>The way to play the game seems to be attacking everything you see, trying to die in a safe-ish place, reclaiming your loot, buying a level, and then repeating the same encounters ad infinitum until you grind yourself thirty or forty levels, or however many it takes to get past the first stage of the game. I happened across a battle between soldiers and goblins. I tried attacking only the goblins and the soldiers killed me. I tried attacking only the soldiers and the goblins killed me.
>Combat is god awful. Controls are sluggish and often unresponsive. And whether it's a bug or a feature, the fact that you can't hit opponents who are on the ground (watch your weapon pass right through them!) is absurd. Even after gaining 18 levels, you still have no hope of finishing off any of the "dungeon" areas you'll find right where the game begins, and the surface world is only moderately less lethal.
>In the entire time I've played the game, I honestly can't think of a single time I felt intrigued, excited, or satisfied. Elden Ring is markedly inferior to actual role-playing games like Skyrim or Dragon Age. Frankly, I'd even take an old-school dungeon crawler like Might and Magic over this.
> Maybe if I repeat the same combat encounters a few dozen times more, my character will be able to walk through the beginning of the open world without being cut down by a mob of goblins or soldiers.
I played 355 hours of Dark Souls + 55 hours of Elden Ring and I have several complaints about the battles in these games. But these OP critics seem totally retarded to me. Sometimes you have to filter the type of information a bit. On Any Forums people are supposed to have a level of knowledge well above the average, and this kind of criticism is clearly made by people without much knowledge of the subject.
>Even after gaining 18 levels, you still have no hope of finishing off any of the "dungeon" areas you'll find right where the game begins, and the surface world is only moderately less lethal. Shitter cope is the sweetest nectar.
keep it up shill I still don't care about horizon forbidden west and I never will
Isaac Brooks
Is it right to call those chimpanzees Goblins? Those enemies are clearly chimpanzees capable of using weapons. In fact basically equal to half the population of my country.
Jace Moore
"Goblin" is a dog whistle for "nigger", as established and used by J.R.R Tolkien.
Lincoln Thomas
>Tell me you didn't play any fromsoft title without saying it.
Git gud fag
Jordan Williams
Pretty much how I see it. It feels like grinding an MMO solo, except with better combat and bosses.
James Ward
No one cares about your faggot blogposting, kys.
Parker Scott
There's nothing "gud" about grinding. If you guys want to swing your dicks around, get in fighting tournaments and play humans. Not this grindy AI bullshit. You're not shit.
Aaron Moore
No need to say it in scarequotes you fucking redditor. They're niggers.
Ryder Evans
>literally GitGud the post lmao you can't make this shit up Elden Ring exposing the Souls series to the casual every-gamer and their reaction to it is hilarious. It will stop being hilarious if the next From game is heavily dumbed down because of all these clowns, but right now it's just the cherry on top of the masterpiece that is Elden Ring.
You truly have to have a higher IQ to fully appreciate the game.
Hunter Jenkins
You aren't supposed to be dying constantly. Most players will, and I wouldn't be having fun either if that were the case for me. Go play the previous games first, this one doesn't waste time with the difficulty. It's a gift to the fans, and you're not it.
James Martinez
Who said anything about grinding?
Ethan Brooks
>It will stop being hilarious if the next From game is heavily dumbed down because of all these clowns What might actually cause something like that to happen? The japs believe the "consensus" of the dead internet bots and journiggers who have an agenda to disparage eastern games and have been since the mid 2000s?
Robert Morgan
>It will stop being hilarious if the next From game is heavily dumbed down because of all these clowns
Elden ring isn't giving any indication that miyazaki is a person willing to compromise with noobs. He has said continuously in interviews that his games aren't for everyone and that this is the point.
Charles Long
You only need to grind if you constantly lose your souls because you suck. In other words If you're grinding, you need to Git gud faggot.
>It's a gift to the fans, and you're not it. Then stop overselling it to everyone.
Dominic Howard
>b-but that's exclusionary and everybody should be invited everywhere, even where they dont really even want to be but will be solely for the purposes of harming that space.
Jeremiah Bailey
based and redpilled.
Jackson Thompson
Finished my newgame + yesterday, am lvl192 and never grinded for runes. Litterl git gud fag.
Adrian Turner
didnt mean to make it seem like I was ass-quoting you. I clearly agree. I was posting as if I was one of the shitters like a devils advocate sort of thing. Fucking greentext only means one thing though.
Good things generate hype, especially if they're happening for years. Normies that enter a franchise mid-way and ignore the previous games deserve to be lost and confused. The From marketing team dropped the Souls from the title to lure the masses in, it was a based move.
Landon Green
>easiest of the souls games by a fucking mile thanks to status builds, block countering, insane amount of grace/shrine checkpoints everywhere, ashe summons, ashes of war, broken-as-fuck spells, open world design where you can come back to a hard boss after you've out leveled it, etc etc >people still can't even get past the first camp of enemies and immediately bitch that the game is unfair and too hard and unfun and that they need to make the game easier and more accessible unreal.
Matthew Harris
yeah dude, I know what greentext means and how it works been trying to escape this place since 2010
Xavier King
it was the hardest for me because I played it completely blind and played it like I was playing DaS3.
Aaron Clark
Which subhuman journo wrote this I want to see what other shit he reviewed and what he wrote about them
Grayson Barnes
You're completely full of shit. I doubt any of you mow through bosses in your first try..or even first 10 tries and/or didn't have your levels/builds mostly prepared beforehand (in which case, grinding came into play). Secondly, I already know from past games that many have friends helping out. Only to talk shit later as if they were ever "gud".
Asher Ortiz
Why DO the soldiers attack you? Are they all zombies?
Cameron Mitchell
Intelligent and resourceful players will always trivialize any sandbox experience, that's the fun part of big games. But your post is wrong. Just compare the DS1 intro to this one. Godrick, an intro boss, is probably harder than ANY non dlc boss in DS1, feints everywhere, huge combos, AoE, incredible tracking on long jump attacks, he's a huge noob trap, and that's the START.
Dylan Evans
Do you get the picture? Communist globo homo journos disparage Souls because it encourages badthink practices (self improvement, personal accountability, exclusion) and stands in the way of their ideological domination of not just the gaming industry but all entertainment media at large. They dont want Souls to get easy, they don't want it to exist at all. The campaign I'm seeing is fairly obvious and should be to all of you fine folks as well. Do you understand psychological warfare yet?
Oliver Sanders
they are just salty they aren't making as much money as from user.
