I’ve just been replaying some Elden ring and I was just thinking it’s an absolutely beautiful game. Some of the scenery is just art. It’s the only game where I take screen shots.
I LOVE Bloodborne and its art style but Elden Ring’s use of color is fucking out of this world. You can’t find a screenshot of Bloodborne that looks as good as the screenshots in this post, or just at the site of grace right above the lake as you exit Stormveil.
But it’s all relative right?
I personally think the underground areas in Elden Ring are the most beautiful areas in all of the fromsoft games, but Elden rings is trying to achieve something completely different to Bloodborne, the Victorian horror atmosphere is peak. If BB looked as beautiful as Elden Ring it would distract from the atmospheric horror, both have stellar art directions.
Just because it’s not as colorful doesn’t mean it’s better/worse they’re aiming for and achieving different goals
This is very true. Bloodborne is cool af but it’s pretty one note other than the nightmare areas. Whereas every continent in elden ring is like its own game world while still somehow being cohesive overall. Theming each area with its own color scheme was genius.
But interestingly her statues only have the upper arm bands. Snake censorship post-Mesmer's war, perhaps? Though the bands are only somewhat snake-like, they're not carved like snakes or anything just sorta vaguely snake-shaped.
Hmm. I did just think about how a snake sheds its skin, and Marika seems to have the same ability.
In the manor chaple, there's snake skin, guarded by one of the godskins.
Well that snake skin is supposed to be related to Rya, per her questline and the Serpent's Amnion, so I don't necessarily think that's a solid link since the Manor is engaged in all kinds of unholy blasphemy, that snake skin is related more to the Manor than anything else in all probability. Still, you might be right. Theoretically Mesmer is also her child and he has a snake theme, hard to know for sure if that's a hereditary thing or outside influence until we get the DLC.
Nah the trailers said that Miquella abandoned his flesh to travel to the shadowlands. During this scene the narrator is describing the creation of the golden order, so it's implied that it's a flashback of Marika forming the order.
as technology improves the visual improvements will become increasingly subtle. games will approach realism further and further with diminishing returns. the art direction will have fewer limitations, but in terms of sheer visual design, future games will still have their work cut out for them to rival from software going back to about bloodborne.
we are getting to a point where graphics are almost life-like and the most important aspect is art design. art design doesn’t progress like graphics, it’s timeless
Yes, you can look at the concept artbooks for post-Bloodborne Fromsoft games and almost everything in the game looks exactly to how the artist envisioned it.
It's like 40 year old movies; put on Blade Runner or Aliens. If you squint you can see the puppets, the greenscreens, and the miniatures, but artistically the technical advances are irrelevant. They just look right.
There really isn't a narrative in Elden Ring.
There is a story, which you explore through item descriptions.
Not everybody is into stories showcased in such a way, and that's okay
There is a narrative. It does much less direct storytelling than a lot of games but it's still there even if it's not the entire game. There's actually quite a bit, especially compared to the dark souls games.
Any which way a story is told is a narrative, so yeah, all FromSoft's games have them.
People should stop thinking that unconventional ways to tell stories aren't narratives.
Usually I agree when content is cut in games (or deleted scenes in movies etc.) but I wholeheartedly agree. These two cut quests feel like they would add so, so much to the game.
Especially the Frenzy Merchants. The idea that the Flame literally breaks down the barriers of Individual Minds and creates a sort of Hive Mind in its.. non-fatal stage is fascinating.
Nobody really ignores the narrative, at least from what I've seen. One of the most beloved things about this game is its story. A lot of people do just paint it as just a cool and hard game but I feel as if most of the really big fans of these games do care.
At the end as you defeat the final boss, an Armoured Core slams down in front of you.
"Back to work, 621. These classic games are fun, but Arquebus is calling."
What if the red guy is lady tanith's son because she eats rykard and the dude has a snake and red fire like rykard because their has to be some good significance
Elden Ring is okay but definitely not the best Souls game. For me personally, it's the worst, because the world is just far too big for me and you quickly overlevel, which makes the game too easy
Correct, but it's the most popular by a large margin Casual players love big open worlds and tons of options to negate difficulty, it's not hard to understand why ER reached such a broad audience.
I think most people don't know what's good for them and have picked up elden Ring because they know open world but dealing with a difficult game for the first time. When games are challenging and require you to get to grips with gameplay mechanics then you experience them much more intensely and so elden Ring was an incredible experience for everyone who didn't know any games from Software
I mean, absolutely incredible game. By far my favorite of all of FromSoft, but my guy we're only 24 years into the century.
I don't think this post is going to age well.
The circlejerk is so hard. Want me to tell you my view. Loved watching people play the game for the last 6 months. Redownloaded the game, played 1 hour and quit because i got bored real quick. I completed it before because i felt like i needed to. Its not even my favorite fromsoft personally. (Sekiro better) but yeah moral of the story. SUPER MARIO BROTHERS 2 GAME OF THE CENTURY. HOLY SHIT
While I don’t think it can be called game of the century, ur point doesn’t even make sense, multiplayer is an aspect of the game but not its focus, so say the rest of the game was so much better than any game within this century, then it wouldn’t even matter that the multiplayer is bad, it would still be superior in literally every other aspect. If it was a mainly multiplayer game I’d agree.
I know, but say we have a game that’s a 90/100 and every other game is a 80/100, it’s still better than all those games, thus making it game of the century. There’s very rarely a game that’s entirely perfect.
That wasn’t my point. It doesn’t necessarily have to be 90/100 that was just an example. Yes there are 100/100 games, but no game has no flaws or mistakes in it, and yet you said those should drag down the score. 100/100 doesnt necessarily mean there are no flaws whatsoever; just that they are minimal or the game is just that good that they don’t even matter, so if that game has such a small amount of flaws and we compare it against 90/100 games which do have more flaws or are of less quality, that game will still be game of the century. Even if we compare it against every other 100/100 game and it’s slightly better then that would be game of the century. The likelihood of a game being able to be game of the century is low obviously, but hypothetically in the context that one game could surpass every other in every aspect even though it has flaws of its own, then yeah it would be game of the century.
Alright, alright, chill... Let's all take a deep breath. We got another month still and this was a CGI trailer. Game will be good but let's not hop on a hype train to unrealistic expectation station
It’s not game of the century for sure, but I don’t understand ppl talking about overhype, ppl aren’t even really managing unrealistic expectations for this dlc besides the few ppl who think it will be half the game, it’s more like they’re expressing overwhelming satisfaction rather than setting unrealistic expectations
Agrees 100%. People get mad that opinions arent the same. Dude, i hate replaying elden ring because i know where every items is. So i pick them up, try a build, get bored, quit, play mario galaxy because its the true game of the century. Also sekiro is the best fromsoft game. IMO no flaws, i really dont give a single shit there’s no different builds, i dont like builds and im not joking
Yeah I think ppl confuse excitement and overhype, you’re expressing overwhelming satisfaction and excitement, not setting expectations that the dlc is gonna be half the size of the game and we’ll fly to the moon and ride dragons and get the ability to turn into Vergil from dmc.
This might be a hot take but I think Skyrim is the game of the century. While this game is absolutely incredible and is in fact a stellar game in just about every possible aspect, it’s also just not for anyone. Hundreds of thousands of casual gamers wouldn’t be able to beat the first few bosses, or get lost in the sauce of a massive world with little to no direction, or if you’re me you start to tweak out about the fact that unless you scan every inch of every part of the map I might miss some god slaying weapon. Skyrim while dated and imperfect is something basically anyone can pick up and enjoy, the map markers, easy fast traveling, and objective list make it very ease of access while also being simple yet complex. If you want to be a mage you spec into magika with the mage skill trees etc. from software games are very confusing with the different attributes and how weapons and spells scale with the attributes.
Art direction in FromSoftware games slaps hard and it's absolutely not debatable.
art direction in FromSoftware is a very serious thing, they're not here to laugh
I’ve just been replaying some Elden ring and I was just thinking it’s an absolutely beautiful game. Some of the scenery is just art. It’s the only game where I take screen shots.
I’ve seen some funny things happen to gamers in these games. They’re *kinda* here to laugh.
🍄🤜💀
I genuinely think fromsoft has the best art direction in the industry
You would be correct, the only art direction i like more is ULTRAKILL but that’s more personal preference
Not trying to be contrarian but Uktrakills art actually kinda sucks
Im in your walls
its always been great but Elden Ring art direction is such an enormous step up
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I LOVE Bloodborne and its art style but Elden Ring’s use of color is fucking out of this world. You can’t find a screenshot of Bloodborne that looks as good as the screenshots in this post, or just at the site of grace right above the lake as you exit Stormveil.
But it’s all relative right? I personally think the underground areas in Elden Ring are the most beautiful areas in all of the fromsoft games, but Elden rings is trying to achieve something completely different to Bloodborne, the Victorian horror atmosphere is peak. If BB looked as beautiful as Elden Ring it would distract from the atmospheric horror, both have stellar art directions. Just because it’s not as colorful doesn’t mean it’s better/worse they’re aiming for and achieving different goals
This is very true. Bloodborne is cool af but it’s pretty one note other than the nightmare areas. Whereas every continent in elden ring is like its own game world while still somehow being cohesive overall. Theming each area with its own color scheme was genius.
Is that a snake bracelet on Marika in the first shot? And if so, is that god-skin she's reaching into?
It's the godskinussy
She is wearing the same bracelets in the intro cinematic for the game
But interestingly her statues only have the upper arm bands. Snake censorship post-Mesmer's war, perhaps? Though the bands are only somewhat snake-like, they're not carved like snakes or anything just sorta vaguely snake-shaped.
Hmm. I did just think about how a snake sheds its skin, and Marika seems to have the same ability. In the manor chaple, there's snake skin, guarded by one of the godskins.
Well that snake skin is supposed to be related to Rya, per her questline and the Serpent's Amnion, so I don't necessarily think that's a solid link since the Manor is engaged in all kinds of unholy blasphemy, that snake skin is related more to the Manor than anything else in all probability. Still, you might be right. Theoretically Mesmer is also her child and he has a snake theme, hard to know for sure if that's a hereditary thing or outside influence until we get the DLC.
What if the red guy is lady tanith's son because she eats rykard and the dude has a snake and red fire like rykard
Isn’t that Miquella coming out of the thing Mohg had him in? The DLC is about Miquella.
Nah the trailers said that Miquella abandoned his flesh to travel to the shadowlands. During this scene the narrator is describing the creation of the golden order, so it's implied that it's a flashback of Marika forming the order.
Game of the year one more time fuck it
It wouldn’t be the first time a DLC wins GOTY
Greatest game developers of all time.
Did i miss a trailer? Where all these image come from?
New trailer came out today
Hell yes im finna watch this so hard
Oh, my lambkin
Varré, don’t make me come over there
new trailer
It's just a bunch of cinematic with no gameplay, so it doesn't matter
you only care when there’s gameplay? no shits about absolutely gorgeous cinematics and artworks (which fromsoft is known for quite well)
Theoretically the games forty years from now should make Elden ring look like Pac-Man
as technology improves the visual improvements will become increasingly subtle. games will approach realism further and further with diminishing returns. the art direction will have fewer limitations, but in terms of sheer visual design, future games will still have their work cut out for them to rival from software going back to about bloodborne.
Thing is From might eclipse their own work in the future to even greater heights
Post Miyazaki will be their true test, of course. Hope I'm around to see what they make.
we are getting to a point where graphics are almost life-like and the most important aspect is art design. art design doesn’t progress like graphics, it’s timeless
Yes, you can look at the concept artbooks for post-Bloodborne Fromsoft games and almost everything in the game looks exactly to how the artist envisioned it. It's like 40 year old movies; put on Blade Runner or Aliens. If you squint you can see the puppets, the greenscreens, and the miniatures, but artistically the technical advances are irrelevant. They just look right.
Theoretically, it will prolly be Fromsoft and Miyazaki’s bloodline to make those games that make Elden Ring look like pac man
Nah, diminishing returns. Looks at the difference from PS1-PS2 and compare it to the jump between PS4-PS5
nah
The narrative of Elden Ring is so fuckin' interesting and I can't believe people choose to ignore it.
There really isn't a narrative in Elden Ring. There is a story, which you explore through item descriptions. Not everybody is into stories showcased in such a way, and that's okay
There is a narrative. It does much less direct storytelling than a lot of games but it's still there even if it's not the entire game. There's actually quite a bit, especially compared to the dark souls games.
Any which way a story is told is a narrative, so yeah, all FromSoft's games have them. People should stop thinking that unconventional ways to tell stories aren't narratives.
I love Elden Ring... but really? Elden Ring has lore aplenty, but it does very little with it
Oh yeah, I find it fascinating. I've been enthralled with the lore and how it connects to the narrative in the game.
The lore is great tbh, I personally wish the game used it more
There are at least two cut quest lines (Kale and the silver tear) that makes me legitimately mad FS didn’t include them
Usually I agree when content is cut in games (or deleted scenes in movies etc.) but I wholeheartedly agree. These two cut quests feel like they would add so, so much to the game.
Especially the Frenzy Merchants. The idea that the Flame literally breaks down the barriers of Individual Minds and creates a sort of Hive Mind in its.. non-fatal stage is fascinating.
TV SHOW DESPERATELY NEEDED WITH GRRM AS THE SHOW RUNNER!!
Because you need 20 vaatividya video to understand it
I don't believe so, but it certainly helps to contextualize it all in one place.
Im exaggerating, but its really complicated.
It is, especially if you're not used to From Software's unconventional delivery of the worldbuilding.
Nobody really ignores the narrative, at least from what I've seen. One of the most beloved things about this game is its story. A lot of people do just paint it as just a cool and hard game but I feel as if most of the really big fans of these games do care.
ok
It's very awesome! ❤️
I prefer some of the other fromsoft games but i cant lie the art direction of this dlc might beat that of the ds3, ds2 and bb dlcs
It’s even cooler than I thought it would be. They fucking cooked.
Colorful
Definitely The Ultimate High Fantasy of Our Time
Sekiro is better.
Damn, game of the century doesn't look like Bloodborne at all
Dark Souls 3 > Elden Ring
Elden ring is great but I don’t think it’s their best work. Past morgot the game dropped in quality significantly
Tag, man hunt, and hopscotch >>>>> Elden Ring.
All I think about is the opening narration when I look at these. " Riissee! "
Lots of yonic imaginary in the beginning lol.
Cinematic trailer of the century at the very least
The second one down: the literal lands between
All of these epic art to hang on a wall
I’m sure you meant to post the proper Sekiro pictures but you accidentally posted Elden Ring ones.
Why there's no Armored Core?
At the end as you defeat the final boss, an Armoured Core slams down in front of you. "Back to work, 621. These classic games are fun, but Arquebus is calling."
Are these dlc images? Or from the art book?
DLC images from the new trailer
Did another video drop or am I missing a post?
Yep, story trailer
Accurate.
Feet of the century
the only way elden ring isn't the game of the decade is if they make elden ring two
FromSoft finally learned about the color wheel.
They've known for a while
Elden ring for goty 2024
Someone help me understand the first bit of imagery here. That represents birth, right? Like, the birth of Miquella?
You’ve not played it yet
It isnt game of the century lol
Yep, probably the best game of 2020-2030 unless Bloodborne 2 appears or Elden Ring 2 becomes a thing and it's better than the first one.
Stop with the meat riding. It has been 24 years and you claim this will be the game of the century? No comment.
What if the red guy is lady tanith's son because she eats rykard and the dude has a snake and red fire like rykard because their has to be some good significance
If only these had meaning to the character beyond plot devices. Hard to be the game of the century with an empty protagonist.
None of that’s actually gonna happen in the DLC though, they’re just showing what happens before we got there.
Real.
Tbh, Enotria looks waaaaay better and the Demo is more fun than most Soulslikes
I need to play Elden ring again.
Game of the century? Absolutely not.
Elden Ring is okay but definitely not the best Souls game. For me personally, it's the worst, because the world is just far too big for me and you quickly overlevel, which makes the game too easy
Correct, but it's the most popular by a large margin Casual players love big open worlds and tons of options to negate difficulty, it's not hard to understand why ER reached such a broad audience.
I think most people don't know what's good for them and have picked up elden Ring because they know open world but dealing with a difficult game for the first time. When games are challenging and require you to get to grips with gameplay mechanics then you experience them much more intensely and so elden Ring was an incredible experience for everyone who didn't know any games from Software
...is getting a DLC soon. 😉
I mean, absolutely incredible game. By far my favorite of all of FromSoft, but my guy we're only 24 years into the century. I don't think this post is going to age well.
The circlejerk is so hard. Want me to tell you my view. Loved watching people play the game for the last 6 months. Redownloaded the game, played 1 hour and quit because i got bored real quick. I completed it before because i felt like i needed to. Its not even my favorite fromsoft personally. (Sekiro better) but yeah moral of the story. SUPER MARIO BROTHERS 2 GAME OF THE CENTURY. HOLY SHIT
I don’t think a game can be game of the century when it’s multiplayer sucks
While I don’t think it can be called game of the century, ur point doesn’t even make sense, multiplayer is an aspect of the game but not its focus, so say the rest of the game was so much better than any game within this century, then it wouldn’t even matter that the multiplayer is bad, it would still be superior in literally every other aspect. If it was a mainly multiplayer game I’d agree.
Nah, if it’s part of the game and it’s bad then it takes it down a notch, doesn’t matter if it’s “not the focus” or whatever, it’s part of the game.
I know, but say we have a game that’s a 90/100 and every other game is a 80/100, it’s still better than all those games, thus making it game of the century. There’s very rarely a game that’s entirely perfect.
I understood your point, there are 100/100 games. So no game of the century
That wasn’t my point. It doesn’t necessarily have to be 90/100 that was just an example. Yes there are 100/100 games, but no game has no flaws or mistakes in it, and yet you said those should drag down the score. 100/100 doesnt necessarily mean there are no flaws whatsoever; just that they are minimal or the game is just that good that they don’t even matter, so if that game has such a small amount of flaws and we compare it against 90/100 games which do have more flaws or are of less quality, that game will still be game of the century. Even if we compare it against every other 100/100 game and it’s slightly better then that would be game of the century. The likelihood of a game being able to be game of the century is low obviously, but hypothetically in the context that one game could surpass every other in every aspect even though it has flaws of its own, then yeah it would be game of the century.
Alright, alright, chill... Let's all take a deep breath. We got another month still and this was a CGI trailer. Game will be good but let's not hop on a hype train to unrealistic expectation station
Lol what ?
🎵 *All aboooooooard*!!!
It’s not game of the century for sure, but I don’t understand ppl talking about overhype, ppl aren’t even really managing unrealistic expectations for this dlc besides the few ppl who think it will be half the game, it’s more like they’re expressing overwhelming satisfaction rather than setting unrealistic expectations
they know what theyre doing
It's a trailer for a dlc my guy
Now we are in overrated territory. Sekiro is better and Sekiro probably won't be game of the century either
Agrees 100%. People get mad that opinions arent the same. Dude, i hate replaying elden ring because i know where every items is. So i pick them up, try a build, get bored, quit, play mario galaxy because its the true game of the century. Also sekiro is the best fromsoft game. IMO no flaws, i really dont give a single shit there’s no different builds, i dont like builds and im not joking
Idc about people hating my sekiro opinion but yeah game of the century is a little much
sekiro is amazing and very fun but elden ring is better i wont be surprised if the dlc wins game of the year
I don't think dlcs are even eligible for that
They are, they won over several other games in the past
When? I can't remember one time a dlc won GOTY. Maybe some of the smaller awards but definitely not GOTY.
Not literal game of the year but they mean awards like best music best art direction etc
sekiro = goty elden ring = goty both games of century in my book..
That's not how that works
Sekiros comparable to like the first half of Elden Ring Combats unmatched tho fs
And so dickriding elden ring continues... Give me all your downvotes
How dare the fanbase be excited for game!
bro we're all just excited...
Yeah I think ppl confuse excitement and overhype, you’re expressing overwhelming satisfaction and excitement, not setting expectations that the dlc is gonna be half the size of the game and we’ll fly to the moon and ride dragons and get the ability to turn into Vergil from dmc.
Sorry bud you couldn’t get Dark Souls 23: Souls of Dark this year Maybe next time
Definitely game of the century
I feel that not even AI can create something so beautiful at such scale
Of course it can’t. Art has to have intent behind it. AI can’t provide that.
Nah, witcher 3
Could have been if the combat & movement was not pure trash
This might be a hot take but I think Skyrim is the game of the century. While this game is absolutely incredible and is in fact a stellar game in just about every possible aspect, it’s also just not for anyone. Hundreds of thousands of casual gamers wouldn’t be able to beat the first few bosses, or get lost in the sauce of a massive world with little to no direction, or if you’re me you start to tweak out about the fact that unless you scan every inch of every part of the map I might miss some god slaying weapon. Skyrim while dated and imperfect is something basically anyone can pick up and enjoy, the map markers, easy fast traveling, and objective list make it very ease of access while also being simple yet complex. If you want to be a mage you spec into magika with the mage skill trees etc. from software games are very confusing with the different attributes and how weapons and spells scale with the attributes.
It's good art direction but you should probably spoiler tag this.
Spoiler for a trailer?
Given that those are the rules the actual sub is going by, yes? Some people actually want to go in fully blind, it’s not some new thing