Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin
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Springbok
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Co-op seems very busted at the minute. The bosses health multiplier seems one or two times too long. I was helping people at the last boss last night using bonk arm/savage lions claw cheese and it was taking for freaking ever to send him to phase two. Solo it was like two cycles of moves, in co-op it was at least 8. Wonder if intended.
Utnayan
F16 patrolling Rajaah until he plays DS3
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Summoning anything other than a mimic, whether it's an NPC or another player, sends Boss HP into the stratosphere.
Learned this with Rellana. I summoned the NPC and also used my Mimic Tear - holy HP.
Went in just using my Mimic Tear and destroyed her.
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Derkon
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Luckily I personally found out you don't need to summon him for the final fight if you still want his gear. It'll be there afterwards. Half the time the dipshit wouldn't even enter the boss arena lol
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Chris
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Shows that quality work and respecting your audience still pays.
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Bald Brah
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Yep. Any FromSoft game is an auto buy for me.
Like Bethesda was before Fallout 76. As if Fallout 4 wasn't bad enough, 76 and ESO put a fork in it.
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Rajaah
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Finally got back to DS3 (Gael and Midir left). Took a stab at Midir. Got him to 40% on the first try. This is the game's toughest fight?
Did significantly worse on the 2nd and 3rd tries though. That seems to happen a lot with these games, you'll fare the best on your first attempt and then slide from there until you finally get it. It's kinda weird. It's also possible SOTE's bosses made DS3's look slow by comparison. That's all for now, I'll give it another shot later and update when DS3's fully-beat.
Did significantly worse on the 2nd and 3rd tries though. That seems to happen a lot with these games, you'll fare the best on your first attempt and then slide from there until you finally get it. It's kinda weird. It's also possible SOTE's bosses made DS3's look slow by comparison. That's all for now, I'll give it another shot later and update when DS3's fully-beat.
Springbok
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Midir is only tough imo for certain builds - his older, faster, harder hitter cousin is present in the ER DLC.
Chris
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I think it's 2nd behind Cyberpunk imo, but it's a worthy debate. Then probably Baldur's Gate.
Kiki
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I definitely like it better than Cyberpunk. I feel like Elden ring has many more viable weapons, so more builds, multiplayer, etc. It also feels more difficult so the sense of accomplishment is better for me. I don't care about story and Elden ring let's me ignore all of it if I choose. It just needs some sex scenes featuring dudes with 10 arms and 10 dicks then some woman with 100s of tits and a dragon head.
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Kirun
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It just goes to show how far amazing world/level design, great encounter design, solid combat mechanics, and "consequences" can take a game.
I know virtually none of the lore, other than some war was fought over a ring or some shit and some dude named Godwyn got pwned? Who gives a fuck. The rest is so goddamn good I don't care.
I think my top 5 all-time are now probably..
1. Elden Ring
2. Starcraft (although, this might be tied with Elden Ring just because of how revolutionary it was for me as a young kid, playing my first "online" game)
3. BG2
4. Mass Effect (I still hold the first one in really high regard, especially my feeling when the credits hit to that Faunts song. Even though they should've called it quits after this one and left the ending ambiguous)
5. BG3
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Rajaah
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Tried a couple more times this evening, all losses.
Midir has so damn much HP that eventually I inevitably run out of Estus. He isn't actually defeating me at any point before that, I'm just losing the attrition war. Every time. At best I get him down to about 40% and then I'm out of estus and it's just a matter of time before I get whacked by an unlucky tail swipe.
May try to defeat Gael first. Decided to finish this game off before I get back into ER+SOTE. I might be done with all of the above by the end of October
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Daidraco
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I was thinking the same thing. Messmer dunked on me for quite a few tries and even after beating him, I was still almost dead.
Bald Brah
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Well I gave in and used fingerprint cheese on Messmer. He basically can't hurt you. Although I didn't poke, I just whacked him with lions claws with the fire knights collosal sword between blocks. With the great shield talisman you never run out of stamina. Really slows the fight down and all his flailing spam attacks don't do anything.