If it's your first then you need to go back & play the others first before elden ring for you to understand why I feel that way. I'm a huge fan of TES played 1 2 3 4 5 & online. As big as elden ring's open world is theres many big areas you just ride through with nothing going on which is why they came out with shadows of the erdtree to fill in some spots & add more area which I have not seen the game since the dlc dropped. Maybe it's more densed up with enemies roaming.