Attack of the Fanboy checked out Elden Ring:
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Editor's Note on Elden Ring PC Version
It's a rare occurrence for us to withhold a numbered score on a game. Unfortunately, in doing this review for Elden Ring on PC we ran into a myriad of what seem to be technical issues. Since we couldn't isolate whether those issues were from the game itself or whether it would be indicative of the experience for players at large when the game released we decided to not score this game. While Elden Ring is a fantastic experience in terms of what's been built here, it was completely at odds with these technical issues. We're going to hold off to see if these issues are widespread before putting a final verdict on the game in terms of a numerical score. We experienced problems that were all over the place in terms of technical issues, our PC build crashed constantly. Loading screens were a crap shoot on whether the game was going to crash or not. There was a weird stuttering all over the game and one boss battle had numerous bugs that almost made us give up completely. We're holding out hope that this was just our build, something in our game that was making these issues occur, because a game that is designed to be as difficult as these games are, the extra frustrations outweigh the general quality of the game itself. Now on to our review of Elden Ring.
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The Verdict
Elden Ring might be the best open world RPG in the last decade and right up there with Red Dead Redemption for peak of what we've seen from the open world genre itself. It's so, so good on the presentation front, the combat is spot on once again, the bosses, incredible and it continues to pull you deeper and deeper into the world as a good game should. It's going to give players 100+ hours just to see what the offline component has to offer. From Software upped the ante, surpassing even their best efforts that we saw with Sekiro Shadows Die Twice in terms of world building. Elden Ring is an absolute must-play game for 2022, but set aside some time and some patience.