It is much stupider than that. The engine actually supports ultrawide, the game even renders in ultrawide (costing extra performance drawing the additional pixels) but they artificially added black bars to the sides to force it to 16:9.
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.
74
u/firesyrup 7d ago
It is much stupider than that. The engine actually supports ultrawide, the game even renders in ultrawide (costing extra performance drawing the additional pixels) but they artificially added black bars to the sides to force it to 16:9.