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[Hinedorf]

This has always been the case for Souls and it's what the people who play 10 minutes, die and call it unfair don't understand. There is no difficulty select at the beginning because the games almost always have this built in - summons, broken builds, cheesing etc.

The only wrong way to play Souls is via cheat engine. Everything you can do with the tools provided to you in-game is a-ok, whether that means you co-op every boss or walk around naked with a giant club.

I'm a stop and smell the roses guy, for me I'll grind 30+ hours if it makes the journey that much more fun but where I find the real shine of this game similar to Sekiro is that life/death/success is 100% fair. No matter how OP I want to make myself, if I don't learn proper mechanics I'm still going to eat shit and that's something I can respect.

This is a big gripe and also something I would say is my own fault in the 'git gud'....for the longest time I wanted to be a hybrid faith/str confessor and use magic and combat and really I did but there's also a certain cheese factor to this game where there is NO FAIR FIGHT. By that I mean you learn to take advantage of the boss as similarly as they do you or you continue to get punished. Sometimes I find myself spending too much time looking for a good fight versus just taking advantage where necessary to my own fault. You win this game by abusing it as much as it abuses you.

 

[Anchovie123]

edit: wrong thread

 

[Majukun]

I'm going to be thrown under the bus but I think the exploration is too much for me. Objectively, it's great, but it does not fit my playlist considering that I have a reduced amount of time that I can spend on the game. I think I will use the interactive map the fextralife has created and just visit all dungeons/bosses. I just can spend half an hour finding one of these dungeon's entrances by myself.

you do you, but i think at this point you should have probably spent your money elsewere...compared to usual souls+ bloodborbe the game loses some crucial gameplay elements hat got replaced by the exploration....take that away and you have worse dark souls

 

[Clear]

Word to the wise for newcomers:

Last night, I decided to explore Liurnia. Basically run around the edge of the area on Torrent and grab obvious stuff on the way. No fighting, just horseback recon, it can't possibly take that long I thought... OMFG, hours later I'm still riding!

 

[packy34]

is it just me or sometimes the game straught does not register inputs?
yesterday i died two times because my character didn't dodge at all despite me pressing the button, and no i was not out of stam

if you were pressing it during an attack animation, that doesn't work. there is no animation canceling. you must commit to your attacks before rolling.

 

[Gordon Freeman]

Returned my copy to GameStop today with the 10 day game guarantee.

With the lack of a pause in offline mode, broken performance and save issues. Along with other bugs and crashes. No thanks.

 

[rofif]

32 hours into the game, 2 runes.
Looking at some gameplay of 3rd boss on twitch... oh god I will never beat this game.

Spoiler: 3rd boss

Radahn looks like my worst nightmares. it's too crazy. The difficulty is too ringed city all the time for me. Every enemy is jumping, spinning, no stamina, powers, dragon ball crazy stuff.... and you are there with your sword and low stamina. nope

 

[JokerMM]

i just switched from pure Strength build to pure Dex
double wielding katana now
i've been playing this game the wrong way from the start
THIS is the way

 

[JokerMM]

Also i thought "two fingers" was just a metaphor to some dude with only two fingers
ITS LITERALLY TWO GIANT FINGERS LMAO

 

[ClosBSAS]

Playing this game is rough after playing HFW for over a week now.

From, please make a brand new engine from scratch when you make your first next gen only game.

Also you can’t pause in this game? I went to take a shit and I was dead when I came back.

If this is some bullshit for “difficulty” I’m going to laugh.

Hahaha this shit made me laugh. Ya, u can't pause in any souls game.

 

[SatansReverence]

Just because you summon me doesn't mean I'm going to do all the work. If you wanna back line bitch i'll bring the boss right to you!

 

[DavidGzz]

I haven't upped Arcane at all and I started as this games version of Depraved. Bleed is the way!

Thanks, I'm already pretty far with my katana. I love it. Beat Margit on my first try ever.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Is it my controller? Every time I press triangle to read or pick something up, stupid prick of a character has to do some fist bump animation - what am I doing wrong?

PS4 version on PS5 using PS5 controller.

 

[rofif]

Can someone spoil me which Great Runes/bosses are mandatory and does avoiding some of them change the ending or something?

Spoiler: bosses spoilers

I have rune from godrick and rennala. I saw radahn on twitch and don't want to do that...
I know there is a something in volcano and capital but I've not spoiled anything to myself.
The story guy is saying that capital is now open and I should go there. Should I ?

 

[Revolutionary]

The bad thing about the way I play this game is that I'm constantly stumbling into much higher level areas than I should be in (thanks teleportation devices!). And since I'm a stubborn old fool, I press on until I complete it.

Which means that when I return to exploration, I'm often WAY overleveled for everything else. I just recently realized there's a peninsula to the south of Limgrave but I am now killing everything in one hit, so I'm forcing myself to run around naked just to add some element of danger lol

 

[N30RYU]

Gotta finish Forbidden West, then on to GT7. Will play ER in a few months when they fix it.

+1

 

[SCB3]

I'm going to be thrown under the bus but I think the exploration is too much for me. Objectively, it's great, but it does not fit my playlist considering that I have a reduced amount of time that I can spend on the game. I think I will use the interactive map the fextralife has created and just visit all dungeons/bosses. I just can spend half an hour finding one of these dungeon's entrances by myself.

I personally do this if I cannot find everything or things are too obscure

 

[AV]

Can someone spoil me which Great Runes/bosses are mandatory and does avoiding some of them change the ending or something?

I don't think you're going to be able to beat the game without beating the main bosses, no. As you already know you can't even GET to the later areas without doing some.

What else are you going to do, though..? If you spend long enough running around the world you will eventually become crazy powerful and the third boss you don't want to fight will be way easier.

 

[Ogbert]

Preceptor Miriam is one tough cookie.

 

[kikkis]

Can someone spoil me which Great Runes/bosses are mandatory and does avoiding some of them change the ending or something?

Spoiler: bosses spoilers

I have rune from godrick and rennala. I saw radahn on twitch and don't want to do that...
I know there is a something in volcano and capital but I've not spoiled anything to myself.
The story guy is saying that capital is now open and I should go there. Should I ?

Spoiler

Radahn is mandatory for one of the endings, and it does unlock new area. Thats all I know, about that

 

[SatansReverence]

Preceptor Miriam is one tough cookie.

Annoying AF.

Ended up just throwing kukris at him in the final stage because he would teleport a full charged magic greatbow to my face otherwise

 

[HieroglyphicMonk]

Same for me, Margit took legit time because of my impatience in waiting to dodge at the right time, I was honestly confused by people saying the castle was difficult as I blazed right through it and killed Godrick after a couple tries at best.

There's no doubt that Margit is far more difficult than Goddrick. Margit has close range short range with the dagger and a jump back dagger throw, mid range sword, and a heavy hammer and moves across the screen.

 

[HieroglyphicMonk]

Drop Wolves are pure refined kino. Made for a cool moment.

Elden Ring is really going to contend not just for GOTY, not just Best Souls, not even game of the gen, but maybe in contention for being the best game of the 3D era. For me this might be the best game since Link to the Past.

It's stuff like this that are ridiculous.... This game has so many issues and bad animations and clear flaws there's no way I can even say it's the best souls game.

This game has made me think though that it would be amazing if FromSoft made a Demon Souls mmo though.

 

[Soodanim]

Also i thought "two fingers" was just a metaphor to some dude with only two fingers
ITS LITERALLY TWO GIANT FINGERS LMAO

Stop spoiling things you cunt

 

[rofif]

So who is the easiest great rune boss to go after bayonetta ?

Spoiler: who

volcano
capital
radahn? (how to get the festival to start at all)

 

[Meicyn]

Was having a blast, despite the engine limitations making the grass get constantly redrawn in realtime if I so much as rotate the camera. Loving the level design, the combat, the verticality, the atmosphere, all of it. I have barely scratched the surface of Elden Ring.

I was just in the middle of an epic boss fight, dodging attacks as I learned the attack patterns. Having a great time. Was about to finally win on round five of this asshole.

I am then greeted by an ingame message that I have been disconnected from Playstation Network in the center of the screen with the only option being “Okay”. I am booted to the title screen.

What the fuck kind of amateur hour horseshit is this.

 

[SatansReverence]

Was trying to help some peeps with the boss in the basement of caelid tower till I got 100k souls and a few arc runes.

First 3 weren't too hard but getting the 4th one just wouldn't happen. So many sub 700hp players getting 1 hit by the bosses R1, people trying to summon 3 every time so the boss would last so much longer. Hosts trying to R1 spam the boss with there stupid 2H UGS as the boss starts charging its 'oi nah fuck you' aoe attack. ugh.

ended up getting the last few to 100k souls from the shitty single minion before the boss

 

[Gordon Freeman]

Hahaha this shit made me laugh. Ya, u can't pause in any souls game.

Sekiro says hi

 

[Draugoth]

It's going to be hard for anything to top this release this year other than BoTW2 and God of War: Ragnarok, even so the game is absolutely fantastic, the only issue i have with it is:
I WANT MORE CONTENT, MAKE IT BIGGER FS PLEASE.

The reviews are right; 30 hours in and only discovered, like 30% of the map, probably barely scratched the hidden content, optional bosses, invaders, NPCs and quests.

FromSoftware now only needs to stop with the shitty whatever excuses they have and make good ports for their games. I cant understand thr 60fps cap, but no widescreen support? C'mon.

 

[Swift_Star]

No, its a you problem for wanting easy mode, as its not in the game.

Where did I say I want an easy mode? Can you quote the exact words of me saying that?

 

[AV]

Sekiro says hi

I'm sure someone will point out that Sekiro isn't a Souls game but considering it's the hardest From game, it is a little silly that they couldn't put a pause button into Elden Ring's offline mode.

Unless you're on PC, where modders already made one.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

you can roll past them and run to the liftside grace pretty easily though, which takes you directly to Godfrey

Godfrey is not in stormveil

 

[GHG]

Sekiro says hi

That's not a souls game, that's Sekiro.

 

[AV]

Has anyone else not been invaded once yet?

Granted I played 35 hours in 4 days so I'm going to be a higher soul level than most, but I've not been invaded once, did I miss opting in to something somewhere?

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Just for the lift down to Siofra River alone. That blew my skull sideways. A minutes lift journey was, i'd say, one of the best gaming instances i've seen in a while

A ride, on a lift.

The game as a whole is going to take some beating.

 

[Fools idol]

Returned my copy to GameStop today with the 10 day game guarantee.

With the lack of a pause in offline mode, broken performance and save issues. Along with other bugs and crashes. No thanks.

???? what system are you playing on? I havent had a single crash or framerate issues in 90 + hours on PS5. Weird. The only bug I saw is destructible environment sometimes floating in the air, really minor things.

 

[Spaceman292]

you do you, but i think at this point you should have probably spent your money elsewere...compared to usual souls+ bloodborbe the game loses some crucial gameplay elements hat got replaced by the exploration....take that away and you have worse dark souls

What got taken away? The combat and build variety has improved, there are plenty of bosses and several huge linear dungeons on top of the open world.

 

[cireza]

This is an open-world Dark Souls game. It is certainly very good (I have been playing it by the way...), but I don't see anything groundbreaking. Feels like the same thing as before. Other games will be better this year.

 

[rofif]

I am having a hard time. The game is constant ringed city+ levels of difficulty. I hope I will finish it
Mommy... can I go back to dark souls 2 ?

 

[fart town usa]

Sunk more time into it last night and yea, people complaining about the difficulty, what exactly are you doing?

I beat the first boss but mostly because my buddy insisted that we do it via coop. I've been wandering around and exploring ever since and there are so many areas to explore. 6 flasks (+2) I'm at 14 hours now, level 27, and I could easily put another 10 hours into these opening areas before I even bother going into the castle that Margit was blocking.

Jump on your horse and explore, there are so many chill spots and it's easy to just ride away if things get hairy. Use your pack of wolves summon to take out groups of enemies.

Leave messages too, I never did that much in prior Souls games but was doing it last night, I was getting health boosts all the time. If you don't know, if someone appraises your message it refills your health bar.

Basically, don't think you have to go for the bosses, there are so many areas to explore with enemies that can be handled. So many upgrades and Grace spots, etc. Lots to do in this game outside the main quest.

 

[AJUMP23]

Look When you summon me to help you beat Godrich, I can do that. But you have to live through the whole encounter. That is all I ask. I know his move set now. I got my rolling down. I got a thrust sword art and a jump attack. Help me help you.

 

[Ogbert]

I am having a hard time. The game is constant ringed city+ levels of difficulty. I hope I will finish it
Mommy... can I go back to dark souls 2 ?

How far into it are you?

I'm just finishing off Stormveil. I'm assuming the difficulty ramps up?

 

[john2gr]

According to some report, PC number is already much higher than my estimation

Pledge Times

pledgetimes.com

That's false. SteamSpy's estimate is between 5-10 million, not 10-20 million. You can see for yourself -> https://steamspy.com/app/1245620

 

[rofif]

How far into it are you?

I'm just finishing off Stormveil. I'm assuming the difficulty ramps up?

Over 32 hours.
Almost whole map explored, 2 great runes.
Yeah, the difficulty is crazy in some areas but might be optional, not sure

 

[jorgejjvr]

I only watched the end to see where it went wrong, but at 2:42 when he does the charging underhand swipe, you can roll backwards instead of forwards to land next to him for more free hits

Thanks for the tip!

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Rolled Astrologer, I am rushing through what was difficult with Vagabond.

 

[kikkis]

Is there a mine with smithing stone 6?

 

[Batiman]

I’m taking my sweet ass time with because I love it so much. Can’t wait to play tonight after work.

 

[haxan7]

Probably already posted

 

[ManaByte]

Got him.