Honestly, I'm really curious too. I wish they didn't have the habit of spoiling most bosses in their games...
This... this hyped me up so bad.
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This... this hyped me up so bad.
Big brain speculation ahead:
Look at this dude, look at how big it is, now look at the top, it has a building on it, presumable one we might want to climb into. What if, bear with me, this is actually the hub of the game. What if, to make up for it being an open world, the hub friggin moves around the world. Warping isn't warping, it's just hitching a ride on the big bell turtle and I don't know, taking a nap while it moves to the destination ( do the dead nap in Elden Ring? ).
I'm excited.
Oh, that would be awesome! I can totally see them doing something like that. I feel like the Erdtree could also be the game hub, but it's hard to know. Either way I'm sure there will be some very interesting mechanics in this game and I'm sure that thing and its bell will play an important role.
noticed that in the 2019 reveal, with the burning sky and all that, the valkyrie lady's skin looks like it's falling apart/cursed of some sort (her hands specifically).
I wonder if maybe there's a mechanic similar to the moon-phases in Bloodborne where the state of the world gets progressively more fucked up as you progress through the game? It seems like while Dark Souls was generally took place in settings that had been decaying for hundreds of thousands of years, the "end of the world" so to speak in Elden Ring seems fresh, like we're witnessing it happen in the moment. Makes me really curious about the passage of time in the game. The red sky in the first trailer seems like it occurs way after the elden ring has shattered?
I wonder if maybe there's a mechanic similar to the moon-phases in Bloodborne where the state of the world gets progressively more fucked up as you progress through the game? It seems like while Dark Souls was generally took place in settings that had been decaying for hundreds of thousands of years, the "end of the world" so to speak in Elden Ring seems fresh, like we're witnessing it happen in the moment. Makes me really curious about the passage of time in the game. The red sky in the first trailer seems like it occurs way after the elden ring has shattered?
Well the leaked trailer had a couple new distinct areas that weren't shown yet, so I wouldn't rule it out that we've only seen a small portion.
It's hard to tell because we don't know how many kingdoms there are, but I think there was enough variety in the trailer to say that we probably saw more than one. There's definitely at least one missing considering we didn't see anything of the snowy landscape that was in the leaked trailer.
Yeah, though it may have not been a couple, just that snowy area but it's a bit hard to tell so there is at least that one.
The weird stone face below the character when they're climbing the ladder looks like an Octorok from Ocarina of Time
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Game is gonna leak a week early and you'll have all secrets on YT.
I really hope this is the case, I love the usual gothic/medieval style and even more so with this slightly brighter tinge on the world but I'm hoping to see some different biomes other than this green cliff-lands with gothic castles that we saw. I'd love me some desert areas, some snow/ice lands, some mountains, barren plains, ocean shore and stuff like that.
But I'm certainly not watching anything else, this trailer is easily meaty enough on its own.
My guess is that the red sky is kind of a symptom of the Shattering (like the sky goes red every now and then), the phrasing in the first trailer really gives this impression.
From the trailer's perspective it would make sense to mostly show stuff from the beginning of the game, but yeah it's hard to believe considering how packed the trailer was.
I remember that in one of Omini's hype posts he mentioned multiple regions with distinct styles, so this gives me hope, since in the trailer a good 80% of the locations are around the golden tree, and it seemed to me a single region, rocky, almost Scottish inspired, but who really knows, I can't imagine a game of this magnitude with MANY regions of the scale seen in the trailer
I'd take smaller ones too, just for the sake of diversity.
There's probably not that many regions, maybe three or four. But even then, if most of what we've seen is from one ( and we obviously haven't seen everything about it ) there's still a good 90-95% of the game unspoiled.
This might be a little optimistic
Definitely. Still pretty exciting to see how it will all connect together though!
One thing that I imagined quite differently in my head is the open-world nature. When I read open-world or open-field in particular and reading Omni's posts with the SotC comparisons, I was imagining something more SotC-like, with huge barren fields and towering cliffs and mountains as opposed to what we saw which seems much more condensed and densely packed (compared to many open-world games anyway). From a gameplay and design perspective this definitely makes sense so they can avoid a large empty, needlessly inflated world which so many of the fans were worried about, but from an aesthetic perspective I hope the game has some more open, larger areas where I can just ride around with my mount to chill and absorb the scenery like in SotC.
Or maybe it's just the trailer that has been cut deliberately to focus on the action and not on the open-world roaming, but this chill exploration aspect has largely been missing from the trailer (and by extension maybe from the game too)
Or maybe it's just the trailer that has been cut deliberately to focus on the action and not on the open-world roaming, but this chill exploration aspect has largely been missing from the trailer (and by extension maybe from the game too)
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That was like 90% hype haha. Gotta love it. Distortion's reaction was also just pure, genuine excitement. Seeing someone who has so many hours on the games and knows them inside out so excited for ER was amazing.
Being that it's a larger game, I hope it has more secrets than any of the previous games. Illusory walls, elevator doors, make contacts, ash lakes, keep em coming. Also, I would love to see the boss tail weapons make a comeback or some other mechanic that rewards going hard on bosses or similar kinds of risk-taking. That was so cool.
I also wondered and I came to the conclusion that it is not a weapon art of the weapon in this scene, the player's sword is too basic, I do not think that such a classic weapon has such a particular skill
The magic weapons attacks makes me wonder if they're attacks specific to certain weapons or magic skill that unlocked new magic combos for weapons?
I've seen some comments about people not seeing the GRRM influence and I find it kind of funny because its like... everywhere.
Thank you for everything, Omni. Really appreciate your posts
I think it's a weapon skill, the sword had some blue details on it
The magic weapons attacks makes me wonder if they're attacks specific to certain weapons or magic skill that unlocked new magic combos for weapons?
What made it obvious for me was the synopsis on the webpage for Elden Ring, as it is very clearly GRRM influenced.
Im glad that I could help and provide something to the community over these past few years and I hope that my long winded ramblings start to make sense now that the game has been revealed.
Oh for sure, you've also got sigils and banners everywhere, even on enemy tabards. Once people start digging into the story and lore and really analyzing and putting things together I think GRRMs influence will be abundantly clear. There's a LOT there.
Hope I'll be able to analyze the trailer correctly this week end, so much things happened.
You can be sure that everything makes sense now.
I posted this in the difficulty thread because I felt like it needed to be said, but I wonder what you all think:
I feel like the trailer is speaking to this topic directly. The maiden says, "They will fight….and they will die….in an unending curse….For how else is a champion, or a lord, to be born?" Struggling against and overcoming challenges is the point.
I feel like the trailer is speaking to this topic directly. The maiden says, "They will fight….and they will die….in an unending curse….For how else is a champion, or a lord, to be born?" Struggling against and overcoming challenges is the point.
My biggest hope for the game is that from's vision of what a souls game should be is fully realised. For dark souls and demon's souls, their vision for the games weren't fully realised with a lot of cool concepts and ideas cut due to constraints. I hope that the longer development time this time round will pay off and we'll get a game with all of miyazaki's ambitions.
Thank you so much for making these past 2 years easier. One thing that has been troubling me and many people who love PvP and invasions is that many articles and the description on the official website elude that the game's multiplayer is Coop only. So no PvP and invasions? It states that it is 1-4 players in the japanese website unlike Dark Souls 3 with 1-6. I don't care much about going back to the number of phantoms of older souls game, I care mainly about if PvP will be in Elden Ring.
Thank you so much in advance. I really cant sleep thinking of the possibility that it might not have PvP as it's one of my favorite feature in souls games.
Does anybody have any idea what that floating, spectral banner tower thing is on right side of the screen at 0:39-0:40 is?
It doesn't seem to touch the ground (it just fades away), so I can't even figure out how big it is or where it is in relation to the background/foreground, let alone figuring what it is supposed to be or its purpose in game.
Some sort of multiplier thing? An Ubisoft-esque waypoint (shudders)? Genuinely no clue... Thoughts?
It doesn't seem to touch the ground (it just fades away), so I can't even figure out how big it is or where it is in relation to the background/foreground, let alone figuring what it is supposed to be or its purpose in game.
Some sort of multiplier thing? An Ubisoft-esque waypoint (shudders)? Genuinely no clue... Thoughts?
Omnipotent Sorry if this has been asked before, but is there any chance of getting more info at the Bamco showcase?
PC most likely.
I doubt there will be a drastic difference between old and current gen, besides resolution and framerate.
Hope you're right but the sword has some blue details on it near the hilt, so probably not a regular ass straight sword. Maybe it's a sword that doubles as a catalyst, maybe it's a weapon art, maybe it's neither!
Yes. There is meta commentary like this in every From game. One of my favorites from DS3:
"I've seen your kind, time and time again.
Every fleeing man must be caught. Every secret must be unearthed.
Such is the conceit of the self-proclaimed seeker of truth.
But in the end, you lack the stomach.
For the agony you'll bring upon yourself..."
I don't know since Sekiro looks so much better on PC than the PS4 version, not only the framerate but everything just looks better. I hope that's the case with Elden Ring.
One thing to point out is that I'm usually more hype with animation rather than graphic, but the animation in the trailer is not very impressive or authentic especially in comparison with Sekiro's animation. I'm in hope for some sick-ass move from the boss, and I hope bosses in Elden Ring will be as interactive as Sekiro's one, I mean, bosses in DS3 and Demon's Souls Remake are kinda stupid with very few movements.
I think an amazing callback to the Moonlight Greatsword would be finding it some ancient cemetery or graveyard. Big King's Field wink, as From still loves sneaking those in.
I hate the fact that one of the most important character's name is a spanish homophobic slur.
We know that every Lord has a kingdom, crest and themed minions, but there may be a fallen Lord without a kingdom ... That would be very Miyazaki and George R. R. Martin.
I counted 5 maybe?
Light-hammer ghru guy
Arms guy
Beast guy
Lighting dragon
And maybe the red-haired lady but I'm not a 100% sure about her.
I wouldn't be surprised if the rest you think are bosses would be in fact mini-bosses (like the roaming giant colossus). But I agree with the sentiment, I'm still confused that they showed so much.
Well it's probably not going to be better than what we saw in the trailer and the extra screenshots, so I don't see why you wish ill for the PS4 players.
And I can't relate to that at all, the bosses kind of reminded me of Sekiro's bosses, both the models look better and the animations more fluid (look at that beast boss with red magic attacks)