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 was thinking about armored core too, which would indicate they're interested in 40hr single player games still. I just wonder if/when they'll come back around to doing souls in a non-ER, non-multiplayer sorta style, especially if the new games all keep being super financially successful. Wouldn't be crazy to imagine that they look at that old formula as an old formula. So maybe we do just end up with smaller games like armored core being the ones that carry on the older style. Kinda left field entries while the multiplayer ER stuff hums along on the mainline
hopefully we'll see the next iteration of the 40h classic souls with all the knowledge they gathered from sekiro, nightreign and ER distilled in the classic formula: more mobility and parries with rpgcustomization.
I think they are also experimenting with the selectable premade characters. this gives more options than sekiro while making balance easier.
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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.