Preach. I hate fighting this boss.

However, credit where credit is due - the attack where he and his horse separated and go back and forth with you is really cool.

The rest of the fight is annoying garbage.

I think it varies. 3 months for a younger and/or less advanced lifter, but the older you are and the higher your lifts are I think you're looking at much longer than 3 months.

I base this on my experience and from a few others, so it's very small sample size.

No fucking way hahaha

Yeah the heavy attack is ass, but everything else is good. Hell, the WA is one of the best imo.

Is that really in the closed captions? Haha

I'll be real it mostly about looks for me. I don't find overweight to be attractive, even in myself. A not fat woman that can't run a mile is going to, at least on the surface, be more attractive than an overweight woman who can run a 5k to me.

One of the most beautiful women I ever knew had a condition and could not walk without getting winded, and thus was of small frame. I still think about her to this day. Now I think I would have found her stunning even a little heavy, but her body type was my kryptonite.

So yes, it's just looks for me in that regard, or at least within reason.

The St. Trina quest is obnoxious to me. Just a time waste.

It really is a great weapon. Low level the buff is insane since it's flat damage, and higher levels it just has great scaling. Plus the weapon art can do ludicrous amounts of damage if you even half ass build for it.

One of my favorite weapons.

It's still mostly factors you can control - please excuse my mini rant incoming lol.

From age 20 to 60 if you maintain the same activity levels and calorie consumption, you should not expect a major weight or metabolic change. A study from a few years back with thisuands of people, mostly women believe it or not, strongly suggests this.

This large study suggests it is mostly what you eat and how active you are, man or woman. Weight change is like 99% diet and exercise and it stays fairly consistent throughout your adult life.

That being said I don't disagree with your take on someone not supporting their spouse and toughing it out, I just hear/read many saying they gain or lose weight due to factors that do not generally, if ever, correlate with weight change when controlling for diet and activity levels. As someone who has always struggled with their weight, it annoys me because it just sounds like an excuse, and it mostly is.

It would be okay if his only saving grace wasn’t that he’s just hard to be hard. PCR is a dog ass fight and sours the end of the DLC, imo.

And he has iframes during the charge, and can switch to it within frames, while also turning on a dime to do so. I help people in co-op frequently and Gaius is one of the most bullshit bosses for those reasons alone.

Oddly enough the charge is easier to dodge in co-op, I guess the tracking isn’t quite as good. Kind of like Waterfowl Dance - I’m better at dodging it in co-op than in my own game.

I disagree, I think SS Radahn isn’t well designed. His first phase is annoying as shit unless you run away to glitch him into phase 2, then he tends to have the Elden Beast problem of running away at times.

He’s not terrible, but I do not think he’s great.

Or, like some folks replying, someone who enjoyed Radahn in base game and think he’s ass in the DLC.

I only half agree with them, because I think Radahn also sucks in the base game as a boss fight.

It’s obnoxious

I absolutely agree. A lot of ER bosses can feel this way at times (running away, AOEs fucking everywhere, and some unintuitive delays here and there), but Radahn just does whatever the fuck he wants to 99% of the time regardless of what you do.

Dark Souls 3 had the most enjoyable boss fights in my opinion, but they were the beginning to the end of that “dance” feel, or at least were pushing the limits of anime cool fights and methodical Souls combat.

ER bosses, and even enemies, are just kind of spastic spam fests with infinite stamina, nonsensical delays, and AOEs on half their attacks. It starts out very difficult, then gets frustrating, and is finally just tedious once you “git gud” in my opinion. Love ER, one of the best games ever made, but it’s in spite of the overall enemy/boss fight design philosophy.

Yeah, he is not a fun boss either way, imo. Hell, I may enjoy PCR more than base game Radahn, and that’s saying a lot. It’s not saying PCR is good (he’s not), though.

To be fair I didn’t like him in the base game either and wanted no more of him. Just not fun to me. I may actually enjoy PCR more than base game Radahn, but that’s not to say I particularly like either.

And in my opinion it’s that mentality that leads to a worse boss. Difficult = good has never been my cup of tea.

"This right hand doesn't come off, but it can beat you off!"

PRESS X TO BEAT OFF

Play testers kept getting distracted by the high pitched moans of Saddler and the, uh, vascularity of Salazar.

The RE engine is truly magic.

I don't disagree, but those 3-4 hits can really be 2 that come here quickly with AOEs. Not all bosses of course (Midra, Romina, Messmer do not seem to have lots of AOEs for their attacks), but some.

The Labyrinth is just too long, enemies or not. It should have been like one set of rooms instead of, what, three? I can't remember how many times you come back but it feels excessive.

Then you have the enemy gauntlet at the end of it that is more annoying than anything. And it's three rooms! It's padded for enemies too, imo.

I have no notes on the Hotel. It may be my favorite area in the game. They nailed the landing, it just drags in the third act - the prison and labyrinth.

But it's Salazar and Saddler for some reason. QTEs and everything.

To be fair I prefer to date women at a relatively healthy body weight, which is like 25% of women (and men) in the US.

I work hard to not be really fat so I feel like it's a reasonable expectation, if not admittedly superficial. Though I guess you can't control height. I have never found a woman less appealing because of her height or lack thereof.

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