Highlights
- An Elden Ring fan inadvertently recreates the famous actor Tom Cruise in the game’s character creator.
- With how spot-on the facial features are, it’s surprising that the player was not trying to make Tom Cruise on purpose.
- Players have enjoyed creating other memorable character designs in Elden Ring, from Ross Geller to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
While fiddling with the facial customization settings in the game, one Elden Ring fan accidentally made their player character bear a striking resemblance to Tom Cruise. With how advanced character creators have become in modern RPGs as of late, it’s no wonder that players have been able to recreate the likenesses of popular celebrities in video games like Elden Ring, even when not intending to do so.
Elden Ring, the latest Soulslike from famed developer FromSoftware, took the gaming world by storm when it was released back in 2022. The title garnered universal acclaim from both fans and critics and ended up becoming an immense commercial success. Publisher Bandai Namco recently revealed, in fact, that Elden Ring passed the incredible milestone of 23 million copies sold, making it one of the best-selling singleplayer titles of the last decade. Given the Soulslikes’ immense popularity, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the fanbase for FromSoftware’s latest epic is still very active to this day. Over the last two years, fans have shared a number of amazing creations they made in Elden Ring to celebrate their love for the title. However, the things that fans have created weren’t always made intentionally, like in the case of this latest happy accident.
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Reddit user Dirtyfactz shared an image on the r/Eldenring subreddit of a player character they recently designed that ended up looking surprisingly similar to the famous Mission Impossible actor Tom Cruise. Seeing how they unintentionally managed to nail the celebrity’s likeness so well in Elden Ring‘s character creator, Dirtyfactz jokingly stated that they guess they’re going to do “a Tom Cruise playthrough now.” Many Redditors found the character design hilarious, with commenters like utilitarity and 20000BCEfan cracking jokes and renaming the FromSoftware title as “Elden Ring Maverick” and “Mission Impossible: Elden Protocol”, respectively.
As funny as this character design might be, this is certainly not the only time fans have made silly player characters and recreations of famous actors in this game. One player, for instance, created Ross Geller from Friends using Elden Ring‘s character creator. Meanwhile, another fan somehow managed to make the likenesses of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the hit Soulslike.
Gamers Have Been Making Crazy Character Designs in a Number of Recent RPGs
Gamers have attempted to recreate the appearances of celebrities and pop culture icons in other recently released RPGs with great character creators as well. From Timothee Chalamet and Pikachu in Dragon’s Dogma 2 to handsome Squidward and Scully from The X-Files in Starfield, the creativity and dedication of fans knows no bounds. One can only imagine the amount of wacky character designs gamers will create when they get back to playing Elden Ring with the release of the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion later this year.
Elden Ring
Elden Ring is a fantasy action-RPG adventure set in a world co-created by Hidetaka Miyazaki, the creator of the influential Dark Souls video game series, and George R.R. Martin, the author of the best-selling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. This collaboration between two renowned creators has resulted in FromSoftware’s largest game to date, filled with danger and discovery at every turn. Hidetaka Miyazaki, president and game director of FromSoftware, has a history of directing highly acclaimed games in franchises such as Armored Core and Dark Souls.
- Released
- February 25, 2022
