Metacritic doesn't agree with you.Bloodborne is better and more balanced.
Elden Ring is the worst Souls games From made. Open world did not add anything and just made it worse.
Yes, because BB has a dogshit frame rate and garbage frame pacing.
ER has technical problems too, but nothing like as significant.
BB gets such a pass on its technical performance.
I really enjoyed Elden Ring, I just finished this evening beat Radagon and Malenia and I gotta say for as much fun as I’ve had exploring the world and building my astrologer I felt like the game just didn’t have al ot of those big epic soulsborne moments. Radagon was dope the way he was intro’d but his second phase took the air out of it. Not only was it not visually that interesting, i just felt like it didn’t make any sense in context of the story. It was a very lazy design, like they just took something straight out a ghibli movie. Worst of all it wasn’t even fun to fight.
Same feeling I felt with Godfrey, you already fight him once before so that kind of ruins his first phase then his second phase he pretty much turns into zangief? I felt like these phases should have been reversed. After seeing him on the cover of Edge with the big ass lion i was so hype to fight him and he was just kind of a pushover.
I think the most memorable fights are gonna end up being Malenia (although i found her move set to be annoyingly cheap) and Radagon, the latter mostly for newcomers who don’t really get the gimmick type bosses. That seems the be the fight i hear most about on social media.
I just don’t feel like it hits the same highs as bloodborne. Even DS3.
This is still the best final boss battle imo. I think this is the fight that inspired Miyazaki to make Sekiro. Bloodborne in general just seems like such a more thought-out elaborate world to me which is funny considering how much they talked up GRRM’s involvement. I just didn’t find the bosses or lore behind them as cool in Elden Ring
Agreed. ER is still in the honeymoon period.Is there really a reason to ask a question like that this early? A lot of people have recency bias. We should wait at least a year before making judgements like this.
Of course not. One must beat a game start to finish at least seven times before rendering an opinion.Is it even possible to give it a fair assessment when most didn't reach ng++?
If you are high maybeIt goes Super Mario Odyssey > the rest
I’m pretty sure that if Bloodborne was multiplat we wouldn’t have threads like this.
This. BB is not even the best soulslike game before ER came out.Elden Ring is far better than all of the Soulsborne games.
All of them (including DS2) are AAA.
Bloodborne isn't the second best either.
yes, more content and improved gameplay.What kind of poo logic is this? Newer = better? lol
Correct but again.... all of them are AAA.This. BB is not even the best soulslike game before ER came out.
While I love all Souls-like games even Dark Souls 2 (which I think is a good game despite all criticism) I found in Sekiro what I had been looking for for a while. loved that game!For me Sekiro still my favourite FROM game but I definitely can say I enjoyed Elden Ring more than bloodborne.
And it wont last longAgreed. ER is still in the honeymoon period.
Yeah I feel the same tbh about barren areas and padded bosses. Some of them in dungeos are just straight joke honestly. Exploring areas in this open world is getting tedious sometimes and it makes the game feel kinda... unfocused?Bloodborne and Sekiro are both much better than ER.
ER has several hours of fighting boring trash mobs in barren areas. The game is somewhat padded with repeated bosses and and dungeons like any other open world RPG. It’s one of the best open-worlds I’ve seen, but doesn’t surpass Bloodborne which is a premium experience the whole way through and still a massive game.