r/Eldenring • u/lizzied23 • Jan 12 '24

My Boyfriend bet me $500 that I couldn’t beat Elden ring in 6 months with little to no video game experience. Humor

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The rules of the bet:

  1. No magic
  2. Only Melee
  3. No farming for runes
  4. Have to beat the entire game by June, 6th, 2024

I am currently on the last boss of the game with 89 hours played. I hope the last boss doesn’t take me 5 months. 😂

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

No magic is kind of a stupid rule imo. If it’s in the game then it should be fair use.

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u/Bored_FBI_Agent Jan 12 '24

should’ve replace no magic with no summons

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u/JDario13 Jan 12 '24

Yeah, without knowledge, magic is harder to understand than summons.

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u/Smart-Potential-7520 Jan 12 '24

I can see the logic behind it: Magic + summons is op, meanwhile banning summons would be unreasonably hard for a non gamer/casual.

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u/PRADAZOMBIES Jan 12 '24

It’s a 500 dollar bet it was supposed to be unreasonably hard. any casual can beat this game with summons

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u/BytchYouThought Jan 13 '24

Many dudes would literally hand their girl $500 today if they could get them into gaming like this dude did. The ooole bait n switch. You missed the bigger picture.

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u/PRADAZOMBIES Jan 13 '24

Bet sucks either way you look at it

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u/DepartmentPast2691 Jan 12 '24

If you place no summons i dont think a new player can finish it, well 6 months is a lot of time but wouldnt finished it in 1 month, i mean it took me way over 150h to finish ny playthrough... again, killing every single fucker i could find, killed every single main boss and malrnia but.. still.

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u/Xiao1insty1e Jan 12 '24

Uh no this is just as stupid a rule as any other they could make up.

He intentionally set up the "bet" to be extremely difficult and unnecessarily so for a rookie player.

No summons is just more of the same, being a dick just because you can.

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u/thrownawayzsss Jan 12 '24

It's a 500$ bet with rules in place. It's supposed to be hard. Otherwise there's no point in the bet, lol.

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u/Xiao1insty1e Jan 13 '24

ER is already incredibly difficult for regular gamers but to add additional restrictions for someone who doesn't play is just being a dick.

Also why is a bet ostensibly to get her to play "supposed to be hard"?

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u/thrownawayzsss Jan 13 '24

Also why is a bet ostensibly to get her to play "supposed to be hard"?

because they wanted it to be.

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u/BlacklightSpear Jan 12 '24

So stupidly difficult that she has learned the game, is having fun and is probably getting the money?

Guess you need to get some summons or to get a gf. Either way a skill issue.

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u/pm-me-your-labradors Jan 12 '24

I mean… yeah… that’s what “challenge” means…

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u/Xiao1insty1e Jan 13 '24

Where does her post say 'challenge'?

Just because you would be cool with it don't make it cool

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u/pm-me-your-labradors Jan 13 '24

A bet with a difficult thing to do is called a challenge.

Just because you are not cool with it doesn’t make it uncool

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u/Xiao1insty1e Jan 13 '24

... you are putting a very specific definition on challenge it doesn't have and who gives a Fuck if it was or wasn't.

Yeah I'm not cool with being a dick just because you can.

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u/pm-me-your-labradors Jan 13 '24

Yes, that was a super “specific” definition of the word challenge. Downright niche…

You need to chill

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u/Masakiel Jan 12 '24

For 500$ pretty fair rule. Most likely even helped op, since you cannot rely on it, and have to learn to roll.

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u/Beat_Writer Jan 12 '24

$500 ain’t that much

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u/Unfortunate_Grenade Jan 12 '24

It is for some

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u/Beat_Writer Jan 12 '24 edited Jan 12 '24

Not if you have an abundance mindset

Edit: i see that the sense of entitlement is very high here. No wonder $500 is a lot to many people

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u/Spider-Flan Jan 12 '24

🤡

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u/Beat_Writer Jan 12 '24

Is that a compliment in your country? Thank you.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

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u/RichEvans4Ever Jan 12 '24

I have an abundance mindset, now give me $500. After all, it’s not much.

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u/Beat_Writer Jan 12 '24

No problem. I’ll PM you

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u/RichEvans4Ever Jan 12 '24

Damn 5 hours and no PM. I was hoping he’d be petty enough to do it. No $500 for me 😔

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u/Beat_Writer Jan 13 '24

😂 maybe next time I’ll be petty enough.

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u/yaya-pops Jan 12 '24

you about to have an abundance of my foot in your ass

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u/HeavyMetalMonk888 Jan 12 '24

You're the one putting your entitlement on display buddy.

I work with people facing eviction and/or water shutoff to help pay rent/utilities to (hopefully) help them keep a roof over their head. For many, $500 is quite literally a drastically life changing amount of money. Telling people they should just imagining that it isn't is the absolute height of privelege.

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u/Zefirus Jan 12 '24

And it's not like 500 bucks isn't a lot of money to even people that have decent money. I make six figures and I'd hesitate to drop 500 bucks on anything because it's still a pretty significant amount of money.

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u/HeavyMetalMonk888 Jan 12 '24

Yeah this guy is delusional. I committed the reddit cardinal sin of snooping his post history a bit - dude does not live in reality whatsoever.

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u/Unfortunate_Grenade Jan 12 '24

Explain what an abundance mindset is for me.

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u/Beat_Writer Jan 12 '24

It’s pretty self explanatory. What does abundance mean to you? What does mindset mean?

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u/Unfortunate_Grenade Jan 12 '24

If I go off of only that name, it sounds like a state of mind where you want a lot of things. It's a pretty ambiguous couple of words together. Lots of different meanings it could translate to with more context, so that's why I asked.

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u/Beat_Writer Jan 12 '24

Close. It’s similar to karma.

It’s a mindset that as long as you continue to work on a goal you’ll eventually have success despite the initial failures. In a more laymen description.

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u/Unfortunate_Grenade Jan 12 '24

I mean that's not wrong, continuing to work on something will make you better at it and thus more likely to succeed. Not sure how that connects to money though. It's not like all you need to get tons of money is gumption and effort. It helps for sure but i that'd all it took there would still be a middle class

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u/The3lusiveMan Papa Palpy Jan 12 '24

Just because you think about having 500 bucks doesnt mean you automatically magically have 500 bucks poopdick.

Manifestation doesnt work with currency that way unfortunately.

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u/loyal_dunmer Jan 12 '24

I can't decide if this dude is on some andrew tate shit or manifesting like Oprah

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

Honestly prob both will having a balance of less than $500 in his bank account:

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u/russsaa Jan 12 '24

So then it's not a mindset lmao. Its a financial situation

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u/ElkDuck2 Jan 12 '24

So you think we're entitled because we think 500 is a decent amount of money?

Who is entitled? You spoiled brat.

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u/Top-Report-840 Jan 12 '24

People have stolen and killed for less

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u/Beat_Writer Jan 12 '24

And more. What’s ur point.

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u/Top-Report-840 Jan 12 '24

That you're posturing on social media for some odd reason, like you wouldn't take $500

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u/LiveStreamDream Jan 12 '24

Well feel free to send me some then if you got money to blow

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u/Beat_Writer Jan 12 '24

I ain’t given out free handouts here

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u/kameksmas Jan 12 '24

Sounds like you have an abundance problem.

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u/Beat_Writer Jan 12 '24

You’re misinterpreting the meaning.

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u/John_EldenRing51 Jan 12 '24

500 dollars is a lot of money for most people lmao

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u/TheButterPlank Turtle pope is only pope Jan 12 '24

I mean it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?

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u/Darkwoth81Dyoni Jan 12 '24

By and large, most people don't even have $500 to cover a random expense, let alone a bet.

$500 is months of spare change, for me.

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u/ElkDuck2 Jan 12 '24

Okay, send me 500 bucks. It ain't much.

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u/jld2k6 Jan 12 '24 edited Jan 12 '24

Give me fair conditions for a playthrough for $500 and I'll restart my first one lol (my first souls game)

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u/Sacciel Jan 12 '24

I would even say that when talking about the first run, magic builds are harder than melee builds.

She can't farm, which means she won't be leveled enough to reach the soft caps required to have an OP magic build. She won't even get the OP spells since they are pretty hidden. Meanwhile, op melee weapons like bloodhound fang or greatsword are way easier to find and use.

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u/tollboothwilson Jan 12 '24

All those rules for a newbie are bullshit tbh…let them play the game however they want, that’s kinda the whole point of the game.

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u/Skul1_2 Jan 12 '24

I mean there are 500 $ on the line, if it was just for the experience of the game I'd agree, but with the bet in place I can understand having some rules.

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u/alt266 Jan 12 '24

A $500 bet between bf and gf. It's clearly not a super serious bet, and (op would have to confirm this) there might not be any consequences for failing to finish the game. I could understand a "no following a guide" or "no using a wiki" but locking sections of the game away is kind of lame (plus pure str is easier than magic fight me)

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u/Homitu Jan 12 '24

I would think the spirit of the bet between the bf and gf is simply to coax the gf into participating in BF's gaming hobby. Just getting her to play is the win.

If that assumption is correct, then I'd think he'd want her to have as much fun as possible to facilitate her potential continued enjoyment of gaming. Seems really weird to impose additional restrictions that could make the experience considerably less fun for OP. Half the fun of ER is playing with all the fun tools you discover!

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

What’s fun about elden ring is making a character that you like, locking out sorceries and faith spells is kinda like locking out half the game.

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u/Smart-Potential-7520 Jan 12 '24

You're locked out of 3/4 of the stuff that you pick up during the game because they will be unusable on your build.

Plus if you're new to the genre melee-only offers a better learning curve.

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u/TwatsThat Jan 12 '24

Even if that were true, it's the player that's choosing what they do or don't want to focus on based on their own experience and enjoyment, not someone else just barring them ever experiencing a significant portion of the game.

It's also not true that you get locked out of that stuff because you can always just start leveling up other stats or even do a full respec.

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u/sammidavisjr Jan 12 '24

I'm viewing the bet as kind of a loss leader/fake drug dealer type situation. The $500 and no sorcery is just for the first playthrough to get you hooked. Of course you're going to try magic the next time around.

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u/ConcertCareless6334 Jan 12 '24

Honestly. What if OP just likes magic?

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u/Smart-Potential-7520 Jan 12 '24

Nothing prevents them from playing the game again with a magic build.

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u/ConcertCareless6334 Jan 12 '24

I'm aware. Just saying the rules feel like the bf went "wait this bet is actually not that difficult" so he added arbitrary stipulations which fuck up your first (aka most formative) playthrough by amputating entire systems

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u/Smart-Potential-7520 Jan 12 '24

It's not a big deal. You can't experience everything on a single playthrough anyway.

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u/Machinegunmonke Jan 12 '24

Yeah my first play through I did the Unga bunga Gatsu from berk Greatsword strength build. I enjoyed the game just fine and continued to enjoy it more with my subsequent arcane and int builds. It's perfectly fine so long as you enjoy whatever build you use.

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u/shmimey Jan 12 '24

I agree. What is considered magic? Ash of war might be magic. Buffs?

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u/SpartanJAH Jan 12 '24

I'd say whatever bullshit Melina does to turn runes to strength is magic, hope they don't like leveling up. We gonna act like torrent isn't a magical horse that you summon out of thin air with a magical item? Hope they don't accidentally use one of the magic teleporters or it's game over ig.

It's memes but the lands between is inherently magical id say

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u/VHDT10 Jan 12 '24

Same with farming

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u/DankRoughly Jan 13 '24

Yeah, what constitutes farming? Not allowed to explore and kill shit? Or just no repeating the same spot again and again?

Kinda hard to enforce

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

If it’s in the game then it should be fair use.

No, no it definitely shouldn't be lol. Especially not in a bet that you agreed to the terms of.

Soooooo many games have balance issues. It just so happens that OP's case is not one of them, so its a strange rule of the bet.

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u/SonicFlash01 Jan 12 '24

They're all dumb rules imo

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain Jan 13 '24

The only rule I'd put in is no summons since I think they're overpowered and ruin the feeling of progression on boss fights. Even in my first playthrough I think I robbed myself of a lot of fun, because my summon would tank the boss and I'd just wreck them with the huge damage windows provided by the summon.

Almost every boss fight felt the same since I wasn't interacting with the bosses. Every fight was summon my mimic, then hit boss in the back until dead.

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u/-Googlrr Jan 12 '24

If the bet is to beat the game the rule should just be to beat the game. Seems like the typical souls player mentality that anything that isn't just taking a sword and rolling around is cheesing or not playing the game right lol

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u/Sproketz Jan 12 '24

Yeah, that arbitrary rule makes me think he's kind of a dick.

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u/Shinnyo Jan 12 '24

Yeah, some games are designed to let you find stuff meant to broke the game and have you feel powerful.

There's also very strong weapons as well that makes the game very easy.

So if the plan was to avoid OP getting broken stuff, it fantasticly failed.

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u/jamieaka Jan 12 '24

rule should just have been no magic kiting, summons or cheesy 1 shot setups. thats what people really mean when they think of magic ez mode

most of magic itself is completely fine and arguably less easy than strength builds with powerful AoW spam

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u/Ghastion Jan 12 '24

To be fair, he probably just wants her to experience the game like the average Souls-player would. Most noobs would pick magic at the beginning because it seems like it would make the game easier (and it technically does) but it also complicates things and potentially makes it more clunky. I don't blame him for saying "go Strength build" because that is usually the tried and true FromSoft experience.

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u/BONDxUNLEASHED Jan 12 '24

We only unga and bunga in this house!