God dammit. I’m honestly kinda annoyed by the near impossibility of doing, completing, or even knowing about quests without reading 10 pages of text from a random blog.
I totally get why they don’t hand hold. I don’t want hand holding. This type of questing works great in Dark Souls because it’s linear. It doesn’t work at all in an open world like Elden ring. I love Elden ring and give it a 10/10, but I still wish you could, idk take a fucking note lol. Like why the hell can’t your character save a note after he talks to an npc? Is he illiterate? I’m not asking for a “go here talk to this person then do this”. Just a “hey you talked to X NPC, and they said THIS”
Otherwise I miss 95% of the NPCs, and I wouldn’t complete a single quest without guides. Maybe a couple simple ones but that’s it. I’ve put 100 hours into this game and haven’t seen or heard of half the things people talk about and all I do is explore lol.
Gonna have to beat the game 10 times just to do half of the side quests. That or just follow guides like a psycho. And following guides is literally the exact same thing as hand holding, but with an extra step.
There’s gotta be a middle ground is all I’m saying. I don’t want map markers and waypoints. But I could use a fucking progress tracker.
They won’t change it tho lol. And I’ll keep playing their games and loving them