One of the central inclusions in both Elden Ring _ and Bethesda's seminal 2011 release The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim _ is the now-ubiquitous open-world map. As massive, highly detailed video games, both of these iconic releases place a heavy emphasis on things like scale, side activities, and traversal, with FromSoftware and Bethesda introducing innovation to the open-world formula in several ways. Connections have been drawn between Skyrim and Elden Ring locations like Blackreach , but there are many other ways in which the two games differ when it comes to their iconic m
George R.R Martin is known for achieving backstories so rich and complex that they seem to be taken out of a real history book, after all, he wrote t he book canon that inspired the Game of Thrones series . As a fan of the author, Miyazaki asked Martin to write the backstory of the Lands Betw
Among other literary inspirations that Miyazaki mentioned in his interview with EDGE magazine , there was The Eternal Champion written by Michael Moorcock. The trilogy follows the story of John Daker, a normal man who is reborn throughout multiple universes to fight and restore the balance between law and ch
Regardless of the case, dungeons not only have plenty of options when it comes to bosses but are also willing to reuse boss models. The Ulcerated Tree Spirit is often reused alongside the Demi-Human Chieftans and Cemetery Shades. This ultimately makes the boss battles of dungeons unpredictable and scary to walk into, as the Tarnished will never know which boss or bosses await them until walking into the ar
The Evergaol optional bosses of Elden Ring __ tend to be unique characters who are imprisoned within their own battles. This sense of imprisonment is suiting for someone like Adan, as he stole the forbidden fire of the Fire Giants. Roundtable Knight Vyke is also befitting of the Evergaol boss role, as the magical prison preserves the champion he was before turning into a servant of the Three Fingers and destroying Elden Ring 's Frenzied Flame Village. But other Evergaol bosses are simply reused character story endings models with nothing new added excpet for changes to their stats. In cases like the Alabaster Lord, these characters are made stronger. In cases like the Ancient Hero of Zamor, they are made wea
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Players have to use Elden Ring' s actual in-game map , too, as the game is considerably larger than Skyrim . According to a Stack Exchange post from Martin Sojka , the total surface area of Bethesda's 2011 RPG comes out to just over 14 square miles - certainly nothing to scoff at. Meanwhile, however, Elden Ring has been determined by Reddit user Lusty-Batch to weigh in at a whopping 79 square kilometers, or 30.5 square miles, making it more than twice the size of Skyrim . Skyrim 's base game has 343 fast-travel locations, while Elden Ring has 300. However, it's important to keep in mind that Elden Ring players can only fast travel to sites of grace, whereas Skyrim allows players to fast travel to just about any location they come across. Given how many locations Elden Ring features that are not sites of grace, the game has a far greater number of unique locations to expl
Players have a variety of classes they can choose from in Elden Ring between Samurai, Astrologer, Confesor, Hero, and Bandit, among others. Some of them have obvious cultural references from real parts of the world, but others, even though it's not that evident, also seem to be inspired by European, Middle Eastern, and Asian cultu
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