I definitely consider Elden Ring to be the best open world game released in the past few years, the open world is vast and filled with challenging enemies and exploration is rewarded by either getting a new weapon, a new spell, you name it.
That being said, I still have my own problems with it, there are a LOT of recycled bosses in this game, there's a huge difficulty spike towards the endgame that makes you feel like all of the experience and levels that you gained before then feel almost pointless, some bosses are incredibly unfair to fight and desperately need to be nerfed, (Godskin Duo, Elden Beast) regardless, I still enjoy the hell out of this game and it's still one of my favorite games of this year, I just hope that Fromsoft fixes some of these issues that plague, not just me, but a lot of players.