I beat the fucking game and I don't even know wtf the Elden Ring was. It coulda been a cock ring for all I know. I probably couldn't talk about the story for more than two minutes. My playthrough was like 60 hours long. Anyone else?
My first playthrough was 200 h and I still have no idea what the fuck it was about.
my playthrough was 250 hours and all i could glean was the individual symbols that make up the whole Elden Ring™ are some sort of cosmic magic law that the alien brought with him to impose an age of prosperity until marika womaned the ring into pieces......maybe
>>721705649 Lmao same man. I felt like I was collecting anime rocks for 60 hours while some weirdos in cloaks whispered Shakespeare at me. Every cutscene just made me more confused. By the end, I was pretty sure I had married a witch, committed at least three war crimes, and became the moon’s boyfriend? But hey, dual-wielding katanas and jumping over dragons was tight, so I ain't complaining.
Pretty much. I didn't understand any character's motive either. Bloodborne was the only from game I found even remotely comprehensible
The Elden Ring is a magical sigil that defines the fundamental laws of existence. That's why everything is fucked after Marika shatters it. You're just retarded.
>>721705649Game was cool for the first 20 hours maybe but it just overstayed its welcome. I stuck woth it like a bad book to complete it but the game went from "wow another new area this game is huge!" to "wow another new area? I thought this was the finale ffs"
200 hours first playthrough herecoincidentally, I read a lot about norse and viking myth and lore before playing the game, and it was clear as day that GRRM just copied as much as he could from said lore. the entire theme of elden ring is "the displacement of norse mythology by christianity and modernity". that's pretty much it. >godwyn is baldr>goldmask is jesus (fixing the old way with the new, true message of god)>looking to the stars and going insane: the discovery of the vast universe by humanity and the resulting inspiration for lovecraftetc pp
>>721706164>That's why everything is fucked after Marika shatters itThe world was fucked before Marika shattered it tho. Godwyn's corpse fucked with the roots of the Erdtree. Marika shattered the Elden Ring because there was no solution to save the world from Godwyn's corpse.
>>721705649The story trailer they released before the game came out should have been the opening cinematic.What I understood the first time through without going too in depth in the lore is that the ring gets shattered by the queen because her favorite kid got assassinated, then a massive war happens between her kids for pieces of the ring and that ruins the land but no one can die so everything just kinda sucks. The queen gets locked up in the tree as punishment and the two fingers call back all the warriors that got banished to kill all her stupid kids and replace her as the ruler. Also she can turn into a dude and had kids with herself. Thanks GRRM.
>>721705649>dude wakes up>he gets flipped off by some finger>kills gods cause he got flipped offthere
Everyone is confused as to why Marika sharted the ring but isn't it because she knew death was stolen? At that point her whole plan for a golden deathless age fell apart. She just said fuck it, lets try again from scratch
>>721705649The Elden Ring was the game you bought.
ITT: Retards admitting their retardation as if it's not shameful for some reason
I did all the achievements. The Elden Ring is the grand order that takes control of the land by making everyone obedient and free of the rot curse. Basically, if you live inside the order you are good to go. If you live outside oh boy, I hope you like eating scarlet rot for breakfast because that tree has that in spades.
>>721708476Coming into a conversation shitting your pants and leaving isn't and was never a good contribution.
It's basically like in Naruto. The tree is actually bad and the person casting the tree a fucking retard being controlled by an alien who just wants to eat.
>>721708608So then why make a thread doing just that?
>>721705649Remember The Lord of the Rings? It's like that but it's OLDER.
>>721710662The only time this game made me hard was when that blatant Sauron reference showed up in the game. Shame it was short lived and not really important. But it was a nice reference nonetheless.
White women are not well.
>>721711054No one can be well in this fucking world dude.
>>721705649That's how you are meant to play these games. You must be some kind of eager homosexual to need some motivation to slay everyone and rule the world. Just kill the dragon, fuck up the king in his gay, little castle of gold and sit on the throne until the next DLC drops.
I didn't even beat it, it got really boring after a while because the balancing is way too easy with OP weapon arts but way too hard/tedious without them. I got to the snow area.The art style, world design, and lore also didn't have the same SOVL as Dark Souls for me, the armor especially looked like shit and the lore I also found to be uncreative and pretty boring.
>>721712537I am.
>>721713987For me it was the buttdrop weapon art with star fists. I had so much poise I would only die if I got too greedy
Dark Souls 2 better
>>721716089Many are not saying that.
>>721706272it's more than likely it was mostly Miyazaki's lore and GRRM added the incest and poop eating
>>721716089>introduces the sickest armor in all From Games>never shows up againThis will never not make me mad. Drakeblood set is overrated, Archdrake set is real kino.
>>721706404Godwyn died and Marika shattered right after
>>721715761https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3MkqlOjttI
The fact that we don't see Nepheri do any change in Stormveil pissed me off. That's a long ass quest for little to no payoff.
I have never paid attention to the story in any Souls games I just follow the trail of enemies until I reach the final bad guy
>>721705649My first playthrough was around 100 hours, now they are around 6 hours.
>>721716815But people who jork to souls games often cite the stories and world as equally as good as the gameplay when theyre both shit. It seems to me like marketing made Dark Souls 1 popular and it because the defacto babys first action game just like Skyrim became babys first RPG>"ITS SO GOOD THERES NOTHING LIKE IT">it didnt do anything new it just did anything and its the first instance of it that the masses experienced
>>721717642Maybe it's just good because it doesn't insist upon itself, like every other story in every other game.
>>721705649Maybe the Elden Ring was inside us all along
