Elden Ring

 Xbox Series X
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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 3153 Ratings

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  1. MingledLotus24
    Apr 3, 2022
    3
    I dont like it too much. Neither aesthetics, nor balance, fights, story and this huge empty world. It requires very much time for exploring and game rewards your exploration with very little of something. Sekiro is like million times better. Cant understand how same team was able to make ingenuous sekiro and this. Continue to playing however - maybe later will change my mind
  2. SlavisaT
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    the game is big garbage, the world is empty, graphics like from 2013 2014, overrated game
  3. Sadik13
    Jan 13, 2023
    2
    Poor level design with a lot of copy&paste Few good boss fights and that’s all the game has to offer
  4. NicMart97
    Feb 25, 2023
    2
    Really annoying mechanics. I love a good challenge and loved Dark Souls but when a game resorts to **** and sneaky tricks to beat the player, that's when it loses me. It's hard but in a more frustrating and hollow way than in a fun and practical way. Not a horrible game by any means but if you don't have the endless hours to grind or pour in the time to get really good, I wouldn't botherReally annoying mechanics. I love a good challenge and loved Dark Souls but when a game resorts to **** and sneaky tricks to beat the player, that's when it loses me. It's hard but in a more frustrating and hollow way than in a fun and practical way. Not a horrible game by any means but if you don't have the endless hours to grind or pour in the time to get really good, I wouldn't bother to pick it up.… Expand
  5. Elias1750
    Mar 29, 2023
    0
    Wie ist es auf dieser Webseite möglich eine Bewertung im Nachhinein zu löschen?
  6. ss23
    Apr 17, 2022
    4
    First of all, let me preface by saying that it is never acceptable to knowingly release software that clearly cannot perform its main function reliably. Why should this be any different with Elden Ring's frame stutters? It has been a month and a half without any real fixes. I do not recall the same level of compassion with Cyberpunk.

    With Elden Ring, Fromsoft proves it has finally lost    First of all, let me preface by saying that it is never acceptable to knowingly release software that clearly cannot perform its main function reliably. Why should this be any different with Elden Ring's frame stutters? It has been a month and a half without any real fixes. I do not recall the same level of compassion with Cyberpunk.

    With Elden Ring, Fromsoft proves it has finally lost sight of what makes their games fair and rewarding and has caved in completely to artificial difficulty. Fights in this game are either trivial or littered with poorly thought out fast attacks and combos, with dramatic AOE effects in bossrooms to cover up the horrible design choices. The gameplay has barely changed since DS3 and does not equip the player with the appropriate toolset to handle its range of enemies. Even worse, they have somehow regressed in quality, with slower rolls, less i frames, input buffering, input delay, inputs disappearing. The damage done in the last third of the game is so bizarre that I cannot even begin to comprehend the thought process. It feels like From really wanted to make an open world game, designed a huge and interconnecting map, and everything else just played second fiddle: littering the landscape with uncreative, sparse and repeated dungeons and encounters, scrapping together unused boss and enemy designs from previous games and slapping it together without thorough playtesting or thoughtful user-oriented design. In summary, after several hundred hours of From games, this is the game that has now tarnished my image of From as a company that holds their games to high standards and respects the player.    … Expand
  7. Michael421
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    I honestly just don’t understand the hype? Graphically it’s so far behind everything on the series X, the controls are terrible the fighting it’s so old fashioned not to mention laggy. What really is so great here? Boss fights are all the same dodge, dodge, slash dodge. Although the design of the bosses are pretty good everything else poor. I am someone who loved Zelda, Witcher 3 and moreI honestly just don’t understand the hype? Graphically it’s so far behind everything on the series X, the controls are terrible the fighting it’s so old fashioned not to mention laggy. What really is so great here? Boss fights are all the same dodge, dodge, slash dodge. Although the design of the bosses are pretty good everything else poor. I am someone who loved Zelda, Witcher 3 and more recently AC Valhalla and I think to compare this to Zelda and Witcher is actually insulting and a disgrace!

    After putting about 10 hours of frustration, disappointment and no fun I have deleted and got my money back from Microsoft. I must be missing something but I would not recommend buying this game to anyone. Dated
    Boring Frustrating    … Expand
  8. Yourmumsbills
    May 19, 2022
    0
    Guess you REALLY have to be into this kind of game. Incredibly boring, walk around kill things,die. Not much in the way of any story. The world design is nice, just a shame the graphics look several generations old. I'd sum this up as very tedious. Wish i hadn't bought digital now as i can't sell it to some from software bum boy who likes playing the same game over and over.
  9. ColdHand
    Apr 3, 2022
    3
    Bloody hell, this game is bad. Let me be clear : If you've ever played a soulsborne (Sekiro was different. Bad, but different.), you've already played Elden Ring : same animation, same layout, same concepts... at this point, From Soft became a caricature of themselves. Dark Souls 3 and Bloorborne were good, though. So what's the difference ? Both were known for their excellent levelBloody hell, this game is bad. Let me be clear : If you've ever played a soulsborne (Sekiro was different. Bad, but different.), you've already played Elden Ring : same animation, same layout, same concepts... at this point, From Soft became a caricature of themselves. Dark Souls 3 and Bloorborne were good, though. So what's the difference ? Both were known for their excellent level design. With this open world, the laziness is over 9'000 : you're dropped in the middle of and empty land and have to figure out not only how to do things but worse, what to do. This game is a disgrace.… Expand
  10. davygravy93
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    One of the most overrated games of this generation. It's dark souls again just in a boring open world that tries to be breath of the wild but falls flat on its face. The story is literally the same as every other game so GRR martins influence was greatly exaggerated.
  11. slakis
    Apr 13, 2022
    0
    Horrible game. Constantly get immediately killed in any area I explore. Only critical hit from behind works. No objectives are shown. Guarding with shield does little to stop damage. Can't tell if you've completed the objective in an area. Can't tell the strength of the opponent. I get that I normally have to work my up in level but then the game should start with the immediateHorrible game. Constantly get immediately killed in any area I explore. Only critical hit from behind works. No objectives are shown. Guarding with shield does little to stop damage. Can't tell if you've completed the objective in an area. Can't tell the strength of the opponent. I get that I normally have to work my up in level but then the game should start with the immediate areas around me being easy. It offers a piece of equipment but then tells you it's not useful in its current form. Young S/W developers with egos try to develop a game that beats the player. Someone needs to tell them that the point of playing a video game is to have fun and enjoy it. This game is miserable. Waste of money.… Expand
  12. Salar007
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    Performance is bad on xbox really shameful that it can't hold a constant framerate even on performance mode
  13. Flixter
    Mar 11, 2022
    1
    This game is only for the fans of the popular Dark Souls games. If you are new to the serie this will probably be a very frustrating an disappointing experience. Bought it at launch because of the hype and after 15 hours I gave up. It's one big struggle. Together with the pretty low performance on Xbox Series X I'm done playing this. Game.
  14. Joel_joppy5
    Feb 27, 2022
    1
    I was very excited to jump in to this game the anticipation was there for many years but after playing the game for many many hours leveling up to level 33 I suffered a glitch where I lost my game save and have to start again from the start this is so annoying that games are released broken on day one and we have to wait for them to get fixed up by patches this is not acceptable by todayI was very excited to jump in to this game the anticipation was there for many years but after playing the game for many many hours leveling up to level 33 I suffered a glitch where I lost my game save and have to start again from the start this is so annoying that games are released broken on day one and we have to wait for them to get fixed up by patches this is not acceptable by today standards.… Expand
  15. 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.
  16. MarleyW
    Jan 28, 2023
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Spoiler alert This game f’ing sucks literally a grind fest between every boss… Expand
  17. Koeitje
    Feb 27, 2022
    2
    Interesting premise, I really love the open world approach in Elden Ring. Graphically it looks fine, but it runs so incredible bad that I had to stop playing. Get the fps up to a stable 60 and its a masterpiece, right now its not worth buying. In a game that revolves around timing these framerate issues are just unacceptable.
  18. Emeraldirish
    Mar 16, 2022
    3
    After over 150 hours in, completing the main story and the vast majority of side content, falling in love with this world and then slowly but surely growing to hate it I can say with absolute certainty that in my opinion this is from softwares worst game.
    I know that is a bold statement and giving this game such a low score seems extreme but hear me out because this isn’t just some review    After over 150 hours in, completing the main story and the vast majority of side content, falling in love with this world and then slowly but surely growing to hate it I can say with absolute certainty that in my opinion this is from softwares worst game.
    I know that is a bold statement and giving this game such a low score seems extreme but hear me out because this isn’t just some review bomb. I’m a souls vet, I have played every from software game still available, I have played and replayed DS1, DS2(only twice because yeah no     … Expand
  19. Los_Bags
    Mar 6, 2022
    4
    If ur a souls fan … ull probably think it’s gods gift to the world. If you arent, itll feel like a boring, needless, waste of 80$. World is cool looking for a little bit, but then it just feels like a harder skyrim copy in third person view. The fact that almost every single website that reviewed it had it done by souls fanatics gives this the wrong rating. For once, u can trust the userIf ur a souls fan … ull probably think it’s gods gift to the world. If you arent, itll feel like a boring, needless, waste of 80$. World is cool looking for a little bit, but then it just feels like a harder skyrim copy in third person view. The fact that almost every single website that reviewed it had it done by souls fanatics gives this the wrong rating. For once, u can trust the user reviews, cuz this game really is not a 10… Expand
  20. Gemesi92
    Feb 26, 2022
    0
    cyberpunk 2077 is more playable then this sh***t. Hitbox doesnt work, Imput lag, stattering, frames drops, pop up and pop in.
  21. buckotime
    Mar 2, 2022
    0
    Looked forward to Elden Ring for months, was severely disappointed. I am not sure why this game is so critically acclaimed.

    1. The story is nothing to write home about and seems like a cheap knockoff of Lord of the Rings lore, with a few things changed.
    2. The graphics aren't great. Not terrible, but not great.
    3. Unnecessarily long loading times for a next gen game.
  22. Stefanobed
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    20 years of the same gameplay. Boring . This is dark souls3 in an open world.
  23. Pretorian
    Mar 10, 2022
    2
    Performance of this game is pathetic, no matter what console you're playing on.
  24. BradPig
    Feb 28, 2022
    3
    Elden ring is a good game but it turns out that it is more of the same, the same difficulty, the same gameplay, simply its novelty is that it is an open world, it is more of the same when it comes to an old graphics engine. How could have almost perfect grades? I just don't get it, it's full of bugs, pop up, fog, etc. Those who rated it forgave all this just like that. That does not meanElden ring is a good game but it turns out that it is more of the same, the same difficulty, the same gameplay, simply its novelty is that it is an open world, it is more of the same when it comes to an old graphics engine. How could have almost perfect grades? I just don't get it, it's full of bugs, pop up, fog, etc. Those who rated it forgave all this just like that. That does not mean that repeating the formula gives you many hours of exploration and why not? of frustration. In general it is a very inflated game by the media, it is not even remotely what they wanted to make it seem. It is not perfect, it is not open to all, where is the objectivity? It's a shame that they behave like this.… Expand
  25. accursedblade
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    This game has some of the most uninteresting and nerdy stuff I’ve ever seen. Why am I fighting a giant crab with zero explanation? I don’t understand how people feel inclined to progress the game if the story sucks. A game can’t have a bad story in 2022 and be called a “masterpiece”. Such a waste of potential.
  26. deftones034
    Feb 27, 2022
    1
    Do not buy this game. It suffers from stutters and performance issues. It's almost unplayable. Wait a month or 2 or until they fix FPS. Another overhyped cyberpunk scenario.
  27. Dr3aMz
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    WINDOWS 10 only? when Dark Souls 3 worked perfectly on Windows 7? Unacceptable.
  28. milosjov
    Feb 27, 2022
    3
    Multiplayer not working, loading times are horrendous, graphics is not especially good and game stutters all the time. Are we even playing the same game as those 10/10 so called professional gaming journalists?
  29. Ifth6
    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
  30. Cavernegame
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    Horrible frame rate, horrible frame pacing, horrible latency, horrible boss hitbox!
    All for an ugly game with oldgen graphics
    The xbox serie x version is a real spit of From Software in the face of xbox gamers!
    Shameful optimization that makes the game unplayable the worst game I've seen since cyberpunk 2077 day one.
    Shame on you From Software!
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  1. The Mako Reactor
    Apr 4, 2022
    95
    Despite some annoying performance issues, Elden Ring is a masterpiece. The combat, enemy variety, exploration, music, and open world are top notch. I’ve been playing it daily across all platforms alongside other games all month, and look forward to doing that all year as I try new builds, help friends, and try to do everything I want in this triumph of a video game.
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  2. XboxAddict
    Mar 25, 2022
    100
    Elden Ring rewards your curiosity in many ways, be it items, runes or a pathway to another area, but mostly it’s a story to tell your friends when you are sharing tales around the bonfire. It does not force feed tutorials down your throat, but instead it leans far the opposite way by not telling you much at all and lets you explore and find things out on your own. There is no true quest log, no points of interest on a map or no arrows pointing you in the right direction, so there is a good chance you’ll miss some of the best caves and areas of the game. Because of all of this, Elden Ring is forcing me to find all of that out on my own and it is one of the most rewarding games I have ever played. I will continue to explore the Land Between for many hours to come. I’m just not in a hurry.
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  3. MondoXbox
    Mar 14, 2022
    92
    Elden Ring manages to draw the player into a fascinating world for many hours, with refined gameplay that fits perfectly with the freedom granted to the player. A sumptuous but imperfect work, which fails to completely overcome some of the historical flaws of Hidetaka Miyazaki's productions. Flaws that, however, can't diminish the scope of a masterpiece destined to leave an indelible mark on the videogame world and to set new standards for the souls-like and open-world genres.
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