It's bog standard butthurt from a reviewer tasked with powering through a game too vast to see more than a wafer-thin vertical slice of before the pressure is on to say something, anything during the fleeting window in which such first impression could be considered relevant. And with praise for the game being thick on the ground, well, if they trash it for the most worn-out trope of a reason that seems to cling to Souls games, namely that these actual, proper videogames for videogamers, feature challenges to overcome, well then... it worked, didn't it? I mean, people are sharing the link.
I got stuck briefly on a real tough enemy once, so far. Know what I did? I got on my horse and went patrolling like a Rider of Rohan for a while. Then I went and explored and found some neat items and had some more epic battles. I could probably put a whole RPG worth of hours into this game and not even feel an itch to go back to the fight I was stuck on. But I did anyway, and this time, just scraped by. It was earned, and it felt real good.
That's Elden Ring. You don't have to be a glutton for punishment to enjoy it. I'm not that guy, and I'm really digging it.
Honestly, if we're going for an authentic 90s ambience, I'm a little disappointed that this strip isn't presented as a dithered 8-bit color GIF, with a prominent "BEST VIEWED USING NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR AT 800x600 OR HIGHER" banner below it, and the twitter/facebook glyphs replaced by the Geocities and AOL logos. For shame, gentlemen, for shame!
Honestly, if we're going for an authentic 90s ambience, I'm a little disappointed that this strip isn't presented as a dithered 8-bit color GIF, with a prominent "BEST VIEWED USING NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR AT 800x600 OR HIGHER" banner below it, and the twitter/facebook glyphs replaced by the Geocities and AOL logos. For shame, gentlemen, for shame!
Well, it's meant to represent a printed magazine, not a 90s website.
I love the last paragraph of this strip's newspost.
That Ten, or the arrayed phalanx of them, simply indicates that the sample exceeds the apparatus. It's more like a blinking error message. I don't mean to say that a person who gives it a ten is bad or a dumb liar or something. I think it's all you can fucking say about it. Even the text, my text, all of it, is irrelevant. I don't know how you're supposed to "score" a magical wardrobe you found to a parallel world.
That's Elden Ring. You don't have to be a glutton for punishment to enjoy it. I'm not that guy, and I'm really digging it.
So, you've only once failed to beat a boss on the first try? That's a very very different experience than I've seen in other reviews.
Powers &8^]
On, I was stuck after a number of tries, not just one.
But I soon felt the desire to go explore and see more of The Lands Between, rather than hang out there retrying the fight. This game is quite accommodating, in that regard.
Love this call back. I had a subscription to Sega Visions and it was a big deal when it came in the mail. We would pool together and look through these, Nintendo Power, EGM. Pre-internet game news was so much more optimistic and exuberant.
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Well, it's Just Like In Florida, so it'll be in the west end of Boca Raton.
Never mind.
Powers &8^]
It's bog standard butthurt from a reviewer tasked with powering through a game too vast to see more than a wafer-thin vertical slice of before the pressure is on to say something, anything during the fleeting window in which such first impression could be considered relevant. And with praise for the game being thick on the ground, well, if they trash it for the most worn-out trope of a reason that seems to cling to Souls games, namely that these actual, proper videogames for videogamers, feature challenges to overcome, well then... it worked, didn't it? I mean, people are sharing the link.
I got stuck briefly on a real tough enemy once, so far. Know what I did? I got on my horse and went patrolling like a Rider of Rohan for a while. Then I went and explored and found some neat items and had some more epic battles. I could probably put a whole RPG worth of hours into this game and not even feel an itch to go back to the fight I was stuck on. But I did anyway, and this time, just scraped by. It was earned, and it felt real good.
That's Elden Ring. You don't have to be a glutton for punishment to enjoy it. I'm not that guy, and I'm really digging it.
Well, it's meant to represent a printed magazine, not a 90s website.
So, you've only once failed to beat a boss on the first try? That's a very very different experience than I've seen in other reviews.
Powers &8^]
On, I was stuck after a number of tries, not just one.
But I soon felt the desire to go explore and see more of The Lands Between, rather than hang out there retrying the fight. This game is quite accommodating, in that regard.