Lords of the Fallen

Yeah, Lower Calrath is where I parked it and went back to Lies of P. It's just too annoying right now. I really hope they can sort it soon.

You could always play some Nioh instead... *nudge nudge*

Or Baldur's Gate... Or maybe Tears of the Kingdom finally...

That's impressive. I didn't even know about the other endings until I'd finished it.

Hmm. Might re-roll after Lies of P and go for one of the other two.

To be fair I'm shit at parrying and I've been getting on fine with it. Think I've parried about five times in 20 hours...

The latest patch buffs bosses & sub-bosses health by 10-20% whilst also buffing their damage by about 10%. I don’t agree with this move and the developers need to listen to the right people before they ruin their game. Some YTubers have been breezing through with pre-nerfed weapons & spells. Good for them, but it’s not my experience

I don’t know if Resident_Weevil is on here, but he left this comment on LotF, which I think sums up this game and the wider genre beautifully. Copied & pasted from EG


‘I think trust is absolutely vital between player and game in a soulslike. From playstyle to builds, and from mechanics to enemy strength (and so much more), we need to trust that our actions and decisions will function exactly how they were intended to function, but I can't for the life of me work out what the intent of this game actually is. Not that that applies anymore with frequent changes to every element of the game. I have no idea what this game wants to achieve and no idea if my build still does what it used to. How am I supposed to trust that?

Tough but fair is the core of a soulslike, if you die it's your fault, never the game's. That can't work if the rules of the game keep changing. How can anyone trust that?’

(I cba'd to figure out again how to post images that aren't already on the internet so have it the text way:)

Actual technical issues, performance issues etc: I sleep

Making the player feel even weaker in relation to the enemies: REAL SHIT

I mean, nerfing weapons in, say, Elden Ring is one thing, they usually buffed something else to compensate (or there were a half-dozen other options anyway), but every single patch I hear about here seems to be nerf after nerf while actual problems remain unaddressed...

Just entered the Mines and so far I haven't encountered any bosses that were utterly difficult in this. Sure Pieta gave me a run for my money, but with her beaten I rarely needed a third crossing with a boss (apart from the Hushed Saint, who I could have beaten a bit easier if I concentrated more on his telegraphed spear attacks or if I utilized the parasites for knocking him off his horse - both my mistakes, not the game being too difficult).

That said, I'm not in favor of upping the difficulty by buffing bosses' health and damage output on a whiff; next they will be nerfing my Pieta's sword and I like it just the way it is 

I’ve finished this and got the Umbral ending. The final boss was incredibly tough, but a proper rush when they went down after about 30 attempts? Great little game on the whole.

I’m going back into NG zero and laying waste to everyone, which is fun. There’s a few NPC quests I missed in first play so they’ll get done too. I bet I still whiff the platform jumps in Pilgrims perch though. 😂👍

I've tried it once or twice - for co-op rather than slaughtering. Once, after waiting for about 10 minutes, a PS player joined and helped me take down a boss. But it doesn't feel very reliable - either that or the player pool is so small that you struggle to summon. 

Of course there's a random boss name generator

Rise, Insane Spineless Witch of the Hallowed.

Or the Gammon Outlook Beast 🤷‍♀️

Had a good run at the weekend, moving from the mine district, to sunless skein, through the cistern, the depths, the fief - I bloody loved that area, not least as I could unleash some inferno spells to devastating effect -
I also mopped up some optional bosses elsewhere - and actually that's where I became stuck and stopped: Paladin's Burden in The Path of Devotion. To put it mildly, I'm not a fan of bosses who heal themselves repeatedly. Got to find a better strategy for him. 

This game is so close to being great. If only they could sort the jank. I don't know if they are still working on this or have just given up. 

I've reached the point now where I'm recording gameplay of the worst glitches and sending it to their support. There's a few glaring ones that really take the shine off areas. If they sort them, and the stuttering, then as far as I'm concerned this is behind only the Dark Souls trilogy and Bloodborne. I love it that much. The performance and shit popping in and out is putting me off a reroll just now though.

As much as I hate to go against Wunty when he's so passionate about LotF, almost everything I've seen about it makes me say Elden Ring has way more bang for your buck. Even excusing LotF's numerous performance issues, Elden Ring has much more variety in how to build your character, the abilities/spells you can use, the enemies you encounter and the locales you visit, much more content in general (yes there is some copy-pasting going on in the minor dungeons, but even removing that still leaves a lot), more memorable bosses/NPCs (thus far) and seemingly tighter controls (the camera and movement in LotF just feel weirdly... floaty and I can't put my finger on why).

That's not to say LotF is a bad game. Its parallel worlds gimmick is well-executed, its world design and aesthetic are amazing if you enjoy that style, and if they manage to fix the problems with performance there's a pretty great game underneath it all. Even so, I just can't recommend it over Elden Ring, personally, unless you just prefer your Soulslikes to be shorter games.