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I donāt think Iāve even beaten the first boss from that one 
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That is when ati radoen sw suggets the gfx card. it even opens amazon from the driver panel ā¦
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Hahaha 
okĆ© that explains it. The Radeon software is without utter shame in its recommendations. The game auto-detected everything to high on my machine so as long as your oke with āājustā 1080P (instead of 4K 
) it shouldnāt have to break the bank.
Meanwhile Iām still trying to decide on my class. Iām really digging the options 
Yeah, that guy. Heās handed my ass back to me twice already. I seriously have absolutely no idea how to even make a dent in him.
I kind of like the honesty in that approach, though 
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Please keep sharing your experience 
, I have developed somewhat of a fetish for sharing in peoples first experience with the magic (and I know Iām definitely not the only one haha 
)
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Iām honestly not sure how I beat that guy. I think I blacked out on my successful attempt. I never finished DS1 though. I think my armor was too heavy and I wasnāt moving like one should.
Have you changed the button layout? People claim itās wrong on Switch and that it makes a big difference.
THIS HERE FELL POS ON THE OTHER HAND. Oh my word.
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i try now on ps4 the astrology guy, it feels like cheating. Magic is totally op. Killing a giant is so easy and the 2nd spell eats hordes of monsters already. Performance on ps4 is really good. Quality dies not feel different from the high settings steam version.
Man, I am terrible. Feel after mainly playing Nioh 2 lately, I need to go back to school was getting dominated by everything in site besides the soldiers in the best way! Canāt wait to get back in!!
First impressions andā¦ this is incredible. Was worried that the reviews would set the bar too high but Elden Ring surpasses expectations.
Canāt recall the last time I sat and played a game on my own for nearly 5 hours straight thought I had made a big mistake choosing to start as a wretch with no keepsakes but that club can do some decent damage once you level up and what a journey itās been.
Iām quite happily battering my way through the first map area too. To think there is a whole load of game beyond this is exciting. And I get the feeling that no two peoples experiences are going to be the same with this one. Just so much in there to do. If this is maintained over the whole map then wow.
Now to work out what/how to upskill effectively. I seem to have the dodging pretty much nailed so thinking Iād like to stick to that but add a decent weapon and some magic stuff. Quite keen to do some spells in this play though.
Last thing, this really is the most accessible of From Softwares games Iāve experienced. It has some very challenging sections but grants the freedom to skip past huge sections of challenge. Want to take it easy and level up at your own pace? Fine, go off and do that and youāll uncover heaps. Sites of Grace seem more populous too.
Anyway, enough of the gushing. Now to do some reading to work out what some of the stuff Iāve collected actually doesā¦
Edit: some performance drops on Series X for me. Frame rate drops and the likes. Not enough to ruin things but enough to hope for patches to fix soon.
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First crash on PS4 in front of first castle boss, the game could be closed and restarted though.
Gosh dang you guysā¦Iāve spent the past couple days looking for good prices on Xbox series Sās partially because of the enthusiasm on this thread.
And Iām not a souls fan. I didnāt even crack into it. First boss and I was out.
Heck all yāall
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This was hard and brutal. I expected some ease into things, but the first thing you meet just demolished me. Then i didnt find the ātutorialā. haha. My girlfriend where reading up on tips and tricks, while i desperately tried to stay alive. haha.
Still not sure if this is a game for me. But will give it some time to see if i āget itā.
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Well, Iāll say this as a first time Souls player - if I didnāt have the context, Dark Souls doesnāt present itself very well at first. And Iām not talking about difficulty. The opening level is a bleak dungeon with mostly narrow corridors. The classes I can pick are fairly standard RPG stuff. My first enemies are zombies. My first items are swords, shields and healing potions. My first puzzle is to find a key that unlocks a door. And the devs more or less ignores default Switch control mapping and just went āOh, I suppose we could put this one ā¦ here? No? Yeah? Okay, silence means yes. Letās continue.ā
It doesnāt exactly hit me with high concept brilliance. Itās as if itās not even trying to be interesting at first. Itās not even average dark fantasy, itās like a demo level of shaders, textures and mechanics.
Then along comes the first boss, of course ā¦ and thatās when you get an idea (if you didnāt have context), okay, this is different.
And having just finished Hades, spent an hour with Hyperlight Drifter, eyed Dead Cells and Transistor for download, of course Iām dazzled with strong conceptual presentations right now.
So Iām not saying I donāt think Dark Souls can be as brilliant as you all say. Iām just saying, it doesnāt bother much at first talking me into how great it is. Not that it has so 
if youāre the boss of boss levels, I suppose you donāt have to care about such things anyway
Are you talking about the Tree Sentinel? That is FromSoftās message to newcomers that theyāll need to play this game differently. Youāre not supposed to be able to take that guy immediately.
Edit: He speaks!
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You are not, but I made myself available for summoning and with 2 other guys we pummelled the bastard. Praise the sun!
Also, Iām in love with the rolling sheep.
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I tried this guy once and immediately thought ānopeā and just wandered off. Wasnāt sureif it was my wretch that was not up to task or if it was deliberate. Didnāt even realise that was his name
Anyway, heās on my hit list to return to and batter.
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Yes this all checks out and yet, in my humble opinion, itās the greatest work of art made this century, without a doubt. Nothing has effected me as that game did. It took something from me and put something else in its place, it left such a deep and lasting impression, even to this day I can still feel itās effects reverberating within me.
What looked like mediocre and generic dark fantasy at first, looked like something akin to Shakespeare or Homer when it was all said and done. Itās weird I know, I saw the same intro cinematic you just saw 
What seems like āhealing potionsā is actually an estus flask, estus is bottled fire, thatās why you refill your flask when you rest at a bonfire.
This might seem like a trivial detail, I know, yet in the sum total of all these little narrative details, the game expresses something very deep and profound. It simply does so in a much more solemn, silent and contemplative way. The difficulty simply forces you to be quiet, listen, observe, be presentā¦ that is if you wish to proceedā¦itās perfectly fine without you, it doesnāt need you, itās actually pretty bluntly upfront about that.
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If I wasnāt already intending to preservere a bit longer, your words wouldāve talked me into it now. Iāll keep them by my side as I have another and another and yet another go at that dungeon boss.
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Excellent
Btw What class did you pick?
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