>before release. >haha it's just Dark Souls 4. >after release

No it wasn't. Even the biggest skyrim hater rarely mentions it. Also you didn't play either of those games, I can tell

>it's quality (ER) vs quantity (BB)
Are ER newbies really this delusional?

>what is Holy Moonlight Sword
>what is Chikage
>what is Boom Hammer
>what is Amygdalan Arm
>what is Kos Parasite
>what is Bloodletter

Why are so many people insulting this game without playing it first?

>all the weapons are the same and boring if you ignore their unique benefits and use them to do the same boring thing over and over again
Well, you can lead a moron to ideas, but you can't make it think.

He is right

What's the relation between Sekiro, AC6 and pedos?

Kuroposting

Isn't the Divine Child a gorl

>gay pedos
bit of an oxymoron there m8

>Spamming block will make you miss 80% of deflects and die like a b***h.
Nah, it will carry nicely and is even your single best bet to counter bosses like Genichiro
>Another Sekirohomosexual that thinks he understood the game over anyone else.
I mastered Sekiro, I learned the optimal patterns and where prosthetics are supposed to be used as counter, and the reward is so shit they are never worth using at all over actual meta shit. You are not special for dicksucking a game every normalhomosexual thinks it has the best combat ever (the same that thought Assassin's Creed had fantastic combat 10 years ago). The game gear is either op or heavily undertuned in a spot where using either of them is never satisfying, which is why mist Sekirogays themselves never bother and are just happy to play bop it.
>>zero verticality or level design
>Ashina Castle, Sunken Valley, Fountainhead Palace, Senpou Temple, I could go on but you're already plainly wrong.
none of those have any semblance of verticality or real level design. It's a massive disappointment but par the course of all of Bloodborne except the first 3 hours, so you can tell it was made by the same team
>AC6 was good
It wasn't, but that's another topic

>Yep you sure mastered it, that's why you need to spam against Genichiro
Correct, anyone that claims they countered Genichiro's floating passage reliably without extensive training during multiple playthroughs is a patologic liar

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Even in charmless, the attack was designed around blocking the 6th hit. There's a reason even charmless no hit speedruns let him wail at nothing after the first hits like a moron by simply moving away. Even better if you can sneak hit in the last deflect and get that free mirikiri
>Spamming block reduces your parry frames btw
Which is irrelevant, there's way too high chances to casually get a deflection either way

>It only works if you time it
wrong
>Prosthetics and combat arts are meta.
They are gimmick shit. stunlocking chained ogre with fire vent or ape with mortal blade doesn't mean shit when the actual combat tool don't fit the combat. Sabimaru is absymal whenever it isn't used against Okami, Spear is absymal when uses for non gimmick purpose or crowd control, Loaded Axe is absymal even when you stagger bosses out of charged attacks with it (and it's worse than Ichimonji)
Castle has no level design
Correct, it's an absolutely garbage
>And almost all bosses are weak to specific prosthetic tricks or even consumables,
so gimmick trash

>Great point, obviously you know better.
correct
>You have ways to integrate it into the combat spelled out to you and you just double down with "doesn't fit" like a mongoloid.
no you don't

>It's a poison applying tool, it's not for direct damage.
No you don't, it's poison damage total is lower than the damage from attacks

>It's very, very good if you use it on single targets who like dodging and deflecting.
provided they don't block or deflect it, which is a coin toss given the enemy is based on input reading and animation canceling
>>Axe is abysmal even if you use it to do something that is obviously useful
There's no inherent benefit in staggering bosses in Sekiro, deflecting has the highest dps in game sadly.
>Except that the prosthetics have uses outside of gimmicks
They don't

That is not the experience I had with the game but say it bothers you, on a regular run you'll have more than enough HP and armor to offset any small damage you take from a follow up attack by a combo extender like Margit/Morgott does with his yellow knife, the damage is minimal at best and worth it to trade hits.

Unless you're doing naked SL1 runs or no hit runs it shouldn't affect you that much? am I missing something here?

Their input reading can get absurd to the point you can abuse it yeah (like in Sekiro for example) but it's also why the game's combat/boss fights feels somewhat more engaging than most other games.

You're comparing smaller, more action-focused games built with an emphasis on the action, boss fights and combat vs a big open world that has nearly 350 weapons, lots of freedom in build variety and choices, of course Sekiro is going to have the better/tighter combat when it's just one single weapon that also acts as a defensive tool.

And using Sekiro in the input reading argument isn't great because the whole game is built upon input reading, i'm not just talking about webm related (Which is the cheesy/cheap part of input reading) but the whole aspect of enemies reaction to your inputs, you cannot have sword-clash combat without input reading in Sekiro, bosses would literally not be able to deflect you if they didn't input read.

ER's whole design philosophy from the world, legacy dungeons and boss fights screams "spectacle over mechanical" all the bosses have a cutscene or a crazy move (radahn meteorite, Malenia's cutscenes, Astel as a boss, Maliketh cutscene etc) because it doesn't try to be sekiro or bloodborne.

The only way you could balance a game the size of ER with it's weapons/build variety and freedom the games offers is if you scaled every enemy and boss to your current level, otherwise it'd be impossible to balance and offer that same freedom.

I don't know what to say to this because I didn't feel like that all, some bosses did have autistic fast combos like Margit and Malenia's waterfowl but that was honestly about it, everything else felt like it was pushing the upper levels of "hard but fair" to the point it was close to breaking but not yet.

>which wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for how hard they constantly run away from you as part of their attack strings and you're not fast enough to catch them.
This is the fricking worst, I hate when most of a boss fight consists of running after it like the dragons or Elden Beast.

>It's even funnier when the dragons do it so much they despawn
Why the frick was this even a thing? Even fricking Skyrim's dragons could sandbox in the open-world, why are ER's dragons restricted to an invisible arena?

>muh input reading
>waaaah waaaah
You just suck man. If you go on distance they try to close it, simple as.

Radahn is Elden Ring's emphasis on spectacle done right. Placidusax too. They have crazy over the top visuals to disguise the fact that they aren't as mechanically intricate as Sekiro bosses, but the gameplay doesn't take you out of that spectacle because it never asks you to do anything that's unreasonable to pull off. Any build can fight those two bosses and have a good time. Godrick too, for the most part. But other bosses? Even Margit, who's one of the better ones, still requires you to be pretty passive and let him decide when it's your turn if you want to win reliably. This only avoids being a widely noticed issue because most people go do the rest of Limgrave, maybe Weeping Peninsula, maybe summon Rogier, and come back able to tank and power through his attacks.

Malenia is controversial because she makes the problem a lot of the bosses have unavoidably obvious. She has all the issues the other bosses do and then some. She screws over the game's build variety by countering shields and most ranged attacks (and any summon that can't steamroll her like a well-built Mimic Tear or Omenkiller Rollo). But even worse, she makes those flaws unavoidable by having Waterfowl.Dance. Sure, Waterfowl is beatable, but none of the reliable methods to beat it are intuitive to learn, and the unintuitive ones are either unreliable, require tons of study and practice, or both. Beating Malenia requires one of three things: an overpowered build, absurd amounts of practice time, or just getting lucky. That kills the whole value of how much style From put into the battle because it very aggressively breaks your immersion and turns what could be a cool moment into a very long, drawn-out struggle.

Sekiro had tight design. Demon's Souls had atmospheric bosses. They got away with their weaknesses because they focused on their strengths. But Elden Ring wants to be atmospheric and difficult without being tightly designed, and that one flaw damages both.

>The webm is obviously from some altered game pc tard
You wish.
Genny is hard coded to stinger whenever you sip in phase 2, if you find the sweet spot in terms of distance you can totally loop him to death much like you could loop Isshin to death with simple timed R1 spam, this was true since the very first game version (webm related) and still is, unlike Isshin loops which have largely been fixed.

>ER is the actual opposite, there's only a tiny handful of weapons that tower over the rest
Yeah that's exactly why ER is worse than every other game: like 10% of the weapons are S+++ tier, and the rest are useless garbage F tier. Every game has it's S tier weapons but nowhere else were every non-S weapon thrown into the garbage can as hard as they are in Elden Ring, which is why Elden Ring's got a pve meta (use the S weapons) and the other games really don't. Even the Drake Sword which you brought up was laughed at because it was a noob trap that became ass near Anor Londo.
>But the Ashes of War!
The ashes of war you find on the S+++ weapons which usually can't be swapped around at all, like Corpse Piler, are so much better than any of the freely-adjustable ashes of war that they only reinforce the disparity. Ashes of War are for fricking around with your shields and not your main hand weapons. Main hand weps are basically a select few weapons with ridiculous base damage/stagger properties and moronic ashes of war, and everything else which are objectively terrible (except maybe in pvp, I never pvp'd in ER).

>like 10% of the weapons are S+++ tier, and the rest are useless garbage F tier.
Not really, no, which is why most veterans still stick comfortably to the claymore.
>like Corpse Piler
Corpse Piler is a glorified Double Slash+ that also got nerfed to death, the "meta" has always been dominated by swappable ashes like Giant Hunt or Flame of the Redmanes with only a minor fraction of proprietary arts of war being relevant.
The number of unique weapons that are relevant to the meta is very small compared to the previous games, because again, this time weapons are statistically mostly uniform and functions being largely swappable means top tiers aren't so dominating anymore.

>Most veterans stuck with the claymore even though they had 0 fun doing it and are still b***hing to this day about how hard the bosses were.
None of this happened.
>They had to spend NINE patches making the non-proprietary ashes even remotely competitive with the proprietary ones
???
Hoarfrost Stomp alone isn't proprietary and it was the single most used ash of war in 1.1, Flames of the Redmane remained completely broken until one of the more recent patches because morons were sleeping on it, Glinstone Shard is still busted, Glinstone Phalanx has still that absurdly busted effect where the projectiles apply statuses from infusion on top of shitting posture damage, you have genuinely no clue about anything and I seriously doubt you even touched the game, let alone played it at launch, the more you talk about the game the more it looks like you got some cursory glance of it through posts on social media.

So what you're saying is that you're one of those morons who wilfully insisted on playing the game wrong for some reason and it's the game's fault for you being a moron?
>All I'm hearing from you is that you can make trash weapons good by just never using them and doing nothing but spamming their ashes
No, because 99% of unique weapons are essentially the same as common weapons with the ash of war being the only difference, most unique weapons with unique R1/R2 are actually awful in this game, the few weapons like Eleonora's poledance blade aren't used for their unique R2, they're used for the ash of war (which is only situationally good too), there's functionally zero difference between using Hoarfrost stomp with the Frostrind Hatchet and another one handed axe, much like a generic scimitar with Flame of the Redmanes will beat several unique weapons like Reduvia in terms of strength and versatility, and it doesn't take much to see either.
>because they upgrade way faster
If you read a guide and know how to sequence break and where to find somber shards +7/8/9 I guess, for somebody who whines so much about people dumping 300 hours into the game you sure use arguments that only people who dumped 300 hours into the game would use.

Just so you know, my first playthrough of the game was a DEX/ARC build with a Grossmesser, and it was mostly spamming Glinstone Phalanx and the bees outside of Radagon where I swapped to Hoarfrost on the same +25 Grossmesser.

>You've got shitter cope weapons, and you've weapons with ridiculous poise damage and/or ridiculous ashes
Poise damage is the same across all weapons in a category outside of the rare cases when an R2 is different, like in the case of the Meteoric Blade, and it's really not particularly noticeable, the difference is minimal and usually there's tradeoffs that make it largely questionable.
The uniques with actually ridiculous ashes, like the blasphemous blade, are also extremely rare and generally tied to specific progression conditions that common weapons do not have, and since apparently knowledge that you can only get "after 300 hours" isn't valid I guess I'll just stop here.
>you don't have to sequence break to find somber shards at a level that keeps them head-and-shoulders above the competition.
You do.
To take Limgrave's case you have two mines and enemies that drop common stones so effectively, the difference between a common weapon like a Scimitar and a unique weapon like, say, the BHF is nonexistent since the former can get to +6 just as easily as the latter can get to +3, and the best weapon in Limgrave bar none is technically the Uchi, a common weapon.
>What really separates shit weapons from good weapons is this upgrading system
Not really, it's a combination of availability window and the ash of war.
The reason why a lot of people hype the BHF is because you can get it immediately, you can even have Blaidd do it for you, but in the grand scheme of things it's a mediocre weapon.
Meanwhile something like the (now largely defunct) Rivers of Blood, which is a lot better than the BHF, is gated behind Leyndell, while you can get an Uchi immediately.
Conversely, the Death's Poker is considered god tier because it's not just an actually strong weapon all around, you can get it very quick just by sequence breaking to Caelid and throwing pots at a bird.

But I guess this is all 300 hours knowledge again to you.

Thats other big issue standard weapon upgrades moronicly need more upgrades than fuxking dark souls 1 weapons at +15

They're not reskins. I'll tell you that I spent some time in my first playthrough trying to keep a mace upgraded as a backup weapon for those c**ts like the crystal homosexuals who resist everything except blunt. That put a massive strain on my ability to keep things upgraded, which were just some random sword and spear I picked up in Limgrave and was babytrapped into sticking with because of how scarce upgrades were. And I wasn't having fun because the ashes for those whole classes of weapons suck wiener for anything hard enough to justify spamming them and they do shit damage. I ended up just switching to the Zwei around Leyndell, grinding out the upgrades to make it current, and then literally and physically flattening everything else. You don't need to tell me about how "normal enemies" drop them with their whopping like 5% rate. Meanwhile, you get more or less equivalent performance out of somber weapons, with bonus extra damage and infinitely more build freedom, at regular intervals provided you're not getting explorationfiltered by the open world. That makes the somber weapons better.
This whole discussion reminds me of how, back in the day, people were saying that miracles in DS3 weren't shit because you could just respec into Faith for NG+ runs or pvp and then they'd be good. But that's tacitly admitting that they do, in fact, suck during normal game progression and only get good when the game's over. That is admitting they're bad. Same story here, only with melee weapons in addition to spells (spells still have this problem in ER).

My whole argument is that ER enemies are designed like Sekiro but your playable character is not, so that makes the combat feel super frustrating unless you muscle through it with OP equipment or status effect abuse (I forgot BLEED AND FROST AND BLEED AND FROST AND in my last post). My point is that the game is designed around you gear checking the bosses to death instead of fighting them "fairly," with all the bosses being designed to this end, and that this is a very polarizing design philosophy because it's basically defining the boss to be obnoxious on purpose as an incentive to respec into an anti-[them] setup.

I don't get your points.

Yes, ER is not like Sekiro. That's because it's a Souls game.

Yes, sometimes it's optimal to wait for your turn when fighting bosses (unless you use the options you listed or just go for stance breaking), but what exactly is the problem with that? It's not like you can just whip your dick out while the enemy is attacking. You still have to position yourself properly, block / roll through attacks, ensure NOT to commit when a big frickoff attack is coming, and know when to re-engage.

Yes, the bosses are not designed around you defeating them purely by outskilling them, but that's the entire point. They are designed around you defeating them by finding openings in their patterns while staying alive long enough to deal enough damage. Yes, this means they're more like puzzles, but that's the whole fricking point. It's been that way since Demon's Souls, and I'd argue that ER implements these puzzle-but-not-quite bosses the best (even if there are some issues).

>ensure NOT to commit when a big frickoff attack is coming
Because that relies on the commit openings being consistent, and if the boss can unzip an extra move to interrupt his own opening after reading your controller, the whole system collapses because it degenerates into a tedious game of reverse-engineeeing the IF/ELSE statements on the boss AI. Bosses in Demon's Souls are a joke in comparison to Elden Ring. Even the hardest bosses in that game, like False King Allant or Flamelurker, literally are moving in slow motion in comparison to guys like Horah Loux. The formula has basically become a wild caricature of itself. Instead of he attacks -> you attack -> he attacks [just learn his moves bro?????] it's now he attacks 15 times -> you do nothing but wait for stamina to recover because his last attack is programmed for an optional extender should you attack -> he attacks five more times -> you get in ONE r1 -> he winds up another giant combo -> [you respec into the Guts Greatsword so you can DPS trade him to death with jumping attacks because this is fricking stupid]. This is that old Simon's Says puzzle boss on fricking crack, it's downright obnoxious at this point.

If it's not literal controller reading, it's something else. Compare DS1 double gargs with ER double gargs. Compare O&S with the Foreskin Duo. Compare Giant Lord with Fire Giant. Elden Ring boss design is like if you put DeS or DS1 into a TF2 x10 server. You know all those journo cope articles from the DeS era about "uhhhhhh and then the boss like spun circles around me and killed me in one hit and I couldn't do any damage woooow nothing I could do" ? Well Elden Ring boss design is literally like that. Fromsoft has basically completely outgrown the Souls formula. In their efforts to keep ratcheting up the difficulty to meet the expectations of players who've had over ten years of practice, they've been forced to toss in so much bullshit that there's now widespread complaints that the fights are unfun and borderline unfair at times. They've reached the absolute limit of what they can do with the old DeS gameplay skeleton and going forth something will have to give.

Gael is a proto-Elden Ring boss. Elden Ring is basically what happens when the Fromsoft execs said "ok so you beat Gael, huh? Well I guess we'd better make every boss in the game even harder than that." So take Gael but make all his gimmicks at least twice as extreme and boom there's half the bosses in ER right off the bat.

>Gael
>Well designed attacks
Midir has more chances to land an attack than Gael, fricking Hod is more threatening than Gael

>Is weak to frostbite
Yes yes very nice Gael, very nice Gael HOWEVER *HMMPH* *HMMPH* *HMMPH* *HMMPH*
Which is where the other half of ER's balancing comes in: Fromsoft knew they had filled the game with bosses that were pretty bullshit, and they knew this would absolutely flatten new players because they'd been made for longtime veterans to swear, so they put a huge array of tools in the game for you to gear check bosses with. Which, in practice, ends up being how almost everyone beats the game on their first run.

You always could but like absolutely everything else about Elden Ring, the difference between good and bad gear is like older games on a x10 mod, and it's to the point where ER is the first of From's soulslike games where the pve actually semi-strictly enforces a meta.

>ER is the actual opposite, there's only a tiny handful of weapons that tower over the rest
Yeah that's exactly why ER is worse than every other game: like 10% of the weapons are S+++ tier, and the rest are useless garbage F tier. Every game has it's S tier weapons but nowhere else were every non-S weapon thrown into the garbage can as hard as they are in Elden Ring, which is why Elden Ring's got a pve meta (use the S weapons) and the other games really don't. Even the Drake Sword which you brought up was laughed at because it was a noob trap that became ass near Anor Londo.
>But the Ashes of War!
The ashes of war you find on the S+++ weapons which usually can't be swapped around at all, like Corpse Piler, are so much better than any of the freely-adjustable ashes of war that they only reinforce the disparity. Ashes of War are for fricking around with your shields and not your main hand weapons. Main hand weps are basically a select few weapons with ridiculous base damage/stagger properties and moronic ashes of war, and everything else which are objectively terrible (except maybe in pvp, I never pvp'd in ER).

I wouldn't say so. Status procs are king.

Yes, dumbass, they don't. A meta isn't defined by how good the best gear is, but by how unusable everything else is, especially in a PVE format where you're fighting the AI and not other players.

Any spear.

>Spears in ER
>Unusable
Bolt of Gransax alone is busted and it's rather overrated, any bleed/frost spear will demolish the entire game, especially if you powerstance them or use a greatshield.
Twin Nagi is one of the most disgusting bleed setups in the game.

The cross naginata is good because it's a bleed stick, not because it's a spear. Frost and bleed are ridiculous in ER.

for what

>Anything PVE
powerstanced spears are slow as frick so I doubt they're good for the input reading bosses in this game

Okay? Zwei is good. No one is saying otherwise. That doesn't somehow make spears unusable.

Cool, cool, That's a sensible opinion. Follow the conversation

>spears
>a weapon category that had to be nerfed in PvP
Cross naginata was also a very good weapon.

Most daggers that don't have status buildup. Small thrusting swords outside of PVP. Varre's Bouquet on any enemy that doesn't bleed.

I beat the game with Fallingstar Beast Jaw, actually. I was simply picking the most popular example.

I dunno how hard it got nerfed by the time of patch 1.09 but when I played it was honestly ridiculous, the magic attack had the direct damage of an 80 INT spell at 40 INT while doing the posture damage of a jumping colossal attack. Trivialized everything way harder than any melee ever could especially when paired with a spirit summon. I'd say the beast jaw ash was secretly the strongest ash in the game but I don't really know how hard it's been nerfed.

Gwynfaraam attacks way too slowly to be an Elden Ring boss.

>DS1 double gargs with ER double gargs
Bell Gargoyles is the second boss in the game, so of course it's easier than midgame Valiant Gargoyle. Except Valiant Gargoyles are easy because you can outposition them while they keep attacking the air around you.
>O&S with the Foreskin Duo
The duo is annoying because of attack clipping bullshit first and foremost, which is also present in Pinky and Brain's first phase. That said, I agree that it's stupid that From still hasn't done anything about clipping.
>Compare Giant Lord with Fire Giant
Wait, what? Fire Giant isn't difficult at all. It's just "wail on leg during the first phase, then wail on ass during the second phase, just make sure not to get caught by stomp, chaos firestorm, or homing projectiles." What was your problem with it?

>Elden Ring boss design is like if you put DeS or DS1 into a TF2 x10 server
Which is a welcome change, considering how many bosses in these games take you less than 30 seconds to kill on an intended playthrough with an average weapon without any cheese tactics.

>You know all those journo cope articles from the DeS era about "uhhhhhh and then the boss like spun circles around me and killed me in one hit and I couldn't do any damage woooow nothing I could do" ? Well Elden Ring boss design is literally like that
No it's fricking not. Even Morgott is not like that.

>poison
Good thing poison is a non-issue in ER. Or any Souls game, really.

Regardless, I really don't get what your problem with ER gargs is. They're tall and they're not very stomp-happy, so the classic Souls strategy of "wail on the giant dude's feet while his attacks overshoot you" applies. They can charge you sometimes, but you can just sideroll away. They sometimes do a slow rollbait attack with a halberd, but unlike Morgott, the actual attack is telegraphed well, IIRC.

I can get something like Asylum Treemon's annoying homing projectiles, but gargs? How are they more difficult than expected in this part of the game?

>Everything about your defenses of these bosses is just making excuses for why it doesn't count
I'm not defending Godskin Duo or Fire Giant's quality. I dislike them both. However, I argue that Godskin's difficulty is comparable to O&S's first phase, and Fire Giant sucks in spite of him not being very hard.

>Malenia goes down like a b***h in 40 seconds with the simple application of x2 giant crushers
Hence why I added the whole part about not cheesing things and doing a normal build.
>You do not get to complain about people b***hing about boss difficulty when your argument is "yeah I'm so good at the formula the bosses need to have infinite difficulty to satisfy me and that's a GOOD thing."
I'm not that good at Souls games even now. I hardly ever touch PVP and I use a shield more often than not. That said, on my first DS1 playthrough years ago when I was even worse at action games I still beat Capra and Gaping vegana first try (knight build). Quelaag was something like second or third try, I can't remember. Lategame bosses took more attempts, but I wasn't really stuck on anything besides O&S and DLC bosses.

As for DeS, come the frick on now. Don't tell me Leechmonger or Adjudicator were difficult for anyone.

cont.

You're also conveniently omitting the fact that ER's combat is faster, more responsive and provides you more tools to deal with higher difficulty, like directional rolling (at least I think it was added with ER), shield counters and the ability to stance break or parry bosses. So it's not just boss difficulty being inflated without it being fair.

ER Gargs are way too tanky and hard-hitting for when you can find them, but if you come back later they're manageable. What they are is a good showcase of how bosses in ER are in many ways existing concepts dialed up to 11. Everything about the ER Gargs, from their physical size to their attack combos to their speed to their additional mechanics, is like DS1 gargs: but triple. And I'd disagree that mechanics like directional rolling or shield counters are really a good powerlevel boost for the player to keep up. Hell, everything except for the shield counter was present in DS3, like you could stance break a bunch of bosses in DS3 even if there was no riposte, although I will also say that ripostes generally feel weaker in ER than in souls. ER is a massive difficulty spike with respect to even DS3 (by far the hardest Souls game), even in early game areas like Limgrave. I'd say that Margit is about as hard as Gael (or at least as mechanically complex) and ER only gets harder from there. Furthermore, the extra difficulty really is because the bosses are jacked up on mega steroids and comparatively the player isn't. Really, the great equalizer for the player in ER are spirit summons. I'm not sure if they designed the bosses first and then the summons second as a crutch for the players, or the summons first and then the bosses second so they wouldn't be trivialized. But either way, you'd have a hard time convincing me that the bosses aren't balanced around it. No, I don't mean they're literally impossible without summons, because they're obviously beatable. It's just an absurd difficulty spike relative to anything else that mostly goes away when you summon an NPC bro.

>Well, yes, but it's not a bad thing, since bosses prior to DS3 were pretty easy in general.
>Souls games could have used harder bosses.
This feels like a very revisionist thing to say. Back when DeS and DS1 released, people were swearing up and down about how hard bosses like Allant or Manus were. They're chumps for anyone who's beaten DS3. Hell, even Burnt Ivory King, who I believe is statistically the hardest boss in the franchise, is a tutorial fight by ER standards. I think you've basically forgotten that you've been playing these games for 12 years and pretty much have the formula on lock. There's only so much the devs can do to keep making bosses harder within the constraints of the formula you've memorized. ER being a great example of basically bossfight inflation is the inevitable consequence of this. Personally, I don't want the bosses to keep getting harder. Fights like Gael were already as hard as I'd be willing to put up with before I'd start saying the fight was more annoying than fun, and there's a lot of bosses in ER that are well beyond that threshold. I'd prefer they just give up the DUDE IT'S HARD marketing. Their level design and world design keep getting better with each and every new game. ER's got their best levels ever. They should really focus on advertising these games as dungeon crawlers. Even back in DeS and DS1, scouring the levels was the thing I had the most fun doing, and I had insane amounts of fun working through levels like Leyndell and the Haligtree. I really couldn't care less about them persisting with this difficulty arms race with their own players. It's not like dungeon crawlers like Metroid need to be ball-bustingly hard, everyone loves them because they're exploration kino.

>he ended up having to isolate literally only like 1-2 attacks in his whole moveset where it was safe to attack back, and that's with the bandit knife which is one of the fastest weapons in DS3

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>Yup
Yup what? It doesn't happen. There's literally 0 proof.

Actually I beat most of the game level 1 +0 because the game is so unbalanced and not playtested that many stock abilities trivialize the game

meds

Yes yes next you will tell me you personally know this "/v/" character and what "/v/" likes

maybe make that the next OP to your next ragebait thread, it will be very original

how does it feel to be worse than a redditor at making posts

says the guy with narcissistic personality disorder

You have narcissistic personality disorder, that's why you bypass post limits and make dozens of threads at a time where you talk about only what you want to talk about (usually not the subject you've posted about)

>howe about actually talking about games
You ask this question in a thread with ~400 posts talking about the game. One of the few threads right now that aren't a political discussion or a dump of coom/AI pictures.