Elden Ring Wants You to Play Differently

The "you're playing it wrong" is a quote from a reddit post I cover in this video. I know you're not playing it at all. Neither am I.

The mechanic of the invisible stagger meter is present all the way back in ds1. The red dragon miniboss that makes the floor go away is easy to poise break with dual maces.

Imma give elden another try when i first got it i didnt like how different it was to the traditional fromsoft games but after watching this video i realized why i just didnt play it how it was meant to

Man that snow tundra music from Metroid prime just takes me back

My favorite line in this video is “look at how cool I look.” The fact that it you treat coolness as a valid argument is awesome

Adding stance was such a great idea. As you said, it made previously left out attacks to be valuable again. Aside from charged R2 and jumbs, some combat arts and spells are excellent at breaking poise as well, and I try to seize opening for them as much as I can.
Guard counter is definitely a favorite of mine. At last blocking went from passive stupid to an actual offensive tactic! (key is, again, to use it wisely. You'll waste endurance often if you block instead of dodge, and counter needs to be timed as to not get interreptutde but they're definitely worth it. I often blocked with just weapons to unleash them, and was so glad with the later patch that improve the guard of big weapons).
My only complaints would be the classical parry, who went into this new system pretty much unchanged and feels a bit laggging behind guard counter, especially against bosses. Still feels very satisfying to land that said (parrying Malenia was so much joy...)

Elden Ring made me do what Dark Souls never could: press R2.

L2 spam ftw!!!!!!!

This is the most important Elden Ring video I ever encountered. Thanks very much for broadening my perspective on this game. I mean it!

Very insightful explanation thank you.

The game is slow cumbersome slow and boring, I loved sekiro and bloodbourne but elden ring is horrible

Dodging a boss is extremely difficult, when the dodging ("rolling-away") starts at about HALF a second after I press the F-key (and that is on PC)... 🙄

Elden Ring is the worst game I have ever played.

I am so glad you said this. But I really wish people would stop calling the level/boss/enemy respawn model would go away. It was great in the 1980s quarter munching video game, but it isnt an RPG. The populatity of this kind of game is also why its boring. Its like viewing the tree instead of the forests. It is also why it is so like going to work. Combat is combat. Jumping back and forth with a tiny tine story is just like working at McDonalds flipping burgers. It isnt intersting that this order (enemy) has no pickles (jump attack back. Vs. Charge jump attack back) yawn. And respawning the same enemy just because I saved....in the real world.... is a cheap attempt to make. A 1p game seem like an mmorpg. Yawn. If you want to fight fight fight play moryal combat, but please don't pretend that walking from arena to arena isnt just a fighting game and DONT EVER claim this is an RPG. It isn't.

I used ash's of war the demigod spirits and used arrows finally beating that boss

what character class is this in-game footage? anybody know?

The game would be improved immensely by the existence of a visible poise bar. There are far too many humanoid bosses in the game that break the previously established rules of poise and easily give players the impression that poise isn't an actual stat or trait at all.

I started out the game mixing a lot of heavy attacks into my moveset but upon meeting the Crucible Knight as my first boss (who is famously impossible to stagger without very specific set-ups) I just came to the conclusion that poise simply didn't apply for bosses.

If you go back and watch streams from when the game was first released you'll notice a lot of streamers quickly take to steamrolling the game by dual-wielding two large weapons and heavy-jump attacking everything and there's a good reason for this - without a well-communicated poise system it's the only thing that reliably produces results/staggers. Without visual feedback on what charged attacks are actually doing there's no incentive for new players to use them.

i dont think i could ever go back to not having a proper jump again. Jump attacks (r2 specifically) have by far become my favorite way to open an engagement with an enemy.

Y’all didn’t use heavy attacks in dark souls? My standard play style for dark souls is big huge 2 handed weapon and only heavy attacks. Smashing through gods with max strength and no vitality one hit and I die. Maybe that’s just because bloodborne was my first soulsborne game.

didnt Bloodborne have a posture mechanic just like this? I seem to recall the R1 spam paling in comparison to charged R2 on enemy posture

Why are soulslikes game where I'm supposedly free to play however I want and every player is supposed to have a different experience but then get told I have to change my buildstrategy to beat certain bosses?

As a person working on their own vision of their perfect game, I really like that From decided to create something bold, different and challenging, and then slowly but surely perfect the vision over a decade before dropping Elden Ring on the world and becoming one of the most successive games out there, especially in today's gaming landscape.
DS II is the closest to my heart even though it was criticized for being too different, I love how ER takes inspiration from every single souls title and refines them, sometimes going as far as introducing some much needed QoL changes to make the experience even better.. can't sing my praises enough, started on NYE and already put in 120 hours lmao, haven't even took the grand lift of Rold because I'm afraid I'll advance some quests too far (like how Radahn Festival starts as soon as you use the dectus medallion)

In today's gaming industry of copy paste games released annually, free to play / play to win environment, live service and the list goes on, From and by extension ER dared to be different and stand by certain values that are much appreciated and really, really can't sing my praises enough of how well put together everything really is (aside from the quests, really can't wrap my head around how someone should find certain quest milestones, like sure miyazaki, the way to make someone the true ruler of limgrave is to find some dead bird in the starting area)

Soooo…. I explored for 35 hours before fighting Margit. Ended up wiping the floor with him. I’m really glad I came across your video since I most likely wouldn’t have learned any of this without it. Thanks 👍

This vid and all points like it wouldn't have to exist if fromsoft just made enemies poise a visible meter like in sekiro

Seems like they should've made the enemy posture bar visible. It wouldve made it easier in a way, but also wouldve made some players overly hasty as well, technically making it more difficult.

I didn't attempt Margit until I had Rock Sling and the levels from Greyoll / Night's Cavalry. I gave him 3 tries with the wolves, concluded all I needed was a tankier spirit, got Engwall, made him +2 and beat Margit on my next try. Didn't run into a real wall until Radahn (and I'm very overleveled by now thanks to The Bird and several stationary overworld bosses who are just begging for Poison Mist)). Meteor Boi doesn't care.

It would be cool if the game had a training room where you could go and fight fallen bosses...

For the most part, I only used R2 for one hits on lowly enemies and occasionally during boss fights. But yes, I’m guilty of hammering the R 1😢. Love the Metroid Prime background music by the way.

I did my entire first playthrough of Elden ring only using R1 like you would in Dark Souls. It wasn't until other players had to tell me to start using R2 and jumping R2 that I'd use them going forward

Estus cancel is your friend.

I always used more charged r2 than r1 since bloodborne if you didn’t you are a retard

Dark souls is just Elden Ring in slow motion

Wuzzat? Powerstance katana-wak everything even if it doesn't work? Aye aye Captain. Wildo.

I used to love the Zweihander in Dark Souls cause you could latterly flatten the enemy to the ground with R2 attack. In Elden Ring I use the Zweihander but don't love it.

Me who's been dodging every attack sense the start of the game : interesting

I know I'm very late to this video but I'd like to talk about an experience I had in elden ring when it first came out. I got to commander nial with a the sword of night and flame and a shield (this was literally a day after they nerfed the wepon) and commander nial kicked my ass soo bad and soo many times it really made me reconsider my entire build and playstyle. So I switched my wepon to the banished knight greatsword and decided to two hand it, use jump attacks and guard counter. I beat him first try and it made me look at every boss in a different way and it honestly made the game even more fun

oh, i didnt notice this in my entire playthrough, and i got 100% achievements and 6 ng+ 🤡

Can you play a game wrong. This quote in combination to a from software title. Where did I hear this before? Was this video "inspired" by a different video?
Hmmmmmm.
Tommy talarico agrees.

who the hell spams R1 in a souls game. its git gud, not git a fast trigger finger.

i wonder if fromsoft planned all their previous games as a way to guide them to make their biggest masterpiece, that is Elden Ring. DS for the combat and exploration, bloodborne for aggressive gameplay and fearlessness and sekiro for the posture and forcing the player to adapt to the game to beat it.

why melee is so bad compared to any range in this game ?

These games are art. With how they look and how it is played, very unique.

Man ds3 has this aswell

what you're saying is true.
instead of spamming R1 I now spam jump attack with R2...
or L2, L2, L2

I'm pretty sure you can "posture-break" in the other Dark Souls games as well. You just hit the enemy often and hard enough and they just slump over, waiting for the visceral attack.

as an intellectual strength user, nothings changed. BIG POISE BIG ATTACK MAKE ENEMY FALL OOGA

open world slop aside elden ring has the best combat in the series

Ive being hacking and slashing for to long now. Any magic builds?

Sekiro is one of the best games ever made. Its combat mechanics are perfect.