Elden Ring: 10 "Making Of" Facts Fans Don't Know

by Marquita Ellington on November 25, 2025

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FromSoftware's Demon's Souls , Dark Souls trilogy, Bloodborne , and now <a href="https://www.Eldenringpulse.com/articles/ironeye-joins-elden-ring-nightreign-the-archer-who-s-changing-fromsoft-s-ranged-combat-game.html">Elden Ring Nightreign Archer</a> Ring are all sprawling and rich dark-fantasy universes that are a natural fit for the author of the A Song of Ice and Fire books and the catalyst for one of HBO's greatest original sho <img src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gZDFZA7JMfjctoYFoXaxu3-1920-80.jpg"; style="max-width:450px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;" alt="" />It took more than one attempt to get into Pathologic 2 ** after spending so much time with Elden Ring ** , but after a month of testing out different CBD and made-from-hemp products marketed towards gamers, it may be my favorite horror game since Silent Hill 2 . These experiences may not immediately appear related, but a bizarre and somewhat random series of events that started with a post-review New Game Plus playthrough of Elden Ring __ have left them irrevocably linked in my memory. Here's what happe George R.R Martin is known for achieving backstories so rich and complex that they seem to be taken out of a real history book, after all, he wrote t he book canon that inspired the Game of Thrones series . As a fan of the author, Miyazaki asked Martin to write the backstory of the Lands Betw Multiplayer elements have been part of FromSoft's Souls-like RPGs since Demon's Souls , with Elden Ring expanding on that approach in an open-world setting. The context of this format was key to making multiplayer a realistically accessible part of the game, given that these games are already famous for their difficu Miyazaki pointed out several sources of inspiration for the game in an interview with EDGE Magazine , and one of them was The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R Tolkien, which doesn't come as much of a surprise. In fact, even Martin expressed he is a big fan of the books when he received a Burke Medal in 2 Elon Musk joined the community of Elden Ring fans and recently tweeted that the game was the most beautiful art he had ever seen. For most players, this news comes a little bit late, but it is appreciated that the CEO of Tesla recognized the magnificence of the RPG that continues to break records and set itself as the best game of recent ye Whether through navigating the hidden areas of the Volcano Manor or completing enough assassination missions for Tanith, players can eventually gain access to the Elden Ring boss known as Rykard, Lord Of Blasphemy, a Demigod child of Rennala who searched for the power needed to destroy the Erdtree and found it in an immortal, god-devouring serpent. The description for the Great Rune Elden Ring 's Rykard drops when defeated reveals what happened n Miyazaki said in the PlayStation Blog interview that "Another challenge making an open-world game is the tempo and pacing of the player’s progression, essentially trying to balance __ how **** the player paces themselves as they explore this vast open-ended map and how that factors into the scope of freedom and progression they provi However, in a Famitsu interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki translated by Video Games Chronicle , he mentioned that during his early work with writer George R. R. Martin, the Ring wasn't initially as clear cut. "At first, it wasn’t called the ‘Ring’, but I think he talked about the Elden Ring-like existence and the image of the opportunity for it to break. However, it was only spoken as an abstract concept, and I don’t think he had a concrete motif such as a golden tree at that ti Even with Martin's punishing dark fantasy world, many of the inspired character designs give off an air of nobility. Meanwhile, FromSoft's fantasies contain some of the most otherworldly and shocking desi And yet I can't discount it completely. Farming for runes in Elden Ring __ felt easier and less boring. I was able to power through the tedium of repeating Pathologic 2's intro yet again after bouncing off of it multiple times. In that way it very much did help me both enjoy one of my favorite games of 2022 (so far) more, and it helped me to realize how much I truly did enjoy another. That's not all; I also had two really good massages and lots of pieces of really good chocolate. Maybe none of that had to do with the CBD aspect, but after testing the products in multiple situations over a long period of time, I honestly can't say for cert

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