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Trying Elden Ring on PC in Steam's two-hour return window!
It's prettier and runs better than Dark Souls: Remastered, but the interface is still surprisingly clunky, I'm still not particularly enjoying the combat, and I'm still not finding the basic game loop compelling; and now there's berry picking and other conventional open world stuff on top of that.
I toggled the Blood option off.
If going more modern in the series has been less compelling for me, I wonder if I went more ancient... |
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| | | I'm assured by LaurelSoup that "most of that ingredient gathering stuff you can totally ignore." https://selectbutton.net/t/games-you-played-today-viii-journey-of-the-cursed-poster/14130/1216
And I am getting weird urges to re-purchase this (I hurried through so I could refund it on Steam if I wasn't liking it, but the hurrying probably didn't help the liking) and play it in a super-chillout sort of way. = oo
There was also some speedrun I was watching--probably on Twitch? darned if I can find it now--by a guy who estimated when asked by the presenter that he had maybe 2000 hours in the game and of course he was just running past everything to hit certain bosses for certain things; he got backstabbed and killed by one minion he tried to skip by at the base of a ladder though ^ _^; oh and he got one apparently unfortunate random twin boss who smushed him after a bit, and this was all somehow really endearing.
I kind of am not keen on all the traversal...but then whence these urges to chill out and wander? Oh NO. Well I should probably just re-buy it and stop feeling guilty about having refunded this game I am now feeling unwonted urges for. But I should play Demon's first! And III, which I went ahead and bought for some reason in the last day of the sale! (Skipping II; my excuse for bypassing DS:R and II is that the lighting is all washed out in meshy areas in them, har. I suppose if I love all the others I could always go back to them someday right right.) |
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| | | | I played this before I understood--from DeS' clear hints--that blocking requires Stamina, so that didn't help. And I was in such a rush that I intentionally skipped the "Cave of Knowledge" or whatever at the start, and had no clue about anything like how to level up. : PPP |
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| | | | Repurchased in Steam Winter Sale now that Demon's Souls has got me into the series. |
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