Elden Ring Is a Masterpiece — my thoughts after 60 hours

Wow, this is the most "souls like" game you've found on steam yet

Surprise, the game is good! I'll be hanging out in the comments for a while to answer questions people have, so feel free to ask whatever.

Elden Ring is the type of game where you can take a wrong turn and be completely rewarded as long as you’re tenacious enough. It also convinced me to pick up a Souls game.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if it took some people over 100 hours to do everything in this game.” Took me 190 hours.

I also completely agree that Skyrims scaling enemies didn't feel that good to play against. I like feeling like I've progressed past points of a game. I don't want a spider in a starting area to be level 60 because it's "scaling" with me.

"The pure panic of getting chased by a bear the size of an elephant that can knock down trees is really something that I think everyone should experience" -Iron Pineapple

3:57 not just ANY cave either, there’s a whole npc quest and an entire HIDDEN AREA involved with that cave. Crazy game

Even after 430+ hours I am still hooked to this game

I love how there are random teleporter traps getting you to far away zones where you are completely underleveled. Trying to poke around and snatching some high level rare items is so satisfying.

To be honest, while I was already over the moon after everything I’ve seen of this game, the two words you spoke in this video that made me happiest were ‘re-spec mechanic’.

I've been avoiding ER all this time because I don't like super difficult games (and I'm one of those who never played a Souls game.) Your video convinced me I owe it to myself to give it a fair shot and try it out. Thanks for addressing the difficulty and mechanical skill issues in your video as you did.

I had never played a Souls game before, all my friends said "I would hate it" as I'm the kinda person that plays everything casually and on easy difficulty. But I kept seeing videos, and in addition to looking cool, it was almost comical how often people died. So I went in with the expectation like I was rewinding a final destination movie, that I would die all the time (as a method to alleviate impending frustration from getting too close and failing). And I had a blast. I mean a genuinely good time. It's not often I can say im glad I didn't listen to my friends. I still haven't beaten it yet, I'm at the Malekith fight (pretty far in) and yeah I'm not bored yet. I also want to now go back and play other fromsoft titles. For anyone out there like me who doesn't like a challenge, I don't know how but this game is for you too. It's immensely accessible and an incredible gateway into the genre.

I'm one of the "Absolutely Love Your Content; Never Touched A FromSoftware Game" people (4 mins in Bloodborne, aside). I REALLY appreciated you taking the time and effort to address us directly. That section and, really, the entire vid and how you broke pretty much everything down has convinced me to give Elden Ring a shot. I thought the game looked great and interesting, like all FromSoft games, but was completely fine with living vicariously through you. But you explaining how pretty much how everything works in this game AND a pep talk?! I'm totally on board. You're a great ambassador for the genre and its games. Thanks again!

15:04 My friend played Oblivion without horse or fast travel. I imagine our co-op playtrough will be like when the fellowship chased after the hobbits that were being taken to Isengard. An epic hiking journey that will hopefully be more enjoyable than Gimli's experience.

Never played the series, and for the first time I tried it with Elden Ring. And this is one or the best game ever made... I played it 5 times in a row.

I totally forgot about the frame stuttering thing lol they've taken good care of this game :)

This game is fun, but it's even more fun when u have friends to talk about it with. Giving eachother tips and pointers for bosses, telling eachother about cool item locations, etc has been great

The fact that respecing is a thing here cures a massive headache for me. I’ve been fussing over what I should try on my first run of the game for weeks now because everything looks so incredibly engaging and fun to use! Now I can actually just try what I want without worrying over screwing my stats. lol

I picked up EldenRing two months ago, a long time after release, for the reasons you mentioned in the video (too difficult, never played a souls-like before, etc.), and I just fell in love with it. I'm currently on ng+4, after getting 100% of the achievements and focusing on getting everything discovered, including killing all 165 bosses. PS: I even bought the Book of Knowledge Vol. 1 of the game, which is the first time in my life that I bought something like that.

I´ve returned to your video after way over a year; after nearly 1500 hours in the game, trying Dark Souls 3 in the meantime; to thank you. As you and Vaatividya have been the two people who hooked me to this game. I am still playing it, still trying new things. And just thought to myself, I´ve to adress this to the people, whos experience with this game made me try it and helped me finally find what I´ve been missing in so many games I´ve played over the last 20 years: challenge. And yes, I know, there have been three parts of Dark Souls, but they didn´t intrigue me as much by their trailers, when you did with this video.