Elden Ring We saw a gameplay trailer and we got an actual release date. Elden Ring looks beautiful, and it's very cool to see that it's actually a real game.
Initial release date: January 21, 2022
Developer: FromSoftware, Inc.
Composer: Yuka Kitamura
Writers: George R. R. Martin, Hidetaka Miyazaki
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox
One, Xbox Series X and Series S, Microsoft Windows
Publishers: BANDAI NAMCO, Namco Bandai Games
America Inc.
FromSoftware made a splash by living a nice meaty chunk. gameplay footage to the starving masses. Elden Ring definitely looks like a Souls-style game. The design of creatures is bizarre & unique, but all of it has this hauntingly beautiful aspect. This Pot Goblin already has spawned a subreddit and countless pieces of fan art. It's Pot Goblin Summer.
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From the trailer, we can immediately see that there are stealth elements, changing weather, and time systems... There are characters besides the protagonist with unique motivations, and we get to see plenty of combat, but we don't really have much when it comes to lore other than what we already know. That is an Elden Ring. This mysterious artifact has been shattered. It is the source of tremendous power, with an obvious comparison to The One Ring from The Lord of the Rings. It's ambiguous but appears to be a physical object, an actual ring that is shattered. You create a character.
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play the role of the Tarnished, someone who is apparently stuck in a cycle of death and undeath, which should not be surprising to anyone who's a Souls fan. All right, get ready for some incoming wild theorizing on the Golden Order and the Tarnished that is based on *absolutely nothing* other than what we already know from the works of George R. R. Martin. The Golden Order mentioned once in the trailer, could possibly be a group tasked with protecting the Elden Ring.
to which the player's character originally belonged. After Queen Marika The Eternal's offspring overthrew The Golden Order and greedily took charge of the shattered Elden Ring for themselves, the player's character was Tarnished.
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Essentially, he failed in his duties and was killed, and the world suffered the consequences of his failure. So the new Golden Order is Marika's offspring and you are a Tarnished member of the Old Order trying to make right. Visually, you see elements of this, like when the main character is seen in a large hand with specks of gold shining through a Tarnished patina.
Again, just wild hypotheses. As the Tarnished, you'll ride around an expansive world on horseback. At least I think it's a horse -- it had horns? Or run around on foot, searching for the shards of the Elden Ring. From Elden Ring's website, you can glean a little bit more, albeit written as nebulously as fantasy will allow.
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Quote The Tarnished must harness the power of the Elden Ring to become the Elden Lord in the world of The Lands Between." The Lands Between is ruled by Queen Marika The Eternal. Though not really clear who she is supposed to be.
We don't know if we've actually seen Queen Marika. Her offspring are referred to as Demigods, which would imply that Queen Marika herself would be a God, and she's Eternal... Well, it's right there in the name. Anyways. The Eternal's Demigod children all have shards of the Elden Ring, called the Great Runes, clutched in their various appendages.
causing them all to go mad with power and start a war Which is pretty much natural progression for nepotism, even for Demigods. The war was so bad, it led to The Shattering, an event which meant being abandoned by "the Greater Will", which I can only speculate maybe some kind of benevolent higher power in this world. Holy crap. The war made this God so mad, he turned the car around on all of existence.
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If I've learned anything from Game of Thrones, it's that we're in for: some amazing world-building, too many characters, eight years of my life I can't get back, but at least, in this case, there's an ending! I hope... Likely several of the big bosses we see in the gameplay trailer are Marika's offspring. Former royalty children Queen, driven mad by this grotesque power. The guy who monologues in the trailer that Tarnished's flame of ambition must be extinguished? Almost definitely one of the offspring.
While still starved for lore what we do get is a much better idea of the game's aesthetic and what it looks like when you blend the work of two creators like George R. R. Martin and Hidetaka Miyazaki. From these first enemies.
you can see a style that feels like traditional dark fantasy with more messed up elements that you've come to expect from FromSoftware, like what we've seen in Bloodborne or Sekiro. With a name of such universal appeal as George R. R. Martin.
how vast the worlds they're creating are, I hope that Elden Rings might be easier to dive into for new fans. If you've watched me on YouTube or G4TV: The Early Years, you know my feelings on difficulty-shaming. Not every game needs to feel like you're a self-flagellating monk! If you're into the crazy difficulty -- great! If you're there for the story -- also great!
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What is very apparent is that Elden Ring might be the precipice of gaming's new renaissance in fantasy. It's already rapidly shifting in exciting ways. Fantasy is a beloved genre, especially in gaming. The popularity of World of Warcraft & Skyrim can attest to that. Video games are the perfect vehicle for a dense and lore-filled genre that can make things like dragons.
elves come to life. But fantasy is also due for a subversion. Game genres like sci-fi & horror grow & evolve as society does. But fantasy, frankly, has been stuck in arrested development since the days of Joust or Gauntlet. Elden Ring already looks so much more visually interesting than a lot of fantasy games we've seen.
because it's taking big swings to subvert our expectations. Visually all familiar with the homogenized idea of it: big dragons, elves, and a considerable lack of any variety of different kinds of people, despite being able to wander across worlds of mythical beings. While we know the hero's journey.
the center of every story since all the way back with The Odyssey, it's been retold 100 different ways! But now we're finally seeing some creators push those boundaries. Dungeons & Dragons have taken notice of the demand for more characters of color. A24 is giving a fresh.
haunting spin on Sir Gawain, a story dating back to the 14th century with The Green Knight. With any luck, Elden Ring might be that game-changer for fantasy gaming. Now, George R. R. Martin didn't write the game himself. He wrote the history of the world where the games taking place. This is interesting because every Souls game has deceptively dense mythology.
Their worlds are chock full of lore that can only be uncovered in cryptic snippets through dedicated exploration. Each one gives the impression that there are centuries of history, and no matter how many item descriptions you read, you're still barely scratching the surface.
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Moreover, Martin's most popular work, the Song of Ice and Fire books (adapted into Game of Thrones) exists in a fantasy world so dense with a history that a fan-made "Timeline of Major Events" spans over *12,000 years* And while Martin is no stranger to darkness and fantasy.
it's rare to see him move into the realms of horror, but not to the extent of the FromSoftware guys. Their creature design is often nightmarish and grotesque, bordering on the surreal. It will be interesting to see how they take Martin's lore and turn it into the most twisted version possible.
But both George R. R. Martin and Hidetaka Miyazaki tend to pull a lot of their content from the lore and mythology of real-world cultures. So maybe something new *can* happen. The kind of inventiveness that grows when you have two wonderful creators that share similar influences and wildly different interpretations. Maybe a direction we haven't gone yet. Maybe a direction that tests the limits of our own fantasies.
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