it's been 90 million years and yet i still cant quit this game. on ng+3 and its just as fun as when i first played it

fromfags are mentally ill

>>712923208 (OP)
I'm glad you're enjoying your video game OP, but you've alerted the horde

>>712923289
/thread

>>712923289
>enjoying video games is le bad

>>712923962
>le

>>712923962
go back

>>712923962
Uh-oh, this post upset the brownies...

>>712923289
they're so sensitive too kek

>>712924083
>noooo you can't just enjoy things

Post DS1 Fromsoft is slop.

I've tried playing this 3 times and I quit when I get to leyndell every time. I don't know why.

>>712924901
Bloodborne*

>>712923208 (OP)
it didnt really grab me like the dark souls games did. The DLC sort of did though, got a lot closer.

>>712925235
Shartborne is slop and played like trash. Thank you for proving my point.

>>712923289
FPBP

>>712924964
From can't do cities.

>>712924964
Leyndell is a terrible dungeon by every possible metric of level design. I don't care how good anyone thinks it looks it plays like ass.

>>712923208 (OP)
It's funny how if you actually explore the area you're overlooking you're met with a giant empty expanse that fails at being a living world or a compelling dungeon. Literally just a glorified connection between the more meaningful POIs. I can't think of a bigger honeypot off the top of my head.

>>712924901
While bloodborne is great, it did signal a start to from slopware preying on its sheep fanbase and releasing what is essentially the same game with a slightly different skin and UI. bloodborne, ds3, and slopiro shadows slop twice released back to back is egregious. If any other studio released the same core game back to back to back imagine the backlash they’d get. Elden slop is no better either.

>>712923208 (OP)
It needed more empty space for just wandering.
Limgrave and the Peninsula should have been twice the size, with the same amount of content spread over a longer distance.

>>712923289
>person 1: i like game
>person 2: holy fuck get yourself checked into a mental asylum IMMEDIATELY you piece of shit
does this sound unhinged to anyone else? why do anti-fromtroons always overreact so hard to the mildest statements?

>>712926797
>If any other studio released the same core game back to back to back imagine the backlash they’d get.
Not much?
Metal Gear Solids all play the same.
Bethesda games all play the same.
Paradox GSGs all play the same.
CIV games all play the same.
GTA and RDR all play the same.

Most studios are known for a genre, and they work to master it, and you basically know what you're getting from who is making it.
FROM is no different. You're either getting sanic sped mecha or you're getting a Souls Game. And in both cases they cater to specific crowds that want more of that.

>>712926797
Shartborne is Demon's Souls but worse. Doesn't help that Troon 2 released before it and was also trash. Everything after DS1 shouldn't exist. Fromsoft should have went bankrupt.

>>712923208 (OP)
It just feels like the same game I've already played 4 times before this one came out. But larger.

>>712926797
Agreed. Bloodborne was when run souls truly started.

>>712927000
based question. Troons think that other people think like them, and talk like them. So when Troon A says to Troon B that Troon A likes children, then Troon B knows the ballpark amount of cp Troon A has hoarded.
And when they hear that someone else likes something else, they think, of course, of a deranged person

>>712927107
Those games add rich narratives and worlds that are completely different from one another. They don't shamelessly copy paste assets and also take years to carefully craft a different experience each time.

>>712926821
>It needed more empty space for just wandering.
>Limgrave and the Peninsula should have been twice the size, with the same amount of content spread over a longer distance.

Shovelware company prease uderstandu

>>712927773
Are you insinuating that I'm baiting?
I'm not.
I wanted the game to be way bigger so riding Torrent around felt like actually exploring a vast land.
Like it'd take at least 5-10 minutes to traverse between landmarks, and longer between key areas.
The game already lets you teleport around from the beginning. So there's no reason to not make one way trips long and winding.

>>712927107
all those games play better than this crap or any Fromshitware game.

>>712923208 (OP)
Yeah, it's pretty great. I started a new character that will only use maces and small shields. Currently roaming the Shadow Lands for scadufrags and making my way through the Moutaintops of Giants.

>>712927587
>They don't shamelessly copy paste assets
They do
>rich narratives and worlds
lmao

>>712927587
Lol.
Lmao.

This is one of the coolest boss intros they’ve ever made, meme on the forgive me zanzibart shit but a dude pulling out a a massive barb stuck on his body is some of the most metal shit I’ve ever seen in a video game

>>712923208 (OP)
Elden Ring is the weirdest game for me. I don't enjoy it at all, i think it's incredibly badly designed, yet i have 700 hours in it.

>>712923289

>NG+ is better than new character because playing new character is pure slog
DS2 did it right.

>>712927934
I was insinuating that, yes. Pardon me, anon. I feel like the exploration at the start of the game and the beginning of the DLC were kinda like that already, and if you've played it long enough it gets easy to forget because you know where are the points of interest already. Also the start of every new peninsula gets a breather where you just run around a bit before getting to the regions that are denser in content

>>712923289
Switch is getting a fromsoft game, you can relax.

>>712928453
>DLC
They forgot to add content in DLC. The world was beautiful and verticality was sick but getting cookbooks, smiting stone (1) or crafting trash as rewards for exploration is awful.

>>712927107
mgs improved on each iteration + offered a unique experience in each game, and only went downhill with 4.
bethesda didn’t spam fallout releases like troon slopware does.
3>nv>4
2 years and 5 in between games.
gta SA and IV were 4 years apart and iv is a completely different experience than SA while being a great game.
rdr and rdr2 were like 7 years apart. what are you trying to say? All these other games weren’t released on extremely short cycles, and from pretends that each game is some new thing but its 70% the same game. Elden slop is literally just dark souls with an open world. If you play any from game you more or less will have already experienced what its other titles are about.

>>712928453
The Spawn Dungeon -> South to the Weeping Peninsula is a pretty great stretch that definitely feels huge and varied.
But around the lake is too dense with stuff happening to feel large.
North East Limgrave next to Caelid down through the Mistwood is pretty good.

The Snowfield on the other hand is huge but doesn't have much in the way of amazing vistas to enjoy.

Fromslop can't make a single good game to save their lives. It took the chinks and gooks to make everyone realize that they're the worst Jap company now.

>fromtroons
>Fromslop
>slopware
>Fromshitware
>troon slopware

>>712928101
Its cool looking but its also very hollow. Who the fuck is this dude? Who is he talking about?

I knew who Ludwig was when I met him. I knew who Laurence was. Orphan was related to Kosm. These are all characters that you know of without going through item descriptions. They are all mentioned in dialogue and cutscenes.

This guys whole deal was entirely isolated in a missable area.

>all this GIGANTISM kino in ER
I need BLAME! game. Make it happen Mitsubishi.

>>712929823
It's like SotE is two unfinished DLCs mixed in one. The Mesmer DLC and Radahn.

>>712929973
I don't want a slop company handling it.

>play nightreign solo
>get to day 3
>lose
>need to do hour long run again just to try the boss again
that's some fucking bullshit

Yeah, it is a badass game OP. I struggle to think of any titles that have come out in the last ten years that are better. Maybe Baldur's Gate 3?

>>712930149
SLOP! is mainstreamslop from slop magakaslop, slop.

>>712929973
BLAME! deserves better.

I got to the snowy area on my roommate's PS5 then moved out without finishing the game. How far into the game was I? Is it worth getting a system and the game to finish it? I found it way too hard at first but once I powered through and got gud I was enjoying it.

>>712930316
From is the only company who can make BLAME! game
>literally manga about dude walking in megastructure (dead world) and killing random shit
>even has invasion mechanic

>>712923208 (OP)
If any of this was true you would have played ds1-3. You're just an ai shill, go buy an ad.

>>712930726
He probably didn't. Which is why he can still enjoy From slop.

>>712928903
FROM games have improved over time mechanically and each is immediately distinguishable from the others. MGS games all play basically the same and are all the same type of movie game.
The games aren't spammed, they're released on a schedule that gives each several years of breathing room, at least.
All GTA games are very similar. RDR1/2 are just filler GTA titles between major releases. They're setting shifts with the same gameplay as the mainline.

Souls games all play significantly differently from one another.
Elden Ring and Dark Souls play totally differently. The player is far more mobile in Elden Ring and you have access to multiple types of buffs to even out your power level with the bosses and enemies and enable a variety of play styles.
You couldn't play like an Elden Ring avatar in DS1, and playing like a DS1 character in Elden Ring requires you to ignore half a dozen mechanics.

>>712929823
Cut the bullshit dude, you literally trace the story backwards in Abyssal Woods, were you playing the DLC with a dick in your ass?
>enter a new area
>oh shit, some holy nigga with an annoying barb weapon
>oh shit what the FUCK happened to this area
>the most exposition they’ve put on any of the DLC area on top of the hints in the manse
>hurr I still don’t get what’s going on
>boss cutscene is literally the explanation and twist
I call bullshit, Bloodborne’s storytelling was even more obfuscated than SOTE, you didn’t piece any of that without looking shit up.

>>712923208 (OP)
I can make a new build and get addicted all over again. And I can’t stop till I’m level 125 and finished the game. Then I go host pvp lobbies at the hilga tree

>>712923289
FPBP

>>712929823
>I knew who Ludwig was when I met him. I knew who Laurence was. Orphan was related to Kosm. These are all characters that you know of without going through item descriptions. They are all mentioned in dialogue and cutscenes.
Nonsense, this is all the same shit. For newcomers, precognition of Bloodborne's characters and story, especially in the DLC, is entirely determined by one's willingness to delve through a tangled web of item descriptions made even more obscure by the game's mysterious eldritch nature.
Kosm isn't even a character at that point. It's Micolash's hallucinatory rambling. A deliberately cryptic remark intended to bewilder you.

>>712926732
Nah, Leyndell is pretty based overall. It's wide and pretty open as opposed to the typical corridor-maze of shortcuts and alternating routes that defines what is classically considered From's best levels (like Stormveil Castle, Central Yharnam, and Sen's Fortress to name a few), but there's a remarkable amount of shit to do and explore even if the player can skip it all pretty effortlessly. It's reminiscent of Eleum Loyce.
Leyndell's biggest issue, up until it becomes the Burning Capital, is the pacing of the bosses and their later reusage.
Thematically, Leyndell's almost a microcosm of Dark Souls 1. The formidable Golden City reared high above the rest of the land. Home of the gods that wrestled with the Ancient Dragons. The squalid depths of despair, inequity, and depravity lurking beneath it. The font of burning chaos lying yet deeper. And finally the enigmatic ancient golden roots seemingly buried beneath the rest of the world, and the ruined black city host to the prince of death.
Obviously there are clear differences between these locations and their Dark Souls analogues, but it's impressive how Leyndell manages to fit all its thematic content into a game that's already teeming with impressive levels and landscapes.

>>712924964
It's probably because the game has way, way, WAY more content than any Souls game that came before it. By the time you get to Leyndell you'd normally be finishing the game, not reaching the halfway mark. I imagine that more people would drop DS1 after O&S if they'd spent 40 hours getting to that point.

>>712923208 (OP)
Unironically the ultimate ARPG for me
The combat, the world, te lore, the crafting, the bosses, the art
It's like everything was crafted for me specifically

>>712923208 (OP)
>Fromslop game with no NG+ content
>Playing it more than once
What's the appeal of this?

your game is mogged by the most popular and challenging games of all time, nothing will ever be better than fromsoft action rpgs, and to make matters worse, (You) are bad at them despite literally 2 decades of practice

>>712923208 (OP)
Have you ever tried anything else or are you stuck on it like glue?

>>712923208 (OP)
I think people who replay games must be low iq or have memory problems. I can't bring myself to do it its is painfully boring when you've already experienced everything

>>712923208 (OP)
>its just as fun as when i first played it
I've never stopped picking this game back up since it came out either but nothing beats the first playthrough. Getting teleported to Caelid by the trap chest for the first time, or discovering a random elevator in the woods that takes you to a whole world underground are experiences that can't be replicated

You need to blaze the erdtree tarnished

>>712924964
it's my favorite part since you don't have to use that shitty horse and figure out how to drop off or climb cliffs that plague the open world, the burst crossbow guys can fuck off though

>>712923208 (OP)
honest question. this game feels empty and depressing as fuck. what do you legitimately enjoy about it?

i never beat Elden Ring. I got to the final boss and my build was shit and I never understood how to respec. I also ran out of stones to upgrade my weapons. is this all intentional?

>>712923208 (OP)
roughly 200 runs in. just started my first ng+7 100% items run. already halfway done with liurnia and completely exhausted from the collecting
>>712923289
because whining over other people actually PLAYING games on a videogame board is sane?

>>712927000
it's called projection, he is projecting his inner miserabler mental illness on people enjoying life and being bitter about it

Why did ranni and chaos get unique endings while everything else got mass effect 3 endings?

>no lively towns
>no npcs to care about
So lacking for a basic open world.

>>712923208 (OP)
This is a sort of autism. Well, do whatever you want.

>>712923289
FPBP

>>712935721
Imagine wanting any of that gay ubisoft shit

>>712923208 (OP)
>clown suit
Yeah you got mind broken by it and lost all remaining human dignity.

>>712924364
called it
>>712927000

>>712924240

I don't take anyone who likes any Fromslop game seriously.

>>712935668
>Unique endings
>Elden shit
The game doesn't even have memorable bosses

>>712935668
From is a indie dev, they didn't have the money to do it.

>No fishing
>No horse racing
>No player house
>No friendly villages/towns
>No journal
>No quest marker
>No smithing
It's bare bones.

>>712923208 (OP)
I only did one full playthrough

But it was magical. I wish I could experience the exploration again. When/what's the next game that will even offer a fraction of the feeling of exploring Elden Ring for the first time?

>>712923289
why do you faggots hate fromsoft when there is absolutely zero reason to?
what is it about them which makes you tranny faggots piss and shit your skirts in uncontrollable seething rage?
honest question.
>>712923208 (OP)
feel the same, op

>>712939246
Was that your first Souls game? Why didn't this fucking game had this effect on me? Could it have been because I grew to hate Dark Souls 3 and this game is just that but more? I legit can't even stand looking at their assets anymore.

>>712939558
No, I played every Souls game on its western release day 1 including the original Demon's Souls.

Elden Ring's first 50 or so hours are my favorite exploration / sense of wonder out of the entire series. The constant recycle of enemies did make the 2nd half of the base game less magical, but I loved exploring the DLC.

>>712939941
I wish I could feel the same joy.

>>712923289
fromsoftware derangement syndrome

>>712923208 (OP)
>pic
literally the last good moment of the game (the view not the area)
after that it's only downhill

>>712923208 (OP)
I forgot
What is that little tower in the far far distance between mountain top and the school?

>>712941269
Ranni's place.

>>712923208 (OP)
350h and i cant stop making new characters. Holy fuck this games kino

>>712935321
I like empty and depressing things.

>>712939246
Randomizer?

>>712923208 (OP)
got all the base game achievements for some reason and then dropped this shithead, zero interest in the dlc or shitereign

>>712943457
Yeah I like getting all achievements on games I dont like as well.

>>712943585
i liked it at first, but the entire second half after margit is garbage

>>712923208 (OP)
based

>>712939246
>When/what's the next game that will even offer a fraction of the feeling of exploring Elden Ring for the first time?
Their next mainline game obviously

Garbage games for people who think they're hot shit for memorizing boss attacks but are actually no life losers.

>>712943757
You eat boiled garbage

>>712941121
Well of course it's downhill. You're standing at the peak of a valley. What other direction would you go?

>>712923208 (OP)
>ng+3
What's the point
Enemies don't get any new tricks
There is no new enemy placement or mechanics

>>712923289
Nightreign proved that
People just point out bad design decisions and for some reason they think the complaints are about difficulty. Literally in their heads, any and all criticism against From must be based on the game being too hard or something. They can't fathom that the mirrion dorrar game company they will defend with their lives may be just be mid

>>712924901
this
demon souls dark souls good
ds3 ok
elden ring ok
bloodborne ds2 sekiro bad

elden ring is dark souls 2 2
their next game will be dark souls 2 2 2

>>712923208 (OP)
It's funny because you are looking at empty space. Liurnia is literally mostly empty. Every area has larg empty areas but not quite as bad as this one. And when something is there, it's a copypasted boss, just like everywhere else. Fromfags are too easily impressed by key jangling big open vistas "whoah big gaem, big gaem gud"

>>712946317
Enemy attack speed scales up with each ene difficulty level (meaning less downtime between combos). I'm using a poison infused Dane's footwork build with light roll and it's been really fun keeping up with the bosses as they attack relentlessly. Certain enemies also require a different way of engaging because of how quickly they start new attacks now. Giants for example are a lot of fun

>>712923289
This post made them piss their pants like the manchilds they are. Doing god's work, son.

>>712946981
elden ring has the most enemy count out of any fromsoft game

>>712946994
>Enemy attack speed scales up with each ene difficulty level
It literally doesn't, you can check NG+ params with DSMapStudio or similar tools

>>712929414
>jeets are the ones calling others brown
Kek why can't the hwhites take responsibility for once? What's with the victim complex?

>>712924901
DkS1 had shit bosses across the board (Yes O&S is shit too) but a very well made world
DkS2 had powerstance fun and the DLCs were good, rest was shit
DkS3 has mostly good bosses and good DLC
Bloodborne should have been a movie
Sekiro was great and they finally understood how to escape the rollrollroll limbo...
... except no, back to rolling. ER is open world slop with ctrl+v bosses and weird animation delay bullshit that nobody enjoys but they had no idea up else to up le difficulty without it in a rollslop game
Nighreign is an embarrassment even for a cashgrab

>>712930149
yeah, same

Elden rings "open world"
>empty hyrule fields starter area
>notable locations
Stormveil castle

>lakes of hernia second area
>lobsters crabs and harrypotter
>notable locations
Academy

>atlus game content has plateaued
>fields of hyrule again
>the sewers have more content than the actual capital it's within
>notable locations
The fucking optional volcano

>frigid outskirts mcguffin edition
>aka burn a bitch to get somewhere decent mountain
>notable locations
The place after here

>Furcum anuslubeum
>despite being filled with withered red rockets and dragons
>its memorable
>better enjoy it cause its downhill from here
>notable location
Very much so

>caelid
>radahn
>nogstella

>hagsimp tree
>forgotten by everyone
>loved by no one
>hidden away because it out makes most other locations look halfassed

>underground
>mohgs blood pool park
>godwyns aids garden
>notable?
Completionist only

Over all rating 6/10, never try to make an open world again

77 hours in Nightreign, now I'm thinking about going back to Elden Ring but on PC. How's the seamless co-op mod?

>>712946994
>Enemy attack speed scales up with each ene difficulty level (meaning less downtime between combos
Why are you lying, fromdrone
Ng only affects enemy damage and that's it

>>712943101
NO NO NO YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LIKE THAT. YOU NEED TO HAVE SEVERAL HAPPY VILLAGES AND CHEERFUL NPCS AND A FISHING MINIGAME AND OTHER FILLER NON-COMBAT ACTIVITIES.

>>712938301
You haven't beated the game boyo.

I have yet to replay any of the soulsborne games. I feel like I'll get the urge maybe 10 years later and I'll fire it up again.

>>712923208 (OP)
I'm trying to get to NG+ and play the game+DLC again, but it turns out the base game is insanely harder than the DLC.

I feel bad for the lorelets who don't get this image.

>>712923289
F
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>>712923208 (OP)
I preordered this shit and got bored before I got to the end
What a disappointment

>>712952610
you and millions of others anon

Love elden ringu

ng+ is boring. i just ng

>>712923208 (OP)
It burned me out of souls so bad I haven't been able to look at a soulslike without retching since. It's been a couple years and I don't know if I'll ever enjoy rollan again.

>>712923208 (OP)
I've never beat a fromsoft game. I liked my time with Elden Ring but the open world is definitely inferior to the DS levels

>>712923289

First step > Dectus medallions > Caria manor > Atlus grace > Radahn festival > Mimic tear > Tiche > lol, good game.
Hardest bosses
Black Blade kindred > Draconic tree sentinel > Rahdan promised consort.

>>712923208 (OP)
For me, great runes needed to change the game like the class system in Nightreign did, and we should have been able to jump off walls if equipment is light. Vaulting would have been op but wall jump would be tight for light builds.

I'm starting to think (((they))) raid and hate this game and Fromsoft in general because they focus on Classical Western settings without subverting the feeling they evoke.
>despite being Japanese

Or I'm just schizo.

>>712923289
Basado

>>712935402
Is that based on the protagonist from the manga?

>>712939297
its depressing and empty

>>712960456
not sure. elden ring is okay, and most of /v/ agrees. sometimes i wonder if it's AI posts that have been trained to make negative posts that look like other negative posts, or it could be the overwhelming number of intel agencies, especially mossad, and israeli citizens (who are biological disposed to subvert anything they can) that populate this site.

>>712960889
Mossad and Co. try to make the site miserable. Which is hilarious considering twitter is more radicalized than anything on 4chan.

>>712948620
Taking this pasta

>>712923208 (OP)
same (still not boughting nightreign)

>>712923208 (OP)
I'm playing it right now. And I'm cosplaying as a Banished Knight for hosts as a summon. I get it.

Yeah yeah until you're ng+7 fighting the elden beast which now has 4.9 million hp and takes a half hour to kill even with a perfectly spec'd rivers of blood katana build

>>712947570
Parryshit is objectively worse than rolls+blocks+jumps+poise.
Fuck that rhythm game nonsense.

>>712946729
>ds2 bad
Slit your wrists.

>>712957170
>Draconic tree sentinel
Every tree sentinel is a dogshit fight but they crammed in so many of the fuckers.

>>712947570
Mindblowing that people play ER and think that it's about roll spam when doing anything else makes the game so much easier.

>>712948620
>>atlus game content has plateaued
This is fucking genius

>>712926797
Shit on Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne all you want but Sekino is based

>>712964764
Meant to type Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring, Bloodborne is also based