a wonderful thing hellofresh really does make my day-to-day significantly easier and as if it couldn't get any better the meals are delicious to boot use my link or go to URL_TOKEN and use promo code pog luke NUMBER_TOKEN for up to NUMBER_TOKEN meals free and three surprise gifts across six hellofresh boxes all with free shipping these gifts include everything from appetizers to free desserts and even free premium recipes again check them out at the link in the description box below or in the pinned comment okay so how do we even begin to broach this discussion well for me i think we have to break down two core questions and that is whether or not there's an actual issue that's even being addressed here so first and foremost are the animations recycled and does it appear that from software has cut corners so as seen in this comparison video that's been all over the internet at this point links in the description box below if you want to see it yourself there are a lot of recycled animations in eldon ring this isn't even controversial it's clear many many of the move sets many of the attack animations even some of the beast animations are directly copy and pasted from dark souls NUMBER_TOKEN a game that released god i'm old six years ago which is unbelievable to me that it's been that long but six years ago in like early NUMBER_TOKEN. now to get this out of the way up front obviously most studios recycle animations this is not a scandalous thing as far as i'm concerned so this accusation that uh elgin ring recycles all these animations and therefore from software is lazy i think is a little ridiculous because every studio does this because it's frankly ridiculous to suggest that they should completely start from scratch every single time they need to do animations for anything it's ridiculous to say as much it just makes sense if you are dealing with a character who's walking why would you need to rework all of the animations if you don't have to now in the case of eldon ring it's pretty clear this game is effectively dark souls with an open world that's what it's largely been sold as um with of course some outside input by the author of game of thrones but for the most part it's dark souls in an open world and that's that's effectively what it is and people are okay with that and they're going into it with that expectation so to have dark souls animations doesn't seem too scandalous to me now most people are comparing the game directly to horizon forbidden west which as a comparison is a little interesting to me because on the one hand the games seem very very different at their most bare bones level yes they're both open world games at this point yes they are cross-generational and they have at least five-year period between their releases to compare so in forbidden west uh we can see huge improvements graphically made um even on the base platform where it's still going to be running on the same hardware it ran on originally back in NUMBER_TOKEN it's still very very impressive what they've been able to pull off here and all of the improvements they've made but if we look at eldon ring it's much less impressive what they've been able to pull off in many ways the game even looks like a step backward compared to a game like sakura which had some
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