Elden Ring

Went straight, died 4 times. Decided to go right, killed some normal enemies, saw an encampment with normal enemies; went to go wreck their shit, a dragon came and wrecked their shit... then mine. Uninstalled. I keep trying FS games because I WANT to like them, they just aren't for me. I barely played this, but I still want to record my story for the generations that follow me. These games are still hard and I am so happy for people who like that punishment. 2022 is for you.

I've dabbled in most Soulsborne games with very little success. This game is just as hard but I am loving it so much! My current score is only based on around 15 hours of play but felt it may be helpful for those sitting on the fence. There is so much to do and discover and, whilst I always feel like a goldfish in a pool of piranhas, I never feel that there isn't something I can do or achieve

All I’ve done for the last three days is play this game I think it might be my new favourite game holy shit

Moving the series to open world severely harmed the game design.

Great feeling, peakk peakk peakk Lore

If you took a few of the hand crafted "dungeons" from DS1 but then threw them sparsely in a giant field so you have spend a few minutes running around doing nothing to get to the next good part, you would have Elden Ring. Don't forget an open world means you have to have a crafting system, just to make you spam the X button to pick up rocks and berries as you run around so you have something to do to distract you from how boring open world games are. What a shame. The legacy dungeons are great.

Liked a lot about it, I did find the relentless grimness a bit dull though.

Es ist wirklich wirklich gut.

A disappointment and an absolute slog through copy-paste dungeons, huge and empty maps, repeated bosses and enemies, and a story that pretends to be intriguing by being pointlessly vague. The Dark Souls formula doesn't work in an open world, it turns combat into a tedious chore and exploration into repetitious and unrewarding slop. FromSoft's design hasn't evolved in a decade and this game is the epitome of stagnation.

I got dragged into playing this because my co-workers are obsessed with Nightreign and I had to get the base game, plus a lot of people say this is the best game of all time. It's fantastic in terms of scale and aesthetics, but as someone who now gets one hour a night of videogames because of work/family, ER and the entire Souls subgenre can fuck off - like I'm really going to spend a month solid to "get good". Anyway my co-workers fell in love and got married in matching Morgott dresses.