Elden Ring has been the first souls game that a lot of normies have played and their entry into the series. Why is it that this one is more accessible than the others, was it just overall hype?
I have friends that play nothing but CoD and generic FOTM shooters that are praising Elden ring like the 2nd coming of Christ and have never played any other souls game
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you can avoid bosses and come back later when you're way too powerful to fight them fairly
it's because it's open world and the online works
I expect most of these people to just parrot what they hear and never actually finish it
Many factors. One thing I noticed is that my friends that mainly play COD, PUBG etc. follow the advice of their favourite Youtubers/streamers. Lots of elden ring coverage from them, so that's one of the reasons these people start playing it. They are going through the entire game with guides as well, they rushed through the game and did the Mohg glitch on their first play through and overleveled instantly. They coop on almost all bosses as well and boost each other to get through shit they get stuck on. They struggle a lot with the mechanics but they manage to get through it with the power of youtubers and friendship, utterly disgusting
I find this game tedious in a way the others weren’t. The open world adds filler that wasn’t needed. The people who enjoy these games enjoy the combat not the endless mindless empty spaces the open world nerds love.
This, literally because it is open world and people can seemingly avoid bosses and come back to them rather than straight up git gud
I loved the previous souls games and I don't find it tedious. You can just ride to your fight or destination and the tedium is alleviated by fast travelling between graces. But yeah I think it boils down to a difference in personality and preference.
>overall hype
Yes and that's it. GRRM's name brought in normies, From's name brought in normies, TES has left a vacuum of open world games which normies love.
Advertising push and hype, simple as. Same happened with mining world
ER is the easiest entry if you use all the tools given to you in the game. Normies not only do that, but also heavily play ER in tandem with guides and will even use various glitches and cheese. Dropping the "Dark Souls" name and the addition of the open world has made the game incredibly palatable for normies.
I speculate it comes down to a few things all aligning perfectly
1) it's been a very long time since the last souls game, and Elden Ring has been anticipated for such a long time now that the wait in itself became a meme, and hype kept building and building.
2) over the past few years there's been a serious drought of decent games to play. I honestly can't remember the last time there was a game I actually gave enough of a shit about to play at release. So people that normally don't bother with Souls games are playing it because there's really no other options.
3) the GRRM meme. We all know his involvement was probably fuck-all but that doesn't stop his name being associated with it and drawing in GoT normalfags
4) the open world meme. I honestly hate open worlds and while I like ER, the overworld and chalice dungeons feel like pointless filler most of the time. But normies absolutely love eating up open world and mindlessly wandering around collecting crafting materials, for whatever reason. So you automatically gain the skyrim/minecraft/etc audience just from having that.
The irony of this OP is that there's clearly a shitton of normies in this thread who have either never played a souls game before or only played magic/bleed and think the game is therefore easy kek
It's all streamers. The fifa/cod niggers at my work were all over elden ring because their favorite streamers were playing it.
It’s time to take the rose tinted glasses off. The game is a 8/10 at best.
>Why is it that this one is more accessible than the others
Open world and a billion ways to cheese enemies.
>the first souls game that a lot of normies have played
You're 11 years late for that.
It's because of hype culture. You know how this shit pans out, game pops up out of thin air, retards start praising it as the game of the century. Game disappears into obscurity within a few weeks of streamers not playing it. That, and people just get bored of it after a while, either because they don't like the fromsoft difficulty or they can't be arsed fucking about the oversized open world.
Summons making it accessible for anyone, open world, and GRRM
I agree though, this is the first Souls game that friends of mine who are more casual gamers are into. Open world is the ultimate normie bait. I hear normies cite "immersive" so fucking often when they talk about games, they never talk about gameplay. Then when they play Elden Ring they encounter their first game with decent gameplay, if poor by Soulsborne standards, and realize the entire world they've been missing.
I wouldn't even say 8/10 lul. I find it sad that this is a lot of people's first soulsborne game given how broken and unbalanced it is. It's reminding me of DS2 all over again.
>8/10
More like a 5/10.
you can set your own difficulty
8/10 is generous. I guess that is harsh in this weird world we live in where every AAA game is 9.5/10.
This game has its moments but I don't think it will be remembered too fondly.
Hating popular things doesn't make you cool or interesting. Hard pill to swallow, I know.
Neither does loving things because they are popular sweaty.
>Limgrave = 9/10
>Sofria river and Nokrom = 10/10
>Everything else = 6/10