One of the best PlayStation 4 exclusive games, FromSoftware's Bloodborne introduced everyone to Yharnam, a desolate and crumbled gothic city filled with deranged humans and nightmarish creatures. While there are no plans for a sequel, many fell in love with the dark and twisted world that the developers crea
Earlier this year, Elden Ring was released, which was the latest game by FromSoftware , a developer known for their Dark Souls series of action-adventure games. These games had a brutal difficulty and style all their own, which lead to the creation of the "Soulsborne" term to describe them. FromSoftware itself has made seven titles that can be classified this way, all known for being hard to compl
When creating character builds during a campaign, players of Elden Ring who don't want to rely on Glintstone Sorceries or Incantations still have access to a wide variety of ranged weapons drawn from both history and fantasy. There are short recurved bows designed to be used on horseback, long-bows and Great Bows made for ranged sniping, crossbows that can be fired one-handed, and even two primitive firearms – the archaic-looking Jar Cannon and the One-Eyed Shield with its flame-spiting mouth mor
The rich, detailed world-building of Elden Ring stems from two creative sources. The mythology, prehistory, and semi-divine champions of Elden Ring were designed by George R.R. Martin, author of the dark fantasy novel series A Song of Ice And Fire . Hidetaka Miyazaki and other convention-beaking Elden Ring developers then took Martin's base setting and used it to create the beautifully ruined Lands Between setting players encounter at the start of a playthrough: a once-prosperous kingdom torn apart by a civil war fought between the Demigod children of Queen Marika, haunted by strange monsters and alien beings, with secretive conspiracies searching for the power and methods needed to create a new
A key part of Elden Ring 's backstory is the fate of the Tarnished, the lineage of humans the player's character belongs to. Near the height of the Golden Order - the divinely-inspired monarchy which rules over the Lands Between's denizens - Elden Ring 's Queen Marika the Eternal banished a number of her subjects from her realm, stripping away the golden Grace that had once connected these individuals to the power and vitality of the Erdtree. These Tarnished people departed the Lands Between, embarking on a long voyage to other lands, carving out new, lesser lives for themselves, until the guidance of Grace returned and called them to the Lands Between once more. Players of Elden Ring never directly see the Tarnished traveling from their places of exile, but certain details about the regions outside the Lands Between can be gleaned from item descriptions and the features of certain N
After defeating Godfrey, the First Elden Lord in his persona of Hoarah Loux, Elden Ring players will receive a Remembrance with the following description: " When Godfrey, first Elden Ring Patch Notes Lord was robbed of his grace, becoming Tarnished, he took with him his kinfolk and left the Lands Between. After the Long March of the Tarnished came to an end, Godfrey divested himself of kingship, becoming a simple warrior once mor
Every one of the original four Soulsborne games starts the player with a broken sword. Demon's Souls goes with Broken Sword, while the Dark Souls series has the Broken Straight Sword. It's a great feeling to start with a useless weapon and gradually upgrade to a stronger one. But it is possible for a player to keep this sw
This is a city worth exploring to see the amount of detail that went into creating it that some should consider despite being a completely different genre. And with robotic threats ready to shoot Dewitt, it shares some interesting strategies to take them down that those looking for similar gameplay approaches might appreci
It may have started with an initially buggy release, but Assassin's Creed Unity was able to sell millions of units. Set during the French Revolution, assassin Arno Dorian must uncover the person responsible for this historical conflict with the help of other fellow members of the or
Dragon Age: Origins is a modern classic fantasy RPG from the golden days of developer BioWare. The game creatively blends elements of Tolkien's high fantasy The Lord of the Rings series with George R. R. Martin's dark/low fantasy of A Song of Ice and Fire into its world to create something that stands proudly on its own merits while honoring its inspirati
Perhaps the most infamous boss in the already legendarily-difficult Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice , the Guardian Ape is extremely erratic, incredibly quick, and has both AoE and ranged attacks that can be very tough to do
The first of FromSoftware's pioneering lineage of PlayStation RPGs, the first King's Field never received a proper North American port, and the King's Field Western gamers know was actually a sequel that simply disregarded the original. With that in mind, though fan translations of the title do exist, in-game lore remains pretty sparse and tough to decip
