You are seeing this from the wrong perspective. It's those games that now have to live up to Elden ring standard... Elden Ring is eating all open world alive.

You are seeing this from the wrong perspective. It's those games that now have to live up to Elden ring standard... Elden Ring is eating all open world alive. And it doesn't compete with MH at all, mh is not open world and it's made of a series of small, intense boss fights. Elden ring usually is digested in long exploratory sections and days-long boss fights (due to wipes). No quests? THANK YOU. Elden ring has only a handful of "kinda quests" and due to that, there is no chance for wolf-poop-gathering quests. The entire focus is on the WORLD, on the environment and its secrets. This is how I expected open world to be a thing, and it never was. I never liked open world, but elden ring is good. Thank you fromsoftware, please keep doing this work, maybe AAA studios will wake up now.