Curious. Are there any Kotaku writers left who haven’t done an Elden Ring article today? We’ve already got 4 straight posts by 4 different writers. Gotta get a post from everybody before sunset!

That was satire, because no person that thinks like this actually had a girlfriend to begin with.

And here I am still in Limgrave at 20 hrs.

I said the same thing until Elden Ring. I was pretty scared at first, taking every encounter slowly and methodically, running away at the slightest hint of danger just like I did in Dark Souls 3. But that’s when I figured something out. This game lets you engage with it pretty much without limits, save your ability.…

Man, fuck Radahn and fuck the final boss of the game too. Both are cheap as hell. Radahn is a great fight and definitely some new boss battle mechanic from From, but he’s still cheap and I never want to fight him again. 

I’ll never be able to play games like this, but this one seems pretty friggin’ rad.

“You’re the villain because you let me do this.  I’m doing this because I need to be stopped,” is some straight up super-villain shit.  Fuck this guy.

i think its dishonest to assume everyone is doing what you think they are doing. i maybe did these things the first time through dark souls, but i haven’t this time and i really don’t think i’m some magical unicorn freak.

I think it’s worth noting that some of those devs weren’t really taking shots at From per se, they were taking shots at critics giving Elden Ring glowing reviews.

Sparse, cinematic UI is just fine. However, one of the issues I’ve seen come up about the Elden Ring UI is that nothing is explained. And while over-tutorializing things is definitely a problem, assuming that everyone knows exactly what everything means right off the bat is too. In ages past, this kind of thing could…

Are you being deliberately obtuse or are you actually dull enough to not get the absolute basics of why pausing is a good thing for games to let you do?

But....if you’re offline how are you going to know when to Try Finger but hole ?

Hey look more spoilers in post titles!

So I got to this room for the first time. Was exploring it, and then learned that PvP can just happen at anytime, including in this room where no combat is allowed, and was instantly killed by someone who could one shot me. Cant get back to the room now to actually use any of the merchants.

Really turned me off on the…

I had one of the old Texas Instrument’s cartridge machines. You’d put the cartridge in to run the application and save to cassette deck you connected to it via RCA cables. Wasn’t fancy but made me fall in love with computers and programming some 35 year ago. 

I used to have a Timex Sinclair.  The programs for games were stored on cassete tapes.  Remember those?  On the job I prepared progress reports on 5 and 1/2 inch floppies.  I think it was 5 and 1/2 inch....anyway they were a pain and could easily get corrupted by dirt or magnets.   Amazing how far we’ve come.

Neither the title nor the picture tells you nothing about the chest. You guys are being ridiculous.

This....kinda feels like one great big “Hey, we can play this and you can’t yet.”

It’s one thing if it’s a review, but you think that maybe you could have at least waited a day or so after release before mentioning that some chests fuck you up in interesting new ways?

Seems rude to point out interesting, specific things in a game when none of us can play it yet.

Why does every white dude streamer have the same haircut lol