My boyfriend wouldn’t stop playing Elden Ring until I beat him at it – Reader’s Feature

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A reader explains how Godrick the Grafted and Elden Ring’s high difficulty almost caused a rift in an otherwise happy relationship.

On HowLongToBeat it says that Elden Ring’s main story can be beaten in 49 hours. How they came to this figure is a mystery to me but if there’s any normal player – not one of these speedrunning types – that has done it in less than 100 hours I’d be very surprised, because I’ve never met one. And it certainly isn’t my boyfriend.

I won’t be naming names, for obvious reasons, but he’s a keen gamer. Or rather I guess he’s a hardcore gamer and I’m the one that’s keen. I play them quite a bit, mostly survival horror and games like Uncharted and God Of War. Neither comes around that much, and I don’t have that much spare time, so open world games and Soulsborne games I don’t usually bother with, as I know I probably won’t have time to beat them or see them in their entirety.

My boyfriend, let’s call him Dan, is a big fan of FromSoftware though, and I can understand why. I love the look of their games and I appreciate the lack of compromise that goes into the way they make them, with the high difficulty and lack of hand-handling. It doesn’t really fit with how much leisure time I have spare, but I wouldn’t want them to change – and I doubt they will now Elden Ring has been such a big hit.

Although Dan is a big games fan I wouldn’t say he was particularly skilled at them. He’s really good at fighting games, but beyond that I’d say he’s fairly average skill level. He’s generally a bit better than me at most things and a lot better at Street Fighter 5. Unfortunately, maining Cammy doesn’t really help with Elden Ring and I have watched him die again and again, which is frustrating as I know I wouldn’t do