Y’all are being pedantic with key feature vs mainstay feature. Sure you don’t need to do an ounce of multiplayer on any level to complete and enjoy ER. But it is implemented in the game, therefore it is fair to critique it.

You can go through ER without engaging the magic/incantation system, does that mean you can’t critique it?

For the people who’ve played Stray, in your opinion, how much would you say that game is worth? Might be the next purchase on my list

World premiere

What dont you like about its online?

It doesn’t fit with how the game is designed on a fundamental level imho. They’ve made positive changes to it since the game has been released but, it still doesn’t run smoothly.

For example doing coop, if you want to play with a friend, you summon them which is fine, but you have a relatively small area that you can progress with them through until the boss of the area has been defeated. Then you have to summon them again Also makes traversing the giant open world a nightmare since neither one can use Torrent. “Seamless coop mod” on pc pretty much fixed this issue for the better. So it’s 100% possible for FromSoft to change as well. This archaic system works for like Bloodborne n other Demon Souls games because they’re not open world.

Second the amount of people that are able to be summoned only being 4 total is ridiculously low. To my knowledge DS2 or 3 allowed up to 6-8 people to be summoned in a single world. I have no clue what the excuse is for that not being possible in ER.

Third, connectivity issues are still very much a problem. Every other invasion you’re dealing with lag. Admittedly that could be on user end, or FromSoft’s, no clue which.. It just happens way too often even at this stage of the game. Yes I acknowledge it’s a vast improvement over launch time currently though.

I somehow completely forgot about coop, as i never use it, but yeah i think coop as It was designed to me is a step back from previous games. Its their first open world so they wont get It right First Time but yeah its not perfect. Seamless Is great, but there are lots of problems in there as well. Still, i think making torrent available in coop multiplayer was a no-brainer and the lack of It was weird. Invasions to me were just as good as the previous ones and not really archaic, you have multiplayer pools where you can summon other players and Battle it out, if you invade you Always know where the opponent Is and you get an item that transports you to the spawn point if you get Lost in the openworld. Matchmaking Is as good as youll get from an open world RPG. Just like any other multiplayer game theres a meta with op builds and theres nothing they can do to perfect this. So yeah, a mixed bag, but far from being elden ring's biggest problem, especially since online is a small component of the game and still, far from bad, just not as good as multiplayer centric games.

I have no horse in this race, I haven't played ER or GoW so I have no opinion. But what's wrong with Bloodborne? Not looking to argue, just curious

Anyone that tries to s*** talk Bloodborne is just a pleb and can be ignored

Elden ring singleplayer outweighs any gripes with the multiplayer. Such an easy thing to agree with

Play it for free with plus dont buy that

It's pretty short but it's worth playing, if you could get it for around $10 it would be worth the money, game is like 6 hrs long

It’s a fun game. Free on PS Plus. It’s not even the best indie game of the year though.

13 days left now!

I NEED THEM WORLD PREMIERES

$15 max tbh
Unless you really, really like the concept of the game then maybe $20 max

Elden Ring should win GOTY but I’m tryna see this done again

Need Christopher judge to win best performance. He 100% will but he lost in 2018 to Arthur Morgan actor. Just wanna hear him talk

The VA for Arthur Morgan only had him up by the sheer amount

And I think that’s just open world dialogue and not cutscene ones too he put in that work