Play Elden Ring on PC or PlayStation 5.
Play Elden Ring on PC or PlayStation 5.
Wow... your feedback really got me excited. Is it harder than ds? And how does it compare to Bloodborne?
I don't think it's more difficult than the average souls game, at least not at first. Though I did get trapped in an area that was extremely challenging, had a blast though. (Remember, once you find a site of grace you can travel to it at any time using the map. Wish I knew that...) Better than Bloodborne? Hard to say. A lot of my friends swear that Bloodborne is the best by far, though I'm a huge fan of dark souls 3. There is definitely a lot to appreciate, they mastered their ability to create a beautiful fantasy atmosphere and I can really feel the influence from Bloodborne. The only thing that really held Bloodborne back in my opinion was the poor performance due to being locked on PS4, and terrible multiplayer experience, so it's a bit hard to compare.
I tried it on my Xeon E3-1231v3 + GTX 1660 Super system and it was terrible, lots of stutter so extreme that FreeSync couldn't solve it and some that was so bad it resulted in actual slowdown like an old SNES game. I know my cpu is 8 years old but it was even doing this slowdown on an R5-3600 in Digital Foundry's testing. So I got it digitally on PS5 instead, though with the caveat I'm playing the PS4 version to get a steady 60 fps, might even be a locked 60 fps. You get the PS4 Pro version when you install the PS4 version on PS5, except at 60 fps instead of whatever low fps it can manage on the actual PS4 Pro. You don't get the tall grass though and shadows look worse. And the resolution is the half resolution 1800p checkerboarding, which of course doesn't look as good as the 1600p to 1800p dynamic resolution of performance mode on the PS5 native version. Still, it's not an enormous hit to visuals but is a huge improvement to performance playing the PS4 game in BC mode on PS5. As for the game itself, I am absolutely loving it. Playing a samurai build dual handing the uchigatana so I can do the sheathe attack which moves forward and does a lot of damage, plus bleed damage. Can't block nor parry any more without a shield but lets me play a really aggressive style like I loved in Bloodborne anyways so I'm good. As for better than Bloodborne? No way I could answer that yet. Bloodborne is my favorite game to come out this century. Hoping the PS5 performance mode gets fixed to actually run at 60fps though so I can install it and migrate my PS4 gamesave to the PS5 version. But I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it, especially since I'm already waiting for a patch to fix the noisiness of Horizon Forbidden West PS5 on performance mode.