Lots of posts/interest spread across numerous other threads and Elden Ring is out 25 Feb 2022 - seems like a good time for a separate thread
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Good idea.
Havenāt seriously played any and donāt plan to anytime soon but I love what Iāve seen of them and enjoy watching people talk about them. Hope Elden Ring lives up to the hype for yall.
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I am a super-fan of FromSoftware, and am gleefully anticipating Elden Ring. Just finishing up getting the platinum trophies for Dark Souls 2 SotFS and Sekiro.
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This I had to give up on, fuck that giant white monkey.
And if I hear āFor the glory of Ashinaā one more time Iāll go on a rampage.
There is difficult and there is unfair, for me Sekiro was on the unfair scale, up there with the Tank boss fight without a save point afterwards in Ninja Gaiden (enter number here)ā¦
BUT I canāt wait for Elden Ring
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Haha yes, that giant white monkey took me a while. Heās a pushover compared to some of the later bosses which I donāt want to spoil in case you go back to it.
I agree though, Sekiro was a little unbalanced. It did feel like Ninja Gaiden actually, not sure what it is with Japanese developers creating rock-hard ninja-themed games! I loved Sekiro because it reminded me more of Tenchu than anything else, but with the SoulsBorne sensibilities of dying loads, getting back to your ābloodstainā and levelling up.
Have you watched any of the gameplay from the Elden Ring network test? Looks crazy fun.
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Can you share a link?
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Also a good time to update the thread title to something more meaningful āDiscussion: Elden Ringsā
Only did Dark Souls when it came out on PC, and what an experience. I am definitely not in the āgit gudā crowd, but I really believe that the difficulty is part of the story telling as stated by Miyazaki (even if it was morphed into a marketing point afterwards).
Didnāt have the patience to do any other of those, however I watched religiously a lot of letās plays (hello EpicNameBro) and lore videos (hi Vaatividya) just because the lore and stories are so fascinating.
I suspect I will be doing the same for Elden Ring.
Do we only want to speak about this one?
Vaati did a great playthrough, I like his style:
ENB is a legend and he helped me so much with enjoying all the secrets and lore implications of Dark Souls!
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Iām torn, because I want to participate in this thread, but also I donāt want to know anything about ER before itās released.
Iām a huge From fan and have played through all of their recent games (except the Sekiro true final boss 
)
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Jeebuz. That looks absolutely gorgeous.
Those fights are things of beautyā¦looking in on an expert from the outside. When I fire up Dark Souls, I just lose my effin mind and turn it off immediately.
My GPU meets only the minimum requirements anyway and Iām not about to upgrade to something more satisfying in this market (excusesexcuses)
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Ha, same here. I avoided everything I could about Sekiro after the first trailer and it took some doing because itād been out for quite a while before I finally made time for it. Incredible game though, it was the first one of theirs where I just went straight into playing through NG+ without any sort of break. Loved it.
Iām away from home for the foreseeable so only have access to a Series S at the moment, though my PC mightāve struggled anyway based on the quite high looking system requirements. Really hoping performance improves upon what I read about the network test but optimisation definitely isnāt FROMās strong suit in general.
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I have a soft spot for Demonās Souls as me and my mates were among the first in the UK to import the Asian versions of the game before it hit other shores. Bloody fantastic game but showing its age a bit.
DS3 is excellent and Bloodborne is my favourite of the entire FromSoft catalog. Youāre going to love it.
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Yes, Bloodborne is the best one.
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I imported it back then as well, as much as I found it intriguing I ended up bouncing off it in the way people often do with Souls games. Looking back I was probably very close to that moment when the way you have to approach them (both mentally and in mechanical terms) āclicksā but at the time I just figured it wasnāt for me.
Gave it another go when it turned up on PS Plus and havenāt been able to get enough since, soloād everything multiple times including the classic SL1 Dark Souls run, Bloodborne platinum etc.
Just remembered I uploaded some videos for my mate when I was trying a caster for the first time, I got lucky once or twice here but you pretty much have to with this pair of arseholes:
I hate that area. Worst run back to a boss theyāve ever done I think, especially considering itās a pretty tough boss.
Being that thereās a dedicated thread for video games and that the first few posts were specific to Elden RIngs (and the title is vague), that is why I suggested the thread title change. Itās vague and a person canāt see at a glance whatās different about this video game thread and the existing video games thread.
Thatās all Carry on!
Yeah, luck or lack of it definitely becomes much more of a factor when thereās multiple bosses at once. II has some pretty irritating gank squad bosses, alongside some of the best bosses in the series (Fume Knight, Alonne). Such an uneven game but still pretty damned good.
I get the feeling that the multi-bosses are designed around summoning, which I donāt really like to do.
Hell yeah so happy to see this thread. Greetings fellow elektro-tarnished
- Minimize yer equip load for fast roll
- Summon Solaire
- Beat Ornstein first
- Try to create some distance between them
- Roll to dodge their attacks, and attack them from their LEFT side
- Donāt use your shield; wield your weapon two handed
- Donāt use lock-on
- Be patient and donāt get greedy
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That fight and so many others in DS1 are so much easier once you unlock
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