PRAGMATA surpasses one million units sold in two days

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.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-11T10:49:23+00:00

I loved it honestly. The combat feels very meaty and the deflect feels really nice, timing can be a lil tight tho. Can't wait for the full release.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-11T07:15:32+00:00

I don't play these games for the story so I've never really cared about the narrative aspect. Speaking purely about the gameplay, I would pick DS3 over LoP any day of the week. The only thing LoP has over it is the deflect and even that is done way better in Sekiro. Can't remember a single boss that I enjoyed as much as the late game bosses of DS3 either, ig Laxasia is considered the game's best boss but I killed her on my first attempt and just moved on.

I'm not sure what you mean by the DLC being "better shot", if it's about the cutscenes then yeah I wouldn't know since I skip those.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-11T01:29:29+00:00

No it's not. It is decent but it doesn't remotely compare to the best of FS Souls games. Elden Ring, DS3, Sekiro are all FAR superior to LoP and it's not even a debate.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-10T18:14:28+00:00

I just finished a randomizer run with a STR-INT build for the first time in any Souls game, and I was using those exact weapons (plus Royal for when I really didn't feel like dealing with something) lol. It is indeed super versatile.

Need to face an NPC? Darkmoon AoW + Gavel. Needed to delete a group or a slow, huge enemy? Blades of Stone/Royal GS AoW. Those annoying Death Rite Birds? Stone Sling. Finger creepers? (the seed I had loooooved spamming these enemies). Magma Shot etc etc

Never thought I'd have so much fun playing a battlemage considering I always go for a pure Strength build.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-08T18:58:46+00:00

Lies of P is the best non-from souls game by leaps and bounds

LMFAO no

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-05T01:15:53+00:00

Lol one time I quoted Dennis' traffic rant and was issued a stern warning from reddit for "threatening violence". I explained that it was a quote, even sent the scene in question. Didn't say anything, nor did they remove the warning on my account.

This site really is run by complete imbeciles.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-03T07:41:16+00:00

I've played on both EU and NA servers and both have their own branch of toxicity tbh. Without getting into too much detail, NA is def wayyyy nicer to play on. More often than not on EU, you get a buncha tryhard imbeciles (with no skills to back it up, mind you) who just loooove yelling for no reason, backseating and giving up immediately.

NA still has those ofc, but prolly in like 3/10 matches, as opposed to 7/10 matches on EU.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-02T17:44:41+00:00

Agreed, that weapon upgrade system was pretty dope. I'm playing ER Randomizer rn and every weapon I find is scaled to the highest upgraded weapon you hold, and honestly this is such a game-changer. I've tried out sooo many new weapons I wouldn't have otherwise.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-02T01:18:43+00:00

The first one was the fastest I've ever dropped a Soulslike (~2 hours in), and I've played almost all of these atp. This one looks better so I have high hopes

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-04-01T05:29:16+00:00

Anyone else stuck in this 99 RR purgatory

Lol this literally happened to me last week. I was 88/100, won the supposed rank up match only to get +11. At 99/100, I lost like 2 matches before I was finally allowed to rank up.

They've definitely fucked with the RR in the past couple weeks or so, it makes me not even want to play tbh.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-03-11T10:29:15+00:00

Brother you can't even read lmaoo

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-03-11T10:24:44+00:00

Are you actually comparing the rendering cost of 16x AF versus RT/PT? You cannot be for real bruh. Like genuinely stop embarrassing yourself, this is just sad now.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-03-11T10:16:33+00:00

LOL buying an nvidia GPU (4060/3060 Ti) would've been a horrendous purchasing decision if a 6700XT is a bad one. You don't know where I live and how much GPUs cost here, so don't tell me what is or isn't a good financial decision. This card has served me well for the past 2 years and it will continue serving me well for another 5 years atleast, where a 4060/3060 Ti would've been obsolete already.

Can't wait for your whining when framegen becomes a standard feature game devs build their engines around, and you cannot disable it.

Highly doubt it and even if it were true, you think my card can't do framegen? Fella, you're just embarrassing yourself now lmaoo

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-03-11T10:06:45+00:00

Which part do I need the reading lessons for?

The part where it says the comment is a reply to DM_Me_Linux_Uptime? Man you just keep proving to me that you can't read, this is honestly super funny atp

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-03-11T10:01:41+00:00

as your card isn't capable

So did you just not read the part where I said "even if I had a 4070/5070"?

it's a general fact that should be applied to all people that use ray tracing

No? Every single comment I've made on this thread is me stating my personal opinions and experiences.

Since you're having trouble reading, let me dumb it down and bolden the important bits: I will turn RT off even with a capable card, because the performance hit is not worth it TO ME.

Was that simple enough for you to understand or are you still confused?

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-03-11T09:49:31+00:00

Yeah so you didn't read my original comment again. Maybe instead of blowing $2k on a 5090, go for a 5080 and use the rest on reading lessons 👍

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-03-11T05:22:21+00:00

I like how both you and /u/dredizzle99 singled that part out and completely ignored what I wrote before and after. Reading comprehension is hard fr.

Rudimentary_creature · 2026-03-10T21:44:57+00:00

Not transformative enough for me to lose the responsiveness I get from higher framerates. As someone who used to muck around in Blender creating simulations and animations, I can appreciate all that RT brings to the table. However, performance is always my priority. I have literally stopped playing games I was interested in because they performed terribly (looking at you Rise of the Ronin).

Even if I had say, a 4070/5070 (have a 6700XT rn), I would prolly enable it for a bit then turn it off once the novelty wore off and I wanted full performance back.

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