Now that the dust has settled, what's the verdict on Elden Ring?
>>740660392A load of cum, that is my answer
>>740660392yeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEMZZX4D6z4
Who is it, for you?Sellen?Ranni?Miquella?
open world was a mistake, ER has the least replay value of all souls games
>>740660392
goldmask
>Elden Ringgood>SotEbad
>>740660392>Open World ruins it>Legacy Dungeons are dog shit and are about as shitty if not worse than DS3 levels.>combat, weapons, and bosses are a upgrade over DS3's brainless spam roll to win bosses becuase the punish roll spam and punish healing.Those are the 3 most important complaints.
>>740660807>a ball>a puppet bitch>a gay little faggotGot any other option?
>>740661141a snake
>>740661085sound pretty filtered there, brownskin
>>740661141Melina and snek girl I guess. Honestly I think they should've included melina in the game more, she just phases in and out of existance a few times and then leaves you to come back 5 minutes later. It would be cool if she would sit next to you at every site of grace and would upgrate runes for you everytime like the fire maiden in DS3 (don't know what she's called)
>>740660392I think it's absolute bullshit that there isn't a player-wearable version of Deathbed Companion's panties in the game and the game even bans you if you mod them in. That's my verdict on Elden Ring.
>>740660807Sellen is a good girl.>>740660871Just the opposite. There's almost no necessary bullshit to go through to start the game, so it has way better replay value than any other title.
>>740661141dark skin barbarian
>>740661940There is no way i can think of that elden ring is less replayable than any other fromsoulsborne considering i've got double the time in ER than i do in DS1I think anon might be retardedly spewing stuff he's heard but doesn't understand.
>>740661940>There's almost no necessary bullshit to go through to start the game,Ok pal you start the game and then there's nothing to actually do. I've tried to replay Elden Ring 4 different times and I get bored and quit near Carian Manor every time because I just cannot be fucked to keep slogging through all this copypasted low effort shit. Oh yippee another mine filled with shitters and a literally who boss at the end, cool I get the smithing stone bearing for +2 weapons that stopped being useful 12 hours ago, woohoo a crystal tear I will never use. Only 50 more hours of this to go dude.>Erm chud just speedrun past 90% of the game's content to the main story bosses!What's the point of playing the game at all, then?
>>740661141necrophilic whoreAIDS redheadcrazy blind maniac
>>740662054Nepheli Loux is the correct choice.I like Rennala.
>>740662312When I replay, I just do all that stuff because new build = new approach to or path through content.It sounds like you do not enjoy the game on its face, but you did get something out of a [then] new release.
>>740660807Semen demon
>>740662558Builds in Elden Ring feel very homogenous because of how hard the game emphasizes spamming L2s and jump attacks to break enemy posture regardless of weapon. Dex weapons in particular are cuckchair builds outside of spamming status effects and dex-specific L2s (and even then, a Bleed Greatsword is a more efficient bloodstick than even Rivers of Blood). Magic schools feel more differentiated but you're also raped pretty hard by a miserable ass early/mid game by choosing magic. It's a combination of even worse earlygame damage for spells than in DS3 so you gotta trade HP for damage even worse, the game's absolutely retarded distribution of non-somber stones cucking your ability to have staffs and melee weapons upgraded at the same time, and all of the good spells being gatekept by the midgame unless you look up a guide and know where to speedrun in advance. Which would be "just an early game" problem if it weren't for the fact that Elden Ring is TOO FUCKING LONG, and that it's early game is longer than the entire fucking game of all the other entries in the franchise.
>>740662312You don't have to do everything in every playthrough of a game. The last time I played DS1 I skipped the Moonlight Butterfly and Darkroot Garden because that boss and that area fucking suck.Caves are worth it if you're a loot goblin. Or not worth it if you're not.
>>740660807Sellen or Roderika.
>>740662951The caves you're telling me to skip are literally 95% of the game's overworld dude, just tell me to stop playing if I'm skipping that much of it. You also wind up pretty underleveled unless you do the caves because the game is assuming you're beating them all and ending the game at RL150.
>>740662886I stopped reading the moment I read "efficient." No, not for real but spamming jump and L2 for guaranteed hit stun, circumventing enemy attack patterns, is one choice, sure. The only thing worth optimizing in this game is the amount of "turns" you can wedge into a boss' combo. I like the length because I like the world and like the adventure; if not for the DLC adding some much-needed change-up Mountaintops, which is a slog for me, then I might be inclined to agree. Vibing in the open world and LoreSlop was my favorite
>>740663118"Winding up underleveled" for skipping the caves is just not true.If there is anything close to a proper way to engage with the dungeons, it is precision targeting the ones with the needed mats/armaments.I happen just to like the experience and the combat — I will skip hero graves more often than not, though.
>>740663213>I stopped reading the moment I read "efficient."Why? The strength of dex builds is supposedly that they're better at applying statuses because they attack quickly and build meter faster, so pointing out that it's usually easier to apply bleed or frost with 2 jumping R1s with a colossal weapon (with bonus posture damage) emphasizes the homogeneity. That's how the game is balanced, they put the posture system in the game expecting you to exploit it. And the sense of adventure in Elden Ring is spoiled a bit by lore being pretty lame. The lore is mostly a soap opera of really petty gods having a melty over dumb shit as a joke and you're the punchline, the cool shit like outer gods is never really given satisfying payoff, the backstory only gets messier the more you look at it (particularly the state of the world before the Erdtree), you the main character only does things to get his dick wet like Denji, and the DLC story is miserable subversioncore character assassination.
>>740663118The game and the DLC in particular give you way more XP than you need. Being underleveled is literally only a problem if you do speedrun strats to skip everything. Just get your VIG to 60, and softcap your main attacking stat and you can beat the game without a hitch.
>>740663369It is true, you basically double your runes by going through the caves. You wind up in Ashen Leyndell at roughly RL100 by just speedrunning the legacy dungeons, but at RL150 by doing the caves. That RL150 number is the recommended level for entering the DLC, which tells you the level range Fromsoft expects you to be in when you hit the Haligtree and Consecrated Snowfields.
>>740663891Given the level ranges (and upgrade level) they expect you to generally be at for each zone kind of assumes they thought people would be finding most of the side dungeons and such. If you want to have enough upgrade materials to keep 2, maybe 3 items on par with the zones you have to keep up with the side content.
>>740660807Four hands, Grimsby
>>740662193>There is no way i can think of that elden ring is less replayable than any other fromsoulsborne considering i've got double the time in ER than i do in DS1Of course you do, the game's fucking ten times as long as DS1. A single playthrough of ER is longer than 5 playthroughs of DS1. That doesn't mean it's more fun, it just wastes your time more.
>>740660807My darling, of course
>>740664053>Given the level ranges (and upgrade level) they expect you to generally be at for each zone kind of assumes they thought people would be finding most of the side dungeons and suchThat's what I said originally >>740663118. The enemies are balanced around the expected level range, which in turn is a measure of how many side dungeons the devs expect you to be doing per run. RL150 is very high intended level because the game wants you to have 50-60 VIG, heavy melee investment, and a heavy magic investment. ER is like DS2 in that it wants you to be rocking an Artorias build where you have your melee stats and then softcapped at least one of int/fai/arc for magic damage. They gave you the ability to stack 5 spellbuffs and expect you to use it.
>>740664242A single playthrough of ER can potentially take you longer than if you played the entire Mass Effect trilogy, or Dead Space trilogy, or a lot of games entire series. It's that point where you have to really be in the mood to play ER for the long haul if you want to play it at all.
Sorry, I'm just here to download the image; I haven't even read what you wrote, OP.
>>740660392Need Ranni in that outfit but with her actual proportions
>>740664275WHY DID SHE HAVE TO TURN INTO A SPHERE?!
>>740664474Because she dared to study magic that was best left unknown. That's like Lovecraft 101, knowledge is dangerous.
>>740660807For me, it's off model bimbo pawg Marika
>>740660392>what's the verdict on Elden Ring?all the endings suck, none offer balance and equilibrium, it's all extremes or abandonment
>>740660392>Elden Ring Genuinely the best game of the last 10 years. I can't think of a single one that's better. It has flaws, but put everything together and nothing recent has topped it
>>740665997>none offer balance and equilibriumLiterally Goldmask
Game of the decade unless From top it themselves. Filtered shitters, i. e. those who refuse to engage with 2/3 of the game's mechanics, will continue to seethe, cry and shit theit pants and continue to orchestrate their gay little discord raids and daily threads with their identical webms and copypastas but t he truth remains unshaken.
>>740666661I agree that it's one of the best games of all time, but what do you mean by> refuse to engage with 2/3 of the game's mechanicsAre you referring to summons?
>>740669514nta but summons are not 2/3 of the game.>Spirit Ashes>Weapon Arts>Spells>Consumable items >Buffs>Status effects (bleed, frostbite, etc)There are people who refuse to engage with any of those systems. Basically "weapon upgrades on basic weapons and that's it".It's the people who adopted Dark Souls right before the pandemic because they "wanted to play the hard games". Aka: an offshoot community who are not a part of the primary demographic
>>740669514He probably means jumping and attacks that aren't L2 and R1
>>740669514NTA but it's not just the summons. Dark Souls fans refuse to use any gameplay mechanic that isn't the basic attack and the roll so they get filtered by any game, even ones made by From themselves, that expects you to engage on things like parries, stances or bar-dependent special maneuvers. Look for "LobosJR plays Devil May Cry" and you will see what I mean.
I wonder if Ishin was a meta guy trying to deprogram Dark Souls fans>If it works, use itHonestly no wonder From doesn't know what to do next. Why bother innovating when the "you didn't beat the game" people have so much sway?
>roll slopFuck off.
>>740660392Played it a few times. I dislike it the most out of their games from Demon’s Souls onward. Still a great game, but I’m not fond of it
>>740660392Can't say since I didn't beat it.
We all love Sellen
>>740666661>shitters can easily beat the game without using 2/3 of the game mechanicsuh nice selfown?
>>740673726>>740660807>fanart didn't even bother giving her massive off-model jugsShitfu.
>>740670603If anything Elden Ring leans way too hard into the "just use it lmao who cares" philosophy>Get new spell>Check the item description>"There is a 100% chance your character will go to hell when he dies if you use this">It's meta in both pvp and pveThis is seriously 50% of all incantations. ER is unironically a very un-immersive RPG because you're expected to treat it as a silly metagaming playground as though you were exploiting alchemy/smithing/enchanting loops and eating 1000 cheese wheels per hit like in Morrowind, as opposed to getting seriously invested in the setting and story.
>>740673726Soles made to clean my smegma.
>>740674294About that...
>>740660392>no fucking pubes
>>740675524Finally someone of sound mind in this thread
>>740670603>Why bother innovating when the "you didn't beat the game" people have so much sway?They're literally outside the primary demographic of the game. A noisy minority
>>740663118>underleveled skill issue. I skipped all the side shit in the game and because it was boring and it wasn't that hard
>>740674605What an autistic thing to lie about
Stop being horny right this instant!
>>740678080>Every dragon incant: consume the dragon hearts to use these spells and you are doomed to become a magma wyrm who seethes and copes forever >Frenzy Flame incants: this fire incinerates your very soul, you will be driven mad and be eaten alive >Blackflame incants: These prayers are all about your burning desire to skin people alive, you psycho That's just off the top of my head, I'm sure there's more. ER players don't care about the setting because they can't read but if you ever bother looking at the items it gets extremely funny how hard your character is cursing himself 10 different ways all at once. Your average Tarnished is gonna turn into a puddle of goo offscreen after the credits roll.
>>740679798>nooooooo I need a happy ending where nothing bad ever happens ever and the hero and villain end up in a homosex relationship if you 100% the game and get the secret endingElden Ring is flawless. You are the reason modern western games suck.
>>740680770you broke the world record for the smallest penis illiterate idiot
>>740680932That's one more world record than you'll ever beat pal
People always forget about Roderica in elden wifu threads, why?
>>740680770I accept your concession.
>>740666216Stagnation isn't balance
>>740681594in a game where none of the npc paths make sense her's is one of the most retarded. i didn't even realize she was the woe is me emo jellyfish girl until i was looking for something in the wiki.
>>740679798Bricking your playthrough because you used the wrong incantation x amount of times is shit design thoughbeit.
>>740681594I don't, she's the reason I can't do a flame of frenzy ending because I refuse to frenzy her.
>>740663786>>740662886>>740662312>>740660871
>>740683585>that filenameZOMG
>>740684135>>that filename>ZOMG
>>740661237>>740661237This is so obvious I don't know why they didn't do it.
>>740660392>Now that the dust has settled, what's the verdict on Elden Ring?That I want to endless hardcore, romantic, rough, and non stop baby making sex with Ranni, and I don't care if it's her doll form or her original red hair body.Haven't felt this way since Midna, blue women and red hair women remain peak and undefeated.Also the game was fun too and I couldn't think of anything else I wanted from it except I wish there was more swords that let you cast spells like the carian one.
>>740660807See, >>740686271
>>740669986I'm not doing that, dude
>>740664326>RL150 is very high intended level because the game wants you to have 50-60 VIG, heavy melee investment, and a heavy magic investment.That is not necessary at all. The strongest build in the game (Strength) only requires 54 stat points to max out. And then you just need Vigor and Endurance as needed to wear heavy armor.
