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The Elden Ring community has been reduced to inarticulate shouting

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"OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH".

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The deadly swamps.

The post about the reveal on r/eldenring has so many upvotes it is currently the number three post on r/all. And how are the fans responding? With lengthy lore summaries and conspiracy theories? No, mostly they are shouting "LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" and "HUMANITY RESTORED". 

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The memelords have been quick to pick up on certain elements of the trailer. The carriage being pulled by the two huge guys with chains is now Geoff Keighley being safely transported back to his house, and the walking pots, whether they turn out to be enemies like the mimics in Dark Souls or simply blameless wandering animated furniture, are now officially called "Vaseboy" and already have fanart. As another post puts it, "This is now a pot boy themed subreddit". Twitter's been busy too.

Elden Ring will be released January 21, 2022, and I don't know how they're going to cope.

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Jody Macgregor
Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he re having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.