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Try finger, but hole - The Elden Ring Thread

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You might have heard about this game that recently came out, Elden Ring. It's been a bit of a big deal. Having never played a Souls game before, I have to say, I did not know what I was getting myself into. I thought it was going to be something more like an Elder Scrolls game. Right up until I created my character and walked out into the world for the first time and got my ass handed to me immediately. And then again and again. And then some more. After spending some time getting my bearings though, it's turning out to be a pretty great game. Very cool scenery, tons of space to explore, and no shortage of weird creatures to encounter. I bet that team would be a lot of fun to eat hallucinogens with.

There will inevitably be spoilers in this thread. I'll do my best to hide the ones I share behind tags, but be advised, you might accidentally read something story related about the game here and if you're trying to play through it blind... well you're already making poor decisions because this is a thread on an internet forum about the game so of course there is a strong possibility the conversation drifts to specifics within the game.

So far, I've discovered most of what I think there is to find in Limgrave.
Agheel
is an asshole and remains alive for the moment.
Margit and Godrick
are dead though, and holy fuck it took more attempts than I care to admit for both. I have the maps for
all of Limgrave, Weeping Peninsula, Caelid, plus the western and northern parts of Liurnia
and I'm trying to now make sure all the areas before heading north from Stormveil are all explored to the point where I have all the sites of Grace. Well... except for one particular area of Caelid that I don't feel like starting a fight in. I don't need all the graces in that area yet.

Have to admit, I was frustrated initially with the difficulty and also how vague the whole story is. And I still feel like they should give you a little bit more info about the lore in the beginning of the game. It's a bit like finding yourself suddenly in a waking nightmare - you don't know how you got there, you don't know anything about where you are, shit has clearly gone wrong, and you just start moving forward and figuring it all out as you go. But, that being said,
the lore dump you get back at the Roundtable once you take out Godrick and talk to the old creepy fortune teller lady was a fantastic payoff
And that's where I've made it so far.


Edit: The spoiler tags format themselves differently than I anticipated. I regret nothing.
 
First run complete. This is a great game. And I'm going back through with a mage character while also taking my melee character through a New Game+. I missed the very last step for the ending I was hoping for, getting that ending at least once is non-negotiable for me.
 
Looking at getting this after finishing Last of Us 2.

Haven't played a Souls game before. My partner gets shitty when she dies frequently so have concerns. :D
 
I sometimes think I should get a PS5 (if they actually existed) or whatever the fuck the latest XBox is called, just so I can play some of these big games with the graphics and the violence. But then I just go back to playing Switch games and they seem to expand to fill the time I spend playing games. Like I'd probably just rather start playing Fire Emblem again or walk around my Animal Crossing island doing nthing instead of spending £500 to play a game where you run around killing things, even if it is very big and pretty. So I don't know, someone convince me that I should become a REAL GAMER or whatever.
 
I got the game. 130 hours later. . I'm still deep exploring Liurnia. I know I could have finished it in that time; my completionist compulsion is getting a hell of a workout.

Love it. Slightly obsessed.

I think I stuffed up my building going for too much of an all-rounder.
 
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