Asmongold Reacts to "Elden Ring (dunkview)" | by videogamedunkey

I can't believe asmongold finally acknowledged the record holder of the critically aclaimed Bowser's Big Bean Burrito level

This game really makes you FEEL like the Elden Ring.

jesus christ watching asmongold's chat is like receiving the torture of Alex DeLarge in Clockwork Orange, sometimes I'm afraid of becoming an idiot myself by watching it

"All difficulty is optional! Things aren't unbalanced. You're SUPPOSED to take that much damage." Then YouTube immediately recommends the video of you fighting the death rite bird to me. Hahahaha

How can you argue with someone who literally has 0 disliked videos?

Dunkey nailed two things: "It's like stepping into a painting" and it isn't the difficulty, it's the balance. hard/easy should be gradual, with moments of surprise...

When dunkey says game it’s unbalanced: “game it’s not unbalanced, Difficulty it’s optional in this game 🤓” When dunkey cheese the bosses: “BUT HE IS CHEATING! 😦”

Why are you disagreeing with Dunkey when he's talking about the insane difficulty spike at endgame, when you haven't reached endgame yet at this point?

I’m not sure how far asmon is, but I feel like it’s the end game zones where the damage numbers seem to skyrocket

You know what elden ring has that makes me not get angry at all when I die? Lots of checkpoints, and stakes of my beloved marika. At least when you blow it and get stomped there isn’t a 10 minute run through a miserable area back to a boss. I’ll die 50 times to one “unfair” enemy so long as I get to fight her again a minute later. No big deal

Royal Revenant is a perfect example of an OP non-boss that gives shit runes in this game. Long undodgable instakill combo (even at 60 vigor), virtually 0 opening to attack unless caught off guard, teleports and messes up your camera, and throws poison at you. Harder than some of the story bosses.

"He's got a lot of free time" Says the guy that streams videogames for a living lol

My main issue with the difficulty is that it's all over the place. One moment you're in a zone where you are struggling with every mob and the next moment you are breezing through it. This is kind of expected with an open world game but there are situations where it could have easily been avoided. The best example I have is going from Caelid to Nokron. Since you need to have killed Radahn to access Nokron, most players will probably have done most of Caelid before they enter Nokron, and Caelid is like twice as difficult as Nokron is.

Elden ring community can be nearly impossible to reason with sometimes. I understand the point dunkey is making towards lowering damage output of certain enemies, some of them are not oaky at all. I've beaten the game on three playthroughs and my str / faith build is currently new game plus 3, does that make me the best? Hell no but I believe the argument of "get gud" is invalid for this game in certain situations.

The upgrade stones are a bit tedious but the main problem is the amount of weapons that become obsolete especially in late game bosses who just become too unenjoyable. What I would like to see FromSoftware do is buff weaker weapons and especially the other elements. Fire/sleep/poison/scarlet rot is incredibly underpowered compared to ice and blood.

not cheating when the game gives you these tools to beat it with. Everyone has their own playstyle

Using two weapons in this game that both require Smithing Stone is the hardest thing in the game. I think it’s kinda backwards that it’s much easier to powerstance 2 weapons that require Somber over Smithing

The laugh after The Fire Giant fell was so genuine Asmons face was hilarious.

As a first time watcher I gather two things from this video: 1. This is some solid content 2. His eyebrow movement is insane

Ah yes. Gatekeeping Magic as a whole. Asmon in Souls is like a 2 year old that is still Going through the Full Cycle