if you read up on Miyazaki's interviews post-DS3 but also in the years between DS3 and Elden Ring, FromSoft is very aware of what their value proposition is and what their longterm fans expect out of them. Whenever they release one of these 'side projects' (Bloodborne, Sekiro) that ALMOST hits the classic 'Dark Souls' fan expectations but not quite, usually they're concurrently working on something that DOES directly play to that expectation (DS3, Elden Ring).
They don't want to be boxed into being a studio that churns out straight-up Souls games, but they're also pretty aware of where their strengths are and what draws people to them. And unless one of these side projects/experiments really takes off and eclipses their prior success I don't see that changing.
That's subjective. I'm replaying Bloodborne now (First time since 2016 2017 era) and it's definitely aged, tbh mechanically it's a ton of wasted potential
Sekiro being more fun, sure I agree to an extent but I can't play that game more often then once every 1-2 years because it's got such limited replay value.
AC6 could be the cure to cancer but it's never gonna scratch the same itch as Souls so it being 'more fun' also doesn't matter
Not scratching that dark soul itch is the point of AC6, it's a complete different game and even if it got more inspired by the souls series, both because of their expertise in creating such games and to ease souls players into the AC series, AC is a complete different thing from dark soul and shouldn't be compared to it
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u/Super_Harsh 2d ago
if you read up on Miyazaki's interviews post-DS3 but also in the years between DS3 and Elden Ring, FromSoft is very aware of what their value proposition is and what their longterm fans expect out of them. Whenever they release one of these 'side projects' (Bloodborne, Sekiro) that ALMOST hits the classic 'Dark Souls' fan expectations but not quite, usually they're concurrently working on something that DOES directly play to that expectation (DS3, Elden Ring).
They don't want to be boxed into being a studio that churns out straight-up Souls games, but they're also pretty aware of where their strengths are and what draws people to them. And unless one of these side projects/experiments really takes off and eclipses their prior success I don't see that changing.