Wormerine

Did you really create an account on Obsidian's forum to ask about random game made by a minor polish studio? xD Google is your friend.

BRING BLOODBORNE TO PC! And Bayo2. Seriously Nintendo, Sony up.

3 is good. 2 is not.

Interesting. Personally I don't really think of Soulslike as RPG as such - or rather is the ideal implementation of what I consider valuable in RPG combat. RPGness serves defining your characters, but I don't find progression itself to be compelling or to be a point in itself. At a core I treat it as an action game with flexible playstyle. To me every SoulsLike has been about exploring cool dungeons and fighting cool bosses - to me best content in all of the three games are DLCs as characters are fully developed by that point and FromSoft can go ham with bosses in terms of complexity and difficulty. I suppose that's why I didn't mind Sekiro at all, though I suppose it has far less replayibility... which doesn't mean much as I usually end up playing similar melee character build in DS games in the end. I would say it's mostly true, but there are bull**** moments, and bosses and encounters. I do remember Anor Londo rooftops getting infuriating... I wonder how I would respond to them after many Soulsbornes later - would it be a cakewalk, or just bad design as you mention. DS1 has a lot of jank especially in the latter half which feels unfinished unfortunately. I did think that Dark Souls3 was rather well put together from the beginning to the end.

I can't say if it's your cup of tea, but considering how influencial Dark Souls was I would say yes.

Agree, but there is cohesion to their worlds. I really didn't get much of the "story" of DS1 but uncovering each layer of city build upon city, delving deeper and deeper into hellscape and arriving into deceptively pristine city of Anor Londo were unforgettable. Creepy, sad little NPC stories. I never felt DS needed anything more then that. Not so sure about Elden Ring just yet. It feels static and dead in the way previous games never did, even though they are mechanically identical. Edit. I find FromSoftware games thematically rich - more like an arthouse film, rather then traditional plot and action driven entertainment.

I must say that so far ER doesn't click with me DS1&3 and Sekiro clicked with me. Overwhelming similarity to DS makes it a bit awkward, and tone and gameplay isn't as tonally tight as they were in DS. Vagueness was part of the charm in DS, in here with brighter to tone, bigger guidance and lesser difficulty - I feel like I could have used something more concrete ala. Sekiro. I am just dipping outside opening green areas and exploring some cooler environments. Finally enemies are catching up with my power level. Last couple hours were a snooze fest.

I mean combat and exploration, definitely. World building - yes. Story and characters in true FromSoftware fashion is barely there. Apples to Oranges

Yeah, soon after release they released a small patch that made things better. I do get occasional stutters, though honestly the only place I had an issue that would affect gameplay was Sentinel right at the start of the game. I would get stutters if I fought him at the base of the hill, but not if I fought him around the church. I started as Samurai and rolled without the shield for a while. Turns out it's really helpful, more so then in DS3 I believe. Guard Counter is really powerful (heavy attack right after blocking).

Yup. Top down immersive sim from ex-Arcane devs. Coming to GamePass on day one.

The legacy dungeon that I did I thought was excellent, with two great bosses and some unique encounters with tougher enemies. I so start having an issue with open world - the main appeal of finding new stuff is doing fun content, but I am getting too overleveled for the area - making the encounters forgettable. Rewards aren't particularly great as I just get more and more sidegrades that I am unlikely to use. I hear later areas get tougher so I am looking forward to that.

I heard best performance at the moment is PS4 version running on PS5 . I am fortunate to have not too many issues on PC but stuttering on open world can be annoying.

Elden Ring janky? DS1 had some jank, but FromSoftware releases have been rather refined for some time. Outside poor port, I found nothing janky in it so far. Nor did I in DS3 or Sekiro.

You mean skipping dialogue I think... I am pretty sure 24 hours is about the time I spent in the party camp alone. I spent more then that on expansion alone, and that was a fraction of length of the base game. I think base game took me about 80h, though I can't verify as I played it through a physical copy... those were the times. I need to play more, but I think my take might be that there is a better game then Dark Souls3 within Elder Ring, but you need to go through open-world to get there.

Yes, but it's done better. Characters is what carries ME2, even though it suffers from middle part syndrome - neither starting nor ending the story, so plotwise it's just fluff. But it nicely expands characters from ME1. I do! I believe it failed in every promise it made in it's opening hours. At it's very basic it is a KOTOR style game, but it goes on for about 60h more then it should. Unlike previous Bioware games its move to "dark fantasy" strips it of any charm while failing miserably in creating nuanced world or putting players in interesting situations. It is a game I see potential in, but DA:O is just one big missed opportunity. It failed in being a reactive RPG, and failed in being a cinematic experience. Hmmm, kinda reminds me of another game in the making parading as a successor to classic Baldur's Gate games, cough, cough. Edit: First legacy dungeon in Elden Ring completed. It was some excellent content with two fantastic bosses and some memorable tougher encounters. It's almost shame to return to the overworld - as pretty as it is, it is half as interesting as a curated dungeon.

That's a fine selection of games.

Mostly because I didn't play and as for years EA hid all their games from me on Origin it didn't remind it about myself. Now with gamepass I am considering jumping into Andromeda and DA: Inquisition, but I need to run out of things I actually want to play or replay before I get there.

They work on the ending already, though I think they just made final battle less of a snooze fest. The new content they are working on, I think is just a new campaign.

Cause I picked samurai dude class.

Another pleasant, but not smooth performance wise, session in the whimsical world of the Elden Ring

Waiting is good. Game so far seems excellent, but performance is uneven. Trying to do an outside boss now, and while I would blame FPS drop for all my deaths it is distracting when the game looses 20FPS for a second. While I noticed little stuttering at first, things get worse once you jump on horse and start moving fast.

I don't know about bloodborne, but yes quite a few effects are lifted straight from DS games.. as well as many other things.

Yeah, no kidding. Original Dark Souls reminded me of playing Tomb Raider for the first time.

I meant to just see how Elden Ring runs, but here we are it's 3AM I sunk 3,5 hours into the game. I actually still don't know quite how it runs as I didn't reach the open world. So what happened is when creating my character I picked an item which as it turns out allowed me to open immediately a mini dungeon right after the tutorial. I am pretty sure I was underleveled but not that underleveled to discourage me from exploring. As I was about to call quits I run into the boss of the dungeon - Oscar the Grouch looking thing. One hit would take most of my life, but at one point enemy bugged out and I managed to bring him to the bring of death - and then he came back to life and that happened:

I really enjoyed Sekiro The story didn't necenssary grab me, but I enjoyed all that was too it. It was still far and beyond what most action games have to offer. Still the best bits IMO were indirect storytelling that FS is sooo good at.