/games/ - Video Games

>>56932
Half the posts on /games/ are guys popping off about what they don't like about game/company/genre. You're free to say whatever you want as long as you're not rude to other users when doing it.

>>56932
I rather read why something sucks than why it’s good

>>56934
why

>>56932
>enemy can oneshot you but is completely useless
Yep, it's a fromsoft game.

>>56788
> Do I suck or is this game just padded?

I was getting owned non stop by all the bosses and I followed a 15 min tutorial on YT that gets the weapon to +4 the summons to +2 the potions +2 and it broke the game. Now all the initial bosses are too easy.

Level the weapon at least to +3, and put 20 points on strength and try again. The first bosses on the two caves north west will fall extremely easy and you can even kill the Tree guardian with a little effort.

Easy ways to farm souls or whatever on ER? Im level 25 and the first boss (the one with a cutscene on the entrance of a castle or something) keeps killing me.

>>56947
I tried that guy at level 27 and he was way too much, apparently he's meant for higher levels and powered weapons because it progresses the story. You should first head east to I think it's called the weeping plateau, there's a besieged castle there with low level braindead mobs and you have to get to the island behind it to fight this noob boss. shields are effective against his attacks and he gets distracted by anything summoned with ashes. at lvl 25 it only takes like 5k gold to level up. those big walking guys that drag the carts around (there's one right at the start on the pathway down to the beach) are real easy if you just strafe them with the horse, and they drop 1k gold each. here map. hit EVERY church for the things that increase how much HP/MP is replenished by flasks. it only takes a few to get a flask that would replenish and entire lvl 25's health bar

>>56949
Thanks dude, I was getting bored of killing small enemies that gave almost nothing and the big ones just 1 hit killed me, I will do this.

Malenia is giving me an aneurysm

Finished elden ring after 60 hours. Thought I was burned out but now I feel the urge to start a new playthrough as a magic user. I really like this game.

>>56968
Try bleed damage and using the mimic ashes. I used the sword of milos. The goal is to stunlock her.

the entire world sperging out over elden ring has got me thinking. it literally looks like a ps2 game and looks shitty as fuck.

>>57025
>it literally looks like a ps2 game and looks shitty as fuck.
looks nothing like a ps2 game. unless you mean some HD rpg that is being emulated and upscaled to modern resolutions

/v/ tier post

first BOTW and now this, why do they keep adding motorcycles to medieval RPGs

>>57025
It is like old games in many ways, which is a positive thing.

>>57029
man i used to love trials, havent played it in years, new ones any good?

>>57027
ok now compare 99.99% of everything else about elden ring to a 480p interlaced ps2 shitter

i dont like elden ring, dont like fromsoft games beyond ps2 era, and i love ps2 and older games, but that game doesn't look anything like a ps2 game. i don't know how you can think that

Trying out horse archery in ELDEN RING
Hope its a viable build for outdoors

people are STILL talking about elden ring
must be pretty good

>>57047
literally a kinect game

>replaying demon's's souls as lowly knight
>5-1
>spearmen on narrow bridges
>mobs falling on you
>you have been poisoned
>unaffordable item shop
>you have the plague
>smashed into ground by big club
>falls off ledge
>get covered in leeches
>good job, now go through this swamp
this is what i missed

any improvement to performance since release?

After uninstalling Elden Ring three times (first time for after 2 months or so) I deliberately got my account banned. Not long after I found out about the DLC leak and the screens of multiplayer ranks I began to regret my decision but by then it was too late.

180 penalization period set on my account, can still play but multiplayer doesn't work. Apparently in DS3 if you get banned you're allowed to play online against other banned players? I'm not sure if that's the case in ER, I tried a finger at Main Gate and Malenia but no duel/summon signs. Not sure if deleting my saves and using my backup will do anything since I'm passed the warning period. If anybody knows of a way to circumvent this without having to buy another copy I'm all ears

>>58738
so it's getting ranked pvp arenas inside the coliseum?

>>58739
Maybe, I just saw pics of leaks on twitter.

>>57025
only the dialogues do, it has better graphics than most other jap shit

I just beat ER NG4 when does it start getting more difficult?

so what's the worst kind of character one can use in Elden Rings? I am going to play it blind with the least optimal kind of build I can think of.

>>59286
Take whatever class has lowest stat total to level ratio, level up the lower stats to match the highest then level up everything evenly. Sounds pretty autistic to me anyway.

>>59287
What I had in mind was more like making a dex character in Dark Souls 2, where it's one of the less optimal way to play. Or focusing on intelligence in 3, arcane in Bloodborne, where it's a lot harder at first unless you have some meta knowledge.

>>59288
If you only want the worst build while still investing seriously then I'm not sure. I think all bosses are cheesed by something. Maybe pure caster stats.

>>59289
Magic is super strong in Elden ring.
A pure caster might have a bit of trouble in the beginning but by mid game it's nearly untouchable.

I know from personal experience that playing a archery focused character is a pain in the ass because you constantly have to farm, buy, and build shit and worry about running out of ammo in large dungeons or long boss battles.
Also lots of accidentally walking off cliffs when using target lock while running away. Or maybe that's just me.

>>59290
Well, I literally didn't suggest bow due to how arrows can be treated. That's some foreknowledge, you dumb nigger. Either way, both pure paths are going to end stupidly. Bosses can auto-dodge, meaning you have to predict where they strafe.

>>59292
What the fuck is your problem?

Started a third character in Elden Ring, my first runs were dex/int, now I'll try faith. What is the most fun to play, a pure build, dragon/faith or strength/faith?

>>59294
hugs, headpat, blanket burrito… no limits to the things i would do to make Ranni The Flat snug as a bug

>>59294
Don't know the answer to your question but I plan my next run to be a dragon/faith build for no other reason then I think dragons are cool and couldn't work them into my current build (strength/dex).

I've played every single modern one except Bloodborne (keep hoping it comes to PC)

I really struggle to enjoy the genre. I think I just get frustrated too easily. I completed Dark Souls 1, but I abused the levelling glitch in the forest where they would drop onto your head and into the pit for like 30k souls. Dark Souls 2 I completed with an OP hexer build who just massacred everything. I have played it a few more times since with different builds and I always end up inevitably quitting at Iron Keep. Dark Souls 3 I think I got past the first boss (the boreal valley one) and then quit. I really do not enjoy that game at all. Don't like the aesthetic, and that's a big deal to me (Dark Souls 2 has a great aesthetic. I love the environments, and Anor Londo in DS1 is amazing also)

As for Elden Ring. I have maybe 30 hours across 5+ characters in that and I dislike it quite a bit. It's my least favorite souls game by far. I've only gotten past Godrick, explored the map a ton though. I watched a playthrough until the end and all the bosses just seem ridiculous. Combo after combo after combo. They smash through shields like they're paper, they don't leave a lot of room for strength attacks. I kinda feel like they're Sekiro bosses but you're stuck with the slow Souls-like combat instead. Massive health pools also so they take forever to die.

Sekiro though. Now that is one of my favorite games of the past 10 years. I absolute love everything about it (except the Flame Demon boss… because it feels too much like a Souls boss and not a Sekiro boss) Environments are great to be in and look at, the combat just feels smooth and satisfying. Story is fine, and kept me curious, but it's not as interesting as the mainline Souls/ER stories. I went back to it after a few years and I was shocked at just how much I remembered. It really forces you to learn the game to progress. Tragic part is this is the game that won't get any real DLC.

I'm thinking I might enjoy Bloodborne because from what little I've seen, it's also another "parry heavy" game and that's what I loved about Sekiro. Rolling around constantly and dodging waiting for windows to attack isn't as fun to me as timing parry attacks and countering.

>>59321
I think you can parry a lot of bosses on Elden Ring (and stagger all of them after breaking their poise), but with all their animations being so wild and them being so big, it's hard to gauge when to actually parry.
And yes, Bloodborne is very parry-heavy. They even have augments for critical attacks and an attribute that is focused on scaling their damage.
They had some interesting dungeon content with a password system, too. Vaguely reminded me of the old .hack games. I recall seeing some videos where you could find chalice dungeons with cut content depending on the password being inputted.

i've never felt good playing a dark souls game and don't really understand why but i guess i just hate the gameplay

everyone hates quick time events in games, at least i think? but games that require parrying and blocking are basically that, only there is no prompt on the screen telling you like a baby to press x. you simply die if you dont. combat is basically clicking something at the right time and being good at the same simply means you know when to press the button

i dislike these games. there is some reward system for 'getting good' which basically means 'memorizing when to press a button after repeated trial and error'… but this reward system doesn't work for me brain. it's annoying and difficult purely for the sake of rewarding some people to make them feel good when they finally click the button at the right time

something about the lore as well was always annoying seeing youtube videos about the game. i don't mind watching others play the game. to me it is a spectator sport, and there are many games that fall into this category, i have zero interest in playing it myself

I really want to play these but you can't buy the first one anymore, only the remastered one and the remastered one is actually getting more expensive as time goes on instead of getting cheaper. It's such bullshit. I am not paying $30 for such an ancient game.

>>59325
Pirating is simple enough.

>>59325
>not knowing about pirating in 2023
how the fuck?

>>59325
I see you still have your wits about you. Will you cough up 30 souls? or go through PPU-compile hell? These are the choices left for the living, hah hah hah…

>>59328
look up dark souls on fitgirl

>>59348
nice witch pic, i saved it.

100% Dark Souls I
I dropped Dark Souls II shortly after getting the fourth great soul. The game is ugly and boring, the combat isn't satisfying and everything feels slightly off.
Next up is Dark Souls III

>>59554
I also didn't like DSII, maybe it's because it was developed by a different team. DS3 feels more like the first game, but they probably shoved too many references in there. Still, Demon's Souls is probably the closest to Dark Souls if you want something similar