Elden Ring and Shadow of the Erdtree expansion

[wndrbr]

Souls youtuber that Bandai Namco invited to try out upcoming Fromsoft games says the DLC is going to be as big as some full-size games. Another 30 hours of boring open world areas and copypasted dungeons with summoning ashes as a reward?

What do they base this on except wishful thinking? Did somebody get a demo of the dlc?

well yeah, the publisher invited all those souls youtubers (like vaati) and showed it to them.

[Goth-Girl-Supremacy]

I'm relieved of Dork Stools,

hahaha the punchline is **** lol xd

[maidenhaver]

I'm relieved of Dork Stools,

hahaha the punchline is **** lol xd

Yeah, your skin color's funny.

[wndrbr]

[wndrbr]

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree is FromSoftware's "largest expansion" ever

It takes place in a brand new area of a brand new map, which includes a similar structure to the original game: field areas, legacy dungeons, and other dungeons of varying scale. "In terms of pure surface area, you could think of something larger even than Limgrave in the base game," said Miyazaki.

Of course, I had to ask Miyazaki if Shadow of the Erdtree will once again include a poisoned swamp. "In a word, yes," he said. "But this was actually a point of introspection for me after creating the base game. It was only after creating it that I realised I really like to create poisoned swamps. And this was a little place of introspection and reflection for me. So maybe, when players reach the poisoned swamp in the DLC, they will feel a little bit of this retrospection."

it's over.

[ArcaneLurker]

or made an intented progression route more obvious.

Skill issue

I hope it will heavily revolve around Miquella, expanding on his role within the story, and/or his alter-ego St. Trina

But what I really want is an aoe spell that puts targets to sleep, with effects like on St. Trina's Sword - and I'll be happy

Didn't see any St. Trina/ Miquella apart from the dead one.

[wndrbr]

Can't wait to fight another Ulcerated tree spirit, or another Burial watchdog statue.

[Slavic Sorcerer]

Didn't see any St. Trina/ Miquella apart from the dead one.

I've seen a butterfly spell (suits my character modelled after my Druid perfectly) and I learned how to read between the lines when it comes to...the way DS and ER are written
I'm quite fond of it

Miquella surely will be a part of the story

[ArcaneLurker]

Didn't see any St. Trina/ Miquella apart from the dead one.

I've seen a butterfly spell (suits my character modelled after my Druid perfectly) and I learned how to read between the lines when it comes to...the way DS and ER are written
I'm quite fond of it

Miquella surely will be a part of the story

Here's the cut Miquella lines voiced with AI.
So there must be something, but I think there's going to be disappointment if he remains as a cocoon + hand.

[Slavic Sorcerer]

[wndrbr]

""""""""""""""story trailer""""""""""""""

[Element]

""""""""""""""story trailer""""""""""""""

Games are still good, but they may as well cut the story nowadays. It's just lore-tuber bait. Peaked with BB and DS1, where the oblique presentation still felt candid.

[Cogemeister]

I’m torn on whether or not I want to create a new character for the DLC or keep my existing one.

[Vergil]

""""""""""""""story trailer""""""""""""""

Amusing to think this 3 minute trailer will spawn a collective total of 9000 hours of video essay slop.

[NotAI]

What type of game would be the ULTIMATE lore-tuber bait?

I'm pretty sure it's possible to make a procedural game that generates such lore automatically to break into post-it-notes and item descriptions and scatter randomly in the world. Then the developer can save money developing quests and cinematics except boss entry sequences, right?

0. "There is a twinkie at mount doom, dropped by Lord Cabot. He couldn't find it, so he went crazy and now his undead body haunts his castle." =>
1. "Mount Doom, how tall it is? - Elfen Ranger Lai'ne"
2. "Where is my twinkie? - Lord Cabot, of the Underdark"
3. "My father lost his twinkie. - Cecilia, Daughter of the Shadow Lord"
4. "The power of the twinkie...empty calories...how many I know not." - Carl
5. "Sword of Cabot, Mad Shadowlord"
6. "Grand Sorcerer Carl made this staff."
7. "Sword of Carl, Grand Sorcerer."
8. "High above the plains lies the Lost Twinkie." - Carl
9. "The Twinkie is at the tallest point in the land...it is said...but where?" Dwarf Roger
10. "How fluffy and moist is my lost desert! Woe that it was dropped in the Land of Doom." - Lord Cabot

Xbox Achievement: Player found the Lost Twinkie.
Xbox Achievement: Player tried eating the Lost Twinkie.

Item: Lost Twinkie: -25 HP. Spoiled a long time ago... Permanent Stat. Poisoned.

The entire story (0), so far as the players can tell, after spending 46 hours finding all these littered clues (1-10), turns out to be all about it.

[wndrbr]

The expansion comes out in two weeks. A bunch of gamejournos were able to play it for a few hours, they posted their impressions today.

I skimmed through a bunch of articles, seems like the usual gamejourno stuff. "wow one of the best expansions ever made, tons on really new content never seen before in the souls series, you can visit a castle and a dungeon, and there's gonna be a boss called Divine Beast".

Overall seems like a bog standard expansion pack that adds new open world map (or even maps), new legacy dungeons, new weapon types, new magic, new enemies, new bosses, etc. More of the same, basically. Not sure if I'm excited for that, lack of content wasn't exactly the problem of the game.

[Norfleet]

Item: Lost Twinkie: -25 HP. Spoiled a long time ago... Permanent Stat. Poisoned.

I didn't know those things spoiled. I thought they lasted forever because they were made entirely of petroleum products.

[dountela]

It seems from the dlc leaks, the story of the dlc is Miquella trying to revive his incestuous gay lover Radahn from death. Very disappointing.

[wndrbr]

It seems from the dlc leaks, the story of the dlc is Miquella trying to revive his incestuous gay lover Radahn from death. Very disappointing.

on the other hand, who gives a **** about a story in a fromsoft souls game? Something happened, the world is in ruins, you are a chosen undead, go slay a bunch of monsters and make rad weapons out of their souls.

[rusty_shackleford]

these games don't even have stories, it's all ******** made up by redditors(who want to feel special ) and youtubers(who want money)

[dountela]

It seems from the dlc leaks, the story of the dlc is Miquella trying to revive his incestuous gay lover Radahn from death. Very disappointing.

on the other hand, who gives a **** about a story in a fromsoft souls game? Something happened, the world is in ruins, you are a chosen undead, go slay a bunch of monsters and make rad weapons out of their souls.

True, atleast you get to kill them

[Manny V]

It seems from the dlc leaks, the story of the dlc is Miquella trying to revive his incestuous gay lover Radahn from death. Very disappointing.

they would fuckin ruin one of the gigachad characters in the game by making him an incestuous pedo ****** wouldn't they

so tiresome

makes sense that they're releasing the dlc in ****** month

[Element]

Couldn't bring myself to reach the finish line in ER and won't be playing this, I think. They're good games, but eventually you have your fill. The trailer looks like something ai would create/write if it was trained off the previous souls. There's a point where the mystification of lore becomes a dead weight and we've been past it since DS3, at the latest.

I hope for Bloodborne 2 and, if that's dead, then at least another Sekiro.

Edit: also, I'm not a graphics *****, but the game looks rough next to even unreal slop, let alone decima games

[nyxnyx]

There's a point where the mystification of lore becomes a dead weight and we've been past it since DS3, at the latest.

I'd argue that the ambiguity of the story and overall lore is what made the game so approachable for casual players - the game basically embodies that 'all I know is that I must kill' meme, and that's more than enough to keep a newcomer's interest when the main focus of the game is combat that you can dip in and out of at any moment; plus the world itself is very well done from both design and visual perspective, and that's sometimes all you need to keep a player motivated to progress further, as opposed to some central plot.

it's basically the opposite of what Ubisoft does with Assassin's Creed, trying to include this overarching plot about entire history being a conflict between Assassins and Templars, and the whole Isu precursor civilization ******** which 99% of players doesn't give two fucks about and instead just want to play assassins/warriors in some vaguely historical setting.

[Element]

There's a point where the mystification of lore becomes a dead weight and we've been past it since DS3, at the latest.

I'd argue that the ambiguity of the story and overall lore is what made the game so approachable for casual players - the game basically embodies that 'all I know is that I must kill' meme, and that's more than enough to keep a newcomer's interest when the main focus of the game is combat that you can dip in and out of at any moment; plus the world itself is very well done from both design and visual perspective, and that's sometimes all you need to keep a player motivated to progress further, as opposed to some central plot.

it's basically the opposite of what Ubisoft does with Assassin's Creed, trying to include this overarching plot about entire history being a conflict between Assassins and Templars, and the whole Isu precursor civilization ******** which 99% of players doesn't give two fucks about and instead just want to play assassins/warriors in some vaguely historical setting.

Yeah, I agree. What I'm saying is that although the formula worked very well in Des, DS, BB, now there's really no point in having a story, since it's for the most part derivative. It has transitioned from adding something to the game, to being a contrived inclusion that serves as extra marketing through endless lore-tuber dissemination. I played ER more recently than BB and DS1, yet I remember far more encounters with NPCs from the latter two.

[Manny V]

There's a point where the mystification of lore becomes a dead weight and we've been past it since DS3, at the latest.

I'd argue that the ambiguity of the story and overall lore is what made the game so approachable for casual players - the game basically embodies that 'all I know is that I must kill' meme, and that's more than enough to keep a newcomer's interest when the main focus of the game is combat that you can dip in and out of at any moment; plus the world itself is very well done from both design and visual perspective, and that's sometimes all you need to keep a player motivated to progress further, as opposed to some central plot.

it's basically the opposite of what Ubisoft does with Assassin's Creed, trying to include this overarching plot about entire history being a conflict between Assassins and Templars, and the whole Isu precursor civilization ******** which 99% of players doesn't give two fucks about and instead just want to play assassins/warriors in some vaguely historical setting.

Yeah, I agree. What I'm saying is that although the formula worked very well in Des, DS, BB, now there's really no point in having a story, since it's for the most part derivative. It has transitioned from adding something to the game, to being a contrived inclusion that serves as extra marketing through endless lore-tuber dissemination. I played ER more recently than BB and DS1, yet I remember far more encounters with NPCs from the latter two.

Dark Souls 1 will always remain king.

Elden Ring has a cool setting with the holy aesthetic for the Golden Order and Erdtree and all that, but it's ruined with the faggotry like Miquella and having the main god being a woman.

Compare the more tragic ending of putting old Gwyn down like old yeller in Dark Souls with coming across Marika already fuckin dead essentially and just fighting her male-form husk, then a weird jelly alien thing, and ye idk Elden Ring seems lacklustre in its conclusion

obvs the games are a decade apart so no **** Elden Ring's gonna be riddled with more pozz in comparison but ye

idk just rambling at this point

[The_Mask]

[The_Mask]

Dark Souls 1 will always remain king.

Long live the king!

[rusty_shackleford]

why is this in the rpg section

[rusty_shackleford]

still in the wrong forum.

I trust wunderbar's judgement.

what a ******* idiot