is elden ring easy?

[raz]

is ER easier compared to other souls-like games? i either got better over the last years OR ER is designed to be much easier and more forgiving. maybe its because its a Open World game and got a lot of attention from people who are maybe not so good at the game and they wanted to make it more casual friendly.
what i noticed as example, compared to Dark souls is that spamming is actually more forgiving in ER.
am i making something up? or is any DS gamer here and feel the same way. im just curious not complaining btw

[Tao314zdin]

Depends, if you compare going solo in DS3 with roll+R1 vs attempting the same in ER - I think ER is more difficult to pull that off.

If you mean use everything what is available - they (DS3, ER) are both nothing special in terms of difficulty once you know the general patterns.

Although ER (in application to the last point) does go an extra mile to give even more summons to players, so I guess it is easier if you look from that side. Magic and some of the WAs also feel even more busted in terms of PVE.

[impuretrash2878]

souls 1 feels a lot easier to me. There's not a single boss in that game aside from Bed of Chaos that I actually dread having to fight against. Whereas Elden Ring, there's many that I find quite exasperating. Really have to psyche myself up to even bother.

[Grizzly]

ER is by far the least difficult just because its an open world. if you dont know what your doing all would be hard i guess but if you just have a little bit of game knowlege this game allows you to take super strong stuff right away

just think about that you can get an S+ scaling staff that cant be upgraded(meaning its already really good) with a really good spell right next to it that also gets a 30% boost when used with that staff without needing to do anything for it. all you got to do is to ride over there and pick it up, then its keeping distance press L1 and enjoy

or just think about the whole existance of summons and the wonderous physick


i played all DS games and they are really lovely, but they are linear, and that makes them a lot harder

[Sockwallet]

Fromsoft wants you to finish the games they make so you can always eventually win.For first playthrough go with magic, you can play most of the game with just glintstone magic and not get hit by the enemy.When you finish the game there are full game mods now so the replay value is huge . Its worth a buy.

[The Sylvan Learning Center]

Welcome to the magical world of elden ring

[GamingWithSilvertail]

ER is harder due to the delayed attacks which arnt as common in DS.

[777]

Yes, the game is easy because a lot of the "movements" were copied from DS3.

[Sabaithal]

What do you mean by "easy"? If you mean the combat and the enemies themselves, definitely no, its much harder.

Though if you mean the level of versatility you have with items, weapons, how you level your character, spells, stealth as an approach, spirit summons, whether or not you can just avoid groups of enemies outright, etc, then its much easier by a huge margin.

[Señor Brown]

Originally posted by ryz:

is ER easier compared to other souls-like games? i either got better over the last years OR ER is designed to be much easier and more forgiving. maybe its because its a Open World game and got a lot of attention from people who are maybe not so good at the game and they wanted to make it more casual friendly.
what i noticed as example, compared to Dark souls is that spamming is actually more forgiving in ER.
am i making something up? or is any DS gamer here and feel the same way. im just curious not complaining btw

It can be made to be easier than other titles. Spam is one means, as are ranged spells, stance damage, status effects, spirit ashes, summons, etc, etc. You're not making anything up.

EDIT: grammar

[cheetah1546]

Is it easy?

I tend to answer in a general sense. I'd say no. While I was able to beat it with two different characters. A friend of mine who is a streamer gave up without even going near the tree sentinel. So it's subjective.

But I'd also say it's not overly difficult.

I find games like Cities Skylines to be overly difficult as I have no idea what I'm doing with traffic and residents always dying. But I completed the original Demon's Souls plus the Dark Souls trilogy. So legacy skill is a thing that helped me in ER.

[nfinite.recursion]

Extremely easy. I only died 200+ times on my first run.

[Hoovy]

the fact that you are not trapped by bosses in a direction sense makes it easier. You can go somewhere else and try something else when you feel overwhelmed.

[s0d0]

If you have played DS3 a few times, then the game is pretty easy, since the combat is very similar.
If you haven't played DS3, I guess it is pretty hard.

[Krypto]

Yes and no. Bosses like Margit you can fight very early on (though you shouldn't if you're new) are similar in difficulty to Pontiff, a boss pretty far into Dark Souls 3, and one of the hardest of the base game due to his moveset and aggressiveness.

However, because of how open region Elden Ring is (not really open world in the traditional sense) you're able to approach areas and bosses earlier or much much later than you would in Dark Souls 3., leading to the difficulty and challenge being very dynamic. It's probably the best thing about ER as a whole.