Elden Ring Delay Due to FromSoftware Exceeding Initial Plans; Focused on Game Tempo to Avoid Boredom

Hidetaka Miyazaki has spoken up a bit about the Elden Ring delay, and mentions how the dev team is focused on temp to avoid player boredom.

[darkrider]

Covid will affect games also on 2022.

[Si-Fly]

No shit

[zari2552]

hello

[Kyizen]

Like Starfield

[Shiken]

A certain fanbase can only hope...for...reasons?

[Gamer79]

@ kyizen
Any proof, or are you just making it up.

[H9]

So many people will read this as Elden Ring Delay and just have a heart attack there

[Dudeson]

I just recovered from this mini heart attack indeed.

[camel_toad]

Yeh I stroked out there. I have my vacation set a week after launch so any launch day bugs can hopefully get patched out.

[gammaray13]

i did

[TheDoomedGuy]

Symptoms may be more serious than COVID lol.

I myself was like shiiiiiiiittttt

[-Foxtrot]

Considering what many games are in Feb...I wouldn't have minded a month delay

[fitofficial]

Can confirm, dead now.

[jBlakeeper]

That’s immediately what I thought when I read the headline and was like the hell?

[Eamon]

Sounds like balancing issues. My speculation is from their trials they found quite a few testers able to "break" the balance perhaps by becoming too powerful too early. This is generally an issue with open world games because it becomes more difficult to control player progression than in linear games.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

I have watched some of the boss fights and from what I observed magic is very powerful. Hope Elden Ring’s combat doesn’t overly favour magic. Personally, I prefer melee combat. I’ve completed all the souls without using magic and casting (excluding weapon buffs).

[toxic-inferno]

I'd never actually used magic (including weapon buffs) in any of the games until my most recent playthrough. Can't believe how useful those weapon buffs are, and that I'd never used them before now!

[MrChow666]

Same here, I like to go all out and get up close with a big sword lol

[YoungKingDoran]

Magic is the easy mode journalist's continually ask for, only they didnt get that far to know it

[excaliburps]

That could very well be it. Like, if you're too powerful, these games become boring since there's no more tension.

[C-H-E-F]

Soooo if the tempo is trash and we are bored playing the game, does that mean we've been bamboozled?

[Lexreborn2]

I’m so glad they made sure fun is the center of it and not just opening it up for the sake of opening it up. So many open world games just depend on fetch quest and have a lot of emptiness in between.

I really lose interest in open world games like that due to the nature of just nothing to do. That’s why games with lots of traversal options get me more interested then anything else. Not just driving a car/horse or quick travel. But flight, parkour have always been higher interest to me.lol

[GameZenith]

Lol

[DarthZoolu]

I think all of those from software games are boring except for armored core

[InUrFoxHole]

Just saw my 1st glimpse of gameplay. This is a day 1

[gold_drake]

i hope they get rid of most of the bugs too while they're at it

[Fonsecap]

I believe that this delay is happening because February is very crowded and can affect their sales