What Elden Ring Is Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games

We're back. For those interested, here is a link to a highlight video of part of my wife's playthrough of Elden Ring: nebula.tv/videos/razbuten-my-wife-beating-elden-ri…. Hope you enjoyed this little journey! Wishing you a happy old new years, and I will see you in the next one.

Congrats on the baby! Now in a few years you can run experiments on the kid to get the true non gamer experience

The fact that she even entertained this request of yours shows what a great trooper she is. Goals.

The squeal of joy near the end where she finally beats the beast man without summons really brought a smile to my face

I love how after she switched from one of the worst starting classes in both Elden Ring and Dark Souls to objectively the best ones (Vagabond in ER and Warrior in DS) she had a much easier time dealing with the bosses, just goes to show how much of a difference starting stats make lmao

Your wife is so courageous, that she would attempt a "no level up run" on her VERY FIRST Elden playthrough. Kudos to her!

the dichotomy of “Can you get me something to fight?” into immediately screaming and retreating is something that never leaves even the most veteran soulslike players

Even though I am the one who bought a PS5 and a disc for Elden Ring, I am so glad my husband was the first one to play it. He handheld me through the Godrick soldier camp near Gatefront. After successfully eliminating the enemy group there, I had grasped most of the combat mechanics and was able to beat Margit eventually. Now this has become my favorite video game with more than 500 hours gameplay time and extra time on Youtube for learning boss movesets. Having never played a 3D action game before, without his coaching, I may have given up on the game and missed my chance to fully experience such a masterpiece.

Elden ring really helped me overcome my panic button pressing. Never got through these games, but I think I can finish this. I actually beat Radahn ! (Unfortunately he has been nerfed)

Your wife's screams of delight every time she beats a major hurdle are the best part of this series. I'm really glad you've helped her to enjoy playing games

That shriek of joy when she finally beats the Beastman on her own is the absolute essence of why people love these games and im so glad she got to experience that

i love her <3 and props to her for not giving up and beating her first boss fights in two different games! seeing the joy of you both made me smile :)

Part of the issue might be that the daggers are probably the hardest weapons to use in this game. They aren’t really viable unless you master going for critical hits which is difficult.

I love this series. My wife was very briefly into games (first Torchlight). I don't know how she got hours into the game without opening her inventory, but she asked me how she'd equip something she just found. I said, "Try pressing 'i'." Of course that opened her inventory and she was happy, but her mother (who was overhearing the conversation) was confused to the point of visible annoyance that I was able to suggest such a thing without having yet played the game myself. "And just *how are people supposed to know that*?" she asked, and it dawned on me that "common knowledge" is quite a misnomer. Gaming has a bar of entry, and hardly any gamers on earth recognize the "training" they've undergone.

i actually didn’t expect this series to ever make a comeback, but here we are. she has suffered through elden ring.

The messeges people write are seriously helpful. I would miss so many things without them

Im on like a 2 month hiatus from ER and seeing her enter limgrave made me really excited to return. I forgot how beautiful this game is

A triple A game: $60 The shout of glee as someone you love defeats her first boss on her own: Priceless.

This is one of my favorite series. Those of us who grew up with gaming find most of the mechanisms second nature, and we come to expect most of the tricks/limitations/gameplay loops/etc. Hearing your wife's takes (and oftentimes understandable confusion) is always interesting, and the way the narrative is framed always works really well.

Elden Ring was my first souls game I ever properly played. I had tried DS3 previously but gave up very fast as I wasn't in the right mindset for it whatsoever and was very bad. it took me 30 hours of gameplay to beat Margit on my first playthrough, and from there I slowly got better and better. Fast forward 200 hours and every major boss in the game killed, I cried when I beat the final boss. There were other bosses I had a far harder time with (take an obvious guess lol) but the sheer overwhelming feeling of accomplishment just left me so emotional. I have since beat DS1 and am currently working through DS2, but I adore these games so much. They teach you about patience and resilience far more than you realise, and there's no other feeling in the entirety of gaming quite like beating a hard souls boss. So grateful to have discovered these games <3