Games Inbox: Elden Ring is overrated, Xbox Showcase predictions, and AEW Fight Forever hype

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Playing downhill I’ve just beaten Elden Ring and I have to say I have more mixed feelings than I expected by the end of it. It is a great game, but the last few dozen hours have been a bit of slog. I’d also say the second half of the game, after you get to the snowy area, is not nearly as good as the earlier ones. The boss battles also get increasingly worse, if you ask me, and I’m not really sure why.

I don’t see any evidence of the game being rushed, so instead I think the problem is that the game world just got too big for them to be able to fill it with enough interesting new content. There is a lot of repetition by the time you get to the end, and it starts to take away a lot of the excitement from exploration.

Instead of being able to tackle them anyway you choose, the bosses increasingly become almost impossible to beat unless you do it exactly the way the game wants, and even then you usually can’t afford to make a single mistake or you’re dead.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say the game shouldn’t have been open world but I do think that world, and the game in general, should’ve been smaller and tighter. I agree with GC and others that Bloodborne is definitely From’s best game and I would also put Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and probably Dark Souls 3 ahead of Elden Ring.Wallace

Hi-tech coaster Despite being a fan of physical media in general, I find it increasingly difficult to answer the question of why I should buy games in physical format.

I bought the disc copy of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga this