyazaki does not love them.
But... have you tried getting good?
@@snookzilla 😂 I know I'm not good enough to do the DLC, I have a job and getting good enough requires far to much time and commitment (full respect to those who do).
My problem is with people throwing the term around 'review bombing!!' Just because someone didn't like a thing the same way they did.
It delegitimises every review (not that anyone should be listening to reviews anyway)
the very concept of a "review bomb" is fraudulent.
as if the externalities of the product arent included in the product itself.
when you buy the product you are funding the producer of the externalities that caused the disapproval.
Your description of Flight Simulator is exactly that of me attempting to play the original floppy-disk version on the Amiga back in the day. Fun that nothing's changed 😂
Is it really a review bomb if people just don't like a thing and give it a negative review?
I've not played the game as its just not my cup of tea so I can't judge it but we see the term review bomb used far too much normally when a company doesn't like the feedback they're getting
A lot of it apparantly is the chinese giving it bad reviews about anticheat from what others have said.
@@bladerex1224even if that is the case. Ralph (and many others) are calling people not feeling the difficulty Review bombers
@@NepBeard Yeah that's fair. Just figured it was fair to point out the majority of the negative Reviews are coming from the chinese section. I'm not sure if you'd consider it being bad reviewed heavily due to anticheat being a review bomb.
nah review bombing is for anticheat stuff, nothing to do with the actual game
"I've not played the game"
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Im surprised the Black Myth Wukong topic didnt include the feud with SBI, but then again ShillUp so I guess that kinda explains it
From a design standpoint I like the Scadutree Blessing, because by the time you reach the DLC, your most important stats should be soft capped. At that point, levels mainly offer a horizontal benefit, so adding a broad vertical boost makes sense.
Yeah, I was playing SotE this weekend. Sorry for missing your charity event, I'm glad it went well!
Never thought I’d see the day where Redditors agree with game journalists. That’s like Ted Cruz agreeing with AOC.
Just realized I've been watching you since The Division days. How time flies! Keep it up my man
You gotta remmeber the crash trilogy was in the ps plus collection, meaning it was free to everyone with basic ps plus for like a year.
A small correction: Soulstice is not souls-like. It is basically DMC 3-4 - a classic slasher with a locked camera.
It's good, if you like that type of game.
Shoutout to the homie Scott Jund for making that video that where he, in a much more polite way, tells you to EAT YOUR FUCKING BOILED CRAB. You dont have to do the Boiled Crab-Opaline hard tear-Golden Vow trifecta he mentions in the video, literally just 2 of those 3 made a world of difference for me personally. I straight up just forgot about Boiled Crab even existing.
Calling it review-bombing is disingenuous. There is actual criticism and performance issues
And most of the negative reviews are not for those reasons
I can confirm the performance issues are real. The final boss had me dropping to 10 fps. It's nothing to scoff at, and the stutter issue on PC was never fixed since launch.
Not really related, but the camera might be messier than it's ever been. With a lot of 2nd phases, it just does not give a good view to be able to see what's going on.
@@leithaziz2716 Game needs an FOV slider so badly, specially for those big arenas against very tall enemies (and maybe tune down the visual effects too, P2 of the final boss in particular lol)
Now have you considered that it's not the game that's having performance issues, and actually is your PC?
he really is using terms quite recklessly
muddying the waters in the process
always love the commentary and fight for quality devs to stay working. keep it up bro!
The Scadutree Fragments were buffed in a patch this morning. They now give more defense, especially at lower levels.
Ralph bought that serious dad energy to the fund-raiser, especially when he was next to his 2 boys 😂
Let me preface this by saying I have beaten Shadows of the Erdtree. The problem I had is that the DLC breaks or ignores certain rules of the base game in order to deliver a lot of its 'difficulty' and a lot of that specifically is targeted at the accessibility the main game gave. Some bosses charge you instantly for high damage, not allowing you any time to set up, cooperator signs are inside of the arena combined with the previous hyper aggressive bosses, and bosses will straight up ignore aggro to continue hammering you, while hitting an aggroed boss will instantly, often in mid attack, switch target to you. Most bosses have super wide area sweeping attacks that make dodging at the very least difficult and bosses now often have ridiculously long attacks chains that don't give you any time to breathe and insanely fast gap closers.
At this point I've beaten it both solo and using spirit ashes and those particular fights aren't fun, they are just frustrating.
Instantly charging bosses are nothing new. Bloodborne had its share of those. Especially that damn dog.
Well, you brought up "game rules" as an argument which invalidades your entire point
The thing that kinda annoyed me about the Elden Ring DLC was the fact that all my endgame equipment was rendered useless. I understand the need to gather Scadutree fragments, but I find that I needed to upgrade twice before reaching a point where the difficulty seemed reasonable.
I also hate the fact that all the shiny new weapons you find in the DLC are basically useless in their base forms until you spend a whole bunch of Smithing Stones to upgrade them. It's a real bummer cause I would find a cool new weapon only to be dissapointed that it does like 1 dmg and I need to hold out until I gather enough mats to upgrade it before giving it a go.
Find the smithing stone bell bearings and you now have unlimited upgrade mats, with the amount of runes the dlc gives you for helping someone kill a boss it takes almost no time to upgrade a weapon to 24 or 9. My issue is that finding new weapons like the meteoric ore gs is awesome but it scales with arcane, and switching builds entirely is annoying due to the limited nature of larval tears. Armored core does buildcrafting the best though so I wish From would take more notes from itself and streamline the process
You realize you can get bell bearings so you can just buy the smithing stones from the roundtable hold? They are not that difficult to find, and they dont cost that many runes to buy either.
Bunch of dumb kids cant read + have severe skill issue. We should gatekeep FromSoft games harder. Em tourists gonna ruin souls genre 😑
Difficult? I mean the dlc does push a tighter line up of moves with needing to identify roll catch moves and prediction rolls. Some combos are so tight that you can get an immunity window but roll too late to immunity the next attack.
Playing a faith build I can feel the lack of abusing bleed or unga bunga quality builds using counter thrust damage.
After looking through my own feelings I point at the world size as the problem. Scadutree fragments are far and few since the map is so huge. You have a half dozen hours or more of searching to do to find your boss prep. For each major boss. Have fun.
I am mostly having fun but as someone who prefers exploration rather than open world I much prefer the base game to the dlc for looking around. Scadutree has made every corner mandatory as opposed to the original where exploration was just finding new toys and secrets. Now that I have enough fragments (and have redone my build to leave behind Radagon's soreseal) things feel good.
In a nutshell U said: I like exploring but i dont like finding important stuff". R U ok? Logico?
Might want to read again. I said scadufrags are a problem. The problem is people end up fighting bosses that expect them to have way more fragments than they've found. An item more mandatory than even the seeds for extra flasks since it effects everything you do to a boss.
This changes the dynamic of exploration where in the base game missing something like an extra flask worth of seeds or some weapon/spell options isn't a huge deal into a necessity to avoid essentially doing a challenge run. Every fragment you miss is making the game harder. With the size of the map its very easy to miss fragments because there's not a lot of consistency with where they are.
The bosses are balanced around people finding all of the fragments, btw. Its an inverse of past challenge options where the option is active by default and you have to complete a game wide treasure hunt to slowly weaken the effect. Only its even stupider because it makes you do magnitudes less damage to boot.
I realized on launch day my "dlc ready character" was actually in early ng+; I'm now playing through with a new character, I'm not great at these games so may take me a bit; once I beat valiant gargoyles I should be able to get mimic tear soon to speed things along.
You don't have to beat the gargoyles for mimic tear, it's after the bridge after mimic tear fight
@@1MaxCats oh, nice. I forgot. Thought it was deeper in than that. It's been a while since I played that far.
Thanks.
@@1MaxCats thank you so much! I forgot how helpful mimic tear really is. Having a mimic tear plus 6 and rediscovering the ring of sacrifice effect for the wondrous phisic really revitalized my run. Needed that a lot right now.
The Elden Ring difficulty balancing is kinda weird to me. Usually highly aggressive, long combo enemies have smaller health bars so you don't spend the majority of the fight standing around with your dick in hand, waiting to attack. But this DLC has *very* aggressive, very healthy bosses. I had to switch off from my comfy PvP quality build to a full strength build just to get reasonable damage (with like 17 Scadu Frags).
Most of my friends (all of whom are experienced FromSoft players) have either had to switch up their build or use Mimic + Summon after getting stonewalled by a boss. We all love the DLC but we don't all love the balancing.
Bunch of dumb kids cant read + have severe skill issue. We should gatekeep FromSoft games harder. Em tourists gonna ruin souls genre
Keep it coming Ralph, this is the only RUclips game related videos that I watch religiously every week. 😊😊😊
Historically, some of the most difficult sections of each FromSoft game have been in the DLC. I haven't had the chance to play SotE just yet but I fully expected it to be more challenging than the base game
Challenge isn’t the issue. People keep using that term without delving into specifics. The sandbox in which the insanely aggressive bosses exists is very clunky because there is no parry or rally system as a core part of the players kit. Many of these would be amazing in Bloodborne, Sekiro, or Lies of P because they have the same type of bosses but have those systems mentioned above implemented. And they are very hard. Elden Ring has weird options that can kind of unlock parrys, or weapons that kind of use a rally system, but because it’s not a core part of the sandbox it leaves the sandbox having an identity crisis. Hence why it has swung from too easy to now this. Great game, but From should learn from the Lies of P sandbox since it blended Bloodborne, Dark Souls, and Sekiro in a borderline perfect game. There are boss moves ripped straight out of that game and Wo Long in this DLC, we know where they are benchmarking their boss design from. FromSoftware needs to better execute their vision because the discourse stems directly from everyone not understanding, because it isn’t obvious what the sandbox is supposed to be.
@@caleb1038you can 100% parry. you can put numerous types of parries on shields and there’s a talisman in the dlc specifically for parrying.
@@caleb1038there are both parry ashes of war, rally talismans.
The animations are longer because you have to keep building up their stagger. Watching their movements is good until you learn how to punish and keep punishing. I play a bleed build and with unsheath I have a hard time with the bosses but not too hard. You can also summon other players.
@@caleb1038You can infact parry hard bosses like rennalla, and by either engaging with scadutree blessings or learning how damage mitagation works the agression of bosses becomes much less difficult. Not even discussing summons and npc assistants, most people infact are either too stuborn to switch playstyles or too ignorant of the mechanics to learn how to make their playstyle work. Also worth pointing out that most negative reviews are about easy anti cheat and it's impact on performance so the Internet's perspective on boss difficulty is skewed in a negative light. Despite this most people infact are perfectly happy with how the bosses are handled, this especially clear on platforms other than steam which aren't impacted by the chinese review bombing.
@@thatokperson None of what you said remotely refutes anything I just said.
Uhuh, like I'm gonna trust friends of Girard with charity money
Imo it’s fine, it’s a typical fromsoft dlc difficulty wise, they’re always harder than the game.
It’s the margit problem again I think. Most people have run headlong at the main path straight to shadow keep and are getting blitzed rather than exploring and getting stronger. The stuff off the main path isn’t really unreasonably hard, the more upgrades you get the easier the rest becomes and there is A LOT off the main path. Like a whole game’s worth of stuff
Nah, it's a bad pc port. Skill up is wrong here. Misreporting
@Joe-ti7qd runs fine for me. Upgrade your potato bruh.
@@ForeverMasterless i should upgrade from a 7800x3D and a 7900XTX? To where? Cause i have stutters and fps drops during bosses.
4:30 The problem is that rather than pushing yourself most people will just cheese due to how hard the bosses are, that's how I got through most DLC bosses mimic tear and nuking with magic while boss is busy with that summon. So like you said later there are op weapons and strats and for me this DLC was balanced for them, so if you don't have that then you are dying more..
“Unheard of for a FromSoftware release” clearly SkillUp forgot about Dark Souls Demastered.
@@braytastic the issue with the Remastered version is tech related, not gameplay related.
Yeah I don’t play Souls games. They’re lazy console ports.
@@johnlocke4715 thank you for your valuable input. I was dying to know this info.
@@Spaaardaaa thank you. I really appreciate it
Really enjoyed the Blue Prince demo, happy to see it on PTOYR
Absolutely did not miss Greg Miller doing anything. That dude is so annoying
Lmfao
On Elden Ring difficulty:
I still absolutely love the game and I welcome the challenge, and I don't think it takes away from the masterpiece the game AND DLC are! That being said, it could be better. The biggest difficulty comes in the form of limited defensive options, and no way to bridge the gap between defense and offense, like in Sekiro, and that's my main criticism. Bosses in Elden Ring (most prominently in the DLC) have the speed and aggression of a Sekiro, but your character is stuck with the Dark Souls 1-3 defensive options.
The guard counters are really cool, and there's even a cracked tear added in the DLC that basically gives you Sekiro's deflects, however guard counters limit your build options, specially most weapons have terrible block stats (some weapons can't even block while dual wielding), and the cracked tear is just a temporary buff (3 minutes if I'm not mistaken).
If the cracked tear was actually a talisman for you to have it active at all times and you could block with ANY weapon (or at least the perfect block), it would go a long LONG way in making the combat more enjoyable without needing to change the difficulty of the bosses themselves.
I envy PC players who will eventually be able to download a mod to add Sekiro's deflects to the game.
Every time we call genuine criticism review bombing, we diminish the value of the term and can't use it to properly describe group initiatives to hurt a game's image anymore. People expressing opinions on actual issues, whether performance or balancing related, are not review bombing.
Having a nuanced discussion about a FromSoft title is next to impossible. I love their games but understand and accept that it has problems. There's a vocal group that believe FromSoft can do no wrong.
Shocker, people are allowed to have opinions and express genuine concern as long as it's nuanced.
@@AlJavier06i love FS games, but their community is fucking insufferable
Sorry it was review bombed. The reviews based on technical problems were and are very valid, but the “too hard” aren’t. I’m a potato and managed the DLC with 11 blessings until the end area. For that area I had to farm for more
as someone who's almost done with the DLC, I'd 100% say that the Rellana, Twin Moon Knight fight was just insufferable, every other boss was in the realm of "difficult, but fair", that particular fight was straight out of Sekiro but you're fighting with EldenRing controls and timing. The fight was either your 1st or 2nd major boss fight and I'd 100% understand why people are frustrated with that shit.
Always getting my like skill up. I missed the charity stream it looked like a lot of fun.
I honestly forget Ralph is a TALL man until i see him standing next to other people
now think about how often he has to fly from down under to the US! the legroom!
Think about it, they always upside down, its like they been hanging from a bar their entire lives. They must be stretched by gravity
Cheers for another video bub
Lot of fun watching the livestream
Much love to you, Stew Austin and Edmond
Take care folks x
Scadutree is just pronounced shadowtree btw. Since it’s the old English spelling of the word. Don’t know why they can’t just spell it shadow since the title of the expansion goes by that name. Maybe they didn’t want to confuse people? But who knows
i will watch that 12 hour vod when i am in homeoffice next time, ralph!
scadutree fragments end up making you feel like you are often exploring in a "wrong" direction because tons of areas end up having none of those fragments you need to buff your character with that juicy global dmg/def multiplier that you NEED.
I can't believe I found this hidden treasure! Excited for more life wisdom! -- "Achievement thrives on dedication and relentless effort.."
Less to do with performance or difficulty and more to do with it not being that great an experience. Feels like most critics played it for 1-2 hours and wrote a glowing review because they knew not doing so would probably face backlash.
Great point. You can’t say anything bad about a very popular game or you get mean tweets 😂
@toptiertech7291 I want to see some of these critics livestream their game for 10 minutes just to clear this up lol. Wouldn't be surprised if half of them are less than 10 hours in.. "This review won't show story spoilers or any late game boss fights, so don't worry!" In the bag.
it’s an incredible experience and some of the best content they’ve ever released most reviewers played it for more than 40-50 hours as stated in their review you are wrong
@@jacquescote3903 he means critics. Not everyday gamers 🤣🤣 no one is talking to you. Go somewhere else
@@interlinkedMediaBut you shouldn’t show any spoilers in a review regardless….
28:59 - Mark Bonnano from Aunty Donna on the top donations list? Ace!
Just to explain the issue, the base game of Elden Ring was just about the right difficulty wise and if you struggled, there were many mechanics to help with that, also you could skip it and coming back later. It attracted a big audience who enjoyed that difficulty tuning, and many for the first time were able to play and complete a From software game. Something that From Software never seemed interested in the past, they didn't want any gamer playing their games only hard-core. Come the dlc, which is more difficult, has enemies that are more aggressive, have more health, you have less time to heal and is less forgiving, even the developer says this is the case regarding difficulty. So why are youtubers surprised that a large audience who enjoyed the formular of the base game don't enjoy a different approach to the new content. It's the contradiction between the base game and the dlc that people have issues with. They just wanted more of the same. It's like enjoying a film, then going to watch the sequel, and the sequel changes things up, and people end up not enjoying it as much. I'm shocked how difficult this is to comprehend and isn't helped by some of the worst gamers out there who just say get good or it's your problem, they add little to nothing to the conversation and are just looking down on people who dare to play a From Software game, their own private domain, along with elitists like the developer.
I still think the lack of difficutly options is just sticking a middle finger up to people with disabilities.
@@SideQuestStoriesas someone who loves Fromsoft stories and the lore, and who has disabilities that impact gaming, I thought going into ER would be a good idea cause “open world” souls where you can go somewhere else would alleviate some of the difficulty I had with their overall game design of “git gud” mentality the fans have. I got halfway through elden ring base game and just got burnt out on how little enjoyment I got from sometimes having to grind levels to make up for my own physical shortcomings and limitations. A hard single player game like this should have difficulty options for those that want to get the overall experience, but due to time restraints or problems they can’t overcome fully by “getting gud” cause I really like the story and vibe of elden ring but I look at what the DLC bosses move sets are in videos and go “oh yeah fromsoft’s game design of pushing the hardcore fans to an ever greater degree just makes me feel I’ll just watch the games from the sidelines.” And it’s not like soulslikes don’t have accessible options- I’m playing Stellar Blade now and having an overall wonderful time because it has difficulty options to make the game as difficult as you want. I also played Rise of the Ronin and had a great time cause of said difficulty options. Difficulty options just add more accessibility and makes sure you don’t age out of being able to play them- cause I wonder how enjoyable souls games will be when the average person starts growing older and losing their reflex speed
that "Somehow they returned" comment killed me. well played
The Ivory King dlc isn’t looked back on with universal fondness, is it? I dunno why Erd Tree being critcized is a surprise. Fromsoft is an excellent studio, but they are far from a perfect one.
Creatures of Ava sounds like a more open world Metroid Vania version of the Pokemon ranger games.
Seems pretty cool.
That eurogamer article is the exact reason I stopped playing these types of games. I have played Dark Souls 1, 2, 3, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden ring. Not once after having banged my head on a boss for hours have I ever felt satisfied. It’s always “thank god that was awful”. I always played the game for something else not the bosses. At this point I don’t have the energy to just keep playing. So I ended my Elden Ring play through after getting the moonlight great sword and am happy at that.
Edit: I think what really did it for me was Dark Souls 3’s hidden DLC Black Dragon boss. That took me so long it completely burnt me out on the genre.
This is the reason why I hate that the games get these insane scores. This will entice everyone to try out these games and give negative feedback over things that are pretty baked into the genre.
i get hyped when i beat the boss. It must be a you problem
Thought you might mention Emberward. It's pretty great. I wish more people were talking about it.
Nah... That Shinji Mikami narrative is just the escape goat. MS shut the studio because of sales/downloads.
The word you're looking for is "scapegoat", but yeah. Xbox is just surprised people didn't like the decision.
Damn those goats just keep escaping
I think square finally realized the products we are calling AI isn't actual artificial intelligence.
To me, the whole problem with the scadutree fragments is that it *is* kind of an arbitrary increase in difficulty. You NEED to take them to have a fair fight against a lot of these new bosses, because without them they have an unreasonable amount of health and damage output
It’s arbitrary in the sense that all RPG progression systems are arbitrary. If rewarding exploration with important progression rewards that increase damage and defense is considered arbitrary, the whole core of the genre comes into question.
Fromsoft needed to find a way to give players new forms of progression while also giving them control over their own difficulty, the way their classic level up system does. And thanks to this decision, players of all levels can tweak their own experience as they see fit, and dodge the issue of stat softcaps limiting your normal level progression.
There is room for gentle rebalancing but the system isn’t the issue. People seem to be mostly upset that their “complete” build has to work for progression again - but why play an enormous DLC roughly the size of a whole smaller game if not to make progression and continue building your character?
2:11 as a Destiny 2 player, I find myself saying "this isnt fun" a lot for stuff not tuned too well
Been playing sporadically since d1 alpha and honestly the only time I rage quitted was the new fragment fight against a tormentor. It's a huge open platform with 0 cover and I didn't wanna get help with it but then quickly realized it's above my skill tier lol. 30 minutes of whittling away and then failing regardless was sssooooo unfun
Rather than implying some secret exclusivity deal, the Microsoft quote to me reads like they are trying to defend their Series S system parity requirement. The "deals with other platforms" part is just them saying that they aren't going to talk about what other platforms require or allow, because this is about Microsoft making sure no version of the Xbox gets left behind.
Gotta watch that cast reading of the Sonic movie XD
"Charity stream", yeaaaaaa surrrrre
Regarding Arkane Austin, I remember noclip crew saying how there was barely any talent drain if any with regards to Redfall. The checked the credits and found most people they spoke to for their Arkane doco were on that project. Plus for one bad game out of all their games made is no excuse to shutter them since you’re losing trained talent anyway. Love your work shilly and look forward to the next news round up 😊😊
The new Jade Shadows quest in Warframe is a special one and deserves a mention.
I honestly don't think Black Myth Wukong has struck any deals with Sony. What Microsoft said was just them being Microsoft as usual, throwing some dirt at the opponent at every possible opportunity. Sony is on the same level so to speak
Was I having fun with Shadow of the Erdtree? Hell fucking yeah I was! This dlc kicked my ass just as hard as From’s other dlcs and I loved every minute of it. I had some issues with some of the base game bosses but honestly thought the dlc bosses fixed almost all of those issues, it felt very fair. This is my new favorite piece of souls, content? Idk I feel like this could be considered its own game with how gargantuan it is. Once again, Fromsoft have put many AAA studios to shame and shown just how much they have mastered the Souls genre.
yeah i love this dlc and i expected it to be as difficult as this. Im surprised so many people are surprised that the dlc bosses are harder than the base game. No fucking shit, its end-game content, its meant to be difficult
im curious, what issues were fixed with the dlc bosses for you? (genuinely)
The thing that I don't get about the tango closure is that Mikami set up the studio to foster new talent which I think he was successful at so Mikami leaving wouldn't cause an implosion