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cheetah7071 posted:personally I found the chance I'd have a good time after the boss music starts playing to be under 50% in elden ring That was about my experience, too. My major issue was that the amount of waiting needed to respond to most bosses, especially with heavier weapons, was excessive to the point of being boring instead of engaging. I think my favorite boss was, funnily enough, Mohg, since he hits a good balance between attack timings, has clearly punishable windows, and changes what he does in his second phase just enough to be interesting while still not dramatically disengaging from the first phase's moveset. It has me worried for future mainline Fromsoft titles, because they're clearly butting up against the limits of the "basic" Souls style of combat without much willingness to innovate in anything outside their more experimental titles like Sekiro.
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i mean hell the very first healthbar boss you fight is then repeated like a billion times all over limgrave
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I loved pretty much everything about Elden Ring
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Kerrzhe posted:i mean hell the very first healthbar boss you fight is then repeated like a billion times all over limgrave There's only one grafted scion in outside of Stormveil in Limgrave isn't there?
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Andrast posted:I loved pretty much everything about Elden Ring Same, don’t really mind the repeat bosses
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Andrast posted:I loved pretty much everything about Elden Ring It's the perfect game
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Andrast posted:I loved pretty much everything about Elden Ring Same but also DS2
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I do think that next time I would like to see them depart even more from the "mainline Souls" gameplay style. Borrow more from Sekiro maybe with deflecting attacks and pressing the advantage being a more important part, or just go in a different, new direction. I do really, really love Elden Ring. I've had a fantastic time with it and I am drat sure I will play it a third and fourth time and buy and play any and all DLC, too. The world design alone is amazing and the combat is fun enough that I always wanted to engage with it. But there's always room to be better and I think the combat design is, to me, the clearest place where some evolution would be welcome.
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They should make an Armored Core or a Cookies and Cream next
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Apparently they've been focus testing a new Armored Core.
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stev posted:There's only one grafted scion in outside of Stormveil in Limgrave isn't there? damnit i forgot about the grafted scion no i was talking about Soldier of Godrick
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One thing that's worth noting about Elden Ring and the follow-up it'll definitely get one day is that there's always going to be a trade off between tightly-focused mechanics and being as wide open and freeform as something like Elden Ring. Like you're never going to have a game with the mechanical focus and precise balance of Sekiro and the build variety and open-endedness of Elden Ring. Which is fine by me, I didn't really expect that from Elden Ring and I think what Elden Ring gained in the trade was absolutely worth it, but it's something that I think gets lost in discussion about Elden Ring's combat and balance. That Elden Ring's combat is as good and mechanically tight as it is is pretty drat remarkable.
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idk if Elden Ring will make my top 10 this year but so far I've only played ffxiv/sifu/yu-gi-oh master duel and the snes version of super mario kart so maybe it has a chance
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Hero's path mode when!!
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External Organs posted:Hero's path mode when!!
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I think they should take a hint from Monster Hunter and remove the health bar from Elden Ring and add an entire suite of wounded animations. And also let you carve dead bosses.
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:I think they should take a hint from Monster Hunter and remove the health bar from Elden Ring and add an entire suite of wounded animations. And also let you carve dead bosses. Also more weapons should explode on a regular basis and also there should be an insect glaive
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Itll almost certainly be in my top 5 I'm just complaining because the dungeons were so good that every time something less good came up I got annoyed at the quality mismatch Right now it's number 2 and it's not obvious what on the horizon would bump it down further but, you can never know the future
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It would have to be an insane rest of the year for Elden Ring not to make my year-end list, almost certainly in the one or two spot depending on what else comes out. Hard to say. If Yakuza 8 somehow materializes out of nowhere and is anywhere near as good as 7 then it'll be a real tough fight for #1. I'm finally pulling out of its gravitational pull so I've been playing Stranger of Paradise and I'm about to finally start Triangle Strategy.
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There is almost no chance Elden Ring isn't gonna be my number 1.
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Andrast posted:Make a new Shadow Tower cowards
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SOP got overshadowed a little by elden ring but even putting aside the memes it's a solid final fantasy game. i'm a little way into TriStrat and the combat is very fun but someone forgot to tell the writers the most important rule for when you wrote a complex and engaging fantasy setting that needs a lot of exposition: no you didn't
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i have a complicated relationship with elden ring after finishing it, because i remember spending most of my playtime either tense, nervous, or outright miserable and i have hard time saying if i actually had fun or not
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Relax Or DIE posted:SOP got overshadowed a little by elden ring but even putting aside the memes it's a solid final fantasy game. So far my only real complaint is that I don't think I like the MP system. For the majority of the playtime it's cool, but I don't like how it creates a negative feedback loop if you die multiple times to a boss. If I die to a boss after going in with 6 full MP bars, it's pretty disheartening to be down to 2 bars a couple of tries later and feel like I'm already going in at a big disadvantage. Otherwise the game's a lot of fun. It helps that I don't really mind being inundated with loot--I liked Nioh, I'm used to it.
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I'm hopeful for starfield because I like space pew pew pew!!!
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drat, what a year Elden Ring, Horizon, FFSoP, Triangle Strategy, Tunic, Rune Factory, Weird West And we've still got like, new Somnium Files, Saints Row, Two Point Campus, My Time At Sandrock, Shogun Ceanataur's Big God drat Game, Starfield, Soul Hackers... what a time for gaming...my god...
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Anyways I'm just gonna play Vampire Survivors. Pew pew get that gem son.
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Harrow posted:So far my only real complaint is that I don't think I like the MP system. For the majority of the playtime it's cool, but I don't like how it creates a negative feedback loop if you die multiple times to a boss. If I die to a boss after going in with 6 full MP bars, it's pretty disheartening to be down to 2 bars a couple of tries later and feel like I'm already going in at a big disadvantage. It's probably not optimal but at the point I'm at I basically just hit the optimize gear button every so often and it seems to work ok
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Arzaac posted:It's probably not optimal but at the point I'm at I basically just hit the optimize gear button every so often and it seems to work ok If it's anything like Nioh then just raw item level is probably more important than anything else for the majority of the main story, at least on normal difficulty. There's probably a specific point at which job affinity becomes more important but I don't know exactly when that is yet. I'm not using the optimize button myself but that's just because I am sometimes willing to sacrifice item level for fashion.
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Saint Freak posted:Anyways I'm just gonna play Vampire Survivors. Pew pew get that gem son. i uninstalled this game because it is a trap for ADHD brain Arzaac posted:It's probably not optimal but at the point I'm at I basically just hit the optimize gear button every so often and it seems to work ok i did this all the way through to credits, so just like Nioh just equipping biggest number is fine until sometime in the post game. the MP system can be a little punishing though a lot of the time in boss fights i was just spending it only on regen/cure spells anyway. i'm not sure i remembered to use the lightbringer ability more than once or twice the entire game
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Saint Freak posted:drat, what a year One more month until one of my GOTY contenders, baybee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwGU4d9USIM We also got a new Pokemon in the beginning of the year and another new Pokemon later.
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I watched a video on the Internet about the From game Shadow Tower, and they should make something like that, but with good controls.
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External Organs posted:I'm hopeful for starfield because I like space pew pew pew!!! I am really excited for Starfield even though I know I shouldn't be. We haven't even seen any actual gameplay yet, just Todd Howards promises, and he has a history of being full of poo poo.
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Whizzing Wizard posted:I watched a video on the Internet about the From game Shadow Tower, and they should make something like that, but with good controls. how different was it from king's field?
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I would be legit not upset if the new Armored Core was pretty much Souls with Mechs. I am not excited that much from Betheseda's stuff. Elden Ring has spoiled me when it comes to open worlds now.
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I said come in! posted:I am really excited for Starfield even though I know I shouldn't be. We haven't even seen any actual gameplay yet, just Todd Howards promises, and he has a history of being full of poo poo. Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing some gameplay footage this summer. Either way it'll be an easy day 1 gamepass download so the personal cost is pretty minimal. I enjoy the vibes of the technology being kind of retro futuristic. Video games, good!
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Rinkles posted:how different was it from king's field?  
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External Organs posted:Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing some gameplay footage this summer. Either way it'll be an easy day 1 gamepass download so the personal cost is pretty minimal. Hell yeah, this makes it much easier being on gamepass. It costs nothing, so the disappointment will be minimal. It's just important to not listen to anything Howard actually says about his game, he is already doing his usual song and dance with things that are very clearly not true at all.
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Relax Or DIE posted:SOP got overshadowed a little by elden ring but even putting aside the memes it's a solid final fantasy game. they did
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