Why was this game so successful? It feels weird, like...manufactured somehow? I don't mean the game itself or devs, it's a great game. But Demons Souls, Dark Souls 1-3, Bloodborne, Sekiro, yeah they were all very popular games and sold a couple million and have a big following. But suddenly Elden Ring comes out and everyone and their sister is playing it? I don't get it, where did the hype suddenly come from to skyrocket the series into "taking over the world"? Just curious is all.
>>728969926it was psyoped by jews.
LITERALLY EVERYONE PLAYED DARK SOULS 3 YOU FUCKING RETARD
Is this what e33 fags have been reduced to?
>>728969926>suddenlynot only does /v/ not play video games, it doesn't even follow what's happening around gaming
>>728969926It's dark souls 3 but open world and George RR martin. It has the full popularity of dark souls 3 which was already very popular, then got a big flat additional userbase buff from GRRM and then it got a 1.5* multiplier because people love open world
>>728969926it's simply peak
>game was fun for the majority of DS fans>game was fun for streamfags to watch their favorite e-celeb get fucked by godefroy the grafted>game looked very nice so graphicfags could make image compilations for days even without muh photo mode>game had a lot of wowie moments
>>728970123KEK, it is indeed sad to see
>>728969926>Dark Souls popularity build up over the years>GRRM boost>Early enough into next gen lifecycle that there was enough consoles sold First point is the main one imo, the popularity of Souls had a lot of momentum
>>728969926people probably thought it was gonna be like skyrim but better so they bought it. they probably got disappointed as they realized it was a completely different type of game, but if you think about it, it makes sense
>>728969926It was a combo of two things, first, the years long period of silence and resulting insane hype train propped up by mostly reddit, but also this place to an extent.And more importantly, it came out right at the tail end of covid lockdowns, when everyone was more online and so normalfags were more exposed to this hypetrain. Then streamers, FOMO, twitter etc took hold and it became this huge event, everyone is playing it, shilling it, but I do think it was organic. Just not something that will happen again for FROM so hopefully their publisher doesn’t assrape them when they never sell that well again
great marketing and came out at the perfect time
>>728970123? I haven't played E33 and didn't even mention it in the OP
>>728969926You don't get it because you weren't following From through the Souls series -> BB -> Sekiro pipeline. They literally dropped nothing but a small cinematic trailer 5 years before it released, each year the hype was building and building. The hype was astronomical. Then it finally dropped and lo and behold it was a good video game that just tried to be a video game instead of a gay movie (something a bit rare these days) and received overwhelming praise outside a few doomers that got filtered.
>>728970850I remember pic rel when we all thought it was gonna do an armored core twist halfway through
>>728969926Game is entertaining to play and that's all that fucking matters, go play a game you like instead of being a bitch
once a concept becomes saturated and indulgent normies finally find it fit for consumption. Elden Ring is the laziest from game, but because its soulslike had been around long enough it became normalized.
Honestly the only reason I played it was because everyone said>it’s like botw but if visiting that forest in the distance lead you to something amazing instead of another shrine or korok seedand it kinda did that until the snowfield. Combat was fun too, nothing was super duper brutal hard that took me 6 hours but some late game fights took me around an hour or two like Malenia and Mohg. I played the other souls games afterwards and then replayed ER and it was a lot easier of course (especially Mohg lol), but I haven’t touched the DLC yet and everyone said that one was super duper hard so idk. But exploring was definitely good and I liked doing the caves and tombs and whatnot.
>>728970946I remember. for I was one of the anons who relentlessly shitposted about it
even though elden ring was a huge disappointment to me i still loved the pre-release threads on /v/
>>728969926>Why was this game so successful? It feels weird, like...manufactured somehow?kind ofit was natural, but an absolute perfect storm of events that propelled it to hyper sucess>10 years of reputation buildup for Fromsoft>massive game taking the proven gameplay and blowing up the scale for "muh open world">story trailer was well constructed, building a lot of excitement>dev cycles becoming obnoxiously long, meaning that it had very little competition releasingand last but certainly not least>kung flu locking everyone inside with nothing to doso a massive game from a respected company releasing when no one else was releasing anything while the entire world was forbidden from doing anything elseit was guaranteed success
>>728971162>shitposted about itI really did believe there was going to be a scifi twist...
>>728971508I mean, aliens were a thing in the end so...
Elden mid...worst Fromsoft game ever...
>>728969926>very fun>cool bosses>easiest magic system>Coolest pvp>coop mod right there so shitters can muscle their way through
Right place at the right time + drawing in niggercattle by having GRRM write 3 lines of "lore"is my guess at leastI thought it was odd at the time too
It's the most accessible FromSouls game to plebs and it's even a multiplayer game for some.Also the size of the map is gigantic, you really feel like an explorer, even more than in Skyrim.
>>728971508hopefully their next game will have one
>>728969926>Fun>Tons of enemies, bosses, equipment, etc>Good atmosphere, exploration, etc>Stormveil castle is one of be videogame levels ever made>Waifus for cumskulls
>>728971875You didnt even attempt to answer the OP question. Youre just glazing the game and acting like an elitist. Because youre a gay faggot. I bet you own nightreign too lmao
>>728972165>it's okay to say you hate it but if you say you like it you're a shillNTA but you're a huge faggot
>>728969926>built-in fanbase>open world>great reviews + word-of-mouth from said fansThese factors pretty much always generate smash hits. Same thing happened with Skyrim, TW3, BotW, etc.
>>728972165What question? You don't understand why the game was successful so you're attributing it to basically supernatural. Like, what do you think happened? Did they spike the water supply to make everyone buy this game? You were there.
>>728969926>game studio that makes games that kept becoming significantly more popular with each entry>next game is the same usual affair but also is pushed further by having a meme author being involved with the world's creation and it's open world (the guaranteed normie bait)gee, OP. i can't figure it out either. i guess we're two giant fucking retards.
big dark souls
>>728972146Perhaps
>>728969926>>728972409Saying the magic system is why the game was successful is inaccurate, that's just a happenstance feature, it had nothing to do with the momentum leading to 30 million sales. The truth is the fanbase was extremely autistic and led a massive organic marketing campaign (Glaivemaster Hodier, Don't Tell Me You Don't See It) all culminating in winning picrel award. Imagine having no experience with Souls games and seeing this game picked over next-gen Zelda, GoW, and Halo.
What the fuck did George RR Martin even write in this game? The marketing hyped him up but nothing in the game stood out from regular From Software lore
>>728972572what kind of sad soul would be anticipating a god of war or horizon sequel
>>728972421I can tell you're third world. It's very easy to spot.
>>728972652Now to be fair, GoW 2018 was fun, and we didn't know Ragnarok was gonna be shit yet.Horizon is just Sony paying Geoff money
>>728972652the 20 million normalfags that bought elden ring, do you even know the topic of the thread you're in?
>>728972572It was a combination of massive existing fanbase, tons of anticipation, writing by publicly acclaimed author, the switch to open world (did literally the exact same thing for Zelda), glowing world of mouth, and a general thirst for large scope ARPGs thanks to the Souls games, the Witcher series, BOTW, Skyrim, etc.
>>728969926because they were building up popularity with each game. and each game their became a little bit more famous. dark souls 3 already teetered on normie core. their mainstream breakout was inevitable
>>728969926it is a comparable increase to dark souls 1 after demon's souls thanks to scamco marketing the game as hardcore. open world goyslop + game of thrones man was what propelled it to another level
>>728970618It genuinely is like Skyrim, but better. The combat in Skyrim sucks dick
>why was this enjoyable game from a massively popular series so popular?greatest minds of v in this thread
>>728972632Malenia and the whole ass tree filled with rivers of piss and shit you have to traverse to bear witness to her rotting tits and vulva yourself.Also this guy definitely
>>728969926>almost 2026>still seething
>>728973953I'm not I just asked a question
>>728974085Sure you are sweetie.
>>728969926It had very kino trailers.https://youtube.com/watch?v=e5wwSxl0atc&pp=ygUfZWxkZW4gcmluZyBhbm5vdW5jZW1lbnQgdHJhaWxlcg%3D%3Dhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=T6EcJ6Sv5Ns&pp=ygUcZWxkZW4gcmluZyBjaW5lbWF0aWMgdHJhaWxlcg%3D%3Dhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=E3Huy2cdih0&pp=ygUbZWxkZW4gcmluZyBnYW1lcGxheSB0cmFpbGVy0gcJCU8KAYcqIYzv
>>728969926>how could a successful game series by a well known developer make a popular entry!?Can you just be honest and say what you actually feel, instead of this soft-handed game of implication and suggestion where you pussy-foot around the issue and go "HUH, INTERESTING, CURIOUS, REALLY MAKES YOU WONDER," and other such stupid shit.
>>728974382The trailers are what actually kept the game out of my interest for a while, because it looked like it played exactly like Dark Souls 3.I love Dark Souls 1 to my bones, it's in my top 3 ever, easy, but DS3 just wasn't clicking in either gameplay or atmosphere for me, so I just assumed Miyazaki couldn't do it anymore.It wasn't until weeks ahead of launch that I started watching network test footage of Limgrave and I noticed GMG was offering Steam code preorders for like ~$35 that I said fuck it.
>>728969926Not everything is a conspiracy or manufactured. It was successful because normalfags liked the Souls series already
>>728974890You around insufferable
>>728975207so no, then.
Theory: The people who make and post in these threads are the same discord raiders that were shitting on Elden Ring two years before it even came out.
>>728974558>implying Dark Souls 2 > anything
Bloodborne is superior to Elden Ring in every way and is clearly the best FromSoft game. But it probably isn't as successful because it's a PS4 exclusive and not open-world. Normalfags love open-worlds.
>>728970123>>728970446it can't be healthy to be this mindbroken
>>728975469DS2>Bloodborne>DS1>DS>DS3>Elden Ring
>>728975540I like Bloodborne more than Elden Ring but Bloodborne is fucking short. >Chalice DungeonsOnly maniacs like those. I like them because they're the most difficult content in the soulsborne series.
>>728975432Never forget
>>728973174just play elden ring reforged. it's a mod that fixes literally everything wrong with the combat
>>728975432They are bots, literally the same copy pasted responses.
>>728976175Its short only if you do the mandatory areas/bosses. It has lots of optional content
>>728969926>Goodwill building up from a streak of success all the way from Demon's Souls>Open world games were at their apex in popularity>Covid lockdowns forced people to stay home and play vidya>No meaningful competition that year (TotK, Starfield, and Hogwarts Legacy got delayed)It's a no brainer why it was such a success.
>>728977089>side contentUpper Cathedral Ward isn't very long.Castle Cainhurst is pretty short, padded by the boss runback.Hemwick Charnel Lane is okay for side content but considering how useful the reward is it should be mandatory. Nightmare Frontier is a long level, one of the longest in the game.I'm blanking on anything else. Bloodborne only has a lot of content if you include the infinite amount of dungeons.
>>728970123E33 is more manufactured in comparison. Movie adaptation planned even before release when the devs were supposedly indie, like how?
>>728977437Old Yharnam and Hypogeon Gaol are optional too, and of course there are the DLC areas
It's called building up a fanbase over a decade plus. You already answered your stupid question.
>>728969926gorms got baited by fotm fantasy writer + BotW open world, even though its a From game so it actually has no characters or storytelling they can perceive. but they were far too invested in the hype train to walk it back.so now it sits on the average Joe's shelf among the greats; RDR2, GTAV, Madden, Uncharted, Horizon, Last of Us, FIFA, and Elden Ring (unplayed).
>>728969926>why one of the best games ever made is so successfulmmmmmm I wonder why?
>>728970123Seems that way
>>728969926people wanted to try it out and ended up enjoying it.
>>728975540Yup
>>728969926Open world is mainstream
>>728969926because normies loved GoT
>literally just open world ds3>WHY IS LIKED!!!?
>>728969926The open world made the difficulty more approachable for normies because if something's hard they can fuck off to somewhere else in the world, find items to assemble a cheese build they found online, and then come back way stronger than the game expects them to be.
>>728983357You keep samefagging, I'm just curious why
