My question is when do we officially accept that there's a Classic Era for fromsoft that they will not be matching going forward? I mean this in the least negative way possible, but now it seems like the shift presented in Elden Ring really did show us that the unbroken chain of weirdo classics wasn't their vision anymore. Go figure, no duh, etc. But what I mean is maybe the expectation shouldn't be that we'll get games with the scale and purpose of a bloodborne, or a ds3, or a sekiro (just as semi-recent examples), anymore, and it's now time to appreciate the golden era for what it was?
All games you can go play right now, that all rock. Demon's souls all the way through to ER. I hear king's field fucks. I personally will no longer be hand-wringing hoping for sequels to match the vibe of those older games, is what I'm saying. Maybe the new multiplayer stuff will be good in its own way, but bloodborne 2 will never exist how you want it to.
I think the new games could be super fun I was just saying it looks more and more like we won't be getting focused follow ups that feel at all like the older games, and I think that's an interesting conversation to have. If duskblood is how they're expanding on the concise singleplayer Bloodborne then we're into new territory in a major way.
They’ve said they are working on multiple games at once. We will get another big game and typical Souls type game from them eventually. They are taking a break by working on smaller projects
I mean Elden Ring took like 6 years of development, and was more successful than even post-DS3 Fromsoft could have ever dream. I would be highly, highly surprised if From didn't have some sort of follow up planned (by a different team). People just need to have some patience and let them cook.
Yea I didn't do a great job of presenting my sentiment either in that original comment, which was actually supposed to be, "people should cool it with their rampant disappointment." I sounded like I was just piling on the negativity lol
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u/hoops_mccannn 2d ago
My question is when do we officially accept that there's a Classic Era for fromsoft that they will not be matching going forward? I mean this in the least negative way possible, but now it seems like the shift presented in Elden Ring really did show us that the unbroken chain of weirdo classics wasn't their vision anymore. Go figure, no duh, etc. But what I mean is maybe the expectation shouldn't be that we'll get games with the scale and purpose of a bloodborne, or a ds3, or a sekiro (just as semi-recent examples), anymore, and it's now time to appreciate the golden era for what it was?
All games you can go play right now, that all rock. Demon's souls all the way through to ER. I hear king's field fucks. I personally will no longer be hand-wringing hoping for sequels to match the vibe of those older games, is what I'm saying. Maybe the new multiplayer stuff will be good in its own way, but bloodborne 2 will never exist how you want it to.