just make a dark souls dlc and don't try to make a small open-world area. I don't want to fight about 8 more dragons, 6 more black riders, and 10 more godskins scattered about in a desperate attempt at padding. contained level with myriad interweaving paths, quality encounter and boss design, that's all I could ask for
yeah I think a more linear DLC would be best since the base game has the open world aspect well enough covered. I don't completely disagree that they've recycled a lot of enemies as bosses but I don't think they went over board with it. the dragons you fight in the world are different enough from one another and they unlock different abilities for example. godskins are very well placed if you know the lore behind all of their locations. Ringed City was by far my favourite DLC out of all the souls games.
- More spells of each variety.
guess you could add more types of magic. i was surprised by how good and diverse the magic was in comparison to dark souls 3.
Spells I'd add would be
- Aspects of the crucible: Wings!
- a spell where you can damage yourself to summon small enemies that attack you but if you kill them they heal more than they costed to summon. Probably a thorns type spell.
- frost spell for reducing other players visibility. it would put fog around someone's head so they can only see like 10 meters in front of them for a few mins.
- a spell that massively reduces your lock on range. you cant be locked on until your really close but only lasts a short while but its cheap and fast to cast.
- a gravity spell that just flips everyone really high in the air or slams them into the ground.
- some type of trap spell that you can place on the ground and activate when you chose. (((C4))) can only have one at a time.
I’m mystified by why the hell Godwyn’s body looks the way it does.
he probably looks like a fish because that's what his soul reincarnated as when he reached the after life and his corpse is trying to copy the shape of his new soul. I imagine the after life (the main one (i think there's multiple afterlife's in da game)) is an aquatic deep sea theme. there's plenty of enemies shattered about using the same type of death magic that are sea themed.
his body spreading all over the world is probably it attempting to reach his soul which isn't working because its in a different reality.
A popular one that I keep seeing and agree with is something Miquella-based, like entering his dreams or something. Not to fight him per say (though that would be completely expected) but rather to shed some light on what’s been going on in his consciousness ever since he put himself in his cocoon and Mohg kidnapped him.
Entering his dream would be cool but i would hate it if it was done like darksouls 2 with the giants. i don't think you should be able to bring back physical items from dreams.
if we enter a dream to learn about the lore of Elden ring it should only reflect his prospective. they should only be as accurate as his memory of events. He should think things that never happened happened to let us know that everything we see in his dreams isn't 100% confirmed lore its just his prospective / something he thinks is true.
i wouldn't want to go back in time though to see his history like most people want. it'd be cooler if we moved forward in time in his dream and saw what he was trying to achieve. if he thinks his hailgtree tree was a success and that he was reborn as an adult in the tree and we can see him doing what he planned to do. in the dream he could kill Malenia for being a potential rival as he takes over the world with zero emotion.
take advantage of story telling methods that are only achievable through the video game medium.
love your profile pic by the way. xxx
I'd like some more armor sets that don't look like weird overdesigned vomit
the armour looks great. i only wish i could download a mod for importing some of the darksouls armours as well and still be able to do Pvp.
they should also increase the amours effectiveness depending on what you're wearing to increase fashion souls. If you're wearing a set of armour thats supposed to go together you get a small bit more armour protection to increase fashion souls. too many people running around wearing whatever has the best states with no fashion sense.
for a DLC that doesn't involve Miqqulla or Godwyn i'd like to travel around the other flying city where those golems fell from. also going to the moon to collect rannis rune would be fun.
for a new DLC ending they should restore the age of absolute ending where you can forcibly join the two and three figures to make a hand that imparts wisdom about the all the outer gods (currently known and unknown) unbiasedly giving humanity the best chance at a real future. which is hugely different from every other souls game. in every other souls game you just leave the world the same as it was of worse off.
