Honest question. Has anyone played this game the way it was meant to be played and actually enjoyed it? ie. Forgoing a guide completely and not interacting with anything Elden Ring on the internet? I played for like 50 hours and got bored, the breaking point for me was fighting repeat boss after repeat boss on a horse. I beat the horseman from the start of the game, got to the huge gated area, fought two more, and I was rewarded with another fight with a boss I had already fought two of before.
I guess I'm asking, if you played like I did, how much time did you put into this game before you saw the credits roll? Did you actually have fun building your character and running into endless gear that you either already had or can't use on your build? I really feel like I should have just started this game with a guide or some arbitrary rule like I have full access to the internet and three sheets of scratch paper and I can write any notes or maps or whatever I want for my entire playthrough.
First playthrough took me about 100 hours and I missed quite a bit. I had fun exploring and stuff, but the boss fights sucked even when they weren't repetitive.
David Ortiz
>Has anyone played this game the way it was meant to be played and actually enjoyed it? ie. Forgoing a guide completely and not interacting with anything Elden Ring on the internet? that was my first playthrough >how much time did you put into this game before you saw the credits roll? i think i had a little more than 100 hours when i finished the game the first time >Did you actually have fun building your character and running into endless gear that you either already had or can't use on your build? yes
I didnt interact with anything online until very late game when I needed help looking for the Haligtree and the city of Nokron. I was surprised at how much content I missed, already more than content with everything that Ive come across up until that point. It sucked that I used the same weapon for 75 hrs (Nightrider’s Flail) and jumping heavy attacks were the only viable and safe option for like 75% of encounters, but I genuinely enjoyed each bit of exploration and progression minus the boss battles
John Smith
I forgot to add that as a result of playing like this I missed out on a lot of notable things such as Ranni’s questline and the city of Nokron as a result. I never even met Patches. Where tf was Patches? I was sure I explored so many locations and often I would just pick a direction and go.
Nolan Ross
He's in a cave along the river in Liurnia just north of the lake with the dragon. Murkwater Cave I think.
Liam Taylor
Yes and it was fucking great. I didn't look up anything until after I beat the game, Ranni ending. But to be fair, I basically knew what I wanted (strength pyromancer build) and had played enough Dark Souls games to know what to look for for that.
>I guess I'm asking, if you played like I did, how much time did you put into this game before you saw the credits roll?
>I beat the horseman from the start of the game, got to the huge gated area, fought two more, and I was rewarded with another fight with a boss I had already fought two of before. None of what you're saying about your experience is remotely believable OP. You fought two repeat bosses after the gate huh? You mean in the space between Margit and the non-boss troll who guards the gate you fought two bosses that were a repeat of a boss you fought before? But also the only boss you fought before was the tree sentinel who you beat right out the gate?
Why even try to bullshit like this?
"Like it was meant to be played"? You mean the tree sentinel, the gate, and margit are all intentionally placed to deter players advancing in a straight line and encouraging exploring the rest if the world first? '
No you just mean guides? The guides you should have read before making up this fake story?
Thomas Hernandez
I technically put in 300+ hours because before I finished the last quarter of the game I was impatiant and wanted to see what other builds were like so I paused my INT playthrough to make a FTH character, then after Liurnia I made a DEX character, then I beat half the game with both of them and beat a few bosses with a STR character and then finally went back to the my original character to finish the game and then Malenia.
Julian Bennett
I did raw playthru until I got bored in mountain-top place I will finish at some point
Zachary Ramirez
yes. I played my entire first play through blind and got Ranni's ending; didn't look at a guide once. I had about 140 hours of playtime when I finished the game. I was originally going to try to explore every area of the game but once I had uncovered the entirety of the map I decided to just try to get all major bosses done and leave the hidden mini-dungeons for other playthroughs and then move on to my next character. I played the entirety of the game with the baldachin's blessing debuff until I used the item sometime in the Haligtree lol
Ian Richardson
I've played it for 6 hours, got absolutely nowhere. Got tired of getting pummeled and stopped playing. It's just no fun.
Christopher Smith
I played it day one and without a guide or being on Any Forums the entire time. Got 250 hours in it before beating it and putting it down. That's not with any multiplayer either, these are single player games to me and I don't care for that. I enjoyed it thoroughly though I did start to get burnt out towards the end simply because I was playing it nonstop for weeks. I will do a second play-through at some point in the future, preferable when/if DLC happens.
Luke Torres
NTA but I'm pretty sure he's saying that the two sentinels were repeats of an earlier boss right from the start...not that he went right from first sentinel to gate. Also he is talking about the slimy slithery boss creature to the right of the bonfire after the gate.
Jackson Reed
(you fight one of these slimy slithery creatures in a dungeon, 1 in first castle at that bottom room, probly others I forget)
Eli Brooks
How did you even know how to get Blaidd down from his original location and visit the gaol he was referring to for the 2nd one? There's lots of cryptic shit most people won't ever notice.
Ayden Jones
I don't even know what the fuck you're talking about dude, there's a giant dude on a horse like 20 seconds after the intro. I beat him. Then there's two more to fight in what I'm pretty sure is a required area because it's huge. Right after that there's another gargoyle fight, and I already fought two gargoyles before. It's that simple, half the shit you're saying I dont even know what it's from or why you're talking about order of this vs that
Nolan Martinez
I made the mistake of being on Any Forums during the release and I think the overexposure to the game made me enjoy it less, still had fun and played all the way to the credits which took about 120 hours.
Christopher Clark
You did not in fact "play the game the way it was meant to be played." You don't need the internet or a guide to realize the game is open world and maybe you should explore if something is too hard. Player-scaled worlds have ruined people's problem solving skills.
Adam Phillips
Helping him kill bloodhound isn't required for ranni's ending. I killed him before even meeting blaidd the first time. I imagine user had a similar situation or just found him up there by chance
Cameron Ortiz
>Then there's two more to fight in what I'm pretty sure is a required area because it's huge. Right after that there's another gargoyle fight, and I already fought two gargoyles before. None of this makes any sense. Yes the Sentinel is right at the start. But the rest is gibberish. I suppose you could have run into the Deathrite Bird at night. He's kinda a "gargoyle." But the Pair of Sentinels are in Altus way into the mid game. And there are no two Gargoyles.
Luke Campbell
>How did you even know how to get Blaidd down from his original location
Merchant at the start told me when I visited him again.
I missed finding Blaidd at the Evergaol later though.
Nolan Rivera
i went in completely blind, and didnt read or watch anything about it at all.
started the day it came out and finished end of march.
>And there are no two Gargoyles None until much later I mean. Of course there's the boss fight in the underground for example. That that's not even vaguely at the start.
Jeremiah Torres
Your description is really shitty so people might not realize you are talking about the main east entrance to leyndell.
None of those guys are even required. I am sure most people saw two tree horsemen, decided it wasn't worth the trouble, and just ran past or saved it for later. Only the last guy with the lightning hammer needs to be beaten to progress.
Nolan Clark
The usual way is you go to the ruins, don't even notice the howl. But then at some point you go back to Kale to buy something and notice a new dialogue option and just pick it. There is absolutely super obscure stuff though. That's true. You aren't expected to find everything blind.
Alexander Taylor
are you just fucking retarded? What are you even trying to interpret here? That it's all in one area? I said clearly that I played for 50 hours. There IS a double gargoyle fight in some warped city underground thing that I visited, you can google it, I just did to make sure my memory wasn't bullshit. Then there is another right after you go through the doors to that giant city after fighting the two bronze horsemen dudes. Not even sure what the argument is here, if you want to say I got filtered or im retarded for not enjoying it fine, but it happened and just telling me I'm making it up perplexes me
