Re: Elden Ring DLC finished.

On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 15:39:02 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

I finished the Elden Ring DLC.  32 tries total on the end boss.

I still don't really recommend the base game if you don't like long
'open' worlds.  It's a good way to dip your feet in souls even if you
don't complete it.  The beginning of the game is my favorite part up to
about Radahn, and even doing that would be worth the money for the base
game.

Honestly, it's the open-worldness of "Elden Rings" that has kept me
from playing it more than anything. I wasn't a big fan of the Dark
Souls games to start with, but I could at least admire the design even
if I didn't actually enjoy the gameplay. But that admiration could
only carry me so far; an average playthrough of those games is, what,
thirty hours or so?* That's about how long I could tolerate the games
before I had to move on to something else.

But "Elden Ring" was --from everything I'd heard-- like playing all
three "Dark Souls" game back-to-back, and that was just too much for
me. Doubling that with the DLC made it an absolute no-sell.

Which is a shame, because everything I have read and seen about "Elden
Ring" shows it's a quality game, and even if they gameplay isn't
exactly my sort of thing, still I'd probably enjoy everything else
about it, and there's a part of me that really wants to give it a try.
But it just demands more time than I care to invest.

Good on you for getting to the end, though. It's not an easy game.




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* much more if you're a 100%-er completionist.