I try to always play games blind but some things in elden ring i hardly understood with a guide. Or you get locked out easily out of quests. I was talking to an npc for a quest and accidentally hit attack and killed him. I was walking past that talking bush like 100 times and had no idea what's even going on. I thought it's a glitch, invisible npc or something. Even after looking it up i couldn't find it. He's still there in his bush. Or not, i don't even know. I found out some hard puzzles accidentally. But at the end of the day as long as i get through the game i'm happy. I'm no completionist.

It's also really easy to lock yourself out of questlines by completing seemingly unrelated objectives. I get that being inscrutable is kind of a hallmark of these games, but I found myself unable to dig into some of the plotlines that really intrigued me.

And tbh I don't have the time nor patience if I want to game after work.

I dunno. I kind of like it. It means for your first playthrough. You will get a very unique experience, different from your friends. You found different things.

Then again. Who in their right mind understands you can use a prattling pate to tell bock "you're beautiful"? That's just insane. Or maybe I'm just not smart enough.

This is just how fromsoft does things. Pretty weird but having played every souls game to completion and several of their other games just a bit, I feel like you get used to it. The only thing that bothered me about elden ring is that it just didn't seem to outshine previous titles by enough (or at all) to be particularly excited about it.

I feel like its the same thing as how I can try to hop in something entirely new to me like baldurs gate 3 and there is just so much overwhelming shit that I'm not used to (still put in a good chunk of time and not done yet), but as a long time souls player, ER just felt like a new region and some new items and quests in a souls game. Oh and different timings for otherwise familiar mechanics I guess.