If the entire game was just the size of Limgrave and Liurnia combined with a more intricate underground system...

If the entire game was just the size of Limgrave and Liurnia combined with a more intricate underground system, it would be 100 times better, change my mind.

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BUT MUH SCALE
MUH IMMERSHUN
ADVENTUREBROS... PADDING AWAITS!!!

I agree. The game world is full of stale copypasta like the catacomb mini-dungeons that only exist to beat a copypasta boss and receive an item after, skyrim-style. But in any other Souls game whatever the item that you get would've just been something you find in a regular level. So now it feels like a slog to check out every inch of every area to make sure you haven't missed any mini-dungeons for loot, while the world is actually totally barren of important pick-ups because they've all been relegated as rewards for these grindy dungeons and encounters instead.

Having said that, I DO like aspects of the open world like running through the swamps of Liurnia on my way to the Academy. It just needs to be toned down and have the filler removed, with the areas rescaled accordingly.

100% agree. The game should have been smaller but more polished. After the capital it goes downhill. Hell, even atlus plateau is less fun than Limgrave or Liurnia.

I'm honestly leaning towards not finishing Elden Ring at all, it's just a time sink where there's a point "if you've seen this, you've seen it all". Maybe I'm just burned out but I can tell with full certainty that the open world aspect of it was a huge mistake overall. Not that it's open world per se, but because it adapted all the flaws of open world games and the size of the map is much, much bigger than it should be. That combined with the fact that there's little meaningful stuff to do once you realize what it's about, it feels like a grind more than a proper adventure. The only open world game that didn't feel this way to me was The Witcher 3, and that was only because of the entertaining quests where even something as simple as a "fetch me an item" could be filled with funny moments. There's nothing like that in Elden Ring, you just find more loot that you won't use. The storytelling aspect of it is as vague as it was in Dark Souls, they reuse the same story beats of an old, ruined, corrupted world trying to be controlled by certain entities with hidden motives. I just don't feel like caring too much at this point, I might finish it, but I do feel burned out. Souls fatigue kicked in I suppose.

You could say that I hold a certain kind of grudge in the sense that I was very attentive in my thorough exploration, I was trying to find hidden doors, secrets, looting everything in my vicinity, and when I did find something that was obscure, I was rewarded with a copy pasted boss that isn't even particularly fun to fight with, I really do feel like if I limited myself to the main story with occasional runes farming, I would have 10 times more fun. In a way I was punished for exploration, spending time on nothing which now makes not want to continue with the main thing.

It does tell you something about the design of side content if you know that you wouldn't go back to 90% of it on your next playthrough.

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>You could say that I hold a certain kind of grudge in the sense that I was very attentive in my thorough exploration, I was trying to find hidden doors, secrets, looting everything in my vicinity, and when I did find something that was obscure, I was rewarded with a copy pasted boss that isn't even particularly fun to fight with, I really do feel like if I limited myself to the main story with occasional runes farming, I would have 10 times more fun. In a way I was punished for exploration, spending time on nothing which now makes not want to continue with the main thing.
This is how it always is for me when I play open world games. It's why I hate the genre. In theory, it should reward exploration, but in practice, it never does.

where to find that armor

If there was a town like majula where you could meet/party up with cooperators the game would be better

I didnt like limgrave at all but I dont think I have completed it
where is the guy with the guts armor?

basically the loot in this game sucks
if there where more fun items instead of crafting crap it would be a lot better
I never craft anything