I seriously can't recommend Elden Ring enough, I was skeptical at first but it has completely blown me away ( I am pretty far in now ).
The world is absolutely enormous FAR bigger than I expected and it's so varied it's hard to really put into words.
Generally I really dislike open worlds but it just puts every other open world game I've played to complete shame, the early parts I think don't do it justice it gets so much better.
I've really never experienced something on this scale it's pretty funny looking back at the old games and how puny they feel in comparison.

I can definitely see why people say it's the game of the generation if it keeps this going I might even say it's one of the best games ever created and I wouldn't argue against people who said it's the best.
Outside of performance issues and some bosses maybe that feel a bit unfair ( just how it is in Souls games tho ) the only other negative imo is the character creator being pretty meh unless you want to create a monster.
And also for my personal preference it feels like all of the gear is designed for male characters ( there's even a huge bulge armor lol ).
Even just how it looks on my female character it looks more like a guy wearing it I felt it was better in that department in the old games.