Oh yeah, Elden Ring definitely punishes button mashing pretty hard. It has some of the most aggressive bosses in the series, imo. The long combos with very little openings are brutal. I'd suggest trying to get used to doing one poke if you see an opening. Just one press of the attack button. Even if it looks like you can do more, don't get greedy until you're more comfortable with it. A lot of the bosses don't even allow you to do much more without getting murdered.Mikodesu wrote:Killed a few more bosses, all of them minor. Mostly just piddled with fighting Margit. I've considered turning online on and summoning but, the game's only going to get harder from here, and I am NOT used to not being able to animation cancel. I am a button masher, full stop. The games I usually play are very kind and let me change my mind in mid roll. Once I do more damage I think I'll be able to get it. With practice... and not panicking.
Alternatively, you could look for dex based weapons as they tend to be much faster. I'm currently using Reduvia, which is really fast and encourages you to get a bit spammy because it triggers bleed. Bleed is big fat damage after you get a lot of hits in, might have seen it on yourself already because those imp things in the catacomb dungeons are the WORST.
I started a new character a few days ago because I just wasn't feeling sorcery. I'm sure there's some good spells in the later game, but I was only using the ones you start with because all the spells I was finding or buying were straight up worthless. Also, I feel like all the interesting stuff is under incantations in this game. I'm finding so many that sound cool as hell, and pyromancy has always been a favorite of mine. I'll probably dabble in that eventually, but for now I'm just going to be fast and stabby.
Elden Ring is, predictably, the only game I'm playing atm. I'm absolutely loving it, which is really nice since I've kind of bounced off every other game I've played recently. Not sure I'll be able to pull myself away from it by the time Rune Factory 5 comes out, but we'll see.
Glad you guys are having fun. I continue to look it up again every once in a while, wondering if I'm not missing something, but another look always tells me: nah, not my thing. I'd rather replay BotW or XCX. Though in fact, I don't think I own anything I could play it on anyway. Unless it'll play on ps4, maybe. But it doesn't look like a Kikki type of game so that's fine. The rest of the world seems to have more than enough love for it without mine. 
Very helpful, I know. 
