"Another shitty open world"?
Where did I miss that they showed off what the open world was gonna be like in this game?
How do people already know it's gonna suck?
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Elden Ring announced (FromSoftware's largest game to date, Hidetaka Miyazaki x George R.R Martin, PS4/XBO/PC)
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Where did I miss that they showed off what the open world was gonna be like in this game?
How do people already know it's gonna suck?
I don't enjoy open worlds as a general rule. There are very, very few exceptions (Spider-Man, Just Cause 2, MGSV) to that rule, and I don't think From will be able to join that very small list because what makes an open world enjoyable to me is the ability to either A) do incredibly stupid things in the world or B) traverse the world in non-standard and entertaining ways rather than riding a horse or car around ad nauseum.
With every other AAA release being open world this gen and how most of those games ended up being so dull and boring as shit I think people have a pre conceived notion of it, which in Elden Ring's case is wrong IMO.
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Ikr. Exciting as hell seeing what they come up with. Probably a bit smaller in scale than your average AAA open world but I trust FROM with my life at this point lol.
when they say they are doing their take of open world I can only imagine something similar to Dark Souls, more like open area and not the western take of open world.
I don't see them doing a full blown open world.
Also at this point I feel gamescom is too soon for them showing it, now I'm thinking more TGS
I don't see them doing a full blown open world.
Also at this point I feel gamescom is too soon for them showing it, now I'm thinking more TGS
There's supposed to be horse riding so it's gonna be more open than Dark Souls. Doesn't have to be as open as most open worlds this gen though.
Yeah it might as well be confirmed
didn't miyazaki already confirmed online multimplayer similar to DS on the interview? I thought I already read that from him.
I mean, we heard that sure but that could mean just a bigger firelink shrine lol. I'm not so sure even if the horse riding is confirmed.
I mean, we heard that sure but that could mean just a bigger firelink shrine lol. I'm not so sure even if the horse riding is confirmed.
never mind then! let's see their take, because they already said it won't be in a traditional fashion and it would be more of a take of OW in the from team.
Seeing the news about horse riding and the wide open world, I have been thinking that the Scotland/UK thing could be taken more literally: perhaps that is what the landscape looks like? Scotland is pretty cold and bleak looking, with dramatic sea cliffs and ruins rising from the landscape. In many ways, it resembles the quintessential fantasy landscape, but It also has qualities that are quite specific that more generalised 'fantasylands' lack.
Bonus Berserk/Scotland connection: the entrance to the cave of the Sea God seems to be inspired by Fingal's cave
Bonus Berserk/Scotland connection: the entrance to the cave of the Sea God seems to be inspired by Fingal's cave
Lmao best post. Also you are basically describing Dark Souls 1.
Not too bad, just makes me wish I had the free time to do that stuff again! I remade the first Halo 4 soundtrack reveal that was in the background of a vidoc back in the day. But nowadays I feel super guilty when I open up my DAW and don't work on something that could make me money!
Seeing the news about horse riding and the wide open world, I have been thinking that the Scotland/UK thing could be taken more literally: perhaps that is what the landscape looks like? Scotland is pretty cold and bleak looking, with dramatic sea cliffs and ruins rising from the landscape. In many ways, it resembles the quintessential fantasy landscape, but It also has qualities that are quite specific that more generalised 'fantasylands' lack.
Bonus Berserk/Scotland connection: the entrance to the cave of the Sea God seems to be inspired by Fingal's cave
Yessss that's exactly what I'm hoping for. Plus some druid inspired magic and/or class, but it seems more like knights and gods.
I've gotta go visit Scotland though. Added to the list.
What sort of symbol is the logo derived from anyway, almost looks more like an alchemical symbol than an anglo-saxon rune or celtic knot
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From reddit, one of those fanfics? It's a long one. Tons of info and ideas directly from this thread.
This sounds fucking awesome, hope it's real. I wonder if Omni will chime in.
Most likely. It's probably fake but I liked the sound of a lot of that.
Calling BS on this one. I thought Omni shut down rumors about norse stuff?
I think he shut down the rumors saying that it's completely norse mythos. I don't think we should completely rule it out it could still have elements from it. That leak sounds like it combined previous 4chan rumours with Omni's posts into a fanfic, I don't buy it yet.
Hopefully, he usually drop bombs in those Japanese interviews.
Would you "speculate" a bit more on the game? (¬‿¬)Hopefully we get a Famitsu interview with Miyazaki soon
Seeing the news about horse riding and the wide open world, I have been thinking that the Scotland/UK thing could be taken more literally: perhaps that is what the landscape looks like? Scotland is pretty cold and bleak looking, with dramatic sea cliffs and ruins rising from the landscape. In many ways, it resembles the quintessential fantasy landscape, but It also has qualities that are quite specific that more generalised 'fantasylands' lack.
Bonus Berserk/Scotland connection: the entrance to the cave of the Sea God seems to be inspired by Fingal's cave
Just a quick post to say thanks for realising that Scotland is not just the Highlands and Islands - the third picture down of Melrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders made me a very happy person. The only other time - I think - the Scottish Borders has been mentioned in games is that there's an area of GTA 5 called Hawick which is a small Scottish town in the Borders.
Not that I know.
They were really banking on this reveal to thrive on the Miyazaki x Martin collab announcement, it seems. Shame about that part getting leaked. Imagine expecting a FROM game this E3 and after "Miyazaki" you get "Martin". Bam.
So the rumored pre E3 event by bamco was real in the end? If so, what was it? Code vein? Tales?
I hope they let at least the press play this at gamescom apart from showing gameplay or a gameplay trailer so we get info and impressions too, but yes, it's clear there's nothing more than speculation until then at the earliest.
I hope they let at least the press play this at gamescom apart from showing gameplay or a gameplay trailer so we get info and impressions too, but yes, it's clear there's nothing more than speculation until then at the earliest.
Does anyone know what is going on with this IGN exclusive interview from E3? It seems like its broken up into really small snippets, each one ending with a request to tune in for more info later. Is it not all available in one place so I know that I've seen everything?
These "leaks" are getting really tiresome.
It's as though everyone thinks they can get a little bit of the limelight by calling their post a "leak" rather than simply "speculation".
That post above reads like a mish-mash of everything rumoured so far, with a little help from the minimal info gleamed from E3 interviews. And the worst thing is, they use that official info to promote their own bland, unimaginative ideas, working it in so it all seems organic and believable. It's pretty pathetic.
Seriously, these people need to stop trying so hard. All this name dropping and referencing existing mythology or Norse/Celtic folklore is so lame. From never dumps that stuff in their games as-is, and even if there was some inspiration, that sort of info would probably never make its way far enough down the food chain to be picked up by some bottom-feeding 4chan lurking staffer.
Basically, fuck off "leakers", whether you legitimately know something or not.
Just stfu and let the devs/pubs/games speak for themselves. No one will know who you are, or care about you, or give a shit about what you said once the game is out. So please just go away.
It's as though everyone thinks they can get a little bit of the limelight by calling their post a "leak" rather than simply "speculation".
That post above reads like a mish-mash of everything rumoured so far, with a little help from the minimal info gleamed from E3 interviews. And the worst thing is, they use that official info to promote their own bland, unimaginative ideas, working it in so it all seems organic and believable. It's pretty pathetic.
Seriously, these people need to stop trying so hard. All this name dropping and referencing existing mythology or Norse/Celtic folklore is so lame. From never dumps that stuff in their games as-is, and even if there was some inspiration, that sort of info would probably never make its way far enough down the food chain to be picked up by some bottom-feeding 4chan lurking staffer.
Basically, fuck off "leakers", whether you legitimately know something or not.
Just stfu and let the devs/pubs/games speak for themselves. No one will know who you are, or care about you, or give a shit about what you said once the game is out. So please just go away.
That leak sounds like they took Omni's word spaghetti, all the posts from people trying to decipher it and then taking various other bits from all the other past leaks plus the Deracine tidbit to make it into one whole thing.
Nice touch on using past gameplay elements and sticking those in, it's what From do all the time but it would have been so easy to come up with crazy stuff sucker people in....and made the leak more interesting.
On that note, I just realized why I (and so many other people) was disappointed at the reveal was we were expecting something more from the actual reveal after a week of teases leading up to the show but for From and Bamco, it would have been the first time we would have known about the game so in that sense just putting out a CG trailer first made more sense.
The expectation of hoping to see more than a CG trailer was not warranted, is what I mean to say.
Nice touch on using past gameplay elements and sticking those in, it's what From do all the time but it would have been so easy to come up with crazy stuff sucker people in....and made the leak more interesting.
Yeah. Thinking about it now, seeing those 2 suddenly come up in a E3 trailer reel would have blown everyone's collective minds.
On that note, I just realized why I (and so many other people) was disappointed at the reveal was we were expecting something more from the actual reveal after a week of teases leading up to the show but for From and Bamco, it would have been the first time we would have known about the game so in that sense just putting out a CG trailer first made more sense.
The expectation of hoping to see more than a CG trailer was not warranted, is what I mean to say.
I don't understand this idea that minds being blown in a conference (which is followed by a bunch of other trailers) offers better visibility for the game than a leak that was reported everywhere and came out with plenty of time in advance letting people fully process it. I feel like proper studies need to be done on this, I really can't see leaks as being a bad thing for the developer.
I guess the counter point would be cases where there is a lot of buzz/hype around a product that dissipates by the time the product actually arrives. If leaks are before a product is ready to be shown, it could lead to this happening. Mind you this is far from exclusive to leaks and happens with many non-leaked products so who knows.
I sort of wish I hadn't known anything about the game before watching the trailer. Personally, I was a bit disappointed at the end of it since we didn't really get any concrete details other than confirmation of the actual collaboration, but that's partly on me since hype may have gotten the best of me and I was expecting more. Still a great reveal, but that name drop at the beginning would have made me legit shook if I hadn't known it was already happening.
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