Hello everyone, I'm Dr. X. To say that last month's hottest game is definitely the old man ring. It sold 12 million copies in only 17 days after its launch, which is equivalent to the sales of Dark Souls 3 for 4 years! Old X myself also indulged in the pit for 140 hours, passed the level twice to do steam full achievements, nothing to see the relevant posts and videos.
Then I found a paradoxical phenomenon: at the beginning, the old man ring was blown up by various media, steam praise rate reached 88%, and the altar seemed to fall to Miyazaki Hidego again.
But after a month, when some core players ate through the game, many people expressed their dissatisfaction and felt that the old man ring had lost its soul. Why is there such a contradiction? What is the secret behind the explosion of the Eldon Ring? After thinking deeply about these questions, I came to the conclusion that through the Elden Ring, Miyazaki Hidetaka actually wanted to walk out of his "altar".
The old ring of "no more suffering"
First of all, I would like to ask you a question, what is the altar of Hidetaka Miyazaki? The answer is obvious, that is, the game is difficult to pervert at the same time, but it is really very good. This is not a soul player's self-high stem, but it has long been out of the circle. Like some people, even Miyazaki Hidetaka doesn't know what he looks like, but he knows that there is a person with the surname Miyazaki who is particularly difficult to play games and likes to make players suffer.
It can be said that this is exactly the main difference between Hidetaka Miyazaki, the man nicknamed the old thief, and other producers. But this kind of altar also brings a side effect, that is, the soul game is very out of the circle at the same time, but also spawned tens of millions of shouting old thieves, but respectful cloud players.
When the Eldon Ring was first launched, it also gave me this feeling, as if it was a dark soul with a larger map. At the beginning, there was an outrageously strong tree guard, and various anchors died repeatedly here, and the dragon god of DOTA2 was beaten for 6 hours and died 375 times.
However, after a day or two, when I still wanted to see the well-known anchors suffering miserably, I brushed up on a lot of brainless ways of becoming stronger and refusing to suffer. Like what 10 seconds 10,000 experience brush half an hour to upgrade back to the big tree guards, brainless floor monsters will automatically die, send a wave boss did not reach the front of you people evaporated.
I wondered if it wasn't me on my own, when was the game of the old thief so benevolent? With the idea of trying it out, I copied a corrupt dragon's sense of belief, and as a result, I could play with my hands and indulged in it for 140 hours.
As can also be seen from the number of Steam online users, the game was only 500,000 online when it was first launched on the 25th, but it directly doubled 10 days later. It shows that in addition to the high popularity of live broadcasting, there are really many players who refuse to suffer, and they have entered the pit in the second wave.
So, is it because the player's routine is getting more and more chaotic now that the Eldon Ring of Law has become approachable? On the contrary, I found that everything was arranged by the old thief Miyazaki. If you've already completed the Eldon Ring, you can definitely feel that the game has a potential difficulty division.
On the surface, the game still has a hardcore route to satisfy soullike players, starting with a battle against the tree guard, casually upgrading a few levels to fight the boss, and evil omen, Greg practicing bounce, and the stern Miyazaki Hidetaka watching you keep die. Like one of my colleagues is a fundamentalist soul player, playing melee combat, without magic and prayer, without ashes (summons), playing boss pure backstop, so reckless to the Valkyrie, and then stuck.
When we talked about games last month, he always said it was easy. But the messy hair, thick dark circles, and slow progress of the raiders all proved that he had suffered until the early hours of the morning.
However, if you are a truancy player, even if you don't look at the guide, the game actually paves a hidden simple route for you. I would like to call it Miyazaki Hidetaka's mercy.
Like me, a handicapped party buddy, who was cut by a tree guard at the beginning, immediately skipped it, and then after exploring for a while, he got the horse sent by the big wife. At this time, he found that riding a horse was running very fast, and most of the monsters could not catch up at all, and they could go to the monster pile to grab something and run. At this time, the boss suffers, the return on fighting monsters is low, how will ordinary people choose? Of course, I began to run to pick up the rags and find the treasure.
Then, as he explores, he is hit by a teleportation trap disguised as a treasure chest and teleported to a new map. As I wandered around, I picked up the Meteorite Staff and the God-level Spell Rock Ball. These two things should be known how much they have played, intelligence S bonus, self-aiming belt tracking, and there is no threshold for use. After getting it, you can go back and hang the bad omen, and you can use it from the beginning to the level.
If you look at the raiders, you will find that the map of Galid on the edge of the novice village is really magical, and it is simply a small lesson from suffering given to you by Hidetaka Miyazaki. Here you can find the real home of the Faded Ones – the Mongwyn dynasty. There are monster spawning points specially designed for you, 10 seconds and 10,000 experiences in the early stage of shooting a big bird, and a monster in the later stage 2000 sweep a large piece.
Are you saying this is a loophole? Not really, in the latest update, the old thief even enhanced your spawning efficiency. He was so gentle that I cried to death.
In addition to this, in Galid you can also meet old dragons that give you 90,000 experiences, get a corrupt dragon's breath that can deduct blood percentages, a red lion flame that makes the boss kneel in two sprays, and a hound step that rolls Plus. Instantaneous comes with ultra-long invincible frames, allowing you to play bosses at 0 cost;
These things generally have a low threshold for entry, and they are nakedly declared, Miyazaki Hidetaka wants to stick to you, come quickly.
Even if you miss Gellid, there are still a lot of artifacts in the game that are free from suffering. Like the other me in the world, the real King of Eldon, a blood that is several times your doppelganger. Although the new version of Big Brother suffers from Alzheimer's disease, he can still barely fight.
There is also a fingerprint stone shield strengthened to level 25, with a large shield talisman, the monster can't break your defense, not to mention, even you can poke it while defending. If you hit you, I hit mine. In addition to these, there are also blasphemous holy swords, star beasts half jaws, famous swords and moons, etc., Miyazaki Hideko wants to paste with you in an all-round and multi-angle way.
The handicapped party had seen the boss tremble before, and now they were directly turning over and making a fool of themselves. After playing, you can also go to the anchor to say that the next teaching, simply not too cool.
Hidetaka Miyazaki walks out of the "altar"
At this time, some people may have to ask, put the difficulty standard so wide, the handbags can talk and laugh, will the previous soullike players have no opinion? Obviously there will be. This is also why a month after the release of the game, in the community and around me, more and more players will feel that the old ring is not as durable as Dark Souls 3, and the game's multi-week view is even very boring.
There are many reasons for this, such as because the player is given a powerful weapon prop, if not used, then the BOSS strength is inevitably a bit super-outlined; there is also a high weekly value expansion, the boss battle evolved into a mutual second between the two sides and so on.
Old X I am not a hardcore player, compared to the deep study of the Battle of the Elden Ring of Justice, I am interested in another question: after Miyazaki Hideko changed to take care of more players, why can the old ring still reach 88% of the praise rate, why did the previous players not rebound on a large scale?
In my opinion, on the one hand, it is because Miyazaki Hidetaka, when taking care of mass players, did not put the guidance in the face of the player as the Ubisoft designer said. In fact, even if the player finds various artifacts to avoid suffering, death is still commonplace.
More importantly, Hidetaka Miyazaki inherited another of the most important features of the Soul series, that is, taste.
In the Old Man Ring, you'll encounter all kinds of monsters that make people san crazy, finger monsters, noble ghosts, windmill village old women, sewer curse frogs, ruined earthworm people, and so on. The giant ant that made my scalp tingle the most also used high-definition modeling, which made people wonder what Hidetaka Miyazaki had experienced in the past.
As for how these monsters came about, the old thief also joked in interviews, likes to observe the CEOs of other game companies like anthropologists, and sometimes even uses this as a source of inspiration for creating monsters. Of course, this taste is certainly not as simple as disgusting people. In the old man ring, there are also many exciting bosses.
For example, the melee battle with his mother-in-law under the cold light of the full moon, the shocking appearance of the shattered star Ratan from the sky on the red earth, the meteorite thrown out by the dark abandoned son Esty under the boundless starry sky, and the beautiful valkyrie under the holy tree, who incarnated as a corrupt beauty.
During the 140-hour game, there are many scenes that I will still feel shocked even if I have seen it many times, such as looking at the city of Stonewell at the beginning of the guide; the vast Lyenia paste seen after defeating the relay from the small gate; the panoramic view of Rodel after coming out of the eastern wall of the royal city; and the final golden tree after defeating the giant, standing in front of the cauldron of flames and looking at the last golden tree. And the ending, and The wife of La Ni heading towards the distant starry sky together.
It can be said that compared to the previous linear level, the Elden French Ring is a more extensive and fully Specialty of Hideko Miyazaki. When I interviewed The FS Marketing Director, Yasudai Kitao, before the game was released, he told me that the open world of the game was much bigger than they had originally thought. But it was only after I actually got started that I had a clear understanding of this sentence.
Someone specifically counted it, and the Eldon Ring was crammed with hundreds of locations, more than 50 small levels, and 18 large and medium-sized levels. With the scale of more than 300 people in FS, it still pays a lot of effort and thought to make a volume comparable to that of the AAA factory.
For example, the Eldon Ring reuses a large number of historical materials, and the open world that seems to be connected together is actually put together by a dozen separate maps, and the back is very simple; the big blessing of the round table, in fact, there is a small blessing hidden under the table;
Therefore, perhaps lowering the player's entry threshold will make some players feel that the game of the old thief has changed. What's more, you will feel that Hidetaka Miyazaki is corrupted by money and bows to the market.
But in my opinion, Hidetaka Miyazaki, who was put on the altar by the player, does not need the next Dark Souls 3 and "Wolf" to prove himself. As a creator who is always moving towards the next higher mountain, he just wants more people to play his game.
To say a cold knowledge, the first week of live broadcast viewing time of billions, how big the terrier figure out of the circle of wolves, the final actual sales of only 5 million sets, only half of Dark Souls 3.
Before playing The Old Man Ring, there were hundreds of millions of cloud players who would shout Miyazaki Hidetaka, but they wouldn't really understand him. And the old man ring is a way for those players to understand him and appreciate his taste. This is probably the greatest joy for the creators.
As Hidetaka Miyazaki said in an interview, holding his head in his hands and laughing, "I just want as many players as possible to experience the joy of overcoming difficulties." ”