>tfw you will NEVER play Elden Ring for the first time and experience that adventure and all that wonder again
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>tfw I played it for 5 hours and then uninstalled that piece of garbage.
got filtered by margit
that boss was easy as frick
t. went south first then to the castle
no one believes you homosexual
And you're still malding about it months later.
I kind of did on my second playthrough when I forgot where everything is
That's probably the only thing being massively open world actually benefitted. You forget everything.
I forgot everything because it wasn't memorable. That's probably the only thing being massively open world actually benefitted. The game is too shitty to remember.
That feeling of wonder that lasted until you realised 80% of the game is copypasted
>That feeling of wonder that lasted until you realised 80% of the game is copypasted
Bingo. Most of the screenshots you see of Elden Ring are the same cliffside view over the lake as in the OP. Yes, it looks fricking amazing. What is actually down there though in that Limgrave sized misty expanse?
>knee high water (so more of a large shallow swamp than a lake)
>sniper lobsters, which are complete bullshit
>Hogwarts-lite - a surprisingly small and unsatisfying "legacy dungeon"
>three (maybe four) copy paste dungeons
>various non-unique mobs dotted around
>some weirdo that cooks shrimps
Elden Ring was fun to playthrough but was a bigger letdown than Cyberpunk.
>Bingo. Most of the screenshots you see of Elden Ring are the same cliffside view over the lake as in the OP. Yes, it looks fricking amazing. What is actually down there though in that Limgrave sized misty expanse?
umm..
These look like shit, mainly because the lack of fricking shadows. When the frick is the RTX patch
Looks fine on my machine…
Some people have lower standards than others
Trump lost.
>a surprisingly small and unsatisfying "legacy dungeon"
Lol you gotta love these anons. Same people who say
>"What are you talking about? Leyndell Sewers is like 2 hallways and some animated hands and rats. Disappointing. Too short and boring."
Lmao
For me it was when I realised that exploration was pointless when, more times than not, all I would be "reward for my curiosity with was dogshit like silver tears and nascent butterflies. Like give me something fricking useful, like an aeonian butterfly, least then I can make the apparently hyper rare (if you don't find the bell) item for that gay ass shit
The exploration was pretty shit in terms of reward. You get so many weapons that are miniscule variations of the other and you've already upgraded your starting katana so it's just inventory spam.
Yeah, I'm just... I got a lot of good, fun hours from this game, but it made me so fricking tired of froms shit. This game felt like a big fat
>we are out of ideas, we are hacks, victims of our own success, etc
and I'm simply not interested anymore.
Basically thus, it was interesting until Stormveil Castle.
Name a single game where 80% of the content isn't copy and pasted. I swear guys have insanely high vidya standards because you never play vidya, it's like how boomers think video games are like virtual reality in the movies these days.
Speak for yourself zoomer back in my day we were stomping.... KOOPAS
Drawful 2.
demons souls
got real pissed off when i realized that 80% of the armor was AFTER Morgott.
FRICK whoever did this. What a terrible decision. You look at everyones first run, and they literally all look the fricking same, including me. There was zero fashion for hours and hours and hours of gameplay. What a actual fricking let down.
I would of prefered armor, even the shittest ones, over almost every single spirit summon, or that fricking red flower thing they love to throw into chests/rewards that literally no one ever uses because crafting is useless.
Game ends after Godrick and everything following him is literally just recycling of content.
Great game up ‘til then, though.
nonsense and cope.
>liurnia of the lakes
>caelid
>mt.gelmir
>leyndell
>farum azula
>haligtree
>nokron
these are somehow recycled from each other?
>Game ends after Godrick
Imagine forgetting about the most kino boss FS has ever made
>Worst voice acting in the entire game
>Kino
Lol, lmao even.
Its 100% perfect for a coombrain edgelord
>Worst voice acting in the entire game
Thats godfrey, moron
opps
No, that's mohg you deaf moron.
It suits him perfectly, shut up moron
I just spend all my time invading from. I have 6 characters within the levels 20 to 80.
My favorite is probably my level 20 Bloodborne Cosplay.
based sovlful vidya enjoyers
my favorite is a level 40 character with the ripple crescent halberd (sometimes 2 of them) with sleepy grease on it and have an optimized build so it only takes 2-3 hits to build up, 1 hit if I use two greased halberds. I called the character Sleepy Time Tea and I go run up, put them to sleep, then run away. It's also a fun build for dueling. I make them sleep, kill them, then use an emote to lie down.
Fun idea anon. You’ve inspired me to Copy this build. Can you give me your starting class and specs?
>you'll never experience adventure across copypasted locations and enemies ever again
I wish
>Is that a minor dungeon boss that appears twice?! Aaaaaaaa I'm going insane!
between Limgrave, Liurnia and Caelid there are only TWO unique non-reused bosses (Rennala and Radahn), since Godrick is shamelessly reused in an evergaol
if you don't see how that's a problem, you've lost it
>not a single unique enemy in the second half of the game
>4 template dungeons
>copypasted bosses in all of them
>but it's okay when my favorite company does it
I know fromdrone, I know
Most of the Farum Azula beasts only appear there, Albinauric archers only appear in Ordina, white eagles only appear in the Mountaintops, Zamor warrior only appear in the Mountaintops
>b-but the evergaol with one Zamor warrior
Don't care
so you admit they're all copy pasted? not a good defense, fromdrone
Shazam lost, troony. Also Knights from the Haligtree only appear in the Haligtree :^)
you mean recycled Redmane Knights from Caelid but with slightly different helmets?
nah, not a good look, fromtrannny
Albinauric women on their wolves / not on their wolves in the consecrated snowfield and ordina liturgical town are unique enemies. That’s about it really, yeah. The skelly dragonmen are unique to farum azula too.
>twice
God I wish it were only twice.
didn't feel like an adventure to me, felt more like a murderhobo simulator where I'm killing everyone and everything on the entire continent
how can it feel like an adventure when the answer to every 'what's over there' is 'more shit to kill'? about as adventurous as Diablo
The time I heard that singing by that one erdsapling I got really excited, that was far before I came to the realisation of exactly that. I was thinking
>oh wow whats that singing? a cool new npc?! wow from is actually doing some new and int-
:/
bombshell critique of the game
barely any replies
it cannot be refuted
>Journalists pick of the season
Never played this trash
>generic open world in 2022
>adventure and wonder
I had fun until farum azula ngl, then it became a chore.
been a long time since I had 8+ hours gaymin sessions everyday and I was glad.
I played elden ring like 5 times before it was released though
Couldn't get past the first playthrough because of shit build and tired of beating head on wall. Got pc and downloaded mod to fix hitboxes and flaws in the game then tried mage, but I can't push myself to want to re-do all the old shit I just did.
How do openworldgays do it?
By not being a massive shitter. Holy shit this game has spirit summons, how are you so garbage that you need mods lmao
Mod fixes glaring flaws the game suffers including using magic buffs on any sword as it should be as well as tweaks to certain areas and shit tanimura hitboxes . Also spells that do low damage but regain mana as a mage so you can have a real mage build rather than some hybrid shit. Same guy that modded and fixed ds2. Spirit summon crutches got bland after a while.
Lol Elden Ring is by far the best From Software game for mage builds. You're playing a Souls game not Skyrim.
>If it's true we're getting DLC, get to explore it with friends all over like the main game again
>Friends getting the game since life was busy and I can have a fun playthrough alongside them and help them out of they get stumped
Best case scenario: I win
Worst case scenario: I win
based bright side of life anon
i wish i could bottle and inject what you get for free
It's a change of mindset at best. Games are as fun as you make them. What seems to be stopping you from having fun?
ah yes the wonder of finding another artaria leaf and then pressing the roll button at the right time against a reskinned asylum demon
the absolute state of fromtrannies
Shazamtrannies lost
Liurnia was where I started getting worried. That money shot after Godrick got me really excited, but then I discovered that it's really a massive swamp with next to nothing to do. So disappointing.
The game suffers from being this big. It felt like it had given almost everything it had to offer after the first forty hours and then it continued for another sixty. Way too much recycling.
Stormveil castle followed by the liurnia sight was really the peak. Felt like the game was going to go places and then it never did. I also liked the Haligtree though.
for me the peak was Leyndell, first time I arrived at Liurnia I said to myself "oh no, it's a giant fricking swamp"
this is something I actually fricking loved about ER; there are basically no obligatory swamps because you have the horse
other than a few optional dungeons with some sewer water shenanigans, all the big overworld swamps like liurnia, aeonia, are no problem at all.
and lake of rot isn't even that bad because they literally give you all the platforms to stand on AND by the time you get there it is very unlikely that you would have missed that flame cleanse me thing which is both cheap to cast and doesn't have stupid high reqs to use AND you can always do the 0sp dagger quickstep thing for rapid traversal too.
ER truly 'has it's cake and eats it too' with giving you some big ass intimidating looking swamps, but not making you need to cope with their bullshit like in previous games
This exactly. Its not a good thing when I exclaim aloud, multiple discreet times
>Its still fricking GOING????
And of course - and this is something that happens with 90% of froms games - the last half or so of the game is a fricking slog, because they HAVE to up the ante. But oh, they've already ramped up the challenges so far, like off the shoulders of the previous game's difficulty curve, so by the second half they just through boring, lazy gank bosses or giant AoEs with nonexistent tells (until you eat one of course, then you know) or all other manner of bullshit they've held back from doing in their other games because they are terrible, filler ideas.
The wonder and sense of adventure completely disappears when you realize you have to now run circles around this entire area looking for cave entrances to copypaste dungeons and NPCs. As cool as it looks, overworld exploration is not fun in this game.
There were some genuinely good parts to this game, but having to explore the overworld is not one of them.
exactly
wow now THIS is an adventure. how can trash like LotR even compete?
does it hold up? i tried watching it once when i was a little kid and fell asleep 20 minutes in
Fellowship is my favorite. It holds up amazingly well.
Fellowship and Two Towers are great. Return of the King sucks
Yes, we didn't know how good we had it. Peter Jackson was humbled by the lotr fan base camping out to see his movies, current adaptation directors want to kill all fans
too bad it's ruined by having dark souls combat
Thank go. Picking up trash hidden in a big map is timewasting bullshit for morons. Now that I have my NG+ savefile I can just replay the fun combat parts and ignore that idiotic ""exploration"" you sad npcs love so much.
It was pretty chill especially the Altus Plateau
but I never wanna replay this again
>adventure and wonder
Lol majority of players looked up the bosses, builds, and upgrades before touching the game.
why the frick do people do this? it pisses me off, just play the damn game and figure out shit for yourself.
i thought it was mediocre
i'm also sure 90% of the playerbase used a map or a guide
>I'll never again experience a stuttering shitshow on my $4k pc
what a shame
Thank goodness.
Yea that's the biggest flaw of this game. The moment all surprises are gone, the quality diminishes significantly, game takes much less time to finish because you know most of the caves and dungeons are a waste of time etc.
>copy and pasted enemies is le good and you're a shazamtroony if you do not agree
fromdromes are no better than these boogeyman, kys
Thank God. It was so boring.
120 hours of exploration is plenty, it was getting kind of boring at the end, all those samey looking dungeons killed my enthusiasm. I'm having a better time now making builds while rushing the game, only stopping for the things I need and doing pvp. Praise invasions.
once enough time passes, you can watch the pre-release trailers again to rekindle that sense of wonder before starting a new character
i hate hard games.
i'm a 35 yo boomer. if i come back home from work i don't want to play a game dying 100+ times to finally learn a shitty attack pattern because homosexuals think hard=good.
Alright so why are you playing Elden Ring? There are plenty of casual games out there.
There's no attack patterns to learn in Elden Ring. It's also not a hard game. It's a tedious and boring one. I beat everything in the game. 40 yo boomer that loves hard games, but this isn't one of them.
Oh you mean spamming dodge roll isnt hard? Shocker. Fellow boomers know the truth.
>I like hard games
>w-wait, why isn’t the boss attacking in a set, easily exploitable and predictable attack pattern?! This is bullshit!
Uh huh.
>Tfw still haven't played it, Bloodborne or Sekiro
Shit's gonna be good once i get around to them.
Save Sekiro for last. You'll wish every game froms made has its combat and raw spectacle, if you don't
Bloodborne is their best tho
Bloodborne has a strong opening and that's about it until the DLC. The rest is trash.
ER has more spectacle by far tho
Eh, I disagree.
BB is very good, I love it, but sekiro's combat has actual depth and I enjoy hard shitting on bosses/enemies with the correct shinobi tool, etc.
Both 9.5/10
Elden Kino...
>They're still seething
This is sad. Move on.
>See random sparkle beam from Grace
>Follow it
>It's long path of nothing after long path of nothing with a camp of DS3 asset flips here and there
>Get to some ugly anime euro that's 15 feet tall and fights like he knows he's in a video game, cartwheeling around like a sperge
>Was already tired of this in DS3
>Stormveil itself is just a massive fricking attempt at ambushing or gang-raping the player
>Literally every cheap trick in the Souls playbook in the first twenty minutes of this place, even has the addition of random anime knights that hyper-armor spin and fly all over the fricking place like a Bleach villain
>Boss is just a ball of arms with a cutscene at the halfway point
>Difficulty is so fricked that he's significantly easier than the ugly euro guarding his tower and most of the shit in his castle
>Get outside and see the enormous swamp in OP's pic
>Uninstall and be glad I didn't pay for this 'experience'.
Liurnia is not a poison swamp though. It’s a very very shallow lake surrounded by imposing cliffs. The poison swamp level is caelid and lake of rot.
>blatantly false nonsense to pad out his crybaby story
>mad about crabs being crab shaped
>filtered by the knight in the dark room
funny
Gotta give it to From, they repeatedly manage to sell the same used car with 2 wheels and no engine to the same idiots by telling them that it's cool, actual normal cars are for losers.
i'm waiting until DLC comes out before I pick it back up for a new playthrough
i might do a faith build then
i didn't find it that special so im fine with that
How is that not identical to every other RPG out there from Elder scrolls to Zelda? How is it even possible to have a sense of adventure and wonder again after all the other games you played before this?
CHAD CHAD CHAD CHAD CHAD CHAD CHAD CHAD CHAD CHAD CHAD
botw was better elden ring just felt like i was playing ds3 in an open world with worse bosses
>worse bosses
what a reach
bloodborne did dungeons with repeated bosses better but keep being a moron I don't care
Of all the games randomly generated dungeons would have made perfect sense, I would have expected ER to have them.
It's kind of sad I found myself longing for a cursed, defiled chalice dungeon to clear, over the disappointing shit in ER
i didn't even mention bloodborne
I can see the tears in your eyes
stop looking in the mirror then anon
i enjoy both games on my ps5
Joke's on you, I've never played it, so I can, infact, play Elden Ring for the first time at some point in the future. I didn't pop my cherry as soon as the game launched.
What is the point of the open world? literally no one can answer this.
A sense of scale, a sense of a long journey, atmosphere, exploration and a backdrop for its history and characters.
>a sense of a long journey
literally impossible when fast travel exists
>1 out of 5 points
well done
and?
Yet it is the most essential point to ruining any sense of "adventure".
An adventure is something you have to commit to. Can you imagine the Hobbit or LotR where the protagonists could just teleport back and forth to previously visited locations at any time?
Developers understood this since games like Gen 1 Pokemon. From Software understood it in DS1. Obviously they chickened out because they realised the moron normalgay audience expects "convenience".
Good thing that the game has a fix for this problem.
Dont allow yourself to teleport.
There, fixed.
Also, if the game didnt have fast travel youd complain its too bloated and has too much backtracking.
Ah yes the most fun part of the game... The dozens of hours of riding your horse through mind numbing barren wasteland
And there it is.
>complain game doesnt do X
>here anon, this is how you make the game have X
>but thats shit
Boring homosexual.
Yes the game is shit
You have to be on pills to enjoy the horse riding.
moron.
And it would be even better if I simply closed my eyes and imagined the best game ever created.
Yet I don't see how this is a point in Elden Ring's favour.
Lazy devs can copy paste more
It's heckin EPIC!!
$$$
>Adventure
>Empty, lifeless openworld straight from 2008
>mega destroyer soldier of big wiener guards something
>you picked up arteria leaf x 2
Lol
>you will NEVER play Elden Ring for the first time
Thank God. What a disappointment it was.
>experience that adventure
>adventure
lol. the game is a glorified boss rush with a lot of empty in between
Who the frick cares about gameplay, enemy variety and world design? This is a Fromsoft game, the only thing that matters is FEET. Feet define this genre.
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If we get another "LOL HE WENT MAD AN CORRUPTED" character in the DLC I'm 100% done with anything Miyahaki writes. They've surpassed Blizzard with the overuse of "muh corruption" and "muh insane boss".
Name 5 bosses like that in the base game
So you're tacitly admitting it's more than 1?
>setting is post-apocalyptic medieval fantasy
>WOW DUDE WHY IS EVERYTHING DECAYING AND CORRUPTED?
answer the question
Godfrey, the Grafted
>Got addicted to Grafting for "Power", corrupt.
Starscourge Radahn
>Literally corrupted by the plague.
Malenia, Blade of Miquella
>Literally corrupted by the plague was born through her.
Radagon of the Golden Order
>Literally corrupted by ayy lmaos
Sir Gideon Ofnir, the All-Knowing
>Corrupted with the knowledge that Tarnished can not become an elden lord
Next.
We accept your concession.
>bro if I twist this word to mean a bunch of different things it will fit my argument thats poor in the first place
lel.
>get btfo'd
>dismiss it
lmao
>bro Im actually going to twist "corruption" to characters like Gideon and then pretend it makes sense
moron.
Next youre going to explain why the characters in a world being consistent with that world is also bad.
the story is literally they all went mad with power, that's the intro cutscene
>Renala
>Godrick
>Godefroy
>Battlemage Hughs
>Every Bloodhound Knight
>Commander Niall
>Decaying Eksykes
>Every Gravewarden
>Malenia
>Maliketh
>Every Omenkiller
>Rykard
>Blaidd
>Starscourge Radahn
>Every remaining Cleanrot Knight
>Fortisaxx
It's easier to list who didn't get corrupt or go insane, tbh.
get oof'ed Black person
>Mad or corrupt
Zoomer ELSs aren't people and your opinions don't matter.
You forgot my man Mohg and his formless mother god, Vyke, and, of course, Bernhal who for no fricking reason at all wants to invade you at some point, just an excuse to get his gear.
Nah, he's going to have his own consort ending
I havent played for a while what weapon should I use
I struggled playing it my first time, I just wasn't enjoying it. It was fun when I started playing it through with my friend though.
Teleportation sucks, it really takes you out the world imo. Imagine if you could just teleport out of blight town at any moment for an example, nobody would give a shit about it. Now apply that to the entire game and you've lost so much soul. Imagine being lost and trapped in the middle of the hell pit that is Caelid. It would be such a memorable experience. But that'll never happen because you die once and you can just teleport out again.
i didnt even knew there was teleport after 100hrs into the game, i was using the horse form weeping peninsula to the start of leyandell. I only realised this when i streamed elden ring to my friends and they pointed out that i could use teleport
i haven't touched it since june and i'm still burnt out. i don't know if the DLC will even be enough to bring me back
>I'll never play Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim for the first time again
>I'll never play 2fort for the first time again
>I'll never play MW2 R&D on Estate for the first time again
>First time getting off Taris in KOTOR
>First time beating Ornstein and Smough
>...
literal reddit post but that's all I enjoyed in life. I'm not good-looking, literal sub 100 IQ so vidya was the only thing remotely enjoyable. Now it's all games as a service and stale garbage I've played a better version of 10 years ago.
Elden rang sucked lol
Sekiro > ds3 > bb > ds1 > des > er > ds2 > des r
Shit game
I'm ok with that. It's a game to consume once and forget.
>adventure and wonder
So the same 50 caves with rehashed bosses?
>is that a rock that looks the same as the one in the previous cave? AHHHHHHHHHH I CANT TAKE IT ZANZIBART SAVE ME!!!!!!!
Does that fact bother you or something?
Am I the one bothered by rocks that look the same? No, I’m not a crybaby.
Whose crying? I'm just saying the caves are copy pasted. They are.
You’re bothered by it. Remember your question?
I'm not, I'm bored by it lol. Why are you projecting?
Trump lost
Ok.
Daily reminder that even if you only take the unique location and bosses that there's still more of those than in DS1-3 combined.
Maybe you should play actual good games OP.
Good.
Never have, never will. Souls games are as overrated as nirvana and marvel movies
>you will never play elden ring
frick yeah feels great man. shit ass game
I wish the discourse revolving around From Software games weren't so insufferable.
Valid criticism gets dismissed for lack of skill or being called contrarian where blind, unfound praise is met with open arms.
>valid criticism
sure, half this thread is just
>"shit game lol"
Everybody knows these games have shit areas, shit bosses and some jank every time. Every soulsgay knows Lost Izalith is unfinished garbage. Youre not some paragon of intelligence for pointing these flaws out
We just choose to enjoy the great parts of these games and live with their flaws, like literally any fanbase.
>We just choose to enjoy the great parts of these games and live with their flaws, like literally any fanbase.
Fans ask devs to improve the shit parts of games, Fromgays will crucify you if you criticise a game with made by their Lord and Saviour Miyazaki, while eating them shit from 10yrs ago.
ESL
Fans ask devs to improve upon the weak parts of the game in future titles, fromtards don't. Simple enough for your 60 IQ reading comprehension?
Valid Criticism:
Rushed, half complete game. (Had to patch in quests)
Several incomplete questlines still remain.
Lazy Copy-Pasted "Chalice Dungeons"
Horrible gameplay balance, (Jumping heavys are overpowered STILL)
Mass Effect 3 tier endings.
Outside of Ranni, every other ending is half-assed.
More cut content than any of the other From Soft games combined.
Worst PvP balance in franchise, even below BB
Worst networking/invading system
Another open world aka 99% void empty land with copy pasted enemies and 1% interesting content
What ER does well is your first playthrough, the OST, the visuals, and the set building. The story is quite interesting until the halfway point where everything that isn't Ranni is left unfinished; and the dissapointment of knowing half the NPCs you meet don't have their questlines finished sour the entire game. Yes they patched in Nephelli, Gostoc, Alexanders, Diallos, and Kenneth's ending but not until several months after the game came out.
Game needed at least another year in development.
Cool post, agreed on a lot of it
Wont stop me from playing it and having fun though 🙂
>Wont stop me from playing it and having fun though 🙂
Don't tell me you unironically believe people having valid grievances in the game means others aren't allowed to enjoy things right? As much as I disliked ER, it is still a Souls game (which is a step up above most AAA garbage on the market)
No I dont, half this thread seems to think so though like these anons, who are very mature about other peoples preferences:
you gonna cry and shit your pants?
Mald you Black person homosexual israelite troony
>mald
>you Black person homosexual israelite troony
Contradictory post anon 🙂
A good few points here but
>Lazy Copy-Pasted "Chalice Dungeons"
I actually enjoyed the dungeons most have some kind of twist to separate them from the others, a much better implementation than Blood Borne's.
>Horrible gameplay balance, (Jumping heavys are overpowered STILL)
Jumping heavies are strong but require more commitment.
I agree they are strong against most mobs but with bosses, you don't have as much safe openings for them when compared to other attacks.
Like with Godfrey I could jump light attack safely but not jump heavy over his quick stomps in phase 1.
>Outside of Ranni, every other ending is half-assed.
Outside of Ranni and flame of frenzy.
>More cut content than any of the other From Soft games combined.
I don't see how cut content as a criticism differs from saying the game is incomplete.
Content being cut doesn't make a game bad on its own.
>Another open world aka 99% void empty land with copy-pasted enemies and 1% interesting content
I disagree I found most of the world to be enjoyable to explore so those percentages are more of an opinion.
>Valid Criticism
Sure some gets drowned out but there's plenty of empty criticism coming off from people who clearly just wanted a different game.
Some people acted as if ER wouldn't be working on the base DS but bigger despite being shown outright what the game was like in the network test.
Or people outright lying in saying that you need to dodge for ages when any video shows plenty of openings.
Whenever morons talk about these games having no windows to attack/attack spam enemies/shitter cope/shitter cope/etc. just make them post their gameplay. 100% of the time they just suck and cannot recognize an attack window to save their life.
Most people don’t record their gameplay.
ITT: joyless homosexuals seething
>twinblades return
>worse moveset than DS2's twinblades
why live
Dual twinblades with edgy shone anime ash of war moveset. Pair that with night cavalry armor, or black knife armor, the bandit mask, and an edgy name, face design, and the «what do you want» pose and you’re ready to invade.
haha yeah i love eating shit bro
haha hyperbole will make my non-argument better haha
>>tfw you will NEVER play Elden Ring
Correct.
Dude I hecking love Elden Ring!
Now come back here after you beat the game and have zero desire to ever replay it.
Ive replayed it 80+ times and have 600 hours.
And I will play more when the DLC comes out.
And you will still be seething
I was talking about elden ring not fricking your mom
haha xDDD
>normalgays used to post this about RDR2
Amazing to see how much this place has fallen
yeah thank god
it really feels bad, my first 50 or so hours were absolutely magical. it did drag on unfortunately, I forced myself through the last sections and I regret it
>not a single town or place with friendly people
>hub is pretty shit
>everyone dies so the hub turns into a ghost town
>no feeling of comfort coming back to the hub after a fierce battle
>Volcano Manor started to feel like this
>everyone dies or leaves
Severely disappointing.
>>not a single town or place with friendly people
Just like every From Soft "souls game"
>>hub is pretty shit
Name one (1) good Souls hub that isn't the Hunter's Dream
dies so the hub turns into a ghost town
Just like every souls game?
>>no feeling of comfort coming back to the hub after a fierce battle
lol
Manor started to feel like this
dies or leaves
par for the course
Firelink Shrine was nice and got pretty busy. It also gave that feeling of comfort during the bell-ringing phase.
This, I just wanted to join a covenant like Rykard’s or Mohg’s. Why the FRICK did they both give me an invitation to meet them just to fight me?? Why do they automatically think I’m their enemy if THEY specifically gave me an audience to meet them ? Tanith told me to go see her lord, varre gave me an invitation to meet his, did their lords not get the memo? Why does Varre invade me thinking I’m going to kill his lord when he himself gave me an audience and thinks I am just like him because I killed my fellow tarnished through invasion?
Why wouldn't they want to frick you up? They all covet the throne and your elden runes, you can't even get the invitations to meet them without killing Morgott. They know you are closest to becoming lord.
Varre literally says that its not time to meet the Luminary Mohg yet. The cult is waiting for their time, with whatever Mohg is doing to Miquella. Might just be a ruse so he can enjoy that bussy in peace though.
Are all loregays actual homosexuals
>ask question
>get answer
>complain
homosexual.
Ok actual homo
I'm just tired of soulslikes simple as.
The game did look nice though.
This would have been a great introduction to the genre. For anyone who's played the previous souls games, its too much of a rehash
You're not wrong and most souls games are actually pretty shit kinda blows my mind how they got so popular.
>point a flaw of the game
>"IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THAT"
So, you eat shit for almost 10 years and is PROUD about it?
Nah, I just dont care about the bad parts. Every game has bad parts. I enjoy the great parts that these games have and I can look past its flaws.
Like literally everyone does with things that they like, you fricking imbecile.
Sorry, Mr Dung Eater. Enjoy your lunch.
>stop having fun!
No 🙂
>I WILL keep eating shit, it's funny!
Mate stop fetish shaming everyone has their preferences its normal
Silly anon, I said fun not funny
Which these games are 🙂
Cope and seethe about it, nothing will change 🙂
>nothing will change
this pretty much sums up the flaws of fromsoftware games
it also sums up your mental illness that you cant let people enjoy them, ever.
it also sums up your mental illness that you cant let people not enjoy them, ever.
Don't forget
>lol all the criticism is disingenuous cause i say so lol
Post yfw you didn't buy or play Elden mid
I think youve posted "shit game" 6 times already anon, you dont need to hammer it home this hard.
>every dungeon or cave whatever the frick you want to call it was even worse than bloodborne chalice dungeons
>they all had the same fricking bosses and enemies
>they all looked exactly the fricking same
I enjoyed elden ring overall but you're a fricking moron if you liked this shit. Even botw shrines were better than this shit.
Maybe we should start using Elden Ring derangement syndrome. Haven't seen this kind of mindbreaking since Trump
What is it about successful games that drives Gankerirgins insane?
Dark Souls was Gankers favorite game of all time for years and anyone who denies this is just lying to themselves. Then the series got popular and popularity is bad because being contrarian is more important than arguing like an adult.
How old are you homosexuals
Jesus christ
Older than you, sadly.
I really suck at this type of ARPG so I'll never play it.
is teh elden ring shattered mod any good?
I want seamless co-op for the other games now.
Are the servers even back online?
3? Yes.
2? No
1? No
Demaster? No.
They really just said frick it huh.
Bamco higher ups want people to play ER, there is no surprise all the servers got cut a week before ER launch.
Wait, what? What's going on with the servers?
What rock are you under it must be really comfy. From's shit got hacked awhile ago and they took the servers offline to fix shit. Clearly they never fixed shit.
Their netcode is a sin. Even with optic fibre it’s still a janky mess where my hits sometimes register though I did not touch them, sometimes do not register even though I hit them, sometimes it just does whatever it wants ???
Are you moronic? They took their shit offline because it was literally a backdoor into peoples computers.
Oh yeah, was talking about the quality of their multiplayer scene. I don’t even know what you’re talking about.
>fromgays are complete morons
not surprised
Its lonely but it's warm, I suppose.
Interesting. I hadn't heard about that.
The nonstory is a huge flaw of the game and of all dark soul games. It’s not fun to experience the game again because it doesn’t have a beat or life to the story, you only play it if you want to fight a boss again or use a different build or something but the big game world doesn’t justify itself after you’ve explored it once so you quit a quarter way into limgrave because of how boring it is
>fight the same boss 5 times
>adventure
I wish my standards were this low
dude the cat statue is hecking epic I love fighting it
I mean the watch dog statue
it looks like a cat but it's a dog damn this game is deep
As opposed to fighting Kobold's in DnD or Elves and Dwarves being playable races in 80% of rpgs?
As opposed to PS1 jrpgs.
Like any of them, even mid-grade stuff like Lunar or LOD is head and shoulders above ER in terms of "ADVENTURE"
Oh you mean the jrpgs where you all stand waiting for your turn like a good boy? Let me guess: One of them is a mage, one of them is a warrior, and one of them uses ranged attacks or can summon something?
Not every jrpg waits for you to make up your mind before attacking but you wouldn't know about that.
>ignores the rest of my post
I laughed my ass off seeing the generuc jrpg warrior guy standing there on the cover of Lunar
I bet you did laugh your generuc ass off
I accept your concession
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Good one Gankerro! That’ll teach him to make fun of our jrpgs! Say, which character was your favorite? Was it the forgettable warrior, the forgettable wizard, or the forgettable thief? I loved the warrior, he was so cool when he fought 500 level 5 goblins!
What does ADVENTURE has to do with RPG character classes? Are we going to pretend that ER has more classes than Wizardy or something now? Or what was exactly your point in bringing this up?
ER has so many classes that you will never play them all, not even in 10 playthroughs. It can go from fart powered holy saxophone master to black flame bushido master to fire prelate to rotten gladiator to cracked tear suicide bomber etc
You mean like the Souls games? You are high bro
That's the point. Jesus you people are slow.
>you all stand waiting for your turn like a good boy?
Yes.
Exactly like in Elden Ring.
>t.shitter who can’t parry to create his own attack opportunities
Many such cases!
>only one way to play the game that isn't turn based despite hundreds of weapons, spells and items
Why even play?
Because learning the specific weapon and spell combination youre using is rewarding and fun.
>why even play game
To have fun moron. If youre not having fun stop playing. Its not rocket science.
>guard counter
>poise
>crouch attacking
>roll attacking
>jump attacking
>parry
You can make plenty of opportunities to take your “turn” as long as you are doing anything besides hiding on the other side of the arena and rolling away whenever the boss moves a muscle. Learn to play, maybe?
>fight 5 enemy types in total
>adventure
You stop "experiencing Elden Ring for the first time" the moment you leave Limgrave. Okay, maybe Liurnia is also fresh, but you already see recycled shit over there.
After that is just reused content after reused content. Game is a fricking slog and I really hope next FROM games are going to be smaller.
Quality > quantity.
Its the same thing every single time a FromSoft game comes out. I just know that I'll be able to re-live this wonder all over again with the next game so it's not too worrying. I had plenty of good times with the almost 300hrs I spent with ER
when it comes to videogames i have terrible memories so in a couple of months i'll forget all about it (including that i own it) and it will be like the first time again when i eventually play it
https://www.eurogamer.net/elden-ring-sales-surpass-166m-worldwide
Nice "casual filter" game you got there, fromtrannies.
Only pretenders praised From games for being difficult or hard.
Looks like pretenders are 80% of the souls community then
Correct
You have to understand that most of the people who play these games, especially every content creator on YouTube/Twitch, is absolutely dogshit and legitimately think that the games are difficult.
Otzdarva is pretty fricking good.
Only Caelid gave me this feeling and left the impression that some shit actually happened here instead of some lifeless abd abandoned place.
why is the average age of this thread 12 right now
look at yourselves
>experience that adventure and all that wonder again
That was a nice two or three hours, I’ll admit.
Not worth the 8-ish years we were waiting, though. Hugely disappointing game without much content.
Elden Ring, Myst/Riven, and Outer Wilds are the 3/4 games I wish I could erase from my memory and replay again for the first time.
>myst/riven
holy based an actual oldgay with good taste
The more I remember Elden ring the more I want a next game but with majorly overhauled combat. I want an even more apeshit bosses but give me combat to match them where I can combo my attacks without it becoming a fully slasher one. Also I’ve spend nearly 200 hours looting 90% of all loot and helping my friend do bosses. I might be moronic but the point is next time make game shorter by 20%, just cut out repeating catacombs, shit trees and bunch of other things that just there to fill the space the game is already big enough without them.
ER gameplay should have had/been more like Sekiro's. I'm still upset.
too big and boring, shouldn't have been open world. I dropped the game when I got to the capital cause I was tired of it already.
That climb to get to altus plateau with a dragon at the end was cool
>haven't played in a while
>check patch notes
>From Softwares unironically changed weapons to work differently in PvP
What happened?
They realized pvp was the worst in the series
DLC will come with an arena and the usual PvPgays will b***h and moan. Guess they must've hired someone with a brain recently, so now PvE and PvP will have separate scaling
Holy frick the finally (too late) used their fricking brains. Now, go and do it for all the other games, especially DS2, you fricking hacks.
LE HECKIN ELDERINGINO!!! SO HECKING GOOD BOYS
>shazamtrannies are so mindbroken theyre just blatantly schizoposting now
wow
What are you even talking about, you dumb fricking trash? Get a grip.
ER was my first souls game and I haven’t picked it up back up since making it to the magic school. Can’t say the combat is really my thing and since it seems like the only reward for exploring is fighting shit, I really find it hard to justify finishing the game
That's why I'm waiting for the complete edition with all the Dlc before playing it.
Can't wait until Elden Ring wins GOTY.
ill never play it for a second time either because the game is a fricking slog
open world was a mistake, completely raped the replay value
I don't really have a problem with the open world, but I absolutely hate that we always have to start the game from Limgrave, I'd love an option to start from a random location of the map, I think that would add a lot more replay value.
There's no dynamic scaling for the game's content so there's really no other way to do it, same thing as all other FROM games, and really most games in general.
The only games that allow you to start in different parts of the world are those that have some sort of adjustment for the world's content, which would be a great thing for ER but considering the kind of game it is it would have taken years and years to create on top of just coming up with the basic content.
>think about replaying elden ring
>remember the gameplay is just ds3 but even worse because enemies read inputs
why did I buy this shit
Except its better because it has far more flexibility, movement, options and builds.
Dark "R1 Spam is the only move" Souls 3 is overrated linear ugly dogshit.
Literally just bought elden bling
What am I in for silly goy toys?
Boredom and the nagging feeling you're not playing correctly
Fun and a nagging feeling of superiority over others
Fun and engaging adventuring if youre not a zoomer homosexual who looks up guides.
Literally just play the game. Dont look up guides, dont look up how to optimize your shit. Learn and have fun.
jokes on you, I was on drugs the whole time so I don't remember a god damn thing.
>open that one chest that teleports you into the bugmen mine
>didn't know you can teleport at that point
>spent hours trying to get out of the mine
>felt like the first hours of Dark Souls 1
>finaly managed to get out just to be stuck hours in the poison swamp
>final notice there's a map and you can teleport
maybe I should have followed the tutorial but that expierence was kino.
There's also only three traps in the whole game and they're all in the first 5 hours of gameplay
Miquella is literally located in an endgame dungeon what are you talking about?
>didn't know you can teleport at that point
Pretty sure your teleport is locked until you find a grace outside of the mine, so it didn't make a difference.
yea could be also if you died you respawned still in the mine competely fricked me over and I did not have the horse.
Woops, looks like you fell for the open world mene
No at that point the magic was still there, shame it was gone the moment you notice, you can just ride past everything. Literally killed the magic of the openworld.
you literally can't teleport out of the mine until you rest at a grace
Yep gave that same feeling as descending deep into blighttown, knowing that your completely on your own in some fricked up place but you have to press on
same and i found that chest within 2 minutes of leaving the tutorial building because i went to the first ruin i saw to warm up. i didnt even have the horse and had to run through the swamp and all the way back to limgrave. figured out i could teleport when i got back. i was running on foot from those big birds and it was crazy
pretty funny tbh
This but with Demon's Souls. Your first time with any of the souls games is fricking magical, after that it's just a "hey, this is bretty good" for the rest of the games you play in the series. Kinda like sexo but with vidya
>play elden ring
>fight margit, he's pretty cool
>fight godrick, he's okay
>almost every boss after that is a copypasted dragon or tree guardian, or a regular enemy that has been turned into a 'boss'
>almost every dungeon has the same copypasted assets
>you just use the same 3 attacks the rest of the game because fromsoft can't into innovation
The first 10-ish hours were pretty fun, but holy shit do I not want to bother with dark souls again. Fromsoft doesn't seem to want to make anything remotely different from the other entries and this open world shit just makes the repetitive nature of the series infinitely worse
Sekiro was legitimately a nice change of pace. I hope their done with the souls formula and try to branch out
>elden ring was their most successful game ever
If you thought dark souls was a disease buckle up
People can not like things, Elden Ring shills.
Sure, people can also like things, anon who criticizes things by saying stuff like this:
You sure like quoting people to prove your point, huh? Let me do the same, Shill-sama:
>12 year olds spam "lmao xd shit game"
>respond the same
>haha gotchu, no criticism allowed huh? :')
Cringe.
>i-it's not the same!
Copy paste was not on the Shazam list. Nothing on the Shazam list was why ER is mediocre, at best. Don't give those Shazamgays that much credit.
I will never play it a first time, actually.
Imagine the shitstorm if God of War Ragnarok wins the GOTY award bros...
Nobody would care because goty hasn't mattered in a decade?
omega cope
Get a life, you're stuck in 2012
This board was unusable the day ER review embargos were lifted. If ER wins GOTY at the Dorito Awards expect a repeat
>Mentally ill people spam about goty
Legitimately at this point it has to be shitskins. Goty hasn't been relevant since console wars and that was a decade ago
theres always an endless supply of 80IQ children who care about console wars anon. PS5 and Xbone are no different.
Yeah they're called Black folk and spics
only poor people still care about console games
>This board was unusable the day ER review embargos were lifted.
This board is unusable on a daily basis.
If ER wins GOTY I'll just have a good laugh because shazamtroons and soulscucks will have an even bigger meltdown.
Why would there be a shitstorm? This year is absolute garbage for games, ER and GoW are the only 2 candidates
This, pretty much everything that has been released so far has been "meh" or downright broken/bad and I'm not holding out hope for the rest of the year. This is the year that has proven to a lot of people that AAA vidya is nothing but a shitty time and moneysink for people with more money than brains since the only decent releases we've had this year has been indie shit and ERm which says more about the industry than it says about the games
How in the frick did you leave the hub area then?
I'm sure all 14 viewers of the Game of the Year Awards will be up in arms...
>Caring about whoever wins GOY OF THE YEAR
Pic related was GOTY 2014, fricking Tales of Arise won the RPG section and that game is an abomination of Dark Souls, God Eater and Code Vein assets that doesn't even play like the rest of the series.
>you will NEVER play Elden Ring
Yes.
It was a great first playthrough for sure. GOTY no doubt, but also top 3 from soft title. No games perfect, but Elden Ring is really top shelf stuff, no question. The only way one could disagree is either not liking games at all or having brain damage levels of shit taste.
It's in my bottom 3 above the Dark Souls sequels.
>The only way one could disagree is either not liking games at all or having brain damage levels of shit taste.
Sorry to hear that bro. Hopefully you're fulfilled by other parts of your life?
Fallout 3 and Skyrim are two of my favourite games and yet I can't even be bothered to torrent this game, that's how shit and underwhelming it looks
seethe
i sure hope i don't buy a game this shitty again
>300 posts
>120 posters
>endless copy pasted "shit game" one sentence posts
Hmmm
Elden Ring is a 6/10
Objectively Elden Ring is a 6/10 at best but when compared to the other games in the From Software "Souls" umbrella it is easily a 4/10.
True but I'm gonna try anyway. It was overwhelming the first time but lately I'm getting the itch to play again.
I started noticing red flags even during Limgrave when:
>90% of drops I was getting from exploration were garbage, a 180 from dark souls when they were usually good
>die in 2-3 hits to most enemies for no reason
>jumping attacks are clearly OP
>game expects you to heavily pump stats or exploit weaknesses if you don't want to do chip damage
>game seems balanced around ashes for some reason
>too easy to flee from encounters/teleport anywhere which makes the open world redundant
Yeah the exploration loot is and insult
>Oh wow x1 moss
>Purple glow on corpse that had to you to fight 50 Revenants to get to
Everything you mentioned outside of jumping attacks applies to Souls games.
No they aren't. And the drops you get in Souls games are laid out pretty much on your path through the game. You turn a corner and pick up an item you don't need it's no big deal. You spend 20 minutes doing catacomb #12 in some bum frick corner of an empty open world you spent 15 minutes getting to, and it's another item you dont need it pisses you off.
>No they aren't.
You clearly haven't played any Souls game then since 90% of the item pickups have always been useless fodder, which is something carried straight from King's Field too for the records, let's not pretend you can't run through enemies in Souls games either.
>the drops you get in Souls games are laid out pretty much on your path
Ok so you like brainless linear corridors.
>and it's another item you dont need it pisses you off.
Same exact thing as Souls, why are you "people" trying to correct the records so hard?
It's honestly embarassing.
I'm not wasting my time with repetitive filler content only to get an item I don't need more often than not in Dark Souls. So no I don't get upset when a soul spear is in a corner of a level that I don't need because i'm there to do the level. But the catacombs instead are all about the reward at the end of them.
Sounds like the problem is in your head then. Don't do the content you dislike doing, why are you even concerned with loot in a Souls game, it's not an MMO. I wish I could skip the levels I dislike in Souls games but it doesn't even give me an option to do so.
>Here's a problem..
>Backpedals, deflects, blames me.."just dont play it"
DONE. I'm not playing this shitty game.
>obsessed with looting like some kind of MMO-conditioned zoomer
>refuses to take advantage of the open world and do only things he enjoys
>needs to the game to handhold him from one piece of loot to another
>cries in confusion when he does things he dislikes because of MMO-induced FOMO
>blames the game for his inability to enjoy things without carrot on a stick
Yeah, we're done here.
>Don't find any of my current weapons/spells fun
>Don't like the armour my character is wearing
>Having to go cave/mining hunting hoping that one of them drops something I'll like
>Or have to grind mobs like a fricking MMO for an enemy to drop their armour/weapon
So just like Dark Souls only you don't get to choose to go into caves to find loot. What's that, you want a black knight armor set? Well you can't even farm for it, just get to the literally last boss to get it right before you end the game.
Difference is DS isn't an 100hr open world game with repetitive caves and mines moron
Yeah, it's a five hours open world game forcefully stretched among 30 hours of repetitive linear corridors.
Wrong again moron.
Oh right, I'm sorry, it's a three hours unfinished open world game.
It's pretty easy though, always has been.
It's just that 90% of morons try to play it like a Souls game and get rightfully fodderized for being morons.
You just enjoy being wrong huh newbie
I've been browsing this shithole and playing FROM's games before you were even a vague idea in your dad's nutsack, son.
Sure champ, whatever you say
That's right, so the precious loot you pick up at the end of the game will be good for an hour at best. I sure loved doing my Artorias build where I had to go to fricking Anor Londo to even have a chance to create the weapon I wanted to play with (while investing precious titanite into a broken sword I wasn't even using for my gameplay), and then it was good for just the remaining six hours of the game. Now that's itemization done right.
This is a thing in every From game. The difference that you don't need to play 100hrs grinding caves/mines in hopes that you find something you like.
Getting to Anor Londo is a fricking joke compared to getting to Farum to kill Maliketh and start a Death build when the game is like 2-3 boss fights from being over
>100 hrs grinding caves hoping
Just go to the cave that has the item you want and get it? What the frick are you talking about
And if the cave I need to go to in the Moutaintops, that's like long fricking trek just for 1 item.
Knowing which caves are worth your time is not a problem on subsequent playthroughs when you've already succumbed to using wikis, but for a first playthrough it was fricking awful.
You most certainly do on your first playthrough if you're looking for something fun or don't use a wiki
The Artorias build example was used originally, first playthroughs are irrelevant in discussion. How the frick would anyone know to upgrade a broken straight sword to ascend it on their first play through? You can get to Mountaintops in a few hours easily, just kill Morgott ffs.
Making your Artorias build is still much quicker than running through the open world from boss to boss, whilst getting almost no upgrade mats or runes to level up.
Because I was looking for a fun weapon or some cool armour you idiot. Customisation is half the fun in these fricking games and you know it.
You’re an autist. No, I never looked up weapons and armor before I finished my first play through, I just played the game and used the cool stuff I found.
>dude I found this cool sword on the wiki, but apparently I have to kill Gwyn and use his soul to get it??? WTF!!!! I have to go through the whole game to get it?!!
>Making your Artorias build is still much quicker
It's not quicker relative to the game's overall length and making the build is not the same as playing it.
Why are you worried about what caves are and aren’t good are your first play though? Did the thought ever cross your mind that you should just play the game? You need to plan out a build for a game you’re playing for the first time? What’s wrong with you?
What are "fun" things for you and which cave do you find them in? Come on, give a few examples. And naturally if you target specific items it's not your first playthrough and you are using a wiki.
I wasn't targeting anything you idiot, why do you think I was grinding caves? Ironically my favourite weapon was the Banished Knight GS because it had the Mirrah GS movement. Only reason I even found it was because some anon posted a webm of him using it. And only the way to get it was to farm mobs like I was playing a fricking MMO. Second favourite weapon was Eleonora's Twinblade, since I managed to stumble my way through Yura's quest. All that fricking time wasted grinding caves, all because From is still making players grind mobs, dumb shit moronic devs.
Yes it is. Anor Londo's equivalent in ER would be Leyndell. You finished your Artorias build with half the game left. I finish my Death build with 10% of the game left.
>You finished your Artorias build with half the game left.
Only I also had to farm titanite, clear O&S and half the DLC right after that at the earliest, which I had to get out of my way to do. And as I said, it still leaves less than ten hours of gameplay before I finish the game and put it down. If we assume you're coming in just as prepared for that Death build, you could get it done before you even touch some of the areas as well, and this is a pre-DLC game. You have more hours left playing the game and enjoying your build.
Yeah I have more time to enjoy my build because ER is naturally a bigger game. At the same time it takes me much longer to to Farum, then I have to grind levels, get bell bearings or grind upgrade mats. Then I also have to pray that whatever armour I choose to use doesn't come from random mob drops.
>you don't need to play 100hrs grinding caves/mines in hopes that you find something you like.
You don't have to do that in Elden Ring either.
No gayshit i'm not "obsessed" with collecting loot I'm correcting an issue that you wanna pretend is no real issue at all. Acting like it's the same thing with all the souls games. If, for example, you're in Sens Fortress picking up an item you don't need. I'm not in Sens Fortress to pick up loot with the goal of getting a reward at the end. There aren't 35+ different Sens Fortresses' that all look and play the same. It's not my fault the game is mostly repetitive filler content. Don't blame me I didn't make the fricking game. If all these catacombs were just good levels in and of themselves I would do them for the fun of the exploration and challenge. But they aren't. Their only worth is just the reward at the end of them so when it's 90% worthless it's a waste of time and a big problem that doesn't get handwaved away with "lul just dont do it."
>I'm not in Sen's Fortress to pick up loot
>I'm not in ER catacombs to pick up loot
Well that was easy, all I had to do was not have loot-chasing mindset. And the best thing about it, Sen's Fortress takes as much time to complete as a regular catacomb in Elden Ring. Given the opportunity you'd skip Sen's Fortress on every consecutive runs, you just don't have the opportunity to do so. Now why are you acting like you're obligated to complete catacombs? Give me a reason.
What are you in the catacombs for if it's not to get loot? Their samey repetitive level design? Their combat you can do anywhere else? Difference being you aren't in Sens Fortress to get loot. If you're in catacomb #27 for any other reason your brain is atrophied and you probably aren't all there. Which I wouldn't blame you after like 65 hours of this game.
>"Just dont do it"
Yeah DONE. Like i am with this shit game.
>What are you in the catacombs for if it's not to get loot?
Exploration. Yeah, I know, who does that in Souls game? It's all about da phat l00tz these days.
>Difference being you aren't in Sens Fortress to get loot.
I'm in Sen's Fortress because I can't NOT be in Sen's Fortress. And I've been through it more than 27 times over the years, and it's been the same place every single time. That's not a problem and never was. Now tell me why are YOU in the catacombs if you don't like them, moron? As I said, FOMO, MMO-brain rot and constant need to grab more loot.
>Exploration
What exploration? You've seen it all before how many times now?
>Now tell me why are YOU in the catacombs if you don't like them, moron?
Why am i playing this game if I don't like it? Good question! I'm not. Wow what a concept. Get mad about that and keep making excuses for your precious elden shit flawless game
>You've seen it all before how many times now?
Just like Dark Souls in my hundreds of hours playing it. Guess what, it's just as fun as it was the first time, something your loot goblin brain can't process.
>I'm not.
But you still care about it passionately if we're having these kind of conversations here and that's what matters. Have fun with it living in your head rent-free.
>What exploration? You've seen it all before how many times now?
man you homosexuals trying to pretend the optional mini dungeons are all "copy pasted" better not ever play BoTW, you'd think the shrines are all copy pasted because they use repeating assets to create increasingly more complex puzzles.
Really the purpose of all the mini-dungeons is that they each have specific types of items and materials but mainly it's a good way for some runs when you need to level up, because they bosses given decent amounts for the area. You can skip all the mini-dungeons and do fine, I've seen streamers do this on accident. You go into them either for something specific (like smithing stones in mines) or you go in for the runes. The potential drops or hidden chests are a bonus. The game teaches you pretty quick what the different dungeon types are for:
>catabombs are for spirit ashes and their upgrades, nothing more, can be ignored if you don't summon, but sometimes there's hidden loot.
>caves are for loot. You'll likely find something in addition to getting a good drop from the boss.
>mines are for stones, however the bosses usually have loot, so they're still better than catacombs
>the rarer hero tombs have lots of great drops, usually hard to find full armor sets, and rarely give spirit ashes but only in addition to other things. They're more challenging than the other mini dungeons.
>there are additional repeated things which similarly are repeated so you know where to go for a specific type of item, like the Rises giving memory stones, or ruins having a basement door, or flooded ruins having a mariner, and of course the artist's shacks.
And all of these replace the bloodborne chalice dungeons in their function as an optional place for grinding, while being intentionally constructed rather than randomly generated, which means they can be mazes and have puzzles that both get more complex as you go through the game.
Also all the desperate homosexuals who keep complaining they're copy pasted, they're not only optional but make up only 20% of the game's content. You can get plenty of loot and runes just exploring the open world between actual dungeons, but if you need something specific or want a quick level from a boss fight, that's what they're for.
This is why ER is fantastic replay without slogging through big early areas like the first half of DS1, it gives you the freedom to do whatever.
You can easily just go to the main dungeon and a few key side dungeons where you need to grab weapons, spells, talimans, fashion etc relevant to your build plus seeds, tears, and upgrade stones and you're set to beat Godrick in the first 3-4 hours of the game.
Compare to 30 hours that on my first run where I explored a bunch before doing Stormveil.
Jesus Christ you’re stupid.
>just don’t play the game you bought for 60 €
this is the worst fricking rebuttal
>If I bought the game I HAVE to 100% it and do every bit of content even if I hate it and it's the game's fault!
You've never played a video game in your life.
I just expect to get worthwile content with 60 €.
It has 4x the worthwhile content of any other Souls game so it was worth the price. And my advice to you lad is pirate the game if you're not sure you're gonna like it, or at least wait for your trusted sources to tell you about its content. Nobody but suckers buys $60 games blind.
I don’t regret buying and playing ER, although I was disappointed with it. I’d say it’s got about 50 hours of good or even great content and another 60 of mediocre and sometimes even bad content. This, at least for me, results in a much less satisfying experience compared to say 25 hours of solid content.
>I'm not wasting my time with repetitive filler content only to get an item I don't need more often than not in Dark Souls.
Pretty sure you do, especially in something like DS3 since it's fully linear, meanwhile you can skip 90% of ER if you so desire.
By the way here's all of the Great Hollow map pickups, riveting stuff innit? Totally not useless garbage outside of a single Cloranthy Ring.
>But the catacombs instead are all about the reward at the end of them.
in 90% of the cases you get better stuff out of the pickups near the entrance instead of the boss fights at the end, but sure, whatever you say anon.
It's Dark Souls 1, I'm doing a quality claymore build (currently at 20/20 with a +5 weapon) with no magic and I'm going into Blighttown from Depths. Please highlight the items I can pick up there that will be useful for my build.
Your goal isn't to get loot in Dark Souls. You're going through the depths to get to blighttown. Making your way through the level to the end is its own reward. Your only goal for these catacombs is loot. That's the reward at the end. It's not a waste of time to get through the Depths because i'm naturally progressing through the game. There aren't 50 Depths in DS1 that all look and play the same. How do you not understand the difference? ER gays I swear to god are fricking stupid.
>Your only goal for these catacombs is loot.
No, that's YOUR only goal. My goal is to explore and exploration is its own reward. I'm sorry you can't have fun in video games anymore if there's no shiny carrot dangling in front of your face.
>There aren't 50 Depths in DS1 that all look and play the same.
So you're saying you've only played Dark Souls once? Did you uninstall the game as soon as you realized the zones are all the same the second time?
>I'm having fun "exploring" this randomly generated catacomb
Then like I said your brain is atrophied and probably goop after 65 hours of elden shit
>they're all the same but they're also randomly generated
Stop anon you're embarrassing yourself. Read the shitposting instructions on your discord server again.
I'm gonna say it, dark souls 2 gays are mentally ill
Low IQ
>See Item being guarded by a big strong enemy
>Clear entire camp to get item.
High IQ
>See Item being guarded by a big strong enemy
>Ride horsey and grab item without fighting anyone
Ascended level IQ
>Ignore 10/10 fotm goyslop
>for the first time
problem is the first time seems like enough
don't get me wrong, I had a fricking blast, I put a LOT of time in when it came out, it was addicting. I went and found all the legendary whatevers, did all the bosses, only missing achievements for standard and chaos endings. Then I started NG+ and got back to haligtree again and kinda lost steam and haven't played since
I'm not even sure what I want to do when the DLC comes out... having not played in several months, and knowing from past souls DLCs, I probably don't want to go in in NG+ mode to the DLC because I'll get btfo hard, on the other hand, contrary to every past souls game, ER is the one where I'm most hesitant to do a new character altogether because the early game is so... slow... I did a lot of mogh palace cliffside grinding in NG+ so I could get a lot of carry weight and other stats up so I could try a bunch of different things, and I like being able to play with alternate stuff (first runthrough did a pretty boring and safe quality build basically maining bloodhound fang and nightrider flail) which I was having lots of fun with in ng+ early areas. From being able to actually fashion souls and not need to constantly hardswap and being able to try out a bunch of other random weapons (why the frick do so many swords n shit have such high int reqs wtf), I really don't want to go back to streamlined boring efficiency (probably just bhf and flail again) because soul gain is so damn slow in early game and everything has such high split stat reqs and you actually want vig...
idk. I *want* to play the dlc, but I don't want to do a new char because of the slow ass early game, and I don't want to use my existing ng+ because ng+ dlc scaling in fs games is kinda whack and I'm rusty
wish I could send my ng+ dude back to ng0
The game has been forever ruined by From Soft/Bamco meddling with "speed running" strats because they want to force players to take the designated path in AN OPEN WORLD game.
None of the skips were gamebreaking, once the DLC comes out I'm using Grand Merchant and going to just shit on it
yeah... that's one thing I'm vaugely considering doing, just making some 'hacked starter' save to use when the DLC comes out, basically just have all the stats at levels that I can use everything... the main problem with that is specific gear that isn't available till late game... I guess I *could* also just add those in but then at that point it's almost like recreating my ng+ guy with merchant all consumables, talismans, double powerstanced 'once per ng loop' upgraded weapons etc... which also seems excessive and completely kills pacing and any motivation to explore at all...
what skips are ya talkin about? most I know about speed running 'nerfs' was hoarfrost stomp which tbh I didn't really notice that much (I *did* have hoarfrost stomp on my nightrider flail for most of the game), I think it happened by the time I was in ng+ (the nerf) but based on the way I actually used that WA (to create openings in melee combat with how it staggered; versus... just spamming things to death with it) I didn't really notice much of a difference
-wrong warps
-pegasus
-radahn + snowfield stake skips
-gideon skip
-ordina skip
-Leyndell Capital Skip
-Jump on Volcano Manor bridge to get Somber +7
>Jump on Volcano Manor bridge to get Somber +7
The jump is still possible IIRC just much harder now.
No, it is impossible.
>wrong warps
ok I know a bit about what those are, never did them myself; no clue what any of the others are
I guess I hadn't been following ER youtube much since I stopped playing, mostly what I knew about was some kind of quitting while you're falling through the air and loading up in farum azula and then just spamming hoarfrost stomp on maliketh and elden beast or something like that.
that stuff doesn't bother me that much, never used it, don't have any plans on using it
on a moderately related note; is it true that they nerfed the shit out of a lot of WAs because of pvp and summons for... other reasons (guessing speedrunners make them look bad for the whole 'souls hard' image) and the game is much much much sweatier now? (as mentioned earlier haven't actually played since 1.03, and didn't play much *in* 1.03, just part of an ng+ run... didn't even go back to farum azula yet, but did kill fire giant, got to haligtree, and had killed mogh again. I think the last things I was messing with were... radagon's hammer and the longhorn. oh yeah and powerstance damage racing mogh with dual bh fangs while facetanking his nihil and winning
PvP and PvE have different balancing now.
Colossal Weapons have been buffed to absurdity in PvE.
I did hear about that, but was all the *fun stuff* nerfed into the ground before they decided to split balancing?
like I remember not trying out sonaf until ng+ (because I didn't have the int in first run until I did heavy farming in ng+ so I could play with more things) and then was like wow this is fricking dogshit, and then saw that apparently it was nerfed useless
I do vaguely recall that in 1.03 anyways, in ng+ when I decided to finally try moonveil and RoB even if they allegedly had been nerfed they still seemed pretty frickin OP though
>but was all the *fun stuff* nerfed into the ground before they decided to split balancing?
unfortunately, yes
Wrong Warp is still working, just way too finicky.
>told myself I would play it when the time is right because backlog
>brother tells me to buy it so we can play it together and he will give me back the money
>get excited, buy it, play it, enjoying it a lot, did some bosses, learnin how to play it, but then...>
>brother never gives me back the money, but whatever
>we never play it
>play it with other friend for a while
>he gets butthurt that he gets depowered when playing with someone
>in the end he just plays it by himself
>Bro wants to play some free2play game
>Pc breaks
>brother suddenly "available"
>get my PC back, he is not available anymore
>haven't continued it since April
>uninstalled it yesterday
They killed my enjoyment.
Joke's on you OP drinking and passive lifestyle has destroyed my memory and I don't remember most of anything I play/watch/read
Elden Ring is to Souls as to Skyrim is to Elder Scrolls.
go back to bed todd
I beat it, then put it aside for a few months, just picked it up again for a new build. I forgot where a bunch of things are and am gonna try to complete a couple sidequests I missed the 1st time
>the feeling of wonder
Completely evaporated when I went into two "dungeons" and saw the copy and pasted assets. I don't remember Skyrim being that egregious.
My first 150 hours playthrough was the worst, I'm enjoying the game more and more as I play it multiple times.
First run burned me out due to the infinite reuse of assets like catacombs, mines, memory talismans' towers and so on. Killer my sense of wonder.
Now I'm enjoying it for what it is, skipping 80% of the content in every run and using mines and catacombs when I need to collect the right items for upgrades.
I will never understand this board
good
FROM is popular "now" so vee must be against it, "we" only like niche, hardcore gaymes for mature gaymers such as ourselves and FROM has betrayed us and sold out.
Armored Core? Never heard of it.
I never played Armored Core but if people don't know about it I pledge my life to give it 10/10 at all times.
There's one homosexual shill here that shills games like Cyberpunk and Elden Ring for... get this ATTENTION! He's so narcissistic and attention starved he will spend his entire day here pretending to like bad games
first time going underground was great. i was running for my life from giant bears then boom, blackreach
>seeing places far in the distance
>going to those locations after wandering aimlessly
>never looked at spoilers or the full map or anything
Enjoying something on a blind playthrough is the best. Bring back my stomp also.
Can't wait for the next soul game and see the meltdown on Ganker.
I summoned Bernahl for the Dogskin Duo fight, d-did I beat the game, Gankerros?
The godskin duo fight is absolute bullshit.
Especially during the first three patches.
just focus skinny for most of the fight
fatty has that really annoying long roll attack that he does when he's low hp or whatever which basically requires full attention to not get hit by
also kite them around the pillars
>stoned for the entirety of my 80 odd hour playthrough
>will get to enjoy it like new all over again at some point
Just did this with my second Cyberpunk playthrough, shit was cash.
the only reason you enjoyed it the first time was because you were high
this sounds like a really sad last ditch effort by
Elden ring is proof that fromsoft is now soulless
>ywn get another game like demon's souls, which dared to be strange and unique while also being high fidelity for the time
>ywn get another game like dark souls, which objectively improves on DeS in most ways
>ywn get another bloodborne, a game which took the DS formula and added a bit of cosmic horror kino and changed up the core systems
>ywn get another sekino, which took the DS formula and adapted it into an actual reaction based action game
Instead you get elden ring, which is dark souls but open world with copy paste shit everywhere, boring bosses, boring builds, crafting, etc.
you're not interesting.
Edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger!
you can make shit up about a game you never played but it won't make it less popular. Sorry you're threatened by popular things being popular.
>you can make shit up about a game you never playe- ACK!
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>Sorry you get threatened by popular things being popular
I can’t parse what kind of brainrotten leddit troon one has to be in order to type this sentence and think it’s an effective comeback.
And I’m not that anon, but he’s exactly right. The game is visually beautiful (unlike (You)), but every other aspect is a downgrade from previous From titles.
>but every other aspect is a downgrade from previous From titles.
Factually wrong.
Also which titles are you referring at? Surely you do not believe FROM didn't exist before DeS.
it's funny how Dark Souls became a smash hit by purposefully going against common design trends of the time, but Elden Ring is now a massive success by following them to a tee (going open-world)
quite a sad thing
Souls games were already open world since you were free to tackle areas in many orders.
ER just scaled it up and added x3 more content in terms of unique bosses and enemies than any other souls game.
>which objectively improves on DeS in most ways
Stopped reading there. You're not fooling anybody, Dark Souls is to Demon's Souls what Elden Ring is to Dark Souls.
It’s funny you say that because in actual reality, troons are the ones defending this shit the hardest.
>Wasting 100 hours of your life riding a round the map "exploring" the same copy pasted caves and mines.
Open world was a mistake.
>he said it again
Truth hurts.
I havent played it for the first time and im doing ok
Thank frick because I was really bored from the start.
>Gee I wonder which of the 3-4 copy pasted dungeon layouts is down there!
>Seeing anons post screenshots of cool shit they found for the first couple weeks
It was so comfy. I miss it.
>playing a sorcerer
>really want a pointy wizard hat
>try to get an idea of where to get one without being spoiled by online stuff
>snow witch set from a quest? Ok I'll check back when I'm further in the game, that seems to be a mid game area
>turns out liurnia isn't mid game, it's still early game
>turns out getting to the tower to start the quest took more work than I thought
>quest keeps going on, doesn't seem to be ending, I thought it was a quick thing? Now I'm in Caelid trying to get to what everyone is saying is the hardest boss in the game?
>beat Radahn, quest goes in another direction
>check online because maybe I missed where you get the outfit
>video for the quest is 30 minutes long and the guy is speeding it up to show routes
>the parts I finished were just the first few minutes
>skip ahead
>see glimpses of areas so alien I never expected them in the game
>glimpse nokron, the rot lake, close the video quick
>the game's fricking huge
I just wanted a pointy hat.
Did you ever get your pointy wizard hard, anon? I hope so 🙁
Honestly the most fun by far I had in this game was replaying the Limgrave low level mob fights over and over. I probably did the one with the giants and wandering nobles in a caravan at least 500 times. The Misbegotten courtyard fight at castle Morne, too. It’s fun to make weird builds and test them against these mongrels. I think of it as a sandbox game rather than comparing it to Souls games and my butthurt goes away.
Lighten up you seething gays, it’s just a bideo gayme.
Still on my first playthrough that has lasted at least 4 months by now because I can't stand to bring myself to play Eldogshit. Only not uninstalled because I promised a friend to play it to the end.
pretty sure after 4 months your friends has stopped caring about you finishing it
it hurts
all that shows me is that das2 doesn't have properly rooted animations which makes him look like he's gliding across the ground lol
thats what elden ring looks like
Frick off.
Elden Ring? more like Elden Nigr
hehehehe
i'd rather play dark souls for the first time
Game had everything I want from a video game
-fantasy setting
-exploration
-character building
-loot slot machine reward system
-no overbearing story
- sexy females / manly men
It was like playing an action rpg /roguelike but done by a big studio. Can't really ask for more.
first time i played the game i installed a trainer and one shot all the bosses
ACK!
That's fine. DLC will come out and I'll probably have to replay some of it. By then I'll have forgotten a lot of the game.
another day, another thread where you post this bullshot garbage using a camera mod to make the game look better than it does
ah yes, red gray, green gray, blue gray, yellow gray, gray gray
FROM's art direction and composition is unparalleled.
Many games have started injecting color after the bloom/brown/grey games of gen7, but they're really overdoing it and end up being the other extreme and being hard on the eyes.
>FROM's art direction and composition
>composition
lol
>spends his life seething in threads about a game he hates
Yes, it takes more effort and talent to craft a composition that looks that good from a fully utilitarian gameplay perspective. Giving a player your vision is easier than giving the player the tools to utilize his own vision to the same effect.
SotC has god tier artistry though? What they did with that game is NOT industry standard and never has been.
Beating Godfrey/Hoarah Loux as a pure caster?
I'm struggling.
Struggling how? Stay far and shoot him, his attacks are pretty easy to dodge when you're not attacking in melee range.
Just finished my second playthrough of Elden Ring. It’s still the best game I’ve ever played and no amount of seething replies will change my mind.
how many games have you played and how old are you? be honest
not him but i feel the same way and am 33
guess there's just no helping some people
im decent at the combat so i actually liked going to the dungeons just for the sake of fighting the boss, if the item i got was one that fit my build i was happy if not I at least enjoyed thinking about what kind of build would use it and maybe respeccing for it.
sorry you had such a frustrating time you couldnt enjoy yourself.
No, but I can do seamless hard mode coop with my friends and live vicariously through them
>opens fextralife
Never did.
I'm more than 500 hours in. Love this shit. Beaten the game multiple times, on NG+7 now. Can beat all bosses solo with nonbleed melee builds, have done a hitless Radagon and 1st phase Malenia, which was immensely satisfying.
Not my favorite combat of From games (that's Sekiro), but the game is damn good. Frick Death Rite Birds though. Doublefrick them.
>inb4 malding at Consecrated Snowfield Death Bird
QUADRUPLE FRICK THAT AWFUL THING!!!!
you will still have the opportunity when dlc comes out. if you didn't play the regular game spoiler free (you looked at the wiki for example) then you should try playing the dlc as blind as possible for a better experience this time around.
Good game. Not the best one though.
Waiting for DLC to come back.
>First 20 hours
>holy shiieeet this is amazing
>what a beautiful world, full of strange creatures to see
>first 50 hours
>holy shieet this game is amazing, but why are there no NPCs/storylines/quests
>oh wait, so I have to look up the wiki to follow quests? Why haven't I seen hardly any npcs so far at all?
>200 hours
>still a good game but dissapointing lack of followable quests, dialogues etc
it's actually very empty in most ways, but the beauty of the world makes up for that in a lot of way. Somewhat dissapointing experience in some ways though. Thought from might change their formula for once, but no.
You hit the nail in the head, my friend.
>>oh wait, so I have to look up the wiki to follow quests? Why haven't I seen hardly any npcs so far at all?
>Oh wait, you mean I have to pay attention and explore?
Ftfy
Nah, the world is really barren and some of the quests are almost impossible to complete without a guide.
>Pick up new plant
>Oh I wonder what that is for
>Oh nothing useful
>Repeat 100 times