This Week In Elden Ring: Massive Launch, Stuttering Issues, And Soulsborne Antics

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You know that FromSoftware game everyone was dying for? Well it's here, and now everyone is dying in it instead. Elden Ring has been touted as the culmination of everything the developer has worked on since Demon's Souls. And while it is a bit more approachable than its predecessors, the player body counts have been racking up only three days after launch.

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Not many games enjoy the kind of reception that FromSoftware's latest has received. Almost every major publication that reviewed it has given it the highest possible score – and that includes TheGamer. Our Lead Features Editor, Jade King said, "Elden Ring is a masterpiece. It can be easy to slip into hyperbole when critiquing a game of this prestige, one that has been marred by anticipation for so long that we all expected it to be good, or to usher in a new era of gaming majesty like we’ve never seen before. Despite all of these expectations, it manages to accomplish a feat none thought possible."

This resulted in Elden Ring becoming the number one highest rated game on OpenCritic. Although at the time of writing, it has dropped down to second spot with 96 points. It seems a lot of people just liked watching the game too, as it garnered the most concurrent Twitch viewers of any FromSoftware game – and this was even before it launched. Of course, all of this means that sales went through the roof. It stands at pole position in terms of boxed sales in the UK – leaving Horizon Forbidden West and Pokemon Legends: Arceus in the dust.

With every great achievement comes a bunch of people who want to tear it down. However, the review bombing wasn't a result of some misguided jealousy, but in fact due to the PC version not running