Elden Ring Sales Top 12 Million Units Worldwide, 1 Million in Japan

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TruckOSaurus said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Just got the game yesterday.  It looks good so far.  All this time I was afraid they weren't going to make any more Souls games, but in reality they changed the name and made it open world.

That's all you need baby!  Imagine someone saying this about GTA 3 back in the day:

"I don't see the appeal to GTA 3.  Looks like an open world Tomb Raider with updated graphics."  You just described the whole appeal.  That's all you need baby!

If someone described GTA 3 to me as open world Tomb Raider with updated graphics, I'd ask them to get off whatever drug they were smoking.

Heh, that's because minimizing what it takes to make an open world game is kind of silly.  Going from a fairly linear experience to an open world experience takes a mountain of effort, and also requires you put in all sorts of things that were never in the linear experience.  When you make a game open world, you are really making an entirely different type of game, even if the combat is similar to another game you've played before.