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question...im like 3 hours in and theres a giant creature that jumps from a bridge...im meant to run from that right?
 
Articles and Nudes said:
My biggest disappointment is the music. I can immediately think of a ton of it from the DS series and Bloodborne, but nothing except the main theme springs to mind for ER.
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Agreed. Only soundtracj that really sticks out to me is the Godskin Duo. Really like the eerie ambience (especially given the lore behind them).

gaystoner said:
question...im like 3 hours in and theres a giant creature that jumps from a bridge...im meant to run from that right?
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If you're referring to the giant through the archway right after you get torrent then no, you can fight him. You may not be ready to but it's not a gimmick or anything.
 
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I couldn't believe it when I heard Evergrace was From Soft work, I also can't believe I got two copies of the game by relatives going abroad (and of course I never finished if because I was 12)
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Fromsoft's best PS2 game was probably King's Field 4. Some may say Echo Night Beyond, but King's Field 4 directly lead to Demon's Souls in both gameplay and aesthetics.
 
Uncle June said:
If you're referring to the giant through the archway right after you get torrent then no, you can fight him. You may not be ready to but it's not a gimmick or anything.
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ah i did not mean as a gimmick more like 'holy shit' but ive gotten some more levels and upped my knowledge of general systems so i feel like i could fight him. im just running around limgrave for the most part...havent gotten to the castle yet lol

edit: I ran around the big guy with a horse and have killed multiple since. Also beat Margit without this 'shackle' someone told me about in chat. Yay golden summon pad and jellyfish fren
 
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I managed to not rage at this game until today. Have you guys dealt with the 2 Night's Cavalry guarding the caravan in the Consecrated Snowfield? I can lure the first away (with the flail) and deal with them, no problem. The second one (with the axe) downs Torrent in 1 hit and me in 2 hits. I'm at max health and max strength, but it seems like every attack that lands stuns me and then the follow up does me in.
 
Finished the game after a month and I even more confused now
Specially by Marika's hammer description, it says that Marika used it to shatter the Elden ring and that Radagon used it to try and fix it. I did Goldmask quest and saw the whole "Radagon is Marika" so I was aware that they were the same person YET one shattered the damn thing and the other tried to fix it?
If they are the same person/entity/god then I would at least expect them to not mess each other plans
Could someone point me to those long lore analysis people did in this thread? I need that shit injected directly into my veins.
 
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So, going through with a strength setup. Couple things I've discovered.

1) Godskin fuckers are very weak to sleep. A single sleep pot is usually enough to put their lights out. Abuse this during the dual fights.

2) Flame of the Redmanes is the new Moonveil. It comes out slower, but this thing usually staggers bosses in two or three hits. Stick this on your favorite strength weapon alongside some sort of fire buff like fire grease or Bloodflame and you can stagger dudes left and right. Only thing this doesn't stagger are NPC invaders and the dragons in a certain endgame section.

3) I hate Frenzied Burst. That is all.

Also got to face Morgott at a more appropriate level. Think he's my new favorite fight in the game, which makes it a shame it's so easy to show up too strong.
 
PuffyGroundCloud said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=v9_EC2TUgQwMight try this for upcoming Malenia fight
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I tried this after remembering the fact she's vulnerable to weak.
Since we are speaking of strats: I was strugling with Placidusax so I looked up his resistances in the wiki, one commenter mentioned that pest threads did a lot of damage if you casted them behind or "under" the boss and indeed it worked, I suppose what happens is that the threads hit twice: once when they initially fly out and again when they home in onto the enemy. I tried this with the elden beast as well to similar effect.

Guess faith wasn't so bad after all
 
BlazikenLover said:
If they are the same person/entity/god then I would at least expect them to not mess each other plans
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Yeah that's one of the central weirdnesses. It must mean something.
From the rest of the series you can conclude that the rule with description text is that it will never outright lie to you, but there are intentional red herrings or information conveyed from the perspective of people who might not have complete information (always be wary when a text starts with "legends say" instead of using the omniscient voice).

It's definitely a second-hand clue in this case so I'm guessing the contradiction is in the sculptors' definitions of who he thought he was talking about.
 
BlazikenLover said:
I tried this after remembering the fact she's vulnerable to weak.
Since we are speaking of strats: I was strugling with Placidusax so I looked up his resistances in the wiki, one commenter mentioned that pest threads did a lot of damage if you casted them behind or "under" the boss and indeed it worked, I suppose what happens is that the threads hit twice: once when they initially fly out and again when they home in onto the enemy. I tried this with the elden beast as well to similar effect.

Guess faith wasn't so bad after all
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Yea the "Magic" in this game got an overall buff in the fact you can do so many different types of damage unlike previous games. Sorcery's fix was to usually throw Magic resistant enemies and let the player work around them but with the Rock spells giving you physical damage and Ice damage spells there is no enemy/behavior fix like they did in previous games. Same goes for Incantations they gave it a lot of damage types and with Pest Threads you even get physical damage.

Just curious what Faith's version of Glintstone Pebble Ash of War is.
 
BlazikenLover said:
I tried this after remembering the fact she's vulnerable to weak.
Since we are speaking of strats: I was strugling with Placidusax so I looked up his resistances in the wiki, one commenter mentioned that pest threads did a lot of damage if you casted them behind or "under" the boss and indeed it worked, I suppose what happens is that the threads hit twice: once when they initially fly out and again when they home in onto the enemy. I tried this with the elden beast as well to similar effect.

Guess faith wasn't so bad after all
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I think the Bubble weapon also kinda busted since if I blow it into the boss, some of the bubble got “trapped” inside, and can cause tons of damage
 
PuffyGroundCloud said:
I think the Bubble weapon also kinda busted since if I blow it into the boss, some of the bubble got “trapped” inside, and can cause tons of damage
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Which one? because there are like three of them.
Gimmick Account said:
Yeah that's one of the central weirdnesses. It must mean something.
From the rest of the series you can conclude that the rule with description text is that it will never outright lie to you, but there are intentional red herrings or information conveyed from the perspective of people who might not have complete information (always be wary when a text starts with "legends say" instead of using the omniscient voice).

It's definitely a second-hand clue in this case so I'm guessing the contradiction is in the sculptors' definitions of who he thought he was talking about.
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Something that confused the hell out of me was confusing Godfrey and Godwyn, so the whole time I thought Godfrey had been killed
And was super confused when he shows up towards the end of the game. Thankfully someone told me I was confusing the two, god the namking convention is my biggest enemy. Thought the whole reason Radagon married Marika was due to Godfrey being dead, but nope Godfrey just lost the guidance of grace and became a tarnished
Despite being confusing or vague, the story usually does make sense, like with Godfrey you never learn why he left Marika or what happened to him despite getting quite a few mentions of Radagon being Marika's second husband but when you DO learn it's like all pieces fall into place.
By the way, I found Farum Azula to be kind of tacked in, I thought it looked cool and all but the whole time I kept thinking "why the fuck am I even here? how does setting the tree on fire sends me to this place?" Wonder if there's an explanation for that or the actual reason was "we ran out of time"
 
I think Farum's meant to be conspicuously unexplained (though teleporting there seems kinda bullshit) and leave you connecting the dots with Maliketh and Placidusax. On top of that it's full of identical dragon temples to the ones in DS3 which in that game were full of petrified dragon cultists who were trying to meditate their way into becoming dragons in that game, and you find more damaged versions of the exact same petrified cultists elsewhere in ER (they have a resemblance to the Misbegotten also). You can take or leave the franchise lore connections (although I think they're way less ambiguous this time around) but it seems to add up to dragons being a lot more central than they appear at first.

Edit: also that Farum-looking debris is scattered literally everywhere even though Azula is floating off to one side of the map in its time storm thing. Meanwhile all the cliffs facing into the interior sea are curiously sheer (and there's that weird linear mid-ocean waterfall stretching from Caelid to the Giants' Mountains); all the actual beaches face outwards, and we have all the towers arranged in a circle around it and the broken colluseum things facing inwards too. Seems likely connected but my guess is that'll be some DLC shit.
 
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Gimmick Account said:
I think Farum's meant to be conspicuously unexplained (though teleporting there seems kinda bullshit) and leave you connecting the dots with Maliketh and Placidusax. On top of that it's full of identical dragon temples to the ones in DS3 which in that game were full of petrified dragon cultists who were trying to meditate their way into becoming dragons in that game, and you find more damaged versions of the exact same petrified cultists elsewhere in ER (they have a resemblance to the Misbegotten also). You can take or leave the franchise lore connections (although I think they're way less ambiguous this time around) but it seems to add up to dragons being a lot more central than they appear at first.

Edit: also that Farum-looking debris is scattered literally everywhere even though Azula is floating off to one side of the map in its time storm thing. Meanwhile all the cliffs facing into the interior sea are curiously sheer (and there's that weird linear mid-ocean waterfall stretching from Caelid to the Giants' Mountains); all the actual beaches face outwards, and we have all the towers arranged in a circle around it and the broken colluseum things facing inwards too. Seems likely connected but my guess is that'll be some DLC shit.
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there's also a point in gurranq's questline where you can find him outside of the mausoleum looking up at where farum-azula is supposed to be. I can't remember exactly when, though.
 
Just took down Maliketh, Mimic Tear and the Rotten Crystal Sword to apply Scarlet Rot(followed up by hitting him with a Cold enchanted Lordsworn Straight Sword) were the solution to killing him off, the whole fight was basically about who could deplete who's health bar faster with various prolonged damage effects.
 
Right then, after pumping almost 150 hours into the game I can safely say that it's become my new favorite game pretty much ever. I've almost never finished a game and then picked it up again immediately after for another go.
I really liked the characters and the world. I especially loved the fact that the world isn't totally ruined and in its death throes like in DkS3.

I guess that game was about letting go. Elden Ring, on the other hand, wants you to rise up and usher a new golden age. In Melina's own words, However ruined this world has become, however mired in torment and despair, life endures. Births continue. There is beauty in that, is there not? Also god damn son, Marika has some child bearing hips on her. Being Elden Lord has its perks.

After revisiting the later bosses... I dunno, I guess I'm not beyond using spirit summons and stuff, but if I can one shot Malenia the game can't be that bullshit.

My one complaint is that strength is a bit shit, I guess? I think it's definitely the weakest stat. The other stats give you access to cool spells, and DEX is just retarded: it lowers fall damage, it makes it harder to fall from your horse AND it lowers the cast time of spells!
Meanwhile STR bros can swing colossal weapons that are... not great? Especially against the later bosses I feel like the only recourse of colossal weapons would be to spam jump attacks.

Besides that yeah, 10/10, would bang, game of the decade.
 
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