Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

This meme killed me lol. Quests in Souls games!

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.

Hateyou said:

I like the one you get from the elk, the minotaur looking dude with the massive bow.

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I didn't really try out too many of the ashes, sadly. Basically just went from alternating between 3 wolves and jellyfish as needed, to Mimic All Day, and pretty much missed everything in-between.

The mimic reminds me of the orange copy ability in Ninja Gaiden 2 on the NES

Crone said:

So wanted to give this a try to make sure I was still a boomer and bad at games, and to make sure that I still don't understand why people love these games. The fact that this one is a more open-world game is a good thing, so I'm not all negative.

So right out the gate, you run into this Tree Sentinel, and due to the open-world nature of the game, there's some that might catch on that you should go explore, level up, get gear, etc before just slamming your dick against this guy over and over. And sure, depending on your starting "class" this dude is going to be easier or harder for some. I hope you all loved it so much. But to put a dude like that right out the gate is just a shout-out to all you Souls lovers that are like YESSS my dick is still getting slammed with a hammer. FUCK YEA!! and to someone like me who isn't a Soulsbourne lover questioning wtf was the point?

C'est la vie.

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git gud fgt

Pemulis said:

Just had my first real rage moment - died to I don’t even know what after the Renella fight and lost all the runes I was carrying as well as the 40k I was supposed to get from her. The icon appears on my map but no way to get back to the “arena” where the second phase of the fight was. Time to go do something else this afternoon!

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Weird, the same exact thing happened to me, died the exact moment Moon Renalla did and wasn't able to get any of the souls back. That was when I found out that dying the same time as a boss still counts as a boss kill. It never happened any other time. Crazy. Wonder why it's that fight in particular where this is happening.

Ambiturner said:

Souls games are usually like that with them being super easy for a lot of the second playthrough. Everything's just 30% or whatever harder while you're 5x stronger than when you went through that part the the first time

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Yeah, agreed, except for Bloodborne if it counts. I feel like Bloodborne's NG+ is REALLY HARD compared to other Souls games where I usually breeze through them.

Hatorade said:

For ashes you get this duo puppets that wreck if you don’t like the mimic I recommend them.

also curious if anyone has gotten to that large gael area where you have to light the three torches on the rooftop. There is two dudes that are complete bullshit, worse then any boss.

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there are invisible assassins that grab and stab you for like 1200 health, they stay invis unless you hit them. They will even chain grab you...

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That gaol with the torches is the most bullshit area in all of Elden Ring. Invisible assassins that no-sell your attacks and jump on you anyway, then on the rooftops you have archers that fire arrows like a machine gun. It reminded me of that one part of Anor Londo with the archers where you have to run up the ramparts. Just this one several-second part of the game that is worse than everything else in the game.

I found that Radahn's giant arrows knocked the archers clear off the roof, and fired a few of those from a greatbow. Was absolutely not able to get past them any other way after numerous tries. They snipe you from massive distances with pinpoint accuracy and faster than you can rush them. It was Shrine of Amana level bullshit.

Break said:

Sounds like this is the path to the "bad" ending but I dont' even care anymore. If I do another playthrough I think i'll spoil the entirety of it and carefully do the quests in the precise order that the From requires. The game is at least a 9/10 for me but there are elements that are extremely annoying story-wise, like finding an NPC i've never met and my character knew to give it a whole set of armor I previously found with zero supporting dialogue. Iiterally find NPC sitting against wall, walk up, press talk, only option is to give armor. Da hell you doing From? how could my character possibly know to give it specific armor, or any armor at all? And then what do I get from it? Absolutely nothing that I can tell, but I'm sure it advances some esoteric quest that I'll find out about as I read spoiler sites later.

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Yeah, I'll do the "bad" ending stuff on my eventual NG+. I was able to get the other two ending trophies set up in NG (haven't actually gotten to the end yet though). Just need to (mild spoiler) do Renna's quest and then reload the final boss and summon her, I think?

Was under the impression that you have to play through 3x to get the platinum so this works. Two very in-depth runs is usually what I give Souls games so that they don't wear out their welcome. The third playthrough of Souls 1 to get the plat there always felt like a bit much to do in a row.

Had a REALLY weird thing happen in Roundtable Hold: