Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

I'm a sip of two of coffee in....

Why wouldn't the new area be scaled up in your NG++++ game?


(I have never NG+ a character, only rerolled a new one or kept pvping on same play thru)

Synj said:

Am I the only one that can’t be bothered with Elder Rings’ story?

“Big shiny tree on fire now. Ok man.”
- probably me

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Look man, before I would 100% simp for Ranni, I had to make sure she wouldn't have me doing anything too degenerate outside of the possibilities with those four arms.

Hateyou said:

I’ve seen a few lore videos and even with those the story doesn’t really make sense. I don’t really pay attention to it. It’s all about the big ass world, excellent legacy dungeon designs, weird shit and atmosphere for me.

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I thought the story not making sense or being spelled out for you is by design. It allows you to fill in the gaps and make it up yourself in your head. Heard an interview with Miyazaki were he would go to the library as a kid and not really understand everything in the fantasy books and sorta just filled in the details himself. That feeling for storytelling is what he goes for in his games.

Yeah I got shit for all story wise from the game, but an hour on the wiki and its a great lore dump. Im ok with that in certain ways.

My problem isnt not being told where to go or what to do, Evbentually you figure it out I dont need hand holding. But their biggest weakness is I beat the game byt wandering around for the most part or googling, and I was never clear on what is optional, not clear one when im making a altering choice, or that I was going different routes.

I mean I showed up to volcano manor, did 1 or two quests, the wandered around and found and killed Rykard without it really being clear that would end Volcano manor for me. Or times I would be working to helping Rannis path, without really getting that its a choice or could alter my outcome.

I guess im old and gay and like it a little more Mass Effect style, where I know I'm making a clear binary choice and will have to see what its outcome is later (IE It doesnt matter because Bioware are fags)

Break said:

I'm having a ton of fun with a Greatsword (actually a colossal sword) with the Lion's Claw weapon art which does an amazing forward summersault that does like 3x weapon damage and staggers almost everything but the flip tends to avoid most enemy attack animations too. If you run out of mana you can still do the summersault but damage will be 1x weapon damage which is still pretty nice.

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It's the Guts build. It's what I used on my first play after I realised Quality build were really bad in Elden Ring. It's really powerfull and straightforward. Nothing fancy and really fun.

Rajaah said:

I'm hoping after this they start working on Elden Ring 2 and it covers the Land of Reeds.

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IGN interviewer asked Miyazaki about future plans for ER.

Final question on the topic of Shadow of the Erdtree, but do you envision this as the end of Elden Ring's story or is there room for either more DLC or in Elden Ring 2 down the line?

Miyazaki: We don't want to say this is the end of the Elden Ring saga for now. I think we said a similar thing at the end of Dark Souls 3. We didn't want to flatten those possibilities or put a pin in them just at that time. And it's a similar story with Elden Ring. We don't want to discourage the possibilities for that. There might be more ideas in the future.

We don't have any current plans to make a second DLC or a sequel, but we definitely don't want to snuff out that possibility. We think that there could well be something the future.

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