Today is GeoffCon, which has caught me by surprise. I knew it was coming up because Ian was going to it, but I thought it was next week. It was not. He’s almost on his way now (flight delays. He was supposed to go yesterday) and will be there for the next few days. The conference itself is now, but there is a whole host of things happening outside GeoffCon itself.
Last year, this was when the official Elden Ring release trailer dropped. It was the last thing at the con and generated so. much. hype. It had been leak ahead of time, and my stomach sank with each announcement.
Side note: I realized a while ago that I don’t like video games in general. It’s how I am with pop culture–I don’t like 99% of it. It’s just uninteresting to me. I’m watching GeoffCon right now (with Oxboxtra) and am only waiting for Elden Ring DLC. No, it was not announced, but Ian suggested it and I cannot get it out of my mind. So far, there’s been an Aliens game and the game by the Dead Space creator.
I. Could. Not. Care. Less. Both are sci-fi in which I have no interest. I didn’t like Dead Space after playing maybe an hour of it. It’s just of no interest to me.
My brother and I have a long-standing joke about how he’s all sci-fi and I’m all fantasy. But he’s anti-aliens. He just like futuristic worlds–but no aliens! Which I think it odd, but he can shine on. I, on the other hand, am very much a fantasy person. I’m currently into urban fantasy, which I have been informed is a dead genre.
Anyway. Once Ian mentioned Elden Ring DLC, I could not get it out of my mind. Geoff has said that this year is going to be more about what has been already announced and less surprises, but who could blame him for closing it out with a trailer for Elden Ring DLC?
Speaking of, I’m racing through it at breakneck speed (for me) in order to get the plat. I just have to get one of the canonical bland boring normal endings (plus Elden Ring, which is getting all the trophies) in order to get it. I think it’s hilarious that I need the normal ending to get the plat because that’s the one I would usually get first.
But. I put in 200+ hours into the first playthrough. I knew of the different endings. I didn’t seek them out, but it’s nearly impossible to miss if you’re looking in the forums at all. There’s a point in the game of no return–after which you get cut off from an area. you’re told to get things done before doing a certain thing if you want to get your plat. So I did all those things. And I backed up my save. And did everything I was told I needed to do in order to get the plat in one playthrough.