>>53533227Yeah I believe it! I want to see him succeed. It's also not just challenges I'd recommend but theme builds. Sometimes the solid normal play is good enough but actual hunting for specific items and or spells to make builds that work is really fun. I have a build where I try to imitate the mentor of Malenia described in the lore, the Blue Dancer, who taught her the Waterfowl Dance, for Example. I also have a faith strength build that focuses on Beast and Flame faith spells to enhance it, while utilizing Incantation's abilities to self-buff and heal both my character and people I co-op with, as well as my spirit summons.
Theme builds also force their own challenges, like fighting enemies that are strong against it
Like say, Sorcery resistant enemies, forcing you to adapt and try different things. In Elden Ring's case you have at a base level, Frost and Gravity magic, but with a little investment in other stats or smart itemization like utilizing the right talismans, Godrick's great rune, the Grated Great Sword's buff, etc, you can access Magma sorceries, Blood sorceries, Death Sorceries. Respectively you have Holy, Lightning, Poison, Flame, Blackflame, Bloodflame, Frenzy Flame, Beast and Dragon school Incantations for Faith-centric builds. This is just with the sorceries and incantations, not even including the weapons and various items you can use to enhance these builds or create themed characters.
It's better if you can do some PvP, it's not like invasions have voice or text chat anyway, so you can't really get "gamer word" moments in the Souls games, and you can easily leave just by using the respective Black Separation Crystal type item if someone is trolling in an annoying way. With this you can also set up fight clubs and arena fights with fans watching the stream, and other livers too. Vanta has a lot of options in the Soulbourne games if he wants to explore them more outside your classic SL1's, etc. saint_riot is one of my favorite Soulsbourne content creators and it's mainly down towards his attitude towards building characters, his smart usage of the levels as an invader to outplay his opponents, and his meme stuff like the Dungeon Master themed videos/streams, this video has a bunch of his builds on showcase for less than 10 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYHkfa6K5J8