IGN UK Podcast #633: Elden Ring and Building Our Dream Open World Games

IGN UK Podcast

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Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Elden Ring is finally here and Matt has 30 hours of playtime under his belt. He tells us whether it’s truly one of the greatest games of all time before joining Cardy and Joe in designing their “perfect’ open world games in the IGN UK Build-A-Game Workshop. What Frankenstein monster-like creations will they come up with? Listen to find out. As ever there's your feedback including Men in Black and faith healers. All the good stuff. Want to get in touch to talk about things you’ve eaten that you shouldn’t have or maybe even video games? Feel free to send us an email at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the IGN UK podcast. I think we're all very excited about this week's
0:15.6	episode. I'm Simon Cardi with Joe Scrabbles and Matt Perslow, two very excited boys.
0:21.0	Oh god, I'm excited. Vibrating. A lot of people might think that's just because
0:25.6	Eldon Ring out. Eldon Ring out. Eldon Ring is out. And we will be talking about that
0:30.6	at the start of podcast, but we've also got something a bit more fun this week. We're going to do
0:35.1	what I'm going to call the Builder Bear Workshop for Open World Games or the Build and Open World
0:40.8	Workshop where basically we'll get round to that when the time is because I'm not going to explain
0:46.4	the whole thing to us. But to kick it off, Eldon Ring, me and Joe I believe we have not played
0:52.3	a single second yet. Well, I've played the network test. I haven't played the full version at all.
0:57.0	I'm incorrect. You have played more than a second. Yes. I've not played a second.
1:00.4	Matt, however, I believe you've played several dozen hours at almost 30 hours now. I think I'm
1:06.6	29 and a half hours. Well, maybe you are the right person to talk about this then. Not I.
1:14.1	This game currently, as we are talking, is the highest rated game of all time. People are calling it.
1:21.3	Maybe the greatest game of all time at this point, which, you know, is obviously a very subjective
1:26.5	opinion. Well, Matt, can you see why people are saying this? I absolutely can and that is not a
1:34.6	surprise to anybody I don't think. This is a very good game, as I think it always was going to be.
1:41.6	But yeah, I suppose you call it like in some ways it's Dark Souls 4, but in many ways it's not,
1:49.0	it's it earns its stripes enough to not be like the fourth entry in that series. And much of that
1:55.2	is by the fact that it's gone open world. So if you can imagine a lot of the kind of fundamentals
1:59.3	of Dark Souls, it's got a very kind of cryptic way of being. It's a story that does not hold
2:06.3	your hand by any means and the combat system is very, very similar to Dark Souls. But if you can
2:12.7	imagine there's a way there's a really good way that Mitchell kind of explains it. I think in the
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