Elden Ring

[Kamera]

Blogpost your progress in the game and complain about the constant shilling here.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1245620/ELDEN_RING/

[Reign]

Over the course of the last like 4 days I've gone from "I don't really care I forgot it even existed" to "I have got to get this on day 1 it looks so cool".

[ResidentSeagull]

Same thing happened to me over the course of this month.

[OnesFleetingGlory]

Are spoilers prohibited?

[Kamera]

spoil away; with spoiler tags, preferably

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that said

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General Radahn boss fight was hella epic goddamn

[OnesFleetingGlory]

Thanks. Well, I could see which part Nasu would take inspiration from, particularly

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the final boss. The design just screams "Galaxy Incarnate!"

[Sesto]

14 hours so far; fun game. I'm not an open world fan generally but this game actually makes exploring the open world fun.

I think my biggest complaint so far would be the bosses. This could change (and naturally will once I get further) but given how many bosses I've fought thus far, I wish more of them actually felt engaging. The only bosses I'd consider fun so far would be the required ones tbh, all the optional bosses have been pretty mediocre.

[Kamera]

Yeah, it seems they took the Dark Souls 2 approach with the bosses. Maybe it's just their way to dump their "epic boss theme" in a game with otherwise sparse BGM.

[eddyak]

Margaret (yes, that is me making fun of the wanker) is fucking annoying with his input reading. It would be far less shitty if they'd even bothered to slightly hide it, but the boss constantly going into his attack at the exact same frame your character does is incredibly blatant, and it's stupid they didn't even try to cover it up.

[Kamera]

jellyfish-chan best summon

[Aozaki-desu]

Margaret (yes, that is me making fun of the wanker) is fucking annoying with his input reading. It would be far less shitty if they'd even bothered to slightly hide it, but the boss constantly going into his attack at the exact same frame your character does is incredibly blatant, and it's stupid they didn't even try to cover it up.

how bad is the tracking and unnatural attack animations compared to say ds3?

[Kamera]

barely noticed it on my Astrologer run, but judging from watching other playthroughs, it doesn't seem that bad

[Sesto]

Margaret (yes, that is me making fun of the wanker) is fucking annoying with his input reading. It would be far less shitty if they'd even bothered to slightly hide it, but the boss constantly going into his attack at the exact same frame your character does is incredibly blatant, and it's stupid they didn't even try to cover it up.

i hate that guy too but he was still a fun boss
kinda felt like something that was harder than it felt like it should be, speaking from a mechanics standpoint. the long chain in second phase is what got me the most

[Deathhappens]

Ι'm just posting here to say I'm jealous.

[eddyak]

how bad is the tracking and unnatural attack animations compared to say ds3?

It makes a lot more sense- I haven't seen a single enemy pivot without moving their legs, but then, I haven't been looking for that.

i hate that guy too but he was still a fun boss
kinda felt like something that was harder than it felt like it should be, speaking from a mechanics standpoint. the long chain in second phase is what got me the most

He was harder than golden boy after him, honestly. Margaret just kept getting in there and interrupting every time I'd press a button, he felt like the world's most cancerous fighting game AI, with a perfect counter for everything you could do. Golden just did his own thing, occasionally punished you, and you had more opportunities and ways to fight.

But then, I've been using a fairly mediocre greatsword and no poise whatsoever, so maybe someone with a different style can tell me I'm wrong.

[OnesFleetingGlory]

Margit, right? Looks like the most viable way is parrying him then use Visceral Attack(what it's called in Bloodborne, I don't know the name here) for Warrior class.

[Kamera]

Summons helped a lot to distract and get some posture break on him. I picked the twin gargoyle summon as the starting item, and they were a huge help.

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Margit, right? Looks like the most viable way is parrying him then use Visceral Attack(what it's called in Bloodborne, I don't know the name here) for Warrior class.

he got to be parried twice to get those riposte though, much too bothersome lol

[eddyak]

I don't know if it's my controller or what, but I'm getting this sliiight bit of input delay that's throwing off all my dodging and rolling and I want to say it's throwing off my parries but I'm apparently just shit at those now. Anyone else notice a slight delay before your attacks and such start up?

And I had no idea Mar the git could be parried, god damn I should be doing that with every boss, but I'd hate spending a dozen lives just trying to figure out if each boss could be parried.

[Sesto]

Margit, right? Looks like the most viable way is parrying him then use Visceral Attack(what it's called in Bloodborne, I don't know the name here) for Warrior class.

lol, parrying makes these games too easy (the lie i tell myself because i suck at parrying)

[You]

I don't know if it's my controller or what, but I'm getting this sliiight bit of input delay that's throwing off all my dodging and rolling

Yeah, you can definitely feel the input lag.