You guys are much more patient than me. I love open world games of many flavors (Red Dead, Assassins Creed, Horizon, No Man's Sky, Far Cry, Fallout) so thought I would give Elden Ring a try even though I hadn't bought any of the other Souls titles.
Controls (gamepad bias) annoyed the hell out of this keyboard and mouse person and made the very difficult combat even more so. Combat didn't seem hard because enemies were smart, even the low level baddies just had massive amount of hitpoints and instakill weapons or moves.
GFX didn't grab me - unrelentingly dark and gloomy (it's Souls you say) - with poorly animated landcape especially ie treez jerking in the breeze.
Gave it 7 hours, dying every ten or twenty minutes or so, eventually gave up. Uninstalled and refunded.
Totally understand how some people would love it, just not for this little black duck.
PS I also gave up on Witcher 3 and Skyrim (more than once because everyone loved them so much I figured I must be missing something). Guess trolls and wizards aren't my thing.
Fair enough. You definitely at least gave this game a fair shot and it just simply ended up not being your cup of tea. The bottom line with this game seems to be that if dying a lot bothers someone then they need to pass on this title.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
