Company News From Software Acquired by Publisher Kadokawa Games

[set]

What convinces the marketing guys at From, Namco or Kudokawa that Dark Souls would work well on mobile? Is there some game prototype that shows this? There's no way to translate the "Dark Souls experience" to mobile and leave anything intact. I get mobile "brings in a lot of money 0.001% of the time" but that just means the stakes are high, not that Dark Souls is something that will actually suceed.

Whatever, DS2 was sub-par compared to DS1 and Demon's Souls. Might as well bury From now while they're still lukewarm.

 

[Cassidy]

Overrated series by weeaboos and console kiddies going on a pure downward spiral to decline? Nothing of value was lost.

 

[set]

Dark Souls has little in common with weeaboos. Westaboos like Dark Souls. If any game is overrated by weeaboos, it's Oblivion or Skyrim.

 

[dnf]

Overrated series by weeaboos and console kiddies going on a pure downward spiral to decline? Nothing of value was lost.

Hey bro, what do you think of Blade of Darkness?

 

[Admiral jimbob]

It was shit because Street Fighter Alpha existed.

Any swords in SFA? Didn't think so.

Bushido Blade, nerd

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Overrated series by weeaboos and console kiddies going on a pure downward spiral to decline? Nothing of value was lost.

Hey bro, what do you think of Blade of Darkness?

It was a commercial failure, so it's good. Dark Souls is popular, so it's shit.

*takes a sip of double skim latte*

 

[MuscleSpark]

The only thing to hope From this is that maybe we'll get some more Experience Inc games abroad, those always look amazing

aside From that it's business as usual.

 

[Grotesque]

lol, fallout 2 was better than 1 in every aspect, there is literally no reason to play 1 if you have finished 2

Reason number 1: being a human being with a minimum degree of intellect.
If that were the case, your brain will want to play Fallout 1 immediately after finishing Fallout 2.
I wonder what case you were.

 

[DragoFireheart]

Overrated series by weeaboos and console kiddies going on a pure downward spiral to decline? Nothing of value was lost.

All good series die at some point. Such is the nature of the video game industry.

 

[StaticSpine]

Overrated series by weeaboos and console kiddies going on a pure downward spiral to decline? Nothing of value was lost.

All good series die at some point. Such is the nature of the video game industry.

 

[Ninjerk]

Overrated series by weeaboos and console kiddies going on a pure downward spiral to decline? Nothing of value was lost.

All good series die at some point. Such is the nature of the video game industry.

Spoiler

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

 

[Jasede]

I think I'm going to cry;
it's not fucking overrated you retarded hipsters. Jesus fucking Christ. I dunno what more you need.

And jcd has gone full blown post-ironic? "Hurr durr DS is shit but here check out my garbage PS2 fighter which is not popamole!"

Not only do you know nothing about fighting games, you don't know your RPGs either. You make me sick.
I get trolled so easily but Jesus, lately, every time I come here it's more and more stupid, like the South Park episode where everything is suddenly shit.

 

[jcd]

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[Irenaeus]

Whatever, another excuse to post this:

 

[Jasede]

Are you a parody of yourself? Though then again you never really posted enough for me to remember if you were a normal/serious poster once.

 

[Black]

I think I'm going to cry;
it's not fucking overrated

Oh yeah, it fucking is.

 

[A user named cat]

DS was far from a bad game and had some great atmosphere in parts but it certainly was overrated as fuck by retards who don't know any better. By comparison and without even going back too far; Gothic is a vastly superior third person ARPG and Arx Fatalis is a much better dungeon crawler.

 

[Delterius]

Indeed. Dark Souls is exactly 0.1 below the solid 9 out of 10 that Arx and Gothic are. And we all know how much this fucking matters.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

No, it's basically like Terror from the Deep or Fallout 2 - an understudy-developed expansion pack cash-in sequel that fixes a few things and breaks others that's all in all pretty good, but obviously isn't gonna blow any minds unless you haven't played the original.

The sheer size of Fallout 2 connected with Highwayman, Ms Bishop and other cool stuff was mind-blowing back then. Too bad they managed to fuck up the setting.

 

[Lhynn]

DS was far from a bad game and had some great atmosphere in parts but it certainly was overrated as fuck by retards who don't know any better. By comparison and without even going back too far; Gothic is a vastly superior third person ARPG and Arx Fatalis is a much better dungeon crawler.

Dark souls has tighter controls and better atmosphere than both those games.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

It's a good game that is regarded as a good game, I don't consider it overrated. Unless you want to be a cunt about it and argue that the game is overrated because it is good but not that good because it's not as good as this other game and

 

[Gozma]

Gives way more the feeling of playing something like Metroid or the Metroid-like Castlevanias than an RPG to me, despite nominal character creation and leval-uppuru. The enemies are also so "ritualized" with the way their AI and animations work to give you action game stuff to do to beat them that it makes the combat fun but it's also extremely hard to suspend disbelief for the world or to treat the combat as "violence" instead of like, a Tetris minigame. I really enjoyed DS but I think you can't actually draw much from it to make a better RPG with.

 

[Lhynn]

Way to nitpick Gozma, "the combat is not shit, so it hurts my immurshun".

 

[dnf]

DS was far from a bad game and had some great atmosphere in parts but it certainly was overrated as fuck by retards who don't know any better. By comparison and without even going back too far; Gothic is a vastly superior third person ARPG and Arx Fatalis is a much better dungeon crawler.

You can't really go back more far can you? Gothic controls are worse than DS 1 and 2 combined, true story. Arx Fatallis is so brownish i lost interest in keep playing. I had more fun playing Dark Tower

 

[Machocruz]

Gives way more the feeling of playing something like Metroid or the Metroid-like Castlevanias than an RPG to me, despite nominal character creation and leval-uppuru. The enemies are also so "ritualized" with the way their AI and animations work to give you action game stuff to do to beat them that it makes the combat fun but it's also extremely hard to suspend disbelief for the world or to treat the combat as "violence" instead of like, a Tetris minigame.

You are right, but that's because the origin of action-RPGs is in Japanese arcade/action games. Go back and play Falcom's Dragon Slayer, Xanadu, or Faxanadu. They were simple action games with simple stat and inventory implementation, simple NPC interaction. The Souls games are an evolution of that. Action genre combat is a core feature of that lineage. I leave it to others whether Dark Souls combat is good at that type of thing.

I've come to the conclusion that Dragon's Dogma's is a better modern representation; it's got that smooth, quick feel that good 2D Jap games have. I'd say with the Dark Arisen expansion that it's possibly the best "pure" action-RPG/arcade dungeon crawler in at least 10 years. I'm reminded of the best things about Gauntlet, the first two Zelda's and all the games that emulated them, Secret of Mana/Seiken Densetsu series when I play that game. Of course, no one can say this out loud and the expansion was all but ignored by the media; they've decided that Elder Scrolls and, more recently due to fanboy demand, Dark Souls are IT, and we can't have any challengers. Sacred cows must remain sacred.

On a side note, after DD and DS2 there are no more excuses for not having dark ass dungeons in modern games. The west has let the Japs make them look foolish in this regard, for how many times they talk aup their games' visual Immersion and how important it is. What has been seen cannot be unseen.

The likes of Gothic 1/2, UU, Vampire TM:B are just good CRPGs, period. They could have any kind of combat and they would still be good CRPGs, while basic ARPGs are very much dependent upon fluid animation and responsive control input.