Elden Ring was a magical experience
>>738868954It was, can't wait to do another run. My first took me 120 hours
Thought it was mid but had some cool moments
>>738868954Melina was obviously meant to sit next to you at every grace, so why did they change it at the last second?Well, at least you can mod the feature back in
>>738868954I'm waiting for the free update to do another run, I really hope they adopt NR's item system so they can free up a button so we can have crouch and sprint (probably won't happen).
It's From's Magnum OpusStill making troons seethe to this day
>>738868954>Elden Ring was a magical experienceThat's purely subjective anon.
Nah Dark Souls 1 on Xbox 360 was a magical experience. Anything besides Demons Souls and Dark Souls 1 has been rehash slop with zero soul
>>738868954for me it was bland and a constant let down>nothing cool to find in the world, almost every treasure is worthless trash>no cool story beats or characters>music is bad>graphics were bad
>>738868954I liked it
>>738873031
total merchant death
total shabriri death
>>738873338SHUTITDOWN
>>738868954True, a shame so little games capture this feel
>>738873420Kalé never did anything wrong
>>738868954I will finally play it this summer when it goes on sale
>>738873942>Kalé never did anything wrong
I don't know what they're gonna do next.ER really felt like the logical conclusion to the particular game they'd been making since Demon's Souls.I'm sure there can always be more iteration and tweaking but where do you go from here?
>>738874134With the same combat system? Nowhere. It's played out. They have to get more actiony. Needs button combos, and allowing the player to have many attack types available rather than locking them to 1 per weapon. Dodge needs to be an actual dodge not iframes. Bosses can't be allowed to just AOE the fucking arena, clip through the environment or fill the entire screen so you can't control your character properly.
>>738868954>Finish dungeon >Get a medallion i wont use or a shitty crafting material It was dogshit and the open world had nothing to find in it
the only worse souls-like game from them is dark souls 2, I've owned ER for years and I still have no drive to play it after starting it and then immediately killing the tree sentinel and then Margitboring ass open world slop
>>738874134Ocean sailing and island discovery.
>>738868954really waslearning the single player experience together with bros in lock step in progression, having a ruleset for ourselves of no wiki lookup, and then coming together to host fightclubs after we all beat the game where we only ganked if the invader had a moonveil or other dishonorable shit was one of my favorite moments in gaming
>>738874386>he's STILL believing in the pirate leak
>>738874270kek filtered
>>738868954It was, and I'm tired of contrarians shitting on it on every occasion because it got popular and they can't help but hatewagon everything popular
Why does the game run worse with the DLC installed? After playing for a while, let's say around half an hour, the framerate gets wonky and sometimes there is ridiculous lag for all my inputs. Is my PC shit or am I a retard? 5600x, 3080ti, 32GB ram, RTX off.
>>738875705your pc might be fucked
>>738874134Not sure how'd they'd do it but having separate commands for both left and right hand skills so you don't need to awkwardly swap weapons would be cool.
>get past leyndell>everything kills you in 3 hits and takes 2 hours to killthank you michael zaki
>>738875880based wretch club player
I caught a bad cold and was down for more than a week when it came out. I was playing so much I had dreams about it.
I agree,I have been with these games since Demons Souls on PS3 came out (still have my BP with the art book and everything)and we were discussing it here, can't imagine being so jaded that you hate this game
>>738875705i never had issues running even when i had 1070, sounds like a video card issue or RAM but you have more than enough unless you're doing taxing things while playing
>>738868954The world was kinda nice, the rest of the game was your standard From trash or even worse from dungeons to enemies to story to "quests".
>>738878779>playing coop mod with friends>they're just warping around from place to place "doing quests" (talking to NPCs) instead of playing the fucking gameWe're going to do Goldmask ending. None of us needs ANY item from fucking KENNETH HAIGHTPLEASE LETS JUST PLAY THE GAME
Torrent is nice and all, but the game is much more enjoyable when you're NOT zipping around like a caffeine-addicted ADHD-riddled autist. Same for sprinting through catacombs and other enclosed spaces.
>>738870374dimwit
>>738874134Nightreign combat is basically the perfected form of Souls combat. So maybe just one final game where everyone can enjoy that outside of Fortnightreign.
>>738874134They need to actually start building a real game world of interactivity, with NPCs that function more like real people instead of rehashing Demons' Souls designs for the 12th time. They need a more holistic approach, similar to the RDR/Witcher/Skyrim/Dragons Dogma or Crimson Desert style game world with a full day night cycle and dynamic NPCs. Give the player things to do that aren't just fighting. Populated towns and cities, full of people that are actually walking around talking and acting like real people. It can still be a gritty dark fantasy, melancholic, strange and dream like. They can simply step up the scope of their RPG game design standards, their quest and NPC designs are honestly horrifically stupid at this point>>738874386I mean folks, where's the lie? Witcher/AC Odyssey but with actually good combat expression and unique art style would be supreme
Damn people get really pissy when you use sleep in pvp
>>738868954>magical experienceOnly homosexual trannies say things like this. Stop being one.
>>738868954
>>738869482Because someone at From is a fucking autist who probably would not know how to make the players care about a character if they had like 6 previous games in-house building on the exact same skeleton.
>>738868954overrated garbage, ubislop light.
>>738874047>le usury is backmuslim subhuman detected.
>>738881467Imagine still being this mad after five years
>>738872832I just started Dark Souls Remastered, I've only played Elden Ring and Sekiro before. Aside from shittier graphics it's like the exact same as ER kinda crazy how little they innovated
Elden mid...worst From game ever...
>>738881759>I just started Dark Souls RemasteredAnother secondary tourist gets scammed by the inferior Shitmastered version.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2eos3V7jTIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyOzNO3m4V8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlvOzgm1CJg
>>738881567It was always there. I just wonder if Napoleon won against England if he would have instated usury as well, I bet France would have anyway but later.
>>738880952And? That's a smart asset reuse. Devs do that all the time.
>>738881926Sadly you can't get the OG anywhere unless you want to shell out 500 bucks for a key
>>738883340Pirate PTDE.Don't give money to Bandai Scamco for the Shitmastered abomination.
>>738868954im actually mad we wont see another Elden Ring/Dark Souls for years.FROM had a good thing going releasing one every other year, now i havent heard a single thing about their new souls gamesi dont think theyre even working on one, it PMO so much because they made so much money from Elden Ring they actually dont care anymore.
>>738868954Wasn't magical at all. It was like a re-run of previous From games.
>>738868954I'm waiting for Tarnished edish to drop so I can start my seventh character with the Milady starting class
>>738881467This "meme" doesn't even make sense
>>738883340Switch version also has original look I think.
>>738880952>Devs reuse assetsIf you actually cared about that you would've pointed out the other cases like with a lot of animations.
>>738884243The remaster was made for the switch version because it couldn't run a direct port well.
>>738884570The remaster on Switch is literally a port of the PS3 version thoughever
>>738874270But enough about every open world ever except elden ring
>>738884224>This "meme" doesn't even make senseYou didn't play Elden Ring, if you did, you would know why it makes sense.
>>738880952Smart.
>>738884857I did. You're just bad at making memes. If you could even call it that.
>>738880784Awful opinion. Never share your opinion on game design again.
>>738885018I didn't make that meme, I am just posting it, you low iQ son of a whore. You didn't play Elden DOGSHIT Ring, if you did, you would know in wihch part of that DOGSHIT game that scenario occurs. However, since Elden DOGSHIT RIng is an open-world slop game in which 90% of the content is optional, perhaps you missed it. In both cases, you are either a low IQ subhuman retarded son of a whore who is lying or a low IQ subhuman retarded son of a whore who missed that content. Your whore mother should be raped and tortured to death for not aborting you when she had the chance.
I was betrayed by my expectations. What I had in my head from hearing about it second hand sounded way cooler than what I got.>there's and catacombs caves everywhere, some that send you to different placesI thought: cool, a subterranean network connecting the whole game, like a giant sub-map below the map.I got: one chest in the starting area that sends you to caelid.>there's a hidden elevator that sends you deep underground where there's a huge areaI thought: sweet, like a whole nother world worth of mapI got: two mid sized areas connected by narrow tunnels. You can technically go to the parthanon in the skybox (mogh arena), but not straight away in the same area, so it doesn't feel as cool. You get there through random teleporting.>legacy dungeons are fantasticI got: they're mid>secrets hidden everywhereI got: way less secrets than any previous games. Nooks and crannies often empty, especially in the open world.
https://x.com/mahirusoldier/status/2054992790568972701
>>738885792>hidden elevatoralso meant to say: it's not even hidden. It's in a building on a main path in the starting area, heavily signposted. People were wowed by this.
>>738880952>Reusing assets is le badNo it's not as long as the game looks good in the end
>>738885792There's the one cave that leads to the Dragon Communion church in Limgrave and the Gael Tunnel in Caelid that leads back to Limgrave but I can't think of others that lead to different areas.
>>738885315>Elden DOGSHIT RingCan you make this your name on here so I can go ahead and ignore your posts? Thanks.
>>738886294There are a couple in the DLC that are pretty cool
>>738886294The hidden well in leyndell goes through 5 different areas and leads all the way to the moonlight altar
>738874408Cringe-posting this strongly should be bannable kek
>>738886330The Elden Dogshit Ring guy is literally just an incredibly butthurt playstation fanboy who's been incandescently outraged that Elden Ring received a higher metacritic score than Bloodborne ever since ER was released.This is all documented really clearly through the archives as well
>>738886757Not true.
>beat game >realize that the times that it was the most enjoyable was when it was more linear like its predecessorsMagic stolen
>>738886418true but there's teleporting so it doesn't feel connected
everything was cool until you realize that everyone is related to each other
>>738868954Elden slop was dogshit
>>738886901I remember when Elden DOGSHIT Ring came out, I was the first person in the world who called out the open-world slop and declared war against Elden DOGSHIT Ring. Everybody was praising the open-world, only I saw it for what it truly was and spoke out against it. Thousands attacked me, I cut them all down and am still standing. Now my lone voice has multiplied a thousandfold, I see so many posts on many websites saying what I said on day 1.Having such a high IQ, being ahead of the curve, is both a blessing and a curse. Fitting, for a true fan of Souls games, this is my curse.
>>738887305>Fitting, for a true fan of Souls gamesyou think Nightreign is good lmao
>>738888221Good? Not really. Was it enjoyable? Yes. Is it better than Elden DOGSHIT Ring? Yes.
>>738886983TRVKE
>>738868954Easily favorite and best game of the last 20 years
>>738868954I had a lot of fun. Limgrave and Liurnia had amazing atmosphere until you see red everywhere.
>>738874270how someone who likes souls approaches elden ring>go through dungeon, its like 5-10 minutes of a souls level so kinda fun>fight some mini boss, very fun>get some cool items, think about how i could make them useful later if i want to respecHow someone who pretends to like souls but doesnt really like it approaches elden ring>Ugh, another dungeon to go through, does the wiki say it has anything good for me? no? ok skip it!>UGH theres a some mini boss in this dungeon i need to fight, can i cheese it?>UHG this item i got doesnt even work for my build so pointless to pick up this stuff!These people dont actually like the games, they just like a few cinmatic moments vs some gimmick bosses, or like walking through the scenery and looking at stuff. Or maybe they are just hardcore PvP fags and see the pve as something to get out of the way so they can try and gank newer players who arent wiki gamers or who are new to souls.
BB>ER>DS1>Sekiro>>>POWER GAP>>>DS3>Demon's Souls=DS2
ZANZIBART
>>738889440I'm always baffled when people claim you HAVE to play a game with the wiki open. Truly subhuman mental faculties
Gonna do my next playthrough in VR with the Steam Frame
>>738868954I can see how that's the case for people who had never played a From game before, but for me it just felt like Dark Souls 3 with a horse and a jump button.
>>738886983It's funny how dogshit From is at coding sometimes. This wouldn't be an issue if they just purged projectiles and AoE attacks when doing a cutscene shift that moves your character.
>>738868954Meli Meli
>>738889440thermotrvclear armageddon
>>738868954The first blind playthrough was probably my favorite experience from any game I've played, reminded me of what games used to feel like when I was a kid. I've replayed it many times at this point, but nothing comes close to the first time.
>>738868954it just kinda felt like i was playing dark souls for the 4th time. novelty had definitely worn off. maybe its cool if it was your first souls game.
>>738869482im glad as i found her to be an annoying cheap anime waifubait character. not a fan of that.
>>738874134Iterating is what they've been doing since King's Field. I like t think they'll take some cues from Nightreign and give players a skill tree of sorts to acquire unique skills like the NR characters, i. e. special dodges for dex and caster fags, better guarding and poise for melee etc.
>>738893961ThisPlaying this blind on release - I hadn't felt like that since playing OoT
>>738885315Holy brown melty.
>You will never explore Limgrave for the first time again
>>738893961>>738894230Same for me. Last time I had an experience like that was probably my first time playing Final Fantasy VII in 2001. And it was the first time in just as long that I couldn't stop playing, and would stay awake so long that I felt jetlagged the next day. I averaged like 7 hours a day the first month, and that's including several days where I didn't play at all.
>>738874134Arcade Souls is the future, the age of the 100 hour long zanzibartian RPG is over
>>738868954just enough dialogue and cutscenes to make the adventure seem meaningful, without being a piece of shit movie-game. I hate fucking movie-games.
>>738895282Damn that looks kino. Hope whatever their next single player game is includes combat like this.
/v/ is maidenless haha
>>738895426>Hope whatever their next single player game is includes combat like this.not likely to happen, in From's single player RPGs you are not a hero, you are the cuck underdog who's not allowed to do anything cool
>>738895576I dunno about you but I felt pretty dang powerful at the end of ER.
>teleports behind you
>>738868954>>738869482Melina was such a missed opportunity that it's kind of absurdthey could have had a DS3-tier waifu character(well maybe not unless her toes were out) and they just decided to have her show up 6 times in a 100 hour rpg
>>738868954Played it almost completely blind recently and it was amazing. Its a shame because they really missed the mark with the dlc. The bosses just aren't fun to fight and that really makes exploring pointless for me. Dropped it after killing Rellana
>>738869482Elden Ring is a soft tranny game. The plot and world is feminist shit, no tits anywhere, Marika is ugly and has literally no tits even though "Marika's tits" is a phrase. Stepping back from having a "level up girl" which is demeaning to women is the next logical step. Expect their next single player game to be even worse in this aspect.
>>738896016The DLC was just more of the same, but with more bullshit.
>>738874134to space and sci-fi
>>738874134They still need to go back to the drawing board and retool their multiplayer system. Improve the spell system and controls so we can finally move on from tapping up to cycle through every spell you attune.
>>738896073>Elden Ring is a soft tranny game.And that's a good thing!
>>738896016Exploration was even better in the DLC.
>equip heaviest bulkiest ugliest armor in the game with good stats>now you take 500 damage instead of 510this sucksno wonder people just use whatever armor they think looks cool
>>738885792>I thought: cool, a subterranean network connecting the whole game, like a giant sub-map below the map.this is quite literally the entire siofra/ainsel/lake of rot/mohgwyn area, an entire sub-map
>>738896163That's another thing. Miquella was a missed opportunity for an eternal loli but instead of all the r34 we would have had it is all faggot shit. I think Miyazaki is actually a homosexual. He did this with Gwnyolin and the gay princes but he never does it with women because he is a great big FAG.
>Hire George R.R. Martin to flesh out the lore>Game's writing is worse than when it was just done by a game designer
>mfw no immortal loli with wide hips and a big butt
>>738874134hear me out.....Dark Souls 2.......2
good memories of playing it on release on my shitbox with a ryzen 3 and 2gb gpu at 25-30 fps. i had to download a mod to disable shadows, it was like playing half life in fullbright mode
>>738896573how do you mean
>>738896573The named characters, NPC's, active factions, and overall setting are an enormous step up compared to From's former efforts. There's a socio-political dynamic alongside the standard royal lineage power struggle that feels markedly more lived-in that Dark Souls's abstract mount-olympus-esque world full of roving foreign undead or Bloodborne's beast-scourged city.None of the characters you meet in Dark Souls 1 had the level of agency and self-determination as Ranni, Fia, the Dungeater, or any of the characters from the DLC honestly. Overall, they're all just fundamentally better integrated into the setting as well, they compliment the worldbuilding and typical cryptic From means of storytelling.In Dark Souls 1, everything is easy to explain in a Vaati video because none of the major gods like Gwyn, Nito, or the Witches of Izalith actually really do anything. The opening cutscene is pretty much the entire story.
>>738896573GRRM's style is evident in the fantasy family feud stuff and tbqh it's the best soles lore we gotbetter than rehashing le vague mysterious somewhat lovecraftian shit for the nth tiem at least there's a twist
>>738897196also if I had anything bad to say about it is that there's too much of it that it can overwhelm players and goes in too many directions at once but that's just elden ring in generalscrews could have been tightened in a few places but probably the best we could realistically get because nothing is perfect
Tranny game
The major good part of Elden Ring and Souls worlds are unique magic/incantaions, characters and overall setting. Usually you just get a copy and paste basic elemental magic in fantasy slop games with the same Tolkien/D&D inspired world. IN ER for example you have all different weird schools with three types of fires, different types of moon ice, physical space gravity, pure non-elemental magic, holy, holy that is dark but still holy, bleed, poison, better poison, dark, holy tree etc. You have some weird magician who posseses erotic 4 handed doll, you have chaos fire, plenty of weirdos that do weirdo things. The world is interesting, not something that you more or less have seen 10000 times and can guess easly what is useless and what is not.
>>738897626what game should i play
>>738895654Think fast, chucklenuts!
>>738895576Why do you choose to be an embarrassing faggot and then pretend everyone is just like you?
>>738895654He was worse than the boss. In the end I just rushed past him to pick up what he was guarding and skiped him.
>>738895282>misses twice>only hits when its on the groundwhat's the point?
>>738896073>no tits anywhere>malenia is full nude in phase 2anon
>>738868954yea it was a lot of fun when it released. no interest in playing it again though.
>>738895576>you are the cuck underdog who's not allowed to do anything cool>While Elden Ring has the highest percentage of anime moves and shiny super attacks in the entire franchise.
>>738880952I like when from does these cheeky asset reuses, both the obscure (Like this one) and the more reacognizable ones (Omenkiller being Capra Demon and Erdtree Avatar being Assylum Demon)
Cool thing in Elden Ring is the first time you encounter the harpy-like enemy and the single merchant playing music when you go down to the frenzied flame.
>>738899119I must admit, seeing the Frenzy Catacomb for the ifrst time made me audibly go "Oh crap...". It's a fantastic moment, and i can't believe so many people could have so much trouble with it (Took me like 10 tries to find the path down), though i have to admit that the combo of the Sewer Level + the platforming really gets you a bit Frenzied.
