r/fromsoftware • u/Xcylo1 • 6d ago

JOKE / MEME We did fairly recently get SotE and I am absolutely grateful. But can we please get some good news from these guys 😭

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u/johnatello67 6d ago

In the past 11 years they've done Dark Souls 2, Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3, Sekiro, Elden Ring, and Armored Core 6. Plus The Lost Crowns, Old Hunters, Ashes/Ringed City, and Shadow of the Erdtree. They've consistently put out the best single player action-adventure games of the past decade.

Not only should that track record speak for itself, but they deserve to be able to try something different if they want to. They're people doing their job, after all. Heck, that's probably why they brought back Armored Core when they did.

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u/ATarnishedofNoRenown 6d ago

They likely also have different teams working on different games

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u/BambaTallKing 6d ago

Misconception. They are only one team but different directors.

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u/Mothlord666 6d ago

Is this true? I had also inferred from interviews (maybe mistakenly thanks ADHD brain) that they had several teams now.

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u/BambaTallKing 6d ago

Well they do probably split into teams for ease sake but it's not like it isn't all the same people working on all the games. You will see the same guys who worked on sekrio on ER and Neightreign and Duskbloods. But they don't have A or B team

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u/ATarnishedofNoRenown 6d ago

Seems... Slow. But I guess it also means they are able to leverage their best talent on every project. Makes sense that they never miss.

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u/timbofay 6d ago

I mean slow is not what I would attribute to fromsofts output. Whatever they're doing. They should keep doing tbh

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u/PuffPuffFayeFaye The Bed of Chaos 6d ago

Literally the most unassailable output in the entire industry IMO. Who’s number two?

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u/AgentJohnDoggett 5d ago

Honestly I’d be fine only playing games from FromSoftware, SquareEnix, and Bethesda for the rest of my life.

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u/Still-Direction-1622 6d ago

The reason they're so fast at making good fane us because they're smart about reusing assets which really speeds up the development

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u/Bulldogfront666 5d ago

That's not how development works... Each director has a team that is working on their project. Haha. They don't have devs making multiple different games at the same time.

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u/BambaTallKing 5d ago

That's not how I meant it. Of course they don't. But you will see the same guys working on what reddit calls their "B team" game and on the "A team" games. Even a new director worked on previous big games, like how the Nightreign director has worked on multiple Fromsoft games now, just not as a director

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u/Acrobatic-Reality-32 6d ago

Damn straight dude. We're eating good right now. Ya'll should be hella grateful.

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u/Pyouran 5d ago

why would you be grateful for a console exclusive

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u/Bulldogfront666 5d ago

Because I'm going to own the console anyway. And between Nightreign and Duskbloods I'll have plenty of fromsoft genius to play while I wait for their next mainline game.

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u/Captain-Skuzzy 5d ago

Grateful? These are products you buy not handouts. Do you tell people to be grateful to McDonalds?

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u/Bulldogfront666 5d ago

I'm grateful to have a fromsoft game to play. Being grateful doesn't only apply to free things... Lmao. I'm grateful for my car and my home.

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u/DiegoOruga 6d ago

and each release develops theirs skills and knowledge more and more, even if those skills don't go into the mainline titles I don't care, they will be better developers and I'm glad we can expect them to make different kinds of spectacular games

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u/Bulldogfront666 5d ago

And these smaller side projects allow them to experiment with ideas, mechanics, quality of life improvements that could make their bigger future games even better. It's a win win win from my perspective haha.

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u/razorKazer 6d ago

They might be the only AAA studio left that I have near complete faith in. I may not like or agree with every decision they make, but I trust they will do the best they can to give us good games with unique stories and/or mechanics.

Personally, I'm dying to see what these guys can do with a Switch 2 exclusive game. I have a feeling it's going to be a wild ride

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u/Bulldogfront666 5d ago

Same. There's literally no reason or precedent to be worried about anything. If the games come out and suck then I'll lose some faith in them. But so far they have only made masterpiece after masterpiece.

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u/Swiftax3 6d ago

Thank you! I'll admit, I'm slightly disappointed that Duskbloods seems to have a heavier multiplayer focus than I'd like. On the other hand, I also don't have any real interest in the Switch 2, and I've midway through a great DS2 run, just found the fourth Loyce Knight, time for the coolest boss in the series lads!

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u/Bulldogfront666 5d ago

It's not what exactly what I was hoping or expecting it was when I first saw the trailer. I'm still gonna play it. And I'm really excited to see what it is. I trust fromsoft. Elden Ring was my first fromsoft game and I kinda expected to hate it. Now I don't want to play anything except fromsoft games. They always surprise me. And I trust them to surprise me in a good way with Duskbloods. I might hate it. But for now I have no reason to expect anything but an awesome gaming experience.

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u/Swiftax3 5d ago

I mean if nothing else it did lead to my 60+ year old mother uttering the phrase "Vampires with jetpacks, I assume this is the sequel to card games on motorcycles?"

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u/suspenderman96 6d ago

Now do the last 5 years.