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Is it fair to say that Elden Ring is a combination of Dark Souls, Breath of the Wild (overworld design), and Ghost of Tsushima (art direction and visual flair)? I've never played the third one, really should.

I was gonna get some room lights / color bands like streamers use, but I couldn't decide on what kind to go after. So instead I spent my winnings on Final Fantasy: Stranger of Paradise. TY @Crone !

I'm considering switching to a caster build soon now that I've got everything unlocked and a ton of spells to try out. What's the best staff to use at this lategame point, Carian Regal? Not Meteorite? Is it worth upgrading Meteorite? I have Meteorite but not CR. Haven't upgraded any spell...

I'm guessing if you have to start over, it's phase 1 again? Code Vein had a few two-part bosses where if you lost to the second, you started at that phase. However I don't know if Souls really does that aside from like, Bed of Chaos. I lost to phase 1 Melania so many times myself that I'm...

Another PSA for anyone who missed it: Be sure to buy up on weapon mats at the end of NG, because the bells poof in NG+. You want to have a nice supply of smithing stones, somber smithing stones, grave glovewort, and ghost glovewort, especially the higher-tier of each since they take so damn long...

I also get spammed with "unable to summon" messages. I think that happens when someone else gets to the sign first. There's a lot of competition to gobble up summon signs. I put mine down a lot and always get summoned in like 30 seconds. The Haligree tree area, whatever the part heading down to...

That dungeon is just flat-out bad, IMO. Those centipede-men are horrible, and yeah, you have to basically sneak or beeline through every time. Question for anyone with a better memory than mine: What are all of the overworld dragon bosses? I.e. the ones with a boss HP meter. I skipped almost...

I think the ROH purchase was in the works for a while, and is the reason TK has been hiring so many excess people. He basically has to support two rosters now, since none of ROH's talent were included in the sale. They're all free agents and while I'm sure some of them (Gresham, Rush) will be...

Is this good? Also what's up with Vitality? It isn't a stat. I thought it meant Vigor for a while but apparently Vitality is also raised by Arcane? I'm up to Melania and failed miserably at that fight a bunch. Going after Fire Giant now

I'm doing the far-north Haligtree part of the gsme to get the super katana. This is a side area and it's SO HUGE. Literally the size of a DLC from another Soulsborne game. It's structured just like a DLC, too. Get an obscure key item out in the world, defeat a tough optional boss, gain entry...

Two questions: What's that 47 dex katana called? And what's the item to forge a weapon to max called? Looked up Smithing Shard +9, Smithing Slab, Smithing Stone Slab, nothing.

That's me in the earlier Monster Hunter games (3 and 4). I can't lock on anything so I spent most of my short playtime swinging at air. Probably gonna give up on those, which is sad cause I know people who swear by them and that I'd love them if I gave them a chance. No lock-on in a Souls-like...

The fuck?

I like that big Kamehameha-type beam spell. No idea which field it's in (looks like Sorcery). Several bosses and invaders have one-shotted me with it if they caught me mid-animation. Looks cool, does a ton of damage, isn't something I've seen before in these games. There's also an ice wave move...

Yeah, I'm all about grabbing a cool item early and building around it or whatnot, but I don't understand all these videos that are like "one-shot bosses from the beginning" or "gain 300k souls AFK overnight in the first area" because it's like...why would anybody completely fuck over their first...

I didn't say it was a problem, I literally said one of the good things about open world is that you can run to places "early" and get things you aren't supposed to have yet. Rajaah said: 3: The open world environment is simultaneously the best and worst thing about this game. I love that you...

Yeah, I've had a similar issue with Ghost Glovewort 8. I'll have a maxed-out summon (two, actually) whenever I can find an 8. Looks like they might only be in a sidequest area I didn't do and can't go to, so I'll have to get the appropriate ball bearing (in like, the final or 2nd to last area of...

I kinda want this because of how visually-stunning it is. Unfortunately racing sims like this have always been kinda bland to me, definitely prefer the Mario Kart / Extreme-G / Wipeout style battle racer. Blur on the PS3 was the best of both worlds and had realistic cars/weather plus powerups...

Elden Ring totally nails the art direction, even if the actual visual resolution / light effects are a step down compared to Demon's Souls Remastered. Art direction can totally save a game visually. I've been playing things in performance mode pretty much all the time, but I do like turning on...

I think Caelid is way tougher than Altus. Probably head to Altus next IIRC. Siofra might be worth a look, but it's pretty rough at low levels.

I've been trying to find something that looks halfway sexy on a female character. Maybe a ballroom dress or something, at this point. The nicest garb I've found is the crimson hood, and the "sexiest" is probably the Foot Soldier's Tabard IIRC because without pants it's basically a short skirt...

The Raya Lucaria door was sealed, and it didn't look like a key situation, so I figured it'd unseal later after I beat some particular boss, and left. Little did I know, there's a key, and it's like 600 feet away in the swamp somewhere. It was that easy the whole time.

If I switch my Godskin Peeler from Keen to Blood for the buildup effect, plus the Darth Maul enchant, what else can I do to boost the bleeding effects? Any particular accessory or something I'm not thinking of? I know there's one twinblade with built-in bleed buildup that'd probably be able to...

1: The movement is fine, I think it's based more on Sekiro now rather than Souls. You're faster moving and much more agile, and platforming is actually fun, finally. Someone who cut their teeth on Souls and doesn't like Sekiro might have issues with it though. 2: The white letters were a stupid...

I've got a keen Godskin twinblade now with B scaling for Dex. Still wondering if I should switch to a Bleed twinblade and take the DPS hit in hopes that I'll get some huge bleed procs. I'm using the enchant that causes hemorrhaging but I'm not sure if it's actually working. Most of all I want...

I agree with the second one. Stopped reading messages a while ago because about 75% of them were misinformation. Like every goddamn wall has a "fake wall" message in front of it. Makes me want to play offline entirely. This is the cost of the game being wildly popular though, all the lowest...

Me too I think, since I'll have a ton of the spells to choose from at that point. If I have to start over for whatever reason I'm going Samurai though. No clue when I'll get back to this after I see the end credits, cause it's consumed enough from me already. I'll absolutely platinum it...

In the snow area now. I think I could probably head for the final boss at this point, but I'm trying to max out my +19 weapon. Just need to find the mines in the snow region, I'm guessing. Note: The Giant-Killer's Grave (or something like that) crypt dungeon in the snow area is bugged and might...

What's a good mixture for the Flask of Wondrous Physick? I'm using the roll enhancement and restore half HP...because they're all I have. I just defeated a mandatory story boss with a 2% completion rate on the trophy for it. That's one way to tell where you are in relation to the rest of the...

Elden Ring's sheer gorgeousness can carry it even if you aren't into Souls games, I think. But yeah, YMMV. It gets really tough later on.

If you order it yourself and PM me the code that should work fine. I'm gonna use it like immediately

Does Elden Ring count for a backlog challenge BTW? I vote no even though I'm gonna probably beat it soon after nolifing the past several days. It isn't backlogged, it's new. Dunno, may want to specify. If it counts, that's fine with me too. 8 backlog things I'd like to finish after the Elden...

I found an int scaling sword earlier...Crystal Sword, I think? It looks badass too, like a blue energy sword, kind of. I've been using the HP regen talisman for like the whole game, it's so good. Saves on estus when you're at a boss door and don't mind sitting for a minute to regen, etc...

What is that icon with the red X? That's the one I've been getting and I'm not sure what it is. And here's my HP a day later after focusing entirely on it with all the exp I got today / had stored. That's only 25ish levels, too. Hopefully now I stop getting one-shotted...

Yeah, I summoned an invader earlier and he did this completely broken AOE ice spell that locked me in place, inflicted Frostbite status, and killed me in a couple casts. I could see him catching everybody off guard with that. Other than that the multiplayer has been great in this, I've been...

I've been totally unable to do that fight myself. About 75% of the time when I go in to hit him, I just get immediately hit since his attacks are so sweeping and there's so little delay between them. He kills me in 2 hits, sometimes 1 even at full health. So the fight could be awesome with me...

I think I'm gonna switch to the Godskin Peeler and respec my Str into HP/Dex. My survivability is starting to suck in the higher level areas. The GP doesn't have bleed IIRC but it looks like the best overall twinblade.

With all the talk about how good Bleed is in this game, I looked into switching up the Twinblade to proc it (in addition to the Darth Maul enchant I already have). Looks like I'd lose a lot of Str scaling (and I have 50 Str) but not a huge amount of overall attack, plus I'd gain blood loss...

Oops, wrong thread. While I'm here, @Crone I'll go with an Amazon card card at your earliest convenience. Best Buy also works if Amazon's a no-go for whatever reason! Need to find some solid mood lights and set up a streamer vibe in here even though I don't stream.

But how will we know that slavery is bad without games Using Their Platform to moralize?