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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I really wanted to like ER. It's fucking beautiful and seems to have a lot of depth, but the a appeal to difficulty doesn't really hold any water, cuz the only thing that makes it difficult is unnecessarily clunky controls.

Maybe there's a mod or something now that makes the combat more fluid... I should give it another visit.

[–] keimevo@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

One could accuse Elden Ring of many things, but clunky controls is definitively not one of them.

It's probably one of the best combat systems I've ever played. When you die, you know it's your fault (usually because of greed), not the system cheating you. It's very fair, unlike many others.

[–] nyar@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What are you even talking about? In what way are the controls clunky?

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 months ago

soulslike mechanics probably feel clunky to people that don't really play soulslike. That said a bunch of things totally are clunky like cycling through spells and items which hasn't significantly changed since dark souls, and for people that would rather take their time browsing the items walking while the menu is up is probably pretty jarring. Probably other things. It really has come a long way from demon souls but I honesly kinda prefer the jankiness of the older games.