I played through ER for the first time a year ago, and an old steam friend who I hadn’t talked to in literal years sent me a dm asking if I’d like to play through DS3 with him
When I heard that, I assumed we’d be playing through it separately and he’d just be giving me pointers every now and then
Nope, he joined my game every time with his endgame build and whenever we got to a difficult bit he’d go “hang on a sec” and clear it for me
This honestly ruined a lot of the experience for me, and it’s an example of being a bit too hand holdy, even if it came from a sincere place
I still got to beat nameless king (or whatever their name was, the dragon rider dude) on my own, easily the highlight of my playthrough
Thanks for sharing! I get the frustration. Part of these games is the challenge and if someone else beats the game for you, it kinda loses its meaning. I’m all for people helping if they’re just dead-stuck and will rather put the game down instead of receiving help, but that was probably a little “too much”. Good on you for still extracting some value from your playthrough, though?
Thinking back to my first experiences with soulslikes, I was struggling a lot with Bloodborne, my first one, and Sekiro, my second one. Had someone beaten these difficult passages for me, I’m not sure whether I would have continued on to beating both games multiple times and going for a platinum each. Sure, it took me multiple attempts over several years to find my footing, but it was worth it in the end.
How was your experience playing Elden Ring? Anything particularly difficult you encountered?
As most players did, I b-lined it to Margit. Unlike most players, I sat there for about 5 hours trying to beat him, thinking it was normal in a soulslike
After finally defeating Margit, I trekked through the castle, finally getting back to the courtyard. After dying 5 times and with no idea where to go, I (finally) decided to explore limgrave
Unfortunately, the first thing I found was the secret passage past the castle
So I waltzed into the lands of raya lucaria, except I didn’t, because the first thing I did was take the teleporter past it to that manor in the top left of the map
Because of this, I found myself venturing all the way to Loretta, at which I was stuck for another couple hours trying to beat her
After all that, I didn’t even go and meet Ranni in the tower because I tpb back to the starting area after I realised I was probably in the wrong spot to continue on in
To be clear, throughout this I was heavily underleveled, underequipped and didn’t have my physick
So that’s the story as to how I beat Loretta as my second boss (including mini bosses)
I guess you could say my first playthrough was a little special
Went on to beat Malenia in my second playthrough, absolute gem of a game
Wow that’s hilarious and probably made for a very memorable experience and journey. Had you known that you were going through the game in an “unintended” way or did you just go in blind?
Elden Ring is the best doing that. The others that came before allow for some branching paths and alternate routes but usually lead to the same bosses somewhere down the line
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I played through ER for the first time a year ago, and an old steam friend who I hadn’t talked to in literal years sent me a dm asking if I’d like to play through DS3 with him
When I heard that, I assumed we’d be playing through it separately and he’d just be giving me pointers every now and then
Nope, he joined my game every time with his endgame build and whenever we got to a difficult bit he’d go “hang on a sec” and clear it for me
This honestly ruined a lot of the experience for me, and it’s an example of being a bit too hand holdy, even if it came from a sincere place
I still got to beat nameless king (or whatever their name was, the dragon rider dude) on my own, easily the highlight of my playthrough
Thanks for sharing! I get the frustration. Part of these games is the challenge and if someone else beats the game for you, it kinda loses its meaning. I’m all for people helping if they’re just dead-stuck and will rather put the game down instead of receiving help, but that was probably a little “too much”. Good on you for still extracting some value from your playthrough, though?
Thinking back to my first experiences with soulslikes, I was struggling a lot with Bloodborne, my first one, and Sekiro, my second one. Had someone beaten these difficult passages for me, I’m not sure whether I would have continued on to beating both games multiple times and going for a platinum each. Sure, it took me multiple attempts over several years to find my footing, but it was worth it in the end.
How was your experience playing Elden Ring? Anything particularly difficult you encountered?
As most players did, I b-lined it to Margit. Unlike most players, I sat there for about 5 hours trying to beat him, thinking it was normal in a soulslike
After finally defeating Margit, I trekked through the castle, finally getting back to the courtyard. After dying 5 times and with no idea where to go, I (finally) decided to explore limgrave
Unfortunately, the first thing I found was the secret passage past the castle
So I waltzed into the lands of raya lucaria, except I didn’t, because the first thing I did was take the teleporter past it to that manor in the top left of the map
Because of this, I found myself venturing all the way to Loretta, at which I was stuck for another couple hours trying to beat her
After all that, I didn’t even go and meet Ranni in the tower because I tpb back to the starting area after I realised I was probably in the wrong spot to continue on in
To be clear, throughout this I was heavily underleveled, underequipped and didn’t have my physick
So that’s the story as to how I beat Loretta as my second boss (including mini bosses)
I guess you could say my first playthrough was a little special
Went on to beat Malenia in my second playthrough, absolute gem of a game
Wow that’s hilarious and probably made for a very memorable experience and journey. Had you known that you were going through the game in an “unintended” way or did you just go in blind?
First time playing a soulslike, I just went through it blind and explored around
Didn’t realise until pretty late that the game would just let me go places I didn’t belong lol
Elden Ring is the best doing that. The others that came before allow for some branching paths and alternate routes but usually lead to the same bosses somewhere down the line