The fact that Vitality was so much more versatile in Dark Souls 3 led some to believe that it may be just as (if not more important) in Elden Ring. In Dark Souls 3, the Vitality stat was “upgraded” in such a way that made it primarily affect a character’s equipment load, physical defense, and poison resistance. In the original Dark Souls, Vitality was largely used to determine a character’s total health pool. We’ll get to Dark Souls 2 in a bit, but as you can see from those screens, the biggest difference between Elden Ring and some of the previous Dark Souls games is that the former no longer features the Vitality stat that helped define many older Dark Souls character builds. As such, fans wondered what little ways Elden Ring was ultimately going to distinguish itself from the fundamentals of that genre/series. This is a FromSoftware game, after all, so nobody thought the studio was just going to abandon all of the incredible work that they’ve done up until this point and somehow decide to start fresh.Īt the same time, not every Dark Souls game is exactly the same, and with Bloodborne and Sekiro, FromSoftware has shown that they’re willing and able to retain key elements of the Soulsborne formula while playing with the specifics in such a way that makes each title feel distinct.

While Elden Ring isn’t technically a Dark Souls game, you don’t exactly have to squint your eyes to see the many ways that the upcoming game borrows certain ideas from the Dark Souls series.

The latest Elden Ring gameplay preview video left us with a lot to talk about (which we hope to share with you soon), but one little thing you may have missed from that preview was a brief look at Elden Ring‘s stats screen and how this game’s attributes will seemingly make some notable changes to the Dark Souls formula.

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