How Elden Ring Succeeds by Ignoring 20 Years of Open-World Design
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Elden Ring is the current hot topic and for today's piece, I wanted to talk about how From Software made an excellent open-world game, by ignoring the conventional trends of the genre.
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The Impossible Chase of “Fun” Game Design
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Why Elden Ring Revolutionizes Open-World Design - KeenGamer
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Elden Ring one year later - is it still the best game FromSoftware ever made?, is dark souls the best game of all time
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Elden Ring Is A Perfectly Balanced Game - Magic Is Very Broken
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Open World Done Right! - Elden Ring
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Elden Ring PS5, PS4 Reviews Crown One of the Best Games of All Time
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How Elden Ring Finally Solved The Boring Open-World Sandbox Problem
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How Elden Ring Finally Solved The Boring Open-World Sandbox Problem
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The secret to Elden Ring's open world success is uncopyable