6/21/2023 0 Comments Elden ring xbox oneSo, I started to focus my stat points on dexterity, endurance and strength to help my attacks land heavy, but still gives me the agility to roll away from blows. After many many hours I still use backstab a lot, but my combat is more roll in close, slash multiple times, then roll back out before the enemy attacks. So why not just give in and start it off here. I started with a bandit class because I tend to play more rogue style characters (I like to hit it from the back, hey-yo!) and no matter how many times I’ve restarted Skyrim, I always end up playing as a stealth archer. It’s important to pick a class that you like to play as here obviously, but do know that you can eventually re-spec your character to match whatever style you naturally transform into. The first thing you do is choose your starter class and the look of your character. The Golden Order is there to protect the Elden Ring once it’s forged again, and make sure the shattering never happens again. Godrick the Grafted is the first Shard Bearer that you meet and after you defeat him you are given his shard. Some of the lords got a hold of those pieces and became Shard Bearers and were given great powers. You see, a while back there was an event called the shattering where the Elden Ring was destroyed, and it broke into a bunch of pieces. Kind of like Infinity Watch, the group of superheroes that each took an Infinity Gem from the gauntlet after they defeated Thanos in the comics. ![]() The Elden ring is the source of all life in the Lands Between, and The Golden Order is the group that watches over it. What is your destiny you ask? Well, it’s to re-forge the shards of the Elden Ring, become the Elden Lord, and to restore the Golden Order of course. But since you are a Tarnished that is “touched by grace” this means you are guided by the golden rays of the Sites of Grace to your destiny. I’m not entirely sure what that means, but as a tarnished you are able travel the Lands Between freely as you so desire. Not even close, and I am not even the littlest bit sorry. I have not explored the entire map, and I have not killed every boss. So, after a month of playing a few hours each night (again, 50+ hour a week job and 2 kids in sports) I have put over 100 hours into Elden Ring and I am nowhere near the end. This isn’t a game to rush or main line, this is a game you are supposed to slow sip and savor because it’s a once in a generation experience. It’s not that I can’t because of the difficulty, or because I moved on to something else and I’ll never go back, but because I refuse to look up any information about what to do and where to go, and I refuse to take any shortcuts that will ruin the experience of the game for me. I have not, and probably will not ever beat this game completely. Now that I’ve got my limited history with From Software games off my chest, I need to admit another thing. Because without being “forced” to play this game, I would have missed out on one of the best games I’ve ever played in my 30+ years of gaming. But our head editor has a way with words, and he convinced me to take it on, and boy oh boy am I happy I did. ![]() ![]() I really hesitated to take this review because of my limited experience with Souls games. Not because I disliked the game, but with a more than full time job, 2 kids in sports and a backlog of games that is well over 100 games deep, I usually tend to move on from a game if it doesn’t grab my attention, or more often than that, a new game comes out that does. I played about 5 hours tops of Dark Souls 3 and never went back.
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