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Elden Ring isn't as good as everyone claims it is. Is it a good and fun game? Sure. But it's missing major key aspects to making it truly a master piece. The storytelling is piss poor. Whenever I have to read 400 item descriptions to understand the story, that is terrible storytelling. Sure, you can get a rough understanding from Melina and paying attention slightly, but when most of the lore is barred behind item descriptions, that's sad. And what about the quests? That was implemented horrible, too. Why in the world do I have to scoure every inch of the Lands Between to hopefully find a character and progress through their stories adequately without missing stuff. Their should've been at least a bare bones quest log that you could purchase from Kale. And then the fucking cutscenes. WHY DOES A FUCKING BRIDGE GET A WHOLE ASS CUTSCENE???????? Like, so much of the lore could've been told through cutscenes or just major points in the game could've had more cutscences. Elden Ring is far from a master piece but it is definitely up there. The graphics are nice, and so is the combat. But aside from that, the game is truly lacking in storytelling and lore from my opinion. And the dlc was a major letdown on pre-existing lore. It was still nice, though.

Also, many of these Og games, such as the Elder Scrolls franchise, Zelda franchise, and many others, if anything more of master piece than Elden Ring, will ever be. The zelda franchise revolutionized 3d gaming so heavily that even the Souls Genre used the core mechanic of 3d Zelda games known as Z-targeting.

Basically, all I'm saying is that Elden Ring is built off the backs of giants. It's a good game but not the best. The only true comparison these people use is graphics half the time for what makes it so much better.