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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: Elden Ring DLC finished.
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 09:48:49 +0100
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On 11/08/2024 16:49, Justisaur wrote:
> On 8/10/2024 1:51 AM, JAB wrote:
>> On 09/08/2024 19:02, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>> Honestly, it's the open-worldness of "Elden Rings" that has kept me
>>> from playing it more than anything. I wasn't a big fan of the Dark
>>> Souls games to start with, but I could at least admire the design even
>>> if I didn't actually enjoy the gameplay. But that admiration could
>>> only carry me so far; an average playthrough of those games is, what,
>>> thirty hours or so?* That's about how long I could tolerate the games
>>> before I had to move on to something else.
>>
>> The only games I can think of that I've played more than thirty hours 
>> of are FO:3/NV and Skyrim. You might see a pattern there in that they 
>> all have content that is bolstered by lots of different stories/ 
>> environments/things to do, in the game that keep my interest up. ER 
>> doesn't sound like the type of gameplay I like at all but putting that 
>> aside even if I did I think I'd be unlikely to go much past twenty 
>> five hours or so as it sounds that the gameplay will just get to 
>> repetitive for me at that point.
>>
>> Overall even for games that I'd say I really liked there's quite a few 
>> that I only finished because I wanted to see the end even though my 
>> interest was really waning.
> 
> I think I might just be done with souls games. I played a little bit 
> with my newb helper character and that wasn't doing it for me.  I 
> started Demon Souls (game by Fromsoft before Dark Souls) it's fine. I'm 
> just not really interested in that gameplay any more.  I think perhaps 
> Elden Ring was so long and repetitive that I don't want to play like 
> that any more.
> 
> I'm really enjoying EDF with my daughter when she wants to play it, but 
> need to find something else to play when she doesn't.
> 

Yep, play a type of game too much and at some point you need a break 
from it. Glad you've found another game* that you're enjoying but I've 
never been into computer games that you play with other people. Not that 
I don't enjoy it when I do it but instead it doesn't sit well with my 
gaming is something I do when I fancy it and not something that is 
scheduled**.

*I had to look up what EDF was as to me it's the company that supplies 
our gas and electricity!

**Much like some of the players I had when I started GM'ing Call of 
Cthulhu. Out of the four players, three of them seem to think it was 
perfectly fine just to turn up if they had nothing better to do and to 
make it worse no fore warning they weren't going to play and no apology 
afterwards to me or others. I did make it clear that I understand that 
sometimes real life gets in the way but you do need to make a commitment 
to actually playing. As that fell on deaf ears I just said I'm not 
GM'ing then. Fortunately within a couple of weeks I had found another 
player and I'm have a blast with just having two PC's who are very 
invested in the game.