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elden ring Ruined Gaming for me imho

Part of that is just becoming more of an oldfag, but it's be...
Soggy set fortuitous meteor
  05/30/25
thought this would be a doodikoff thread imo
Thriller Theater Stage
  05/30/25
doodikoff himself was ruined by elden ring and subsequently ...
Soggy set fortuitous meteor
  05/30/25
it was boring and pointless and needlessly difficult and no ...
Pungent black point private investor
  05/30/25
(guy who put his foolish ambitions to rest)
Thriller Theater Stage
  05/30/25
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Sinister market twinkling uncleanness
  06/01/25
Tears of the Kingdom
Twinkling disturbing stead
  05/30/25
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effete liquid oxygen
  06/02/25
there was just a new elden ring released yesterday
out-of-control public bath candlestick maker
  05/30/25
It's not the same. That one is a cash grab
Twinkling disturbing stead
  05/30/25
That's basically a Minigame and requires "co-op" a...
Soggy set fortuitous meteor
  05/30/25
they just match you with randoms on the network though, I do...
out-of-control public bath candlestick maker
  05/30/25
You can't coordinate with the randoms without voice chat, me...
red national
  05/30/25
Try Kingdom Cone Deliverance 2
Sable queen of the night roast beef
  05/30/25
Cr. I started playing this last week and it's really good
spruce 180 theater
  05/30/25
I beat KCD1 and it was decent but idc about continuing tbh
Sinister market twinkling uncleanness
  06/01/25
unbelievably jewish dogshit. try Clair Obscur
Stimulating psychic
  06/02/25
180 recommendation btw
Nothing Ever Happens
  03/27/26
Another oldfaq here. It took 20 hours of practice, but I got...
Hyperventilating Field Police Squad
  05/30/25
I've always been shitty at it (never got into any of the ori...
Soggy set fortuitous meteor
  05/30/25
The 60 fps lock on PC is lame as hell. And modding removes o...
out-of-control public bath candlestick maker
  05/30/25
Yeah it's baffling to me that the game as a whole was so wel...
Soggy set fortuitous meteor
  05/30/25
Fromsoft isn’t that big. Like 400 employees vs 18,000k...
Sinister market twinkling uncleanness
  06/01/25
why is the game so good exactly
Curious henna internal respiration striped hyena
  06/01/25
- there are no difficulty sliders, the game is balanced arou...
Soggy set fortuitous meteor
  06/02/25
tl;dr western games are trash.
Sinister market twinkling uncleanness
  06/02/25
BG3 was a Triumph
Soggy set fortuitous meteor
  06/02/25
Im really talking about western Console-oriented games. Im n...
Sinister market twinkling uncleanness
  06/02/25
Sounds kinda fun Is the game still fun sober? In my exper...
Curious henna internal respiration striped hyena
  06/02/25
yeah it's a single player game, not an online grindfest I...
Soggy set fortuitous meteor
  06/02/25


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Date: May 30th, 2025 12:07 PM
Author: Soggy set fortuitous meteor

Part of that is just becoming more of an oldfag, but it's been three years and nobody really seems able to replicate anything close to the whole package.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973651)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 12:09 PM
Author: Thriller Theater Stage

thought this would be a doodikoff thread imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973653)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 12:11 PM
Author: Soggy set fortuitous meteor

doodikoff himself was ruined by elden ring and subsequently wrote it off as Not That Good. Different problem.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973661)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 12:27 PM
Author: Pungent black point private investor

it was boring and pointless and needlessly difficult and no story. "To avoid that boss' attack, you have to roll INTO his attack to dodge it" lmao give me a break

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973701)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 12:34 PM
Author: Thriller Theater Stage

(guy who put his foolish ambitions to rest)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973718)



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Date: June 1st, 2025 8:59 PM
Author: Sinister market twinkling uncleanness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48979633)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 12:10 PM
Author: Twinkling disturbing stead

Tears of the Kingdom

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973656)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 6:52 PM
Author: effete liquid oxygen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48981735)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 12:16 PM
Author: out-of-control public bath candlestick maker

there was just a new elden ring released yesterday

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973670)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 12:17 PM
Author: Twinkling disturbing stead

It's not the same. That one is a cash grab

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973672)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 12:17 PM
Author: Soggy set fortuitous meteor

That's basically a Minigame and requires "co-op" anyway. I have No Friends.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973673)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 12:20 PM
Author: out-of-control public bath candlestick maker

they just match you with randoms on the network though, I don't think it even has voice chat.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973685)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 1:44 PM
Author: red national

You can't coordinate with the randoms without voice chat, meaning you need actual friends to use discord or teamspeak with.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973930)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 12:56 PM
Author: Sable queen of the night roast beef

Try Kingdom Cone Deliverance 2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973787)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 1:41 PM
Author: spruce 180 theater

Cr. I started playing this last week and it's really good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973916)



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Date: June 1st, 2025 9:00 PM
Author: Sinister market twinkling uncleanness

I beat KCD1 and it was decent but idc about continuing tbh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48979634)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 6:51 PM
Author: Stimulating psychic

unbelievably jewish dogshit. try Clair Obscur

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48981731)



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Date: March 27th, 2026 9:32 PM
Author: Nothing Ever Happens (🧐)

180 recommendation btw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#49775165)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 12:59 PM
Author: Hyperventilating Field Police Squad

Another oldfaq here. It took 20 hours of practice, but I got to minimal proficiency in Elden ring. At that point I could do guard counters, back stabs, jump attacks, and mounted attacks, and then the game hooked me. I can't imagine better fantasy gaming.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973803)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 1:07 PM
Author: Soggy set fortuitous meteor

I've always been shitty at it (never got into any of the original souls games) but the game gives you tons and tons of options to basically adjust the difficulty as you see fit. The depth of play is hugely underrated, playing a caster build was way more fun than I expected

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973820)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 1:08 PM
Author: out-of-control public bath candlestick maker

The 60 fps lock on PC is lame as hell. And modding removes online functionality. Japs need to get their Engineering shit together.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973825)



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Date: May 30th, 2025 1:10 PM
Author: Soggy set fortuitous meteor

Yeah it's baffling to me that the game as a whole was so well done and they dropped the ball on basic shit like this. It doesn't support framegen without mods and the game (which came out three years ago) is basically unplayable at max settings unless you have a 5090. adds black bars if you try to play in 21:9 despite simple mods being able to unlock it. etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48973830)



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Date: June 1st, 2025 9:02 PM
Author: Sinister market twinkling uncleanness

Fromsoft isn’t that big. Like 400 employees vs 18,000k for ubisoft.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48979641)



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Date: June 1st, 2025 9:02 PM
Author: Curious henna internal respiration striped hyena

why is the game so good exactly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48979639)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 5:32 PM
Author: Soggy set fortuitous meteor

- there are no difficulty sliders, the game is balanced around how much you want to take advantage of the various crutches it offers. this means you don't run into the game essentially breaking once you reach a certain level (whether its due to becoming too easy or a sudden difficulty spike) as the devs can more carefully balance each area/encounter knowing it's one-size-fits-all (numberswise at least)

- the open world genuinely sucks you in and makes you want to explore. it's beautiful, the player is frequently rewarded with some kooky encounter or powerful item a bit off the beaten path, and generally speaking the game has a good amount of variety. yeah there's still a bit too much copypasta in that some minor encounters are repeated too often, but these are the exception, not the rule. for the most part every area feels incredibly unique, and it's sort of revolutionary in that it feels like the first fantasy game to really envelop the player in an open world

- related to above, there's no "DOTHISTHINGLOOKHEREANEXCLAMATIONPOINTFOLLOWTHEOBJECTIVE" clutter/bullshit you get with most AAA open-world games

the main downsides are that some of the systems in the game are a too obfuscated for new players, there's a bit of a learning curve (and tribal knowledge when it comes to stuff like "caster-based builds are easier"), the engine optimization is absolute garbage, and if you do get sucked and end up exploring quite a bit in it's really fucking long (I think I clocked something like 90 hours on my playthrough)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48981590)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 6:49 PM
Author: Sinister market twinkling uncleanness

tl;dr western games are trash.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48981727)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 6:50 PM
Author: Soggy set fortuitous meteor

BG3 was a Triumph

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48981729)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 6:55 PM
Author: Sinister market twinkling uncleanness

Im really talking about western Console-oriented games. Im not sitting here shitting on Diablo and Starcraft or Engineering-based games.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48981738)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 7:11 PM
Author: Curious henna internal respiration striped hyena

Sounds kinda fun

Is the game still fun sober? In my experience games like rpgs and path of exile etc are basically only fun when you’re on weed and I’m retired from weed now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48981778)



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Date: June 2nd, 2025 7:29 PM
Author: Soggy set fortuitous meteor

yeah it's a single player game, not an online grindfest

I think it would actually suck to play high anyway. would creep me out + you need half decent reaction time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5731364&forum_id=2#48981810)