Topic: Elden Ring Hype Thread

@Mega-Gazz I’m the same with a lot of games to be honest, I never cleared Breath of the Wild either but it’s one of the best games I’ve played. Frankly whether I finish a game or not doesn’t always have much bearing on how good I think it is, but when I say I didn’t finish something people (rightly) assume I didn’t like it much 😂

In a way I like there always being something left to go back to, even if I never do.

@kyleforrester87 makes total sense to me. Honestly with ER you could get your money’s worth without even taking on any shardbearer boss.

@R1spam Cheers! Yeah that did catch me out the first time it happened and wiped me out.
Not yet, I was following up on Blaidd's quest and then into a cave to obtain on of the bell bearings I have access to. I kinda know where I'm heading to though.

After a week away, I’ve been easing myself back in and it seems like ages since I actually progressed the main story (I swear the trophy progress for “completion” has been sat at 16% for like a month now)

After Caelid/Dragonborrow I’ve mostly been going around caves and catacombs I missed in areas I’ve otherwise cleared but spent the last couple of sessions heading up to the Church of Inhibition. That tower causing madness is a right ****

I should probably head to Caria Manor at some point..

@Jimmer-jammer my 4th playthrough where I did everything but knew exactly what to do and basically mowed through every boss took about 80 hours. So the game is long but I can confirm that it does end…. I can also confirm that you are nowhere near said ending, sounds like you are about a third of the way through.

@Jimmer-jammer The amount of content is nuts.

I’m killing my 12 year old MacBook by having about 14 safari tabs open to keep up with the different side quests from NPCs I’ve come across

@Thrillho The trophy percentage stayed at 16% for an age for me too. Its now at 33% after the last couple of trophies.

And yeah that Eye of Sauron Madness Tower did my head in. I quite like the Frenzy enemies though, apart from the swine of an npc invader near by.

@Jimmer-jammer I think I've got two halves from two different medallions, but not sure if I need one of them now as I've already accessed Atlus Plateau. Sounds like you are a bit ahead of me as I've not reached the Mountaintops of the Giants yet.

Currently up to Volcano Manor and I'm hoping to make some good progress this weekend. It's looking like this game is going to dominate my 2022

@Jimmer-jammer oh, my mistake. Normally its the albinauric lady in Liurnia who tells you were the second half is, and you were talking about Radahn so it sounded like you were much earlier.

From Mountaintop of the giants it really depends how linear you are. You could finish it pretty fast if you choose to, or you can do more of the optional stuff and take a while longer.

Hello, so I was gone for a wile, why? I got caught up playing ranked overwatch, and many other games.

I have been on and off elden ring, all of it in the character creator which I love BTW I have made waaaay to many characters in it LOL.

But not to much has happened with my playthough, I fought a boss or two, and I met the most annoying fight in this whole game so far, that in all honesty I could rant forever about, but I just wanted to say, I'm back(Ish).

So I hope everyone is doing well today!

@Jimmer-jammer That is true. So far I've cleared out Limgrave, Liurnia of the Lakes, Ainsel River, Siofra River and most of Caelid (but not Dragonbarrow). I've also explored most of Altus Plateau, but only done a few caves and catacombs, and been through Mt. Gelmir only to get a map fragment. I'm currently in Nokron, Eternal City. It is crazy there is a massive underground area under the 'normal' map.

I finally made it to Ranni's Rise after 70 hours

@Royalblues There’s been rumours to that effect for ages now. Personally I’d not be happy, the games have a huge following on PC and Sony’s strategy for that platform is spotty at best. Besides, they’re doing well for themselves at the moment, I can’t really see any feasible benefits from Sony buying them up.

I'm not sure I'll ever finish this game, even though I think its bloody brilliant! Everywhere I prod, just reveals huge new areas! I just found that volcano Manor has a huge dungeon you can access by getting in one of the rooms. Along with making my way in the capital and finding a whole underground area underneath the capital and a copy of the round table hold . I'm level 80, 46 hrs in and still feel like I'm figuring things out! I am changing things up a bit though, I've been putting more into intelligence since I've been rocking the moonveil katana and I'm going to respect a bit and check out some more magic.

I progressed Fia's (the hug-a-lot lady) quest line a bit. Yeesh, that did not end well for D. But, wait he has a twin brother?! Got a cool armour set out of it though.

@JohnnyShoulder I just had the same happen too, as well as meeting a new character in Roundtable by the Twin Maidens.

@Thrillho The grumpy so and so who tells you to bugger off? It is probably the one character in the game I can most relate to!

@JohnnyShoulder Aye, I think he’s officially called Dung Eater.

@Jimmer-jammer Ha, my classic one is summoning the wolves in a boss fight and forgetting to change my quick item back to health.

So when I hit square, instead of getting a health boost I get a message if I really want to get rid of my summon which you need to get rid of before you can do anything else.

I’ve done this far too many times. I really ought to map them to triangle and a direction instead..

@Thrillho That's what I found way more effective as it was a pain cycling through items on the quick menu when in the middle of a fight. I had Crimson Tears and Wondrous Physick on the quick menu but Cerulean Tears and the summons on triangle + direction. It was confusing at first but worked loads better in the long run.