Well, you may have accidentally triggered a late game boss there. Vordt or Dancer?

I think there was that and Bloodborne was all close quarters combat. There were parts that you couldn’t get out of if you were ****ed health wise.

Are you replaying to me? If so, I mean first boss - the prologue or whatever the first scripted sequence was where you go through a canyon, fight a few skeletons, and end up in a round arena with a big dude.

I had trouble with the skeletons to be honest, at least at first, and after 90 minutes of dying on the boss, I gave up.

And this is coming from someone who beat The Witcher 3 on Death March or whatever it is.

Oooh you mean Gundyr

Hell, that can be beaten by spamming R1

You're playing too cautious then. That boss is designed to punish you unless you get up close to it.

I tried several approaches. I'm just not quick enough to keep from getting hit.

I made it to MR158 on Monster Hunter World before I finally got to a point where I just wasn't quick enough to take on high powered bosses.

I can't do games with iframes and shit like that.

Gotcha. You could always just turtle then

Funny shit...

I follow GI on Facebook and they posted about the "open letter" From, talking about framerate and other performance issues people are having.

The first comment on their post is "I'm not having any performance problems. The only problem I'm having is DYING FROM EVERYTHING"

ROFL

This game is easier than a normal FromSoft. For one you can actually restock your heals after clearing a mob.

Yeah that’s going to be a no from me, dawg.

That's literally every SoulsBorne game ever.

And no, it's actually quite easy to grind up early game. 2 spots where you can force enemies to hit each other and do the work for you.

Just curious, I have been a PC gamer for a VERY long time. I do NOT understand the love for RPG's. So MUCH ****ing time and devotion for a seemingly endless conclusion if there is even one at all. See Everquest. That is just way too much devotion for me.

ROFL For me it was Demon’s Souls. I sucked so much at that game that I have abandoned playing any Dark Souls game.

Woof. First legit boss of Elden Ring does not **** around. Beat him 2nd try but I was kitted out to the max and still had a pretty rough go of it. If you don't go exploring and just follow the path the game sets for you your asshole is going to be ripped to shreds.

There's a cracked version out, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Playing on PC using an XBox wireless controller. The controller buttons wouldn't work. The sticks both worked for motion and camera, but nothing else. After fighting with that, I found online that the game is really weird with input devices. I had to unplug my keyboard and mouse both, launch Steam in Big Picture mode, use the controller to navigate and launch the game. Only then would the controller function properly.

After I finally got into the game, the very first bad guy I ran into was the Tree Sentinel. Big guy on a horse. Couldn't run away from him because he's on a ****ing horse and I'm not. Tried hiding from him in a little building, and he destroyed the building and killed me anyway. LOL. I did manage to sneak around him a couple times, but then ran into another group of creatures that waxed me in 3 shots. After about the 12th instadeath I gave up.

Oh and just for kicks, I tried to attack this guy at the very beginning who was just trying to give me some advice. Bad idea. He was right beside the spawn point. Of course, he turned violent and killed me effortlessly. Then I kept spawning again right beside him, so he immediately started attacking me at every respawn, making things even worse.

I might give it another try, but it was a pretty rough first impression. Really wish there were a way to adjust the difficulty...

Mother ****ER there's an item to make the fight easier. No wonder that shit was so hard for a first boss LMAO

You know, I wish games would have an old farts mode. You could do it as a six month or one year delay or something, fine, so the whippersnappers can still gloat about finishing a real game while it matters.

But there's got to be a lot of guys who are retired who have time (no kids at home) and money and would still like to play FPS and RPG.

But not online against anyone else and the difficulty needs to have knobs to reduce it to a level appropriate for someone who needs reading glasses and doesn't climb stairs very quickly anymore.

Edit: And I may have time but I'm not interested in having to grind the shit out of everything. Been there, done that.

MMORPG's are structured way different than single-player RPG's.

Some are better than others. I definitely burned out on some that felt like too much work.

Deep Rock Galactic 50% off on steam right now

I tried it (a very small amount) and didn't get into it. Seemed like I was just going to do a shitton of mining and maybe kill some enemies along the way.

Seems like there was enough noise about this very thing to make the developer for SIFU add an easy mode (and a harder mode, for some reason). Granted, that's an indie developer and not From, but there's at least precedence.

It's ideally played with friends. Can get really tough when there are swarms.

That's the way my Ark server is. There's only 4 of us and we all have jobs and kids and whatnot. I've got taming, egg hatching, dino raising, mining, etc. either turned way down or modded so most of the grind is gone. We might only get 2 hours on a week night to play so we don't want to spend an hour mining for stone or wood.

We decide if it's a taming day, boss fight day, or cave exploration day before logging on. Building is done by yourself whenever you have an hour or two to kill. It's a ton of fun.

In a perfect world we'd have 2 or 3 more people on but with INI files and mods you can turn a grindy life sucker into an exciting and action packed couple of hours these days. It's a good mix of small party MMO and single player at the same time. IMO if you like games like Ark, Valheim, Rust, etc it's the only way to play if yer' over 25...

For all you Elden Ring dingers there's a broken ass XP farm you can do right at the start of the game. Like, it's going to be patched soon broken.

Whoever designed the bosses for this game is a bit of a ****, not gonna lie. They put concepts in the earlier bosses that made some of the optional late game bosses in prior games nightmares to fight. First real story boss in particular has a ton of different unpredictable combo chains and hesitations with small windows to punish. Have a feeling a lot of folks will just put this one down, especially given a much larger audience bought it this time around thanks to Martin.

These are the best type of games because you can mod it to your liking and run your own server with your own rules. It's not the most popular with big corps because they can't make money off of mods but it's the direction I hope we head more towards. ;)

Martin's involvement isn't exactly something I see as a great selling point. My first thought was "gee, I wonder if it has an ending?"

Well, it's already totaled over 6x the amount of concurrent players compared to the next best thing from FromSoft. About 700k this weekend compared to 120k at DS3s peak. Hell of a lot more people playing this one than any other game in their history.

You need to level up your weapons and abilities first before attempting Margit. I got my spirit wolves to level 3 and pretty much owned his ass. Hardcore souls fans would probably groan that but I don’t care. Dying to a boss 100 times isn’t fun.

Margit ain't got shit on Crucible Knight. ****ing Christ that boss whipped my ass for hours.

I'm so addicted to AC Odyssey. I'm like halfway through the game, maybe a little less, and there's still so much to do.

LMAO Told you. Are you still playing the same style?

I've been pretty judicious about my gear and upgrading costs a lot, so I've been using other weapons a lot, mainly daggers because I have some good ones.

I still don't use the bow much because it's still really underpowered. I don't like the thought of having to spec a bunch of +damage ranged gear and then end up in a fist fight underpowered.

LMAO With a game as massive as Odyssey and your desire to complete every quest possible, I figured you'd either fall in love or get frustrated with the grind.

Odyssey really is great, though, and one of the most beautiful games I've ever played - up there with Final Fantasy X and Red Dead Redemption 2.

I've finally started passing up some of the random quests (the hourglass ones). There's so much to do, I have to prioritize. I even plan how I'm going to methodically explore the next area.

Honestly, you have to. It's like the creators have made it their personal mission to craft the biggest ****ing open world games with way too much shit to get done. You'd have to pour in 150+ hours to truly 100% these new RPG ACs.

I am telling you, daggers are amazing. They aren’t the most powerful, but dat speed. Arachne’s Stingers allow for poison damage and if you can add fire damage to either the Atlantean Blade or Dagger of Kronus, you become almost unstoppable. You can still get some powerful bows (I personally like Hades Bow) and level up Ghost Arrows of Artemis for some fun headshots.

Love FFX, I have RDR2 but never got too far into it. I might need to revisit it as I have heard nothing but amazing things about it. Problem is I get games because I plan to play them one day and end up never doing it. It’s such a waste of money. LOL.

I might try out Ghost Arrows. Headshots are really unsatisfying when you hit the lowest level guy in a camp and he survives with a sliver of health left.

By the way, for one on one battles, the short range of daggers is a big plus. You can easily make sure every single swing is a hit.

But in a crowd, they're worthless. I still use a spear for crowd control.

I can't recommend RDR2 enough. I loved RDR and really took to RDR2 pretty quickly. I think it only took me a couple hours before I was hooked on that one, but I can see how others may not love it. Keeping up with the cores, cleaning weapons, carrying different clothes, etc. can be a bit tiresome until it becomes second nature. It truly is a beautiful game, though. Top notch.

And you sound like you've got the same problem my girlfriend has with books! Woman's got so many ****ing books and she's always down for a Barnes & Noble trip.

I'm actually pretty good at staying on top of my game library. I think the only games I've got that I have not beaten yet are Last of Us, Shadow of War, and the Uncharted series. Oh, and obviously AC: Unity as I mentioned in this thread.

I finished Shadow of War right before I started Odyssey. I really enjoyed it.

ROFL You should see my book collection. I am even worse with that. I do need to at least give RDR2 a try though before passing judgment on it. If I kept up on every game I had I would probably end up divorced and jobless. It’s that bad for me. I have heard Last of Us is phenomenal.

yes.....in my all-time top 5 for sure, along with Bioshock, and probably one of the uncharted games...

Survival Horror games stress me out.

I love the idea of them, but games like The Last of Us and the earlier Resident Evils are difficult for me to get through.

RDR2 is absolutely in my top 5. That game really sucked me in. I got a ton of play time in that game. Some of the missions just had me grinning ear from ear. It did such a good job of building up the characters. There were those you really liked, and some you just totally ****ing despised. I love the cowboy western setting. Spent so many hours just roaming around hunting and murdering. The thrill of pulling off a bank robbery or train robbery. Having 8 bounty hunters with 4 dogs chasing you down. Getting drunk with Lenny. LOL

Good times.

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$4.49 on Steam right now

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$7.99 on steam 60% off

My daughter is watching some YouTuber play Elden Ring. As of last night, he had been playing for 4 days and had died 680-some times. ROFL

You and others here have me wanting to try out RDR2 again. It sounds like it gets really good the more I play.

When I first started the game, it felt really aimless. Like I wasn't sure what I should be doing regarding missions and stuff. It didn't feel at all linear, and it was a little odd. But I think that's intentional.

I think that is good and bad. Good in the sense you can do what you want when want. The drawback is how easy it can be to drift off course.

Y'all keep talking about Odyssey, I may be tempted to replay it as Kassandra.

Maybe even buy the DLC. At $25, not sure if it's worth it, but I like achievements.

I have the DLC and I personally liked them for the most part. I do think they are worth the money as long as you don’t pay full price for them.

For those of you looking to get tougher in Elden Ring...

https://www.gameinformer.com/2022/03...rming-location

Any tips on getting a new Xbox?

I signed up for Walmart+ but can’t find where to get on the wait/notification list.

I used Hotstock.io to get my PS5. It will "watch" all the major retailers for you and send you notifications if they get any in stock.

I actually considered attempting to 100% it. That was a cool dream for 5 minutes until I tried completing the challenges and said "fuuuuuck that" lol I would literally break something if I had to finish those gambling challenges.

The strength of that game for me was the characters, like you said, and the open world. I'm not the type to get in a game and just dick around, but I actually did that quite a bit while I was out hunting and exploring.

Interesting.......I didnt find LOU to be 'horror', like RE (though I enjoy both for sure).

the story in LOU is hands-down the best I've experienced (alongside "Bioshock").

LOU is definitely survival horror.

Try The Forest. Should be cheap on steam and it was like 9.99 on the PS store.

It's horror lite I guess. It's survival with crafting and horror critters/elements. Watch a vid or two on it.

Just finished Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order.

I really enjoyed it. Was like a combination of a good tomb raider and good star wars game.

Had a blast, with some really nice story lines and surprises.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...s_Blood__Teef/

there is a playable demo for WH40K: Shootas Blood & Teef available on the steam store page.

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They really named it "Shootas Blood & Teef?"

Anybody still paying Elden Ring? Some of the optional End Game bosses are ****ing nutty LMAO.

RDR2 has one of the best designed open worlds ever created. They could've done more with it though. Instead of the mindless "Red Dead Online" they could've made amazing new single player content. They could've made an Undead Nightmare. They could've added Nuevo Paraiso. Lots of things they could've done. They make so much money selling gold bars and "outlaw passes" for the shitty online game that they don't even bother. Same issue plagued GTA 5 and here we are nearly a decade later and they're still milking that cow.

I actually hated Undead Nightmare for RDR, which is insane because I loved the game itself and I was super into zombies at the time the DLC was released. I also don't generally play these types of games online so that didn't bother me much either.

Really, the only issue I can remember from RDR2, and it's really nitpicking at this point, was that I felt New Austin was a bit underdeveloped. They could have done that on purpose for all I know, but personally I just know I didn't spend as much time there as I did other regions because it didn't seem like there was nearly as much going on there.

I’m taking a break from it…was constantly banging my head against the proverbial wall everywhere I turned lol so letting it sit for a bit.

I’m 100% coming back to it though…

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Elden Ring is just Dark Souls with a different coat of paint. You'd think after all this ****ing time, they'd fix getting hit through walls.

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Man this! Good call! :thumb:

The moment I've been waiting 6 years + for, has come. Inserting Dying Light 2 for its upload - so excited!

I bought an XSX off eBay last week for $675 with 2 years of ultimate. I tried to buy it retail (all access model) but no one would sell it without that shitty financing. Ended up getting it for about $150 cheaper.

I haven't gamed (other than Valhalla) for a decade or more, So I figured 2 years of game pass would help me get through a lot of the games I missed. It's also replacing a 2015 NVIDIA SHIELD Pro.

So 10+ years away from gaming, last console was PS3. On an XSX now with game pass. Running through Skyrim, Forza 5, F1 2020, MS Flight Sim, and Fallout 4 for the next few months. Recommendations on games I've missed? Sounds like RDR2? Recommendations on new or upcoming games? Apparently Elden Ring is the current hotness?

RDR2 is a must

If you’ve never played it, Witcher 3 is also a must.

Read the Witcher books, but never played the games.


Adding both to the wishlist, thanks!

Witcher 3 is definitely a nobrainer for you. Hell, you won't even be confused by the complex background story.