![]() Now, this wasn't the first time I'd played a game on someone else's save. Watch on YouTube Here's Aoife's video review of Elden Ring. Intrigued by the challenge recreating their save presented, I accepted the oddest commission of my freelance career so far. While they'd only played the game for sixteen hours or so, that represented a couple of months of shared time that would be hard to get back. Paying someone to play a game for you may seem strange, but after chatting with them privately, I discovered that they were both busy folks with little time to play games. I can totally understand why, as young JB is an adorable little example of Elden Ring's fascinating pot people. Sellen was offering to pay someone to recreate their Elden Ring save, but without the unfortunate death of poor Jar Bairn. They shared that save with their partner and didn't want to potentially ruin the game for them. They'd accidentally killed an NPC that they very much did not want to kill and were quite distraught. This person, who I'm going to call Sellen, because they asked to be anonymous and it's the first Elden Ring NPC name that sprang to mind, had messed up their Elden Ring save game. Not until I saw a message on Twitter asking for help with Elden Ring. You can watch someone else play a game, and there are now more ways to do so than ever, but it's not the same as poking around in someone else's game, something I'd never given any thought to. Unless you decide to cut up a novel and then stick the pages together in the wrong order or something. While we always bring something of ourselves to books, movies or albums, the core text never changes. I'm not just talking about making choices in an RPG, but the way every single press of a button or tilt of a stick adds up to make your playthrough different from mine. Unlike other mediums, you're in control of what happens. ![]() ![]() ![]() Playing a video game is a deeply personal experience. ![]()
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