Anyone else with mixed feelings about Elden Ring?

[Naamtar]

I think I enjoyed the Souls games more than Elden Ring, and most definitely enjoyed Bloodborne more.

I respect the scope of Elden Ring, it's an excellent game. The art design is great, the boss variety is solid.

My issue with the game, when held up against the Souls installments, is that it starts to feel a bit bland. The dungeons are mostly very much more of the same, and equipment variety is sort of meh for me.

It just sort of feels like the trade off for open world vs a more linear experience is more repetitive feeling content within the game, if that makes sense? Again I think Elden Ring is an excellent game, I just think overall I enjoyed the Souls games more.

[Fineous🔥]

Greetings, OP.

Originally posted by Naamtar:

I think I enjoyed the Souls games more than Elden Ring, and most definitely enjoyed Bloodborne more.

I respect the scope of Elden Ring, it's an excellent game. The art design is great, the boss variety is solid.

My issue with the game, when held up against the Souls installments, is that it starts to feel a bit bland. The dungeons are mostly very much more of the same, and equipment variety is sort of meh for me.

It just sort of feels like the trade off for open world vs a more linear experience is more repetitive feeling content within the game, if that makes sense? Again I think Elden Ring is an excellent game, I just think overall I enjoyed the Souls games more.

No, i love Elden Ring open world.

Goodbye OP and thanks for a fresh.....Take.

[zero]

i cant think of a single game i didn't have mixed feelings about, but for me the only issues have more or less been resolved since release.

if you find it bland you find it bland, it happens, not every game will suit everyone.

for me, elden ring is their best souls-game to date, i personally hope they make another open world game in the future.

if it helps: even though this may have the most repeated bosses and mini-dungeons, it also has more unique bosses and dungeons then any other souls-game as well.

[Naamtar]

Originally posted by zero:

i cant think of a single game i didn't have mixed feelings about, but for me the only issues have more or less been resolved since release.

if you find it bland you find it bland, it happens, not every game will suit everyone.

for me, elden ring is their best souls-game to date, i personally hope they make another open world game in the future.

if it helps: even though this may have the most repeated bosses and mini-dungeons, it also has more unique bosses and dungeons then any other souls-game as well.

Definitely hope they stick to the open world formula. Excited to see what Miyazaki has thought up next for the FromSoft team to create.

[Bandit]

nope, I want elden ring 2

[bonewax21]

my friend tried for 3 weeks to get me to play this game. I tried it but for some reason just cant get into it. If i want an open world rpg i'll go back to skyrim

[vamirez]

OP, enjoy this or that more, that's your personal preference.

Having said that, this game is one of the all time classics/greats, and so far, FS's magnum opus. Its take on a Souls open world is a breath of fresh air compared to standard "Ubisoft"-like worlds. It mixes self-guided "exploration by sight", which is Bethesda-esque in a good way, with Souls content, it is the most polished version of Souls gameplay yet, it has an insane variety of items, builds and playstyles, and it gives you hundreds of hours of play for the price of the base game plus one considerable DLC, if you want more. Its legacy dungeons combined are probably larger than individual earlier titles, if that's your main "poison".

[Angel]

the only 2 bad things for me about the game is some of the boss rewards aren't great and the camera is bad

[Artek [General]]

Originally posted by Naamtar:

It just sort of feels like the trade off for open world vs a more linear experience is more repetitive feeling content within the game, if that makes sense? Again I think Elden Ring is an excellent game, I just think overall I enjoyed the Souls games more.

I think there is some truth to this. After a while all dungeons start feeling the same. It would be very neat if you didn't actually have to clear them and they were exclusively source of Gloveworts and Ashes, but some of them actually contain weapons and armor sometimes, and if you're thorough - you just have to make sure... Maybe if someone made a list of all the dungeons that have actual items in them VS dungeons that only have gloveworts...

Weapon choice however has been greater than ever. We have many vanilla classics making a return, but also ER has lots of unique weapons for every class. Notably Faith chads received a great arsenal of beautiful and stylish weapons to use, allowing them to truly embrace the inner paladin. We even have Twinblades making a return, so that's a whole extra weapon class.

As far as gameplay features and choice of arsenal - ER is great, on par with its' brothers.
Its mostly the open world that had greatly changed the vibe of the game - you constantly doubt where you are going, constantly have to make calls to turn left and not right, yadi yada...

[Robodemon]

If nothing else, I want to commend Naamtar for expressing their views in a mature manner. If ER isn't for you, that is perfectly fine and your reasons are valid.

I can get why the dungeons might bug you - outside of legacy dungeons, a lot of them follow a distinct pattern. You can expect annoying enemies and traps from every catacombs, for example, but the specifics differ with each one, and I get why that could be considered repetitive.

Speaking personally, playing ER makes me want to go back and play the Souls games sometimes. My favorite parts of the game have been the legacy dungeons, so a more linear experience like what's described sounds delightful.

[Bill Gates]

I like they tried open world but I rather it more like Dark Souls. The open world aspect does lose its luster.

I think if Torrent were more part of the story with you then maybe it would of worked more for me.

[Senki]

well not really mixed but it does have a lot of disappointing and sometimes outright dumb parts

I still enjoy it more than souls and bloodborne though because the positives are just that good. Builds are way more fun and customizable. Bosses are a mixed bag but the good bosses are significantly better than the good bosses of previous games. The freedom also makes replaying it more fun

But I do hope they either stop making open world games or heavily reduce it's scope to be able to have more quality content and less meh content in the future.

[woops]

yes, Elden Ring is quite bad. No story, meaningless armor, repeated boss designs, extremely annoying weapon upgrades that you have to farm like it's an MMO, weapons are barely even stronger as you progress - they are just different, boss attack animations are unrealistically staggered because no organic being would swing that way and it feels like getting trolled by the devs. It was also a bit laggy but the worst part about Elden Ring is that they endlessly bait you with great graphics and "feel" but there is never any payoff. Every castle you visit is just another empty, soulless dungeon with items and enemy mobs placed practically randomly. Sorry but I don't actually like how random "crypts" have fireball traps in them randomly. Who set those traps up? The gargoyles don't mind the firetowers?! And then of course there is always a [boss #381] at the end, again for no reason, no story, no purpose whatsoever and often doesn't even thematically relate to the rest of the dungeon. NPCs are immersion breaking, sitting around in the wilderness solo for no apparent reason, they don't even seem to mind that the entire world is dead and full of zombies. Just no problem apparently.
It's just a bad game and for this reason I didn't even play the DLC yet despite having bought it.

[woops]

some of the design choices are also incredibly weird and lazy. Like those allies that you can summon for the Radahn fight. lol first of all, how incredibly lazy is it to make a teleporter like that? Secondly the enemies spawn by pressing message boxes on the ground. How about treating them like real people who wait around the portal and you can select them to go with you by talking to them? This is all so insanely immersion breaking, it actually blows my mind that people like this game so much

[woops]

thirdly the respawn mechanic makes no sense and instantly makes it obvious that you can just farm your way to max level in the starting zone. It immediately broke my immersion as well. Like really? So I'm eternal and there is a checkpoint system. Okay I guess, modern gaming. But then everything respawns and I keep my farmed progress? And the genius punishment from the devs is that I have to defeat all the enemies again?! This is literally making me repeat gameplay, nobody would ordinarily accept this as good

[Key]

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I've got news for you man, you just don't like RPGs.