Elden Ring

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7.0

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  1. DaveKai
    Mar 1, 2022
    0
    Worst optimization, FPS lock, Broken Controls, worst graphic, broken game design broken story, worst gameplay
    2013 graphics better than this
  2. Przidude
    Mar 3, 2022
    0
    Giant overhype. First of all, lets talk about the horrible PC port if this game. No ultrawide support, terrible control scheme, capped at 60 fps IF the damn thing even runs. From software have been getting away with the garbage pc ports for years and its just stupid. Now, about the actual game….
    - Graphics are just the same as the rest of the souls games not good not bad just meh. The UI    Giant overhype. First of all, lets talk about the horrible PC port if this game. No ultrawide support, terrible control scheme, capped at 60 fps IF the damn thing even runs. From software have been getting away with the garbage pc ports for years and its just stupid. Now, about the actual game….
    - Graphics are just the same as the rest of the souls games not good not bad just meh. The UI is especially bad particularly on PC. It is just the same old boring, cluttered silly UI as the other souls games but this time with the addition of a terrible looking map.
    - Gameplay. Ive finished the other souls games and i am no stranger to the gameplay and combat but i just dont think it fits an open world. I never found myself wanting to stop and fight some enemies or farm some ingredients or XP because the combat is slow paced and BORING. There is 0 innovation on the combat front. The world is empty, when you find a “quest” its not written down anywhere and is delivered in vague terms so you are at risk of ending up forgetting the damn thing. I shouldnt have to keep a pen and paper next to me write stuff down. A lot of the choices the devs made are just bad user experience not “good design”.
    - Story. Its a souls game story trough and trough but this time with the addition of an extra pretentious writer who wrote an extra pretentious “deep” story.    … Expand
  3. martinaw7
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    Bought and refunded the game twice. It won't even finish downloading. I'd only be so lucky if I could load it up and see the framerate issues and stuttering everyone else is complaining about. GOTY is a laugh, it doesn't even work!! I've played hundreds of games on Steam with no issue, except this hunk of junk.
  4. asilvadesigns
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    Seems like it would be fun, but the performance is such garbage on a Ryzen 7 5800x, RTX 3080, 32 Gb ram, nvme.2 etc etc, FPS drops 20 to 30 at times, locked at 60, no fov control, menu is clunky… list goes on and on, fix the game and I’ll bump the review.
  5. msudell
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    It will continue to be a zero until they fix the PC port. No Ultrawide in 2022 is unforgivable. Horrible stutters, 60fps cap, bans for trying modding to get basic pc features.
  6. F1_is_WWE
    Apr 13, 2022
    2
    - This is literally a reskin of Dark Souls 3. Which Dark Souls 3, by the way, was a reskin of Dark Souls. This company has been making the same game for over a decade now and they're getting away with it.

    - This game is too long. If you've every played a Souls game, then you've already played this game. Same combat, same weapons, same mechanics. Now take Dark Souls and imagine it's    - This is literally a reskin of Dark Souls 3. Which Dark Souls 3, by the way, was a reskin of Dark Souls. This company has been making the same game for over a decade now and they're getting away with it.

    - This game is too long. If you've every played a Souls game, then you've already played this game. Same combat, same weapons, same mechanics. Now take Dark Souls and imagine it's twice as long. Games can be long if they successfully introduce new ideas to spice up the gameplay. But here you've already seen it al before; there's next to nothing new here. Add to that the recycled bosses and enemies, and you'll quickly grow bored

    - The bosses in this game are balanced around mimics. That is, summoning an npc to help you. If you do not summon, bosses will be so hard and unfair you'll think it is the hardest Souls game yet. It you do summon, you'll think it's the easiest. I don't like Co-op play and am disappointed it has been forced here    … Expand
  7. 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
  8. Spaceboys
    Mar 25, 2022
    2
    Game is probably good but the performance issues on PC are preventing it from being playable in any reasonable manner. I will update the review if the PC performance issues are improved. 3080TI, 5800X isnt enough to prevent stutters and poor performance...
  9. spare
    Jun 8, 2022
    0
    A game like a trap to catch beginners with hype.
    The game is unbalanced, the variety of bugs, the large field, the slow bug fixes, everything is terrible!
    I recommend not to buy it.
  10. Kironn
    May 15, 2022
    0
    I love RPG games, however this game made me want to uninstall straight away. It is a big waste of time and money. Not intuitive for new players, no story. Just an open world where small rats can kill you and make you lose progress. Disgusting. How can this be the game of 2022?? I rather play Tetris than this crap
  11. GoldenKola
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    The amount of 10/10 reviews and calling it the greatest game of all time makes me sick. The amount of bugs and poor optimization just won't let you enjoy the game. Even if you ignore the poor performance to give the title of greatest game of all time is just a scam. To call it the greatest of all time you need more than just a good game play, it's missing the graphics, story, music andThe amount of 10/10 reviews and calling it the greatest game of all time makes me sick. The amount of bugs and poor optimization just won't let you enjoy the game. Even if you ignore the poor performance to give the title of greatest game of all time is just a scam. To call it the greatest of all time you need more than just a good game play, it's missing the graphics, story, music and optimization. Story wise it didn't have any deeply crafted story like the Witcher or dramatic story that bind you and the character like Read Dead Redemption 2 did with Arthur. I feel scammed by the reviewers and toxic soul fans. Can't give this higher than 8 but I will leave it with 0 because of the poor performance.… Expand
  12. almosttactful
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    The year is 2022.

    - 20FPS dips on a 12900K, 64GB DDR5 RAM, PCIE 4.0 M.2 and an RTX 3090
    - No ultrawide support
    - 60FPS cap
    - Defended to the death by souls fans and I'm not even complaining about the difficulty...

    No excuse to not support those things when I can fire up indie games from 10 years ago and they do.
  13. jomix
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    So poorly optimised to the point where it is literally unplayable. FIX THE GAME!
  14. winterstorme
    Mar 17, 2022
    1
    Absolute joke of a port. The game itself when it functions is okay, but on PC it's unacceptable to release it in this state.

    eta: don't get me wrong. It's massively overrated even when it functions properly. It's like DS2 but with the map copy-pasted 70 times. The bosses, music, enemies, locations are all low quality compared to previous games.
  15. edgyusername
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    Worst version after Xbox version. The performance is a joke and makes PC gaming look like a waste of money.
  16. thenthomwaslike
    Feb 26, 2022
    1
    Not playable right now. 1 point for the improved character creator. I'll update this when From updates the game
  17. 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
  18. Vasot
    Mar 7, 2022
    2
    Overhyped garbage of a game. PS3 level graphics with horrendous performance on high end hardware. Terrible stutters and framedrops. The game itself is boring and bland.. Terrible gaming mechanics. There is no way to keep track of what you are doing and what you have done. Morbid, garish art. A non existent story, there's nothing compelling or engaging about any of it.. Gameplay itself is aOverhyped garbage of a game. PS3 level graphics with horrendous performance on high end hardware. Terrible stutters and framedrops. The game itself is boring and bland.. Terrible gaming mechanics. There is no way to keep track of what you are doing and what you have done. Morbid, garish art. A non existent story, there's nothing compelling or engaging about any of it.. Gameplay itself is a horrendous grind fest, a mindless slog and rewardless git-guddery. The open world is graphically sub-standard (think software from 2013), utterly lifeless and uninteresting with often re-used enemies and terrible dungeon design. The UI is pure horror, game is massively unfun, and terribly ported. It's Dark Souls in an open field with a huge glowing tree in the middle - the "open world" is really just enclosed areas with individual sections, with weird creatures all just waiting until you get within range. There is no AI, just animals and enemies scattered about the landscape, step inside their attack radius, they come at you, step outside it, they stop. Skyrim's AI was better, and that game is 11 years old.… Expand
  19. metacriticuser8
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    Another generic trash RPG where you can't do anything that is not PC. Compare it to last weeks Lost Ark, pure trash. Where are the games where you are free to create a character? The last game was Skyrim where you were at least able to suffer in jail for being a problem in the ingame world.
  20. davygravy93
    Mar 7, 2022
    0
    Another overhyped triple A release that fanboys will inevitably defend no matter how many obvious flaws that are staring them in the face so disregard any 9 or 10 reviews.

    Its pretty obvious at this point that this game is not even close to the "masterpiece" that "critics" and fanboys are claiming it is. I swear the term "masterpiece" gets tossed around so casually these days that its    Another overhyped triple A release that fanboys will inevitably defend no matter how many obvious flaws that are staring them in the face so disregard any 9 or 10 reviews.

    Its pretty obvious at this point that this game is not even close to the "masterpiece" that "critics" and fanboys are claiming it is. I swear the term "masterpiece" gets tossed around so casually these days that its become irrelevant along with mainstream video game journalism. I truly cannot comprehend how you can look past all the performance issues/reused assets and then call this a good game.

    The open world is easily the most glaring flaw because its so empty and generic. Unlike games like BOTW or Witcher 3 there aren't many ways you can interact with the environment outside of picking up useless crafting materials. The optional dungeons are essentially chalice dungeons from bloodborne except with more copy and paste boss designs and rewards that make going through them seem like a waste of time(spoiler, they are).

    For all the fuss about GRR martin being the writer there is very little payoff. I was hoping he would give a more solid narrative other than the usual endless stream of item descriptions that are beyond overplayed at this point but I guess I expected too much from what everyone is calling a "masterpiece".

    The combat is(you guessed it) more of the same. The only difference is that there is a jump button which has very little impact on what you do when fighting, you'll still be dodging, hitting, and then chugging estus in between. Anyone claiming this is good combat needs to be reminded how many souls games there have been and how it isn't impressive anymore. As a veteran I expected much more from the combat but hey, masterpiece amiright?

    The NPC's are just as generic as the world they inhabit. The moment I encountered a talking jar was the point where I knew all semblance of immersion had been tossed out the window. No longer is there any coherence between what they are doing vs what you're doing in the world, now its just wacky nonsense.

    As a souls veteran I'm pretty disgusted with the praise elden ring has received. It does nothing better than the original dark souls or demons souls so putting it on a pedestal just shows how easily reviews can be bought and fool casuals. I use this game as a litmus test to see how easily fooled someone is by video game hype, disregard any positive opinion on this game as market brainwashing, because that's all it usually is.    … Expand
  21. Levian1986
    Mar 9, 2022
    4
    Same soul game as we seen before... Just added "open world"... Bloodborne was much better.
  22. Kustosh
    Mar 12, 2022
    0
    Game graphics looks like from 2006. Other languages than english were probably translated in google translator lol. Stupid texts on the ground, i mean, they are really stupid, and with zero point. Bad console port on PC, u have to guess which button does what. Im really dissapointed, gameplay is boring. Story even more. At least we know which company pays for good reviews.
  23. AlexZakhar
    Mar 20, 2022
    0
    Баги и тормоза в игре за фулпрайс спустя месяц после релиза, вы серьезно??
  24. SeZf
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    . The official account told us that there is an Arabic language, but after the release we were surprised by the opposite
  25. svetogrom
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    Steam users from Russia are complaining about the mass removal of the action role-playing game Elden Ring from their libraries and forced refunds. Some even threw out of the game in the process of passing.
    Judging by a number of comments, money has not yet been returned to someone's card, and this despite the fact that they can no longer play Elden Ring. And, of course, the situation is    Steam users from Russia are complaining about the mass removal of the action role-playing game Elden Ring from their libraries and forced refunds. Some even threw out of the game in the process of passing.
    Judging by a number of comments, money has not yet been returned to someone's card, and this despite the fact that they can no longer play Elden Ring. And, of course, the situation is contrary to the rules of refunds on the platform, since the problem also affected those who played FromSoftware's creation for 50 or more hours.    … Expand
  26. vkeii
    Mar 11, 2022
    0
    combat is totally irrational,more on luck than on skills ... sometimes with a weapon you can do damage from a great distance sometimes with the same weapon at close range you don't do any damage
    The same goes for attack through the shield ,,, sometimes it does damage sometimes it doesn't ,,, a fight made quite according to the template
    the story is too abstract and unrelated .... too    combat is totally irrational,more on luck than on skills ... sometimes with a weapon you can do damage from a great distance sometimes with the same weapon at close range you don't do any damage
    The same goes for attack through the shield ,,, sometimes it does damage sometimes it doesn't ,,, a fight made quite according to the template
    the story is too abstract and unrelated .... too much .... I'm at the beginning of the game, but it scares me that over time it becomes constant and boring...    … Expand
  27. Looksor
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    Качество уровня кривого порта раннего PS3, потерявшего по дороге оптимизацию, управление и захватившее вагон багов, 97/10
  28. mattyg1074
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    Glad to see there's other people here who get it.

    These games since 2009 have been the same **** with a different skin, and idiots pay 60$ for it every time lol!!

    This is modern gaming for you, nice to see there's people here calling souls fans what they are. Plebs who pay for the same crap over and over
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. Joe_Biden
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    you can't cut the grass with the sword. very bad game 0/10 i did not like it. every game should add a grass to be cutted
  32. Electron2954
    Mar 5, 2022
    1
    Average at best. The game reuses assets and mobs from all of the souls game and copy pastes them all over the world. Animations are janky like in DS1. Open World is pretty but its filled with the same mobs over and over. Everywhere you go you find some flaws. From Software failed to deliver same quality with increased quantity.
  33. Deardeer45
    Feb 27, 2022
    1
    -9 points for stuttering issues and bad performance on my powerful machine. I'm bought this at full price, expecting fast passing hardcore battles that challenge my skills. Got a buggy stuttering mess that is challenging my nerves by running in slow-mo and lagging like *. Even Zelda on EMU is more responsive that this lazy PC port.
  34. Patmoamagaman11
    Mar 1, 2022
    0
    Buddy told me to check this game out I used to play some action games back on the PS2. Not really my jam these days, but I figured what they hell why not. Let me tell you this is no God of War. Booted this game up thought it looked okay, kind of like an old 360 game, but whatever. Must be a good story or something.

    Speaking of story I guess other than the one eyed girl and the crappy    Buddy told me to check this game out I used to play some action games back on the PS2. Not really my jam these days, but I figured what they hell why not. Let me tell you this is no God of War. Booted this game up thought it looked okay, kind of like an old 360 game, but whatever. Must be a good story or something.

    Speaking of story I guess other than the one eyed girl and the crappy cutscene there isn't really one. Figured since it had the Game of Thrones writer on it it may be cool, but I guess this is the reason why everyone hates the damned show now. He must not be very good, probably another SJW propped up by the hollywood elites.

    Dodge mechanics are pretty clunky and don't seem to work quite right.. Seems like your character's hit box is larger than Nancy Pelosi's slush fund. Clipping seems to guarantee that the enemies kill you through walls and rocks and other crap, but you never seem to go through them. I presume it's some intentional feature to create a faux sense of challenge to the game. The alternative is that the programmers lack the technical wherewithal to pull of what they're striving for. Now that I think on that though it's probably the latter with the number of bugs this game has. Frame rate drops are pretty harsh and consistently occur on boss encounters.

    Maybe it would have been a cool game if the story was any interesting or if the developers were worth a lick, but they seem to be reaching for the stars when they can't even grab the dirt off the floor very well. Play God of War any of them and hard if you wanna play a real good game. I'll be taking this back to gamestop and telling them the damned thing is broken to get my money back because it's just awful.    … Expand
  35. crisys
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    how is this game a 10/10from critics?? it has an empty boring open world with graphics from ps3 and the worst performance as well as outdated animations. couldnt even put in 2 hrs and ive played every souls game. DO NOT RECOMMEND
  36. 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.
  37. Onetimelemur
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    This has to be one of the most lazy excuse for a pc port i have ever seen. No good it being an amazing game if the user experience is a 0 out of 10.

    Fromsoft have always negleted pc, always have awful ports but this one takes the cake. No ultrawide support, fps lock, awful controls for k&m uses.. these are are to name a few.
  38. rxgamer
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    FromSoftware is an insult to gaming and especially the PC market. Being extremely difficult and grindy does not constitute a good game. 60 FPS lock... no ultra-wide, terrible UI in classic Japanese fashion, PS3 graphics in 2022. Unacceptable performance and stuttering for the low-fi graphics. It is the weirdest phenomenon that so many gamers are so forgiving to FromSoftware's manyFromSoftware is an insult to gaming and especially the PC market. Being extremely difficult and grindy does not constitute a good game. 60 FPS lock... no ultra-wide, terrible UI in classic Japanese fashion, PS3 graphics in 2022. Unacceptable performance and stuttering for the low-fi graphics. It is the weirdest phenomenon that so many gamers are so forgiving to FromSoftware's many glaring flaws. They need to be held to higher standards.… Expand
  39. pandawan
    Feb 27, 2022
    2
    Honnètement très déçu ! J'étais très hypé et je ne m'attendais pas à ça. Le jeu est vide dans l'ensemble, on ne sait pas vraiment quoi faire à part explorer. La difficulté est très élevés et la progression du personnage est ridicule par rapport au temps passé a farmer. J'ai même farmé dans une zone spéciale ou les mobs donne plus de 1000 runes pour voir si ça changeait quelques choses.Honnètement très déçu ! J'étais très hypé et je ne m'attendais pas à ça. Le jeu est vide dans l'ensemble, on ne sait pas vraiment quoi faire à part explorer. La difficulté est très élevés et la progression du personnage est ridicule par rapport au temps passé a farmer. J'ai même farmé dans une zone spéciale ou les mobs donne plus de 1000 runes pour voir si ça changeait quelques choses. bilan : après 20 niveau gagnés en 2 heures les mobs ne sont pas plus rapide a tuer et notre résistance est toujours ridicules.Du coup quel intéret de monter en niveau?. Ce qui m'a frustré ce n'est pas de mourir en deux coup par un mob lambda, non, ça je le savait dès le début et j'ai accepté bien volontier le challenge , non c'est plus le fait de devoir grinder comme dans un MMO coréen free to play sans avoir la satisfaction de voir un résultat a ses efforts. Je joue a des jeux vidéos depuis plus de 30 ans maintenant et la première de toutes mes attentes c'est d'y trouver du plaisir. Là , aucun plaisir à l'horizon....Dommage pour mon argent perdu....… Expand
  40. ValiantLeo
    Mar 7, 2022
    2
    Unplayable for me- PS5 controller not supported. Keyboard not really supported (many attacks impossible to do and there's no key mappings, so you're trying to click all the buttons on your keyboard to try to figure out how to do things. Also, why does it require a secondary weapon to two-hand weapons. Looks and sounds great! Shame you can't play it unless you have an X-Box controllerUnplayable for me- PS5 controller not supported. Keyboard not really supported (many attacks impossible to do and there's no key mappings, so you're trying to click all the buttons on your keyboard to try to figure out how to do things. Also, why does it require a secondary weapon to two-hand weapons. Looks and sounds great! Shame you can't play it unless you have an X-Box controller specifically, and then good luck with all the dropping frame rates and limited graphics options from like 5 years ago.… Expand
  41. Esquizo
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    Lazy open world, technically outdated, outdated graphics, outdated animations, assets reused EVERYWHERE, generic/reskin enemies everywhere.
  42. 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
  43. 3babShogun
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    OVERRATED TRASH
    the AI is rubbish
    graphics are like from 2007
    and SOULSFANS should get a life.
  44. Bruno112111
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    The game itself is a masterpiece, I played 20 hours and love every aspect of it 10/10, but the performance issues and the INVISIBLE ENEMIES BUG totally breaks the game for me, I have decided to stop playing until the devs fix it, Because it deserves to be played in the best quality
  45. coldahdes
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    This game are trash, optimization fail in high end specs. Sttuterings, low CPU and GPU usage, white screen and invisible enemies.
  46. Yueh_
    Feb 26, 2022
    1
    Bad performances. It seems there is no optimisation. It needs a major update to solve this.
  47. Wenwolf07
    Mar 4, 2022
    0
    Massive Souls fan but am tired of playing second fiddle to the consoles. Performance is atrocious, the constant FPS drops, limited 60FPS and most importantly no UIltrawide Monitor support. FROM SOFTWARE its 2022, ultrawide gaming has been around for over 15+ years and it's ridiculously easy to fix. Will not adjust review until fixed.
  48. 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
  49. Crismac
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    No ultrawide support in 2022 is just a lazy port from the developers. I have games released years ago that have this day one. Any new game that comes out in the last few years and beyond will not see 1 dime of my money if this is left out.
  50. razorbr
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    Um jogo incrível que todo mundo vai amar jogar, porém... há de ser otimizado... se a Bandai consertar os Stuttering aleatórios que ao decorrer do jogo vai se exibindo, o jogo ficará perfeito de se jogar... pra quem nunca jogou um jogo da From Software, essa é a chance de jogar e se emocionar bastante com um grande jogo que Elden Ring é.
  51. Chwastoplast
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    Myślę że ostatecznie gra będzie fajna, jednak stan techniczny w tym momencie pozostawia wiele do życzenia. Na razie ocena negatywna, może się zmieni jak naprawią grę, aczkolwiek wątpię, bo widać że to leniwy port z konsol. Spadki klatek w przeróżnych miejscach, brak możliwości wyboru oznaczeń przycisków dla kontrolera i wisienka na torcie... max 60 fps (serio?)... Nie jest tak, że gra jestMyślę że ostatecznie gra będzie fajna, jednak stan techniczny w tym momencie pozostawia wiele do życzenia. Na razie ocena negatywna, może się zmieni jak naprawią grę, aczkolwiek wątpię, bo widać że to leniwy port z konsol. Spadki klatek w przeróżnych miejscach, brak możliwości wyboru oznaczeń przycisków dla kontrolera i wisienka na torcie... max 60 fps (serio?)... Nie jest tak, że gra jest niegrywalna, można się dobrze bawić, ale szanujmy się :/

    PS. Moglibyśmy w końcu dostać multi, w które da się grać? Ten system kooperacji tylko zniechęca do gry ze znajomymi, a szkoda bo gra się aż prosi żeby grać ze znajomymi    … Expand
  52. OrcishWarmonger
    Feb 27, 2022
    1
    pc performance is truly abysmal with constant stutters, drops and lack of accessibility. poorly localized prices are an another problem
  53. TCSF
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    It supports 32:9 and 21:9 aspect ratios, but then after a bit of gameplay hides it behind black bars to obfuscate this PC port’s ongoing performance issues. Had to run a community fix to play it in 32:9 and it ran great!

    You can tell off to the sides where it blocks the gameplay with black bars that they are throttling enemy animations in order to reduce performance. Then they added a    It supports 32:9 and 21:9 aspect ratios, but then after a bit of gameplay hides it behind black bars to obfuscate this PC port’s ongoing performance issues. Had to run a community fix to play it in 32:9 and it ran great!

    You can tell off to the sides where it blocks the gameplay with black bars that they are throttling enemy animations in order to reduce performance. Then they added a vignette to the sides to hide that and at the last minute clearly didn’t think it was ready for release, so they added the 16:9 black bars to cover it all up — but you can’t cover up the poor performance. Stop releasing unfinished games! Fix this and allow ultrawide ratios like with Dark Souls Remaster!    … Expand
  54. RAV_648
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    Overall I think this is just Dark Souls with open world, but with ability to jump this time (which isn't really utilized from what I feel so far like in Sekiro where you have sweep attacks for example that can only be dodged by jumping etc.).
  55. doomcreeper
    Feb 27, 2022
    1
    no Russian or Ukrainian voice acting, no support for ultra-wide resolution 5120x1440 to 32:9 format
  56. Cheatingingames
    Feb 27, 2022
    1
    Playing this with trainer that has infinite hp and one hit kills for all monsters. That's the only way this trash is playable and even with this cheat, it's still boring. I just kill one boss, move to another, etc. So you telling me that's the whole game? That's the game that gets almost perfect metascore? Better metascore than basically any game ever made? This game is complete joke.
  57. BergN7
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    Software and Game industry should hire more testers and QA engineers to avoid buggy and terrible performance launches like this
  58. LordHitmaan
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    Os críticos que só deram nota alta pro jogo só podem ser cegos ou ter sido pagos para avaliarem tão bem, jogo todo mal polido, mesmo na minha 3090 o jogo apresenta quedas de quadros terríveis e travamentos,
    fora que pra ser um jogo de pc os preços estão muito fora do padrão, criei tanto hype que até comprei na pré venda, e mesmo o meu PC estando bem acima do recomendado que a empresa pede    Os críticos que só deram nota alta pro jogo só podem ser cegos ou ter sido pagos para avaliarem tão bem, jogo todo mal polido, mesmo na minha 3090 o jogo apresenta quedas de quadros terríveis e travamentos,
    fora que pra ser um jogo de pc os preços estão muito fora do padrão, criei tanto hype que até comprei na pré venda, e mesmo o meu PC estando bem acima do recomendado que a empresa pede ele não consegue rodar o jogo, muito frustrante.    … Expand
  59. RustyCoin
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    Trash game. And fanboys who are justifying this mess launch are delusional. Lots of bugs, freezes, xbox controller's not supported, I can't even exit options menu because keyboard some keyboard bindings also do not work, can't read in game messages because some keybindings do not work in game too. Locked framerate.

    And the gameplay is sh*t f too. Innovative? pfff, same old boring souls    Trash game. And fanboys who are justifying this mess launch are delusional. Lots of bugs, freezes, xbox controller's not supported, I can't even exit options menu because keyboard some keyboard bindings also do not work, can't read in game messages because some keybindings do not work in game too. Locked framerate.

    And the gameplay is sh*t f too. Innovative? pfff, same old boring souls game, roll hit 24/7, with already seen monsters and boring map. THIS ISN'T RPG. It's just open sandbox, open world game at best, with some inventory and simple leveling.

    Don't even bother looking at those so called "critics" reviews. They are either getting paid by game publishers to write great reviews or are delusional just like fanboys, who will defend game no matter in what state that game is.

    AAA game for such high price tag like this "Joke Ring" is expected to be playable and decent AT LAUNCH - DAY 1, without any patches. Saying "wait, they'll fix this soon" doesn't mean sh*t.

    From Greedware company just went down the drain with this fiasco product release. GG.    … Expand
  60. Zodwraith
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    Zero to help balance the obvious paid/NDA reviews. Game itself is a solid 7-8.

    On the game itself.. This is easily the best damn Souls-like game I've ever played and I'm having a blast. Being open world fixes the vast majority of my gripes about previous Souls games. Dark Souls should have gone open world long ago and this game proves it. Having space to dodge and roll around your OP    Zero to help balance the obvious paid/NDA reviews. Game itself is a solid 7-8.

    On the game itself.. This is easily the best damn Souls-like game I've ever played and I'm having a blast. Being open world fixes the vast majority of my gripes about previous Souls games. Dark Souls should have gone open world long ago and this game proves it. Having space to dodge and roll around your OP enemy is like the first time you've tasted your favorite food. It makes you realize "I'm the problem, I just need to figure this out" vs "this is impossible." I absolutely adore the DS method in an open world environment. Mad, MAD props to FromSoft for going open world. This is likely where the reviewers stopped and posted OMG100/100 GREATESTGAMEOFALLTIME!!1!11!

    Cons that warrant my rating?

    Most overrated game of all time? Easily. I'll skip over the massive performance issues for now as they're well documented.

    As a game DS was very niche to begin with. It followed a steep learning curve of "figure out your enemy's move set and work around it to win" formula. In this Elden Ring has shined. The problem is enemies have ZERO ai and it shows in an open world vs standing in a hallway. Stand on a rock and they're completely broken. I was able to defeat several bosses and many mini bosses by abusing the terrain while completely ignoring their move set. Not to mention if you range hit a mob his buddy will completely ignore you while you gank your target. WORST AI IN HISTORY. (Sidenote: Throwing knives and arrows move like they're going through Jello but ignore gravity. Even f*cking Minecraft takes gravity seriously.)

    The menus, oh god the menus. They're about as intuitive as building a piece of IKEA furniture with no instructions and 4 screws missing. Every spell, weapon, or item you equip has almost no description, is clunky to equip, and has no stats outside of weapons. In a game where stats are crucial this is a massive failure. This was solved 30 years ago in games and only makes FromSoft look incompetent. There's no popup tooltips when you hover over stats and you have to resort to looking up stuff online to make any sense. I don't mind trial and error when fighting mobs. It shouldn't be in the menus too.

    Fans will claim "realism" to defend it. **** I'm killing waterlogged zombies stretched out like a rubber chicken with their flesh literally falling off their bones that magically can overpower me if I get too close. Don't talk to me about realism.

    Good luck figuring out how to change native control popups from Xbox to KB/Mouse. It's under SOUND controls because that makes total sense. (Settings>sound>onscreen prompt device if you need to fix this) I mean, what's the chance a PC user would want to use a keyboard and mouse instead of an xbox controller? That's unheard of. /s This was solved a decade ago on PC but FS wasn't at that meeting.

    Targeting. Why is there no target tabbing? If there's a little bastard in my face but a hulking monstrosity trying to annihilate me standing over him guess what gets targeted? I have to move my mouse a full screen swipe towards the big guy to get the target to change before I can dodge meaning I'm already dead. Ironic when you need to turn the mouse sensitivity to it's absolute minimum to make it even usable.

    My last con> PERFORMANCE. We all know how **** this game runs, and it's well documented. It can't maintain 30fps on PS4, can't maintain 60fps on PS5, stutters wildly on a fire breathing PC, but looks like an early PS4 game? When I see suggestions that it's best played as a PS4 disc (lowest quality) on a PS5 that's a problem. There's no way in hell this is a 100/100 game and this proves reviewers were either paid or under a hard NDA to not mention performance prerelease.

    When I'm playing on a PC that runs Cyberpunk 2077 at 60fps in 4k but this runs at less than 60 with constant dips into the low 20s while looking like a game from 2016 that's a big issue. I honestly can't name another title that runs this badly. Maybe RDR2 but that looks vastly better than this.

    As a Dark Souls game this is easily 12/10 and everything I could hope for. When you take all other games into account? Solid 7, maybe 8 and that's being generous. There's too many problems here other studios solved decades ago. All my problems have also been all over reddit so I'm not alone. Any reviewer that calls this a 100/100 game meaning perfect should never be trusted again.

    TLDR: I absolutely LOVE this game, but it's far from perfect and DS fanbois need to be honest with themselves. Hard does not equal good. Now you're playing with the big boys and this is mediocre at best.    … Expand
  61. Probateur
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    The way Bandai Namco and FromSoftware consider their customers is complete shame.
    In the current state the game is unplayable for most of ppl.
    They changed the pc requierements at the last time, just before release, so they knew what was about all this stuff. From Software follows the CD projekt's path. This is purely disgusting. METACRITIC blocked us to tell the truth. Shame on you,    The way Bandai Namco and FromSoftware consider their customers is complete shame.
    In the current state the game is unplayable for most of ppl.
    They changed the pc requierements at the last time, just before release, so they knew what was about all this stuff.
    From Software follows the CD projekt's path. This is purely disgusting.
    METACRITIC blocked us to tell the truth. Shame on you, you are disgusting too.    … Expand
  62. tunahan43
    Mar 31, 2022
    0
    çöp bir oyun overrated bir oyun .linç yemekten korkmayın far crya aynı oyun diyen kendini gamer sanan tipler aynı bar aynı animasyon olan bu çöp ps3 grafikli oyuna ovv şeet diyor ne diyeyim iki yüzlüsünüz...
  63. THAC0
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    This game is pretty much an epic fail, The community is TOXIC AF (Wishing death on many who dont think this is a 9/10 or better game and being blantly Biased as hell and will harass you continuously)
    The Stuttering is just EPIC Bad Invisible enemies dosnt read your controller the open world design is just Meh Worst poise weapons item design Quests of ALL the souls games like ROFLMAO how    This game is pretty much an epic fail, The community is TOXIC AF (Wishing death on many who dont think this is a 9/10 or better game and being blantly Biased as hell and will harass you continuously)
    The Stuttering is just EPIC Bad Invisible enemies dosnt read your controller the open world design is just Meh Worst poise weapons item design Quests of ALL the souls games like ROFLMAO how was
    this BEST GAME? Oh yeah coz hype and you will be harassed if you point out that even 3k$ PC Machine rigs are suffering from stuttering and such like wow just wow the biased fromsoft fan boys and curropted Critics have shown temselfs. Anyone rating this a 9/10 or higher is clearly curropt and shouldnt be trusted at all.

    Worse launch then FO76 ... Fact ...    … Expand
  64. Hambez
    Feb 27, 2022
    3
    Just another souls game, plenty of useless resources with absent story......
  65. Gemesi92
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    this is wrost then cyberpunk....I don't understand the critic, but tecnically don't work anything
  66. ketchii
    Mar 2, 2022
    0
    lags and freezes lags and freezes lags and freezes lags and freezes lags and freezes
  67. Haider93
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    This game is totally overrated. character animations are like wood. gaming media gave this game a high rating for money. I definitely do not recommend this game.
  68. HighIQOverlord
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    For a franchise that is known as "Souls", no such thing is to be found in this product.

    Generic, distateful, a souless corporate cashgrab with no heart, passion, charm, personaliy, beauty or grace, written by a man that needs over 10 years to write a book and designed by a man that think masterpieces are whispering girls and getting killed by the first boss so you can come out of the    For a franchise that is known as "Souls", no such thing is to be found in this product.

    Generic, distateful, a souless corporate cashgrab with no heart, passion, charm, personaliy, beauty or grace, written by a man that needs over 10 years to write a book and designed by a man that think masterpieces are whispering girls and getting killed by the first boss so you can come out of the dirt as a zombie, Elden Ring manages to literally be a slap in the face to the fans of the masterpiece that was Demon Souls by being a post ironic statement on Modern Contemporary America.

    This game is a poor imitation of Akira Kurosawa's masterpieces, it's just sad really.    … 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. caiobarcelos
    Feb 28, 2022
    1
    I just can't play with the recommended fps settings below 20... 97 for this game is a joke. once again these game critics are paid to rate
  71. 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.
  72. Sardauk
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    This is an utter **** game. A retro-design that fails in every regard. Only reason to like this game is that you enjoy beating a crap design. Looks okay on a PC, not good in the least. No tool help, the tutorial is a laugh, take a wrong turn and you're **** it's about grinding, progression is worthless, spend as much time in-game as googling wtf is even happening and how do I use my stuff,This is an utter **** game. A retro-design that fails in every regard. Only reason to like this game is that you enjoy beating a crap design. Looks okay on a PC, not good in the least. No tool help, the tutorial is a laugh, take a wrong turn and you're **** it's about grinding, progression is worthless, spend as much time in-game as googling wtf is even happening and how do I use my stuff, story is fragmented, controls **** up because it's a lazy console port. Worst I've played in a long time. Only zero on here, so far. All my money down the drain.… Expand
  73. MrTmu
    Mar 13, 2022
    0
    in terms of content and experience, this games is a solid 10/10. But with PC tech issues with random screen stuttering i give it a 9/10. With some other game the stuttering would be bigger issue, but the game makes you overlook technical issues. Its a have to play game for everyone.
  74. Halit
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Its not 10/10. 10 years ago the game’s graphics might be good. But it’s 2022 and the graphics are terrible. And despite it’s terribleness you need a higher gpu for higher fps… Expand
  75. Nejakk
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    Esta critica es sin dar opinión sobre el pésimo rendimiento, pero en general el juego es la obra maestra de miyazaki.
  76. sporkyz
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    Insane stuttering even on my strong PC. Fromsoft yet again refuses to put even a modicum of effort into their PC ports. There's absolutely no excuse for this. Fromsoft have lost all of my trust and respect as a consumer.
  77. alternatore
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    Great port, nothing works like it should. I just hope it won't take a month before they fix the game. How do you make something that stutters on a 3090 is beyond me.
  78. valrond
    Feb 28, 2022
    1
    This one is easy to analize. If you like souls games, you will love this one, it's like DS1-3, but bigger, open world, with a horse, and better graphics.
    If you don't like Souls games, this one won't change your mind. Yes, it a bit more accesible, it has more save points, like before bosses, fast travel. That's all good. But the gameplay is the same as in the DS and Demon's Souls games,    This one is easy to analize. If you like souls games, you will love this one, it's like DS1-3, but bigger, open world, with a horse, and better graphics.
    If you don't like Souls games, this one won't change your mind. Yes, it a bit more accesible, it has more save points, like before bosses, fast travel. That's all good. But the gameplay is the same as in the DS and Demon's Souls games, it's still quite clunky, it feels like a game from 10 years ago. It's not like Sekiro that was fast, precise, fluid.
    Finally, the PC port is not good enough. It has slowdowns even in the best of computers, like mine.
    So, if you love Dark Souls, get this one, you know already, but get a console version if you can.
    If you don't like them or know what they are, stay away.    … Expand
  79. codeforfood
    Mar 1, 2022
    3
    Another game like 2077, good marketing, trailers, reviews, but the game bad.
  80. 123321231213
    Mar 1, 2022
    2
    Stuttering and freezing were ok to me. But the bosses were just terrible. Fighting was not fun at all. Hit-and-Run strategy is not working but that one is the one I would like to do mostly when I play Souls.
  81. gtxbru
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    How a 2022 game can look so terrible graphically? It looks like light, rocks, foliage are from a 2012 game.The lore is not interesting, the audio is poor. The animations are really really bad. A lazy job!
  82. Sirioo
    Mar 14, 2022
    0
    Gioco davvero pessimo, ennesimo open world cafonata commerciale da 4 soldi, FromSoftware ha preferito incassare picci a colpo sicuro piuttosto che sviluppare un gioco considerabile anche solo decente.
    L'intera mappa è una presa per il ♥♥♥♥, praticamente l'ennesimo simulatore di passeggiate con ottimi panorami, ma a sto punto mi faccio un giro fuori.
    - Su 60-70 ore di gioco ne passi    Gioco davvero pessimo, ennesimo open world cafonata commerciale da 4 soldi, FromSoftware ha preferito incassare picci a colpo sicuro piuttosto che sviluppare un gioco considerabile anche solo decente.
    L'intera mappa è una presa per il ♥♥♥♥, praticamente l'ennesimo simulatore di passeggiate con ottimi panorami, ma a sto punto mi faccio un giro fuori.

    - Su 60-70 ore di gioco ne passi circa 30-40 A CAVALLO e onestamente è pure fatto relativamente male
    - Game design fatto coi piedi con almeno la metà e sottolineo ALMENO la metà dei nemici riciclata da dark souls/bloodborne/sekiro, manco lo sbatti di farne di nuovi.
    - Dungeon COPIA INCOLLA uno dopo l'altro son tutti uguali (in ogni regione c'è grotta-miniera-altarino-dungeon legacy(a parte a caelid dove semplicemente non avevano sbatti e han messo un castellino cosi di rappresentanza)
    - Boss COPIA INCOLLA uno dopo l'altro son tutti uguali, alcuni si ripetono proprio e hanno un altro nome o qualcosa che sbarluccica.
    - Meccaniche vecchie di 12 anni e neanche tirate a lucido, proprio lasciate stare come ♥♥♥♥♥ erano lo sono anche adesso.
    - Bilanciamento PESSIMO di gameplay, se hai 2+ neuroni in pratica dopo 10 minuti oneshotti mezzo mondo
    - Bilanciamento PESSIMO di gameplay pt.2, i combattimenti contro certi boss da metà gioco in poi sono pura barzelletta, puoi avere la miglior armatura del gioco e 99 di vitalità verrai comunque oneshottato, quindi a sto punto a che ♥♥♥♥♥ servono le armature e la vita ?
    - Checkpoint OVUNQUE che permettono anche al peggiore dei pedali di approcciarsi al gioco potendo ripetere a oltranza certi mostri con ZERO PENALITà dovuta alla morte.
    - Grafica da 2010 non c'è neanche da continuare a discutere ( anzi si perchè droppano gli fps con una ♥♥♥♥♥ di gtx2060 GIOCANDO a 60 FPS CACATI , Doom eternal lo reggo a 155 FISSO no drop no stutter no un ♥♥♥♥♥ liscio come l'olio)
    - Colonna sonora ? what is dat ? NESSUNA SOUNDTRACK anche solo lontanamente considerabile tale, solo 3 suore che fanno ooooooohhhhoooooohhhhoooooooo tutto il tempo e rumori di ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ che picchettano nelle caverne.
    - ONLINE PESSIMO , manco riesco a giocare con i miei due ♥♥♥♥♥ di amichetti che han avuto la sfortuna di comprare sto ♥♥♥♥♥ di gioco che vengono disconnessi ogni 2 minuti.
    - ONLINE PESSIMO pt2, dioporco han pure detto "che la cooperativa sarà molto libera" si , sei libero di non poter fare un ♥♥♥♥♥: se vuoi entrare in un dungeon prima di disconnetti, poi ti riconnetti dentro il dungeon per poi finirlo in 5 minuti netti e riconnetterti un'altra volta fuori. non so voi ma per me son solo insulti per uno SCHIFO DEL GENERE nel 2022.

    Se mai avrò ancora voglia di perderci tempo continuerò questa recensione.    … Expand
  83. Samwel_
    Mar 1, 2022
    0
    As the first souls game I have played, Elden Ring is a brilliant game for an introduction to the series. While the game's difficulty seems daunting, after every death, it still pulls you back in to give it another try!

    Sad that this game is being reviewed bombed because it's one of the first games in a while to not have an abysmal launch.
  84. Nerwan
    Mar 2, 2022
    0
    An extremely bad port, it's actually pretty difficult to even get through the character creation screens because it assumes you're not using a keyboard/mouse and normal PC style keys just don't work (E.g. the escape button doesn't work and right clicking does something super weird). The help at the bottom is essentially of a console controller and the only way to figure out what to do isAn extremely bad port, it's actually pretty difficult to even get through the character creation screens because it assumes you're not using a keyboard/mouse and normal PC style keys just don't work (E.g. the escape button doesn't work and right clicking does something super weird). The help at the bottom is essentially of a console controller and the only way to figure out what to do is to hit all of the keys on the keyboard until you find some that are mapped to the same thing as it's telling you to press on the console. It's the worst experience I think I've had starting up a new "PC" game and trying to get going.… Expand
  85. ToastAzazine
    Mar 2, 2022
    0
    WORST PC PORT I HAVE EVER PLAYED

    No PlayStation prompts.
    Stuttering on high-end hardware.
    Menu Navigation with mouse and keyboard is horrendous.
  86. soultstorm133
    Mar 1, 2022
    0
    No 16:10 display support for a game in 2022, it's so bad... These black strips on top and bottom destroy all the experience from the game! I have to install apps to play in normal resol, wow, thanks, and I can be banned for that, btw, so bad...
  87. AxelloReview
    Mar 3, 2022
    0
    Hello FromSoftware.

    I have to start this review saying we are in 2022. It's kinda obv but i had to say that. -In 2022, u can't develop a game with FPS cap at 60. -In 2022, u can't develop a game without ULTRAWIDE support. Ok, u never did ultrawide support but before we had mod making your game better. Now u put easy anti cheat so every mod we put in make us banned from the game, also    Hello FromSoftware.

    I have to start this review saying we are in 2022. It's kinda obv but i had to say that.
    -In 2022, u can't develop a game with FPS cap at 60.
    -In 2022, u can't develop a game without ULTRAWIDE support. Ok, u never did ultrawide support but before we had mod making your game better. Now u put easy anti cheat so every mod we put in make us banned from the game, also ultrawide mod. (SPOILER: Modders says make ultrawide mode cost 30minutes, so imagine how long it would take you) but you don't care about costumers.
    -In 2022, u provide us a game with a 2gen old graphic (it's something like PS3). Ok it doesn't matter but let it run flawless. No. It strutter like no tomorrow. I have a 3080 TI and the frame (already capped a 60fps) drops to 30 in every moment of the game, bossfight included.
    -In 2022, u are lacking every good features existing in the world like DLSS, Ray Tracing, AMD FSR etc.
    -Where is Steam cloud? we are still in the age where if you format the pc you lose all the saves?
    -Why if i want close the game i have return to menu (watching everytime the from's logo and bandai's logo) and only after i can close the game. Maybe u could make closing the game just a little bit faster?

    You didn't find time for make this game playable and enjoyable on PC and XBOX (Also there is exrtemely bad optimizated) but u found the time for develop haptic feedback on PS5 (the game on PS5 work properly, more or less).

    That's why u only focussed on PS5 cause u don't care about other customers.
    U provided us a game in a shameful state and your politics is even more shameful

    The game itself is good.    … Expand
  88. NilBadia
    Mar 1, 2022
    0
    I cant rly belive this is after release. The game is literally unplayable on pc, it has terrible perfomance, awefull controls, random crashes, invisible enemys, the cow also goes invisible, its simply a master ****
    Its unplayable, yet we still paying 60 euros or whatever.
    This on pc its a SCAM!
  89. syyy
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    バグや最適化不足以前に面白くない。OWで自由を標榜しておきながらあるキャラクターに合うまでレベル上げすることができない仕様になっている。それだけならまだしもこのゲームではデスペナで経験値＝金が失われるため、回収こそできるものの単純に面倒くさい上にそのキャラに会わなかった人はひたすらさまよい続けることとなる。攻略サイトを見ればそれもなんとかなるものだが、それで自由度を誇るとかあほらしい。バグや最適化不足以前に面白くない。OWで自由を標榜しておきながらあるキャラクターに合うまでレベル上げすることができない仕様になっている。それだけならまだしもこのゲームではデスペナで経験値＝金が失われるため、回収こそできるものの単純に面倒くさい上にそのキャラに会わなかった人はひたすらさまよい続けることとなる。攻略サイトを見ればそれもなんとかなるものだが、それで自由度を誇るとかあほらしい。
  90. Kahler
    Mar 11, 2022
    0
    Horrible performance, terribly boring. The world is empty and the combat is repetitive. Don't be fooled into thinking this is another game like Demon's Souls, Dark Souls or Bloodborne.
  91. 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
  92. hovercroft
    Mar 4, 2022
    0
    Stuttery fps locked crap. Souls players will be creaming in their pants for a souls game with a different skin whacked on top. Same old boring gameplay crappy mechanics as every other souls game. Dodge roll slash repeat. Avoid at all costs unless you’re a souls creampie loser.
  93. Lomp
    Nov 7, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The most overrated mess I have ever played. Will most likely win GOTY because the industry is a bunch of yes men sheep that are too scared to point out the fact that this is nothing more than dark souls open world. It does nothing to push the open world genre forward. The devs made this game so big and only realised later on, so everything is recycled and all dungeons and bosses play out the same. It became blindingly apparent that the devs bite off more than they could chew when you reach the final snow area that’s just a straight shot to the boss. The world is empty devoid of life (which is the intended effect) but there is nothing to do but fight mindless enemies that attack on sites. Almost all open world games provide something else to do, games like skyrim provide entire settlements and cities to explore with people to speak to and quests to accept. I’m not even a big skyrim fan but at least exploring the world you never know what you will run into, for example a group of bounty hunters that intercept your travel or a courier catching up to you to deliver a message. None of these examples are particularly mind blowing but at the very least it makes exploring less predictable with interesting discoveries. All Elden ring has to offer is are massive bland open fields with a bunch of enemies to fight. The best parts of this game are the actual dungeons, as with the added jump they can be designed more vertically, which are just the whole parts of a normal souls game. Sekiro was an ambitious push in a different direction to reinvigorate the tired souls formulae, then they immediately revert back to the same old dark souls controls. The fact this mediocre game is praised as one of the greatest games of all time makes me feel like I’m in a parallel world.… Expand
  94. 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
  95. In_between
    Apr 22, 2022
    2
    This overhyped stuff that blatantly bought out all the gaming media (as if they count anything anymore) has one unique feature: abusing of the countless glitches.

    This stuff is messy, glitchy, buggy af and has constant balance issues. Bosses are either overpowered or totally powerless, with no inbetween. I'm enjoying how at lv 18 I'm doing stuff for lv50 by getting bosses stuck in    This overhyped stuff that blatantly bought out all the gaming media (as if they count anything anymore) has one unique feature: abusing of the countless glitches.

    This stuff is messy, glitchy, buggy af and has constant balance issues. Bosses are either overpowered or totally powerless, with no inbetween.

    I'm enjoying how at lv 18 I'm doing stuff for lv50 by getting bosses stuck in the terrain, or making their AI bugged.

    OH, RIGHT, THIS IS THE PC VERSION ASWELL: if you want to play with a GTX mobile graphic card (more than capable to obtain 30-40 fps at 720p and 900p) you need to PATCH THE GAME, making it unavailable for online play due to needing to bypass easy anticheat. You need to CHEAT to OPEN the game ON YOUR GAMING LAPTOP. In 2022.

    What a disgrace for a "10/10" game. Stuff is ludicrously bad and people giving 10 are just bots or underage kids, that's my opinion.    … Expand
  96. xGonza84
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    Para mi es el mejor juego de la saga souls sin ningún tipo de duda, coge lo mejor de zelda BOTW y de darksouls y lo junta en un juego, simplemente una obra maestra
  97. TrickyEgor
    Mar 24, 2022
    0
    Very good game. 9/10. Reusing bosses and dungeon is the only one problem)))
  98. NKCell
    May 8, 2022
    0
    perfect GAME.Absolute Peak of From Software games. The sheer amount of content available for the player to explore is absurd.
  99. Ashura12
    Sep 16, 2022
    0
    Granphic is terible in 2022 very bad story is understinable no points where to go
  100. pgjsf
    Mar 3, 2022
    0
    not support 21:9
    limited frame late 60fps
    suck optimization
    suck keyboard custumization
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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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