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Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002
Turd taster amiibos

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The Anime Liker
Aug 8, 2009

by VideoGames

galagazombie posted:

I’m probably wrong about this because I’m not hip with the youths these days, but it seems like Nintendo is the only big video game company that actually has a good merch hustle going on. You don’t see Ranni lunchboxes or Dung Eater t-shirts like you do Mario and Pikachu.

No that's about right. Pokemon, Nintendo, Halo, Minecraft, and Mortal Kombat are pretty much it as far as ubiquitous game merch.

And other than Pokemon, those don't even begin to scratch the surface of something like Star Wars or Evangelion or DC/Marvel.

The Anime Liker
Aug 8, 2009

by VideoGames

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Turd taster amiibos

Everyone itt would absolutely buy a Poopoo Man plushie that says "I'll defile yer corpse"

Kegluneq
Feb 18, 2011

Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

A Dung Eater lunchbox might stop people stealing your food at school or work I guess.

I assume everyone with a physical edition of the game got the little bag of goodies with it? I have no idea what to use my Elden Ring patch on but it looks cool!

galagazombie
Oct 31, 2011

A silly little mouse!
I just had a horrible thought of one of those stereotypical “The cast all reimagined in modern clothing” fanarts that are so popular and Dung Eater would be wearing a t-shirt that said Loathsome in like, a metal band font.

No Dignity
Oct 15, 2007

He's got it tatooed on his forehead like the Leto Joker

Trickyblackjack
Feb 13, 2012
Has anyone said foreskin duo yet

Trickyblackjack
Feb 13, 2012

Trickyblackjack posted:

Has anyone said foreskin duo yet

Edit: lol owned them with bernhal. We actually had to wait around for them to respawn

Astrochicken
Aug 13, 2007

So you better go back to your bars, your temples
Your massage parlors!

You know what this game could use? Lost Ark-style instant resurrection using premium currency. Make it like 10 cents a pop so 10 per 99 cents or like 40 for 2 american dollars they'd make a bajillion trillion dollars.

Rick
Feb 23, 2004
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.
I'm so used to the high level spells in these games sucking that I didn't even bother to use Ranni's moon even though I've been well above 68 for a while. drat this thing is fresh. Even seems to have some armor when you cast it?

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Hilario Baldness posted:

I've found that with corpse piler move off Rivers of Blood that you can knock her down when she jumps up into the air to do the Anime Flurry. If you're close and have no way of feasibly running away from her, just knock her down with that move. I'm assuming it'll work with other weapons. If I'm a distance away I'll run away from the first two flurries, try and dodge the third (usually fail), then away from that last blast that she does when she regains her stance. Then knock the poo poo out of her again before she thinks to do that move again.

Just beat her for the second time on Saturday. Took me about ten attempts.

Maybe the vermin threads work for this? It certainly worked on me when I tried to do the anime moves at them.

Guillermus
Dec 28, 2009



The Anime Liker posted:

Everyone itt would absolutely buy a Poopoo Man plushie that says "I'll defile yer corpse"

drat right :hmmyes:

I leveled arcane to 16, faith to 27 (40vig, 24mind, 16end, 18str, 18dex, 11int) and I'm loving sniping stuff with frenzy blast. I'm Cyclops but actually cooler because up close I'm using a lightning infused claymore with Giant Hunt ash.

What are the recommend seals for someone that aims to get 45FTH/45ARC? I'll mix frenzy stuff with rot/bleed.

Strom Cuzewon
Jul 1, 2010

galagazombie posted:

Holy crap the sellia sorceries don’t trigger the input read dodge on human enemies including even Melania, because they’re invisible.

Another cool Sellia thing is the ghost wizards stay invisible to anyone too far away. So if you wander off in co-op youll see your mate wildly fighting the air.

White Light
Dec 19, 2012

Guillermus posted:

drat right :hmmyes:

I leveled arcane to 16, faith to 27 (40vig, 24mind, 16end, 18str, 18dex, 11int) and I'm loving sniping stuff with frenzy blast. I'm Cyclops but actually cooler because up close I'm using a lightning infused claymore with Giant Hunt ash.

What are the recommend seals for someone that aims to get 45FTH/45ARC? I'll mix frenzy stuff with rot/bleed.

Blood thorn whips baby! Or pair one with Uzumi(?) whip, one on your dominant hand for some extra range, that T-1000 stab is no joke in a pinch, pair it with frenzy for (102) poison attack and bonus default 52 on blood loss, some real good poo poo

Guillermus
Dec 28, 2009



Parrotine posted:

Blood thorn whips baby! Or pair one with Uzumi(?) whip, one on your dominant hand for some extra range, that T-1000 stab is no joke in a pinch, pair it with frenzy for (102) poison attack and bonus default 52 on blood loss, some real good poo poo

Yeah, got the Urumi from Caria Manor. Need to look where the Blood Thorn one drops.

I hate that I want to do all the Volcano Manor stuff before killing Rykard for the amazing Blasphemous Blade but hey, I can wait until I unlock Mountaintop with other cool stuff.

Captain France
Aug 3, 2013
To be fair to DS1 side quests, they're all easy to follow until their bad ends, which are at least ends.

I lost track of every NPC that wasn't in the hold for most of the game.


Also the things for the good endings aren't obvious, but at least they're not obvious solutions to good endings that don't exist! I had multiple maxed out weapons by the time I set the Erdtree aflame, I should have been able to tell Hewg I was on my way to claim the ring, and that he'd made a weapon to kill a god, and that he should probably leave. Maybe with either a promise to do so soon, maybe with a very obvious ask multiple times if you're sure you want to lock out smithing for the rest of the run, but seriously there's a bad end that should be super avoidable!

Von Linus
Apr 6, 2006
I complete me.
Just cracked 115 hours, took down Godrick, Radagon (cheesily), Morgot and have started the jjourney past the bounds of the Leyndell Capital to the mountains. I am having an absolute whale of a time. I think I'm about level 100, and I'm just grinding out the fights. Either Bloodhound Fang or a couple of scimitars with bleed. I am not a good dodger and parrying is tricky.

It's so much fun, and around every corner is some drat thing. A nice weird hosed up building, some bastard dragon, THE WINDMILLS. all just lovely stuff. I don't know that it feels like a real world but the abundance of imagination is staggering.

Also maximum respect on people who help me beat bosses. I bow the first time I call them in , then if I get killed and summon the same people again, I abase myself before them.

I do think it's a bit annoying having to check everything to make sure I'm not missing something on my phone. Small price to pay though, it's working out about .60 cent an hour so far. That's value right there.

Fruits of the sea
Dec 1, 2010

Von Linus posted:

Also maximum respect on people who help me beat bosses. I bow the first time I call them in , then if I get killed and summon the same people again, I abase myself before them.

It's our pleasure :)

Summoning pools are great, I basically get to play boss roulette while I'm exploring an area. A little disappointing when the host dies instantly to Radahn's arrows or whatevs, but good times.

Also, I apologize to every host who watched me try some stupid move out of curiosity and promptly eat poo poo. Sometimes they work (spamming halberd R1 stunlocks way more bosses than more than you think it would, Golden Slam trivializes almost anything that doesn't) other times.. well just because a weapon art looks cool doesn't mean its good.

E:

Von Linus posted:

It's so much fun, and around every corner is some drat thing. A nice weird hosed up building, some bastard dragon, THE WINDMILLS. all just lovely stuff. I don't know that it feels like a real world but the abundance of imagination is staggering.

One thing I appreciate is that just about all the hostile npcs have a reason for being where they are. The nobles are scavenging from ruins and sites of battle, the soldiers are at their respective frontlines or escorting valuables and even most of the mini-dungeon bosses have a reason for their presence. Likely the first dungeon new players enter has the Beastman of Farum Azula hiding there, which starts to make sense 100 hours later. These are little details, but a lot of rpgs neglect that and just place enemies thematically without thinking about why they are there.

Still don't know what the hell is up with those gladiators though.

Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 12:23 on May 3, 2022

skasion
Feb 13, 2012

Why don't you perform zazen, facing a wall?

Fruits of the sea posted:

It's our pleasure :)

Summoning pools are great, I basically get to play boss roulette while I'm exploring an area. A little disappointing when the host dies instantly to Radahn's arrows or whatevs, but good times.

Also, I apologize to every host who watched me try some stupid move out of curiosity and promptly eat poo poo. Sometimes they work (spamming halberd R1 stunlocks way more bosses than more than you think it would, Golden Slam trivializes almost anything that doesn't) other times.. well just because a weapon art looks cool doesn't mean its good.

E:

One thing I appreciate is that just about all the hostile npcs have a reason for being where they are. The nobles are scavenging from ruins and sites of battle, the soldiers are at their respective frontlines or escorting valuables and even most of the mini-dungeon bosses have a reason for their presence. Likely the first dungeon new players enter has the Beastman of Farum Azula hiding there, which starts to make sense 100 hours later. These are little details, but a lot of rpgs neglect that and just place enemies thematically without thinking about why they are there.

Still don't know what the hell is up with those gladiators though.

The gladiators are relics of the age of Godfrey, they used to fight beasts in those big colosseums that you can’t get into. The practice died out under the Golden Order so now they have no job and beat you up for free.

Horace Kinch
Aug 15, 2007

The Anime Liker posted:

And it's good manners to have a bow or a funny greeting like the skirt twirl to acknowledge each other. A lot of noobs just crouch. Same deal.

The true greeting is to spin in circles and mash L1

TheKnife
Jan 24, 2009

skasion posted:

Millicent’s quest is still nowhere near as insane as Solaire’s or Siegmeyer’s, sorry. It’s basically just “find this lady another guy told you about, now find her again, now find her again, now find her again…” for the entire second half of the games. It’s kind of dumb but there is no fail state short of just missing her, in which case the quest will wait forever for you to complete it.

To avoid getting Solaire’s bad end you have to donate 30 humanity to a covenant that isn’t even related to him in any way to unlock a secret door to another zone and then go kill a specific harmless enemy that nothing in the game tells you to kill before you enter the same zone by a different way. Your reward for this is: a summon for the final boss.

To avoid getting Siegmeyer’s bad end, you have to let him fight a mob of five enemies any of which can kill him, failing the quest. What’s that? You tried to kill the enemies for him to game the system? gently caress you, bad end. He didn’t die or get bad end? Good news: he moves to a secret, completely unrelated zone miles away without any hint that that’s where he’s going. Now you can get his good end, in which he dies anyway.

Batshit.

At least with Solaire and Siegmeyer it's easy to get an ending, instead of them just being introduced and then never seeing them again for the rest of the game

codo27
Apr 21, 2008

I'm just thinking about that battle between the knights and the club monkey guys not far from the beginning and how I cant recall ever seeing anything else like that after? Oh wait there were some guys fighting wolves in the snow.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

codo27 posted:

I'm just thinking about that battle between the knights and the club monkey guys not far from the beginning and how I cant recall ever seeing anything else like that after? Oh wait there were some guys fighting wolves in the snow.

There's a bunch of soldiers fighting dino dogs outside Radahn's castle

giZm
Jul 7, 2003

Only the insane equates pain with success

codo27 posted:

I'm just thinking about that battle between the knights and the club monkey guys not far from the beginning and how I cant recall ever seeing anything else like that after? Oh wait there were some guys fighting wolves in the snow.
Knights fighting ghosts in Liurnia. Weeping Peninsula you can kite demi-humans into the resting knights and dogs. The wall of Castle Morne. Demi-humans vs bats(?) in Mountain Tops.

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

loads of npc fighting in this game. you can kite the Magma Wyrm in the snow area to fight against the land octopuses

HaB
Jan 5, 2001

What are the odds?
Saw a build guide for an Archer that looked fun and decided to give it a try.

it IS fun!

Longbow in left hand, Shortbow in right.

The shortbow is your bread and butter. You have to play it like Legolas - constantly running and jumping and shooting. The shortbow can be fired while jumping, and a Jump shot + a followup is WAY faster that 2 regular shots, plus the jumpshot will headshot maybe 25-30% of the time, and maybe 10% of the time, can go OVER a shield.

Use Mighty Shot on the Longbow as your opener, and keep firing it until they get close enough to switch the Shortbow, then go full Legolas on they rear end. Use Barrage to apply status effects via arrows. (Been using bleed and fire so far - both great).

Following a 100% guide this time since I wanna complete my Trophies, and have done all of Limgrave, Weeping, and just started Liurnia.

Been fun as hell so far. I keep Reduvia/Buckler as a backup in case someone REALLY wants a hug.

Edit: should you try this, the BEST place I have found so far to farm Thin Beast Bones is, just south of Church of Pilgrimage. There are 3 large packs of sheep as you keep going south, 8-10 each pack.

This is important because you will SCRAMBLE for arrows at first. The reglas ones you can get from Kale at 20/per will be bread and butter as well. I ended up just treating it like vials in Bloodborne. Level up, then spend any extra runes on Arrows.

HaB fucked around with this message at 13:43 on May 3, 2022

Dyz
Dec 10, 2010

galagazombie posted:

I just had a horrible thought of one of those stereotypical “The cast all reimagined in modern clothing” fanarts that are so popular and Dung Eater would be wearing a t-shirt that said Loathsome in like, a metal band font.

Just ping this twitter with your request:

https://twitter.com/EldenRingFanart/status/1520072730875465728?s=20&t=VMxk5sIA912fAE0tz5awUA

Fruits of the sea
Dec 1, 2010

Using ashes kind of at random and holy poo poo the greatshield soldier ashes put in work. They tanked Ordovis with ease while I put the other crucible knight down. Almost too bad, the fight has kind of an Ornstein and Smough vibe without summons.

The Anime Liker
Aug 8, 2009

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repiv
Aug 13, 2009

https://twitter.com/conkface/status/1521336429871255557

Mesadoram
Nov 4, 2009

Serious Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0CLgezBAew

Got this urge to try out fist weapons now...

Flytrap
Apr 30, 2013
So I spent. Literal days fighting Godfrey on co-op. Trying out dozens of different build ideas. Learned every punish window.

Ongbal still managed to teach me a dozen things about him I didn't pick up.

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe

Flytrap posted:

So I spent. Literal days fighting Godfrey on co-op. Trying out dozens of different build ideas. Learned every punish window.

Ongbal still managed to teach me a dozen things about him I didn't pick up.

This man has hardly any health bar.

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

withak posted:

This man has hardly any health bar.

He’s at the point where he’s fighting every boss with whatever stupid gimmick he can think of.

A health bar would hold him back

Flytrap
Apr 30, 2013

withak posted:

This man has hardly any health bar.

When you're dedicated to no-hit only you don't really need vig.

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

the run between Dragon Temple Rooftop and Beside the Great Bridge is the biggest load of poo poo in the game

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
Now that I have beaten the game I would like to listen to a lore video. Any good videos or series that give complete run downs?

WaltherFeng
May 15, 2013

50 thousand people used to live here. Now, it's the Mushroom Kingdom.
Traitors one and all.

Morgott's Night Riders covenant.

precision
May 7, 2006

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i found a turtle that sells me magic spells

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withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe

precision posted:

i found a turtle that sells me magic spells

He can get lonely, so make sure to come back and visit him at night!

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