From Software Elden Ring - From Software's new game with writing by GRRM

[Lyric Suite]

Hey neat, first attempt:



One dead, 150 more to go lul.

 

[Comrade Goby]

Time for more KINO

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

 

[Kruno]

Probably it will be as it was speculated: that child/thing/character is clearly Miquella (a man apparently) and the realm is the dream realm or whatever it's called. Cut content found in files, cut items, cut quest and dialogue relating to sleep, dreams and a sleep dew potion the player can make.
Anyway, what's incredible to me is that after all these years From still makes DLCs about some of the most retarded, insignificant, less cool aspects of the lore. Like who the fuck cares about Miquella and his dreams?
Motherfucker I want a DLC where we get to fight, kill and absorb the powers of the Rot God, Greater Will, Formless Mother, Blood Star, Dark Moon, Frenzy Fire God (the madness and Fire Giant god), Dragon God and all the other Outer Gods, travel to an alien city where you get to learn more about primeval current, glintstone, fight entities like Falling star beast, Astel, maybe add swimming and an underwater city with sea bosses. Just some ideas.
But nah, Miquella.

Uh oh! Somebody didn't watch the 50 MINUTES long lOrE video from Vaati about Miquella!

Can you post a link?

 

[Lambach]

These AI Voices are getting insane, holy Jesus.

 

[Kruno]

Probably it will be as it was speculated: that child/thing/character is clearly Miquella (a man apparently) and the realm is the dream realm or whatever it's called. Cut content found in files, cut items, cut quest and dialogue relating to sleep, dreams and a sleep dew potion the player can make.
Anyway, what's incredible to me is that after all these years From still makes DLCs about some of the most retarded, insignificant, less cool aspects of the lore. Like who the fuck cares about Miquella and his dreams?
Motherfucker I want a DLC where we get to fight, kill and absorb the powers of the Rot God, Greater Will, Formless Mother, Blood Star, Dark Moon, Frenzy Fire God (the madness and Fire Giant god), Dragon God and all the other Outer Gods, travel to an alien city where you get to learn more about primeval current, glintstone, fight entities like Falling star beast, Astel, maybe add swimming and an underwater city with sea bosses. Just some ideas.
But nah, Miquella.

Uh oh! Somebody didn't watch the 50 MINUTES long lOrE video from Vaati about Miquella!

Can you post a link?

Got it!

The ride never ends...

So what do we see?

- The Elden Tree either burnt out, or this is what it was like before Marika came along. So either a prequel, sequel or something like that time warp shit from Ringed City.
- Blonde girl riding Torrent. Marika? Hints at link between her and Melina?
- She's riding in the field from the ending of Gladiator. Where is this?

Also lmao Lord of the Elden Ring: Shadow of Mordortree.

Waiting for the 2 hours youtube video analysis of this image.

Only a 15 minute video. Maybe with a followup we might get an extra 30-40 minutes!

 

[Lyric Suite]

Lmao, so i got summoned to Castle Morne, not only by a SL1 character but one wearing just the club and no armor. So much for muh SL1 challenge these people man.

Meanwhile all the invaders are twinked to crap, but it's actually not that bad because you can still survive their attacks which makes the fights actually feel engaging. I remember when i used to PvP in Lucaria i'd often get one shotted by not at low level it seems, no matter how much twinking the invader has done. Kinda interesting.

So annoying i can't talk to Rogier after killing Godrick as that stupid +8 weapon is just gonna fuck up my matchmaking. I had hoped they would have taken that crap out in some patch but nope.

 

[Kruno]

Lmao, so i got summoned to Castle Morne, not only by a SL1 character but one wearing just the club and no armor. So much for muh SL1 challenge these people man.

Meanwhile all the invaders are twinked to crap, but it's actually not that bad because you can still survive their attacks which makes the fights actually feel engaging. I remember when i used to PvP in Lucaria i'd often get one shotted by not at low level it seems, no matter how much twinking the invader has done. Kinda interesting.

So annoying i can't talk to Rogier after killing Godrick as that stupid +8 weapon is just gonna fuck up my matchmaking. I had hoped they would have taken that crap out in some patch but nope.

Don't worry, Vaati will make a 10 hour long video describing this!

 

[Elttharion]

 

[SharkClub]

Vaati is so cringe. In that video he straight up prefaces everything by saying that all of the item descriptions and references to Miquella say he is a "he" and specifically a feminine male, and then he goes on to refer to him as a they/them for the entire video. I rolled my eyes so hard I'm pretty sure I was looking at my own brain for a moment. This is the guy that made a career out of copypasting Souls lore effortposts from 4chan's /v/ and narrating them and now he's doublethinking his own words so he doesn't upset discord trannies. Many such cases with /v/ personalities that gain fame and fortune, Mandalore is another good example.

 

[Dadd]

He is cringe but not for those long reasons that I didn't read

 

[MajorMace]

He reached the paroxysm of his craft. Even if nothing of value is to be found in these games and their media material, he'd still have to shit out at least 20mins of exegesis.
His only way out is to quit making lore videos altogether.

His channel, and all similar channels, also greatly damage the very thing they're supposed to take care of. It's true, ever since Demon's Souls slightly but mainly since Dark Souls, that FS games cultivate the taste of mystery, and play -even superficially- with codes and habits of a mystery cult, in a way. And you can indeed dig for hidden stuff, and find it out eventually, with enough hints and symbols in their games to warrant an actual intention to hide it.

But all these fucking videos basically just put all of this into a massive lore grinder and shits out formated ready-to-serve full front explanations.
It's so fucking sad in a way I can't quite explain.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

This is a better option. Because... well...

 

[Dadd]

This is a better option. Because... well...

Vaati is prettier than this

 

[Elttharion]

He reached the paroxysm of his craft. Even if nothing of value is to be found in these games and their media material, he'd still have to shit out at least 20mins of exegesis.
His only way out is to quit making lore videos altogether.

His channel, and all similar channels, also greatly damage the very thing they're supposed to take care of. It's true, ever since Demon's Souls slightly but mainly since Dark Souls, that FS games cultivate the taste of mystery, and play -even superficially- with codes and habits of a mystery cult, in a way. And you can indeed dig for hidden stuff, and find it out eventually, with enough hints and symbols in their games to warrant an actual intention to hide it.

But all these fucking videos basically just put all of this into a massive lore grinder and shits out formated ready-to-serve full front explanations.
It's so fucking sad in a way I can't quite explain.

My dream is for Miyazaki to just comment on one of these lore videos: 'Bro, its not that deep".

 

[MajorMace]

He reached the paroxysm of his craft. Even if nothing of value is to be found in these games and their media material, he'd still have to shit out at least 20mins of exegesis.
His only way out is to quit making lore videos altogether.

His channel, and all similar channels, also greatly damage the very thing they're supposed to take care of. It's true, ever since Demon's Souls slightly but mainly since Dark Souls, that FS games cultivate the taste of mystery, and play -even superficially- with codes and habits of a mystery cult, in a way. And you can indeed dig for hidden stuff, and find it out eventually, with enough hints and symbols in their games to warrant an actual intention to hide it.

But all these fucking videos basically just put all of this into a massive lore grinder and shits out formated ready-to-serve full front explanations.
It's so fucking sad in a way I can't quite explain.

My dream is for Miyazaki to just comment on one of these lore videos: 'Bro, its not that deep".

In the case of a game like DSIII it can even be "Bro, are you retarded ?"

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

He reached the paroxysm of his craft. Even if nothing of value is to be found in these games and their media material, he'd still have to shit out at least 20mins of exegesis.
His only way out is to quit making lore videos altogether.

His channel, and all similar channels, also greatly damage the very thing they're supposed to take care of. It's true, ever since Demon's Souls slightly but mainly since Dark Souls, that FS games cultivate the taste of mystery, and play -even superficially- with codes and habits of a mystery cult, in a way. And you can indeed dig for hidden stuff, and find it out eventually, with enough hints and symbols in their games to warrant an actual intention to hide it.

But all these fucking videos basically just put all of this into a massive lore grinder and shits out formated ready-to-serve full front explanations.
It's so fucking sad in a way I can't quite explain.

My dream is for Miyazaki to just comment on one of these lore videos: 'Bro, its not that deep".

This is the most likely answer. It already happened with Evangelion, for instance. Everyone was like "this judeo-christian imagery has to have MEANING!!!!" but the creators were like "it just looked cool, idk what it means irl xd"

 

[Dadd]

Hideaki Anno is prone to depression and he doesn't want sweaty otakus sending him death threats. What he said didn't stop anyone from theorizing because the information is all there in the series.

 

[Caim]

He reached the paroxysm of his craft. Even if nothing of value is to be found in these games and their media material, he'd still have to shit out at least 20mins of exegesis.
His only way out is to quit making lore videos altogether.

His channel, and all similar channels, also greatly damage the very thing they're supposed to take care of. It's true, ever since Demon's Souls slightly but mainly since Dark Souls, that FS games cultivate the taste of mystery, and play -even superficially- with codes and habits of a mystery cult, in a way. And you can indeed dig for hidden stuff, and find it out eventually, with enough hints and symbols in their games to warrant an actual intention to hide it.

But all these fucking videos basically just put all of this into a massive lore grinder and shits out formated ready-to-serve full front explanations.
It's so fucking sad in a way I can't quite explain.

At one point the lore had dried up so badly Vaati made up his own to put in a book.

https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/soul-arts-presented-by-vaatividya

 

[MajorMace]

He reached the paroxysm of his craft. Even if nothing of value is to be found in these games and their media material, he'd still have to shit out at least 20mins of exegesis.
His only way out is to quit making lore videos altogether.

His channel, and all similar channels, also greatly damage the very thing they're supposed to take care of. It's true, ever since Demon's Souls slightly but mainly since Dark Souls, that FS games cultivate the taste of mystery, and play -even superficially- with codes and habits of a mystery cult, in a way. And you can indeed dig for hidden stuff, and find it out eventually, with enough hints and symbols in their games to warrant an actual intention to hide it.

But all these fucking videos basically just put all of this into a massive lore grinder and shits out formated ready-to-serve full front explanations.
It's so fucking sad in a way I can't quite explain.

My dream is for Miyazaki to just comment on one of these lore videos: 'Bro, its not that deep".

This is the most likely answer. It already happened with Evangelion, for instance. Everyone was like "this judeo-christian imagery has to have MEANING!!!!" but the creators were like "it just looked cool, idk what it means irl xd"

I don't think the problem is to find meaning in it or not. It's kind of the point. You'd have the same problem with actual mysticism if that really troubles you.
The problem here, I believe, is to take the explicative approach of something specifically made to let you fill gaps on your own. You're not supposed to find a bigger picture in the way Dark Souls presents its cosmogony. Said cosmogony purposefully presented through the "official version" of the lords. Which was an amazing idea in my opinion, and didn't need to be derailed into believing the series hides mysteries within mysteries within...
Dark Souls III kind of illustrated this via its very design approach. The game doesn't trouble itself with rationality or plausability like Dark Souls I did. They want to put catacombs below a city, and another city below said catacombs ? They will. Fuck it. It's not even a world per se anymore. It's a literal chain of levels.
I suspect part of the reason is it's literally faster to make a game this way, but it's also (reflected in the plot and the convergence of lands featured in DSIII) a way to say : stop putting so much value on lore itself, that's not the point.
And yet videos about Dark Souls III lore are plenty. And I find it weird and a little bit sad.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

FROM makes games in the way they were made in the NES, SNES era: everything is self contained and at the service of the gameplay. Aesthetics are serviceable. But the Souls games became popular in a time where most westerners were too used to have too much story in a videogame. I think that's where the conflict comes in, sometimes people play games because of the lore, not even the story itself.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Look ma, no spirit ashes, no crazy weapon arts, no overpowered spells, no bleed or other status effects, not even buffs and consumables:



I was told the bosses in this game were impossible to do without abusing overpowered stuff unless you were some kind of pro-gaymer turbo teenager or something. Turns out all you need is to git gud.

Dedicated to PorkyThePaladin.

 

[ELEXmakesMeHard]

Are you a Goldmask enjoyer Lyric Suite, or do you think there's any more prestigious characters? Surely you're an Age of Order kind of man?

 

[Lyric Suite]

Since this is a SL1 run i'm going to go jack of all trades to keep up with the basic idea.

On NG+ i'm planning to go full faith, and i'll begin that with Marika's Hammer to make some kind of synergy to when i started on this run with only a club.

 

[Feargus Jewhart]

Look ma, no spirit ashes, no crazy weapon arts, no overpowered spells, no bleed or other status effects, not even buffs and consumables:



I was told the bosses in this game were impossible to do without abusing overpowered stuff unless you were some kind of pro-gaymer turbo teenager or something. Turns out all you need is to git gud.

Dedicated to PorkyThePaladin.

ACTUALLY, you should know that any directional movement is cheese and cheating.

A true, souls veteran (a real gamer) would explore the lands between by using the displacement of attacks, orienting themselves with a bow and fist attacks. Also, using anything other than your fists to fight makes you a loser. It is cheese and you need to get good, if you can't beat every single boss and mob with no mistakes for hundreds of attacks at a time.
I see also that you are NOT RL 1. Cringe. Leveling up is a sign of weakness. Considering your Vigor is above 10, you are so bad you get hit. Cringe.

Don't talk to me if you played the game with controller OR keyboard. If you REALLY cared about the game and cared about getting good, you would use bongos, a dancemat or voice commands, just like everyone else here who is any good and a notable souls veteran. If you can't do all that BARE MINUMUM, then you can't even say you beat Elden Ring without cheesing your way through every encounter.

CRINGE!!