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stickyfiddle · June 2022

PCR says not covid! But I still feel like shit

Anyhoo, I’ve been on Returnal for maybe 3 hours and enjoying it so far. I’m not sure I understand what’s going on but it’s enjoyable in a shooty-splody very “video game” kind of way

stickyfiddle · June 2022

Ok, I just found the house. Returnal is WEIRD.

I also just got an email from Nintendo saying Portal & Portal 2 are now on the eshop. I've been wanting to replay those for years, so they'll be downloading very shortly

stickyfiddle · June 2022

Well that’s Portal (1) completed again. It’s not long or even particularly difficult but man is it great.

Portal 2 next. I can’t wait

Sporky · June 2022

I'm on Fable 2 on Xbox and Trailmakers on Steam Deck.

TeleMaster · June 2022

Sporky said:

I'm on Fable 2 on Xbox and Trailmakers on Steam Deck.

How's the Deck then after a couple of weeks of ownership?

Sporky · June 2022

Pretty good actually. Runs Wreckfest nicely. It's like a Switch with a much better software library.

monquixote · June 2022

stickyfiddle said:

Ok, I just found the house. Returnal is WEIRD.

I also just got an email from Nintendo saying Portal & Portal 2 are now on the eshop. I've been wanting to replay those for years, so they'll be downloading very shortly

Super annoying because I've promised my kids I'll buy it when it comes out but I've just bought Stardew Valley in the sale (which is awesome btw)

duotone · June 2022

This week I’ve been mostly playing Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins (GameBoy) on the Retroid Pocket 2+.
I never had it when I owned a GameBoy as a kid, although a friend did, so I do remember some of the levels.

strumjoughlamps · June 2022

Past week I’ve finished Guitar Hero 1 and 2 on PS2, I can only manage it on medium difficulty now. I also have Rock Band 1 and 2 to do.

Also been playing NES Open Tournament Golf on the NES, Mario Golf and Pokémon Snap on the N64

racefaceec90 · June 2022

well i just did something stupid and bought eldin ring (i am an old gamer but a rubbish one).

difficult games and me don't go together well.

any advice you could give us as where to start would be most helpful.

i literally just have gone outside the beginning building you start at and then died a few times because some messages said jump down to a secret area (so not even met my first enemy yet lol).

i want to play as a samurai character from the choices but wonder if that is a bad choice for a numpty tbh.

thanks in advance :-)

ps i bought the game as the world itself looked pretty amazing and it does look very nice even on my old xb1 fat system i have to say (from what little i have seen of it so far/very little :-)

RaymondLin · June 2022

racefaceec90 said:

well i just did something stupid and bought eldin ring (i am an old gamer but a rubbish one).

difficult games and me don't go together well.

any advice you could give us as where to start would be most helpful.

i literally just have gone outside the beginning building you start at and then died a few times because some messages said jump down to a secret area (so not even met my first enemy yet lol).

i want to play as a samurai character from the choices but wonder if that is a bad choice for a numpty tbh.

thanks in advance :-)

ps i bought the game as the world itself looked pretty amazing and it does look very nice even on my old xb1 fat system i have to say (from what little i have seen of it so far/very little :-)

Mage (wizard) build is the easiest way to play.
Go farm and farm to level up before moving onto the next part of the story.
Be OVER POWERED on everytihng...

The first boss in the game call Margit, most people tackle him at level 30 or so, I went in at level 95. I see people at level 30 who is not good at Elden Ring tried him for hours...I beat him first try, took 4 hits from my magic spells. He JUST reached me from where he started in the fight when he was hit with the last spell and dropped dead.

That makes it easy to the point that it kinda breaks the game...you can ease back on it and go in between.

Plenty of guides on YouTube if you search "first thing to do in Elden Ring" or "Early game level up quickly" etc or "Early game farming spots"

racefaceec90 · June 2022

thanks for the tips @RaymondLin ; will definitely try those :-)

RaymondLin · June 2022

racefaceec90 said:

thanks for the tips @RaymondLin ; will definitely try those :-)

Pick the Golden Seed as your starting item for an extra flask, which means more health.

stickyfiddle · June 2022

Am loving Portal 2. It's 11(?) years old and still holds up. They should do a full-fat 120fps 4K RTX remaster for modern systems and I'd happily buy it again. They won't. But they should

musteatbrain · July 2022

racefaceec90 said:

well i just did something stupid and bought eldin ring (i am an old gamer but a rubbish one).

difficult games and me don't go together well.

any advice you could give us as where to start would be most helpful.

i literally just have gone outside the beginning building you start at and then died a few times because some messages said jump down to a secret area (so not even met my first enemy yet lol).

i want to play as a samurai character from the choices but wonder if that is a bad choice for a numpty tbh.

thanks in advance :-)

ps i bought the game as the world itself looked pretty amazing and it does look very nice even on my old xb1 fat system i have to say (from what little i have seen of it so far/very little :-)

@racefaceec90 ;Stick to Limgrave at first and die a lot. Explore all the little areas. There’s loads of good stuff hiding away. A few hours in, head south and clear out everything in the weeping peninsula.

You’ll soon grasp it. It’s not that hard, you are just underpowered to start off.

Don’t worry about what class you want, you get to respec it all about 1/3rd of the way through the game.

Bugger all is explained to start with, but that’s the beauty of it. It will all fall in to place incrementally

racefaceec90 · July 2022

@musteatbrain thanks for the tips also.

i got my arse handed to us by the first boss type soldier in the beginning bit lol(after going through the fog bit). am going to restart as the samurai character (had tried the mage type character).

i will def keep playing this game as it does look a great world to explore and i want to finally try and play a dark souls type game.

RaymondLin · July 2022

When you arrive at the cave at the start...jump down, there is a tutorial section, before you exit the cave (which is a tomb).

You will see there is a Gold guy on a gold horse, you are not meant to fight him right then, but you can...some streamer actually managed to beat him straight away, only took him 5 hours!

I cheesed him by standing on something high up where he can't reach me and threw magic stones at him.

racefaceec90 · July 2022

ah not that boss (haven't seen that one but i think you mean theres one below the ledge bridge). it was the soldier boss a bit later on (looks like a roman centurion) in a small cave between 2 exits with fog.

RaymondLin · July 2022

racefaceec90 said:

ah not that boss (haven't seen that one but i think you mean theres one below the ledge bridge). it was the soldier boss a bit later on (looks like a roman centurion) in a small cave between 2 exits with fog.

a lot of bosses in Elden Ring are optional, there are only 12 mandatory bosses in the whole game and about 150 total, some are repeated.

racefaceec90 · July 2022

ah thanks @RaymondLin ;

RaymondLin · July 2022

racefaceec90 said:

ah thanks @RaymondLin ;

Yeah, if you find yourself under leveled, and want to run away...and if you can, do it. Come back later, stronger. Don't force yourself spending 5 hours to beat a boss when you can go level up in 2 and beat him in 2 mins.

The latter is a much better use of time, it's not the traditional way to play Soulborne games to the purist but IMO a smarter use of time.

musteatbrain · July 2022

And roll. Definitely learn to roll. If your character has anything more than a medium load, you are probably not going to get out of the way

TeleMaster · July 2022

Abandoned the last boss in the end. I'll go back to it. Bloody thing.

strumjoughlamps · July 2022

Ryu got some heavy lifting to do this week.. Talk about pushing 16bit hardware boundaries thanks to some jiggery pokery in the cart. Polygontastic

racefaceec90 · July 2022

@RaymondLin ; ha i just realized who the enemy is that you were on about. i just finally exited the starting area into the big bad world of the game. am too afraid to do anything atm so will be sneaking (a lot :-D

RaymondLin · July 2022

racefaceec90 said:

@RaymondLin ;;; ha i just realized who the enemy is that you were on about. i just finally exited the starting area into the big bad world of the game. am too afraid to do anything atm so will be sneaking (a lot :-D

Come back to him when you are level 100 and you will blow him away in about 3 hits.

Otherwise you need to learn to roll, rolling is your friend. Each enemy has attack patterns, if you learn them you can pretty much do the whole game without getting hit (there are YouTube videos on that, no hit or no death run), There is a channel call Bushy Games where the guy do some crazy things like

1 - Finish the game using only your mouth
2 - Finish the game without using the inventory
3 - Finish the game without getting hit/dying once
4 - Finish the game at lvl 1
5 - Finish the game using only weapons that you can buy
6 - Finish the game without using the Grace
7 - Finish the game with only kicking
8 - Beat every boss with just 1 hit (if you know how to do this, it makes the game hilariously easy)

PolarityMan · July 2022

racefaceec90 said:

@RaymondLin ; ha i just realized who the enemy is that you were on about. i just finally exited the starting area into the big bad world of the game. am too afraid to do anything atm so will be sneaking (a lot :-D

Go find the guy pretending he's a tree.

racefaceec90 · July 2022

to show how bad at the game i am i didn't know how to change between arrow types for my samurai character (had to google it).

i am definitely going to persevere with the game though as it does look amazing the world (and i am playing it on an original xb1 console).

i also accidentally keep pressing the use potion button so have to keep reloading lol.

i will shut up now as i don't want to start hogging this thread but thanks for all the tips i will def use them :-)

RaymondLin · July 2022

@racefaceec90 don't worry, I had to Google how to run and how to get off the horse quickly. R3.

racefaceec90 · July 2022

well i thought i would report back.

have been grinding that boulder a lot and am now currently level 19 in all attributes where you can level up (about level 70 atm)

have just descended down into siofra river from that blinking huge lift descent and man am blown away how big it is (reminds me of blackreach in skyrim in a way).

am very scared atm lol but man this game is fantastic (seriously it looks great on my old fat xb1 console and runs pretty well too).

i hope to get better at the game and not die quite so much as i have (no chance i know lol).

just an awesome game :-)

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