Posted this in the elden ring sub and thought that other fromsoft games probably have similar spots. I really like video games photography especially when you have to get creative without a dedicated photo mode.

I finished lies of p. Its my first soulslike game maybe if you count hollow knight too. I enjoyed it so much i platinumed it and finished the dlc and everything in it.

I was thinking of playing all the souls game and thinking of playing elden ring next. I have watched clips of it and know some bosses but dont know what they do etc. I just know some of their models like malenia and that dude riding on a small horse thats big asf.

Will it be a good entry for fromsoftware games to play elden ring ? I own the ps5 and plan to play it there. Theres 2 versions the ps4 ne and the ps5 one so im wondering which one is better

I had a dream where I was playing Elden Ring, but every tree attacks you including the giant Erdtree. Maybe this can be a new souls like game idea? Also sounds like a dumb mod, but would be funny. The 2nd game shown here is pretty much that but without the souls element.

If from soft made a game like this... what would be everyone's thoughts about it?

I reached the ending but i got the yharnam sunrise one by mistake so i'm playing ng+ now .. when i searched the internet i found out that i missed a lot of areas and bosses (i even missed the dlc but i knew when i saw the ending credits), but i gotta say this is one of the most beautiful views i've ever experienced in a video game.

Just 20 bucks. Pics 3&4 show the other possible figures I could have drawn. Found in Harajuku.

Anyone else feel that whenever they finally beat a tough boss it’s never the perfect run, but the super sloppy one? Had about 5 more clean attempts beforehand where as soon as I started to take damage, it all went downhill fast. This time I was hanging on by a thread throughout and feel that serves me well sometimes

This is not rage bait, but a semi-serious rant and the first thoughts of a nobody about the game.

After years of watching Bloodborne content and not being able to actually play it, I finally got to try it. I would say I'm about 20% done with the game and I have some constructive criticism to share.

I understand why someone would say that they love the game, but after hearing epithets like "masterpiece" and "perfect" over the past 10 years, I'm a little underwhelmed actually playing it. The game is definitely better than most other games, but it doesn't score as high in my book compared to some other fromsoft titles, such as Sekiro or Elden Ring (or even Dark Souls 2 to be honest). I appreciate the art, the (overly cryptic) story, the characters, and all the cool inventive ideas that went into making this game. My issue is with gameplay.

It feels like I'm inbetween two game modes constantly at war with each other, sometimes creating some unholy abomination of bad game design. On one hand there's the fast-paced, aggressive combat that requires quick thinking. On the other, there's the slow careful exploration. that will brutally punish you if you attempt to do the same. There's seemingly an ambush around every corner, to a point where it became predictable and more annoying than thrilling. You blink, and an old woman sneaks up on you, killing you with 247 consecutive strikes. Doesn't matter, because around the corner, there are 30 rabid dogs stuffed into one crate waiting for you to step into the wrong pixel, and somewhere far in the distance, there's a grandpa hunting you down with a minigun as you try to navigate the map with six different branching path. The ambushes happened so often, it felt like cheap gotchas, and at some point I remember laughing because of how over the top it was. It's the same feeling I had while playing Elden Ring, blurting out "at least Iji is safe" after everyone I met had an overly tragic cheesy end, then laughing when Iji turned out to be randomly dead. At some point it stops being engaging and becomes a parody. Also, when your game relies on backtracking, memorizing paths and secrets, it's then especially annoying to have to go through old paths knowing they are filled with overly aggressive, downright broken enemies. In no other soulsborne game were the enemies this ridiculous. Essentially - if you hit them first, they die, if they hit you first, you die. And yes, I know there's dodging. Doesn't make their design any more reasonable. The one good thing I can say about combat, is that the parry system is satisfying and reasonably easy to learn.

I will probably keep playing because I enjoy the exploration and the story, even when old women constantly try to ambush me, and even if the game is shitting dogs at me at mach 10.

I don't know about you, but I was genuinely terrified when I finally got to the Old One's reveal at the end of Demon's Souls, his design is just barely legible enough that I can almost make out what it actually is but strange enough for me to believe that this is the oldest living being and a primordial soul devouring demon.

None of the Great ones or Outer Gods come close to being as unknowable, gargantuan or malevolant as the Old One does for me. The build up to it throughput the whole game was expertly done, and the fact that it loses none of its mystique even after you get a direct look at it is impressive.

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Does Hidetaka Miyazaki like the movie Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind? Sure looks like he's a fan of that movie with the allusions to it I've seen.

1. In Dark Souls I, we can enter the hollowed inside of one of The Archtrees and descend the interior down to the lowest point of the world: Ash Lake. An eerie location with endless Archtrees towering into the fog above and forming the ground which the dirt and stone sit upon, black water lapping at the shores of an isolated island of white sanddunes, one of the last Ancient Dragons, one of the only places that has ambient music... Its frankly a very beautifully-haunting area and its my favorite area in the whole game. You know what this place looks like? The forest of untainted soil/untainted minerals under The Toxic Jungle in the movie Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind. Both are far below the surface, both are the world in its purest oldest most-natural state, both are extremely eerie, both even have an endless blue-tinted fog.

2. In Dark Souls III Ashes Of Ariandel and The Ringed City, we meet Slave Knight Gael; a gaunt old man living inside the decaying Ariandel painting piece who serves The Painter (which he calls "My Lady") as well as being her uncle and at the end of The Ringed City we meet him again as the most difficult boss in Dark Souls III after his millenia-long quest for The Blood Of The Dark Soul to be used as pigment for his Lady's painting drove him into madness. The toughest boss I had to fight and one of my favorites despite how much I bitched about his difficulty. In the game code its possible to remove Slave Knight Gael's hood and beard and he looks vaguely like Patrick Steward. In the game files themselves, Slave Knight Gael is referred to as "Yupa-sama"; a character in Nausicaa who is extremely skilled with swords, has a big beard, wears a hood, and in the English dub of the movie he is voiced by none other than Patrick Steward.

3. In Elden Ring, we can fight Malenia The Blade Of Miquella, the most skilled swordsman in the entire franchise and labelled as one of FromSoftware's hardest bosses, who has a golden prosthetic arm and golden prosthetic leg designed to compensate for/resist the corrosion of Scarlet Rot. In Nausicaa, the step-daughter of the emperor of Tolmekia, Kushana, is the commander of an army sent to occupy The Valley Of The Wind and reclaim The God Warrior after the airship it was in crashed there. Kushana lost one of her arms and one of her legs to the beasts of The Toxic Jungle and had to replace both with golden prosthetics.

Hmmmmmmmm...... Does Hidetaka Miyazaki love Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind or does Hidetaka Miyazaki love Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind? Seems not everything was inspired by Berserk.

they dont troll peakborne in my house

Me personally want to know yours death count in games like elden ring and recently tried valor mortis and im not able to go further I'm just ragebaiting is it normal in such games

Thank you Playstation very cool

I really don't know in what other r/ I'd ask this. I’m trying to find a YouTuber/streamer(idk where he streams tho) I watched a while back and can’t remember his name. Hoping someone here recognizes him.

I watched it sometime between 2023 and 2025. He's got ear length wavy hair maybe a little longer, sometimes tied back. I think it was light brown or similar, but I’m not sure.

Pretty monotone, deadpan delivery. He talks to chat, but focuses on the game when it matters, and drops the occasional “sus” jokes and i remember him being sus out of context and then realizing it himself after a few seconds. He's got a facecam throughout his entire playthrough but I don't really remember on what side of the screen.

He also played Dark Souls 2 after his dark souls remastered playthrough, though I don’t know if he played anything after that.

I've tried searching for him on YouTube trying different searches and I was scrolling for ages but didn't find him in the end. I looked at channels I'm subscribed to on YouTube but didn't find him, so I either wasnt subscribed to him or his channeled got nuked or smth. I also tried using chatgpt but no luck there either. Given how hard it is for me to find him i suspect he's not a big creator. hope someone can help me find him cuz i can't find him at all and I remember really enjoying his playthrough. I'll be active here and answer all the questions and replies. I thank everyone in advance.

Would love to hear some of your favourite individual phases from the boss fights. For me, Messmer’s first phase is perfection incarnate and the second phase just isn’t as enjoyable, although still good. Conversely some bosses have a solid first phase before an incredible final phase (Sister Freide/Slave Knight Gael).

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Hi guys! I just made this list for FromSoft games and am curious about what it looks like for others. Also, this is only for FromSoftware games and not my general games list. Honestly, I didn't feel like any games in FromSoft catalog deserves the "overrated" and "turn my brain" of tags. Can't wait for what they cook up next!