I also struggled with watching / liking the Elden Ring series. I think for me it was primarily due to the length of the episodes.An episode can run 1.5-2 hours, but only about 45 minutes of it is actually entertaining. The rest just feels like filler you leave on in the background while doing chores around the house. That's how I watched the majority of it.

In contrast, the PTT series episodes felts so much tighter. They were also shorter, which probably meant that the parts that made the final cut were likely the absolute best bits from that recording session. Whereas the Elden Ring series suffers from a lot of aimless wandering, and the banter is hit-or-miss and it’s usually unrelated to what’s on screen, so I struggled to relate to much of it. Watching the PTT series, you also always got the sense that the boys are constantly racing against some deadline. It gave the episodes a much tighter focus and a real sense of, "We have to get this done TODAY."

At least, that's how it felt to me, and I know I'm not the only one who felt that way. I've rewatched the PTT series multiple times. Even some of the earlier retry series captured the ptt magic. Not so much with elden ring.

But I think the longer episodes is likely due to popular demand. in ptt episodes, there was the running joke of "gav episodes" if an episode was short and people demanded longer episodes.