Elden Ring

Jogort

Gordon ship internet giving me 99+ hours left to download half, got half of it in the hotel last night 😭
Will get my 4G dongle on the job tonight

Gordon

There’s a patch now as well, just downloaded. Looks quite small at least.

Gordon

https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-5/elden-ring

Seems to be quite good then 🎉

Brave

I’m waiting for Kotaku to give it a 1.

Alex

I think reviews of Souls games are sort of pointless. Everyone who loves Souls games will give it 10/10 and everyone else is free to go “meh”. I think a lot of things people love about these games is exactly the same thing as others hate. There’s no grey area. Call me when they add an easy mode. 😛

DrDamn

Alex

😁
Credit - https://cheezburger.com/9005992960/git-gud

Gordon

Alex Yeah, it’s still a From/Souls game mechanically, but it also seems to be a huge leap forward in open world design. They could have gone for something very safe and still sold millions but they didn’t.

I don’t think it’s right to say reviews of these games are pointless either. Dark Souls 2 and Sekiro are very divisive and different from the other games and some reviews picked up on that. I don’t get on with Sekiro at all, I’ve never managed to get more than halfway through it.

Anyway, I’m quite excited 🙂

Alex

I was being a bit facetious. But Souls games are reviewed like Nintendo games, every publication always gives them to a Souls obsessive to review, I think that skewers the scores quite a bit.

Alex

Yikes

DrDamn

Alex incidentally I noticed that a fair number of reviews were of the PC version. So whilst From are known for fairly poor PC performance maybe something in the setup somewhere. Though I also think a lot of reviews are done under the “promise” from developers that day one patches will solve all ills they might encounter. I understand DF agreed not publish any performance tests until day one patches had been applied.

Gordon

They’ve never been much good with PC ports unfortunately.

Alex

I’ll stop moaning now and let you enjoy your silly too hard game in peace.

Gordon

Alex They’re really not that hard mostly. You just can’t get away with mashing buttons like you can in most other games.

Brave

The big thing with souls games is psychology. They hit you hard with a tough boss early for one thing and the size and camera angle of most bosses does the rest.

The one thing I think that makes it particularly rough is invasions. But in general I actually think Returnal was far far harder.

DrDamn

From what I gather invasions in Elden Ring are limited to when you are playing co-op. Not sure that holds for the whole game though.

Alex

Well frustrating might be a better word. I’ve played enough of these games to understand why people like them.

Brave

My wife says she’s on the school run on Friday morning. Which means I get a midnight to 3am session when it launches \o/

As long everything works. Please let everything work.

Gordon

I knew there was a reason I married her.

Fumanstu

How weird, my Xbox suddenly thinks it’s in New Zealand. 😂

Gordon

Fumanstu I briefly considered buying it on Xbox just so I could play earlier, but I talked myself out of it.

Might be about to buy a new telly tho.

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