where did the hype go?

where did the hype go?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    They only released that pic just to assure people that an expansion is coming. Honestly i think it's still ways off.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/zqTrGC3.jpg

      where did the hype go?

      they never planned dlc, they're putting something together with the cut content

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Better than nothing i suppose. The 2 year gap is good too because they can evaluate on what's what and plan things proper, at least that's what i assume.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        You mean literally every fromsoft dlc that wasnt 2's?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          *every fromsoft dlc
          fixed

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Hype is for people that need it to convince themselves something might be good. Everyone knows this will be pure kino, so no need to make a thread every 5 seconds

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      but half of elden ring was garbage

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Tell the other 20m people that bought it bro. I'm sure they'll agree with you.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Only like 20% of the player base enjoyed it enough to finish it.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Completion rate for most games is under 15% including your favorite game. ER is close to 30%.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >muh sales
            so by your logic avatar and avengers endgame are the best movies ever

            Whinerbros... I... don't believe this... people like it

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Right....

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                [...]
                Whinerbros... I... don't believe this... people like it

                Why are Fromtrannies like this?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm not sure what the implication is here. People don't like that Avengers movie (untrue) or you don't (doesn't matter)? ER is what we call a crowd pleaser. Avengers didn't sweep the awards, either. ER is the most awarded game in history.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                The implication here is that sales =/= quality. ER being the most awarded game means shit when the amount of outlets giving out awards increases every fricking year.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Awards, sales, and user ratings don't matter.
                What matters? You don't matter in the scheme of things. You're not convincing anyone it's bad, so I guess you're just here to whine? Goddamn bro, if you hate it so much, don't play it. You're not turning anyone over.
                I'm implying random Ganker contrarian that doesn't like game ≠ bad game

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >What matters?
                Objectivity.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                That's nice. You can't objectively determine shit and you sound autistic implying you can.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I actually hate this word. This doesn't mean what you think it means and you should take 5 minutes after your high school literature course to fricking google what this means. I'll give you a hint, so your fricking moron brain doesn't hurt itself: objectivity does not refer to some underlying fact of the universe. This word is as useless as 'literally' nowadays.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >random Ganker contrarian
                Elden Ring has a score of like 7 on Metacritic, which is honestly appropriate
                It's not just "a random anon"

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Metacritic is literally worse than steam reviews since any moron can just add a 0 without buying the game or playing it.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Fromtrannies now holding up literal game journalist reviews as better than user score

                KEK

                Also steam is a binary up/down, not a number system. 90% positive translates to a numerical score in the mid 7s, so Metacritic is consistent with steam in that regard, only marginally lower by like .3

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                In that case all games that are over 90% would have a 70% metacritic score.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >91% positive
                >97% positive
                >"what's the difference they are both over 90%"

                Are you mentally moronic or do you just not understand high school math? Even American high schools teach distributions and area under the curve.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Make up autistic argument in head
                >Start arguing that
                Goddamn bro, you must be an insufferable virgin irl

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I accept your concession

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Bit butt hurt are we? I never said that Elden Ring was a bad game, but using sales and awards as a defence for the game is just sad. Best part is that prior to ER, you would never see anybody trying to use sales or awards to defend a Fromsoft game.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Honestly coming into a thread to whine about a game a year after its release screams ass hurt. My point is it's hard to take Ganker contrarians seriously because they simply don't matter, and the game has pretty much universal appraise.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm not the guy who said ER was garbage, I just find it funny how quickly people run to sales or metacritic scores to defend a game, as if those are indictive of actual quality.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nothing is indicative of a game's quality if you want to die on that hill. All we can determine is popularity.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                True, but if someone says "x is shit" then you go "no it isn't, look at these awards and sales" then I just laugh. I mean AC as a franchise has sold well over 150m copies and is extremely popular, yet if anyone used it's popularity in defence of the game they'd be laugh at. Again, you never saw anyone using sales or awards to defend any prior FS game.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ok

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Glad you finally got it.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's wrong, but I don't think you'll let it go. People used the exact same metrics to discuss if BB/Sekiro we're good games and deferred to these, but yeah, take a victory lap.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                How exactly am I wrong? What awards or sales did BB or Sekiro even have to point towards? Bloodborne got mogged by TW3 that year, had less awards than Fallout 4 and the last sales update was like 2mil back in 2015. Sekiro won GOTY at the Dorito Pope's show and sold 5mil. Nobody points towards sales or awards for either of those games, you're just outing yourself as an ignorant newbie

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Shitposting against things you dislike for 15 hours on end is not a substitute for a personality. Develop one. Make your parents proud for once in their poor lives.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >No argument
                Thought so. It's obvious you lack the ability to think for yourself, which is why you rely on sales and awards in lieu of actual arguments. The best part is that that you are so fricking stupid, that you think I've been trying to shit on ER this entire time.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why are you upset at being told to self-improve? For a game you supposedly do not hate, you follow a predictable pattern. Develop your own personality.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                BB is the highest rated of the games on metacritic. This was often used to defend its departure. Sekiro sweeped the awards. This was used to defend its departure. I mean, you can sit there and say you're not wrong, but I clearly remember these things, which is why I figured it was better off to let you have it since you'll just probably sit there and say it didn't happen. You are categorically wrong.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                People point to Sekiro winning Dorito alms all the time breh when it was convenient for them. What is this recisionary history?

                Am I talking to actual autistic people or did they just stop teaching people about hyperboles in school? No shit some people used the BB's metacritic score or Sekiro winning the Pope's award show to defend it. Neither was on the same level of how people use ER's sales and awards to defend it, because neither could compare to ER's success. Was BB or Sekiro the highest selling, highest reviewed or most awarded game of their respective years, no, but ER was.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Nobody points towards sales or awards for either of those games.
                >"Yes they did. I remember it clearly."
                >*Autistic "It's not on the same level™" handwaving paragraph when determined to be wrong.*
                Have you ever considered it's because ER is far and away the most popular and most decorated that there are more of these arguments? Not like it matters since you're wrong about these deferrals not existing. I don't see what your complete lack of a point is building up to anyways.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                People point to Sekiro winning Dorito alms all the time breh when it was convenient for them. What is this recisionary history?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                [...]
                Am I talking to actual autistic people or did they just stop teaching people about hyperboles in school? No shit some people used the BB's metacritic score or Sekiro winning the Pope's award show to defend it. Neither was on the same level of how people use ER's sales and awards to defend it, because neither could compare to ER's success. Was BB or Sekiro the highest selling, highest reviewed or most awarded game of their respective years, no, but ER was.

                This is sad. You could just stop replying instead of backpedaling like an ape and further embarrassing yourself. People constantly bring up Sekiro's GOTY whenever you criticize the game. That and "Chained Ogre filtered" are the top2 strawmen.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Chain Ogre filter yeah, but nobody is pointing towards the Dorito Pope awards, just like how nobody points towards them for ER.

                >Nobody points towards sales or awards for either of those games.
                >"Yes they did. I remember it clearly."
                >*Autistic "It's not on the same level™" handwaving paragraph when determined to be wrong.*
                Have you ever considered it's because ER is far and away the most popular and most decorated that there are more of these arguments? Not like it matters since you're wrong about these deferrals not existing. I don't see what your complete lack of a point is building up to anyways.

                Yup, you're an actual autist that doesn't understand hyperboles. My point from the beginning, is that using sales/awards as argument for why a game is good or not is moronic. Simple enough for your pea sized brain to understand.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Actually, that wasn't your point. Your "point" was nobody did it before ER, and that wasn't true. Your ancillary point about it not being a metric of if a game a good or not has already been dismissed here:

                Nothing is indicative of a game's quality if you want to die on that hill. All we can determine is popularity.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            That's still 2 millions people. A bigger number than people who finished botw or gow

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              dude the game literally plays itself

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >dude the game literally plays itself
                nta but what does this even mean? which game are you talking about?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous
              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >baby mode is available if you need it
                >anon cant help himself to min max slavery mindset so he ruins his experience summoning shit
                >this game plays itself!

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                this conversation is about completion rates. not game difficulty. im saying the completion rate doesn't really signify anything when the game can be completed easily by exploiting game mechanics.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Source?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >muh sales
          so by your logic avatar and avengers endgame are the best movies ever

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          18 million people bought Cyberpunk 2077
          15+ million bought fricking Horizon
          Millions and millions buy CoD and Madden every year

          High sales is evidence of low quality, not high quality. The masses love garbage and slop, and will always shy away from innovation - Demons Souls sold less than half a million units over like 5 years.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            And Demon's blows, bro. Worse combat, enemies, bosses, variety, etc

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Elden Reddit fans are all zoomers who have nwver played a Souls game until the blue-haired troony on twitch inspired them by streaming Elden Ring on release day for 4 hours before dropping it and going back to shit like Fall Guys
              Imagine my shock

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I played Demon's on release. Show your 2009/2010 plat

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              demon souls has issues and has the PS2 feel, but it also features really hidden shit that is really interesting so see, meanwhile Elden Ring reuses the same bosses 10times, doesn't have any feelings of progress in terms of getting stronger, reward system completely beeing utter shit and 90% not even beeing worthwhile to explore. Plus Fromsoftware story telling and npc quests doesn't make even remotely sense in a huge open world like this. They are clearly smaller games that you can quickly play through, play ng+++ and try different paths etc. therefore you can concentrate on one npc on your play through try different things. Stuff like this doesn't work here. Also the damage scaling is utter dogshit.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                It has worse gameplay. I play videogames for gameplay

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >It has worse gameplay. I play videogames for gameplay
                >press r1 on demon souls
                >attack
                >press r1 on Elden ring
                >attack
                >press circle on demon souls
                >roll
                >press circle on Elden ring
                >roll

                yes anon the gameplay is so much different wow. Incredible.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I also pressed L1 for dual wield attack and L2 for weapon art and l1+r2 for guard counter. Literally 150% the gameplay for me.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You're a fricking moron then because R1 is by far the lowst DPS and posture break you can do in the game by a factor or 3 or more.
                No wonder morons like you got filtered and made threads about how bosses have "insanely inflated HP".

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                based holy knight anon. going toe to toe with bosses instead of rolling and flipping around like a circus performer is so good in this game.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Greatshields+guard counters are really strong, even at the start with a basic GS from Godrick soldiers you can just block and counter with a spear and only certain boss attacks like grabs and huge hammer/axes will frick you over.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Greatshields+guard counters are really strong, even at the start with a basic GS from Godrick soldiers you can just block and counter with a spear and only certain boss attacks like grabs and huge hammer/axes will frick you over.

                Hey, it's the same two webms that get used to defend ER's stale gameplay. Took you frickers long enough to show up.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Iv never seen that webm and why do you care so much, imagine what you could do in your life if you directed this autistic energy to something positive for yourself. You are wasting your time

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, sure you haven't loser. Imagine getting this butthurt over a stupid post. The average fromdrone is such an autistic little moron that I almost feel sorry for the normal people who enjoy their games

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >all those buzzwords to say frick off

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >dude if you push the buttons when you need to push them, you would see this game is generic and boring. Its a copy paste of every other game that required you to push a button. We should be pushing 3-4 additional buttons to make sure our first button is for sure the button we want, this will add a layer of gameplay we simply dont know we want!

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Elden Ring reuses the same bosses 10times

                95% of the bosses only make 3 or 4 apperances throughout the 100+ hour long game.
                Only Avatarts and Spirits and Night Riders are used 10 times.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                95 bosses are just enemies
                ulcerated tree spririts:5
                trees sentinels/lorettas:5
                erdtree avatars:8
                farum azula beastmen:3
                erdtree burial watchdogs:6
                demi human bosses: 6
                magma wyrms: 4
                generic dragon bosses:7
                ancient dragons. lansseax and fortissax included since they have movesets that are nearly identical:7
                nights cavalry:7
                tibia mariners: 4
                dragonkin soldiers:4
                red wolfs: 3
                deathbirds: 4
                pumpkin heads:3
                crucible knights:4
                black knife assassins:4
                fallingstar beasts:3
                ancestor spirits:2
                crystallians: 8
                duelists: 4
                onyx/alabaster lords: 3
                gargoyle/black blade kindred:4
                stonedigger trolls:2
                misbegotten warriors and leonine misbegotten:3
                Astel:2
                bloodhounds:2
                spiritcaller snails: 2
                godskin noble:4 (and more times in godskin duo fight since they respawn)
                godskin apostle:4 (and more times in the godskin duo fight since they respawn)
                heros of zamor:3
                commanders:2
                margit/morgott:3
                mohg:2
                godrick:2
                godfrey:2
                cemetery shade:3
                cleanrot knights:3
                Elemer of the briar and bell bearing hunters:5
                omenkillers:2

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yes and ER's regular "elite" enemies that get used as bosses have a wider move set than most DLC and endgame bosses from DS1 such as Manus and Aartorias.

                It goes to show how much From has evolved since their first games, as well as the player base.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Yes and ER's regular "elite" enemies that get used as bosses have a wider move set than most DLC and endgame bosses from DS1 such as Manus and Aartorias.
                >It goes to show how much From has evolved since their first games, as well as the player base.
                well yes that is the bare minimum.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >look at this extremely long list of bosses, it means the game has no variety!

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >regular enemies but with a lifebar at the bottom

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                ER's regular enemies have more complex moves than Artorias, O&S and every in DS1 boss.
                Guess DS1 literally has zero bosses because they're just simplistic enemies with an extended life bar.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >ER's regular enemies have more complex moves than Artorias, O&S and every in DS1 boss.
                they don't
                >Guess DS1 literally has zero bosses because they're just simplistic enemies with an extended life bar
                you don't meet 12 artorias on your way to the gargoyles, fromdrone moron

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Elden Zoomer fanboy unironically arguing that Beastman of Farum Azula is a better boss than Artorias.
                lmao

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Have you even played ER? Most of the bosses outside of demigods are kind of ds1 tier. You’re acting like every boss is Morgott lmao.

                Heck it literally has omenkiller and erdtree avatar which are just ds1 asset flips with longer combos and a sif knockoff that spams player spells (a lot of bosses just use player ashes/spells instead of doing something unique). Longer combos and flashier attacks is basically the only thing distinguishing er bosses from previous games, mechanically it’s the same.

                Monster fights have stagnated as well, you just wack their feet while they spaz around. DS1 at least rewarded you for hitting their tail and tried out diff things like moonlight butterfly.

                And not even a single duo boss in ER can compare to Ornstein and Smough. Because none of them are dedicated they’re all just 2 solo bosses/regular mobs paired together.

                Elden Ring is a pretty good game but it isn’t perfect or revolutionary

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                ERsissies.... It's over for us... We've been exposed...

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Sounds like you played 4-5 titles that are the exact same formula and designed to remain as close to the original as possible, similarly to armord core. Seems like your pointing out the things people like from the game imo. Fromsoft has stayed true to their vision and original game designs and only on this board can you find filthy homosexuals like you crying about it. You Zoomers are the dead end generation, everything after zoomers is utterly fricked

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                ??? You’re arguing with someone that doesn’t exist. Meds please

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                you would be calling me out for making generalized statements if I didn't make a comprehensive list anyway homosexual. enjoy fighting the same enemy with a big healthbar 8 times in a row i guess. you guys are just as bad as pokemon cultists.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                And? You just posted a shit ton of enemies implying like it’s something bad. Are you moronic? If anything this list speaks of high enemy/bosses variety of the game

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Aren’t there only 3 dragonkin soldiers? The one in Nokron in the lake
                The one with the giant dead body in
                Nokstella
                The one in the scarlet rot late
                Where’s the fourth?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                the ghost one in consecrated snowfield

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I bought it and I think it's trash.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Nobody cares what you think tbqh

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              k

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Muh sales guy, gonna shill for muh goty too?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Why are you so butthurt about a game?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          i bought it full price on launch and i still think the latter half and all the copy pasted bosses are shit

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >all the copy pasted bosses
            >can’t name another game with a roster of content that high without it

            Here’s the part where you vacate the thread.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >>can’t name another game with a roster of content that high without it
              so the fromdrone admits they dont care about quality of content they just want quantity

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                ER has 90 unique bosses and 60 reused ones.
                That's more unoque bosses than DS1+DS2+DS3 and they're all around the same level of quality (animations, complex movset with 10+ attacks) as DS3/BB endgame and DLC bosses.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >he doesn't know about the reskinning
                oh no...

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Now let's check out the competition.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                well yes when your game is literally nothing but combat you're bound to have more variety in enemies than a game that is a lot more focused on puzzles, exploration and building machines.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >game that is a lot more focused on puzzles, exploration and building machines.

                >Shit puzzles copy pasted throughout the world
                >1000 koroks
                >Shit exploration with nothing but reskinned weapons and bosses to find.
                >No dungeons.
                >Garbage gmod gimmick

                Amazing content.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                sounds more fun than dodge rolling and pressing r1 on the same enemies for 90 hours

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >R1 and rollspam

                You didn't get past Mergit, we got it.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >severely limit yourself in how you play
                >wtf this game's shallow
                Why are you like this, man?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's not like there's any variety to the bosses to incentivize you to play any other way. All of them are just sword flailing humanoids so I just dodge, counter attack and get it done with as fast as possible.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You're an idiot, got it.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >no argument

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Oh, so you didn't even play it and it's all just bait. Fair enough.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >you didn't even play it
                Always the same canned responses. There is 0 variety to the bosses. Even a gimmicky fight like rykard (which is just an idea copied from DeS btw) can be done normally with dodge/attack without much hassle. Cope all you want, ER is boring and formulaic.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >R1 and rollspam

                You didn't get past Mergit, we got it.

                ive done a strength build, magic build, arcane build and they're all just as boring. the formula is just tired at this point. and having a world as big and full of bosses that are mostly copy pasted just illustrated that to me clearer than any other souls game. souls games are solved at this point. they need to ditch the formula and start from scratch.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Or perhaps it is you who is burnt out on the formula?
                >they need to ditch the formula and start from scratch.
                I don't like the open world too but I don't see them doing that. Who knows, maybe From will surprise me but I'm not gonna hold my breath.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Or perhaps it is you who is burnt out on the formula?
                if i (someone who jumped into the souls series with bloodborne) is just burnt out i wonder how demon souls vets feel?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Well, we're all different so it's hard to answer that. I've been playing those games since DS1 and I only got bored of ER after 3 playthroughs.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >pressing r1
                WRONG! It's now jump R2/L2 for 90hrs.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I mean, he's correct. TotK has a much higher focus on traversal, environmental interaction, towns, NPCs, quests, puzzle solving, building, etc. Elden Ring is pretty narrowly focused on combat. FROM has a very efficient development pipeline where they just focus on making enemies to fight, stuff to fight them with, and places to fight them in. They pump out a ton of that content per game because they've done essentially the same thing like 8 times now.

                I really enjoyed both TotK and ER but they're doing different things.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah! But we have 1000 koroks!

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                rent free

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Pretty biased post Fromdrone. What about the red, depths red, silver and more color variations with zero changes and inflated hp? I bet you’re a discord poster.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                They're mostly spastic humanoids swinging a sword. They all play exactly the same. For a 100+ hours game I was seriously hoping for much more variety.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >He thinks sales are indicative of a good product
          Mcdonalds would like a word with you.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            McDonald's has great food for the price.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Only 8.5% got all achievements. After 6 years of its release. 78,9 % arrive at Saber's round table only and 40,6 % killed Maliketh. 91,5 % haven't even seen the entire game to fully judge it.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Eh not even half, to me it was just haligtree and snowfields. Especially Malenia really needed adjustments, but she for some reason never got any. Even my boy Radahn got nerfed.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Malenia's fine once you know how to deal with the waterfowl, the game's main issue is the copy pasted content, Leyndell is a gorgeous area but 99% of it's enemies are found elsewhere.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            No she is absolutely not ok in any shape or form in her current state. Mass heal through block, stagger/parry cancel on top of waterfowl dance without cooldown is just really pisspoor designed and not fun. What hurt Elden Ring the most are spirit summons, because it was designed around them instead of 1 vs 1 which sucks, because 1 vs 1 is best. I want to replay Elden Ring for the DLC and the 1 thing keeping me from it is having to do Haligtree+Malenia, even if i cheese it.

            This Video explains the massive issues this boss has for most people really well.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >What hurt Elden Ring the most are spirit summons, because it was designed around them instead of 1 vs 1
              This is such a moronic take, why do people keep spouting this garbage?
              Even the weaker summons turn 99% of encounters into child's play and you claim that's "balanced"? homie please.
              Malenia is fine, just stop being a pussy and hit her instead of tiptoeing around. Heavy weapons are preferable since she's extremely weak to poise damage.
              >b-b-but muh e-celeb
              Not watching that garbage. Think for yourself, drone.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >This is such a moronic take, why do people keep spouting this garbage?
                Because it's literally objectively true. It's not a debateable point, it's just the reality of the situation.
                >Even the weaker summons turn 99% of encounters into child's play and you claim that's "balanced"?
                It literally is balanced exactly as From intended it. The game was specifically and intentionally designed to be easier to complete.

                Maybe you want to say "that's bad design, these games are better without summons, they shouldn't have done it like that and they did a piss poor job balancing it" and I'd absolutely agree with you. It's a shit system that leads to a complete mess with bosses that are either way too easy or just annoying and lame to fight, no in between. But that doesn't change the fact that the intended way to fight most of the bosses is with a summon - it's not an optional 'easy mode', it's literally how From wanted people to be doing it as the standard.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              You say that, but at least she CAN get staggered unlike 99% of bosses in the game

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Most bosses can be staggered, just don't use a woman's weapon.

                I also pressed L1 for dual wield attack and L2 for weapon art and l1+r2 for guard counter. Literally 150% the gameplay for me.

                and jump attacks

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Not talking about stance breaks where they get on their knees after 10-20 attacks, I'm talking about the normal staggers from every attack like how enemies and players work

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ah, fair enough, you're partially right then. Not all can be staggered but it's definitely more than 1%.

                Until she arbitrarily cancels out of it

                Then die and fight her again, you literally spawn right outside the arena. It's like a 5 second run.
                Unless you meant that you encounter this unfortunate bug at every single stagger opportunity, which is just lies.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Until she arbitrarily cancels out of it

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                When she feels like it. I don't think I've ever had a single fight where i could reliably stagger her. Any "opening" is purely subjective because she can instantly cancel out of it. Phase one is an endless death stare until you press a button in which case she activates lions claw tier hyper armor magnetic tracking SSS combos. Then phase 2 is basically just Cold steel the Hedgheg nothin personell tier boss design. But since from game threads on Ganker are just a huge pissing contest, she's actually the easiest boss in the entire series and everyone beat her as a lvl 1 wretch so she's immune to criticism.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Her second phase is the definition of mom said it’s my turn. I still beat her second try of course (I figured out how to perfectly dodge waterfowl in one go), easiest boss in the game.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >1 thing keeping me from it is having to do Haligtree+Malenia
              holy casual. i look forward to malenia the most to test my build and how much i've improved

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >optional challenge boss
              >is very hard
              oh no they should pander to you cause that makes no sense lmao

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's broken not hard

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Even my boy Radahn got nerfed.
          People keep going on about this shit, but Radahn's nerf was undone in like a week and listed as being unintentional.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        This is an expansion, gonna be a lot less filler in it, that's for sure

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Up until Altus was fine.
        It's the Mountaintop of the giant and snowield were the problems.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, I was having a blast up until that point, but the burnout sank in fast once it felt like there were like three or four major areas left after what just felt like the climax.

          Doesn't help that more and more of the enemies and mini-bosses felt recycled after that point.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Assuming at least 50% of it was good is a bold statement

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        still 100% better than ragnorak, TOTK

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        sure, if you think "slightly tedious if you fully explored the rest of the game" is "garbage"

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Just wait when they close DS servers to sell you another DLC.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    AC comes out first so they're gonna focus on that for a time, marketing-wise.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I am so expecting this to be shit. I'm actually willing to bet like 50$ that the VERY first set of enemies will be a Caelid reskin or reuse.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why would that be the case? Dlc for DS1 and 3 are stellar.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah but Elden Ring had literally no effort or thought put behind it. It's genuinely the second worst Soulsborne game.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It’s probably going to be a more compact liurnia… So same type of open world but with more ‘unique’ POIs (a study hall instead of generic fort, castle is more stylised etc). And the open world bosses will prob be 70% reskins

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's not gonna be out in a long time. What do you expect, daily hype threads?

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    it wont save the pvp (the only thing that matters) so i dont care

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    They released a picture, got over 500k likes and people made hour long YouTube videos. Is this a reverse Zelda shill thread?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Pic related.
      >where did the hype go!

      have a nice day my guy.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        At the most awkward time no less.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ganker really wants to paint Elden Ring as a failure despite their own parents playing and loving the game and wondering why their child is obsessed with shitposting about something they supposedly hate.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        A bit tiring tbh. I guess if it takes edge off this board shitting on Zelda

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Seriously, shitposters have tried way too hard to make ER look bad, so hard that it's well passed the point where it would appear organic to any non-moron. Just look at when the game came out when the complaints changed in real time as more of the game was discovered.

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Coming out in 2024

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Whats there to be hyped about a single image? Same as asking why arent people hyped for elder scrolls 6

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    why did elden ring's world feel more like a theme park than an actual place?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Every region you do the same thing (kill stuff)

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Almost every Jap games are like that. I guess they don't really care much for that 'what do they eat' question.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Every region you do the same thing (kill stuff)

      Almost every Jap games are like that. I guess they don't really care much for that 'what do they eat' question.

      theres also the fact that the lands between is literally built on pillars and hexagonal platforms.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Good thread guys, well done.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I laugh at my work-colleague who couldn't even Beat malenia and is only 2/3 through the Game despite Being a "Souls fanboy" can't

  14. 11 months ago
    Santa Claus

    Zelda is out + Shadow of the Earth Tree will likely not release until 2024.

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >just one fricking image
    >one of the biggest gaming announcements on social media ever
    Imagine doubting Michael Zaki

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    can someone break this down for me. is it going to be like other DLC from dark souls where it's just a new area with maybe 4 bosses that takes 3-5 to complete?

    am i reading this wrong or is it supposed to be a bigger update?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      We have no idea how it's gonna be but imo it's fair to expect a slightly bigger Andariel/Ringed City DLC. It's probably gonna be another pocket dimension zone that doesn't affect the non-DLC overworld.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        damn, that sounds terrible imo. every time i replay a souls game i never touch the dlc. just feels removed from the game experience and tacked on

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Well, do what you will but both of DS3 dlcs are phenomenal so it's your loss. Artorias DLC for 1 is good too.

          Some dataminer did mention how the base game would receive update with up to 30 NPCs or bosses, though it's coming from dataminer so can't really take that seriously.

          Yeah, there's so much datamined or cut content about those games that I genuinely don't give a crap unless it's actually in my game.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            yeah i don't think they're bad, they just feel disconnected from the original game

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Some dataminer did mention how the base game would receive update with up to 30 NPCs or bosses, though it's coming from dataminer so can't really take that seriously.

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Proof payed shills exist

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      You certainly are on to something. It's the long awaited DLC to a game that was being touted as the greatest of all time and no one gives a shit.

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    i know right? pretty weird how totk has fizzled out after only 2 weeks while ER still lives rent free in discordtroons' heads

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    How big will it be? Do you think it will be just moar content or from will surprise us with something?

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      That middle picture can't be real, lmfao. They've like given up

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        What’s wrong, Dark Souls III looks great

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    FROM doesn't do a lot of marketing from what I have seen, unlike SE where they make 50th FFXVI trailers. At least people know where the quality one is.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >FROM doesn't do a lot of marketing

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    FromSoftware is LITERALLY the best game studio at the moment. There are a few good competitors but anyone who genuinely tries to shit on FromSoft games is a mindless contrarian who hasn't touched a game in 10 years and uses this shithole as a Discord group.
    Call me a drone idk From still hasn't disappointed.

  23. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    We know literally nothing about it other than that pic.

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Cursed game for me. It was released when war started and I couldn't play it while city was bombed. Tried to force myself to play it after, but for some reason can't.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I hope Russia wins

      • 11 months ago
        Santa Claus

        Frick off.
        If russia would win, your country would be their next target on their moronic conquest.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          They don’t want war with USA. They won’t win.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        You are in wrong timeline already. Russian on her path to lose. I will play Elden Ring when it does and will remember your post, so you would choke and knew it was me, ukie anon, still alive and well,

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Same

        Frick off.
        If russia would win, your country would be their next target on their moronic conquest.

        god I wish

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Lord Miquella, forgive me.. The sun has not been swallowed, our prayers were lacking. Your comrade remains soulless. I will never set my eyes upon it now. Your divine Haligtree..

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I killed that Weird Cat Dog God Monster in Elden Ring and turned it off after that. That was enough gaming in that universe for me.

  27. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    reminder

  28. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >No story
    >Barren open world
    >No challenge
    >Dualwielding makes the game even more trivial
    >Input reading
    >Magic is overpowered
    >Just summon ashes to win, bro!
    >Bosses are easier to stagger now, meaning the game is even more casual friendly
    >Most weapon abilities trivialize the game
    >Like 75% of the game is optional
    >No solo invasions
    >No covenants, meaning that PvP has no point
    >4 endings are the same (kek)
    >Teleports (WHAT THE FRICK WERE THEY THINKING?????)
    >Intro is a powerpoint slideshow
    >"Altering costumes" system is the dumbest idea ever
    >Fast travel
    >They changed Malenia's white VA to some Black person for woke points (OH NO NO)
    >All big bosses are garbage
    >Cuck shit
    >Feminist shit
    >Simp shit
    >Furry shit
    >troony shit
    >Gay shit
    >Pedophile shit
    >You have to simp for a woman in order to access some of the game's content (lmao)
    >Paid DLC
    >Final boss is a troony and a giant fish instead of kino old man battle like in literally all previous games
    >Skyrim dungeons (that have no rewards)
    >Boss reuse
    >Asset reuse
    >Worst camera ever
    Is Elden Ring the worst game of all time?

  29. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I like this game and all but I am experiencing some major souls-fatigue

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      There's that robot game they're making, some nice break from the formula maybe.

  30. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Fromtrannies are getting destroyed in their own thread
    Holy FRICK.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      They get destroyed in every thread. It doesn't phase them, they are unironically an average of abiut 85 IQ and just too stupid to follow simple logic. It's like "winning" a debate on Kantian ethics with a Dinka tribesman, you can demonstrate unequivocally the correctness of the argument 100x in a very obvious way, and they will simply be unable to comprehend it and will in fact think that you are the stupid one because you are talking about intentionality instead of showering in cow piss.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        FROMSISTERS????????????????? IS THIS TRUE???

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yes the trannies won you guys did it, you won, now you can continue making elden ring threads to help marketing

  31. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Trannies made it illegal to be white and straight. That's why

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >non-sequitur /misc/shitter post to derail the thread
      gay

  32. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm fighting the urge to replay it until the DLC comes out. Best game of the decade no question, Ganker can shit itself with rage till the end of time and that won't change the facts.

  33. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    no news, no hype

  34. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >huge empty field of grass with the same ruin asset scattered here and there
    Persons of Elden... We are going home...

  35. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    What you're seeing right now, OP, is how popular this game is without paid marketeers

  36. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    it eldened out of the ring.

  37. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wasn't this just some fake leak anon made up in photoshop?

  38. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Well, to be completely honest, I don't really even want more elden ring. I really wish they would move forward to something else, such as reviving king's field or something.

  39. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Elden RANGZ is literally unreplayable. How anyone can have hype for more of the same is beyond me. Also from shitters need to add a boss run mode.

  40. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Despite like 80% of the dungeons being shitty summon rewards that no one want. Being so limited on the mats it's SHIT. It's not fun and designed to not be fun for some reason. I just wanna try weapons without the fear of fricking up the run because i'm out of mats for the 10000 weapons there are in the game.. And no, the super hidden item that let's you buy them is not a fix.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      just get an item mod. i did it multiple times and im not banned.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The worst thing is having to farm mobs at single digit % drop rate for gear. Like is this an MMO or something?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The extremely low weapon and armor drop rates are fricking awful, I agree.
        I mean they kind of make up for it with boss weapons being extremely overpowered.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Leveling arcane helps a lot, as do silver chicken feet

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >the super hidden item that let's you buy them is not a fix
      >yes I can completely obviate this complaint by getting the bell bearings but I am NOT looking up where they are

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >looking up where they are
        Fromgays actually complete the game with guides? ohnononononononono

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Well if you think they're "super hidden" you must not have figured out that the orange circles on the map are mines, so you'd probably need a guide

  41. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >60fps lock
    >Black bars for non 16:9 resolution
    It's literally the shittiest game praised on Ganker in recent decades. It's inexcusable.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >bought a meme monitor
      lol
      LOL
      LMAO even
      do the make 2160p ultrawide? too lazy to google but any ultrawide is just less space for more money, you get a 2560x1080p, just buy a 1440p monitor, more pixels, 3840x1440? get a 4k monitor etc

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        It includes 8:5 too you shitter.

  42. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >DLC is like a year away still
    >NG+ is boring dogshit
    >PvP is absolutely broken, invading isn't fun and blues are pointless
    >0 new balance patches in like 3 months

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Summer games fest will have a trailer and itll be for November i bet

  43. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Getting excited for a lazy ps4 port in 2023
    Are you a paid actor or just a consooomer who identifys with [Brand]?

  44. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    If you guys ever do another playthrough I recommend trying a "can only level up for every boss healthbar you kill"
    Any challenge run can kind of be negated (except no levelling) by just doing the 3-4 steps necessary to get to albunariac farm, I've been enjoying doing this and actually having the boss itself in dungeons be the reward.

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