The first time I played Elden Ring I walked out, talked to Varre, listened to that chicken fried bitch talk shit about me, and smacked the shit out of him.

Then he killed me. Repeatedly. Embarrassingly badly. I had to start a new game just to progress and you bet your ass I walked softly around him the next time. I had never played a FromSoft game before and had been out of gaming for years when I picked it up. I thought he was a training mob that talked shit.