Topic: competitive gaming culture

There are few characters like Nepheli Loux in Elden Ring Nightreign Ring : She is honorable, courageous, and hopes to reach small yet concrete goals to make the Lands Between a safer place for Tarnished. Players help her in this mission by not only helping her claim the throne of Stormveil Castle but also guiding her toward such a goal. Her father, Elden Ring 's Roundtable Hold leader Gideon the All-Knowing, disowns her after she helps the Albinaurics, leading her to feel directionless and witho...

Elden Ring 's magic system is divided into two main camps: Incantations and Sorceries. While the former is dedicated to the Outer Gods, the latter gains its power from the indifferent celestial bodies of the night sky. The astrologers were consequently the first practitioners of sorcery in Elden Ring , as they are very familiar with the movements of the st But other extraterrestrial beings also know Gravity magic. Most notably, Elden Ring boss Astel, Naturalborn of the Void , has its own Legenda...

While these notes can be incredibly helpful, a significant portion of them are more focused on getting laughs than offering support. In typical FromSoftware fashion, the messaging system in Elden Ring doesn't simply allow the user to type whatever they want, instead forcing them to choose between a curated selection of words and phrases. This might not be ideal for those interested in providing detailed notes and clues, but the restrictions have been a blessing for the comedically inclined, as t...

After Godfrey felled his last worthy opponent, Marika robbed him and his warriors of their Grace and exiled them from the Lands Between. She said, " My Lord, and thy warriors. I divest each of thee of thy grace. With thine eyes dimmed, ye will be driven from the Lands Between." Godfrey would go back to calling himself Hoarah Loux, becoming Elden Ring's first Tarnished, and his warriors would follow him Author George R. R. Martin makes perfect sense to have been chosen to collaborate with Miyazak...

With Runes of Power in their grasp, the demigods began to war against each other to gain more runes. Malenia fought on behalf of her twin brother as the Blade of Miquella. Morgott fought in defense of the Erdtree - which he was successful in defending - but he couldn't enter the tree and claim the title of Elden Lord. Mohg received strength from the Formless Mother, but it's unclear how involved he was in the Shattering. Radahn led his armies against the other demigods, and he would be one of th...

I tried to restart from the beginning of the game but bounced off about ten minutes into Pathologic 2's intro on two different occasions. I wasn't able to get back into it at first, and there's likely a lot of reasons for this. I was playing it wrong. Pathologic 2 didn't explain itself to me. The introduction is far too long. I wasn't paying enough attention to my actions because I was treating it like a video game. I was choosing dialog haphazardly. I wasn't judging whether or not the people I ...

After a few hours in Elden Ring , it will become clear that many things are not quite as they seem; there are invisible paths and platforms hiding past cliffsides, and a great number of the game's walls are mere illusions, crumbling after a single hit or roll. One of these hidden walls was infamous for taking 50 hits to break, though an Elden Ring update patched out this controversial inclus The most attention-grabbing challenges in Elden Ring come from the game's many brutally difficult enemies...

These child scholars can be heard singing "Sleep tight, bound tight, in mother's umbra; Sleep tight, find life, by mother's amber." This suggests that these children are the eternal subjects of Rennala's practices with reincarnation, fully brainwashed by them, but it seems like pieces of them are lost each time they come b When the Tarnished first meets Blackguard Big Boggart in Elden Ring , the two are not necessarily on good terms. Players likely only become aware of who Boggart is after meeti...

Later, Sir Gideon Ofnir reveals that Miquella is sleeping and residing in his dream. Gideon comments that as long as Miquella continues to sleep in his cocoon " all will be well. " That ominous warning from Gideon brings up the question: what if Miquella wakes up at some point in Elden Ring 's st Platinum clearly tried recreating Automata 's gameplay, to a degree, in Babylon's Fall , which is far from unusual in an industry where mechanics are often part of a company's signature. The problem ins...

The Lands Between in Elden Ring offers plenty of detours in case players don't want to delve into those brutal Legacy Dungeons yet. Caves, while short and dank, hold plenty of interesting enemies, items, and even shortcuts for the players. There are many of them scattered all throughout the Lands Between, but a few stand out for their unique mechanics and special function in the game wo In his hellish boss room, Rykard appears as a scaled face protruding from the side of the serpent's belly, urg...

Given the size of Elden Ring , it's no surprise that the developers need to patch the game to fix glitches players come across as they play. The majority of changes implemented in a patch are listed in the patch notes. However, there are generally fixes added in patches that aren't detailed in the notes for various reasons, such as the change being too small to bother mentioning, or for adding nerfs without players realizing it at first. The YouTube channel illusory wall posted a video detailing...