Just FYI...
What edition do people fancy buying? Unfortunately the PC version is only a code in the box. I prefer buying physical copies as you can have a physical backup and a reminder of the game left on the shelf too.
While I'm adamently against pre-ordering games - gamestop look like they have a fairly good 'launch edition' for €68.50 (inc delivery). It comes with a poster and cards and other fiddly things that I don't care much for usually
There are other deluxe editions too that come with art books and the sort, which looks interesting...
^ Launch Edition for Xbox for me.
Now all we have to do is wait for Vaati to submit his findings to a relevant publication and for his peers to review it, then we can see what the actual spoilers are and can take steps to avoid them
Yes, I think I'll opt for the launch edition too. Seems like the best price/value ratio. Some of the other deluxe editions are going for 180+ then the basic editions are going for 59.99 or so anyway.
I'll be keeping a look out for the futurepress game guide too even though I will never use it for help to finish the game. I saw the Sekiro one going for half nothing on Amazon and it is an incredible book just for the quality and artwork alone.
I've got all the Future Press guides for the Souls games. Shame theres none for the Demon Souls Remaster.
Very jealous! I see them going now for up to £200 online. Might be a few months before the Elden Ring one comes out.
Got my preorder from Voidu at like 42e - whatever site that i found cheapest according to isthereanydeal aha. Is crazy, it is going to come out so soon lolol
That's one big mutha...
Looks like a minor boss, so I've hidden the Tweet in case you want to go in blissfully unaware of the creatures that await..
https://twitter.com/ELDENRING/status/1484556630083649536?s=20
Gone gold
Not knowing what was going on kind of put me off the game. The gameplay was A+ though.
30 hours-ish to complete the main storyline, with "many dozens more hours" of gameplay available on top of that.
This is how DL2 should have announced their length, instead of that 500 hrs nonsense. Base games/ main storyline probably similar lengths in both
30 hours for a souls game main story is pretty damn good
That is pretty standard, although I think Bloodborne may have been a little bit shorter. Then again the optional areas in that game are better than the best areas from most games.
Its kind of hard to quantify though, I never beat Rom the b@stard spider in bloodborne, and actually dropped the game there, but somehow manged to beat smough & Ornstein on my first go. Lothric in dark souls 3 was a close call with me almost calling it a day on ever finishing it also.
I think everyone has their own peaks and valleys in terms of souls games.
I'm usually in the 40 hour range but did find bloodborne much easier than. The rest and inhaled it in around 30 hours.
But let's not fool ourselves. There's no way we aren't all going to do the optional areas and super bosses.
I think as with most Soulsborne games, there'll be the normal playthrough, and then the second playthrough after it's been discovered that doing (really weird thing) with (random obscure objects) in (specific area) unlocks the full ending and real final boss.
Character creation looks much better...
Move over Fashion Souls, it's time for Fashion Ring.
Fashion,
Turn to the left,
Turn to the right...
Elden Bling
That's hilarious, I also had serious drama with ROM but killed O+S on my first go.
Nameless King was the only boss I gave up on, thank feck he was optional or that would've been the end of DS3 for me.
I spent an afternoon summoning help for that and in the end we barely managed it. I don't even know how its possible to do it solo.
For those that killed O & S first go, did ye think that was just another or handy boss fight while the rest of the world, including me, were spent countless hours on them in between bouts of crying on the corner?
I'm only now discovering The Nameless King in DS3 was supposed to be a tough fight. Think I beat him solo on second try.
The final boss of Sekiro is the only Souls boss that really broke me. I just couldn't get the rhythm down, although I got through the first phase of the fight so many times I could almost do it blindfolded. I eventually just did the 'lure' trick, running him in circles to trigger the few attacks I knew I could confidently counter. It was more relief than satisfaction when the credits eventually rolled, and absolutely nothing else in the series came close to the sheer graft needed to get there. There was just something about it that broke me, whereas many other of the more famous chokepoints in the Souls games felt much more surmountable.
I feel personally attacked.
In other awful Elden Ring news, I've been invited down the country to a divorce party for the weekend Elden Ring is out :(
I missed Dark Souls when it came out and played it via the remaster, I had no idea they were supposed to be infamous. I'm not particularly good at the souls games (couldn't get very far in Sekiro) but I had a bit of luck. When I killed the second one, he killed me at the exact same moment. I woke at the bonfire to see the boss vanquished message, I was fairly relieved let me tell you.
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