Elden Ring

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Ruin said:
Beat him last night after eight frustrating attempts. You have to fucking zero rush him when he's at or below 25% dump everything you have weapon arts, knives, spells, arrows. He has too many massive one hit AOE attacks to play defensively if you back off you die.
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I got him down to sliver of health and I was waiting for everyone else to kill him then I rushed in like a dick and died, very upsetting

didn't even thing about range weapons at the time
 
CHARizard said:
In a recent interview Miyazaki was asked what kind of playstyle he likes to use, and he responded with "tough" characters that can trade blows with the enemy. Find this funny because I think this is the worst playstyle in the game currently. Recommend reading the entire thing for yourself its pretty interesting.


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Maybe that's why I get one-shot by bosses so often, even in heavy armor. Miyazaki builds pure vitality 😂😂
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
So here is my shitty and lazy interpretation of the ending based on nothing beyond loose conjecture.
Each one leads to a different Souls Borne ending:
Frenzied flame ending leads to Dark Souls, you become Gwyn and annihilate the remaining dragons (which was the only faction you don't genocide in the game's plot) and huge trees.
Ranni's ending is Bloodborne since stars and eldtrich space abominations.
Fia is... Demon's Souls? There is some shit about sleeping, so there's that.

I expect a royalty check Matpat.
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I got that vibe a bit in the ending but I think the setting is both post-Souls and post-Bloodborne. The sun dies in DS3, so there's trees instead in this one part of the world that isn't dead, and the game hints something about dragons being reborn back one day. The dragon temples in Farum Azula are straight outta DS3 (there's also a few Yharnam designs there) where you find em full of petrified cultists who were trying to turn emselves into dragons, but you also find all those petrified cultists all over the place in an even worse condition with their faces and limbs broken off in ER which suggests it's later.
I guess a couple of them succeeded (and all the dragons are kinda bitch weak and beastial, even the "Ancient" ones aren't on the level of the couple of intelligent ones in Souls), but all the beastman enemies and the omens to a degree seem to be devolved dragon mutants that probably descended from the failures.

But there's aeons between games and lots of time-is-a-circle type shit so you could probably interpret it other ways.
Edit: and re the Frenzy ending in particular, remember there were False Flames created in Souls too so I think that's more of a possible return to status quo.
 
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caonima said:
I consistently get Radhan down to the last quarter of health and then I die and I'm mad about it
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Ruin said:
Beat him last night after eight frustrating attempts. You have to fucking zero rush him when he's at or below 25% dump everything you have weapon arts, knives, spells, arrows. He has too many massive one hit AOE attacks to play defensively if you back off you die.
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Gee... sounds fun.
 
It just occurred to me that Dragonlord Placidusax and Godfrey are probably the same dude. It seems like a contradiction that they're both described as "the first Elden Lord", but Godfrey's kids all have those shitty dragon mutations. Given that there's some time travel bullshit happening when you fight him it makes whatever sense it does that Gurranq is still alive after you kill him in the same place.

It also makes sense that he'd be there (or was) to watch over Maliketh since as far as I can tell being "Elden Lord" basically just means you're Marika's guard dog.
 
Would you sniff Fia's panties?

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I played about 40h of this so far and im ready to report that despite being probably the best open world game it is STILL just an open world game.
I liked DS better when it was mostly linear, you had a clear objective, bosses and tough enemies actually gated you from progress and you knew when to fight them, there was no filler, as a result the game didnt overstay its welcome and had good, designed pacing.
Fromsofts attempts at difficulty via enemies that just oneshot you or stagger you to death is getting pretty grading at this point also.
IMO Sekiro is still their best game.
 
Ruin said:
Now that the dust has settled who is best girl and best boy?

My pics

Girl - Fia
Boy - Blaiid
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There's a pretty compelling theory that Melina and Ranni are the same person somehow, or both someone's dolls. Turns out her spirit face isn't exactly the same as her doll face but it overlays perfectly with Melina which completes the tattoo.
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Point is, double value.
 
caonima said:
I got him down to sliver of health and I was waiting for everyone else to kill him then I rushed in like a dick and died, very upsetting

didn't even thing about range weapons at the time
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Try doing drive-bys on him with whatever sword you use or whatever.
step by step guide:
1. make sure at least one other guy is summoned and has aggro
2. give torrent a speed boost then charge up a heavy attack.
3. release and hit radahn, just run away and summon another guy if the phantom dies
same in phase 2 you just have to watch out for his ranged attack rock throw.
a lot of his moves have him run in a big semi circle then do an aoe attack, its up to you to go and hit him before or after he does these and not during them.
I went from getting him to 25% health with no horse at all to breezing past him second try with this strategy.
You have a limited number of phantom summons but you get enough to get a charged heavy with each one.
theres also very little point to summoning every single one at once, its just too much hassle.
Ruin said:
Now that the dust has settled who is best girl and best boy?

My pics

Girl - Fia
Boy - Blaiid
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Ranni gives you the superior moon spell and a cool funko pop.
Best boy is dung eater.
 
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