oltnabrick: Elden Ring: Nightreign

oltnabrick 05.30.25	Who is up who is playing
RVAHC13 05.30.25	I’d play if I had WiFi lol
Purpl3Spartan 05.30.25	Will be playing with friends this weekend
oltnabrick 05.30.25	I hate the you can’t communicate with other players wtf is this 😂😂
NudeTayne 05.30.25	is it any good actually
oltnabrick 05.30.25	Besides what I said yeah
Dewinged 05.30.25	I played an hour yesterday. I fucking hated it.
Ectier 05.30.25	I love elden ring and fromsoft but i have no hype for it really
NudeTayne 05.30.25	oltnabrick sounds like you need discord friends
JohnnyoftheWell 05.30.25	it is time? played enough ER to have cracked into its meta and treat it as a combat junkie game, so moderately excited for this as a cracked spinoff don't usually play multiplayer, so am short of a gang. hmu anyone who wants to play on ps5
DungeonBoy 05.30.25	What did you think of Friendship? My partner and I were dying laughing, but I think some of the people in my theater were super confused by what they were watching.
oltnabrick 05.30.25	Abt to see it
unclereich 05.30.25	Seeing it tn too! Hope you’re doing well ol buddy
Gameofmetal 05.30.25	only got to play for like a half hour but seemed cool so far. new mobility was jarring until i realized it was just sekiro's system. felt like there's a bit of a demons soul nod in the new hub.
Trebor. 05.30.25	I'm the biggest souls guy in the world but I'm either skipping or waiting on this one. Currently replaying Lies of P in anticipation for the DLC. Also Friendship great movie
Hyperion1001 05.30.25	probably too hard like all these games.
Futures 05.30.25	only souls game i played was demons souls on ps3 lol but i am very excited for the alex garland elden ring movie so i guess i should play it sometime
Avagantamos 05.30.25	can't wait to play with some friends over discord voice. bewen liking it so far, but playing with randoms is a bit rough
Veldin 05.30.25	Im excited to play it
Gameofmetal 05.30.25	yeah im ngl that garland x elden ring crossover has me extremely skeptical though i do like him quite a bit, apparently he's a big fan so maybe there's hope
Colton 05.30.25	Elden Ring was not a great game and they should stop with the add-ons
Futures 05.30.25	all garland has done is put out great films, even men. and he worked with an ip before in dredd so i think he knows how to get it done. i'm just glad he's not retiring anymore like he was going to lol. this is something he really wants to do which is very promising.
Gameofmetal 05.30.25	yeah i like Men a lot, extremely underrated movie. his track record is basically all great in my eyes, but i just think he makes a very different kind of film than what id probably want in a souls/elden ring adaptation.
twlight 05.30.25	Elden Ring is one of the greatest games of all time. I don’t have much interest in night reign tho. How the fuck do you put out a multiplayer game without voice chat??
RVAHC13 05.30.25	How would you all rank the souls games? I played them all for the first time (except demons souls) over the last 2 years and this is honestly what I thought: 1. Sekiro 2. Elden Ring 3. Dark Souls 2 4. Dark Souls 3 (haven’t finished it yet, will likely change once I do. Love it so far) 5. Dark Souls 6. Bloodborne
oltnabrick 05.30.25	Men underrated/overhated movie. Liked it more than Civil War haven’t seen Warfare yet Curious what the movie will even b abt. The Shattering? Vyke?
oltnabrick 05.30.25	Haven’t played Sekiro heard it’s like absurdly hard compared to the others For me probably 1. Bloodborne 2. Elden Ring 3. Dark Souls 3 4. Dark Souls 5. Demon Souls 6. Dark Souls 2 but Scholar of the First Sin version Excited for the Duskbloods too but I’m not forking out $600 to play it lol Love them all tho
twlight 05.30.25	From what I’ve played 1. Bloodborne - 10/10 2. Elden Ring - 10/10 (not taking into account shadow of the erdtree, I actually think that dlc brings the overall experience down a notch) 3. Dark souls 3 - 9.5/10 4. Sekiro (pains me to put it at 4, but so be it) - 9.5/10 5. Demon souls remake 7.5/10 6. Dark souls 7/10
Futures 05.30.25	warfare is a great experience, intense and realistic. idk if i'd ever watch it again though but for what it was trying to accomplish it definitely did it as well as you can. worth checking out for sure.
oltnabrick 05.30.25	Loved Shadow of the Erdtree. The Armor of Solitude set was my fit for the rest of the game
oltnabrick 05.30.25	“ Seeing it tn too! Hope you’re doing well ol buddy” I’m wearing a Pantera shirt with weed leaf on it so I’m doing epic thanks for asking hope you are good also my brother
oltnabrick 05.30.25	“Elden Ring was not a great game and they should stop with the add-ons” Get a load of this guy
twlight 05.30.25	I enjoyed Shadow, but some bosses were too much imo. The spammy and over the top AOE attacks were absurd in some cases. Midra is one of the best bosses in all of fromsoft tho
RVAHC13 05.30.25	I still don’t understand why they’d make Duskbloods only on the Switch 2 just to spite Sony. At least they could work something out with Microsoft.
RVAHC13 05.30.25	Also I loved Shadow’s bosses. Commander Gaius was awful though, one of the worst in the series even after they “fixed” him
twlight 05.30.25	The got a big pile of cash from nintendo
RVAHC13 05.30.25	Screw Nintendo lol
oltnabrick 05.30.25	Tbh I only have a switch to play the new Pokémon games when they come out lol. Only other switch games I have are the Bayonetta series, Dusk and Dark Souls 😂
twlight 05.30.25	Exclusives suck in general. I get that it sells consoles but duskbloods should be a timed exclusive on switch 2 and then released for all platforms after a year or something
oltnabrick 05.30.25	Wish they’d do something new w Bloodborne but Sony RIP
RVAHC13 05.30.25	I got a free switch that I only use on plane rides or long bus trips to visit my friend in NYC. I don’t enjoy handhelds at all.
oltnabrick 05.31.25	I can’t decide if I hate this or like it Cool idea but idk lol
RVAHC13 05.31.25	It’s just fortnite u got fortnite’d
Dewinged 05.31.25	I stand corrected, the game is crack. So addictive.
twlight 06.01.25	Damn, metacritic is sitting at a 6.2 user score currently. That is by far the lowest fromsoft rating (not surprising). If I had friends I would surely be playing
Gameofmetal 06.01.25	i mean yeah fortnite would be pretty cool if it was 3 player pve with elden ring aesthetics lol
oltnabrick 06.02.25	I’ve never played Fortnite, is Nightreign actually like Fortnite?
Gameofmetal 06.02.25	just the shrinking death circle and picking up weapon drops i think, fortnite is pvp
Dewinged 06.03.25	Once you understand the mechanics and play with a solid team this game really shines. Also, they really went all out there and fucking spawned the Smelter Demons from DS2 with music et all. Amazing.
zaruyache 06.03.25	i have 7 hrs in it, got to the big dog boss once, pummeled into the sand.
Gameofmetal 06.03.25	im coming up on hour six and managed to pull some good randoms to take down the dog
MillionDead 06.03.25	I’m wasn’t particularly interested in this because I like a good single player experience from my Fromsoft games.
Dewinged 06.03.25	I was the the same but I always enjoyed jolly cooperation and taking down bosses in Souls games as well, so this is turning out to be a total blast. If they play the DLC well and put me against Artorias and Sif I'll crawl out of my skin and die of happiness.
oltnabrick 06.03.25	Still haven’t gotten the dog boss Lmfao Came close abt 4 times this is frustrating lol
Futures 06.03.25	did you like friendship oltan
oltnabrick 06.03.25	I didn’t see it there was a tornado in the area seeing it hopefully tomorrow + Bring Her Back
oltnabrick 06.03.25	I’m going to crash out these random ppl in this game suck wtf
Futures 06.03.25	ah damn! and sweet i'm seeing bring her back tomorrow as well. loved talk to me, very excited.
Djang0 06.03.25	Nightreign looks cool but did not inspire me to buy it in the way usual Fromsoft releases do. Elden Ring can already get a little tiring so doing more of that but w structured multiplayer is like, okay I guess. For what its worth my ranking is: 1. Dark Souls 2. Bloodborne 3. Sekiro 4. Elden Ring 5. Dark Souls 3 6. Dark Souls 2 For context I started with DS1 in 2012 so I don't think anything can top it. It's my favorite Fromsoft experience so I guess I'm a bit of a purist, Elden Ring did grow on me since its release though. Never played Demons' Souls, as I own neither a PS3 nor a PS5
WatchItExplode 06.03.25	When I'm actively playing Sekiro I find myself saying this might be the best from soft game. But I can't bring myself to replay it like all the others
Bloma 06.03.25	Woo rankings 1. Bloodborne 2. Dark Souls 3. Dark Souls 3 4. Demon's Souls (remake) 5. Dark Souls 2 6. Elden Ring 7. Sekiro These are some of my all time favourite games. Dark Souls 1 and Bloodborne are about equal to me. Bloodborne is just absurdly great, every moment feels like a treat to experience. I've played through it several times and it's the only game I've got a platinum for. I also love Dark Souls 3, almost as much. 2 I loved when I first played it on 360 with the DLCs, can't get into these days. I love the Demon's Souls remake, only played the original recently and is hard to go back when you already know the remake. Elden Ring I personally find a huge step back in terms of atmosphere, creativity, and design. The sad background music really annoys me, the themes don't resonate, the item discovery is ruined by the open world, so I can't get excited about finding a shiny item of a corpse only to discover it's a bunch of mushrooms you can find anywhere. There's too many weapons, and the indoor environments mostly look bland, except for the underground area with the giant insects. I do love the first 3 areas though. Sekiro I just cannot get into at all. I don't like the setting, music, atmosphere, combat, level design, or game flow. I've tried 4 separate times to get into it, just not for me. Nightreign doesn't really interest me, I don't like the direction Fromsoft are going in but I'm always open to anything.
Dewinged 06.03.25	Ok you'll love this, here: 1. Dark Souls 2 2. Bloodborne 3. Dark Souls 4. Dark Souls 3 5. Elden Ring 6. Demon's Souls (Original + remake) 7. Nightreign 8. Sekiro
SpiritCrusher2 06.03.25	finally beat the first boss after 20 hours lol. it's really hard playing with randoms, but finally got a decent team. fighting the other bosses now, the quality of players is noticeably higher now. can't wait to play it with a friend tho.
Dewinged 06.03.25	Yeah the first boss is such a gatekeeping piece of shit. FromSoft should have relaxed with the difficulty of that one. I can't fathom how many players will just stop playing there. It's a shame though, the game starts to get better once you unlock all the other stuff.
swallowtales 06.03.25	Nightreign is jank af but fun imo. Should have been a DLC pack for Elden Ring, or they should have worked on it for longer and done more with it.
SpiritCrusher2 06.03.25	"Should have been a DLC pack for Elden Ring" why? like I'm genuinely curious, what difference would it make?
Gameofmetal 06.03.25	i like to tier my FromSoft ranking because it's hard to put some over others S - Dark Souls, Dark Souls 3, Sekiro A - Bloodborne, Elden Ring B - Dark Souls 2, Demons Soul B tier are still like 8/10 games they're selling nightreign for $40, that seems like a really good compromise.
JohnnyoftheWell 06.03.25	just completed a solo run for the first time (have been focusing on multiplayer, but went solo so i could focus on a remembrance objective) and uh took down the ice dragon nightlord first try? all the other nightlords i've faced so far have trashed me lol did anyone else find this one easier
swallowtales 06.04.25	@Spiritcrusher - better represents what it is, and while they may not have actually done it, it should have been cheaper as a DLC pack for the quality I reckon.
oltnabrick 06.04.25	“ ah damn! and sweet i'm seeing bring her back tomorrow as well. loved talk to me, very excited.” What did u think? Bring Her Back is like 10x better than Talk to Me for me Friendship is one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen
oltnabrick 06.04.25	Unrelated but related I j got my Mohg Lord of Blood Welcome skateboard. Hanging it up like it’s art and nvr skate it Got the Baker Tim Robinson Cosmic Gumbo up in the crib already
Gameofmetal 06.04.25	yeah i thought bring her back was better than talk to me, some really wince-inducing parts in there. real fuck them kids movie.
Gyromania 06.04.25	This is the first time in decades I just don’t care about a FS release
Gyromania 06.04.25	“Sekiro I just cannot get into at all. I don't like the setting, music, atmosphere, combat, level design, or game flow.“ That’s wild to me. Setting is preferential but I love it the most out of their games so far besides BB. Flow is easily the best of all their games and so is the level design and combat
Djang0 06.04.25	Yeah Sekiro is peak in literally all areas, just might be less accessible difficulty wise for some which I think can be a valid critique. It's a tough game to just jump back into, especially after not touching it for a while
oltnabrick 06.08.25	Okay this is addicting lol
SpiritCrusher2 06.09.25	I had the most epic fight last night with a friend and one random. we fought the Darkdrift Knight, for the first time ever too. We had two Ironeyes (I had to take one because of the remembrance quest, and the random played the other one) and a Raider. We had a bumpy run, we even all died once and lost our runes, the random guy wasn't doing so well, we thought we didn't have a chance. But somehow we got the boss down to like a quarter of its health, but we were all at zero flasks by then. Then I died, and a few seconds later the raider died too, 50 meters away from me. we thought that's it, rip gg. Then out of nowhere the gigachad random fired his ultimate and revived us both in a single shot. I had my ultimate ready too, broke the centaur's stance, and then we all nuked him with all we got and it was fucking glorious.
Dewinged 06.09.25	Yeah that's what I'm talking about. I'm maining the birb and had a few fucking epic moments of doing the ultimate to revive two fallen comrades with the three bars each and somehow managed to turn the fight around. I killed Libra last night after days of trying, finally decided to switch to Raider and I punched his stupid bubble twice and Ult'd his fucking ass on the last one, only the night lord of night lords missing.
SpiritCrusher2 06.09.25	Yea the birb is underrated I feel, those guys saved my ass many times, but I rarely encounter them. Fought Libra for the first time last night too, got destroyed. He's the only one missing for me, alongside the final nightlord.
RVAHC13 06.09.25	Sekiro is peak [2] Also Dark Souls 2 is my favorite of the trilogy, what am I doing differently than everyone else lol
SpiritCrusher2 06.09.25	I don't know, it's really hard for me to understand people who prefer DS2 to the other two, there's definitely something wrong with yall
Gameofmetal 06.09.25	i dont get how it's supposed to be among the best in the series but more mystifying is people acting like it's not still a really good game
Ectier 06.09.25	May be getting this next week. Do we have a sput group password
RVAHC13 06.09.25	DS2 has so much charm, obviously not the best gameplay compared to 3 but not nearly as bad as everyone told me it was
Djang0 06.09.25	I tend to summarize it as such: DS2 has enough holding it back to where it's too easy for people to ignore the things it does super well: great story/narrative, incredibly charming and atmospheric, lots of variety, non linear open world, so much versatility for challenge runs and fun-runs, excellent pvp. Unfortunately the core level-design, gameplay, and bosses (arguably the three biggest selling points of From's games) are lacking
JohnnyoftheWell 06.09.25	DS2 is easily the best role-playing game in the series (discounting ER) and peaks high with its DLC. base game level/boss design mean it won't ever be my fav, but I'd take it over DS3 overall
RVAHC13 06.09.25	I wrote down a list of my favorite boss fights in the souls series so far and most of them come from DS2, Elden Ring and Sekiro. Absolutely loved the Darklurker, Fume Knight, Sir Alonne and Sinh the Slumbering Dragon fights. The Burnt Ivory King is in my top 5 just from the epic presentation of the fight alone.
SpiritCrusher2 06.10.25	yea the DLC bosses are great. I still love the game, it has its unique charm and I think it's a solid 7 or 8/10, but if I'm comparing it to 1 and 3 it's not even close. The major turn offs for me are the change in atmosphere, colour palette and the combat feel. Level design is all over the place and there's so many lame bosses. Enemy placement is cancer a lot of times too. There are some moments and areas in the game that are amazing tho.
SpiritCrusher2 06.10.25	tried to do the ranking rn and it's too hard to put one in front of the other, DS1, DS3, Bloodborne, Sekiro and ER are all S-tier in my book
RVAHC13 06.20.25	Just beat 3 for the first time, very nice. I’d say enjoyment is on par with DS2 for different reasons. Bosses were consistently good, best in the trilogy. Story was good although I wish this was the sequel to the original and 2 came directly after. Overall this was a very fun series although I’m glad to be finally done with it for the time being.
oltnabrick 08.25.25	Just beat it for the 2nd time. Addicting game ngl
RVAHC13 08.25.25	Where u been oltna?! Also just started playing this again. Thought I’d be done with it after I beat it but damn if even my lesser favorite fromsoft games are still addicting
RVAHC13 10.04.25	After a few months of playing here’s my ranking in terms of enjoyment: 1. Libra 2. Fulghor 3. Adel 4. Heolstor 5. Caligo 6. Gladius 7. Maris 8. Punching myself in the balls 9. Gnoster
Gameofmetal 10.07.25	stepped back into it with a duo, havent managed to get past adel yet lmao. are duos that well balanced or do we just suck shit?
RVAHC13 10.07.25	I think it balances out fine but strategy is everything. I actually beat Gnoster recently with just Recluse and a rando Executer after our third backed out early and we didn’t have a lot of trouble. We both knew the drill for that particular boss though
oltnabrick 10.19.25	Deep of Night mode is absolutely cursed but I’ve beaten everything else Really fun game, my main character is Executor w the Thorns garb
Gameofmetal 10.20.25	got all the base expeditions done, have not managed to take down an everdark yet though.
RVAHC13 10.22.25	Everdarks are fun, Caligo, Fulghor and Adel all have such cool new mechanics that are hard but neat once you figure them out
zaruyache 10.23.25	fuck that ice dragon, im ride or die for the moth scorpion bros
oltnabrick 10.23.25	Finally beat everdark Fulghor. Such a cool fight but so hard
oltnabrick 10.23.25	Cannot stand everdark Gladius
RVAHC13 11.08.25	Okay everdark Gladius can kiss my ass all the way to my teeth I hate that stupid dog so much. Why does it have to do so much damage??
oltnabrick 11.11.25	New DLC The Forsaken Hollows December 4th oo yeah
RVAHC13 11.11.25	I love the pain
oltnabrick 11.11.25	“ Okay everdark Gladius can kiss my ass all the way to my teeth I hate that stupid dog so much. Why does it have to do so much damage??” Doesn’t help that there’s three of them and they don’t stay still longer than half a second lmao
RVAHC13 11.11.25	I’ve played just about every class save for Revenant trying to beat them and I still can’t do it. Only Everdark I didn’t blitz thru in 5 tries or less
zaruyache 11.12.25	im ready for the str/fai lady with the big mace let's goooo
oltnabrick 11.12.25	Everdark Libra goes crazy probably the hardest for me
oltnabrick 12.03.25	Almost time o ye
RVAHC13 12.03.25	HAWK SCREEEEECH
oltnabrick 12.04.25	LORD OF BLOOD LORD OF BLOOD
oltnabrick 12.04.25	SEX SEX SEX SEX
RVAHC13 12.05.25	Can’t believe I’m saying this but ED Gladius is easier solo
oltnabrick 12.07.25	dlc kicking my ass
RVAHC13 12.07.25	I’m having fun playing Undertaker
RVAHC13 12.24.25	Everdark Harmonia is just pain
oltnabrick 12.24.25	Whole DLC is pain w/ randoms I started a NG Elden Ring
Gyromania 12.24.25	Have yet to play this. Just doesn't seem like what I'm looking for after ER and LoP. Maybe I should give it a chance tho.
RVAHC13 12.24.25	I said the same thing, but here I am still playing it @oltnabrick I had to uninstall base ER I was unconsciously starting new games, I had to stop after beating SOTET a 2nd time
oltnabrick 12.25.25	It’s really fun, I hope they keep adding stuff to it tbh… mainly weapons need more of those Sad they didnt add any SOTE weapons to the dlc
oltnabrick 01.31.26	put this down for a minute to play Dark Souls remastered and try to platinum Elden Ring but i got the Dreglord first try had way more trouble w the Balancers
RVAHC13 02.03.26	I enjoy Everdark Libra but he is objectively unbalanced (ironic) and shitty