For people who dislike Elden Ring (2024)

The open world serves no purpose other than to waste my time

It's looks boring and uninspired normieslop

I don’t like open world games, simple as

The exploration is by far it's weakest point and it's the weakest in the whole franchise. I like actually exploring areas to the fullest and taking my time clearing areas to get ahead. In Elden Ring I find myself running to get the shit I need and running past every enemy on the way to the boss. Liurnia is a dogshit area too and I get massively drained every time I kill Godrick because I know I have to get past Liurnia. I have played all the games besides Demons and Bloodborne.

the combat sucks, I dont care to read item descriptions to piece the world together, and npc quests are a hassle to figure out. Oh whats that? you were looking for the area the npc wanted to go to but found a different place instead? sorry he's dead now I hope you made a backup of your save smile

It's just too hard for them
These guys actually thought Dark Souls 1 was hard lmao so it's no wonder they piss their pants when fighting bosses in this game

The dislike has nothing to do with how the game is made. They are seething because they can't play it.

I love the genre and I think From made a good game that got ruined by balance worries, PvP Black folk, and git gud homosexualry. From games are at their best when you can struggle if you choose or you can break the fricking game in half with as much challenge as Hello Kitty, and everything in between.
ER with the DaS/DeS/launch DaS2 balance approach would be the best game of all time. So only SL based matchmaking (if you want to twink and invade/coop with complete noobs, go for it), much much lower boss health (boss fights should not last more than 30 seconds if you’re geared and good), slower telegraphed attacks that don’t track perfectly, and a few ludicrously broken spells and weapons that literally one-shot bosses to make replays a blast.
Only the most pathetic losers feel any sense of pride and accomplishment for beating a video game, I speak from experience, and indulging that idiocy is the reason zoomers are fricked.

I hate that it's open world I wish they just made it level-by-level like previous games.

i sure love zizagging over empty open world for mushroom cookbook (7), zanziboss fights with the same input readin and particle aoe spam phase 2, i love the only decent dungeons being copypasted deadend catacombs, i love the 15 year old engine still stuck with input lag and camera bugging out, i love constantly spamming jump r2 because it's the only sensible way to win every fight despite it being the most boring and mindless

I don't like how all challenge was removed from the levels, enemies and environments and all funneled into the boss fights.

It's beyond tasteless. Made for actual broccoli headed zoomers.

The open world aspect made fighting common enemies obsolete, you can only grind out levels in three crappy spots, the bosses aren't gimmicky enough for my tastes, there's no covenant system to make PVP worth doing and multiplayer feels emptier than Demon's Souls despite having more players, the customization feels pretty shitty and troony coded, there's not enough stats to make character builds feel different and you can always pop a larval tear, too many reused assets and enemies. Elden Ring is almost the worst From Souls game. It does have its positives like the art is gorgeous, the lore is fun, it's like a boss rush. But overall not my fav. I give it a 6/10.

I hate that every fricking Souls game after Bloodborne turned into Ninja battles, like Jesus, poise does not exist since Dark Souls 3, bosses 2 shot you even if you max your health and use the heaviest of armour so why bother make a heavy build. And damned if you do since every boss battle feels like a Naruto fight.

I dislike most open world games and I don't think they made it well.

I used to love it in Dark Souls and Bloodborne, but I think they were too eager to outdo themselves and made a game that's simply not fun. I don't feel like learning most of the boss fights and everything is too full of acrobatics and pyrotechnics, makes it feel like anime bullshit.

I like the genre, but hated how formulaic ER had become with its extremely linear dungeons and fog walls and the layouts to get to them. There were exceptions of course, but they couldnt elevate the experience. Bosses being too aggressive wasnt really an issue, I always found some way to beat them. But thats it: My favorite boss is Ancestor Spirit only because it lets you breathe now and then. I barely remember the other bosses for how spastic and hyperactive they are. It was never about the difficulty, it was about the journey, but the only thing ER has left is the difficulty and I find its a weak identity.

I really can't imagine myself enjoying Elden Ring's environments nearly as much as I have if it wasn't open world.

I don't dislike elden ring I still think it's better than most games in todays industry, but I think it's the weakest souls game so far
as to why, it's because exploration isn't as fun in the open world. I also don't like how you get checkpoints before every boss now, having runbacks made them design bosses differently. I don't like the expectations that I learn a boss for 20 attempts, it's not that fun to me. I want the expectation to be that I die 0-3 times on the boss until I figure his shit out, maybe a bit more on the hard ones. You can call that a skill issue, my point is just that the previous games were balanced that way and I prefered it, less tedious.

open world is filler

Boring empty open world with boring shallow combat

I dislike open world games in general. Elden Ring was more enjoyable in the main dungeons, but the surrounding open world stuff was boring to me.
That's my main issue, other parts were fine.

The boss encounter design is designed around summoning, and the boss fights are not fun because of this.

I think if the game came out 10 years ago I'd have loved it, but the formula is stale now. Big monkey's paw shit, I loved this shit more than anything, DaS is still probably my favourite game, but now every action game is Dark Souls. From still do it better than most but I'd kill for something new.

The setting and art direction are dull as frick to me, I hate blank slate protagonists and vague storytelling, I don't like losing progress or excessive trial-and-error, and the gameplay just doesn't look fun.

I bought the base game when the DLC came out, I've put 10 hours longer than it took me to beat Dark Souls 3 into it and I'm pretty sure I'm not even halfway done the base game. There's so much shit designed to run you in circles and inflate play time without making the actual game more fun

I've never played any of the other games, but one thing I noticed is your class choice means pretty much nothing a few minutes into the game.

Souls combat system isn't good enough to hold my attention for an 100+ hours long open world grindfest with repeating bosses, older Souls games were both shorter and more replayable with more unique content to time investment.

I don't like run-backs in any souls game. They should abandon the stake of marika and just implement a formal "retry boss/gank" button like in kingdom hearts

tired of the genre, burned out after DS3