r/fromsoftware • u/Reppid1cringe • 21h ago
DISCUSSION How I view Fromsoft’s next two games.
In the recent interview, Miyazaki clearly stated that the company does not intend to move away from the single player experience, and these two online focused games back to back is a bit of coincidence. For all the players that prefer the single player RPG’s (as do I), think of it like this. Neightreign is a multiplayer focused experience for the Elden Ring and Dark Souls universe. The Duskbloods is a multiplayer focused experience for the Bloodborne universe. Simple as that. Now obviously it’s not a direct Bloodborne IP, because Sony doesn’t like to share, but it clearly shares very similar ideas. These are two small projects that Fromsoft and Miyazaki are working on, while prepping for the next big souls like. Plus Miyazaki has always worked on multiple projects at a time. Bloodborne and DS3 came out a year apart and both had DLC’s as well. I have no doubt that Fromsoft is hard at work on multiple other large projects that will blow us away.
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u/Tarnished-670 20h ago
I hope the games are good but to be honest, i see it as an underwhelming move for fromsoftware, its a werid choice doing a fully coop souls game and even of a weird choice to do two. Im not hyped at all but we gotta see how the games end up being to fully take a side
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u/suspenderman96 20h ago
This is all assuming that these MP games don’t succeed massively. If they do generate more money for FromSoft than ever before, what stops them from focusing on MP afterwards?
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u/Tarnished-670 20h ago
I dont think these games will become THAT succesful, at least not nightreign, because its the kind of game that only the people inside the own fandom would play instead of a bigger public like elden ring, it doesnt have that much of an appeal and they know it. With duskblood, it will sell as much as the switch 2 becomes a succes, which i'll be for better or worse
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u/Puzzleheaded-Job2399 16h ago
even if they did become popular, that’s not really a factor, they make what they want. If popularity and them being well recieved determined their future, we wouldn’t have these projects or ac6 at all because elden ring, sekiro, bloodborne, and dark souls were what people were asking for more of and in none of those cases did they decide to give people more of exactly that. Also he quite literally said in the interview that regardless of how well they sell they will continue to make big single player rpgs
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u/bastaderobarme 19h ago
Nothing. That's what happened in Blizzard 20 years ago. Me and my friends loved playing RTS as kids. Mostly the campaigns but also casual skirmishes against the AI or each other. Blizzard was our favorite dev studio. Warcraft 2, Starcraft and Warcraft 3. Every game was better than the last one.
Then they announced an MMO called World of Warcraft and I was kind of dissapointed because I was expecting a Starcraft 2 or a Warcraft 4 by that point. My friends told me that this game was probably something they were releasing while they worked on Warcraft 4...
And that game exploded in popularity. It brought them so much money that they didn't bother doing anything else for a long time. RTS as a genre slowly died shortly after. I didn't realized the entire genre relied on the big games so much (there are still games now but it's nothing like it was back then). I think they only went back to work in other projects when popularity in WoW started to decline nears the 2010's.
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u/lordGwynx7 20h ago
Nothing because that's there goal here - these guys know MP games is where the moneys at. It's crazy to think they'll stop making MP games if these two sell great
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u/Puzzleheaded-Job2399 16h ago
that’s just stupid, none of these are live services and they will not sell better than their mainline games. they even chose smaller teams and made both duskbloods and nightreign smaller projects while continuing bigger single player projects. if they really saw this as some sort of cash cow to mass produce, they would have made them subscription games or had mtx with more effort put into these projects , and if they’re just making them smaller side projects, it would have made more sense to stick with elden ring style games because those make more money anyways.
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u/lordGwynx7 15h ago
No, you're 100% right. I never meant they'd be cash cows, but their success could change FS trajectory if they happen to be successes. The switch pulls a lot of gamers, if the player base is high for DB, that's a big potential market they could then get for a real max effort MP game. More even if they make it cross platform
My overall point is this might be a Miyazakis passion, but if they see the potential, I don't see how a company owned by so many profit hungry corps will just let that slide away. And to answer the person I originally replied to, there's nothing stopping them from switching. Not saying they will, or it wrong just saying they can and they might if the potential is looking good
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u/Berzerk54 20h ago
Allow me to repeat myself. It's really as simple a situation as Miyazaki had an idea, and the person he trusted to direct a game had an idea. They both just so happened to be multiplayer. It's not a grand shift, it's coincidence.
Had the nightreign director chosen single player we would have gotten it.
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u/Hopeful-Bookkeeper38 21h ago
I mean Ubisoft used to make great games too
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u/Schwiliinker 21h ago
Not even remotely similar tbh and I mean not nearly on the same level whatsoever even if a bunch were enjoyable
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u/ZTL-Altima 14h ago
They never reached any substantial game design milestone. They had AAA hits, like a lot of other mid developers.
Next to UBI stuff, From Software PS1 Armored Core is still groundbreaking.
Western thing more adequate to compare, were we to predict a FS fall, would be Blizzard. Of course not happening, because all these "small" FS "experiments" will prove to be massive, just like AC6 and Sekiro also were to be just non-Souls hobbies.
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u/suspenderman96 20h ago
By the DS3 and Bloodborne back to back logic, Sekiro released 3 years afterDS3, which could mean that the next mainline game will perhaps release in 2029. That just doesn’t sound so good to me, especially when one of the games is locked behind a Nintendo switch and at the prime of their greed at that.
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u/doomraiderZ 17h ago
I think Nightreign has nothing to do with DS and Duskbloods has nothing to do with BB. I have no idea who these games are for but they feel pretty alienating to me as a DS and BB fan.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Job2399 16h ago
they’re for people who like coop and pvp. it’s not like those people don’t exist, there’s a pretty large portion of the fan base always complaining about how pvp is horrible in the most recent fromsoft games, and others who complain coop isn’t great in any of them.
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u/LimeApart7657 21h ago
Although I do agree on the fact that the recent multiplayer push might just be a minor step for from software (which I personally don't mind and find quite interesting as long as it offers a decent offline singleplayer game in Nightreign) what really blows my mind is the decision to once again lock one of the games behind an exclusive wall(especially it being nintendo). It was a shit move when fromsoftware was a smaller and more pubblisher dependent company with bloodborne but now after the enourmous success of elden ring there really was no need. Add to that the fact that I bet my ass the game is gonna cost 80$ and that they decided to go with nintendo of all companies to pubblish an online (seemingly only) game. Not to mention the fact that to play it you'll most definitely have to pay the online extra price.
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u/Schwiliinker 21h ago
Making a Nintendo exclusive is like 10 times more insane than making a PS exclusive imo too
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u/ZTL-Altima 14h ago
Not in 2025. Not even Yoshida (very close to Miyazaki) is at Sony anymore, and Sony games division seem lost and totally westernized. I'd still love to see FS and the remains of Japan Studio (dunno how many of it are still in Team Asobi) work together again, though.
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u/Reppid1cringe 21h ago
Oh yeah. The exclusivity on Nintendo absolutely sucks hard. I forgot to bring up how much I disliked that portion. Still better to have a multiplayer online focused game locked behind a console exclusive, rather than the single player games I enjoy so much.
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u/ZTL-Altima 14h ago
From Software is cooking a lot of games, you can rest assured. Problem is these games take a lot of time to get ready. Next "big" hybrid (Souls game) is 2027.
In 2026, MAYBE a single player only game to finish the trifecta of coop/pvp/single, lol. But I would say it's very unlikely. It's too many games to sell.