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I think this games popularity is artificially inflated by an army of chinese bots.
Look how many 0.2 hour reviews are already getting spammed.
Haven't even played the game yet but you're dropping a review?
I saw the title screen. GOTY!
This is how Cults work. This is how an entire industry embraces Woke ideolgy. How they get less than half the country to believe a walking corpse was presidential material.
Elden Ring is what's wrong with the world. You all let your FOMO and streamer worship dictate yourselves into propping up one of the worst Open World RPG games ever made.
Wow. There’s a lot to unpack here, but let’s take this step by step and address the stack of logical fallacies, misrepresentations, and bizarre leaps in reasoning.
"I think this game’s popularity is artificially inflated by an army of Chinese bots."
Let’s start here: this is a textbook conspiracy theory, complete with a vague external threat (“Chinese bots”) and zero evidence. You’re making a huge claim that would require concrete data—bot detection reports, fake account analysis, IP clustering, anything. Instead, you offer… nothing. Just speculation. And targeting a specific nationality? That dips into xenophobic territory and does nothing to support your point. If Elden Ring’s popularity were artificial, where’s the proof? Millions of sales, record-breaking concurrent player counts, and overwhelming critical acclaim across diverse regions and demographics say otherwise.
"Look how many 0.2 hour reviews are already getting spammed."
This is a classic hasty generalization. You’re cherry-picking early reviews, assuming they represent the whole, and declaring them spam because they don’t align with your expectations. Here’s reality: People leave first impressions during preload windows, after watching streams, or even after initial gameplay. Steam allows that. And, notably, Steam lets players update their reviews—meaning initial impressions often evolve over time. You're misreading a normal platform dynamic as evidence of foul play.
"Haven’t even played the game yet but you're dropping a review? I saw the title screen. GOTY!"
Now you’re building a strawman. You take a single exaggerated example and pretend it represents all praise for the game. The vast majority of positive reviews come from people with dozens—often hundreds—of hours logged, offering detailed feedback on combat, exploration, lore, and world-building. You're reducing a sea of nuanced commentary into a sarcastic meme so you can mock it. That’s not critical thinking; it’s rhetorical laziness.
"This is how Cults work. This is how an entire industry embraces Woke ideology. How they get less than half the country to believe a walking corpse was presidential material."
This right here is where your argument completely detaches from reality. Non sequitur doesn’t even begin to describe it. You just leaped from video game reviews to “woke ideology” to U.S. presidential politics without even trying to connect the dots logically. This is pure slippery slope rhetoric—an emotional tangent masquerading as insight.
Also, calling people "cultists" because they like a video game is projection. You're accusing others of blind faith while constructing an unprovable conspiracy that no one but you seems to perceive. And dragging political grievances into a gaming discussion doesn’t make your point stronger—it just broadcasts that you’re mad about something entirely unrelated and trying to shoehorn it in.
"Elden Ring is what's wrong with the world. You all let your FOMO and streamer worship dictate yourselves into propping up one of the worst Open World RPG games ever made."
Now we’ve arrived at peak melodrama. Elden Ring is “what’s wrong with the world”? Really? Not war, climate collapse, income inequality—a video game?
Also, saying people were “dictated” by FOMO and streamers is a false cause fallacy. You’re suggesting the only possible reason for the game’s success is people being manipulated. Yet the actual reasons—meticulously designed worldbuilding, innovative exploration, layered combat mechanics, atmospheric storytelling, and FromSoftware’s legacy—are well-documented and widely praised, even by critics known to be harsh.
What you’re doing here is denying player agency. Instead of engaging with what makes the game work for millions, you’re assuming the masses are gullible sheep, and only you see the truth. That’s not insight—it’s elitist cynicism.
In conclusion: If you think Elden Ring is overrated, fine. That’s a valid subjective opinion. But what you’ve written here isn’t a critique—it’s a disconnected rant built on conspiracy, emotion, and sweeping generalizations. Instead of attacking the people who enjoy something, maybe focus on articulating why you didn’t. That’s how real conversations work.
Or, to put it more simply:
Disliking a thing ≠ proof that everyone else was brainwashed.
Try again, preferably with logic next time.
Because the Finger But Hole signs on the ground.... IS the most interesting part of the game.
It's so damn interesting and prevelent in comparison to the rest of the game.
Try Finger But Hole, is the games Lore.
Like the whole thing is some inside joke. And now I got to waste my time swiping past the inveitable advertisement of this game thrown at me on youtube and elsewhere for the next few months.
Literally, My exploration... was driven by wanting to see what stupid crap someone wrote on the ground. that's what pushed me forward for as little as it was able to....
And if those grounds signs are not to be taken seriously. WTF ARE THEY THERE? How development much time was spent on this lame ass, trolling, ground signage crap?
That's the experience I walked away with. That outside of reading Finger But Hole. There's Nothing.
Be Honest. You don't actually like Elden Ring as a game. You bought it play it, and elevate it, based on stroking an Gamer Ego about being a Soulser. Sometimes even calling yourselves Orginial Soulser. As long as the game lets you project your FOMO Ego onto other gamers because of "Difficulty", the game can be boring asf.
And....... Compared to Hogwarts, Witcher 3, etc. The graphics in this game feel like PS2 era graphics. Both those games beat this Elden Ring Franchise by miles in pretty much every department except the one. And that one thing, isn't worthy of how much this game gets pushed as the greatest thing to ever happen.
I'd really hate if a Hogwarts Legacy or Witcher, tried to emulate this empty hollow shell of an open world game design, that uses difficulty to fill in all the gaps. And just artificially drag out and drip the content to you like waiting a weak to watch the next episode of a seasonal show.
And George RR Martin is overrated. It's claim to HBO fame was just simply being a Crude Medieval Adult oriented show. Outside of the rediculous violence and sex and borderline pedophilia, it's not really some Magnum Opus of a Story being told that sets itself apart from any other Zombie apocalypse related story.
That just like the Series holding baiting you with seasonal episodes.... dripping the story to you bits at a time...
I almost feel like. By the time I got the whole story of Elden Ring, I'd be just as dissappointed in it as how they decided to end GoT. That the effort to dodge roll past all the health sponges wouldn't provide a worthy enough reward outside of.... "Oh, I finally dodge roll my way through that encounter!"