I keep seeing people say this but I don't get it,its far better than the shit Ubisoft shit out but I wouldn't call it anything groundbreaking.
It’s groundbreaking for From Software, who have arguably the most interesting level design out there. Just the scope of it elevates the whole game. There’s so much (hidden) content and it’s all at the top of From’s game. It’s such a joy to just play it. We just don’t get a lot of games like these, with dense atmosphere, lush overworld music, endless build variety, secrets galore, minimal cutscenes, high production values, horses double jumping…
I enjoyed it. Clearly not to the extent some people did though. Just seems like our standards these days are so low anything doing anything a bit better than the usual AAA slog gets extreme praise.It’s groundbreaking for From Software, who have arguably the most interesting level design out there. Just the scope of it elevates the whole game. There’s so much (hidden) content and it’s all at the top of From’s game. It’s such a joy to just play it. We just don’t get a lot of games like these, with dense atmosphere, lush overworld music, endless build variety, secrets galore, minimal cutscenes, horses double jumping…
EVERY game has flaws one way or another and 10/10 doesn’t mean “flawless” game, it just mean how much someone enjoy that game.
Hes going a bit overboard claiming Elden Ring is shit (it isn't). I think its fine to to not agree with the popular consensus but the way its done here just seems like attention whoring.
Do you usually trace an entire person profile like this? Are you sure you're not describing your own life by accident?
The thing is, I did not call the game shit. It is a good game, but probably the least good one from the entire Souls franchise.
out of curiosity then, what is a game you consider to have good open world?
Stopped reading at "Not even Far Cry and Assassin's Creed have been this boring to explore".I have been playing the game for quite some time now, but I expected so much better specially given how well received it was. It has so many flaws that would never have a pass for pretty much any other 3rd party franchise, that I can't even comprehend how it has been so highly regarded.
First, the main issue: The open world exploration SUCKS TREMENDOUSLY! I haven't been that much bored by exploration for so long. Not even Far Cry and Assassin's Creed have been this boring to explore, and I do consider them quite boring nowadays. There's no reward to wander around the map, other than that sense of finally finding a cave with some sort of decent level design to go through and fight a boss. The open world is basically a huge useless HUB which you need to traverse to find the actual content of the game.
And talking about caves, good Lord, they were definitely not ashamed at all to recycle content. I have been in pretty much the same catacomb numerous times. Dungeons with extremely similar looks and patterns: you get into a cave, rest at the state of grace, go down stairs and find a locked door, then make your way through this little dungeon, pull a lever, come back to the start, the door is open, fight the boss. Also, the boss might be one you have already fought like 3 or 4 times already before, with slightly variation of attacks and carrying a different weapon. Still, it's already MUCH better than wandering that barren open world.
I'm also under the impression that From Software can't figure out anymore how to make the game more challenging to it's players other than making bosses faster, with extremely high poise, and with big combos that will lock you until they manage to break your defense and fuck you up. This is the "easiest" Soul game because you basically need to kill dozens of optional bosses in order to overpower the main ones.
Also fighting with big and slow weapons is a chore now, because the window you have now to damage the bosses is minimal before they restart their combo cycle. The balance that the previous games used to provide is pretty much gone.
And I won't even talk about the graphics and performance, this game runs worse in my computer than a lot of others that looks way better. But this is no surprise, and it's something that I can ignore as long as I'm having fun with the game.
But anyway, Elden Ring is like two steps backwards compared to all their previous games. Up until now, I always praised the level design of any Souls games, Bloodborne and Sekiro; but it is almost nonexistent in ER. After what they've done to Sekiro, I believed From Software was gonna be able to deliver their best next Souls game, but instead they gave me an unbalanced Boss Rush game with a useless and boring open world hub.
You want rewarding exploration, but on the other hand want everything shown to you on a map?I wish Elden Ring showed me on the map all of the points of interest, so I wouldn't need to waste time wandering around without finding anything useful.
The Witcher 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2 have great open world, imo. Exploring it is interesting because you stumble on unexpected events and interesting NPCs along the way. BotW is also interesting imo, because you can interact with the world in some really surprising ways, like using thunder and fire as elements in combat, or cutting trees to make bridges, and things like it. They're way more interactive than in ER.
You're missing the point. As I said, I don't like Ubisoft's open world either. I would just rather have the points of interest shown in ER so I could skip to what matters since exploration is just not fun in this game.You want rewarding exploration, but on the other hand want everything shown to you on a map?
Fair enough. I don’t agree with the exploration point of your argument, but that’s why opinions exist and I can respect that.
BotW has tons of flaws also
So basically you like immersive-sims types of worlds.
Well, some of you people that assumed that I'm doing it for popularity or any shit like that. For me, it was just an expression of opinion in an internet gaming board. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, I wanted people to read it and discuss it. Most people that shares a similar opinion than mine, probably do not access the OT.
