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Omni you may want to clarify whether this is flippant or not. The discerning hollow would assume Yakul is not a class of mounts considering it is the name of a fictional animal in a Ghibli movie. However a bunch of hollows on r/Eldenring have decided you are serious. Not that what goes on in the reddit is any of your concern.
Of course it's not at E3 , it's happening before judging by Omni 's wording. He also said the writings in the picture are very deliberate. So this time probably Grubb won't be wrong about ER :)
I know I shitpost a lot but I've been teasing Yakul for like a year now, I just don't know what the proper name of the animal is.
Officially listed as a red elk: https://ghibli.fandom.com/wiki/Yakul
more closely resembles any Kobus: https://www.britannica.com/animal/Kobus, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobus_(antelope)
Edit: Kobus is a genus of 6 species of african antelope. Personally I think Yakul is a waterbuck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterbuck
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Today or tomorrow could still work for that whole announcement thing, since bandai could still host their own event if they wanted to. OR it could be a surprise at the summer game fest (technically before E3)
Is there a difference between the two or do they ride the same?
Elden ring being at Microsoft would be drown out by the other big titles like halo and starfield. Doing it on their own let's them do it as long and however they want without competing with 50 other games for news.
jeff did clarify today all he really knows is Microsoft asked for it but from turned them down, sounds like judging by what Omni has said that's because they're planning something else
It looks like a gazelle to me.
Here we go:
Sony just announced a Horizon stream just 2 days before it. When you're going digital, you gain as much flexibility as possible as to when to announce the stream/event itself.
Yeah fair enough, maybe that's the reason... Maybe Geoff really wants to get out from gamer prison and snatched Elden Ring from MS at all costs
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What Omnipotent said was true, right? The image he posted is what ik referring to.
people, recall the context that was our collective mood prior to omni's post; we were in despair, helplessly taking grubb's conjecture as a strong indicator we were not going to see ER in the short term. "objects closer than they appear" therefore could comfortably accommodate E3 or thereabouts.
Considering there'll be mounted combat, I reckon the mount will be an important aspect. Wouldn't even be surprised if there's like a boss fight where your mount is required.
This is a pretty specific, but i hope there's a moment in the game where we have to travel far from where we started, some sort of story event happens, and then we need to make our way back to the landmark (city/ect.) that we initially came from. The entire open world could be filled with horrific demons, and each potential path would have its own unique challenges associated with it. It'd be up to us to choose the path that suited us.
Looks like I've caused a bit of confusion here with my poor wording and punctuation. There is only 1 type of mount, I just didn't really know what to call it, so the "horse" is "Yakul", or the Red Elk, Ibex, whatever you want to call it.
Actual AAA videogame spoiler
This is the ending of Death Stranding lol
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Oh so there were no actual horse mounts in Elden Ring this entire time? Oh well, Yakul is cooler anyway.
I wonder if Miyazaki never tried to work on something with Miura...
Yakul, Red Elk, is a very good choice.
It is one of those things I'm interested in seeing From Software do even if it isn't anything "special". Similar to swimming in Sekiro being a delightful surprise, I'm wondering if they'll make what's essentially a vehicle satisfying to use.
One thing I'm going to miss are those Sekiro finishers in boss fights, they felt really satisfying after a arduous fight.
Honestly I would love that. There's nothing better than going all the way to the edge of the map riding a mystical elk then having to go back to where you started from, with potentially more/harder enemies blocking your way and you'll have to make your way through them to reach the ending. No fast travel no warp and bullshit, just a pure ride back home with your homie yakul.
That's fine with me. Horses are pretty overdone, there's so few games with mounts like an elk or something.
I care not about different mounts but I hope the mounted combat is something tight. Like maybe the some of the combat UX of Sekiro could return if the we can clash lances or cross swords with our mounted foes... I just hope the sparks and the sound of metal clashes return, it felt way better than hitting tomatoes in DS3.
Sounds impossible to implement with dozens of different weapon movesets, magic, etc.
Sounds impossible to implement with dozens of different weapon movesets, magic, etc.
Just be patient, Omni has to make some calls at From to find out
