It's funny, but hearing news about how #FFXVI is going to be this big action-focused RPG with really tough fights makes me feel less interested in it's arrival, but hearing about new DLC coming eventually for #EldenRing THE action RPG with really tough fights of the last year makes me make the grabby-grabby-give-me hands. I guess it's just I want different things from different games.
Also the fact that, in many way Elden Ring is *not* a hard game, or, I guess, not a punishing one. It has some *really* hard fights, but it also has so much you can enjoy and progress in without engaging those fights until/unless you want t AND death in the game is actually *nearly* inconsequential. I don't trust most "action rpgs" to offer that.