Topic: Elden Ring Hype Thread

@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!

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 :')

Oh well!

Thanks!

@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.

@johncalmc Bloodhound Fang Gang! Easily my favourite weapon and I really should go and play NG+ now that I think about it.

@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.

Dual wielding Katanas were FTW for me late game. Really hard to get out the habit of blocking everything with a shield though.

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 Well done my man!

Will you eventually be playing the other FromSoftware games?

@JohnnyShoulder Thanks!

One of my friends, who's a total FromSoftware nut, has been encouraging me to play Bloodborne next, so I may well give that a try ... eventually!

@KAIRU Again! I do hope it's not 250 hours each time 🤣

@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.

And so it begins! Started last night and played for about 2 hours so just getting my feet wet! Started as a Vagabond and as I'm hoping to get the plat done in my first playthrough I'm playing half blind/half guide to make sure I don't miss or screw anything up.

I had a really good go at the first boss and after recently playing Bloodborne and Demon's Soul's I think with a bit more effort and concentration I could of bested him but after he was below half way health I just felt like dying was the better option as first time playing(may sound weird).

One thing I will say is that I've managed to stay relatively spoiler free, not that the story is ever really a main focal point but also haven't seen to much gameplay or boss stuff(except the fire giant and Melina always seem to be mentioned) but a big point I heard from people especially new players to From Software games was that the game doesn't really tell you where to go but once at limegrave, the grace sites literally point you in the rough direction, I don't know if this is new or added in previous updates.

Anyway got my map piece and acquired a steady companion, a giant gave me a fright and a pot needed a smacking, lots of exploring which is where I think this game literally becomes amazing, you can just wonder anywhere and after realising your not ready for this enemy, go elsewhere until you are.

I felt after Ragnarok a little bit of a lul and it's been about a week of just turning the console on for an hour or so and then back off because I couldn't get in to starting anything but last night took a punt on Elden Ring and I'm glad I did!. (Until I die annoyingly all the time)

@MaulTsir I wouldn’t worry too much about “messing up” a platinum run as it’s difficult to do much wrong I think, especially in the very early game. There’s only one item that is missable that would lock you out of one trophy but another player can drop it for you if needed.

I’d just play through it naturally to start. I used the powerpyx guide https://www.powerpyx.com/elden-ring-trophy-guide-roadmap/ which has headings to give you some direction if you need it. Any key steps are in red (and late on) if you wanted to scroll through to see what those points are.

@Thrillho Thanks for the info, I have been using the psnprofile guide but I'll have a look at the powerpyx one if I get on tonight. Any help can only be a good thing!

I've found my self just sort of exploring and trying to work things out, figure out what things do, I've got 2 map pieces and also a good few grace sites but I've definitely wandered to far because most things just one or 2 shot me 🤣 I did clear a camp close to wear the merchant sits, although on my first attempt the guy blowing his horn and every man and his dog coming out really give me a fright! So my next attempt was stealth mode!.

The Platinum for this one is really attainable I think. There's only that one missable item, and other than that it's pretty plain sailing. Not like some of the other Souls games where you have to collect every ring or something and that means playing the game three times or whatever.

I also think it's a largely enjoyable platinum. I liked doing it all. It wasn't a situation where it was like, oh great now I have to go around the whole map finding artefacts and there's 200 of them. You basically get it for just playing the game thoroughly.

@MaulTsir @johncalmc Yeah, it’s hard to lock yourself out of the platinum (other than not backing up your save before an ending) but there are so many subtle stories going on for characters that you can miss or inadvertently mess up.

I honestly have no idea how people found so many of those organically as it sometimes felt like is was needing to read three separate wiki pages simultaneously to figure things out!