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[ClausThomsen]

I still don't trust any review tbh.

Have a lot of friends/family that work in that industry and the amount of paid-for reviews is shocking lol

Let it come out and let average Joe review it, then we'll see what's real.

That said, it's a game by a developer doing what they do best, with an open world twist, so it should be very good, I hope.

Absolutely - They'll only heavily criticise a game once the cat's completely out of the bag and coverage makes a puff-piece ridiculously transparent. And even then there's myriad articles about misunderstood genius, admirable ambition and charming flaws. Thankfully there's a good few YouTubers who base their reviews on forking out for Day 1 releases. There's also quite a few on the payrolls but the nature of the beast means there's plenty who'll happily savage a game as they don't need that relationship.

Not to say Elden Scrolls will be in this category. Like you say, it's a distrust of the review industry - especially those with pre-release access and dependent on advertising revenue from the gaming industry.

 

[Acrobat]

My god this game looks incredible

Yes it does, and then some. In anticipation of this, about 5 months ago I decided to play through all the "soulsborne" games again, to get myself prepared (and have some fun of course). I Played Demon Souls, Dark Souls 1-3, Bloodborne and Sekiro SDT. All superberb, but Elden Ring looks like its on another level!

 

[ChesterBlue]

Yes it does, and then some. In anticipation of this, about 5 months ago I decided to play through all the "soulsborne" games again, to get myself prepared (and have some fun of course). I Played Demon Souls, Dark Souls 1-3, Bloodborne and Sekiro SDT. All superberb, but Elden Ring looks like its on another level!

Definitely! I’ve just finished a playthrough of Sekiro so I’m definitely feeling ready!

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Definitely! I’ve just finished a playthrough of Sekiro so I’m definitely feeling ready!

Ive been stacking bodies on DS2 the past month or so, on a mission to get ring of thorns+2. Sadly it aint happening before ER (you need 1000 and I have around 600), but been good fun. 4 players max in your world in ER so will be a different dynamic.

I helped a guy dupe his high lvl char down on 2 and he randomly had the thorns ring+2 (so now I have it). Its not even that good, so its more about the challenge.

 

[LostLegend]

Even minimum is too much I have an I5 4570 3.2ghz and a GTX 1650, it says an I5 8400 and a 1060, my pc is only a refurbed upgraded office computer not really a gaming pc. I can play games like but newer ones are pushing it.

I think you'll be ok TBH.
My specs aren't much higher than yours, but from what I've read there's a fair bit of wiggle room with the minimum specs for this.

From experience, minimum specs normally are based around the games default 'Low' graphic settings. I had this problem with Far Cry 6, running it on the default Low setting was an unplayable mess of a game. Once I dispatched with all the motion blur, dynamic depth of field, bloom and any of the nonsense postprocessing filters games feel the need to add these days, I ended up with a fair bit of wiggle room to get it running to a reasonable level.

I imagine Elden Ring will be much the same.

 

[LostLegend]

Have you played Shadow Of The Colossus?

One of my favourite games . I have never played dark souls but always understood it as being like a rock hard variation of SOTC which was an amazing game but not overly taxing from what I remember.

SotC is one of my all time favs. A true work of gaming art.

Not sure if there’s much gameplay wise that is similar to Souls games, except if you like impressive boss fights and obscure storylines/lore.

I still maintain that none of the souls games are as ‘hard’ as some people say. Challenging, sure, but as someone who grew up playing C64, Amiga and Sega Master System games, certainly not as nightmarishly difficult as some of the games from that era!

 

[bicycleheader]

SotC is one of my all time favs. A true work of gaming art.

Not sure if there’s much gameplay wise that is similar to Souls games, except if you like impressive boss fights and obscure storylines/lore.

I still maintain that none of the souls games are as ‘hard’ as some people say. Challenging, sure, but as someone who grew up playing C64, Amiga and Sega Master System games, certainly not as nightmarishly difficult as some of the games from that era!

Love Ico and SOTC. Not gotten to Last Guardian yet but i will!

I will eventually try one of the Souls games

 

[Death]

Horizon BORING another checkmark open world meh fest. Again and again.

 

[Death]

I'm gonna take down that coal powered Metal Gear I tell you hhwat

 

[Black Belt Jones]

SotC is one of my all time favs. A true work of gaming art.

Not sure if there’s much gameplay wise that is similar to Souls games, except if you like impressive boss fights and obscure storylines/lore.

I still maintain that none of the souls games are as ‘hard’ as some people say. Challenging, sure, but as someone who grew up playing C64, Amiga and Sega Master System games, certainly not as nightmarishly difficult as some of the games from that era!

Souls definitely no where near as hard as many old school games - some ridiculous platformers from the 80s.

I wasn't gaming at the time but wasn't it just the timeliness of Souls? Games had gotten so pandering and hand-holding to the player that Demon Souls and Dark Souls appeared shockingly difficult compared to Assassins creed / Skyrim or whatever.

Which way should we go? Dunno, work it out for yourself - too bad you died. Now go and see if you can retrieve your souls. But it's more about the framing and atmosphere - once you're into the gameplay it's fine.

 

[Daz1878]

I swore I wouldn't try another FromSoftware game after taking countless batterings off Sekiro... but Elden Ring has just arrived, so once the ~50GB patch has downloaded, I'll see what's what. Some people never learn...

 

[Acrobat]

Souls definitely no where near as hard as many old school games - some ridiculous platformers from the 80s.

I wasn't gaming at the time but wasn't it just the timeliness of Souls? Games had gotten so pandering and hand-holding to the player that Demon Souls and Dark Souls appeared shockingly difficult compared to Assassins creed / Skyrim or whatever.

Which way should we go? Dunno, work it out for yourself - too bad you died. Now go and see if you can retrieve your souls. But it's more about the framing and atmosphere - once you're into the gameplay it's fine.

Nailed on this. I think Demon's Souls is the hardest of all the souls games too....still is. In my recent playthrough of them all, I died most of all in that game (that damn Flame Lurker - still one of the most challenging but most amazing boss fights you can have in any game!), they get progressively easier as the series goes on to make them more 'accessible'.

 

[LostLegend]

So @Terrarian you should be fine running Elden Ring on your rig.

I’m only running a GForce 1650 Super for graphics and Ryzen 5 3600 with 16gb ram. I’ve managed to run it with most settings on high. Turned off motion blur and the like and lowered the grass density (seriously) and I’m getting around 50-60fps. And it seems to run well. Have had a few slight stutters in boss fights, but that’s apparently a PC problem across the board which should be patched out in the future.

Updating to the latest Nvidia drivers seems to have helped stability a fair bit as well.

Played for a couple of hours, seems good so far. Similar combat as you’d expect to DS3. Feels a lot more fluid and responsive now and the various combat additions have added a lot of depth.

Will have a proper session on it tomorrow!

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Arise Tarnished!!

Game looks amazing, really does. Had an hour or two on it, coop sesh jumping in a place called Coastal cave. Easyish boss although I haven't figured out how to lvl up yet.

Neutral on the movement just now - it's smooth but really reminds me of the bluepoint demon souls remake which I wasn't expecting. A lot of the menu appearance as well. Separate jump button very weird but funny for greeting other players.

Going to playthrough mainly blind - will look stuff up if Im properly stuck but want to figure most of it out myself if I can.

 

[Terrarian]

So @Terrarian you should be fine running Elden Ring on your rig.

I’m only running a GForce 1650 Super for graphics and Ryzen 5 3600 with 16gb ram. I’ve managed to run it with most settings on high. Turned off motion blur and the like and lowered the grass density lol (seriously) and I’m getting around 50-60fps. And it seems to run well. Have had a few slight stutters in boss fights, but that’s apparently a PC problem across the board which should be patched out in the future.

Updating to the latest Nvidia drivers seems to have helped stability a fair bit as well.

Played for a couple of hours, seems good so far. Similar combat as you’d expect to DS3. Feels a lot more fluid and responsive now and the various combat additions have added a lot of depth.

Will have a proper session on it tomorrow!

Brilliant, I may have to see what my finances are like, I always have my drivers upto date so that shouldn't be a problem, I can give it a try and if it doesn't work, get a refund, steam are good like that.