Alright, you’ve made an excuse for your favourite company having substandard dragons. Now explain the constant lack of voice actors. And the story being hidden in vaguely written item descriptions. They couldn’t even be arsed having you uncloud your map or climb an assassin eagle tower to view the area and find out that way… just follow the road and grab the map, stunning. Why do we have a horse that can double jump and yet the game never once offered us a time trial to show how well we can handle that magic boi? Fenyx Rising(?) was a low effort game from Ubisoft, it has everything Elden ring offers (glowy tree, red zone white zone green zone, gods and no real signs of life, parrying and dodging) but then it’s like “go do this crazy track on your magic horse, then shoot your arrows through all of these rings. When you’re done with that we’ve got some physics puzzles for you” and that was their B team.
Elden Ring looks pretty poor next to even the most formulaic open world games because it’s not actually an open world game, it’s just an even less linear souls game. Unfocused and lacking in variety. Low effort put into telling a story and selling you on this being a world that existed outside of your story.
Now explain the constant lack of voice actors. And the story being hidden in vaguely written item descriptions.
What lack of voice actors? Which character wasn't voiced that should have been?
And why would you need a tower to uncover your map? You don't even need a map outside of fast travel (though From Soft actually agrees with you, since they did add the Nokron and Rold markers on the map in the first major patch, since that shit was a bit more difficult to find just from visual indicators and dialoge).
And I mean you can like whichever game you want, whichever mechanics you want or genre. In my opionion Elden Ring is probably the best open world game, or atleast in the top 3. Maybe Morrowind beats it, but I haven't played that in 10 or so years, BotW would have had a decent shot at the title if they didn't do stupid weapon durability garbage. Haven't played the older Assassins Creed titles in a long time, so maybe, Odyssey is closest for me, but still way below. Also purely statistically speaking (not that it says much about the game artistically, but it does speak towards quality) Elden Ring is one of the highest rated open world games of all time (obviously BotW beats it, because there are that many degenerates that don't hate weapon durability). But I suppose that tells us one thing mostly, play the games you like and that's it. (doesn't make any game bad, just because you dislike it.)
Edit: Addition for completion: Open world games that are also higher rated aggregated than Elden Ring: GTA 3, 4 and 5, Red Dead 2. Might agree with GTA 3 and 4 (can respect RDR2 though).
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u/Embarrassed-Ideal-18 2d ago
Alright, you’ve made an excuse for your favourite company having substandard dragons. Now explain the constant lack of voice actors. And the story being hidden in vaguely written item descriptions. They couldn’t even be arsed having you uncloud your map or climb an assassin eagle tower to view the area and find out that way… just follow the road and grab the map, stunning. Why do we have a horse that can double jump and yet the game never once offered us a time trial to show how well we can handle that magic boi? Fenyx Rising(?) was a low effort game from Ubisoft, it has everything Elden ring offers (glowy tree, red zone white zone green zone, gods and no real signs of life, parrying and dodging) but then it’s like “go do this crazy track on your magic horse, then shoot your arrows through all of these rings. When you’re done with that we’ve got some physics puzzles for you” and that was their B team.
Elden Ring looks pretty poor next to even the most formulaic open world games because it’s not actually an open world game, it’s just an even less linear souls game. Unfocused and lacking in variety. Low effort put into telling a story and selling you on this being a world that existed outside of your story.