Chris
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Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin
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Tuco
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Hmm, maybe. The camera is fine with the PC mod I use though. Increase FOV, ultra widescreen and no motion-driven camera adjustments.
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Yeah they’re good at it, I was just thinking about this while playing yesterday. Found a new catacombs I had missed. Start it up, obviously identical to every other one I’ve been to at the start and I was just glad to check it out and see the layout. Over 100 hours in, reused assets, and still not burnt out says something about the quality imo. They also mix it up enough that finding a new cave and catacomb is fairly rare. You aren’t tripping over the same asset dungeon like botw with shrines.
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I don’t use any mods but I think it’s just the move set of the mob and targeting it’s head that sucks. The mobs head whips around a lot, if you have it targeted the camera easily flips around a lot. Other than that I didn’t mind fighting those things. Just have to lock onto its main body/leg target point instead of its head.
Fogel
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I usually avoid locking on to some of the bigger stuff. They're so big its like aiming at a barn when you swing, where as if you lock on it can jump around on the targeting where you're aiming at the ankle but as you swing it'll lock on to the head or something causing you to miss.
Hatorade
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If you haven’t done the underground stuff yet you got a lot of game left.
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Intrinsic
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And they’re aware enough to play in to your familiarity to trip you up. Some cool examples that I’m too lazy to spoiler, but they make the most of it for sure.
Tuco
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Plus the repeated dungeon biomes and mobs/bosses are a nice break. When you just finish a legacy dungeon like Stormveil and find a catacomb you get some relief because you're familiar with the enemies and familiar with the layout enough to make it a nice palette cleanser.
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I did Rannis quest but thats really it, nothing else really in sofria or ainsel / nokstella if I am remembering correctly.
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This is a good point. The legacy dungeons are crazy good but they’re taxing, a palette cleanser was needed to be able to keep playing constantly. Otherwise I’d have gotten fatigued, that happened in every other FromSoft game. I’d reach a new scary area and just quit for a couple days, was exhausted.
Tuco
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This is what made me stop playing DS3. I beat some boss in the middle of the game after a few tries and opened up some new shithole zone and just totally lost interest in slowly muddling my way through another grueling zone with new enemies to learn, new traps etc. It wasn't even hard, it just felt.... taxing, like you said.
Where as in ER you get diversity of basically trivial and relaxing (for the most part...) open world exploration and repeated dungeons to break up the ball-crushing bosses / legacy dungeons.
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Hatorade
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You stopped playing DS3 because of how varied and awesome it was? Never once has I ever read anyone say DS3 is boring and taxing... yall are weird.
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Definitely never said it was boring, but yeah, it’s taxing during the first play through in dangerous and new areas, with the constant threat of souls loss looming if you die. It’s not trivial to trick one’s brain into thinking death doesn’t matter. Especially when I’m an explorer, wanting to find every nook and cranny.
He may be referencing the DS3 poison swamp, in which case I completely agree. I think I did the same thing, got down there after killing a couple of progression bosses and I’m like... yeah I need a break before I tackle this AIDS swamp.
To be clear, taxing in this context is decidedly not a bad thing. It speaks to how engaged I am when playing these. They’re all phenomenal games. If it weren’t taxing, then that would mean it’s trivial to progress/complete, which would severely diminish the game.
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And on that note, just wrapped up the Plat. I do appreciate the collection trophies being legendary only. Traditional Souls collection trophies might have been too much with this game’s expansiveness.
10/10 game, best I’ve ever played if my 180 hours and never being bored or wanting to stop playing is any metric. This was like an EQ experience for me, likely will never have the same feeling again, even on a sequel. These designers deserve huge bonuses, especially the level designers.
10/10 game, best I’ve ever played if my 180 hours and never being bored or wanting to stop playing is any metric. This was like an EQ experience for me, likely will never have the same feeling again, even on a sequel. These designers deserve huge bonuses, especially the level designers.
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Agree with the engagement part. These games are the only ones I notice myself tensed up while playing, jumping physically when something scares the shit out of you, etc.
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