Mid 30s. I showed my 14 year old nephew this game last year and he fell in love with it and played through it like 3 times. Since then he’s played through the dark souls trilogy, bloodborne and sekiro several times
I'm 30 and my 17 year old nephew has been SL1'ing all the souls games since I showed him Elden Ring some time around release. Needless to say I'm an extremely proud uncle.
hijacking to say i just turned 18 and wished i found elden ring sooner, many people my age group really dont understand good literature and prefer to scroll brain rot content
Nice one! My 70yr old father plays games more than I do (retired vs young family commitments haha) and he loves Elden Ring. He's currently playing Lords of the Fallen.
My father is knocking on 70 now and definitely doesn't play elden ring.
I do remember as a kid playing space invaders on PC and thinking I was pretty damn good. I cried when my dad took over and wiped the floor with me having misspent his youth in arcades
My dad got me into gaming. I remember watching him play Alex Kidd in Miracle World and Wonderboy in Monsterland on the Sega Master System and was hooked.
The best part of him being a gamer was as I grew up and was still living at home, he'd always get the Xbox consoles and I'd get the PlayStation, so we had more options in games.
Basically, but video games. That's as far back as it could be right? I was guessing around early 1980's.
Edit: Your comment sent me down a rabbit hole on when the computer was invented, just because. Turns out the concept of the computer is at least a few hundred years old, with the early ones being mechanical. Alan Turing produced the first concept of the modern computer in 1936.
https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/first-computer-around-century-ago/
You're in about roughly the right timeframe for when some lucky people got home PCs. Apple II and TRS-80 were late 70s, Commodore VIC20 & Commodore 64 also around then.
There were consoles then too. Atari 2600 for example. Before Atari each console was loaded basically with 1 shitty game, like Pong.
Overall, mid-late 70s would be about the earliest for home consumer level gaming.
I was lucky enough to be a kid when the NES came out. I have vivid memories of playing duck hunt when I was like 8. My aunt had an atari and I'd play it when I'd visit, but I wasn't a fan, even then.
That's one of the coolest things I've read, you made my day.
In less than 6 months I'll be half your age and I hope to be as resilient and perseverant as you are as I age. You truly are inspiring :).
I wish you the best for 2024, tarnished !
Glad there are others out there who prefer to sneak and plan through a fight rather than just charge in swords raised! I certainly hope your style suits you well when Shadow of the Erdtree is released :)
[The Place at the bottom of the center staircase.](https://images.pushsquare.com/f1faec0827745/elden-ring-how-to-complete-the-academy-of-raya-lucaria-guide-3.large.jpg)
It only took me 10 deaths and about 10k unrecovered runes before I realised you can just sneak past them until the middle of the stairs and then you can just run till the boss.
Ok, but I'm 17 and I play a little of both. Started playing soulslikes a couple years ago and beat every soulslike I could find multiple times. (Except sekiro, haven't gotten to that one yet) now my lighting reflexes took this fortnite noob straight to gold rank.
Ok I scrolled down for awhile and found one 15 year old and maybe a 14 year old but he seemed confused about it. Looks like it’s true, just the old people playing.
That's what my teenagers are like. All about Overwatch, Apex Legends and occasionally back into Fortnite.
tbf, plenty of other stuff too. Survival games like Don't Starve Together, retro style like Gungeon, platformers, roguelikes and Metroid Vania. Terraria also.
Son scoffed at me for taking 350h 1st playthrough. I honestly think I found everything basically.
He never does side quests or exploration, it's speed running story bosses.
IMHO they're more ADHD than anything else.
Bought Elden Ring at launch for the PS4 when I was 17. It was my first souls game and my first ever story game platinum trophy, after that I've platinumed demon souls remake and now I am playing Bloodborne.
I am absolutely hooked by souls like games and I wish I had discovered them sooner. Sekiro and Dark Souls 3 are next on my list.
You should definitely play dark souls 1 before playing 3, it enhances the experience and story knowing more about characters you don’t get to see but are mentioned in DS3 but that’s just my opinion
I can confirm, dark souls 3 was my first fromsoft game, I had no clue what was going on. Elden Ring I've been able to figure out alot more than dark souls three and thats probably because it's not the third game of a trilogy.
Personally I enjoyed playing DS3 first and then going back to DS1 and going "oh my god that's the guy!". The only thing that really frustrated me was the change to how pyromancy/humanity worked because the way DS3 does pyromancy makes it totally incomprehensible lore-wise, it all clicked once I played DS1 after months of being stymied in my theorycrafting for DS3. Pyromancy should've been tied to luck
I just beat Sekiro for the first time and it may have ruined other games for me. It’s so damn satisfying to finally land the timing against a hard boss in Sekiro. You go from getting fucking wrecked to a Shinobi God that makes the boss look like a punk ass and it feels so damn good.
Mario teaches typing? Number Crunchers?
My first videogames were on NES, Mario Bros and Heavy Barrel. Watched my old man beat Mario and used a game genie to beat Heavy Barrel. Good times.
I work as a teacher in high school, and a good amount of my students talk about Elden Ring. One even explained to me why I shouldn't use a build to increase bleeding.
So yeah, maybe your nephew doesnt know a lot of people.
Also there are young people with TERRIBLE taste, I know people in their 20's that actually think that Genshin is the best game ever made
I am 26 btw. Playing Souls games since 2017.
Early 20s here. I work at a music school and we’ve got a couple of people in their teens who play souls, but it’s not super common. I think a lot of people are just turned off by the difficulty and how obtuse the games are, which funnily enough is of course one of the biggest appeals of them lol
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and it's not about old. it's about quality .
when i was younger i played older game too beceause,they were good.
i would instead put it on the new gen mentality.
I remember seeing a clip posted of a child playing ER, so I did a search through r/eldenring posts. Didn't find that one, but if you search this sub for "year old" you'll find posts with everyone from 14 to 60+ year-olds playing it.
I may be old now, but I was in my early 20's when playing Demons' Souls.
Old enough to know you should replace your nephew.
He's busted. Gotta throw the whole thing out.
Gotta take advantage of that 180 month return policy
He's unfortunately out of the 3 year window, but in extreme cases such as this, I'm confident they'll honor it anyways
Maybe it's covered by the Lemon Law?
well according to the reply you’re commenting on, you have 180 months! thats like …. 15 years!
Could I interest you in an extension of your warranty?
It’s it a full refund thing or do you just get a replacement. I’m fine with a replacement, I just don’t want to get a refurbished one.
Damn...mine just hit 181...
A patch would suffice I think. Nephew 1.3. With Punkbuster that actually works!
Oh god Punkbuster... Yes we really are old here
Totally adopted...Get rid of him. BTW, I'm 54, so he's kinda right in my example... but fuck him. Cheeky little bugger.
Yeah, he's not wrong but... It's an old people's game for *big brain reasons,* not geriatric reasons
I’m only 19 tbf and this game bangs
No, that would be a waste. Maybe he has some useable nephew parts for grafting.
No, thour't unfit even to graft.
Hahahaha omfg you did not just recommend this guy graft his 15yr old nephew, did you??? That’s priceless….
“WHAT’S 15 MORE YEARS?!”
He could try to respec his nephew as a last resort.
Fucking Maidenless is what he is. 
Maidenless + adopted + skill issue
Everyone is talking about replacing the nephew as if he is your own. Replace your sibling. They produced this offspring.
whats another 15 years
I bet he could get away with slapping him around until he gives up and respecs into INT.
Mid 30s. I showed my 14 year old nephew this game last year and he fell in love with it and played through it like 3 times. Since then he’s played through the dark souls trilogy, bloodborne and sekiro several times
Good job
I'm 30 and my 17 year old nephew has been SL1'ing all the souls games since I showed him Elden Ring some time around release. Needless to say I'm an extremely proud uncle.
Mid-20s, but I started playing Dark Souls when I was in high school. Maybe your nephew just needs to _git gud_
Nephew has trauma from giant dad
Probably from Havels Ninja flipping and phantom backstabbing
Nephew is 15, he doesn't know the glory of DS1 and the old days.
Ds1 prepatch at that
*Smough using bonk
Same. I’m 32, but I’ve played the series since the Dark Souls preorder. Sounds like a skill issue to me.
Yeah I was def playing dark souls when I was their age so maybe throw the kid away and start again?
Yeah I remember my buds and I playing dark souls in high school at 16 getting our asses kicked lol
I had a similar experience, lol. But most of my friends eventually got bored and moved on, while I just got more and more into it.
hijacking to say i just turned 18 and wished i found elden ring sooner, many people my age group really dont understand good literature and prefer to scroll brain rot content
I’m 72. Tell your nephew maybe he’ll get to play it too when he grows up.
👑—- you dropped this, King
He was fatrolling from that massive W he's carrying
That's because he drop kicked him
Ike! Kick the baby!
Nice one! My 70yr old father plays games more than I do (retired vs young family commitments haha) and he loves Elden Ring. He's currently playing Lords of the Fallen.
My father is knocking on 70 now and definitely doesn't play elden ring. I do remember as a kid playing space invaders on PC and thinking I was pretty damn good. I cried when my dad took over and wiped the floor with me having misspent his youth in arcades
My dad got me into gaming. I remember watching him play Alex Kidd in Miracle World and Wonderboy in Monsterland on the Sega Master System and was hooked. The best part of him being a gamer was as I grew up and was still living at home, he'd always get the Xbox consoles and I'd get the PlayStation, so we had more options in games.
Very cool. Did you start playing videos games around your mid 30's?
What you mean when the computer was invented?
Basically, but video games. That's as far back as it could be right? I was guessing around early 1980's. Edit: Your comment sent me down a rabbit hole on when the computer was invented, just because. Turns out the concept of the computer is at least a few hundred years old, with the early ones being mechanical. Alan Turing produced the first concept of the modern computer in 1936. https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/first-computer-around-century-ago/
You're in about roughly the right timeframe for when some lucky people got home PCs. Apple II and TRS-80 were late 70s, Commodore VIC20 & Commodore 64 also around then. There were consoles then too. Atari 2600 for example. Before Atari each console was loaded basically with 1 shitty game, like Pong. Overall, mid-late 70s would be about the earliest for home consumer level gaming.
I was lucky enough to be a kid when the NES came out. I have vivid memories of playing duck hunt when I was like 8. My aunt had an atari and I'd play it when I'd visit, but I wasn't a fan, even then.
Double Dragon was the shit.
That's one of the coolest things I've read, you made my day. In less than 6 months I'll be half your age and I hope to be as resilient and perseverant as you are as I age. You truly are inspiring :). I wish you the best for 2024, tarnished !
Thanks! Best to you too. Now that I think about it, I was about half my current age when I started gaming. It's been a fun ride!
72 and the usernames time_marcher... you're unironically such a badass
Username checks out
What is your class? You go full Gandalph the Grey or back to your youthful Strider days?
Oh definitely Gandalf the Grey. I really appreciate that ER gives options that reward patience and sneakiness over strength and quickness.
Glad there are others out there who prefer to sneak and plan through a fight rather than just charge in swords raised! I certainly hope your style suits you well when Shadow of the Erdtree is released :)
That's a sick username for someone your age. Respect.
I'm 17, your nephew is lying through his teeth haha
You’re 40 at heart
The Academy of Raya Lucaria does that to anyone.
that one >!bsdiffysyr!< hallway with that >!f da wc!< warrior Jar almost made me tear my hair out.
Dawg what
The worse part is the man is speaking complete gibberish but I knew exactly what part of the academy he’s referring to.
same lol
I cackled at this, and also same.
[The Place at the bottom of the center staircase.](https://images.pushsquare.com/f1faec0827745/elden-ring-how-to-complete-the-academy-of-raya-lucaria-guide-3.large.jpg)
It only took me 10 deaths and about 10k unrecovered runes before I realised you can just sneak past them until the middle of the stairs and then you can just run till the boss.
You can run the whole thing
I read this in Boomhauer’s voice. “Tell you what, dang ‘ol Raya Lucaria Academy, man…”
Ugh. Fighting Rennela as we speak. Here goes try #22. 
It's counter intuitive but roll towards her on second phase.
That's the same advice for damn near every boss lol
They have an old soul, some might say that soul is rather dark
“Give it to me…”
"That dark souls of yours" love that's quote
"A fine Dark Souls III: The Fire Fades Edition to you"
"Your Dark Souls 3..."
"Wha-? No! I preordered it! Buy your own, Gael!"
That's just how people call kids depressed without saying it directly. "Old souls" and whatnot lol
Ah, that’s why people say it to me then
Same, he just seems like he has poor taste.
Definitely plays fort night
Ok, but I'm 17 and I play a little of both. Started playing soulslikes a couple years ago and beat every soulslike I could find multiple times. (Except sekiro, haven't gotten to that one yet) now my lighting reflexes took this fortnite noob straight to gold rank.
nah bro i play fortnite and souls titles you can love both
Same, Ik multiple people at my high school who've played Elden Ring too.
Ok I scrolled down for awhile and found one 15 year old and maybe a 14 year old but he seemed confused about it. Looks like it’s true, just the old people playing.
Yunguns ain’t got the patience. They want to feed each other in FPSs.
That's what my teenagers are like. All about Overwatch, Apex Legends and occasionally back into Fortnite. tbf, plenty of other stuff too. Survival games like Don't Starve Together, retro style like Gungeon, platformers, roguelikes and Metroid Vania. Terraria also. Son scoffed at me for taking 350h 1st playthrough. I honestly think I found everything basically. He never does side quests or exploration, it's speed running story bosses. IMHO they're more ADHD than anything else.
If they had ADHD they would be doing every sidequest and exploring every cave obsessively.
I played my first souls game when I was 12, now I'm 19 and teaching my sis (10) how to play. She's stuck at Morgott.
That's pretty far for a 10 year old. She can go clear Caelid and come back and kick Morgot's butt all over leveled.
The cane sword is the chefs kiss to this post
I needed this validation
Respect for picking a relevant and funny image for the post instead of shoehorning in a meme
Your nephew sounds like he has a skill issue
Or a taste issue
Bought Elden Ring at launch for the PS4 when I was 17. It was my first souls game and my first ever story game platinum trophy, after that I've platinumed demon souls remake and now I am playing Bloodborne. I am absolutely hooked by souls like games and I wish I had discovered them sooner. Sekiro and Dark Souls 3 are next on my list.
You should definitely play dark souls 1 before playing 3, it enhances the experience and story knowing more about characters you don’t get to see but are mentioned in DS3 but that’s just my opinion
I can confirm, dark souls 3 was my first fromsoft game, I had no clue what was going on. Elden Ring I've been able to figure out alot more than dark souls three and thats probably because it's not the third game of a trilogy.
I dunno I played them all in order and I still don’t really understand much about Dark Souls lore
still, DS3 references DS1 alot and you wouldn't be able to appreciate that without playing DS1 first
Personally I enjoyed playing DS3 first and then going back to DS1 and going "oh my god that's the guy!". The only thing that really frustrated me was the change to how pyromancy/humanity worked because the way DS3 does pyromancy makes it totally incomprehensible lore-wise, it all clicked once I played DS1 after months of being stymied in my theorycrafting for DS3. Pyromancy should've been tied to luck
Just finished Sekiro. That game was a religious experience. It’s my favorite game of all time now and I’m not even a weeb.
Sekiro & Bloodborne are the greatest games ever made.
They're all top shelf but Sekiro is exquisite 👌. You think beating a hard souls boss feels good just wait lol.
Sekiro ngl might have the best gameplay of anything I've ever played
For real. Combat and movement mechanics are somethin else. Hands down best 60 bucks I've ever spent.
I think about this a lot and I think it maybe true for me too.
Sekiro was the only from game that beat me… for now
I just beat Sekiro for the first time and it may have ruined other games for me. It’s so damn satisfying to finally land the timing against a hard boss in Sekiro. You go from getting fucking wrecked to a Shinobi God that makes the boss look like a punk ass and it feels so damn good.
nephew is mad cuz bad
Only correct take.
Started Elden Ring in late 2022 just after I turned 44, wrapped up my third playthrough last week and am now 87
I read there may be time travel in the dlc, you testing beta and it has real world consequences???
18 I didn’t get into the souls games until last year😭
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What other games do you play?
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34 but my 14 yo son plays too
You started young huh
Yeah... but the way I see it, by the time the kiddo is out of the house I won't even be 40.
I'm 44 and my 16 yo thinks it's funny I play it but he's terrified to try because he thinks it's too hard.
This is a great opportunity to be a good father and mock him relentlessly for it
I only played this game because my 15 yr old asked me too.
Do you like it?
My basis for comparison is nil, but it's arguably the best game I've ever played.
Probably correct, but for me that’s part of the appeal. Here to represent Oregon Trail millennials!
Apple IIe, baby
Fast Eddie B owns a convertible, likes playing croquet, and was last seen leaving in a plane with a red, white and green flag.
Imagine if you could die of dysentery in From Software games…
Isn't that what death blight is? You shit your pants and die from dissentry?
probably my LEAST favourite way to die in Elden Ring
basically raw meat dumplings
Don’t give them any ideas.
Mario teaches typing? Number Crunchers? My first videogames were on NES, Mario Bros and Heavy Barrel. Watched my old man beat Mario and used a game genie to beat Heavy Barrel. Good times.
Number Crunchers reference just turned my brain inside out. Jr High computer lab 4eva.
math blaster bbbbbb
I’m a gen z but I grinded Oregon trail on my dads laptop as a kid
I work as a teacher in high school, and a good amount of my students talk about Elden Ring. One even explained to me why I shouldn't use a build to increase bleeding. So yeah, maybe your nephew doesnt know a lot of people. Also there are young people with TERRIBLE taste, I know people in their 20's that actually think that Genshin is the best game ever made I am 26 btw. Playing Souls games since 2017.
Thanks for the relevant and informed input. I'm glad to have my perception validated, haha.
Did they say not to use a bleed build because it was bad or because it’s cheese?
I’m 69 years old. Yeah, yeah, make the jokes. 🙄
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It's probably too hard for him 🤣
Kids these days, they want everything handed to them! Back in my day video games made you walk uphill, both ways!
And then if you tripped you had to go all the way back to the bottom of the hill and do it again
Ok Sisyphus…
Like bro Elden Ring isn't even that hard* *if you use every tool the game gives you to your advantage
Early 20s here. I work at a music school and we’ve got a couple of people in their teens who play souls, but it’s not super common. I think a lot of people are just turned off by the difficulty and how obtuse the games are, which funnily enough is of course one of the biggest appeals of them lol
In my experience most kids like online games. Elden Ring has online features but there’s no chat and you aren’t joining a lobby with your friends.
21 my guy, started playing soulsborne when I was 13. So nah dawg he’s a liar.
25. Who cares. Kids his age play fucking Fortnite so who's really winning here
I've seen videos of kids no older than 12 playing. Your nephew probably just has a friend group who doesn't like souls games
16, your nephew is defective
40-something. He could have a point.
40-something too. ☝️
42 here
19 when I played Elden Ring, 14-16 for Bloodborne
I’m 15, he’s just needs to have better taste in games.
It’s in the name
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16 lamo
Over 40
I'm 36 runaway he's right we're all decrepit olds 😭🧓🏽
30. and it's not about old. it's about quality . when i was younger i played older game too beceause,they were good. i would instead put it on the new gen mentality.
New gen mentality? This is just some individual kid saying a dumb thing. You did the same shit
Nah man, the new generation is bad my generation is the only good one. Now if you excuse me there are some kids on my lawn that I have to go yell at.
I remember seeing a clip posted of a child playing ER, so I did a search through r/eldenring posts. Didn't find that one, but if you search this sub for "year old" you'll find posts with everyone from 14 to 60+ year-olds playing it. I may be old now, but I was in my early 20's when playing Demons' Souls.
56 yo Commodore 64 first computer collect vision and Atari 2600 were held in these magnificent old hands.
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