It's become a common occurrence for new video games to come out and be flooded with an onslaught of negative user reviews. This "review bombing" practice is often used on games that people are offended by for some reason, with these same individuals giving the game 0/10 scores just to lower its average rating. The recently-released Elden Ring, despite being one of the highest-rated video games ever made, has also been a victim of review bombing itself.

Shortly after its launch, Elden Ring was hit with a flood of negative user reviews, dragging its user scores down to 6.0 for the PC version, 6.5 for the PS4 version, and 7.6 for the PS5 version. In contrast, Elden Ring's professional reviews on Metacritic have given it an astonishing 97 aggregate score on PS5 and an impressive 95 on PC. Some may be wondering why there are so many users who have given Elden Ring a 0/10, though it's worth pointing out that many of these overwhelmingly negative reviews are likely disingenuous and written by people who have only played the game for a short time, if at all.

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There are some legitimate complaints that these Elden Ring players have, like the lack of English-text option for those who purchased it in areas like Hong Kong and Thailand. Others describe the game as a "buggy mess," and there are a lot of negative user reviews that are aimed at its graphics. In one bizarre case, a user gave the game a 0/10 while complaining that people are review bombing it to lower its score.

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Some of the other user reviews seem to be in rebellion to Elden Ring's status as one of the highest-rated games ever made. Elden Ring has earned near-universal acclaim from professional critics, and it seems that some users feel like it's overrated and view their review bombing as a way to balance the game's reception.

The PC version of Elden Ring has the closet ratio of negative and positive reviews, with 625 positive reviews and 469 negative reviews at the time of this writing. Elden Ring's PC problems have been well-documented, with the game suffering from frame rate drops and other issues. While giving the game a 0/10 may be going overboard, it does seem as though there are more legitimate gripes that people have with that particular version of the game.

Elden Ring's overall user score will likely fluctuate with time, though it remains to be seen how far it will go in either direction. Elden Ring has also been marked with Mixed Reviews on Steam, so it's clear that there are many users who are unhappy with the final product. One just has to decipher which complaints are legitimate and which user reviews are trolling to lower the game's user score.

Elden Ring is out now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.

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Source: Metacritic