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Oh yeah it was a shitload. But it’s never enough.

 

I’m like level 109 now tho. Grinded like 30 levels out at Mohgwyn palace today.

 

it’s probably my favorite game ever and idc about recency bias or any of that, something subjective like favorite game of all time is fluid anyway, of course things I recently played are gonna be more toward the top as I’m much closer to the experience, but I imagine over the years it won’t budge because I don’t see myself ever fully putting this game down, much like Skyrim which I’ve been endlessly playing for 10+ years (with breaks here and there) I know I’m always gonna come back to it over and over and over again because I’m literally already on my THIRD playthrough and I NEVER immediately start a game back over right when I finish including NG+ (although I just started devil may cry 5 over immediately too, mostly because it’s so short and I want MORE) especially a game of this magnitude. Pretty easy for me to call it my favorite game ever already

 

this was my first fromsoft game and now I feel like a fucking pro lol trust me you’ll get there and you’ll have a blast

 

I feel like nostalgia is a bigger thing for games than recency bias, at least for me. It's why it took me a few years for Bloodborne to take over my Final Fantasy/Zelda's.

 

I need to take another day off work to play this again

 

also true but again don’t think any of it matters when discussing a subjective personal favorite since yeah nostalgia and what you’ve played recently is gonna impact your favorites that’s just a given

 

I will say the experience of playing this for the first time is really unlike any other video games experience I’ve had. Coincidentally I just recently played the mass effect trilogy for the first time and feel similarly upset that I’ll never have that first time experience with either again. Although there is a whole backlog of fromsoft games I’ve never touched for me to dive into which is exciting I might buy dark souls remastered tonight or maybe 3

 

yeah for sure, I just think it's even more impressive when something brand new can overtake a bunch of games you have a lot of history with.

This is probably top 10 of all time for me already honestly.

 

I've managed to do most (lol, likely not most but a lot for me) of Limgrave and made my way down to Weeping Peninsula. Managed to defeat Tree Sentinel and currently making my way around the bottom of the map.

Maybe after this I'll go back and try other Souls games but I can tell I'll likely start this again. There's also moments of serenity where the landscape and music draws me in and I haven't felt that since games like Skyrim. I'm not saying I'm going to be amazing at this but I can tell if I put the effort in then it'll be worth it. Already much further on that I would imagine myself to be. I embarrassingly quit Soulsbourne games before any traction....

 

I suck at this game, that’s why I keep farming runes

 

It’s going to suck going back to the dark souls trilogy because this game is so well made that I’m going to complain about the older souls games

 

I fired up DS remaster the other night and everything feels so weird and slow

 

I was playing dark souls right before elden ring came out and I think I got like 9 bosses in but man it’s going to be a slog to go back to that especially no jumping or torrent

 

Well luckily those maps are not nearly as big. Like 1/10th the size.

 

I think the biggest thing I will miss are Ashes of War.

 

The thing I missed the most were guard counters

 

Definitely much easier than Parrying

 

The Lobster and Alexander. Haha

 

Elden Beast is just such unfun bullshit. Everything shitty about this game rolled up into one. Stupid bullshit attacks that sure if you try enough you could probably learn to avoid but it you get like two chances and then you die and need to spend another five minutes getting back to that point where you'll be lucky if you can actually survive cause there is an annoying fight before it that mostly comes down to how lucky you can get with your enemy patterns.

Will probably just quit if I run out of rune arcs (I have like 10 more). Doesn't seem like a ton of point to actually beating the thing. Definitely had my fun and gotten my money's worth from the game.

hey game developers: if people have to spend resources on a fight, give those resources back if they die. not doing so makes the fight all the more shitty feeling when you lose.

 

that's the point. if you just get them back there's no stakes to using them and they're essentially infinite.

 

the stakes to using them is that you've used them to succeed and now you don't have them anymore

they should be a cost for success, not a punishment for failure

 

A super easy way to get more is to farm them off rats

 

it's a cost for enhancing your chances of success. if you just get them back there's no cost.

a lot of the suggestions people have to improve this game would actively make the game worse lol.

 

punishing failure makes the game worse