My whole Tuesday (today) has been thrown out of whack. Pacing was off, flow of customers was weird, and just all-in-all felt out of my element. Then I figured out what caused it. @Ryuu96 didn't link the Deals with Gold today. Already filed a complaint.

I doubt Sony was stupid enough to sign a contract and not base it off of titles released. Imagine signing it and being like "I want an x years deal because yearly games never get delayed out of their respected years"....

Wow, 97 meta game for Elden Ring. Damn wish it had an easy mode :/

A lot of people are saying it's a lot more accessible than past FromSoft games. The nature of the open world (allowing you to not only overlevel, but try your hand at different bosses rather than running into a wall on the same one over and over), spells being far more powerful than they ever have been, summons, etc.

Wow, 97 meta game for Elden Ring. Damn wish it had an easy mode :/

Good to know honestly... might look into it more if i can overlevel and shit.  

I kind of get tired of seeing critics overrate these Souls-likes. We've all seen the clips of critics playing games, IGN First Gameplay, Dean Takahashi failing to get past the Cuphead tutorial, clips of critics sucking in their video reviews of games, etc. When like 70% of critics seem to be below average gamers, you know darn well they aren't playing these FromSoft Souls/Souls-likes to completion, and yet they give them these amazing reviews:

• 89 on Demon Souls
• 89 on Dark Souls
• 91 on Dark Souls 2
• 89 on Dark Souls 3
• 92 on Bloodborne
• 90 on Sekiro
• 92 on Demon's Souls Remake

And now a 97 on Elden Ring, making it one of the highest rated games of all time. It really kind of annoys me that a game that most critics can't beat and that probably more than half of all gamers can't beat is going to win GOTY this year most likely, beating out the other games that are likely to get 90+ metas this year and are actually accessible, BOTW 2, Bayonetta 3, Starfield, and God of War Ragnarok. 

I wish I could enjoy these games, Elden Ring actually interests me unlike FromSoft's earlier games, but I know that it's not for me, not after I spent like 6 incredibly frustrating hours trying to get past 2 brick walls in Sekiro that were keeping me from progressing in either of the game's 2 timelines. Life is too short for me to waste time even starting a game that I know I won't be able to beat without wasting countless hours on grind and boss fight replays.

Sekiro is significantly harder than any Souls tbf, I really didn't like the game and quite pretty quickly but then again, it wasn't a Souls and personally if it's not Souls then I don't buy FS games. Also just a personal note on Demon Souls, the last game to release (DS Remake) is by and far the easiest Souls of them all. Take it from someone who has thoroughly played this series since importing the Asian version of Demon Souls way back in 2009 it's quite frankly the most accessible Souls title released and dare I say pretty damn easy (I'm really note joking about Pyromancy being ungodly strong) also that 2009 AI logic not touched at all :L