Re: Elden Ring Nightreign

On 6/1/2025 4:44 AM, Rin Stowleigh wrote:

On Sat, 31 May 2025 19:13:36 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:
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One Star.  I'd call this a strong recommend against this, and should've
listened to the low score.  I could see someone who likes fast paced, no
time to stop or think and very very hard ER type combat enjoying this.
There's obviously people who do, but so far I'm not one of them.

 The shrinking circle idea came from battle royale games like PUBG.
 

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But, the timing/duration of a single session matters in droves in a
multiplayer game, because even if one player is okay with a single
round taking one hour, other players may not be.  If sessions are too
long and people are quitting before the round is finished, it can
screw up the dynamics of the gameplay as designed.

Yeah I understand that, and I've been summoned in ER especially, and other souls games where the player is dicking about too much.  Just leave at that point.
I'm just not sure how you're supposed to figure out what's good to do or what weapons to use when you don't have time to examine anything.

 Mack from WAB rated it very highly, but with the caveat that it is not
balanced enough yet for single player gameplay:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkdgvCmTRtU
 

Yeesh.  He says you should read about it before buying and you should know you weren't going to like it to all the people complaining about it.
I'm not sure how I'm supposed to know that, when I didn't read anything about it being similar to extraction shooters, and I've never played one.  The things I've played that I compared it too were squad co-op games like Vermintide II, Warframe, and EDF, all of which I enjoyed, but didn't have the extraction circle of death time limit.
Elden Ring which is paced entirely different. Yes the boss fights are frenetic in ER, but this is just chaotic and overwhelming all the time, not just the boss fights, and the boss fights are significantly more chaotic with multiple tough enemies roaming around.  Some of them seem to have multiple bosses as well, and the first Nightboss splits into 3 a couple times during the fight.
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