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

[Child of Malkav]

It's not?

Their previous, "legacy" gameplay had me 100% focused on careful exploration of tightly designed levels while minding scarce resources in a tense, survival affair. But here I'm 50% of the time IIIEEEEEE HAAAA!!! superfast on my horse through empty maps ignoring monsters for collectibles, while the other 50% of the time I'm on a mild version of that "legacy" experience where I can insta-teleport back to farm for next level instad, and so losing precious runes/souls/runes is never an issue?

ER is the easiest From game, or at least it can be as easy as you make it.
When I said it's the same I referred to the mechanics, gameplay, options, tools etc. I didn't mention the new additions: vast open world, horse, crafting, guard counter.
Literally the only new features of the title. The game is also made easier by the sheer amount of bonfires/graces available and being able to teleport to any of them with the the only restriction that you're not in combat.
The same elements from the previous games are: UI, weapons and weapon arts/ashes of war, spirit summoning, same inventory, same layout and ways of selecting and equipping gear, spells, consumables, weapons, NPCs and the way you interact with them and do their quests, how they teleport from one place to another, how you have to reload an area to get them to move after exhausting their dialogue, same overall story/lore concepts, same menus, same stats, same status effects maybe old ones reworked a bit and renamed, same structure with areas and area bosses, minibosses, bonfires, shortcuts, secondary locations, resting at a bonfire respawns the enemies, heals you, access a storage box, select NG+ and on and on and on. These are not all negative things, just the sameness I was referring to.

 

[9ted6]

Still Elden Ring's setting and characters are more interesting and original than 99% of what is out there.

Who could forget such memorable characters as evil retard man who wants power, or evil retard woman who wants power, or evil retard man who wants power and is gay, or evil retard man who's insane, or of course the evil retard man who wants to eat shit.

Snake girl's a little interesting but she's still cheap waifu bait.

 

[Skinwalker]

Which one is gay?? And I don't recall any evil retard women who want power.

 

[Halfling Rodeo]

Their previous, "legacy" gameplay had me 100% focused on careful exploration of tightly designed levels while minding scarce resources in a tense, survival affair.

Scarce resource management? You have infinite healing refills and nothing else matters. There's no resources to manage in a souls game, just optional items you may want to use but are barely worth it outside of elemental resins.

spirit summoning,

Kind of new. You couldn't summon monsters before.

Which one is gay?? And I don't recall any evil retard women who want power.

Ranni would be an evil retarded woman wanting power.

 

[Skinwalker]

Oh. Ranni isn't particularly retarded.

 

[Barbarian]

Oh. Ranni isn't particularly retarded.

Nor evil.

 

[Skinwalker]

Well... murdering Godwyn just to free herself from the Two Fingers was fairly evil.

 

[Elttharion]

Which one is gay?? And I don't recall any evil retard women who want power.

Mohg is gay

Wishing to raise Miquella to full godhood, Mohg wished to become his consort, taking the role of monarch.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Kind of new. You couldn't summon monsters before.

You could summon NPCs to boss fights.

 

[Baron Dupek]

old repost?

 

[Halfling Rodeo]

Oh. Ranni isn't particularly retarded.

She posesses a miniature version of her exact body and doesn't expect the guy who found out she's a puppet to expect it to be her. She's fucking retarded.

Well... murdering Godwyn just to free herself from the Two Fingers was fairly evil.

Which leads to a whole host of problems because she's so selfish.

Which one is gay?? And I don't recall any evil retard women who want power.

Mohg is gay

Wishing to raise Miquella to full godhood, Mohg wished to become his consort, taking the role of monarch.

Miquella mind fucks any one near him. He forces them to do his bidding with the world's highest charisma stat. Mohg being mind fucked doesn't imply he's a fag despite the consort line. It's more like being hypnotised rather than a faggot. Would be interesting is Miquella is the actual lord of blood and was using Mogh all along.

Kind of new. You couldn't summon monsters before.

You could summon NPCs to boss fights.

Totally different to summoning monsters IMO.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Totally different to summoning monsters IMO.

It's the same idea but expanded.

 

[9ted6]

Which one is gay?? And I don't recall any evil retard women who want power.

Mohg and Ranni.

 

[Silva]

Well... murdering Godwyn just to free herself from the Two Fingers was fairly evil.

Do you know what Godwyn did to her?

 

[Barbarian]

I'm very butthurt about jrpg writing.

With special participation of that fat perv from GoT who is on the sexual offender registry.

 

[Skinwalker]

Well... murdering Godwyn just to free herself from the Two Fingers was fairly evil.

Do you know what Godwyn did to her?

I don't think he did anything to her.

 

[Silva]

Well... murdering Godwyn just to free herself from the Two Fingers was fairly evil.

Do you know what Godwyn did to her?

I don't think he did anything to her.

First-borns are all bastards. I'm one and can confirm.

 

[Halfling Rodeo]

Well... murdering Godwyn just to free herself from the Two Fingers was fairly evil.

Do you know what Godwyn did to her?

I don't think he did anything to her.

First-borns are all bastards. I'm one and can confirm.

If your mother wasn't such a whore she'd know who knocked her up the first time!

 

[Skinwalker]

Godwyn is the lawful son of Godfrey and Marika, he's not a naturalborn bastard.

 

[REhorror]

After Palworld, From needs to learn what's hot.

EVEN MORE MONSTER ASHES TO COLLECT
AND DON'T MAKE THEM TRANSPARENT, IT'S LAME AS FUCK

IT'S MY MONSTERS/PALS/GUYS/GIRL.

 

[Barbarian]

Well... murdering Godwyn just to free herself from the Two Fingers was fairly evil.

Do you know what Godwyn did to her?

I don't think he did anything to her.

Is it even clear that she chose him to be targeted?

She stole the rune of death, gave it to the black knives on the condition that she should be slain at the same time as some other empyrean to complete the ritual.

Age of stars ending still sounds like the "good" ending compared to the others. I mean at least by the original japanese text available online(some of her lines were mistranslated). Leave for outer space and leave the lands between without a lord, allowing free will and the cycle of life and death back.

 

[Halfling Rodeo]

Age of stars ending still sounds like the "good" ending compared to the others. I mean at least by the original japanese text available online(some of her lines were mistranslated). Leave for outer space and leave the lands between without a lord, allowing free will and the cycle of life and death back.

This is a debate though. The outer will did a shit load of good for the lands between before the ring was shattered. And we know everyone respawns so all the guys you killed are coming back either through Godwyn or just plain respawning themselves depending on how death works with the tree built. You and Ranni fuck off leaving a power vacuum and Godwyn being the only remaining 'living' demigod left. Which creates nothing but continued violence. At best there's another large scale war for territory. All the monsters kill each other and scarlet rot spreads across the lands between while Godwyn respawns everything as undead abominations. You escape but the lands between become the worst possible thing in all of From games... A double swamp!

 

[Damned Registrations]

You escape but the lands between become the worst possible thing in all of From games... A double swamp!

Indeed, Frenzied Flame ending is the best for this reason- at last, no more swamps.

 

[Skinwalker]

She stole the rune of death, gave it to the black knives on the condition that she should be slain at the same time as some other empyrean to complete the ritual.

Still sounds like she set up an innocent's death to further her own goals.

 

[Silva]

What's provoked Death? You mean normal death? I think destined way is just a way to say you will kill someone for good, considering people respawn when they die destined death is a special term just to to say someone will truly stay dead I think.

That's a shitty label then, because "destined" suggests something related to fate, like a preset time for dying. Once again it seems the English translators pick poetic sounding words that fuck up the original meanings.

It's just a "true death" then. One where one's spirit doesn't go back to the Eardtree for reviving later. In this sense the undead sounds like DS3 hollows of Londor, which found a way to live without souls, also heresy in that setting. Goldwyn = Londor Dark Lord. (Or maybe it's Fia? Don't know her ending details).