Honestly ringed city and The Old hunters are just tied with me.

Erd tree is my no 2.

You just can’t best slaveknight Gael or Ludwig though as bosses

  • Smeagolicious [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Old Hunters ez. It still has the Fromsoft issue of expecting the player to have grinded to a specific high level before entering the DLC and thus soft DPS and HP gating with early enemies and bosses, but Old Hunters has some of my favorite bosses, weapons, visuals, and music of any From game. Ludwig, Lady Maria, Orphan of Kos chefs-kiss

    Ringed City is great atmospherically and architecturally, but I grew to hate the ambush-souls style of DS3. That and the extremely fast Bloodborne-paced enemies in a game where you the player are forced to operate at Dark Souls pace. The game pace issues continued into base Elden Ring IMO, and the number of instakill enemies in ER just make the issue more egregious. That said, Gael is a great fight. I love the visuals of the flowing cape, screaming souls, lightning and thunder amid the ash wasteland. Midir is an instakill hp sponge that I hate lol. Feels more at home in Monster Hunter.

    Haven’t tried Shadow yet but my problems with the base game of Elden Ring lead me to believe that it won’t be my favorite. The atmosphere and design in ER and what I’ve seen of Shadow are still top tier though.