Elden Ring
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Elden Ring is widely considered a landmark title that successfully evolves the Souls-like formula into a massive open-world format. While it is celebrated for its rewarding exploration, deep build variety, and status as a genre-defining experience, it is also frequently criticized for persistent performance issues across platforms and a punishing difficulty curve that can lead to significant frustration or burnout.
Pros
- Expansive open world with rewarding and fun exploration
- Massive variety in character builds, enemies, and dungeons
- High replayability with New Game Plus (NG+) modes
- Considered a genre-defining 'masterpiece' or 'comfort game' by many
Cons
- Persistent performance issues and frame drops on PC, PS5, and PS4
- Infrequent sales and a price point that remains high years after release
- Punishing 'die and lose progress' loop can make leveling up feel tedious
- Extremely long playtime that can lead to loss of interest before finishing
Caveats
- Requires a significant time investment (often 100+ hours) to fully experience
- Controller is generally preferred over mouse and keyboard for this gameplay style
- Learning attack timings is essential unless using specific 'crutch' builds like greatshields
Best for
- Fans of the Dark Souls and Sekiro series
- Players who enjoy high-challenge, high-reward gameplay
- Those who value discovery and exploration in a dark fantasy setting
Avoid if
- You are sensitive to frame rate stutters and technical performance issues
- You prefer games with low-friction progression and frequent checkpoints
- You have limited gaming time and prefer shorter, more focused experiences
This summary uses balanced time weighting with about a 122-month half-life. The evidence is drawn from a stable set of mentions with a median age of approximately 404 days, reflecting consistent community sentiment since the game's 2022 launch.
Sentiment
97 positive (59%) · 39 mixed (24%) · 29 negative (18%)
Trust + time weighted score: +41% · raw score 41%
What redditors said (10 of 165)
Not sure any game could fill ER’s shoes, admittedly
Ive tried playing elden ring and dishonoured 2 but have an almost unplayable experience.
OP. go look up the ActMan and elden ring and quantum on YT> watch a story of craZY unfold over a series of events
or are themselves a continuing evolution of a formula that's about 15 years old, as Elden Ring is to Demon's/Dark Souls.
It‘s even easier than Elden Ring which is the easiest FromSoft game in my opinion.
I just bought a PC which has a ryzen 5500 and an rtx 5060, 16Gb ddr4, just arrived and I booted up elden ring to test it out, lots of stuttering and varying frame rates.
Im getting into a lot of the more taxing games like Black Myth Wukong, Elden Ring, Nioh 3 and other such games like that I want to be able to run them all at high with not really any issues
It fixes a lot of stuff... for example Elden Ring runs much smoother with efficiency cores disabled and you force the game to only use performance cores
good news - elden ring is fairly easy to run using hardware that you can find used today.
Elden ring has terrible pc optimization, so don’t expect too much there
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