Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree DLC Podcast ft. FightinCowboy & Gene Park [SPOILERS!] [Khan's Kast]

Placidusax’s heads on Bayle’s back is a fine example of FromSoft’s “show don’t tell” storytelling mixed with earning the lore by exploration and reading descriptions.

DLC is already at 5 million sold. I believe From Soft has proven there point once again. Make a great game with no BS and players will line up. It is just frustrating the rest of the industry looks at BG3 or Elden Ring as some anomaly or something. No, make good games, it really is that simple.

Who the hell would ever play a game like this that doesn't like exploration that's literally insane exploration is probably the best time I have with the game it's awesome

that boar charge hitbox is messed up I agree with cowboy

My “elevator moment” was realizing there was a whole ass place and new avenues behind that big ass dead dragon.

Igon was fantastic. After hearing him shout about Bayle all the way from that first area, I'd have felt bad NOT summoning him.

Love the talk about games not being for certain people. I tried playing games a couple times in the first 20 years of my life and just couldn’t get into them, never finished more than half a game except a Zelda game and ff7. Then I tried dark souls 1 and legit in the first 30 minutes of that game I became a gamer for the first time in my life. Gaming as a hobby for me is the sole responsibility of Fromsoft. I hit the asylum demon and was like wait this can’t be real surely I’m supposed to just skip this… nope I gotta beat him to move past the very beginning of the game. I was in love, dark souls spoke deeply to my dark soul and fromsoft just keeps getting better and better at what they do

It’s crazy to me that I think the Peak of the DLC was the Leda fight with all the allies. Easily the most emotional part of all of Elden ring

Entering hinterlands was so emotional for me for some reason. Goosebumps. Same for when I killed Leda and crew. It felt so somber and I just beat the sh*t out of them in quiet despair…like damn, I didn’t plan on betraying you guys but it’s what must be done. Also fighting BAYLE I had a huge swelling of emotions but locked tf in with Igon’s blood curling yells and first-try finished him. Fu*k. What a game man

FightinCowboy is literally that dude. Thanks for all your walkthroughs.

Gene with Cowboy and Ruri?!?! Praise the sun

Seriously loved this conversation! SotE is not perfect, but it is absolutely incredible.

Gaius does have wonkey hit boxes. There were times I swear his charge would double clip me both his charge.

Miyazaki uses summons confirmed

Congrats to Gene for one shotting cancer! Always nice to hear someone beating it and good luck keeping it gone for good!

I wasn't trying to speedrun it and thought I was taking my time but ended up beating the DLC in 20 hours. I beat all the remembrances and found all the areas myself without guides or help. Had a blast. My build was double colossal sword jump attack the enemy to death and my trusty Mimic Tear, gotta summon the homie. on the topic of Igon, its cool that Igon and Bayle the Dread is a GRRM reference to his character Aegon the Conqueror and Balerion the Black Dread.

This is my favorite content that From ever created, and DS1 was never topped for me due to the Lordran exploration. I think Land of the Shadow’s exploration finally topped DS1 in my opinion.

Yooooo. Furnace Golem slander! Those things are so satisfying to no-hit. Also throwing pots into them and blowing them up is dope. They look amazing, too. They dont take long if you use the Lance Talisman and a bonk weapon

I don't understand why people want to rush through this after waiting 2yrs for it.

Thanks for the content! I haven't beat the last boss because I'm stuck. But at least I don't have to worry about spoilers anymore lmao.