Are you tired of the "Souls Formula"?

Elden Ring had good world design, it was beautiful to look at from a distance, but to actually play through ranged from tedious, to uninspired to slop.

Of the Legacy dungeons, there were only a few I would consider good.

Meanwhile, these range from uninspired, to tedious, to just a broken mess...

And this is before we even get into those atrocious asset flip dungeons.

Yeah, both DaS1 and DaS3 had good level design. DaS1 really benefited from its forked linearity. Complex, but not convoluted. I dont find its level design as memorable as DaS1, but I remember enjoying it.

Elden Ring, Dark Souls 1, Dark Souls 3, Sekiro and Bloodborne have amazing level design. Demon's Souls had a good level design, but too linear for the genre. When you have so many games in a row with genre defining level design, you don't need a phd to know that Fromsoft knows what's up, and cares about it being good.

I never said FromSoft are bad at level design.

FromSoft usually does good in that regard, which is why I said they are an 8/10 in terms of level design. Most of their games have solid level design, but ER and DaS2 proves they are not infalliable.

With their next game, I hope they go back to designing with quality over quantity in mind... maybe by then I can get past my MASSIVE let down from Elden Ring.

Edit: ANd please dont confuse yourself. Just because I didnt like Elden Ring doesnt mean I wasn't a fan of FromSoft. Up until ER, I usually bought their Collectors Editions.

You find issues to complain about when there's none. This has been your life about everything fromsoft releases. No need to deny it because after ER, you'll be bitchin's their next game even if its a 98 on meta and wins goty everywhere.

No.

If I was going to whine about everything FromSoft related I would not be praising several of their games. I would have whined about Armored Core 6, yet I never commented on it. I am not like you, I do not hate on games I havent played.

Elden Ring sucked, but that doesnt mean I think everything by the devs sucks.

You are literally strawmanning me even though I explicitly stated contrary statements towards those you are putting in my mouth. Elden Ring was just a miss. FromSoft does well when they focus on quality over quantity.

No. What else is happening in gaming that makes the formula look bad? COD has been the same since 2007 and comes out annually. Souls type games find ways to keep it fresh also.

You don't praise anything. All you do is bitch about their newest release. Since AC6 was very niche compared to their souls titles, you didn't bother, and stuck to ER. When their next magnum opus comes out, and makes Zelda look like a school project, you'll forget ER, and jump on hating their new game. Am i spot on? Yes, yes i am.

@hardwenzen: I didnt complain about AC6 because I didnt play AC6.

Unlike you, I don't complain about games I havent played.

Because you're not as talented as i am. Its normal that you must play and fully beat the game before having an opinion of any kind, which is cringe. If you followed gaming the way that i do, you could predict almost everything. If you have any questions, please ask away, i might help you get started.

I was tired of it when Dark Souls 3 released because that was an absurd streak of output with dark souls 2, bloodborne, 3 from From Software. Now I'm totally on board with loving everything From does again beacuse their output is slow enough to not saturate.

I'd lap up any Souls like from someone who is top tier, like Team Cherry or From Software. I feel like mediocre devs should stay away though; by nature it requires more investment from the player, and if your game is mid it's not worth the investment. I think plenty of mid AA games would be better suited to being looser easier action games.

Yeah definitely, getting a bit tired of nearly every action game having the same type of combat/level design.

Not necessarily, but don't know why yah bums would be tired of it. Roll left, plus R1 is the ceiling of yalls speed.

I just don't play them. It's a superpower.

I'm not tired of it.

I didn't like it in the first place!

and nothing puts me of a game quicker than hearing the words souls-esq

I'm just tired of its setting, Western fantasy gothic xyz... If the Asian setting was like Black Myth: Wukong, I wouldn't have any complaints