Elden Ring

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  1. BritainButNot
    Oct 4, 2022
    10
    Elden Ring strips down the core aspects of gaming (combat, platforming, exploration) and hones them into near perfection. The result is a remarkably tight hack and slash adventure that provides near endless replayability. The art direction is often jaw-dropping, as seen both in the open world (such as Nokron and Liurnia) and in the imaginative menagerie of bosses (Ancestor Spirit, Mohg).Elden Ring strips down the core aspects of gaming (combat, platforming, exploration) and hones them into near perfection. The result is a remarkably tight hack and slash adventure that provides near endless replayability. The art direction is often jaw-dropping, as seen both in the open world (such as Nokron and Liurnia) and in the imaginative menagerie of bosses (Ancestor Spirit, Mohg). Not to mention Tsukasa Saito's score punctuates all the dramatic moments and landscapes with a stirring, ethereal aura. The learning curve is doubtlessly massive and punishing. However, I found this challenge to be a refreshing source of fun.… Expand
  2. shadownk
    Sep 28, 2022
    8
    I didn't like any of the soul games but this one is an exception because it gives players options to summons and find good gears when they are stuck with a hard boss. This alone makes the game so much more enjoyable for me.
  3. waifuviolenta
    Sep 28, 2022
    0
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  4. kaczan3
    Sep 27, 2022
    0
    Meh, they are doing the "body a" and "body b" thing again. Kills my excitement.
  5. 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?
  6. bokarsh-z
    Sep 26, 2022
    9
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    worth it everybody must buy it (goty)
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    - 80-180 hours long (have alot alot of contents)
    -unoptimized and reharshed bosses -awesome main bosses,game have alot of skills and magics. -now will design open world souls game and goat da best have doable jump.
  7. JayMalcolm
    Sep 26, 2022
    7
    This is a harder than average RPG. It's possible to play with other players, but the bosses will increase their difficulty to compensate for the extra players. The trash mobs, especially when they have to be fought in groups, can be overwhelming. The interface is very complex and not very intuitive, so it takes a lot of study to advance your skills. The mood is overwhelmingly dark andThis is a harder than average RPG. It's possible to play with other players, but the bosses will increase their difficulty to compensate for the extra players. The trash mobs, especially when they have to be fought in groups, can be overwhelming. The interface is very complex and not very intuitive, so it takes a lot of study to advance your skills. The mood is overwhelmingly dark and there are few areas where you could enjoy a walk in the country with a friend. In any given area, difficulty may range from straightforward to catastrophic without warning. Dying resets all the enemies plus you lose your wealth unless you can make it back to where you died and then exit safely. I could recommend this game for HARD-CORE players, and would discourage novice RPG learners from attempting it.… Expand
  8. tdebug
    Sep 26, 2022
    0
    Even with the latest patches as of 09/2022 there are some glithes when changing video modes and NO WIDESCREEN SUPPORT! Seriously, from software? This is cheap, lazy and lame port from console. You sell this game for PC for 50-60 and don't bother at least do some effort to make it right for this platform!
  9. ExeCute
    Sep 23, 2022
    10
    Продуманная до мелочей игра. Да, правильнее было назвать её Dark Souls 4, благодати оставить кострами, а руны - душами, так было бы честнее. Да, враги повторяются, но и мир огромен. Зарегистрировался на Metacritic только для того, чтобы поставить 10 баллов этой прекрасной игре и немного повысить её пользовательский рейтинг.Продуманная до мелочей игра. Да, правильнее было назвать её Dark Souls 4, благодати оставить кострами, а руны - душами, так было бы честнее. Да, враги повторяются, но и мир огромен. Зарегистрировался на Metacritic только для того, чтобы поставить 10 баллов этой прекрасной игре и немного повысить её пользовательский рейтинг.
  10. PCGamia
    Sep 23, 2022
    9
    Playing Elden Ring is a really intense experience. The game is capable of keeping you alert and aware of what is around you at all times.

    I must also highlight its intricate and outstanding scene design, which encourages you to explore every nook and cranny. Its visual section makes the game a piece of video game art. As a negative point, I would say that a diary or similar is    Playing Elden Ring is a really intense experience. The game is capable of keeping you alert and aware of what is around you at all times.

    I must also highlight its intricate and outstanding scene design, which encourages you to explore every nook and cranny. Its visual section makes the game a piece of video game art.

    As a negative point, I would say that a diary or similar is missing with which to follow the missions. Also, the animations of the character to get up or drink potions are very slow and it is somewhat frustrating not to have control over him for so long.

    Full review in Spanish: https://pcgamia.com/analisis/analisis-elden-ring/    … Expand
  11. LordOfGoldenGra
    Sep 20, 2022
    10
    Lord of the Rings wishes it was as epic as Elden Ring. Such a fantastic game.
  12. boss312424
    Sep 20, 2022
    10
    I love this game, it's really fun. Alot of build variety, tons of content, and alot of fan support.
  13. XeNoNuS
    Sep 18, 2022
    9
    The atmosphere and artistry of this game is out of this world, like all "soulsbornsekiro" games by From Software. The only cons for me is the performance of this game and technical aspect of graphics, the textures, shadows etc. looks like its game from the early times of ps4. HOWEVER, the art aspect of graphics is amazing. The last drawback for me is the vibe of the rainy location in southThe atmosphere and artistry of this game is out of this world, like all "soulsbornsekiro" games by From Software. The only cons for me is the performance of this game and technical aspect of graphics, the textures, shadows etc. looks like its game from the early times of ps4. HOWEVER, the art aspect of graphics is amazing. The last drawback for me is the vibe of the rainy location in south of the Limegrave, and often the game feels too much "rainy" and "foggy" for me, its of course entirely subjective. I rarely gives higher scores than 7, but this masterpiece own it, for sure.… Expand
  14. eslatoshke
    Sep 16, 2022
    0
    В такое нелогичное говно я давно не играл. Логики интерфейса нуль, быстрых клавиш для питья банок нет, НЕТ НИЧЕГО АДЕКВАТНОГО в этой игре. Насобирал кучу денег, убили, пока шел за деньгами, просто упал в воду как вроде упал с высоты, ЧТО ЭТО ТАКОЕ? то есть у меня было к примеру 100000 монет, копил всю жизнь, потом по хер пойми по какой причине я умираю и всё, денег нет но вы держитесь. даВ такое нелогичное говно я давно не играл. Логики интерфейса нуль, быстрых клавиш для питья банок нет, НЕТ НИЧЕГО АДЕКВАТНОГО в этой игре. Насобирал кучу денег, убили, пока шел за деньгами, просто упал в воду как вроде упал с высоты, ЧТО ЭТО ТАКОЕ? то есть у меня было к примеру 100000 монет, копил всю жизнь, потом по хер пойми по какой причине я умираю и всё, денег нет но вы держитесь. да нахер такое говно надо, за что тут такие оценки я понятия не имею, это не игра года, это паторочь года, просто адский кусок кошачей блевонины. хватило на 2 часа игры, после shift+del. неделю отмываться придется после такой "игры"… Expand
  15. Jorgitostreams
    Sep 12, 2022
    9
    This Video Game is indeed a true experience. You get to be whoever you want in a fantasy setting, amazing mount and a beautiful story.
  16. Zallen
    Sep 9, 2022
    7
    Соус в открытом пустом мире с максимально плачевным балансом. Статусы ломают сложность игры, а исследование мира и убийство всего и вся дают ужасающий перекач - делая игру невероятно легкой, из за чего в следующих прохождениях приходится продумывать маршруты смотря гайды, рекомендуемые лвлы для персонажа и оружия, а также искать годное оружие, у которого нет статусных эффектов ломающихСоус в открытом пустом мире с максимально плачевным балансом. Статусы ломают сложность игры, а исследование мира и убийство всего и вся дают ужасающий перекач - делая игру невероятно легкой, из за чего в следующих прохождениях приходится продумывать маршруты смотря гайды, рекомендуемые лвлы для персонажа и оружия, а также искать годное оружие, у которого нет статусных эффектов ломающих игру и только тогда игра может дать вызов. В игре 160 с лишним боссов, но оригинальных, которые не повторяются и не взяты из предыдущих частей можно посчитать по пальцам одной руки. Из плюсов новые фишечки в геймплее, огромное кол-во контента и достойная реиграбельность с желанием попробовать разные билды.
    7мь потоков из 10ти.    … Expand
  17. I-Butcher
    Sep 8, 2022
    10
    My first souls game...it's amazing
    This game,best for begin soul's game
  18. carnivorCactae
    Sep 8, 2022
    0
    Good-looking and detailed enemies placed in a empty half-cooked world with basically zero content.

    Enemies cheat since they can read your inputs, and your time and patience gets severely wasted with checkpoints so far away and respawning enemies and bosses with absolutely zero drop-rates. Its a mess and its bad. The "story" is barebones at best and never picks up any speed or even    Good-looking and detailed enemies placed in a empty half-cooked world with basically zero content.

    Enemies cheat since they can read your inputs, and your time and patience gets severely wasted with checkpoints so far away and respawning enemies and bosses with absolutely zero drop-rates.

    Its a mess and its bad.

    The "story" is barebones at best and never picks up any speed or even builds any signs of sensical story-arc. The dialogues - as scarse as they are - are often nonsensical and lacking any kind of information or lore.

    The world is filled with nothing but mini-bosses. Its empty and void. You can explore just to find maybe some more mini-bosses (some of them get recycled a lot!), but their drop-rates are insulting so you'll ask yourself why even bother? Why even bother backtracking half the time or killing the same enemies over and over again
    in a pretty comical way (no dismemberment, every fight is more or less the same, you have practically zero wiggle-room or alternative ways of disposing your foes)?

    The leveldesign is interesting at times, but then other times its extremely bad. Empty rooms with nothing to do, misplaced use-triggers, huge ruins to explore with lifeless backtracking or missing checkpoints.

    To add insult to injury many keys can't get rebind (!) and the whole layout is for controllers by default!    … Expand
  19. xxmlgg
    Sep 7, 2022
    10
    The best game i ever played the bosses are all so good and the magics are so good the all stuff is so much fun
  20. V-alien
    Sep 7, 2022
    10
    This game deserves it's 10 more than any other. An amazing masterpiece of game design with a ton of playability.

    It took me 150 hrs to beat the game the first time and I enjoyed them all. It was a real adventure and my first time playing a Souls game to completion. It's challenging but in a wonderful way that really rewards you for figuring things out. Only weak point was the Quests    This game deserves it's 10 more than any other. An amazing masterpiece of game design with a ton of playability.

    It took me 150 hrs to beat the game the first time and I enjoyed them all. It was a real adventure and my first time playing a Souls game to completion. It's challenging but in a wonderful way that really rewards you for figuring things out. Only weak point was the Quests which often had me going on Wiki to figure out where the hell someone was hiding lol. But, that's also because I did not sit and read the item lore/descriptions (if you want to know the lore, I recommend it).

    10/10, best game ever made imo. Trend setter that shames all big budget companies not making things to this level.    … Expand
  21. celtaheaven
    Sep 4, 2022
    10
    Hands down GOTY, probably top10 games released in the last 10 years.
    Also the game is a little hard.
  22. hobodave
    Sep 3, 2022
    10
    My first Dark Souls game. Best open world game I’ve ever played. Better than BOTW in many ways.
  23. Cosuo_
    Sep 3, 2022
    10
    the game is pure art and joy to play with challenging and awarding combat, big open world that isnt boring and you are maidenless
  24. Umbra30
    Sep 2, 2022
    7
    The game is very good, I just wish they paid more attention to the PC version. For exemple The Witcher 3 a game from 7 years ago has much better graphics and twice the performance.
  25. danoid
    Sep 2, 2022
    2
    PC KBM Janky - you have to come up with your own keybinds because the stock ones require two hands and a mouse.
    Frame lags in a timing game. How's that supposed to work?
    10 year old graphics and 20 year old interface intended for a console. Copy and paste bosses. Am I fighting Astel Naturalborn of the Void or Astel Stars of Darkess? Mohg the Omen or Mohg the blood lord? Margit or    PC KBM Janky - you have to come up with your own keybinds because the stock ones require two hands and a mouse.
    Frame lags in a timing game. How's that supposed to work?
    10 year old graphics and 20 year old interface intended for a console.
    Copy and paste bosses. Am I fighting Astel Naturalborn of the Void or Astel Stars of Darkess? Mohg the Omen or Mohg the blood lord? Margit or Morgott? Godrick the Grafted or Godefoy the Grafted? Which Dragonkin Soldier is this? In the end you just don't care.
    Exploration? Open world? Eff that. You'll lose your progress if you don't play it extremely safe, because there's ambushes everywhere. Putting the player at a marked disadvantage doesn't make the game harder or more challenging, just more annoying.
    In the end it's just another unload on the boss and go on your way game. Muscle memory wins, not brains.    … Expand
  26. BewareOfTom
    Aug 27, 2022
    9
    It was my first real go at a souls game, tried the older ones but got around them too late and they felt a bit aged to me. Honestly one of the best gaming experiences I've had, I was always pulled to the easier way to do things and being "forced" to play the way it's intended really made it that much better for me.
  27. WanderinMelmoth
    Aug 26, 2022
    5
    No, Elden Ring is NOT a masterpiece, it is "just" ok. Basically it's Dark Souls 3.5 with the only real "improvement" being an open world. What I like about the open world is that there are no quest markers, no Question Marks, no icon overkill on the map.
    Elden Ring still retains all the annoying souls mechanics, like resting at (insert souls resting point) restores enemies, getting killed    No, Elden Ring is NOT a masterpiece, it is "just" ok. Basically it's Dark Souls 3.5 with the only real "improvement" being an open world. What I like about the open world is that there are no quest markers, no Question Marks, no icon overkill on the map.
    Elden Ring still retains all the annoying souls mechanics, like resting at (insert souls resting point) restores enemies, getting killed drops (insert souls currency) with you getting one shot at retaining them and of course the ridiculous difficulty that manages to exclude a huge amount of gamers.
    It also is guilty of reusing assets and animations (graphics have not really been upgraded from DS3, sound effects remain 100% identical).
    Worst offender however are the controls: after all these games FromSoft is either incompetent or unwilling to make functioning keyboard & mouse controls. If you release a game on PC then you have no excuse whatsoever to make it unplayable on mouse & keyboard.    … Expand
  28. Denebb
    Aug 25, 2022
    0
    Game to easy.
    Game to easy.
    Game to easy.
    Game to easy.
    Game to easy.
    Game to easy.
    Game to easy.
  29. DeeJayE
    Aug 25, 2022
    10
    Genuinely one of the best games i have ever played. I recommend it for it everyone.
  30. xTh-3-nDx
    Aug 24, 2022
    7
    First things first it's 2020 and i still have to use the Flawless Wide Screen to get ultrawide support which could lead to a ban because of anti-cheat won't allow any third-party fixes.
    the second thing the stuttering is unbelievable it's supposed to be a game that need precise movement but when it stops for a second or two, you're dead.
    third thing the performance are so bad in some    First things first it's 2020 and i still have to use the Flawless Wide Screen to get ultrawide support which could lead to a ban because of anti-cheat won't allow any third-party fixes.
    the second thing the stuttering is unbelievable it's supposed to be a game that need precise movement but when it stops for a second or two, you're dead.
    third thing the performance are so bad in some area's that led to frame drops and it's not because of my specs i have 2070 super and tried to lower all the graphic setting but it's still the same.
    the fourth thing keyboard layout why the hell they didn't implant that in the game before releasing it it's confusing as hell to see press Y every damn time.
    lastly bugs the game has its fair share of bugs like enemy's can hit you while you're behind a wall, the AI of your summons sometimes act dumb, you can get stuck under some large enemy, the high which can you jump from isn't the same in the open world and the dungeon's, lastly good luck trying to hit an animal without the lock on mechanics.

    the game isn't bad it's enjoyable when it's playable but not at this time wait for them to release bug and performance issue then go for it otherwise, you're stuck playing it in a **** state.    … Expand
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94

Universal acclaim - based on 60 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 57 out of 60
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 60
  3. Negative: 0 out of 60
  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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