Current Events > Finishing Elden Ring has given me a disturbing desire to replay DS2.

(+) Yeah! (+)

But it's so ugly.

And terrible

Don't give up , skeleton!

I keep hearing people make comparisons to Dark Souls 2. I mean its been a while but I cant see it.

VerisimiIitude posted...

I keep hearing people make comparisons to Dark Souls 2. I mean its been a while but I cant see it.

Elden Ring is what DS2 wanted to be: a globe trotting adventure with Twinblades

The only thing they really have in common is powerstancing

I got a lot of DS2 vibes when I looked through an all bosses video. There were lots of bosses and they were mostly boring. Elden Ring's take on Ganon was kinda cool though.

Go for it! Replay Dark Seed II! It's the BABINKO of video games!

ViewtifulJoe posted...

I got a lot of DS2 vibes when I looked through an all bosses video. There were lots of bosses and they were mostly boring. Elden Ring's take on Ganon was kinda cool though.

There's a lot of repeats and frankly some mediocre stuff in the optional overworld dungeons that exist to give stuff to do in the overworld. The 12 'important' bosses are all quite good. I made a poll on the PS4 Elden Ring board and favorites were pretty well split.

A lot of the bosses have good designs but yeah there are way too many repeat bosses. There's like 5 fucking tree spirits

I feel my stats outpacing the game in Elden Ring like I did in DS2.

In DS2 by the time I was feeling like I was end game powered (started to hit soft caps and what not) I was surprised to find just how much longer the game game kept going on. I feel some of that weird pacing/balancing in Elden Ring too.

Damn there are really a lot of repeat bosses? A reviewer I was watching claimed there were 75+ unique bosses.

Shablagoo posted...

Damn there are really a lot of repeat bosses? A reviewer I was watching claimed there were 75+ unique bosses.

There's like three tiers of bosses.
-The Big Boys, including shardbearers, superbosses, and endgame bosses
-Unique bosses that aren't quite as important to the main story; tend to have achievements associated with them as well, though many of them get reused once with a similar name and adjusted moveset (sometimes justified as being literally the same character at a different stage of their life)
-The scrubs, who fill up overworld dungeons and just the landscape. Includes lots of smaller humanoids, giant living tree roots, robo dogs, dragons and wyrms, and other such things.

There is quite a lot of a bosses in all, and the big boys are the quality of DS3 or Bloodborne. But the others pretty much all get repeated at least once with a 'twist'.

The rune bears... why do they hurt me so?

Shablagoo posted...

Damn there are really a lot of repeat bosses? A reviewer I was watching claimed there were 75+ unique bosses.

They lied to you.

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viewmaster_pi posted...

have you met my friend starfell beast? and this is starfell beast. and this is full-grown starfell beast. here, he'll introduce you to the boys- magma wyrm, magma wyrm, magma wyrm, and magma wyrm

-valiant gargoyle busts through the door-
JERRY

There's like 11 total tree spirits. One area has 3 at the same time.