How excited are you for the next Souls game from From Software?

Are you excited for a new Souls game from them?

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Absolutely. More than almost anything else in the industry.
That said, I'd much rather get a Sekiro 2 or something new over Elden Ring 2.

Orbital2060 said:
Obviously, yes. But Im not sure what they are thinking after Nightreign, which I dont regret not playing. I dont know if it has flopped or not. it sold a lot of copies at launch. In terms of players, it looks like the game is on a downward slope just from googling player numbers. Im not sure how trustworthy these sources are:

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But it looks like another live service game flop. And they are making one more for the SW2.
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Neightreign isn't really a GAAS.
There are no micro transactions, battle passes or any way to spend money on the game after buying it. You can also play it offline.

It's basically just a co-op focused game with a finite amount of content.
You wouldn't call Split Fiction a flop just because it didn't retain a huge player number, right?

As of September it was still in the top 10 highest grossing games for the year (at least in the US). And given how like 95% of it was made with recycled assets it was probably hugely profitable for them.
 
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It's one of those things… I'm a little numb to hype bc we've been fed so well…but once the game is a few days out I'm probably gonna swell with the realization of excitement.

That said, a Tenchu game would equal instant hype. FS could easily become the new masters of stealth, with Kojima on standby until Physint.
 
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Am I, a video game fan on a video game board, excited about a new game by a great studio?

ChoosableOne said:
When you combine the 100+ hour playtime, the difficulty that turns into torture for those who want to play solo/melee—since they tried to make things easier with summons (Spirit Ashes) and balanced the game around that—, and their attempts to milk money through online/gaas games like Nightreign and Duskblood, I think I'm starting to drift away from my favorite studio.
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We've seen next to nothing about Duskbloods, screw you OP and screw your shitty thread.
 
I just hope they try new things. I was extremely tired of the formula after dark souls 2 and didnt bother with dark souls 3 or blood born. Have got Sekura (spelling?) in the backlog but no desire to play it at the moment.

Did pick up elden ring but couldnt get into it. The dead open world did nothing for the series, at least for me these games were far better as linear experiences in an interconnected world.

I really enjoyed the mech game they made but it was quite short and not much replay value.

I hope we get a completely fresh game with new mechanics, not just the same game again with a different lick of paint
 
We counting Duskbloods? Because, if so, yes. Multiplayer focus has me a little leery, but the Castlevania/Bloodborne vibes are selling me anyway.
 
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Isn't Duskbloods his next title next year?

I don't think you'll get two games in a year, and I doubt they want to take the hype from their next project by revealing the other too soon.
 
Hemingwayoffbase said:
Saying "there are a lot of soulslikes so I'm not excited for From's next game" is exactly like saying "there are a lot of action movies so I don't care about Christopher Nolan's next movie."

The skill of the creator determines the quality of the creation.
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It's not the same thing though.They made the first action movies, and we watched them all. But then films started coming out with better techniques, newer ideas, and sometimes far greater quality. You can think of it like preferring to watch The Matrix or Inception instead of a new John Woo film made with old logic and techniques. Cult soulslikes like the ones in these examples haven't been released yet, but I think other studios are closer to achieving that than From Software.

I'm grateful to them for pioneering the genre, but they're no longer as creative as they used to be, and I don't like the direction they're heading with Elden Ring and their online-focused games.
 
I hope Miyazaki and the Nighteign director, create something special together. Nightreign felt like a much needed breath of fresh air for the Souls' formula - and I loved it.
 
Always excited about FromSoftware games, they are, in my opinion, the best gaming studio.

Even though I'm not against them trying new stuff, like with Nightreign and The Duskbloods, I'm especially looking forward to Miyazakis and Froms new big single-player game, which I do not doubt will be amazing.

Hoping for a 2027 release for that new single-player game, since The Duskbloods will take up the 2026 slot(which I will miss out on, since I wont get a Switch 2. Hoping for a PC release in the future, but doubtful about that).

Also loved Armored Core 6(my first one), hoping for something new in the series aswell in the future.
 
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I'll be honest after Elden Ring, I am not that excited if they continue in this direction.
If they go back to smaller world and no ultra focus on making boss harder and harder I am interested (I feel like the difficulty became their top priority with Elden Ring DLC which is not my cup of tea).
 
No, not really.
Beat Demon Souls, DS1 and 2, Bloodborne and lastly Sekiro a few years ago, which I enjoyed the most I think.
Looking at DS3, Elden Ring, its DLC, I can't be bothered really..it's the same thing, I already played it.
 
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Gandih42 said:
Playing souls-likes is like a sub-hobby within my videogame hobby. So far I've played The Surge, The Surge 2, Mortal Shell, Nioh, Steelrising (+all DLCs for all of them) and just passed 100h on Nioh 2.

To me, none of them manage to compete with the art direction, atmosphere, exploration and world building of FromSoftware. So nothing so far detracts from my excitement for new FromSoftware souls-games. Nightreign is a great spinoff game, so that doesn't diminish them in my eyes.

Among the souls-likes, Nioh stands out the most with a great combat system, a Diablo-esque endgame and a well developed historical setting, so I'm also very excited for Nioh 3.

In my opinion, the souls-genre is simply thriving
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Elden Ring is one of the greatest games i've ever played.

And yet like all From Software games. The story and world building is 1/10
 
Sadly they've become a "been there, done that" kind of games. So no, not really. Formula is as straightforward as AC by now. You know exactly what to expect. Setting alone isn't going to help.
 
I'd rather not have another open world Elden Ring, but I'm fully expecting it. It is where the money is, so you can't blame them.

I would at least like some more linear Dark Souls games in-between. Get a good B-team with that ER money. Not another DS2 please.
 
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Not one bit.
They'll never get back to the simplicity and affordability of the first Souls games. They've entered a never-ending spiral of bloat and trolling and their fans lap it all up with gusto.
 
Very excited. I would prefer a proper single player than the PvPvE style they're trying now with Nightreign and Duskbloods but it's gonna be exciting to see what Miyazaki cooks up next. Duskbloods is most likely gonna be great, no matter the concept. I remember being very skeptical about Sekiro when they first showed it but it ended up being my personal GOTY that year. Incredible gameplay. I can see Duskbloods end up the same way, despite me not being a multiplayer guy.
 
I am, but I don't know where they take the Souls-formula from here.

Elden Ring felt like the culmination of everything Fromsoft have done over the last 15 years.

Just stay away from the multi-player nonsense.
 
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I'm lukewarm on it. Elden Ring was fine, but its open world design felt like the epitome of what open-world games get the most criticism for: bad-to-absent level design in the open world section, copy-paste encounters that get boring fast, and really poor rewards that don't satisfy 99% of the time (enjoy your Arteria Leaf, or a weapon you can't fully utilize). At least the actual dungeons were largely fun. Like some others, I also think they really jumped the shark on bosses. Their camera design can't even keep up with some boss moves any more.

I'd much prefer a sequel to Sekiro or something in that mold instead. Something actually focused would get me interested.
 
Pretty excited, it's the only games I play from this genre anyway. Also hopefully a new Sekiro and AC.
 
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They are doing Nightreign DLC, Elden Ring Tarnished edition and Duskbloods.
Duskbloods will be another small game like Nightreign.
I don't think they are working on another full game yet (as in full production, it's probably in planning stage).
 
I have over 1500 hours combined on Demons, DS1, DS2 and BB and i am not excited at all, mainly because they are technically incompetent and show no signs of intention to fix this.
People forgive them for reusing the same assets again and again, having abysmal performance and all kinds of frame rate problems. I don't.
 
If its another dogshit like Elden Ring than Meh dont care...

If its a new game or something more classic Dark Souls .. than Im all for it.
 
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yeah, i m pretty hyped about PS7 and Nintendo Switch 4 too, also, can wait for the next TLOU6, TOTK4 and Half Life 5, so many things that doesn't exist to get hyped for.

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Completely burnt out on the formula at this point. I've been playing them for over a decade straight, most of them multiple times, and I really haven't been a fan of where they've taken the formula. The boss fights have mostly become Everything Everywhere All At Once, I didn't care for the open world in Elden Ring and I don't really care about the multiplayer elements either.

They're still unmatched in terms of atmosphere and art but I want to see Sekiro 2 or something totally different. Elden Ring just felt like a giant Greatest Hits swan song for the formula to me.
 
Loved Demons Souls on PS3, but it already started being repetitive with Dark Souls 1. At some point you need to make something else, because all these games are pretty much the same core experience.

They did change things a bit with Sekiro and that was good.

Adding more bloat to the formula (open-world etc...) is not going to win any awards from me.
 
Is there away to get through at this game without stressing myself? I'm used to get good at other games little by little without stressing myself to avoid anxiety and improve my precision substantially.
 
Would prefer to see Dark Souls 4 to Elden Ring 2.

I'm in either way. Elden Ring was flawed in a lot of ways but the good far outweighed the bad. Not too interested in the multiplayer Switch 2 game but will need to hear more.

My least favorite part of these games is the tough bosses with long attack patterns, small windows, and all sorts of delayed attacks. I can beat them with enough time to learn the patterns and get disciplined but I really don't enjoy it and if the new game focuses more on that I might skip.
 
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Eh, it depends. If it's more like Elden Ring (less stutter please), sign me up. It's really the only Souls game by From I enjoyed.

Although to be fair, the only other Souls games I liked were Nioh 2 and the two Star Wars Jedi games.
 
Denton said:
Fuck soulslikes already. Make a proper RPG for once, with more systems than just killing monsters and leaving messages. I want proper character interactions, with interactive stat driven dialogue, nonlinear questing both mechanically and narratively, living world with simulated NPCs, stealth systems, all that jazz.
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I hope they do something like this too. The worlds and characters are fascinating and I'd like to find out a lot more and being able to make different choices and get different reactions and outcomes.
It'd be a change. Other than that if it were a sequel than I'd most want a Sekiro 2 which is very different from their "Souls" games. The best ending did point to unfinished business after all.
 
Are you excited?
For yet another overly post-processed, desaturated eyesore?
In which every single character speaks like this... in a husky whisper... because we think it sounds dramatic?
You have to be.
For, after all, if you like action RPGs... what else is there to play?
*wheeze* EH HEH HEH HEH HEH
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I think it's ironic with how every single FM Soulslike, the plot harps on the "we have to burn away the old to make way for the new" slop with its nonsense "story..." and yet every single game is a retread of the same tired, miserable tropes. Over and over again.

The idea of picking up yet another Soulslike and doing more of that dodge-roll nonsense, and mashing RB to go through the same damn attack chain I've seen animated the exact same way across four different games... nah, bro, miss me with that. FM are among the laziest of developers, but they get away with it, because there is an absolute desert of games that aren't live-service shooters. It'd still sell regardless, and they barely have to put in any effort in their next asset-flip.

Why, yes, I do have thousands of hours invested in their games, thanks for asking. I'm a sucker for punishment. I play them, I even enjoy them, but I actually hate them by this point. I honestly don't think I can do it again. It doesn't help that Elden Ring is one of the stupidest games I've ever played, by a very wide margin. There's no excuse for its level of idiocy. It's frankly insulting.

I would take another straight Souls game from FM IF they ditched their "storytelling" formula, and placed it all in a bright world full of typical fantasy tropes. Fairies, sprites, goblins, ogres, and all that. Perhaps with some actual characters. God, that would be refreshing at this point. I think I hate their vibes more than I tire of their of their well-worn gameplay mechanics.
 
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Denton said:
Fuck soulslikes already. Make a proper RPG for once, with more systems than just killing monsters and leaving messages. I want proper character interactions, with interactive stat driven dialogue, nonlinear questing both mechanically and narratively, living world with simulated NPCs, stealth systems, all that jazz.
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No.
 
I'm super excited about Duskblood but kinda disappointed that looks like it more multiplayer than anything else.

The world looks super cool, but being a PvP more focused, it sucks.
Wish could be a more like dark souls game for switch 2.....
 
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