Games Inbox: Elden Ring 2 predictions, From Software linearity, and Final Fantasy 7 Remake Gold Saucer
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Industry impact It really is astonishing how well Elden Ring has done. It’s hard to believe really, even the suggestion that it could outsell Call Of Duty would’ve been laughed at, at the beginning of the year. This opens up two main questions from my point of view: will there be an Elden Ring 2 and what effect is all this going to have on the rest of the industry?
Dark Souls had a really big impact despite being a fairly minor hit, so theoretically Elden Ring should be the game that everyone tries to copy from now on. And yet we haven’t really seen any indication of that so far. Imagine if Elden Ring ends up having the same impact as GTA 3 or Call Of Duty 4! It should do, judging by the sales, but even a fraction of that should see future games becoming bolder, deeper, and more challenging.
As for the other question, it’s hard to say, isn’t it? Obviously, there’ll be another game that’s like Elden Ring in the future, but will it be a direct sequel or something new like Bloodborne? Elden Ring could easily have been Dark Souls 4, after all, it was even the same publisher, but they chose not to. I think they’ll go with a numbered sequel though.
Even if it was terrible, which at this point I think we can all but guarantee it won’t be, it would sell just on the name alone. For now though I’ll just settle for some DLC…Danson
Where was I? Every FromSoftware game I have loved and played for endless hours, but it took Elden Ring for me to realise why the formula worked so well for me: linearity! Every previous game I could
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