does this game actually have a story

Yes the story is more in your face than Dark Souls but not as much as Sekiro

>>712978920
zanzibartslop isn't a story

A bunch of important people get a magic ring and of course they break it trying to gain it for themselves. Then you, the protagonist, shows up in order to learn from their mistakes and ....oh you take the entire ring for yourself, nevermind.

>>712978846 (OP)
Elden Ring has a rich lore by the author of Harry Potter

Yes. You must forgive Zanzibart

want a story? go play god or war, faggot
zanzikino is simply out of your grasp

one gay brat wants to fuck his tall bro

>>712978846 (OP)
Yes. Old World Order failed.
The player (You), decides what the New World Order will be.
Simplistic as all fuck.

>>712978846 (OP)
No. There are broad strokes. Vibes. Like all from games. But the story makes too little sense. Too much open to interpretation, not because the writers were cleverly cryptic, but because they're lazy.
>RADAGON IS MARIKA
So fucking stupid.

>>712978846 (OP)
>there was a god or something
>god said to some girl "yo can you hold my ring for a minute"
>girl was like "ight" and took the ring
>girl has some kids, they all try to take the ring
>girl is like "fuck this" and breaks the ring
>god is like "wtf" and punishes her
>now nobody has the ring
>you show up and take the ring
I think it went something like this, idk

>>712979267
Doesnt affect the story at all. Can play through the entire game never finding that out.

>>712978846 (OP)
Like all rollslop games, it's vague, has little impact on the game itself, and ultimately not worth the effort hunting down every piece of le epic lore just to try and figure it out.

There's this planet. And some space god takes notice of this planet and says "ya know, I think I'll make them worshipers."
So he tears off a chunk of himself and flinga it at the planet. It lands, and starts to asses the physics of the planet, the rules of how things work there, and writes a Standard Operation Procedure handbook about it all.
Then it chooses a disciple, some big titty blonde country girl. She's like "yeah I'll enforce your will." And so the alien god chunk gives Marika all this power, along with the ability to read, and more importantly, manipulate the SOP. The interesting thing is, if she makes changes to the SOP, it's reflected in real life. She can make gravity go up if she wants to.
So what's the first thing she does? She removes death. Dumbass.
Nobody can die now, so all kinds of dumb shit happens, there are wars, she goes on a crusade, has million kids and names them all the same because she's uninspired and a country bimbo. Just all hell breaks loose.
In the end she says fuck it, breaks the SOP with a hammer, and the world pretty much ends because now that people are doing and killing whomever they want, all of her kids are fighting each other for the pieces of the SOP. That's when YOU come in to kill them all and bring some goddamn peace and quiet to The Lands Between.
All this takes place over the course of a bunch of time.
I think I got it.

Marika steals divinity from crucible people(hornsent) > becomes a vessel for the elden ring > creates a religion antithetical to the horsent faith > destroys anyone that threaten her rule > her kids backstab her(because divinity is a prison and they stand to inherit it) > she destroys the elden ring > massive war destroys everything and ends in a stalemate > Tarnished are brought in to gather all the fragments of the elden ring(Game starts here).

DLC is about Miquella becoming a God and we killing him. And there's some backstory to Marika and the crucible.