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Crystal_Shards64@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I reallllly hope we don’t have to finish the story to jump into the DLC. After an almost 200 hour first playthrough I thought “oh man I want to do this again!” I got a quarter way through NG+ and put the game down and didn’t get around to finishing it.

I loved Elden ring as a concept, I think it was an extremely interesting twist on the formula. However for replayability I feel like it suffered heavily. The vast open world takes a long time to get through (mainly if you’re really trying to beeline directly from point A to B.) And if you need specific items or materials I feel like having to replay the various tombs /mini dungeons would be more chore like than fun.

I only came to this realization after playing demon souls and bloodborne for the first time recently. There’s very little filler a person would need to go through when replaying those older fromsoft titles. I’m so torn though because I really liked exploring in Elden Ring.

Sorry for the novel lol

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SuperSynthia@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m gonna guess here, but I bet the DLC will be after an endgame boss in an optional area. Quickest way to access it (and potentially get demolished) is to do the PVP storyline. Vague I know but I don’t want to spoil too much for anyone going blind

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- Crystal_Shards64@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ohhhh after seeing the trailer I bet you any money you’re right. I guess the one nice thing is that area also is good for farming exp. So if you are needing to access it quick it might not be so bad…
  
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  - SuperSynthia@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’m doing my 3rd character run for the dlc and I plan to rush to it. We had the same idea on quick level ups :)
    
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ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I totally agree about Bloodborne (and Dark Souls) being much more ‘closed in.’ I feel like Elden Ring’s map should be 40% smaller as most of these open areas are completely pointless. There are typically zero items other than the environmental materials or random animals outside of central areas like buildings/towns/boss areas. Why even create all this extra space if there’s no need to go there (which you only find out after wasting your time looking around)?

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