Elden Ring Reviews [Feb 23, 2022, 12:43 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Elden Ring is due for official release on Friday. The first reviews are
rolling out, gauging whether the action/RPG will live up to the anticipation
generated by a collaboration between FromSoftware and author George RR
Martin. At a glance it appears the hype for this project was justified. Here's
a roundup:
- Elden Ring review: Come see the softer side of punishing difficulty - Ars Technica.
- Elden Ring Review - Attack of the Fanboy.
- Elden Ring - Review in Progress - AusGamers.com.
- Elden Ring Review: Game of Thrones’ George RR Martin Enters Gaming - Bloomberg (may require registration or subscription).
- Review: Elden Ring – Destructoid.
- Elden Ring review: Even the haters will be impressed - Digital Trends.
- Elden Ring review (in progress) - EGM.
- Elden Ring review - FromSoft ventures into a sumptuous open world • Eurogamer.net.
- Elden Ring Review - Absolutely Astonishing Adventure - Game Informer.
- Elden Ring Review - GameRant.
- Elden Ring Review: 'An M-Rated Breath of the Wild' - GameRevolution.
- Elden Ring review: "Suffering has never been as much fun" - GamesRadar+.
- Elden Ring Review - Gaming Nexus.
- Elden Ring Review In Progress — Tarnished glory – GAMING TREND.
- Elden Ring review – an unrivalled masterpiece of design and inventiveness - Games - The Guardian.
- 'Elden Ring' review- FromSoftware fixed the worst thing about 'Dark Souls' - Inverse.
- Elden Ring review in progress – a beautiful nightmare - The Loadout.
- Elden Ring Review - IGN.
- Elden Ring review: A beautiful but brutal game of risk and reward that's not for the faint hearted - Mirror.
- Elden Ring Review – The Elden Lord of Souls Games - MP1ST.
- Elden Ring review- For once, hype well-deserved - Neowin.
- Elden Ring review - PC Gamer.
- Elden Ring review – truly epic - PCGamesN.
- Elden Ring Review In Progress (PC) - Emboldened By The Flame Of Ambition - PlayStation Universe.
- Elden Ring review: Open-world Dark Souls successor is a massive success - Polygon.
- Elden Ring review: an unmissable jaunt through the most impressive open world to date - Rock Paper Shotgun.
- Elden Ring Review: Hands Across America - Screen Rant.
- Elden Ring Review - TechRaptor.
- Elden Ring Review - TheSixthAxis.
- Review: Elden Ring (PC) - Total Gaming Network.
- Elden Ring Review - Trusted Reviews.
- Elden Ring review -- a brilliant monument to FromSoftware's legacy - VentureBeat.
- Elden Ring review: a sprawling fantasy where you find your own adventures - The Verge.
- Elden Ring review - Lording it over everything else - VG247.
- Elden Ring Review Roundtable- ‘I think it’s better than Bloodborne’ - VGC.
- Elden Ring review - VideoGamer.com.
- ‘Elden Ring’ review in progress: The Lands Between stretch out forever - The Washington Post (may require registration or subscription).
- Elden Ring Review - Make Way for the Elden Lord - Wccftech.
Frijoles wrote on Feb 24, 2022, 21:12:
How this game is getting "Best game EVAR!" reviews boggles my mind. One of the worst PC ports I've ever seen. Bought it from GMG and can't refund. Bah. No ultrawide support, keyboard support is a joke, the menus are total WTF, stuttering on a 3080 (maybe I shouldn't try to run at ultrawide since it can't even handle wide). And that's just the first 5 minutes.
Reminds me of the Cyberpunk 2077 reviews where many of the reviews were 9+/10 for an utterly unfinished and bug ridden game. Those reviews made it clear to me how hype and high anticipation can cause reviewers to toss all objectivity out the window. Cyberpunk and some other highly reviewed games (GTA) have made me highly skeptical of games that get numerous perfect scores from reviewers.
Now I highly doubt that Elden Ring is a turd like Cyberpunk was, but the game reportedly has serious performance issues across all platforms and for some reason all these reviewers chose not to reflect that in their 10/10 perfect scores for the game. If Digital Foundry is recommending console gamers play the PS4 version of the game on a PS5 in order to get consistent 60 FPS, something is very wrong with the optimization. If PC users are reporting second long freezes in the midst of combat, something is very wrong, especially in a game like this where that usually results in the player character's death. This game does not deserve the perfect reviews it has been receiving simply based on the shitty optimization.
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