Elden Ring

Endless Torment said:
I watched Iron Pineapple's review and even he said Nightreign isn't very fun solo so damn that's saying something. One nice thing about fanboys is that when they choose to say something isn't fun/good that says more than the average person.
I hate his cope about how it's nice a developer is experimenting and you should just trust them about this game and Duskbloods because of their track record at the end because the developers are also not entitled to my money or support.
At least at the very beginning of the video he acknowledged that if you just care about single player content don't buy it.
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You can have a drinking game in his video where you take a shot everytime a shitty overused boss from Elden Ring makes an appearance. I think I saw Draconic Tree Sentinel like 3 times in the video.

It just sounds like slop. Having a lot of choice doesn't mean shit when even the person shilling the game admits that the endgame is set and the game is so badly play tested that sometimes you are basically locked into one reward since the game doesn't take into account your class when giving rewards.

Using "Experimental" is absolutely shameful in the context of this game. It's as safe and cheap as a spinoff can get.
 
Peep Plops said:
Does anybody know if it's possible to play with a friend + a rando or is it all tied to the dumbshit password system meaning it's either me and a friend or me and two randos? I would sure love it if from would hire at least ONE person who speaks both english and japanese so that all their messaging wouldn't get garbled in translation.
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I looked it up and you can set the password for two people and then you will be matched with a random for your final player.
edit: I also found this which was a quick start guide from them about the network test which says the same thing,
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Yesterday Bamco held a little tournament to promote Nightreign, and I watched Dist2 and his team compete. Those guys absolutely steamrolled every boss. The dragon Nightlord, which I presume is the strongest boss of the game, went down in seconds.

Keep in mind they're pro souls players and sweat as fuck, but it still amuses me they already figured out the meta cheese biuld for this game before it even came out. For a so-called rogue-like, it's embarrassing.
 
Sneedifarms said:
No one probably cares in light of the A24 goyslop news, but if anyone here is a solo player looking for 2 others to play Nightreign with next week, me and a buddy are looking for a third person to join us. PM me if interested.
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Bumping this, especially now that word is out that Nightreign is unplayable solo. We’re still looking for a third player so we don’t end up having to PUG with randoms.
 
Sneedifarms said:
Bumping this, especially now that word is out that Nightreign is unplayable solo. We’re still looking for a third player so we don’t end up having to PUG with randoms.
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Might be a bit before I actually pick this up and have time for it, but if you're still playing when I get around to it I'll hit you up.
 
While I understand Elden Ring has le HECCIN George R Martin involved and shit, I always felt like Dark Souls 1 would make for the easiest to adapt into a prequel film with spectacular effects and other such shit.
 
Tenshi Eating A Corn Dog! said:
I'm hearing bad itemization and randomization for a game that's in the same genre of games as Binding of Isaac and Risk of Rain (I refuse to use Rouge-like when none of these games are like Rouge outside of perma-death) and I'm thinking that's a death knell.
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Just use rogue-lite instead.
But yes, the weak randomization seem like a massive red flag for this game. These games live and die on how unique each run can be.
 
Anyone verify the reviews for bad performance? I'm distrusting of Steam reviews.

Edit: Mixed reviews on Steam now. Not looking so good for a FS release.
Edit 2: Steam Charts showing 304,000 in game, so it definitely made all of the very small development cost back.
 
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Tenshi Eating A Corn Dog! said:
Anyone verify the reviews for bad performance? I'm distrusting of Steam reviews.

Edit: Mixed reviews on Steam now. Not looking so good for a FS release.
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Mixed reviews (on release week) for a large online only games is by par for the course.
If performance is your only worry with this game I don't see why you couldn't just buy it and refund in case it's unplayable in your machine
 
No duos option? The Hell?!

3-player co-op is perfectly viable from a design standpoint, Remnant: From The Ashes and its sequel pulled it off fine. But apparently the director of Nightreign couldn't be arsed to put effort in to balance for 2-3 players because reasons.
 
Play Ironeye solo for hard mode. Singleplayer balancing is ass. Though it shouldn't be surprising for anyone given the absolute state of Elden Ring's balancing, particularly Malenia and Homo Radahn. It feels particularly offensive to the largest demographic that plays fromsoft games - people who want to overcome a fair challenge by themselves without summoning. I mean why even include a singleplayer mode if you clearly only intend for it to be played with two other people? I predict a couple patches released in the coming month to address this and related problems.
Also not a big fan of the schizophrenic pacing. It feels like there's barely enough time to do anything before you're forced by the literal fortnite storm to run away. Kind of goes against the whole "methodical approach to enemies who can two shot you" thing fromsoft has going on.
Tenshi Eating A Corn Dog! said:
Anyone verify the reviews for bad performance? I'm distrusting of Steam reviews.

Edit: Mixed reviews on Steam now. Not looking so good for a FS release.
Edit 2: Steam Charts showing 304,000 in game, so it definitely made all of the very small development cost back.
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Elden Ring had dogshit performance at launch for a lot of people. My 1080/8700k barely chugged along. I have no issues with Nightreign on a 3070/13600k, though I have seen reports of 50 series nvidia cards having issues (because of course they do).
 
Wodanaz said:
It feels like there's barely enough time to do anything before you're forced by the literal fortnite storm to run away.
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Something about the frenetic pace is the appealing thing to me. Maybe coming off a DS2 playthrough where you spend 30 minute shooting at things with poison arrows has me feeling that way. Shame about the single player balancing, but I suppose if you're a psycho you'll enjoy it.
 
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