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See you in 10 years, Stanley!

i haven't experience story mode other than 1 hour long intro, so my review about Red Dead Online, which is one of the most unbelievably greedy currency mechanics implemented by rockstar in their any game.
full game price + paid battlepass + real life currency to buy pretty much everything, and to earn those premium currencies you need to buy role contract, yep you guessed it right, contracts also sell for premium currency.

its infinite time wasting loop to force you spend money on "game money". that time waste doesn't end there though whole game is "rEaLiStic" it straight up becomes job to do keep eye on at all those micromanagement, you need to keep eye on your food, stamina, tiredness, weight, horse stamina, horse food, horse care, then you spend more tax on your horse, camp, stable etc etc it keeps getting on and on and on.

its actually feels like constant tidying rather than fun gameplay.

"you want to fast travel ? how about spend 7 dollars where you had to gather it by hunting 10 animals back and forth to just go places."

Hold J to see how many things you cant buy because you didn't waste grinding in the game yet, but wait you can buy with real money instead!!!! YAY!!!!

tax over tax its actually more taxiting from so called "realism" i doubt anyone back in wild west had bank accounts where $$$ automaticly taken from their account while you out in wild hunting.

moving one place to another on "1 horse power" vehicle gets old pretty fast.

And matchmaking almost par with GTA V where you spend most of your time on loading, connecting or trying to join a match than actually playing the game, it is still worst experience you have from a online game. rock star servers are straight up crime.

Whole k/m control setting are so unfamiliar i have no idea why they gone that way instead of usual ones like we actually memorise over the years.

to slow down your horse you need to hold CTRL ???? like what happened to holding "S" like every other game where to use "vehicles"

NPC interactions instead of window you hold right click and hope for another key set to appear while actively trying to avoid aiming them at the face.

overall maybe story mode is great, as they all those game jurnos and critics says but at the end, i am not a guy who enjoys "cinematic gameplay" that's being said GTA V's story was soo good i did finish it in one go, unlike Red Dead Redemption 2 where i struggle to keep going on over 15 minutes.

maybe to casual "console gamers™" audience this might be perfect game but after all these years "go there do that, then go there catch that, go there deliver that" isn't groundbreaking as they say.

but hey atleast we got growing and shrinking horse balls. YAY!!

Update: it's getting worse and worse. now after reinstalling the game, steam doesnt recognise cloud sync and gets in infinite loop game doesnt even start now.... disabling or enabling sync has no effect either

i got Nvidia RTX 3070, 32GB Ram and for Cpu 11th gen i5 11600, playing at 1440p 144hz. i am giving those numbers just to show how badly optimised this game is. game is so broken at this point it is straight up scam and should be illegal to sell.

Gold Edition simply shiny way to say Standart edition lol, you only have 1 Zombies map with it, to experience more stuff you need to get "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Digital Pro Edition" or buy Season pass individually which costs much more than buying digital pro. after all these years game expansive as golden bidet. and worst thing is game's worth is actually worse than a roll of golden toilet papper. you will waste less if you buy golden toilet papper, you can actually experience it instead of this unplayable abandoneware.

i bought this game after all these years just to experience zombies mod, funny enough it is unplayable to me, no matter what i tried ,i got freeze, blackscreen and crash withing 40 seconds and 2 minute mark. i never able to get to second round without crashing. Campaign seems working, i assume multiplayer will crash too (need to tests it first)

Do not buy it. not even with %80 discount, instead go for Infinite Warfare instead, never had crashes with that one and you can experince this "future war" setting there.

Unlike Advanced Warfare this one works and playable,
Actually pretty fun and feels refreshing. i was busy with real life issues when this one released never got to experience its full potential yet i bought just for zombies mode, it's great, and i love sciency atmosphere game has multiplayer was also fun(unfortunately only tdm slightly populated at the moment) . although microtransactions still ruining whole experience. it is saddening to realise how Call of duty could have been perfect without all that predatory pricing and chopping down whole game to dlcs.

while other game developers having life choice crisis and gone insult spree meltdown over how "Gamers ™ ® ©" does not care about graphics, or UI designs, quests designs etc.

Meanwhile Vampire survivors simply using generation old simple yet most effective and maybe most perfected recipe ever in gaming history.

"kill, loot, repeat" but on the basis of randomisation. which is cherry on top of the already perfect recipe.

overall this game reminded me what it was missing in today's AAA gaming standards and why i did fall in love with video games at the very start. Gaming was fun when the focus was the have fun, now we all "playing" a job in a video game makeup.
thankfully we get gold mines like like Vampire Survivors time to time, that remind us/me what was gaming before they all went "corpo"

it just hits the spot perfectly to someone who grow up playing Warcraft 3 Element Tower Defence maps.

too floaty for FPS genre and too FPS for to be RPG. even fallout 4 hasn't have this much identity crysis.

this game had battle royale mode that they taken out of game, was actually fun.

Bethesda known with their bugs, yet this game actually suffers so much at performance, even with "high-end" pc's you do get crashes.

servers are 24 players max, mostly disconnects or crashes.

after experiencing some story missions, "end game" is just daily task list. you do kill and do same events over and over again until you hit the cap (yes there is almost every notable stuff, even recipe spawn locations has daily cap) and target is progressing in battlepass.

it feels like they treat this game like its so unloved child, so hollow, so soulless. it's actually sad, what we could have but instead we had this.

they sell subscription alongside with microtransaction shop on top of the you are paying the game itself to play, and there is free (and also bare minimum effort) battlepass that gated behind limited daily missions, if you are somewhat late, your best shot is buying battlepass ranks to get the reward you want, and that makes 4 different monetization

solo play, creative play or "moded" private servers (although those "mods" usually sliders or check boxes that tweaks server settings, they are not actual mods) are pay walled behind monthly subscription service.

As always with all bethesda online service games this one too has "inventory shackle" where you get limited amount inventory space, you constantly trying to fix your weight issues, even stash has weight limit. to fix that once again there is subscription service provides UNLIMITED crafting bag for you.

Just like Elder Scrolls Online without subscription you pretty much struggle %80 of the game with inventory management, it ruins whole experience for you.

all the content updates just feels like this game unless there is gonna be overhaul (most likely not) it is getting to end of the lifeline.

player base should sue bungo, taking out already paid content unacceptable.

scam

technical issiues aside, wait if you don't wanna struggle like us, early birds.

apparently Open World and Dark Souls recipe did not blend very well, open world made game zone exploring and progression trivial, game being optional combat and ablity to run away in any danger what makes the game pretty watered down on purpose of risk = reward structure of the souls game at the first place.

**everything above said for open world, not dungeons. dungeons has mini bosses at the end, and they are mini dark souls zones that we know and love.

"ok i am out of estus flask charges, and i almost clear the zone, should i risk losing my souls and try to finish the zone without healing or turn back and recharge estus flask and go start again from scratch ? what if there is next bonefire close by should i try to find it? or should i turn back and spend my souls on levels and gear upgrades so i can clear this zone much easier than this run?, but i barely made it this far, resetting zone i might not get this far again.. but the souls are too much to risk ??? what do to.. What to do....?"

↑↑ this was the experience you were getting and you suppose to get from a "souls-like" game ↑↑

AND

↓↓What you get in elden ring is this↓↓

when you clear a "pack" of monsters you rewarded with, health potion charges (i couldnt remember its name in Elden ring same thing as Estus flask) or even better there is dung beatles fixed set location that spawns everytime you reset the zone by bonefire/grace or dying, that gives Estus flask (yeah pretty abusable without needing to reseting the zone to gain multiple full charge of flask uses).

losing souls pretty much has no real consequence, even if you die and lost your souls it can be farmed pretty easily on horse back from "trash mobs" in open areas without facing any difficulty or barriers, which leads to no to zero risks at the end. did you lost your souls ? who cares jump on horse and keep run in circles, you will get it in no time!


yes, game has no difficulty slider, yet elder ring starts on journalist difficulty with all these hand holding to overlevel/outgear options, mini-bosses from dungeons can be stunlocked with summons,spirits(npc summons but in shape of skills) over all "souls-like" become more casual, journalist friendly. Of course your ability to make game harder still in game with not using, summons, spirit calls or even new game + so accomplishments moved from new game to new game+ so to say.




on the lore stuff: Dark souls was thrusting you, it was "penetrating" with feels. Elden Ring is not bad but generic.

my biggest let down was the lore. after sekiro being more bright more shiny more "non-dark" i was hoping for another dark souls like aesthetics grim mood game. i love soo much dark souls universe deep in my heart, Dark souls lore was so unique, even sekiro was great yet with Elden ring we got most standard stock, generic "gather X amount of fragments to become god/king" template.

Another thing i don't know if its yellowy-divine-light-bright theme of the whole game or the writting itself but, Everyone seems so cheerful on everything, like "you are gonna die, hahahahahaha!" everyone in game so positive !? it's so off putting to me. even trees are "hopeful bright yellow", that wasnt what i was hoping from formsoftware.

honestly man i miss soooooo much of the Dark souls's
"Grim, Dark, Depressing, Gothic, Everyone lost their purpose, Everyone left this cursed land, Gods,Lords,Dragons extinct, Everyone else going to be hollow or already hollow and everything going to be dust soon but we cant because Eternal Hourglass of time has expired its sands therefore we are stuck in this purgatory, 'end of the times' yet there is still people trying to do things better, even this helpless times! it almost there is glimmer of hope!" mood/aesthetic/vibe/atmosphere.

after sekiro being somewhat grim but not dark, i was hoping for to Fromsoftware go at their roots and make dark stuff close to dark souls. unfortunately Elden ring not even feels weird in same way that other souls game is, even weirdness become more "western"

for example Onion Knight from Dark Souls was unique and lovable because he was the only one who is cheerful or still naive in the heart, in Elden ring we meet with Elden ring version of the "onion knight" the pot warrior alexander, yet you cannot connect with him other than the looks (he looks pretty awesome tbh) because everyone already pretty friendly towards to you, he is not unique in personalty.

****All lore experience/assumptions are subjective and most likely gonna change furher i progress in game (or wont who knows?)