Me after reading this whole thread:
So many maidenless behavior ITT, smh
On a more serious note, they might seem like similar games on the surface (3rd person action-RPG, and with Elden Ring being Fromsoft's first actual open-world game, comparison is inevitable), but the designs philosophies and sensibilities of the devs behind them are obviously different, so it's kind of a waste of time trying to dickwave which game would be better or be The Best™. Still, I'd say Fromsoft came out as the black sheep in this discussion. Anyone who has played their games and recognize them for what they truly are would know that Fromsoft is probably the farthest thing from any (stereo)typical Japs devs you could ever find on earth. And it seems many Codexers are either blind, ignorant, or outright refuse to see this at all, citing muh animu at every chance they get. What a shamefur dispray. I'm just going to repeat what
Hobo Elf said in the other thread:
Calling anything a JRPG or WRPG in the first place is dumb and doesn't really give you an accurate idea of what you can expect from the game's mechanics. Let's just stick with the established genre names that actually make sense, like ARPG, Sim / Tactical RPG, dungeon crawler, etc..
Might seem unrelated, but it's the most appropriate response to those who cried muh animu
Still, like someone already said, PB doesn't seem to be the sharpest tool in the shed for releasing ELEX!! only a mere week after one of the biggest release in recent times. I wonder if there's an actual deadline that they can't pass no matter what here?
Having said all that, I'll still be getting both. So far only my brother bought it, but I liked what I saw.
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ELEX!!
God I despise FromSoft fanboys
Because they are annoying as fuck, with their "soulsborne games are god's gift to mankind, made for the Intelligent People(tm) who do not need to be spoonfed their narrative via cuscenes and dialogue" while actually learning anything about the those game's stories from youtube videos.
I actually agree with you here, but what you said here didn't actually say anything about Fromsoft's games themselves. I'm not saying you're personally correlating the audience with the actual products, but many people (and some Codexers, it seems) actually do so. Look at the reception to Undertale, and I actually encountered a guy at NMA forum who's seething whenever IE games gets mentioned, simply because of what he perceives as an association to those games with RPG Codex
Like has been mentioned, the left pic happened because of so many limitations, while the right is a remake made with more powerful techs and shit.
How about we compare the more modern Fromsoft's creation with DeS remake, instead? I'm not gonna put Elden Ring personally because I haven't actually played, so here's Bloodborne bosses instead:
Elden ring if made by ubisoft:
Related, somehow
Apparently, there was a chain of replies on Twitter that started, either from the same reply or parallel to the tweet in the video, involving also Ubisoft developers, which may or may not resulted in the pic you posted above. I'm too lazy to look up the actual tweets, but my face was palmed when I first heard of it
