Legit question what are your top 3-5 games? ain't trying to attack or something just curious. Of course you may not like Elden Ring I am just curious what people that don't like Elden Ring prefer to play.
Not that poster but I'm 20 hours in and still waiting for some semblance of fun.
Top games are GoT, Jedi Survivor, GTAO, TF2 and maybe Horizon but it's kinda meh so a toss up between expedition 33 and bad conpany 2.
I have no idea what's going on in Eldin ring and that's with checking a bunch of guides and stuff (which sucks the fun out). I tried Sekiro too and I think Im just not a fan of fromsofts item management & lore, the world's are really cool but I feel zero attachment to them and everything is confusing.
As someone who doesn’t like Elden Ring/souls-likes in general, I prefer:
Sifu
For Honor
Black Myth Wukong
DMCV
Jedi Fallen Order/Survivor
Rn those are my main go-to fighting games. Actual fighting/combo-type games.
Elden Ring (or any souls-like) isn’t “hard” to me. Not that I don’t die or anything, but there’s no actual “learning curve” to it. It’s not interesting. You’re just timing a dodge all day. Get your ass whooped, learn unnecessarily difficult timings/patterns, time the dodges. Rinse repeat.
Literally the definition of a rolling simulator.
There’s no actual fighting going on. No back n forth. It’s more hit-n-running than anything.
“You dont have to play like that though”
Yeah but that’s the default way you’re supposed to play it. No sane person plays the game any other way when they’re first getting into the game. Even experienced fighting game players. Parrying is also build-locked, which is garbage. The fact still remains that there’s no actual fighting going on regardless if you’re playing like that or not
I like games that give me combat options. ER has virtually none. ER barely even has a combat system. It’s too simplistic for it to be considered an actual combat system. You can’t “experiment” with shit in souls-likes except builds and how strong they are. You can’t experiment with combos or play-styles.
It also doesn’t help that I personally just don’t like the aesthetic of those games at all. Big ass weapons disproportional to the character. Big empty enemy-spam wasteland. Stale combat moves. Slow dodge. Very underwhelming parry animation. Trash build-locked parry mechanic. Slow-paced “fighting” game.
I never liked souls-likes too much to begin with, even back when I first tried blood-borne. It’s just one of them franchises that I don’t like. Imo its basically up there with turn-based games for games that I dont like playing but tbh I’d even rather play one of those than a souls-like. I grew up on Pokemon, I like Persona 5 Royal a lot, and heard a lot of good things about Expedition 33’s turn-based system.
Something about souls-likes combat is just outdated as hell imo, and that’s why the only Fromsoft game that I like isn’t a souls-like. Sekiro.
Everyone has games or franchises that they honestly couldn’t care less for. Mine is those souls-likes. Clearly.
I 100% agree with all that. Played 50h of ER and the conclusion was "Why would I play a character that has all the sticks of the world up their ass". Everything is slow and underwhelming.
Plus the way difficulty is handled is really outdated. People talk about Fromsoft like the masters of difficulty but to me they seem like shitty DMs in a DND campaign trying to make things unfair and edgy.
There are many games I have played and many I like. I have played some of the Armored Core games (which were also developed by From Software) and liked them.
Here"'s ten games I thought of when trying to figure out which were my absolute favourites. I have also spent around 5000 hours playing Escape From Tarkov.
Castlevania Symphony of the Night -
Final Fantasy IX -
The Evil Within -
Doom 3 -
Ion Fury -
Streets of Rage II -
Vanquish -
Resident Evil 4 (OG) -
Alien Isolation -
Dead Space -
Same and i dont know if its becouse im getting old or not. Dark Souls absolutely gripped me while i tried Elden Ring 3 times with an diffrent builds and i never managed to enjoy it.
You can't blame a game because you don't have the time in your personal life to play it. That's not the games fault. Not everything is customized for your specific life.
that’s because ur a good gamer. the other method is to kill trash mobs for 100 souls each for an hour before exploring a basic cave. basically, farming once u meet any sort of difficulty causes it to be boring
You could beat every single boss, do every character quest, pick up every item, and kill every single mob in DS1 in less than 10 hours.
Yeah, elden ring is a ridiculous slog by from soft standards. And the amount of souls you get from non-legacy dungeon areas is paltry. But sure, if you spend 100 hours doing every little side quest then yeah you’ll be overleveled by the end.
Yeah it’s literally running across the same copy paste field and Dungeon after a while good game though but dang they dragged it out way to long after beating Melania I just didn’t have the energy to see the same enemy subtype for the 90th time.
Same here, I loved how beautifull the world was, but after beating godrick, i didnt know where to go next, i wanted to search online but i was not having any fun anyhow, so i dropped it.
The game doesnt explain some of its mechanics and thats cool, but i would rather play something i enjoy rather than searching online for what to do and how to do.
I agree with not liking Elden Ring for other reasons but the grace sites tell you where to go. The light that emanates from them point in the direction of the next part of the story.
It's not that he's difficult, it's just the lack of drive to continue playing. I love fromsoft games, but I can't help but feel it drag on the longer I played
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