Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin
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Tuco
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I think people who use a gamepad for camera control just don't bother looking around. The game will decide what they should see and they must accept their fate.
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This is wrong. I pan around constantly, standing still, running around, riding horse, combat, falling off a cliff. Constantly panning.
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Rajaah
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Code Vein has a similar meta to this where you could buff up and then knock off bosses super fast. I mean the game is easy enough that you don't need to do it, but it exists.
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Anyone know what type of build this mage is? I’m getting tired of just melee and bow and would like to switch it up. Being able to do some long range to replace the bow, still be able to melee, and some mid range stuff like he’s got going on is what I’d like to be able to do. I’m not going to be good like this mage of course, but I want to mix up my playstyle from my first 50 hours.
Great battle btw, worth a watch.
It looks to me like a katana, and a staff. I have no idea what skills he’s using or what stats to do. I’ve only done very low level magic. Guessing mostly faith, dex, and a little int?
Great battle btw, worth a watch.
It looks to me like a katana, and a staff. I have no idea what skills he’s using or what stats to do. I’ve only done very low level magic. Guessing mostly faith, dex, and a little int?
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Yeah, I was thinking earlier about how Elden Ring falls directly into that same category as Everquest and Morrowind in terms of having a whole world to explore that feels alive and interesting. It's SO RARE in gaming to have that experience. The turn of the century was the last time games like this were at-all prevalent. I never played or even heard of Gothic, looking it up now. I did get the Baldur's Gate Remastered Duo on PS4 and I'm really looking forward to that when I've got another hundred hours to spare, after everything I've heard about it.
It's kinda sad, in 1999-2001 I thought games like UO/EQ/BG/BG2/Morrowind were gonna be the norm going forward and the wave of the future etc. Instead we got WoW making most MMOs into theme parks and single-player AAA games drifted way in another direction. LOTRO in 2009 or so was kind of cool in the way I'm describing, but it's the last MMO I tried that had that feeling. Fallout 3 as well. In a weird way, ER is like recapturing something I thought I lost a long time ago.
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The clouds on the overworld map DO seem kind of strategically-placed. I bet those are there in case they want to add areas later. They can get rid of a cloud and put an island there easily enough, without being forced to only use areas that exist on the current map. This cloud in the center sea in particular is probably #1 in terms of most-likely places for DLC.
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You can get all 3 endings in one game if you back up your save. The endings are all decided right after the final boss, from what I can tell, so you can exit out of the game and back up your save at that point to try different things in the final room and get different endings. I was able to get two of the three ending trophies like this, unfortunately I didn't do the questline for the third. Kinda wanted to leave some stuff for NG+ though.
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Thanks. I do have an int based katana but not that one, haven’t found it yet. I guess I can try switching it up til I find that and see how it goes.
Tuco
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I like the respec mechanism in the game but it'd probably be better if you unlocked it earlier. Like instead of
a demigod you use as your respec bitch, it's someone in your crew like Melina or someone at the roundtable that unlocks it with getting your first great rune
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TJT
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There's an assplunge spell. You fall and look like you're taking a huge shit and land on dudes. It's hilarious.
Forgot where I found it though.
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Of all the Souls games I never played a caster. Only melee with a big ass shield. A friend, who has never played a Souls game, picked up Elden Ring and is insisting on playing a caster. My feeling is that casters are playing the game on hard(er) mode. Am I correct?
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I believe that’s the case in early game, but late game no. I’ve seen videos where they just chain cast one spell from across the screen and kill bosses that wreck me as a melee.
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