This Week In Elden Ring: 19 Minute Speedruns, Beating Bosses Without Fighting, And Raising Money For Ukraine
It's been a really tough week. I feel defeated all the time. I can't think of anything besides my impending doom. In unrelated news I started playing Elden Ring. It seems this week we've learned that no matter how tough a game is, players will find a way to cheese through it. Oh, and George R. R. Martin is not as vain as we thought.
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Martin wrote the initial lore and created some characters for Elden Ring. But before Miyazaki twisted his work into shocking nightmares, a fan theory suggested that all the Demigods in the game were named after Martin's initials – G.R.R.M. However, Martin has since denied this theory.
"Oh, and as long as I am setting stuff straight, there’s a weird story all over the internet about how I ‘hid’ my initials in Elden Ring because… ah… some of the characters have names beginning with R or G or M. To which I say ‘eh? What? Really?’ he said via a note on his blog page. "Coming up with names is hard, especially since A Song of Ice & Fire uses so many of them,” he further explained. “I am fond of giving family members and close kin names that have something in common… but really, why would I have to hide my name inside the game?"
It took me over 25 minutes along with advice from the editors at TheGamer to even select a class for Elden Ring, but some people have finished the game in less time than that. Distortion2 has been zooming across The Lands Between using a method called the Zip Glitch.
They've used the glitch to complete an any% run of the game first in under an hour then 49 minutes, then reduced to 33 minutes, then 28:59 minutes, 25 minutes and 29 seconds, the current record stands at eighteen minutes and fifty eight seconds. The
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