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

Caim

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Reminder.

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Would Elden Ring had been better if the world had been devoid of copy-pasted dungeons and mobs, and instead was there for pacing to provide a breather, to make your journey feel more grandiose and sad, and to provide a unique puzzle challenge in navigating mountain mazes and trying to find the next colossi (or in this case, the next legacy dungeon)?
 

H. P. Lovecraft's Cat

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Would Elden Ring had been better if the world had been devoid of copy-pasted dungeons and mobs, and instead was there for pacing to provide a breather, to make your journey feel more grandiose and sad, and to provide a unique puzzle challenge in navigating mountain mazes and trying to find the next colossi (or in this case, the next legacy dungeon)?
You can just skip the dungeons and mobs if that's what you want.
 

MasPingon

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Well, I just refunded the DLC.

I wanted to build a character for the DLC but after 5 minutes in Limgrave I just couldn't muster the energy to continue.

I guess I will never play the DLC and probably this is it for me and FromSW games. It was nice while it lasted.

Good luck with the DLC.
We will carry your cross :salute:
 

9ted6

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Don't tell him about greek culture, the roman orgies, the catholic priests that owned brothels (which caused the necessity to call a vatican council to ban such happenings)... and that's just Europe.
Good 20th century revisionism.

Don't look up what greek philosophers actually said about sexual deviancy, like how they said it rots the mind and soul and destroys culture. They were especially harsh about homosexuality.
If they were critic of those customs that means said customs were commonplace and disseminated.
Ah yes, the only people who say theft is wrong are people living in societies where theft is commonly accepted.
 

Socrates

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Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is.
Yes, across thousands of years and an entire continent, everyone agreed on what kinds of sex were okay. Sounds plausible.
It's plausible because truth exists and human beings have an intelligence capable of understanding good from bad. That's why even today people scoff at gay shit. Even when they pretend to be "tolerant" deep down they still likely flinch at the thought of two men butt fucking each other. And this idea ancient socities were more "accepting" or debauched than our own is just a modernist cope.

"Look, the ancient Greeks were all homos! That means we can be homos today!".

Except no, Greeks weren't homos, and homo shit wasn't "accepted" or normalized. It's a fantasy constructed by some British homo hostorian based on cherry picking evidence in art and by reading too much into certain Greek terminology.
Half true:

It largely depended on what Polis you belonged to and when. Thebes for example was widely known to practice pederasty and homosexual relationships were actively encouraged, especially between soldiers. By and large though, general practice of homosexuality was confined to the rich aristocratic classes as a form of alternative leisure. Generally it was a very uncommon practice by the hoi-polloi.
 

cruel

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30min of playing the DLC quickly reminded me why From shits on all other devs. The art, music, atmosphere, they still got it. So happy to be back.

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Dr1f7

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lol checked out some streams of this and everyone's just dual-wielding big swords and jump attack-spamming everything
some great gameplay there miyazaki well done

:bravo:
 
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Remember when the first trailer dropped and Miyazaki said in an interview that the expansion map is "a bit bigger than Limgrave"?

lol
 

kites

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Is it true that it’s huge? I’ve been avoiding spoilers but a friend told me it’s several times the size of Limgrave. I was kinda hopeful when Miyazaki said he was trying to find the peach pit “sweet spot” between having legacy dungeons and open spaces.. I bought the DLC but upon firing ER up recently I immediately felt fatigue despite all it’s positives. I’ll have to dig in this weekend :shittydog:
 

Jinn

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Holy fucking shit, did none of you guys save your endgame character?

Exploring my first legacy dungeon. It's glorious. Level design, encounter design, difficulty, new equipment, new enemies, art direction - all an absolute joy to be experiencing.
 

H. P. Lovecraft's Cat

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Holy fucking shit, did none of you guys save your endgame character?

Exploring my first legacy dungeon. It's glorious. Level design, encounter design, difficulty, new equipment, new enemies, art direction - all an absolute joy to be experiencing.
I'm seeing alot of people try to start a new character for the expansion. Fucking why? Do tards not know they can just respec? I'm going in with my same exact build. Ready to clap some cheeks.
 

Jinn

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I'm seeing alot of people try to start a new character for the expansion. Fucking why? Do tards not know they can just respec? I'm going in with my same exact build. Ready to clap some cheeks.
I'm very much so looking forward to doing a full main campaign+Shadow replay in the future (especially if there's an awesome mod to put on top of it all), but I can't imagine trying to enjoy something for the first time that's the size of an entire game ON TOP OF everything you need to do to get there if I had played it all before. Why? Especially when you can just respec if you want to try out a fresh build with the plethora of new equipment.
 

H. P. Lovecraft's Cat

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Um it's not letting me enter the DLC. I have my guy right there in Mohg's palace. I'm going to fucking kill somebody
Maybe you only downloaded the patch and not DLC? Reset. Someone I know had that problem. There should be somebody there to talk to.
Where do they appear at? It's installed and I restarted and I'm right there in front of the cacoon and nothing.
 

Crayll

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Holy fucking shit, did none of you guys save your endgame character?

Exploring my first legacy dungeon. It's glorious. Level design, encounter design, difficulty, new equipment, new enemies, art direction - all an absolute joy to be experiencing.
I started a new character, but I did it a week ago so I'd be ready for the DLC. It's been a while since I'd last played so I wanted to time to refamiliarize myself with everything.

The mini dungeons are also leagues better than the base game, done two so far and they were both great. The bosses at the end are also now my two favorite minibosses, much more memorable than fighting cat statues repeatedly.

Um it's not letting me enter the DLC. I have my guy right there in Mohg's palace. I'm going to fucking kill somebody
Did you kill Radahn? He's a requirement too.
 

Grampy_Bone

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Played a bit of it (expansion) and wasn't impressed.

-Starting area is an open field with ghost graves. like, literal ghostly gravestones. eh.
-Enemies are copy pasta from the main game but 'shadowy.' They all die in one hit.
-Find a boss and it's just a dude. He drops his kit when he dies except the cool crossbow. He had an okay sword but it's strength based.
-Tried fighting the Wicker Burning Man and got stomped. AoE fire can't be escaped even on horseback. Weak.
-My faith/holy build is being redeemed, it appears shadow enemies are weak to it.
-The much hinted at 'expansion specific progression' is... 5% damage and armor for finding a TACO. Meh.
 

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