An Elden Ring player brought three iconic characters into the Lands Between from Breaking Bad, and one design is eerily accurate. Although not the most robust on the market, Elden Ring's character creation is still very much capable of manifesting fictional figures from other IPs, even if having a meth-dealing chemistry teacher confront the Shardbearers is a stretch.
Breaking Bad concluded its critically-acclaimed five-season run in 2013, nearly a decade before the release of Elden Ring. But time has not made the show any less culturally relevant or popular, a fact no doubt influenced by the spin-off and prequel Better Call Saul which reached its own end in August last year. Given the Elden Ring community has conjured characters such as Kratos and celebrities including Morgan Freeman, it was only a matter of time before Walter White and his acquaintances made their way across the fog.
Suitable-Ad7551 posted a series of screenshots on Reddit that present Mike Ehrmantraut, Walter White, and Hector Salamanca alongside the specific variables that craft their appearances. Elden Ring uses sliding scales that allow for the very meticulous placement of facial features, and it certainly shows on Mike, whose gruff mannerisms are captured perfectly. Walter's appearance changes quite dramatically throughout the show but the Elden Ring player was unmistakably inspired by season four of Breaking Bad, where the protagonist ends with a bandage across his nose.
Comments noted how impossibly accurate Mike looked, with one claiming they would not blink twice if he turned out to be "Patches' weird oldtime-travelinging alter-ego, or maybe his father." Some made jokes at Hector's expense, believing that the build would be perfect if the former cartel operative included the Exploding Crystal Tear in his Flask of Wondrous Physick. For context, Hector blows himself up in an attempt to murder Gus Fring, and the Exploding Crystal Tear makes the Tarnished explode.
Elden Ring's Colosseum update proved that FromSoftware is not against making additions to the role-playing game's character creator. Alongside the most substantial content introduced to the open world thus far were a variety of new hairstyles that players highly appreciated. The Colosseums themselves have been welcomed fondly by the Elden Ring community, even if the battles housed within have devolved into the standard Moonveil and Rivers of Blood spam that PvP veterans are all too familiar with at this point.
Elden Ring is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: Reddit
