The most anticlimactic moment in gaming ever.The moment the entire game is building up to, you get to the capital, welcomed by fanfare, and what happens next? Literally nothing, you just pointlessly trudge on some more just like every single Fromsoftware game, because fuck you I guess
It's literally perfect, everything leading up to this point in the game tells you that shit is going to be fucked up and sad in the capital. That's exactly what it was
>>729466124Yeah that trick isn't interesting after 3+ games
>entire game is building upYour fault for paying attention. For me I walked in, said "I want that big doot", farmed it, then killed dragons with bubbles.
>>729466474Bro I was promised writing by George R.R. Martin
>>729467242Then how were you surprised that it was shit?
>>729465892why would you be welcomed by fanfare? you're literally an invader to the lands between why would they admire youpay more attention to the fucking story
>>729466337Its the whole appeal of the series. You are a lone undead/derivative travelling a destroyed world on the verge of fading away for a small source of power
>>729467242lol he fell for itthis is a japanese game made by japanese for japanese
>>729465892An then you enter "the empty hub in the real world" again for like the third or fourth time in those fucking games.
>>729466124Mate the capital is the least fucked up structure in Elden Ring. It has even has functioning walls.
>>729467242
>>729465892>anticlimactic>40% into the gameIts its not even the climax how could it he anticlimactic? Was godrick anticlimactic as well? Lol
>>729465892Why does your game look so shit?
>he fell for the ds3 memeplay actual good games like des, ds1 and ds2
>>729467649That doesn't mean it needs to be THE EXACT SAME PLOT reused every time
>>729468030needs to (at least is supposed to) run on 2013 hardware
>>729465892The track that plays in the capital makes me feel bonged out. Peak ambiance.
how come not a single souls game has TOWNS? CIVILIANS???NPCS??not even a travelling merchant. Thats why BOTW is better.
>>729468465umm sweetie jarburg exists...
>>729468465BotW has literally 5 enemy types in the entire game. The entire game is you killing the same bokoblins literally over and over, and every single point of interest or discovery is to get a stupid korok seed which gives you: inventory space. To hold more shit that breaks instantly. There are like 5 bosses in the game.Elden Ring has more unique entities/encounters in the first zone than the entirety of BoTW.That's why Fromsoft doesn't focus on towns with lots of npcs with small talk, they focus their attention on monsters/combat/bosses rather than puzzles and quests to fetch to get a heartpiece.Elden Ring mogs the fuck out of BOTW in almost every facet the only notable part of BoTW is all the shrine puzzles and each being pretty much unique game design. But this isn't substantial enough. Majora's Mask was far more incredible than BoTW.
>>729467242Midwit, he barely had anything to do with the game but the masses were still convinced he practically wrote the entire game. All he wrote was some backstory about the gods and demigods long before the game takes place, and the names of them. All the rest is fromsoft as usual. What he wrote was mostly just used for inspiration to build off of, and they didn't even use most of what little he wrote either.There are interviews detailing this from both him and Miyazaki
>>729468729They are both pretty shit and low effort attempts at the open world rpg desu neither which hold a candle to Skyrim
>>729468465Did you even play the game
>>729467984the greatest worldbuilding since... no, even greater than Tolkien
>>729469464not a single fromslopper has a functioning town with living humans >b-but it's the lands between or undead or why is it ALWAYS that?
>>729469983But there's shitloads of traveling merchants lol e33 shills baka
>>729467242>I was promised writing by George R.R. MartinAsk ASOIAF fans how that usually works out
>>729465892>just like every single Fromsoftware gameWell you bought a From game, you should've seen it coming.>>729467242>I was promised writing by George R.R. MartinAnd you got it with shit like the magic college being called Learnia.
>>729468465They all have hubs with NPCs.NPCs in the overworld.I guarantee they also have more voice lines than anything in Zelda.
>>729465892they don't have anyone to script interesting encounters in the levels. Not enough budget or know how to do anything besides design levels and fill them with monsters that stay in place.
>>729467649>Its the whole appeal of the seriesNo it's not.
>>729470801Oui
>>729471337the whole appeal of the series is rolling when the boss attacks
>>729471434non
What were people expecting. None of these games have any sort of dynamism to their world. It's all mostly static with enemies to kill that even they for the most part are static aswel until agroed by the player.Most friendly nps don't even move while the player is present.
>>729469156Oh the game with literally 4 enemy types, no bosses and pointless quests and loot that result in bland items?You like different things. Nothing about Elden Ring is low effort you fucking retard. For Bethesda to even attempt to do all the combat animation and gameplay combat design of Elden Ring they would have bankrupted their studio at the time both creatively and financially. Skyrim has like 3 animations for combat, you swing a sword/mace/axe the same identical way with 2 repeated animations, Elden Ring one singular individual sword has like 20 combat animations, and that changes often per sword in some cases and certainly across all the item types.The basic fucking critter creatures in Elden Ring have like 20 routines and animations and states and combat roles, Skyrim every single creature has walk and attack and that's it.Skyrim is great at the investigative quest part, which is the easiest thing to make in a game, it's literally where videogames started is text adventures. Making up some dialogue and telling the player to go to Y to fetch X for Z character is literally the easiest shit you can do in a game design sense, you just happen to like it more than scaling a castle and fighting 20 different complex enemies.
>>729468964That.Martin literally only wrote "Marika is a queen. She had an ex-husband Godfrey. Godfrey and Marika had a first child, Godwyn."He probably did all the work in an afternoon, and crucially, there is none of divine goddess Marika or the Great Order or things like that in his draft. It's mostly a genealogy.And thank god because Martin is overrapreciated.
>>729472067Fromsoftware has a million outsourcing studios & decades of assets to reuse. I'm not impressed by the end product.
Fromsoft games are about level design being the puzzle, trying to figure out how to get up to that spot you can see some item, realising you need to find some hole in a wall to drop down onto a beam below that circles around to a scaffold on the outside wall that takes you to a room with some mini boss and an elevator up, to then have to drop down to find stairs that take you up to the tower you saw earlier that you can then jump across a gap to get to finally get to that beam you saw earlier with the item corpse hanging on it.That's where they spend their time designing. They also spend their time on a fuckload of animation and combat data where even one singular enemy can do all kinds of shit, strafe in all directions, act scared, swap to a torch, swap to a bow, climb ladders, throw bombs, and then their combat attacks themselves, there's not just 1 attack they do. They have like 5 different variations of an overhead slash to throw you off, sometimes the slash comes from their top right side, other times from the left and sometimes with more forward lunge etc. Enemies often have intentionally rare attacks that are AI programed to not do often that also catch you off guard, like an enemy has some rare grab attack it might perform if you're within range etc.The weapons you use, they have combat animation for every single attack in both one handed and two handed form, as well as letting you dual wield the weapon with any other weapon, different movement triggering different attacks i.e. crouching and rolling pre an attack changes what it does. To people that don't understand animation and game animation specifically, Fromsoft are complete fucking psychopaths with this, no one touches them. For them to have shipped Elden Ring in 6 years with the amount of monsters and weapons and attack animations and sequences ontop of the massive world itself with all its weird intricacies in level design is staggering.
>>729472518This just isn't true
>>729466124It's just another generic area.
>>729472437No, they don't. Fromsoft uses 1 outsource studio, which isn't special at all in the industry, and outsource studios usually handle props, not animation. You can't outsource complex animation work since it's so integrated into the game engine in terms of additive layered animations and physics systems, to outsource animation you have to literally hand out the game kernel and tools/engine software which is highly fucking dangerous.Outsource studios make rock walls and vines and bulk work on making some monster models and maybe amour sets and things. (which every studio does, Activision/EA studios have like 10 outsource studios, Fromsoft uses like 2)
>>729472557It just is you fucking retard nice bait.t. actual game developer, everyone working in a studio anywhere in the world is bewildered at what fromsoftware makes especially in the timeframe they do
>>729472278>Martin is overrapreciatedIDK if that's still right to say after GoT. Then again he did somehow get Miyazaki to give him what was probably some insane amount of money to come up with a bunch of Gods who had God in their name.
>>729472518More than half of it is reused shit.
>>729466337Then stop playing the games??? Are you retarded?
>>729472761Nope. The only reused animation work in Elden Ring is minor stuff like opening door animations/some walk animations etc, most of it is new it's only base/staple stuff they didn't change. Because why should they re animate an opening door animation if fundamentally it changes nothing about the function and better to spend that animators time on animation on a new creature? The reuse isn't to cheat, the reuse is to ensure more effort is spent on things that are new, not retreadting old ground for the uncessary reason of saying it's visually slightly different.This also isn't entirely true as even the animations they reused from Dark Souls etc are still changed and modified and partially reanimated in some ways anyway, not many are direct 1:1 reuse even on enemies. They just served as a starting point to more quickly iterate on the final animation.Every single game studio reuses work where it makes sense to do so.
>>729472647Team Ico takes a dump on Fromsoft animations, which constantly change pace or turn illogically and is generally jank as fuck, and they started with the PS2 AND likely less money, so does Monster Hunter
>>729465892the trvth nvke>>729466124the copereminder that you Fromsoys games have less detail and immersion than even RDRII's emptiest area
>>729473260E33 cucks are desperate
>let me grab the universally liked thing and make a post shitting on itget new material fag
