Games Inbox: Elden Ring bugs, PS3 backwards compatibility, and Ghostwire: Tokyo doubts

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Bug hunt As one of apparently only a few people that haven’t bought Elden Ring yet I am sorely tempted, but one thing that concerns me is reports of it being very buggy, even broken. GC’s review didn’t mention anything about bugs and neither do most others, so I’m confused as to where these reports are coming from. Did you have any issues at all when you played the game?

I know it’s probably not best to buy any game day one but I worry now that people are getting so oversensitive about bugs that even small problems are being labelled as ‘unplayable’, so that when there are more serious issues they don’t get the attention they deserve.

Although maybe some versions are worse than others? (I’d be playing on a PlayStation 5.) It’s a real shame we’ve got to this point, where no game can be trusted and the default expectation is that it won’t work properly until months afterwards.Franky

GC: The only issue we had on the PlayStation 5 was some momentary problems with texture pop-in on the ground, which we felt was entirely inconsequential. The PC version seems to be the most affected but even then there’s disagreement about exactly how bad it is.

Backwards expert 100% backwards compatibility for PlayStation 2 and 3 games on the PS5 is impossible; as someone who’s worked on the PlayStation 2 emulator on PC for six years and the PlayStation 3 emulator more recently. I could write a whole Reader’s Feature on it if people are interested. Go into the various huge issues with mipmapping, clamping, EE/VU.

The biggest issue is the CPUs