Ubisoft and Sony devs are salty about Elden Rings success

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Over on Twitter, former Battlefield 2042 dev and now current UX Director at Ubisoft Ahmed Salama (Twitter profile is locked) pointed out that Elden Ring snagging a 97 average on Metacritic is “proof” that game critics don’t give a crap about game UX (user experience). In the same tweet, Nixxes Software (now a first-party Sony studio) dev Rebecca Fernandez O’Shea, and Senior Quest Designer of Horizon Forbidden West Blake Rebouche (Twitter profile locked) also threw shade by mentioning the faulting the game’s PC graphics, stability & performance, and even the quest design.

Not only that, but Salama also adds that the Elden Ring UX is so bad, he can only imagine FromSoftware devs are smoking in their desks and using CRT monitors, even.

https://mp1st.com/news/ubisoft-dev-sony-devs-throw-shade-at-elden-ring-ui-performance-quest-design


Not only makes Ubicrap uninspired games with lootboxes aka suprise mechanics(or nfts) and sell their low effort ultimate editions for 120 bucks, they also think that players are dumb and need hand holding by every step they make.Well and gorilla games never interested me in the first place because im not that much into action adventures marked as rpgs but their games could be good.Still pathetic that they are jealous as well that elden ring is a way higher success than horizon. Well if people hating you are doing it right

[p00se2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2dFO3j3neQ

[Senki]

wow people that make garbage games have garbage taste in gaming who would've thought

fromsoft does deserve some hate for the bad PC port tho. I probably didn't get stutters as often as others ( only got them in like 3 fights and a few area loads in the entire game) but it's still annoying.

[Umbral Priestess]

Ironic, one of the most greedy companies is angry a game that has 0 need for cash grab tactics is doing well.

[Soyak Striker]

Corrupt ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game devs complain about corrupt ♥♥♥♥♥♥ games urinalists that didn't give them a perfect 10.

[Old Man Gamer (OMG)]

The guy was a developer of Battlefield 2042. He does not know how to make a good game. Interesting how anyone cares what a bad developer thinks, when his own work is bottom of the barrel.

[Lemale]

Praise Lord Myazaki senpai I’m your simp for the rest of my life

[Nauct]

Ubisoft is the gold standard for trash

[Magical_JiJii]

I LOVE how the quest works. No hints, multiple quest endings according to user interactions. These so called experts need to get back to design school.

[Vold]

Welcome to capitalism, where sabotaging another contender is the nr.1 of trying to look better, in this specific case, throwing shade.
No, not making a stance about cap is better the com, just a hard fact that one thing does one thing while the other does another.
The UI is fine as is, sure it could be better, but ubisoft of all people trying to tell people that something is ♥♥♥♥ is just sad, as they have plenty of things they could do better themselfs and people could rip on!
Not to forget, bad publicity is still publicity, so it could be just an attempt for attention, so best thing to do is laugh and ignore!

[Lemale]

Originally posted by < blank >:

i dont play ubisoft or sony games but all that is fair criticism

Sure the pc port may not be the best because of the stutters.It will be fixed is not an excuse i get that but it’s playable and overall such a fantastic game that it overshadows it. On top no denuvo anti consumer crap because steam drm is already enough which gives it an extra plus.

[HerbertWess]

Funny. Back in the day there was a similar argument between Dark Souls and Skyrim in terms of how they approached the storytelling, the performance, bugs (oh my, those horse memes from Skyrim...), you name it.

There even was the similar issue with the PC port in some game areas (looking at you BlightTown), and if i remember correctly the modding community did a superb job fixing that.

At the end of the day, From has managed to achieve a way of telling their world fantasy stories in an unstructured way that i personally think is pretty neat (nobody stops you from just blasting through content. Or you can grab bits n pieces from NPCs here and there if you want to).

So far, this is one of the few games where i start a new character form scratch, and even in the starter area i am already getting a lot of different stuff, from NPC characters i did not see before, to a huge dormant giant i stumbled upon while riding, and a huge sphere hunter that suddenly was trying to slash me in half while searching for another NPC.

[Gitgud]

Fromsoft are drinking their tears probably right now

[SKN The LISPer]

There's definitely some things that could be improved on within the quest design of the game, such as not push the main quest pretty much the moment you step into the world, or giving you the mount within the first hour of playtime(I feel Torrent should've been given after gaining access to the hub, and the game should've emphasized in pushing you to the west, rather than emphasizing on pushing you to the North as it does), however Horizon is not the pinacle of good quest design... Rather the opposite, it's everything that's wrong with modern quest design IMO.

As for the UI\UX:

The inventory screen in this game is just horrendous. All weapons are separated into categories, but not really displayed as categories, so if you have one filled row of straightswords and one filled row of greatswords it looks like both are just the same category. The inventory screen in Elden Ring is the definition of bare minimum.

Then you also have the useless compass in the middle of the screen. It feels like From didn't trust the player to be able to navigate through the(actually unique and hand-crafted) world, and so needed to throw in a compass. Hell, you also have a blob on your map with an arrow pointing in what direction you're looking at. The compass is 100% unecessary and shouldn't be there(Infact, it should've been an item you can use, like the lantern!).

However, all of these things are very minor and livable, but I do agree that professional reviewers should maintain higher standards and not give out higher scores like candy. While I really really like the game, it's definitely not an 10\10 experience, there's plenty of things that could've been improved about the game.

[CheeseGoblin]

Imagine buying Ubisoft games and/or console exclusives lmaooo

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Originally posted by Lemale:

Fromsoft are drinking their tears probably right now

Devs being salty just shows what an masterpiece they have created