Elden Ring - gamertags on first page

Sorry, I feel as though I just needed one post to merge myself into the tone of the thread.

Git gud Aunt Alison you cunt, you just don't get it.

Re:the gatekeeping and zealotry, I imagine it's true and if so it must be annoying. Call me sheltered, though, as I only ever interact with people here, and lurked in the EG threads. As such I've only come across people who love the games and actually delight in helping and giving advice to those starting them, stuck etc.

I'm now perversely curious now, though, and want to trawl the dark spaces of the internet chuckling at the git gud crowd...so, where do I start?

The original Demon's Souls thread was the nicest, most helpful place ever. The game was weird and opaque and everybody was in it together. Literally anything you could do to make life easier was fair play - this whole 'Git Gud' thing appeared once Dark Souls became a smash hit, best just to ignore it.

I don't I have seen anyone say get good in any from software thread. Someone asks for advise and then there are many helpful replies straight away. God knows how many I've posted in sekiro and Bloodborne and I feel everyone else does the same.

The EG/FG threads for soulsborne games are, I think, a bit of an anomaly in that people are helpful rather than dismissive. They do get quite an elitist cult following around the internet. But, yeah, I couldnt care less if they put something like a lower difficulty level in. I manage them just fine (because I'm amazing) but its no skin off my nose if someone is having a harder time and just wants to power through.

Also, I couldnt see a thread for it but Lies of P is looking good. Pinnochio x Bloodborne with the kind of gwaffics I think people were probably expecting elden ring to have.

More importantly, I hate everybody who got into the network test. Fuck all o youse.

There's shit things about every soulsborne game to be fair. They are not perfect so I don't think it's hard to point out any flaws. I don't think that's a fair way of attacking them however as it's not really about that. Dark Souls tapped into something the gaming community had obviously needed at the time. Was it as hard as it was being made out to be? No. Of course not. But at a time where devs couldn't hold your hand anyfurther than if they'd grafted their own fingers to yours, it was a breath of fresh air (I know Demon's came first but as a platform exclusive it didn't have the impact of the first Dark Souls). There's a lot of love for the franchise borne out of that fact alone. Yes, lots of people give these games a free pass, and there are some out there that overlook all the flaws, but that's true of every popular game and franchise. You've got the die hards, the ones you really like it, the ones who can take it or leave it, and the ones who can't get on board with it at all.

People just need to git gud and stop being scrubs.

I think some people need a bit of an outlet to air their grievances sometimes. I'll be the first to admit I probably come across as a right whinging bastard about some games (CYBERRRRPUUUUUUUNK!!!!!!) but it's because if I turned to the Mrs and said "Fuck's sake, this game is a half finished piece of shit. I feel proper mugged off here" she'd probably try and turn herself in to the nonce police for having a relationship with a toddler.

Sometimes seeing someone going "Yeah, I'm finding that bit of the game a bit shit too" is as important as sucking each other off over how good it is.

So are we banning Alison or not??

Talking of Destiny. Doing one of those damn raids is one of the most difficult things I've ever done. Yet it's soulsborne that gets the rep for being inaccessible!

Which bits?

Earthen Peak, Harvest Valley, Iron Keep, Frigid Outskirts, Iron Passage, Cave of the Dead, Doors of Pharros, Grave of Saints, Black Gulch.

There's probably more.

Yet it's fucking brilliant.

Ha, I was waiting for something.