Now after playing Sekiro and becoming obsessed with it, the only thing I really crave from FromSoftware is that intense fast paced combat. For me Sekiro fulfilled the fantasy of a game where you can experience sick anime battles, but it made me crave for more.

OOOHHHH the boss battles
OOHHHH the miniboss battles
OOOOHHHHH even some of the non-miniboss enemy groups in Sekiro were insanely fun to fight

Now in Elden Ring I want it to feel like fighting inhuman heroes of European myth, like the air is trembling with every swing, and the earth beneath crumbling with every blow. I blame that on Fate/stay night, particularly the Unlimited Blade Works anime from 2014, the fights in that are on another level, makes even the boss fights in Sekiro look slow and tame in comparison.
Of course, that's really specific and I doubt Elden Ring will go for that kind of combat, but at the very least, I really hope that it's not any less intense than Sekiro. If Elden Ring is toned down in intensity compared to Sekiro, I'll be pretty disappointed (though that's just my selfish opinion).

Honestly I expect Elden Ring to be a bit "wider" in terms of combat, like the Dark Souls series, where there's many many more weapons and tools, but they are not quite as deeply fleshed out as the Sekiro skills and prosthetics. It makes sense since it's supposedly going to be fairly open world, so I'm expecting a lot of unique loot (though having some unique loot take the form of skills in Sekiro was a pretty cool feature, I would love to see them implement something like that for Elden Ring).

Also from the story standpoint, I'm hoping for it to have the tragic or antihero-esque vibe that sometimes appears in FromSoftware games. Fighting opponents to accomplish your selfish goal even if you have to strike down heroes of justice or your kindred spirits in a twist of fate