Elden Ring

 PlayStation 4
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7.2

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  1. yasino21
    Feb 27, 2022
    1
    Not playable after the patch today.

    There have been minor performance issues on the launch day but after a small update today there are missing frames. Maybe they turned on hardcore mode but how should you fight if the boss attacks you and it skips the attack frames. You are getting one hitted without being able to see what's happening or to react. Frame skipes and stuttering makes it    Not playable after the patch today.

    There have been minor performance issues on the launch day but after a small update today there are missing frames. Maybe they turned on hardcore mode but how should you fight if the boss attacks you and it skips the attack frames. You are getting one hitted without being able to see what's happening or to react. Frame skipes and stuttering makes it unplayable .    … Expand
  2. FrawzCh04
    Jun 5, 2023
    1
    After a full playtrough of 80+ hours and many discussions about the game, i can tell its veeeery bad. Between bugs that took too long to fix, terrible balancing even post balance specific updates, reused PLAYER animations and many reused enemies or enemy animations from all previous games, bad graphics, lag, the worst boss in the whole "soulsborne genre" Rykiard, genuinely terrible AI andAfter a full playtrough of 80+ hours and many discussions about the game, i can tell its veeeery bad. Between bugs that took too long to fix, terrible balancing even post balance specific updates, reused PLAYER animations and many reused enemies or enemy animations from all previous games, bad graphics, lag, the worst boss in the whole "soulsborne genre" Rykiard, genuinely terrible AI and failsaves for them (like the dragons disappearing thing), a map that when is open is not that good and needs to put you in closed areas to be intresting, and soooo many more specific issues and letdowns, especially after being promised a completely different game than a Dark soul and the whole marketing campaign, i can say: do not play this game. Play the older Dark souls, all of them, and play Ashen for a good open map souls experience.… Expand
  3. Memps
    Mar 6, 2022
    1
    This is just another annoying Dark Souls ... George R. R. Martin touch is nowhere to be found. Graphics are not what I would expect nowadays. The whole open world thing is just lame, maybe suitable for 2010. I won't even get into the whole UI thing cause I get the point (they wanted to move away from those typical UI Ubisoft designs) so at least that gets this game the 1 I'm scoring it with.
  4. Woweldenring
    Mar 8, 2022
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I thought this would be a fun game. So I got it. Ended up being a brutally difficult leaving almost no room for fun. It’s almost impossible to actually find your way through things unless you played a dark souls game and know that things are just hiding against walls waiting to 1 shot you. The bosses are literally insane they can easily kill you faster than you can get one hit off with almost any weapon that isn’t small it’s just all in all a game that will make you hate it and will take much more time than it’s worth. So if you like games that give the bosses the cool move sets and the better weapons than by all means waste the 60 dollars and have fun either spending a full 30 min chipping away at a bosses health and practically just dodging the whole time or killing small enemy’s that roam to farm runes for weeks and weeks just to level up slightly (which makes almost no difference to anything except what u can use) so you can maybe kill your first boss and move on to the other 20+.… Expand
  5. Cosem
    Feb 6, 2023
    1
    So here it is! 11 years after a real "Masterpiece" Dark souls 1, 13 years after the foundation Demon Souls. If you like it or not, but these games were the foundation of a whole new genre and next generations of video games.

    So, years of experience in the same base of genre must bring out something really new and improved, right? The Play style - Dark Souls 3 with more anime weapon    So here it is! 11 years after a real "Masterpiece" Dark souls 1, 13 years after the foundation Demon Souls. If you like it or not, but these games were the foundation of a whole new genre and next generations of video games.

    So, years of experience in the same base of genre must bring out something really new and improved, right?

    The Play style - Dark Souls 3 with more anime weapon arts. Some Enemies and Bosses require a specific way to play.
    Weapons - There are over 300 weapons and 70 spells. How many do you need? How many of them are useful? How many do you test of the usefulness?
    Animations, enemy and player models - every previous souls game (not bosses). And that's for real. Recycling at its finest.
    Crafting - forgettable
    Story - forgettable. Very good idea, to bring to the Shakespearean cryptic story more of the same.
    The chosen one going to kill or speak or interact with great ones like Miquella, Millicent, melina, miriel and rennala, renna, ranni and gowry, godwyn, godfry and morgott, mogh.
    Remember Nito? Or Gwyn? Why do they make so much nonsense-people to forget about?
    Then again, why should I care about the Story or Plot? The intro Scene is getting worse every Souls game, more cryptic and less care to make the plot interesting.
    The open world - the Art style is more like High Fantasy. I expected to see elves and dwarves dancing around rainbows. And it didn't get better. No more Dark Fantasy than, I guess.
    The open world itself is useless. I wouldn't call it empty, but it's more empty than previous titles.
    It's boring to discover the same enemies in another color.
    It's boring to ride around without a real destination. "But there is a destination, check the map!" Sure, but why do I need to have an open world then. Why not make smaller Areas with more detail. Even the "story areas" in this game have fewer details than the predecessor

    I stop here. There are games (ubi-titles, cod, battlefield and so on) which got bashed because of the redundancy. Right so, I guess. But why not does anybody even mention it for the Souls games.

    In this game there are the same negatives since demon souls: Camera sucks, Hit boxes sucks, all the same fighting styles (hit, block, dodge, cast spell) animations, graphically PS3, bad quest lines (if you miss a quest line or a NPC at the right time, your fault) and still nothing is shown or explained properly. I do not care if you are a hardcore fan, an option to turn tips on or off is not a negative thing and will nothing take away of the way you experience the game.
    At least they worked on the very best part in every Soul's game: the platforming. Now there is a special jump button which make the char jump. And the horse. Super Mario at its best.

    So, I had no fun playing this game. It was just too big and redundant and unimportant.
    I still love playing Bloodborne somehow, even it has the same old flaws every souls game have

    But If that's the future of gaming and a masterpiece, I am out.    … Expand
  6. stoner311
    Mar 3, 2022
    0
    Taking this game right back to Gamestop to get whatever crumbs they are willing to give me.

    Game tries too hard to make things difficult without any payoff. Even when you beat a boss or a large group of enemies you don't get anything that makes you feel like it was worth the hours you put in to defeat them. Games like WOW took hours, sometimes days to down a boss in a raid but there was    Taking this game right back to Gamestop to get whatever crumbs they are willing to give me.

    Game tries too hard to make things difficult without any payoff. Even when you beat a boss or a large group of enemies you don't get anything that makes you feel like it was worth the hours you put in to defeat them. Games like WOW took hours, sometimes days to down a boss in a raid but there was always some juicy gear that dropped and had to be rolled on. You don't get that with this game at all. I cleared an entire camp that took me around 3 hours of stealth killing, running away, trying different tactics only to get something that my class of character can't even use. I killed a mob of 5 wolves and got a few bones from two of the wolves that I used to make one arrow out of. What's the point of putting a bow an arrow in the game if you never have arrows or have to grind 10 hours to get a quiver. Just senseless difficulty. Just a genuine torture to play. Game has no true content it just bogs the player down with senseless grinding.

    The story is so silly and half baked, it feels like a teenager wrote the script. The graphics are laughable in 2022. And it's not a true open world game.    … Expand
  7. Bulbotrax
    Mar 1, 2022
    0
    this game is a huge pile of **** made by morons. The gameplay is lame, the graphics sucks, everything is wrong in this turd
  8. Lucius_13
    Mar 2, 2022
    0
    This game is an overhyped dung pile From Software marketed this game as a brand new Epic RPG Adventure that's accessible for everyone! which is a bold faced Lie as the game is just a Dark Souls game branded under a new name that's it. From Software are so lazy they just copy and pasted Dark Souls 3 then added an "Open World" to it. The bosses are totally unfair to the point of beingThis game is an overhyped dung pile From Software marketed this game as a brand new Epic RPG Adventure that's accessible for everyone! which is a bold faced Lie as the game is just a Dark Souls game branded under a new name that's it. From Software are so lazy they just copy and pasted Dark Souls 3 then added an "Open World" to it. The bosses are totally unfair to the point of being impossible to beat even by Dark Souls standards, I feel this game falls under the category of misleading and false advertisement do yourself a favor and avoid this game… Expand
  9. Dr3aMz
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    WINDOWS 10 only? when Dark Souls 3 worked perfectly on Windows 7? Unacceptable.
  10. 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!
  11. Ughduty
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    If you activate multiplayer features in this game you also get the invasion system which is nothing but a feast for grievers and can‘t be deactivated. Which makes it impossible to play a relaxed coop session. If you don‘t care it might be a great game.
  12. AceAscendus
    Aug 9, 2022
    0
    By far the worst souls game ever made, the open world is extremely boring and full of copy+paste content. There is no fun way to traverse the open world. Boss fights are low quality and again a lot of them are copy+paste, I am talking about big story bosses that get shamelessly reused! It shows that FromSoftware didn't have enough time to develop this game properly. The boring empty openBy far the worst souls game ever made, the open world is extremely boring and full of copy+paste content. There is no fun way to traverse the open world. Boss fights are low quality and again a lot of them are copy+paste, I am talking about big story bosses that get shamelessly reused! It shows that FromSoftware didn't have enough time to develop this game properly. The boring empty open world is filled with wannabe pokemon summons called spirit ashe summons, you like collecting pokemons in your souls games? I don't. There is no meaningful reward, the game is too big for its own good, next time provide less quantity and more QUALITY, like previous souls games.… Expand
  13. Syfin
    Mar 13, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Ужаснейший баланс. И это после шедеврального баланса dark souls 3. Разработчики вам не стыдно? Игра напроч сломана. Если раньше вы учили тайминг, в этом куске дерьма можете не учить, они вам не помогут, поможет только рандом. Больше рандома, боже, они сделали ещё больше рандома.… Expand
  14. Orvak
    Mar 28, 2022
    0
    Очень понравилось, спасибо, поиграл на Youtube, пока ещё могу, безмерно благодарен
  15. OliRock92
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    A big map doesn't make a better game. Uninteresting, bland and boring. Doesn't deserve any of it's perfect scores. Heck, doesn't deserve more than a 6 if you stretch it a lot. The controls are just as bad as the "story" and visuals. The character feels heavy and moves so slow. Feels clunky. Sound was also uninteresting. Nothing sticks to mind. So, a very below average game that wasA big map doesn't make a better game. Uninteresting, bland and boring. Doesn't deserve any of it's perfect scores. Heck, doesn't deserve more than a 6 if you stretch it a lot. The controls are just as bad as the "story" and visuals. The character feels heavy and moves so slow. Feels clunky. Sound was also uninteresting. Nothing sticks to mind. So, a very below average game that was overhyped by possibly one of the most toxic fanbases there are. This kind of game needs to stop being produced.… Expand
  16. fabriciox
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    WINDOWS 10 only? when Dark Souls 3 worked perfectly on Windows 7? Unacceptable
  17. areda2468
    Mar 12, 2022
    0
    A complete masterpiece visuals art direction gameplay music everything about this game is completely mesmerizing
  18. Centipede-sama
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    Quite possibly the best FROMSOFT game to date, a shame that it has been infested with raiders to ruin it's score.
  19. Foxtnv
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    the game graphics look like an old game, huge drops in frames especially in online, the online freezes the game sometimes and the only solution is to close it, the game was not ready to be released it's the cyberpunk soulslike version.
  20. Richy03
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    Juego sobrevalorado como todos los souls, graficos de la pasada generación con un rendimiento penoso y una dificultad frustante, está bien para los niños rata que se pueden permitir intentar 200 veces matar un boss pero para los que ya tenemos una edad se hace soporifero, no hubiera costado nada poner un selector de dificultad.

    Lo que no entiendo es la prensa cascandole notazas y obviando    Juego sobrevalorado como todos los souls, graficos de la pasada generación con un rendimiento penoso y una dificultad frustante, está bien para los niños rata que se pueden permitir intentar 200 veces matar un boss pero para los que ya tenemos una edad se hace soporifero, no hubiera costado nada poner un selector de dificultad.

    Lo que no entiendo es la prensa cascandole notazas y obviando el mal rendimiento y aspecto técnico del juego    … Expand
  21. Gurpgork
    Mar 3, 2022
    0
    Don't waste your time or $. Elder scrolls online is everything this game tries to be and more.
  22. NoLameGames
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    Poorly optimized and riddled with bugs. Don't buy the hype from the same people who told you Cyberpunk was a 10/10 masterpiece. Just another generic FromSoftware game.
  23. Parangaritiwi
    Mar 4, 2022
    0
    Failed to live up to expectations, Not a good game, don’t play it at all. LLL
  24. Ashura12
    Sep 16, 2022
    0
    Granphic is terible in 2022 very bad story is understinable no points where to go
  25. Realonethegoat
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    elden ring need patch now freezes on boss fight please fix it so i can beat the game
  26. Evials
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    I’m sorry, but a game releasing in 2022 with PS3 level graphics that constantly fluctuates from 30 - 60 FPS (even in performance mode) is unacceptable. Furthermore, even if we disregard the frame rate issues, I’m not impressed with the gameplay at all. This has easily the clunkiest combat of any souls game so far; I find the movement is often unresponsive, and the hit boxes are horriblyI’m sorry, but a game releasing in 2022 with PS3 level graphics that constantly fluctuates from 30 - 60 FPS (even in performance mode) is unacceptable. Furthermore, even if we disregard the frame rate issues, I’m not impressed with the gameplay at all. This has easily the clunkiest combat of any souls game so far; I find the movement is often unresponsive, and the hit boxes are horribly implemented. I’ll also add that if you weren’t a fan of Dark Souls, this game isn’t for you. It’s effectively Dark Souls 3, but this time it’s open world. Speaking of open world, let’s discuss that shall we? The map is pretty big, and gives you a lot of freedom and exploration possibilities, which is nice. However, there’s very little environmental variety, like at all. It’s all a very similar bleak landscape that never changes. This would be fine if the game was linear, but, for a game that encourages exploration so much, it kinda makes it feel repetitive. Perhaps a bigger issue, however, is that there simply isn’t a whole lot going on in the world. In many of the reviews for this game (particularly ign’s), they state that the game has a lot of variety in special events happening in the open world. However, I found that most of these “special” events are limited to being ambushed by enemy’s. That’s really the meat of exploring the map, is being ambushed by enemies. This is alleviated somewhat by the fact that the game has excellent enemy variety, from both a visual and mechanical standpoint. Though I don’t think that’s enough to save it from feeling repetitive (especially considering that many of the enemies are recycled from past FromSoftware games). Finally, I’ll talk about the traversal itself. The main positive here is that this is the first FromSoftware title to add a jump button, which is pretty necessary for this game. Beyond that though, it sort of goes downhill from there. There’s no climbing mechanic, no underwater exploration, no flying mechanics, etc. Are these things necessary to the game? No. But for as much as the reviews emphasized the “freedom of exploration” this game provides to you, it sort of rings hollow once you actually enter the game. So yeah, those are my thoughts as of right now. I know I am very much in the minority when I say this, but that’s how I feel. I would’ve given it a higher rating if it simply had a framerate lock option (even at 30fps!). But for me, personally, I have a hard time playing game with fluctuating framerates (especially to this degree)… Expand
  27. urek-mazino
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    shameless steal from bandai.

    Bought the game in thailand and English is not supported in the text, with no means to change the setting.

    How backward is that ? especially when it was advertised as english supported on the text.
    Extremely dissapointed. Stay away from this game in your are in asia.
  28. Haye
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    в целом игра не очень, баги недоработки, плохой баланс и проработка игры, так что заслуженный нолик.
  29. EngPlz
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    Namco-Bandai's harebrained distribution choices for this game are what earns a score of zero. For some baffling reason this company decided to only release a Korean / Japanese / Chinese / Thai language version of this game for all of South East Asia and Hong Kong too. Even on Thai PSN, there isn't an option to even buy an English language copy of this game. They really messed up, I hopeNamco-Bandai's harebrained distribution choices for this game are what earns a score of zero. For some baffling reason this company decided to only release a Korean / Japanese / Chinese / Thai language version of this game for all of South East Asia and Hong Kong too. Even on Thai PSN, there isn't an option to even buy an English language copy of this game. They really messed up, I hope they patch this.… Expand
  30. Ibrra
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    ما فيه لغة عربية لازم يكون فيه اللغة العربية عدد سكان تركيا ٨٠ مليون ولغتهم موجودة والوطن العربي ٣٠٠ مليون ولغتهم غير موجودة
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  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Oct 19, 2022
    90
    No matter how many studios try to replicate the formula, From Software is the only one that can deliver authentic Souls experience. [Issue#259, p.36]