Is there any goal?

[wolfling]

I know it's probably naive question, but after four hours in the game, I have no idea what to do. I'm wandering through world filled with enemies and can't find any purpose. Have I missed any pointer as what to do, will things change later, or is it really all there is to the game?

[yayokay]

Stormveil Castle is your first goal. The very first npc telling that to you.

[wolfling]

Originally posted by Try jumping:

Stormveil Castle is your first goal.

Two questions - how to find it (apart of using walkthrougs) and why do I want to go there? Have I missed a line in any dialogue?

[MegaManCap]

Check the grace sites on your map. The point you to you next point of interest.

Or just go around decimating the enemy populace for the next 50 hours like I did on my first playthrough.

[yayokay]

Originally posted by wolfling:

Originally posted by Try jumping:

Stormveil Castle is your first goal.

Two questions - how to find it (apart of using walkthrougs) and why do I want to go there? Have I missed a line in any dialogue?

The NPC is telling you everything you have to know. Just pay attention.

[TyresTyco]

The goal is to find the elden ring. Completing the game and seeing the credits. How you do that however is up to you. If you feel directionless... you might have to follow the grace pointers. These always point to the legacy dungeon of the current location where the shardbearer sits.

In the end.. everything is progress unless you die a lot and dont get your runes.

[Sketchazoid]

Have you noticed the Sites of Grace give a "direction". It's a suggested direction towards where you're suppose to go on the main path. Obviously you don't have to stick to this and you can essentially go almost anywhere you want, however the overall arching goal is to defeat the main bosses of the world, collect their runes, and progress to the giant gold Erdtree. I can't say much else without going into spoiler content but you should head to Stormveil castle and defeat the main boss there and then proceed to the Academy. By that point you should have an understanding of what the game is asking of you.

[wolfling]

Originally posted by MegaManCap:

Check the grace sites on your map. The point you to you next point of interest.

Or just go around decimating the enemy populace for the next 50 hours like I did on my first playthrough.

That's what I'm doing at the moment and after 4 hours, I'm bored and want something meaningful to do :( Hence the post.
I don't mean to whine, I just suspect I've missed some clue... or something.

[El Fuerte]

Originally posted by wolfling:

Originally posted by MegaManCap:

Check the grace sites on your map. The point you to you next point of interest.

Or just go around decimating the enemy populace for the next 50 hours like I did on my first playthrough.

That's what I'm doing at the moment and after 4 hours, I'm bored and want something meaningful to do :( Hence the post.
I don't mean to whine, I just suspect I've missed some clue... or something.

Once again: Pay attention to what NPCs are telling you. The first NPC on the field literally tells you to head for "that castle over that cliff behind me". There is a huge castle on a cliff that you can see from anywhere in the map. How did you miss that?

[wolfling]

Originally posted by Sketchazoid:

Have you noticed the Sites of Grace give a "direction". It's a suggested direction towards where you're suppose to go on the main path. Obviously you don't have to stick to this and you can essentially go almost anywhere you want, however the overall arching goal is to defeat the main bosses of the world, collect their runes, and progress to the giant gold Erdtree. I can't say much else without going into spoiler content but you should head to Stormveil castle and defeat the main boss there and then proceed to the Academy. By that point you should have an understanding of what the game is asking of you.

I haven't. Will check it out, thank you.

[Delilah Wrath]

Missed a few things, as Try Jumping said there was dialogue pointing you in a certain direction at the start, there was also dialogue telling you the sort of goal for your character (become the next Elden Lord), and dialogue giving you information on how to proceed in general (follow the light at graces, which are also visible on the map).

You should be exploring as well though, it's kind of Breath of the Wild in the sense that you could in theory just go straight along the critical path, but if you aren't levelling up/finding new items through exploration then you'll probably have a very tough time.

[Sketchazoid]

Originally posted by wolfling:

Originally posted by Sketchazoid:

Have you noticed the Sites of Grace give a "direction". It's a suggested direction towards where you're suppose to go on the main path. Obviously you don't have to stick to this and you can essentially go almost anywhere you want, however the overall arching goal is to defeat the main bosses of the world, collect their runes, and progress to the giant gold Erdtree. I can't say much else without going into spoiler content but you should head to Stormveil castle and defeat the main boss there and then proceed to the Academy. By that point you should have an understanding of what the game is asking of you.

I haven't. Will check it out, thank you.

I'm guessing you're new to FromSoftware games, and that's ok, but they're generally pretty cryptic and don't have much in the way of hand holding. The original Dark Souls game gave you one clue at the beginning, "ring two bells". That was it. No idea where the bells where, all you knew was one was above and one was below. What direction you were suppose to go, what order you were suppose to do things, all of it was up to the player.

It got even more cryptic cause most of the hints and story were told not only in level design alone, but item descriptions. So that random sword or armor piece you picked up might have gave a juicy tid bit on what was going on around you.

[yayokay]

Originally posted by wolfling:

Originally posted by Sketchazoid:

Have you noticed the Sites of Grace give a "direction". It's a suggested direction towards where you're suppose to go on the main path. Obviously you don't have to stick to this and you can essentially go almost anywhere you want, however the overall arching goal is to defeat the main bosses of the world, collect their runes, and progress to the giant gold Erdtree. I can't say much else without going into spoiler content but you should head to Stormveil castle and defeat the main boss there and then proceed to the Academy. By that point you should have an understanding of what the game is asking of you.

I haven't. Will check it out, thank you.

And talk to NPCs 'til they repeating what they have to say. Most NPCs have more to tell.

[Altijdwat]

Its an open world game ;) You go where you want to go and kill what you can. For some directions......open the map and look at the (kinda) yellow flames they go in directions you need to also.

[folko1]

Originally posted by wolfling:

Originally posted by Try jumping:

Stormveil Castle is your first goal.

Two questions - how to find it (apart of using walkthrougs) and why do I want to go there? Have I missed a line in any dialogue?

First question, do you pay attention to cutscenes, NPC dialogue and pop up messages?

Second, it's kinda like Dark Souls 1. You can go anywhere, really, but unlike dark souls 1 you have a choice on how you wish to progress. In a nutshell, you are a Tarnished, once shunned by grace because the Greater Will saw you and your kind useless in it's plans, but since the shattering, each demigod had inherited a shard of the Elden Ring called Great Runes, and now the conflict in the Lands Between has come to a standstill as no shardbearer wants to attempt to invade another's land and risk losing, so the guidance of grace was extended to the Tarnished as well so that they may help break the standstill and mend the Elden Ring to become Elden Lord and restore the land.

Basically, go kill bosses and fix the world. Stormveil Castle is at the top left of Limgrave. To the east of Limgrave lies Caelid, and north of Stormveil Castle lies Liurnia of The Lakes and the Raya Lucaria Academy.

[yayokay]

Originally posted by Sketchazoid:

Originally posted by wolfling:

I haven't. Will check it out, thank you.

I'm guessing you're new to FromSoftware games, and that's ok, but they're generally pretty cryptic and don't have much in the way of hand holding. The original Dark Souls game gave you one clue at the beginning, "ring two bells". That was it. No idea where the bells where, all you knew was one was above and one was below. What direction you were suppose to go, what order you were suppose to do things, all of it was up to the player.

It got even more cryptic cause most of the hints and story were told not only in level design alone, but item descriptions. So that random sword or armor piece you picked up might have gave a juicy tid bit on what was going on around you.

The part with the bells is easy. Because you can hear and see a bell tower. And the first NPC is telling you that the second bell is under the undead burg.

WTF?!