Why would we have a negative bias? We bought the game. We wanted to enjoy it. I'm not in the habit of buying things simply to criticise them online.

You're trying to deny that it's possible to see difference in the visuals of video games, which is bizarre considering the whole point of new generations of consoles and GPUs is for the graphical improvements. I can see the difference in mesh density, texture resolution and lighting when I upgraded from an RTX 2070 to an RTX 3080. Do I have figures? No. But the obvious improvements were why I'd shell put so much for the card. Ditto for the PS5. And I can tell you with absolutely certainty: this game looks far worse on PS5 than Demon Souls does, or The Last of Us 2 does on my PS4 Pro.

Even people who really like the game generally will admit the graphics are not great. You can watch YouTube videos of people playing and there is plainly evident pop-in, low render distance and LOD issues. Also various other things like enemies walking through each other and so forth. None of it is critical, the graphics are perfectly playable, but it's well below what you'd normally expect in a highly reviewed AAA game on the latest hardware in 2022.

You can argue it's unimportant and the art direction makes up for it as many fans do, but instead you just seem to be sealioning.

You paid $1000s for a GTX 3080 but bought the game on PS5 and claim it is some low res, pop-in, shimmering graphics on console but yet its the best version although you never played it on other platforms.

You can differentiate texture resolutions and polygon counts across platforms. You claim everyone agrees that the PC version is horrible port and has some major performance problems and crashes, but strangely enough it's currently the most played game on Steam.

You say for many many people it's one of the most buggiest games they've experienced at release, yet it hasn't been taken down for sale like Cyberpunk or had its player base disappear like BF2042 or New World.

You continue to make generalised statements like 'many many people', 'all critics', 'everyone agrees' and name random social sites giving the misleadingly impression that everyone agrees with you.

I can tell you with absolute certainty that it looks better then Demon Souls remastered from a PS3 game with reused upscaled textures. Everyone agrees so it's true.

...Sorry but I don't think anything you say is genuine, so there is no point continuing the argument.

I didn't buy a 3080 for Elden Ring. I play other games too. I bought the game for PS5 because the reviews said the PC version is a bad port and I prefer the PS5 controller. I'm more typically a console gamer because PC games tend to be worse ports now, but if you think that's so suspicious, the reason I bought the 3080 is for Flight Simulator in VR.

I said for me and many others it's one of the buggiest games, but that I haven't played Cyberpunk. I don't know statistically how many people that is but it seems fairly widespread. I haven't even heard of New World.

I'm making generalized statements because what else can I do? If I point out individuals, you just say that's one person. I don't keep stats for reviewers. If you can't see that most post release PC reviews mention performance and stuttering then that's up to you I suppose.

It's like I said - it may be a great game. I just can't play it. I think the graphics suck but that wouldn't stop me playing it. The last buggy at release game I played was Flight Simulator, and I quit it after buying it for a few months as a result, and picked it back up later. Now it's one of my favourite games.

It's strange to me that you appear to be taking criticism of a video game so personally.