Elden Ring (George RR Martin and From Software)

It can depend on the game tbh. Open world games, it's often necessary to have some sort of way to track your content, what you've done, what you have left to do, what you can do....

Often it's integrated into the map. With previous Souls games it's often part of item descriptions in that some lines in the descriptions offer clues to something or somewhere you can use a specific item to do something that may not be apparent. But previous Souls games were also pretty linear.

So I think it's a fair enough point, but really depends on how those things are implemented as a whole. A journal as such might not be required if its functions are incorporated into other parts of the game.

Of all the things a souls game could add, i think a journal would be so out of place. I'm awful for remembering little details and Souls games can be so vague when it comes to quests. Like Solaire's quest in Dark Souls 1. Has anyone actually completed that without using a guide? Imagine if there had been a quest log listing the next step for the quest. Instead, you had a community trying to figure out how to keep him alive and complete the quest before sharing it with other players.

That's what i love about the community. Instead of the game telling you what to do, everyone is almost working together to figure it out. That would not work in most games just like a journal wouldn't work in this.

*Not a bash on journals in games or people who like them. I like the idea of games like assassin's creed giving lite versions and have you figure out next steps but i always lean on the full journal. Must choose the lesser version next time i play.

the temptation is huge to buy elden ring on series x despite the fps drops just to be able play it early 🤔 prefer play it on ps5 but have i the patience 😢

i think can play it around mid day if i switch region to new zealand on xbox

I preordered on Amazon but looks like zero chance they’ll ship for delivery tomorrow now. wonder would i be able to pick up a physical copy in smyths

edit: actually looks like Amazon have dispatched

Fair play to Digital Foundry, it makes sense to do an analysis of a build of the game that the public will actually be playing.

Watched Fighting Cowboy's review and he had some significant performance issues on PC: Framerate dropped to 10fps at times and the game was progressively putting a huge strain on his computer's memory. He said he played a few hours on PS5 and didn't encounter those issues.

Hopefully the PC version gets sorted in time for those of you who are lucky to have gaming PC's!

Goddamn you, I've just bought it for that. Worst case scenario is even if I absolutely suck at it and can't get into it I'll be able to sell / trade it and not lose anything. I really need to work on my self control 😆🤣

so its unlocked on series X now to get through as much work as possible in as little time as possible

Seems they are only valid from launch Day.

'If you attempt to redeem your pre-order bonus key before redeeming the full game, you will receive the following error message "Please, activate the original game first". On the 25th, activate first your game, then redeem your pre-order bonus code.'

All Soulsborne games I've played, I've watched FightingCowboy's guides on Youtube (a video or two at a time), and then followed that path. Elden Ring will probably be the first game I play where I don't do that. But I'm going to finish Horizon Forbidden West before I jump into Elden Ring, so I hope most of the discoveries have been made and messages from other players will have been placed by the time I jump in.

there is a live stream (probably promotional from From) on the previous souls games on youtube now ha:

(I think it just started so going through Demon's souls OST first)

wont be seeing the game until i got home tomorrow evening - so ye have fun for those lucky ones🤣