...the hell are you people disagreeing with? Go back and look at any preview of Dark Souls 1. People were flipping out that they were referring to it as "open world" versus the more level-based approach of Demon's Souls and wondering how an "open world Demon's Souls" would function.

"...the hell are you people disagreeing with?"
Probably the idea that the Dark Souls games are open world, because they arent. It would seem "They" were wrong

It's a failure of the N4G "agree/disagree" system. Your comment was entirely factual, and described a situation where an opinion was held. Sadly, people disagreed with the opinion that you were factually reporting on, not your report that the opinion was held. It is sad when people can't distinguish factual reporting from personal opinion. But that's the internet for you. (Have an agree from me!)

In any case, there's definitely a distinction between Dark Souls open world (which is more an interconnected world) and Elden Ring's promise of an open world. From a technical perspective, it's difficult to describe the precise difference, but on a gameplay level, they will play very differently.

Nothing could ever be cyberjunk

I'm sure this will be finished by the time it's released unlike Cyberpunk

BB was the game of last decade. I bet this one will be even better.

Not even 2 years - only 8 months. January 2021 was the start of this decade.

Just call me Mr Pedantic.

We don't really know what 'this' is though. Miyazaki said 'open world' depends on your definition of the term. From what we know of FROM's design philosophy and it's attention to detail, expecting anything like BOTW or Skyrim is a mistake. I'm expecting something on the scale of older Zelda titles personally, and they're perfectly capable of pulling that off.

@oldenjon

hmm, I'm just gonna assume the worst: on-rails soulslike game

Because it's Nintendo. Post negative first before analizing.

Because this is the ONLY version you can buy on the S2, correct? I don't think you can buy just the game for $60 like the other platforms. And if I'm wrong about this, then I take it back.

@repsahj - Dude, shut up. I like Nintendo a lot, actually. I just want the option to get the base game for $60 WITHOUT the DLC. I've done plenty of "analyzing".

This $80 version is also available on PS5 and XSX.

@repsahj

The ps5 has the standard version and the 80$ version so it gives you the choice...on switch 2 physical you can only buy the 80 dollar version.

I guess since they got the data that less than half of elden ring players beat the game and would probably not buy the DLC, they decided to just not make it an option and charge more...