What are you playing?

That's where my comment about feint attacks probably comes from. Sure, I could memorize every boss and dodge roll at the exact time. I'm having trouble connecting Elden Ring game of the decade/ever doing it, and people throwing Claire Obscur out the window because you had to do a parry QTE.

Witcher 3 also had questionable game play, but its story/lore more then made up for it. Both had great worlds built which seems to be rare from devs these days so worth appreciating. If you can't get past Witcher 3 game play, someone put together a nicely edited story series. I highly suggest watching.

We’ve definitely had some hot takes lately.

Expedition 33 sucks.
BG3 sucks.
Elden Ring sucks.
Diablo 4 isn’t that bad.


Ok I made the last one up to make myself feel better.

Combat in any souls game can be an insanely frustrating experience. The hang time along with the feints is infuriating.

The visuals and atmosphere in Elden Ring are some of the best, maybe the best, I've ever seen/felt in a video game.

Gravel said:

So I bought it and...it feels terrible? Everything feels super clunky and slow. I'm not particularly far into it, but the combat feels like molasses. The dodge roll seems worthless, so I guess I'm just supposed to strafe run most attacks. It's odd I see so many people complain about Claire Obscur parry mechanics, and then Elden Ring is called the greatest game of all time and it's got these retarded feint attacks constantly and you can't actually do anything to dodge them?

What am I missing about this game? It feels like the difficulty comes not from not knowing the fights and getting hit by a bad action (the Dark Souls archetype), but rather because your character feels like such ass that you have to compensate for bad controls?

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It isn't a fast paced game at all, and I usually hate Souls types of games.

I'm not very good with these types of games, and refunded it the first go around. My first big mistake then was playing it with a keyboard. It really is meant to be played with a controller. Combat is a LOT better with a controller.

Beyond that, the game is all about exploration and taking your time doing things. The difficulty certainly makes the world more immersive and interesting, and exploration is rewarding. Hell, I've spent entire play sessions derping around in castles and the like, only to discover something else to do.

I struggled with it for a handful of hours and not liking it a lot, but I pushed on and went from a peasant in rags to being a fucking demigod. It is in my top 10 best games of all time list.

These capture the newbie experience pretty well



The potion bit killed me