Why does this ugly thing get a pass? If a western dev made her you would literally be calling her a man.
Why does this ugly thing get a pass? If a western dev made her you would literally be calling her a man.
Why does this ugly thing get a pass? If a western dev made her you would literally be calling her a man.
If she was made by a western dev she'd also have shitty writing.
FromSoft games are all horribly written apart from Bloodborne and Sekiro. Literal nonsense slop
>apart from Bloodborne and Sekiro
holy yikes lmao
Sekiro's simple story and soulful Shinto and Buddhist lore mogs Dark Souls generic fantasyslop where Miyahacki is too lazy to hire actual writers
Dark Souls literally has the Kali Yuga you inbred
lmao you had to add exceptions there cause it would expose you as a total shitter
it still did, shitter Black person
Mindbroken souls troony pajeet
>buzzword salad
Japanese Devs: She's ugly because she's a fricking snake in disguise.
~~*Western*~~ Devs: She's ugly because we don't want to make the trannies on our staff jealous of what they will never be.
>The story is not spoonfed to my moron brain so it's bad
Fromslop games don't have story, its not in the game whatever some moronic youtuber made up in his 2h video essay is not the story.
You're right senpai the pages and pages of ingame lore actually don't exist
>lore is story
moron
Never reply to me again you drooling moron
>Fromslop games don't have story
Incorrect, troony. All From games until Elden Ring had story. It was supposed to have a story but it was cut.
DS has better writing than whatever westernslop you're playing right now
How about you start talking properly instead of parroting buzzwords you cum guzzling moron.
I liked the writing in demons souls
Elden Ring was my first Fromsoft game. Terrible story that didn't make sense. Were they always like this? Not that the from cult cares. They're used to eating shit.
Dark Souls 2, 3 and Elden Ring are a step below the usual faire.
ER shits all over DS1, just take off the nostalgia goggles. Go ahead and replay that clunky piece of shit.
nta but ds1 is great and not clunky at all
>that gif
kek
Is this the legendary DS2 PvP hailed as the bestest souls PvP evah in the history of forevah?
yes
Hailed far and wide, my friend.
The more they fixed it, the more fricked up it got.
It was glorious.
It is, take those fricking goggles off.
>I was talking about the story
Which is a massive grimdark meme except for a few revelations. The DS trilogy is trampled by Demons, BB and ER story-wise too
How is Dark Souls any more or less grimdark than Demons, BB and ER? Just because it has a downer ending? And why does it being dark mean it's "trampled?"
I was talking about the story.
yes, fromsoft is deathly afraid of telling a straight story in fear of being criticized so they intentionally put a lot of holes even if you put the pieces together
Sekiro has a clear story and it’s fine
like hell it does
you're in a bubble. And if that were the case, they wouldn't bother hiring GRR Martin for ER
What part of sekiro isn’t clear moron?
The entire thing, the whole reviving dragon curse thing (which was a largely dropped mechanic), the entire third ending, whatever the frick is going on in the area with dragons, etc
And yet the game is highly praised despite having a "terrible story" so maybe you're the one in a bubble.
Great stories aren't what people want from video games.
Cult cope deflection
all the from games have a fairly standard, straight story, the lore is not the same as the story
only DeS and DaS1 have a straight story ignoring the lore bits. 3 in particular was a massive slap to the face in every story aspect
>ds2: link the flame to repel the curse from drangleic.
>ds3: link the flame because the entire world is dying without it.
>er: reach the erdtree to mend the world (or change it).
>BB: find paleblood to become a great one
why are haters always so disingenuous?
missing some info don't you think?
Better looking than 99 percent of British "women".
Spoiler that shit you bastard
Imagined all these women had shrunken america and was stomping all around it crushing everyone under her colossal stinky bare feet
would the cutie with the melons in the sailor suit
The Staypuft Marshmallow slag? I 100% guarantee that you are either British or a 3rd worlder
why did yo say third world 2 times ?
Far left is cute. Would let sit on my face.
at first I thought the person on the left was supposed to be the stay puft marshmallow man and I feel terrible for thinking so
Would far left and mid right
Because she's nice.
Also I like her lizard form and her overall story.
probably because elden ring was severely lacking in things for the coomer morons to call attractive so they clung to whatever they can to keep them motivated while playing
>probably because elden ring was severely lacking in things for the coomer morons to call attractive
Not really
Miyazaki is a foot degenerate who only gave Gwynevere a pass because he couldn't say no to the artist.
It's a false sell for people who hope each souls game has mommy milkers, because none of them have had any except DaS II which wasn't touched by Miyahacki.
what is that and from what game is it
Rya/Zoraya from Elden Ring
>zoomercraft
>zoomercraft
Minecraft released 12 years ago mate...
so? time passes for everyone, zoomers grow up, but generations don't change.
18 year old millennials were playing Minecraft on release, anon.
You know Minecraft and Dark Souls came out around the same time, right? Soulshit is as much zoomer garbage as Minecraft
Basically, if Demon's Souls wasn't your first, shut the frick up
Zoomers were terrified of Dark Souls because of the tsunami of journo morons blowing airhorns and ringing bells and screaming that it was literally the hardest game ever made
Revisionism? On Ganker? Souls shit is zoomcore, it has ALWAYS been zoomcore. Fricking Pewdiepie used to make DS vids.
Tourist secondaries crying revisionism about things they didn't actually see firsthand will never not be funny, you literally don't remember 2011
Seething shitllenials.
>"y-you're zoomers!"
>SHUT UP homosexual
>"y-you're millenials!"
>"y-you're zoomers!"
DS is zoomcore and so is minecraft.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You are literally a zoomer
ye
>buzzword buzzword
Why bother pretending you know what the frick you're talking about in the first place you braindead 17 year old
no it wasn't
>muh e-celeb
Kys
Well, she's a giant snake creature masquerading as a human so it's fine?
You realize most people like the snake form right?
Because she was inspired by Bill, a triple handicapped lizard made by a schizo from the napes
a bit arrogant to think from or miyazaki ever heard of character in a porn game whom which you can have gay sex with let alone played it
Its not impossible knowing his favorite character is a ugly rapist bastard from a porn game, but i think you are right in that its a bit too niche to be the case.
>knowing his favorite character is a ugly rapist bastard from a porn game
What?
Its from an old interview, i dont have it in me.
Cool, I'll assume you made it up then
If you want to search for it, look for a chinese content creator ER beta map leak video in youtube.
I'm good, I feel like if it were actually true you'd be able to show proof really easily and quickly but since you aren't I'm gonna keep assuming you're making up bullshit
Christ anon, you better be grateful because searching this chinese trash on youtube is basically impossible with the millions of ER videos there are now that the game is out
But Bill was already mostly inspired by Pekora. At least design and theming wise, there being a snake god, them being religous/angel etc. Except for the fact that Pekora is not a trap, Bill being one is just to check of another fetish box I suppose.
Because she has Gamer Back™ like me.
She’s cute and the way she talks denotes innocence and stirs the desire to protect and pat head
and frick ass you forgot frick ass anon
More fem than just about anything from a modern game. Based.
She’s ugly on the outside but beautiful on the inside
>white
>young
>feminine
she has a gentle voice and a sweet personality and she doesnt talk in quips like a western dev would make her
She's literally a rape ritual demon baby pretending to be human, I'd expect her to look gross
>Why do men love nice, relaxed, feminine, innocent girls?
Because she is supposed to look weird. They aren't parading this b***h around like its the beauty standard.
yet she's still cuter than 99.9% of girls made by western girls
I have a lot of Rya fan art
But I need to do chores so I'll stop after this next one
Unrelatd bonus because I found it in my Elden Ring folder and thought it was funny
lel
Literally the lore from official elden ring manga.
>I have a lot of Rya fan art
I like em a lot very
keep em coming
Holding a Noble must feel nice.
i doubt that very much
Take this animeish cute Rya image anon.
And if I have to choose tha safest option for a waifu in this game I will go for Nepheli, cause she's not a doll, another creature or a damm ghost, so Rya and Melina are on second and third place respectively.
>B-but what about mommy Malenia.
Seriously dude, what the frick is wrong with you.
Awwwww, she's adorable.
I'd have so much sex with anime rya
Filthy image
checked
>pressing your face/neck into a sword edge
That seems dangerous
i hate how that youtube homosexual made this pic popular
i thought if was funny. and i found the real one and jacked off maniacally to it.
Quads confirm
Isn't her human form an illusion?
Well... it's a japanese game so "illusion" could mean anything from smoke and mirrors to actually becoming the thing in shape and form (but not soul, which is a important destinction in japan)
>(but not soul, which is a important destinction in japan)
I'm a low level weeb, why is this an important distinction for the Japanese?
It's basically the core of shinto faith and would be a huge post just to explain it. But basically the soul define existence. Something that has changed body but not essence has basically not changed at all.
>Go for Nepheli, cause she's not a doll
There are people who don't give her the potion?
I gave it to the shitman.
Best waifu is sellen
Based. I was upset that Ftom didn't initially let you complete Nephelli's quest. So glad they updated that.
I also really liked Roderkia. It would be hard to pick between Nephelli, Rya, Sellen, and Roderika. I also like Melina but she kind of annoyed me with some of her dialouge.
people like from's characters because of they show up in moments and places in which you would only expect to find cruelty and solitude, even if their models aren't particularly cutting edge or have expensive cutscenes, pic was more memorable to me than the entirety of gow ragnarok
Alexander was a jobber, but a cool jobber, if only he had more hp in that last fight against us.
His whole character arc is about him trying to rise above his jobber status, he fully admits and accepts that you're stronger than him
how is he a jobber? do you know what that means?
he just loses because he's a literal pot of flesh the lowest common denominator in the lands between
he shows us his resolve to live his life honorably on his own terms instead of cowering in fear of poachers
he's not there to compare power levels for the bad guys or whatever shonen shit the term "jobber" is meant to refer to
Jobber is a wrestling term you spaz, it's someone who regularly loses
Jobber comes from wrestling. It's a term for the guys whose "job" is to lose. Alexander is exactly that being a low level jar man whose purpose is to transport corpses but he tries to rise above that and it's endearing.
No hes a glass cannon. If you actually somehow end up getting hit by a Giant Jar they do actually hit pretty hard but they can be staggered and have very low health. Ironically the most dangerous jars are the ones who hide in dark areas and explode when you get near them. Jars also get stronger depending on how much flesh they add to themselves, like the one standing in front of Caelids arena whos immune to damage. Or the gigantic jars near all the Minor Erdtrees.
Alexander is pretty formidable in his final battle against us but by then we have beaten demigods, actual gods, dragons of unparalled power and more.
>get surrounded by the little jars in the castle
>these guys aren't that that tough-
>mfw I accidentally woke up the big jar hiding in the corner
She cute
Only fromgays would latch onto a nothing character like this
literally Zanzibart tier
>Why does this ugly thing get a pass?
She's the most soulful lizard in the game with a waifu personality. Also the only fricking thing in game not trying to murder you or planning to frick you over.
It's quite literally this
There is not a single drop of malice in Rya
This is actually true. I met a girl I thought was rather ugly but by the end of our conversation I was immensely attracted to her.
I didn't fricking ask, you dumb buffoon
But yes, it is true
>There is not a single drop of malice in Rya
She’s part of a organization that murders people
She doesn't know about it, her "mother" lies to her
The player is also just some vagrant murderer but you don't make a fuss about that.
You no longer have the excuse of "they're hollows" anymore you know
Actually everyone in the lands between have gone mad and are basically hollows
Someone edit this so it's Diallos on top and Rya at the bottom
For (you) anon.
i'm still convinced rya was just playing dumb and was just trying to get you to murder boggart
she really was, she's testing the tarnished to see if he's got the strength and will to kill another tarnished, that's why prawn bro says "it's not my fault she was dumb enough to drop it"
Boggart is a literal fricking convict criminal, you speedplayer
*ziiiiiip*
yes he is but that doesn't mean i'm wrong, she is called a scout because she is testing tarnished in search for a potential new recusant, how did you miss that?
she is moronic (like the both of you) and Boggart lies to you, shifitng the blame on her, no wonder you Black folk get filtered by the lore Jesus Christ
she's a terrible scout and this is part of her goddamn character, speedplayer mongoloids
>lives in a mansion full of scheming, blasphemous murderers in search of comrades
>bait the new kid into fighting some nobody to see if he is cruel enough to become blasphemous later
>give invitation as thanks
>he is now part of snek club
>"uhhh ackshully the petty thief who sells boiled crayfish is behind this shady situation"
>"uhhh ackshully the petty thief who sells boiled crayfish is behind this shady situation"
Correct, I'm glad we agree.
this is what simping (for a girl who doesn't exist) does to your brain
>zero counter-arguments
>strawman
I guess that's the best you can do.Concession accepted btw.
Don't forget to work on your gaslighting game, it's terrible as it (barely) stands.
post when she says that she knows that, i'm waiting
>But I was accosted by a ruffian, and now I'm in a bind. Could I ask you to lend a hand, perhaps?
>That thug made off with a precious necklace. I need someone to retrieve it.
He's also wearing a fricking iron prisoner's mask and tatters, he's very obviously a criminal
Hes a petty thug and is afraid of a guy who commits murder and soul rape.
no he says he DUPED her
Of course thats what happened. She grew up under a murdering temptress in a manor devoted to blasphemy. She might be somewhat innocent in regards to the location of the Prison Town Church or her origins but thats it.
she's evil but she still cute tho
ZAMN!
then why would her bait be a necklace that has zero monetary value but tons of sentimental value for her?
people are just fricking moronic and can only think in extremes, rya can only be either a pure innocent cinnamon roll who doesnt know anything, or you kneejerk the opposite direction and now her upfront explanation is a dastardly plot to trick the tarnished.
>or you kneejerk the opposite direction and now her upfront explanation is a dastardly plot to trick the tarnished
It's just two morons trying to le epic gaslight anons into thinking Rya has an IQ of 200 and that she's in contact with the Great Ones
it's just one moron who can't accept rya isn't pure because all he has is his waifu
classic Ganker
see
that's why i'm saying he does shady errands for the volcano manor but is a fragile, kind girl on the inside. she tried to get the tarnished to kill boggart but is nowhere near as evil as rykard.
Compare ER's dialogues to pic related.
BG3s dialogue is written like messages left behind in Soulsgames
You could have them say
>massive chest ahead, but finger but hole instead
It wouldn't seem out of place for how awful BG3s dialogue is.
why was elden ring the only fantasy game that used "old" english while almost every other game has modern american english? it's so tiresome
>American English
It's actually Canadian-UK. You can tell because they put the ellipses before the question mark and the hard stop after the single quote apostrophe. Also the use of single apostrophe as a quote.
ok but it's still full of conversations that you could have with your stoner college normalgay friend, not a non-human from a ancient fantastical civilization
You don't even have to use "old" English for it to be believable. Just don't use moronic American teenager terms and dialogue.
One good example of this is Game of Thrones (Seasons 1-4) to the Witcher TV show. The difference is appalling.
They have a great localization team. Western games have quite literally no excuses.
No wonder half the lines in that game are moronic and make no sense
>there's aught here, arisen!
cute black girl. need cute black girl.
the average consumer just doesn't even think about those things
FFXIV had no issue. They dumbed it down after the first few expansions though, for normies. One must needs simply look at ARR for soul.
i don't play mmos
There's also Dragon Quest.
>There's also literal garbage
Cool.
Don't disrespect the grandfather of JRPG.
I'm not. Think about it for a bit and you'll figure it out.
>FFXIV
say the line
That new GOW game is the same as this, it's really weird, it's not even comedic it's just jarring.
yeah, i was a norse/greek/roman mythology fanboy back in my teens so when i played nu gow i felt as i the writers and developers hated the original myths and wanted to humiliate it's gods/characters by making everyone pathetic or an "awful person". And of course everyone talk like they're straight from a marvel movie, the original gow had greeks speaking neutral english but at least the dialogue wasn't awful.
the main bosses in ER (or from in general) are usually given dignity and some glory or respect even if they did bad deeds or had questionable ethics.
Nu GoW had Anthony Burch as a main writer not to mention they tried to morph Kratos into more of a superhero role and have all the characters talk like something out of Whedon’s Avengers. 2018 had this issue in some places like the blue dwarf swearing 24/7. Come to think of it why are so many fantasy media having people swear like we do in the modern era? Because somebody looked up the origin of “frick” and saw it was Germanic in origin or something?
>Come to think of it why are so many fantasy media having people swear like we do in the modern era?
Didn't Game of Thrones popularized it? I feel like all the current fad that happens in the genre comes from that show/novels.
>why are so many fantasy media having people swear like we do in the modern era
Game of Thrones started it (but only among the lowborn), and then the Witcher 3 got big.
I blame it on hack writers not realizing that the people who curse like sailors are always the scum of the setting: the soldiers, the bandits, and the farmer who eats pig shit. The nobles, merchants, and elites are all eloquent or at least dignified.
But of course the hollywood writer (the modern equivalent of the pigshit farmer) thinks that everybody should swear because that makes it mature.
Not the best example you posted right there, at least at first glance.
Yeah Godrick is a loser, and is pathetic, and people in universe do see him as a dumbass, but at the same time...not. People fear him and despise him, warning you of his tarnished hunts, being traumatized by his grafted servants, and when he presents himself he isnt humiliated or ridiculed by fate by having him slip up in a banana peel or do something "cringy".
I guess what im trying to say is that even Godrick, who is treated as a joke in-universe, isnt treated as a joke by the story itself.
but that's exactly what i typed...
I mean you said
>the main bosses in ER (or from in general) are usually given dignity and some glory or respect even if they did bad deeds or had questionable ethics.
And godrick gets for the most part mocked by the setting, Kenneth shits on him and tells how he had to lick Malenia's feet, Enia(i think that was her name) calls him a runt, Morgott has to babysit his castle so people dont take his head and he ends up getting stepped on by fricking Gostoc. Dude is very mocked. But the setting doesnt treat him as a joke despite this.
Never said he was respected, just that he was feared and the story doesnt mock him, giving him the proper weight he deserves with our spirit CHUNER being afraid, Rogier talking about his dangerous grafting, Kenneth himself warning us to be careful of his Tarnished hunts, etc...He is pathetic but not a clown like a lot of modern western media tends to treat their villains.
No dude i said ER main bosses are treated with much more dignity than ANY of the main baddies in the new god of war.
Oh if you mean in reference to like God of War turning actual historical gods into fat slovenly pigs that swear constantly and talk like LA yuppies, then sure I agree. Godrick is given the gravitas he's due as a murderous evil rat with the family ties to do essentially whatever he wants, and he's obviously very grotesque but it's the point of his character, not the writers taking an established noble deific character and giving them a giant bloated beer gut and making them look hungover with puke in their beard 90% of the time
>not the writers taking an established noble deific character and giving them a giant bloated beer gut and making them look hungover with puke in their beard 90% of the time
you don't actually know a single fricking thing about norse mythology, huh? all it needs is a mention how thor should be a cool, handsome character like in your marvelkino
there's many issues with nuGoW, but the gods being drunken louts is not one of them as that is exactly what they were
Watch one single video of Odin or Thor in GoW Ragnarok and tell me either of them are withij ten miles of their established characterization in the Eddas. Odin is a scrawny greasy manlet with a fricking New York accent
Thor is exactly what he should be. It's Odin which is a total joke, but you complained about Thor (I assume) and not Odin.
Thor looks as he should be, he talks like a millenial Marvel character. Odin is miles away from what he should be, the only one who actually talks and acts like a proper god is Heimdall and he's only in the game for like five minutes total
And they made him an butthole just so you won't feel bad about his death
They're cowards, there were tons of gods and mythological characters Kratos killed in the original trilogy that he really didn't need to kill but it was ostensibly justified by his all consuming rage and you could identify with his anger to a degree even if he went to far a lot of the time. Now that Kratos is a passive cuckold they need to make the people he kills seem more overtly evil, like they "need" to go, it's fricking limp dick writing that has no confidence in its protagonist or its audience
Thor gets told off by his own daughter. No Nordic culture on the planet would tolerate a man being berated by his child you either beat the child or send them off to die for disobeying you.
Thor is literally forced by the gods to crossdress in a bridal gown in one of the sagas.
Nta but in myth the gods drink to celebrate and socialize, in the game thor is a depressed alcoholic who makes his family feel embarrassed
Kenneth Haight explicitly mocks him and calls him a big girl's blouse. People are afraid of him because he commands power due to his nature as a demigod albeit a diluted one, and his inferiority complex turned him into a petty, cruel monster who rounded up and butchered innocents to make himself stronger. That doesn't make him respectable, it makes him a tantrum throwing runt who abuses what little power and control he has to try to prove to daddy that he's not the weakest batter on the team
Play Tactics Ogre
It uses some facets of Middle English but probably closer to Early Modern English, so something more Shakespearean. It's more that it sounds cool to the Japanese audience, since there isn't a Japanese dub. But it's trying to sound evocative of the fantasy that Miyazaki grew up with.
There's some good dialogue in BG3, then there's absolutely horrid shit that sounds like it was improvised at someone's DND group.
None of them use middle english, it's completely incomprehensible to modern english speakers
What dialogues? In ER you just listen to an aitistic/cryptic monologue and sonetimes say "yes" or "no".
Everytime i see a comment about "how sad is this characther who died" my eyes roll up. homie you just talked like 2 minutes to that characther and barely said 1 phrase.
Ugly stupid lizards
Best she could do was imitate a hunchback
I love how in an ER thread Ganker still seethes about BG3
Elden Ring is a reddit game filled with le wacky reddit humour and characters like Rya, Alexander and le funny Rykard voice
Into the trash it goes
Sorry OP, but the west has no concept of busokawaii. They just have buso.
>"sorry anon but releasing the dlc before our new game would be a terrible financial decision! tee-hee"
i didn't give that thing a "pass"
in fact I didn't like any character in elden ring, they're either written like shit (like ranni) or exist to deliver one single set-piece line (like 90% of the characters).
she cute
Best girl thread? Best girl thread!
>that waist
Probably because she isn't an obnoxious independent woman who don't need no man
hate how npcs just teleport after dialogues
That is one of my biggest complaints about the game. There's no indication of where they went in such a large world. In Bloodborne or other games, maybe it is less egregious because there are only so many places they can be that you'll eventually run into them. Fortunately they added tracking in the later updates, but that doesn't necessarily fix the problem.
The only ones that are hard to follow are Millicent and Sellen, everyone else directly tells you exactly where they're going to be or where they want you to go next
lol no mili is always in your way, she's very hard to miss
You have to meet her in Gowry's shack and find the prosthetic arm for her without any real indication of it, and if you took the lift of dectus instead of going up through the mine you can completely miss her in Altus
>prosthetic arm
one would guess visiting every big location is in order before leaving to the next region, and the shaded castle really stands out in the map, also visiting gowry is next logical step since he gives you the damn needle.
I completely missed the amputee lady on my first play through and never bothered to go look for whatever I was supposed to find for her because it sounded like a waste of time. I never found Sellen either.
But I also didn't find a bunch of NPCs because the map is fricking huge and scouring it for every single thing is tiring and not terribly rewarding. I actually to this day haven't done anything with that town of jars, I don't know what their fricking deal is and never bothered to find out on either of my 2 playthroughs.
Nothing super important happens there, you aren't missing out on all that much. Diallos ends up there after he leaves Volcano Manor
You meet the kid Jar that looks up to Alexander, if you frequently go back there during Alexanders quest sometimes he has new dialog. Eventually Diallos shows up and the town gets sacked and Diallos doesn't get a happy ending.
>do Windmills & Apostle BEFORE doing Caelid
>she'll never be "in your way" because you don't return to places you've already cleared unless there's an explicit reason
>doing windmills before caelid
wtf. in any case the apostle is optional for her quest
he looks like he fricks fat ojisans
>he
it's some jap artists' female oc
no it's an obscure girl from a gatcha he waifus
meh, delicious chocolate all the same
I was afraid Caelid was a scary dangerous area because of how the scarlet rot is hinted at in the game (turns out you can end caelid while barely even recieving buildup of it) so I did Atlus before it. Generally Altus' open world is kinda easy if you're ready to dash out of ballista bolts.
I know some characters have a failsafe where they progress the quest anyway but I thought Millicent had no such thing
>check source
>woman
ruined
your loss
What the frick
What happened to him?
Got ambushed by basilisks
What about the condoms?
for protection
Protection for what?
The nonsenical Fromsoftware quest design worked better when the worlds were smaller. As it stands in the base game it feels even more schizophrenic, almost bordering on parody.
>Patches goes from VM to Shaded Castle, if you cleared SC you have no reason to go back a mini-dungeon
>Diallos goes to Jarburg a place thats been patched 100x over and most players might visit a few times out of childlike novelty
>D just stays in RH to die
>Nepheli goes to the Village of Albinaurics, again if you cleared it once you have zero reason to go back
The game sometimes drops hints but even those dont mean much. The NPCs speak in riddles for no reason whatsoever or are just vague or dismissive. I can understand this being a novelty in DaS or Bloodborne, the worlds aren’t as open and they have much less NPCs. But not ER, that crap just cant fly in a game that isnt as small and interconnected.
Nepheli goes to the albinauric village after you meet her in Stormveil/RH, if you don't talk to her in either place she doesn't show up in the village so you wouldn't even know you were missing her
I talked to her in both places but I missed her because she blends into the dark environment along the road and if you’re on horseback coming out of a poison hellhole you really have no reason to dismount. I dismounted to fight the Perfumer, look around and find Albus, kill the Not Capra Demon but thats it. Even then players might miss her in RH. There isnt even much indication on where she could go then since people have also cleared Liurnia before Godrick.
She's literally right there on the narrow slope which is the only way into the village, she even has a lantern next to her so she's illuminated. She's impossible to miss
>do Milicent quest
>have the nail which can cure Malenia
>"lol no, this is a murderhobo game"
All it does is halt the progress of the rot, shes lost most of her limbs, her eyes, maybe even portions of sanity to the Scarlet Rot already.
will the current npcs get new interactions in the dlc? or are they gonna be ignored?
90% ignored
>that whole pic
I don't know if I'm into toothy gremlin Rya or snek-Rya more...
>will the current npcs get new interactions in the dlc?
I fricking hope so, then I would've known what the frick Melina's deal is.
snussy
She's super-cute in snek form so it's ok
An anon in a past thread had an interesting theory: They thought that Rya may be copying Tanith's face mask. I can kind of see it.
looks nothing alike, faceblind autist.
>b-but the image lines up
no it doesnt the front layer is way too opaque
Prove it.
Ugly subhuman. Malenia is superior, Chad taste.
Because people only care about her lizard form, obviously
She has a heart of gold, don't let them take it away from her
>gives you the hardcore mode thing
based rya, she knows you can do it
oh how they massacred thomas in the demake
they literally gave him a zoomer haircut I'm so fricking mad frick muttpoint
Yeah, she looks like a lizard person with a cloaking enchantment to appear as a human.
>Why does this ugly thing get a pass?
shes a lizard
god damn secondaries drawing her with eyebrows
5 minutes in phone's photo mode and tablet pen lead to suprisingly good results
Why does FromSoft get a pass on the dullest game in the history of adventure games. Seriously, each game involving running through a repetitious overworld fighting braindead, cheesable bosses to advance the nonsensensical story has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the broken enemy AI and horrible controls, the series’ only consistency has been its tedious roll spam combat and bland world design, all to make exploration unmagical, to make action seem inert.
Perhaps the die was cast when Miyazaki vetoed the idea of including any story or fresh gameplay for Elden Ring; he made sure the game would never be mistaken for an independent experience that wasn't open-world dark souls, just ridiculously profitable eceleb marketing and cashing in on trends. The Reddit Souls series might be anti-Tears of The Kingdom (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-Starfield in its refusal of innovation, exploration and wonder. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.
>c-critics said Reddit Ring is good
"No!"
The open world is dreadful; the game was terrible. As I played, I noticed that every time I would fight a boss, it was one I've fought 5 times already, or has movesets taken wholesale from previous games.
I began marking on the back of an envelope every time an animation, asset, game mechanic, or boss battle was recycled from another FromSoft title. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Miyazaki's mind is so governed by fake praise and mediocrity that he has no other style o
Personally I don't care because the game is still fun for me to play. Almost all of the things it does right overshadow all the things it does wrong. I think Elden Ring is personally an 8/10 game. I can bare to rate it higher than that because of its flaws.
Also I realize pic related is not Elden Ring but I thought it was funny
congratulations on replying to a pasta, moron
There is no need to name call. Pasta or not I'll defend the game. Elden Ring is a very good game imo.
>soreseal at endgame
>a fricking whip
>terrible dodges (while having quickstep)
>keeps triggering the enemies' ranged attack and refuses to approach
is this the current discord pasta? weak
Nice Harry Potter pasta
>reddit spaced pasta, copy-pasted incorrectly
the absolute VILLAGE of shazamspics
>esl shazamCHAD correctly points out that Reddit Ring is just a lazily thrown together dark souls 4
>fromdrones can only make cope images because they know its objectively correct
i was a fromgay but now i fricking kneel
Just give up, it's getting embarrassing
more meme spouting instead of refutation
could it be because the entire souls series are copy pasted goyslop carried by art direction and memes?
Larian troony shouldn't you be playing your goy slop right now instead of being here? I thought your game was so good yet you're not playing it.
>trannies are ok when theyre in games that *I* like
you will never be a body type B
>ugly
false, she's ryaly cute
>i was a fromgay but no i fu- ACK
>shazamtroons still scratching and clawing and shitting their diapies a year and a half later
You lost lmao how sad is your fricking life
Lets be real if they could afford diapies they wouldn't be b***hing about new games coming out
how did shazamgods lose? fromdrones are forever exposed as braindead shitters who don't care about game quality and just want to do dark souls combat all day
>Game has a glitch
It's over Soulsisters.......................
She is incredibly sweet and feminine. A modern western dev would never create just a nice girly girl.
>you fromdrones just keep playing video games you like
>lol you don't even care about QUALITY, you just keep having fun playing video games you enjoy
>shazamCHADS won, we convinced the world that Elden Shart is shit which is why it was the least successful, lowest scored fromshit game ever released
That thing is a disguise
damn...
shes cute when you get to know her
cause she's the ugliest of the cut female npc's from has made not some western dev trying to pretend it's the best they can do, her being more plain makes her cute
The ugly is on the outside.
Name a single ugly western developed character that doesn't have a shit personality.
Patches was probably mostly behind the situation. If it was a setup by Rya she wouldn't have used a necklace that was actually so important to her, any random trinket would have worked. I think Patches met Boggart and pointed him towards Rya like he does the player, might have implied she'd be an easy mark since that's the kind of thing that would motivate him, and Boggart got weirded out and ended up just running off with her necklace. Then Patches used that as an opportunity to get the player involved when you run into him.
>but it still happens if you kill patches in his cave
Yeah From aren't going to disable a whole questline because you kill someone that is only tangentially related, but he's clearly implied to be involved and it fits his MO.
elden ring is the only from game in which patches cares about anyone or joins a faction, guess he got lonely
he's simping for tanith
>Hey! Hey over here! Yeah you! You with the bucket head!
>You're a tarnished, aren't you? I can tell because you were rolling all over the place, but never mind that. I've got a *serious* problemo on my hands.
>You see, well, just a second ago I had my necklace taken by a thief. Super inconvienently timed, I know. Socio-economic factors are to blame, so I don't fault the urban youth in the least. But the necklace was super important to me, and I'd like to have it back.
>Do you think you could do me a thingy and maybe, well, get it back? Thiefy McStealFace is hanging out by a quaint little shack right down the road. I'll mark it for you on your map. You can tell you're nearby when you start smelling the boiled prawn.
>Mmm. I could really go for some prawn right now. If only I didn't have a shellfish allergy.... Heh. It's nothing but oats and porridge for ol' Rya! Well, I'll let you get to it. No sense in me prattling on. Thanks again, Tarnished!
For me it’s Ranni
Everything about Ranni in the manga is so good
I like her dog
she gave me an item and she doesn't die.
I hope the DLC gets a new ending where we just walk away from Marika/Radagon's corpse and the Tarnished catches up to Rya along the road and they journey together towards other Lands.
MARIKA'S breasts
you must be hungry
I thought the "THING JAPAN" was just a meme, but you guys really are autistic, are all right wing Americans like this?
Her true form is really cute and hot. I would love to put some eggs into her.
cute personality
exactly my reaction
But anon she looks like she smells, and is very slimy and creepy! She's cute, but twisted like a Tim Burton character!
Why would she smell, she lives in a grand luxurious estate and thinks she's royalty
Skinks stink. Snakes too.
snakes aren't slimy you dunce
>Why does this ugly thing get a pass?
Because funny snek.
>If a western dev made her you would literally be calling her a man.
Probably because she would have been one.
It's probably the only character in the game who's not trying to manipuoate you, kill you or make you destroy the world.
It also may be the onoy characterbin the whole Souls frqnchise who does not meet a horrible end.
>playing video games for the story and plot
are you moronic? go read a damn book.
They're not trying to prop her up as beautiful
They made her attractive in a cute way
She's not "ugly" looking, she's strange looking. She has the same kind of "cute but weird looking" appeal that a Chihuahua has, and that's why we love her. If she was made by a western dev she would've looked MUCH worse.
Frenzied Flame, yay or nay?
Does it fit your character?
One of my favorite games was pyromancer where I took the Frenzied Flame, burned the Erdtree to save Melina, and then cured myself to become Elden Lord
>Didn't take the Godskin route like some of your Fire Monk bros.
Yes
Game should've let you replace Melina with Hyetta if you completed her quest.
The Frenzied Flame storyline arc is incomplete so that may have been the idea from the get go. Kales quest is apart of it just like Hyetta and Shabriri.
she does. she just burns into nothing shortly after cucking melina.
Whole ass questline relating to Melina and/or the Frenzied Flame should have been more fleshed out.
>melina leaves
>best girl shows up
>"i shall play the role of maiden for you, my lord"
>*levels you up*
>burning the entire world to ash permanently ending all life because some israelites hold a grudge, y/n?
y
suffering is bad and the rest of reality isn't worth the price
burn it all down, end it forever
One edgy nihilist doesn't have the right to decide that for every living being permanently
i have the power to make that decision, thus i implicitly have the right to do so
if people don't like it then they should have stopped me
You have the power to do it but that doesn't mean I can't think you're an edgelord homosexual
>'suffering is bad'
>edgy
lmao
>suffering is bad
Sure
>so I should irreversibly end all life everywhere forever
Tip your fedora elsewhere
most efficient way to solve the problem
what people don't know won't hurt them
>I'm NOT an edgelord!!!
>I just think (heh) that killing everything is the most EXPEDIENT solution to misery
correct
Sorry bro I picked a Prophet class and I take my roleplaying seriously. I had glimpsed visions of flame and I was going to make it a reality.
The prophets' visions of flame were the flame of the fell god that would burn the erdtree, not the greasy looking yellow israelite fire
But why stop burning there, huh?
>bury some dudes alive because you suspect them for worshiping a demonic set of fingers that wants to destroy the world
>they start actually worshiping the thing
guess it was justified even if they weren't doing it already, for them to turn to it so quickly is something else.
If everyone hates you for something you didn't do and treats you as badly as if they personally saw your demon shrine at your house, why wouldn't you if the demon in question offered you revenge?
>>bury some dudes alive because you suspect them for worshiping a demonic set of fingers that wants to destroy the world
Or are contagious with it. Frenzy flame presence isn't just worship or a state of despair, it's an actual sickness.
People missed the part of the game where if you stare into a flare of the frenzied flame it drives you mad.
Kale is alright, Shabriri is a c**t and couldn't even stay on message when he was asking why I shouldn't turn myself into kindling. Only benefit was giving the impression Melina was stalking me after I talked her next grace, which was the most depth she had for the whole game.
>hey you shouldn't sacrifice the girl to save the world. why don't you give yourself up to become the lord of chaos? the girl will be spared... uhhoho... i'm getting horny just thinking about it...
>unzips pants and starts jacking off in front of tarnished
>UHHHAAAGH BURN EVERYTHING LET CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD MAY CHAOS OH GOD I'M CUMMINGGGGGGG
not the best at persuasion but i admire his passion.
It's wild to me what a nothing character Melina is. What a waste of potential. I still don't know what the frick her deal even was.
They really dropped the ball with her. Should've made her pop in every time you leveled, so it could play the animation. Having a bundle of generic dialogue, and some area/location specific ones would've gone a long way too. Just make her more present throughout, so having her decide to light herself on fire would be more impactful.
She pops up a bit near the beginning and then vanishes for so long I honestly think most players will have forgotten about her. There must have been a stretch of 30-40 hours where I didn't get a single dialogue from her.
Most sensical and generally accepted interpretation of her is that she's another daughter of Radagon and Marika who was kept secret, she was seemingly burned alive using the same ritual Ranni used which is why she's incorporeal and has the same closed eye with a rune over it, she didn't have a blowup doll to tie her soul to so she just sort of exists transiently as a wandering spirit
Secret daughters are kind of a trend since the Ringed City, huh?
It's just so unsatisfying that she doesn't really get explained in game even if it is pretty easy to come to that conclusion about her. But the whole Marika/Radagon split still confused the shit out of me anyway. Should watch a lore video or something now that I've actually beaten the game.
The Radagon/Marika duality is so important and goes so frustratingly unaddressed, I really hope we learn more about it in the DLC
In alchemy:
>females represent chaos and silver
>males represent order and gold
>two inseparable states of nature
in game we see two fingers (order) separated forcefully from the three fingers (chaos), causing dispairity, a lack of balance. Radagon wishes for the golden order to prevail (stillness) while Marika shatters the ring (fabric of reallity) in favor of change.
Marika is literally the god and living incarnation of gold though, and Radagon is tainted by his red hair
>Marika is literally the god and living incarnation of gold though
No she is not
>and Radagon is tainted by his red hair
This in no way invalidates anything
>No she is not
She very literally is, she's the only being ever elevated to godhood by the Greater Will
>This in no way invalidates anything
Radagon's very essence being tainted by another god from his birth or creation absolutely invalidates him, he can't ever truly be what Marika is and she directly states that. You're applying real world mythos to a fantasy game like all the same hard rules apply, ER is an amalgamation of multiple different mythologies and superstitions and makes many of its own rules
Radagon hating his hair color doesn't mean he is the descendant of a giant or has been touched by another god
It's literally only ever brought up in reference to the fire giants, and every fire giant being of red hair is stated multiple times. Hair color is important in this setting and speaks to one's lineage, all of Radagon and Rennala's children have red hair, all of Godfrey and Marika's children have gold or silver hair, Marika and Radagon's children have red hair, gold hair, and pinkish hair respectively
Radagon despises the red hair of the golden order's main enemies, Marika despises the golden order that are symbolized in her appearance.
>Radagon despises the red hair of the golden order's main enemies
He didn't even exist until the fire giants had already been defeated and wiped out, they hadn't been the GO's main enemies for a very long time at that point
>Marika despises the golden order
She despises the Greater Will and its hold over her, the Golden Order is literally the religion that she created and became the sole god of. It didn't exist prior to her being granted godhood
Marika shattered the ring and instigated the fall of the world she built, Radagon is trying so hard to keep it together he put the well being of the Erdtree in your path just to keep you from changing the status quo. Their inner goals do not match their appearance, it's almost like an intentional contradiction.
Multiple beings in the setting have linked duality. D and his brother have one soul and two bodies for example. The FF is seemingly a counterpart the the GW if Hyetta's sermons are true.
Radagon is basically everything Marika SHOULD be, a pious follower of Golden Order Fundamentalism that Marika herself built. While Marika instigated the shattering and worked against the GW.
>Fromsoft gives her 4 different conflicting possible origins
>makes an effort to NOT have her involved with anything you do until Altus
>only recites some ancient babble at churches
>only exists to get burned or condemn you for trying to save her life
>is only tied to one ending which opens up more questions than it answers
They had no idea what they wanted to do with her. None whatsoever.
She is (probably) the daughter of the gloam eyed queen, tasked to lead the tarnished into returning the world to it's original state by killing marika, she is pleased by every outcome except the frenzied flame ending
>She is (probably) the daughter of the gloam eyed queen,
No she isn't, she explicitly states she was born at the base of the erdtree and her mother is trapped inside it, there's only one character inside the erdtree
Melina's a demi-god, 100%.
anon, EVERYONE returns to the erdtree to be reborn...
A: No one is trapped inside the erdtree except Marika
B: Not everyone gets returned to the erdtree, only those who are given erdtree burial which is relegated almost exclusively to royalty, nobles, and heroes, certainly not the GEQ who led a coup against the Golden Order
I’ve bought into the headcanon that the GEQ specifically WAS filtered through the erdtree by Marika and reincarnated as Melina. Keep your friends close, make your enemies your children and all that
So maybe her father was the Gloam Eyes Tree in her male Alchemist form? His name is Gladagon and we'll fight him in an Evergaol in the dlc.
Shabriri is a piece of shit but he has one of the best line reads in the game, he starts off super calm and reasonable and then becomes totally unhinged within the space of three sentences
Would've felt better if he didn't bother with saying this would save Melina, come into it talking about why the Lands Between are so shit, there's no way to fix things. So therefore we need to burn it all down AND LET CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD. I do like the passion he puts into it though, even if it felt like he knew I couldn't give a frick about Melina, so he decided to let that chaoslust flop out at the end.
>Would've felt better if he didn't bother with saying this would save Melina
He knows full well it won't save her, he's lying through his teeth and telling you what you want to hear
Guess it's more an issue with her being barely there, than anything else. If she was more present, I'd have more reason to care about the idea. But she wasn't, so it falls flat.
Yes. Makes morons seethe and call you all 101 flavors of cope. I also choose the dung eater ending for that exact reason. Although truly given the choice, I wouldn't be able to go through with it, but I wouldn't stop the Lord of Chaos either.
So the default ending is the only "good" one, right? It's like Dark Souls where anything other than kindling the flame is just edgy nihilism winning out, yeah?
Guess it depends on how you interpret Ranni’s ending, i.e. ushering in the age of the stars, with all the uncertainty it brings. The gods’ influence and very presence is gone and its new queen deity fricks off to space with the Tarnished
She cute.
MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD
Why are you surprised that a westaboo dev has made ugly shit and why are you pretending we don't think it's ugly?
gap-moe bumblerina
i killed her in my world. frick snakes.
doesn't she have a protective aura?
only inside the manor
She has it in Liurnia too, I accidentally jumped toward her once and the gold barrier showed up and she went "please tarnished, stop this" or something
shes literally a snake in a magical skinsuit
I just noticed in my recent replay is that there's the telescope right in front where you meet her and her job is scouting. Blew my mind, there's always a reason for where shit it is no matter what.
because uglyness has a place in media, how else can you write struggles? Tortured worlds?
The whole thing about women having to be pretty in games is fricking moronic, it's like it forgot WHY people had a problem with it in the first place, the problem was the intention, not the existence of it at all, western devs wouldn't get so much flack if the writing was better and that the preceived real world agenda wasn't there, but they are constantly prattling on about "doing their part to help equality" or whatever the FRICK they think will give them more sales.
I hate the Gankertard "nothing can be ugly" mindrot about as much as I hate the western game dev ugly women agenda, but I fight the devs more because companies aren't people and they're money motivated, people can be reasoned with and are allowed to be flawed, companies are evil inherently.
She looks like she's turning into a fish person like in the Shadow over Innsmouth
If you want some snek lady you can just ask nicely. Do you also get off to verbal abuse or something?
Not OP but can I have some snek lady pretty please? She's so cute I really do love her.
>go to Morgott's divine tower
>random boss fight against 2 basic omen enemies who ganked a knight in black void
What the frick was that?
Morgott and Mohg are twins and share the same divine tower
Omens twins guard the tower of the royal omen twins. Pretty simple
A very sweet personality and off-model fan art.
She's so cute
I haven't played but from what I know she is literally ugly on purpose as part of a plot point. The game has multiple other women who are beautiful and her tragic story is in part due to her being mistreated for being ugly.
If it was a western dev then all the women would look like her but they're all suppose to be considered super gorgeous and considered as such in game.
>No story
>Barren open world
>No challenge
>Dualwielding makes the game even more trivial
>Input reading
>Magic is overpowered
>No mimics
>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
>Crafting is the most useless mechanic of all time
>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?
>pastatroon takes 365 posts and 11 hours to show up
Why even bother at that point, you're just embarrassing yourself tripping as you scramble in the door with your finger raised
crazy how she goes from kinda off putting but forgettable character to love of my life after the snake reveal
If Maliketh has Destined Death how can the Tarnished return after dying to him? Would it have pissed off players if you could no longer continue playing after losing to him once?
Because it's a video game
yeah it would be kind of stupid that one of the final enemies in the game could basically just delete your character if you died to him once
Becayse the player tarnished is a special tarnished that gets to ignore how death works in elden ring.
A bunch of NPC's comment on you being just another fricking moron, but then you get 2 great runes and they all get fricking scared because that hasn't happened in centuries in game.
Even the blacksmith at the hub area freaks out when you get to Leyndell. Gideon tries to get you killed when you find a secret medallion piece.
Vaare shit-talks you relentlessly until he tries to convince you to become a servant of Mogh.
It's like it's a video game and you're playing a video game protagonist or something, it's really weird
varre shit talks you even while sending you to mohg, he's just like that
>lambkin doesn't know his place
You forgot, didn't you? You have the sweetest scream
The function of destined death is convoluted and doesn't make much sense. All we know for sure is that Godwyn could not be killed without it, that the godskins in general were using its power through the true black flame to kill gods (still have no idea if their godskin comes from Golden Lineage members or empyreans throughout history?).
We also know that with it sealed the Erdtree can not die, as lighting it on fire with Fell God's flame doesn't really kill it until DD is released.
Whether it's the reason Tarnished can't die, or the noble "not hollows" and Putrid Corpses exist is unknown because the game also has the death blight which is creating undeath.
My biggest head cope for the contradictions is DD being sealed only protected divinity from being killed, not normal people, as in DD is just the codified death of certain entities that has been sealed and not the fundamental concept of death itself.
Godskins use Black flame but aren't associated with Godwyn. Instead they're more present with Rykard's endeavors which makes sense as they have a common goal.
What is it about Fromsoft games that attracts the absolute bottom of the barrel of low effort copypasta trolls? They're genuinely obsessed with trying to "prove" these games are "objectively bad" and they've been beating their heads against the exact same wall for literal years now with zero change or progress
I've never had crab before
What do they taste like
It's a pretty unique flavor. Think shrimp but with a less intense flavor.
Sweet and savory, extremely tender. There's a reason it's so expensive, it's incredibly delicious
Very tasty, but a huge pain in the ass to cook and prepare to eat it.
It's easy as pie to cook, opening the shell to actually eat it is the pain in the ass
Like someone made soft candy out of cod meat. Honestly it's kinda foul.
Far more savory than it is sweet, don't be a misleading gay
mostly people just like the garlic butter to be honest
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>all of them had stories until the one with the most detailed and comprehensive story by a country mile
Ebin falseflag, troon-kun
STFU troony my wife is beautiful
whos the cute yeen
Random OC, no name
She's a cute little moron.
I think she's cute