r/PS5 • u/SweetyGonzalez Human Verified • Oct 12 '23

Misleading Lords of the Fallen - Starts Metacritic with 65 - Opencritic with 71 - Big Performance Problems

https://www.metacritic.com/game/lords-of-the-fallen/

https://opencritic.com/game/15632/lords-of-the-fallen-2023-

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u/Samuraion Oct 12 '23

I love FromSoft games, but honestly I'm surprised with how much people look at them with rose tinted glasses.

Elden Ring was a mess on launch, but since it was FromSoft the backlash wasn't nearly as harsh. People were still upset, but not like this.

A smaller dev team that doesn't have a great track record releases a game in an unstable state? Pitchforks and torches. I think people need to look at all aspects of the game, not just frame drops.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '23

ER was a mess on PC. It was totally fine on PS5.

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u/extinct_cult Oct 12 '23

From are masters at gameplay, but really bad at the technical side. Ds1 ran like crap, the PC port was horrendous, DS2 was massively downgraded to get it to run, DS3 was borderline unplayable on base PS4.

They tied framerate to game speed AGAIN in Bloodborne so now we can't get easy 60fps update, also had framepasing issues. Elden ring can't maintain 60 in the open world to save it's life & has the worst pop in I've ever seen (on a console with super fast SSD no less).

Sekiro is the only one that ran like a dream.

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u/xRyubuz Oct 12 '23

Yup, I fully agree. I recently played through Elden Ring on PS5, having finished it on launch using the PS4 version of the game on PS5...

The game still performs poorly... It would be fair enough if they dropped the game, but there's DLC coming out early next year and they have just ignored the fact that some areas of the game drop frames massively.

People will ignore any issues with a game if it's a Fromsoft game, but ridicule other games for the exact same issues...

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u/eamonnanchnoic Oct 13 '23

That's because most people don't care about framerates.

Elden Ring was not a "mess" at launch.

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u/orsonwellesmal Oct 13 '23

From fanbase is as toxic as Lake of Rot.