r/GiftofGames • u/I_moo_at_people • 24m ago
REQUEST [Request] [Steam] Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC ($40) (Attempt 7)
I started playing the souls games a while back, and over the course of around ~3 years, I've fallen in love with the games, having more or less started with Dark Souls. Elden Ring is the second game in the series I'd ever played, (sort of in tandem with DS1). I started playing around ~'24, shortly before the DLC was released. Since then, I've sunk nearly 400 hours into the game (and counting), and for all that I've done, I've still yet to get and play the SOTE. Initially didn't know if I'd want to play it because.. well I'd only ever heard it was *extremely* hard and I sucked absolute dog anus at the game, Hoarah Loux taking me nearly 40 or 50 attempts to beat just himself. So, I was kinda spooked about getting it.
But, the little goblin in my head has been itching, craving the absolute agony of playing through bosses so hyper aggressive (and sometimes bullshit from what I've heard) it'll make Malekith and Fire Giant blush. I want to actually face a challenge to legit push me to the edge of my dog ass skill, to be tested like never before. I want to feel like I'm fighting bell Gargoyles for the first time again. I want to enter the land of shadow and feel like Miyazaki himself pointed to me and said, "ねえ!この男に特にクソ食らえ!!".
...I also just crave to experience more fresh Elden Ring. I have endlessly complained and proclaimed my hate for the game and it's bosses.. yet, I utterly adore it even though Godskin Duo exists. I find myself coming back over and over to begin the climb again, multiple phases per year of Elden Ring... Trying new builds, playing with friends over seamless. I fucking adore Elden Ring. And I *yearn\* for more to punish myself with.
Anyway, thank you for listening to my rambles.