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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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Wiibomb

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Kalik said:
wasn't Fallout 4 announced just 2-3 months before release?...so it's possible...
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5 months actually, really fast, but I would't put that as a norm. I mean, anything is possible, but that doesn't fall in line with how from has announced and released their products, I would say march is way too early.

Still, we don't even know if they are shwoing anything on gamescom, if they aren't there are even lower chances of this releasing so early.
 
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Elden Ring hasn't followed the typical Fromsoft marketing schedule (past 3-4 major games).

1. No release date window at E3 (There was one for DS3, Sekiro, BB etc)

2. No E3 behind closed doors demo

3. Skipped Gamescom.

Anyone's guess at this point, but this is not surprising considering this is the biggest game they've ever made. I hope Fromsoft takes all the time they need! Dark Souls 1, and DeS came out in the Fall, so could be the case for ER.
 
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Masagiwa

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ASilentProtagonist said:
Elden Ring hasn't followed the typical Fromsoft marketing schedule.

1. No release date window at E3 (There was one for DS3, Sekiro, BB etc)

2. No E3 behind closed doors demo

3. Skipped Gamescom.

Anyone's guess at this point, but this is not surprising considering this is the biggest game they've ever made. I hope Fromsoft takes all the time they need!
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Mhm

- Sekiro started development around when Old Hunters came out November 24th 2015 and released in March 2019. that's around 3,5 years of development time.

- Elden Ring started development after Ringed City which came out March 27th 2017. If Elden Ring was to release in March 2020 then it would have been in development for 3 years.

Elden Ring just like Sekiro is aiming to try new things ("Things they weren't able to do in the Dark Souls series") more open world, new combat etc. On top of that they market the phrase "FROMSOFTWARE's largest game to date". Now I don't know the manpower behind ER or how heavy they are outsourcing assets but I sometimes feel bad for the crazy high expectations I have towards this company.

They consistently put out quality games in a timely manner and when they end up deviating a tiny bit from their supposed "release or marketing schedule" I sit here and whine. I need to work on that.
 
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Masagiwa said:
Mhm

- Sekiro started development around when Old Hunters came out November 24th 2015 and released in March 2019. that's around 3,5 years of development time.

- Elden Ring started development after Ringed City which came out March 27th 2017. If Elden Ring was to release in March 2020 then it would have been in development for 3 years.

Elden Ring just like Sekiro is aiming to try new things ("Things they weren't able to do in the Dark Souls series") more open world, new combat etc. On top of that they market the phrase "FROMSOFTWARE's largest game to date". Now I don't know the manpower behind ER or how heavy they are outsourcing assets but I sometimes feel bad for the crazy high expectations I have towards this company.

They consistently put out quality games in a timely manner and when they end up deviating a tiny bit from their supposed "release or marketing schedule" I sit here and whine. I need to work on that.
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Agreed. We just have to be patient, it'll be worth it per usual with Fromsoft.

I love how this is the picture they use LOL! Muntaner

 
hideousarmor

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Res said:
They've been doing this for the past few weeks now. They're gonna run out of material soon if nothing comes out of this
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I've been saying this for a while now, they either go quiet, start repeating quotes/shots from the trailer or put out something new

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Is not a dwarf? What it is then?
Edit:a giant? Wtf how i did not saw this
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AHHHHHHHHH
This is what i meant lol, i just find it so funny
Not only does he have small tiny corpses by his side and a bunch of spears on his back...he's also the guy who gets hit in the armor by the spear knight prior to that shot
And he doesnt have tusks or a big nose!!! Its his helmet
 
Muntaner

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ASilentProtagonist said:
Agreed. We just have to be patient, it'll be worth it per usual with Fromsoft.

I love how this is the picture they use LOL! Muntaner

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Well. My hope is that they finish the material that they're using to share such media, then they'll be forced to share something new. :)

By the way, (recently) this is the first time Bandai Namco shares an Elden Ring tease. The previous shares all came from Elden Ring's or FromSoftware's accounts. Or they are trolling till the end of the Gamescom, or something is really going to happen. Or just a random tease, and our hype makes us to overthink @ everything.
I lost my hopes for Gamescom, anyway.
 
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Masagiwa said:
Mhm

- Sekiro started development around when Old Hunters came out November 24th 2015 and released in March 2019. that's around 3,5 years of development time.

- Elden Ring started development after Ringed City which came out March 27th 2017. If Elden Ring was to release in March 2020 then it would have been in development for 3 years.
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Elden Ring is project 1, certainly at the time they were in pre-production, but are still 3 years of full development now. Perhaps Omnipotent can reveal us when the project was born ...
 
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Guildenstern said:

Elden Ring is project 1, certainly at the time they were in pre-production, but are still 3 years of full development now. Perhaps Omnipotent can reveal us when the project was born ...
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The E3 showing and the Sekiro/Deracinè thing does not really matchup with the "3 games in the works" sentence, Omni already told us that some time ago.

Also, Miyazaki said Elden Ring started development right after The Ringed City DLC release.
 

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No lol
I'm not that interesting or exciting, or australian.

And while I know that this is probably only meant in jest but it would also be best that we don't start rumors like that either, as trying to attribute my identity to someone else, especially given that he still works in the industry on a number of projects, what I'm "known" for and the internets proven interest in getting clicks and attention rather than spreading the truth. Doing stuff like this could be damaging to both his career and life and I don't want to be any sort of responsible for that, especially when it's not true.

He's doing good work by trying to give others opportunities to get into the industry and I don't want silly rumors to ruin that. He and I have no association whatsoever.
 
Muntaner

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Omnipotent said:
You guys might be interested in this:


I wouldnt expect much on ER, just cool tidbits of what its like at From.
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The formality of japanese companies interviews is scary.

On ER: "what I was working on similar to Dark Souls, I guess [...], can't really say much about ER, it has a lot of similarities but a lot of things have been added that have never been in Dark Souls or Bloodborne"
 
Masagiwa

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Guildenstern said:
Elden Ring is project 1, certainly at the time they were in pre-production, but are still 3 years of full development now. Perhaps Omnipotent can reveal us when the project was born ...
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Yeah might have been extremely early. I was basing my timeline on Miyazaki's Xbox interview where he said.
Hidetaka Miyazaki, Game Director: Development for Elden Ring started just after development for the Dark Souls 3 DLC had ended. At the time, Elden Ring was being planned as a more classic fantasy title compared to others that were either being considered or already in the early stages of development.
Read more at https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/06...artin-present-elden-ring/#6mUEZUiv0GJTUPSk.99
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https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/06/09/hidetaka-miyazaki-and-george-rr-martin-present-elden-ring/

Omnipotent said:
You guys might be interested in this:


I wouldnt expect much on ER, just cool tidbits of what its like at From.
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Super cool, gonna watch this now. He created some cool DS3 level assets in UE4 on his Artstation
https://www.artstation.com/benroachstudios/profile

EDIT: lol, seems it was those assets that landed him the job there.
 
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According to a guy in the subreddit Elden Ring discord, the game was shown to press at Gamescom! Of course take it with a grain of salt, but we might get articles soon.
 
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D4nlel said:
According to a guy in the subreddit Elden Ring discord, the game was shown to press at Gamescom! Of course take it with a grain of salt, but we might get articles soon.
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According to a guy in some Discord of some subreddit... yeah no. Let's not do this. This is how bogus rumours spread.
 
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Omnipotent said:
You guys might be interested in this:


I wouldnt expect much on ER, just cool tidbits of what its like at From.
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That was a good watch. Funny how they don't really like people going to different floors to check the other projects lol

Muntaner said:
On ER: "what I was working on similar to Dark Souls, I guess [...], can't really say much about ER, it has a lot of similarities but a lot of things have been added that have never been in Dark Souls or Bloodborne"
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Ftr I think he meant this regarding the art and not gameplay mechanics since that wasn't his area.

It's curious because I always thought Dark Souls was already pretty diverse in that aspect, I wonder what type of new areas will be in Elden Ring.
 
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NediarPT88 said:
Ftr I think he meant this regarding the art and not gameplay mechanics since that wasn't his area.

It's curious because I always thought Dark Souls was already pretty diverse in that aspect, I wonder what type of new areas will be in Elden Ring.
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Didnt think of it this way but you are probably right. Makes more sense that he'd be talking about level design / scenery .

In that case, we already know the game will have vast open areas so that on its own is already pretty different from souls/bb

In terms of visuals...we never really got a desert area up until the very end of the ringed city (and you had little to do there) and i think that would fit greatly with the design of an open field to explore. Ofc in again thinking of shadow of the colossus.

Additionally, omni has brought up 'underground' a bunch of times now. Huge underground cities could be a cool concept, maybe something similar to minas moria. This was also kinda explored already in ds2's dlc but in a small portion.

We could also look at scotland for inspiration...lakeside castles, giant rocky cliffs at the edge of the sea, islands..
 
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Additionally, omni has brought up 'underground' a bunch of times now. Huge underground cities could be a cool concept, maybe something similar to minas moria. This was also kinda explored already in ds2's dlc but in a small portion.
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I'll bet that concept art is of an underground area. Skin wearing weirdos lurking around in dark underground hallways...
 
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D4nlel said:
According to a guy in the subreddit Elden Ring discord, the game was shown to press at Gamescom! Of course take it with a grain of salt, but we might get articles soon.
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Thanks for the heads up! Igromania also specifically stated they were being shown a demo on their website and other than Saint's Row being absent from Gamescom, there's no reason to think this still won't be the case, so I think it's likely we'll be getting some more info in the next several days.
 
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I want it yesterday but I also would love for it to be a next-gen game. Launch game for PS5 and Xbox 4 that takes advantage of the extra powa.
 
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HoLoGrApHiC_principle said:
Do they have any credibility at all, or are they just some random user?
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He was talking about Gamescom for a while now, and definitely went on press day. Other than that he is just a regular on the discord, so not fully random, but not far from it. He did not mention any details of course, except that it definitely seemed like an actual alpha (not in the demo sense), but was running smooth. Presentations are supposedly hourly, and end later today.
 
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I don't know if it's relevant or true (but the source should be legit and reliable). One guy on reddit found a new article on Elden Ring on the german site of Gamersglobal.

Relevant parts (translated from German):
To the game itself Ben did not want to tell me much, after all, the Japanese are what NDAs, the "strictest Motherfucker", so much so that it is an open world of By-software-art with numerous approaches that it will be again more in the direction of Action RPG with character adjustments will be that you orient yourself to Nordic-Germanic mythology and will experience much mysticism and that it is common in the Souls games, many demanding opponents and blatant bosses in subterranean and supernatural "dungeons" to fight. But one way or the other you can read this on relevant websites and of course on GamersGlobal.
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Real news about Elden Ring, according to Ben, we should definitely get to see and hear later this year. Sure, not at the gamescom in August, not at the Paris Games Week in late October, but at the Tokyo Game Show in mid-September or at the EGX Berlin in early November
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The mention of underground areas makes me believe its a legit article as omni has mentioned those in the past but its the first time we hear it from the press
Either that or they've been lurking this thread
 
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Wow another safe and uncreative leak.

Nah, not going to buy it this time.
 
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Buckling in for TGS & TGA. I still can't believe the whole Miyazaki & GRRM thing, the potential is just....
 
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If the new consoles have backwards compatibility does that mean you can run a ps4/xone ER on them and have better framerate and upscaled graphics or am I wrong? Because if so, why would they make a Scholar of the First Ring?
 

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I stumbled upon an interesting reddit post a while back. In From Software's PSVR game Deracine , a character named Nils is reading a book on herbs. If you take a look inside the book theres a lot of interesting gameplay descriptions and lore that obviously don't pertain to gameplay in Deracine. Theres mention of using herbs to boost resistance to debilitating statuses like blight/ corrosive attacks. Herbs that render level 1 rotten meat "edible". Herbs that boost recovery rolls near death. . Theres mention of frigid Northern Kingdoms and coastal areas. Theres a description of House Ull the Unconquered and their sigil . All of this sounds like it would fit right at home in an Open World RPG that we now know Elden Ring to be. Obviously From Soft always teases their projects but these descriptions sound really specific to me and almost like straight up item descriptions and mechanics that could be implemented in Elden Ring. I actually posted this in a thread a while back and got some good feedback. Was wondering what everyone's thoughts are about this. Or maybe it's just teasing Deracine 2:Prepare to Die Edition


 
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Adryuu said:
Entirely possible. Anyway, TGS is quite probable even without articles saying so.
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I don't think TGS is probable for gameplay. If it was ready, they would've showed it at Gamescom. TGS is weeks away, and it's a smaller audience. I doubt the game is ready to be shown until TGA's, but I could see some screenshots, or new info released at TGS.

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I stumbled upon an interesting reddit post a while back. In From Software's PSVR game Deracine , a character named Nils is reading a book on herbs. If you take a look inside the book theres a lot of interesting gameplay descriptions and lore that obviously don't pertain to gameplay in Deracine. Theres mention of using herbs to boost resistance to debilitating statuses like blight/ corrosive attacks.

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People do seem to be cracking, diseased, burning, and shattering in Elden Ring.

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