Elden Ring has hit the ground running this month, as gamers both casual and hardcore have joined forces on the internet to express their frustration, rage, annoyance, and absolute admiration for the game. The difficulty, of course, is one of the best parts of the game, as fans of the RPG genre often like to feel immersed in their worlds.
Twitter has been a hot spot for great fan content, with fans sending out their often sarcastic remarks about the game, to be met with thousands of Likes and Retweets. These tweets often symbolize the struggles of these players, but sometimes just refer to common humor surrounding some of the game’s absurdities.
That’s Not My Dog
One of the ongoing jokes surrounding Elden Ring is the dog meme. The game offers players the chance to leave notes around the world. These can be helpful tips, but are often jokes and trolls. It gives single-player players a way to feel in touch with the community, as it is an online game as well as a solo adventure.
The dog meme came from players going around and leaving notes on animal NPCs, declaring them as dogs. This was particularly used for the turtles. The tweet hilariously shows a real life turtle drinking from a dog bowl, allowing for the meme to transcend the game.
Ghost Gang
Lord of the Rings memes are hilarious. Attaching them to Elden Ring doubles the effect. Players have developed the habit of attempting a boss for some time, getting killed repeatedly, then scouring the lands for upgrades and summons.
Seeing Aragorn fiercely charging with the Dead Men of Dunharrow would frighten any foe, even the powerful boss fights of Elden Ring. The tweet captures this hilariously, imagining the player, returning to kill their ancient enemy who cost them time and frustration.
A Slow Ascent
Fans of FromSoftware’s previous games will be able to understand the comparisons to previous games best. Elden Ring has been described as another Dark Souls game, and this fan has noted a particular similarity in the length of a menial task, going up an elevator.
Dark Souls 2 is one of the more controversial titles in the studio’s portfolio, as some fans found the pace to be slow, compared to other games. Despite the similarity, there are many ways Elden Ring looks different than the Dark Souls series.
Mutually Assured Destruction
The PvP in Elden Ring has made for a ton of content beyond the story. Many players have taken to joining other players’ worlds to attempt to assassinate them. Finding clever and gimmicky ways to kill someone is the staple of any PvP game, and this fan found a fantastic way to do so.
Imagine the surprise on the victim player’s face, to be preparing themselves for a battle, only to be one-shot by a random game mechanic. If the single-player game’s mechanics weren’t frustrating enough, this was certainly cause for a controller smashing.
Medieval Meme-ing
The oldest insult in the book on the internet is to accuse another user of having no life. A common phrase recently has been “Touch grass” suggesting that the person should go outside and interact with nature.
This makes it all the funnier that two of the game’s earliest bits of text involve a character calling the player “maidenless”, and the checkpoint marker being labeled as “Touch grass.” The user was right to point this out as being a game for Twitter users, as surely the developers understood this line of humor when adding it into their game.
Partying Hard
Expressing the time sink of Elden Ring has been a common theme around the internet. Even more so, expressing the lack of progress despite one’s time investment. This user hilariously captures what many have been feeling, pushing themselves beyond their limits to progress through the game.
Having only killed two bosses while being 42 hours in is quite common. The other symptoms listed vary from player to player, but hopefully, any who are consuming dangerous amounts of caffeine are, like the user, having the time of their life, and more importantly staying safe.
Give Peace A Chance
This Twitter user has a unique approach to the game, leaving quite the low review, hilariously implying that the game’s violence should instead be resolved with diplomacy. This player may have trouble finding games that suit their desires, as many revolve around action and violence.
It would be hilarious to see an Elden Ring mod where a player can upgrade their speech skill, like in Skyrim, to simply persuade the bosses not to fight them and instead let them through. Maybe this Tweeter is on to something for the future of gaming, as Skyrim is considered to be one of the games most like Elden Ring.
Deadfall
Fall damage in Elden Ring has been one of the greatest areas of difficulty in the game. The difference between life and death is small, the chance to only be hurt by a fall is even smaller.
The tweet perfectly captures the absurdity of this mechanic, suggesting that there actually is no mechanic, and that the game is a sentient being making decisions off of in-the-moment impulse. The implication is very comedic, as many fans have likely been killed by falls that they deemed livable.
Creative Writing
George R.R. Martin’s level of involvement in Elden Ring is up for debate. Seemingly, he was just an advisor with small contributions to the lore, but due to his legendary status as a fantasy writer for A Song of Ice and Fire, fans have played off of the joke that any contributions he suggested would be seen as of utmost importance.
The tweet also jokes about Martin’s adept sense of detail, to name a seemingly purposeless crab mob, and give it a name that offers a sense of background and story.
Margit Simpson
Every once in a while an internet user stumbles upon something they simply didn’t expect to see… ever. This is one of them. One of the earliest and most aggravating bosses in Elden Ring is Margit. This artist combined the boss with Marge Simpson.
The art offers a lot to unpack. To see Marge carrying Margit’s weapons, and imagining the boss fight with this enemy instead of the usual, is honestly frightening. This tweet definitely shows the true randomness and creativity of internet users.
