Few tips

1. Anything without a boss health bar can be avoided. You can literally sprint past most enemies.

2. Vigor is the most important stat to level at first. The soft cap is 40. I'd go 2/1 ratio of vigor and whatever other stat you want

3. Weapon levels buff your stats faster than attribute point. Get smithing stones and upgrade your weapons regularly.

4. Don't rush straight for the main bosses. You can find great items and level up a lot form just exploring and finding chit. Take your time

5. Early game, southern Limgrave will be great for leveling. Don't know if you've been already, but definitely scour that area for some upgrades.

6. If you haven't already, return to the Church of Elleh to get a very helpful item for bosses.

7. If you're having trouble, summon people to help out. Co op is a fun time.

8. Your first 'soulslike' game is usually the hardest. There's a point in which everything just clicks, and things get much easier. It'll still beat your ass sometimes, but not NEARLY as often.

9. Last, but not least; git gud

ER has no story, but BB does? They both tell the story the same way.

Everything went to chit, items and NPC's give you bits of lore, and you're out to kill a God and fix chit.

Demon Souls is inferior to the others imo.

The thing you are fighting I don't think you are supposed to fight that early.

If you are stuck, turn around and go finish storm veil, you can come back and fight that later.

you should've got Armoured Core, Elden Ring is a 'wait for the bargain bin' game.

Imagine being 10 hours in and only up to stormveil castle, when I was able to complete the game and get all achievements in 45 hours.

Get good, or go back to your Ubisoft open world games.

I keep hearing this. "Impossibly hard" but "fair". WTF does that mean? It doesnt make any sense.Its either hard or its not. Yeah they are hard at first but once you got the rythm down its not so bad. I think thats just a stupid way of putting it. Ive played harder games. I think they are just boring and repetitive after a couple hours.

It's just difficulty porn for the kinda people who obsess over FromSoft. Either you enjoy the punishment or it's not for you. Their games have always been for the masochistic types that really take pride in their prowess at this one type of video game.

Gonna have to agree. Bought Sekiro for Christmas cause it was on sale and chit is just stupid. I made it to the final boss and I think I’ll eventually beat it but not sure if the experience was fun. Difficult just for the sake of it and extremely punishing for any little mistake.

It's not that hard to understand. Hard but fair means low rng, aka you can beat the system flawlessly with enough skill. people have done no-hit runs of the entire trilogies of dark souls. If the game wasn't fair that would never be possible.

I used to play fighting games a lot. For tournaments, you would always see the same folks pretty much in the top 32, even if the tournament had thousands of entrants. This is because fighting games are high skill/low luck, like soulsborne games are.

Compare it to a game like hearthstone, which is a card game. The absolute best players in the world had like a 62% win rate. For tournaments, the top 10 would always be a shuffle, because there was so much randomness in the results. Players in championship games would lose a winning position because their opponent got a 1/100 chance of something happening and there is no counterplay to it. Games like that are low skill/high luck. Could you still say winning a tournament in hearthstone is hard? absolutely, but it's a different kind of hard.

Of the two (high luck vs low luck), high luck games are way more frustrating, because you can easily lose to something out of your control. while soulsborne games are actually low luck, so if you lose most of the time it's just because you're bad, but when you win it's more rewarding because you didn't chance your way into victory.

Yeah i guess. Im just tired of hearing it put that way. I know what they mean. Biggest pain in the ass is having to start from a bonfire half hour from where you died.

Not trying to pry but what part of GA you from? lived in Carrol County 15 years before i came back to the midwest. only thing i miss is the weather right now. got a blizzard coming down

oh nice. i went to a few football games at west ga, hooked up with some girls there a few times. i lived north of atlanta near woodstock; i actually moved to texas a few years ago for work. it's cold as hell here now. tomorrow i'm gonna go to gym then go stock up on beer incase i get stranded from the ice on monday lol.

If you absolutely suck ass in this game, and got 35 dollars, just buy your way to max level on ebay

https://www.ebay.com/itm/31509156089...Bk9SR7SQ6ZKgYw

You'll start one shotting everyone.

Git gud.

If you want a good fantasy adventure rpg game with good gameplay, go play Dragon's Dogma 1 just in time for the sequel.

Nothing special at all with ER's gameplay. Just difficulty porn like some already said. It's the "git gud" thing, you can brag about to your buddies or random people in the net, but in reality the gameplay is really outdated.

Tell me you suck at ER/Souls without telling me you suck at ER/Souls

This is basically your entire playthrough. The world is huge and the only meaningful "secrets" you really discover while exploring are new enemies to fight. Then, you reach a main area where a boss resides and you fight your way through that area to reach and beat the boss. My issue is that for world this size there aren't any stories or side quests that add anything particularly unique or different other than just more fighting. There are side quests but they don't explain much and often leave you confused where to go or what to do. The game is impossible to really complete without going online to read chit up and I really disliked that part about it. Maybe it works in a linear game format where eventually you can find where to go but in an open world it was very frustrating because I don't use guides.

So yeah imo it's a good game but not amazing as most people say. You can experiment with different builds but the combat never really feels "next gen" or different to all the previous souls games. Also, I appreciate a good story and with all the hype about GRRM writing this game I really expected one....esp in a huge open world game that takes 100+ hours to beat. The last third of the game was a large difficulty spike and a massive slog to get through andby the time I was at the end I really had no sense of why I'm even here, fighting a final boss I'm seeing for the very first time who did nothing to antagonize me for the entire journey leading up to that moment. Sorry if that's a spoiler but I felt no sense of accomplishment finishing the game other than the fact that I beat a very difficult boss... Something I already did 50+ times before lol.