Elden Ring duration revealed

During the 2022 Taipei Game Show broadcast, Elden Ring producer Yasuhiro Kitao revealed that FromSoftware's upcoming Elden Ring RPG will be about 30 hours long, but you can spend much more time on it if you want.

It [duration] will vary significantly depending on the player. But in terms of development goals, the idea was to create a main storyline that could be completed in about 30 hours. In general, this is a fairly large game that contains additional content for dozens of hours, but if we talk only about the main campaign, then it should not take too much time.

The duration of the game is a complex indicator. If we are talking about a huge game world with beautiful landscapes, a lot of additional activities, then it will be possible to spend time just wandering around the locations and enjoying the environment. And then the duration of the game will be many times higher. However, a short gaming experience can be just as enjoyable. For example, Max Payne 2. A few hours, but what!

When you die, a crystallized form remains at the place of death - the same accumulated experience that was called “souls” in previous titles, and “runes” in the new one. You will respawn at the nearest checkpoint and will need to go all the way to recover your runes. But with such a huge map, such actions can become unwanted stress for the player.

With this in mind, we have identified a number of difficult locations, locations with a large number of enemies or powerful opponents, and made it so that in the event of death, the player simply has the opportunity to repeat the challenge. In this case, the player can choose a respawn point that will be as close as possible to the place of his death. This is yet another example of the development team's efforts to mitigate the level of stress for gamers that may have been caused by the sheer size of the map.

Apparently, at that moment, Kitao felt the fans of hardcore Souls-like games fidgeting in their chairs, so he added

I can't say that we made respawning more convenient, since you will constantly die.

In addition, during the Taipei Game Show, it was announced that Elden Ring "went gold" , which means that its digital release will take place on a strictly designated date - February 25th. Of course, unless some unforeseen catastrophe happens. We also talked about the New Game+ mode and the Elden Ring difficulty level .