After mixed early Steam reviews, Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree has scythed back up to "mostly positive"
After mixed early Steam reviews, Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree has scythed back up to "mostly positive"
After mixed early Steam reviews, Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree's scythed back up to "mostly positive"
Video game journalism has become such a joke.
Video game journalism has always just been third party PR, but journalists almost all absolutely love Fromsoft games. It's user reviews that complain about them being too hard.
What where people complaining about?
People bought a game that is well known for being hard, and then complained it was too hard.
To be fair, this happens with the release of every soulslike
I've heard from people who liked it that this has been exceptionally hard (but also exceptionally fair and gratifying).
Performance and skill issues.
Well it is a souls game. I got platinum on Elden Ring, but I just followed a tutorial on YouTube. I'm probably going to get the dlc when it goes on sale.
From what I saw the negative reviews were split between complaints about difficulty, and performance complaints. On the performance front it looked to me to mostly be shader compilation studders, which is relatively common with most new games.
Difficulty wise, yeah, it's hard. That's a big part of the appeal of Fromsoft games. They have made some adjustments since launch to bring the difficulty down a bit, but it's probably better that they launched a game that is "too hard" and patching the difficulty down, than releasing something that everyone can steamroll through in a day and getting complaints that it was too easy. The game also rewards exploration, and if you just try to rush the bosses without exploring you'll make things much harder on yourself.
Shader compilation stuttering only happens if a game was coded incorrectly to begin with.
Shaders should never ever be compiled during gameplay, and if it has to be done, done so asynchronously.
Either way it should never be dismissed as a problem that is "common in new games". It's amateurish and completely avoidable.
Most of what I've seen was "waaaaaah! It's too hard! 😭"
Though there are some legitimate complaints about performance. The areas with tons of waterfalls and the final fight have hella slowdown.
So after all the people actually playing it came up for air lol?
I miss XPlay on G4. Those were the days.
scythed
Nice to see a new verb used in a headline.