It's probably no surprise that EldenRing won our game of the year award. But it almost didn't.
When I played Elden Ring in February, I immediately knew it was going to be treated as a foregone conclusion when game of the year season rolled around. While I loved FromSoftware’s open-world fantasy epic, I had plenty of gripes with it that I felt were getting overlooked in its immediate hype cycle. I urged the Digital Trends team to keep an open mind through 2022 rather than assuming it had to be No. 1 on our list come December.
Collective mythology Elden Ring’s launch in February sparked the kind of massive social moment that’s usually only reserved for long-standing IPs or Nintendo’s most popular mascots. Despite FromSoftware’s reputation for creating unapproachable games that only appealed to diehard fans, something about Elden Ring was alluring even to outsiders who were too nervous to pop into games like Dark Souls previously.I’ve always had a hard time getting into the Souls series.
That approach seemed to resonate with a wider player base immediately. For a good month or two, social media was abuzz with conversations surrounding the game. Players took to sites like Twitter to share incredible gear they’d found, comedic world interactions, hidden secrets, and even just perfect landscapes. It was all-consuming at its height because it felt like no two war stories were the same.
Elden Ring, on the other hand, felt like entirely uncharted territory for its first few months. At the time, Digital Trends contributor De’Angelo Epps noted that the fervor around the game felt like a throwback to the days of internet forums, where dedicated players traded their secrets with one another on message boards. “It takes me back to a time when it was just me, my siblings, and cousins — and minimal internet usage,” he wrote.
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