justaregulargamer1860: I have no friends, so I'll happily pass on this one.....

StreamersReality: No voice chat in a co-op game. What were they thinking

gigglehurtz3167: i regret my purchase

JoeBauers: No voice chat, no text chat, no cross plat, no TWO PLAYER… that’s beyond incompetent!!

Anubis7169: No crossplay, again, on a game that is entirely coop focused....

robertsterling3878: deal breaker for me is I heard that you cant team up with just 1 friend and matchmake the other or just duo the game

Waleisch: I was not expecting a thumb up from Mack

Elknkam: Its basically PubG Elden Ring-Light . Cash grab Miller.

marksantory410: Got it for me and my son to play, we both hated it, uninstalled.

cjlaity1: I really want to see your take on Tainted Grail. I bought it full price based on all the glowing reviews but I've found it to be the most boring and buggy game I've played in a long time. Really would like to hear your take on it.

raggedgray2068: Thanks for covering it Mack, saved plenty of people from this misery. What an absolute load of shite.

combatwombat2134: I've been quite enjoying it. I think a AAA dev handing off a project like this and being experimental is to be applauded, to boot.

I think risk taking in the current state of the industry is so rare that I'm honestly just kinda stoked they did it.

I do think it's fun; flawed for sure, but fun.

Edit: And lo', out come the eternally jaded and cynical and those who don't properly read what was said.

Sun-Eater616: Still think this should have been a free update mode for Elden Ring. But it does look awesome. Definitely something me and my mates would love.

BeansEnjoyer911: There seem to be two perspectives:

do you have 2 friends that you enjoy playing games with, and enjoy running around the world of Elden Ring? then this game is really good

otherwise... no it's kinda hot garbage

The real take is.. it's both

lukeparsons1187: Looks more like a free DLC add-on you'd get in other AAA games. Definitely not a standalone game.

Hard pass.

ISeeTheLightss: Yeah it's terrible, me and all my friends played one match and uninstalled it, awful

ZelenkaGeru: £40 asset flip cash grab

Imagine if EA or Ubisoft pulled this scam, the outrage, the anger...

TomaszRykala: I think I'm getting a brain aneurysm. Mack has enjoyed a Dark Souls game.

Level-ts7xl: i checked out halfway through elden ring. just got tiresome after a while.

ReinerGroch-k7o: The director behind this is a completely different guy than behind all the previous titles. And I think that giving someone the go ahead to experiment and try something new without committing too many resources and importantly pricing the game fairly is just smart. I dont like how safe so many big devs play it these days.

Plague_Doc22: Soulslike game...or as I call them. Dodge - attack, the video game.

Artificially difficult to make it challenging and require you to fail to eventually figure out timings...yeah I am good.

LeftZombie: Time for FromSoft to reset and go back to basics. Dark Souls 4 needs to happen. Don't fix what isn't broken. Go back to that tough but fair metroidvania formula instead of finding new ways to kick us between the legs that no one asked for.

johnp4424: I'm passing on this one

Dark Souls 2 no longer the whipping boy after Nightreign

Maybe in a year after many patches, QOL improvements and it goes on deep sale

raysissum: Mack - in the stream you saw a comment I made about 'unalive' and didn't like it, I'll explain what that was about. One of your younger viewers (I think) was talking constantly about depression, kept going back to it, seemed to be calling out for help. After a while I just told him that he wasn't going to unalive himself so he's going to be around a long time and that he should focus on working on the things he loves and everything else will fall into place. There was more talked about but that was the gist. Good stream btw.

fcukugimmeausername: Refunded in 15 minutes. NR takes what made ER great, removes it, and leaves only the most annoying aspects while adding additional frustrations that only poorly implemented online teamwork can provide. Well done FromSoft

c0refreAk.: they need to buff melee for sure. the first boss is a running simulator. you may get a single hit in if you have enough stamina left after chasing the boss for 5 minutes because it refuses to stand still for even one second. Than you can hit it once with the force of a wet noodle while archers just can kick back and arrow spam for constant DPS uptime. Even if you have a two hander, picking up a downed teammates takes ages and leaves you with no stamina completely defenseless while as range you just snipe the body from 3000 meters away.

Jun 02 2025

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