Elden Ring

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  1. sicklle
    Feb 26, 2022
    4
    Am big souls games fan & am telling you don't buy the pc version until that fix it & yes it is that bad low fps , Stuttering & so much lag that make the combat feels clucky & unresponsive in a game that known for its great combat animation.just wait till they patch it.
  2. Baronz
    Mar 12, 2022
    4
    I do not understand the hype and the critics reviews. It's a big, empty open world, without tutorial, quest, lore, loot. Sluggish controls and graphics is worst than modded skyrim. 5 hours play time and it's already boring.
    If you take away the difficulty (and you can on pc with cheat engine) there is nothing left, a big dead, empty world where nothing happens. Go and learn what a 10/10    I do not understand the hype and the critics reviews. It's a big, empty open world, without tutorial, quest, lore, loot. Sluggish controls and graphics is worst than modded skyrim. 5 hours play time and it's already boring.
    If you take away the difficulty (and you can on pc with cheat engine) there is nothing left, a big dead, empty world where nothing happens. Go and learn what a 10/10 open world is by playing RDR2.    … Expand
  3. AJCk19
    Nov 28, 2022
    4
    Another souls game I tried to get into. Its' strong points is a interesting story. Weak points is everything else, especially considering how many soullike games are out there. The control scheme is weird, and I don't see why I have to go through this. When I can play any action rpg on hard mode, and go through the exact same pain, but have more fun.
  4. robomartion
    Mar 3, 2022
    4
    Bad performance on PC right now and mouse and keyboard and mouse controls are not ideal. As for gameplay and graphics it is nothing special either. A rehash of previous games, particularly in boss fights, without much that is new, especially in regards to models and animations. I do hope this lazy formula is on the way out for future from software games. Ironically it seems the remaster ofBad performance on PC right now and mouse and keyboard and mouse controls are not ideal. As for gameplay and graphics it is nothing special either. A rehash of previous games, particularly in boss fights, without much that is new, especially in regards to models and animations. I do hope this lazy formula is on the way out for future from software games. Ironically it seems the remaster of From software's first Souls game, Demon's Souls is the companies benchmark to beat. I would like to see something more along the lines of the first half of Dark Souls 1 with 80+ hours of slow burn and perfect gameplay, perfect graphics, refined level design and a heroic journey. No warping, big lead up to bosses and high stakes. Fromsoftware keeps nearly making a great game but is every time an unfulfilled promise. Dark Souls was almost this but the second half was obviously rushed. Demons Souls, Dark Souls I and II are still the best games they have made and FromSoftware is still to top them. They must take the best successes of all their previous releases and make something great. To me, Elden Ring is not this. The horse platforming is a kind of fun mini game but overall the open world is tedious and doesn't feel like you are really exploring anything. When the game goes back to the original dark souls style in Stormfront castle the game feels much better and after seeing what it had to offer, to me the open world aspect with a huge influence from Breath of the Wild, of the game is a big waste of resources when they could have been designing a much more dense linear environment. Fighting is overwhelmingly tedious compared to previous games and rushing past enemies to the bosses or checkpoints is the best strategy which seems like a flaw in the design. Killing enemies does not reward enough souls to make it worthwhile. Boss fights no longer have a strategy you can learn over time so you can eventually outsmart them and fights become a war of attrition and based on luck as opposed to feeling like you are actually fighting the enemy in a meaningful way as for example they were in Sekiro. Elden Ring overall feels like it is spread too thin trying to have too much content.… Expand
  5. winzentween
    Mar 5, 2022
    4
    If a Fromsoft game ever needed 'Patches' (sorry) it's this one! I Would be rated higher but due to the serious technical issues on all systems it has to be a red score...for now. Let me explain.

    Im a huge fromsoft fan and trust only them for day 1 preorders. I've platinumed all their games. Buy It really worries me that blupoint demon souls remaster can launch at 4k 60fps or near to it    If a Fromsoft game ever needed 'Patches' (sorry) it's this one! I Would be rated higher but due to the serious technical issues on all systems it has to be a red score...for now. Let me explain.

    Im a huge fromsoft fan and trust only them for day 1 preorders. I've platinumed all their games. Buy It really worries me that blupoint demon souls remaster can launch at 4k 60fps or near to it but elden ring can barely hit 30fps and often dips as low as 15 in sadly the areas where you need consistent performance. On pc it runs better with improved graphics but all I get is decade old graphical and gameplay issues on pc even with a 3080.

    There is a whiff of cyberpunk about the game where fans are blindly supporting and conveniently ignoring the serious technical issues which also include a few progression stopping glitches / bugs and the occasional game breaking issue.

    And post launch the patches are not addressing these issues. It still looks and runs like a...decade old and at times elden ring just looks ugly. Great art design but everything else is far from the beauty of sekiro or the grandeur of bloodborne.

    The open world simply fails in 2022. If it was 2010 then I'm sure it be far more impressive as it has 2010 graphics. It's not remotely as good as botw or rdr2 which are games that existed before ER development even started. The latter alone is worrying but the large empty space which witcher 3 dlc would laugh at...isnt much fun to play. Yes You can explore but you'll only find Skyrim like identical copy and paste areas. Forget the wildlife of most open world games or npcs with compelling stories.

    The George Martin element is inexplicably non existent making the game effectively a dark souls 4. The latter isn't a bad thing but it's not as good as ds3 in visuals / performance or gameplay so where does this leave us?

    Without widescreen or controller support at times that's where ! The game isn't suitable for noobs or non fromsoft fans. It's a game seemingly more for fan boys, prepaid journalists and shills to scream "goty!" while they wait for gameplay saving 'Patches' (sorry ;). It's not a bad game by any means but it has bad aspects to it or lazy maybe. Bloodborne launched in a rough state so this is nothing new but it's still not acceptable.
    Wait for a sale a year from now when it's been fully patched. Eventually maybe 7-8 /10 but a 4/10 !t launch due to poor technical state :(    … Expand
  6. MercenaryofHate
    May 8, 2023
    4
    A game that should have never been made. The fact that this title is so successful has shown how sad the human race is. The game Is always punishing you because the whole uniqueness of the game is the difficulty. The open world feels extremely boring and I find myself frequently installing then uninstalling it. I don't want to devote my time to a game with crushing difficulty that mightA game that should have never been made. The fact that this title is so successful has shown how sad the human race is. The game Is always punishing you because the whole uniqueness of the game is the difficulty. The open world feels extremely boring and I find myself frequently installing then uninstalling it. I don't want to devote my time to a game with crushing difficulty that might pay of when you win but who's got time for that. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE I LOVE DARK SOULS 2 AND 3 AND BLOODBORNE but hate this. Maybe cause From soft saw how stupid people have become and were like "hey let's just make Dark Souls but open world" GOTY? This isn't even game of the month for me. The game makes you seem like your in control according to its lame story but your actually not. If you love repetition and fighting in the same area a hundred times then finally beating it and doing the same at the next area this game is for you. Otherwise please stay away from this lazy cash grab of a game. The gaming world's low standards for video games is why this game was such a hit.… Expand
  7. Voredon
    Feb 28, 2022
    4
    it's a dark souls in an open field with a huge lighted tree in the middle.Graphics are medicore and cutscenes are just drawing cards and there is no voice acting. It wants to combine breath of the wild with dark souls and people should demand evolution to all games even if they are fans of a specific game style.
  8. OberiousLocke
    Mar 6, 2022
    4
    Honest review X hours in:

    If you were expecting them to balance enemy damage in proportion to their health and mobility, you're going to be sorely disappointed. If you were expecting them to finally realize they already had a sensible poise system in Dark Souls 1 and to stop trying to fix what was never broke, you're going to be sorely disappointed. If you were expecting them to    Honest review X hours in:

    If you were expecting them to balance enemy damage in proportion to their health and mobility, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

    If you were expecting them to finally realize they already had a sensible poise system in Dark Souls 1 and to stop trying to fix what was never broke, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

    If you were expecting them to stop gimping blocking in most boss fights in favor of rolling like they did in DS3, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

    If you were expecting them to learn how to do enemy grab attacks reasonably (i.e. not generally obnoxious with regards to damage and homing), you're going to be sorely disappointed.

    If you were expecting them to cut back on every single enemy having a wombo combo that can chunk your health, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

    If you were expecting them to cut back on staggered attack animations that give enemies the ability to hit you anyway unless you empty your stamina bar rolling and generally make evasion harder than it needs to be, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

    If you were expecting them to realize that giving AI controlled enemies the ability to parry with absolute perfection would only result in unfair deaths to the player via 1 shot, you're going to be sorely disappointed

    If you were expecting them to figure out that denying a player their full potential by limiting it with a consumable effect that is lost when you die (Rune Arc in this case, Cinders in DS3) is an asinine idea with exactly 0 merit, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

    If you were expecting them to make a primary feature (lock on camera) finally be more a help than a hindrance, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

    If you were expecting them to handle fall damage well, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

    If you were expecting them to make it so you can't be hit and killed when you're not able to actually control your character (being pancaked, etc), you're going to be sorely disappointed.

    To expand a bit further, I've personally just started referring to the design philosophy that seems to guide FS as "Anti-player" or **** the player". I say this because for the 3rd game in a row (I'm exempting Bloodborn from this castigation because it at least had the rally mechanic and other compensatory features) FromSoftware has hit on all the predictable trademarks that have come to dominate their poor design.

    Every enemy has a wombo combo, i.e. a combo that hits for outrageous damage or # of hits. This compounds with the next 2 points heavily.

    Every enemy can hit you regardless of where you are in relation to them because they can just 180, have exaggerated attack animations or just have an animation that involves them holding their attack, running up to you, and hitting you anyway, or any combination of the 3.

    Every build that isn't fast and focused on dodging is made to feel vastly inferior because they refuse to acknowledge that they can't come up with poise systems that are better than what they had in Dark Souls 1.

    The number of deaths I had to deal with because I literally could not move for various reasons in ratio to the ones that were genuinely my fault (and lord are they many) is actually staggering. You can get hit, rendered unable to move or roll or act, then hit again. Combined with aforementioned lack of balance around damage done to the player, you typically are not going to survive the second hit.

    They fumble the open world aspect because there is negligible space between "no fall damage" and "knee-shattering instant death", they don't even restore your mounts health when you respawn.

    Having recently replayed through Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 in their entirety, I'm left to draw one of two different conclusions:

    Option A: They are unable to balance things properly just because, and that Dark Souls 1 being largely really well done in that regard was nothing short of a cosmic stroke of luck.

    Option B: They simply don't care to, because again, their game design philosphy over the years has gone from "tough but fair" to **** the player"

    I'm not entirely sure which would be the most depressing. I'm done with FromSoft tbh, bring on the "not helpful" brigades because I dared hang them out to dry.    … Expand
  9. MetzKetz
    Mar 9, 2022
    4
    No way to pause the game and EAC forced in a singleplayer game. that is a refund from me.
  10. Levian1986
    Mar 9, 2022
    4
    Same soul game as we seen before... Just added "open world"... Bloodborne was much better.
  11. Natenate
    Feb 28, 2022
    4
    I can't speak for the gameplay mechanics as I refunded it on Steam after the first 45 minutes of the game. From a technical standpoint, this is a terrible port. Performance issues galore for a game which looks ok at best, no ultrawide support (come on guys, why must I mod my game to get this enabled?!), but worst of all the control scheme... I found this completely unplayable.
  12. Kunray
    Feb 26, 2022
    4
    I've got the very latest drivers and Elden Ring has also received a small patch (which was supposed to target the frame-rate issues) that hasn't fixed the main problem.
    4/10
  13. IRON_MAN
    Nov 3, 2022
    4
    Overhyped game that feels the same like previous souls demos bloodborne games just add an open world and throw bosses and quests randomly.....
  14. 4everyoung84
    Dec 9, 2022
    4
    Juega, muere, grindea mata. Eso es elden ring. Un juego dificil si no pierdes el tiempo, y facil si lo haces.
  15. LeandroB
    Feb 26, 2022
    4
    As many others pointed out, the game is overflowing with little problems and performance issues due the lack of polishing of the game. This game could use a few more months for better optimization.
    Gameplay wise, the combat is what you would expect, exploration was a let down, as the critics led me to believe there would be more interesting stuff around the map, not just week monsters and    As many others pointed out, the game is overflowing with little problems and performance issues due the lack of polishing of the game. This game could use a few more months for better optimization.
    Gameplay wise, the combat is what you would expect, exploration was a let down, as the critics led me to believe there would be more interesting stuff around the map, not just week monsters and lame rewards.
    The graphics are good, but could be better. I know it never was a priority for the studio, but its ridiculous to think this is an current gen AAA game .
    Now what really turned me down was the story, or lack of... They talked so much about George R. R. Martin world building that at least a nice plot would be expect, but nah, none whatsoever.
    It can be fun, but is not worth the money right now.
    Buy with a great discount.    … Expand
  16. coroner01
    Mar 31, 2022
    4
    It was another console port . PC gamers were playing this type of game 15 years ago . What's with all the hype . I was bored after about an hour . And the controls were awful . Gutted I spent money on it . And the amount of fake reviews is a joke . A 10 really? Really ! BS
  17. Ivraas7
    Mar 5, 2022
    4
    The game is pretty good, i enjoyed it, but the recent patches make the whole thing an even bigger technical mess then it was.
    I get crashes and stutters more often after 1.02.3 to the point of literally breaking my saves, good that i make a backup after every session, now i do it more often.
    But the whole port is just the epitome of bad, no ultrawide, 60fps cap, they didn't even include    The game is pretty good, i enjoyed it, but the recent patches make the whole thing an even bigger technical mess then it was.
    I get crashes and stutters more often after 1.02.3 to the point of literally breaking my saves, good that i make a backup after every session, now i do it more often.
    But the whole port is just the epitome of bad, no ultrawide, 60fps cap, they didn't even include a button prompts for PS controllers that are already in the game, where STEAM fully detect it.

    They try to fix it, but game quality slowly deteriorates with each patch, i just can't give this game a good note, the PC port is broken for me.    … Expand
  18. Nooob
    Nov 3, 2022
    4
    Same Combat mechanics for 13 years already (2009) just added with a Open World more like Open Field...
  19. LordNorros
    Mar 7, 2022
    4
    No direction or instruction, terrible UI, gameplay is bland with terrible hitboxes (player and NPC) and doesnt ever get fun. Not fun at level 10 and not fun at level 50. Super disappointed...
  20. jin44jim
    Apr 13, 2022
    4
    Please read all of this before downvoting. This generation of gaming as a whole has been killed by the tryhards and greed. If you want the truth this game reflects a lot that is wrong with this generation of gaming. Cheap flights of sweaty mechanics like dodge rolling, parry, and jumping. Fanboys are a big problem with games as well. They defend it being a sweaty game as an excuse to (getPlease read all of this before downvoting. This generation of gaming as a whole has been killed by the tryhards and greed. If you want the truth this game reflects a lot that is wrong with this generation of gaming. Cheap flights of sweaty mechanics like dodge rolling, parry, and jumping. Fanboys are a big problem with games as well. They defend it being a sweaty game as an excuse to (get good) but it is so hypocritical because these are the same gamers crying multiplayer games are too sweaty. The problem isn't the difficulty it's the game and this generation. The game really isn't that hard or even takes much skill to beat. It's just cheap and unfair combat. All just one hit kills with cartoonish animations with a slight delay so if you dodge roll it hits you anyways. It's just frustrating not hard or even takes skill to beat it. It just takes patience and mental health loss to beat it. This is reflected in this generation of gamers in multiplayer as well ( Jumping and dashing and cheap tactics to win). That is why no one likes multiplayer games. Multiplayer games die in less than a few months because no one likes playing against unfair AI or players. This is what divides this generation in gaming because they are hypocrites and want to call games competitive and a sport but don't want rules or sportsmanship in games and want to use exploits and use cheap tactics to win like (scuff controllers, dashing, and jumping). There is a reason why sports have rules like football and basketball to prevent ppl from cheating and exploiting in unfair (AI or players) ways to win and be un-sportsman-like. If it is a sport and it's all about the competition then get rid of cheap tactics/boss fights, exploits, and unfair fights and make some rules. If it is not a sport then why are we making games so tedious and playing like our lives depend on them? ( I beat the game on new game plus and level 167) but I had no other games to play and wanted to give it a fair shot). I feel like I gave this review a good score for how I feel and others feel. It is a mixed review for a sweaty game that could have been great if they focused more on the performance and RPG and toned down the sweaty feel of the game. Not to put in an easy mode but an out-of-the-box RPG-like combat system rather than dark souls combat system.… Expand
  21. SpartaCook
    Jun 7, 2023
    4
    Fromsoft has been making the exact same games, except Seikiro, for a decade and the fanboys keep praising them for their horrendous design games. I have no idea what they been smoking while saying the game is fun, but the gameplay is utterly sh*t. The game is not hard because it is hard, it is hard because the gameplay is clunky and terribly designed. I've been playing it for 10+ hours andFromsoft has been making the exact same games, except Seikiro, for a decade and the fanboys keep praising them for their horrendous design games. I have no idea what they been smoking while saying the game is fun, but the gameplay is utterly sh*t. The game is not hard because it is hard, it is hard because the gameplay is clunky and terribly designed. I've been playing it for 10+ hours and find absolutely zero enjoyment out of it. The art direction is very nice, I'll give them that.
    In conclusion, this is the most overrated garbage I have ever played since Monster Hunter World. Game of the year my ass.    … Expand
  22. Marr08
    Mar 5, 2022
    4
    I do not think this game is a masterpiece and it is not running well on PC. The world art design, diversity in playstyles makes this a solid game and with the help of Wemod it can be enjoyed by those who play games to relax. I do not find the story telling technique appealing anymore and I think the RR Martin was used for publicity only.

    The biggest disappointment for me is the outdated    I do not think this game is a masterpiece and it is not running well on PC. The world art design, diversity in playstyles makes this a solid game and with the help of Wemod it can be enjoyed by those who play games to relax. I do not find the story telling technique appealing anymore and I think the RR Martin was used for publicity only.

    The biggest disappointment for me is the outdated gameplay mechanics. Sekiro had much more interesting gameplay, but in this game From Software just reused DS3 mechanics and implemented very little from Sekiro innovations.
    There is still no animation cancel and reactive parry mechanic, forcing you memorize the enemy attack timing, which is highly variable. Rolling also looks ridiculous and could have been replace with a cool dash.

    It is very annoying to check the map all the time to know where you are, I do not think this is an innovative way to make an open world game, it is just another lazy way to do it.

    I also think this game had an unfair marketing strategy, there should be a warning about the difficulty in the marketing materials ("DO NOT BUY if you are not a skilful gamer, you are not welcome in the Lands Between, and you are wasting your money"). I platinumed Bloodborne and DS3 on PS4 and I was left with a bad feeling of what these games forced me to do because they charmed me with the world design and gameplay (at that time it felt more interesting, but not after you played for 800+ hours).    … Expand
  23. rafabertolotti
    Feb 26, 2022
    4
    Tiene todo para ser el juego del año, pero la optimización para la versión de PC (al menos hasta el momento) es nula y lo hace injugable de a ratos.
  24. ONEEX
    Feb 28, 2022
    4
    Не нормальное портирование.
    Непроработанное управление.
    Непроработанное меню для ПК. Запуская игру, я вижу, что это игра не для ПК а для консолей! Слабая оптимизация. Даже после нескольких патчей люди жалуются на невозможность запустить игру и играть. Белый экран после запуска и выбрасывает на рабочий стол. У меня та же проблема. Я до сих пор не мгу играть в это! Ещё возмущает    Не нормальное портирование.
    Непроработанное управление.
    Непроработанное меню для ПК. Запуская игру, я вижу, что это игра не для ПК а для консолей!
    Слабая оптимизация.
    Даже после нескольких патчей люди жалуются на невозможность запустить игру и играть. Белый экран после запуска и выбрасывает на рабочий стол. У меня та же проблема.
    Я до сих пор не мгу играть в это!
    Ещё возмущает слабоумие рицензентов - такие высокие оценки неоправданы и скорее всего продажны. Они не честные и звышенные.
    21 век - век халтуры и обмана во многих сферах и эта сфера не исключение.    … Expand
  25. 2Mohamed
    Mar 5, 2022
    4
    الأداء التقني مزعج٩٠ ساعة لعب وستيم كذا مرة بغى يحذف تخزينتي وهذا اسوأ شيء ممكن يصير غير الأداء الغير ثابت من ناحية فريم ريت سيء وبقز وكراشات كثيره تطلعني من اللعبة، المفترض نسخة البي سي تكون الأكمل لكن الله المستعان بعصوهاالأداء التقني مزعج٩٠ ساعة لعب وستيم كذا مرة بغى يحذف تخزينتي وهذا اسوأ شيء ممكن يصير غير الأداء الغير ثابت من ناحية فريم ريت سيء وبقز وكراشات كثيره تطلعني من اللعبة، المفترض نسخة البي سي تكون الأكمل لكن الله المستعان بعصوها
  26. Mclovins6xnine
    Feb 28, 2022
    4
    Can barely get the game running. Much stuttering. Looks great and gameplay seems nice and probably would be a great game.
    But all of that doesn't matter if i can barely play the game!
  27. Mortanius
    Feb 26, 2022
    4
    Elden Ring is in my opinion a 9/10 game if everything works as expected.
    But the game is extremely poorly optimized on PC, its not even funny anymore. Its a Souls Game and you have to deal with constant frame drops. Unacceptable. Which makes me rate the game 6/10.
    Thats not all. -1 for: If we look at the history, FromSoftware games are well known for terrible PC ports, the company    Elden Ring is in my opinion a 9/10 game if everything works as expected.
    But the game is extremely poorly optimized on PC, its not even funny anymore. Its a Souls Game and you have to deal with constant frame drops. Unacceptable. Which makes me rate the game 6/10.
    Thats not all.
    -1 for: If we look at the history, FromSoftware games are well known for terrible PC ports, the company doesnt learn from its mistakes.
    -1 for: Devs/publishers knew very well about problems but still decided to ship it in such state.

    Final rating 4/10

    Paid medias giving this 10/10 is a joke and I pity people who take their opinions seriously.    … Expand
  28. Boris-Barbaris
    Feb 28, 2022
    4
    Кривая пародия на свои предыдущие игры. Мизер новых идей и куча откровенной халтуры
  29. halfgandalf
    Feb 27, 2022
    4
    I'm so confused by the 10/10 scores from every publisher for this game. I've never seen a game overrated in this scale.. FromSoft gets away with no innovation, while every other franchise gets bashed for repetitiveness.

    Elden Ring is an already outdated souls-like game with worse than ps4 graphics, a barren open-world that offers nothing new. Animation quality is as bad as some indie    I'm so confused by the 10/10 scores from every publisher for this game. I've never seen a game overrated in this scale.. FromSoft gets away with no innovation, while every other franchise gets bashed for repetitiveness.

    Elden Ring is an already outdated souls-like game with worse than ps4 graphics, a barren open-world that offers nothing new. Animation quality is as bad as some indie games that were made by 2 people. The reviewers and community is so delusional that they see open-world, mount and jumping as groundbreaking features.

    It's time to wake up and realise graphics like this, with bad animations and same old combat mechanics DOES NOT DESERVE 10/10. It's unfair to games like RDR2, Death Stranding and GoW and such. Time to wake up and play other games that actually earn praise..

    If this game gets 10/10, than RDR2 need to get like 50 out of 10.    … Expand
  30. bkarioka
    Feb 27, 2022
    4
    Um excelente jogo em termos de jogabilidade , gráfico e história porém em termos de desempenho no PC é realmente uma vergonha stuttering , quedas de FPS a todo momento ou seja desempenho medíocre mesmo em hardware de alto desempenho.
  31. DavieSl
    Mar 5, 2022
    4
    Crashes on start up.
    Disconnects from online mode.
    Random crashes and frame drops.
    No widescreen.
    World could have more in - let's hope some mods sort this out if the anti cheat allows it.
    Meh.
    Worth at least one play through I guess.
  32. Soul127
    Feb 26, 2022
    4
    Derivative souls like, with lame open world, reduced challenge overall(for FROM game), and neutered PVP way over priced and over hyped.

    “Plot” is cringe (not sure what paid Martin for lol) Graphics look like from 2014 Animations from 2008 Voice acting is awkward(no surprise with FROM game there) Sound, level design etc, is good but nothing wouldn’t expect from them especially the    Derivative souls like, with lame open world, reduced challenge overall(for FROM game), and neutered PVP way over priced and over hyped.

    “Plot” is cringe (not sure what paid Martin for lol)

    Graphics look like from 2014
    Animations from 2008

    Voice acting is awkward(no surprise with FROM game there)

    Sound, level design etc, is good but nothing wouldn’t expect from them especially the dungeons were cool

    However, even for a souls game the difficulty is all over the place, map isn’t really that open nor large and pretty much done after a single major boss. You hurdle from one area to another poking around for largely useless gear (or at worst baffling what to do with, is for etc, and again even for souls game), or to see if can stumble on same set of recycled enemies in the open world with diff colour and more inflated (or sometimes way deflated) stats to original mob you’ve fought. Lather, rinse, repeat with odd “story” element tossed in. It’s okay, but due to amount of marketing nonsense and to spite anyone saying this is best game of anything ever: 4/10, wished listened to “haters” and never pre-ordered this and just waited for a sale.

    Oh and one lucky one’s didn’t have major performance issues, I’d get into all that but two things:
    1. All over the net go read up, no one is lying 2. It’s a FROM PC game…I mean…not defending it just should know going in what to expect in that regard, tho too: 2/3 didn’t have problems for most people versus this one which is really bad performance and even worse stability for others than myself(seen it first hand at a friend’s place, Yeesh thank you old 1060 card I guess lol)

    Final thoughts:
    It’s okay, neither terrible nor great overall Prob best to get on console. Wait till on sale, avoid if don’t like souls game.    … Expand
  33. Arktikus
    Mar 21, 2022
    4
    It's really fun in Singleplayer and obviously challanging, but the "Co-Op" is completly broken in my opinion and getting invaded also isn't fun, it's not like in Dark Souls, it just makes no fun to get invaded by some dude with a broken weapon and getting destroyed in Dark Souls it was far more balanced. Also they were many glitches and it's fine, but then also not, because players whoIt's really fun in Singleplayer and obviously challanging, but the "Co-Op" is completly broken in my opinion and getting invaded also isn't fun, it's not like in Dark Souls, it just makes no fun to get invaded by some dude with a broken weapon and getting destroyed in Dark Souls it was far more balanced. Also they were many glitches and it's fine, but then also not, because players who want to have fun in the multiplayer get constantly invaded and then die to some dude in two hits.… Expand
  34. test47895
    Feb 26, 2022
    4
    Perfomance issues are ruining my pleasure. It's sad. I just want to play normaly.
  35. Pini0n
    Feb 27, 2022
    4
    It's dark souls 3 with an open confusing world. Don't buy it if you're not a dark souls fan. But the low score is because of the PC version, how could they launch the game with 60 fps cap? Not only that but the 60 fps aren't stable, it drops do 30 many times. This with a 3080 and 5600x.
  36. pheonixx74
    Mar 1, 2022
    4
    game with too many technical problems controller not recognized lags no 21/9 ect. multiplayer works when he wants from software missed his departure another game released too soon
  37. MOLOCK
    Jul 31, 2023
    4
    It suffers from stutter and low fps even using high-end configurations. It contains all the historical issues present in Fromsoftware's past titles.
  38. PoppyTales
    Feb 27, 2022
    4
    Once again the so called "critics" showed how unqualified they are when it comes to understanding what makes a game a good game and amazing gameplay. It is not the brand making a games with past achievements, it is the gamers themselves, no one else. Majority of these critics don't even spent the bucks for those games which cant' generate a bias opinions.

    Now here is my opinion: this    Once again the so called "critics" showed how unqualified they are when it comes to understanding what makes a game a good game and amazing gameplay. It is not the brand making a games with past achievements, it is the gamers themselves, no one else. Majority of these critics don't even spent the bucks for those games which cant' generate a bias opinions.

    Now here is my opinion: this game is boring after few hours. Different model of a boss with different combos of the more or less same attacks you've seen before. Stuck in an empty open world which wasn't made to be amazed and looked at, just to traverse in and walking forward is not a good gameplay. Game is not optimized, tested on PC systems properly and I had issues on PS5 as well.
    I don't care they can patch games, this game is expensive and I expect working title when it's released. So where did the money went before the release? Marketing it seems and to all those fake critics hyping it and making us disappointed before it is ready to be played by those who these games are made for. Gamers..

    In the end, make a roll and attack, make a roll and attack, make a roll and attack, use special attack, call for help of few ghosts taking agro, stab them in the back, make a roll and attack.

    Well that gets old very quickly. I don't care if you are hard on souls fan or not. I like game when it makes me feel like I am playing and getting my ass beat as much as I am beating the game's ass and here the only thing that beat my ass was poor design, and low optimization of the Elder Ring world.    … Expand
  39. tithonus
    Feb 27, 2022
    4
    Elden Ring is a good game, but... The game has a big optimization problem. Looks like it's from 2017 on the graphisc. Musics bad. You should be ashamed of bluepoint. If we leave this aside there's a lot of sloppy work in the game. They enlarged a normal enemy in sekiro, bloodborne and dark souls and added it to the game as a boss. The venues were the same. How many more times will you useElden Ring is a good game, but... The game has a big optimization problem. Looks like it's from 2017 on the graphisc. Musics bad. You should be ashamed of bluepoint. If we leave this aside there's a lot of sloppy work in the game. They enlarged a normal enemy in sekiro, bloodborne and dark souls and added it to the game as a boss. The venues were the same. How many more times will you use Anor Londo? Even the animations are the same. Aren't you ashamed to do this? I don't understand how they give 10 to this game. Did you get any money from the producers? Horizon F.W. 88 Elden Rind 97. Engrossing...… Expand
  40. Suleimanayub
    Feb 28, 2022
    4
    its really strange not a single critic mentioned how buggy this game is & they gave this game perfect 10 fake high scores fooling fans around the world. i think the people who reviewed this game were actually blind or they reviewed different version of this game with zero bugs & problems Dont buy this game right now, save your money . wait a month or two until the annoying bugs areits really strange not a single critic mentioned how buggy this game is & they gave this game perfect 10 fake high scores fooling fans around the world. i think the people who reviewed this game were actually blind or they reviewed different version of this game with zero bugs & problems Dont buy this game right now, save your money . wait a month or two until the annoying bugs are patched. truly disappointed with fromsoftware this time.… Expand
  41. eugenii08
    Feb 26, 2022
    4
    - Bad keyboard controls adaptation in main menu.
    - Average performance despite past-gen graphics.
    - Lags when loading a new location on its borders.
    - Lags in the boss fight in an open air location.
    Setup: i5-8400, GTX 1060 3GB, 16GB RAM, SSD, Windows 10.

    It seems like the game wasn't ready for release, but they decided to publish it anyway.
  42. Sglider
    Feb 28, 2022
    4
    The game has failures in too many aspects to make it playable, it seems a lie that pages dedicated to analyzing games can overlook these obvious problems if not because they directly charge from the publisher and give the notes without testing the game, hangs, outputs to the desktop, inability to maintain a stable frame rate, pulls for problems when loading areas in the background, controlThe game has failures in too many aspects to make it playable, it seems a lie that pages dedicated to analyzing games can overlook these obvious problems if not because they directly charge from the publisher and give the notes without testing the game, hangs, outputs to the desktop, inability to maintain a stable frame rate, pulls for problems when loading areas in the background, control and camera problems… Expand
  43. qwerty17771
    Feb 28, 2022
    4
    'When you've finished your 4th Black Forest gateau - here, have another, and try not to puke'

    Putting 5-10 hours into this game gave me both a skinking sense of deja-vu and the feeling of forcing myself to eat fistfuls of overly sweet cake. If, like me, you have played this series since Demon's Souls, you will realise Elden Ring is Dark Souls 4. Or Demon's Souls 2 - It doesn't really    'When you've finished your 4th Black Forest gateau - here, have another, and try not to puke'

    Putting 5-10 hours into this game gave me both a skinking sense of deja-vu and the feeling of forcing myself to eat fistfuls of overly sweet cake.

    If, like me, you have played this series since Demon's Souls, you will realise Elden Ring is Dark Souls 4. Or Demon's Souls 2 - It doesn't really matter at this point.

    Other than the *slightly* more open world structure (the 'Souls series was always somewhat open in structure) and Torrent the goathorse, everything is exactly the same as all the previous games, including elements from Bloodborne and Sekiro.

    Same player classes and animations?
    Same enemy design, including enemy types/classes?
    Same pseudo-mediaeval world, with lonely atmosphere?
    Same dead-eyed, hollow-voiced NPCs?
    Same controls and combat system?
    Same telling of the opaque story and world lore through item descriptions?
    Same, boring, grindy progression system?
    Same die-and-die-again repetitive gameplay?
    Enroaching feeling that you are wasting your life playing updates to the same game released well over a decade ago?

    'Yes' to all of the above.

    Mashing together your previous 4 games and adding a horse is in no way innovative or good, by any metric. This is one of the laziest 'masterpieces' I have ever seen.

    It used to be fun, but its just the same bland thing over and over again.

    Utterly sickening - i hope you like cake. And then more cake. After a palate cleanser of cake. All washed down with a warm glass of cake, chewed up and regurgitated into a pint glass by Hidetaka Miyazaki.    … Expand
  44. Krev
    Mar 1, 2022
    4
    Gameplay and sound is great. However, there's a lot of issues. No ultrawide support, capped FPS and stutter issues to name a few. Cannot recommend in it's current state with it's price tag if these are things you care about.
  45. JesusAleks
    Mar 1, 2022
    4
    They completely ruined the PvP in this game. While the zones are amazing, and the combat is fun, the PvP was ruined. The player doesn't scale properly, you are always matched with people that are 2v1 or 3v1. The net code is awful, so bad that you are literally attacking people in the future.
  46. meleven
    Mar 5, 2022
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. good gaming experience, good story, but all of that detracts from it; many crashes (1 week after having the game I have 22 crashes), low frames, joystick problems despite the fact that the game indicates compatibility with these, problems with cooperative mode, and uff, much more.… Expand
  47. TreRosor
    Mar 9, 2022
    4
    Run around killing or getting killed by everything you encounter in neverending hellish like depressing environments. No tactics, just move along until the next boss and spend endless pressing buttons to dodge, slash and hopefully survive and then repeat. Supposedly you are to find some ring but I have no idea why I should care about that. It is really a very boring game. Nice graphicsRun around killing or getting killed by everything you encounter in neverending hellish like depressing environments. No tactics, just move along until the next boss and spend endless pressing buttons to dodge, slash and hopefully survive and then repeat. Supposedly you are to find some ring but I have no idea why I should care about that. It is really a very boring game. Nice graphics despite the very gloomy surroundings.… Expand
  48. MiMB
    Mar 27, 2022
    4
    Being a souls fan, I'm pretty disappointed in this game ... for so many reasons ...
    * there's no innovation whatsoever. it's more of the same of ds3
    * quest system cannot apply the same way it did to ds3 for example, simply because the world is so HUGE ... and u'll either miss on too much or just forget about it altogether if u don't use a guide ... which is a very bad way to play a game    Being a souls fan, I'm pretty disappointed in this game ... for so many reasons ...
    * there's no innovation whatsoever. it's more of the same of ds3
    * quest system cannot apply the same way it did to ds3 for example, simply because the world is so HUGE ... and u'll either miss on too much or just forget about it altogether if u don't use a guide ... which is a very bad way to play a game ... cause what's the catch?! watch and apply
    * Most of the world looks really bad ... esp caelid ... it simply looks horrible ... like an unfinished scribbled draft
    * no story unless u watch looong lore videos
    * Opening cutscene voice acting is pathetic and mostly all npcs'
    * bad performance
    * world feel empty most often
    * reskinned enemies .. even bosses!
    * no skill required .. just level up or be a mage and u'll be fine
    * hitboxes are pathetic and hits from enemies ignore walls while urs deflect normally!
    * arrows and magic ignore enemies .. and enemies' magic reaches way further than ur Same magic
    * sometimes u can't decide how come some lightweight enemies have so much poise .. even more than u do despite the fact that ur armor and weapons surpass theirs by so much!!

    all in all the game is just tiresome and feels like a chore .. nothing original .. just scraps of previous games molded in an unfinished world 4/10    … Expand
  49. Xpleen
    Mar 27, 2022
    4
    The game crashes, error 0xc000001d 7 times today it's really annoying. I really hope this will be fixed in the next patch.
    But when it works I have fun.
  50. soulsvet123
    Mar 28, 2022
    4
    This game some how pissed off new comers and souls veterans. I played Bloodborne, Dark souls 3 and Seikro before playing Elden ring. Elden ring is the last fun game to play. If only the reviews know how the game works.
    You need skill and persistence to beat the previous game bosses. you no longer need that just level up tank hits and over power bosses.
    Bosses and insane combos that are    This game some how pissed off new comers and souls veterans. I played Bloodborne, Dark souls 3 and Seikro before playing Elden ring. Elden ring is the last fun game to play. If only the reviews know how the game works.
    You need skill and persistence to beat the previous game bosses. you no longer need that just level up tank hits and over power bosses.
    Bosses and insane combos that are impossible to dodge. May be a bloodborne or sekiro like character would do some justice to the new bosses.
    Story is straight up cringe.
    Every boss with multiple hands only use 2 hands in combat. So what that means is a wasted potential and staying in the comfort zone.
    open world feels like a chore. You play dungeons to get spirt ashes or golden seed. You get the best mimic by playing story line. after upgrading crimson flask to max. I was left with 5 extra golden seeds. So what that basically means was doing dungeons is a waste of time. No real benefit except you being over leveled for the boss fight.
    After you explore everything and ready to fight the boss. In a traditionally way you find yourself way over leveled and slap the boss cheeks. if are under leveled the bosses will slap your cheeks. there is no middle ground here. Worst bosses I ever played are exclusive in this game.
    open world is good for few hours after that it feels pretty useless. most of the effort went into early game and its all down hill from there on.
    you play souls games for bosses. which is the biggest failure in this game. Graphics are fine but I can forgive that.
    Bloodborne > Sekiro > DS3 > Elden ring    … Expand
  51. leeleememes
    Apr 21, 2022
    4
    Awful boss design and a disappointing combat system, their last game Sekiro did better, this game should be called Dark Souls 4.
  52. TheVoyant
    Apr 30, 2022
    4
    Its a barren world rehashing concepts you've seen a dozen times over for decades. The combat and class system is fun yet underdeveloped & poorly balanced. The world is completely lifeless and what few npc exists are boring & uninspiring. Graphics are dated. Reminds me of PS2 era games.
  53. Potato82
    May 11, 2022
    4
    Mediocre game overall

    pros: - amazing world design - great combat and magic system with lots of variety - great music and sounds Cons: - poor balancing, especially lategame is not fun anymore - multiplayer broken with tons of connectivity issues - copy paste, copy paste, copy paste everything is recycled endless times incl mainquest bosses - subpar performance - haven´t found    Mediocre game overall

    pros:
    - amazing world design
    - great combat and magic system with lots of variety
    - great music and sounds

    Cons:
    - poor balancing, especially lategame is not fun anymore
    - multiplayer broken with tons of connectivity issues
    - copy paste, copy paste, copy paste everything is recycled endless times incl mainquest bosses
    - subpar performance
    - haven´t found a story in 300 hours of playing it, no clue what to do
    - sicequests impossible to do without reading wiki
    - some bossfights are unfair because bosses don´t play by the rules of the game with endless combos and AOE spell spam
    - poorly balanced gankfights against multiple bosses who stunlock you towards the end of the game
    - lots of different build possible but only very few are viable for lategame
    - forced invasions (pvp) when trying to play coop    … Expand
  54. CoffeePot
    May 24, 2022
    4
    Wait for a sale so you don't feel committed to it. I can understand a person liking this game if your expectations from open-world games are low because, well, that's honestly just me trying to throw the masses a bone with this game. The truth is I don't like it. My time doesn't feel efficiently spent and I swear I've spent twice as long playing it as the game says I have. Never a goodWait for a sale so you don't feel committed to it. I can understand a person liking this game if your expectations from open-world games are low because, well, that's honestly just me trying to throw the masses a bone with this game. The truth is I don't like it. My time doesn't feel efficiently spent and I swear I've spent twice as long playing it as the game says I have. Never a good sign.

    I'm not a FromSoftware veteran whatsoever, but my experience with open-world games is extensive, so I judge the game on those merits. The things I heard FromSoftware did well in past games are present here, which namely are the combat mechanics. Combat against normal enemies and mini-bosses is more fun and engaging than in most games. Apparently their level design is lauded too though which I would never know playing Elden Ring. It's a really boring open world if I'm being completely honest. Exploration is de-incentivized pretty quickly because I never feel amply rewarded for it. Maybe that's not the point but why make this an open-world game then? There are no interesting characters to find, talk to, and gain a sense of direction from, but there are odd merchant beings hiding in unlikely places for some reason (and in the Roundtable Hold, which i don't otherwise see the point of and you're forced to go there very early in the game in a jarring fashion), and the meager things I do find aren't impressive. Maybe once you've mastered the mechanics, the Ashes of War pickups are more valuable, but I'm still learning the game when I have five of them in my inventory, and from what I can tell they make my weapon stats worse. I tried them as a curiosity and while some of them do cool things, Storm Stomp feels useless and makes any weapon it's attached to worse - I trusted the game not to do that to me and ruined a good weapon in the process. I like the rune system overall but I don't wanna grind for them to get a new weapon. All this is my observation as someone who isn't aware of the mechanics behind the scenes when I first try it. I don't want to feel like I need to go RNG mode when I'm first experiencing the game. You also don't feel like you have much choice but to invest all your level-up points into certain stats, at least early-game, so character creativity is stifled if not entirely sacrificed.

    You like story? Good like finding one here. "Become the Elden Lord" ain't exactly gonna propel me like a rocket through any game. This world and this universe are boring without a decent narrative. Sorry.    … Expand
  55. eblan1
    Aug 15, 2022
    4
    Conceptually, Elden ring disappointed me, too much content and too little quality, the bosses are not interesting, the gameplay is boring, a huge number of bosses are used at least 2 times and a maximum of about 5 - 6, I think this is the worst game of From Software all time

    Концептуально Elden Ring меня разочаровал, слишком много контента и слишком мало качества, боссы не интересные,    Conceptually, Elden ring disappointed me, too much content and too little quality, the bosses are not interesting, the gameplay is boring, a huge number of bosses are used at least 2 times and a maximum of about 5 - 6, I think this is the worst game of From Software all time

    Концептуально Elden Ring меня разочаровал, слишком много контента и слишком мало качества, боссы не интересные, геймплей скучный, огромное количество боссов используется минимум 2 раза а максимум около 5 - 6, думаю это худшая игра From Software. Секиро и бладборн которые все таки шли вперед и развивали геймплей, были чем то новым. Но елдарик не идет вперед, это просто дс3 в открытом мире с реюзом ПОЧТИ ВСЕГО контента, эта игра реально разочаровала меня. Секиро и бб все таки повышали динамику оригинальных дарк, эти игры куда быстрее и динамичнее, геймплей свежее и после этого тебе дают унылое говно в открытом мире где из интересных боссов только маления и предпоследний босс имя которого я забыл потому что мне было абсолютно все равно на развитие невнятного сюжета. финальный босс в секиро это ебануто динамичный аниме файт с реально значимым челом которого все считают самым пиздатым войном в округе, в элден ринге это плавающая конча и шахтёр ахуеть, спасибо, игру реально переоценили и по сравнению с дс 3 и остальными играми фромов это мусор, никому не советую    … Expand
  56. Greggoro
    Jun 25, 2022
    4
    Don't be fooled by who calls Elden Ring a masterpiece.
    At its best it's competent and it isn't even constant at being so.
    The game mechanically is literally DS3, no less and no more. Clunkiness included. Speaking of world design, even if it is capable of giving some good landscape to the eye ends up being much better at boring you: too much space for too little content. Is the    Don't be fooled by who calls Elden Ring a masterpiece.
    At its best it's competent and it isn't even constant at being so.

    The game mechanically is literally DS3, no less and no more. Clunkiness included.

    Speaking of world design, even if it is capable of giving some good landscape to the eye ends up being much better at boring you: too much space for too little content. Is the carnival of recycle and scarcity: recycled enemies, 70% of the time exploration gives you at best consumables, the "dungeons" are literally the same modular 2 type of structures repeated over and over (and let's not even start with the repeated bosses). So called "legacy dungeons" are too short and seem half baked.

    Don't be fooled by the mere numbers: the problem is not how much fat there's in Elden Ring but how much more should have been there to keep meaningful a journey so stretched in terms of time of completion and map space.

    Balance is non existent. Extend this to everything you can think of: from bosses to player's weapons and spells passing trough also one hit kill random mobs. It is CLEARLY not player tested and half of the interactions end up being tedious for being or unreasonably hard or unreasonably trivial.

    The lore is there. If only the game was compelling to play for sure I'd tell how much I appreciate it. But some nice ideas can't patch something that bores you to death before getting to them.

    What makes up a "souls" experience is uniqueness: Elden ring for sure has a serious lack of it. Some things are cool, sure, but most the time it isn't worth it to go trough it. A lot of empty or palliative spaces, not enough variety just kill the journey. You'll soon wish the game to end before the game has the humbleness on cutting short with itself.

    (Not gonna start with the stuttering, we all know is there)    … Expand
  57. lewobski
    Aug 2, 2022
    4
    Storytelling, mechanics, animations, most bosses, goat keeper - are the same. Site of Grace = Bonfire, which means:
    > Reset all killed mobs in the area, AGAIN.
    > Spells can only be changed here. AGAIN. World Seems big, right. But most of the places are closed, and you'll spend time on finding a glintstone key as an example. But the dungeons are hilariously just ctrl+c/+v. Dungeon #1    Storytelling, mechanics, animations, most bosses, goat keeper - are the same. Site of Grace = Bonfire, which means:
    > Reset all killed mobs in the area, AGAIN.
    > Spells can only be changed here. AGAIN.

    World
    Seems big, right. But most of the places are closed, and you'll spend time on finding a glintstone key as an example. But the dungeons are hilariously just ctrl+c/+v.
    Dungeon #1 A basement Dungeon, or Erwin Smith Dungeon.
    Just a hole in the ground, so basically: Location>Location>Chest/Trap. And the locations are the same. A long trap that goes down, a room with 4 corners, enemies, a little room further with chest or trap. Done.

    Another one: in the mountain
    Open the door>Go down>Site of Grace>Go further>You see a closed door>You search everywhere a lever arm>Activate it>"somewhere a heavy door has opened". So you basically go back to that door in the beginning and fight a silly boss.

    Optimization and Community
    Even on my PC (5900X, 32GB, M.2 980 PRO, 3090) the game stutters. Sometimes it even freezes in dungeons. Why did I put "optimization" and "community" together? First off, I am not the only one with this problem, but the whole community will convince you that you are the problem, you are the only one to blame here, not the developers, when in reality there are Digital Foundry, critics, players, Steam (who kinda "fixed it on Steam Deck") that confirm the bad optimization. The community is the worst, toxic and blind. They regard any criticism as a personal insult to them.

    Not made for PC
    They didn't make a good port for the best gaming platform? There is NO DLSS, NO widescreen, NO FPS unlock. Graphics settings only affect FPS, you can barely notice the image. When you plug in your controller (XBOX) you have to change the interface, when EVEN Transformers (2009 game) did it automatically, while it's a piece of sh... 30 FPS console experience, Elden Ring just can't handle this one. Imagine if Transformers (2009) did something simple that Elden Ring (2022) can't. You can't move the map with your mouse cursor, while Skyrim and Witcher 3 do well.

    Multiplayer
    For the multiplayer you need:
    > Right place where your friend can be summoned.
    > You must have the Furcalling Finger Remedy, which you can actually buy, but the stock is limited.
    > But you can make it, grind specified flowers.

    So you are connected? All right, now you two have:
    > 50% less flasks
    > Less HP depends on your friend's HP
    > +100% difficulty for your enemies
    > you can't use a goat
    > you can't use the spirits
    > you can't change the spells
    > you are constantly attacked by other players.

    User Support
    For example, if you have a problem, someone has hacked you, and you can't continue with your saves, the support will give a cap advice: start a new game. Even Genshin support gives you more help.

    Total
    I complain about the +100% boss boost in multiplayer because it gets boring. You need to attack him 2-3 times more often than usual. But solo okay. The only aspect I really like about this game is the location design, the architecture is HUGE. So for the newbies who have never played soulsborne, the game is 6/10 (-4 just for the bad optimization. It doesn't matter if the game doesn't run well.) For me, definitely 4/10 because it's Dark Souls 4. If you ever thought Fallout was just Skyrim with guns or Starfield was just Fallout in space, then remember that there are still soulsborne fans out there who laughs at Bethesda games for being "mediocre", while literally eating a copy-paste game, lol.    … Expand
  58. Drawler
    Aug 10, 2022
    4
    Really boring game. Slow, very repetitive. Too dificult, so you have to restart every boss 10-15 times until you beat him. A pity. Only for hardcoregames that don't search for a good history, only hack & slash.
  59. Gunpla99
    Aug 16, 2022
    4
    My first time to the soul genre game. Story, design, and the volume are amazing to enjoy. But I still hate that the game was not intuitive and very hard to get through. I still feel like the game is made for those soul genre fanboys.
  60. Storemy
    Sep 27, 2022
    4
    Boring, bland, repetitive with poor optimization. How can i enjoy the game if i don't know where to go and what to do without youtube guides?
  61. PenetratorGod
    Feb 26, 2023
    4
    It is not the best game in the world. It's just one of the representatives of a cancerous game genre that appeals to a specific players.

    It's a game with its own unique genre and it's unique in its gameplay and storytelling. It doesn't appeal to everyone. It's not a game that even every RPG player can play. That being the case, it's impossible to say that Elden Ring is the best in the    It is not the best game in the world. It's just one of the representatives of a cancerous game genre that appeals to a specific players.

    It's a game with its own unique genre and it's unique in its gameplay and storytelling. It doesn't appeal to everyone. It's not a game that even every RPG player can play. That being the case, it's impossible to say that Elden Ring is the best in the world when it's a game with such sharp boundaries, and it's impossible to match the reality of the Soulslike genre.

    Those who make such comments have never played another game in their lives and are pathetic enough to think that beating a boss in such games is an achievement. They are also stupid enough to characterize anyone who thinks differently about such games other than themselves as incompetent.

    Stay away from such games and fan bases. Waste of time.    … Expand
  62. hann1712
    Jul 30, 2023
    4
    Anyone remember the end of Dark Souls 3? About letting the old cycles end and allowing a new era to begin? Miyazaki doesn't.
    Elden Ring sounds the creative death knell for Miyazaki. Copying, reskinning, and garbling graphical assets, combat systems, story beats, and more popularized by his own games and past games made by other studios (most of which are superior to this) for a    Anyone remember the end of Dark Souls 3? About letting the old cycles end and allowing a new era to begin? Miyazaki doesn't.
    Elden Ring sounds the creative death knell for Miyazaki. Copying, reskinning, and garbling graphical assets, combat systems, story beats, and more popularized by his own games and past games made by other studios (most of which are superior to this) for a Bethesda-style cash grab is not what anyone expected, given their reputation. Deliberately obfuscating a poorly recycled storyline wasn't enough for them: they had to insert mangled vestiges of other games' combat systems via unoptimized code blocks to even claim any kind of innovation. Let's not forget the recycled, sparse undead (but really very dead) open 'world' with next to no sense of physical geography, no internal logic, no emergent gameplay, and no relevant physics. Bungling every unnecessary feature of open-worlds was their last 'innovation'. Map towers, random enemy camps, obvious area and level transitions, unnecessary, repetitive 'dungeons', an oddly ultra-modern, but repetitive and tedious interface, a compass and map that handily remove exploration, an idiotic leveling 'system', unnecessary crafting, endless unnecessary fast-travel, a deliberately removed hub area, and an unnecessary mount that trivializes the entire 'world' are all among those features. Even the closed areas that don't follow the above tropes are, at this stage, desperately lacking in unique mechanics and even visuals that distinguish them. Speaking of visuals, the three dozen or so decent vistas and varied skies across Middle Earth do not compensate for the hideous 2D trees and grass textures, blurry rocks, poor FX, or the layout of all these contrasting elements in the game world. The flaws of the combat system include but are not limited to: endless enemy recycling, enemies are routinely unassailable, lightning-quick, and damage sponges, camera tracking, invisible poise, useless armor, recycled animations, unadjusted hitboxes, 'stealth', 'classes', the balancing of every item, ash of war, and spirit ash, the distribution of upgrade materials, only 50-70 of the 238 boss encounters are unique, and more.
    Want a better version of this game in all aspects? Go for any Souls game, or Bloodborne, or Sekiro. Clearly, Miyazaki forgot how to.    … Expand
  63. Mikimax
    Apr 23, 2022
    3
    There I thought I will play this game after a hard day's work. BUT NOOOO, this game is going to stress you out even more than real-life problems.
    Screw this game!
  64. NixSar
    Mar 3, 2022
    3
    Going past the stuttering and a horrible port, it is typical FromSoftware stuff - a horrendous grind fest, a mindless slog and rewardless gitguddery. The open world is graphically substandard (very much so - think cca 2014), utterly lifeless and uninteresting with often reused enemies and terrible dungeon design. It's a slapped-on gimmick and makes Cyberpunk's terribly dead open world lookGoing past the stuttering and a horrible port, it is typical FromSoftware stuff - a horrendous grind fest, a mindless slog and rewardless gitguddery. The open world is graphically substandard (very much so - think cca 2014), utterly lifeless and uninteresting with often reused enemies and terrible dungeon design. It's a slapped-on gimmick and makes Cyberpunk's terribly dead open world look lively. The UI is pure horror, as is standard for FS, but surprisingly the game also backtracks on some of the good changes from Sekiro, namely a relatively sane combat system and logical gameplay progression. Be warned! - only for hardcore Souls fans, massively unfun, and terribly ported.… Expand
  65. araczynski
    Mar 31, 2022
    3
    Not sure what the hype is all about. Feels grindy/slow, devoid of life/atmosphere, controls sucks out of the gate, inventory/etc management sucks, graphics are ok at best. Has a very JRPG feel to it somehow.

    Overall it feels like going back to the original Gothic game (with its certain 'feel') after playing through Skyrim (with what i would label a much 'better' 'feel').
  66. captainthrall
    Jun 1, 2022
    3
    The game looks great. I love the art style and animation.

    Unfortunately, it's not for everyone. Elden Ring is designed for a niche audience. It's made for 13-29 year old males that play video games for 12 hours a day. More importantly, it's made for people who are familiar with the Dark Souls franchise. If you're not a hardcore gamer and you're not familiar with the Dark Souls    The game looks great. I love the art style and animation.

    Unfortunately, it's not for everyone. Elden Ring is designed for a niche audience. It's made for 13-29 year old males that play video games for 12 hours a day. More importantly, it's made for people who are familiar with the Dark Souls franchise. If you're not a hardcore gamer and you're not familiar with the Dark Souls franchise, you're going to HATE this game.

    It wasn't for me. I couldn't enjoy the play style. I hate the controls. They're clunky and unresponsive. You press the attack button and you get locked into an uninterruptable 5 second animation. Some people enjoy this play style - I do not. I didn't enjoy the game play. I couldn't get into it. I refunded with less than 2 hours played.    … Expand
  67. codeforfood
    Mar 1, 2022
    3
    Another game like 2077, good marketing, trailers, reviews, but the game bad.
  68. ollymckinley
    Mar 22, 2022
    3
    An excellent game poorly ported to the PC.

    All controls are designed for the console and the PC implementation is awful. Starting from basic things like the Escape key not being 'go back' in the menus, to essential combat maneuvers requiring 10+ minutes to google online. Halfway through the tutorial [actually on an online forum], I learned that you need to tell the game you are not    An excellent game poorly ported to the PC.

    All controls are designed for the console and the PC implementation is awful. Starting from basic things like the Escape key not being 'go back' in the menus, to essential combat maneuvers requiring 10+ minutes to google online.

    Halfway through the tutorial [actually on an online forum], I learned that you need to tell the game you are not using a controller to get tutorial tips for the keyboard + mouse.

    It would be incredibly simple to make sensible defaults for the keyboard (like using the numbers 1-9 to select weapons, spells or items), but no such effort has been made.    … Expand
  69. daej
    Feb 27, 2022
    3
    CHOO CHOO, HYPE TRAIN HAS LEFT THE STATION. All the controls are shown as console buttons, makes it extremely confusing on PC. It was also heavily advertised as a co-op game but it took an hour to figure out how to gather the supplies needed for co-op. After joining with a friend, he kept dying which disconnects him from the co-op server. This means you're also forced to reset and die andCHOO CHOO, HYPE TRAIN HAS LEFT THE STATION. All the controls are shown as console buttons, makes it extremely confusing on PC. It was also heavily advertised as a co-op game but it took an hour to figure out how to gather the supplies needed for co-op. After joining with a friend, he kept dying which disconnects him from the co-op server. This means you're also forced to reset and die and have to find each other again. On top of that, the whole time my friend was just lagging and flying everywhere. Basically co-op is impossible in this game and there's no way I'm playing this pos by myself. Save your money and play something else.… Expand
  70. MusclePig
    Feb 28, 2022
    3
    Haven't had any technical issues, but the game to me is just boring. Sekiro was such a good game that brought the genre forward. Elden Ring is a 180 turn back to rolling around and cheap mechanics.
  71. DerangedGinger
    Feb 27, 2022
    3
    Performance is terrible. Stuttering and frame drops will get you killed. Controls just don't feel fluid even with a controller. Graphics quality is pretty subpar. I've played plenty of indie games that look and run better. This is overall just some mediocre looking terrible console port of an unplayable souls game.
  72. lacosto
    Mar 1, 2022
    3
    Lamentable el estado de optimización de éste juego, me encanta from software, pero es que es siempre lo mismo, acabará mejorando algo seguro, pero de momento se queda con un bonito 3, éstas cosas hay que ir dejándolas atrás
  73. Pecone
    Mar 3, 2022
    3
    Overhyped garbage of a game/port. PS4 level graphics with horrendous performance on high end hardware. Terrible stutters and framedrops. The game itself is also pretty boring and bland. Frustrating af for no reason just so they can claim it is "difficult" and "Soul's like". Terrible gaming mechanics and lazy devs. There is no way to keep track of what the hell you are doing and what haveOverhyped garbage of a game/port. PS4 level graphics with horrendous performance on high end hardware. Terrible stutters and framedrops. The game itself is also pretty boring and bland. Frustrating af for no reason just so they can claim it is "difficult" and "Soul's like". Terrible gaming mechanics and lazy devs. There is no way to keep track of what the hell you are doing and what have you done. Half-baked at best. How the "critics" gave them 10/10 is beyond me. Horrible game that frustrates not only with it's half-baked gameplay but also with its terrible performance. Avoid at all costs, don't waste your time and do not support this trash with your hard-earned money.… Expand
  74. TrumpsAnOrange
    Mar 29, 2022
    3
    Not enjoyable for me. So much hype and I don't understand why. I get the appeal of souls games but it's the same thing over and over. Bad port
  75. sniperwarvx
    Mar 9, 2022
    3
    I'm a shooter... first time playing soul games
    The game is difficult and the action is slow for the speed of the bosses
    I could not play with GAMEPAD for some problems
    frames drop
    The difficulty of the game made me hate it....it made me angry....the game world makes you depressed
  76. Coinstar3
    Mar 4, 2022
    3
    Elden Ring is a poorly optimized and poorly exexuted attempt at a Soul-Borne game. Frequent stutters and screen tearing have plagued my experience. The music is short and repeatative, bringing back nighmares of the battle theme from the werehog sections of Sonic Unleashed. The graphics are detailed but it seems as if FromSoftware designed them to be displayed through a grayscale printer.
  77. Hambez
    Feb 27, 2022
    3
    Just another souls game, plenty of useless resources with absent story......
  78. broodey
    Mar 12, 2022
    3
    i was thinking okay maybe fromsoft coming with a game for a wider audience will fix their hitbox circus and all the combat issues but no. theyll just convert everyone to weebs. it was nice in the begining im 200h+ in and i wont touch it again when i finish it. yea im bad at it but cheesing , relying on luck and rhytm games isnt difficult . its just for people who are willing to learni was thinking okay maybe fromsoft coming with a game for a wider audience will fix their hitbox circus and all the combat issues but no. theyll just convert everyone to weebs. it was nice in the begining im 200h+ in and i wont touch it again when i finish it. yea im bad at it but cheesing , relying on luck and rhytm games isnt difficult . its just for people who are willing to learn because they dont have anything better to learn . like i played it because it was the only game that seem good but i would recommend not to suffer through this . it was good in the beginning because of a few original tricks but after that it all becomes the same thing over and over but with more health and damage… Expand
  79. Tryve
    Mar 5, 2022
    3
    How did this game score so highly......

    Being just a rehash of the past FromSoft games, but with abysmal optimization and an even worse lack of innovation. This game being able to score a 97 just proves that you do not have to be actively trying to move the genre forward or introduce new concepts. As long as you regurgitate the same thing again and again, with little to no change    How did this game score so highly......

    Being just a rehash of the past FromSoft games, but with abysmal optimization and an even worse lack of innovation.

    This game being able to score a 97 just proves that you do not have to be actively trying to move the genre forward or introduce new concepts. As long as you regurgitate the same thing again and again, with little to no change whatsoever, it doesn't matter as long as you have a rabid fanbase who treat every rehash as the greatest thing ever made.

    If it was another AAA franchise with this kind of game launch, just imagine the backlash.

    But I don't blame Miyazaki and Fromsoft, if the mass media and consumers had called them out on their crap since DS3, then maybe they would have explored new territory since then. They would have added something revolutionary, included impressive game mechanics...

    It just amazes me how this thing is hailed as innovative. With the same game design since DS2, graphics from 2009, tedious and outdated gameplay mechanics, terrible animation quality, and a lack of improvement of enemy AI (the AI is even PS2 level AI since they do not act without you being in the area, and keep attacking areas you have already dodged).

    God, RDR2 was actually innovative. It was revolutionary landmark in open world design and storytelling, and it just got completely snubbed at major game awards and gets crapped on till today for trivial reasons.

    If this thing can get 97, RDR2 shld get a 101, minimum.

    No open world game developer should take any notes of game design from this game. It is already weak as it is.

    If there is anything else for me to say, it is that any consumer or review outlet giving this game anything more than a 6 should not be allowed to judge a game's quality and degree of innovation.

    The only thing redeeming quality about the game are aspects of the art design.

    I really wish this game was 97 great.... I really wish.

    3/10    … Expand
  80. Game0fLife
    Jun 9, 2022
    3
    It's a solid game but it has a few serious flaws that stop me from enjoying the game.

    First of all, I don't think the framerate drop is as bad as others say. My average FPS is 50-60 FPS, sometimes dropping to 30-40 FPS. Although, the FPS hiccup during the boss fight is seriously annoying. However, Elden ring's PC port is honestly terrible, what I can't stand is the user interface,    It's a solid game but it has a few serious flaws that stop me from enjoying the game.

    First of all, I don't think the framerate drop is as bad as others say. My average FPS is 50-60 FPS, sometimes dropping to 30-40 FPS. Although, the FPS hiccup during the boss fight is seriously annoying. However, Elden ring's PC port is honestly terrible, what I can't stand is the user interface, especially as a mouse and keyboard player.
    For example:
    1. Some functions can't rebind, ex: the map can only be opened by pressing G.
    2. You can't use the mouse on the map, the mouse is useless (WHY?).
    3. Can't change the camera with a mouse when talking, can only use a keyboard. (Weird)
    4. The mounted combat, why the **** is the left mouse attacking the right side, and vice visa. Did they even test the game before release? Why I can't rebind the key? Where is the god damn patch?

    What frustrated me the most is that they improve the user interface on the Dark Souls III and Sekiro PC port, but then go backward to the Dark Souls II. Sadly, just like the Dark souls II PC port and its many issues, it will most likely never get fixed. Sadly, you just need to get used to it.

    Update: One major issue, please bring back the old Dark Souls covenant system, the world is empty and lifeless without invasion. You can't really be a good guy if there is no bad guy, the Blue Cipher Ring (the new Darkmoon) is broken because no one really bothers to invade anymore.

    Update 2:
    + The developer fixes some serious PvP glitches and skip-dialogue glitches in the new patch. Good.
    +/- Now we have NPC marker, but it's still **** (you have to talk to NPC first, and it disappears after they move). Therefore, most of this game's content is impossible to complete without closely following with the wiki because sometimes NPC would randomly and permanently die for no reason just because you explore other places.
    -The side quest design is so ****ty that you would wonder if it's bugged because NPC would just randomly disappear and die, and it's worse especially because it's an "open-world" game.
    - I realize a lot of the content is just copied and pasted, sometimes even thoughtlessly put two random bosses together, resulting in crappy gameplay.
    -Also, the game is very unbalanced, some gimmick bosses have an unreasonably big hitbox, extremely fast moves, very long combo (literally keep I-frame rolling until run out of stamina), 360 degrees 100% auto-aim. I wonder if the designer really tests plays this game themselves.

    Did they seriously throw away the Dark Souls online server for this half-baked crap?    … Expand
  81. JackPlack
    Mar 29, 2022
    3
    ------------------ after more hours - it wasnt more attractive
    Its not hard and challenging. Its just dumb. Let me explain how is this **** in can masterpiece"
    My first defeated boss. Walked down to canyon by some dumb Mario Bros shortcut (horse only, climbing is to difficult for programmers). Found crypt with stone goblins and boss. Read a lot of spoilers "look left etc". Skyrim is    ------------------ after more hours - it wasnt more attractive
    Its not hard and challenging. Its just dumb. Let me explain how is this **** in can masterpiece"
    My first defeated boss. Walked down to canyon by some dumb Mario Bros shortcut (horse only, climbing is to difficult for programmers). Found crypt with stone goblins and boss. Read a lot of spoilers "look left etc". Skyrim is scarier. Tried to kill goblin ahead, targeting button is locking one on sealing, cant change target.... Found some ground button to unlock door. I dont see something - why mount door open button so far away. So complicated mechanism and no door key. Ive killed few times goblins to spend runes for next level. Why i cant spend runes for 0.7 part of level? Thats why i feel little like in MMO kill mobs until level up and next kill boss...
    Killing boss wasnt easy a specially when not killed goblins and just run to the boss room. 2 problems - goblin heads in magic boss door and summoned wolves attacking them without effect.
    3-rd problem dumb fight style with bosses - hundrets of non physical dodges, wrong collisions, and not many options with weapon and shield, little dumb counters. More logic would be some aikido/judo movements with so much mass difference or just big cannon, physical huge companion/minion/army,... Next part after killing goblins and boss i've won. Lot of stones "i did it" etc but for what? I didnt saw any loot. Weaker goblin had more attractive but also dumb stone head helmet.
    No satisfactions. Same thing with killing large trolls.
    My opinion was 5/10 now i could only give less. 3/10

    ----------------earlier review
    Maybe too early for review, but just boring, not intriguing. Bigger overhype than CP77. How its possible to get so many possitives before release?
    - optimization 3/10
    - story 2/10 (fingers, rings, witches, some boring ideas)
    - graphics and nice atmospheric lightning 7/10
    - menu and shortcuts with keyboard 2/10
    - physics and fighting 5/10
    - open world i don't feel consistance, reason to go further. Its so chaotic and claustrophobic in design.
    - tutorial 2/10 - i hate this text stones. I dont know why i cannot summon spirits. Ive found after hours how to run and lock target.
    - fighting - u die very often but painless. It would be easy when u find weak points, preferred weapon sets and know how to run, but its too old style. Not much physics, cant undecide to do some move. Illogical counter, block, break system or animations. Only left right attack axis. I dont want to enable enemy lock to move backwards. Tps camera lock would be better for me.
    -level up system 4/10 (good are small changes between levels but i prefer training level up style than some collecting runes)

    Overall: 5/10 - only because i hope next part of the game would be maybe more interesting.    … Expand
  82. amonen
    Feb 27, 2022
    3
    I am desperately looking for that masterpiece so many critics claimed to see in this game.

    From a technical point of view, its a desaster. Bad controls, laggy input, enemies stun locking you, microstutters all along. Menu handling is atrocious, quick slot management is a bad joke. There are so many items, that are hardly explained at all - You are up to trial and error and    I am desperately looking for that masterpiece so many critics claimed to see in this game.

    From a technical point of view, its a desaster.
    Bad controls, laggy input, enemies stun locking you, microstutters all along.
    Menu handling is atrocious, quick slot management is a bad joke.

    There are so many items, that are hardly explained at all - You are up to trial and error and guesswork to figure out how things work.

    Enemy difficulty is all over the top and while I know, thats part of a souls game, the enemies here are unfair.
    You either play perfectly or you die. Period. Nothing much inbetween. You cant run, cause you run to slow. When you are trying to mount you are likely to be hit during that. If you ever get smashed to the ground, you can reload already, you are not getting up again alive. Hits are often nor registering and you are driven by a constant momentum, that easily moves you out of an enemies hitbox, while the visuals show your swort going through the enemy just fine.
    As the controls are so bad, playing perfect is pretty impossible to pull off, so the only thing remaining is frustration.

    Visuals are nice, but nothing out of the ordinary.

    Story... Well, what story? I have been playing for nearly 10 hours now and the only piece of story is "You are a chosen, grab the ring, save the world" presented in like 2 minutes? The story is pretty much on par with super mario from the NES times so far.

    I have been runnning around, killing & dying a lot and looking for an actual sense in what i am doing.

    Exploring feels interesting, but usually only rewards you with death. I have yet to find any usefull gear, well actually any gear I can use at all. Drops are scarce and so far not matching my class or just worse than what I had from the beginning on.

    Overall, my gameplay experience is "Kill and be killed, rinse and repeat" - because thats all there is to this game. Unfortunately i went way beyond the refund time to look for more in this so-called masterpiece, but as far as I can tell, there just isnt more to it.

    Summary : A soulless shell with lots of grinding and frustrating controls, sporting tons of technical issues and a tedious interface.

    Absolute "Dont buy"    … Expand
  83. Allexeioftheros
    Jan 8, 2023
    3
    I'm really sorry, but I just can't manage to like this game.
    All I saw was a pretty world, and some NPCs that got me really interested, just to disappoint me later with how poorly written they were.
    Congratulations to the artists and composer, but that's mostly it.
    Just like other souls games, it ironically felt very soulless to me personally.
  84. Nakakio
    Mar 1, 2022
    3
    La verdad me parece la repetición de los souls, sin una mecánica nueva atractiva, fui fan de los souls pero creo que ya es abuso de la formula a tal punto que se vuelve monótono y aburrido.
  85. Yeahimagamer
    Feb 26, 2022
    3
    Outdated graphics, very bad optimization on both PS5 and PC (yes i have both versions), PS5 runs a bit better, but still not perfect. Huge random frame-drops, camera goes into slow-motion randomly, open world feels dead, boss fights are not fun and you hardly get any meaningful rewards after the fights. Overall this game seems to be another victim of overhype and critics didn't help eitherOutdated graphics, very bad optimization on both PS5 and PC (yes i have both versions), PS5 runs a bit better, but still not perfect. Huge random frame-drops, camera goes into slow-motion randomly, open world feels dead, boss fights are not fun and you hardly get any meaningful rewards after the fights. Overall this game seems to be another victim of overhype and critics didn't help either with their 95/97 scores that would indicate that this game is close to perfection, sad reality is that it actually feels like indie project.… Expand
  86. samus_the_dj
    Feb 27, 2022
    3
    I have played the PC version for several hours (roughly 12-15).

    If you have liked Souls games before Elden Ring and it is really your cup of tea, I guess you might like this still, if you are ready to overlook the many shortcomings it has. But if you haven't like any Souls games before this one, then just keep walking because this isn't for you either, definitely. These are the facts    I have played the PC version for several hours (roughly 12-15).

    If you have liked Souls games before Elden Ring and it is really your cup of tea, I guess you might like this still, if you are ready to overlook the many shortcomings it has. But if you haven't like any Souls games before this one, then just keep walking because this isn't for you either, definitely.

    These are the facts on PC so far:
    - Right off the bat, no Ultra-wide support.
    - No 120 hz support in 4k (I don't know for other resolutions, I haven't tested).
    - Barely hitting 60 FPS sometimes, if I'm lucky!
    - The difficulty once again is ridiculously hard - unless you don't many responsibilities in life I guess maybe you'd have the time to put to maybe want to finish this pointlessly hard game?
    - And last but not least, that no one really talks about: the story is awful and doesn't make any sense at all. I know, I know - the Souls games have never been known much for story in the past but FromSoftware should really have learn from their many mistakes at this point.

    I mean a lot of us have been playing FS games since The Lost Kingdoms days. And it feels like somewhat we're almost back to this. The art style chosen is ok but it's not stellar and graphics overall sure even feels updated in many places for the times we currently live in.

    All in all, this is definitely not the game I was hoping for. It's a bit better on console - mainly PS5 - but still suffers from mostly the same issues across the board.

    I will keep walking for that one.    … Expand
  87. Bartfliet
    Feb 27, 2022
    3
    No ultrawide support. You can even select ultrawide in graphics settings, but then it just put's black bars, which just seems ridiculous to me. Just put it in properly.
  88. Keterone
    May 28, 2022
    3
    I haven't played much, but right now i can confirm that game optimisation sucks. With mine i5-11400f and RTX 3050 on LOW settings frame rate on open world (surely on dungeons fps is higher) is jumping over 35-55 fps. and that's even i wasn't talking about 60 FPS cap. This game needs so much fixes for PC (idk how's going on on consoles). And optimisation is the main task! IMHO
  89. ancako
    Feb 28, 2022
    3
    For the gameplay 9/10
    but for performance on PC
    i play on RTX 2060 i think is enough for play this game but many stuttering on the scene and when i fight
  90. ShinyDuckFish
    Feb 28, 2022
    3
    Elden ring is probably the biggest let down in a while with gaming, and it’s once again because critics hype up a bad game. The “open world” is really just closed areas with individual sections for everything that actually happens. It doesn’t feel open world when playing the game. The stuttering is extremely bad and the people who say it is running fine are lying, as I have had multipleElden ring is probably the biggest let down in a while with gaming, and it’s once again because critics hype up a bad game. The “open world” is really just closed areas with individual sections for everything that actually happens. It doesn’t feel open world when playing the game. The stuttering is extremely bad and the people who say it is running fine are lying, as I have had multiple friends say it’s fine and then their game will start to freeze. Don’t buy it for the open world, and don’t buy it unless you are a hardcore souls fan.… Expand
  91. Modern_Reviews
    Feb 28, 2022
    3
    Tagline : "Most overrated Runescape clone, hyped up by people who hate the fact that GTA and Assassin's Creed are popular"

    What specs you need to run it 60fps - 1080p or 4K, without stutter or lag? - Honest answer is that, no matter how good your PC is, no matter, if you have PS5, this game will perform horribly and only thing you can do is wait for multiple patches. This game goes    Tagline : "Most overrated Runescape clone, hyped up by people who hate the fact that GTA and Assassin's Creed are popular"

    What specs you need to run it 60fps - 1080p or 4K, without stutter or lag?
    - Honest answer is that, no matter how good your PC is, no matter, if you have PS5, this game will perform horribly and only thing you can do is wait for multiple patches.

    This game goes into same category of games, that have been extremely overhyped and extremely underdelivered. Other examples would be "Cyberpunk 2077", "Fallout 76", "Anthem", "Battlefield 2042" and "Elden Ring" is another fine addition to that list.

    So what new groundbreaking mechanics, graphics, open world design, innovative combat or interesting story this game offers? - Pretty much none of these.

    Graphically (for some weird reason) this game goes back to 2012/2013. But 2012/2013 had lots of great games and at times "Elden Ring" even looks beautiful, especially the sky, but ground and grass textures are pretty much worse than some 2013 games. For 2022 AAA release this is bad. Game that gets Metascores 95/97 in 2022, should have way more work put into it.

    Next up is open world design - There's extreme amount of boring looking, absolutely empty areas. This is automatically bad open world design, because these empty areas, that doesn't even look good have zero purpose to be there. Other areas that actually have something, okay let's make that clear, all that other areas have is trees and monsters. Endless amount of monsters that are simply sitting there, doing nothing, waiting for you to slay them. This is literally Runescape game design 101, i have been playing Runescape since 2004, i know what i'm talking about.

    Quests (if you can even call them) are extremely short, boring and you can literally ignore all of them. It's usually some lady asking you to go somewhere, get something, get it back to her. Most hilarious thing is that game doesn't show that you have completed any of them, which basically means that by the end of the game, you forget that you even did these. Runescape has more complex lore, quests and writing than this game can only dream of. Why i'm talking about Runescape and not Skyrim, you might ask - Well because lore wise, Skyrim would be too tough challenger for this game.

    Combat is extremely similar to Dark Souls 3, game that released 6 years ago. Same animations, same everything. Anyone who says in that case that "Innovation is overrated" has no right to criticize Rockstar or Ubisoft ever again, just saying.

    Anyone who says that having horse is innovative must be a troll, because having this empty open world without any transportation, would be almost insulting.

    All in all very weak release, only fun i had in this whole game were two boss fights - Margit and Godrick, i have to say they have extremely unfair combos, attacks and they are pointlessly difficult to beat, especially for 2 first bosses, but at least they have some interesting lore and cool monster design.

    1 point for beautiful sky design, 1 point for Margit boss design and 1 point for Godrick boss design.

    Overall score 3/10 - Not recommending, unless you have never played open world game before, but even then, you just could play older open world games that are way better.    … Expand
  92. Ghostfire
    Mar 2, 2022
    3
    Technical issues pretty much ruined my experience from constant stuttering to all out game crashes. How this game has a 95 score on pc by these so called “professional critics” is beyond me.
  93. rindert
    Mar 21, 2022
    3
    Bad controls on PC. You get killed on and on because of this. So the game becomes unplayable.
    More observations:
    - If you manage to kill an enemy it respawns after you rested. - It is not possible to save with e.g. F5 so saving after a win is not an option. - There are no levels. So you can not turn the game to easy mode to at least see a little bit of the world you paid sixty (!)    Bad controls on PC. You get killed on and on because of this. So the game becomes unplayable.
    More observations:
    - If you manage to kill an enemy it respawns after you rested.
    - It is not possible to save with e.g. F5 so saving after a win is not an option.
    - There are no levels. So you can not turn the game to easy mode to at least see a little bit of the world you paid sixty (!) euros for.
    - You are tempted to play just long enough for Steam to refuse a refund.
    Do not buy this game.    … Expand
  94. SkyrimIsBetter
    Mar 15, 2022
    3
    This game is like a really good spicy meal but the chefs put crazy hot sauce on it. the story of this game is completely eclipsed by the difficulty, at times theres enemies that are around your level, then you go through a door and uh oh you’re trapped until you spend 3 hours of your life trying to kill a completely unbalanced boss, not for loot or to progress any quests, just to escapeThis game is like a really good spicy meal but the chefs put crazy hot sauce on it. the story of this game is completely eclipsed by the difficulty, at times theres enemies that are around your level, then you go through a door and uh oh you’re trapped until you spend 3 hours of your life trying to kill a completely unbalanced boss, not for loot or to progress any quests, just to escape the room would. That being said i would love a game to be made out of this story thats for enjoyment rather than whatever this is… Expand
  95. hmptn
    Mar 31, 2022
    3
    A beautiful mess. I played this game for 50 hours, and I just don't have the motivation to finish it. The open world aspect of this game feels shallow, empty and meaningless. Nothing has changed since bloodborne/dark souls 3. There is no driving factor in this game, the bosses are plentiful but most are reskins of eachother put in a small dungeon in the corner of a map, there is noA beautiful mess. I played this game for 50 hours, and I just don't have the motivation to finish it. The open world aspect of this game feels shallow, empty and meaningless. Nothing has changed since bloodborne/dark souls 3. There is no driving factor in this game, the bosses are plentiful but most are reskins of eachother put in a small dungeon in the corner of a map, there is no satisfation to killing a boss, you are rewarded with the same items over and over making them obsolete. The game is boring, a empty husk of what could've been a great game. Overall this game is a big stepdown from fromsoft's earlier works, I'm not even going to touch on the performance issues this game has. I'm dissapointed, what happened fromsoft?… Expand
  96. Nobody1234
    Apr 3, 2022
    3
    I do not understand why those who love the game love it so much. I played the game for 20 hours and heard 30 sentences in total, how is this a perfect game? Is it the game of the year to make a map and fill it with ridiculous bosses and creatures? I've played the game for 20 hours and I don't understand what's going on in the game, there is no such nonsense game.

    There are already a few    I do not understand why those who love the game love it so much. I played the game for 20 hours and heard 30 sentences in total, how is this a perfect game? Is it the game of the year to make a map and fill it with ridiculous bosses and creatures? I've played the game for 20 hours and I don't understand what's going on in the game, there is no such nonsense game.

    There are already a few dialogues in total, and they wrote them so strangely to create mystery. For example, I see someone in the game, I think he will talk about what the game is about. He makes two stupid sentences and says go on, I can't deal with you. When I went to that round table, for the first time I said, "Okay, now they'll tell you two things". They said two ridiculous things. Someone said let me know if you see that woman, a woman hugged me and then said f.. off now. The other one has a wheel on his head, he said, "Let me teach you something" and he was teaching magic. Someone stands and looks at me and doesn't speak at all. Something like two statues is holding on to a stick selling something, what kind of environment is that? Tell me this. Is not it?

    For example, I came across something like a big cauldron while I was traveling, it was stuck on the ground and I saved it by hitting it, so this is not a normal type, is it? You have to explain this, the talking cauldron, it has hands and arms, what is it, where did it come from? No. "I'm alexander I'm traveling" that's it???

    I entered one cave, there are wolves etc. Then I went through a fog and there's a creature I can't remember the exact name of, something like the monster man of azura. I killed him and got out in 5-6 tries. Eh? What's up now? What did I understand, he is a type that looks like he has mutated from wolves, what is he looking for here, who is he? They modeled it and threw it there, two moves, it's over. Is this the perfect game?

    In short, there is no story that draws me in. If there is a story with a boss, you are ambitious to learn the continuation of that story, you try to defeat it, right? What's the story in this game? What motivates you in this game? What makes you wonder to continue? Does the next boss shoot by spinning, or does he create a sword out of nothing and shoot to understand it? For example, I think that first boss appeared in a place like a bridge. Tarnished etc. he said. Who is this? What does it do? What's the deal with this? His face is like rabies, he hits with a big stick in one hand, hits with his tail, throws out an imaginary knife, hits with an imaginary sledgehammer, hits with an imaginary sword, but what is the place of this in that story? I watched a few videos and there are too many meaningless bosses. I don't think any of them are told about their story, because as I said, I played for 20 hours and I must have heard 30 sentences or something. The cat statue is the boss, the dragon is the boss, the big horse is the little boss, etc.

    Even the item names are meaningless. There was an item named something like "white pickled rabbit" :D

    I think the man who did it thought "let this boss have a tail, hmm this one has 30 hands, what should it be, sir? Let it shoot" and shook everything out of his head. Anyway, I guess people thought they would make up a story in their head. If there is a decent story, do I have to open it and look it up on the internet etc.? Tell me the story in the game. I would like to learn the story of the game in the game, not by asking uncle google, we are playing a game, after all, we are not doing thesis research, are we?

    The game world is full. Get out of there. If we don't see the game, we will eat it. Creatures wandering around aimlessly. Go around and kill. Is this the full world? There is no sign of a living world or the like.

    I played a total of 30 hours with other characters and I always played in the mind of "people have always loved this game, what do I not understand, I should love it too". But it's a very bad game. You're stuck on a hype. The game also got 96 points??? What does 96 points mean? It means everything has to be perfect. Performance issues alone should have prevented him from getting that score. No story, no enemy AI. If we look at the graph, it sucks too. If other games had these problems, the whole game world would curse that game. But if you ask about this game, the answer is always the same "Souls games don't look for these" :D Don't look at the animation, don't look at the graphics, don't look at the story presentation, don't look at the optimization, what the hell are we looking for? Come to a boss, die 50 times to that boss, go back that way, memorize the moves of that boss and finally when you kill him, "oovaaaauuuvvv, this is the game, what a defeat, this is the pleasure of difficulty, yiaaa". The game is just that.    … Expand
  97. Weaverevan23
    Apr 12, 2022
    3
    Graphics are awesome. Jumping is nice.

    Glitches, bugs, lazy So so so so much recycled content, especially after litterally the beginning portion of the map Pc port awful 60fps max, instructions not even translated Bosses glitch and ive fallen through the map so many times Even saving the game is a hastle and the game loves to crash. Dont even bother trying to use the targeting    Graphics are awesome. Jumping is nice.

    Glitches, bugs, lazy

    So so so so much recycled content, especially after litterally the beginning portion of the map

    Pc port awful 60fps max, instructions not even translated

    Bosses glitch and ive fallen through the map so many times

    Even saving the game is a hastle and the game loves to crash. Dont even bother trying to use the targeting

    Clipping, animations kinda bad example : mimic blob things, seems like a last minute ,"we need to finish this ememy" , lets just put a blob around an attack animation and seriously not try at all.

    Wanna play with a friend? Good luck, no cross platform, and trying is such a hastle its not worth it pllluuusss whoevee gets transported doenst get the progess.

    Feels like a half developed game got released for a cash grab and toxic gamers jumped on to the scene, "you are just bad", common features dont exist, a quest log for example. The community is cancer. Go bang your head on a wall learning how to defeat each boss or google it.    … Expand
  98. DrGreen784
    Dec 13, 2022
    3
    I honestly didn't enjoy Elden ring I'm kinds sick of souls games but ya no argument there definitely deserves game of the year although I don't see why they felt the need to call the game Elden ring its just dark souls with a new coat of paint just call it dark souls 4 or whatever they probably changed the name because too many people would have been to intimidated by dark souls reputationI honestly didn't enjoy Elden ring I'm kinds sick of souls games but ya no argument there definitely deserves game of the year although I don't see why they felt the need to call the game Elden ring its just dark souls with a new coat of paint just call it dark souls 4 or whatever they probably changed the name because too many people would have been to intimidated by dark souls reputation and would have dismissed the game me personally I just don't have the patience for souls games anymore all the dodging and learning enemies moves sets its just a big headache for me I just want to kill the guy and be done with it just like doom eternal all this jumping and switching weapons and waiting for the marauder to flash green it's just a headache look at halo one (on legendary)that was a hard game but fun and fair nowadays games are more like halo 2 (on legendary) jackal snipers everywhere and the moment they see master cheeks they light him up like its the forth of July its just a big headache I like hard games I just don't like the headache that come with them most of the time… Expand
  99. Gutoso
    May 20, 2022
    3
    Video games are supposed to do two things: entertain and give fun. The Souls saga fails in both. Its a game which will keep you frustrated, because it's unfairly hard, and even after a lot of effort, when you manage to kill the bosses, there is no good sensation, just a relief from a bad sensation that the game caused itself.

    I am really needing good games lately, and buying Dark Souls 3    Video games are supposed to do two things: entertain and give fun. The Souls saga fails in both. Its a game which will keep you frustrated, because it's unfairly hard, and even after a lot of effort, when you manage to kill the bosses, there is no good sensation, just a relief from a bad sensation that the game caused itself.

    I am really needing good games lately, and buying Dark Souls 3 and Elden ring was a big mistake.

    Don't waste your money with this kind of game.    … Expand
  100. k0uk
    May 27, 2022
    3
    I really wanted to like this game, but it was impossible; it's not "soulslike" is literally the same dark souls again, the same game with new enemies and a new map.

    The combat is quite boring, movements feel imprecise, very clunky, combat feels boring when you have to spend most of the time defending, I'm sure there are people that enjoy rolling most of the time of a combat but I don't,    I really wanted to like this game, but it was impossible; it's not "soulslike" is literally the same dark souls again, the same game with new enemies and a new map.

    The combat is quite boring, movements feel imprecise, very clunky, combat feels boring when you have to spend most of the time defending, I'm sure there are people that enjoy rolling most of the time of a combat but I don't, this feels just too boring and old for being a 2022 game, same goes with graphics, the performance for the visuals are bad, so the result is a game that feels 6-7 years old.    … Expand
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Universal acclaim - based on 60 Critic Reviews

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  1. Cubed3
    Aug 29, 2022
    70
    Elden Ring is an experience that will not be forgotten in a hurry. It's a tremendous, hulking, massive achievement but because it is tremendous, hulking and massive, it is one that comes with many caveats. The shelves in CeX and conversations with people who stopped playing at Stormveil castle can certainly attest to some of those caveats. Much like any FromSoftware title, it's not going to be for everybody, but paradoxically it is one of their hardest and one of their most accessible to date. It offers huge value in one package, and perhaps is a little too much value, only becoming clearer when nearing the endgame. Don't be mistaken by the criticism, though. This is a phenomenal achievement with a moment-to-moment that is incredibly engaging and immersive. No doubt it will be deserving of the end-of-year accolades it will inevitably receive. One pushes through Elden Ring as one pushes through life, with all the highs and the lows that it brings.
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Apr 28, 2022
    82
    Elden Ring is massive, sometimes to its detriment. A thorough walkthrough might take up more than 100 hours to complete, and at some point it becomes clear that From Software did not have enough manpower to produce that much unique content. Still, it remains incredibly addictive even after those 100 hours pass…
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  3. RPGamer
    Apr 14, 2022
    90
    It’s hard to review Elden Ring without being comparative; that’s because Elden Ring is an evolutionary step, not a revolutionary one, and one can’t help but see how it’s built on what came before. Here is a massive undertaking of a game, not for the sake of chasing trends but as the natural progression of the style the company has been fostering for over a decade. It’s amazing how smoothly the transition to open world was and how much of the Souls identity is still present. In the short time since its release, it has already left a cultural mark, no doubt a result of the game’s increased approachability. Even after sifting past all the hype and grandiosity, there’s still an excellent game left and Elden Ring is a clear showcase of FromSoftware’s outstanding expertise in the field. Elden Ring really is just that good.
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