This week on Breakout we discuss our thoughts on Elden Ring, the next game from From Software which takes the “Souls” formula into a new open world setting. We’ve spent dozens of hours playing the game over the past week and are ready to share our thoughts on it.
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I haven't been this hyped for a game since MGS2. I wanna play it right now!
I like a story in games so I know this will probably be a miss for me. I want to play it just for the exploration because I’m crap at Souls-like games.
I don’t like that it only has three player co-op my friend group has four people in it we need for player co-op
A few friends and I already planned on taking most of this weekend to play the game. A couple of us are going to start as soon as it drops at 11.
“Skip the character creator”
Most controversial take I’ve heard about this game so far.
Last Breakout: Dark souls should have inclusive easy options
This Breakout: I was worried Elden Ring would be too easy
Here's a thought: I'm not saying this game isn't deserving of the praise it's getting but do you think that it received so many 10/10 scores because the reviewers were scared of the fanbase reaction if it didn't get high scores?
Skip from 01:13:00 until about 01:14:43 to avoid mild spoilers. TESTICLES
Ooh another shill company for Eldon Ring, FromSoft don't care how much you suck them off and no one is here for you…people will get their info from long term DS fans, not part timers who jump on bandwagons
K.C. this has nothing to do with the show really but that's a hell of a shirt mate.
So hyped for tonight's launch!
Just sad that my collectors edition got screwed.
Lads and ladesses the day is coming along us and I'm not the only one who can say I've shed tears seeing this day come and begin here through this great journey from the great hollowing to the age of leaks to the content golden age I'm happy to see what has come of what some thought was a mere myth rejoice for what others shunned us for not believing has come to bring us from gaming's darkest hour from devs who would lie to us cheat us and crush our faith in them for selfish greed REJOICE OOOHHH ELDEN LORDS FOR SOON WELL BE BATHING IN THE LIGHT OF GRACE ONCE AGAIN
1:11:11 Robots with more than two arms is my JAM, dudes
also super glad you brought up Chrome Hounds, i really miss that game
The fun part about Elden Ring was watching all of my friends who play Souls getting very quiet for the entire day it came out and then breathe a massive collective sigh of relief when the reviews came out an it turned out it wasn't secretly a huge bug-ridden mess. There was no reason to particularly expect it but I have been playing games too long to have anything but the total opposite of hype for every release.
Let’s see if the game lives up to the hype
This is my favorite game by acclaimed Chinese development studio, FrontShift Wares. Their boss, Kojima Chan, is my hero. Right now I'm playing on PS1 at 3 frames per second.
I spend like 15 min max on a FROM game character because I know I'm gonna be covered in armor for 90% of the game anyway and then I'll barely see their face