It sounds like it's not your game, and that's okay. Funnily enough, I couldn't get into Elden Ring. It was my first and only Souls game. On release everyone was praising it like it was the next messiah, and I love most RPGs, so after a few months I finally decided to get it. It's currently sitting in my Steam account with a whopping 2.2 hours of play time. Haven't tried playing it again in over a year. So we're like polar opposites. ::High five!::
LuckyDevil
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It's good to see Aperture Science rebranding.
An oldie, but a goodie:
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2022 RUBIO: This guy lies, habitually lies. He's never kept a deal they've ever signed. And he lies all the time. And I don't know why, but he plays us like a – like a violin in the West because the West wants to believe that you can cut a deal with everybody. You can't cut a deal with guys like this. He's a professional, experienced liar.
At first, I wasn't sure who Rubio was referring to, orange man or Putin.
Well, keep in mind it has been over a year since I tried playing Elden Ring, and I definitely wouldn't claim to know much about it other than what I read, since I only played it a couple of hours before calling it quits.
I remember feeling rather uncompelled and/or confused by the story at the beginning. Then I began to read online that the story was mostly told through item descriptions and that there wasn't a lot of back and forth dialogue (this is only what I read, so I'm certainly not claiming it as a fact). After reading that I quickly began to lose interest since stories, dialogue, and the consequences of your hero's decisions are some of the biggest reasons I play RPGs. I wasn't into the combat aspect enough to make up for some of the other things I wanted.
I also remember finding all the messages that other players left on the ground really distracting and unimmersive. Most of them were just jokes or troll messages trying to convince people to jump off a cliff. I know this probably seems like a weird thing to get hung up on, but it bothered me so much that I went searching for mods just to turn them off, but at the time not being able to find any satisfactory solutions. I didn't get very far, so this may have improved once you're further out in the world.
The Elden Ring world was absolutely beautiful! Just like you, I really did want to like/love the game, and just as you said about BG3, I'm sure it's a masterpiece, but it just didn't seem like my thing.