OBD Convo #9: The Sith Never Die
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Idk why Tony thinks hes bout to wield the power cosmic better than Galactus or Surfer
There's a big complaint I have with Elden Ring so far, and that's a lot of the bosses are literal copies of other ones. And there's a lot of stinkers. The emphasis on quantity over quality has hurt boss enemies in this game. Especially the ones you find in the wild. Which leads to my next complaint. It needed to be smaller. The world is a whole lot of beautiful nothing.
Ruins and their stock reward chest? The most surprising thing is when a chest transports you elsewhere. Otherwise, it's free loot.
Tombs and dungeons? Once again, they feel copy and pasted with only a few differences depending on where you are.
The best part of the world are the characters you meet but they're far away from each other, and all you have between them are enemies and random assortments of loot or ingredients to collect. The world feels vacant. The side activities seem like distractions. A good way to grind but after your tenth ruin or dungeon you begin to notice the annoying amount of similarities.
Which gets more jarring because the main quest and everything associated with it is great. Handcrafted to perfection. The filler in-betweeen feels procedurally generated. The exception being villages and towns. Which feel like they were also handcrafted, and have a lot of meat to them. Say for example there was this village where everyone was driven insane by the frenzied flame. That was good and tells us more about the effect of the Three Fingers on the world.
Ruins and their stock reward chest? The most surprising thing is when a chest transports you elsewhere. Otherwise, it's free loot.
Tombs and dungeons? Once again, they feel copy and pasted with only a few differences depending on where you are.
The best part of the world are the characters you meet but they're far away from each other, and all you have between them are enemies and random assortments of loot or ingredients to collect. The world feels vacant. The side activities seem like distractions. A good way to grind but after your tenth ruin or dungeon you begin to notice the annoying amount of similarities.
Which gets more jarring because the main quest and everything associated with it is great. Handcrafted to perfection. The filler in-betweeen feels procedurally generated. The exception being villages and towns. Which feel like they were also handcrafted, and have a lot of meat to them. Say for example there was this village where everyone was driven insane by the frenzied flame. That was good and tells us more about the effect of the Three Fingers on the world.
Though what I do like is the lack of invisible walls. Most places you see? You can reach them somehow. However, the reward might end up being trash.
I personally thought the story for Batman was better but NWH has nostalgia on its side with the old Spidermen and villains. But yeah the new Batman is pretty good
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The first mages in Elden Ring practiced something called the primeval current. Which involved transforming people into the seeds of stars.
Taken from the entry on Graven-Mass Talisman.
A talisman depicting the first school of graven mages — a nightmare that would continue to haunt the academy.
Greatly raises potency of sorceries.
The primeval current is a forbidden tradition of glintstone sorcery. To those who cleave to its teachings, the act of collecting sorcerers to fashion them into the seeds of stars is but another path of scientific inquiry.
The first mages in Elden Ring practiced something called the primeval current. Which involved transforming people into the seeds of stars.
Taken from the entry on Graven-Mass Talisman.
A talisman depicting the first school of graven mages — a nightmare that would continue to haunt the academy.
Greatly raises potency of sorceries.
The primeval current is a forbidden tradition of glintstone sorcery. To those who cleave to its teachings, the act of collecting sorcerers to fashion them into the seeds of stars is but another path of scientific inquiry.
holy shit
The shamans are also heavily implied to use the primeval current as well. You find them underground, and the ruin that was once their home is brimming with stars. It's where you encounter the Ancestor Spirit.
Where they seem to have even begun crafting a nebula or something. This all underground in the Siofra River Depths.
Also, I am fairly confident those other Erdtrees we see are from parallel worlds. When we fight the Elden Beast, and that's to indicate that the Greater Will has an influence on all of them. Suggesting multiversal range at least.
According to Sellen, the one who teaches you magecraft, the entire basis of glintstone energy is literally the life force of the stars themselves. Idk if that in itself means anything power wise but it certainly adds to the general cosmic feel of everything
I saved that by the way. Sellen is even trying to revive the primeval current with the help of Lusat.
Reuses/Reskins are always a problem,i wouldn't have minded if they had delayed just to make more new enemies/bosses/places instead of reusing/copy pasting shit so much, filling the world with more relevant stuff would be good too
I doubt anyone would truly complain if the devs came out and said "we are delaying becuase we felt that we were reusing too much models so we are going to create new ones and add new things to mobs and adding more relevant things to the world so the experience feel the best possible""
Yeah as far as I know both the Eternal Cities have these star filled "skies" despite being underground, and Mohg's domain also has them which is why I had initially thought Mohg created his own realm full of starsThe shamans are also heavily implied to use the primeval current as well. You find them underground, and the ruin that was once their home is brimming with stars. It's where you encounter the Ancestor Spirit.
Where they seem to have even begun crafting a nebula or something. This all underground in the Siofra River Depths.
That's what I was thinking too but I don't even know much lore on what the Erdtree even is yet to begin with. For example we know it hasn't always existed, because the Ancient Dragons predate it (and tried to destroy it at one point).
also there's several "outer gods" like the Mother of Truth Mohg serves and the Ancient Dragons served some unnamed god as well that predates the Erdtree
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