I try to play through these games without a guide first, but especially with Elden Ring, there's a high chance you miss half the game then. Which is a shame.

To figure out all of ER, you'd need to play through it multiple times, comb through everything, do things in a different order, etc etc. There was a post on Reddit the other day, someone said they found Jarburg after playing for more than 900 hours. I know of it, but in two playthroughs I don't believe I actually went there yet.

I wonder if they collect analytics and they can at one point say which areas, questlines, gear items, etc are discovered the least.

I love FromSoft’s environments and gameplay, but the obscure quests, I don’t really get it. There’s being mysterious so the players want to do multiple playthroughs… then, there’s being so mysterious the players just have to use the wiki (ruining all the mystery).