Elden Ring Succeeds by Ignoring 20 Years of Open-World Design

Re:Elden Ring Succeeds by Ignoring 20 Years of Open-World De... by bombcar on Saturday April 02, 2022 @11:44AM (#30889067)

I agree it's gutsy, but I don't really see the risk - if BotW had "flopped" it would be a footnote like Link Between Worlds; it wouldn't have sunk the company. Arguably it could have damaged the Switch's reputation.

Interestingly it seems Nintendo understood that it could possibly not succeed, by where they placed the story in the timeline.

Nintendo, at least ever since the success of the Wii, hasn't been unwilling to make gutsy moves - but even then they do them in ways that they have fall-back positions if they're not as successful as they'd like.

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Re:Elden Ring Succeeds by Ignoring 20 Years of Open-World De... by mercer on Friday April 08, 2022 @10:19AM (#30957085)

While I agree with your comment, and while this is probably a bit pedantic, I'd argue that gutsy implies there being a risk. Sure, with Nintendo the risk is not something like bankruptcy, but then again the word 'risk' doesn't just mean "a game that risks the company's future".

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