Anybody excited about Elden Ring?

deckard · Post by **deckard** » 11 Jul 2022, 04:31

you should be melting that boss my dude

User · Post by **User** » 12 Jul 2022, 08:20

yeah i just got up to the fire giant and died once

i was quite meticulous

anyway now the controller has been put in the vault until the research for this new book is over. i wish i could have beaten it in the last two months but i just couldn't give it the time apparently ... 160 hours was not enough

deckard · Post by **deckard** » 17 Jul 2022, 03:53

i mean with those hours you level should be enough but i dont know how you are playing

im no expert but i really felt too levelled up by the end

deckard · Post by **deckard** » 17 Jul 2022, 03:53

you've still got a long way to go after that

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 17 Jul 2022, 06:47

ehh, if you can reach fire giant you can bumrush the end of the game in an hour

though i suppose that does require familiarity with the route through farum azula. assuming one has no interest in haligtree and such as well, so on and so forth

User · Post by **User** » 17 Jul 2022, 09:03

i will exhaust every area ...

... when i have earned it

for now i must focus, and that requires becoming The Anti-Gamer

deckard · Post by **deckard** » 24 Jul 2022, 04:23

jawn galliano wrote: ↑
17 Jul 2022, 06:47
ehh, if you can reach fire giant you can bumrush the end of the game in an hour

though i suppose that does require familiarity with the route through farum azula. assuming one has no interest in haligtree and such as well, so on and so forth

yeah, no doubt but for first play through, there is quite a bit left to digest

when i did NG 2 3, after fire giant it was game over

im not doing haligtree ever again

deckard · Post by **deckard** » 24 Jul 2022, 04:23

ok i probably will

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 24 Jul 2022, 08:29

yeah i didn't touch haligtree at all in NG+/++

eventually i'll get this on PC as well and i'll probably do the full achievements there as well

User · Post by **User** » 24 Jul 2022, 08:44

so it sounds like there is still a bit of the game waiting for me. i don't know where the haligtree is or how to access it. when i get back to it i will have forgotten everything anyway, like what is remaining to be cleared etc.

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 24 Jul 2022, 08:46

you get there with the lift to mountaintops, but you need both halves of the secret medallion. one half is in castle sol, i think the other half is in uhh... albinauric village?

deckard · Post by **deckard** » 07 Aug 2022, 03:18

lol yeah you need the southern part of the mountaintops and then go north to a place and have fun with that area...

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 07 Aug 2022, 09:18

liturgical town more like SHITurgical town am i fucking right

deckard · Post by **deckard** » 13 Aug 2022, 03:57

yeah pretty horrible but luckily it unlocks one of the worst areas with the hardest boss, just get it done ok

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 19 Dec 2022, 03:57

Ok so I got this for Xmas. Haven't played much in the way of souls games. How screwed am I?

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 19 Dec 2022, 05:08

"stroke me, for i wish to orgasm" hard to say. i think there's kind of an advantage in that you're probably going to be more likely to play the game as intended, e.g., using spirit ashes and summons in boss encounters. soulsborne players are loathe to enlist help but a lot of the encounters in this game are really tuned with the expectation that there's going to be more than one body present in the arena. you will likely struggle a lot at first but if you can get past margit you should be able to handle most of the rest of what it throws at you

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 19 Dec 2022, 05:52

My wife has been playing at a fellating lover's place and is currently stuck on Margit. I will tackle this thing as patiently as possible.

zim · Post by **zim** » 19 Dec 2022, 08:26

learn to treat combat like a rhythm game. every enemy has a set amount of moves and you'll start to recognize which move they're about to do when they start an attack.

don't be greedy with your attacks, when there's an opening go in for 1 to 2 hits and then get out, wait for your next opening, repeat. sometimes you have to wait a long time to even go in for an attack, it's all about patience. play slow and methodical

find a weapon that feels good, upgrade it, use spirit summons. use the npc summons outside boss gates. putting points into health if nice but doing more damage is good too

slugbait · Post by **slugbait** » 19 Dec 2022, 08:44

Appreciate the advice. I've started as a prisoner and managed to almost clear out the first camp

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » 19 Dec 2022, 13:55

zim wrote: ↑
19 Dec 2022, 08:26
learn to treat combat like a rhythm game. every enemy has a set amount of moves and you'll start to recognize which move they're about to do when they start an attack.

don't be greedy with your attacks, when there's an opening go in for 1 to 2 hits and then get out, wait for your next opening, repeat. sometimes you have to wait a long time to even go in for an attack, it's all about patience. play slow and methodical

find a weapon that feels good, upgrade it, use spirit summons. use the npc summons outside boss gates. putting points into health if nice but doing more damage is good too

life advice

Grudge · Post by **Grudge** » 23 Dec 2022, 00:54

I have not yet gotten this game. I think I'm going to wait until a few expansions have come out and the price goes down too.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » 23 Dec 2022, 02:05

you are good with money

Grudge · Post by **Grudge** » 23 Dec 2022, 02:25

That is false. The majority of my savings are tied up in stock investments that are currently down to 40% of the value I bought them at.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » 23 Dec 2022, 02:44

youre just saying that to make me feel better

zim · Post by **zim** » 23 Dec 2022, 02:55

i bought $100 worth of bitcoin like a year or two ago, it's worth about 30 bucks now

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » 23 Dec 2022, 02:56

yea but youve probably grown as a person

zim · Post by **zim** » 23 Dec 2022, 02:56

not in any positive way

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » 23 Dec 2022, 02:57

i just mean, in some sense at least, youve gained a few pounds

zim · Post by **zim** » 23 Dec 2022, 03:07

yeah i've gained like 20lbs in the last two years thanks

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » 23 Dec 2022, 03:07

yea me too

Methuselah Honeysuckle · Post by **Methuselah Honeysuckle** » 23 Dec 2022, 04:41

Was it all dick weight?

deckard · Post by **deckard** » 07 Jan 2023, 04:06

pretty excited still about elden ring

User · Post by **User** » 07 Jan 2023, 10:12

i never finished it after 160 hours and going back to it feels like too much work

zim · Post by **zim** » 07 Jan 2023, 11:49

how did you not finish after 160 hours

User · Post by **User** » 07 Jan 2023, 15:22

well i was at that frostbitten giant mountaintop so i was pretty close i think

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 08 Jan 2023, 07:47

you only have like three mandatory bosses left before the final boss rush. hop to it!

User · Post by **User** » 09 Jan 2023, 14:19

you remind me! I got to the frost giant, he killed me once, and i have not played since then

zim · Post by **zim** » 09 Jan 2023, 14:35

summon IRON FIST ALEXANDER!

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 09 Jan 2023, 19:53

hone rivers of blood to use against everything that bleeds

hone sword of night and flame for everything that doesn't

enjoy cruising thru the rest of the game on ezmode

User · Post by **User** » 10 Jan 2023, 12:04

what are those things, i never had those things

i was using the lava boss' sword with its special attacks, fruital

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » 11 Jan 2023, 02:06

makes sense. thats literally the gayest thing you could have done

zim · Post by **zim** » 11 Jan 2023, 04:37

User · Post by **User** » 11 Jan 2023, 13:49

how can sexuality be read into sword special attacks

zim · Post by **zim** » 12 Jan 2023, 03:20

have you not seen a sword

User · Post by **User** » 12 Jan 2023, 10:31

swords are sharp and painful

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » 13 Jan 2023, 03:08

the blunt ones arent sharp

deckard · Post by **deckard** » 14 Jan 2023, 05:19

doing an all quest run using roundtablehold.com checklist

jawn galliano · Post by **jawn galliano** » 14 Jan 2023, 09:28

nice! i cleared leyndell on my new NG file last night at SL60, been running night and flame. after collecting the magic and flame buffs and upgrading it to +9 it's honestly stupid. spent my midgame boss bounty on vigor and mind, tyrna pump these bars for mountaintops and beyond. i need to do some cleanup in the early game areas though, still need to take out volcano manor and radhan and do ranni's quest so i can get access to mimic tear and tiche. almost done with seluvis', which i skipped entirely on my first playthrough.

zim · Post by **zim** » 14 Jan 2023, 15:14

is tiche the best spirit summon? either that or mimic?

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » 14 Jan 2023, 16:48

the word quest reminds me of shane gillis