I’ve been too much of a wuss to deliberately avoid mimic tear lol, but I’ll consider it when the DLC drops.
Elden Ring 2: Electric Boogaloo
This is how you exploit the vocal fanbase generating hype in the casuals so you need to be careful. Casual wanted in because of the hard work FROM did for their hardcore fans with Demon and Dark Souls and Bloodborne. Starting to optimise the game for casuals too much might lose both casuals and hardcore fans (losing the latter will lose the former too).
I’m a bit worried by the trend of enemies using huge AoE-attacks in recent From games. I don’t know if it’s trying to appeal to anyone really, more like they are running out of ways to make fights harder other than just pure area denial. It’s been going on since DS3 but Hoarah Loux and Elden Beast brought it to a new bs-level.
Yes that’s of course field bosses and lots of duplicates and possibly npc invaders too without a boss health bar. But still, there is no need to downplay Elden Ring for content, I’d say that nothing comes close.
Make games like elden ring, while continuing their old model.
It depends on how they evolve Elden Ring, casual wants in because it is desirable to be in. They could risk ruining it if they just go all in that direction.
Hope they don't go the ubisoft route.
Speaking of Mimic Tear, I think summons should be scaled (still usable by everybody though) with different builds in some way in Elden Ring 2 potentially making the summons capabilities (damage, health, poise, and even the moveset in general) dependent on them so there is more reasoning/testing involved when selecting them. Even though I thought they were really cool I felt it was too easy to ignore 90% of them use wise. As for balancing Mimic Tear there's a couple things I might would do, one option is when you create it its stats are all half of yours or it could become 75% of your current stats if you were wearing a specific armor to buff it. You could even just restrict the mimic ability to force the player to wear a specific very weak armor set to even be able to use it, limiting some of its effectiveness vs. other options. Imo its too cool to completely cut but it does need some reworks.
Wrong…both Niohs and Wo Long are great!
Yeah weakening it would work too, just modify it so there is a reason to use something else really.
Too much loot management.
So contraversial yet so correct
Stop speaking nonsense dude. Elden Ring is overrated! /s
Same. Sekiro is still unmatched and the real sequel or spiritual successor that I want.
I love the Soulsbornering (lol-- " bonering") games, and have bounced off Sekiro twice. What am I missing? Maybe its because I have trouble differentiating the red Kanji characters to know what responsive action I need to perform...wish they were different colors for dummies like me lol
It may take a bit to click, but once you get it, I still think it's From's best combat. That said, it is an action/adventure game so it's a bit unfair to compare it to the RPG's.
It's the same kanji, you need to look at attack animation. Or just remember what kind of perilous attack enemies doing, very few of them have two or three, most have only one type.
Very rare to see someone thinking Sekiro is From's best combat, which I agree. I think it's also the hardest. But yeah, after you take your time and you learn all the moves, the combat is like a dance, it's a symphony of moves and counters, it's just a spectacle.
I want to play Dark Souls 4
