re: Can we be honest about Elden Ring now that the hype is passing? END GAME SPOILERS

PC gaming isn’t unreliable. PC ports of console games can be unreliable, though. And from what I gather, the PC port of ER wasn’t very good. Tons of stuttering issues, in particular.

I'm a huge Souls fan but some of this is correct - Mountaintop/Consecrated Snowfield are both far too empty compared to the earlier zones, and as usual, Fromsoft reskins shamelessly. There wasn't enough variety.

All in all, I did enjoy ER but Bloodborne is still their greatest achievement.

Also, I'll always be at least a little annoyed that the Demon's Souls remake is a far better looking game than Elden Ring.

I keep hearing about framerate and stuttering. I have been playing this on an Xbox s for two month and literally have not had any stuttering or lag or anything. Only issues I have had with it was some coop issues of disconnection. I wonder of some of these PC gamers experience that becuase they have other things running on their PC but my xbox is just playing that one game.

I thought PC issues were fixed pretty soon after release.

There was definitely some death causing delays in the Cohh Carnage playthrough in his first few days but after the patch I didn't see him have any problems.

Then I bought the game and I've played 160 hours without many complaints. I don't think this one qualifies as a bad port. I think it just needed a few weeks more to optimize the game.

Having said that, I have a beefy system so folks with normal systems might have had more stuttering. I think I had 1 crash. I did see a few armor pieces with weapons clipping capes. you would think AAA companies would have finally fixed this problem, but they haven't.

I love large girthy open world games but I have the same late game lethargy I get from Creed games. Too big. Too many things to collect. Still a great game and given the shite releases from so many major companies, I think it was a monumental effort to get such a massive game release without a giant pile of bugs other than stuttering optimization.

I'm at the haligtree so I am getting near the end.

I haven’t had any issues on Xbox. It’s been smooth.

Me too. It's the best game I've played in a very long time. Now I gotta go finish Horizon Forbidden West and then I have no idea what I'll jump into next.