Topic: Elden Ring Hype Thread

Sorry if this is a repost

Bahaha, I beat Morgott on my first try!

Got tired of the cryptic nonsense in the Ranni questline, so I ended up looking up what to do next, and am now in Nokstella, the other white meat Eternal City

Also gained access to the Mountaintops of the Giants. The first ruin there is another solid grinding spot. It's prowling with enemies as powerful as minibosses, but they drop 5k exp each, and you can use a summon there. Mimic Tear really shines here, since it can take some of the heat off of you.

@Ralizah Did you not find the big gaping hole in the ground naturally then 😂

Well, I've managed to play a few hours today and beat the last boss in the academy. There's a whole section I missed though as I sprinted through it, I'll have to head back. I'm going on holiday for a week and while I can't wait to go, I've been really enjoying my time with Elden Ring and just roaming the world, finding crazy stuff. I love how you could have been someplace before and go back at a different time of day and some boss you've never seen will appear. This game properly got its hooks into me 😂

@nessisonett The hole leads to Nokron.

Accessing Nokstella is a fair bit more involved and requires the player to be significantly deeper in Ranni's questline.

@Ralizah Well of course there are two areas with incredibly similar names, my bad 😂

@nessisonett The game requires a few leaps of logic in that questline, IMO, but there are also some cool dungeons on the way. The inverted study hall feels like something out of Symphony of the Night, lol.

@Ralizah The study hall having more to it definitely crossed my mind. Especially after wandering through it only to find nothing 😅

@Voltan Seems like your post fell flat, but I'll give it some love. I'm sure that's how some people feel while playing their games at times.

I wasn't expecting horse platforming to feature so much in the game. And for it to be so much fun. 🐎

Hello, I wanted to ask about that guy at the start of the game. I attacked him and well, wile I never killed him he just left at some point, anyway to get him back?

Got Godfrey first try. Very suspicious.

@Snatcher Unfortunately not. You can atone for your sins that will revive any Merchant NPCs that you have killed, but he seems to exempt from this.

Well the Valiant Gargoyle duo can get in the bin. Does not surprise me that there were zero summon signs nearby. I don’t even normally summon as well.

Had quite the session today, made a heap of progress and felt like I explored incredibly hidden areas!

@JohnnyShoulder @Kairu Thanks, I will try this.

So I finished my play season today, and boy do I have some thing to talk about, nope, I haven't beat the boss yet, But I did kill a few others. Pretty sure i'm having a hard time because I never upgraded my weapons....LOL, I will write it down later, because right now im just not feeling it.

Did the Morgott boss fight before breakfast. Not too bad.

Got Castle Morne and a few caves done this morning, including a crystal cave with a nasty bleed knight as it’s boss. Castle Morne was a little disappointing, I guess it’s like a halfway house between the small dungeons (caves etc) and large dungeons (Stormveil, Raya Lucaria etc). Still, definitely worth doing as got a nice UGS out of it (won’t be able to use it for a while though).

So I'm on my way to the Lift of Rold (I think that's what it's called) and clearly that's going to open up another big segment of the map. I'm at around 45 hours played and it occurred to me that I haven't encountered anything that I would count as an unmistakable G.R R Martin-ism up to now. Has anybody else? As far as I can tell it's the FromSoftiest game that ever FromSofted.

@JohnnyShoulder It's like a Grand National simulator at times