Does elden ring have concrete story from dev?

[Mantab Souls]

I am getting tired to see lots of youtubers speculating the lore with different pov. At first it was fun to collect the stories but then i realized there are just too much stories that i am missing or misinterpreted. The more i immerse my self to the game story the more i demand to know the game but there are just too many vague stories so i am not satisfied.

[Mantab Souls]

Elden ring should've made their own official youtube channel for lore

[Zanzibart]

No, because they wouldn't be able to trick people into thinking their lore is good and plentiful if it wasn't obscure and obtuse. If they presented their lore in a more concrete manner it would be much easier to see how sparse and simple it is. Same applies to all Souls games.

It isn't too much of an issue anyways since most people don't play the game for the story.

[Isaac]

Originally posted by KawaiiChaos:

No, because they wouldn't be able to trick people into thinking their lore is good and plentiful if it wasn't obscure and obtuse. If they presented their lore in a more concrete manner it would be much easier to see how sparse and simple it is. Same applies to all Souls games.

It isn't too much of an issue anyways since most people don't play the game for the story.

So much this. People only think the stories in these games are good because they themselfs create half the story. The rest is just nothing special.

[Twisty]

There is a basic story:
The Elden Ring was shattered, demigods took great runes. None of them properly took over power. The player can become the Elden Lord (anyone can really) by collecting all of the great runes and fixing the Elden Ring. When you do that you can change the world to reflect any of the different endings.

If course there is side lore in NPCs, minibosses, environmental, item descriptions etc.

[MundM]

That's entirely the point.

Fromsoft wrote a story. Cut out parts so it's up to interpretation. The mystery is part of the experience.

[SpottedHare]

Honestly their not much real reason to think soft is even bothering writing a story since they finished DS1, and little reason to think that they even bothering trying to write a coherent plot. that being said martin probably wrote something coherent at first but it was butchered on the alter of vague and cryptic.

[Zanzibart]

Originally posted by csand:

Some of these takes are wack af. You can dislike the method of delivery, but fact is the amount of world building and lore + story writing (item descriptions etc) is enormous and detailed as any other rpg. People acting like From is just phoning it in have their heads firmly planted in their asses

Yea, they're phoning it in alright. So badly in fact that the devs of the polar opposite in storytelling, movie-as-a-game franchise and creators of the second place game for "goty awards won" is taking inspiration from it.

https://www.escapistmagazine.com/why-the-future-of-naughty-dog-will-be-inspired-by-elden-ring/

Apparently, not patronizing and treating the player like a moron turned out to be a rather popular design choice amongst customers. Who would have known?

After TLOU 2, of course they would have that take. Obviously they are going to want to mask their storytelling now.

If "not patronizing and treating the player like a moron" is a rather popular design choice amongst customers, then why are the Uncharted series and TLOU 1 so highly regarded? How is telling a story in a normal matter treating people like morons? Time for introspection.

[NPC_LUKE]

Souls games are just as good as the Monster Hunter games in terms of story. No one gives a ♥♥♥♥ about it. They play it for the fun gameplay.

[King of Games]

Not really. Its the same nonsensical bs that was in the rest of the souls games. Everyone is mad at you, so go kill everything till the game ends.

[CourtesyFlush09]

Originally posted by csand:

Some of these takes are wack af. You can dislike the method of delivery, but fact is the amount of world building and lore + story writing (item descriptions etc) is enormous and detailed as any other rpg. People acting like From is just phoning it in have their heads firmly planted in their asses

Yea, they're phoning it in alright. So badly in fact that the devs of the polar opposite in storytelling, movie-as-a-game franchise and creators of the second place game for "goty awards won" is taking inspiration from it.

https://www.escapistmagazine.com/why-the-future-of-naughty-dog-will-be-inspired-by-elden-ring/

Apparently, not patronizing and treating the player like a moron turned out to be a rather popular design choice amongst customers. Who would have known?

Lol. Druckmann will literally do anything to salvage his reputation after TLOU 2's story.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by MundM:

That's entirely the point.

Fromsoft wrote a story. Cut out parts so it's up to interpretation. The mystery is part of the experience.

So basically "the world is going to hell now go find an elden ring to become elden lord" is a story for you?

[Riskbreaker Y]

Games like Shadow of the Colossus, Ico, and many others I'm sure have taken the "show, don't tell" narrative approach besides ER so it isn't a novel concept. At least ER sprinkles plenty of bread crumbs to piece together into a semi-cohesive picture.

Idk I kinda like scratching my head and feeling lost in the post-cataclysmic setting like some bewildered archaeologist. Really does make the protagonist feel insignificant in the midst of dragons, mythological beasts, extra-terrestrial entities, and demigods woven into world. Until becoming the next Elden Lord.

Trite and cliché? Probably
Fun? Maybe
Big tree? Yes

[Sabaithal]

There is story, and there is lore (backstory). The latter is there, you just have to be willing to find it on your own. Its a good way of doing it honestly, if you care the pieces are there to be found and its one more thing to do. If you don't...then don't worry about it.

As for the former, well that's what you're doing right now. Which is to say its entirely about your experience.

[Oku]

You have a Dark Souls 3 avatar and yet you ask a question like this?

Fromsoft Games all have a story that is told through context clues, environmental storytelling, conflicting accounts from various NPCs, and item descriptions and it's up to you to make sense of it all.

[MundM]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

Originally posted by MundM:

That's entirely the point.

Fromsoft wrote a story. Cut out parts so it's up to interpretation. The mystery is part of the experience.

So basically "the world is going to hell now go find an elden ring to become elden lord" is a story for you?

That isn't the story, though. It's an insult to the story, written by you to push a your point of view.
Also, what is a story to you? It's hard to even find the will to talk with someone as loaded as you. How about you check a synapsis on the wiki, than you know what the overall story ark of the main game is, before showing your lack of respect for the game and people you talk to?