Yeah, a swordsman dressed in blue sealed the Outer God (alien) of Rot under the eternal cities, but it spawned mini bug aliens to worship it and they've helped spread it's rot, along with Malenia who was cursed by the god on birth to be it's Champion
It's the exact same with Bloodborne. >Pthumeru > Old Yharnam > Yarhnam
Even in Dark Souls there's elements of such a thing, with Blighttown (though that's a case of the civilization above forcing people down)
It all draws heavily from Lovecraft obviously, but in particular a relatively little known story (who's name entirely escapes me) but basically it's an entire hidden civilization under a native american burial mound of advanced Indians, they themselves built an entire civlization in a titanic cave deep in the earth, the second layer of which is home to reptilian frog like people (like those from Ib) and THEY built a city on top of a horrifying, entirely pitch black nightmare realm filled with shoggoths and other spooky shit
Miyazaki been unoriginal with copying Lovecraft sience Kings Field
2 years ago
Anonymous
im okay with people taking inspiration. There's nothing wrong with it as long as it elevates the experience. Not many people in this world have a mind for creating something truly original.
2 years ago
Anonymous
And who's managed this great feat of original copying? Care to name a few?
2 years ago
Anonymous
good point
2 years ago
Anonymous
Lovecraft himself copied the stuff from his own mental illness. That counts as both copying and being original, doesn't it?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>That counts as both copying and being original, doesn't it?
Nah, that's plain cheating. Giger did it too.
You’re probably thinking of The Mound, with the Kn-Yan and their massive gold statues of Cthulhu and friends. Pretty sure there’s also a legend that claims Death Valley out in cali used to be lush and prosperous until a princess cursed it, but the civilization itself is now just underground. Manson wanted to wait out the race war there.
I assume you mean the ruins on the other side of the gap in that screenshot and not just the underground in general?
There's 2 ways to reach it, the early way is by doing Varre's quest and the other is a teleporter near one of the cliffs on the western side of consecrated snowfield.
If by "winter area" you mean the mountaintop of giants, you get to consecrated snowfield from there using items from an optional boss in a fort in MoG and an npc in Liurnia, iirc she's in a cave along the southern part of the zone
Yeah, a swordsman dressed in blue sealed the Outer God (alien) of Rot under the eternal cities, but it spawned mini bug aliens to worship it and they've helped spread it's rot, along with Malenia who was cursed by the god on birth to be it's Champion
Wrong. Caelid is rotting due to Malenia blooming to break the stalemate between her and Radahn. The rot god is only leaking in the Lake of Rot, not Caelid.
>it's a stalemate?
Only because of the bloom, she didn't "break the stalemate" with it as this homosexual
[...]
Wrong. Caelid is rotting due to Malenia blooming to break the stalemate between her and Radahn. The rot god is only leaking in the Lake of Rot, not Caelid.
says, instead she only was able to achieve said stalemate by nuking everything and ruining Caelid forever.
nice job omitting my post, you coping "homosexual". here, have a copy paste: >The Battle of Aeonia >Radahn and Malenia locked in stalemate >Then, the scarlet rot blooms
2 years ago
Anonymous
>There is something I must return to Malenia. The will that was once her own. The dignity, the sense of self, that allowed her to resist the call of the scarlet rot. The pride she abandoned, to meet Radahn's measure. >>To meet Radahn's measure.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Millicent's brain is literally rotting. She can't be trusted.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>we can't trust a fragment of Malenia, the literal person who was fricking there >we have to trust a stone sword written by a literal who instead.
>The Battle of Aeonia >Radahn and Malenia locked in stalemate >Then, the scarlet rot blooms
The game says it was a stalemate so it's a stalemate. Not interested in your headcanon.
The brief bit of the battle in the trailer literally ends with Radahn on his hands and knees, disarmed, dismounted, paralyzed, and with eight feet of sword in his chest, helpless to respond in any way while Malenia continues to drive it in to his heart and unmoving while she takes 15 seconds to bloom.
He was clearly on the losing end of the stalemate. The Sword Memorial is right next to a Redmane fort and was thus probably put there by them, explaining the generous wording towards Radahn. But Radahngays are really delusional and have to cope it being the other way around.
>disarmed, dismounted, paralyzed
He fricking janks her entire arm off with his sword, what the frick are you talking about?
2 years ago
Anonymous
I'm talking about him being disarmed, dismounted, and paralyzed, that is having dropped both of his swords, having lost his horse, and being on his hands and knees for a good fifteen seconds while a Rot flower slowly procs on his back and a sword sinks deeper into his body.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>that is having dropped both of his swords
He's holding the sword in his hand right there on that pic >rot flower slowly procs on his back
Yeah, he can't fight back the rot, that's the only way Malenia was able to level the playfield >and a sword sinks deeper into his body.
Malenia stabbed herself, you moron.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>He's holding the sword in his hand right there on that picture
He's leaning against the ground where the sword is. He can't even raise his arm to get his impaler off his back. The left sword isn't even near his other hand.
>Yeah, he can't fight back the rot,
He's paralyzed and unmoving before it blooms or even starts to proc, moron. It takes 15 seconds in which time Radahn doesn't move at all. He's completely incapacitated from the stab.
>Malenia stabbed herself, you moron,
Malenia stabbed Radahn, moron. The sword is nine feet long and has visibly disappeared almost entirely into Radahn's body while the part going into her has not penetrated more than a few inches because it hasn't come out of her back. And said part is only in her back she's bracing the hilt against her shoulder to drive it further into Radahn, as she has no other option without her prosthetic.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>It takes 15 seconds in which time Radahn doesn't move at all.
Haven't you played the game? Malenia starting the scarlet bloom thing starts a cutscene during which the opponent can't do anything but look at her
2 years ago
Anonymous
I've played the game which involves you repeatedly dodging that exact same incredibly slow and telegraphed move, which doesn't deal a single point of Rot damage until well after the explosion has happened. And which starts with her stabbing the target, just like Radahn, with the explosion being triggered by her pulling the sword out of whatever she stabbed.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Nah. She only does that move after the "Wait" that completely paralize you for half a minute while she blooms and goes into Goddess of Rot mode. She probably did the same thing to Radahn.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>He can't even raise his arm
He raised his arm to shatter Malenia's own arm >He's paralyzed and unmoving
He's could still move, proven by how he broke her arm >Malenia stabbed Radahn, moron.
You're literally blind
2 years ago
Anonymous
>He raised his arm to shatter Malenia's own arm >He's could still move, proven by how he broke her arm
You mean that thing he did right before he got stabbed in the fricking heart with a nine-foot sword and dropped to his hands and knees, after which he didn't move at all? moron.
>You're literally blind >posts a pic of a nine-foot sword having disappeared almost entirely in Radahn's body while the shallow penetration into Malenia by driving the hilt in with her shoulder doesn't even penetrate deep enough to come out of her back
Are you blind, deaf, and dumb?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>right before he got stabbed in the fricking heart
Nice headcannon
2 years ago
Anonymous
>eight feet of sword penetrating from his shoulder downward at a slight diagonal angle
Where do you think the heart is, anon?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Lets pretend he's not wearing armor and that she didn't get stabbed
Sure kid, but that just makes it even funnier though, if she stabbed radahn on his fricking hearth then that means she was so fricking moronic she bloomed the scarlet rot for nothing
2 years ago
Anonymous
>>Lets pretend he's not wearing armor
His armor is less than 10 mm thick. I've measured the model. It wasn't doing shit to stop a blade that penetrated over two meters to almost entirely disappear in his torso. You don't know jack shit and are just trying to make really pathetic reaches to avoid looking at what's on-screen, that being that the fight prior to the bloom ended with Radahn crippled and disarmed and Malenia on top of him driving a sword into his chest.
>and that she didn't get stabbed
She didn't. She braced the hilt against her shoulder to drive it into Radahn (where the actual tip was pointing and where most of the blade ended up), resulting in moderate bleeding from the force. Radahn actually never even landed a single hit on her flesh.
>if she stabbed radahn on his fricking hearth
I accept your concession.
>she was so fricking moronic she bloomed the scarlet rot for nothing
It wouldn't be for nothing because she didn't seem to have enough energy left to finish off the paralyzed Radahn either, while he didn't have enough energy left to do anything to her. Hence, "locked in stalemate", as the lore tells us.
Malenia also doesn't seem to control when she blooms, it just auto-triggers when she's injured enough and doesn't have sufficiently strong will to resist it. This is the entire premise of the bad ending of Millicent's quest.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>trying to make really pathetic reaches >says they guy who pulls "she only had a minor brace" out of his ass
lmao
2 years ago
Anonymous
>>says they guy who pulls "she only had a minor brace" out of his ass
It's literally what's on screen. You can tell by the tapering that only the furthest end of the blade is even visible in her shoulder, while its nine foot length has disappeared almost entirely into Radahn's. Unsurprisingly because that's where the actual tip was aimed. She dropped her bodyweight behind it for maximum penetration, which worked, which is why he's crippled and unmoving for the rest of the fight.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You can tell both by the tapering and by how much of the blade is shown that even if she stabbed Radahn at least half of the blade is not in there, and if its not there where the frick else would it be?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>You can tell both by the tapering and by how much of the blade is shown that even if she stabbed Radahn at least half of the blade is not in there
You're fricking blind. It's sunk entirely into Radahn.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>You can tell both by the tapering and by how much of the blade is shown that even if she stabbed Radahn at least half of the blade is not in there
You're literally just making shit up now. It's entirely within Radahn.
>It's entirely within Radahn.
It's sunk entirely into Radahn.
>He can't even raise his arm
He raised his arm to shatter Malenia's own arm >He's paralyzed and unmoving
He's could still move, proven by how he broke her arm >Malenia stabbed Radahn, moron.
You're literally blind
Just look at how much of the blade is show here, not penetrating neither Radahn nor Malenia
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Just look at how much of the blade is show here, not penetrating neither Radahn nor Malenia
You mean about 1 foot of it? Holy frick you're blind.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>You can tell both by the tapering and by how much of the blade is shown that even if she stabbed Radahn at least half of the blade is not in there
You're literally just making shit up now. It's entirely within Radahn.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Millicent is an amnesiac flower spawn. Anything else is fan fiction.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>flower spawn
So Malenia's spawn? Yeah, I'd say she probably knows more about her than a random tombstone
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I know more about WWII than the people who fought in it because my grandad was at Normandy.
Reminder again that the Sword Memorial was probably written by Radahn's men.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>WWII
So the official historic records are not to be trusted? glad we agree in this
>The brief bit of the battle in the trailer literally ends with Radahn on his hands and knees, disarmed, dismounted, paralyzed, and with eight feet of sword in his chest, helpless to respond in any way while Malenia continues to drive it in to his heart and unmoving while she takes 15 seconds to bloom
Even if you believe that you are basically arguing that a Radahn disarmed, dismounted, paralyzed and with eight feet of sword in the chest was enough to force Malenia out of the deep end and resort to the scarlet rot.
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's "enough" because she seemed to be about as wounded as him since she didn't just take his twenty+ second paralysis opportunity to stab him in the face. He in turn didn't have enough vigor left to so much as lift his arm to pluck her off his back. Hence a stalemate, broken in her favor by the bloom.
>The Battle of Aeonia >Radahn and Malenia locked in stalemate >Then, the scarlet rot blooms
The game says it was a stalemate so it's a stalemate. Not interested in your headcanon.
Who's more reliable, some cope stone or a daughter of Malenia herself?
>What's more reliable, the historical record by veterans of the battle or the speculation of someone born after it who has never even met any of its participants?
She's a child/spawn of Malenia, just like all the annoying rot bugs. Not a fragment. This is not Dragon Ball, Malenia didn't split into 4 different redheads while also separately existing as herself.
2 years ago
Anonymous
The rot bugs are not spawns of malenia.
2 years ago
Anonymous
They're the spawn of rot (just like the redhead sisters) which Malenia brought to Caelid.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Malenia is not the only source of rot, they are both spawns from the rot but only the girls have a direct connection with Malenia
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Malenia is not the only source of rot
She's the only source of rot in Caelid. She brought it there via blooming. >Rot for the scarlet goddess. O scarlet blossoms, flourish in distant lands, and return to us, the unwanted children.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>She's the only source of rot in Caelid.
But not the only source of those bugs, those bugs have been in the lands between since before Malenia
2 years ago
Anonymous
The girls are not Rot spawn. The Rot kills them. They're asexual spawn of Malenia herself like she is to Marika.
she bloomed twice. first in the rot lake where that homosexual commander is. she was fighting the bih mother of dragons, the golden needle in malenia broke and she lost control of the rot. the commander picked up the broken needle. second bloom was in the desert and we see that in the cinematic.
when I got comet azur I went to the area just to fry that motherfricker
that spell is basically unusable without summons because it takes like an hour to wind up but it's just so fun to fire the big laser
>unusable
Not really. You can chunk A LOT of elite mobs/bosses with azur if you use it as an opening. It trivialises a great number of late-game encounters.
why does this image exist? did people actually struggle with caelid? find it scary?
the place is a joke, you tp in through the chest and the escape bonfire is about 10 feet. you use horse to run to dragonbarrow never bothering with the pointless dogs or birds and do a bbk, dragon, erdtree, apostle bossrush to get a frickload of souls then leave. that's all caelid is, a way to get to dragonbarrow. there's no need to engage with any of it even on first playthrough you just wanna loot the graveyards and churches while being safe from all "le scary enemies" on horse.
also the only truly hard enemies are bbk and the literally impossible golem in the secret parkour area.
Have you ever heard about something called "immersion"? People taking their time, not trying to rush through the game at sonic speed? What am I saying, of course you haven't.
immersion in open world games is just wasting time in empty spaces.
you have a horse, this eliminates 99% of the design and threat of caelid. you go and find the interesting stuff, minmax the immersion by staring at the sky from vantage points then leave.
and no, the music isn't scary and the design is a little creepy but that's it.
>immersion in open world games is just wasting time in empty spaces
What's the difference between immersion in open world game and immersion in linear game?
If you can't see any differences in the environment, music, tones, atmosphere and enemies between Liurnia/Limgrave and Caelid, then you're probably autistic and/or mentally challenged, anon.
nah ur just bad and mad.
probably you got stuck in the mine for ages and didn't see that the exit is super easy to reach and the "trap" is a complete meme.
or you actually wasted time on the respawning trash mobs roaming around, instead of treating them as the annoyances they are and running past them all on the OP horse.
not everyone is playing this game with an autism speedrunner go from point A to point B mentality.
people exit limgrave into caelid for the first time and after the initial few hours of peaceful blue skies and greenery and they are immediately hit with blood red skies and loud cellos and giant rotten corpses telling you to turn back. and when most non autistic people see a new enemy type like the weird dogs their immediate response is not to just ignore it entirely because you're a robot who only cares about finishing the story ASAP. but instead challenge it to see how they fare, and since most of them are in little groups you end up aggroing like 3 dogs and a giant crow at the same time all of which are bizzare aggressive enemies with unorthodox movesets compared to the generic noblemen and knights you used to deal with.
the immediate tonal whiplash when you leave limgrave and enter caelid for the first time is what makes it memorable.
>minmax the immersion by staring at the sky from vantage points then leave.
how do i ascertain if an encounter is a waste of my time? i fight them normally the first time i see them which takes a couple of minutes.
you people make it sound like caelid is actually a scary unique design for a souls game in any sense or that the game should be played staring at the sky and copy-paste textures while you slowly trudge through every single respawning mob lol.
i hope you guys didn't play snowfield like this as well hahaha.
I'm not about to go into an argument with someone who unironically "minmaxes immersion" kek.
you asked why people found caelid memorable. the answer is they're not on the spectrum like yourself. that's all there is to it.
i don't pass any autism tests, you are just projecting for some reason.
is "THE RED BIOME" seriously a surprise and not an expectation for you? this is a video game bro.
Yes.
As the items talk about it, one of the earlier ages where giants vs dragons. So there makes a lot of sense for there to be giant corpses from that.
But its more a issue of Malenia nuking it, the soil rotting, and suddenly you get these unearted fricked up skeletons and skulls.
Look at it this way:
Pre Malenia Sellia resembles Liurnia, but its more of a swamp. Lush and verdant nature.
Radahn is called giant slayer in game files. those giant corpses were there because he killed them there, they just rotted after malenia nuked the country
he goes underground cause they didn't want to animate the dumbest looking shit in the game and have a tiny horse wailing around on top of it
2 years ago
Anonymous
No, they literally animated Radahn pushing him underground, he does the same everytime he does an AOE attack.
2 years ago
Anonymous
there's an entire animation of Radahn putting the horse underground before jumping into orbit.
it wouldn't even make sense for leonard to be up there, Radahn has the gravity powers, the horse is just a regular horse
2 years ago
Anonymous
why even ride a fricking horse at all when he can just float himself around
2 years ago
Anonymous
because he canonically loves his horse
2 years ago
Anonymous
Because Radahn loves his horse.
>ds1 poise would make the game braindead easy.
No, that would make it playable. I don't want to sit there for forty minutes while Maliketh dances around like the homosexual furry b***h he is. Put the poise on a percentage bar or something, I don't care. Just let me get hits in with a colossal weapon. It's not hard to balance this shit.
>No, that would make it playable
For (You).
Maliketh has shit HP and is a prime example of a glass cannon. Stop being a spam-rolling pussy and hit him for a change.
t. beat my 1st run with a pure str build
2 years ago
Anonymous
Because Radahn is an absolute chad amongst gods, and he literally canonically learned gravity magic just so he wouldn't burden his beloved horse with his huge frame.
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's strange because he looks like a fricking bloodthirsty savage
And turns out he was the most nonmoronic of all demi-gods
2 years ago
Anonymous
>strange
Not really. Jarren says the rot literally ate away most of his brain so Radahn is simply a mindless beast - he even feasts on the corpses of his own host. The festival is organised precisely for the purpose of granting Radahn an honorable death.
I remember the first time I came out of a beautiful green forest filled with fireflies, pixies and bears, and the music just suddenly started screaming "GO BACK," as the sky turned red and giant doggos with blood red eyes stared at me.
>click that chest in dragon-burnt ruins >escape ayylmao crystal cave >red sky and caelid ambience starts playing
It's definitely one of the most fricked up and memorable moments in videogames.
Not him but I went looking around the place awhile before riding back into limgrave after that. It was still early enough that fast traveling(and jumping) in a souls game hadn't really clicked with me yet. They should have disabled fast travel from there until you physically left Caelid.
2 years ago
Anonymous
On one hand I think Fast Travel should be disabled until you get Godrick's Rune and actually activate it, (or any other Rune really), but on the other the game was clearly designed around just fast traveling everywhere so that'd make it a slog even with Torrent.
2 years ago
Anonymous
No fast travel would have been pretty bad with how it is yeah. On the topic though, any anons happen to know how long it'd take to travel from Radahn's house up to the giants forge?
So essentially Malenia's character boils down to >Chimping out >Turning neighborhoods into shit (first Caeild, then her own)
They had perfect opportunity for authentic inclusive Black character, why didn't they do it?
>it's about as good as a game this size can be
Not really. It's foundationally fricked because of incompetence. They could easily lower the damage value of enemies, add proper DS1 poise, and fix the framerate issues on PC. The CHOOSE not to, because they are incompetent and lazy. Has nothing to do with it being open world.
If I had the money and resources I could easily design a game that runs laps around Elden Ring.
>add proper DS1 poise
please. ds1 poise would make the game braindead easy.
>ds1 poise would make the game braindead easy.
No, that would make it playable. I don't want to sit there for forty minutes while Maliketh dances around like the homosexual furry b***h he is. Put the poise on a percentage bar or something, I don't care. Just let me get hits in with a colossal weapon. It's not hard to balance this shit.
2 years ago
Anonymous
maliketh was mad easy with a colossal weapon. especially in phase 2, he does a sideswipe and an overhead letting you get 2 hits in easily.
he's over in 3 minutes. you should worry about more important things, like getting good
>it's about as good as a game this size can be
Not really. It's foundationally fricked because of incompetence. They could easily lower the damage value of enemies, add proper DS1 poise, and fix the framerate issues on PC. The CHOOSE not to, because they are incompetent and lazy. Has nothing to do with it being open world.
If I had the money and resources I could easily design a game that runs laps around Elden Ring.
lower the values yourself mr. pcgay?
2 years ago
Anonymous
the implementation of poise in ER is absolutely terrible. at least in DS1 they had the presence of mind to give you an easily acquirable set of armor you could midroll with and still have plenty of poise for the early game, and the wolf ring was in the same area.
meanwhile, the generic knight set in ER doesn't even have enough poise to tank a straight sword and the bull-goat talisman is hidden in a cave in dragonbarrow defended by a giga-runebear. early scaled set is you-didn't-beat-it territory, so the player's only chance of getting real poise is accidentally farming the banished knight set in stormveil or killing general radahn.
poise may have been op in 1 but it doesn't mean make it completely dogshit in every subsequent game, there's way more broken shit than facetanking bosses with a greatsword.
2 years ago
Anonymous
At the least you can get the bullgoat set as the 2nd assassination you do for Volcano Manor.
It helps, immensely.
i don't get Malenia. she can tear through mohg like butter but she just stays there sleeping while that pedo kidnaps and diddles her brother.
does she literally just not know he's gone?
Radahn beat her into a coma. She had to be dragged back to the Haligtree after their fight, and Miquella was already gone when they got back. She doesn't wake up until you show up to kick her "undefeated" crusty ass.
Malenia, despite operating with a fraction of her forces (just some of the Cleanrots, no Lordsworn) and having fought through an entire continent, crushed "General" Radahn's army in every single battle before the bloom, which we see evidence of all around Caelid including Aeonia Swamp, Sellia, and the Wailing Dunes. >Winged helm of the Cleanrot Knights, celebrated for their undefeated campaign in the Shattering.
She seemed to be an intelligent commander.
2 years ago
Anonymous
No she seems just overpowered in fighting. Not a single of her acts imply even mediocre intelligence. What was even the goal of her campaign?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>No she seems just overpowered in fighting. Not a single of her acts imply even mediocre intelligence.
Keeping an army loyal and supplied in a cross-continental conquest (that involved marching through tundra, mountains, and deserts) and winning every single battle of that conquest against multiple different factions while outnumbered requires well above-average intelligence.
>miquella was manipulating a brain dead malenia
Seems plausible
Malenia, despite operating with a fraction of her forces (just some of the Cleanrots, no Lordsworn) and having fought through an entire continent, crushed "General" Radahn's army in every single battle before the bloom, which we see evidence of all around Caelid including Aeonia Swamp, Sellia, and the Wailing Dunes. >Winged helm of the Cleanrot Knights, celebrated for their undefeated campaign in the Shattering.
She seemed to be an intelligent commander.
>She seemed to be an intelligent commander.
Yeah she was really intelligent when she let miquella get kidnapped
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Yeah she was really intelligent when she let miquella get kidnapped
Miquella was kidnapped before the Shattering and it's one of the reasons Marika shattered the ring in the first place.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Miquella was kidnapped before the Shattering
no he wasn't, Mogh only escaped after the shattering
2 years ago
Anonymous
No he didn't. Marika was publicly despairing at Miquella's disappearance before the Shattering, as she went missing without anyone being able to hear a word from her almost right after it started.
>I heard speculation Miquella embedded himself in the Haligtree, but before he could finish, someone cut the tree open and absconded with his infant form. Indeed, it seems those words held weight. How vexing. That the All-knowing didn't have the full story... Perhaps the Queen's sorrow was justified...
The narration "the mad taint of their newfound strength TRIGGERED the Shattering" plays over a slide of Mohg kidnapping Miquella in the opening cutscene. It's not at all subtle but for some reason the community still hasn't caught on to this.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>their newfound strength
But they only gained said strength after receiving the shards, that makes no sense
2 years ago
Anonymous
And? Doesn't change the fact she's a massive moron
it's about as good as a game this size can be
try playing it but limit yourself to only the legacy dungeons + areas required to reach them
the game actually benefits from being a more focused experience, which is a clear sign that they went much too wide on this one
>it's about as good as a game this size can be
Not really. It's foundationally fricked because of incompetence. They could easily lower the damage value of enemies, add proper DS1 poise, and fix the framerate issues on PC. The CHOOSE not to, because they are incompetent and lazy. Has nothing to do with it being open world.
If I had the money and resources I could easily design a game that runs laps around Elden Ring.
>If I had the money and resources I could easily design a game that runs laps around Elden Ring.
this is the funniest post i've seen on this board in a fricking while gotdamn
same, it blew my mind how big they were when i saw that site of grace with crows on branches visible off the ledge, only to find out that the crows were far as frick instead of right off the platform
Better question, what were the burning heads in the leaked footage and network test supposed to be, and why did they switch them for some skulls instead?
All the Rot did was make fungal growths appear and poison the central swamp, and thus a lot of animals. These are really the only things distinguishing it from any other wartorn place on the map like Leyndell. Other than that it was always a thinly populated desert (characters called it the "Caelid Wilds" and the eastern quarter, the Wailing Dunes, doesn't have any Rot in it, while the northern quarter of Dragonbarrow only has a little; both are as barren as the rest of the map) and it was always full of dangerous monsters (you find non rotted versions of literally all of its wildlife elsewhere and the only difference is that theybdont inflict Rot; those dogs are still giant T-Rexes) and even the sky was always red (as seen in the story trailer).
I feel like I have overdosed on this game. For the two first months, discussing it was so exciting, but now I'm exhausted by it, I don't want to see threads about it again.
The red sky, yeah. It was like that in the trailer before it got hit by turbo AIDS.
The aboveground coral reef of concentrated AIDS is new though.
Also I assumed the massive frickhuge skeletons were Rot victims who continued growing after death, but you can find skellies that size all the way in Mountaintops too.
I feel like if there was people big enough to punt the Fire Giant like an uppity puppy it'd be mentioned in SOME history.
>The red sky, yeah. It was like that in the trailer before it got hit by turbo AIDS.
The red sky might be a result of fire spreading across the area. We know there were numerous battles and sieges in Caelid at the time.
>Also I assumed the massive frickhuge skeletons were Rot victims who continued growing after death, but you can find skellies that size all the way in Mountaintops too.
They're Giant corpses. Cut content explains it by calling Radahn "slayer of giants." Radahn was sent to genocide the inhabitants of the Caelid region for heresy, as they were worshipping giants which the Golden Order hates and wanted an Age of the Stars. That's why you find giant thrones in both Sellia and Nokron (they certainly didn't build those for rotted corpses), why there are Nox imprisoned in Sellia, why every character knows that killing Radahn will open the path to Nokron, and why despite being famous for its Night sorceries, every single sorcerer in Sellia only uses Carian glinstone sorceries, with Night sorceries only being found on the bodies of exiles or prisoners. It also explains why, according to the Redmane Knight Armor description, Radahn's men aren't actually from Caelid.
As an aside the fan fiction that the Rot makes things become giant is so fricking weird. That's literally never demonstrated or even implied, and we have rotted and non rotted versions of the exact same enemies (e.g. the dogs in the Mountaintops of the Giants, the Putrid Corpses around the map, the Crystalians) that only differ by coloration and sometimes fungal growths.
Just a heads up, the vast majority of those out of reach items are just Crafting Materials or Stonesword Keys, so it's never worth checking for secret paths. Especially since they mostly don't exist like in the earlier games and you teleport from the other side of the map.
No, some butthole Alien is sealed under it in Siofra and spreads it's Athletes foot everywhere via the river
Are you talking about this place?
Yeah, a swordsman dressed in blue sealed the Outer God (alien) of Rot under the eternal cities, but it spawned mini bug aliens to worship it and they've helped spread it's rot, along with Malenia who was cursed by the god on birth to be it's Champion
>tfw you realize civilization is built on top of another civilization on top of another civilization
It's the exact same with Bloodborne.
>Pthumeru
> Old Yharnam
> Yarhnam
Even in Dark Souls there's elements of such a thing, with Blighttown (though that's a case of the civilization above forcing people down)
It all draws heavily from Lovecraft obviously, but in particular a relatively little known story (who's name entirely escapes me) but basically it's an entire hidden civilization under a native american burial mound of advanced Indians, they themselves built an entire civlization in a titanic cave deep in the earth, the second layer of which is home to reptilian frog like people (like those from Ib) and THEY built a city on top of a horrifying, entirely pitch black nightmare realm filled with shoggoths and other spooky shit
that's cool. didnt know that was inspiration taken from lovecraft
Miyazaki been unoriginal with copying Lovecraft sience Kings Field
im okay with people taking inspiration. There's nothing wrong with it as long as it elevates the experience. Not many people in this world have a mind for creating something truly original.
And who's managed this great feat of original copying? Care to name a few?
good point
Lovecraft himself copied the stuff from his own mental illness. That counts as both copying and being original, doesn't it?
>That counts as both copying and being original, doesn't it?
Nah, that's plain cheating. Giger did it too.
You’re probably thinking of The Mound, with the Kn-Yan and their massive gold statues of Cthulhu and friends. Pretty sure there’s also a legend that claims Death Valley out in cali used to be lush and prosperous until a princess cursed it, but the civilization itself is now just underground. Manson wanted to wait out the race war there.
It's the same with the layers of dreams on top of dreams too
We do that in real life too.
Theres a place below siofra?
Zanzibart land dlc
yep, nokron and nokstella is on top of uhl civilization which might have either been destroyed by scarlet rot or they worshipped it
Is this place unlocked in some quest or something? I'm in the winter area and still have no idea how to reach it.
>Is this place unlocked in some quest or something? I'm in the winter area and still have no idea how to reach it.
I assume you mean the ruins on the other side of the gap in that screenshot and not just the underground in general?
There's 2 ways to reach it, the early way is by doing Varre's quest and the other is a teleporter near one of the cliffs on the western side of consecrated snowfield.
If by "winter area" you mean the mountaintop of giants, you get to consecrated snowfield from there using items from an optional boss in a fort in MoG and an npc in Liurnia, iirc she's in a cave along the southern part of the zone
Wrong. Caelid is rotting due to Malenia blooming to break the stalemate between her and Radahn. The rot god is only leaking in the Lake of Rot, not Caelid.
>stalemate
What blatant cope, she was clearly going to use and rage-quit used the blooming to only then make it a stalemate
>it wasn't going to be a stalemate until she made it a stalemate
so.... it's a stalemate?
>it's a stalemate?
Only because of the bloom, she didn't "break the stalemate" with it as this homosexual
says, instead she only was able to achieve said stalemate by nuking everything and ruining Caelid forever.
nice job omitting my post, you coping "homosexual". here, have a copy paste:
>The Battle of Aeonia
>Radahn and Malenia locked in stalemate
>Then, the scarlet rot blooms
>There is something I must return to Malenia. The will that was once her own. The dignity, the sense of self, that allowed her to resist the call of the scarlet rot. The pride she abandoned, to meet Radahn's measure.
>>To meet Radahn's measure.
Millicent's brain is literally rotting. She can't be trusted.
>we can't trust a fragment of Malenia, the literal person who was fricking there
>we have to trust a stone sword written by a literal who instead.
>The Battle of Aeonia
>Radahn and Malenia locked in stalemate
>Then, the scarlet rot blooms
The game says it was a stalemate so it's a stalemate. Not interested in your headcanon.
The brief bit of the battle in the trailer literally ends with Radahn on his hands and knees, disarmed, dismounted, paralyzed, and with eight feet of sword in his chest, helpless to respond in any way while Malenia continues to drive it in to his heart and unmoving while she takes 15 seconds to bloom.
He was clearly on the losing end of the stalemate. The Sword Memorial is right next to a Redmane fort and was thus probably put there by them, explaining the generous wording towards Radahn. But Radahngays are really delusional and have to cope it being the other way around.
>disarmed, dismounted, paralyzed
He fricking janks her entire arm off with his sword, what the frick are you talking about?
I'm talking about him being disarmed, dismounted, and paralyzed, that is having dropped both of his swords, having lost his horse, and being on his hands and knees for a good fifteen seconds while a Rot flower slowly procs on his back and a sword sinks deeper into his body.
>that is having dropped both of his swords
He's holding the sword in his hand right there on that pic
>rot flower slowly procs on his back
Yeah, he can't fight back the rot, that's the only way Malenia was able to level the playfield
>and a sword sinks deeper into his body.
Malenia stabbed herself, you moron.
>He's holding the sword in his hand right there on that picture
He's leaning against the ground where the sword is. He can't even raise his arm to get his impaler off his back. The left sword isn't even near his other hand.
>Yeah, he can't fight back the rot,
He's paralyzed and unmoving before it blooms or even starts to proc, moron. It takes 15 seconds in which time Radahn doesn't move at all. He's completely incapacitated from the stab.
>Malenia stabbed herself, you moron,
Malenia stabbed Radahn, moron. The sword is nine feet long and has visibly disappeared almost entirely into Radahn's body while the part going into her has not penetrated more than a few inches because it hasn't come out of her back. And said part is only in her back she's bracing the hilt against her shoulder to drive it further into Radahn, as she has no other option without her prosthetic.
>It takes 15 seconds in which time Radahn doesn't move at all.
Haven't you played the game? Malenia starting the scarlet bloom thing starts a cutscene during which the opponent can't do anything but look at her
I've played the game which involves you repeatedly dodging that exact same incredibly slow and telegraphed move, which doesn't deal a single point of Rot damage until well after the explosion has happened. And which starts with her stabbing the target, just like Radahn, with the explosion being triggered by her pulling the sword out of whatever she stabbed.
Nah. She only does that move after the "Wait" that completely paralize you for half a minute while she blooms and goes into Goddess of Rot mode. She probably did the same thing to Radahn.
>He can't even raise his arm
He raised his arm to shatter Malenia's own arm
>He's paralyzed and unmoving
He's could still move, proven by how he broke her arm
>Malenia stabbed Radahn, moron.
You're literally blind
>He raised his arm to shatter Malenia's own arm
>He's could still move, proven by how he broke her arm
You mean that thing he did right before he got stabbed in the fricking heart with a nine-foot sword and dropped to his hands and knees, after which he didn't move at all? moron.
>You're literally blind
>posts a pic of a nine-foot sword having disappeared almost entirely in Radahn's body while the shallow penetration into Malenia by driving the hilt in with her shoulder doesn't even penetrate deep enough to come out of her back
Are you blind, deaf, and dumb?
>right before he got stabbed in the fricking heart
Nice headcannon
>eight feet of sword penetrating from his shoulder downward at a slight diagonal angle
Where do you think the heart is, anon?
>Lets pretend he's not wearing armor and that she didn't get stabbed
Sure kid, but that just makes it even funnier though, if she stabbed radahn on his fricking hearth then that means she was so fricking moronic she bloomed the scarlet rot for nothing
>>Lets pretend he's not wearing armor
His armor is less than 10 mm thick. I've measured the model. It wasn't doing shit to stop a blade that penetrated over two meters to almost entirely disappear in his torso. You don't know jack shit and are just trying to make really pathetic reaches to avoid looking at what's on-screen, that being that the fight prior to the bloom ended with Radahn crippled and disarmed and Malenia on top of him driving a sword into his chest.
>and that she didn't get stabbed
She didn't. She braced the hilt against her shoulder to drive it into Radahn (where the actual tip was pointing and where most of the blade ended up), resulting in moderate bleeding from the force. Radahn actually never even landed a single hit on her flesh.
>if she stabbed radahn on his fricking hearth
I accept your concession.
>she was so fricking moronic she bloomed the scarlet rot for nothing
It wouldn't be for nothing because she didn't seem to have enough energy left to finish off the paralyzed Radahn either, while he didn't have enough energy left to do anything to her. Hence, "locked in stalemate", as the lore tells us.
Malenia also doesn't seem to control when she blooms, it just auto-triggers when she's injured enough and doesn't have sufficiently strong will to resist it. This is the entire premise of the bad ending of Millicent's quest.
>trying to make really pathetic reaches
>says they guy who pulls "she only had a minor brace" out of his ass
lmao
>>says they guy who pulls "she only had a minor brace" out of his ass
It's literally what's on screen. You can tell by the tapering that only the furthest end of the blade is even visible in her shoulder, while its nine foot length has disappeared almost entirely into Radahn's. Unsurprisingly because that's where the actual tip was aimed. She dropped her bodyweight behind it for maximum penetration, which worked, which is why he's crippled and unmoving for the rest of the fight.
You can tell both by the tapering and by how much of the blade is shown that even if she stabbed Radahn at least half of the blade is not in there, and if its not there where the frick else would it be?
>You can tell both by the tapering and by how much of the blade is shown that even if she stabbed Radahn at least half of the blade is not in there
You're fricking blind. It's sunk entirely into Radahn.
>It's entirely within Radahn.
It's sunk entirely into Radahn.
Just look at how much of the blade is show here, not penetrating neither Radahn nor Malenia
>Just look at how much of the blade is show here, not penetrating neither Radahn nor Malenia
You mean about 1 foot of it? Holy frick you're blind.
>You can tell both by the tapering and by how much of the blade is shown that even if she stabbed Radahn at least half of the blade is not in there
You're literally just making shit up now. It's entirely within Radahn.
Millicent is an amnesiac flower spawn. Anything else is fan fiction.
>flower spawn
So Malenia's spawn? Yeah, I'd say she probably knows more about her than a random tombstone
>I know more about WWII than the people who fought in it because my grandad was at Normandy.
Reminder again that the Sword Memorial was probably written by Radahn's men.
>WWII
So the official historic records are not to be trusted? glad we agree in this
>The brief bit of the battle in the trailer literally ends with Radahn on his hands and knees, disarmed, dismounted, paralyzed, and with eight feet of sword in his chest, helpless to respond in any way while Malenia continues to drive it in to his heart and unmoving while she takes 15 seconds to bloom
Even if you believe that you are basically arguing that a Radahn disarmed, dismounted, paralyzed and with eight feet of sword in the chest was enough to force Malenia out of the deep end and resort to the scarlet rot.
It's "enough" because she seemed to be about as wounded as him since she didn't just take his twenty+ second paralysis opportunity to stab him in the face. He in turn didn't have enough vigor left to so much as lift his arm to pluck her off his back. Hence a stalemate, broken in her favor by the bloom.
Who's more reliable, some cope stone or a daughter of Malenia herself?
I bet my ass that cope stone was put there by that dumb prostitute Finlay
>What's more reliable, the historical record by veterans of the battle or the speculation of someone born after it who has never even met any of its participants?
>who has never even met any of its participants
Millicent is literally a fragment of Malenia
She's a child/spawn of Malenia, just like all the annoying rot bugs. Not a fragment. This is not Dragon Ball, Malenia didn't split into 4 different redheads while also separately existing as herself.
The rot bugs are not spawns of malenia.
They're the spawn of rot (just like the redhead sisters) which Malenia brought to Caelid.
Malenia is not the only source of rot, they are both spawns from the rot but only the girls have a direct connection with Malenia
>Malenia is not the only source of rot
She's the only source of rot in Caelid. She brought it there via blooming.
>Rot for the scarlet goddess. O scarlet blossoms, flourish in distant lands, and return to us, the unwanted children.
>She's the only source of rot in Caelid.
But not the only source of those bugs, those bugs have been in the lands between since before Malenia
The girls are not Rot spawn. The Rot kills them. They're asexual spawn of Malenia herself like she is to Marika.
she bloomed twice. first in the rot lake where that homosexual commander is. she was fighting the bih mother of dragons, the golden needle in malenia broke and she lost control of the rot. the commander picked up the broken needle. second bloom was in the desert and we see that in the cinematic.
Welcome to caelid motherfricker
These motherfricking dogs are my favorite enemies in the game, hands down.
that fricking homosexual dog near gowrys shack with every site of grace being 10 miles away
when I got comet azur I went to the area just to fry that motherfricker
that spell is basically unusable without summons because it takes like an hour to wind up but it's just so fun to fire the big laser
>unusable
Not really. You can chunk A LOT of elite mobs/bosses with azur if you use it as an opening. It trivialises a great number of late-game encounters.
comet azur fricks up malenia and elden beast
>comet azur fricks up malenia
literally how. she dodges out of it instantly.
Maybe on her second phase
oh, well yeah of course. she spends like ten full seconds getting back up after that lmao
you can pretty much 2 shot Malenia after she lands her dumbass flower dive.
>stares deep into your soul and growls menacingly
awww he's just playing
Never trust birbs.
that Caelid is perfect, my fricking sides
cant wait!
why does this image exist? did people actually struggle with caelid? find it scary?
the place is a joke, you tp in through the chest and the escape bonfire is about 10 feet. you use horse to run to dragonbarrow never bothering with the pointless dogs or birds and do a bbk, dragon, erdtree, apostle bossrush to get a frickload of souls then leave. that's all caelid is, a way to get to dragonbarrow. there's no need to engage with any of it even on first playthrough you just wanna loot the graveyards and churches while being safe from all "le scary enemies" on horse.
also the only truly hard enemies are bbk and the literally impossible golem in the secret parkour area.
Have you ever heard about something called "immersion"? People taking their time, not trying to rush through the game at sonic speed? What am I saying, of course you haven't.
immersion in open world games is just wasting time in empty spaces.
you have a horse, this eliminates 99% of the design and threat of caelid. you go and find the interesting stuff, minmax the immersion by staring at the sky from vantage points then leave.
and no, the music isn't scary and the design is a little creepy but that's it.
>minmax the immersion by staring at the sky from vantage points then leave.
>immersion in open world games is just wasting time in empty spaces
What's the difference between immersion in open world game and immersion in linear game?
copy pasted emptiness to serve as padding between points of interest vs level design
If you can't see any differences in the environment, music, tones, atmosphere and enemies between Liurnia/Limgrave and Caelid, then you're probably autistic and/or mentally challenged, anon.
You might be moronic
nah ur just bad and mad.
probably you got stuck in the mine for ages and didn't see that the exit is super easy to reach and the "trap" is a complete meme.
or you actually wasted time on the respawning trash mobs roaming around, instead of treating them as the annoyances they are and running past them all on the OP horse.
not everyone is playing this game with an autism speedrunner go from point A to point B mentality.
people exit limgrave into caelid for the first time and after the initial few hours of peaceful blue skies and greenery and they are immediately hit with blood red skies and loud cellos and giant rotten corpses telling you to turn back. and when most non autistic people see a new enemy type like the weird dogs their immediate response is not to just ignore it entirely because you're a robot who only cares about finishing the story ASAP. but instead challenge it to see how they fare, and since most of them are in little groups you end up aggroing like 3 dogs and a giant crow at the same time all of which are bizzare aggressive enemies with unorthodox movesets compared to the generic noblemen and knights you used to deal with.
the immediate tonal whiplash when you leave limgrave and enter caelid for the first time is what makes it memorable.
how do i ascertain if an encounter is a waste of my time? i fight them normally the first time i see them which takes a couple of minutes.
you people make it sound like caelid is actually a scary unique design for a souls game in any sense or that the game should be played staring at the sky and copy-paste textures while you slowly trudge through every single respawning mob lol.
i hope you guys didn't play snowfield like this as well hahaha.
>sky go red, muh tonal whiplash!
kek
I'm not about to go into an argument with someone who unironically "minmaxes immersion" kek.
you asked why people found caelid memorable. the answer is they're not on the spectrum like yourself. that's all there is to it.
i don't pass any autism tests, you are just projecting for some reason.
is "THE RED BIOME" seriously a surprise and not an expectation for you? this is a video game bro.
sometimes i forget this board is a den for autists.
Why would you not immediately start exploring when you teleport there?
>forgot nthe shrimps
don't think so
The crows are worse because they’re fast, erratic and have occasional delayed attacks. Dogs can be killed in a few blows and will cower from fire.
They have a fake stagger animation too, frickers are the worst.
Yes.
As the items talk about it, one of the earlier ages where giants vs dragons. So there makes a lot of sense for there to be giant corpses from that.
But its more a issue of Malenia nuking it, the soil rotting, and suddenly you get these unearted fricked up skeletons and skulls.
Look at it this way:
Pre Malenia Sellia resembles Liurnia, but its more of a swamp. Lush and verdant nature.
she killed millions
I wish the knight armor looked as cool as this ingame
[violins and cellos whinge]
Radahn is called giant slayer in game files. those giant corpses were there because he killed them there, they just rotted after malenia nuked the country
cool headcanon, zanzibart
LEONARD, FORGIVE ME!
He hides Leonard underground when he does his meteor attack, moron
>Even as a flesh eating monster he still has protecting Leonard as his first priority
How can a man be this based?
Reddit moment!
>reddit humor
>muh reddit is EVERYWHERE
sounds like you really want to go back and sate that addiction of yours, anon
he goes underground cause they didn't want to animate the dumbest looking shit in the game and have a tiny horse wailing around on top of it
No, they literally animated Radahn pushing him underground, he does the same everytime he does an AOE attack.
there's an entire animation of Radahn putting the horse underground before jumping into orbit.
it wouldn't even make sense for leonard to be up there, Radahn has the gravity powers, the horse is just a regular horse
why even ride a fricking horse at all when he can just float himself around
because he canonically loves his horse
Because Radahn loves his horse.
>No, that would make it playable
For (You).
Maliketh has shit HP and is a prime example of a glass cannon. Stop being a spam-rolling pussy and hit him for a change.
t. beat my 1st run with a pure str build
Because Radahn is an absolute chad amongst gods, and he literally canonically learned gravity magic just so he wouldn't burden his beloved horse with his huge frame.
It's strange because he looks like a fricking bloodthirsty savage
And turns out he was the most nonmoronic of all demi-gods
>strange
Not really. Jarren says the rot literally ate away most of his brain so Radahn is simply a mindless beast - he even feasts on the corpses of his own host. The festival is organised precisely for the purpose of granting Radahn an honorable death.
Hello reddi.
I remember the first time I came out of a beautiful green forest filled with fireflies, pixies and bears, and the music just suddenly started screaming "GO BACK," as the sky turned red and giant doggos with blood red eyes stared at me.
>click that chest in dragon-burnt ruins
>escape ayylmao crystal cave
>red sky and caelid ambience starts playing
It's definitely one of the most fricked up and memorable moments in videogames.
literally made me go "oh shit,"
And then it gets ruined by you teleporting away.
Not him but I went looking around the place awhile before riding back into limgrave after that. It was still early enough that fast traveling(and jumping) in a souls game hadn't really clicked with me yet. They should have disabled fast travel from there until you physically left Caelid.
On one hand I think Fast Travel should be disabled until you get Godrick's Rune and actually activate it, (or any other Rune really), but on the other the game was clearly designed around just fast traveling everywhere so that'd make it a slog even with Torrent.
No fast travel would have been pretty bad with how it is yeah. On the topic though, any anons happen to know how long it'd take to travel from Radahn's house up to the giants forge?
sure
cool
>live right beside a busy road
>keep mistaking the cellos for boy racers
thanks sound designers
It's the signature, "you've not known the world yet," sound.
>greataxe
hello fellow axe enjoyer
Hola. :^)
It's not bad, it won at least 40 awards this year alone!
So essentially Malenia's character boils down to
>Chimping out
>Turning neighborhoods into shit (first Caeild, then her own)
They had perfect opportunity for authentic inclusive Black character, why didn't they do it?
Its 100% canon she's a drooling moron and she let her brother get kidnapped by a even bigger moron who has horn in his brain
i genuinely think mohg is too moronic to realize Miquella is not a woman
or maybe he's just gay
kinda hard to create a dynasty with another dude
>add proper DS1 poise
please. ds1 poise would make the game braindead easy.
>ds1 poise would make the game braindead easy.
No, that would make it playable. I don't want to sit there for forty minutes while Maliketh dances around like the homosexual furry b***h he is. Put the poise on a percentage bar or something, I don't care. Just let me get hits in with a colossal weapon. It's not hard to balance this shit.
maliketh was mad easy with a colossal weapon. especially in phase 2, he does a sideswipe and an overhead letting you get 2 hits in easily.
he's over in 3 minutes. you should worry about more important things, like getting good
lower the values yourself mr. pcgay?
the implementation of poise in ER is absolutely terrible. at least in DS1 they had the presence of mind to give you an easily acquirable set of armor you could midroll with and still have plenty of poise for the early game, and the wolf ring was in the same area.
meanwhile, the generic knight set in ER doesn't even have enough poise to tank a straight sword and the bull-goat talisman is hidden in a cave in dragonbarrow defended by a giga-runebear. early scaled set is you-didn't-beat-it territory, so the player's only chance of getting real poise is accidentally farming the banished knight set in stormveil or killing general radahn.
poise may have been op in 1 but it doesn't mean make it completely dogshit in every subsequent game, there's way more broken shit than facetanking bosses with a greatsword.
At the least you can get the bullgoat set as the 2nd assassination you do for Volcano Manor.
It helps, immensely.
heres your "girl" bro
yeesh. eternal youth my ass
Miquellussy got me actin up
That torch totally lied to me!
>turn a cute little shota into your omen twin brother
seriously, how deep was that horn in his brain
>into your omen twin brother
more like into his wife, dude. He tried to share his bed with Miquella
i don't get Malenia. she can tear through mohg like butter but she just stays there sleeping while that pedo kidnaps and diddles her brother.
does she literally just not know he's gone?
Radahn beat her into a coma. She had to be dragged back to the Haligtree after their fight, and Miquella was already gone when they got back. She doesn't wake up until you show up to kick her "undefeated" crusty ass.
she's a moron
This. Her and Miquella together were basically two normal demigods except that Miquella got all the brain and Malenia got all the strenght
Malenia, despite operating with a fraction of her forces (just some of the Cleanrots, no Lordsworn) and having fought through an entire continent, crushed "General" Radahn's army in every single battle before the bloom, which we see evidence of all around Caelid including Aeonia Swamp, Sellia, and the Wailing Dunes.
>Winged helm of the Cleanrot Knights, celebrated for their undefeated campaign in the Shattering.
She seemed to be an intelligent commander.
No she seems just overpowered in fighting. Not a single of her acts imply even mediocre intelligence. What was even the goal of her campaign?
>No she seems just overpowered in fighting. Not a single of her acts imply even mediocre intelligence.
Keeping an army loyal and supplied in a cross-continental conquest (that involved marching through tundra, mountains, and deserts) and winning every single battle of that conquest against multiple different factions while outnumbered requires well above-average intelligence.
>miquella was manipulating a brain dead malenia
Seems plausible
>She seemed to be an intelligent commander.
Yeah she was really intelligent when she let miquella get kidnapped
>Yeah she was really intelligent when she let miquella get kidnapped
Miquella was kidnapped before the Shattering and it's one of the reasons Marika shattered the ring in the first place.
>Miquella was kidnapped before the Shattering
no he wasn't, Mogh only escaped after the shattering
No he didn't. Marika was publicly despairing at Miquella's disappearance before the Shattering, as she went missing without anyone being able to hear a word from her almost right after it started.
>I heard speculation Miquella embedded himself in the Haligtree, but before he could finish, someone cut the tree open and absconded with his infant form. Indeed, it seems those words held weight. How vexing. That the All-knowing didn't have the full story... Perhaps the Queen's sorrow was justified...
The narration "the mad taint of their newfound strength TRIGGERED the Shattering" plays over a slide of Mohg kidnapping Miquella in the opening cutscene. It's not at all subtle but for some reason the community still hasn't caught on to this.
>their newfound strength
But they only gained said strength after receiving the shards, that makes no sense
And? Doesn't change the fact she's a massive moron
she may have went to Caelid to free Miquella but that's just speculation
>pic rel
Radahn actually hides his mount beneath the dunes before making that jump.
What a dumb b***h with crap orientation the portal is close her home LUL
the portal is secret
A crappy secret , more the shortcut i want to curbstomp the genoius who tied it to early pvp-tied exploit
No, wait dlc
The blood swamps are pretty Boschian too.
yeah I'd say that looks pretty Bosnian
Don't insult Caelid like that
God why does Elden Ring have to fricking suck? I look at pictures like this and it makes me so depressed on what could have been.
cause you're depressed. it's no masterpiece but i found it enjoyable
I'm not depressed. Everything just objectively sucks.
You suck.
it's about as good as a game this size can be
try playing it but limit yourself to only the legacy dungeons + areas required to reach them
the game actually benefits from being a more focused experience, which is a clear sign that they went much too wide on this one
>it's about as good as a game this size can be
Not really. It's foundationally fricked because of incompetence. They could easily lower the damage value of enemies, add proper DS1 poise, and fix the framerate issues on PC. The CHOOSE not to, because they are incompetent and lazy. Has nothing to do with it being open world.
If I had the money and resources I could easily design a game that runs laps around Elden Ring.
>If I had the money and resources I could easily design a game that runs laps around Elden Ring.
this is the funniest post i've seen on this board in a fricking while gotdamn
it's just a sub-par dark souls when you do that
How do I get up to the ledge where that troll is?
Go past Sellia and walk around the eastern side
Head right from the church of the plague where Millicent was
AIIIIIIIIIIIIE
aww look he's smiling 🙂
The birds just chill out in Caelid, doing nothing all day.
First time I saw the crows I misjudged the distance and thought these were le funny big head crows.
same, it blew my mind how big they were when i saw that site of grace with crows on branches visible off the ledge, only to find out that the crows were far as frick instead of right off the platform
they do be funi tho fr fr
I think everyone did that, they just blend in so well with everything else in Caelid.
God i hate every single bird in this game.
Never trust birbs.
They hide, waiting for you to frick up.
The ones with the exploding beak thing and the swords are the mostt annoying.
i wish i could take HDR screenshots in steam without the colors coming washed out in the screenshots like picrelated
>Please download my mysterious and cinematic Skyrim ENB #231
You can, you just have to take uncompressed photos.
Turn the option on in Seam's settings. The option should allow the photo to be presented as-is without any extra compression techniques.
Should be able to see the difference between this uncompressed copy and the previous one I posted.
Take THAT!
Dumb demon birb.
I didn't get the chance to picture him too much cause he chased me halfway around the map ;_;
Oh they got the What Dreams May Come coastline!
Damn, that looks neat.
I really liked the feeling of going to new areas on ER. Caelid and Siofra were so spooky and atmospheric when you first find them
any mods or cheats that let you go to the blood mansion early on a pirated game
It was a paradise until a wxman came around.
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Better question, what were the burning heads in the leaked footage and network test supposed to be, and why did they switch them for some skulls instead?
no. if you get there fast enough, you can get there before it turns to shit. you can save it if you hurry.
Yes.
All the Rot did was make fungal growths appear and poison the central swamp, and thus a lot of animals. These are really the only things distinguishing it from any other wartorn place on the map like Leyndell. Other than that it was always a thinly populated desert (characters called it the "Caelid Wilds" and the eastern quarter, the Wailing Dunes, doesn't have any Rot in it, while the northern quarter of Dragonbarrow only has a little; both are as barren as the rest of the map) and it was always full of dangerous monsters (you find non rotted versions of literally all of its wildlife elsewhere and the only difference is that theybdont inflict Rot; those dogs are still giant T-Rexes) and even the sky was always red (as seen in the story trailer).
I cant bring myself to use anything but tthe large club in this game.
It's a decent weapon.
I feel like I have overdosed on this game. For the two first months, discussing it was so exciting, but now I'm exhausted by it, I don't want to see threads about it again.
>I don't want to see threads about it again.
>clicks on the thread and posts
hurddurrrr
OH N-
did he throw sleep pots at you?
The red sky, yeah. It was like that in the trailer before it got hit by turbo AIDS.
The aboveground coral reef of concentrated AIDS is new though.
Also I assumed the massive frickhuge skeletons were Rot victims who continued growing after death, but you can find skellies that size all the way in Mountaintops too.
I feel like if there was people big enough to punt the Fire Giant like an uppity puppy it'd be mentioned in SOME history.
>The red sky, yeah. It was like that in the trailer before it got hit by turbo AIDS.
The red sky might be a result of fire spreading across the area. We know there were numerous battles and sieges in Caelid at the time.
>Also I assumed the massive frickhuge skeletons were Rot victims who continued growing after death, but you can find skellies that size all the way in Mountaintops too.
They're Giant corpses. Cut content explains it by calling Radahn "slayer of giants." Radahn was sent to genocide the inhabitants of the Caelid region for heresy, as they were worshipping giants which the Golden Order hates and wanted an Age of the Stars. That's why you find giant thrones in both Sellia and Nokron (they certainly didn't build those for rotted corpses), why there are Nox imprisoned in Sellia, why every character knows that killing Radahn will open the path to Nokron, and why despite being famous for its Night sorceries, every single sorcerer in Sellia only uses Carian glinstone sorceries, with Night sorceries only being found on the bodies of exiles or prisoners. It also explains why, according to the Redmane Knight Armor description, Radahn's men aren't actually from Caelid.
As an aside the fan fiction that the Rot makes things become giant is so fricking weird. That's literally never demonstrated or even implied, and we have rotted and non rotted versions of the exact same enemies (e.g. the dogs in the Mountaintops of the Giants, the Putrid Corpses around the map, the Crystalians) that only differ by coloration and sometimes fungal growths.
why cant they ever complete a story
>Maleniatards
>Radhangays
Everyone knows the strongest god is RUNEBEAR
Have you preordered yours already bros?
That's fricking cool.
This dude's been touched by the first flame.
Best armour set in the entire game
Unironically the best area in the game and also the strongest start in the game.
Elden Ring lads, how do I get down there?
There's a cave in Caelid that has you come out at that cliff. Just continue playing.
Ahh, I see, thanks, anon.
Just a heads up, the vast majority of those out of reach items are just Crafting Materials or Stonesword Keys, so it's never worth checking for secret paths. Especially since they mostly don't exist like in the earlier games and you teleport from the other side of the map.
I'm curious, has the strategy guide been delayed for anybody else? I just noticed today