forgive me...
forgive me banana
>>741752651Zendaya forma Gwyn... I must go all out just this once...
this guy was funny how close it lines up with the meme but it was clearly setup in advance in that short dungeon that leads up to who he's talking about. he's not just dropping some random name.
>>741753430Obviously, you find his baby's spine right under a painting of him and his pregnant wife.
Roderika's voice gets my dick hard
Who is stronger: Tohno Shiki, Nanaya Shiki, or Zanzibart Shiki?
>>741753860zanzibart shiki mogs, no diff
>>741753860Dan Dallion Shiki has time stop powers so him.
Messmer does this too. Actually Messmer and Midra were the two best bosses in SOTE and they do the meme, further proving the borderlands writer is a nimrod.
>>741753430>>741754181A lot of characters say it
>>741754301yeah, but the only example i can think of a character doing it with a name that's vague or not elaborated on prior to the fight is the armoured knight guy in sekiro. isn't that the meme? it's supposed to be "who the fuck is zanzibart?", the "forgive me x..." part is just standard japanese storytelling.
>>741753860satsujinki
when Elden Ring first came out and I hadn't played it yet I saw that Zanzibart shit posted here and actually thought he was an actual character in the game like an idiot. For the first like 2 days of playing I kept thinking "man I can't wait to see what this Zanzibart character is like"
>>741752651even Armored Core 6 had this "forgive me...." shit
>>741754563what are you talking about? I fought zanzibart just yesterday, great fight.
>>741754563Glaive Master Hodir, now that was a good boss.
>>741753860
>>741754301say what? in op pic he says yurushite. another character says suman. third character says gomen. all translated le forgive me.
>>741752651FOR GIB MI ZANZI-BURT.:D
>>741752651What exactly did that fat fuck Game of Thrones guy write? This game and dlc is written as your typical Fromslop item descriptslop with the same disjointed, convoluted crap.
>>741752651Ah...my trussel troves...thy were truly...tarnivorous
>>741754690>I don't even play this game.
>>741754842The backstory, up to Godwyn's death. Everything chronologically after that is From.
>>741754842He wrote the family relationships that form the basis for the war of the roses japan style story the 2 families have going on.
>>741754563Welcome to Soulslop "lore" (actually some YouTube essayist's fanfic). It's unreal how many "fans" engage in this kind of LARP. You'd think if they wanted a complex story they'd just go play a game that has one.
>>741752651>"lol did he really say the thing?">then it hitsFor a "What ideas should we explore in this DLC?" "EVERYTHING" boss, this was so fucking kino
>>741754928>>741755008Fromsoft is capable of doing a proper story structure with Sekiro so why can't they do it in any of their item descriptslop games? I'm so tired of these shitty vague and disjointed garbage with no proper timeline.
>>741754842He wrote the backstory, though a lot of it was taken straight from the Silmarillion. Think of it as a design document. None of it is in the actual game. That's all Hackazaki.
>>741754753finger but hole
>>741755131The story in ER is pretty good. The story in all their games is - player character kills lots of stuff for esoteric reasons. Sekiro and ER had some good esoteric reasons to kill things.
>>741755131Sekiro was a fluke.
>>741754181>Is a nimrod
>>741754563>He doesn't know
>>741755131Because Miyazaki has explicitly stated his intent with these games is to reproduce the feeling of playing a game in a language you don't understand, only being able to piece bits of it together through context and what little you do understand.
>>741754842I don't think he wrote anything.
>>741754928>>741755163We know he didn't do this, because that all changed a bunch during development. You can find dialog in the game data referencing a version of the story where Godfrey never even killed the Giants. Like the one thing he actually has attributed to him in the released game, and it was a late addition to the plot. Whatever backstory GRRM wrote, it was just paper thing.
>>741754842The gods and their family tree, the concept of the war and obviously the Ring and the Erdtree as a religious concept. Everything else is blatantly Fromsoft.Take the Two Fingers. This weird concept could only have come about by George writing a cool name for basically a pope of the setting (Christ raising two fingers). He did this in Fire and Ice with the "High Sparrow".Miyazakin took this and turned them into literal unironic fucking fingers, then wrote their concept out basically be the Godhand from Berserk.This is why up until meeting the fingers you feel like you're expecting a religious figure and then the door opens and there is a giant hand sitting there.That's probably why despite the setting being heavily invested with Gold and trees there is a heavy finger theme. Basically japs not getting a christian allegory character concept and running away with it.
>>741755615That's what I said, Mr Lore Expert.
>>741755683
>>741755429This. people shitpost about it being them making up for poor writing. You need to look at BB, where the story was the clearest it's ever been in terms of souls story telling.Miyazacki went out of his way and edited Kos's name to Ebrietas, then made Kos a separate character, to completely change how the Choir and Rom's ascension occurred. He deliberately fucks with shit to keep that "reading a story in a foreign language" concept.
>>741755683"Japs not getting it" seems to be a running theme with the studio. From story beats to having basic graphics settings.
>>741754563There's another shitpost where someone says something like "Item acquired: Brambleshart's Zanziclap" and I laughed out loud.Japan's imitation of how it thinks old english sounds is fucking bizarre. Same energy and cadence but it just sounds like nothing you have ever heard of before.I had to google the word "Pontiff" when DS3 came out and I don't think anyone has used that word in 400 years.
>>741755838I think he does it intentionally to mess with people and you are reading it backwards. They know people go out of their way to learn everything in these games so they intentionally obscure things. In ER we have a character with the last name Loux that does the same things as the mythological guy Lugh that is pronounced the same way. In the prerelease stuff they gave that name to goldmask so you wouldn't catch on that they fantasy-fied a mythological warrior. This is the studio that put stuff into character models in NR that you can't see without ripping the models and removing layers of clothing in a character viewer, they know people go to autistic lengths to uncover things. When you factor in trailers that don't show up in the games having lore related stuff you can kind of see this all as some ARG we are all playing.
>>741754181I don't think that needed any proof, but the confirmation is nice.
>create metyr and tell it to do what you say>leave>metyr goes insanewas the greater will trolling?
>>741752651Elden Ring and DMC5 are perfect examples of turning a joke into something badass.DmC was shit on relentlessly for spouting "fuck" every two seconds. The "fuck you!" scene with the succubus thing was hilarious and stupid.Then DMC5 pulls a "fuck you!" at the climax of the game and it was a huge moment.The "forgive me x" also works with some build up. If you read the item descriptions in the manse leading up to the boss, it was an excellent moment.
>>741756146I could only think of zanzibart when seeing the OP and of donte when playing DMC5
>>741755683>This is why up until meeting the fingers you feel like you're expecting a religious figure and then the door opens and there is a giant hand sitting there.this is high kino thoughbeit
>>741756108>Metyr>InsaneYmir is a finger tranny. She was doing her best.
>>741756108It's likely the greater will isn't a conscious thing with morals and decisions. It probably doesn't need to take a shit, scratch an itch or tell you what to do. It just exudes its will like a radio frequency, something interprets its need for expansion or self-propagation, and when it moves too far away to be heard, the self-proclaimed scions of its will go crazy without a purpose.
>>741754842>What exactly did that fat fuck Game of Thrones guy write?A quote on a bus
>>741755838The clearest is Sekiro.Perfectly understandable with perfectly defined characters you can learn about.The conclusion is that he needs to be tardwrangled.
>>741755983There are cut statues of Ebrietas with a more human body holding a Rom Spiderling. A corpse/shed skin resemblign Rom is in Ebrietas's room. It couldn't be more obvious they intended Ebrietas to be Kos, a captured Old One used by the coir to give Rom eyes and bolster the Choirs ascension into higher dream realms.
>>741755983>This is the studio that put stuff into character models in NR that you can't see without ripping the models and removing layers of clothing in a character viewerGiven From's overall incompetence I'm more inclined to think that's an effect of miscommunication between designers and modellers. We're talking about a studio that still can't figure out moving NPCs smoothly between loaded areas.
>>741756365>Can't figure out smooth npc transitionsWeirdest claim since DeS had that.
>>741754842>There's a girl who violently periods all over the land and her half brother and gives him an STD>There's a demigod who's cursed to be a cute little boy forever and he craves his brother's macro cock to the point of spending decades in a plan to forcefully marry him>There's a demigod goat man who's bigger and blacker than all the other goat men and he wields a phallic object and plans to turn a little boy into his wife and literally shoves him into an egg for breeding purposes>There's a guy who eats poop and rapes people for their poop because he loves being a dirty, dirty boy>There's a godwoman who is actually both a man and a woman who fucked hermself to make incest babies and her punishment is to be ryona'd inside of a phallic object>There's a sorceress who's chained to the wall in a dungeon and if you help her she gets turned into a living cluster of souls that begs for help all while her rival taunts her from across the roomMartin wrote everything about Elden Ring with one hand in his pants
>>741756108I've assumed that the "signals" from the greater will are just light (which coincidentally the fingers are able to manipulate) and the "abandonment" by the greater will just means that the light from the explosion that created the universe stopped after x amount of years due to the lag between the event and the light reaching metyr. which is why there's deliberate use of the alleged sound a black hole makes in her summoning of the microcosm. she's been trying to get light signals from a void that can't produce light anymore and doesn't understand it. which is pretty dark that she returns to it when cornered so now she's trapped in a singularity never to see light again. it's a parallel of the shattering where direction from marika suddenly stopped and the people were left to fend for themselves and broke down into faction warfare.
>>741756512What about placi’s deity fucking off when the greater will showed up?
>>741755960https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/592796132/
>>741755960The funniest shit is when it ends up making no sense like "Old Akelarre" in DS2.
>>741756645Placi's deity was his Marika, that level of goddess, not an outer god. He was the Elden Lord of that time.
>>741755960>I had to google the word "Pontiff" when DS3 came out and I don't think anyone has used that word in 400 years.uhh yeah it's a medieval term being used for a medieval fantasy game.you want Sulyvahn to be called President instead?
O, my forgiveness...
>>741756645That's not what happened. Placi's deity was another Elden ring host based on his comparison to an Elden Lord and the Farum Azula Elden Ring (which has like twice the number of circles).It's gone probably because Metyr deemed it time to replace it, so it's either dead or somehow managed to abandon the ring. There is a schizo theory that the dagger that can kill two fingers is Placi's god.
>>741752651Aahh... Forgive me... For I must go all out, just this once...
>>741755683>read a book>then see some sort of visual adaptation for it>"oh thats not at all what I pictured in my head, I wonder if this happens to other people">miyazaki and two fingers:And you just know the obligatory "What if everything sucked and was nihilistic haha" Chaos shit with THREE fingers was definitely not in the original submission
>>741752651I thought the thumbnail was Master Chief getting hugged
>>741756645the greater will didn't show up, the elden beast did.
>>741756512I assure you From didn't put even a quarter of the thought you did into this.
>>741757158Yeah no the three fingers idea probably seemed like a neat way to add a Color out of Space reference. It also incidentally pairs well with the whole "Two Golden Order fundamentalism rules" with the Two Fingers portraying causality and the FF being regression.
>>741757385I just had another thought. her trapping herself in the void of the greater will is supreme irony as it's a literal cage of divinity that she condemns empyreans to. man I love this game.
Is Radagon the Elden Beast? Is the Elden Beast Radagon? Is Marika The Elden Beast/Radagon
>>741757624Nah, The Elden Beast is just fighting you because "I'm the golden order".It's a confused and wounded star worm that needs to be beaten back into ring mode so you can repair it.
>>741757624the elden beast is the elden ring, radagon is literally in its sword. it's part dragon and part man representing the orders that have rearranged the elden ring for their purposes. it's also injured from marika shattering it.
>>741757617>man I love this game.No, you don't. You love your own ideas and writing. Which is fine. But do give yourself apt credit.
>>741757832So true. Elden Ring, where the fans do more writing than the actual devs
>>741757832I didn't create this world and fill it with all its wonderful details. I am merely a passive observer with my own interpretation. if you came to another conclusion, that's fine. I appreciate you like mine though.
>>741757624Radagon is Marika but being an empty shell of a persona can be filled with the ethos of the elden beast instead of Marika.
>>741757907>I didn't create this world and fill it with all its wonderful details.I mean... neither did From.
>>741757158Not that there's anything wrong with that to be desu. Execution, as with most things in Elden Ring, needed work. Melina acknowledges that life sucks, but it endures, and wants to fight for that. The Lord of Frenzied Flame's whole thing is >Nah fuck it allIt's nice, but it's a barely formed idea. Melina should have been a major antagonist should the player be embraced by the Three Fingers. >>741755683Doesn't help that the story works completely fine if you ignore the Two Fingers entirely, or even took them out. Ranni feeling trapped by the Two Fingers works just the same if it was Ranni feeling trapped by Marika's or Radagon's wishes for her to be the next god queen. The colossal trees being borne of Two Finger seeds doesn't actually matter when they could just be trees imbued with golden energies. The Two Fingers just exist to look weird and that's it. They're lame.
>>741753430>>741754181The borderlands writer did to fromsoft's writing what family guy did to bojack horsemanIf a simpler show, or a person, had managed to encapsulate your entire writing in just a small, but poignant sentence (or a tweet), then your "serious game" has lost all of its depth or meaning because it's something that even a neanderthal can summarize without trying
>>741757980>It's nice, but it's a barely formed idea.Hi. Welcome. First Souls game? Don't worry, you get used to it.
>>741758017meh, Meet and Fuck Kingdom is still better
>>741758013It's barely formed in a way that's frustrating because you'd think this many years removed from Demon's Souls they'd know how to pace their ideas such that they can finally bring one to complete fruition. But, as their sales show, they don't actually have to. To be fair, Sekiro and AC6 have great stories and great endings.
>>741757731>It's part dragon, part man Anon it's literally this stupid worm and it's obvious they did it because Attack on Titan also had a plot about a worm ascending a human into a goddess.
>>741758093It looks way more like some kind of flatworm.
>>741758093No lol its literally a space worm that has taken up the forms similar to a dragon because of deep lore reasons. The dragons loved crucibles and fostered their traits in animals to make killing machines and a 'dragon' is all these aspects rolled into one. A 'compleness' of primacy. That is why the elden beast has the form it has.
>>741758195Nothing about it is dragon like, it's literally hallucinogenic. Look at it's head.
>>741758195>>741758093Its internal name is nebuladragon.
>>741758093wow that's neat, can that worm breathe holy fire like placidusax too?
>>741755131>waaah i dont like this thing that other people like, change it!!!go play something else then retard
>>741758291Placid's Golden Breath actually deals fire damage.
>>741758258>Nothing about it is dragon likeExcept for its dragon shape.
>>741755960Pontiff currently is another name for referring to the pope. It comes from pontifex and means maker of bridges.It's not a word youd use for every week but if you have a medieval religious authority in your game it's certainly not out of place nor they had to look too hard for it. Would be hilarious if they called him president sullyvan though.
>>741758363Astel is literally a giant space Antlion. There is clearly a thing with stars being ancient life forms with human parts.
>>741758461Don't forget Alabaster Lords.
>>741758461>antlionThat’s the falling star beasts astel is a doodlebug
>>741758379how about Senator Sullyvan? DON'T FUCK WITH THIS SENATOR
>>741758530A doodlebug is another name for an antlion.Incidentally, I saw an adult antlion on my porch a few nights ago; was pretty based they aren't a common sight.
>>741758569>AN AGE OF DARKNESS NOT FIRE. RULED BY MAN, NOT GODS>FUCK THIS 24/7 SPEW OF "MAY THE LORD GUIDE THEE" AND FIRST FLAME BULLSHIT>FUCK LOTHRIC PRIDE. FUCK THE DARKMOONS>FUCK! ALL OF IT!
>>741758706kek
>>741752651Elden Shit has the worst lore without question. World ends and everyone goes crazy is its most forced here unlike Dark Souls or Bloodborne. Bless Zanzibart shitposting.
>>741758706>Age of DarkPretty sure Suly wanted an Age of Hollows but not in a way Londor wanted. He killed one of the Deep Cardinals and was content on keeping Aldrich contained in Anor Londo as a puppet god.If he really wanted to to fulfill Alderich's vision I don't think he would start assassinating their top brass.
>>741755131it's a lot cheaper>No need to pay animators for dozens of 15 minute long cutscenes>No need for proper conversations and therefore stuff like actual facial and body animations during them>No need for ten hours of voice acting so what little amount of VAs you have can do all their lines during their coffee break>No need to redo or scrap that shit because you don't have a clear concept for half of your assets and can just shuffle them around>Just write that a long time ago Schulklopfer Siegheil fought Heidegart of Severin (neither will appear in any other shape or form in your game) to a standstill over his family heirloom in the description of some pants and Vaati will do a two hour PREPARETOCRY video for you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olmPmNyyKOk
>>741755960Old English is obviously done by a team English localizers retard.OG language From games uses Kanji for everything (outside of proper nouns) as overusing romaji Japanglish makes the game feel like a soda pop advert than a historical fantasy.
>>741756445He sent 500 page extreme smut and Miyazaki fixed it to turn it into something that's somewhat coherent and non-horny to make Elden Ring
The schizophrenic comes into every Elden ring thread and just absolutely shits on it, never giving a good reason, only wild tales of how much he thinks it's inferior. The autistic fuck really just can't understand someone liking something he doesn't.
>>741759014I feel like I'm the only one who thinks this because when I bring it up I get labeled as crazy :( but considering what the Profaned Flame says about Sulyvahn, how an ambition took root within him. I'm very certain it's something like this:>Sulyvahn lived in the painting, which was beholden to a cycle of rot and fire>Hates it, escapes the painting>Finds out that the world outside is beholden to the exact same cycle>Finds the Profaned Flame, a flame touched by darkness and never seems to go outAnd so he decides to overthrow the current order because he found a flame that doesn't go out. But along the way, Miyazaki and co. gave the Profaned Flame less import, or maybe it never got to a point where it had much import, but I'm 100% sure this is Sulyvahn's whole deal.
>>741757061>Farum Azula Elden Ring (which has like twice the number of circles)I've never seen this, do you have a picture?
>>741759404He seems like those protohumans you see in fiction that gets really angery when they see a human using fire or something, it is all very strange. OP, how would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning?
>>741758009Factually retarded statement. Spiritually brown contrarians on /v/ have tied all their self-worth to treating good things as bad things and bad things as good things, so anything acclaimed by both critics and fans burns them like clean water burns indians, and they must bring it down, even latching onto idiotic statements by slop essayists and journalists to achieve such.Elden Ring is the best From game, and the writing is better than that of many "great" books. But you have to have 100+ IQ to appreciate it.Brainlets will seethe and post soijacks in response.
>>741759518He's a lot like a hollow. Used to say repeating the same cycle over and over, without thought. Only a remnant of a person. You can't convince someone like that, they are lost to the world and destined for the ashen heap.
>>741759424Shows the Elden Ring has been altered before, as we the player do at the end of the game, and as Marika did when she removed the Rune of Death.
>>741754563wait zanziburt is not real?idk i dont play rollslop
>>741759667>ERfags literally talk like redditors thinking imitating a game is clever or original
thou were truly tarnivorous
>>741759825they are ledditors that sadly infested this site
>>741759409Sulyvahn in the beta is the Old King of the Eclipse. The Dancer has swords which mirror his weapons and are more obviously Fire and Dark (Where as Sulyvahn's "Dark" sword is just magic, which may have been a later change)So it seems apparent the idea behind Sulyvahn was always "master of both" .The true Profaned Capitol was cut from the game, they weren't even remotely close to starting aside from the area we were given, which seemed to have been intended for what Wolnir was pre-final.We don't really know what the Profaned flame was intended to be, but I think the entire idea behind Sulyvahn was always someone who wanted some kind of convergence of the ages forever, hence the concept of the eclipse that was severely downplayed in the final cut.The Eclipse shows up completely in the Age of hollows ending, which is neither dark nor light, so I can only conclude it's similiar to what Sulyvahn wanted, since his plans seem to contradict both agenda regarding the ages (Stops Lothric from ascending, keeps Alderich on a leash)
Does someone have that screencap of the "tillywog" meme or whatever the fuck?
>>741759905Nevermind, found it
The vague storytelling set in a post apocalyptic world where everyone speaks in cryptic riddles before killing themselves or going sane is getting stale. Its like that person who tells the same fucking joke or that parent who cooks the same meals 24/7. Eventually it loses its appeal even if it started out good, fun or interesting.
>>741759825hehehe...thou art a jester, are thy not? Is it not thy purpose to sup on jest?
>>741759986>Later on they find that the whole NPC questline was written a week before release >"Lore scholars" will make endless video essays about the plurality of multitudes from the infinite potentialities in the lore by combing through rewritten dialogue, massacred-by-translation item descriptions and asset-store textures.
>>741760073You make this joke every time but there isn't a single example ever except for the KoS thing which was done to make the game less coherent.
>>741760139It's the first time I'm making this joke.Are you okay?
>>741760139Don't ruin her fun this is all she has.
>>741760007It is unironically okay when we do it because it's funny, not to be pretentious pefromative faggots thinking they're actually onto something.
>>741756445>There's a sorceress who's chained to the wall in a dungeon and if you help her she gets turned into a living cluster of souls that begs for help all while her rival taunts her from across the roomThe way she just sits there in a corner not giving a shit about Sellen then one loading screen later Sellen turns into a meatball. BRVTALLY MOGGED
>>741760174Well you stole it from some other fag, someone always says something like this.
>>741760391Uh huh...
>>741755683I subscribe to the idea that godrick's design is a literal interpretation of someone wearing their coat of arms.
>>741760391If you are not aware, there is an autist and a dedicated discord group that makes sure every Fromsoft game, especially Elden Ring, gets relentlessly shit on and spammed in. Keep an eye on every Fromsoft thread and see for yourself.
>>741760624I've heard of this
>>741756445The more I know about elden ring, the more I am glad I passed up on this.Is Armored Core VI the game From soft actually wanted to make?
>>741760814Anon don't take a shitpost seriously. Elden Ring is good, but if you wanted to play it you would have of course.
>>741758363It's dragon-shaped so that they could reuse animations from dragon type enemies. Run of the mill From "design".
>>741760562>"Godrick the Golden stood tall, wearing a glorious coat of arms signifying the Golden Lineage of Godwyn, his forefather.">Miyazack: [Raffs] rike Kannon Bosatsu?
>>741760139>there isn't a single example everdid... did you seriously miss Ranni's entire ending getting butchered in translation?
I swear to God if From's next game is a medieval fantasy set in a dying world where you're the chosen one, I will be its greatest anti-shill.
>>741760624There is also two to three mentally ill schizophrenics that hang out in Elden Ring threads. One is already here because he refers to a "she".
>>741761015It's not even dragon but "fat bastard with a tail" shaped
>>741761173One of them is a webm spammer. I think thats a bot now because I cant envision someone continuing to do this shit for 4 years let alone someone thinking its epicly hilarious to continue such a crusade in their place. Like zombified insects infected with fungi are less repetitive.
>>741761231Webms of a particular K***ht getting beaten in pvp that the poster alledges is OP or random people in the thread? Yeah that's one of the bigger schizos, the "Name Schizo" who is also likely to be the "Sunrealm Schizo". The rabbit hole goes deep with that one, the guy is linked to thread breaking shit in Baldur's Gate III and LOZ threads. Very much has a bot army most likely.
>>741760624>everyone who doesn't like elden slop is a spammerYou are a tranny with a persecution complex.
>>741756445Way past the time to reply but I just wanna correct the record.The little boy god seduced the demigod goat man with his femboy power of invoking love. He willing got babynapped and blood coomed on him in order to achieve is master plan of marrying his brother.
>>741754181To be fair to the borderlands dipshit the Zanzibart meme was probably the most profound and culturally relevant thing he ever created in his life and it's also a really good meme this is coming from someone who likes Souls and can also poke fun at the series.
>>741761171Don't be retarded it's made him a company president from 29 to 34 years of age, of course From is going to keep doing this type of game.
>>741761461>>741761231>>741761173Soulslop fans not satisfied making shit up about their games anymore, now they're making shit up about 4chan threads. Telleth me, Vaatinonymous, which schizoeth am I? Sure thoust can peer through mine tarnished subterfuge. Heh heh heh...
>>741752651Dearest Nanoyo?
>>741754563There was this hilarious meme from one of the trailers that was displaying a rapid passage of time in the game world and there some little monster that crawled out of a cave at daybreak and posters were saying hilarious shit>Look at that tranny>DUDE IT'S ZANZIBARTand of course we had the Shazam memes to keep us entertained during the run up to the release. Honestly the pre release hype to me at least was more fun than the actual game. I had more fun dunking on Shazam posters than I did with the actual game. Like the game was alright it was a good game but there is so much going on in Elden Ring it's so unfocused and alot of the areas just feel like a really bad Dark Souls mod. The game is still great but I liked their previous offerings more.
>>741761631Not the fag I'm talking about I'm pretty sure, but you are doing the whole shazam contrarian thing and you probably used to shitpost about PC never getting Bloodborne.
>>741761710>ShazamTo this day I don't fucking understand what that was about. Seemed like a complete nonsequitur. You'd make a post saying literally anything, and some retard would start screaming about Shazam. Incomprehensible.
>all kinds of better games or shit in general get insulted here but the instant it's Elden Ring it must be a sole spammer or discord despite posting differentlyHoly shit, I hate ERfags even more.
>>741761787QED
>>741761710>Honestly the pre release hype to me at least was more fun than the actual game. I had more fun dunking on Shazam posters than I did with the actual gameJesus, dude.
>>741761792It's really autistic but basically there was a group of extremely blackpilled posters who just hated every game it's pretty relatable really because at the end of the day I am very much like them but alot of them became very deranged and there were also alot of disparate motivating factors bringing all of these people together(for example alot of them were just seething console warriors gathering under the banner of Shazam)Shazam itself was just something they organized under. They would just post Shazams in hype threads forever reminding everyone that it doesn't matter what you think the game will come out and it will be dogshit. Well Shazam posting reached a frenzy during the run up to Elden Ring's release and in a sense Elden Ring kind of killed shazam posting because the game was a "masterpiece"(desu I don't think so but I just think it's funny to go along with it because I thought dunking on the Shazamtrannies was funny) At the end of the day autists have too much time on their hands and get overly invested in the dumbest shit imaginable. In a way Elden Ring kind of killed Shazam posting it really shouldn't have because now things are worse than ever.
>Upon my name as Rannie the witch. Mother's rich slumber shall not be disturbed by thee. Foul trespasser. Send word far and wide. Of the last Queen of Carnia, Rennala of the full moon and the majesty of the night she conjureth. Cool hype up, sick back drop, shitty weak boss, When the show eventually happens I sure hope they make it clear to the retards watching that this is not actually Rennala but Ranni's shitty phantom because the real one is a shadow of her former self and dies in a pathetic way seconds before this happens.but I'm sure people will just want other shit like "Oh death, become my blade once more!"
>>741761792>>741761710>>741761939I made this pic because I thought the meme was funny. I don't genuinely hate the game at all.Don't take shitposting so seriously, it's just for laughs.
>>741761860I rarely get invested in single player games anymore and even though I liked elden ring I kind of feel like it was just souls turned up to 11. The Haligtree is an abomination. DESU I just enjoyed Bloodborne more. I've just seen this story play out too many times a series stops being novel to me when they start pulling these types of shenanigans.
>>741761939Sounds like yet another boogeyman for Fromdrones to deflect criticism with. Cataloguing it right beside "git gud".
>>741762054I also think it's funny. In my writing up there you can tell I'm observing the phenomenon in a tongue in cheek manner there are people however who do take this shit seriously and have like images in their head of Shazam ruining their dreams. I was mostly just recounting the story of Shazam posting. I kind of just look at everything on this board as absurdity and like to get absurd also.
>>741761792>To this day I don't fucking understand what it was aboutIt all begins in 2014 when DaS II was was a let down against its insane over-hype, followed by Miyazacki announcing BB, a PS4 exclusive, followed by it being better than DaS II.It was among the worst eras of console war shitposting because /v/ loved DaS, /v/ wanted Bloodborne, but PS4 had no games and /v/ could not afford or justify buying a 600 dollar 1 games machine.So "Sony Won" and /v/ gorged itself on shitposting about it.Then their fun ended because DaS III was announced. If DaS III was better or equal to BB, then /v/ could just skip BB and enjoy the new thing. Their fun was threatened, so DaS III had to be dogshit so /v/ would be bitter and continue coveting Bloodborne.So it was shitposted non-stop before release, then shitposted nonstop during release. It was shitposted so hard it's still considered "Worse than BB" even though they're both pretty similar games with strengths and weaknesses.Then Sekiro was announced and shitposted and dismissed.And then of course, Elden Ring. Around the time of Elden Ring, the green text >You are hereType posts from the dark souls III era were emerging but with an image of Shazam. I believe this was party stolen by a /tv/ meme about predicting how the Shazam movie would flop.So people called these shitposters "Shazam Trannies" and rumors spread of it being a discord group.The core of this anti-fromsoft "lets tortanic a From Game and make /v/ think From Soft is doomed/or going to shit" is deeply rooted in trying to preserve Bloodbornes value even if people long stopped caring.
>>741762173When the movie came out, /tv/ was a riot! It got here too, mocking that shitty game Cyberpunk when CDPR fucked it up on release and made themselves look like fools trying to gain the ESG approval items. This was all very autistic but fun. Guys still Shazam posting are militant autists or people who were there and only do it to relive them funny memory. The discord spammer here is just a shitty indian on a crusade. Can't wait to see how he receives the next Fromsoft title for PC.
>>741762246Ironically Shazam posters were right but for the wrong reasons.Look at Nightreign. Nightreign is just an abomination but IDK Maybe Duskbloods might be good even though it's on a console I won't buy.
>>741762246Its just bored demented shitposters. Everything could be damn near perfect and they would be saying its all jewish tricks, propaganda and trannies.
>>741755117Why did he become the frenzied flame
>>741762246man, they don't recall that Miyazaki was not against porting and neither was Sony, M just didn't like that no company could port it right, certainly not bluepoint. Sony ps fans are just holding onto an obsolete platform.
>>741756445Mohag was being mind controlled by gwen
>>741755117>>"lol did he really say the thing?">>then it hitsBasically everybody online was reacting and laughing after he really "did the thing"I was laughing and I didn't even buy the DLC yet.
>>741758009Ironically South Park also did that to Family Guy.
>>741755960>I had to google the word "Pontiff" when DS3 came out and I don't think anyone has used that word in 400 years.
>>741754563anon.... you're Zanzibart
>>741754563I had the same thing happen to me, and had completely forgotten about it until now. I think I assumed that zanzibart was the narrator guy from the trailer and that he would be a character in the game, but I don't remember why I thought that.
>>741758009Poignant critique IMO isn't like a FOTN pressure point death blow or anything. Just because Weird Al sung with marbles in his mouth which essentially did encapsulate the entire output of Nirvana at that point in time and it resonated with people and made them laugh well whatever. People can laugh at both things if everyone just takes it in stride and can just honestly assess themselves and then poke fun at themselves for just a moment to reveal an inner humility then whatever it rolls off you like you were made of teflon.This kind of biting critique only hurts creators with big egos that take themselves too seriously.
less thee privy to the unrequited esoteric knowledge thine will of self shall remain in the bosom of safety hehehehe
>>741762070I won't comment on level design, but >I've just seen this story play out too many times a series stops being novel to me when they start pulling these types of shenanigans.Allow me to tell you some things. Actually brb.
>>741762695>[Yes] [No]
>>741762332About half of them were probably just contrarians who wanted to prove /v/ had become too "legacy" dependent, like with redditors and bioware. Basically too lovestruck with the dev to judge the quality of their games./v/ enjoys hating games more than loving them, and seeing something /v/ like crushed would have been enjoyable for some. But the root of it was always BB. What is more enjoyable for /v/ than hating a popular game is seeing other seethe and be envious over games they cannot get.There was no reason for /v/ to shitpost at Dark Souls III especially after its release trailer and footage made it look closer to DaS than DaS II did. It was 100% fear that /v/ would stop being salty about BB. There was still a strong delusion at the time that Fromsoft had built a strong relationship with Sony and that a process of "B team" cutting all lose ends with slop would begin.Basically they would fulfill Bamcos contract with a lackluster third installment and go full into Sony with for a more generous business deal. The future was souls games with greater scale but Sony exclusives.So DaS III had to be shit no matter what, can't let From Soft have a reason to continue working with Bamco... until Oh no.. Elden Ring. What's that? Sony dropped the ball with BB entirely by going full California DEI slop for the next decade? Whoops! the dream dried up, the shitposting died with it, nothing left to do but wish From Soft would just go bankrupt.
>>741758009Don't be retarded.
>>741762695Hold on I'm about to go watch a 3 hour VaatiVidya date rape voice video then get back to you.
>>741762332>Nightreign>abominationI forget that I'm conversing with stupid people.
>>741752651This was a good boss. It's a shame Abyssal Woods fucking sucks.
>>741762847>t. the loathsome slop eater
>>741758009This is like saying that all Mario games are inherently shit because someone popularized the phrase>bing bing wahoo
>>741762893Shh.
>>741758009Parody is flattery, not invalidation.
>>741763021Funny that this fortold of the coming, of the loathsome shitposter who stalks the Fromsoft halls. Vile little dark skinned cretin.
>>741762813>/v/ enjoys hating games more than loving themNo, that's bullshit. There are games that generate genuine discussion every time with minimal shitposting. But it takes a GOOD game to do that. Deus Ex, Legacy of Kain, XCOM, Diablo, just off the top of my head - I have never once experienced a bad thread dedicated to any these. /v/ does love games. GOOD ones.The sad fact of the matter is Sturgeon's law is very real in the vidya industry, and most games released nowadays just plain old suck. If your favourite game's threads are so full of "hate" you end up calling it ubiquitous, then consider the possibility it may simply be not good enough to warrant real discussion - and that what you call "hate" may actually be nothing more than vitriolic criticism.
Which game has harder bosses? Dark Souls 3 or Elden Ring without spirit ashes. I finished Elden Ring recently and now want to play a more focused Souls game. I've already beaten DS1 & 2 but I skipped 3 since I was a bit bored with the formula at the time of its release and know basically nothing about the game. I just don't know if I want to go through ER styled bosses again if DaS3 is more of the same.
>>741761792holy fucking retard>>741762246double fucking retard explaining to a retard hahahaha
>>741763316>Which game has harder bosses?Whichever one you play first. Since the game reuse a lot of animations/frame data and rely heavily on i-framing through attacks, the one you're not yet used to will inevitably be the hardest. If you've already played ER then the "hardest" one is going to be either DS2 because of its nerfing of i-frames or Bloodborne because of its slightly different dodge animations and timings.
You guys memed Zanzibart so hard that the Jump King devs put him in their new game
>>741752651If you reach him without having any idea of who Nanaya is, then you got the attention spam of a goldfish.
>>741763390
>>741763204Yeah but good games without turbulant history defined by console wars aren't going to attract the same shitposting I'm sorry.DaS was one of the most beloved games on /v/ at one point, none of this shit would be happening if Bloodborne was never made.
>>741763316ds3 bosses have a lot less bullshit though the beginnings of elden ring's boss design is apparent in a few of them.
>>741763547I see more of the bullshit in the Bloodborne DLC than I do in Dark Souls 3. The fucking shark well with the katana in it. The Orphan of Kos is like the start of the insanity. That's where the seeds of evil were sown.
>>741763534>DaS was one of the most beloved games on /v/ at one pointThat may be so, but once it was made shipped to a more demanding audience, justified criticism naturally emerged. I remind you that DaS was an unfinished trash heap of a game that performed TERRIBLY on its native platforms and had one of the WORST pc ports in history. Broken sound engine. Utterly retarded NPC AI. GFWL. A thousand other problems. Finding this out, especially after all the hype, soured a lot of people's experience. Was the game fun? Fuck yeah. Did I squeeze over 100 hours of play time out of it? Sure did. Was it objectively a bad product that should never have been sold in its released state? Sadly, it was, and there are very few criticisms of it that aren't more or less substantiated. It's just a very broken game.
>>741763316Purely in terms of the difficulty of bosses:>Elden Ring DLC > Elden Ring > Sekiro > Bloodborne DLC > (the bad) Bloodborne chalice dungeons > Dark Souls 3 DLC > Dark Souls 3 > Bloodborne > Dark Souls 2 DLCPOWER GAP>Dark Souls DLC > Dark Souls > Demon's Souls > Dark Souls 2DS3 bosses aren't that difficult, but DS3's gameplay is fundamentally less varied than Elden Ring's. Every conceivable build is viable in Elden Ring and there's a wider variety of defensive options. DS3 is basically all about learning the boss's attack timings and rolling good. Roll good, win. Easy.Perhaps a better way to put it is that Elden Ring is more difficult, but its difficulty is also more flexible - you have more agency with respect to making the game more or less difficult for yourself. Sekiro's difficulty is inflexible. Bloodborne's and DS3's difficulty lies somewhere between these extremes.
>>741758009This. Lore discussion on elden ring rightfully tanked like a rock not long after that tweet went viral.
>>741763754>I remind you that DaS was an unfinished trash heap of a game that performed TERRIBLY on its native platforms and had one of the WORST pc ports in historyAnd yet it's still one of the greatest games of all time and had a profound impact on the industry
>>741763824>had a profound impactThat would explain a lot about the current state of the industry, actually.
>>741763821Are you insane?Elden Ring lore videos got way more views than other souls games.That tweet only means anything around here, where it became cool to diss Elden Ring. Maybe on Reddit too idk, I never look into that cesspoll.Imagine taking what the WRITER OF BORDERLANDS says seriously.
>>741761792IDK I just loved dunking on blind retards that slurped up whatever game was put in front of them without a second thought. Of course, if the games ever ended up being good, then I got a cool new game to play, so I won either way. I've derailed many a thread with my silly pictures and whimsical postings.
>>741763754I didn't experience that, because by the time I played it many issues were patched out.Not sure why a bad port on release fucking over a few people somehow has a lingering effect? You do know that games like No Mans Sky which had the funniest, most mocked release in gaming history can now honestly be said to be a decent game after a decade of patching.I won't forget that the game was a laughing stock, but I can no longer use that as a "criticism" of the final product.
>>741763754Good lord is this what terminally online, revisionist history shitposting looks like?
>>741763965>I didn't experience thatYou didn't experience the haphazardly stitched together latter half of the game, with its wonky gimmick bosses and barren locales? Never saw enemies randomly run off cliffs to their deaths? Never been invaded by a blatant cheater because the game has no cheat protection whatsoever? If so, perhaps you should git gud and actually play it instead of watching cherry picked clips on Youtube.
>>741764104What can I say? I love a well-earned (You)
>SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARS I LOVE 1/4 OF A GAME AND THE REST OF IT IS JUST REUSED ENEMIES AND BOSSES SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARS I LVOE THE SAME STORY, "COMBAT", WEPONS, SPELLS SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARS OOOOOOOOO ELDEN SHIT IT STINKS
>>741764104You going to address any specific point or are you just here to blindly fanboy?
>>741764107The later half of the game is lackluster, but not enough for me to write off the game. It's like how people consider Metroid Prime 2 an amazing classic but its quality drops around the Ing Hive and then with the collectathon. A mild pace dip isn't going to ruin everything.The worst thing about Post Lordvessel Dark Souls is Izailith.Tomb of Giants is mid and Dukes Archives is the most passable overall.
>>741760814>Is Armored Core VI the game From soft actually wanted to make?Can't say since there's no dlc, and it was also kinda mid like elden ring.
>>741762471This, it was pretty bad desu. Turned a coolish moment into a cringefest lmao
>>741758009That's not how parody works.
>>741764361>It's like how people consider Metroid PrimeNintendo buyers aren't really people though.
>>741764440I actually wonder if the meme had crossed the language barrier yet. We really need to get to the bottom of whether or not they were aware of Zanzibart Forgive Me before they wrote the scene. Either way it's fucking hilarious.
>>741754614kek reminded me of>oh, Tyr? He comes over to play board games with us. Great guy.
>>741763385The Asian release of Demon's Souls was my first. Even then I always struggle quite a bit when I start a new Souls game because they all have their own subtle gameplay twists that I need to get accustomed to first before I get the ball really rolling.>>741763547I'm glad to hear that.>>741763770>Perhaps a better way to put it is that Elden Ring is more difficult, but its difficulty is also more flexibleYeah, that's why I specified my question with Elden Ring bosses without spirit ashes. I'm not sure if the game was balanced with or without their use in mind but some of the bosses have very long and aggressive combo strings, which itself isn't necessarily a problem, but I think the window of opportunity presented to players was sometimes quite small unless you leaned in on stance breaking. I was just curious if lots of bosses in DaS3 had the same level of aggro and pace. It felt a bit exhausting in some cases, especially so for the final boss in ER's DLC. Thanks for the explanation. I've not played Sekiro either but I have it on my radar. I played these games a lot up until Bloodborne after which I was burned out on the formula. Now that I'm enjoying them again I'm gonna go and catch up with the releases I missed.
>>741764495>We really need to get to the bottom of whether or not they were aware of Zanzibart Forgive Me before they wrote the scene.Smart money says no. Japs aren't very self-aware, and it was mostly shitposters that even knew of the meme. Randy just hit the nail on the head for the first time ever and only because art imitates life. It would be funny if they did know though
>>741764495Nah. They aren't doing the meme or making a clever reference. That's just how their writing is.
>>741763204Those games also filter normies.
>>741755429>Because Miyazaki has explicitly stated his intent with these games is to reproduce the feeling of playing a game in a language you don't understandbut that's fucking retarded, and he's done it like 5 times now
>>741764849Huh? No, they don't. Dark Souls is mainstream as fuck.
>>741764863>but that's fucking retardedNah it's just different. I'm not bothered and honestly it's a good thing that the majority of the story is not in the game. Imagine these games having walking sim sections where NPCs spout dialogue or 30 minute cutscenes the game would be absolute trash.
>>741764495That depends on whether Miyazaki gets feedback from social media and such. Probably not because consuming social media makes you too self aware and brain rotted, that's how you end up with a respected writing making shit like Dustborn.
>>741764948>Probably not because consuming social media makes you too self aware and brain rottedDepends on how you handle criticism. If you just believe in what you are doing it won't affect you.
>>741764937The original Dark Souls wasn't nowhere near as popular as Elden Ring. The game also heavily trolls players, more so than other From games.
>>741764992Using too much social media means that you are already putting too much weight on what other people say on any topic.
>>741764946>Nah it's just different.No it's just shit. Write a fucking structured narrative, have towns with LIVING AND SANE NPCs that the player can talk to and build characters and realtionships so the player has some actual emotional investment when he fights LITERALLY WHO, WARRIOR.
>>741764946>Imagine these games having walking sim sections where NPCs spout dialogue or 30 minute cutscenesRight, because there's absolutely no middle ground or reasonable way to do this. There are only the extreme shitty ends of the scale.
>>741763204>game is bad because /v/ spams shitpost threads about itHalf the catalog at any given moment is gachashit and trash like Stellar Blade gets nonstop threads shilling it. If /v/ isn't shitting on a game it's almost certainly garbage.
>>741765206>>game is bad because /v/ spams shitpost threads about itWow, you got that completely backwards. How did you even do that?
>>741764213gfwl was based because we could receive invasion hatemail.
>>741765434>gfwl was basedOh hey, here's some actual revisionism for you, >>741764104
...Verily...
>>741764531>Yeah, that's why I specified my question with Elden Ring bosses without spirit ashes. I'm not sure if the game was balanced with or without their use in mindYou'll get a lot of differing opinions, but I think Elden Ring is very obviously not balanced around spirit ashes. There are a lot of ways to modulate difficulty in FromSoft games, but spirit ashes are the only method that fundamentally alters the gameplay without incurring a compensatory opportunity cost; for example, summoning NPCs or players also alters the gameplay, but it does so at the cost of increasing the boss's HP and stance health. Spirit ashes don't increase either. They're the game's dedicated easy mode, although there's nothing wrong with using them.>I was just curious if lots of bosses in DaS3 had the same level of aggro and paceI think ER and DS3 have a similar tempo. Someone actually did an analysis of both game's boss attacks per minute relative to player attack opportunities per minute, and the boss APM is similar. The difference was that the player AOPM was higher in Elden Ring, but there are also more options in Elden Ring. If you don't know how to identify and exploit attack opportunities, it's easy to be overwhelmed.In contrast, DS3 is much more straightforward. There aren't as many "delayed" attack timings or attacks that you need to exploit with a specific defensive option like jumping, sprint jumping, strafing, etc. Rolling is almost always the correct choice, and so you just roll, attack, roll, attack, and repeat. Even though the boss APM is similar, it's not as overwhelming outside of a few specific fights which vary from player to player in terms of difficulty.
>>741759624>Elden Ring is the best From gameIt's no nightreign.
>>741765929and you're no Maria...
>>741759624Completely agreed. Contrarianism without taste is the sign of very low IQ associated with aggressivity, which I found predominantly in brown and pajeet. The white with very low IQ is the slop eater, the brown and pajeet with very low IQ is the contrarian.Both are the same side of the same coin, just one more violent. Both cannot recognize something good or bad by themselves because they're too dumb to recognize the quality of a work. The only difference is the aggressivity: Pajeet and brownoids tends to be the dumb, aggressive contrarians.
>>741753860Panda Shiki
>>741753860Grungust Reishiki
>>741759624Elden Ring and Fromsoft overall praise by itself is brainless contrariarism already tho
>>741752651https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PRYPNJFiseo
>>741752651Anon... forgive me.
>>741761171>thou art the chosen...>where you're the chosen oneBoth you and whoever made this pic are retarded
>>741766301I'm not your Mary.
>>741754563The funniest thing about this joke is that it actually fits so perfectly into the retarded way From writes their stories.
>>741762395That forest is where the Frenzied Flame and Three Fingers developed. It's not too far from the place with Metyr. Midra was a fairly normal guy until he ran into one of those dudes in the forest and then he became a vehicle for chaos. However, Nanaya cursed him to endure, and being that he was a respected nice guy before then, he decided it'd be the best option. Who else curses people in this game? Marika, who also looks like the glimpse of Nanaya we get in the portrait, so it's not farfetched to say that Marika was pretending to be Nanaya and cursed Midra to endure the Frenzied Flame so she'd have less competition and remove something that can hurt the Erdtree.
>no ones posted it yet
>>741761580Kotick thought the same about CoD. And look where we are now. Same will happen to From they will become the punchline.
>>741754563cute
>>741769768I clapped when I saw it in SotE
>>741769763We find Nanaya's corpse. >>741769786Call of Duty games are good so who cares. Or are you one of those guys who thinks because there are a million of them that's somehow inherently bad.
>>741752735>for I hunger...
>>741754842i watched a 5 hour lore video and the guy came to the conclusion that the greater will is GRRM. metyr is miyazaki, and the fact that metyr has been giving orders to the fingers despite not recieving anything from the greater will in a long time is indicative of miyazaki being given the lore manuscript from GRRM and having to run with it and order his dev team (the fingers who code and write) to create the game based on his understanding of the words given to him in the beginning
>>741753860Aomame Daquiri
>>741769996I've come to similar conclusions myself. Makes sense to be desu.
>>741754563>he didn't do the right emote at a random location innawoods and missed the furry's gaolyou didn't beat the game
>>741770086>>741769996also the goldmask holding his finger in the air and twitching it is indicative of him actually truly coming to understand the nature of reality in some way, which is that he is in a video game made by people clicking mouse buttons with their index finger
Forgive me zanzi... i must go all out this time...
>>741758379>maker of bridges>there's a bridge above the arena where you fight himKojima fucking does it again
>>741769768kino
>>741765130They've already done that middle ground in Sekiro.
>>741754842He probably at least went to Japan and fucked a prostitute.
>>741765069no
>>741769768
>>741752651it's impossible to take elden ring lore seriously. some ultrareddit female soldier curbstomps random dudes and then when she finally fights someone her size(literal dbz super saiyan complete with the wacky hair) to a draw she spergs out and gives him and his entire region virulent gonnorhea.
>>741765069see>>741759159
>>741759624>Elden Ring is the best From game, and the writing is better than that of many "great" books. But you have to have 100+ IQ to appreciate it.
>>741769768the height of fiction...
>>741759624THE TERRIBLE, HATED, LOATHSOME DUNGEATER THAT IS SITTING IN A ROOM IN THE BASTION OF THE TARNISHED PLAYING WITH GAY NIGGER POX COMPLETELY UNATTENDED
>>741771069He's right next to the Subterranean Shunning Grounds where the nobility keep their deformed children after mutilating them in a process that usually kills them. For what it's worth he probably locked himself up there given that he gives you the key.
>>741756445>>741760309Sellen is ludo. I kinda wish I could save her though....
>>741759624This post is contrarianism
>>741769996>>741770086>>741770165Riddle me this nerds who the FUCK is Radagon?
>>741763821Kek
>>741755131Why are you pretending Sekiro doesn’t have the lost disjointed and sloppy story compared to any other from game?
>>741772906
>>741772906The Elden Ring. That's why killing him releases the Elden Beast :D
>>741773032You'll have to elaborate guy-sensei because what about this is disjointed or sloppy:>Isshin Ashina was once a soldier who just enjoyed fighting and killing>Kills and fights so good he claims his own piece of Japan>Meanwhile there's a boy named Kuro who hails from a family with immortal blood>Owl, a comrade of Isshin's, adopts the player character Wolf / Sekiro and both are in charge of protecting Kuro>One day Owl and his cohorts betray Kuro's family in an attempt to wield his immortal blood themselves>They fail thanks in part to Wolf, who in his moment of death, is given Kuro's immortal blood by Kuro himself, Wolf forever feeling indebted to Kuro>Years later, Genichiro, someone who was taken in by Isshin years ago and came to view Ashina as his own true home>The (Tokugawa) shogunate is uniting the country, and to do that you need to conquer the country>Genichiro imprisons Wolf and kidnaps Kuro in an attempt to convince Kuro to help him save Ashina>Wolf escapes, faces Genichiro but loses his arm>Some time passes, Wolf recuperates thanks to Isshin's doctor and another former compatriot, a sculptor>Wolf gets strong and faces off against Genichiro, who loses>Kuro asks Wolf to aid him in getting rid of his immortal blood, for so long as it exists, men will fight and kill for it>Wolf agreesThen depending on your actions the story ends in three different ways1. You kill Kuro to remove his immortal blood from the world2. You kill everyone and lose yourself3. You take Kuro and the Senpou Temple child, who was an attempt to create an artifical Kuro, on a Journey to the West™ to find the origins of Kuro's blood and immortalityLiterally none of this is from youtube. This is all from playing the game.
>>741773192>>741773386BOOOOOOOO that ain't good enough. Radagon has no dragon features, and Radagon repairs the Elden Ring into himself, that's why he releases the Elden Beast.
>>741773542This would have been kino. Hell, put Godwyn in Radahn's body.
I name all of my PCs zanzibart now. It's my favorite meme.
>>741773542>you run this gauntlet every single timethanks for triggering my trauma asshole
>>741773690: (
>>741773450None of that is explained within the game though. You have to go through multiple playthrough to even piece together that Isshin is the Tengu.
>>741773974Good joke.
>>741773974>None of that is explained within the game thoughEverything I wrote in the past is explained within the game.>You have to go through multiple playthrough to even piece together that Isshin is the Tengu.They have the exact same voice, and Isshin calls Wolf "Sekiro" which the Tengu named him.
>ZANZIBARTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>741753860Real answer is Tohno Shiki. Nanaya Shiki might be more skilled and has better killing instincts, but he lacks the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. Zanzibart Shiki was just some foid with a serpent's tongue.
>>741774037If you mix and match different playthroughs yeah. Hence disjointed.
>>741773974What? I knew he was the Tengu as soon as I met Isshin.
>>741775375I'm sorry, man. I think you have a learning disability. Everything I wrote in the post is gleaned from simply playing the game once besides knowing about two other endings.
>>741775479Sure you did. And you also knew that you have to swim through a sewer to get to a village.
>>741773450I’m not reading the chatGPT slop ass wall of textThe second mortal blade? Stick it up your ass you fucking retarded dipshit. The final boss literally comes out of an asshole, it’s fucking stupid
>>741773450Cool mateNon of that explains how the items wolf gets in the estate dream carries over to real life
>>741775551I did find a giant pit that the game clearly wanted me to jump into, yeah. If you mean getting through Fountainhead there's nothing to do but swim there pretty much.
>>741775536You learn that Isshin was a soldier and that Geni was adopted just by playing the game
>>741775764Is that what you're concerned about? Answer me honestly.>>741775702Ah, forget it. I'm just glad you won't pollute the gene pool with your idiocy.
>>741775875What the chatGPT is this slop ass reply, this site is dogshit now
>>741773450>you’ll have to elaborate Not really, sekiro’s story doesn’t make any sense. What the fuck is that gay ass straw giant? How do the folding monkeys function? Why is Asura even a thing? How come dragonrot isn’t a known concept?
>>741773450>>The (Tokugawa) shogunate is uniting the country, and to do that you need to conquer the countrythere's no way you found that out without a youtuber telling you. they have zero presence within the world in relation to the plot.
>>741774307Isn't Nanaya supposed to be the same as Tohno but with Nanaya training/instincts?
>>741775990>What the fuck is that gay ass straw giant?It's a Japanese mythology thing.>Why is Asura even a thing?It's a Buddhist mythology thing. The concept is relevant to the period. There were a lot of bloodthirsty people obsessed with war during Sengoku Jidai.
Le SECOND mortal blade but it’s LE GATE TO THE UNDERWORLD FOR NO REASON What?
>>741775994All you need to know is that the game is set in that time period and it should be really obvious who the Ministry is.
>>741776160None of that is a defense or explanatory. Every culture has its own iconography you. Everyone knows the western style dragon but you can’t just slap a random dragon at the end of GTA 6 that is never once referenced by anyone in the game or ever referenced again after it’s intro cutscene and say >well rockstar is a western studio the dragon iconography is part of western tradition No one is asking how the dragon came to be depicted, they are asking why is it fucking there. The straw giant has nothing to do with anything
>>741776237the time period doesn't have immortal children with dragon blood and sword saints and giant monkeys. you can assume a lot of things but it's not something you learn about within the game.
>>741758009moby dick is a deep and meaningful work even though it can be summarized as>a guy really hates a whale
>>741776010Nanaya is the manifestation of Shiki's fear of becoming a rape killer. He's a fragment of Shiki's mind given form as a living nightmare. He's never shown to have the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception as when Shiki was trained to be a killer he didn't have them. In Melty Blood, Nanaya doesn't have any Mystic Eyes moves as far as I remember.
>>741776336Sekiro does do more than that. It has the Senpou Temple to explore Buddhism in the setting more. Buddhism has a long history in Japan too, many Buddhist beliefs are intertwined with Shinto ones. Considering the game is set in fucking Japan, I don't see how using or exploring any of these mythologies is confusing, especially when the entire context of going to Fountainhead is trying to figure out how to end an immortality curse. That's why it uses sacred iconography, because you're going to the realm of the gods.
>>741776010NTA, but it depends on what Nanaya we're talking about. Nanaya awakening within Tohno is stronger than normal Tohno. You get Mystic Eyes + Nanaya Assassination arts. Nanaya incarnated by TATARI (as seen in Melty Blood) does not have the Mystic Eyes and is probably weaker due to that.
>>741776415You would have also had to ignore Genichiro's entire motivation and need to save Ashina to begin with, plus everything Isshin talks about regarding it being fine for his era and Ashina to end.
>>741757624>Is Radagon the Elden Beast?No. The Elden Beast emerges as the last line of defense after you beat Radagon, then turns his/ Marika's body into a weapon.>Is the Elden Beast Radagon?See above.>Is Marika The Elden Beast/RadagonSee above.The Elden Beast is either an avatar of The Greater Will, or a manifestation of the Elden Ring itself.
>>741755960Pontiff? Are you serious?A word so obscure modern day newspaper publications frequently use it to talk about the pope?I really hope English isn't your first language.
>>741753860SHIKI forma de void
>>741755960This is bait, but imagine how fucked it would be if it wasn't.
>>741773974How many playthroughs of MSG2 did it take for you to figure out Pliskin was Solid Snake?
>>741776010That's Nanaya business.
>>741778162You only figured that out because a Youtuber told you.
>>741753860can Zanzibart Shiki even kill Servants?
>>741773535i think marika uses radagon as a necessary component to ascend to godhood, there's some stuff about like to become a god you need a lord, something like that. the alchemical combining of male/female duality to become something new. but it was through marika's will that she ascended, radagon just seems like a tool
>>741777652>>741778116When Trump got elected is when I started paying attention to American politics. So whenever they mentioned him in the press or tweets or online in general they labelled him as the POTUS. I thought it was a depreciating nick at his pride, or some slang, an insult, "look at the stupid fat POTUS lmao!". You get the vibe.
anybody ever figure out a way to get rid of the nasty haloing effect around stuff in this game? think it's ssao related? maybe ray tracing fixes it but my pc cant run that lol
>>741779075turning reflections down makes it less apparent
>>741779214k nope this is with ray tracing maxed, doesn't really fix it. just a quirk of the engine i guess
>>741762054Shitposting is shit and deserves to be treated like shit
>>741779075>>741779214>>741779312Maybe you some settings turned on in your GPU app that forces them on in-game. That shit is fucking nasty btw wtf, it's like deep fried Elden Ring.
>>741779312That's actually not how it should look anon. That glow shouldn't exist.
>>741780582>>741780494k i checked all nvidia control panels settings, no change. it's always looked like this for me ever since the game came out, even on my old gpu (nvidia also though). are u sure it doesn't look like this at this location for u? i'm at Rose Church in liurnia
>>741781614I actually just checked and it's the same for me, settings don't change anything either. Seems to only be visible south-west.
>>741782793And then further on south-west, everything is fine. Broken game, literally unplayable.
>>741782793ok cool. 98% of the game looks normal to me, just some places have that happen, dunno why lol
>>741754842/v/ is still seething the fatty wrote the best backstory any From game has ever had and that the moment they ran out of his material the game turns into nonsense.
>>741783881if the tarnished are so great how come they're all so retarded
>>741783881That can't be right since GRRM himself said that From actually didn't use a large portion of his material, since they depicted the game thousands of years after the foundational things he wrote.
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>>741782793The "halo" effect comes from the temporal anti-aliasing solution that Fromsoft uses. It's very primitive at this point. You see it much more clearly if you have water in the background, probably something related to the screen space reflections used for the water surface. I imagine turning TAA off would fix it, but make the game look super jaggy.
>>741783881Margit, Morgott, Mohg, Maliketh, Malenia, Miquella, Melina
>>741784924>Family naming conventions!?>Aiiiiii! Save me Mohammad!
>>741757624The Elden Beast is more like an appendage of the Greater Will that has formed the Elden Ring
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>>741784158>from drones sperged out so hard that he went fuck it I don't want to deal with this shit
>>741761171It wouldn't even be the same game if it was about anything else. It's also coincidentally the perfect story to churn out sequel after sequel, which Miyazaki hates.
>>741762689>>741762814>>741762897>>741762952>>741764453Rollerblading.
>>741773542I can't believe Miquella cucked Godwyn with Radahn.What a brat
>>741787295Miquella is the one who knocks
>>741787295Radahn was tricked, Miquella is the true villain
>>741774051AIEEEEEEEE
>>741759667genius analogy fellow fromchad
>>741763926>b-but he worked on thing I don't like When he's right he's right.
>>741776454>I didn't understand the assignment
>>741755960imagine being this ignorant
