«Это большая карта, напичканная боссами»: создатель The Witness и Braid заявил, что в Elden Ring «нет дизайна»

It's very difficult to play most "AAA" games now. At least for me, the design quality has degraded to the point where the high production values can't compensate, and I just end up wishing I hadn't wasted my time.

@cmuratori pretty much, though Fromsoft and Nintendo both seem to still understand design tho

@TylerGlaiel I haven't played Elden Ring yet, but I've been acting under the assumption that the reason everyone loves it is because the design is actually passable, which seems to now be super rare in AAA.

@cmuratori @TylerGlaiel Elden Ring doesn't really have design per se. It's a huge map full of a bunch of bosses with different attack patterns, and the sheer scale alone is interesting and impressive -- it is way bigger than anything previous both in physical size and amount of stuff.

@cmuratori @TylerGlaiel (But the amount of stuff is also kinda why there is no real design -- it is just, here is a bunch of stuff we put in a bag, here's the bag.)

@Jonathan_Blow @cmuratori @TylerGlaiel The design is in the boss fights themselves. They are designed to force you to play well (altgough most of the time you can find a glitch and exploit it)

@juigperez @cmuratori @TylerGlaiel They are just copied from decades of boss fights. That's not a criticism, and they did a good job, it just is what it is.