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They really aren't that difficult, you just have to persevere. The "difficulty" is adjusting your mindset to the playstyle.
Jesus, I wasn't expecting to see scores like that again till WAY later in the generation. If there are folk who don't like Souls games getting into this, maybe I'll give it a shot
If only people did that for From Software games on here
Obviously, lol, it's based on what we know so far.
Hence the "for now" part of the comment.
Any talk of how the co-op is and how the implementation is? Definitely the most interesting aspect to me since they never fully implemented co-op in those games.
It sounds playable but not much more than that. The best report I heard was Schrier and he was just brushing off the crashes he had. Everybody else seemingly switched over to the PS5 version or were complaining about issues left and right.
So you're saying I shouldn't buy my nan a copy of Elden Ring to go along with her large print crossword book this Christmas?
Thanks for that info. I have the Sony Bravia X900h which has VRR but it has a whole lot of problems. Guess this still makes things difficult for me.
Appreciate it. Hoping the patches iron things out because the Series X should be handling things a bit better than the PS5 on paper. 45-50 sounds kind of like an awful experience.
Curious about this too. I thought I had read its similar to how it has been but wonder how that differs with the world being open.
That's as likely as people shutting up about Souls games being the apex of gaming.
(Not likely at all in either case, because they're both true for different reasons.)
Some quotes from TheLoreHunter sent directly to me about his opinions on the lore:
Does that mean you don't get to use your VRR for games? That would suck a lot, it's such a great feature... and 45-50 would be absolutely fine with that enabled if it worked well.
Hope the patches sort it out for you.
As we have found out with with all the Horizon BOTW comparisons games need not have the exact same design philosophy to be compared unfortunately.
BOTW rewards, combat, encounter design, bosses etc.. are def going to be compared to Elden Ring as it seems to be setting a new bar in that regard. I agree with you in principle but yeah its going to be brought up for sure.
I personally hope BOTW really improves its encounter design and combat mechanics because I thought it sucked while the rest of the game was fantastic!
Why? No game is for everyone.
A racing game can receive pure 10's, but some people just don't like the genre so no score would make them like the game unless it was something else entirely. Elden Ring is great at what it is trying to do, thus the 10s. I don't think you're going to find a reviewer that hates Souls games and the RPG genre in particular reviewing Elden Ring just to hate on it.
Man as someone who didn't like BOTW at all and seeing all these comparisons to it, I am concerned. I have played, completed and loved every Souls game (I even imported Demon's Souls back in the PS3 a year before domestic release). I feel like the lack of direction will really turn me off. I am not a fan of sandbox games and need some direction to keep me motivated to play a game.
This is going to be my sole day one AAA purchase on Series X this year. Game Pass will carry the 2nd half for me lol.
But Distant Worlds 2 comes out in like 2 weeks.
And War in the East 2 dropped only a few months ago.
:p
at same resolution Xbox Series X should be the same or better ... so weird . lets see the day 1 patch ....
Yeah I hope so. I just remember all those Horizon vs. BOTW videos that were showing how much more interactive BOTW was. Not really fair to Horizon because it was doing something different and no open world game has the physics system of BOTW.
In regards to your last point I agree unless the person in question has an overlapping love for puzzles and action combat.
I would say that I've seen puzzles in games that do require reflex & timing though certainly not at the level of a Souls boss.
Still, I'll continue to insist that From Software designs their bosses as puzzles to be solved. Spamming attack won't carry you through most times.
I will concede that I am not really a puzzle game fan so my opinion may not carry weight.
Blessing was pretty lukewarm on the game during the Kinda Funny review, he had a lot more negative to say tham positives.
Tam and Andy are totally in love with it though. Some of the stuff Tam was saying just has me hyped beyond belief.
Tam and Andy are totally in love with it though. Some of the stuff Tam was saying just has me hyped beyond belief.
Yeah, that's not exactly something that appeals to me either but the open world design apparently being amazing does intrigue me. Not sure if that'd make up for that or not on my end but I'll at least try to watch some more reviews and impressions to get a better idea
Exactly. I think for some people they can't overcome the feeling that dying means they failed when dying is the whole point of the game. It's baked into the mechanics and the lore. You only truly lose if you lose hope and give up. That's what going hollow is. Else you come back over and over again, hopefully getting better each time as you practice and increase your character's skills.
No need to fall back on such trivialities when the gameplay is so damn amazing! ;)
Scores this high will certainly boost the sales massively and most importantly, entice the masses to buy this way more than usual, which is great of course.
These games aren't for everyone and at least the reviews are saying it's more accessible, but would be interesting to get data for how the more typical GTA, FIFA, CoD, f2p gamers not familiar with From games end up feeling about it on average.
These games aren't for everyone and at least the reviews are saying it's more accessible, but would be interesting to get data for how the more typical GTA, FIFA, CoD, f2p gamers not familiar with From games end up feeling about it on average.
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