Miyazaki should hang for this one.

Depends on how you define gimmick. Gwyndolin is one dimensional, Seath is invincible until you break his crystal, and iron golem has an insta-kill but the weird implementation makes it feel less gimmicky than it should. Are Four Kings a gimmick boss? If you try and fight them with a normal sword and board strategy, you lose. Gotta rush them and give no fricks about damage taken, which is mechanically a complete departure from the rest of the game.

If you do enough poise damage to him, he goes through a series of knockdown animations, and if you keep pushing, you can knock him off the arena and 1-shot him. It's awesome but generally the amount of poise damage you do is less than damage so it's easy to just kill him before you knock him off.
If you summon Black Iron Tarkus, he can do the job fairly consistently and solo the boss.

Not located 1 meter from the entrance, there wasn't, and it's lacking all the other points which make the spear stand out so much.
Not to mention, picking up a weapon and seeing how much health he has, idk how you don't pick up on that.

>a game full of pointless throwaway characters
hm? which game was that?

*that does some

Who cares and that, you ruined the experience for yourself

For the 20th time. The first time you get into the boss area, you rush in and pick up the weapon as fast as you can because you assume that the boss is already agro. Then after a dying from him a number of times, you totally forget what that weapon you picked up was.

And at this stage in the game, you have like 100 other fricking weapons to sift through to try and remember what the frick you picked up.

Why would anyone assume a level 0 gimmick weapon is better than a level 8 or 12 weapon at this stage in the game?

>Because its item description

And 90% of the time, bosses will one-shot you before you can read descriptions.

If you don't read the name of the weapon that you picked up with the unique animation or inspected it in any way, rushed the boss long before it aggro'd and then immediately forgot about that weapon you picked up, then after an hour and 10 flasks of fighting a boss with reidiculously high resistances only to get to a second phase you don't realize that maybe that thing that you did at the beginning of the fight had some significance, maybe, just maybe says something about you and not the game.

Go back and fight the Godskin Apostle.

He'll one shot you before you do one summon.

That Black person takes a solid 2 minutes to cross the room, I could go make myself a sandwich can come back to fight him lmao.

You utter buffoon.

>Or you read the name of the item you picked up as a new item and look at that weapon.

And if you do in 90 percent of the bosses, they will insta-kill you while you're fumbling in the menu.

>But not rykard.

Because his agro area is abnormally low, which you don't know until you already pickup the gimmick weapon and rush in.

Because you'd be dumb to not assume that he is already agro.

Because most bosses are already agro 2 seconds into getting into the boss arena. Elden Ring's illogical inconsistency is it's greatest weakness.

Take a picture of the stars we'll come save you from your groomers in less than an hour.
If you are in the Grand Rapids area we can be there in minutes.

It's not that. Most bosses can insta-kill you a few seconds after getting into the arena. So why on earth would anyone spend time trying to read weapon descriptions on the first encounter?

>Because you cant die to standing there looking through your inventory

That's a load of crap, idiot.

Why oh why did all the posting stop lololololololololol

>eric
Confirmation its dragonirian.

>eric
Confirmation its dragonirian.

You guys always make me laugh.

Nope

Peak humiliation ritual post by a lolcow. Guy must not be a native english speaker if he misunderstands this hard.

Who on would assume bosses behave differently especially when most bosses are instant agro?

Hes being subjected to a humiliation ritual. He wants us to make fun of him because hes been conditioned into a submissive position and has grown to like it.

>That sound terrible.
It's pretty baroque. Dont have sympathy for him though he is willingly doing this there is no extortion or anything they've just broken his spirit and made him experience ego death so hes rudderless in life.
We deal with his mental illness multiple times a day, after a while you stop seeing him as a person.

Mostly. Ganker mindfricked him worse than his discord did. He is probably going to kill himself soon.

His consent for that will be in the suicide note before mentioning his parents. I'm no betting man but that would be easy money.

But will his groomers read Russian? Which one of his many personalities will be writing the suicide note?

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You still haven't refuted the fact that you die in menu. So why would you even try to read an item description when picking up a new item moments before a boss agros?

The other boss arenas don't have weapons/items in them as far as I can recall (not counting the open world). The fact that Rykard's has a weapon right at the entrance and it has an in-world model with a special animation is immediately suspicious.

The serpent is not aggro'd when you enter the arena. It's not even looking at you when you enter, it's sleeping. You have to get pretty close for it to wake up.

You keep saying "you" as if it's some kind of universal experience, but it was a mistake that YOU made. You didn't pay attention and suffered the consequences for it. And it's not a "common issue" - again, no other boss has a weapon with a special pick-up animation (literally called "Serpent Hunter") right at the entrance, with the serpent sleeping a fair distance away.
You're basically arguing that Fromsoft should have added a tutorial for a pretty in-your-face mechanic, which would have been condescending and cheapened the fight. Maybe just accept this as a lesson and pay more attention next time. But judging by your behavior you're probably not capable of introspection.

>No, YOU're a midwit.
You keep mispelling aggro in every post you moron.

>The differentiation of that agro area in that particular boss with the difference of a +10 weapon with a new weapon with the fact that you die in menu...
Holy shit trying to comprehend what you just said is giving me a headache.
Never fricking insult the intelligence of anyone ever again you dumbass homosexual ESL.

>posting stops again
lol

Why would he when hes right?

Study English grammar over an eight grade education level, zoomer.

>Shit, he might make up a whole new personality and frame himself as his own murderer.
That's when he finally comes out as trans to his parents. Ivana Dyie would be a kino russian trans name.

Mostly. Ganker mindfricked him worse than his discord did. He is probably going to kill himself soon.

You still haven't refuted the fact that you die in menu. So why would you even try to read an item description when picking up a new item moments before a boss agros?

Now do the same thing but entering the Godskin Apostle fight

I already beat them both.

You know there is a 4 MB cap on uploads.

The time difference between identifying the agro and picking up the weapon is so short, no sane player would stop the zerg rush in the first encounter based on all the other bosses he fought previously.

For the 30th time, you don't know that until you already picked up the weapon and Zurg rushed in.

Anon is english not your first language? You're replying to me but it's as if you either can't read my responses or can't articulate what you're thinking.
>The time difference between identifying the agro and picking up the weapon is so short
What does this mean? There is infinite time between picking the weapon up and him aggroing you because he doesn't aggro you.
>no sane player would stop the zerg rush
I don't think there is a single boss in all of souls that I swung at before seeing them swing at me. my first move vs every boss is always a roll.

barring "bosses" who don't ever attack ofc.

>he first time you get into the boss area, you rush in and pick up the weapon as fast as you can because you assume that the boss is already agro.
You literally dont because bosses only agro when their name shows up on the screen, which it doesnt

Fricking liar Black person.

Oh you mean the boss that doesnt aggro until his name shows up on the bottom of the screen?

You little liar.

The fact he usually starts with a fireball cast that takes more than 2 seconds and that it doesnt 1 shot you when it hits you is already reason enough to say you are wrong.

>It damn near 1 shots you
Try having more than 20 vigor next time.

for the 21st time, the first time get into the boss arena, you run in and pick up the weapon. Then you see the big fat fricking snake up ahead, but it's not doing shit, so you quick open your menu to check out your new item, which is easy because you've been sorting your chest properly. Then you read the item description and realize the game is saying USE THIS GODDAMN WEAPON IT MAKES THE FIGHT EASY MODE, so you do and kill Rykard in a few tries. (I had to level up the Serpent Hunter to +7 before I curbstomped him, had skill issue)
You're just being moronic on purpose, now

Go to the site of grace, rest, select Sort Chest, and then remove from your inventory to storage every weapon you won't be using and all armor duplicates. Keeps your inventory clean and tidy.

it really starts to be a pain on higher cycles. I'm NG+11 and all the extra armor, spells, weapons, and shields that'd be in my inventory would make me crazy.

The intro is great

tasteless

Literally only you.

>Abyss Watchers
Wasn't that memorable for me. Twince Princes however, you're right. It is good I just forgot about it.
It's definitely not Midir level, Midir is amazing.

>or Nito
Nah frick you

BANG
BANG
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

It's just BANG BANG BANG ominous wind chanting. Really not that great.
Going back and listening to all the themes I can't remember and now I know why.

O and S's theme sounds like a 1:1 port of a Golden Sun theme. I know its the same composer, but it's REALLY obvious with that one.