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[Gamer79]

For me it's an easy choice. I don't like Elden Ring so not a hard choice. I realize many have different opinions. So if you had to choose one, which is it?

 

[Sleepwalker]

Yeah zelda easily

 

[Gojiira]

Elden Ring easily, more variety, deeper combat, better bosses and enemies, more interesting world and lore.

 

[MiguelItUp]

I haven't played TotK yet, but considering how I feel about BotW now, I'm sure I'll love it. But I think I'll love ER more, for entirely different reasons. Both games have the open world in common, but so much is different.

I 100%'d ER, I don't see myself doing that with TotK, especially since I don't see myself doing that with BotW.

So, yeah. Elden Ring for me.

 

[Josemayuste]

Both.

 

[gaheris]

I'd probably prefer TOTK but that's because its more a sandbox, as I am not a combat person overall and the freedom and creativity you can have in TOTK through its immersive sim quality is more intriguing that Elden Ring for my tastes.

 

[hybrid_birth]

zelda

i just can’t get good at elden ring to enjoy it

 

[Beer Baelly]

 

[Denton]

Witcher 3 or Kingdom Come Deliverance

but if I had a gun to my head and had to choose one of those overhypes, I would choose Elden Ring. Zelda just has such an unappealing art style, to me it has no atmosphere.

 

[game boy kid]

ZeLDa

 

[SJRB]

Elden Ring, 10000%

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Elden Ring.

Zelda simply does not have the mechanics and leveling systems that can compete, and I find the diversity of enemies/bosses and level design to be a notch above.

 

[R6Rider]

 

[GigaBowser]

TOTK easy

Elden Ring easily, more variety, deeper combat, better bosses and enemies, more interesting world and lore.

More variety? The only things you can do in it is fight

Elden Rings is not evens the best Souls game

 

[R6Rider]

This would also be better to ask in a few months instead of so soon after TotK launch.

 

[ReBurn]

Am I buying it or is it a gift?

 

[X-Wing]

Zelda.

 

[Danjin44]

They both give me different satisfaction when it comes to open world design.

 

[Bruno_Arrais85]

zelda

 

[Hestar69]

Elden ring and it isn't close.

TOTK is good, but the weapon breaking ONCE AGAIN RUINS THE GAME. I literally want to stop playing and just emulate it on pc with mods to fix this BS.. hey! I got a lvl 32 weapon and first mob its already blinking red...

 

[thuGG_pl]

Elden Ring is more my cup of tea.

 

[Zannegan]

It'd be a tougher choice if it was Bloodborne, but I'd still probably come down on the side of TotK.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Zelda. Elden Ring is the same shit I've been playing since Dark Souls 1. Zero evolution of the formula.

 

[GigaBowser]

Insult to gaming developments to even compares them

One is the most complex emergent open world ever created

and the other is this




TOTK: Better movements, interactive, phsyics, npc's, towns, quests, wars, puzzles, building, hunting, survival, combat, sandbox gameplays

Elden Ring: combat



Elden Ring is a grain of sand

TOTK the entire Ocean

 

[Ulysses 31]

Yes.

Zelda

 

[Kuranghi]

zelda

i just can’t get good at elden ring to enjoy it

Try my method of getting gud at Souls games... I just didn't try:

I tried with DS3 and Sekiro and I just didn't find it fun, I've come to accept that both souls-likes and roguelikes just aren't for me.

 

[Alebrije]

Elden Zelda...I want to see Link vs Malenia.

 

[Kuranghi]

Elden ring and it isn't close.

TOTK is good, but the weapon breaking ONCE AGAIN RUINS THE GAME. I literally want to stop playing and just emulate it on pc with mods to fix this BS.. hey! I got a lvl 32 weapon and first mob its already blinking red...

Stop hitting rocks with your new sword!

Seriously though it's fair enough I can see how some would find it annoying and completely off putting.

 

[Hestar69]

Stop hitting rocks with your new sword!

Seriously though it's fair enough I can see how some would find it annoying and completely off putting.

It seems I went a region that the enemies are very high level and it was on a boss fight that it broke after 3 hits (was the 64 claymore you get in castle)

nah I use a rock and stick to break walls with not words i'm not that stupid thankfully lol

 

[Neff]

Not Elden Ring

 

[Gideon]

Elden ring (I'd love to see fromsoft and the developer behind botw/totk (iirc it's monolith right?) collaborate on a game

PS: with totk still being in it's honeymoon phase I expected the poll to be overwhelmingly on totk.

 

[Captain Toad]

Elden Ring all day, every day.

Tears of the Kingdom is great and better than most other open-world games, but it isn't even close to Elden Ring.

 

[Astral Dog]

Tears of the Kingdom

But to be clear, these are two vastly different types of games that happen to be open world,Zelda is a big puzzle game with action layered on top,the combat sucks, but it still a fun game with actual towns

Elden Ring has Dark Souls harsh combat as the focus,i didn't enjoyed it like the previous Soulborne games

 

[zcaa0g]

I'm a mature adult, so Elden Ring.

 

[hemo memo]

TotK EASILY.

 

[MagnesD3]

Elden Ring free, it's probably the best video game ever made and I'm not joking. The only thing Zelda has over it is Puzzles.

 

[Mozzarella]

Hard to vote because im still playing TOTK, still only beat one major region so i dont know, ask next month.
I'm enjoying it a lot, great game, its what BOTW should have been, imo BOTW will be looked upon in another lens now, at least for me.
Anyway yeah both are masterpieces, if the poll includes more games and gives multiple options it could be really interesting to see which games get higher votes.

 

[Madflavor]

The Duality of Man.

Also maybe we could try asking this question when people aren't in the Honeymoon Period of TotK, and we should let the dust settle first?

 

[JimRyanGOAT]

Haven't played either at alll

So my opinion is useless, but Zelda

Just looks more fun and relaxing

 

[Mossybrew]

Zelda is aright but Elden Ring is on a whole other level, so easy choice.

 

[HL3.exe]

Not Elden Ring. Constant fighting, wittering health bars down, non emergent situations, NPC's that are just static vendors that don't participate when you lure enemies to them, etc. It just bored me to tears of the Kingdom.

Zelda has it's own structural problems, and I couldn't care less about it's story or world. But I enjoyed the systemic nature of it more. It's problem solving using playful systems is what I come back too.

 

[Tommi84]

PC

 

[Marvel14]

Stop hitting rocks with your new sword!

Seriously though it's fair enough I can see how some would find it annoying and completely off putting.

Think it's a frame of reference thing... in most all games a good weapon is one you keep or level up..the idea that you shouldn't get attached to a weapon and embrace recycling them is unusual and takes some getting used to...People who adore collecting, keeping and levelling up will be massively triggered

 

[NikuNashi]

Elden Ring is another level. It's not close. Perhaps I'm just disappointed in the direction Zelda has taken since BOTW as I am a life long Zelda player. But the 'modern' Zelda games just aren't doing it for me.

 

[Madflavor]

All I've seen from TotK's combat is people finding different ways to break the game with Fuse. On the one hand it's very creative and funny, but on the other hand the game's been out for a week and people have found a ton of ways to cheese even the toughest enemies in the game and make them look like a joke. It's a novelty that won't last, and in the end will serve to only cheapen the game. Not that Elden Ring didn't have builds that made boss fights easier, but there are countless videos out there of a naked Link running around in circles while whatever contraption someone built is melting an enemy.

Elden Ring's combat is far more personal, fast paced, and exciting. And the variety of builds in the game due to the boat loads of spells, weapon skills, weapon types, and ashes, creates tons of room for experimentation.

 

[GigaBowser]

Not Elden Ring. Constant fighting, wittering health bars down, non emergent situations, NPC's that are just static vendors that don't participate when you lure enemies to them, etc. It just bored me to tears of the Kingdom.

Zelda has it's own structural problems, and I couldn't care less about it's story or world. But I enjoyed the systemic nature of it more. It's problem solving using playful systems is what I come back too.

Yes my friends

Elden Ring open world baron janky and lifeless like dinosaur bones

TOTK Deep with many layers in affects

 

[Holammer]

Zelda, any day.
From Software should take notes, maybe try a setting that's not a not a dying world with a handful of depressing NPCs.

 

[LakeOf9]

At this point its ToTK which is crazy

 

[Warnen]

how about neither

 

[LakeOf9]

how about neither

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