That's it, I actually bloody finished it!!! I took my time, searched everywhere, about 250 hours in the end. The first FS game I have finished but also really, really enjoyed. I nearly got all the trophies, just two outstanding trophies in the end, two different endings. Now i'm debating to quit the game or do NG+?
Can't think of anything good to put here just yet, watch this space...
@Throb Massive congratulations! I think most of us (including myself) who achieved all trophies utilised the 'save scumming' function to get all 3 endings.
For me personally, 1 'thorough' playthrough was more than enough... hence scumming all 3 endings.
I have heard though that you can plough through NG+ fairly rapidly... assuming you skip a lot of the content.
It is the only FS game I've got the platinum on, loved every second of my 80-90 hours with it!
@TheBrandedSwordsman Sorry to hear it didn’t quite live up to expectations for you. I know you were pretty hyped for it. Was there a specific reason you didn’t really get into it? Was it the open world design? Was the difficulty an issue? Many people have said it actually is quite a bit more approachable on account of the open world.
Since you prefer Dark Souls 1 and Dark Souls 3, do you think you’ll try Demon's Souls at some point?
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@Th3solution I think I prefer a more stream-lined experience. I don't have a PS5 so Demon's Souls is off-limits. At the moment I'm currently focusing on jazz guitar until God of War: Ragnarok, the only game I'm currently interested in playing comes out, then I'll divide my attention between the two things, until I complete it, if I can complete it. Also interested in Hogwarts Legacy, but less so. Make sure you let me know how you get on with Dark Souls 3, once you get around to it.
@TheBrandedSwordsman Yes, I definitely will loop you in on any experience with DS3 or any FromSoft game I play. I’ll get to Elden Ring too at some point, but it might be longer. Although I don’t always know which way the wind will carry me. I’m looking forward to Ragnarok too, and the closer it gets the more hype I feel!
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
I've got a question about the online co-op and I'm hoping one of you can do me a solid and answer it.
My girlfriend is currently playing Elden Ring and she wants to co-op at some point probably. Usually I play these games offline so my only experience with summoning/being summoned is when we played Bloodborne, and in that game from what I remember, I made myself available and then she would summon me into her world and I would appear near her and then we'd go smash someone up.
Does Elden Ring work the same way, or can it? I'm looking online at how the co-op works and I might be misunderstanding the guides but it sounds like I need to be in the same area as her and leave a summon sign and then she can summon me? I'm hoping that's not the case and I can be summoned wherever because my only save is on new game plus right at the start of the game and I don't want to have to battle through the whole game to be summonable.
@Kairu Weird. The way I remember Bloodborne - and this is going back a few years so I'm almost certainly wrong - I could be anywhere and then if I was ringing my bell and she was ringing hers I would get summoned.
So I guess the reason I'm asking is, when she gets to, say, Malenia, am I gonna have battle through the game and into the Haligtree in order to get summoned into her game? And then I have to leave my summon sign and then she clicks on it and then I go in her world?
@Kairu Damn it. It's my own fault really. I had a save right at the end and I was greedy and wanted a second version of the Bloodhound's Fang so I could dual wield them :')
@Kairu I only played an hour on new game plus and I beat both The Fell Omen and The Grafted in about ten seconds each so certainly in the early game I think it'll be fine. I've got two max level Bloodhound Fangs and I'm like level 144 and I did everything on my first run so I'm not expecting it to be too bad.
@nessisonett It's a beauty. I've got one in each hand and tapping L1 swings them both at the same time and the damage is nuts. Damage output is 777 on each one. When I fought The Grafted he had about 4mm of health left when he went into the mid-fight cut-scene.
I went through most of the game dual wielding and got my arse handed to me a lot at first, but by the end of the game I was finding that I was just too quick for a lot of enemies. Running in and hitting L1 was just too much for them, I was getting the jump on everyone.
It was so much fun that I'm going through Dark souls III again, doing the same thing
I think I was probably the only one on pushsquare still playing through Elden Ring, but I finally popped the platinum this morning - after 250 hours of playing!
It's my first FromSoftware game and I wasn't at all sure how I'd get on with it. In the end I've found it compelling pretty much the whole way through, but I'm definitely ready to play something else now!
@JigsawPieces Bloodborne is still my favourite From game. The more aggressive combat style is more my sort of thing; shields are basically non existent/useless and it has a mechanic where you can recover lost health by attacking within a short window of being hit.
The Souls games are much closer to Elden Ring mechanically, plus Demon’s and Dark Souls have both got remakes/remasters if you’re playing on PS5 too.
@JigsawPieces Bloodborne was my first From game, and after the steep learning curve and massive assistance of this community to drive me forward and not give up, I ended up absolutely loving the game. Within this year I’ve played Demon’s Souls Remake and currently about half way through Dark Souls Remastered. I’m planning to work my way toward Elden Ring, maybe by end of 2023.
So I’m not sure how it would go with doing things in the opposite direction where you start with Elden Ring, but I imagine that since you have the basic FromSoft principles down now, then each game that follows will be quicker to pick up.
I think for me, Bloodborne and Demon’s Souls were both about 80 hour games, but I didn’t platinum either one, although I did very thorough playthroughs with essentially clearing all the main maps.
I’m probably about 40+ hours into DSR and I figure halfway or maybe a little more than half. DS1 feels longer, but I think it’s because there isn’t as much of a hub world to act as a home base of operations like there is in BB and DeS. There’s a lot of trekking through the same areas over and over to get from point A to point B. It’s a brilliant game though.
But I can see the reluctance to jump right into another From game. I put several months and a handful of games in between DeS and DSR this year, so as to not get Souls fatigue.
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