I finally got around to play this and i'm ADDICTED. Now i see why it won GOTY 2022, i suck at it but i want to git gud and am willing to pour many hours in it. I rolled Samurai btw.

Stopped reading at want to git gud. That's a good mentality. Keep it up.

>>715136627
I didn't manage to kill the Sentinel yet because i had no time and had to wake up in the middle of the night to install it. But i managed to put him at around 50% hp.

>>715136502 (OP)
Yes it is a real fun game. Everyone sucks at it at first, so yes getting good is the right approach. Enjoy anon! And I think the DLC is worth its price too, so I would recommend playing that when you get much, much, much further into the game.

I haven’t played it either, it just seems like a big commitment. The world is too big and even bigger with the dlc that is supposedly very worth playing

That’s a literal 100 hour campaign. And I’m tired of open world games

Maybe next year

I just went back to my two SOTE games after playing Nightreign for over a month and god I feel like an ADHD zoomer with how slow it is. BUT I love Elden Ring, glad you're enjoying it anon. Are you >>715136689?

>>715136871
Oh really ? Everyone sucks? I feel a little better now because the first boss killed me without me even damaging him a bit. I pirated it, will buy on PS5 with SoTE for sure.

>>715136502 (OP)
The worst part is that you have to commit to a single weapon for the entire game because you need like 500 smithing stones for a single sword

>>715136502 (OP)
Try dual wield katanas

>>715137028
Oh yeah you are. I thought that guy replied to OP. It's late.
>>715136960
The DLC feels like half the size of the main game.

>>715137028
Yes that's me. How's Nightreign? Didn't give it much attention

I A m Th e Lea S T M e d i c Ated M OST m e D I T ATED p e R s o N

>>715137107
Don't play it until you've beaten Elden Ring and SOTE. It's fun but all the content except for the nightlords and the roundtable stuff is from those games and some DS games. Plus it's multiplayer (you can play it solo but it's much more fun multiplayer) so you don't wanna be weighing the team down by being the one person who played it without beating elden ring :)

>>715136502 (OP)
>I rolled Samurai btw.
faggot
i bet someone told you how to play everything

>>715137230
Only like three of the starting classes aren't super good. The others are all great.

>>715136502 (OP)
>not even my favorite soulsborne game
>not even that big of a fan of open world games
>still have over 500 hours clocked into it
Fromsoft games are too addictive. Enjoy OP.

>>715137028
>god I feel like an ADHD zoomer with how slow it is
Some modders are starting to port over the Nightreign characters into the game with their movesets and faster speed. The Reforged mod also has Turbo Mode which makes everything 20% faster and it's a lot of fun, especially when combined with the Deflection mod.

>>715137597

I really wish more people would play Reforged. It's such a good mod that addressed most if not all of the complaints I had with vanilla, and adds a lot of fun stuff like timed hits and perfect blocks.

>>715137403
I'll be real with you, i didn't touch any FromSoftware game except for sekiro because i was afraid of being filter. It takes some time to git gud from what i've seen so far, and the learning curve is really enjoyable.

>>715137597
>>715137669
Reforged is better than Convergence?
I know Garden of Eyes is complete stolen asset kusoge.

>>715137870
Convergence is more of an overhaul of the world with big changes to dungeons and being able to teleport between Minor Erdtrees while Reforged is an overhaul of the combat and mechanics of the game. I prefer Reforged's changes, the added difficulty options, turbo mode, all the little changes that I literally wanted while playing vanilla, all make it hard to play any other mod now.

>>715136502 (OP)
have fun :)

>>715136502 (OP)
Pick the dishes mounter or the bloodhound sword for maximum omega fun.
You can slap any ashes you want on the dismounter.

>>715136502 (OP)
My first playthrough I ignored the direction the game tried to lead me in and pumped the arcane stat. I felt assured like DS3's luck stat I would be rewarded eventually for my perseverance. Sure enough I found an arcane scaling straight sword fairly early on. Too bad when the game launched Arcane scaling was broken so for half the game I'm running around thinking this thing fucking blows. At least the dragon abilities were cool.

>>715138473
At least you can blow bubbles. The most elusive, mysterious spell in the ER world.

We're The Duskborn
This bug is airborne
We're the new porn
Our kind is newborn

>when you invest all your upgrade stones on boring weapons and you see all the shit you missed out on in the game

>>715138831
Age of Fracture: voting for the tallest candidate
Age of Stars: voting for the hottest candidate
Perfect Order: the protestant reformation
Age of the Duskborn: getting high at a music festival and sleeping with a chick who calls herself a wiccan to pretend that doing drugs and being a whore is a spiritual journey
Frenzied Flame: either cuckhold jewish nihilism, undertale genocide route, or yandere supremism depending on why you did it
Blessing of Despair: POOPIE! RAPIE!

>>715138585
I mean the real thing I lucked out on was being a bleed machine because of my stat allocation. That was kind of neato. Wasn't planning on my first character rolling around with that giant mushroom hat that gives you the buff if you cause poison/rot/bleed, but it ended up being a fun first playthrough.

OP did you beat tree sentinel yet?
It's ok if you didn't he's pretty tough if you've never played souls before.

>>715139451
I managed to get him down to 50% hp, i still have a way ahead of me. As i mentioned before, i woke up in the middle of the night to install it and got to play it at 7am in the morning today.

>>715139527
I see. Have fun, a lot of players did what you're doing right now and felt good about it.

>>715137052
the first boss ruined everyone's day. you should have seen the threads.

>>715139853
I remember during the 2021 network test, the boss in the gaol near the castle I will not name for OP was giving people then most trouble. The boss you're talking about got buffed for release.

>>715139723
I can understand that, i will feel really skilled xXxGamerxXx when i beat him (even tho he's not that hard)

>>715139853
I've been here when it launched, i saw tons of people getting filtered.

>>715137052
The whole point of the first two bosses you are presented with after emerging into limgrave is basically to let you know that you absolutely do not have to actually follow the grace lines and should fuck around and see what you can find on your own and come back when you're stronger. Not that these bosses can't or shouldn't be fought immediately, they're just intentionally overtuned for a brand new character.

>>715140016
I see, good to know. Tree Sentinel is hard but not as hard as i imagined him to be.

>>715139990
>>715140004
and it's funny that people these days said that er is the easiest souls game pretending those whinings at launch never happened

>>715140276
Well, can you rank the souls games based on difficulty? Would really like to see what anons think.

>>715140389
Sekiro > ER > 3 ~= BB >>> 2 > 1 ~= DeS

>>715140389
for me it's elden ring=sekiro>ds2>ds3>ds1 in term of difficulty
this is for 1st playthrough only without any kind of guide though. The open world nature of er could break the game itself in the 2nd playthrough

>>715140389
I played them in order and to me each one seemed harder than the previous one. each new game invents new ways to catch you off guard, none of the blind playthroughs have been easy. I'll say this about ER though, it could very well be the easiest if you use the spirit ashes, it's something I'd like to test one day actually, do a full spirit run.

>>715137314
worst for a new player is bandit
second worst is probably wretch because you are more squishy.

Bandit is still decent if you already know how to play the game though. and wretches starting weapon is actually good for a lot of the game if you upgrade it.
warrior is good but maybe doesnt have a weapon art that carries as hard as others.

Every other class is good just because it starts with a good weapon art.

>>715136502 (OP)
>rolled samurai
Based gamblingfag. I rolled for first weapon in MH and got longsword. It was meant to be.

>>715140948
bandit is shit because dagger is the worst weapon type
no reach no stagger dogshit dmg without status effect

>>715140727
So DeS is the easiest one? I think im gonna get it for PS5

>>715140774
I 100% Sekiro so i think i won't have a problem with the rest?

>>715140879
I'd like to use spirit ashes to and ignore the "you didnt beat the game" people

>>715140389
NTA but It'd be hard to do that since Elden Ring can either be the hardest or easiest since you get a ton of powerful stuff, but being a "claymore andy" (term I made up for the typical knight build who just uses their sword and nothing else while wearing medium armor) is still viable. Elden Ring and SOTE have some of the hardest bosses without a doubt, and you'll experience that at least once if you have no plan to change your build to accommodate for a boss. If you REALLY don't want to deal with them and still win, there's so many ways to do that. In DS1, if you were stuck on something, your methods to make it easier were a lot more limited even if the challenges in that game were generally easier than Elden Ring's. Like Ornstein and Smough, if you're stuck there your options are to:
>summon Solaire (if you didn't fuck up lol) with his sign in the most inconvenient spot ever that will force you to kill the giants nearby so he can get through the fog wall and hopefully he won't die too soon
>summon another player which could be a lot easier but you still risk getting invaded, and both this and solaire require a resource with humanity and buff the bosses' HP
>upgrading another weapon in your inventory and hoping you have the stats for it, because there's no respec so if you don't you gotta grind
>if you don't have the weapon you want, hope it's in anor londo because taking a pretty long trip
Meanwhile in Elden Ring
>Use spirits to summon powerful allies based on enemies that can be upgraded and don't buff the bosses' HP, even the worst of them are much better than the average solaire summon except for some meme ones that are obviously meme ones
>summon another player right outside the boss fight with very few exceptions, this buffs the boss HP and costs a very common resource but players can be OP
>POTENTIALLY easily upgrade weapons in your arsenal and if you don't have one, fast travel exists so getting it won't be as slow as the DS1 equivalent

>>715136502 (OP)
It was better than zelda, that's for sure

>>715137053
For me its best part

>>715140389
2 Scholar filtered millions to such an extent that people have made claim it’s just a bad game and suggest skipping it (they tried to run past 40 enemies and got killed)

>>715141185
DeS and 1 are about the same

>>715142115
easy or hard?

>>715138341
stop recommending this dogshit weapon

>>715143145
nta but I personally feel great curved swords get the short end of the stick in this game.

>pvp is shit
>weapon movesets are shit
>open world is padded dogshit
>torrent the spectral slow ass dying shit
This game just proved to me that anyone who enjoys souls like games fanatically must have some form of mental impairment. Not unlike monster hunter fans

>>715142953
Pretty easy by modern standards

>>715143223
You lost tendie tranny

>>715142953
Easy.
I'd say DeS is considerably easier than 1, though. DeS has practically zero traps outside of 4-1, you can carry an absurd amount of healing items on you, you've got immediate obvious freedom in choosing which worlds you clear in which order so if you ever hit a wall you can just go somewhere else, and even though DS1 enemies aren't the toughest by a longshot they still are generally more threatening than what DeS throws at you.

>>715136502 (OP)
>I finally got around to play this and i'm ADDICTED.

I fucking love Elden Ring, too.
I was initially hesitant 'cause it "wasn't Dark Souls" (big fan, big lore guy, big story guy), but then Elden Ring managed to rope me in and I ended up obsessing over it more than Dark Souls. I love all the characters, the factions, all the interesting races/species, the fact reality is dictated by a fucking rune, the racism sub-plot, and the planet keeps getting harassed by aliens. Love it. Really interesting setting. I'd love to see more. With that said, I'm always shocked to see people getting filtered by Elden Ring's lore/plot because 'comparatively' it's probably the least obtuse Fromsoft game.

Really glad to hear you're enjoying it, Op.

>i suck at it but i want to git gud

A surprising number of enemies can't handle jumping attacks and jumping. Most aoe attacks can just be jumped over. Don't be afraid of weapon arts.
Most every boss (with the exception of Crucible Knights and most Dragons) is susceptible to status effects: bleed, poison, rot, frost.

>>715143223
reminder to have the frikkin raisins equipped when you plan to fight a boss on horseback. it feels like everyone ignores this item.

>>715143223
>>torrent the spectral slow ass dying shit
This is the only one I agree with. Torrent is so unfathomably dogshit in any semi serious encounter. I will never understand why they gave 0 I frames, made him trivially easy to stagger and force dismount, and 0 health scaling through the game.

>>715136502 (OP)
I also started playing Elden Ring a few weeks ago and I have to say that it's insanely overrated. It peaks at Stormveil Castle, but all areas after it are just meh. And the ammount of recycled content is crazy.
I heard about the copy and past bosses, but I had no idea that it's this bad. Have fun battling the same Dragon or Giant Serpent 20 times.
Obviously not a bad game, but DS3 is better.

>>715144264
>ds3 is better
That's some delusional opinion having. It's the worst of the 3. I'm convinced only "my first darksouls" babies are the biggest fans.

>>715144381
my first ds game was ds2

>>715144432
>ds2
I'm so sorry

>>715143709
>>715143779
noted

>>715144008
Thank you for the advice anon

I liked DS3 but ER made DS3 look really bad. I like to guard counter, I like that many more enemies can be parried, I like deflect, I like that my attacks can put me airborne or in a low state giving further ways to avoid damage, I like having a reason to use charged R2 when there's a big opening, I like the return of powerstance, I like magic being fun, I like weapon arts being fun.

>>715145556
i mean ds3 is just proto elden ring
it's worth playing at least once though

>>715145556
>I like that my attacks can put me airborne or in a low state giving further ways to avoid damage
This one is in DS3 at least.

Really wish DS3 had a vanilla friendly guard counter and stance break mod. The mechanics are part of champion's ashes but that mod is bloated.

>>715145556
I also miss the long range lock-on when replaying the old games. that, the static estus and the lack of a jump button fuck me up every time but you get used to it rather quick.

>>715144195
obviously their concern was to not make you op on horseback.

>>715145556
>ooo the clunkyness!!!
sadly you're absolutely right, ds3 feels like dogshit, i couldnt even make it an hour in when i tried to replay it a few months after beating ER

>>715144195
the enemies, with exception of the mounted bosses, aren't designed around torrent's movement
if he had the same poise or hyperarmor while attacking there'd be no reason to fight anything in the open world without him, which would hurt you when you were no longer allowed to use him

>>715147105
Worst part about DS3 is how everything after Vordt, until Sulyvahn, is just pretty bad. Abyss Watchers are alright but the areas around him are bad.

>>715147105
It's not clunky. It's boring. I did a DS3 boss arena mod run and it's all roll + L1/R1 spam except for the very few bosses you can parry.

>>715136502 (OP)
Just FYI, Shields are extremely strong in Elden Ring, don't overlook them

>>715147551
>YOU JUST BEAT THE TUTORIAL AREA!
>ARE YOU READY FOR BROWN AND SWAMPS AND UNDERGROUND SHITHOLES FOR THE NEXT 8 HOURS?!
>COLOR? WHY WOULD YOU NEED COLOR!?
ugliest souls game, it has its moments, but the section you described is why ive only played it twice, and the replay had a reshade applied

>>715136502 (OP)
Radahn was a problem since I don't use summons

>>715136502 (OP)
biggest disappointment of my life
wish I could get my pre order money back

>>715136689
You're not really meant to kill him right away, per se. Go adventuring and level up and such, the come back and beat him a little later. Elden Ring is good because you can go adventuring instead of just grinding to level up.

>>715136502 (OP)
>i suck at it but i want to git gud
Just abuse the iframes in dodge rolls

>>715149660
Bad move. Abuse the absurdly strong shields and shield skills that also let you counter enemies while whiping their stamina.