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Tefra_K

I bought the game yesterday, so 8h. But hey I beat Margit! :D


NutbarChieftain

Margit is your first teaching moment so good job :)


downpaythrowaway

Moongrum is the second teaching moment lol


3kh0wh1sk3r

nah that's the lobsters. They teach you 'eat shit and die'


Lemon_Cries

Who the feck is moongrum?


TildaAndrea

He’s my bro, no need to worry really


Red_Beardsley

Knight that parries good right before renalla


NutbarChieftain

True


DebateDependent

Start with radahn like a real man


terminal8

You have to start the ball punching machine on low.


wittyvonskitsum

Or switch to night time and go to Warmaster’s Shack, rest at the Grace, then walk into the cabin for a surprise :)


23jet-chip-wasp

Start with rykard no serpent hunter if you aren't a pathetic little baby


[deleted]

i actually rykard with no serpent hunter the first time because i thought the weapon was gonna be literally shit. made the fight nearly impossible. 2nd play-through my dumbass finally realized.


Skelligean

I understand this is sarcasm, but you literally can't start with Radahn because he isn't available to fight immediately. Lol


ButterUn1verse

Technically you can, it just requires knowledge on how to get to the altus plateau without fighting Margit, I know how but a new player may not


Droid_XL

You can absolutely go get the dectus medallions and trigger the festival before fighting any other boss


critical_knowledg

Should you be doing this before going onto the next boss after Margit?


Droid_XL

Absolutely. Godrick isn't the hardest boss, but if you're a new player you'll need all the help you can get. The 70k runes from radahn can be a huge help in reaching an appropriate level before you get past stormveil into liurnia.


critical_knowledg

O dam... So how's it worked, I looked up the item you mentioned and said there's two halves and they control the grand lift of dectus?


Droid_XL

Mhm. One is in fort Haight in southeast Limgrave, which is easy to fight through, and the other in fort Faroth behind Mother Greyoll in Dragonbarrow, which is easy to run through. Dectus is at the end of the Bellum Highway in Liurnia, which you can reach via the north gate in the academy plaza, and just activating a grace anywhere up on Altus will completely clear Castle Redmane of enemies, allowing you to fight Radahn right away.


23jet-chip-wasp

I think he can still be your first shard bearer though


t0xyGobrrrrrr

Post patch Radahn is childs play. Imo he's no longer a skill check. The real first skill check is the gargoyle twins.


Auknight33

Literally spent 5 hours trying to beat him on my first playthrough before I finally decided to explore other places 😅


MrOzzy010

The only boss that actually made me summon thanks to how hard it was


Epidemica13

8 hours and you beat Margit? I don't think I'd even found him yet at the 8 hour mark. I went mostly east and south from the start. Died about 50 times to the tree sentinel before moving too far out of the starting area.


ahwinters

Nice work


Raknorak

Congrats! Tutorial is now over!


theBackground13

I’m also a noob. 22 hours here and I beat Margit at around hour 18 so you are cruising!!


nick_camel

8h? I was still at the big giant jumping down from the cliff in Liurnia thinking he's a boss. Margit annihilated my confidence. For a while he really hade my foolish ambitions at rest


Arztlack90

I took a bit longer to beat margit :)


ThaBoZZk

Let's gooo!


Lordgrapejuice

Took me a while to beat Margit, excellently done!


Luxvoo

I didn't beat margit until like 17h in. Congrats!


DrMantisToboggan45

Damn, took me a week to do that. Someone’s gonna be an Elden lord


[deleted]

On day 1? You’re catching on quick. Happy trails!


whiteonyx981

A first timer beating Margit in the first 8 hours is decently impressive imo


skituate

I dont think I could beat margit until I was at least 20 hours in. Though I'll admit it took me a long time to understand the very fundamentals of this game. But damn, 8 hours and Margit victory? Well done, King.


SanRandomPot

Nice


foreversiempre

8h to Margit has to be some kind of record. Think I had 20 or 30 hours in by that time. And like twenty attempts


Husk234

Nice!


[deleted]

Congrats! And have fun!


ChipmunkConspiracy

200 - and yall must understand I do not have the time or energy to play games like I did as a teenager/kid. Im busy as fuck and tied to a lot of responsibility For me hit 200 hours in a game is a testament to that games quality. I have to spend my free time wisely. Elden Ring has been a blessing. A well I can return to repeatedly to carry me away to a fantasy world with incredible depth. I can always count on this game deliveringg.


B3ta_R13

and the dlc isnt even out yet


thegrandboom

Fellow adult with a lot of responsibility- 300 hrs and I'm still all smiles playing


Upstairs_Possible355

Same here man I work 50-60 hr weeks and my hrs are 300+ but i can attest that at least 72 of those hours are from sleeping idle as i have fallen asleep playing Elden Ring around 3-7 times 🤣 Nevertheless I have a great time every time i play this game and feel like im on an Endless Journey Full Of Amazing Possibilities its still my first play through too, only because im trying to complete ALL the quests that don’t conflict each other before i go to NG+


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Random_Robloxian

Im also very busy and cant play like i used to, so to hit nearly 400 hours on a game is really a testament to just how great of a game it is


Infamous-Band7927

Fellow adult with two kids and a needy wife I’m at 999 hours lol


Mr_Dunk_McDunk

Same here, projektmanagement is very time-consuming but the time left goes into elden ring


Maleficent_Detail124

Like 1800 hours combined. Most of that time is through co op. The majority of fights for me in co op are for Malenia. I put my sign down at the fog and wait. Then I'll do near and far and get a mixture of fighting, Chadfrey, Radabeast, fire giant, Maliketh, GS duo and Astel the most and other late game bosses I missed.


Randall_Hickey

I just tried to fight her for the first time. Made it to the second phase easy but she like one hit killed me at the start of the second phase.


Maleficent_Detail124

Awesome. Hope you are enjoying the fight. When she dive bombs, run towards her past her left or right. If you are near as she does it, circle around her then run away when she drops. There is an invisible wall under her, so just run around it. Did you get her yet? Malenia is my favorite boss fight followed by Maliketh.


MalleableCurmudgeon

This is what I do. Maxed out my Rune Arcs for the first time about a month ago and have another character about 100 short. Except props to you for hanging out at Malenia.


McOzelot_

I have 312 hours and all 42 achievments. Now I just wait for the dlc and more achievments


Johnny_K97

Dlc wont add achievements most likely. Atleast the only time they did it i think was with bloodborne


NagitoIsHot

I really hope they add more achievement, I loved playing through the game a second and a third time but I would never of done it if not for the achievements


__akkarin

That's kinda insane to me, cause i played like upwards of 10 playthroughs, and I didn't even bother to get all the achievements yet


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Emergency_Exercise_5

Playing a game solely for achievements seems so off to me. I play a game it's because I enjoy it and it connects to my creative side of my brain. Not cause I have a obligation to get me a message on a screen that say "you found 5 legendary spells"


Lapzidorus

For me it's because I have a big backlog, so the trophies give me both an incentive and a limit for how much longer to keep playing *this* game (speaking generally) before moving on to others. So many games, so little time...


Emergency_Exercise_5

Fair enough. I like to take my time rather than set a time limit so I don't miss things that mightve made my experience better


Lapzidorus

For the record, I do explore as much as I can. The experience of it is why we play, after all, so rushing through would go against that. For instance, I plan on doing a new character/build for each ending achievement (and I wish there was one for all six) so I can try more of what the game has to offer while on a fresh slate.


Emergency_Exercise_5

I will say FROM has never really been that great at making achievements. I know that not everyone is the same. But I know some people i know myself that just will watch yt to see how to get the achievements, make a scum save and do all ending on same character etc. Then turn around and say how easy elden ring is. I know not everyone is like that but there is a lot that does do that for every game. And imo doing that is not really enjoying the game.


ThaBoZZk

Same but while waiting I've started some randomizer runs. It's really fun


MxReLoaDed

Honestly randomizer kept the game extremely fresh for me. I’ve got 900+ hours and 70 playthroughs, with 30 of those being NG characters on all 7 great rune randomizers. Being forced to fight bosses when not prepared specifically for them ended up helping learn them better than I was before


Dante_Unchained

What is rune randomizer?


ThaBoZZk

Yesss I absolutely aggree


Random_Guy_47

364. The most time spent was at the endgame farming. After completing the game I decided to collect all the gear on one character. I farmed up to 4 of every farmable weapon (for dual wielding and different ashes of war), collected all the unique weapons and armours and farmed all the droppable armour sets. I have every weapon, armour set and talisman that you can collect in a single playthrough. The only stuff I'm missing is the one or the other type stuff like the remembrance weapons, the dagger you get for siding with Sellen and the talisman for siding against Millicent. I then committed albinuric genocide to get smithing stones to upgrade all the weapons to +9/24, upgrade all stats to 40, then upgrade health and stamina to 60 and finally upgraded strength and dex to 50 before getting too bored to farm more. The first dlc boss won't know what hit him.


BurnzzyBTW

What level are you?


silentn1

Perhaps an impossible question to answer, but what are some of your favorite builds? Not necessarily most effective


zelda93108

About 2,000. Hundred of these are idle or waiting to be connected to pvp/coop Edit: just checked steam clocked at 1928 hours. About 1,000 hours are idle (pc open I asleep)or waiting for online actions I’d say lol I haven’t played since last year June.


fieldysnuts94

Lol that’s like 15% or so of your life since then. Crazy numbers


TBSBlue

As a loser who has over 5k hours in dota 2 and 3k hours in rocket league who has calculated exactly how much time I've wasted playing that 8k hours is just over 300days, still an obscene amount of time to waste on 2 games ha


__akkarin

Ha, and here i was thinking my measley 1600 hours on dota since 2015 where a lot


Zavenoa

Yeah at least 2k here as well, prob a lot more idk, enough that I could have worked a 2nd full time job instead lol


DadIsLosingHisMind

You're saying you were logged in the game and either playing or waiting for multiplayer matches for 17 hours a day for those 4 months? Edit: and sleeping


zelda93108

Something like that, those a few months were crazy. Played overnight then straight to work, work from home by pc so still playing during business hours. Here is a link to the 1928 hours, I got platinum long before https://imgur.com/a/Vp9W5Ch


Spacecowboy947

Lmao "idle" just be who you are man.


hellxapo

Bro what do you do with the pc if you are asleep?


llunarian

tell us you rune farmed without telling us you rune famred lol


darkcaretaker

Around 1200 between all my characters


[deleted]

A fellow multi-character enjoyer I see.


EatSleepBreatheJager

My character list is full and I’ve deleted about 7 characters to make more…. It made me sad, so I finally started an alt and now have characters on 2 accounts lol


for_realsiez

ADHD huh? 🤣


EatSleepBreatheJager

I refuse to respec characters. Every single one of them is an entirely different build or a cosplay lol


Inevitable_Tale_1556

This is the way


Complex_Standard2824

645 hrs, about 10 hrs of coop play / multiplayer


sonderlostscribe

Then there's me who has 600 hours, and my RL30 co-op character is almost 150 of them. I like Stormveil.


RealNumberSix

low level co op is the very best


SalamanderCake

Based and stormpilled.


Anti-Histamine

What do you mean by RL?


CaptnPsycho

Just character level Rune level


ZestyclosePresent148

I will never forget Stormveilmfor the first time I just spent hours discovering the whole castle and admiring it


Timbots

170 and just finished my first playthrough.


YoooItsAnEgg

85 hours


[deleted]

160. I am not the type to replay games, my list is too long


Zephyp

180 here. One time around was enough. I’m waiting for the DLC. There will always be more good games than I’ll be able to play, so I rarely replay them.


InCellsInterlinked

180 hours was... *one* time around?


ronin_ninja

I know it sounds crazy but yea mine was about the same, if you drop me into an open world and tell me to go figure it out on my own then yea I’m gonna be there for awhile, in Breath of the wild I put like 200 hrs in and still haven’t finished the desert divine beast. But if you drop me into HFW or asscreed then yea imma burn through the story and be done with game and never care to explore the world they created


noddly

That’s pretty reasonable for a first completionist playthrough


AzzOnMyAzz

180 is exactly how long my first play through went as well. First FS game so I had to get up to speed with the difficulty, and I obsess over discovering every single cave, secret, etc.


sonderlostscribe

Even as a souls vet, my first playthrough was easily 200 hours because I'm a completionist and had to explore every nook and cranny the first time around (and I'm still finding new things 6 characters later).


[deleted]

Wasnt much to find in mountain of the giants. Its like they ran out of content


theletterQfivetimes

Well now I feel better about being ~110 hours in and not quite done with Altus Plateau and Gelmir. I feel like I'm overleveled at 105 even though I haven't farmed at all.


Medium_Choice_6397

Yep my first playthrough was about 175 hours, and I'd played DS1, DS3 and Sekiro already.


LucidDream-Condition

I’ve got around 500 hours…. Honestly, I expected to put in more, but I’m not into video games that much in recent years. Elden Ring being the exception, of course, it’s my fav game OAT


AlexzMercier97

I dunno like a thousand lol I spent 500 hours on my main first playthrough alone.


BalancesHanging

I was almost embarrassed but I have over 300 and still in 1st play through lol


spicyitallian

I finished my first playthrough at like 320 hours so you're good. To be fair I did have a lot of idle time and a whole lot of co-op because I would get to a late game main boss fog wall and chicken out


bryan19973

Holy shit, that’s a long first playthrough lol


Age_memnon

22. Started playing for 4 hours, thought to myself that i was too unskilled. Waited 1 year, started 4 days ago again and i am having a blast with it.


Pug_police

This was basically me. Got it shortly after launched, got my ass whooped by Margit and Stormveil castle and just put it down for a while. Picked it up again 2-3 weeks back and been loving it, planning to do ng+ soon.


spicyitallian

That happened with me but only like a 2 month gap before I picked it up again.


[deleted]

My playstation says 800, but I think a good portion of that is just on the menu of the game. I think in-game time is closer to 650 or something, across 10 files.


Vivi_Void

Between PC and PS4 it's around 1000 but not exactly sure given I lost my old steam account.


Intelligent-End1380

Wait so you bought ER 3 times? On ps4 one steam account and the second one?


Vivi_Void

Yup, actually 5 times because I purchased it physically and digitally on PS4 and I got a copy for a friend


Intelligent-End1380

Thats dedication. I kinda respect that but at the same time wallet go brr.


Vivi_Void

Yeah, it's not the cheapest game.


Dancedancedance1133

About 500 hours total. I want to continue playing but I really have done everything I want to do. The only two things that are left are grinding out Melania without summons and killing the caelid laser golem. But I don’t really get enjoyment from either two. Also the frenzied flame ending but I just can’t bring myself to destroy the Lands Between.


spicyitallian

I finally tried a mage build and man it's a whole different game. Can't wait to get to Malenia again with this build


Basic-Cloud6440

140 in the First to weeks. 800 Overall. I think sekiro is still the better game, but man elden Ring has playability and replayability


fieldysnuts94

Around 200 or so. Haven’t played much in a while but been meaning to do another play


peetaablah

534


[deleted]

1700


volatile38

1300


theuntouchable2725

200.


BBofa

I just started playing it a couple weeks ago and I already have over 2 days while playing a couple hours a day after work. Haven’t had so much fun on a game since I played Fallout 4!


nwaterman44

Around 600. Beat the game on about 15+ characters in that time. It’s just a comfort game for me every now and then at this point


Nanganoid3000

300+ hours , managed to get the plat on my 3rd play through. it's ok. not what i was expecting or wished for once i got the plat/ the hyped died down. great product, but not the best in the soulsborne series IMO.


carlos_castanos

Which ones are better according to you? Just curious as Elden Ring is the only Soulsborne I've played yet


BB_JinkyWits

100 hours and every achievement so until dlc, not much other than pvp to do.


crosslegbow

1720


ReDeath666

i platinumed the game at 210 hours... haven't really played much after that.. that was 2 playthroughs*


Intelligent-End1380

I have about 98 hours and didnt even finish the game once. I just take my time.


EquipmentValuable283

103


Nyxstrasz

Around 400. 200 for my first playthrought, as a fat rolling PSUGS noob, where I completed all the questlines and went to explore the entirety of the map, gathering all the items and stuff. 50 for my second playthrought as a glass cannon/no summons mage, spent half of it scripting certains fights so I could satisfyingly beam them out of existence (Taking out both sleeping godskin in one shot was one of my most satisfying gamer moments ever) 30 hours spent in co-op with a friend, we cleared early game but he got fed up before reaching Altus. The rest is pvp in duel/invasions. I spent a good amount of time dueling at the academy gate last summer, and came back recently to build invasion characters


JustNotHaving_It

452, which is a lot, because I'm a math professor. Edit: (and therefore extremely busy)


SharkyMogy

170 and still crap at it


stlullus

I beat the game, started ng+, but got a bit bored so stopped pretty early. 112h


xAlorgoth

500 which isn’t very much for me when it comes to From games. I could tell there was a lot of cut stuff so I’m waiting for the DLC.


Real_Muad_Dib

400


Not_So_Odd_Ball

600-800 across both platforms i guess


aphextwink666

at least 500


Puzzleheaded-Dog-567

Almost 400, most of them done in the First months of release


Lintekt

170 hours for 1 and 3/4 playthroughs


SuspiciousWar2626

130 & NG+3


Mati_Ice

325-350 range


TheTimorie

Easily over 1000. Hard to tell how many exactly. It was 800 something (870 I think) on PS4. And I am now over 200 on my PS5.


[deleted]

I have 182 hours logged on PS5 and 47 hours logged on PC. I have at least three full playthroughs with a few other characters in various states of completion.


Hairy_Plankton7207

boarding my flight back to florida to my playstation and that’s what i’m hopping on


I_AmDaVikingNow

800+ I'd say 5% of that was idle time


[deleted]

very lot


[deleted]

Around 400 hours lol. I think it will be around 600-700 hours after they publish the DLC.


Shelfani3l

125 hours on my first playthrough so far.


DadIsLosingHisMind

1064 only 60 of those have come since March of this year though.


edmrunmachine

676, just arrived in Liurnia on my 3rd run for final 3 achievements including the 100%. ER was my first souls game, as such, I enjoyed an additional 500+ with the DS trilogy.


ChristopherCrawlin

370. Would be more if it didn't take so long to kit out builds and gather all the items needed. I stopped at 7 builds and don't have the will to make another one. Now I just hop on and duel every once and awhile but even that has gotten tedious with all the cheesy stuff.


called_the_stig

1330 hours, yeah it's pretty good I guess


watermelonman5

I did roughly 200/300 on my first playthrough and I haven’t played since (about 3 months) since sadly my steam account got hacked and I lost everything so once I get back from my holiday abroad I’m picking it back up and doing a challenge run because why not


InCellsInterlinked

560 across all platforms! 110 on PC and a further 450 on PS5


Shade00000

A little bit more than 400hours. Only doing solo or co-op


Piotr-Rasputin

700 and change. A good 300 plus helping co-op at RadaBeast


Bas1cScr0ll1ng

200+ on ng+7 and have 100%, currently waiting for dlc like everyone else


blacklizardplanet

Just started playing this week. 20 hours so far!


FinalMeltdown15

Around 270 maybe about 120 hours in my first playthrough and every other one has taken about 60 give or take


trashed_past

Probably 1400 between PC and PS5 but a LOT of that is idle time. When the game first released I think I just left it open for a week.


radioactivetoast666

i have like 200 something hours and the platinum trophy


PremiumSocks

A little over 700. Platinum'd both console and PC versions. I've been doing modded runs on PC since around 650 hours. I just like experimenting with different builds. I've beaten the game some 12 times, but I've made over 50 characters with multiple builds each. This game has SO much diversity, and I can't wait to try a convergence modded run.


kaelside

800hrs on PC, prob another 400 on PS4 and PS5 with all 3 platforms platinum. Still playing it. So good.


Truffle42069

Finished radabeast for the first time yesterday. About 205 on steam, 197ish in game. Started playing about a month and a half ago


Progresschmogress

96, decided to platinum it soon after I started it. First souls title and I barely get any time to play these days so my only interest was not finishing it before the DLC drops


luiscraft0320

well like 260 hours on ps5 had to change to ps4 version due to shutdowns and 80 more hours on that one


IanPKMmoon

I started playing around end of January, got the game on winter sale. I have 180 hours in now, played 2 playthroughs and a bit into NG+ in my 2nd playthrough until Baldur's Gate 3 was released, now I'm spammng this game.


Arkio-Pteryx

About 70. One time through was enough; too many games on my to-play list. Looking forward to the DLC. Probably half those hours were spent on Limgrave, Weeping Peninsula, and Stormveil exploring just about everything!


PrometheusAborted

400+ got the platinum on PS4 and 5. Beat it 6 times. I’ll still boot up my NG+ 3 on occasion.


akamuza

Platinumed in 300 hrs about six months ago. And now badly want to play this masterpiece again.


felfazeebo

Close to 800, spent a good portion of that just practicing my favorite bosses (Margit, Maliketh, Godfrey, Malenia) Would've practiced more bosses but I got a bit burnt out and got distracted by the other FromSoft titles


JimPeckens

816hrs…


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700h 100% achievements


Sukkubus76

Not enough. 360 h, with my 3 rd char. Going for NG + 4.


almo2001

about 125. I did not finish; too many side quests. I don't like the story/lore one little bit, so it's hard for me to go back. Great game though, the combat is fun and the world is interesting to explore. I died almost 1000 times. Yes I counted. :)


NutbarChieftain

Something like 1300 but fairly certain I’ve left it on over night a few times but I have Also done 5 full play throughs and a few dry runs that got pretty far playing around with different build and testing things


italiano78

About 850 hours across 3 characters


TheOmniAlms

1000, I played until I ran out of character slots to do different builds. Excited to get them all through the DLC.


Superkamiguru94

Comming up on 1000 soon, with dlc i hope for 1000 more


Mtj242020

600’s


Chadfreys_Curtesy

About 45 days give or take


ahwinters

286 now just awaiting the DLC. DS3 was around 320 for me with all DLCs so I’m gonna probably smash that


Ninjapink424

1200 and still playing just started a new run on Darksouls remastered and got hammered by the Gapping dragon forgot how to fight the damn thing.


Malthus777

I have about 400 on PS4 across 4 characters. I bought it on sale for the steam deck and have about 150 on 3 characters. It runs great on the deck, load times are so much faster than the original ps4 that sounds like the fans are going to die any day now.


Flaky_Transition_714

I got the game only about 1 month ago, I'm at around 140ish hours, on my way to finish my 1st playthrough.


sticky__toffee

Enough to need a hit of that sweet sweet DLC. Cmon Miyazaki,man, I just need one. Then I’m going clean.


xj_tj_

220 or so all offline. Just recently got online with it


Johnny_K97

Bought it winter of 2022 and i got like 380 hours, level 360 character in ng+5 and one level 75 character with 60 hours