Elden Ring

 Xbox Series X
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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 3153 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 2,339 out of 3153
  2. Mixed: 182 out of 3153
  3. Negative: 632 out of 3153
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  1. Salar007
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    Performance is bad on xbox really shameful that it can't hold a constant framerate even on performance mode
  2. Shiloh203
    Mar 16, 2022
    0
    Save your money. Dated, archaic combat system. Tons of reused assest from other souls games. Nice, awe inspiring open world with nothing in it. The world is barren, but nice to look at. Armor and weapons are few and far between. Ocean wide and a puddle deep.
  3. AboArab
    Feb 27, 2022
    0
    Bandai namco stated and confirmed on the announcement year of the game that the game will support Arabic UI and Subs, and thousands of arabs pre ordered the game.. anyway.. on the day of release we were shocked that the game doesn't include a single arabic word.. they didn't bother to tell us that they've canceled it before they lunch the game they just went silent and lied to us..
    I hope    Bandai namco stated and confirmed on the announcement year of the game that the game will support Arabic UI and Subs, and thousands of arabs pre ordered the game.. anyway.. on the day of release we were shocked that the game doesn't include a single arabic word.. they didn't bother to tell us that they've canceled it before they lunch the game they just went silent and lied to us..
    I hope that you gamers out there support our community as gamers to make our voice reaches the developers about Bandai's lies and manipulation.    … Expand
  4. Ripvan
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    No Arabic localization, no Arabic Language, we Arab community is big but they always ignore us Add Arabic Add Arabic Add Arabic Add Arabic Add Arabic Add Arabic Add Arabic Add Arabic Add Arabic
  5. Quattrus
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    If your tv doesn't have VRR on your tv, don't take this game!
    The frame rate is so catastrophic and drops so often from 60fps to 35fps that you will miss Blight Town on xbox 360.
    It makes the game unplayable and gives me a headache. This game has clearly not been optimized on the Xbox Serie X yet more powerful than the ps5. This is really dirty work on the part of from software. As    If your tv doesn't have VRR on your tv, don't take this game!
    The frame rate is so catastrophic and drops so often from 60fps to 35fps that you will miss Blight Town on xbox 360.
    It makes the game unplayable and gives me a headache.
    This game has clearly not been optimized on the Xbox Serie X yet more powerful than the ps5.
    This is really dirty work on the part of from software.
    As with Cyberpunk 2077, finish your games before releasing them!    … Expand
  6. XBOTSUCK
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    This **** runs terrible on Xbox, play on ps5 where you load in faster and more. Terrible on Xbox all I gotta say
  7. sadjhasdjasd
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    having to give it a low score because the game is getting bombarded with such high uncredible ratings,

    Yes the game must be so good for you if you have a lot of experience for souls games but from a new players perspective, this game is terrible, its confusing and plain boring.
  8. DAGC
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    El Juego es un total despropósito. Se supone que es una propiedad intelectual nueva, y parece más bien Dark Souls 4 con caballo.
    Gráficamente es horrendo, con pésimo rendimiento en todas las plataformas.
  9. oplat
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    اللغة العربية ليست متوفرة



    Add Arabic language.
  10. gtxbru
    Feb 28, 2022
    0
    I can simply say that this game looks like a 2010 game, outdated and with a lot of flaws. Is doesn’t worth.
  11. 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
  12. Nicklard
    Mar 1, 2022
    0
    How can we release a game with such a catastrophic frame rate?
    Even digital foundry says it's catastrophic.
    How could the reviews put 10/10? This game is atrociously optimized for Xbox Serie X with no VRR that's much worse than Cyberpunk 2077 when it launched. The game is graphically ugly, oldgen, buggy, with broken hitboxes, recycling of assets and animation patterns from all From    How can we release a game with such a catastrophic frame rate?
    Even digital foundry says it's catastrophic.
    How could the reviews put 10/10?
    This game is atrociously optimized for Xbox Serie X with no VRR that's much worse than Cyberpunk 2077 when it launched.
    The game is graphically ugly, oldgen, buggy, with broken hitboxes, recycling of assets and animation patterns from all From Software games...
    The open world is uninteresting and far inferior to Zelda Breath Of The Wild (which is also more fluid, even though it's a Switch game)
    The level design of the dungeons is bad the worst of all souls like.
    Give me back my money!
    Dark souls was better before!    … Expand
  13. Lalmoo
    Mar 1, 2022
    0
    There is no Arabic language despite the promises made by the developers of the game before its launch, it does not mean anything to me now and is not understood
  14. Mohammed77
    Mar 1, 2022
    0
    This game is very bad on xbox. I had alot of crashes and a bug where i cant get 2 very good items. Very disappointed
  15. fry23
    Mar 1, 2022
    0
    I don‘t understand the bad reviews. It is a absolute Masterpiece, one of the best games i have ever played, I strongly recommend it.
  16. GenTrailsFan
    Mar 1, 2022
    0
    Oh, boy another buggy triple-A release. I mean I guess it's to be expected that the same slobs at IGN/Mattyplays/Gamespot/Whatculture/etc that spent 2 or 3 years lying to the general public about Cyberpunk couldn't be trusted on this game either, but I like so many others fell for it.

    Story is virtually non-existent they were happier than hell to plug George R R Martin's name all over    Oh, boy another buggy triple-A release. I mean I guess it's to be expected that the same slobs at IGN/Mattyplays/Gamespot/Whatculture/etc that spent 2 or 3 years lying to the general public about Cyberpunk couldn't be trusted on this game either, but I like so many others fell for it.

    Story is virtually non-existent they were happier than hell to plug George R R Martin's name all over the marketing materials, but I'm not sure what he did. About as much work as he does on his own series I'd surmise, which is NOTHING. You get what amounts to lore dumps on scrolls and flavor text on items passing as a "story." There's no major narrative structure.

    The "revolutionary" open world is hollow, lifeless, and boring. I've seen more intriguing open worlds in PS3 games. Speaking of PS3 games that's basically what you're getting here in the visuals department. I guess the AAA industry is so exhausted from bribing publishers and youtubers to give them good scores they don't even bother with the graphics anymore. Art direction is however stunning, seems to be where they spent most of their time.

    Gameplay is seriously bogged down by numerous bugs and technical issues. Frame rate drops, save crashing, stuttering, janky animations, clipping errors, you name it this game has it. I guess all the 10/10 reviews are based on where the game will be in 2 years once they fix the bugs? That's some optimism for you!

    Story: 0/10
    Graphics: 5/10
    Gameplay: 1/10
    Technical issues -2    … Expand
  17. 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
  18. felixmoysich
    Oct 6, 2022
    0
    Very average game incredibly overrated. First hours fighting and exploring was fun but it then becomes really repetitive and boring so I had to stop playing. There are much better RPGs. I rate it a 6/10.
  19. CrimsonHazedEye
    Mar 1, 2022
    0
    I played this game for about 7 hours last night and I agree, it sucks. On my Xbox Series S it stutters at about 30 fps which is not what you expect from a “masterpiece” released in 2022. The “open world” is just a large area with lots of enemies. There are no towns or NPC’s to talk to besides a few merchants. I think I found one side quest. No matter what direction you go in the difficultyI played this game for about 7 hours last night and I agree, it sucks. On my Xbox Series S it stutters at about 30 fps which is not what you expect from a “masterpiece” released in 2022. The “open world” is just a large area with lots of enemies. There are no towns or NPC’s to talk to besides a few merchants. I think I found one side quest. No matter what direction you go in the difficulty is high which forces you to grind, an rpg quality that should have been put to bed with 90’s SNES RPG titles.
    The combat system is serviceable but it’s not enough to get past its other faults. Unfortunately reviews are filled with fanboys of the series and people that jump on the “masterpiece” bandwagon.
    And before anyone comes out and says, "lmao you're not a TRUE SOULS REDDIT GAMERLORD", I have to ask you what the appeal of these games are?
    There's no plot in sight, aside from the premise of reassembling the McGuffin Ring to save the world. The game expects you to follow a linear path of progression for the first 2 hours without even so much as a waypoint, so you're just left to die to mobs over and over until you get sick of it and check a walkthrough.
    I can play and enjoy hard games, I ran through Doom Eternal on Ultra Nightmare and had a lot of fun with DMC 5 on Dante Must Die. The problem I have isn't that the game is hard, it's too damn convoluted. I'm not getting kicked down because I mistimed a dash or didn't have my combos down, but because the game straight up doesn't tell you what it wants.
    The simple fact is that most gamers are willing to put in the hours to master a difficult game so long as they're having fun. People invested years into games like Command and Conquer or Age of Empires because the games were enthralling, the difficulty is just a means to an end. But if a player is getting punished by a dev that thinks trial and error is compelling gameplay, the I'll call it quits. There is no pride for me in beating a game that is meant to be beaten, or solving a puzzle that was meant to be solved. No matter how hard they are, the fun is what takes precedent.
    And if trying and guessing to stay on the linear path in an "Open World game" is fun for you, then go ahead. But I'm not regretting my refund.
    That's not even talking about the atrocious performance and terrible optimization. Holy **** why does this game run so bad?! The open world is entirely barren with no crowds, NPCs, traffic or large buildings to render. The thing looks almost as barren as the Shadow of the Colossus, and somehow runs 20x worse than that game does on next generation hardware!
    How is this OK?    … Expand
  20. 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.
  21. marshallb1
    Mar 3, 2022
    0
    This is the worst game I have ever played. The visuals are outdated and the game play is all button mashing. This game is supper buggy and impossible to play. This game should be removed from the xbox and playstation stores to protect others from waisting there money.
  22. Drexsten
    Mar 4, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If you are a souls fan this may be the game for you. If you are not expect no direction no help no explanation no understanding of this game. It seems like they are very lazy programmers and decide to give no explanation of the game and hide it under the veil of difficulty. Great hard games are those with skills you need to develop and master instead of this eldin rings provides you with no direction and full of enemies that take 70 + attacks and kill you in one. I hope they have a strong existing fan base because they will get no more of my money. 0/10 would like my money bavk… Expand
  23. jrocbaby
    Mar 10, 2022
    0
    The beginning is very promising, but halfway through the game falls apart. Technically it's subpart, very bad frame rate on pc, multiple items that aren't working, tons of glitches that are being abused.

    Design wise it's also disappointing, lots of very quick bosses instead of nice rythm based combat. There's also a ton of reuse concerning bosses. The worst part is that it was clearly an    The beginning is very promising, but halfway through the game falls apart. Technically it's subpart, very bad frame rate on pc, multiple items that aren't working, tons of glitches that are being abused.

    Design wise it's also disappointing, lots of very quick bosses instead of nice rythm based combat. There's also a ton of reuse concerning bosses.

    The worst part is that it was clearly an early access title but they didn't market it as such so they could ask full price. Disgusting way of running your business.    … Expand
  24. Chiperius
    Mar 10, 2022
    0
    I don't want to be banned from playing even such lame games that are full of bugs and do not shine with graphics that reveal all the possibilities of the new generation. generations of hypocrisy and political games.
  25. elderringsisdoo
    Mar 10, 2022
    0
    Over hyped garbage. That is all. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  26. Beaterbot
    Mar 13, 2022
    0
    Just another Dark Souls with an open world. The UI is awful, the story shines by its lack of development and the graphics looks dated asf.
  27. daleeous
    Mar 14, 2022
    0
    Clunky combat, cheap enemies, poor graphics, and awful leveling system. Vastly overrated.
  28. Jonesmojo
    Mar 18, 2022
    0
    May seem rude but my entire playthrough was built on sword of night and flame. I know it was OP but it made this game enjoyable for me. It didn’t hurt anyone else. All my upgrades were poured into that build along with how my stats were. I can reset stats but the upgrades I used on the weapon and other things have made it a waste. I will most likely start the game over and eventually itMay seem rude but my entire playthrough was built on sword of night and flame. I know it was OP but it made this game enjoyable for me. It didn’t hurt anyone else. All my upgrades were poured into that build along with how my stats were. I can reset stats but the upgrades I used on the weapon and other things have made it a waste. I will most likely start the game over and eventually it will get shelved.… Expand
  29. snrnrp
    Mar 19, 2022
    0
    Optimization is too vicious.
    I7 10700K + RTX 2070 SUPER.
    When I fight with the boss, I don't get 60FPS.
    It's really a tremendous optimization.
    I can't believe it's a 2022 game.
    I don't support 21:9 monitors and 144Hz!
    The server has many errors.
    Multi-play is often disconnected!
  30. Natcyka
    Mar 19, 2022
    0
    Loved the game, but lost all my 40 hours of progress because of a stupid bug
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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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