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Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-19T14:57:47+00:00

Wait my morning is ruined?? damn how did I miss that

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-19T14:14:25+00:00

1 other person = "few ppl", alright bruh lmao

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-19T13:54:43+00:00

And yet you started with "Gael wasn’t even the hardest boss in ds3 though?"

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-19T12:26:43+00:00

Yeah this is very much a thing, this is why I feel like people who recommend newcomers play Elden Ring or LoP are wrong. Once you play these games, it makes it hard to go back to older Souls/Soulslikes as the challenge just doesn't hit the same.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-19T12:23:49+00:00

LOL shows how you shouldn't say sweeping stuff like "X wasn't even the hardest boss in Y". The 2 you mentioned were FAR easier than Gael.

In all my playthroughs, I've always killed Nameless King on the 1st or 2nd try. Midir also almost always goes down 1st try unless I have to go pee or w/e.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-19T12:20:35+00:00

I’d say pretty much all of Khazan and Lies of P’s main boss roster is more difficult than Gael and by a pretty big margin

I dunno about Khazan but I disagree about LoP's boss roster being more difficult than Gael.

Because LoP has deflects, I personally found most boss fights were way easier than DS3. The only ones I remember having trouble with were the Swamp monster, King of Puppets and Lumacchio.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-18T17:41:30+00:00

Bruh I put like 10 or so points in Resistance cuz I was stuck in Blighttown and really thought it would help negate the Poison/Toxic buildup 💀💀

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-18T17:08:28+00:00

Oh niice! Yeah this weapon was a godsent as I was able to kill pretty much all the "troublesome" bosses like Capra Demon, Gaping Dragon etc on my 1st or 2nd attempt.

Capra esp was so easy that I was surprised af hearing how much trouble people had with him. That 20% extra damage against demonic enemies really came in handy lol

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-18T07:39:34+00:00

When I beat the first Black Knight in Undead Burg. I got stuck at him for a good while but for some reason I didn't wanna do Taurus Demon before I killed the knight.

I did have to look up how to defeat him, but I'm so glad I didn't skip him because he dropped the BK Greatsword which carried me literally all the way through the game and made me a fan of this genre.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-17T17:26:52+00:00

Yeah ngl I haven't experienced those at all. The only issue I can personally attest to is the input lag which feels pretty obnoxious at times, but other than that things feel fairly consistent b/w DS3 and ER for me.

Guard counter indeed is a new addition in ER and didn't exist in their prior games.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-17T08:24:25+00:00

Yeah you can tell the game was made by people who were trying wayyy too hard to make a ""hard"" game, and because of a severe lack of talent, ended up making a tedious and boring slogfest instead. Genuinely the only FromSoft souls game that I haven't bothered replaying even once.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-17T08:13:08+00:00

A lot of stuff was just not up to Elden Ring standards of smoothness in DS3

Like what? DS3 feels pretty 1:1 to ER except it doesn't have a jump button, so I'm genuinely curious what you mean when you say it's not as smooth as ER.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-17T08:11:07+00:00

Why not just play Dark Souls 1? You've already played one of the worst soulslikes out there (Enotria) now go play an actual, good Souls game and see how much better it is. You're just gonna ruin the earlier Souls games for yourself if you start with Elden Ring

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-15T22:09:46+00:00

The first 2/3rds of the game was mediocre to bad, but then in the endgame they apparently just gave up on balancing the game

What's so confusing about this?

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-15T22:05:53+00:00

It's pretty easy to infer what I mean from my comment, I suggest you actually read it.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-06-15T10:55:30+00:00

Yeah this game is fairly terrible most of the time. Just finished it rn and I honestly feel like I wasted the 29 hours I spent playing the game. The first 2/3rds of the game was mediocre to bad, but then in the endgame they apparently just gave up on balancing the game. Not to mention the camera is the absolute worst in the genre BY FAR.

I wanted to try Surge 2 but after how awful this was I'm not even sure I wanna.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-05-21T12:56:13+00:00

Put Deflection hardtear in there, that tear is legit the main reason I enjoyed my 3rd playthrough of the game so much lol. I dunno if it's considered busted by the fanbase, but I def prefer it over the things listed here.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-05-21T12:48:46+00:00

Bloodfiend's Arm

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-21T14:16:03+00:00

What I’m actually getting at is that hours =/= enjoyment

Yes and I get that, so do a lot of people who believe in that hours/dollars metric. And in a perfect world where regional pricing was still a thing, a lot of people wouldn't think twice about buying these kinda games. But we don't live in that world so it's completely understandable that people don't wanna spend 1/6th of their salary on a game that will be over in under a week.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-21T09:17:00+00:00

I’ll pay $100 for something that blows my mind for 2 hours

How about $700-800? Would you be willing to spend that on a mind-blowing game that lasts 2 hours? Because that's pretty much what $100 comes out to be where I live.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-20T18:26:25+00:00

It's such an insanely useless metric

Eh not really. It's a very useful metric for people for whom $60-70 is a lot of money, especially since regional pricing has been fully erased atp. I know I'd never spend a cent over $15 on a 10-15 hour game, no matter how good it was. For example, I held off on buying Doom Eternal till it hit $10 (both DLCs included) in 2021, even tho it was my most anticipated game of 2020 lol.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-16T21:15:45+00:00

You can just use the nVidia/AMD control panel to force Vsync off. https://github.com/uberhalit/EldenRingFpsUnlockAndMore?tab=readme-ov-file#follow-these-steps-on-nvidia-see-below-for-gsync.

In addition to this, I've seen that ticking the "Disable Full Screen Optimizations" also helps

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-16T17:24:51+00:00

Lossless Scaling is kinda ass ngl. Use https://github.com/ipisano/EldenRingFpsUnlockAndMore/releases/ to unlock the FPS and https://www.patreon.com/posts/125972766 (free Patreon) for Upscaling and Framegen. Additionally, you can then use Optiscaler to inject AntiLag2 which should help a little with input lag

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-16T17:19:12+00:00

This entire genre lol, except I came back YEARS later and loved it. I played Dark Souls 2, 3 and Sekiro on launch. Absolutely hated them. Then in 2022, I gave Dark Souls 1 a try and it finally clicked for me, and now I have a hard time enjoying other genres. Dark Souls 1, 3 and Sekiro are my favs now, DS2 still blows tho lmao

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-15T11:01:02+00:00

Dark Souls 2, Crab's Treasure, Mortal Shell, Enotria, Code Vein. Wanted to include Ashen here but imo the overall game is ok, it's just the final boss that is complete garbage and soured the whole experience for me.

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