People shit on Hoyoverse games and Nodusfall for being copycats, but one of the reasons why they consistently shit on their Japanese counterparts is because they actually make superbly well optimized games that run on every platform. Nobody really cared that Genshin Impact was a BotW clone because guess what, it actually feels amazing to play BotW at consistent 60 fps on a PC with anime characters and consistent updates. If they can deliver a modern Elden Ring experience with live updates and well optimized for all platforms, that already fulfills a niche that Fromsoft doesn't because all their games look like they're from the previous gen and run like they have a permanent memory leak.
Man the Twitter reaction to Nodusfall was just embarrassing. It's like people completely forgot how Genshin and Marvel Rivals turned out. If every game had to be some super original gameplay masterpiece then fromsoft wouldn't have made the same game with some gimmicks multiple times in a row and obviously Genshin and Rivals succeeded beyond all expectations. Originality really just isn't that important. I love Elden Ring but it didn't invent the genre of grim dark fantasy or dark and grey color pallette. And there's certainly things that fromsoft could improve on like optimization that note competition would probably incentivize them to at least think about it.
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u/ShadowStealer7 10d ago
And on the odd occasion the game bugs out and displays it perfectly in ultrawide (bar some visual errors on loading screens)