*sigh* More
Elden Ring.
Despite my resolution to beat it after playing it nigh exclusively for over a year, I think I might have hit my hard stop: the Fire Giant. Look, I know FROM loves their bigger-than-life bosses, but this is just absurd. I'm a melee character; on my 65" TV, when I'm within striking distance, all I see is his foot, and estimate his head to be a solid 4-5 FEET above where the screen ends. When one of his ankles takes up my ENTIRE screen while his attacks are 95% telegraphed by his hands and upper body in general,
how the fuck am I supposed to deal with that?!? I literally can't see his attacks coming unless I'm far away...
where I can't attack!! And he easily two-shots me. Despite him being probably the slowest, most plodding boss in the game, he's thus far been the hardest to dodge, y'know, since his attacks cover an entire fucking area code and usually knock me down leaving me vulnerable to a second attack. It feels like I'm trying to give Godzilla a pedicure while he's actively trying to kill me, i.e.: soul-crushingly not fun.
I just got the Rivers of Blood, so that's cool. Thank God I've not put a single point into Arcane to use it
. I might respec for it (still haven't ever done that) to try it out somewhere else., anywhere else the game is challenging but not impossible.