With a hint of Zelda if I may add.

Love it.

If I can do way more stealth in general, this game's appeal just went up 10x. I really like the feel to it, though, made me feel like I was watching someone play a D&D game. Also, dragon heads as a limb? C'mon, who doesn't want that?

To me sounds a bit to narrowminded and purely based on favorite plastic

Definitely a fanboy comment. You seem to only see Sony games.

You do realise 2022 is also the release of Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 so all the games you listed will be battling for goty against it.

I didn't say who will win .. i said it is too early to judge now which is true and all of the games i said might be GOTY contenders .. and i forgot about Zelda since i don't follow anything about Nintendo

You guys think other games might win that is up to you ,i have no problem with that.

"Definitely a fanboy comment. You seem to only see Sony games.
You do realise 2022 is also the release of Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 so all the games you listed will be battling for goty against it."

Not really sure why i am a fanboy when you are the one who got very defensive because i didn't mention Zelda

Graphics are nice to have but I’ll take the story /gameplay over high end graphics . These games don’t sell like most of the games as well known . Everyone knows of Dark Souls but not everyone buys it and enjoys them so I’m fine with the budget going elsewhere instead of the engine and graphics .

It did look little last gen considering Demon's Souls remake. Maybe From Software should take little help from Bluepoint.

I dunno, like it looks pretty much like Dark Souls 3. Sure there’s different environments but there’s the same animations and even assets. I mean the treasure chest I was immediately looking at the chain to see if it was a mimic. Not a ding on the game since I adore the series, but for me, it didn’t look next level.

Edit: People do realize this is a last-gen game, right?

It is last gen. TBH I don't think it looks worse than Halo Infinite, or some other cross gen titles.

@oldenjon

''This visual intelligence idea is nonsense''

Just watch every dev surpass those who dont consider their audiences visual intelligence.

In fact, if you want a sample. Read the comments section of every single game reveal trailer.
Let's not even get into why a certain shooter got delayed for an entire year. Ask craig to comment on that.

Yeah, that's not a thing. Just look at the highest grossing games of the last decade if you need proof. You can argue that it works in some cases, but would also have to admit that it's completely unnecessary in others.

That is faulty logic given how good the Demon's Souls Remake looks. The truth is that FromSoft just doesn't prioritize graphics which if they did could increase their sales.

@Magog: It's literally not faulty logic. It's industry knowledge.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

And Demon's Souls remake was done by Sony with a huge expense behind it based on existing games, not a new in the series by the same team and expanding greatly on the open world and gameplay concepts. Demon's Souls also costs $70 as a remake. Not a new game developed from the ground up, but a remake utilizing old gameplay and design concepts with new graphics and effects.

Very backward idea.

You can further every aspect of the game in full synergy and we have seen that with many titles. In fact the visuals and sound weigh in heavily on the role playing/immersion aspect of any game or we would be playing stick figure Dark Souls on a white background.

It could be they are comfortable with the current engine etc. There could be a number of reasons.

But what they can't ignore is the audience intelligence and our constantly improving visual perception. Netflix and the large amount of games today has hugely made everyone more visually intelligent. Developers have to consider this moving forward.

My first impression and immediate reaction was oh wow it looks outdated and suddenly I am a little less interested. It could be an excellent game overall but its lost me quite a bit. What that means is that I value beauty as well. Its part of games that I love. I think moving forward, all devs will need to consider it. Most devs do, but many overlook it.

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...