I'll give my perspective: For me, soulslike games are too hard. I've got muscle memory and other issues preventing me from getting good. Imagine it took you 8 times as much work to learn a move set using a controller with 15-degree off-dead-center stick drift and variable 100 to 200ms input lag. Those are my hands. It's not going to change. I love Elden Ring, though because it's not linear the way BB and Sekiro and DS are. I've never beaten the first bosses of any of those games. Even DS1. I can't make it happen and I get frustrated and stop caring. But I f'n love elden ring. Because the game is non-linear (I can skip bosses until I'm overpowered enough to beat them). The DLC is probably going to end up in the "too hard" category but I'm not going to buy it until I've had a chance to play it. A private business should market the products they want to market. My inability is not a reason FS should make their games easy.
Weirdly for me I found enemies in free roam much harder than the bosses. Haven't done Radahn yet, but most bosses I did in less than 10 tries (which is good for me because I honestly suck) and others like Messmer and Bayle only took me upwards of 15-20.
Yeah for me, messmer and gauis (the big guy on the bull) took me like 15-20 attempts, most the other bosses took either 1 att or a max of like 5 or 6, but radahn bruh 💀 took me like 50 att even while fully upgraded
That's the first mistake I did, coz I did not upgrade the Scadutree Blessings, Well it did not affect My gameplay that much since I'm used to the Dark Souls ng + difficulty spikes but one thing became more noticeable and it's I was barely doing damage to Metry the first Major boss I fought and it's taking forever just to get it's Hp to Half 😂
It's not hard at all honestly. I've never played a souls game, ER is my first, and the base game was much harder for me -- it made me git gud, and I sleepwalked through most of it. Except Radanh and Messmer, who were both my daddy for far too many attempts LOL. Aside from those two bosses? Nothing in the DLC was a challenge. At lesat half of the rememberance bosses were almost killed 1st attempt blind from me.
Shadow of the Erdtree isn’t too hard, the final boss is though. When the only way to survive a fight is to switch your entire build into a great shield build, it’s too much.
To me, I believe that human beings are meant to be challenged. Everything in life is a challenge. The game is hard, and that's ok. Learn the games mechanics understand how it functions, and you will overcome the challenge. Human beings need to be challenged if there's no challenge than life will be boring not every game needs to hold you're hand and tell you what to do sometimes you got to figure it out yourself
Base game is fine. A lot of the DLC is hard, but not impossible. Until you get to Messmer. I've probably out in 10+ hours trying to foght this guy, and can't even get to the 2nd phase. Honestly this whole DLC is kinda bullshit. Anyone saying it's not is fooling themselves, or are insanely good at the game.
it took me 12 hours to beat with no shield and a great weapon. It was fun but took me too long. I tried to go further into the world after that. But got to another one of those fire gollem's who killed me 6 times. Two times right at the end. And honestly I'm just done with the game. I get the same feeling I have with cod. It's the game playing me instead of me playing the game. I know the world agro's a little more if you have more souls. But honestly I just don't have the time for a video game like this. And even if I did, I would like the difficulty come from playing the game not from fighting the camera and having to play almost perfect the entire time. What I loved about the original dark souls (sure it was a little difficult) but it was the crazy world, enemy design, and movement. In elden ring I still love all those things but they just cranked up the difficulty for the sake of being difficult. And I know people say why don't you use summons. The answer is simple; because I play the game to play and the summons look too simplistic it takes me out of the game seeing the ai fight ai. Also, I play a game to play a game not to watch bad mmo type fights. That being said I did have fun beating messmer, but not compared to the time it took me. I'm just not good. And since I play on mouse and key (I don't like controller) I don't think I'll get much better. Some things are just hard to do on keyboard like strafing around an enemy close by. It feels almost impossible just because of the way the directional input works. I solved some of it with playing without lock-on but again, it's just too much work for the reward. It's a shame though because I really enjoyed ds1 and ds3 (ds2 not so much). Still think ds1 had the best player character animations. And elden ring has the best enemy animations, but it''s at the point it feels like work. And something I really don't like about life it's work. Chore's are not fun. In ds1 you also had area's where everything was a pushover like in the tree with the mushrooms right after blight town. But because of the design and the world you stayed engaged but elden ring feels like it's cranked up to 11 all the time. Where I'm just getting exhausted. I know better players and controller players don't necessarily share this experience but for me it's done. I defeated messmer and I'll call it a game. I will have to think long and hard before purchasing another fromsoft game because I"m not a gaming safant or a streamer who's able to play all day. Neither do I want to look at wiki's to play the game. So yes, I do handicap myself in all those ways but then again, that's how I like to game so I'm guessing fromsoft games are no longer for me. I've hit the wall. And I'll miss it a little in the beginning but after a while I'll be fine. Just like saying goodbye to cod. With the skill based hit registration. At first it was like to bad It was a good time but after a while it's like I never think about the game outside of someone talking about it to me. Anyway sorry for ranting, I just wanted you to know that it's okay to walk away from something that doesn't serve you. After all you only have one life and time is all you really have.
For performance issues, a large amount of the issues stem from **anticheat** the chinese reviews all lament of the blue bear
Good video big dawg 🤝
I'll give my perspective: For me, soulslike games are too hard. I've got muscle memory and other issues preventing me from getting good. Imagine it took you 8 times as much work to learn a move set using a controller with 15-degree off-dead-center stick drift and variable 100 to 200ms input lag.
Those are my hands. It's not going to change.
I love Elden Ring, though because it's not linear the way BB and Sekiro and DS are. I've never beaten the first bosses of any of those games. Even DS1. I can't make it happen and I get frustrated and stop caring.
But I f'n love elden ring. Because the game is non-linear (I can skip bosses until I'm overpowered enough to beat them).
The DLC is probably going to end up in the "too hard" category but I'm not going to buy it until I've had a chance to play it.
A private business should market the products they want to market. My inability is not a reason FS should make their games easy.
Weirdly for me I found enemies in free roam much harder than the bosses. Haven't done Radahn yet, but most bosses I did in less than 10 tries (which is good for me because I honestly suck) and others like Messmer and Bayle only took me upwards of 15-20.
Yeah for me, messmer and gauis (the big guy on the bull) took me like 15-20 attempts, most the other bosses took either 1 att or a max of like 5 or 6, but radahn bruh 💀 took me like 50 att even while fully upgraded
@@bigchungus8436 Yeah just started fighting Radahn, this guy hard as shit I take it all back
That's the first mistake I did, coz I did not upgrade the Scadutree Blessings, Well it did not affect My gameplay that much since I'm used to the Dark Souls ng + difficulty spikes but one thing became more noticeable and it's I was barely doing damage to Metry the first Major boss I fought and it's taking forever just to get it's Hp to Half 😂
It's not hard at all honestly. I've never played a souls game, ER is my first, and the base game was much harder for me -- it made me git gud, and I sleepwalked through most of it. Except Radanh and Messmer, who were both my daddy for far too many attempts LOL. Aside from those two bosses? Nothing in the DLC was a challenge. At lesat half of the rememberance bosses were almost killed 1st attempt blind from me.
Shadow of the Erdtree isn’t too hard, the final boss is though. When the only way to survive a fight is to switch your entire build into a great shield build, it’s too much.
To me, I believe that human beings are meant to be challenged. Everything in life is a challenge. The game is hard, and that's ok. Learn the games mechanics understand how it functions, and you will overcome the challenge. Human beings need to be challenged if there's no challenge than life will be boring not every game needs to hold you're hand and tell you what to do sometimes you got to figure it out yourself
Base game is fine. A lot of the DLC is hard, but not impossible. Until you get to Messmer. I've probably out in 10+ hours trying to foght this guy, and can't even get to the 2nd phase. Honestly this whole DLC is kinda bullshit. Anyone saying it's not is fooling themselves, or are insanely good at the game.
it took me 12 hours to beat with no shield and a great weapon. It was fun but took me too long. I tried to go further into the world after that. But got to another one of those fire gollem's who killed me 6 times. Two times right at the end. And honestly I'm just done with the game. I get the same feeling I have with cod. It's the game playing me instead of me playing the game. I know the world agro's a little more if you have more souls. But honestly I just don't have the time for a video game like this. And even if I did, I would like the difficulty come from playing the game not from fighting the camera and having to play almost perfect the entire time. What I loved about the original dark souls (sure it was a little difficult) but it was the crazy world, enemy design, and movement. In elden ring I still love all those things but they just cranked up the difficulty for the sake of being difficult. And I know people say why don't you use summons. The answer is simple; because I play the game to play and the summons look too simplistic it takes me out of the game seeing the ai fight ai. Also, I play a game to play a game not to watch bad mmo type fights. That being said I did have fun beating messmer, but not compared to the time it took me. I'm just not good.
And since I play on mouse and key (I don't like controller) I don't think I'll get much better. Some things are just hard to do on keyboard like strafing around an enemy close by.
It feels almost impossible just because of the way the directional input works. I solved some of it with playing without lock-on but again, it's just too much work for the reward. It's a shame though because I really enjoyed ds1 and ds3 (ds2 not so much). Still think ds1 had the best player character animations. And elden ring has the best enemy animations, but it''s at the point it feels like work. And something I really don't like about life it's work. Chore's are not fun.
In ds1 you also had area's where everything was a pushover like in the tree with the mushrooms right after blight town. But because of the design and the world you stayed engaged but elden ring feels like it's cranked up to 11 all the time. Where I'm just getting exhausted. I know better players and controller players don't necessarily share this experience but for me it's done. I defeated messmer and I'll call it a game. I will have to think long and hard before purchasing another fromsoft game because I"m not a gaming safant or a streamer who's able to play all day. Neither do I want to look at wiki's to play the game. So yes, I do handicap myself in all those ways but then again, that's how I like to game so I'm guessing fromsoft games are no longer for me. I've hit the wall. And I'll miss it a little in the beginning but after a while I'll be fine. Just like saying goodbye to cod. With the skill based hit registration. At first it was like to bad It was a good time but after a while it's like I never think about the game outside of someone talking about it to me.
Anyway sorry for ranting, I just wanted you to know that it's okay to walk away from something that doesn't serve you. After all you only have one life and time is all you really have.