Thread 717365235

Now post a valley.

>>717365235 (OP)
Literally just Archdragon Peak 2.

If only Elden Ring played as cool as it looks

>>717365235 (OP)
Forced soul.

>literally has to be made invisible from every other point of the map as not to spoil it
lmao, and people made fun of DS2 for retarded elevators
Elden Ring is LITERALLY the worst part of Dark Souls 2 (without any of the good shit) and scaled up into an Open World and you cannot convince me otherwise.

>>717365336
it does

>>717365235 (OP)
A bit mid, innit?

>>717365560
>>literally has to be made invisible from every other point of the map as not to spoil it
four belfries anon.

>>717365560
Elden Ring is Dark Souls II 2

And that's why it's kino

>>717365235 (OP)
That's Elden Ring not Peak

>>717365235 (OP)
The early tease was so exciting. Got my imagination running about how cool it will be getting there by climbing the erdtree or something like that.
I should have known they were just gonna teleport me there. FromSoft loves their teleports and elevators that let them skip designing interesting levels/areas.

>>717365235 (OP)
It's so weird that they threw away the art direction for this level and made everything grey

>>717365598
I can feel the asset streaming microstutters in this webm

>>717365235 (OP)
Peak presentation.
Mediocre, outdated gameplay.

>>717369454
I think nightreign and this upcoming duskbloods is their attempt to make the combat closer to AC6's pace. They made decent sales, considering it's a mecha game, but the real money is obviously in the fantasy genre, so they need to get more of the AC6 combat pace into Soulslike settings.

I feel like the dashing in Nightreign is a nice mechanic, but it needs to just replace the old running altogether, and let characters do side-step dodges while dashing instead.
If they can bring the high-mobility boosting, and find an excuse to let characters do stamina based short-term flight, like some Aspect of the Crucible wings or some shit, then they'll have effectively overcome this wall they've hit with souls combat. Because SoulsBorneRingkiro was always just slower Armored Core.

>>717365560
Really? That is cringe. The appeal of DeS was that it doesnt cheat like that. It is not capricious and everything has an explanation.

>>717365560
>magical pocket dimension island isn't visible
Yeah, no shit.

>>717372435
Retard

>>717365235 (OP)
I miss my first playthrough.

Why do modern games hate contrast and colors so much?

i know i shouldn't be autistic about visual fidelity for a game, but vfx in houdini has spoiled me so hard for things like tornados, flames, and smoke that when i see it in a game i can't help but be annoyed by the quality difference. i pray to god we can do cinema-tier visuals in realtime.

>>717366046
So Dark Souls 2 is as bad as everyone says?

>>717372465
Are you going to have a point?
Where they put it in the overworld is arbitrary because you don't just walk over to it, it is a sealed away ancient domain of another era.
It appears on the map vaguely closer to the area its probably split off from, but the game never pretended that it was a standard part of the overworld.
You can kinda see it from Malenia's divine tower, but that is a magical realm itself.

>>717372435
So sick of Miyazaki's salad tossers excusing every asspull justification for his shit worldbuilding. He's just a retard who is incapable of coherence and compelling characters.

>>717373182
They were written by that fat pedo jew.

>>717365560
At least it's in the sky and not underground or something. I still can't belive they left sky volcano in and never patched the elevator to just go down. It can't be that hard!

>>717373060
Dark Souls 2 is the Best Souls 2

>>717373182
It is literally the home base of a previous Lord of a previous cycle who ripped the entire area out of time and spends eternity praying and trying to commune with his God again.
This is all extremely obvious when you play the game. You can only get there through teleportation or invasion.
It is basically a pocket dimension. Where the assets are located on the overworld map is totally arbitrary. It doesn't matter, and you are a retard if you think they 'cheated' by making it nonvisible when you aren't inside.

Elden Ring has no issue showing you stuff from early on. You can see the Forge of the Giants from the start of the game. Farum Azula being invisible is intentional.

>>717368904
I was so excited for the Erd Tree, expecting some massive dungeon and we got absolutely nothing. I wanted to ascend to its peaks and gaze upon the world.

We need video games with realistic tornadoes

>>717373564
They put in so many underground dungeons, but everything that sticks out of the ground barely has any interiors.

>>717373076
>You can kinda see it from Malenia's divine tower, but that is a magical realm itself.
No, you just see it from there because the tower is a hidden area itself and you can open it only after Malenia is dead (so you're close to discovering Azula anyway). Otherwise the isolated divine tower doesn't differ from the other divine towers. That anon is right and you people will excuse or handwave any fucking design decision. I don't care about that detail myself but it's tiring to see mostly either contrarian retards hating on the game or cum guzzlers in ER threads.

>>717374254
The isolated tower is far more cut off than the other divine towers, the others of which are an integrated part of their province.
The isolated tower on the other hand is pretty separated and is in its own magical area that you can only get to via teleportation from an obscure area in of itself.

The Carian knight armor is dope as fuck.

>>717374634
>The isolated tower is far more cut off than the other divine towers, the others of which are an integrated part of their province.
ok, and?
>and is in its own magical area
what makes it a "magical area"? it's very close to leyndell and might as well work like a lighthouse or if you subscribe to that theory one of the pillars obscuring the land of shadow. making it out be be some extra special super duper mystical divine tower where you can see the ancient city outside of time is cope for a simple game design decision.
>but you can see le forge
not nearly as impressive as farum azula

>>717375092
nta
but why all the bitching about Faruum Azula when dark souls 2 got retarded shit like the elevator that goes up into the sky and somehow ends up in ironkeep?

>>717375317
>why all the bitching about Faruum Azula
As I said, I don't care about it. I dispute the mental gymnastics required to defend every design decision. The dev team wanted Azula to be a surprise and you can only see it from one vantage point while logically it should be huge and visible like in>>717365560 ?
Fine by me, some may find it really cool when they see if for the first time, others may consider it shit and bad map design, that's life.
Going
>ummm well it's easily explainable in THE LORE and if you disagree then well, you're basically fucking stupid teeeheee
is eye-roll inducing

Every soulslike that isn't made by fromsoft looks like shit.

>>717365560
why would this matter? it’s mundane for games to do these kinds of leveling tricks

Really hated Farum Azula. Some pieces are interesting but it was pretty fucking boring, everything was so grey it felt like going through that slog called Dark Souls 3 all over again. Demon/Dark Souls are peak, DS2 is a bad sequel, DS3 is a bad fanservice and Elden Ring is just shallow.

>>717365351
forced shipost

>>717376871
>and Elden Ring is just shallow
it's too big but I wouldn't call it shallow. Ideally the regions should have like 3-4 mini dungeons, one bigger side dungeon (castle morne in limgrave, caria manor in liurnia etc.) and the main course. Agree with you on the rest.