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Best is to check steam achievements page and see how many unlocked the one beating the last boss.
That's not surprising though given that GoW is a much shorter and easier game.Hence GoW would be by far the most completed game followed by Stray. Elden Ring and Dying Light 2 would be about as little completed. GoW would be almost 10 times more completed than ER. This all assuming that all reporters had to report whether they completed/abandoned the game and that there was no bias in reporting.
Wolf,As someone who doesn't like Elden Ring I think the idea that only .02% of gamers got into Elden Ring is out of touch with reality. Maybe you need to get out more and see what people play because it isn't Solasta. Solasta is a great game but that is the niche game, not Elden Ring. Lots of people don't finish games across the board, that is pretty well known. Whether not-finishers is extra high for ER I wouldn't know - the person who wrote that article did a tiny ad-hoc sample based on some of her followers which isn't a good sample. The game is popular and well liked and more mainstream then Solasta. Now here at the Watch Solasta may be the mainstream but the Watch itself is a pretty niche set of players.
That being said I don't have access to any official numbers of who finishes what game but what I have seen suggests it's still a large number and I expect a lot higher than .02% of the people who purchased the game.
What do you meen by this? That the ultimate attribute of Elden Ring is that it's punishing?What I meant by the .02% was that a very small population of PC gamers get into a game like Elden Ring for what it actually was - a punishing endeavor.
Senior Entertainment Writer Eric Francisco expressed his mingled awe and dissatisfaction with the game rather elegantly in a December Twitter thread.
"I don't know how else to express it but when it comes down to it, Elden Ring -- a game I acknowledge is fantastic but that I ultimately do not love and cannot finish -- kind of alienated me away from gaming completely," he wrote. "Elden Ring's immense status sorta disillusioned me on where the hobby is going, evolving into a thing I do not recognize and do not see myself fitting in anymore. It's like everyone loves a person I had a very bad date with and I'm left to keep it to myself."
That my all be true, but your synopsis from your last postWell, in my opinion, "western" styyle ( and I don't mean "The Wild West" with that, mind you ! ) are so much combatz-heavy, because they are made for a mostly male buyer group. And male players are about competition, mostly, be it PvE or PvP, and PvE competition is combat heavy, because diplomacy and the so-calle "soft skills" are not useable in terms of competition.
Elden Ring and the sub-genre of the "Souls-like" are the ultimate player against environment - PvE - competition, because of the dificulty. It just can't get more difficult. And because of that I regard Elden Ring as the absolute end point of PvE RPG gaming.
And it just cannot become darker as well, considering the colour palette.
Looking at the graphics, Elden Ring is like a Heavy Metal album cover come alive.
is far too pessimistic in my opinion."Western" fantasy gaming is practically dead and done for me now, if it follows that formula that is presented in Elden Ring.
Elden Ring isn't remotely similar to most Japanese games.I don't understand why you keep on babbling about "Western RPG gaming" when talking about Elden Ring. There's nothing western about it except the target audience. Otherwise they'd talk Japanese. To me the game is a refinement of the same design and concept the Japanese have utilised since the dawn of Nintendo.
You mean it doesn't have anime inspired graphics? But that doesn't make it "Western". It is a game made by a Japanese company basing on the "soulslike" concept developed by the same company.Elden Ring isn't remotely similar to most Japanese games.
Yes, and it's not remotely similar to most Japanese games. I didn't say it was Western.You mean it doesn't have anime inspired graphics? But that doesn't make it "Western". It is a game made by a Japanese company basing on the "soulslike" concept developed by the same company.
Yeah, well, you quoted my question above why Alrik called Elden Ring "western grimdark heavy metal RPG gaming" and other confusing expressions. I might have misunderstood the whole discussion. We can let Alrik answer when he wakes upYes, and it's not remotely similar to most Japanese games. I didn't say it was Western.