Elden Ring (PS4,XB1,PC,PS5,XSX) (February 25th, 2022)

[homiedontplaydat]

I just realized the map fragments have a symbol on the map to help find them

 

[The Fade]

This grinding shyt wack

bout to find an exploit

 

[Mortal1]

This grinding shyt wack

bout to find an exploit

 

[8.TRES]

fromsoftware’s obssession w missable content is easily the most annoying part about playing their games

it wasnt too bad in demon souls because it was linear and you could replay levels, but its especially bad in this because the game is so open and takes such a long time to get through

having certain quests and items be permanently locked off at forty hours in because the game doesnt tell you youre supposed to talk to this irrelevant character in this specific order is asinine, especially when its a helpful item for a fight

imagine not being able to get the cling ring because you didnt talk to a random npc three times

 

[Yuzo]

Just rolled credits at 77 hours. Def gonna win game of the year and in terms of the FROM games I've played this is second after Sekiro.

Having said that I didn't enjoy a lot of things after the first foray into the capital. A lot of the ice shyt pissed me the fukk off Malenia, ulcered tree spirit before her,etc Alot of straight bullshyt.

Wasn't perfect by any means. My cons:


Too many of the "hard" fights I felt like I won because the AI decided to do dumbshyt as opposed to Sekiro where I felt like I earned almost all my W's.

Scarlet rot is fukking stupid get rid of that and stupid shyt like that it doesn't add shyt to the game.

Stop with the traps and the chariots like who is this for?

This game is very much open world. No check list but the whole map marker/reused content thing in open worlds exist here it's just obfuscated really well. I really don't like open world games anymore. Just way too flooded a genre. I still have to play Horizon too and finish dying light. It's not necessarily this games fault but I hope they go back to the linear type joints.

The combat is cool but it ain't fukking with Sekiro or BB.

I'm never gonna give FROM the pass for their stories that everyone else does. If you need companion youtube videos and some losers who read item descriptions to try and tell a story than your shyt is ass. They have cutscenes in the game too but their just the same vague rambling nonsense that they do in all their stories.

Everything else was straight though

i started to feel like this might be not just the best souls game but greatest game ever made right up until radahn and thats when i realized there was something very wrong with this game. radahn is not a souls boss. none of the end game bosses are souls bosses. they are more comparable to nioh bosses. they are so aggressive and unfair that you have to play unfair to beat them. thats not what dark souls is. when you start out everything feels big and endless then you realize its a lot of repeat enemies and empty space. how many times do you fight a gargoyle, or a magma wyrm, or a field dragon, or a godskin apostle, or you fight margit and then you fight a reskinned morgot when that could have been a completely different boss for example. i think souls games might have peaked at sekiro and backtracked with elden ring. where the goal of elden ring (lenne's rise had to be deliberate) was to make yourself as op a possible to beat bosses they tried to make unfair as possible but killing the spirit of what souls game are.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

i started to feel like this might be not just the best souls game but greatest game ever made right up until radahn and thats when i realized there was something very wrong with this game. radahn is not a souls boss. none of the end game bosses are souls bosses. they are more comparable to nioh bosses. they are so aggressive and unfair that you have to play unfair to beat them. thats not what dark souls is. when you start out everything feels big and endless then you realize its a lot of repeat enemies and empty space. how many times do you fight a gargoyle, or a magma wyrm, or a field dragon, or a godskin apostle, or you fight margit and then you fight a reskinned morgot when that could have been a completely different boss for example. i think souls games might have peaked at sekiro and backtracked with elden ring. where the goal of elden ring (lenne's rise had to be deliberate) was to make yourself as op a possible to beat bosses they tried to make unfair as possible but killing the spirit of what souls game are.

I think the open world nature of the game just kind of throws off the very balanced approach they used before when it came to enemies and boss battles. I felt like i was either way too over leveled and just steam rolled a lot of the late game bosses or I felt very underleveled which just forced me to power level or use the mimic.

I can see why a lot of new comers would say this is easily the best one in the series (and it might be) but you def lose some of the edge of your seat boss battles you got in past games.

My favorite thing about this game versus others is they don’t make you run through half the level to get back to boss gates

 

[djthegreat88]

These games never having journals was always annoying. Talk to NPC to get quest that i will never remember.

After changing crouch button. Horse fights significantly easier. Finally beat tree sentinel and a couple dragons

 

[SCJoe]

I think the open world nature of the game just kind of throws off the very balanced approach they used before when it came to enemies and boss battles. I felt like i was either way too over leveled and just steam rolled a lot of the late game bosses or I felt very underleveled which just forced me to power level or use the mimic.

I can see why a lot of new comers would say this is easily the best one in the series (and it might be) but you def lose some of the edge of your seat boss battles you got in past games.

My favorite thing about this game versus others is they don’t make you run through half the level to get back to boss gates

The first half of the game was way better paced than the endgame. Once your bosses start deliberately reading inputs and od'ing on attacks that hit 20 times idgaf about trying to preserve balance and not scumbagging them.

 

[Lord-Yosh]

Gonna try again to beat Godrick

Lmk if u need help

 

[DaSk8D00D]

Took me a couple hours but I beat Malenia

 

[hoodheronova]

Lmk if u need help

I finally got him. I’m a straight mage build so I made all of my flasks FP. Summoned that chick and some wolves and hit him from a distance.

 

[homiedontplaydat]

Just got Rennala up outta here, she's wasn't that bad

 

[DaSk8D00D]

Malenia’s katana is hella good and it got it at +9 but unless I respec and dump all my INT points into dexterity it still ain’t fukking with my moonveil

onwards to the Forge of Giants tomorrow, already cleared the boss

 

[Brief Keef]

i started to feel like this might be not just the best souls game but greatest game ever made right up until radahn and thats when i realized there was something very wrong with this game. radahn is not a souls boss. none of the end game bosses are souls bosses. they are more comparable to nioh bosses. they are so aggressive and unfair that you have to play unfair to beat them. thats not what dark souls is. when you start out everything feels big and endless then you realize its a lot of repeat enemies and empty space. how many times do you fight a gargoyle, or a magma wyrm, or a field dragon, or a godskin apostle, or you fight margit and then you fight a reskinned morgot when that could have been a completely different boss for example. i think souls games might have peaked at sekiro and backtracked with elden ring. where the goal of elden ring (lenne's rise had to be deliberate) was to make yourself as op a possible to beat bosses they tried to make unfair as possible but killing the spirit of what souls game are.

So you saying nioh is better and has more boss variety ?

 

[klientel]

I'm never gonna give FROM the pass for their stories that everyone else does. If you need companion youtube videos and some losers who read item descriptions to try and tell a story than your shyt is ass. They have cutscenes in the game too but their just the same vague rambling nonsense that they do in all their stories.

You ain’t lying…

im 50+ hours in the game and I don’t even know what tarnished means. I don’t know who I’m fighting or even why I’m fighting them. I don’t even know where I am

I’m just running around killing people