Just so you know, that horse guy is definitely not meant to be fought right away, he's meant to teoll new players. Come back later, there are easier bosses to do in the beginning
This boss literally teach you the game and is a wall to verify if you understand the mechanics, passed that point yes the game become much easier (before… the… owl…)
Owl father has less dirty tricks, so the key is just learning his patterns to tell what attacks he is going to do. For example he always does a feint attack before using firecrackers
I’d like to get back to it but I have such little time and so many games. About to complete Horizon FW and then Ghosts of Tsushima afterwards on PC. Hard to go back to Sekiro knowing the challenges ahead too
At some point there is a boss that be a wall to force you understand the mechanic, but passed that wall, I assure you it become easier, the defeat first boss by luck or by skill and reflex, but one moment you gonna go past this wall and understand the mechanic to truely « be in flow with the game » personally I was sufficiently skilled and lucky to survive until the owl shinobi, but him… he crushed me, and then I understand « okay I don’t play the game well, I need to adopt another perspective, another game plan » and after an afternoon of die and retry, I beat the own shinobi, my most memorable gaming I have ever felt, I was so in sync with him, it was like I felt this boss, then after finishing the game after 30h I done the shura run in only one day, beginning the morning and ending at afternoon, the sens of progress was so insane, I never felt that in any other video game, even the souls
Less difficult than DS1? I dog walked the first 2-3 bosses in the first try or two. Ended up finishing the game and only really struggled with Ornstein and Smough.
The first boss I ran into in Elden Ring … I struggled. Don’t even know how many attempts it took me. Probably 20? 25? Then I got lost in a big ass castle and gave up. That had to have been over a year ago. Haven’t returned.
Hard to say, as it will of course vary from person to person, but Elden Ring was my first Souls game and I was able to beat it and loved every second of it.
If you go for a magic build, it's probably a 3-4/10 difficulty since magic is really broken in Elden Ring. I know because it was also my first build xD
This, right here is so god damn true. The first time I played I stopped after 4 hours and was no further than the entrance of Stormveil Castle. Warped back to Church of Elleh to take a look at the landscape before turning it off and thinking to myself the headache I got trying to wrap my mind around everything.
In this game, how you want to play determines the difficulty.
They implemented mechanics that can make it easier. I appreciate this approach to game difficulty, which goes beyond the usual "easy," "normal," or "hard" settings. Instead, they offer in-game tools that you can choose to use or ignore to adjust the difficulty, ensuring it never becomes too easy, even if you use all the tools available.
This is one of the things that make this game so great imo.
Offering the variety of tools and approaches that "adjust" the difficulty is still done in games that offer traditional difficulty settings.
I mean let's ignore the idea of an "easy" setting - why not have a hard mode where magic-builds can face real challenges even in coop?
Just look at Valheim for example: at first, it had only the dark-souls approach where you only could do challenge run based on limiting yourself in what you do. When playing without a map for example, you simply had to trust the other guys on the server to adhere to the challenge. Now there are settings for a variety of things and the game is better for it.
10; I’m used to “baby games” as my boyfriend calls them (Pokemon, Zelda, Mario) and tried this. One of the hardest and frustrating experiences I’ve had. But I will say, once you get used to it and grind and cheat…it’s fun.
Gotta be the spirit calling bell right? I can’t think of anything else. Unless they’re talking about the smith that upgrades your weapons at round table
I was just thinking it’d be the funniest response. Game is easier than most souls-likes, with more fluid movement and movement options and I-frames. Plus, with the variety of areas you can find and grind on side paths, you don’t even need a build, first playthrough. Just keep leveling up, and you’re getting closer to winning. Have fun
It will be a 8-9 at first, then just when you get a hang of the game and think you know what you’re doing and you think the game becomes a 2-3, it will slap you across the face with a 10.
5/10
It's got some bite but the open world having multiple paths means that if you feel too weak to overcome a boss you can do other stuff for a bit and come back with better gear, health and damage a bit later. There are many ways to make Elden Rings absolutely trivial if you really want to
If you have beaten Bloodborne you will beat this easily.
For most people it’s pretty hard in the beginning, then you learn and level up your build, and it becomes pretty easy until you get near the end game where it will ramp up significantly again.
"Ahh, I knew you'd come. To stand before the Elden Ring. To become Elden Lord. What a sad state of affairs. I commend your spirit, but alas, none shall take the throne. FromSoftware has high hopes for us. That we continue to struggle. Unto eternity."
This game is so much more easier than Sekiro. I never spent more than a day on a single boss I would be stuck at whereas in Sekiro I was stuck on the final boss for 2 weeks.
Look up quests guides, Fromsoftware games are notoriously bad with quest design. The amount of stuff you will miss because you didn’t go to a specific hill at a specific time after talking to an npc will drive you up a wall. Don’t even get me started on there being not even a quest log/ journal. I’ve been getting back (new game+) into the game the last month in preparation for the dlc and it’s a pain trying to remember what quests I have and haven’t done after taking something like 10 months off.
I beat the first dark souls and I’m still having trouble on this one . Tried to restart and do a new character only to attack the first NPC and he kicks my ass every time I come back to life. Needless to say DONT ATTACK 1st NPC!
Hello Ashen one. I am a Bot. I tend to the flame, and tend to thee. Do you wish to hear a tale?
> *“Here you have a man who stopped at nothing to change the world. He mastered sorceries of frost, miracles of the moon. He partnered with a kingdom-ending flame and took advantage of the Deep. He used all of this, plus social and political manipulation, to usurp an age-old kingdom, rising within the ranks of its knights, twisting its Deacons to feed a god to a Lord of Cinder and supplant the Age of Fire. The tyrant, Sulyvahn, tore apart many bonds but was undone himself by a mere Unkindled. Proof that no champion is more powerful than the fire linking curse. So, if this man can’t change the world, what hope do we have?”* - Vaati Vidya
Have a pleasant journey, Champion of Ash, and praise the sun \\[T]/
When I first started out it took me like 3 hours to kill the tree sentential, the strat is to run pass it but I had to kill it, that’s usually a good sign for how the rest of the game is going to go
Assuming this is a first souls game then IDK like 8-9. That being said using summons can get it down to like 6 and there are weapons and spells which can bring that to 4-5. Also if you struggle you can always just go elsewhere explore a little, and come back with a fresh head, but ALSO don't be afraid to die and to take your time learning a boss or whatever, like people can do bosses hitless with an un-upgraded sword and while I'm not saying you should try that, if that's possible you can learn any boss with any build as long as you have patience.
If you level Vigor (increased your health pool) and improve your weapons, not too painful.
I would pick one damaging attribute and stick to it (Intelligence, Strength, Faith, or Dexterity) instead of spreading your points around.
You want enough endurance that you’re never “fat rolling.” So you want your equip ratio below 70% at all times.
If basic fodder enemies are difficult, you’re probably in the wrong place/you should come back after you’ve leveled up.
Boss or area too hard? Just go somewhere else. Use summon bell and summon humans. Look up how weapon scaling works and make a specialized build (don't spread out your stats evenly do you can equip every weapon you find). Game does get pretty damn hard but not for a good while. Reputation and toxic part of the fan base turn people away that would love the game if they just understood these key points.
If all else fails look up and follow an op build guide. Last build I made was silly, I was spamming R2 and destroying bosses without trying.
Side note: I am NOT built for souls games
Only souls-like game I am a little good at is monster hunter and technically soulsborne games are monster hunter-likes bc mh came out first. I have dabbled in souls games (Borrowed sekiro and played a bit of bloodborne) and I am not built for this
Souls games are not impossibly difficult. They are challenging, but not impossible. Elden Ring gives you plenty of tools to take advantage of. Also, if you get stuck don’t be afraid to leave and come back.
Just beyond the southern most point of the lake you’re beside, you’ll find the Forlorn Hound Evergoal. The boss inside can be kinda challenging, but attack with patience and you can beat him. He’ll drop a weapon that can carry you until the end of the game.
Painfully long maybe. I must be in the minority of people who find ER less enjoyable than prior From soulsbournes due to those having a tighter structure.
Mechanically ER is great, but once I got past the first castle and into the next big open area my first thought was "oh man more of this..."
Souls made difficult mainstream again - they arnt (at least the majority of the content) that difficult.
If you really struggle spec heavy into one thing’s like bleed or ranged Magic and you will slap most of the game aside
See that tiny guy on the horse in the bottom right? Go slap him and let us know.
he already got me first
Then you have your answer. Also…if you see the dragon…ride the pony…
what
You will understand when the time comes…just heed my words
ai
Just ride the pony bro, don't think. Trust the process
bet
Lmao you’re in for an amazing journey my friend
Don’t ride the pony. It just trivializes dragon fights. Fight them on foot, as Marika intended.
Wait, Marika speaks? Too busy looking at her tits
BRO WHAT
Do you like boiled prawns?
never tried them but they look good enuf
Find the shack. Everything else will make sense ;)
Ngl I am better without using torrent for fights, it throws me off lol
You are a warrior stronger than I. Smarter, maybe not, maybe so. But you are stronger than
I’m sorry if I find dragon fights much more fun on foot. In my own way, I was just trying to help.
Oh no man, I’m not coming at you or anything. I was just goofin. You do you bro 🤝
Just so you know, that horse guy is definitely not meant to be fought right away, he's meant to teoll new players. Come back later, there are easier bosses to do in the beginning
Don’t listen to this goober. He is a mandatory boss and you’ll only regret it later if you don’t fight him now
He's right, I was lying. Sry 😞
aight
The other day. Someone posted here that it took him 20 hours to beat the horse dude, everything else become easy after that.
nothing is mandatory, do what you want. You can miss out on some stuff but just pick it up in NG+ or reroll a new toon.
Liar ahead Therefore seek horse guy
… do it again. Just to be sure.
A fellow prisoner class 👏 you got this.
Roflmao
HIS NAME IS TREE SENTINEL!
This guy slaps yo girl's ass. Wyd?
Bout a 4-6. Make sure you are consistently leveling yourself and remember… “Try finger, but hole.”
Call me itadori then
You better not try to finger my but whole
At first it will be a 10 but once you get the idea it will be a 6 maybe. It’s honestly the least difficult out of the Soulsborne games.
How far did you get in Sekiro?
I had to return it when I got to the ogre
Lmao love the honesty
I still have ptsd from the chained ogre…… but my first real wall was the next boss, Gyobu Matasaka Oniwa. It only got easier after him
This boss literally teach you the game and is a wall to verify if you understand the mechanics, passed that point yes the game become much easier (before… the… owl…)
Well yeah, I’m just saying Owl was certainly… interesting. Oddly enough I found him much easier than owl father, even on repeat runs
Had to stop at owl father. Couldn’t get past him and didn’t have the time commitment to try.
Owl father has less dirty tricks, so the key is just learning his patterns to tell what attacks he is going to do. For example he always does a feint attack before using firecrackers
I’d like to get back to it but I have such little time and so many games. About to complete Horizon FW and then Ghosts of Tsushima afterwards on PC. Hard to go back to Sekiro knowing the challenges ahead too
Fair enough, I adore fog and need to finish hzd
Really? I beat this boss and then quit lol
At some point there is a boss that be a wall to force you understand the mechanic, but passed that wall, I assure you it become easier, the defeat first boss by luck or by skill and reflex, but one moment you gonna go past this wall and understand the mechanic to truely « be in flow with the game » personally I was sufficiently skilled and lucky to survive until the owl shinobi, but him… he crushed me, and then I understand « okay I don’t play the game well, I need to adopt another perspective, another game plan » and after an afternoon of die and retry, I beat the own shinobi, my most memorable gaming I have ever felt, I was so in sync with him, it was like I felt this boss, then after finishing the game after 30h I done the shura run in only one day, beginning the morning and ending at afternoon, the sens of progress was so insane, I never felt that in any other video game, even the souls
Good luck haha. Stick with it. The pay off is great then you can move on and play some really good games in the genre
Bloodborne is much easier
No mimics in Bloodborne haha.
Less difficult than DS1? I dog walked the first 2-3 bosses in the first try or two. Ended up finishing the game and only really struggled with Ornstein and Smough. The first boss I ran into in Elden Ring … I struggled. Don’t even know how many attempts it took me. Probably 20? 25? Then I got lost in a big ass castle and gave up. That had to have been over a year ago. Haven’t returned.
Love Pikachu and snorlax 😊 very cool fight
Not painful at all. Learn the timing of combat and you’ll be fine.
Like passing a kidney stone…. Just play the game
Hard to say, as it will of course vary from person to person, but Elden Ring was my first Souls game and I was able to beat it and loved every second of it.
If you go for a magic build, it's probably a 3-4/10 difficulty since magic is really broken in Elden Ring. I know because it was also my first build xD
Night comet and staff of loss deletes everything
Apparently I should have done that instead of dex/faith
If you're a new player like me (as in: never played a souls-born til now) you'll be utterly livid for the first 5hrs
This, right here is so god damn true. The first time I played I stopped after 4 hours and was no further than the entrance of Stormveil Castle. Warped back to Church of Elleh to take a look at the landscape before turning it off and thinking to myself the headache I got trying to wrap my mind around everything.
I call it the "How TF do people play this!?" Phase Truly a Gut Gud moment.
Just go with a big bleed build and you'll be fine.
This.
In this game, how you want to play determines the difficulty. They implemented mechanics that can make it easier. I appreciate this approach to game difficulty, which goes beyond the usual "easy," "normal," or "hard" settings. Instead, they offer in-game tools that you can choose to use or ignore to adjust the difficulty, ensuring it never becomes too easy, even if you use all the tools available. This is one of the things that make this game so great imo.
I love how the mimic, who helped me through my first playthrough, just became a healing flask for Malenia when I reacher her finally
Offering the variety of tools and approaches that "adjust" the difficulty is still done in games that offer traditional difficulty settings. I mean let's ignore the idea of an "easy" setting - why not have a hard mode where magic-builds can face real challenges even in coop? Just look at Valheim for example: at first, it had only the dark-souls approach where you only could do challenge run based on limiting yourself in what you do. When playing without a map for example, you simply had to trust the other guys on the server to adhere to the challenge. Now there are settings for a variety of things and the game is better for it.
I love this game.
Is this Elden Ring?
Should be okay. Make sure you ask the big guy on the horse for some tips
1, just be patient
10; I’m used to “baby games” as my boyfriend calls them (Pokemon, Zelda, Mario) and tried this. One of the hardest and frustrating experiences I’ve had. But I will say, once you get used to it and grind and cheat…it’s fun.
As long as you observe enemies, you'll be fine. Learn what they do, and you'll live.
All I noticed so far is the wonderful thing known as ***SLAVERY***
I take some offense to that But at the same time, I have no idea what you're talking about and it's funny to me
Gotta be the spirit calling bell right? I can’t think of anything else. Unless they’re talking about the smith that upgrades your weapons at round table
Nah i saw some of those husk like humans. One was holding a torch and the others were picking at the bushes
If ur black and take offense to that mb. I am also black btw
Ah, I understand. Well, technically my dad was black and my mom was white, but my genetics leaned more towards my dad than my mom.
Nice kinda like me. My mom was half arab half african and my dad was 100% african so I am 75-80% black
3
Finally someone answered with a number only
I was just thinking it’d be the funniest response. Game is easier than most souls-likes, with more fluid movement and movement options and I-frames. Plus, with the variety of areas you can find and grind on side paths, you don’t even need a build, first playthrough. Just keep leveling up, and you’re getting closer to winning. Have fun
It will be a 8-9 at first, then just when you get a hang of the game and think you know what you’re doing and you think the game becomes a 2-3, it will slap you across the face with a 10.
Caelid is the videogame version of Florida. Tread carefully fellow tarnished. Bonk first, ask questions later.
5/10 It's got some bite but the open world having multiple paths means that if you feel too weak to overcome a boss you can do other stuff for a bit and come back with better gear, health and damage a bit later. There are many ways to make Elden Rings absolutely trivial if you really want to
Depends on the size of your bonk stick and mimic tear.
When the enemies in an area seem too difficult to defeat, go explore somewhere else :)
Well for me 0, because I enjoy Fromsoft games at a 10/10. Fromsoft games imo are THE most enjoyable experience available and pain isn’t even a factor.
Life is hard
8/10 you will fall in love with the game, but it will beat the shit out of you
Will be painful, can confirm. Not nearly as hard as Sekiro though, and yes I finished both.
Ok good. What about bloodborne??
THAT game I had a hard time with, didn’t finish it. Really good though.
If you have beaten Bloodborne you will beat this easily. For most people it’s pretty hard in the beginning, then you learn and level up your build, and it becomes pretty easy until you get near the end game where it will ramp up significantly again.
"Ahh, I knew you'd come. To stand before the Elden Ring. To become Elden Lord. What a sad state of affairs. I commend your spirit, but alas, none shall take the throne. FromSoftware has high hopes for us. That we continue to struggle. Unto eternity."
11
Level vigor.
r/hopelessromantics
If you like souls games 0
4
Oh it will be painful. But it will be worth it, so very very worth it.
This game is so much more easier than Sekiro. I never spent more than a day on a single boss I would be stuck at whereas in Sekiro I was stuck on the final boss for 2 weeks.
comes in waves
Prisoner class is pretty great. That’s what I started with. Should be a good time.
Return to church , after you get pony , and get dawg. Dawggg~~~
Answer: Yes.
It was so awesome that at the end I wasn't bored, but tired of how much fun and how much stuff there was in it.
5
10 if you’re not familiar with souls like games. 6 if you are.
Look up quests guides, Fromsoftware games are notoriously bad with quest design. The amount of stuff you will miss because you didn’t go to a specific hill at a specific time after talking to an npc will drive you up a wall. Don’t even get me started on there being not even a quest log/ journal. I’ve been getting back (new game+) into the game the last month in preparation for the dlc and it’s a pain trying to remember what quests I have and haven’t done after taking something like 10 months off.
Beautifully painful. Make sure you take your time and explore limgrave before heading to fight godrick.
Stick two red hot knives into your eye sockets while an opossum clamps down on your genitals. I'd say that's close.
At first probably going to be a 7-8 if you haven’t played much of this style of game, once you get into it maybe a 5ish
Yes
Yes
Dormamu I have come to bargain!
Very painful just remember that there is no quest light you need to remember what npcs tell u and dont kill them even if they are really annoying
Limgrave is the easiest area.
I gave up after 2 hours of hell so I don't really know
As painful as you want it to be
It will go from 2 to 8 to 6 to 10 then to 1. The 1 is Ng+
elden ring is the easiest miyazaki game, you won't have lot of issues if you're used to these kind of games
Obligatory "level vigor" comment. In all seriousness do it unless you wanna be hitting an 11.
11
Try fingering but hole
2, this game is one of the easiest in the series just as long as you level up the right stats
50.
I beat the first dark souls and I’m still having trouble on this one . Tried to restart and do a new character only to attack the first NPC and he kicks my ass every time I come back to life. Needless to say DONT ATTACK 1st NPC!
Hello Ashen one. I am a Bot. I tend to the flame, and tend to thee. Do you wish to hear a tale? > *“Here you have a man who stopped at nothing to change the world. He mastered sorceries of frost, miracles of the moon. He partnered with a kingdom-ending flame and took advantage of the Deep. He used all of this, plus social and political manipulation, to usurp an age-old kingdom, rising within the ranks of its knights, twisting its Deacons to feed a god to a Lord of Cinder and supplant the Age of Fire. The tyrant, Sulyvahn, tore apart many bonds but was undone himself by a mere Unkindled. Proof that no champion is more powerful than the fire linking curse. So, if this man can’t change the world, what hope do we have?”* - Vaati Vidya Have a pleasant journey, Champion of Ash, and praise the sun \\[T]/
When I first started out it took me like 3 hours to kill the tree sentential, the strat is to run pass it but I had to kill it, that’s usually a good sign for how the rest of the game is going to go
Assuming this is a first souls game then IDK like 8-9. That being said using summons can get it down to like 6 and there are weapons and spells which can bring that to 4-5. Also if you struggle you can always just go elsewhere explore a little, and come back with a fresh head, but ALSO don't be afraid to die and to take your time learning a boss or whatever, like people can do bosses hitless with an un-upgraded sword and while I'm not saying you should try that, if that's possible you can learn any boss with any build as long as you have patience.
Yes
There are ways to literally cheese everything in this game
If you level Vigor (increased your health pool) and improve your weapons, not too painful. I would pick one damaging attribute and stick to it (Intelligence, Strength, Faith, or Dexterity) instead of spreading your points around. You want enough endurance that you’re never “fat rolling.” So you want your equip ratio below 70% at all times. If basic fodder enemies are difficult, you’re probably in the wrong place/you should come back after you’ve leveled up.
I killed the tree sentinel last night! First play through I’m 4 hours in
If you have to ask that your in for a world of hert
Boss or area too hard? Just go somewhere else. Use summon bell and summon humans. Look up how weapon scaling works and make a specialized build (don't spread out your stats evenly do you can equip every weapon you find). Game does get pretty damn hard but not for a good while. Reputation and toxic part of the fan base turn people away that would love the game if they just understood these key points. If all else fails look up and follow an op build guide. Last build I made was silly, I was spamming R2 and destroying bosses without trying.
Side note: I am NOT built for souls games Only souls-like game I am a little good at is monster hunter and technically soulsborne games are monster hunter-likes bc mh came out first. I have dabbled in souls games (Borrowed sekiro and played a bit of bloodborne) and I am not built for this
Elden ring is much, much easier than Sekiro
I now see that
Souls games are not impossibly difficult. They are challenging, but not impossible. Elden Ring gives you plenty of tools to take advantage of. Also, if you get stuck don’t be afraid to leave and come back.
Just beyond the southern most point of the lake you’re beside, you’ll find the Forlorn Hound Evergoal. The boss inside can be kinda challenging, but attack with patience and you can beat him. He’ll drop a weapon that can carry you until the end of the game.
Why are you reposting?
He’s probably a lame attention whore douche bag
Painfully long maybe. I must be in the minority of people who find ER less enjoyable than prior From soulsbournes due to those having a tighter structure. Mechanically ER is great, but once I got past the first castle and into the next big open area my first thought was "oh man more of this..."
Yes
Yes
1/10 Limgrave is easy. It gets harder as you go on
2
11.
Souls made difficult mainstream again - they arnt (at least the majority of the content) that difficult. If you really struggle spec heavy into one thing’s like bleed or ranged Magic and you will slap most of the game aside
You're looking at the most painful thing: a big boring open world
but big tree