I love the world and the story, the huge fucking world with the underground and this incredible story that's all there. Elden Ring has one of the best stories of any game released in a decade or more, told through these little moments and conversations and bits and spells etc that you piece together into this fantastic tapestry of the world and its history. The first time I found the elevator down to the Underground and the Eternal City, all the reading and the searching, all the lore for everything in the world. I really cared about who I was helping and what I was doing and who I was killing.
When I first read, "G.R.R. Martin helped write the backstory" I thought, does that mean it will never be finished? But having played through the game and seen the wonder and all of its rich complexity, I can't help but be in awe of what From Software created.