>>718944357
Contrarian to what? Masses from the broad market this game was designed for? I don't associate with them, so it's hard to contradict anyone I don't care about on any level.

It's too big for its own good, horse combat is annoying, horse traversal is unnecessary (even if required to not waste so much time covering a huge, mostly empty and meaningless map created to be 'the biggest fucking game ever from Souls people').
Story is fucking stupid for the most part, writing is worse than in DS1, despite huge money and names wasted on it.

A lot of atmosphere and tone is sub-par to the Dark Souls games, and the whole project feels cynical and corporate and with a fraction of emotional weight and meaning that was present in DS games, especially DS1 and 2 Sotfs.
They spent a fortune on marketing and sold a shitload of copies to normies. Congratz.


ER looks awesome, is bursting with content, but is a disappointing experience and made a smaller impact upon me than just a fucking intro cinematics of Dark Souls 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKD7QZe3DmM

It should be much smaller (up to ~2-3x of DS3) and hand-crafted and balanced to perfection, with better and less 'in your face' story and darker worldbuilding. Who has time to complete these 1001 map locations??! It's fucking Just Cause 2 of Souls games.