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Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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Rajaah
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Anyone else notice how like all of the major bosses in this game have names that start with R, M, or G?
It's like how James Cameron's movies all seem to start with either T or A
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That's what drove me nuts about the Radahn fight. Like it could have been an awesome battle, but after a while it was so frustrating that I just ran around spamclicking the NPC summons until the fight ended. Every time I'd try to get in there and mix it up with him, I'd get one-shotted as soon as I made a mistake. So eventually I just shrugged and did it the lame-ass way just to move on.
It really pisses me off that they got rid of the Dislike button to protect multinational corporations and to give media outlets the illusion of consensus because it caused me to waste quite a bit of time in Elden Ring. Whenever I had to look up the location of something, I'd usually pull up at least one terrible video that didn't actually show the info you need, and I'd waste a few minutes on it before I realized this and looked at the comments, whereas with dislikes I would have seen immediately that the video wasn't any good.
Fuckin' hell. "Protecting the mental health of creators by getting rid of dislikes" my ass. Creators CAN STILL SEE THEIR DISLIKES.
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Its because those are three family lines. Renellas children are ranni renna and...uh. some other. Merikas bloodline has Melania etc. Godwyn the golden all he way down to sad God Rick.
Dark souls did thst with gwyn gyndolin gwynovier
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Revised my stats a bit since I'm almost level 200 now from doing everything. Goal is level 255.
60 Vigor, 40 Mind, 30 End, 80 Int, 16 Str, Dex as high as it'll go. 16 Str so that I can still use the Brass Shield even if I unequip the Soreseal for whatever reason. 3 talisman slots is killin' me as a caster.
Overkill on HP/MP? Yeah maybe, but I want overkill for further NG cycles. Dex is like 25 so any further levels are going to that until it gets to 80.
I think I stopped playing Bloodborne at like level 250 so this kind of thing (going way into the levels) isn't new to me. I should be done with this build at level 255.
My flasks are also only +7 so I need to figure out which five Sacred Tears I missed before I go to NG+. Unless you can re-grab ones you already got there? Probably be easier to just do that.
I also think 14 charges is a weird number. I was SURE it went up to 20 like the other Soulsborne games.
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You can disable invasions by disconnecting from the internet, but I don't recommend it, being able to summon people outweighs getting invaded. I think you can only get invaded when you have the item activated that enables summons, or at least that's the only time I've seen it happen.
If you end up getting through this game and liking it a ton, you may want to give Bloodborne another shot. I also gave up on it after a couple of hours and thought it was a pretty shitty game (it was my first Soulsborne game). Was actually gonna return it to the store, and wrote an email to the friends who recommended it about how much it sucked.
The next day I decided to give it another shot and just sorta wander around leveling up (instead of trying to push my way forward like a regular game). I was still gonna return it, and still thought it sucked. However, a few hours into this second chance run, I found that I was actually making progress, unlocking new areas, found a new weapon, etc, and something clicked, and I kept playing. A week later I thought it was the best game of the 2010's and I still do.
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cyrusreij
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Its family lineage. Godfrey is the first Elden Lord and father of Godwyn who is killed by the Black Knife cultists at
Ranni's
Rennala and Radagon's children are Rykard, Ranni and Radahn. R names and shit yo.
They are demigods because they are Radagon's children. Rennala is just a Carian and for the most part a "normal" human, but an exceptional mage. Radagon is the male half of Marika.
Morgott, Mohg, Miquella and Malenia are all children of Marika and
Radagon, and are thus all products of weird incest. This is why they are all fucked up. The twins Morgott and Mohg are Omen Children, and were born with the horns and abandoned underground. The Twins Malenia and Miquella are also fucked. Miquella was stuck forever as a child, which is why you see that creepy image in the opening cinematic of Mohg carrying him. Malenia was born cursed with Scarlet Rot and thus has the prosthesis arm/leg due to them falling off.
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Yeah.
Hatorade
was the first on here I think. I also beat it, and a couple other people. Enough time has gone by that I could have platinum'd it / beaten it a second time as well but I decided RL was semi-important and had to draw a line somewhere. Now I just play it in small doses, maybe a half hour a day to get some exp / go after some of the numerous things I missed.
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So my question is: Did it feel like GRRM had a hand in the story, or did they just pay him 5k and $0.02 perpetuity royalties for licensing his name to them?Yeah.
Legit just trying to figure out the connection there.
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Tuco good shit here, chase the bro is a PvP god though so don't expect it to go as smoothly.
I have watched his unedited streams he literally never loses.
I'm surprised / disappointed he doesn't take advantage of bloodhound's step more. I remember feeling like it wasn't *quite* enough distance covered to really make a build around.
I might try something like this on a future playthrough, I felt like bleed wasn't as powerful in late game PVE as it was early/mid game. But it's so hard to tell.
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Impossible to say. They say that he created a standardish high-fantasy world that was like, Game of Thrones + gods/magic and then they "shattered" it with a cataclysmic event. You play in the 100+ish? year aftermath of that shattered world. But how much influence he had is totally unknowable to anyone but the people involved.
There are parts that feel more grounded in the politics and betrayal that ASOIAF has than than the metaphysical dread usually in soulsbourne games, but it's difficult to say whether that is due to GRRM or just them wanting to have more tangible plotlines or diversity in a massive world.
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Nope, he might have named some places but nothing stands out.
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I have watched his unedited streams he literally never loses.
How do you attack with both weapons at once like he's doing? I've tried dual-wielding and it seems like you can only hit with one, then the other, not both at once. I've seen people with two Ultra Greatswords in Souls 2 swinging both at once and I never knew how that worked either. Course I also haven't spent any real time on this either because I'm pretty reliant on quick shield blocks when I don't think a roll will work.
Dual-wielding blood weapons is pretty appealing but I think I'll stick with Moonveil/sorcery. I never really got to do anything with the Sword of Night and Flame either. There's also a Paladin build with the final boss sword and high Faith. ...geez, you could play this game for a thousand hours, easy.