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I recently started playing Elden Ring again after almost a year-long hiatus. Iām doing Ranni-related stuff now but am almost ready to enter the capitol. About how much game time do I have left if I donāt mess around too much? Iād like to finish this up before Armored Core 6!
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still quite a ways to go if you have yet to enter the capitol
dunno how to quantify it too well as the game can be approached in so many ways and thereās so much side/optional stuff. prob 10 more hours at least, iād say
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the capitol itself is pretty big. youāre maybe 2/3 to 3/4 done depending on how much stuff youāve done off the critical path?
i havenāt been posting about playing games lately because all iāve been playing has been elden ring. i keep making low level builds and parking them at stormveil keep and raya lucaria for multiplayer. souls games are my comfort food
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Thanks for the input. Iām relieved to hear it would be possible to finish in another 10-15 hours. I usually play games like this pretty slowly, but I feel like things are going faster as I get further in the game. I think Iām at 85 hours currently.
So, just happy to hear Iām a good ways in and not, like, half way there!
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10-15 hours is possible, but meauxdal did phrase it as a bare minimum, a more realistic expected time Iād toss out might be 30-40 hours if you took 85 hours so far. Counting from memory, thereās 2 major mandatory areas and 4 major optional areas after the Capital itself (Iām not including catacombs/caves/mines in that optional-areas count).
If you want to get the game over with at a 10-hour pace, I would suggest starting to read internet walkthroughs/maps to navigate efficiently, and summon other players at every boss.
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yeah itās tough to really estimate, but certainly if youāve spent 85 hours already and you continue apace, 10 hours will not be enough
basically you can get through quite quickly if you are just pathing toward the end credits, but there is truly a massive amount of stuff to do which isnāt necessary to that goal. 20-40 hours seems more realistic. also as youāve probably seen already, the optional stuff is just as good as the critical path stuff
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as an example of how confounding ātime-to-completionā estimates can be in this game
i spent numerous hours (5+) exclusively on retrying Malenia over and over
still have not killed her lol
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Still hoping the DLC is taking so long because itās doubling the size of the world.
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yeah malenia was easily 10 hours alone for me (lol)
Iām pretty sure I spent two weeks straight grinding the fight
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maybe they played totk and are adding tons of sky islands
maybe they are making an entirely traversable moon
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Meanwhile, I only spent 65 hours total on Elden Ring and saw most of the unique content, but that deliberately brisk pace involved behaviors like:
- reading online that Hoarfrost Stomp was OP and going out of my way to get it (no longer OP in the current revision so not a spoiler)
- dipping my toe into Maleniaās boss room only about 5 times and looking up recommended tactics online before deciding ānope not my idea of funā and checking her off my mental todo list
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I bet 10-15 of my 85 hours have been banging my head against various bosses. At this point, though, Iām comfortable skipping most bosses that arenāt mandatory. Still, I expect it will take me a good 20 hours even if I skip most of the optional stuff. Maybe longer, depending on how much side stuff I need to do in order to level up enough to complete the main line.
EDIT: oh, and I plan to mimic tear the hell out of every boss from here on.
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did this too but still spent 120 hours in the game. i had no problem hanging out in content i enjoyed but fuck malenia.
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I find the Malenia boss fight fun 
I didnāt say I find it easy. Itās definitely the hardest in the game for me.
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she did, however, reveal the sin in my heart. humbled and contrite i went immediately to the final area and finished the game.
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curious how people feel about this game now that itās had a bit more time to settle and a lot more people have had a chance to play it
i think for me personally, iād rank the from souls stuff like this (excl. bb for the moment as i havenāt finished it yet)
dark souls 1
elden ring
demonās souls (ps3)
ds2: sotfs
dark souls 3
dark souls 2
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yeah I still think the widely held assessment that itās the hardest fromsoft soulslike boss fight is accurate. by a significant margin. previously held by orphan of kos.
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I inexplicably put this down not at Malenia but at the first Haligtree bonfire. like I was getting closer to a point where I knew Iād quit and instead quit preemptively. I think Iād done pretty much everything else I could come up with by then anyhow. I guess Iāll figure it out when the DLC comes out
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I still have a divided viewpoint on it that depends on perspective. If I think about individual areas and bosses, itās one of the best. If I zoom out to think about how the experience felt as a whole, itās a failure.
In other words, I think going open-world was a big mistake which almost wasted the masterful component parts, but clearly Iām in a minority on that one.
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