Same here. Sadly I rarely play any video games these days. It is as much an ability to focus on the games long enough to not suck as anything else.

Yeah, I've never really enjoyed games where you have to memorize timing and patterns to beat a boss.

And watching a video about it....the bosses will change up their timing just to **** you over. Sounds like a blast.

It sounds like you can run away, go explore to get better gear/more experience or stronger or whatever, then possibly come back and whoop ass.

If the gear is anything like other From games, it really only makes a difference in how long a battle takes. It doesn't actually help you "win" because that's entirely based on player skill.

No idear. I've only ever played one Souls-like game (Bloodborne, which I stopped playing because it felt really dated), so I'm not sure what to expect!

Well, I'm one of those that has never gotten past the first few bosses in a From game. They're just too hard. And I play almost every game on the hardest difficulty.

You must learn the ways of the cheese, young Padawan.

I am all primed to start Elden Ring tonight. Hope I’m not disappointed. I’m not huge into Dark Souls, but I have heard that this is pretty approachable for more casual players. Loved Skyrim.

I have heard people say that the PC version isn’t running as well. This will be the first next gen game I play on the PS5

I'm old enough to be your dad. Young indeed. ROFL

Super early on, couple of hours in but goddamn Elden Ring is awesome…this game will consume me.

Is it forgiving at all or is it like a normal Dark Souls game?

It’s not easy per se but with it being open world, you can escape from encounters and fights now.

There’s more places to save, easier ways to refill flasks, etc.

Also depends on where you’re at…I wandered into an area I had no business being in and got absolutely wrecked lol.

I just watched a review. It looks great, but damn, I don't want to have fight something for a hour before it dies.

Or fight it for an hour and then YOU die and have to do it all over again.

And start at a save point that's far away and have to fight through a bunch of respawned crap to get to the same battle again, right?

Games without a reasonable quick save feature generally annoy the shit out of me.