Thread 714392849

>want to replay
>remember THAT part

>>714392849 (OP)
I like every part of this game though

>remember the whole genre of Soulsshit is boring trash
how learning disabled must one be to forget such a thing

>>714392849 (OP)
The whole thing. Part of the enjoyment of the inital playthorugh is the sense of wonderment and exploring the unknown.
Then you realize its just 80% empty, shitty recycled duo bosses, copy/paste dungeons with terrible rewards, you lose all interest in replaying.

>>714392849 (OP)
>>714393042
I also like the whole game. The base game that is. SotE is THAT part

>>714392849 (OP)
>THAT part
That part being the open world slop and copy-pasted dungeons aka 90% of the game lol

>>714392849 (OP)
Mogh fight is ass.
>Here let me steal your life with no counterplay other than spamming estus

last boss, the tree boss in the dlc, and then the stupid worms, then the stupid laval land, then the stupid castle i died like 100 times in every zone i wager and then the dlc comes along and then i die 200 times everywhere im pretty sure i traveled more in death than i did while being alive

>>714392849 (OP)
I like every part of this game though. Including SOTE.

>>714394018
>no counterplay
did you just not explore or too underage to read item descriptions?

>>714392849 (OP)
The whole open world?

>>714392849 (OP)
Iron Keep and the Shrine of Amana in DS2 keeps me from replaying the game

>>714392849 (OP)
Everything after Limgrave.

>>714393820
Yeah it's THAT part I want to replay again because of all the cool new weapons and how it's finally some new content I haven't replayed 10+ times but it's at the ass end of the game and I can't even speedrun to it because of the Mohg check.

>>714394018
I kill him before he goes to that part every time.

>>714397253
If you really want to get to it fast enough, do Varre's sidequest to get there early and then just skip Mohg's fight with a fully upgraded mimic tear. Granted, getting a fully upgraded mimic tear is a HUGE detour

>>714394980
same, dlc is more of the same plus sekiro parry and i like that

>>714392849 (OP)
There's no really bad area in the game. At least nothing comparable to frigid outskirts from ds2.

>>714392849 (OP)
flame giant

>>714392849 (OP)
>everything after Limgrave

>>714392849 (OP)
I'm gonna be honest bros. I think Elden Ring and its DLC may be the best game ever. What other game has 150 hours of pure soul?

>>714397546
Mountaintops of the Giants is bad, but yeah it's not terrible or anything. Just a tedious slog that interrupts two bouts of kino

The entire game

>So.... I'm non-binary...
What was FromSoftware thinking?

>>714392849 (OP)
>the first two or three areas before the game slowly starts giving you the actually cool and fun shit for whatever build you're going for
>all the copy-pasted dungeons
>the mechanical pacing and balance falling off a fucking cliff after Leyndell
>all the half-assed areas after Leyndell
ER has a very specific window where it's a thoroughly enjoyable game without a bunch of asterisks behind every word, and that's after you're done with Liurnia and Caelid, right up to the end of Leyndell. Everything before and after is kind of a dull and vaguely annoying slog. The DLC is frankly even worse save for Shadow Keep, the only good level in that mess.

>>714393931
this lmao

>>714393931
fpbp

>>714397253
Getting a +9 or +10 somber weapon by Mohg doesn't take that long and once you gitgud at Mohg he's a non-issue anyway. I agree though, the DLC is too deep into the game if you don't skip 95% of the game to get there early.

>>714398090
But Leyndell, Liurna and Caelid are the fun part, everyting is new, things are dangerous and you aren't sick of its mini dungeons.
Then caelid doesn't have anything new.

>>714394018
>no counterplay to Mohg’s blood loss attack
ESL detected

>>714393931
spot on
the game being so bloated and its substance so diluted, I have no desire to go back to it after completing it once

>want to get to the dlc
>have to do a whole song and dance just to get there
If I didn't get my balls busted by twinks this shit definitely would do it

>>714398429
They're the fun part exactly once, the first playthrough, specifically during that time window shortly after release when the wikis were still barren and you had no way to know that the entire early game would be crazy stingy with cool armor, weapons, ashes, spells, and especially upgrade materials to give your new toys a fair shake, for a good long while.

On every subsequent playthrough you'll be very aware that the early game is just going to be wasting a significant amount of your time pretty much no matter what build you're going for, in exchange for frankly mostly pretty forgettable dungeons. Stormveil is good, Raya Lucaria is passable, Caelid doesn't even have one (Redmane Castle is fucking embarrassing, don't even start), and that's pretty much all worth talking about save for the underground areas, and even there Siofra is a stinker.

>>714392849 (OP)
The whole game?

>>714398051
Marika literally changes her gender back and forth. Her coming out to the Elden Beast (and swiftly getting crucified for it) was a very powerful scene, chud

>>714392849 (OP)
I guess the optional dungeons? But I just don't do them.

>>714398346
>he's a non-issue
He still deals damage with no counterplay other than healing.

>>714401245
Stack fire resistance and learn how to dodge, there's plenty more to do than just heal. Even nihil without the physick tear is only -3 heals.