So Ive been watching some streams of this. Seems like almost an exact gameplay copy of the souls games. Am I wrong? Is there something new here Im not getting?
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Its open world souls thats it. You um get a horse though.
Ok, I wanted to make sure I wasnt missing anything.
You are missing something. This is one of the best games I’ve ever played.
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Then same question to you that Grue answered. A lot of people gave the same praise to Souls 1 and 3 and Bloodborne. Whats different about this one that would make someone who didnt like those three games suddenly put this one as one of the best games ever?
You get a horse.
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Honestly it’s the open world exploration that is fascinating. You never know what you will encounter. There is a sense of intrigue and wonder that I haven’t felt since the early days of WoW.
You can jump. And your horse can double jump.
And there’s lots and lots of boxes and pots to roll into and smash.
eta: If you didn’t like DS1 and DS3, then don’t play it. This is a new and improved DS4.
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I finally beat the pumpkin head. I feel like such an old man. Took me several hours. Finally I remembered I could use my spirit animal thing to distract him and killed him easily. I doubt I’m going To be able to beat this game if this is supposed to be an easy battle.
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If you’re getting nowhere in these games you just have to farm there’s no way around it but whats great is you can explore and find cool stuff while doing it or at least bonfires.
I’m starting to be a bit of a force with the special flask of +faith & bubble shield and then use the faith weapon art and I hit pretty ok with my “claymore”+4. Apparently only decent faith scaling weapons are 30+ faith so have a ways to go. 1 shot the boss in the south most castle at least.
First demigod is… something else. Amazing.
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I’m now a level 25 Vagabond with a juiced up Great Sword and a turtle shell shield. Magrit still hands me my ass. I need to relearn the hit-hit-dodge system like Trolly said. I explored way the fuck up north and it got weird, then I kept going farther lol.
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I actually really like farming, or at least I used to. I think one area I’m lagging is my staff. It’s only +1 and I haven’t been making an effort to find the stones to upgrade it more, but that would probably make a huge difference.
Magrit fucks me up, too.
Magrit took me ~20 attempts (obv don’t forget to summon the NPC and also summon wolves or jellyfish), his dad only 3 so its getting better. Level 35ish now.
The red place to the east is ridiculously hard, forget about it. The south place is only a small step up from limgrave so clear that out if you’ve cleared lim. Also the underground (lol skyrim?) seems really rough don’t bother, 2 hit homing arrows no bueno.
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My pro gamer tip is to be sure and buy the torch the first merchant sells. Comes in very handy. Samurai seems to be a solid class if you don’t want to bother with spells and shit.
Beat Magrit without too much frustration, but I’ve spent 80% of my time just wandering aimlessly around the map. Found lots of stuff that I have no clue what to do with. Got teleported into some creepy-ass cave and somehow wound up in the red place out east. Oh, and I found some octopus ovaries, nfi what I’m supposed to do with that.
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well the baby has turned into a demon child so me and the wife haven’t been able to start this shit yet but still seems good huh?
It’s fun, yeah,
Finally beat Magrit. Upgrading my staff so my spells did more damage made a huge difference and I changed tactics so that I held my staff in my left hand and my sword in the right so I could quickly go in and do some hacking damage when he was stunned.
In non-Elden Ring news, Vampire Survivors is fantastic. Thanks for the recommend
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