Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign releases May 30th

Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• donuts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Try opening the article!

  The FromSoftware spin-off to its incredibly successful epic will be out on 30th May 2025 across PS4, PS5, Xbox consoles, and PC (Steam).

  First revealed at last year’s The Game Awards, Nightreign is a standalone online co-op game for three players, but with hints of Fortnite.

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• simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  A $40 co-op focused spinoff. From what we understand the game loop will be jumping into a randomly generated world with friends and surviving with friends for 3 days. There’s a playtest soon, we’ll see how it actually plays then.

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  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    3 days of surviving against Elden Ring enemies or what? Sounds like a weird departure from SoulsBorne games.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The whole description of the game when they announced it made it sound like a mod. I was shocked to see it’s an official Fromsoft game. I do not have high hopes for it.

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    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      My understanding from a video I watched is it’s a mix of shrinking world survival like PUBG and co-op Elden Ring with a boss at the end of each day when a shrinking happens.

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• BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  A cash grab from a corporation that doesn’t want to pay artists to make an original game.

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  • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’d say you have a point if FromSoft didn’t just publish two major games within a year of each other (Elden Ring, Armored Core) and then a game-sized DLC on top of that.

    Could Nightreign have just been another Elden Ring DLC instead? I don’t know, maybe. But it’s not priced as a full game and I’m not sure why people expect it to be one.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s an original game. Many assets are not original. Many others will be. This is a very normal part of game development. As much as “asset flips” were an issue back when the Steam floodgates opened, people seem to have really misunderstood what the problem actually was.

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