I didn't like it t_t
>>732356673
>>732356673Not every game is for everyone also it's very flawed
>>732356673Play Sekiro instead
>>732356673First 50 hours for me were a chore. Then I played with my brother who wanted to get into souls games, so I picked it back up. We ended up 100% the game after about 200 hours each. Genuinely a 10/10, would experience something like this again no doubt.Also I played it on release for these 50 problematic hours. Can't really tell what's a skill issue or a game issue. My advice is you look up guides, plan a build, spoil yourself with some content... Then execute! Souls games are community games. Part of the appeal is to immerse in the universe and metagaming.
>>732356673Of course you didn't. You're 12
>>732356673This game filters a bunch of people that lacked education you shouldn't blame yourself you were literally ignorant to what happened to you.
>>732356673That's ok anon, noone likes everything>>732356976>Knight is censoredShit rustles my jimmies everytime
>the fun thing about Souls is looping the game into NG+ or just trying a few new playthroughs with different builds >can get build set up reasonably quick once you know what you're doing>fun to just casual speedrun>don't have to gallop across an empty world for hours>elden ring takes two centuries just to get mid tier upgrades>200 hours
>>732356976you'll get the lolcow to reply commenting on censoring his own name lol.
>>732358291He wouldn't be that dumb would he?
>>732357009>>732358114I loved Dark Souls and Bloodborne, but to me this game felt like >>732357321 said, a chore, so much reused content, so much brainlessly rolling around bosses (something that looks extremely retarded, I can't fathom why they went back to it instead of the charming quickstep of BB), so much traveling empty spaces, collecting flowers and crafting materials, the repetitive boring looking catacombs, having to light candles more than one time, it was just so fucking repetitive, even worse than the repetitive gameplay was doing that to see repeated enemies and bosses>>732358238It bothers me because I wanted to like it, I don't get what everyone sees in it to hold it in higher regards than the previous games, it makes me feel like an alien
>>732358443Sorry to hear you got filtered like I thought. You might like it more when you graduate, a lot of these kinds of things need you to be at the right place in life.
>>732356673I've beat it 3 times on my own, the DLC once, and started maybe 4-6 games with seamless co opEvery time we get close to the end my buddy lumps in another guy who will drop it after 10ish hours, and said new guy will require that we make brand new characters for this, so I'm very burnt out on the first half of the game. I can see why people wouldn't like it, but like every Fromsoft game, I think it's impeccable when you meet it on its own terms
>>732358560what do you mean by filtered? what exactly filtered me?
>>732358576what do you think this game does better than the previous one?
>>732358640Its an english slang term eslbro.
>>732358753yeah a slang for getting filtered by some aspect of a game, something good about it you weren't able to enjoy, so I'm asking you, what's that you think that filtered me? the empty open world? or the combat? because I finished the game, and to me every fight played the same way, never I had to think before any approach, the only thing I appreciated about it is that it looks good and the level design of some legacy dungeons
crazy how acclaimed the game is, you'd think in this era there'd be some free thinkers that would try to shit on it for being an open world DS3 clone but no, that's not the case, nobody really did that, it's just 10/10 ratings across the board, absolutely insane
>>732358702Then Dark Souls 3?I think the ashes of war are way better than the weapon arts, I think the named bosses are a lot better, I think the environments are far more varied (inarguably more vast but I won't use this as an objective plus). I think altering the scaling of weapons is very cool, the magic system is the best it's ever been. I think the DLC bosses are better than the DLC bosses, including Gael who is overrated and easily rolled through. I will concede the overworld dungeons and catacombs suck shit save for a couple with some unique twists but those are marred by using the same aesthetic as the 1000 other overworld dungeons. The ash summons are also quite novel and insulate the player from summoning some lvl 999 psycho/cheater from oneshotting the boss, giving a spectrum to players who can't solo bosses but don't want to be raw carried throughout the game.The dragon fights are better than every other dragon fight save maybe GapeDragon in all of souls>but dragon fights suckI think they're fun on horseyakdonkey.I will also concede the overworld would be better if it was shrunk down and had some fat trimmed from it that make replaying the game a fucking chore, even if you can skip most of it, that isn't an argument in favor of its quality. I also don't like that Limgrave has a density to it that all other environments lack.
>>732358443>so much traveling empty spaces>zoomers when they don't see bling bling wahoo every secondDo you get scared when you are outside too?
>>732359131>Then Dark Souls 3?no, than Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and BloodborneElden Ring just felt like Dark Souls 3 with a open world slapped on it
>>732359272kings field 4 is 100x more fun than demon's souls
>>732359131I meant ones not one sorry for the typo
>>732359373why
>>732359443ds was just kf4 with a high poly open world slapped on it but without the charm
>>732359272>demons soulsHaving recently played the ps3 version for the first time 6 months ago, its overhyped, the bosses fucking suck, the enemies fucking suck, the weapons all fucking suck, everything about it feels like wrassling a bad game with good art direction and music>BloodborneAlso having recently played it on shadps4, it's good, but the mechanics aren't for me, gunparry isn't fun and all the bosses are mostly punching bags that deal big damage. 100% carried by its art direction>all the other souls gamesThis is where I'm not sure if I'd say Elden ring is better than DS1 or 2, even if mechanically it tightens a lot of screws, DS1 and 2 have atmosphere in spades and iconic bosses. Still I think being arguably on par with some of the best games of all time is far from an indictment.
>>732359373kings field 4 has something that no other souls game can capture, it feels claustrophobic as fuck.
>>732359531how the fuck isnt demons souls world charmingare you kidding me>>732359603demon's souls have my favorite bosses, I like how they are mechanically unique and merge with the levels instead of just being arenas to hit them and roll
I haven't played DS3 yet, opinions on the DLCs? Must have? Whatever? Do a vanilla playthough first?
>>732359856>Must have?The last dlc for sure fighting Gael is probably the most kino moment in all of Souls.
>>732359804I'll concede the arenas are unique, forcing the player to navigate poison swamps and tight bridgeways during the bossfight is very cool and atmospheric and in that way it does feel like you are a knight on a real quest and less the later games where youre a guy fighting in these perfect rooms designed to fight these big dudes in.That said I still don't like the bosses. They're all very easy save the Penetrator and the Dragon King if you get bad RNG, and most of the difficulty is dealing with some bullshit enemy placements with no respite prior to the boss which I think contributes to why the bosses are so easy
>>732359947why do you like rolling around an enemy spamming attacks so muchI don't get itwhat's kino about ithow do you look at it and doesn't think it loos stupidit's a dude in full armor doing air flips......
>>732360116Do you complain about fps just being point and click or what? That's the gameplay if you don't enjoy it play something else.
>>732360035I don't mind them being easy, if I wanted a real challenge I would play competitive games
>>732360196yeah, the gameplay of dark souls 3 and elden ring
>>732360116I don’t roll I use greatshields.
>>732360116I don't know, what are the Infinity Gems?
>>732360354gael is still another knight flipping around and spamming attacks, what's ''kino'' about it? what makes it different to artorias and almost all of elden ring bosses? what's remarkable about it?
>>732356673I enjoyed experiencing it but did not really enjoy playing it. Everything after the second fight with margret or whoever is utter dogshit. The fire giant in particular feels like it should have been left in an earlier build forever, its just obviously incomplete. The part with the meteor and radahn was so cool but looking back, I dont think it really justifies the open world. So much of the open world is just padding. It was fun getting swept up in the experience with everyone on release but everytime I return to the game I like it less and less.
>>732360509Gael isn't a mechanically great fight, it's just thematically very cool. I hate to invoke the "two nobodies fighting over nothing at the end of the world" trope but it is very cool
>>732360509>what makes it different to artorias He’s more fun and he uses miracles and a crossbow>compared to Elden Ring bossesI’m not him, Gael is worse than Messmer and Bayle. He’s the final boss of the series and basically the most powerful knight in history at that point so he’s allowed to do wacky shit.
>>732360528I wonder how many people first souls game Elden Ring is, maybe that's why they like it so much?
>>732360767Elden Ring was my first and I still like it a lot, but I’ve replayed DS1 like 4 or 5 times every year since 2022. I liked DS2 more than DS3 though. I also didn’t like Shadow of the Erdtree that much but that’s mostly because I hyped it up internally thinking it’d be god’s gift to mankind and it wasn’t.
>>732360742I thought the ringed city covered in sand was cool and unique, then elden ring does the same thing again with leyndell.... so lame
>>732359131Thats a pretty fair assessment. I wish we got more dynamic interactions with npcs instead of the fuckhuge map. This game is more quest oriented than any other entry in the franchise and I hate how npcs just teleport around the map to progress those quests. It has such interesting characters and stories but the way you interface with them is as flat as ever.
>>732360936Yeah I do have to agree there, not only are we recycling Anor Londo but also recycling it with ringed city sand. I DID like the sewer leading to ghostmohg though
>>732360936>then elden ring does the same thing again with leyndell.... so lameSOTE actually does this even worse as the Putrescent Knight arena was literally Midir’s with a purple tint. I found that area on day 2 of the DLC and there were already a ton of messages on the ground proving I wasn’t going crazy.
>>732360509I don't know, what is the philosopher's stone?
>>732360936>Ringed City>City part is a backdrop Ringed City is a boring shit map, a swamp level, after a dlc swamp level, in a game that already had a swamp level.
>>732360962Yeah, and I'm a little fatigued by the "souls" style of quests. You can only give me so much "mysterious NPC who talks as if I know anything about what the fuck is going on" before I check out. On replays I still struggle to figure out why an NPC is logically where they are or why they went where they did 3/4s of the time
>>732360909I'm happy that you liked Dark Souls, it was my first one, I loved Dark Souls 2 at release too, then I was hyped for Bloodborne and thought it was just ok.... but in retrospect after playing everything that came after it I came to appreciate it's simplicity
>>732359272DeS and DaS are baby games with fucking retarded unbalanced RPG mechanics and Bloodborne is 4 hours long and trapped on a console that can't even run it.
the most admirable legacy by miyazaki and fromsoft is none of their games but the uttely brainwashed fanbase who will rabidly defend anything they do. the games cannot be criticized as doing so is always an admission of ineptitude. any story they tell can be shallow kids garbage in reality but break it into tiny pieces and hide the bits and it becomes a masterpiece. I don't know any other creator who has achieved this.
>>732361000it being mohg again was mega lame to me too
>>732361234>the games cannot be criticized as doing so is always an admission of ineptitudeHey at least you admit it
>>732361234I don't know, what is the One Ring?
>>732361269>againI think the intended route has you meet him before meeting real Mohg but I can see how that'd be fucking gay after traversing the blood kingdom
>>732361234Because the rest of them are shit.
i liked it a lot at first but jsut gort bored/burnt out with itto many generic dungeons, and they never solved the problem of souls games having awful loot, which is absolutely critical for a game with lots of generic dungeons
>>732356673then you're not a real gamer
>>732361364actually I went there first, but I already knew mohg was gonna be a boss fight later again, so It just me me disappointed earlier
very much overrated slop.
>>732361227>DeS and DaS are baby games what the fuck is even this criticismdo you play these games to prove yourself? get a clue you worthless loser
>>732359856They're good. Do Ariandel first.
>>732359063lmao he stopped replying
>>732361514made me*
>>732361380On one hand yes, on the other hand you can route around skipping a LOOOOOOT of bullshit that in other souls games would be required content. So on a later play through it is nice to say "I'm going int, so I'm just gonna jump the border into the rot swamp and grab the meteor staff right away, and skip a bunch of shitty sword/axe/dagger dungeons"
>>732359856If you’re playing the game on console, you can get DS1, DS2, and DS3 with all the DLCS for very cheap. I got it once for about $27 around the Christmas season years ago but now it’s $40 which is still cheaper than a single souls game on PC.https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Souls-Trilogy-PS4-playstation-4/dp/B07MG7Y4CB
>hit the boss twice after it's FINALLY done doing its fully hyperarmored 89-hit combo (with 89 follow-ups if you got close to it to try and get hits in) >boss immediately FLIES away to the other side of the arena and starts shooting lasers and explosives at you or rushes you with big wonky hitbox charge moves>Most boss battles are so fucking bad that people default to using a busted bleed build just to do fucktons of damage in less hits because otherwise the fights last too long>if it's not that, people just stack a bunch of buffs and stance breaking to rape bosses faster because otherwise it's a whole work shift to fight them normallyFromsoft lost their magic, elden ring is peak slop and I say the word slop unironically and not for meme-word purposes. It is genuine fucking SLOP, just a plaster of fucking goop they served up on an open world meme plate and a horse and expected everyone to find it epic and fun. The conversation fromsoft cultists aren't ready to have is that elden ring is just dark souls 2: part 2. It's equally as jank and terrible.
>>732356673dark souls 1+2 = peak unc gaming dark souls 3 = not badelden ring = goat
>>732361995Seconded
>what if Dark Souls but instead of constant mostly focused unique areas and bosses you had a big wide open world with a bunch more filler content and repeat bossesNow I don't think it's the worst game ever and there's nothing redeeming whatsoever but for me it's just not what I loved about Souls
>>732361995demon's souls = diddy ahhdark souls = unc kinodark souls 2 = unc coalbloodborne = 6 7dark souls 3 = mid frsekiro = lowkenuinely peakelden ring = peak fr ong
>>732356673Oh hey, its the hourly negative Elden Ring thread with the same OP image.Definitely not coordinated at all.
>>732361939Everything in the base game is doable with fully charged R2s at the end of the string. Even Malenia. Except Hoarah Loux, I guess. That's actually the most aggressive boss in the game. The DLC is where it gets dumb.
>>732357009>also it's very flawedNo it's not
>>732361939>circle strafing and hitting the guy in the back is peak combatOk boomer
>>732362524Oh hey, its the hourly retard thinking every anonymous poster saying a negative thing about a game he likes is some coordinated defamation campaign.Definitely not schizophrenic at all.
>>732362528I maintain that post patch, early starscourge is harder than promised consort. It is very easy to mollywhop the misbegotten and crucible knight just to eaten alive by Starscourge Radahn. You will never EVER accidentally stumble on Promised boywife Radahn without having a heap of levels/some good gear for the occasion.
>>732361583A game can in fact be too easy to be meaningfully engaging, and the PS3 From games meet that criteria.
>>732362757Well yeah, challenge runs are typically harder than regular runs. Mohg is also quite a kick in the teeth if you rush him via Varre's quest and don't stop to farm the albinaurics by his house.
>>732361172>On replays I still struggle to figure out why an NPC is logically where they are or why they went where they did 3/4s of the timelol for me it's 100% of the time since I'm not reading any of that
>>732361939>what? People are better than me at this videogame?>They can find effective builds and stats that allow them to finish battles easier and faster?>Aaah it's the game that sucks it's not me I swear I'm GOOD gamer with REFINED taste that thinks this is (latest meme synonym for "bad").
>>732362995>challenge runOn my first play through I climbed a tower that teleported me into Radahns rectum, I did not choose this
>>732362717>>732362524negative or positive, the fact it's still being talked about this much is definitive proof it is the ultimate gautier
>>732363260is it? I just played it for the first time, that's why I made a thread about it
>>732363059But you can't fight him until resting in Altus Plateau at least once. Or was that patched in?
>>732363650No, you make the same thread twice a day every day because you are gay and bad at videogames
Elden mid...worst From game ever...
>>732359085nigga are you for real
>own 5070ti>its fucking cold
>>732359085Bound to happen when you make the greatest game of all time. Most people's biggest complaint is the horse controls a little janky. Thats it.Its honestly amazing something like this could be created when thousands of people were working on it.
>>732364093I don't think it was even thousands.
>>732364186The credits go on for like 15 minutes I wouldn't doubt thousands worked on the game. They are all fulfilling the vision of like 3 dudes at the top so it isn't like those thousands of people had their own view put into the game, most of them were code monkeys. Still astounding how all around perfect elden ring is given its scale. There are probably irl nations out there with less history and worldbuilding than the lands between.
>>732363843I don't care what a subhuman like you thinks, the mods that can see IPs know that isn't true, still you should take meds for the sake of the ones around you
>>732357321is this a reddit copypasta or something
>>732364614I don't need an IP to seee it's you when you post the same images and same retarded incorrect arguments every time.
>>732356673it was dogshit
>>732364614okay dragonirian calm down we'll pretend we don't notice this time.
>>732362524>>732363260
>>732364676what incorrect arguments? genuinely curious even though you are schizophrenic
>>732364860>muh open world>muh reused assets>muh jump attacksYou have not even played elden ribg but you would be a master if you had been in the time you've spent bitching about it.
>>732356673That means you're not a subhuman.
>>732365095>muh open world>muh reused assets????????????????????????how is any of these things untrue
>>732365139open world games are a whiteness test. If you dislike them you aren't white.
>>732365238>muh ?????way to out yourself retard
>everyone making fun of the lolcowTo all the anons out there.
>>732365275>if you don't like big empty world with fucking nothing in them you are not le white lol le /pol/ bullshit Slice your neck open, faggot. How do you gloat so much about enjoying actual shit? it's indian behavior.
>>732365238They're not bad.
>>732365459>muh muh
>>732365459>big empty world with fucking nothing in themWell guess what, that's not elden ring, dumbass
>>732365529how is fighting reused bosses, enemies, and exploring the world only to find filler crafting materials not bad?
>>732365623you tried lol
>>732365652and you did not, even to be human in the first place, braindead nigger
>>732365623Boss refights are good as long as there is enough variety, and elden ring has among the most unique enemies and bosses of any 3D game>and exploring the world only to find filler crafting materialsThis isn't even close to true.
>>732365774>>and exploring the world only to find filler crafting materials>This isn't even close to true.it is, most of the timecrafting materials, golden runes, dragon reskins, and copy pasted catacombs and mines with copy pasted enemies and bosses
>>732365957All things I want.
>>732356673Me neither, worst fromsoft souls game.
>>732366083you are a soulless swine
>>732365957>it is, No, it isn't. You find all sorts of items and random enemy encounters and platforming challenges. Also the chalice dungeons are good once you get past the babymode tutorial ones in limgrave and weeping penensula
>>732366174You are just upset because the best game ever filtered you and everyone else loves it.Its fine to make that your whole personality bronybro.
>>732366198 Exactly this. Half the people whining about "copy-pasted content" never even made it past Liurnia. There's way more variety in enemy design, dungeon themes, and loot the deeper you go. It’s a From game-you’re supposed to explore. If all you did was beeline bosses and scoop up Erdleaf Flowers, that’s on you.
>>732366431Bring up how easy it is to gather the scadu fragments if you want to deal psychic damage to him.
>>732356673Yeah me neither.>Mounted combat sucks ass and you can't even ride the horse in multiplayer>Crafting system means 90% of the items you pick up are random materials you don't give a shit about>Open world does nothing but spread out the fun>Almost every boss is either a big dude jumping around with swords or a monster that flies around and you have to wait until it lands to hit it>Annoying jank from an engine that should've been retired years ago like dying from falling 5 feetI do understand that if someone loves the core gameplay of souls games they'll love how expansive the game is and can overlook these flaws but I just can't.
>>732356673o_0 ?
>>732366523If anything there's not nearly enough scooby snacks. There should be 100 of them, with you needing 50-70 of them to reach maximum skidoo power
>>732366574>Annoying jank from an engine that should've been retired years ago like dying from falling 5 feetNot only have you not played elden ring, you aren't even culturally familiar with it.
>>732356673Yeah same. I loved Silksong but half the people who tried it hated that too. Games are niche.
>>732366751You gotta cut her some slack, dying to 5 ft falls was something from those retro souls games they talk about. They don' know that elden ring is different.
>You just don't understand the padding catacombs and clone bosses!!!Are ERfags the most defensive soulsfags? When someone dislikes something from other games I feel there's not nearly as much seething.
>>732367141That would be the invaders from those retro souls games that tried ER and then cried like women over losing. Nothing will ever top that group of crybabbies.
>>732359085"Git gud" is the key to universally positive critical reception. You need to lean into punishing difficulty in your design and you need a certain critical mass of posters that automatically responds "git gud" or "skill issue" to anyone who doesn't lavish praise on the game. Then no one will dare say a negative word about it out of fear of losing their gamer cred.
>>732367760Why didn't this work for fighting games?
>>732357321Weird. For me the first 10 - 15 hours of the game were like 11/10 best shit ever. After that the more I played the less I liked it and everything past the capital I fucking hated. The game peaks in Limgrave which is pretty sad.
>>732368072Not all fandoms are created equally. Some groups respond positively to encouragement and others fold in upon themselves at it.
>>732369069I got really invested in the game and started noticing how much effort was put into the worldbuilding. That is what kept me loving it for hundreds of hours. Small stuff like noticing all the hero tombs point to one place makes you realize the game is on a completely different level.
>>732366751>>732366829Here, it only took a couple minutes to stumble into a situation where my character dies from fall damage despite being stopped on a ledge. You can argue I should've died from sliding or whatever but even then there was almost a full second where my character was just chilling with 0 vertical momentum until the game remembered that its platforming is retarded. I'm actually kinda impressed with myself, I haven't played the game in over a year and it took almost no effort to find a 0ft fall that killed me. This behaviour is fine in Dark Souls because it's area based so you shouldn't be trying to scale walls, but Elden Ring is open world and gives you a double jump horse than can glide, there's not excuse.
>>732370125Nice. Glad you like the game lad.
>>732359085What game from the past 5 years is more worth my money than Elden Ring
Post your characters
>>732370869I also had this one.
>>732361939Git gud
>>732370869This is an old screenshot, but here are some of mine
Can someone post that reply comp of people coping about the Radahn leak please I need it
>>732356673Congrats you have good taste the game is dogshit
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>>732371887Carian knight webm incoming
>>732371887I can't even look at the thumbnail of this webm anymore without thinking of Carian GOD
>>732356673On my first playthrough i drop it at farum azula, the second i had fun but the third one its where it truly clicked for me.
>>732356673The moment I reached Mountaintops of the Giants I just couldn't go on. I started a new Dark Souls run after almost half a decade and had a blast. Picked up Elden Ring right after and forced myself to finish it.
>>732362476You're illiterate.
>>732372808lol ok unc
>>732361995Ds1>=BB>SOTE>DS2>ER>>DS2SOTFS>DS1R>DS3
>>732356673i did but the combat is fucking outdated. it tries so hard to be a proper action game but you just have to roll around like a retard and do the same shitty animations from 2011 while the bosses have these amazing attacksit really drags the game down, but I still love it
>>732372923good ranking>>732373154>proper action gamekys dmcfag
>>732373227>dmcfagwtf are you talking about, i didn't say i want it to be an action game (i don't), im saying from tried to make it one and the combat system is outdated
>>732373363I'm sorry, something activated in my brain that caused me to immediately pin you as someone I hate, but I realize now that you were just sharing your honest opinion.
