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greed

The guns sound good and are satisfying to shoot, the graphics and environment look really cool. But there are a ton of problems, the slow time mechanic on parries and melees being the standout, it is designed to make the games combat feel epic and powerful but in practice punishes the player. It offsets the timing on follow up parries (which happens frequently especially with enemies like hell knights). It feels like when you take damage during chain parries its the games fault instead of your own. For example, your fighting a mancubus, you are constantly changing the timing of your parry due to the slow time mechanic and now a nimrod fodder enemy has spawned outside of your field of view and is shooting slow moving high damage projectiles at you, because you cant look away at the mancubus that you must parry or take massive damage you are in just a lame no win situation. Of course the answer to this is to play the game like you would eternal, dashing around to evade projectiles, but its not how the games new core gameplay element (melee combat) shines.

The level design is a lot more open but less cohesive and it doesn't feel intentional like the past two doom games just open fields and scattered enemies with the occasional clever secret puzzle (this causes a lot of sluggish backtracking if your trying to get weapon upgrade currency in the secret rooms), the games story takes the player from location to location but it doesn't feel like a journey, just you spawning in at a place, the most disappointing example being hell, in 2016 it was an effort to get there, and when you entered it was an extreme shift in level design and the amount of enemies the game threw at you, increasing the challenge and pacing (alongside very memorable music), in this game you just appear there randomly, its simply less interesting that way.

A balancing issue that exists is that every gun is really good, i'm playing on ultra-violence on my first play through (hard) its not nightmare difficulty (very hard) but I've not once felt the need to swap weapons to make a fight less difficult, the shield is a one size fits all solution and takes away the rock/paper/scissors weapon swapping element that existed in the previous games, its good against shields, armor and unarmored enemies, along with the melees. There are also weapon design elements that feel like they counter synergize with the "stand and fight" intended play style.

Its not terrible or even bad, just doom but this time with design flaws. overall a 5/10 but the graphics and weapon design are an easy 10/10.

Very good game good job.

Game is unoptimized, this should have been a free update complete with all the maps. Your paying 40$ to get only the island on launch, but it has tek tier for some reason? Wait until game is half off cause this is not worth the money your overall experience is better on ARK survival evolved rather than this game. Don't get baited into being a free beta tester for another unfinished wildcard cashgrab.

gaming

I wish I could leave a 'in the middle" rating for this game. If you enjoy "Exploring" open world games you might have some fun with this title or be constantly stressed out and quit the game im going to only list off the issues I have with the game in this review so i dont spoil anything for anyone i love alot of the things in this game but it has issues. The reality for me is that I play fromsoft games because usually the entire game is a difficult puzzle with crazy bossfights, amazing music, cool world design, and a clear linear path with digestible progression that is not easy, but understandable. This game has all of that except the last part and its enough for me to feel frustrated enough to leave this review. Progression is extremely muddy, there is no set path, it is a completely open world experience, this made every single bossfight after the first required boss not feel like an achievement, Bosses where always either too easy or too hard and if they were too hard i would go and farm levels and weapon upgrades which then made the bosses too easy, another problem with the game for me is that the limited resources mixed with difficult enemy design makes roaming around feel not good, trash mobs are littered across the map but are never worth killing for three reasons 1. You cant lazily kill anything in elden ring you actually have to focus and could die, which actually blows who wants to get progress reset in a game where you explore, after you see something for the first time the magic of it is ruined and revisiting it to get your runes back sucks 2. Because there is a op rune farming method you can access from level 1 in the bottom right of the map that would make it literally inefficient to gain runes any other way, and 3. Your horse runs at a speed which makes fleeing enemies extremely easy and as we all know us humans prefer to take the path of least resistance 9 times out of 10 and just ditch the problems we encounter which is an especially easy decision to make when you take my first and second reason into account. Dont come in expecting a traditional fromsoft game, this game is essentialy breath of the wild on testosterone, so if you dont find breath of the wild interesting at all i dont reccomend this game for you. If you are someone like me who enjoys a challenge and really enjoys the dark fantasy that fromsoft games are known for this might be a good buy just be aware of the problems before you get it.

Having fun with the game, no real frustrations. If you are experienced with MMO's or ARPGS, I highly reccomend playing all the dungeons while leveling on hard mode or the game will feel too easy. This game shows huge promise and at level 50 I am really enjoying the futuristic city the game places you in.

Ernest the chicken is a woke quest, highly disruptive to my immersion.

its alot more optimized than three years ago so its decently fun only problem is long que times

This game changed my life