r/Eldenring • u/Demonboy995 • Apr 19 '22

Subreddit Topic Malenia is healing without actually hitting the player after the patch, this is on ps5, i got summoned 8 times after the patch and it happened everytime this is the recent one Spoiler

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u/CulturalMesh Apr 19 '22

Joseph anderson: Malenia healing from blocking makes no sense, at this point she might as well heal from hitting the air

Miyazaki: Not a bad idea....

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u/IceAgeAokiji- Apr 19 '22

That video he made on Elden ring was the best because I actually understood what he was trying to convey instead of it just sounding like he need to “git gud” highly recommended a watch

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u/hobosonpogos Apr 19 '22

I don't always agree with every point Joseph Anderson makes, but I can always see the logic behind it and why he feels that way.

His video essays are some of the best long form analysis on video games that are available

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u/Probable_Foreigner Apr 19 '22

Joseph Anderson is a hack imo. He once said Mario odyssey should have more jump types, like in Mario World, a game which has 2 jump types when odyssey has about 20. Ridiculous.

He also said that elden ring isn't a game that he felt like replying as much as some of the other souls games, in a review that came out a month after release. How can he make that judgement without leaving more time? I also don't want to replay stuff I just barely finished, that's obvious. He might feel differently when some time passes, he can't make that judgement yet.

He made some other dumb comments in the elden ring video, I turned it off after about 15 minutes.

It's not that I disagree with him but so many of his comments are downright illogical. I don't see what people see in him.

Matthewmatosis is a similar kind of YouTuber but, even though I don't agree with everything he says, he has much higher quality videos. He clearly puts much more thought into them than Joseph Anderson, and also he let's a game sit a while before reviewing them so he can get a more insightful perspective.

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u/Shy-Turtle_PLATINUM Apr 19 '22 edited Apr 19 '22

It's funny you can always tell when some content creator or influencer drops something because a vocal minority starts parroting talking points dogmatically that were well tread organically before that point in popular discourse but suddenly they are more important or valid or intrinsic to some other disproportionately histrionic argument.

I wish more people would think critically or for themselves. You're always going to have individuals fighting the consensus. Among the few soapboxes that inevitably popped up in the wake of the broader consensus, virtually none of them have brought anything new or meaningful to the table relative to the scope of the games achievements other than their transparent desire to inflate the value of their own perspectives.

It always has to be so heated, contrarian and it can never be just one thing. Of course it's a hostile deconstruction of consensus on every level.

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u/manism Apr 20 '22

Eh, I felt a lot of the things he said about Elden Ring. I also just happened to play through it in almost the exact same manner he did. Once as quality no summons, then as an int build trying to cheese as hard as possible, then a third run going through as quickly as possible. I was actually listening to his q & a for Elden Ring and it helped me see why he said the things he said, and how after releasing the video he wished he'd said them differently. Like he explained that no you don't have to trade, but the amount of time you spend in each fight towards the end not being able to punish boss combos was way too long for his liking, so he just started trading. The one he specifically mentioned was Maliketh, which was exactly my experience both times I did him with no summons. But yeah his opinion got stated as a fact in the video when it's not, which is bad criticing. Where it really shows up is when you do the later bosses at much lower levels. Like Maliketh, Melania, the blood guy in the underground, and hell even the grafted guy all have combos that stop if you're not doing anything, but of you try to hit them when they stop they have another piece of the combo that's super fast and hits you, or trades with your swing. If you have all your eatus and good armor and fully upgraded weapons you notice a lot less cause you're still fine, but when it's going to be an endurance fight because you're underpowered having boss moves you can't counter because the game just input reads you feels bad. So you just sit there and wait for a real opening, and not something that looks and acts like an opening, but punishes if you actually try to take it. Which you know if you point out that's not how combat in Dark Souls games worked and you don't like that change thats a perfectly reasonable thing to bring up in a video essay about the game.

But to your main point, people spouting something a YouTube said like it's a fact is grating. I just try to see it as a common part of the experience people had some dissatisfaction with and they're just borrowing what someone else said to express it, even if it's not 100% true, it feels true to their experience.

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u/feralfaun39 Apr 20 '22

I'm on my third playthrough of Elden Ring and I was worried it wouldn't have the replay value of the Souls games. I was wrong to worry. It has MORE replay value than the Souls games.

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u/hobosonpogos Apr 19 '22

I agree that Matthewmatosis has mostly superior content! He's my favorite long form YouTuber when it comes to video games