From Software Elden Ring - From Software's new game with writing by GRRM

[mediocrepoet]

Well, I guess I'm just not a gamer anymore.
I found Elden Ring beyond banal/shit/boring, embarrassing even.
I played 15 hours longer than I enjoyed it and still didn't finish it.
Stopped in Crumbling Farum Azula (?lol?) or whatever it's called.
What a shitshow this game is. A mockery of Dark Souls.

You beat 90% of the game only to decide it wasn't worth it?

This is one of the few situations where I think this is a pretty reasonable decision. The game isn't for everyone and it's REALLY long. I posted elsewhere, possibly also in this thread, that when that Steam stats thing came out at New Years, Elden Ring showed up as 47% of my Steam game time last year. That's bananas.

 

[Caim]

Yes.
It's FromSoft after all. But it kept getting worse.

Not much "but" here given how Dark Souls 1's quality curve goes.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Well, I guess I'm just not a gamer anymore.
I found Elden Ring beyond banal/shit/boring, embarrassing even.
I played 15 hours longer than I enjoyed it and still didn't finish it.
Stopped in Crumbling Farum Azula (?lol?) or whatever it's called.
What a shitshow this game is. A mockery of Dark Souls.

You beat 90% of the game only to decide it wasn't worth it?

This is one of the few situations where I think this is a pretty reasonable decision. The game isn't for everyone and it's REALLY long. I posted elsewhere, possibly also in this thread, that when that Steam stats thing came out at New Years, Elden Ring showed up as 47% of my Steam game time last year. That's bananas.

I will grant that the size of the game isn't a positive point. I'm like 60 hours in and I haven't even explored the Mountaintops of Giants yet---and I had given up several playthroughs before. I think the patches made it way more accessible. The first big boss was much more of a stopping point than now. I beat it on my first try in this playthrough. Godrick was easier as well. Radahn proved to be more difficult, until I stopped relying on Torrent for that fight.
But yeah. I'm not even in the final areas of the game and I've already spent the ammount of time that it would take you to beat the Souls trilogy (since each game is like 20 hours long each).

 

[fork]

Yes.
It's FromSoft after all. But it kept getting worse.

Not much "but" here given how Dark Souls 1's quality curve goes.

Even more "but" since Dark Souls started way stronger and is significantly shorter than ER.
And overall just way more focused and better in most ways. I don't understand why ER is so popular.
I finished DS multiple times at SL1, but I can't bring myself to even try to finish ER. It's just so bad and boring.

 

[mediocrepoet]

I will grant that the size of the game isn't a positive point. I'm like 60 hours in and I haven't even explored the Mountaintops of Giants yet---and I had given up several playthroughs before. I think the patches made it way more accessible. The first big boss was much more of a stopping point than now. I beat it on my first try in this playthrough. Godrick was easier as well. Radahn proved to be more difficult, until I stopped relying on Torrent for that fight.
But yeah. I'm not even in the final areas of the game and I've already spent the ammount of time that it would take you to beat the Souls trilogy (since each game is like 20 hours long each).

Well, I tend to play slowly to begin with, on top of going for crazy anal completionist runs as a matter of course because I can't help myself (like seriously, beating a Souls game in 20h? lol) and then on top of all that, had multiple complete completionist playthroughs, as well as several abortive attempts and some other just screwing around runs. I loved the game and basically took it for all it was worth.

Anyway, imo if you're hitting even like 2 hours into something and are feeling like, "This is shit" why bother? Life's too short.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Combat design in any place that isn't a handcrafted area is beyond boring. Open world is the exact opposite of the Souls experience... That's arguably the worst part of the game. That much is true I'd say.

 

[Dadd]

I don't understand why ER is so popular.

It ticks all the boxes for many gamers. Open world, "epic" story, decent graphics, weapon diversity (even if superficial), meme potential, lots of customization.

 

[fork]

Combat design in any place that isn't a handcrafted area is beyond boring. Open world is the exact opposite of the Souls experience... That's arguably the worst part of the game. That much is true I'd say.

Yes, but even the so-called legacy dungeons, as good as they might be from a technical standpoint (secrets, enemy encounters, interconnectivity, exploration) are direly lacking in what defined FromSoft titles for me: atmosphere. There's no descent into the Gutter here, no Catacombs and Tomb of the Giants, no Blighttown, no Sen's Fortress, no Shrine of Amana, no Shulva, Sanctum City.

I kept playing through Stormveil Castle because it was early game, and after beating Margit I wanted to keep going. And Stormveil Castle was okay, certainly good from a technical perspective, but ultimately boring. Then I killed Godrick, which was the best fight in the game in retrospect. I still had high hopes at that moment. And the first look at Liurnia of the Lakes reinforced that hope. But god, it really kept going downhill from there. And it just didn't end: one boring gigantic open world after another, and everything tried so desperately to be epic, where Dark Souls didn't even have to try: seeing the Moonlight Butterfly the first time from Darkroot Garden or the Hydra in the Basin was better than most of Elden Ring. Not to mention the terrible NPCs and repetitveness of the open world: catacombs, caves, tunnels, ruins, vendors, dragons, minor erdtrees, evergaols, churches of Marika etc...

Really, the game was one of the biggest disappointments of my gaming career. High point 10 hours in the Godrick fight, and probably only because of the badass sountrack.

 

[Abu Antar]

Well, I guess I'm just not a gamer anymore.
I found Elden Ring beyond banal/shit/boring, embarrassing even.
I played 15 hours longer than I enjoyed it and still didn't finish it.
Stopped in Crumbling Farum Azula (?lol?) or whatever it's called.
What a shitshow this game is. A mockery of Dark Souls.

I can see why people abandon it. Overworld is boring, legacy dungeons are fun.

Too much overworld, too little legacy dungeon.

If I could wish for anything of a new From game, it would be to go level based, a la DeS.

 

[Lyric Suite]

So apparently a DLC is coming, and it's going to be HUGE, according to "reliable" sources. Huge i say!

As if this game wasn't big enough already...

 

[Utgard-Loki]

well, i just hope it will be "hugely" balanced. doesn't matter how much content there is if it is all on the level of liturgical town and haligtree.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

So apparently a DLC is coming, and it's going to be HUGE, according to "reliable" sources. Huge i say!

As if this game wasn't big enough already...

Is there any rumor as to which location it's going to be set in? Some madmen were wondering if it would be set in the Lake of Rot, in that part you can't access. Hopefully it isn't because the less time I spend there the better.

 

[mediocrepoet]

well, i just hope it will be "hugely" balanced. doesn't matter how much content there is if it is all on the level of liturgical town and haligtree.

I was going to rate this fabulously optimistic, but I guess it really depends on what they do. Like they could fairly easily make a portal to a self contained zone like their past DLCs that had more of a traditional Souls-like progression through a dungeon or whatever. The only thing that might be wonky is what level it's tuned for you starting it at.

 

[Lyric Suite]

So apparently a DLC is coming, and it's going to be HUGE, according to "reliable" sources. Huge i say!

As if this game wasn't big enough already...

Is there any rumor as to which location it's going to be set in? Some madmen were wondering if it would be set in the Lake of Rot, in that part you can't access. Hopefully it isn't because the less time I spend there the better.

The "reliable" source in question appears to be the same data miner that predicted the Colosseums shit, so there's no info really, just some autist who looked at some data and made a correct prediction at some point.

Anniversay is coming so some shit might get announced soon.

 

[Lyric Suite]

well, i just hope it will be "hugely" balanced. doesn't matter how much content there is if it is all on the level of liturgical town and haligtree.

I was going to rate this fabulously optimistic, but I guess it really depends on what they do. Like they could fairly easily make a portal to a self contained zone like their past DLCs that had more of a traditional Souls-like progression through a dungeon or whatever. The only thing that might be wonky is what level it's tuned for you starting it at.

My hunch is an extra open world area with a legacy dungeon at the end, similar to the detour you have to do to get to Malenia.

 

[NJClaw]

I will settle for nothing less than a DLC the same size of the base game.

Also can't wait for the room where you have to fight two malenias (and the third one spawns in the second phase).

Between this and Nioh 3 China Nioh, I'm unreasonably hyped.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Anyway, this thing popped up and it's a good homage to one of the most underrated enemy in the game, the fucking Vulgar Militia:



The first time you meet those guys it's obvious that they are massively overcompensating for something as they use every possible dirty tactic you could think of. The amount of shit those guys can use to fuck you up make them one of the more interesting enemies in the game, it's just hilarious that the manlet overcompensation is written right into the game. Despite being small those guys were almost as unnerving to meet as the t-rex birds. At some point i just opted to snipe them out while riding Torrent as fuck getting down to their level lmao.

 

[Child of Malkav]

So apparently a DLC is coming, and it's going to be HUGE, according to "reliable" sources. Huge i say!

As if this game wasn't big enough already...

It's Lance McDonald I think. Some guy that has been modding Bloodborne and is a known dataminer for all souls games. Works with Zullie the witch on discovering and adding cut content and datamining for whatever they can find. And they did find stuff: unused but reserved IDs for one new area, 30ish new bosses, new weapons, armors etc.

 

[Wunderbar]

30ish new bosses

27 of them are Ulcerated tree spirits.

 

[kites]

Well, they already have the template, a year or two of work could yield a large expansion.. I’m not sure it’s necessary in a 100+ hour game, but they’d be silly not to capitalize on it’s success

Not ready for a full replay, though I’m hopeful for a Dark Arisen type expansion on revisit

 

[Bloodeyes]

So apparently a DLC is coming, and it's going to be HUGE, according to "reliable" sources. Huge i say!

As if this game wasn't big enough already...

I won't believe a word until From makes an official announcement. The Chinese whispers and groupthink in the souls community are on another level. All these rumors are based on absolutely nothing. "Reliable sources" said the DLC would be announced at the game awards. Nobody could say who those reliable sources were but it was a fact in everyone's mind, despite having no evidential base at all.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Well, they already have the template, a year or two of work could yield a large expansion.. I’m not sure it’s necessary in a 100+ hour game, but they’d be silly not to capitalize on it’s success

Not ready for a full replay, though I’m hopeful for a Dark Arisen type expansion on revisit

Dark Arisen is almost an entire game after you're done with the main campaign. A proper expansion. I don't know if I have the stamina for something like that in Elden Ring, the game is too long as it is... but the community wants it to turn into an even longer game.

Although the community is still in full cope mode because they don't want to accept the PVE update as DLC, even though it is one lol

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Is there any rumor as to which location it's going to be set in? Some madmen were wondering if it would be set in the Lake of Rot, in that part you can't access. Hopefully it isn't because the less time I spend there the better.

The entire DLC will take place in an enormous, poisonous swamp infested with giant frogs.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Is there any rumor as to which location it's going to be set in? Some madmen were wondering if it would be set in the Lake of Rot, in that part you can't access. Hopefully it isn't because the less time I spend there the better.

The entire DLC will take place in an enormous, poisonous swamp infested with giant frogs.

I'd take that over Lake of Rot 2 any day lol

 

[mediocrepoet]

The entire DLC will take place in an enormous, poisonous swamp infested with giant frogs.

I'd take that over Lake of Rot 2 any day lol

That is literally Lake of Rot 2. Did you even go in there?