All the things you can find and pick up kinda culminate in nothing except making the scarlet rot cure for that one lake.
Survival aspects don't really make sense when you have auto refill bonfires every 20 seconds and can just buy arrows and other stuff
i like to craft my items,
my play style of adventuring and discovery compliments that very well.
No, the over abundance of dead ends that lead you to believe there was supposed to be something there means the world is empty.
>i like to craft my items,
Why when you never need them? Do you just like to stand around in rot lakes for 10 minutes or shoot random things with your arrow?
>crafting
>open world
Thank god zelda innovated these features
one (1) pot can
>cuck a godskin enemy with sleep
>stop malenia's waterfowl dance
>reset frostbite so it can be applied again
>double the damage of your next fire attack
>inflict any status ailment
>exploit enemy weaknesses that your build can't
and let's not get into the darts
i enjoy bow builds and throwing knives are also very good items for invading. plus pots can do absurd damage
This just taps into other flaws of the game which is how cryptic it is. How would you know they stop Malenia's dance without randomly trying it or seeing it online (and we both know you saw it online)
craftzibart....
the fact that status procs interrupt ANY move and pots proc status instantly?
>>cuck a godskin enemy with sleep
Or you just press your attack button twice instead of fiddling with menus and farming shit
>>stop malenia's waterfowl dance
Nice, one boss
>>reset frostbite so it can be applied again
?
>>double the damage of your next fire attack
In the game you apply that buff you could have just attacked the enemy twice
>>inflict any status ailment
Not worth it for mobs and too hard/costly, sometimes impossible or also not worth it with bosses
>sleep items
>rotbone arrows/bolts
>poison knives
>cured meats
>boluses
fuck off retard
God forbid you actually try random shit in a video game, there should be pop up tutorials for every little thing.
Grease nigga
>experimentation or details is cryptic everything needs to be explained to me!
ironic considering you're a botw shitposter who would be sucking botw off for having similar mechanics
Most craftable items have limited stock in shops. Drugging yourself before fighting bosses allows you to whip them into submission in no time at all and shit like sleep pots allow you to fuck up anything without having to invest off-build.
I dunno where this "crafting is useless" meme comes from, but it is bullshit.
>WAAAAAA THE GAME SHOULD EXPLAIN EVERY LITTLE DETAIL AND POSSIBLE CHOICE TO ME! FUCK ACTUALLY EXPERIMENTING AND FINDING THINGS OUT FOR MYSELF!
It's honestly incredibly embarrassing being lumped in with modern "gamers".
Sleep interrupts everything. EVERYTHING as long as the enemy is not immune. Even the salamanders have to sit down and chill.
You'd have a point if Elden Ring wasn't piss easy and nothing motivates you to experiment around unless you are autistic
I love that you actually continue pretending you haven't just seen the shit online, though
>Crafting being pointless
Pots
Grease
Arrows
Cures for bleed and rot
Its not pointless, just an extra step
>I dunno where this "crafting is useless" meme comes from, but it is bullshit.
>99% of crafting items are useless
>2 are good
>therefore crafting is flawless
and now you're going full meltdown mode lmao
you should play the game some time, it's fun
my kind of game
>meltdown
Why would I when everyone who comes in here trying to prove OP wrong just confirms crafting is shit by listing 4 examples of things worth making out of a million things you can make? You are in full self-descrution mode and just being laughed at without realizing it because brain too small
watch any blind playthrough and you will that it's a fact that 99% of players didn't really bother with crafting and it's the game's fault, not the player's
>categories of items are now individual items because otherwise my argument would immediately fall apart
this is pretty true, i think i crafted arrows and bone daggers like 3 times and never used it again
seems like it was just an after thought, everything good could be bought and somber weapons cant use grease
>somber weapons cant use grease
Only if your somber weapon is shit. Bloodhound fang for life.
>2
>Everything that is not elemental arrows is useful
>2
>n-n-n-no its 2 items!
Nigger if you want to complain about crafting why not ask the obvious question
>why doesnt the game just use the crafted items as overworld items instead of forcing the player through extra steps?
You fags dont need to lie and cry about it.
>Survival aspects
?
So earlier, I was playing Elden Ring, and the game just out of nowhere minimized on me. I was able to bring the game back up (didn't die, thankfully), but I just warped to the nearest site of grace and exited the game. I'm honestly scared to start it back up again. What do?
>but if you watch streamers
I hate zoomers so much. Play the damn game yourself and judge it based on your own experience for the love of god.
>Items are useless
>No they're not
>Actually that only highlights how the game is cryptic
The game isn't cryptic, you're just a subhuman with the mental capacity and honesty of a sea cucumber, maybe less
It amazes me that people refuse to interact with like 80% of the game's its or mechanics and then claim its hard or imbalanced
There's tons of great items. Did you just completely ignore grease? Throwing knives? Perfumes which are frankly kind of busted? Were you not using strips of meat for every boss? Youre missing out on tons of potential damage if youre not making use of those
And this is the fact Elden trannies can't cope with. Watch them try posting some dumb cheese tactic items they have seen on Youtube though
>The game isn't cryptic
You are retarded. From make their games deliberately cryptic, it's literally their charm
Who says it's too hard?
coping.
You have never played an actually cyptic game, the fact that you think FROM, let alone modern FROM games are cryptic already gives it away
>useful
Useful !=! worth it. Farming items and watching a 5 seconds animations to buff myself so I do 5% more damage against easy enemies isn't worth it
>Game tells you everything that happened and where to go
>To the point that npcs won't fucking shut up
>Hell, multiple npcs are set up to guide you to the end of the game in case you kill one
>Cryptic
"Go to the castle and kill the dude in there" and "Go make friends with ranni at the liurnia manor" is cryptic as fuck. Nobody could figure this game out. Who would think to use fire on a tree? Fucking cryptic game.
>5%
>He doesn't even look at the healthbar with numbers when he uses an item
I'll accept your concession.
Retarded random weaknesses like the Lord of Blood being susceptible to bleed, being able to talk to the Renalla doll only at one specific grace because reasons, having to strip naked to open a door and then automatically becoming fire Hitler, they how or if Ashes of war scale, what effect shit has on enemies and what the exact stagger and proc caps are, how much stamina their attacks drain, where NPCs show up next or sometimes what you have to do to trigger it or what prevents it and a million other things are all things that are trial and error experimenting or extremely cryptic compared to an average popular game. By definition
>I can't read or listen to npcs
We know.
What renalla doll, retard didn't even play the fucking game, lmao
>nooooo it's too cryptic!
>noooooo it's not cryptic enough!
>noooooooo no matter what it does it's bad!
faggots need to make up your minds
Doesn't help with any of the things I listed
Not my fault the game gives every character the same variation of names, Godwyn, Godrick, Renell, Renalla, Ronaldo. You know what doll I mean and are now coping
More like you never played the fucking game but shitpost about it.
How much is ubisoft paying you for this?
>Retarded random weaknesses like the Lord of Blood being susceptible to bleed,
His sewer version isn't for some reason, IIRC
>He didn't find the clues or listen to the dialog that explained shit
>He doesn't look at the big fucking numbers telling him how much damage he deals and compre them when he levels up
>He can't see the animations that play specifically when you hit an enemy's weakeness
>He doesn't listen to NPCs literally say "I'm going to x place"
>He doesn't read the bright as the sun floor messages left by npcs that don't have this dialog
I think you're legally blind.
>crafting is useful because it gives you items
wow. remember when we could just buy them from merchants instead of running around an empty field for an hour
This is valid. Unfornately, it is usefull precisely because they are not sold.
Crafting is not pointless at all you just haven't done much with it. It can make the game much easier if you need to do something your build isn't normally good at.
Also it's essential for PVP.
Yes, it was ass and you had to actually grind souls for that too on top of trekking all the way to those merchants, now you just pick up things as you travel and craft whatever you need without needing to backtrack or grind anything.
Now I'll be waiting for the next shitpost where you say that the game is more casual than the others because of this.
Your continued cope doesn't change the fact that it's retarded that you can talk to the doll only at one specific grace even though you literally carry it around
>>He didn't find the clues or listen to the dialog that explained shit
What shit? Are you retarded?
>>He doesn't look at the big fucking numbers telling him how much damage he deals and compre them when he levels up
That's what trial and error/experimenting is, which I wouldn't deny is a thing. It's nearly impossible to infer anything a priori in this game, though. Most JRPGs make a lot more sense when it comes to weaknesses
>>He doesn't listen to NPCs literally say "I'm going to x place"
That was just an example and many don't do this or aren't exactly precise, like the monk and Gold Mask
Farming and crafting is always pointless and not worth the hassle unless it's near necessary. "Making game slightly easier and giving you slightly bigger number" is also a boring premise not fun investigating.
Hey, mr. Ubisoft shill, how much are they paying for this?
Not having to spend souls on these items is a fair point. Hadn't thought about it.
The damage negation from the items can stack to something like 50%+ and so can damage bonuses. That's hardly "slightly higher"
>defending a game for free vs. shitting on it in hope people join you so next product will be better
If anything you sound like the shill. Either that or a dullard lobotomized by corporate media
Props for not doubling down.
Sounds like that would require tons of materials so I have no idea who you are trying to convince this is worth it on your first or even second playthrough.
>Corporate shill calling anyone else a lobotomized dullard
It's 5$ per hour, is it?
God I hope for you it is.
it’s better to have more content than less content. there’s no downsides to having more optional stuff to do
You are the one defending/shilling a product for free. I'm the normal consumer here for who shits on product in hope to get better product. Have some self-awareness
Has someone tried a only crafted items run?
The fuck are you whining about, I’m constantly crafting shit. Super handy when you need to adapt to certain situations on the fly. It’s great.
Just crafted my first bewitching twig things, having a heckin ball.
I'm not shilling anything, mr. Ubisoft employee.
>Have some self-awareness
Says the Ubisoft employee who didn't even bother checking names for his shitposts and doesn't even deny being a paid shill working on his daily shitposting quota.
>Super handy when you need to adapt to certain situations on the fly.
like what?
Yes, check youtube. Works really well.
All the antidotes and shit I ever needed in the game I already had in my inventory because you can find them
>Who says it's too hard?
like 80% of threads on Yea Forums
never seen it except malenia which is a bullshit fight with attacks that are impossible to dodge if you encounter her for your first time. but she is an optional hidden bonus boss
Their fault for not finishing the game in the first month where you could easily kill every boss by spamming some hoarfrost
>Crafting being pointless in Elden Ring, does that mean the world is empty?
Yes
>Or you just press your attack button twice instead of fiddling with menus and farming shit
user please, you just have to press Y and a direction on the d pad and you get a full 30 second long stun and a free crit
it's totally risk free for the cost of a couple of materials
>reset frostbite so it can be applied again
when frostbite procs you have to wait for it to wear off to be able to apply it again, unless you use a fire pot which can be crafted with the ember butterflies that you find literally everywhere
>In the game you apply that buff you could have just attacked the enemy twice
a single 2x damage attack will ALWAYS be safer than two attacks, specially since you can apply the oil pots at a distance and they have a small AOE
Just looked into it and turned out all the dishonest retards here who said crafting is super cool and you can get 50% extra DPS with it are full of shit. You'd literally need specific builds and/or craft ridiculous amounts. No boss in the game is worth that effort.