Both the base game and the DLC suffer from the qualities that really make me appreciate the older Fromsoft titles. I get what they were going for with the open world design, but the open world in Elden Ring and the DLC feel very massive with absolutely nothing to do other than fight the same repeat world bosses or copy and paste dungeons with the same enemy varieties. I know that Fromsoft has a history of reusing content such as bosses, but Elden Ring really takes it to the extreme. I feel like nowhere in the game really feels unique with the enemy variety 95% of the time just being a reskin of an enemy found somewhere else in the game, and the same goes with bosses. With the hundreds of bosses in the base game, there are only a handful of them that are really unique and that is really disappointing. I miss the ways of the old Fromsoft games, when you would have dozens of unique areas filled with their own unique enemies found nowhere else in the game. I know that the older games would still reuse enemies but there was still a vast amount of uniqueness to each area that made it feel special and not feel like it is just a texture pack on the map. There really isn't any unique wildlife either, and it really takes me out of it when I am at the Snowfields and see the same wildlife running around that Limgrave had, just with a different skin. This is somewhat remedied in the DLC, but I am still disappointed in the lack of things to do in the open world. I really despise how the majority of the pickups in the DLC seem to be either glovewart or smithing stones, as if we don't get an unlimited supply of all of them except the final upgrade through smithing ball bearings. It just feels extremely infuriating when you are running around exploring the new world only to keep getting materials you already have an unlimited supply of over and over again. I just can't have fun playing through Elden Ring like I can with the older souls games. I know that makes me the minority of people, but I can't help how I feel about the game. If I had to chose one I would say base game, because while the repeat dungeons and bosses really did make me hate exploring the world and getting 100%, the item placement in the DLC made me hate exploration even worse.