Elden Ring

[QualityChimp]

Damn Leyndell is so awesome. Love those shots QC

Cheers, man.
The game is so pretty, I'm really pleased I've photo journaled my progress in the game.

Made my way from the Capital to the lift down to the icy bit.
Loads of those little impy gits, then the summon icon appeared and the ability to summon the girl with the robot arm (Milicent?), so I knew there was a boss coming.
Another massive gargoyle boss, which are a right pain in the tarnished ring.
Anyway, I demonstrated to him my purchase from Trident Warehouse and he went away.

Made it up to the main snowy bits and it's gorgeous, with big cumulonimbus clouds in the distance.
Then I met up with the only Boy Wizard that matter, [MENTION=1218]Zaki[/MENTION] Potter!

I don't know what it is with this game that make people want to invade, though.
I don't know what FROM were thinking.
It's like going for a nice meal with friends, but the restaurant encourages strangers to shove their way onto your table, eat your food with their fingers then belch out some racist jokes.

I seem particularly unlucky though. We even had to check my inventory to see I wasn't actively luring people in!
Two attempts killed me, the third fell off a cliff or something.
Bonkers that you can invade infinitum, but there's a finite number of co-op calling items, which you can't drop.

Anyhoo, Zaki and I tried to go into a dungeon, but it was locked in co-op, then walked across a narrow path to the next section and I got bombarded off, so I respawned, opened the dungeon and the grace then called Zak-a-licious back in.

Ooof, it was a tough one. Loads of traps and goblins, but worst of all were a pair of those lucky cat statues than stomp you and fire frostbite. They killed me a fair few times! Zaki was patient enough to get me through the whole dungeon, finishing with a boss we CRUSHED. Got a cool ashes of war for exploring a bonus bit I'd missed, but Zaki told me about.

Excited to unlock a new area with a fair few story bits to tie up.

[Zaki]

Master Chimp is an invasion magnet

Epic session last night, but squishy Zaki ran out of mana. Chimpy went through the green fog - "What's the worst that can happen?"....Ulcerated tree spirit!!

I had half a magic bar left and all my spells missed because this thing wouldn't stop moving

What's this? I have a flask of wondrous physick left! Chimpy lured it into the corner of the arena and fired 10 seconds of non stop Comet Azur cheddar!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF79KNlFKrc

I really wish there was a way you could co-op the entire game on consoles. There's a mod on PC which lets you do that.

[fuse]

I don't know what it is with this game that make people want to invade, though.
I don't know what FROM were thinking.
It's like going for a nice meal with friends, but the restaurant encourages strangers to shove their way onto your table, eat your food with their fingers then belch out some racist jokes.

If he's still doing it after a first warning you should probably just block [MENTION=1218]Zaki[/MENTION] - arf arf!

Was personally done with Elden Ring some time ago, but have been enjoying revisiting vicariously through the photos, and now am even more jealous for your Frodo / Sam late night bromance. Keep it up loves!

[QualityChimp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF79KNlFKrc

Pffft, even I didn't cheese this boss and did it the proper way - I summoned my mimic and let him do the work!

Should be on later, bud.

[QualityChimp]

[MENTION=1218]Zaki[/MENTION], it's either the Scavenger's Curved Sword or Rivers of Blood I'd like, if you have a spare copy of either of those, please.

[Atticus]

Probably very late to the party with this but it’s so good

[QualityChimp]

More fun with the noble duo of Lord Poopysworth and BuddyFuzz on Friday!



It's pretty fraught up in the wastelands, with a fair few deaths from giant ghost skeletons and evil big bird.
However, decent progress was made and Zaki provided me with a whole load of loot, so I'm currently looking at a decent bleed build, despite it being nerfed.
Twin Rivers of Blood, Scavenger's curved sword or Reduvia daggers seem to be pretty good.
I like the idea of dual whips too!

On my own, I did some mopping up, picking up some missing trinkets, but on the way, I was discovering new dungeons and secrets! This game is insanely massive. Killed a couple of lava wyrm bosses - one in a gaol tunnel and one in a magma lake.

I'm up to this massive frozen lake where as soon as you go near the middle, a whiteout snowstorm starts and the boss music begins, so I've left that for a bit!

Here are some more travel snaps for the album:

[QualityChimp]

I was cracking up the other day, though, because loads of heavy metal albums look like Elden Ring concept artwork, especially if they have "darkness" in the title...











I could go on and on, it's bonkers!

[Lebowski]

I was cracking up the other day, though, because loads of heavy metal albums look like Elden Ring concept artwork, especially if they have "darkness" in the title...



I could go on and on, it's bonkers!

that is uncannily like the approach to Raya lucaria academy, massive foreboding gothic architecture on a rocky outcrop in the middle of a lake! yup that the academy in Elden ring.

[QualityChimp]

I'm getting a bit tired of carrying [MENTION=1218]Zaki[/MENTION] through these bosses, as these videos reveal...

[QualityChimp]

Testing some bleed weapons out.

[QualityChimp]

Zaki and QualityChimp kicking some giant rump.

[Zaki]

[Golgo]

^ There are few people less knowledgeable about the history of architecture than professional architects, as the rambling cringe of those dimwits attest.

Edit: Apols. I work with architects daily, and their verbal diarrhoea winds me up.

[QualityChimp]

Did a co-op session with Zaki last week and we spent ages finding a suitable place to meet.
Met up and within seconds someone invaded by the next site of grace. *sigh*
Dispatched them easily, but I didn't realise Millicent was in the grace room and I accidentally aggro'd her.
I restarted, visited the turtle pope but still she attacked me on site.

Bit of a shame because I was really enjoying her storyline and loved how she'd gone from a rot-ravaged husk through to a robotic-armed supersoldier and I wanted to give her the happy ending, seeing as she's one of the few NPCs not trying to kill/manipulate me.

Well, anyway R.I.P. Millicent and I'll always have your excellent prosthetic talisman to remember you by.

Finally reached level 150, so may respec to maximise the bleed build I've built, despite bleed being nerfed at the last patch.

In other news, Elden Ring just had its first anniversary.
What a truly magnificent game.