Elden Ring

Incredible Mister said:
What thematic reason is there to fight Commander Gaius Putrescent knight or Romina, these bosses are not shard bearers and have no significance to the plot or even lore until after you kill them
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The DLC is really guilty of throwing ransom jobbers at you who seemingly have nothing better to do than wait for you in their room.

Don't forget it's been 2000 years since the Shattering, yet somehow the genocide is still ongoing.

Also another thing that Souls like are increasingly guilty of doing is having the player character jump into giant holes seemingly hoping it won't result in a fate worse than death.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
The DLC is really guilty of throwing ransom jobbers at you who seemingly have nothing better to do than wait for you in their room.
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Welcome to literally every FromSoft game bro. What exactly do you think Seath the Scaleless has been doing for untold thousands of years in his crystal cave, whacking off?
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
Don't forget it's been 2000 years since the Shattering, yet somehow the genocide is still ongoing.
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To be fair I don't think Messmer would be aware of the rune of death being sealed away what with him being ignored by Marika and unknown to almost everyone else in the lands between. Plus after thousands of years the Hornsent probably start to look the same anyway so who could fault him for not realizing he's been killing the same undying people for the past millennia?
 
I picked up Nightreign yesterday and I’m having fun so far playing solo. I’ve made it up to the first Nightlord boss at the end of the third day and I could have gotten him but don’t know the fight yet. I would really like to play online the way it’s intended, but every time i try to join a game I get constant disconnects literally every 30 seconds. Playing Ironeye mostly as it seems like the easiest character, but I’ve unlocked two other characters and I’m interested in playing the Raider as it seems closest to my Elden Ring character. Hopefully I can figure out my disconnect issue so I can play online, but even if not I don’t think I’ll be refunding since solo play still seems viable so far.
 
Beat the game but never did go into NG+, been slowly working through the DLC. Realized I missed some of the dragon fights in the base game. Going back to them overleveled with a +9 dragon hunter katana is so OP lol.
 
Augur's super mode is annoying to fight. It loses all of the original's charm and becomes a bad gimmick fight. The AI is inconsistent and will constantly spam you some fights and be very passive others. It makes wins feel less rewarding.
 
Picked up Nightreign now that it's got a duos mode, been running with a buddy all weekend, it's actually a lot more fun than I thought it'd be. Had a lot of success as Ironeye with a support-focused build, both of his special skills can do some super clutch plays. Maybe I just suck at navigating or something, but it feels like whenever I play with randos, everybody can get around so much faster than me, to the point where any time I play a melee character it feels like a wasted pick since I can never get into the fight before it's over. Kinda wondering if there's some movement speed relic I haven't found yet, or if maybe I just need to spend some time playing solo and learn where everything spawns.

Either way, still pleasantly surprised by what's obviously an asset flip cash grab, and hopefully it gets some more content later on, since it seems like they're supporting it pretty well so far.
 
I just beat Wuchang today so I decided to revisit my incomplete Elden Ring playthrough and boy am I a salty bitch.

I went some variant of mostly faith and I'm using the scythe. I ran behind a dragon knight in the capital and couldn't manage to backstab him even with the assassin's feet miracle (or whatever it's called.) That was over 2 attempts, once with a straight R1 and once with a charged R2. Not sure if that enemy can't be backstabbed or what.

I really need a build that I can enjoy this game with because absolutely nothing has clicked so far. I've beaten Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1-3, Bloodborne, Wuchang, and probably other random soulslike games that I can't remember and Elden Ring just pisses me off at every turn and I can't figure out why. I don't feel it's fatigue cause I actually enjoyed Wuchang but just playing Rangz for 10 minutes makes me so mad. I made it to Morgott for the first time tonight and I just can't be assed with my current setup. Hitting a 10,399 hp boss for 220 is just not happening.
 
I've given up on Elden Ring after ~50 hours of gameplay. It wasn't too hard, it's just that it got boring. It has the same problem that Skyrim had for me, it's this big giant world that just feels empty and shallow. I was really hoping I'd like it, because I loved Dark Souls, but it was just not as good. The boss fights, and really all the fights felt kinda the same, I rarely felt like I had to switch up my strategy like I did in Dark Souls. And the story was barely a story, people barely talk to you and you never really know what's going on. Of course Dark Souls had the same issue, but the gameplay made up for it. And the world just felt dead, it's just monsters, zombies, soldiers that have gone insane and the occasional merchant (who are they selling stuff to?). It never felt like a world worth fighting for, why should I care about any of these people?

I could go into it more, but that's probably enough for now. The game wasn't insultingly bad like Biosock infinite, but it was overall just lame, 4/10.
 
Cranjis McBasketball said:
I've given up on Elden Ring after ~50 hours of gameplay.

I could go into it more, but that's probably enough for now. The game wasn't insultingly bad like Biosock infinite, but it was overall just lame, 4/10.
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I stopped having fun with it around 60hrs but I pushed through. You made the right choice, It didn't get better but sunk cost etc.

The flaw is the game is just Souls in an open world but Souls is usually about 40 hours and this doesn't really add anything to the formula to help flesh out the playtime. Also after Limgrave, Liurnia and Caelid the game doesn't throw anything new at you and sort of resets and asks you to go through the same loop again after the Altus spike. Ranni will also wrap her quest up by then and goes MIA for 60 hours until the very end meaning the best quest in the game is over by the halfway point.

ER is a 6/10 with a 8/10 first half and 4/10 second half.
 
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Yeah, the movie is going to suck. Alex Garland wanted to turn 28 Years Later into a subtle Chinese propaganda flick until Danny Boyle scoffed at him and turned it down, not to mention how unrealistic Annihilation was with its feminist themes.
 
VisaMallgoth said:
Yeah, the movie is going to suck. Alex Garland wanted to turn 28 Years Later into a subtle Chinese propaganda flick until Danny Boyle scoffed at him and turned it down, not to mention how unrealistic Annihilation was with its feminist themes.
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I'm not sure how you'd even adapt a Souls game into a movie because these games don't really have plots in the traditional understanding. All the interesting stuff happened in the past, none of the characters interact with you until you find them on the side of the road, and the sequence of events is you just running from place to place murdering dudes and touching stuff.

I think you would have to zero in on a particular character, which knowing Elden Ring would probably have to be Ranni, Melina is too boring and most of the other characters aren't very involved in the plot at all.

I don't know if Alex Garland is the right fit, he's made a few feminist movies, which might suit Elden Ring since it has a lot of important female characters. But the guy is just...middling, he doesn't have an impressive track record, and why does Elden Ring have to be a live action movie? Why can't it be animated??? The game only looks impressive because it isn't realistic.

Edit: checked his imdb
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No he can't make Elden Ring, fuck this
 
ShiftyBoi said:
I'm not sure how you'd even adapt a Souls game into a movie because these games don't really have plots in the traditional understanding. All the interesting stuff happened in the past, none of the characters interact with you until you find them on the side of the road, and the sequence of events is you just running from place to place murdering dudes and touching stuff.

I think you would have to zero in on a particular character, which knowing Elden Ring would probably have to be Ranni, Melina is too boring and most of the other characters aren't very involved in the plot at all.

I don't know if Alex Garland is the right fit, he's made a few feminist movies, which might suit Elden Ring since it has a lot of important female characters. But the guy is just...middling, he doesn't have an impressive track record, and why does Elden Ring have to be a live action movie? Why can't it be animated??? The game only looks impressive because it isn't realistic.

Edit: checked his imdb
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No he can't make Elden Ring, fuck this
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All souls games have a comic book series attached to them. Elden Ring has a serious adaption called Become Lord, a comedic one called Road to the Erd tree and a different comedic one called distant Tales between. They can also tell the story of Vyke or another NPC people care about. Or have a group of US soldiers lead by the directors wife drive into the lands between in a hummer and have to fight off dragons with their 50 cal.
 
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