Thread 723560049

What was the most memorable elden ring moment for you?

All of it’s because I can remember it unlike most games

Killing that fags brother and him sperging out about it to the point he gets a new job petting jars until he dies.
Also Making that chick eat eyes

Probably Stormveil castle, the game went downhill from then on.

beating malenia

>>723560049 (OP)
Every time I almost killed a boss first try, nonstop attacking and timing my rolls perfectly, only to get assfucked the next bunch of tries without getting even as close

getting to the leyndell and exploring godricks castle, the rest of the game sucked ass

>>723560049 (OP)
when that one chest warped me to Caelid

Coming across Azur. The most powerful wizard is some rock guy meditating in a state of transcendence.

>Caelid in general
>Godfrey, Maliketh
>Leyndell in general
>Bale with Igon
>Leda, Dane and their allies vs (You), Ansbach and Thiollier
>Midra
the midbosses were generally shit though except for Crucible Knights

>>723560745
I thought Rennala was the most powerful wizard?

>>723560049 (OP)
Probably the Haligtree. It was very unexpected that such a high quality dungeon would be placed that late and in a totally optional area.
I had zero expectations and was totally blown away.

>>723560049 (OP)
The final boss. It was so easy and comfy that it made me forget how fucking retarded one or two of the bosses were

When Jack decided to become Chaos even if it meant being maidenless

>>723560912
Rennala is a power lifter, Azur and Lusat are Mr. Olympia types.
Pure power vs perfect form.

>>723561138
I hated Elden Beast.
Radagon was a fun boss, but that projectile spamming fuck killed me more than most bosses other than Malenia and Consort Radahn.

>>723560912
Rennala is the most powerful living sorcerer, Ranni seems to be dramatically more powerful (to the point that the player can't actually kill her in any way) but she's not exactly "alive" as a doll, Azur and Lusat are both in some odd ascendancy state where most of their bodies have crystallized into glintstone from looking directly into the Primeval Current. Notably Sellen implies they're instrumental to making the Raya Lucarian academy an uncontested world power again instead of just able to defend itself even against the Golden Order, it's probable the academy was using their bodies as some kind of magical focus or battery or something.

>>723560049 (OP)
Just started the game today, got recked by tutorial boss and doubletrouble boss inside the cave on the beach. Taking a break rn. Of course i got spoiled some stuff here and there but most of the game is an unknown, any tips? Gonna attempt tree sentinel next

>>723561876
>any tips?
Depends entirely on what build you're going for, gimme an idea of what you want to do in the game or if you want to go into magic; magic is probably the most viable and varied it's ever been in a Souls game, owing to miracles/incantations now also having pyromancy folded into it, even if this does mean you're either a projectile spammer or you're a weapon buffer like most other Souls games

>>723560912
How? I guarantee you Azur and Lusat have the higher Int scores. Their brains are literally the stuff of sorcery.

>>723561968
I picked the first class, the knight with a sword and shield, ill probably do the classic str/dex/vit equality build

>>723560049 (OP)
Going down the Ainsel river well, expecting another small dungeon, then realizing that the elevator kept going and going, until finally realizing that there were entire huge areas hidden deep, deep under the normal map. That's when I realized the scale of the game and how much hidden shit there would be to find.

JOIN THE SERPENT KIIING AS FAMILEEEEE

>>723561876
Head south to Castle Morne. Its the real tutorial area.
Level VIG to your necessary buffer ASAP. Leave other stats for later.
The endgame of the main game is balanced around 40 VIG. The Haligtree and DLC is balanced around 60 VIG.
Weapon upgrades matter more than stats.

I remember how it's the only From game that I feel no desire to replay

>>723562414
Okay thank you, ill check it out unless its farther than stormveil castle, ill also prioritize vigor then

>>723562079
Hokey-dokey, unga it is
>There's a Lordsworn Greatsword in a chest a short ways from where you found Torrent if you haven't already gotten it yet
>Stormveil Castle has large Black Knight or Lothric Knight styled enemies and can drop a Banished Knight's Greatsword with the flipping R1s from Dark Souls 2 swords, if that's more your style
>Knight enemies for each faction (Godrick Knights, Cuckoo Knights, etc.) with a greatsword and greatshield can also drop a Knight's Greatsword, a longer sword than BK but it has marginally worse stats, same moveset
>Elden Ring in general is way harsher on player execution than the previous Souls games as far as boss AI, be patient and generally try to roll *into* bosses rather than *away* from them
>Elden Ring is also not actually made to be soloed, once you find Spirit Ashes and other pseudo-multiplayer items, don't be afraid to use them
>Armor is fashion, as ever, Vagabond armor like what you chose is a pretty good heavy set
>Head down to the Weeping Peninsula to the south of your starting point, that's kinda where you're supposed to fuck off to if you get walled by the Tree Sentinel, anything more east/northeastward bound towards Caelid, or you're having trouble with Margit on your way to Stormveil Castle in the north/northwest
>Element typings matter REALLY HARD for some specific enemies, most prominently for undead against Sacred, do experiment with element typings later even if you don't meet the stats for good scaling on them; Death Rite Bird minibosses are absolutely shredded by basically any Sacred infusion or similar sword buff, whether you have the Faith for it or not
>Boss weapons/unique weapons are hilariously easier to upgrade than normal weapons, somber smithing stones are easier to come by than smithing stones in early/midgame
>Vigor also matters really hard in Elden Ring, generally suggested to have around 40 on the stat, leveling comes a bit easier than in Dark Souls because it's an enormously bigger game

>>723561846
>to the point that the player can't actually kill her in any way
You never try to. The game doesn’t even let you, and it also doesn’t let you attack her mother. We do know she (Ranni) can kill you instantly, though. Although it may just have been a gag/joke.

That being said. How would you even kill who/what is essentially a spirit? She’s like Shabriri in that she possesses forms. She made that puppet for her spirit to inhabit.

Even Sellen can astral project, and Azur and Lusat are probably doing this in their meditation. She’s also “immortal” (as said by Iji) before you kill Radahn and set the stars back in motion. Were Azur and Lusat in a similar position? Or are they simply invulnerable in a way there a step above the similarly near-invulnerable Crystalians? They also float meditation like Azur.

Some think Sellen might be a Carian, if Iji’s words are correct and Radahn’s halting of the stars affected her fate like Ranni’s. Some speculate Azur is an ancient ancestor of the Carians, too. His spell is found on their ancestral relic sword — the Sword of Night and Flame — and it was even recoloured (it was originally a deep dark blue like the other primeval spells, perhaps even the night sorceries) to Comet Azur before the game’s release. Raya Lucaria might mean ‘Royal Caria’ but it might also be a nod to how the Carians are related to the school in its origins.

>>723562723
So it’s Carians all the way up and down…

>>723560049 (OP)
Two moments early in the game really stuck with me, at least visually
>Siofra river elevator descent
>Walking across the bridge towards the divine tower of limgrave and seeing the two stone golems wake up in the distance
Almost everything in this game is memorable for me though. All the stuff in the snowy areas except for Fire Giant is pretty forgettable but that's really it. Wish I could have another first playthrough

>>723560049 (OP)
Stepping into Luirnia for the first time

>>723562723
>>723562881
The Carians are a mix of the Starks and the Targaryens lol. It’s a mistake to assume that Rennala was the first Carian queen. She established, RE-established, her family’s pedigree.

The Carians are a surviving family of the ‘old dynasty’ that ruled a grand civilization a long time ago, like the Targaryens were a small part of the Valyrian freehold. The Carians revived their royal status the way the Starks are trying to revive their royal status. They were once kings and queens of note. The Carians are also associated with the cold and wolves, and a dragon serves them.

>>723560049 (OP)
I cant play elden ring after trying out wukong.
That game is light years ahead in terms of quality.

>>723563012
Stepping out into the fake-starry sky of Siofra River made me whistle, very pretty area

>>723562707
Oh damn its a lot of info. Thanks, ill check out those swords when i get there. Also i found those skeletons on the beach so just as i assumed i need sacred damage to kill them, ill keep in mind the elemental typings, but if i remember correctly in dark souls 3 they werent that much better than regular damage, at least for me they didnt feel useful enough. Also ive seen the final boss of the dlc so ive got the idea of how busted the roll is in this game compared to every other souls, but mechanically it will take a long to to master i assume

>>723561876
Str/fth is the comfy mode
Don't rush things and just take your time enjoying the game, it's not going anywhere
The DLC should be accessed before you beat fight the final boss
If you see a cute blue haired witch girl you should do what she says

>>723560049 (OP)
The capital. Hogwarts. Miquella's abandoned "new and improved" erdtree. Stormveil. All that shit hidden underground.
Then there's the dlc which is almost 10/10 if not for the annoying as fuck fire golems and the performance problems on my aging ps4.

>>723561846
>Notably Sellen implies they're instrumental to making the Raya Lucarian academy an uncontested world power again instead of just able to defend itself even against the Golden Order, it's probable the academy was using their bodies as some kind of magical focus or battery or something.

I also believe this. Azur and Lusat are based on the Sokushinbutsu of Sekiro as well. Revered corpse sages placed on pedestals and paraded around. They’re more like highly dangerous, radioactive artifacts. “Coming into contact with the primeval current” might just mean coming into contact and interacting with a primeval sorcerer. Notice how the Karolos sorcerers are staying clear from Azur who is just around the corner. Lusat is kept in a vault in a cave.

>>723561876
>doubletrouble boss
There's an NPC you can summon there that will help you

>>723563513
Wait so if you beat the game you cant access the dlc?

>>723560049 (OP)
getting caught by one of these mad lads before i knew about them

My wife

>>723563629
forgot the fucking pic

Rennala couldn’t actually do anything to Azur and Lusat so she simply had them relocated. I doubt they were even aware of their surroundings.

>>723563584
I didnt see the mark when i walked in but to be honest it was so dark there i entered the arena by accident anyway

>>723563428
Elden Ring makes Sacred damage typing pretty elective, it's mainly useful against undead enemies in keeping them down the first time or in ENORMOUSLY boosting the damage you deal against them. Trying to work as a paladin in this game will end up going pretty badly once you hit anything that resists it, the folding in of pyromancies to miracles under incantations is by design, you flip between fire or sacred depending on enemy resistances. Magic meanwhile is still its own element and it's kinda designed to overpower anything even if it's resistant to it, owing to sorceries still only having the one damage type outside of a VERY small number of fire sorceries. Dark and hexes don't have an equivalent, any spell effects hexes might have had would go under incantations or sorceries, but "black flame" stuff from pyromancies actually does have an equivalent under incantations and anything related to Destined Death.
>Also ive seen the final boss of the dlc so ive got the idea of how busted the roll is in this game compared to every other souls, but mechanically it will take a long to to master i assume
Yeah Promised Consort Radahn is probably the single worst enemy in anything From's ever made about it. A lot of people just cheese him with a 100% Sacred resist greatshield as a specific result of him being ass cancer to fight. Though getting through Elden Ring has the side-effect that any Dark Souls game you play, or Bloodborne, will be almost insultingly simple in comparison.

>>723563627
You can but the DLC is balanced around endgame

>>723560049 (OP)
The music was just so good at this part. Made me feel fucking epic

>>723563520
>Hogwarts
Putting in Severus Snape as a character and he's a slimy rapist who's rolling in Ranni's crew for no clear reason kills me

Funny how this guy was promoted so heavily but no one cares about this boss fight

>>723563769
>Yeah Promised Consort Radahn is probably the single worst enemy in anything From's ever made about it. A lot of people just cheese him with a 100% Sacred resist greatshield as a specific result of him being ass cancer to fight
That was only pre nerf, post nerf he's easier than malenia, but still harder than most bosses

>>723560049 (OP)
My friend kinda ruining the ainsel river basin surprise by mentioning there was a surprise in the woods.

Other than that, finding a painting and then rushing off to find the referenced location totally from memory.

>>723561876
There's a hidden NPC slightly north of the church of elleh and beyond the little wood area, he's tied to that cave so you should seek him out
Tree sentinel is another of those hard bosses you're not supposed to fight early on so don't worry about him for now

>>723563904
I did beat him post-nerf; phase 1 is barely worth mentioning, phase 2 he still attacks so relentlessly it was nauseating and I ignored the vast majority of what he did with a +8 Sacred black steel greatshield, so the actual endurance test was mostly in my stamina bar. The big walls for me against phase 2 Radahn were the meteor dive and getting my Mimic Tear out in time that Radahn would get off of my fucking dick. Oddly my Mimic Tear did a lot better with a sorcery staff strapped instead of a sword/shield, Radahn flies around so much that Teary boy had a hard time even attacking him to take aggro while I plinked at him with Comet.

>>723560049 (OP)
Deleting this piece of shit. Fucking trash ass game.

>>723563769
>Though getting through Elden Ring has the side-effect that any Dark Souls game you play, or Bloodborne, will be almost insultingly simple in comparison.
LMAO now you make me consider playing bloodborne first, but getting an emulator sounds like a big hassle. Ill probably use magic on case by case basis, but ill try to kill every boss with melee first

>>723560049 (OP)
It's a little thing.
But check every time you rest at a random site of grace.
Chances are the devs picked the most kino orientation in the background once everything resets.
Most recently noticed the viaduct minor tower has Belurat Tower centered in the distance.

>>723563831
>quest to turn doll bitch into a puppet never ever
>lines were even recorded and are available on youtube

for fuck' sake patch this shit in fromcunts

>>723563769
>. Though getting through Elden Ring has the side-effect that any Dark Souls game you play, or Bloodborne, will be almost insultingly simple in comparison
??? Elden Ring is the only Souls game where you can make it as hard as you want. In terms of difficulty, Elden Ring is by far the easiest Souls game.

>>723564371
Tiche and Mimic Tear don't actually play the game for you, I'm sorry to say

>>723560049 (OP)
Going down the Siofra elevator in Limgrave and looking at Liurnia from atop the cliffs behind Stormveil. Also realising you can climb Mt Gelmir and it has a legacy dungeon.

>>723564101
Ok thank you ill keep that in mind

>>723563627
You get propelled into ng+ if you beat the game so when you reach snownigger land remember to pay a visit to Mohg's bloodbrew factory. There's a teleporter. Don't be afraid to check a guide not to miss that shit.
Having to redo the whole fucking game to play the dlc isn't a fun time.

Morgott being a decent chap

>>723564660
Morgott was a disappointingly easy boss for how hard he was kicking fucking ass during the Shattering, one of the splash arts shows him nearly finishing off Radahn

>>723560049 (OP)
Torrent fucking me over and running off the haligtree with 100k souls

>>723563807
KINO BLAST

https://youtu.be/OWkH8z7mir4

>>723564578
Oof thats sounds harsh, is there any other extreme secrets thats are mandatory/meta? Should i check every castle/dungeon/cave for secret walls or most of the stuff is in plain sight?

>>723564578
>>723564849
I don't think that's right, I got an option to not progress to NG+ after the credits rolled when I beat Elden Beast and chose my ending. I did do the DLC first. I have to use the Roundtable Hold grace to move to NG+

>>723561876
Just going max strength 2h jumpbonk with the biggest hammer you can find has been the easiest run for me, usually you stun bosses enough to stop their nonsense.
Morgott was a joke.

>>723565087
>get frustrated with Malenia
>+25 Cold Guts greatsword
>summon Mimic Tear
>Malenia is immediately put through Mickey's Clit Smasher

>>723560049 (OP)
Uninstalling it and playing a non shit game instead

>>723564835
Honestly, GotD.

Uninstalling

>>723565087
Yeah i beat dark souls 1 that way, and it was fun, dont get me wrong, but i just didnt *feel* the game, so im gonna try beating elden ring the intented way instead of shaking about my dps output

The first place you get into that underground city that has the stars for the sky. I became a drooling retard just roaming around and watching the sky. Very soothing and thus 10/10. There's something about certain locations in Soulsborne (but I think anyone can make the case for medieval fantasy) that hit me fucking hard and my imagination goes wild thinking what it would be like to witness that magic in real life (all of it, not just the starry sky kek).

I absolutely love Undead Burg and Undead Parish, can't even tell you why exactly. Stone walls, cloudy climate, moss, you tell me, I just dig that ditch. In DaS2 there's a place that I haven't reached it yet, it has dragons flying around, sunlit everywhere, I think a bridge, too. I want to see that so I reinstalled the game to get to there, but Steam doesn't do cloud saves on DaS2 and even though my save is still in this machine, it didn't recognize it, so I dropped it. Sad, but alas, I'll see what Lies of P has to offer soon enough.

It's a funny feeling considering I think Bloodborne is a masterpiece because of the excellent gothic atmosphere, but I never even played the game yet. lol

Apologies for any mistake.

>>723562189
>TARNISHED
>PLEASE FUCK MY SISTER
>CONTINUE THE CARIAN BLOODLINE

>>723561876
>tips
Your map has little icons indicating some dungeons and landmarks like ruins and churches
Exploring is important but manage your expectations. Cool stuff is rare.
Consumables are important and should be used often. You'll get a shitload

literally nothing in elden ring even comes close to Iishin

>>723562707
>40 vig
60 is mandatory unless you're playing a mage

>>723565675
I was rollmaxxing large portions of the game, I didn't get hard-walled on vigor even as a squishy mage until somewhere around Leyndell or even Mohg lol. 11 VIG starting from Prisoner is meta

>>723564849
Most secret walls are around the harry potter academy because lore. I wasted many a hour banging walls in this game. Outside of specific quests and locations giving precise items nothing is mandatory. If you're using magic and want the moonlight sword though don't fuck up the ranni quest. Once I jinxed it by talking to wolf guy too late so I was locked out of it. You need to go back to the first merchant standing in the church close to the starting area and speak to him after exploring the mistwoods and hearing the howling of what's-his-name, get the emote, then go back to the ruins where he's perched and ise it so he'll drop and talk to you.
All that nonsense is just the beginning of a campaign long quest to get the coolest magic sword in the game so again with how unjustifiably random some quests are read a guide for it. Not something spoiling the full game, one giving important steps to not get busted midway by entering a wrong location at a time when you're not supposed to progress killing your quest.

If you're not using INT disregard all that shit.

>>723563843
They scrapped a ton of content with him I think.

>>723560049 (OP)
Running around from boss to boss like always.

>>723565660
probably 200 attempts and I'm still getting filtered by phase 3 genichiro lightning parry bullshit

picrel bosses are so much better its fucking unreal

>>723565807
Yeah that sounds like bullshit, i hate how fromsoft does quests. I wont care about them if they dont respect my time and require guides to complete. Fuck it, ill miss half the game if that means i dont have to follow a guide for an hour

>>723565923
i got filtered after like 10-15 attempts, then wukong, khazan, wuchang and a few other games came out in between and i got distracted, came back a year later and figured i'd just start the whole game over, had way more fun actually knowing what i was doing, actually listened to dialogue and went back to fight prime owl (who was way harder for me than iishin cause that nigga got infinite posture) and ended up beating iishin in like 5 attempts
maximim kino and glad i started over cause if i just tried to jump back in and fight iishin after a year i'd be fucked

>>723565807
I do wish they'd taken more from Bloodborne's MLGS than from DS3, mechanically Ranni's sword is kinda like a combination of the Greatsword of Judgment with the self-buff and the DS3 MLGS

>>723565596
generally im saving consumables but ill try to use them when i can, thanks

Oh, y'know

>>723566214
Current game I ran in a bee line to the castle at the south of the map to pick the claymore and I don't give a shit about meme weapons. Claymore does everything and is aesthetically perfect. You get it early, it swipes, it pokes, it fucks poise, it doesn't afraid of anything.

>>723566642
Devilish

>>723566642
BULLSHIT

>>723561876
BASICS
>explore Limgrave and Weeping Peninsula thoroughly, it teaches you the entire overworld's basic building blocks and you meet many NPCs
>pump vigor to 30 ASAP, midgame you will want 40, endgame and DLC 60
>do not fall into the "roll+R1" autopilot mode, ER very much punishes this
>don't worry about leveling strength, dexterity etc in the early game beyond required levels to wield your weapons; stat scaling kicks off at higher weapon upgrade levels fairly late; upgrade your weapons instead

ADVANCED
>use charged and uncharged R2s on enemies that don't stagger with R1s
>use guard counters even with heavy weapons instead of shields, big weapons are decent at blocking some damage
>slowly get used to parrying knights and such, a single parry can completely shut down spammy enemies' combo bullshit


>>723564258
The DLC is really good with framing great landscape views.

>>723560049 (OP)
Probably seeing this for the first time. Absolutely 11/10 moment for me. It recaptured that great feeling of exploration from Dark Souls 1 perfectly.

>>723567001
If not Lake of Rot, then Lleyndell for sure.

>>723566891
Guard counters are such a fucking good addition, I miss them really hard in a DS3 playthrough

>>723565660
>QTEslop but 4 phases

>>723567001
I'm not looking forward to going back there.
>there's another wyrm down the stairs after swimming through the rot lake
I'm NOT looking forward to going back there

entering the Party City-tier Halloween decoration room.

>>723566891
Thought of a couple more
>always have a ranged option handy, even just a shitty crossbow to kite enemies or pick off enemy ranged attackers
>don't sleep on weapon L2 skills, even something basic like Square Off is super powerful
>again, use R2 attacks liberally to wear down enemies' stance and give yourself openings
>don't be afraid to mix up your equipment if you get stuck, a weapon of a different weight class or a situational spell can completely hard-counter one boss or another

>>723560049 (OP)
oooooh kino ring..........

>>723567291
kek I'm diving deep into randomizer setups currently and I'm manually replacing all the overused enemies with less cancerous or underused enemies

Like replacing all non-boss ulcerated tree spirits with DLC Death Knights even works thematically in some places like the Stormveil basement

When I realized that the entire game was a metaphysical narrative of Platonism and the Western Civilizations various perspectives on divine ascent, order,truth,and perfection

>>723567249
>game does something
>i have to respond somehow
>this is qteslop
have fun phasing through attacks because your character magically becomes invincible when you roll

>>723560049 (OP)
Can't remember from the base game. In the DLC probably that secret path I found near the top of Enir Ilim that took me all the way back to the first Legacy Dungeon and that one location I couldn't figure out how to get into.

>>723560049 (OP)
Booting up the game for the first time. I got interested in souls games when Ringed City came out. I played ds1 first and then ds3 and eventually 2. When ER came out I was excited. It was the first souls game where I got in on day 1 and got to experience it with everyone. Those first few weeks are one of my favorite gaming memories of all time.

WARRIOR

>>723568226
>literally reaches up and kills his attachment to the Golden Order
>never gave even a morsel of a shit about the Golden Order

>>723560049 (OP)
when I uninstalled it after realizing how repetitive and boring the open world was

>>723567291
only reason to kill it is another golden seed which game inundates you with to the point you can't possibly use them all

>>723566891
Guard counters are fun, but basically only good with great spears or the Guts sword.
The issue is reach, every block pushes you or the target away, so unless you have a long and heavy weapon, you're going to whiff the counter or not get enough damage out of it.

I liked Lichdragon Fortissax because I was sad Fia died :(

>>723565675
I got through the Haligtree without a lot of trouble at 40 VIG, and even that kinda sucked to level to because I had to drop the Radagon Soreseal.
Malenia hardwalled me until I came back with 60 VIG, though. She just hits like a truck compared to everything else.

>>723565923
that's literally the easiest part. free damage

>>723563249
Carians are probably descendants of the Nox, Rennala has their weird gangly build, and the magic and moon connections are obvious - same with the Albinaruics the Carians made and the Nox silver sludge people.
So probably at some ancient point, some Nox survivors escaped to the overworld and took over the Astrologer magic school that was in the area.

Getting filtered by godskin duo, giving up, going back months later and beating it, then marathoning the rest of the game to completion

realizing that marika did nothing wrong
>albinaurics arent people
>the omen deserved it
>the nox deserved worse
>hornsent deserved it

Mailing my copy to my friend

>>723564420
Speaking of Tiche, the Alecto fight you have to clear before her is an underappreciated great fight.

>>723563843
There's some chicanery to his character that I think was lost.
For instance, his lion was originally called Maliketh.

>>723560049 (OP)
My most memorable moment was playing on launch night and everyone was just posting screenshots and doing stupid shit and having a great time.
pic related

>>723569720
in fairness, godskin duo is pretty bullshit.

>>723569720
That's the worst fight in the game.

>>723560089
I can remember most of my first playthrough very vividly. Somehow the DLC was a blur and I can't remember most of it.

>>723560579
This is the answer. Finally making it out of that mine and seeing a blood red sky accompanied with the grim music? That was the moment I realized that Elden Ring was going to be a special experience.

>>723564786
Morgott is great if you head right to him after beating Rennala or at least generally clearing Liurnia.
The problem is the non-linearity means that you can fight him, A.) after beating Rennala and clearing the cliff cave, B.) after beating Radahn, C.) after beating Rykard, D.) any combo of A and B and C, or E.) after doing any combination of the above and then exploring the Shunning Grounds and getting as far down as you can go before his barrier blocks you.
Anything other than A, results in a fight that is disappointingly short for as good as his moveset is. Especially if you push through the Shunning Grounds.

>>723570035
I've never understood the hate for this fight. I avoided the internet on my first playthrough and I almost forgot about this fight until I saw all the seethe online about it

>>723569592
There are Nox that got buried—and then there are the Nox descendants remaining above the surface. You also have the lost descendants of the Nox, the Sellians, that dug their way out. I’m pretty sure the Nox resorted to risky alchemy to survive living underground and became a civilization of albinaurics. The irony is that they (the low status albinaurics) had a civilization once. The Sellians once bled silver. Albinaurics or at least the silver tears appear to have the ability to become human over time as a consequence of interbreeding. The now vacant Nox throne in Sellia attests to that much I think. They no longer need a giant woman to birth them—like the albinaurics of today are trying to do with Philia.

>>723560049 (OP)
I was looping My Little Dark Age while playing Elden Ring for the first time. Now when I hear that song, it takes me back to 2022.

>>723570318
Dex and mage cucks manipulating public perception as always

>>723560049 (OP)
>invade someone
>guy is alone and dueling me
>guy starts losing, a phantom hiding decides to gank me before i kill the host

>but i happen to whiff a black flame tornado right before the phantom decides to rush at me
>he gets instakilled and gives me flasks back so i destroy the host

The Nox are falling apart back into silver sludge. They’re struggling to take form in their cities. They’re copying or emulating a culture lost to time. They may not even be the original inhabitants. Just actors or imitators. Wearing clothes not their own.

>>723560049 (OP)
For me, its the daily seethe threads that we get TO THIS DAY.

>>723560049 (OP)
Fighting Rennala probably. I did most of that area while i was tripping on acid, when the arena changed in the second phase i lost my shit.

>>723570035
I hate ghostbirds, swordlions and curseblades so much more

>>723560049 (OP)
I think maybe finding the basin at the bottom of the big city, though it doesn't have a lot of content or actually much going on which is a problem I have with a lot of the ER open world being cool world building and vistas but basically no content or actual story going on
>>723560297
Stormveil was among one of the cooler legacy dungeons yeah, probably the best. I liked all of them but they all felt a lot more linear in how you approached your way to Godrick compared to how other dungeons was basically a cool branching intro area and then just a sizeable straight line

>>723567713
Gold Mask is some combination of Diogenes and Plato.
I've been trying to educate myself in actual ancient religion and seeing how his quest actually interfaced with a lot of the stuff I was seeing about the Greeks all trying to figure out their own ancient myths or what to do with them, was actually fantastic.

>>723560049 (OP)
uninstalling it

>>723569781
>quest summoning signs making me choose between two people I hate

>>723560819
>A gank fight was the fight with the best soundtrack, cinematic presentation, lore'tism in the entire DLC
>it has terrible mechanics because it's pvp
Sasuga

>>723570621
Goldmask isn’t Diogenes. Hierodas is.

— According to some sources, on a visit to the Street of Sages, where Hierodas was living, Radahn asked Hierodas what he could do for him as the philosopher sat by the road reading a book. Hierodas replied “ἀποσκότησόν μου” (stand out of my light). He meant it quite literally. He needed for nothing and Radahn was blocking the Erdtree’s light. It is a statement typical of Hierodas, the ultimate minimalist, who valued simplicity and authenticity above all.

>>723570693
>>723560819
>Be filtered shitter
>Get robbed of enjoyment
Glad I'm not (You)
Elden Ring has no bad bosses

>>723570429
As a long suffering DEX/INT fag, Crucible Knights were my absolute bane.
DEX builds are IMO, probably the weakest in the game if you aren't basically just focusing on Status procs. Only the Wing of Astel really stands out, because the R2 is immaculate.
STR letting you apply hitstun or stagger is such a nice change of pace.

>>723560049 (OP)
I did the Mansion with 3 naggers, we hit every crook and cranny. Person 2 died halfway through but we went on to the godskin boss. I did everything with a shitty rapier, fun weapon, my favourite run, but its an awful weapon. We fought that final boss, took everything we had and I was down to 5% health, but we beat him.
Its lame a videogame could bring me that much joy but it did. I stand by GotD, maybe best game ever.

>>723560049 (OP)
When you've been playing the game for ~10 hours and then find the teleporter chest to Leyndell.
I thought the Tree was gonna be a background object at most at that point so suddenly being teleported north of it was mindblowing.

>>723564371
You are dead wrong. I played ER first and because I liked it I went back to play all the Souls games I hadn't touched before. DeS was a cool game but in terms of difficulty it was basically trivial in comparison. DaS 1 was also very, very easy though overall a bit more challenging. In DaS 2 you could feel that they began appropriating the "YOU DIED XDD" internet memes since it kind of felt like they were trying (for the first time) to make the game "hard" on purpose, whereas DeS and DaS1 were more like carefully crafted experiences that rewarded thought and a careful, cautious approach. This was especially visible in the DaS 2 DLCs where it felt like every shitter around just took like 2-3x less damage than the vanilla game, no matter what I threw at 'em. It still wasn't particularly hard overall, I never got "stuck" on anything or had major problems with any boss. DaS 3 kinda felt a bit more difficult, like it was "balanced" so everything you could do was just on the level of being effective but unimpressive, kinda like the DaS 2 DLCs. They tried VERY hard to make sure you didn't get any cool, awesome toys in this game and that all your tools felt viable, but ultimately just lukewarm. Still I wouldn't consider it particularly hard, except maybe some of the DLC bosses.

ER has far, far harder bosses, though it is also true that they rolled back the DaS 3 design and give you far, far more impressive tools to deal with them as well. Overall it's still harder, even just the vanilla game. My playthrough of SotE (early after release, before any nerfs) was far harder than anything else. It felt like they went back to the DaS 2 DLC / DaS 3 design where all your shit is just lukewarm and barely effective, but at the same time also dialed up the bosses into high speed blenders. Beating nuRadahn took me like 2-3h of attempts and before him I don't think I took more than like 30 minutes on any other non-SotE boss. Way, way harder.

>>723570621
I don’t remember Goldmask barging into lecture rooms, muttering profanities or jerking off in front of random women. I don’t think?

Mind/Int > Dex/Int

Stack damage modifiers and spam Comet to melt Malenia and Rellana on your first tries. FP taxes don’t matter.

>>723570963
play Sekiro and Bloodborne

>>723560049 (OP)
Probably Radahn fight, descending to River Sofria, or Leyndell city reveal

>>723570950
I didn't realize that I could teleport from bonfire to bonfire at that point in the game (I missed the tutorial message about it), and I was just totally stuck there for a while. I did piss poor damage to the golem and had no idea how to escape.

>>723571091
STR/FTH chads laughing at you

>>723571091
Trvke. Azur’s staff gives you 40 Dex anyway.

>>723562189
I fucking love when the japs put Nietzchie in their games. The first demon fight in FFT remake was an absolute masterpiece.

>>723571091
This is more efficient than DEX/INT, but being a sorcerer without any melee action is really a boring way to play the game.
MIND/FAI is doable because there are so many unique incantations that you don't get bored, but for INT builds there's only so many hadokens you can spam before you just want to do some melee play.

>>723560049 (OP)
Heolstor.

>>723563295
I really want yo play Wukong but I hate soulless CCP Eunichs ie China. Can I pirate it yet?

probably falling into the trap at the beginning and emerging from the cave in fucking caelid which i had never seen before

>>723571298
Nightreign is a separate game

>>723571265
I don’t find it boring at all since this game is made with melee in mind and I’m tired of pretending that wizards would ever get in close range to their opponents. Miriam was the most accurate wizard fight in any of their games. You summon, distract and teleport away. Repeat. I’m still so fucking mad and frustrated that the only summon spell (Tibia’s Summons) is downright dog shit. You’re forced to resort to spirit ashes (which is fine since even Rennala uses a few ashes in her fight) rather than classic necromancy sorcery style.

>>723571091
>>723571265
In general, DEX/INT is a trap, I think.
There are multiple ways to get synthetic high DEX for casting speed, so pumping the stat really doesn't make a ton of sense unless its for melee damage.
But in that case, you should instead level STR and use the multiple really good innate STR/INT weapons in the game or all the great Cold infused heavy weapons.

>>723563904
Killed him my first try. I remember running around hoping the rot would finally kill his last 15%.
The one I dont get is the hardest boss for me by far after Melinia was oneshot oneshotington the rot dragon. Fucker killed me 60 times, and I kept comming back at higher and higher levels till I was double where I was supposed to be. Yet I never hear anyone else talk about him.

>>723571394
Don't care.

reminded me of my childhood dream of becoming a wizard. I have almost achieved grand virgin wizardry level 30

>>723567291
Was that creed off The Office.

I hate how they did staves. The lava and death staves should have been an isolated case where they are better to be used with their respective sorceries. The true multi faith+int staff should I’ve been Gideon’s, to denote his usage of both sorceries and incantations. Why did they wait until the DLC just to waste a fucking remembrance slot for a boss that could have given us a wicked cool new cosmic spell? Sigh. Whatever. I don’t know WHY they made Gideon’s cane into a club…

out of curiosity, what level were you when you fought malenia for the first time?

>>723560987
>Haligtree
>high quality dungeon

Going over to the unassuming well and ending up in a massive underground area that was also incredibly beautiful.

>>723571774
>dude hogwarts

>>723560049 (OP)
those two godskin fucks walking at me for three hours

>>723571818
>should I’ve
Should’ve *

>>723569896
That would have been awesome. I wish I had been here for trying to figure out PT.
Silksong launch just wasn't that fun for me.

>>723571513
Strength is for fags. Real scholars just spam lasers.

>>723571298
Is Nightreign actually good? Or is it really just some roguelike/bossrush mode? I avoided it since it looked like multiplayer shovelware even though i have 700 hours in ER

>>723570553
>entire industry, from nepobabies to corpokikes and vidya school millennials from California frothing at the mouth at the big fuck you that elden ring represents
>chinaman also on suicide watch and flooding the board all the same with er hate threads since it came out


Elden Ring was a nuclear powered kick into the hornsent nest

>>723572083
Its fun if you have friends to play it with. That said, its like a 7/10 while Elden Ring is a 9/10.

Does anyone still play Elden Ring on the ps4 ?

>>723571856
Probably like 130-140-ish?
I remember I first met her with 40 VIG and 60 INT, and some amount of levels mostly in DEX with a few in STR.
I got walled and I didn't come back until after the DLC when I was way overleveled.
In my first play through in the base game, I was basically accumulating one level per hour, and I cleared the Haligtree other than her a bit over 100 hours in.

>>723570963
That weird, Im a souls vet with 2k hours. Finally hot around to DeS and gound it unenjoyably difficult.
I have also soloed everything but cant beat a single DS3 DLC boss. No idea why its my cryptonight, especially as I found DS3 easy.

>>723566138
bosses is the only thing ER has going for it. everything else sucks. Nightreign is a better game than ER and it sickens me

>>723571860
The Haligtree is fantastic.

>>723572090
This will never not be funny

finding the second dancing lion except it shits out death blight and baslisks mid fight

>>723572301
Indeed it is very pretty. But it still sucks.

>>723572369
Why is that? Is the deathblight older than Godwyn?

>>723560049 (OP)
Erdtree avatar(s) and dragon(s). I would be lying otherwise

>>723572253
This isn't true at all

>>723566138
Nah, I don't want bosses that are all designed around multiplayer. They only work in the context of Nightreign.

>>723572397
They gave a handwave in the DLC that 'all matters of death wash up here'.
But also I do think that Deathblight and stuff surrounding it is older than Godwyn dying. He just became the vessel for it, rather than inventing it.

>>723572301
It is not. You can like the looks of it, but the actual level is such a tedious slog

>>723560049 (OP)
first time limegrave

>>723572251
DeS is definitely the easiest, its just has the DS1 design of knowledge over execution.
I don't really get why you'd struggle against the DS3 DLC. Both Friede and Demon Prince are endurance fights, but if you've beaten Elden Ring you really shouldn't have an issue with em

>>723572540
>I'm dogshit at vidya
Yeah we know

>>723572540
>slog
How?
Great enemies, a layout that encourages you to really make the most of the verticality, it doesn't overstay its welcome in length, and the environment changes a lot as you traverse it.
It is really hard to find fault in from my perspective.

>>723572540
>tedious slog
I have limited vocabulary fatigue

>>723572306
They arent wrong. They released a game that went 90s claymation if there were enough enemies.
Im so glad they had the balls to release on PS4 anyways. A great game can have flaws, graphics are over hyped.

>>723572397
>>723572539
This game toys with physics being creepy cosmic alien stuff that is found rather than made, and things like the scarlet rot ruled in two independent time periods.

>>723572690
>it good because hard
ah yes, the classic "i have no other skills except vidya so i have to pretend they're worth bragging about" fallacy

Alexander chan fucking aksed to kill him

>>723570612
I remember pre elden ring release and pre beta someone leaked on youtube a video of exploring stormveil after killing all the mobs, or maybe they weren't active or implemented yet. No idea if it can be found nowadays, I remember the threads theorizing about the size and complexity of the game and all that.

>>723572847
Elden Ring looks great and the fact that the nose hair of enemies is not rendered doesn't change that

>>723572895
I didn't say it's good because it'd hard. I said you don't like it because you're shit. Also you don't have any skills.

>>723570693
>terrible mechanic
npc invasion events are the best souls fights in all fromsoft games you plebian. Go fuck an ulcerated tree fag or another fire golem.

How do you beat him
He has no health bar

>>723572083
I enjoy Nightreign significantly more than Elden Ring proper. It has all the bloat trimmed off and is a very frantic and enjoyable experience. It has random elements, yes, but you can beat any of the base bosses with guaranteed strategies in spite of that. Everdark bosses are another story, but if you only queue for those if you enjoy the challenge to begin with.

>>723572962
>90s claymation
>the nose hair of enemies is not rendered
Huh?

>>723560912
No. Rennala still needs to use a staff for her magic while Azur and Lusat ditched theirs altogether. They’re ascended.
>>723561204
This. Rennala focused on her potential without transcending human limits. She’s not shoving glintstone into her chest.

>>723560049 (OP)
I was fighting something, I think it was the grafted scion in Stormveil, when I backed up into an elevator shaft and fell to my death. The screen didn't fade out until my character hit the ground so I was able to see the big Prince of Death face that I landed in front of. I then spent the next couple of hours trying to figure out how the fuck to get down there and see what the hell that was I had died in front of before finally realizing I could jump over the railings around the castle after assuming until then that there would've been invisible walls at the level boundaries because I was so used to that in their other games.
So that led me to discovering the bottom of Stormveil with the Prince of Death thing down there, which tied into Rogier's questline, which lead into Ranni's questline and tied into Fia's questline, and it was altogether the most kino shit I've ever experienced in 30 years of video games.
The other most memorable moment was finally killing the Baleful Shadow near the end of Ranni's quest when she thanks you and leaves, and there's an elevator right after the fight and I just assumed now that the quest was over it'd take me back up to the surface since I had delved so far underground for so long, only to surprise me by going down even deeper to the Lake of Rot. I was so sure by then that I had gotten a good idea of just how large the game world was and it still managed to surprise me.

>>723560049 (OP)
The Shamen village in the DLC. A vast majority of Elden Ring is complete slop but walking through the abandoned village while a somber rearrangement of the main theme plays in the background is pretty much the only moment in ER which even came close to the magic of Dark Souls and reminded me why I fell in love with the original.

>>723560049 (OP)
Probably running through mountaintop of the giants and having trolls chase me, only for a giant spectral skeleton to start attacking me, only for then a deathbird to swoop in and start attacking.

>>723573380
Neither Azur nor Lusat can cast a spell anymore.

Moments?
>Siofra Well, just realizing "oh there's an underground too"
>Radahn Festival
>the many ways to get to Liurnia, the Liurnia View
>accidentally getting captured and taken to Volcano Manner
>Leyndell feeling like the most epic city FromSoft has ever done
>under Leyndell the sewers getting lost
>Dung Eater the first time was insane kind of a shame his lore was so inconsequential
>Midgame Gauntlet to beat Morgott
>finding 3 fingers
I gtg but anyone whos shits on this game played it wrong there are dozens of amazing moments

>>723572301
Same. Only argument against it is that you saw all enemies already.

>>723571651
The rot dragon in the open world in Caelid? You just have to run away from his big AoE, that's all.

>>723573561
Came here to say Volcano Manor. Also that crumbling city was bad ass. The levels are so cool I just hate the bosses.

>>723573421
Finding the first Godwyn is one of the best moments I can think of.

>>723573480
They actually can in the pre-release version. They blast you back as a sort of “fuck off” if you attack them. Sort of like how Provost Willem in Bloodborne is a legitimate boss in the pre-release but just laughs and giggles and lets you kill him if you hit him in the game. He’s too addled with eldritch knowledge to care anymore.

But the primeval sorcerers are also based on those undying mummy monks (the Sokushinbutsu) in Sekiro (glintstone is parasitic like the worms/centipedes) so you can’t exactly DO anything to them…

Would the immortal severance blade from Sekiro work on the primeval sorcerers?

>>723572181
I'm on my sixth playthrough. Didn't know snoy didn't save my files in the cloud if I didn't pay for it so I lost four of them including the one with my moonlight greatsword.
I wish I could play ER at 60 frames.

>>723573480
Because they’re the stuff of sorcery itself.

>>723573796
Depends on whether you consider glintstone rocks to be alive or not.

>>723560049 (OP)
Going down a random elevator and seeing Siofra for the first time while baked out of my mind.

>>723573750
>>723573561
The art direction in ER is certainly one of their bests

>>723572952
Yeah, shame it's basically the only dungeon in the game that actually does the branching paths thing well. Every dungeon is interconnected soon but not one gives you the same feeling of exploration and cool level intricacy as Stormveil

>>723573913
Sellen describes Azur as a good judge of character. Presumably this means he will respond to persons that interest him. She also describes Lusat as a child of the stars. Sellen might also just be insane, attributing personalities to rocks (in which case their “eviction” was probably more like relocating a pair of highly radioactive artifacts…) that are closer to corpses than people. The academy might have seen them as corpse sages to decorate and place on pedestals to parade around. Perhaps the Carians saw it as a mentally disturbed practice akin to a death cult. And to be fair, the sorcerers of old would kill themselves to pass along their essences into different host forms. A form of suicidal immortality.

>>723560049 (OP)
Haligree, especially towards the end. Whole area was pretty as fuck.

>>723574268
>Sellen might also just be insane
>might
Nigger she's obviously completely fucking nuts and is even pretty upfront about it. She turns herself into a fucking rock, for fuck's sake.

spamming meteor to cheese every single boss in the game

>>723573913
Glintstone is the stuff of life. All life comes from the stars. It’s a nod to how we all come from stardust. Sellen compares it to amber. Ymir more or less affirms it.

>>723574339
There’s no way she would have taken herself out of commission when she was planning on becoming the new headmistress of the school. She also would not have shoved herself in with a bunch of sorcerers she disapproved of. Notice how all of her graven masses only contain the conspectuses that went against the primeval current. Also, even if she WAS planning on balling herself, her ball would likely have been far nicer than that. She likely had greater constructions in mind, just considering all the similarities between her experiments and the experiments of the Hornsent. She didn’t have a whole culture (the school reviled her) backing her twisted theories, while the Hornsent had a whole culture backing theirs. The primeval sorcerers are also very similar to the tutelary deities of the Hornsent, except they (the primeval) are actually alive in some form.

>>723574367
Residual life, not life in general. Sellen explains this to you by drawing a direct comparison with golden amber, which she says houses the remnants and vitality of ancient life. Glintstone is the life of stars. Two different things. Hence why all the star beings are so fucking alien and creepy. Falling star beasts, crystallians, Astel, etc.

>>723573221
>bloat
so its a boss rush
>queue
so its multiplayer shovelware
i'll keep avoiding it then, thanks

>>723574870
>so its a boss rush
Selectively so. Nothing wrong with that, though I will say some of my favorite moments in Nightreign are simply sprinting across the fields from one POI to another. The movement in the game simply feels fantastic.
>so its multiplayer shovelware
You can play solo any time you like.
But I see you only wish to confirm your biases and not hold any good faith discussions.

>>723574659
Unless Ranni attacked her, there wasn't anyone else around to fuck Sellen up and shove her into a wizard ball.
The Academy is full of weaklings, Rennala is retarded, we kill Jerren for her.
Ranni is the only potential culprit other than Sellen herself, but we don't really have direct evidence for Ranni being able to project the power necessary for that. Or the motive, given that Rennala was still protected from harm.

>>723574674
>Residual life, not life in general
Life is life. The amber or sap of the Erdtree is just distilled residual life through its roots. Sacrificed lifeblood is seen to turn back into (red) glintstone.

>Glintstone is the life of stars. Two different things.
Nope.

— We study the stars, and examine the life therein. Are you familiar with our findings? Long ago, we began as stardust, born of a great rupture far across the skies. We, too, are children of the Greater Will. Is that not divine? Is that not sublime? ...and yet, none can fathom its implications, its utter brilliance!

The Elden Beast was a star itself. Life is colored blue in Souls games. You’ll notice that life functions just fine away from the purview of the Erdtree.

— Ancestral spirits exist as a phenomenon beyond the purview of the Erdtree. Life sprouts from death, as it does from birth. Such is the way of the living.

Runes are a psyop to hijack evolution the same way Lavos did in Chrono Trigger. It is sustenance for the Beast. It feeds on experience. Why do you think it’s shaped like its previous subjects — the ancient dragons? It’s quite obvious. It reinforces civilization and intelligence (by way of the Fingers) to produce greater and greater heights of experience to consume. They can just as easily take it all away. The beastmen weren’t originally civilized, and they’re losing their intelligence during the events of the game. Similar to how the fire giants shrink and diminish and “lose their minds” after renouncing their fallen god and ripping out his face from their chests and stomachs.

Evolution and patronage are big parts of this fame. It’s all stars. Nature competes with itself and acts like an infection. Even the yellow/gold of the Erd is infecting the ground. Glintstone does too. The frenzied flame infects plants and wildlife as well.

If the atlas stellar object now closing on our sun is revealed to be a vessel for glinstone beings and when near the sun delivers its payload in the form of a menacing cloud of astels and star bulls zeroing on earth what do we do?

>>723575330
>Unless Ranni attacked her, there wasn't anyone else around to fuck Sellen up and shove her into a wizard
Sellen probably made a LOT of enemies. There’s even a graven mass guarding the prison Jerren (or whoever captured her) left her in. I can see someone doing this as an ironic end for her.

>>723575353
>fame
game *

>>723560579
My second playthrough I had a shield and steamrolled Caelid

>>723575353
This anon knows what’s up. Elden Beast is Lavos.

>>723572090
>chinaman also on suicide watch and flooding the board all the same with er hate threads since it came out
You're not wrong >>723563921

>>723575353
What's the next phase for frenzied flame after burning everything to a crisp? Is it the only actor spreading itself to then make sure everything becomes inert and lifeless?

>>723575483
My issue with that is Sellen is pretty powerful.
If you fight her or fight with her, she's one of the stronger NPCs in the game.
In the world, it doesn't seem like there'd be many rivals to her that could shove her into a wizard ball in an area that is under a protection charm.
That is why I referenced Ranni as one of the only potential culprits, if not for her lack of motive.
None of the losers in Raya Lucaria could have done it without obviously leaving a trace.

Really I think its just a case of Sellen fucking up, and FromSoft being lazy on the model reuse.

Bayle ripped the Elden Beast/Ring out of Placidusax (he married himself - I’m serious - he had both male and female heads) and it fell to the earth and Marika found it and nurtured it and convinced a whole civilization to shive her people into pots and jars and eventually a godmaking gate. She used the fanatical Hornsent to figure out how to make life-fed trees. It’s why you see all those miniature Erdtrees in Enir-Ilim.

Marika was literally Sellen. A mad bitch who was obsessed with Faith over Int.

>>723575873
>What's the next phase for frenzied flame after burning everything to a crisp?
NTA but he's completely correct on all these "influencers" being parasitic in nature part of the reason why the fingers look fungal so my take is that the Frenzy Flame "fed" on the grief of the merchants after they were persecuted and buried under the capital to starve to death and ended up inheriting their malice and grief.

>>723575948
Radahn got taken out by a single sword jab. There are no health bars. Anything can happen even to powerful people.

>>723575948
Jerren is canonically a very, very strong character, having fought with and against Radahn, personally. He was tasked by the Carians to deal with Sellen, who is a likely relative of theirs (if we’re to go by Iji’s words on the matter). I imagine there are others, however few, who could have taken her out. I don’t think even Rennala could defend against an entire academy angry at her. She had the support of her house.

The Hornsent only succeeded because they had the Ring to fuel their religiously retarded experiments.

>>723575948
>and FromSoft being lazy on the model reuse.
I refuse to accept that. Although it’s likely the truth.

>>723570816
Where tf did you get that from?

>>723575785
I paid them a visit I hope chang won't kill his neighbors in a fit of rage.

>>723576767
anon...

>>723576767
It’s a joke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander

>>723576420
That is my point there.
Jerren was a compatriot of Radahn and ancient hunter for the Carian family, but he needs our help to finish Sellen off.
There aren't ever going to be too many of those types floating around the world with access to Raya Lucaria and a blood feud with Sellen.

>>723576919
>but he needs our help to finish Sellen off
I’m pretty sure he doesn’t. He will win the fight usually.

>>723576976
That’s just character/npc model bullshit. Characters/npcs like Gideon, Sellen and Ymir are probably better wizards than Rennala all things considered. George could have wrote Gideon as the magical superior of Rennala, but Miyazaki for whatever reason (obviously moon/female power bias) just didn’t implement them that way because he’s a (feminist) bitch.

>>723577089
They really could have made Ymir into a full boss. Some finger mutated monster.

>THE DEPTHS OF YOUR FOOLISHNESS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aeQVSgK7EI&list=RD_aeQVSgK7EI&start_radio=1

>>723570816
Forgot to mention the part about Radahn taking twenty five days and four hours to sufficiently move far away to get the light to reach him again due to how large the nigga was. It is written, it is true.

>>723560049 (OP)
Jewish slop. Fuck Baal. Fuck the antichrist

>>723576845
>Alexander
>Diogène
>Alexander is a big jar
>mfw I see the connection only now


Every single day since this game released I find out something mind blowing about elden bing
HOW DEEP IS THIS HOLE?

>>723577559
Praise Moloch you mean.

>>723577741
Yeah you're right, fuck Baal probably means that. Christ is king. Yahweh is not

>>723577338
>Feeble ill and ruined old shriveling fart transforms into tall gigaChad aura farming during his introduction cutscene

yeah it's prime fromsoft stuff.

>>723577338
god damn I think its time for my third playthrough of the DLC

>>723563843
I care

>>723563843
>no one cares about this boss fight
wdym? Its one of the best fights in the game

>>723564578
>You get propelled into ng+ if you beat the game
Wrong wrong wrong wrong you fucking retard

>>723577559
>2000 years later and self proclaimed king still failing to produce anything cool that isn't about rimming kikes
>will cry and shit the bed if a challenger dare to appear

Sounds jewish to me. Oh it's because it is.

>>723565468
>a game I never played is a masterpiece
I want zoomer faggot retards to kill themselves

>>723564578
>You get propelled into ng+ if you beat the game
The last time that was true was in Bloodborne a decade ago

>>723578438
Yeah you do. I don't read text that's for soiboys so when a text box manifests itself I click yes. Because affirmative souls don't pick "no".
It's nad design. The game should instead be asking "do you want not to continue to ng+ ( Yes - No, take me to ng+ even though I didn't play the dlc )".

...Malenia, Blade of Miquela...

>>723560049 (OP)
#1-Marriage with Ranni
#2-[Elden Ring Main Theme intensifies]
#3-Arrival at Haligtree

>>723568481
>star trek reaction
boomer faggot shit lmfao

Why did Midra - an INTELLECTUAL - think he could understand something that isn’t meant to be understood? Or rather, it’s as simple as understanding that “holy shit these people HAVE no reason! they are beyond the point of sanity! they have been hurt too much!”. And now he’s just enduring total agony because he’s just that retarded.

>>723578523
Literally playing through it for the first time right now and I'm having an absolute blast. You mad?

>>723578757
Wizards are sometimes stupid okay

>>723578776
No, I'm jealous

>>723560049 (OP)
In my first playthrough I accidentally killed Boc with the waves of darkness aow

>>723575447
>what do we do?
Well the first thing YOU should do is take your fucking meds.

If they actually didn't turn Melina into firewood then I would have received it better. With the usual GRRM twists and Miyazaki's misery porn, I knew she had no chance to shine.

>>723579192
Crystallian posters are already connected to our internet I see.

>>723578776
I'm mad I was dulled by how much opioids I was taking the first time I played elden ring. But I reasonably don't think no ER player is mad about someone else experiencing a fromsoft game. Quite the opposite. I also encourage all new players to do bloodborne now that it is no longer jailed on ps4 hardware.
I'd ask green horns to play des/ds too, preferably first, but realistically you won't because "muh it's too old".

>>723560049 (OP)

When i got to the Mountain Tops of the Giants and the feeling of boredom hit me harder than any point in the game. And I was dreading that there was more of the game remaining.
And I had not yet found Melania or the real Mohg

>>723579275
She'll be back to fight the Lord of frenzied flame. It's the true ending in my mind plagued with misery porn. Only one decade more of waiting until they're done with that switch 2 release and finish developing the game.

>>723560049 (OP)
Killing Godrick and getting that sweet beautiful view of Liurnia for the first time, I liked setting my game to night time because I thought it was a cool gimmick, but when I saw that wondrous view overlooking a flooded town, drown by a sea of stars in the clear night sky, yet still the background visible enough to Mae out the Volcano Manor, and the Altus Plateau. I had just gotten off the high of beating Godrick, which had taken me a little over an hour due to lack of skill. The feeling was absolutely stunning, like nothing I've ever experienced before. Even if I now have 2k hours in the game, and see the same sights over and over, I'll never forget the first time I saw what was in my opinion one of the most visually stunning moments in my souls gaming career. Fromsoft are exceptionally good at the whole "enter new area, beautiful view ahead" camera angle that almost always perfectly pans over it as you sit at the local Grace. The feeling didn't stop until I beat the game, but that specific moment is etched into my memories forever.

>>723578519
I watched it on YouTube. Didn't have a PS4 at the time and I'm not buying one today to play it. As for the zoomer call, lol
I say this with a heavy heart because I still access this gutter of a place, but I'm older than you

>>723579981
Even with one tenth of the budget they nailed the gigantic industrial warzone vistas/blame! unofficial adaptation in armored core 6 and it's not praised enough.
It sold more than all ac games but it remains a blip on the radar standing next to ER still.

>>723580169
I bought a shit station 4 for mgsV but it became a bloodborne station. It was a relief because mgsV was an empty make your own fun unfinished sandbox game.
It is a meme for most people but I faithfully believe it's worth it only for Bloodborne alone.

Invasions

>>723580458
MGSV is fun tho. I treated it as a sandbox for the different situations I can muster. It has the most fluid controls in any game so far.

>>723561876
Holy shit, okay so i continued the game, got backfrom the beach, killed the big troll in 3 attempts, and i dont wanna brag here but i killed the tree sentinel the first try, holy shit i am actually cracked at elden ring? yeah sorry for the blog i just dont have any friends

>>723579275
Her burning was good, she wanted to burn.
But she should have had a much larger part in the lead up to that. I'd say that every time you rested at a bonfire she should have appeared next to you, like other level up girls.

>>723580786
If you can first try the Tree Sentinel, you're in a good place to take on the rest of the game for sure.
I'd recommend getting super cocky, so the game can bully you harder later.

>>723580786
For info it's best if you go south, there's a wailing plain or whatever it's called that serves the role of true tutorial, you'll know when you reach it there's a bridge with a bunch of sorry chumps guarding it with a ballista, then when you pass the bridge it'll start to rain and the colors will change into moody/colder tones than limgrave.


I ignored it for too long the first time I played, came later, rolled on everything and so it was quite boring. Do it now. Unless you like killing the population of an entire state by skullfucking them whenever you sneeze.

>>723581036
haha yes absolutely, silksong already humbled me hard, cannot wait to be bullied. Tho i must say i didnt actually expect to kill him, i just used the starter shield and as long as i kept my stamina full he couldnt really do damage to me, but he did hit me once really hard, had to use the flask twice

I'm like a third into the game maybe less and I'm slightly overleveled and have done well with first several bosses but now I'm between lost af on where to go and only knowing of places that seem well out of my range for the time. I try to follow those floating quest indicator pyres or whatever they're called (it's been months) but they are very vague and half the time I feel like I'm missing the mark. Still very cool game but I always feel one step from being filtered, I run sword and shield or 2hander

>>723581258
Okay, thank you, will do that right now

>>723581346
Wait until you kill any shardbearer that isn't Godrick the god of Ricks and get confused when trying to figure out which tower you're meant to go to unlock your newly acquired rune. You're a lost sheep and all you get are wobbly piss strings waving in the wind near graces.

>>723581326
Shields are really good in this game if you take the time to invest in Endurance.
They're not freebies, they take investment to pay off, but you shouldn't throw them to the side at all.

>>723577338
using his mini form as a fleshlight

>>723560579
The sheer agony of that whole fucking pest rot-threads spam cave you get warped to and then stepping out into New Jersey was unforgettable

>>723570147
The dlc was a shallow boss rush

>>723560579
The worst part is i didn't know you could teleport from the map or had torrent so making my way back to Limgrave was a journey

Fuck the lore

>>723582568
bosses are the best part of the game so that's a good thing

>huh, an elevator, must be a dungeon
>wow this thing is going down
>oh this thing is going deep
>mfw
>it keeps going what th-
>holy fucking kino

I just stood there for a while

>>723560049 (OP)
>the most memorable

>>723560049 (OP)
Stormveil, probably still my favorite part of the game.

Is there lore to why the sheep roll

>>723589261
To mock the player, of course

>>723578757
Hubris, of course.

>>723564831
I lost 40k in DaS1 and I still think about it to this day kek
Since then I'm very careful

>>723560049 (OP)
>the pure joy of exploring limgrave for the first time with no wiki or 4chan
>getting teleported into a dangerous bug cave, and stepping into Caelid
>the elevator going down siofra river
>Fia giving you a hug
>reaching the top of the divine towers to claim great runes
>the entirety of stormveil castle
>Radahn falling down like a meteorite
>Rya's entire questline
>Rykard's Bossfight
>reaching Jarburg
>reaching Lyndel
>the blacksmith and roderika
>reaching the rotting roots of the erdtree
>going down the subterranean shunning grounds and speaking to Shabriri
>Millicent's quetline
>beating Malenia solo

>divine beast boss fight
>the entirety of shadow keep
>Igon & Bayle
>shadowtree avatar third phase
>exploring ruins of rauh
>Miquella's followers questline and bossfight
>slowly walking into Shaman's village

it is the game of the decade I don't care what /v/ thinks
shame that they packaged cutting room content into a fortnight spinoff

>>723560049 (OP)
My first playthroguh fighting that first crucible knight in the evergaol butt naked with a greatsword. Cool fight until they put it again 3 grillion brillion times

Arriving at Lendyll for the first time

>>723560049 (OP)
First time seeing Siofra river elevator and looking over Liurnia are powerful but I think my first oh shit moment was climbing up the alternate path to the Dectus lift and turning around and looking over the chasm below at everything I just went through, while the bats are somehow singing in Latin.

>>723560049 (OP)
When I rolled 30x then was given the privilege to hit someone's ankle for the 2000th time

>>723560049 (OP)
the feeling you get when the map gets 2, 3, then 4 times it's original size and then just keeps going.

>>723590342
Slop consumerist

>>723560049 (OP)
When I realized it was a shittily designed massive downgrade to Dark Souls

barely beating the first main boss by having the jelly ash poison him while i was throwing knives
struggling against the crucible duo in the altus side dungeon
googling the location of a supposedly game-breaking ice dmg AoW that was namedropped on /erg/ randomly
that's all i remember

>>723578734
honestly this game had one of the worst soundtracks not just out of all fromsoft's post-demons souls titles, but one of the worst soundtracks ever. The only somewhat memorable tune is from the merchant cave.

>>723563843
>NOW I FIGHT AS LITERALLY WHOUX, WARRIOR

>>723572251
Friede filtered me so goddamn hard on a great mace build then even more on a brigand daggers one.
But beat her first try with black knight greatsword & chain launching her stupid fucking footslut ass in the air.

Godfrey flushing his meds and telling you to start calling him by his Indian name was pretty impressive. Killing Godrick and taking a screenie sitting on his throne afterwards. Sleep cheesing Godskin Duo because I didn't get how the game worked or how quickly you can stagger them with a colossal. Spending literally all day on Maliketh. Made a Santa Claus build because Ordovis's greatsword sounds like sleighbells.

Cinema
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqbHqx4niUI

>>723560049 (OP)
Hard to pick, so many.
>Radagon intro (chefs kiss)
>The Elden beast reveal and the spectacle of that fight.
>Godfrey holding Morgott in his arms as he turns into light and Godfrey grace is pointing towards you.
>WARRIOR doing a piledriver on you. I was in awe.
>Getting to Liurnia for the first time and seeing THE view. Gave me DS3 Catacombs to Irithtyl vibes.
>Watching the jellyfish reunite with his sister.
>Entering some random elevator and realizing that Ash Lake was only preparing me for what was to come.
>Ancestor Spirit, the music, the arena, everything, and realizing every time it heals, more and more animals die around the arena.
>Inverted Carian building, nice SotN reference and fucking preceptor Miriam.
>Godskin duo first time blind.. When the music hits you already know but still "insert The Office Please God No meme" here. And launch version AI where they both went ham on you, not like now where they take turns.
>Entering Malenia for the first time and seeing the white flower field literred with other player bloodstains.
>First time I got grabbed by her and the first time she waterfowled me.
>FAMILEE, and just getting gulped if you die to the snake grab attack, fucking brutal.
>Realizing I ended up in a Bloodborne Forest, chased by the Tower of Latria Jailers and watching Midra transform for the first time without knowing anything.
>Realizing the merchant song inside midras theme, that the song feels chaotic at first because it's the part where he still knows he's going insane, once he loses his head he "gets" it and the music start making sense,unlike all the other bosses he moves gracefully, like he is at peace.
>Divine Beast Dancing Lion syncing with the music.

I could go on. Easy Game of the Decade contender. And easily one of the top 10 games ever made.

>>723567001
I enjoyed summoning invaders in this location while having the high ground standing on these elevated platforms and them shooting them down with my buddy with arbalests, bows and spells. Those who made it through the swamp had a fair fight. Fun times man

Kino game

>>723593383
damn, the DLC looks like THIS?

>>723593505
Yes

>>723560049 (OP)
uninstalling it, fucking trash game

>>723564103
>mimic tear

Holy shit, the memes were true

>>723593623
"w-what? n-no! y-you can't use the items available to you! t-that's cheating!"
You're such a faggot, kill yourself.

>>723593492
I watched this three times waiting for Margit to delayed smash the cunt before I realised it was looping kek

This flute guy in Leyndell. I was so mesmerized that there was a random enemy just playing his tune. Only ever killed him once then never again. Whenever I reach this part I stop by and listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtuR8N2TDJc

This final boss was mid

This final boss was peak

>>723560049 (OP)
Is that the joke? The big dungeons were the only memorable moments.

>>723572251
I played ds1 on release and curse stacked. Wtf where they smoking. They must have patched that in the first month, they added the message that told you to go to new londo to get uncursed.

>>723572369
I fucked around too much in my first blind run and my first dancing lion was the Rauh super aids one I noped the fuck out . When I found the OG one I thought the arena was going to flood with basilisks with nowhere to run and I my heart rate went up +100

>>723560049 (OP)
finding the underground well area going down the elevator, without being spoiled. Then again when you get into the open area. I thought they were bullshitting about how expansive the game would be, since at this point I just found a few caves that were pretty small and disappointing.

>>723573437
Yeah. The Erdtree heal "Marika bathed her village in gold, knowing full well there was nobody left to heal". Hits fucking hard.

Teleporting to Leyndell via trapped chest after only exploring weeping peninsula and limgrave. Opening my map and seeing the size had tripled was insane

>>723589261
just keep rollin rollin rollin rollin (what)

>>723560049 (OP)
Having 200k runes after killing the Fire Giant, not using them right away, slipping into the forge of the giants, and then slipping off the chains leading up to the forge so I was unable to recover my runes.

>>723593492
He's literally me....

>>723593687
Give the throne over to the one that actually earned it.

>>723593623
Yeah no shit the memes about the most useful and customizable ashes in the game were true

>>723575353
This Anon knows. I posted previously that the Elden Beast and the Elden Ring are Lavos 2.0. What it isn't clear to me is if the Elden Beast arrived when the planet was barren and actually seeded all life or if it just took over existing life and hijacked evolution for its own purpose.

>>723575873
Frenzied flame is the only honest actor every other Great one wants to spread their influence. FF only wants to burn everything down so everything can return to being one. Basically FF is eternally malding that the big bang happened and wants everything to be entropy again, nothing more nothing less, while all the others are different flavors of order.

>>723591684
Kek, footslut. This hurts more as I think that was my weapon of choice.

>>723595374
In the original patch tears were unstoppable. I remember it did 80% of the gargoyle twins for me before I could figure out what it was.
The last 4 boss fights every bitched about like Mohg were a one and done joke. Absolutely was the true Elden Lord.

>>723572251
Playing DS1 for the first time. The bosses are really easy compared to Elden Ring but the actual levels and fighting mobs is way harder. Even the weak ass hollows can tard rage you to death. In Elden Ring you can usually just bail or use your overpowered ash of war. In DS1 you're pretty much fucked if you didn't see an enemy and you get double teamed. When I fucked up it always feels like it is 100% my fault, in Elden Ring it often felt like I got the wrong RNG like when Malenia uses Water Fowl Dance 3 times per phase or Radahn keeps using his wombo combo.

PS: The Bed of Chaos took me 15 tries, the most of any boss by an order of magnitude. Cuck walks in this game are hideous.

>>723595556
The latter, I think.
The Crucible stuff probably predated it, particularly because in the 'present tense' Marika and the Two Fingers hate the Crucible and wanted to erase it.

When did the Two Fingers just start winging it and did they actually have a plan?

>>723596943
They were always just making it up, but the move from having a successful scheme to them just starting to bullshit everything probably started after Marika fucked the world and all their chosen Empyreans either failed to thrive or went AWOL.
If the Two Fingers had their way, then Miquella would have teamed up with Radahn on day 1 and remade the Golden Order in whatever way they wanted, so long as they referred back to the Two Fingers for advice and instructions.
Given that they worked with the Dragons, Hornsent, and Marika, and most likely helped grant Miquella his godhood, I don't think the Fingers are picky about who is winning, as long as those guys are working for them.

Marika deciding to just lock everything down was totally new.

>>723596943
Nobody, in the entire setting, at all, actually has any kind of plan. It is all haphazard guesswork because the Great Will is not present and not communicating.

>>723593492
i may have used mimic tear but at least i'm not a buff fag

>>723597305
I don't think the 2 fingers really care if it's the Golden Order or some other (not you frenzied flame) order as long as the Greater Will remains.

>>723560049 (OP)
Beating Malenia on my 5th attempt like a week after it came out, with a Fingerprint Stone Shield +25, and a Greatshield Talisman -- this talisman along with the +25 F.P.S. Shield made it so you could block infinitely and never break guard and it also didn't cost stamina.
I poked her to death doing this with a Blood Lance +25 (ofc).

It was so much fun; they have long, long since nerfed that build and now it's still very viable but it's just nerfed, you know... it was only good for most bosses.
I also used the spear talisman so I could get an extra +15% damage from just spamming attacks endlessly at enemies through the shield guard -- if you attack enemies while they are attacking, it applies the +15% benefit. You can see how all that would be easy mode, it was.

There were some bosses that did elemental chip damage through your block, and they were hard.
I also remember struggling with some bosses' hitboxes due to the lance damage zone being so narrow; the weird massive laser skull-insect thing in some cavern was one.

Lance gang for life.

>>723560049 (OP)
Walking into Leyndell after fighting the draconic sentinel. By this point in the game you already know from's not fucking around with the scale of the game, so you immediately realize this whole city is going to be fully explorable with tons of secret nooks and crannies and the excitement mixed with the sheer awe that the game still has that much more to offer after going through liurnia and fighting radahn was a transcendental experience. Haligtree was a similar experience but I was kind of exhausted with the game at that point so it didn't hit as hard.

>>723560049 (OP)
Getting it a week early and enjoying it before the unwashed masses came in and ruined it for everyone else.