To fight this hidden boss Elden Ring players need to explore. Reaching it requires many bizarre triggers like rewinding time. This means many players haven’t fought this area-of-effect damage nightmare. Dragonlord Placidusax is a two-headed dragon that more than lives up to his ti

The giant Elden Beast’s patterns are tough to learn due to rematches needing to re-fight Radagon. Its movements are also strange yet quick, as it can swim around the arena to follow the player wherever they go. This is in addition to its holy attacks also homing in on the player. As befitting a beast of its power, players never feel safe when fighting the Elden Be

The Banished Knight's Halberd is not a difficult weapon to find, as it can be found randomly in Stormveil Castle or received as a random drop from banished knights. Despite being so common, this weapon can deal an impressive amount of damage thanks to its impressive scaling and the safety provided by its re

Despite being a tonally dark narrative, Elden Ring is perhaps a bit more optimistic than The Lord Of The Rings ** when it comes to the notion of wielding power without being corrupted by it, since many of the endings where the Tarnished protagonist becomes Elden Lord are optimistic in tone. Still, the tragic fates of Queen Marika, Rykard, Godrick, Gideon Ofnir, and Tarnished PC in the Lord Of Frenzied Flame finale, the worst Elden Ring ** ending of all , illustrate full well how absolute power and a lack of wisdom can chain souls towards paths of folly and e

These days, it's hard to write a fantasy story or design a fantasy RPG not influenced by (or a reaction against) The Lord of the Rings and its legendarium. When J.R.R. Tolkien, a philologist and academic by trade, published the three volumes of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy in the late 1940s, he upped the ante for fantasy world-building by creating a world with unique creation myth, a history filled with ages of heroic tragedies (inspired by epic poems such as the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf or the Finnish Kalevala ), __ and even constructed new languages and writing systems for the species and cultures of his Middle-earth setting. The general premise of Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings - a world haunted by the ruins of previous ages, populated by humans, elves, dwarves, and halflings who fight a war of resistance against a totalitarian dark lord - inspired the character creation rules of Dungeons & Dragons _ , which then went on to inspire a host of epic fantasy novels and computer RPGs like _The Elder Scrolls (another famous franchise Elden Ring developers likely wanted to distinguish their game fr

When **Elden Ring ** , FromSoftware's newest dark fantasy RPG, was released in late February of 2022, fans and developers drew comparisons between its open world gameplay and the gameplay of other cult classic games open world titles such as Breath Of The Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn , and the Assassin's Creed franchise. A few developers from Western game studios wound up using social media to vocally criticize the open-world gameplay of Elden Ring , reserving their most pointed critiques for the FromSoftware RPG's game interface, punishing combat, and lack of features such as a quest log. From the perspective of these developers, these quirks of Elden Ring 's game design made it less approachable for players; from another perspective, this very lack of instant approachability is what made Elden Ring' s gameplay so enticing and rewarding for players across the wo

The Bloodhound's Finesse is an upward slash followed by a quick retreat and attack combo that can deal incredible damage if the user utilizes the dexterity and strength stats. Additionally, the sword inflicts a good amount of baseline blood loss, adding to the potential damage output by a fair amo

Of all the dragons in the game, Elden Ring ’s big white dragon of Caelid is the least deserving to die. Not only is Greyoll referred to as the "mother of all dragons," but she is also unable to fight the Tarnished. Greyoll is stuck in that laying position. It is unclear if her size or those strange barnacle growths found all over Caelid prevent her from moving. Or maybe the scarlet rot has infected her and is slowly killing her. Whatever the case, Greyoll’s only form of defense is a roar that summons the nearby smaller dragons to her

Many of the above video games will get concrete release dates in 2022 as the year continues. However, a few may be subject to delays (like the Suicide Squad game is reportedly delayed). Regardless, 2022 video game releases have already proven to be a huge year for gaming. And with more releases later in the year, it should only keep getting bet

In The Fellowship Of The Ring , the first installment of The Lord Of The Rings , Saruman the White, recently defected to Sauron's side, tries to corrupt Gandalf by preaching about how Sauron's Ring can grant them the " power to order all things as we will, for that good which only the Wise can see [...] all the things that we have so far striven in vain to accomplish, hindered rather than helped by our weak or idle friends. " __ In this quote, Saruman unwittingly describes the once-noble intentions of the once-noble Sauron (to make the lands of Middle-earth a better , more orderly place), and illustrates through mimicry how Sauron firmly believed he was the only one smart enough to solve the problems of the world. This prideful conceit - along with the intoxicating lure of power - corrupts Sauron and Saruman, dooms major characters such as Isildur, Boromir, and Denethor, and threatens to consume even noble characters like Frodo, Gandalf, and Galadriel when they come into contact with the One Ring. In The Lord Of The Rings , the greatest act of heroism is not to take up power, but to give it up when it is right to do