elden

In case you haven’t heard, the internet is wild about Elden Ring: an upcoming FromSoftware open-world title that sees Dark Souls creator Hidetaka Miyazaki team up with Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin. Even though we haven’t seen much of the game since it was revealed in 2019 with a simple teaser trailer, the mere suggestion of what the title “could be” has been enough to spawn a rapidly growing and increasingly obsessed fanbase. However, as we saw most recently with Cyberpunk 2077 (a game that fell victim to its hype in both avoidable and unavoidable ways), this kind…