i probbaly have over 400 hours on the dark souls series. elden ring was a fricking disappointing to be honest, open world was a massive mistake. I still logged 80+ hours on elden ring but still, very let down on what they did with the formula. PVP is also a fricking joke as well.
Just because killing that one person ends it? Elden Ring PvP has no incentive, bloodborne's barely had an incentive too. However bloodborne's combat is way more fun than ER's so it's better by default.
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Anonymous
When souls morons say a game has "good pvp" they don't actually care about the mechanics of the game and the rewards and pvp they just care about how much fun they have in their autistic fake fighting game duel clubs
11 months ago
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For me nothing has topped the chaotic 3v3 frickfests you’d get in covenant areas in DS3. You would have a host, his sunbro and a blue going after a red, an Aldrich and a mad purple, everyone with a different color and goal, and just sheer mayhem until one side gains an advantage. ER needs to bring back covenants and 6 player limit, at least in certain areas, or the pvp will never reach its full potential
11 months ago
Anonymous
>However bloodborne's combat is way more fun
Disagree
11 months ago
Anonymous
SICK BACKSTAB bro. WOWZERS
11 months ago
Anonymous
Won't see that in bloodbornes limited moveset lol
11 months ago
Anonymous
>that janky locked backstab pose
They fixed this in DS2 and just went back on it. I hate Miyazaki so fricking much.
>i probbaly have over 400 hours on the dark souls series
i have over 1k and its the best in the series by a lot. I can see why casuals and shitters would hate it though. Its too hard for shitters without summons and too easy and unrewarding with them. i never use summons so idgaf. >i-i-i-its not hard i just run away until the boss does one of his attacks that is a free punish! its just boring and takes too long!
lmao
>i probbaly have over 400 hours on the dark souls series.
I have over 400 in each game apart from Demons where i hardly played it.
over 1k in dark souls 1, over 1k in dark souls 2, about 500 in ds3. about 600 in elden ring. Elden ring is the best PvE experience for people who like PvE and are good at it. You can argue it is weak as a PvP entry though. Also not as enjoyable to nohit run maybe idk.
Too popular to make them feel like they're part of some secret club of hardcore gamers. Even when Dark Souls came out half the fanbase were limp wristed 14 year olds, who only min/max builds then tell others to GET GUD. This part of the fanbase grew over the years
DeS still requires you to beat every boss and visit pretty much every area. Elden Ring doesn't care if you miss Mohg or Malenia or Volcano Manor or Nokstella, etc.
Going down the elevator in mistwood? KINO
the level design was fine, Stormveil is one of the greatests dungeons they made, the open world can suck a million dicks though. pvp is shite, DS3 fans are subhuman secondaries, their opinion is irrelevant.
>completely open nonlinear level where you can jump around and avoid enemies, no semblance of encounter design at all
and this is the best soilent ring has to offer
Frick the shazamtroon, his posts are boring.
EldenGODS, what are we hoping for in the expansion? I still believe that we’re going to the moon. Trust the plan
A gauntlet of difficult levels and enemies and asynchronous multiplayer mechanics that puts to the test all the survival skills learned from the Sovls series using all the tools available to make it through. No it will not actually be like that it will be some slop open world that's entirely skippable with like 3-4 bosses and no multiplayer mechanics probably.
>DLC entrance locked behind beating a late game boss >Optional entrances behind beating Mogh or Malenia >Gold mask is there for some reason and he tries to warn you about Ranni >For some reason there's a double tree guardian fight or a 3v1 godskin fight
Frick the shazamtroon, his posts are boring.
EldenGODS, what are we hoping for in the expansion? I still believe that we’re going to the moon. Trust the plan
I really really hope there is a 3 crystilian fight that uses the AI from the release of the game. we were fricking robbed because some big "content creator" (aka moronS) complained crystilians were too hard and fromsoft absolutely gutted them as a boss fight. they should honestly have taken them out of the game completely rather than nerf them as hard as they did.
I gave up on it. I like Bastile, Sen's Fort, Towers of Latria and other unforgettable dungeon crawls.
Elden Ring is just copy pasted trash dungeons and a grind like an MMO.
>Elden Ring is just copy pasted trash dungeons and a grind like an MMO.
This. Trying to replay the game sucks because I feel like I need to clear 20 shitty unisoft side "dungeon". Dungeon meaning "hallway with a trash mob at the end". Dark souls doesnt have any filler.
No 4 player co-op will do that. Game badly needs more players being able to be naturally summoned and the scaling to go with it for boss fights.
What most don't get is, the increased player cap also massively boosted invasion games too. Which the game is sorely lacking content in and has been for over a year.
How could it not be? It's a betrayal of everything FromSoft one stood for all to profit off zoomers and get some flavor of the month status. Fitting that it removed the "Souls" from the title, just as the Soul was removed from the game.
How do I get into this game? Seriously, I tried playing previous Souls games, and then this one, but it just feels so damn tedious. You just explore hallways, die a bunch of times, explore more hallways, repeat, there doesn't seem to be a point or any incentive except "one day, you'll be good enough to crawl to the credits".
How do I have fun with these games?
CAUSE IT'S THE SAME SHIT
IT'S THE SAME FRICKING SHIT.
IT'S CALLED SOMETHING ELSE....
....BUT IT'S THE SAME SHIT!
WE OLDgayS HAVE AN OLDgay MEME
YOU ZOOMERS WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND
BUT IT GOES LIKE THIS: THIS SHIT IS THE DYNASTY WARRIORS OF X
THIS IS WHAT FROM IS NOW
IT'S THE FRICKING NEW DYNASTY WARRIORS MEME
FRICK OFF WITH YOUR GAY RING
>completely open nonlinear level where you can jump around and avoid enemies, no semblance of encounter design at all
and this is the best soilent ring has to offer
I have been a long term fan since Demon's Souls on PS3 and I love it. It's by far Fromsoftware's best combat, level design, art direction, bosses and world.
I want to like it more, but most of the time I replay Souls games, the extra fun I get out of it is from gimmick builds where I try to recreate some character from another game I like and doing a lot of pvp on that playthrough.
Already done a whips-only Belmont run and it was kinda neat making Julius with bloodhound step as a replacement for his weird akuma-teleport. But I can't think of anything that really stands out as fun to play in Elden Ring that fits another interesting gimmick, so I've beaten the game once with greataxes and once with whips.
this is the first souls game where I literally ignored anything story-wise, I still had a good time, but these frickers can't stop rehashing the same storylines over and over again. I'm still surprised they didn't put a not-Solaire and not-Siegmeyer in the game (Alexander IS a little bit like Siegmeyer though)
Having played all the souls, i can say that elden ring is overall my favorite. Game is not without flaws tho. Biggest for me is that the open world feels a bit lackluster. It feels like you're not missing much if you don't explore because the most relevant things are inside the legacy dungeons.
Why is the Elden Ring universe so interesting compared to Demon's and Dark Souls? Elden Ring and Bloodborne feel like they have infinitely-richer histories with more interesting characters within the lore. Both of these games are standalone, yet the worlds feel infinitely richer than the Dark Souls universe.
Bloodborne's story is still debated to this day, and I can see Elden Ring seeing just as much discourse in the coming years, if not more. But people had the Dark Souls trilogy figured out within weeks of the Ringed City's release.
Demon's Souls and Dark Souls have simply far less and are purely fantasy tales. Elden Ring is extremely rich in worldbuilding and intricate politics and dynamics between even bosses with timelines of battles and sieges and betrayals. Same for Bloodborne and the institutions and hunters of Yharnam. Dark Souls and Demon's Souls are very focused on a unique kingdom and the lore of its specific creatures and some of its locations. It doesn't help that Bandai gave the direction of the second game to some incompetent moron and the entire pipeline for Souls games went to hell, and with it any chance to expand properly on the lore of the first game.
Doesn't really matter, Dark Souls 2 story is the Mass Effect 2 of the Souls trilogy, bunch of unrelated plotlines that have nothing to do with the original games and won't come back to the third game, and only exist because the original guy isn't there
The Dark Souls lore was butchered beyond recognition, between Dark Souls mistaking demons with generic monsters and hollowing with dementia rather than hunger for Souls
Now we never even got to see Allfather Lloyd or Velka, and the Nameless King is basically an irrelevant optional boss. Lots of plotlines that will go nowhere
Elden Ring and Bloodborne lore focuses more on characters than the others. Bloodborne's is about an old-school college group fricking with weird Lovecraft shit while Marika and her children make up the core of Elden Ring's. In the case of ER even the more vague background things (nature of the GW, Eternal Cities) turn into character discussions (did x influence Marika, was Ranni justified, etc.)
Previous games obviously did that too but BB and ER do it a lot more.
I can't get into Elden Ring and loved every previous DS games. It's too big, it's trying so much but at the same time it doesn't feel like a game about anything.
it isn't
fpwp
fippitybippity
i probbaly have over 400 hours on the dark souls series. elden ring was a fricking disappointing to be honest, open world was a massive mistake. I still logged 80+ hours on elden ring but still, very let down on what they did with the formula. PVP is also a fricking joke as well.
The only From game with PVP that even approaches Elden Ring is Dark Souls 2
Bloodborne
Bloodborne PVP was the worst they've ever done
Just because killing that one person ends it? Elden Ring PvP has no incentive, bloodborne's barely had an incentive too. However bloodborne's combat is way more fun than ER's so it's better by default.
When souls morons say a game has "good pvp" they don't actually care about the mechanics of the game and the rewards and pvp they just care about how much fun they have in their autistic fake fighting game duel clubs
For me nothing has topped the chaotic 3v3 frickfests you’d get in covenant areas in DS3. You would have a host, his sunbro and a blue going after a red, an Aldrich and a mad purple, everyone with a different color and goal, and just sheer mayhem until one side gains an advantage. ER needs to bring back covenants and 6 player limit, at least in certain areas, or the pvp will never reach its full potential
>However bloodborne's combat is way more fun
Disagree
SICK BACKSTAB bro. WOWZERS
Won't see that in bloodbornes limited moveset lol
>that janky locked backstab pose
They fixed this in DS2 and just went back on it. I hate Miyazaki so fricking much.
>>that janky locked backstab pose
?
look at it
?
what?
good game
Elden Ring PVP has been shit since day 1.
The co-op is still fricking amazing when it isn't randomly crashing.
>i probbaly have over 400 hours on the dark souls series
i have over 1k and its the best in the series by a lot. I can see why casuals and shitters would hate it though. Its too hard for shitters without summons and too easy and unrewarding with them. i never use summons so idgaf.
>i-i-i-its not hard i just run away until the boss does one of his attacks that is a free punish! its just boring and takes too long!
lmao
I have dozens of hours in elden ring and demon's souls is the best game i've ever played
demons souls is the weakest in the series tbh. the combat is too basic and the bosses are almost all terrible.
sounds like dark souls
>i probbaly have over 400 hours on the dark souls series.
I have over 400 in each game apart from Demons where i hardly played it.
over 1k in dark souls 1, over 1k in dark souls 2, about 500 in ds3. about 600 in elden ring. Elden ring is the best PvE experience for people who like PvE and are good at it. You can argue it is weak as a PvP entry though. Also not as enjoyable to nohit run maybe idk.
söylent ring has some of the worst pve except bosses
i hate it
OP in shambles with ZERO response
This. It's just hated by a few fricks on Ganker who dislike how there once niche series is now mainstream
Too popular to make them feel like they're part of some secret club of hardcore gamers. Even when Dark Souls came out half the fanbase were limp wristed 14 year olds, who only min/max builds then tell others to GET GUD. This part of the fanbase grew over the years
>guy who wanted trad wife
>tard wife
Wait I thought they were the same height??
Also do you think she and Marika…
it's a true successor to DS1
It has nothing to do with ds1
non-linearity, the feeling of discovery and adventure missing from 2 and 3.
It has the nonlinearity of DeS and the combat mechanics of 2, 3 and sekiro
DeS still requires you to beat every boss and visit pretty much every area. Elden Ring doesn't care if you miss Mohg or Malenia or Volcano Manor or Nokstella, etc.
Going down the elevator in mistwood? KINO
2 has all that more than ds1 did
Ds1 fans are delusional and think fromsoft is always living in the ds1 era trying to recapture that game while making a game that's nothing like it
DS1 fans are disappointed by the lack of level design
DS2 fans dislike the pvp
DS3 fans dislike the bosses
holy shit I liked all 3 for those exact reasons, and also disliked elden ring for those exact reasons, ive never heard someone put it so perfectly
Sums it up well
the level design was fine, Stormveil is one of the greatests dungeons they made, the open world can suck a million dicks though. pvp is shite, DS3 fans are subhuman secondaries, their opinion is irrelevant.
Shartveil is one of the most overrated from levels
ER has the best level design in the series. Leyndell and its sewers >>>>>>>>>>> anything in the first 3 games
>completely open nonlinear level where you can jump around and avoid enemies, no semblance of encounter design at all
and this is the best soilent ring has to offer
Frick the shazamtroon, his posts are boring.
EldenGODS, what are we hoping for in the expansion? I still believe that we’re going to the moon. Trust the plan
>Deathblight dlc
>Frenzy dlc
>Dark Moon dlc
Based
>that pic
takes me back, the pre release hype and shitposting was so fun
The eclipse
A gauntlet of difficult levels and enemies and asynchronous multiplayer mechanics that puts to the test all the survival skills learned from the Sovls series using all the tools available to make it through. No it will not actually be like that it will be some slop open world that's entirely skippable with like 3-4 bosses and no multiplayer mechanics probably.
>DLC entrance locked behind beating a late game boss
>Optional entrances behind beating Mogh or Malenia
>Gold mask is there for some reason and he tries to warn you about Ranni
>For some reason there's a double tree guardian fight or a 3v1 godskin fight
I really really hope there is a 3 crystilian fight that uses the AI from the release of the game. we were fricking robbed because some big "content creator" (aka moronS) complained crystilians were too hard and fromsoft absolutely gutted them as a boss fight. they should honestly have taken them out of the game completely rather than nerf them as hard as they did.
I hope they copy-paste the 3 rotten crystilian fight in that one crystal cave and make it a mandatory fight in the DLC.
it's not hated by anyone who has played it
It's hated because it achieved mainstream success. Anyone who isn't a child and likes Souls games probably liked this.
Stop making this thread over and over you literal troony
I gave up on it. I like Bastile, Sen's Fort, Towers of Latria and other unforgettable dungeon crawls.
Elden Ring is just copy pasted trash dungeons and a grind like an MMO.
>Elden Ring is just copy pasted trash dungeons and a grind like an MMO.
This. Trying to replay the game sucks because I feel like I need to clear 20 shitty unisoft side "dungeon". Dungeon meaning "hallway with a trash mob at the end". Dark souls doesnt have any filler.
rolling simulator
No 4 player co-op will do that. Game badly needs more players being able to be naturally summoned and the scaling to go with it for boss fights.
What most don't get is, the increased player cap also massively boosted invasion games too. Which the game is sorely lacking content in and has been for over a year.
A fricking arena entry didn't fix it.
The only people who hate it are butt blasted shazamtrannies and Ubisoft UI designers.
troony game somehow worse than dark souls
It's good. However BB, DS1, DeS and DS3 are better. Sekiro is not a souls game but it's still great.
How could it not be? It's a betrayal of everything FromSoft one stood for all to profit off zoomers and get some flavor of the month status. Fitting that it removed the "Souls" from the title, just as the Soul was removed from the game.
why do you repost bait every fricking day?
It's not bait as ER is objectively a bad game
How do I get into this game? Seriously, I tried playing previous Souls games, and then this one, but it just feels so damn tedious. You just explore hallways, die a bunch of times, explore more hallways, repeat, there doesn't seem to be a point or any incentive except "one day, you'll be good enough to crawl to the credits".
How do I have fun with these games?
CAUSE IT'S THE SAME SHIT
IT'S THE SAME FRICKING SHIT.
IT'S CALLED SOMETHING ELSE....
....BUT IT'S THE SAME SHIT!
WE OLDgayS HAVE AN OLDgay MEME
YOU ZOOMERS WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND
BUT IT GOES LIKE THIS: THIS SHIT IS THE DYNASTY WARRIORS OF X
THIS IS WHAT FROM IS NOW
IT'S THE FRICKING NEW DYNASTY WARRIORS MEME
FRICK OFF WITH YOUR GAY RING
You know what I love best about this game? The rage videos on youtube. Seeing people rage so much because they suck is glorious.
me too, those videos are always a treat
nvm i just realized you're the troony
meant for
Dont confuse a fanbase with Ganker posters. Ganker has never liked any souls game.
Ganker is the only fanbase I care about though
extremely shallow and all the bosses are shit
I have been a long term fan since Demon's Souls on PS3 and I love it. It's by far Fromsoftware's best combat, level design, art direction, bosses and world.
I want to like it more, but most of the time I replay Souls games, the extra fun I get out of it is from gimmick builds where I try to recreate some character from another game I like and doing a lot of pvp on that playthrough.
Already done a whips-only Belmont run and it was kinda neat making Julius with bloodhound step as a replacement for his weird akuma-teleport. But I can't think of anything that really stands out as fun to play in Elden Ring that fits another interesting gimmick, so I've beaten the game once with greataxes and once with whips.
Any recommendations?
It's fun, so prob the oposite of what the souls veteran wanted
this is the first souls game where I literally ignored anything story-wise, I still had a good time, but these frickers can't stop rehashing the same storylines over and over again. I'm still surprised they didn't put a not-Solaire and not-Siegmeyer in the game (Alexander IS a little bit like Siegmeyer though)
Yep fromsoft is like a parody of themselves
Having played all the souls, i can say that elden ring is overall my favorite. Game is not without flaws tho. Biggest for me is that the open world feels a bit lackluster. It feels like you're not missing much if you don't explore because the most relevant things are inside the legacy dungeons.
Why is the Elden Ring universe so interesting compared to Demon's and Dark Souls? Elden Ring and Bloodborne feel like they have infinitely-richer histories with more interesting characters within the lore. Both of these games are standalone, yet the worlds feel infinitely richer than the Dark Souls universe.
Bloodborne's story is still debated to this day, and I can see Elden Ring seeing just as much discourse in the coming years, if not more. But people had the Dark Souls trilogy figured out within weeks of the Ringed City's release.
soilent ring uses cryptic jargon to make you feel like big things are happening and confuse you
It's no different than how Bloodborne was written.
Demon's Souls and Dark Souls have simply far less and are purely fantasy tales. Elden Ring is extremely rich in worldbuilding and intricate politics and dynamics between even bosses with timelines of battles and sieges and betrayals. Same for Bloodborne and the institutions and hunters of Yharnam. Dark Souls and Demon's Souls are very focused on a unique kingdom and the lore of its specific creatures and some of its locations. It doesn't help that Bandai gave the direction of the second game to some incompetent moron and the entire pipeline for Souls games went to hell, and with it any chance to expand properly on the lore of the first game.
Based reply until you shit on DS2's story which is godlike.
Doesn't really matter, Dark Souls 2 story is the Mass Effect 2 of the Souls trilogy, bunch of unrelated plotlines that have nothing to do with the original games and won't come back to the third game, and only exist because the original guy isn't there
The Dark Souls lore was butchered beyond recognition, between Dark Souls mistaking demons with generic monsters and hollowing with dementia rather than hunger for Souls
Now we never even got to see Allfather Lloyd or Velka, and the Nameless King is basically an irrelevant optional boss. Lots of plotlines that will go nowhere
Elden Ring and Bloodborne lore focuses more on characters than the others. Bloodborne's is about an old-school college group fricking with weird Lovecraft shit while Marika and her children make up the core of Elden Ring's. In the case of ER even the more vague background things (nature of the GW, Eternal Cities) turn into character discussions (did x influence Marika, was Ranni justified, etc.)
Previous games obviously did that too but BB and ER do it a lot more.
It's a shit Reddit game.
>b-but
Elden Ring is slop.
I can't get into Elden Ring and loved every previous DS games. It's too big, it's trying so much but at the same time it doesn't feel like a game about anything.