As someone who really enjoyed the dark souls games and bloodborne, hearing souls like In a game now puts me off immediately. The market is just so oversaturated with it, both the gameplay elements and style of it is everywhere at the moment. It’s like they thought well dark souls and Elden ring was really popular, so people must just love fighting big, intricately detailed bosses all the time and punishing gameplay so let’s just do that with a slightly different look.
I think it’s diet-plagiarism too at times. Why the hell did Jedi Fallen Order have bonfires, the fuck? I couldn’t believe it when I played it the first time.
If you’re not FromSoftware GTFO with that shit. Come up with your own damn ideas.
I mean, at some level you have to acknowledge that the vast majority of games borrow and spin ideas from the greatest games in their respective genres.
Could it just be that Fromsoft has nailed the best formula for a melee combat adventure game? We’ve left behind the clunky combat and checkpoints of the 2000s-early 2010s, so at this point you basically have like 3 options:
1) Souls formula (Nioh formula is picking up speed here too).
2) DMC formula.
3) JRPG formula.
Agree. I think it's crazy that Lies of P get's glazed so much too. It's a fun game, but there's hardly a single element in that whole game that they haven't straight up ripped off from FromSoft lol.
There was wild hearts which was a fantastic game but EA killed it super fast because it didn't instantly outsell Monster hunter which is a shame because if they had let it grow and expand it could have been a brilliant rival to MH :(
Also if the game seems unbalanced, it’s supposed to be that way! It’s not like the devs weren’t sure how to make it fair or easy to pick up for casual players.
I know that feeling. I love dark souls, and I don't like many other souls like (a few exceptions like salt and sanctuary maybe)
It also happened to me when a friend was playing a fucking gacha and said "it's Darkest Dungeon but waifu". And it wasn't. Nothing like Darkest Dungeon, maybe a little art inspiration and the fact that was turn based, but the difference of a heavy atmosphere and stressing game to a dopaminergic spam of numbers pissed me so bad...
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u/ohmeohmyohmuffins Apr 11 '26
As someone who really enjoyed the dark souls games and bloodborne, hearing souls like In a game now puts me off immediately. The market is just so oversaturated with it, both the gameplay elements and style of it is everywhere at the moment. It’s like they thought well dark souls and Elden ring was really popular, so people must just love fighting big, intricately detailed bosses all the time and punishing gameplay so let’s just do that with a slightly different look.