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Elden Ring’s graphics team were intimidated by the Demon’s Souls remake

The Demon’s Souls remake’s visuals put extra pressure on FromSoftware’s Elden Ring.

The Demon’s Souls remake on PS5 set a new standard for visuals in FromSoftware’s games. Created by Bluepoint Games – the team behind the Shadow of the Colossus remake – it’s a faithful recreation of the Souls game that started it all back on PS3, albeit with stunning graphics. 

In fact, Demon’s Souls is one of the best-looking PS5 games you can play right now. This has put extra pressure on the graphics team at FromSoftware, which is currently busy creating Elden Ring, an open-world evolution of the subgenre it built.

“I’m pretty sure our graphics-creation staff felt that pressure more than anyone else,” creative director Hidetaka Miyazaki told Edge magazine (via PC Gamer), referencing the graphical quality of the Demon’s Souls remake. 

“Graphical fidelity is not something we put as the top priority. What we ask for on the graphics side depends on the systems and requirements of the game itself, and it takes less priority compared to the other elements of development. So this is always an area where I feel a little bit apologetic towards my graphics team because I know they work extremely hard.”

FromSoftware games have always been beautiful in their own way, but it’s easier to obscure any blemishes when you create a game about delving into dark dungeons. Mind you, Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 are gorgeous. 

With Elden Ring, FromSoftware is trying something different. Featuring a world with dynamic weather and time of day, it’s going to be more of a challenge for the team to make it look pretty in every condition. Read our Elden Ring preview for some hands-on impressions. 

Elden Ring is coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox, and PC on Feb. 25. Check out our list of the biggest games releasing in 2022 for more.

Written by Kirk McKeand on behalf of GLHF.

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The 10 greatest video game launch titles of all time

Every games console has to start somewhere — but some have more talent for killer day-one games than others.

Imagine being in charge of launching a new game console. Once the really hard work is done — thinking of a cool name, capitalizing a letter somewhere in the middle, drawing endless controllers, and disseminating them to game’s sites — you’ve actually got to convince studios to make games for it. At a time when the user base is zero. 

Sometimes you get a Battle Arena Toshinden, and sometimes you get one of these Hall of Famers, who can take at least partial credit for their entire platform’s commercial success. In fact, they’re still worth playing now, even though their associated hardware may be out of production, and found only in attics and pawnshop windows. Not bad for a shot in the dark on launch day.

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PlayStation buys ‘Demon’s Souls’ remake developer Bluepoint Games

Bluepoint Games are now part of PlayStation Studios.

Well, after months of rumors and speculation, Bluepoint Games is the latest studio to be bought up by Sony, IGN  reported Thursday. Having worked with Sony Interactive Entertainment on both the Shadow of the Colossus and Demon’s Souls remakes, Bluepoint Games are a perfect fit to be one of PlayStation’s internal studios. Oh, and Bluepoint’s next project will be something original, according to its president Marco Thrush.

“Our next project, we’re working on original content right now. We can’t talk about what that is, but that’s the next step in the evolution for us,” Thrush said via IGN. “The transition from remasters to remakes was to test ourselves and push ourselves harder for the next step.”

Thrush continued: “Our team is a very highly experienced team, the average experience among most people is about 15 years, and all of them come from original development. It’s not like we’re a bunch of developers that got trained up on making remasters and remakes.”

Bluepoint Games will have the same level of support from Sony that Naughty Dog, Santa Monica Studios, Insomniac Games, and Guerrilla Games, to name a few. Now, a total of 17 development teams make up PlayStation Studios. 

PlayStation welcomed Bluepoint Games into the fold with a fancy trailer that you can check out below. 

While there’s no word on what this new project will be, it’s a safe bet that Sony will let Bluepoint Games’ creative vision run wild. PlayStation Studios has proven that there’s a lot of trust between its development teams if creative projects like God of War: Ragnarok, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and Horizon Forbidden West are any indication.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

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