Thread 718570052

I used to think stringing together game areas together with tunnels and corridors is lazy game design. But I've since started playing Elden Ring and I sincerely apologize. I was wrong and corridors are the way forward.

>>718570052 (OP)
They're loading screens

>>718570052 (OP)
Surely there's some middle ground between flat giant boring plane and tiny one-way corridor. Some sort of... level, that's designed.

>>718570052 (OP)
stfu rollslop spic go back to border and kill yourself like your sister gangraped to death by cartelniggers

Dark Souls 1 was the perfect middle ground (As long as you ignore Lost Izalith, which feels like an Elden Ring area placed in Dark Souls)

>>718570052 (OP)
I used to think DS2 was good but then I grew standards. We all grow, like it or not.

>>718570052 (OP)
Elden Ring made every prior Soulsborne game obsolete in every way possible
Sorry

3D platformers made me realize this. Nothing better than a designed linear experience, like 2D games had.

>>718570052 (OP)
DS3 better

>>718573832
not with that soundtrack

>>718574313
Fromsoft troon when random choir and loud noise

they always were
Open World has been a disaster for area map design.

>>718570052 (OP)
I think people are becoming aware on how much of a meme open world games are. Metroidvanias have a similar issue, in that to access later parts of the game, you need said item to double jump. Gets really boring when all of them do the same gimmick.

>>718570794
Unironically spics got level design right. lo siento mi amigo, gringo not know bueno

>>718570052 (OP)
>Plopping things down on a heightmap is starting to seem worse than linking things together with corridors and elevators
Yeah, this era is pretty shit, but those two are still basically the same thing.
>>718571545
It's not really a middle ground so much as it is the opposite end of the spectrum. It was actually planned out even if towards the end they ended up needing to come up with work saving solutions. Nearly every souls game after that ended up just stitching random levels and bosses together and relying entirely on fast travel to ruin your mental map.
>>718574125
DS3 is unbelievably shit and just linearly stitched every level together.
>>718574642
Get the fuck out of here Jonathon Blow, you weren't even being gated by doublejump.
Metroidvania at least needs to be significantly more coherent than thinly spread open world soup.

>>718576641
>Get the fuck out of here Jonathon Blow, you weren't even being gated by doublejump.
>Metroidvania at least needs to be significantly more coherent than thinly spread open world soup.
You're one triggered motherfucker. That's because you know what I say is true.

>>718576641
>just linearly stitched every level together.
yeah, just like DS2, but with less dogshit areas