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Elden Ring DLC launches to "Mixed" reviews as players bemoan difficulty, PC performance in Shadow of the Erdtree: "There's a big problem with balancing" (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Elden Ring is importantly not the Dark Souls series.

It is a FromSoftware game, which notably includes Bloodborne and Sekiro.

Elden Ring is closer to Dark Souls but it is hardcore influenced by Sekiro's resounding success and the developer's unrelenting love of Bloodborne.

Every annoyance I have with Elden Ring is me applying Dark Souls logic instead of going something like: 'oh. Sekiro.'

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Buddy, it's a souls game through and through. You can be pedantic about it, but it's the same thing we have had since Demon Souls.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Guy, it isn't really pedantry to note that Elden Ring is not the fourth entry in an existing series to be considered breaking a perceived tradition or rule with its gameplay.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Guy, Dark Souls and Demon Souls are considered the "Souls" series despite Demon Souls being an entirely different series. So yeah, it is pedantry. Name it whatever you like, people know what I am talking about when saying "souls", and that it includes Bloodborne and Elden Ring. Because the gameplay loop is identical.

I won't be replying to you anymore. I don't like arguing with people that think like you do

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

Friend, I think the feeling is mutual because damn that right there's the pedantry. That's a hole you dug and jumped in yourself. So yeah, be quiet down there.