Most prevalent being to take your time and not rush development. Second being how to properly add freshness to your gameplay without ruining it. Make sure the freshness you try to add is actually fun and doesn’t grow old with play time (like torghast). New additions and systems to the game also should strengthen player choice not restrict it, this is a vital flaw that blizzard fell into. Innovation and new things to make gameplay fresh is fine as shown by Elden Ring, but it cannot restrict player choice or become boring with repetition.
A lot of these problems could also be solved if more respect was paid to QA testers instead of brushing them off.
It’s rated 9/10 and 10/10 by all major journalist outlets and has 95% overall on game review sites, it’s a industry shaking game. It’s going to get compared to other games no matter what and I believe that Blizzard and the industry as a whole could take a few ways of how to properly keep a gameplay format that has been used for years fresh without accidentally ruining the game with the new additions.
Elden Ring is not an industry shaking game. It’s just Dark Souls 1 with a fresh coat of paint. They used a formula that works and have a dedicated fan base so of course their game is going to sell.
Will you deny that the open world aspect that has been added to the series does not offer a certain amount of freshness to the usual gameplay format. It severely increased player choice and increased the amount of play to be had tenfold.
i am not saying it’s a bad game…but soooo many better games out their and streamers just keep jumping the hype trains for profit…
(look at FF14…good game streamers over hyped it and now it’s doing worse then it was before the streamer hype, same thing happening with Lost Arc, although I do think that game is trash because of it’s MACROtransactions, but outside that still seems decent for a diablo like game.
Didn’t reports recently came out that says FromSoftware does crunches?
I’m not sure how fresh an idea of Open World, or even open world focused on exploration without any UI elements pointing to you where to go are these days…
It might be one of the “Best” games out there, sure but…what is so special about it? I get the idea that it isn’t rushed, it was given a lot of time and effort but… What we learned from Fromsoftware is, this is their only method of how to make a game and not tread on toes with things players will likely hate. Elden Ring is just another Dark Souls but really takes on a Open World aspect.
Its just matter of actually making effort and figuring out what the players want. Or if it isn’t done before in the previous title (Or in WoW’s case, expansions), it has to be executed right. I already made posts that keep making comparisons that this is about as relevant as apples to oranges, They’re fruit but they are VERY different. Elden Ring is more RPG than its last iteration and has more exploration involved but still largely involves boss fights and punishing mechanics. WoW on the other hand has already a few but there’s nothing to outright frustrate players for dying in a few seconds to common enemies like a Souls game does.
I had to google the PC VERSION just so I could change the console settings to PC ebcause they couldn’t be arsed to put it in a proper spot in the settings. let alone the default pc setting be PC
I could go on other UI elements but that was first big one I saw 1 minute in.
i ended up steam refunding it 1.5 hours in because there is no story/direction…it’s just a open world masochist simulator…and I know people who like that…but most will not.
being limited 2 2 abilities only and you need to swap with such few abilities seems stupid. just allow me to key bind instead of swapping.
And that’s the point. It shows that bold changes to gameplay are fine, but they can’t be reductive to the player like borrowed power systems like covenants were and are.
I’m not really a fan on the UI in FromSoft Games, but i wouldn’t go far to say it’s total crap. It’s just serviceable.
You want total crap? Look at Skyrim’s UI. Your Eyes will bleed for how too friendly it gets with the consoles.
I mean i don’t personally mind 3D quest markers suggesting me where to go, but i do think they should be an option to turn off or on. If i really want to, i can turn Far Cry 6 into an immersive exploring game of sorts.
The story is there, it’s just minimal and you have to explore around to find it. It basically reminds me of Portal 1 in a way. Where the deeper story bits to the lab’s background and such that are well hidden though out the levels while your going though the main story.
I think the only issue i have with Elden Ring that it’s not on Gamepass, so i can get to try it out for more then 90 minutes that i usually give myself while playing newly bought games on Steam.
Cough WoW Classic PVP.
Ehh. I don’t know what to say to that, though i’m not really a big fan on how the game doesn’t allow you to pause. Sure if you’re playing multiplayer, then fine, but not on single-player.
