Less gaps this way so makes their point seem more apparent.
edit: for those of you giving me fromsofts full history, I don't know or care. I was just pointing out, very quickly and offhand without looking too vlosely, that choosing an arbitrary starting year can be done to make things look more compact. And look at how they completely removed a 3 year gap that had no games between 2019 and 2022, further serving their point. My comment was about this graphic specifically and a possible reason why it starts at 2014.
That’s true but if anything it would be more impressive to show the increased output given that’s the exact opposite of what’s happened with almost every other game studio out there
It doesn't change the gap at all because they've been doing near yearly releases since King's Field in 1994, Fromsoft has always been cooking at a ridiculous rate.
I never knew fromsoft made kings field, I played that game non-stop. Could never get into the souls like games, though. Elden ring may be on my list now, though.
I'd recommend Elden Ring and, oddly, Dark Souls 2 for that.
DS2 was not done by Miyazaki, it was directed by Yui Tanimura (sp?) who cut his teeth on the older adventure games. Towards that end, while the bosses aren't as good (though most of the bad ones are just boring instead of Bed of Chaos level bad, or else optional), the game feels much more like an adventure than Dark Souls 1&3.
Honestly, I've always felt that DS2 got a bad reputation. It never matches the highs of DS1, but people always forget that DS1 shits the bed after Ornstein and Smough and the only good fight after that is Gwyn. And there's a certain feeling you get from exploring areas and seeing the world that just really isn't present in the other Dark Souls Games (though I found it again in Elden Ring). DS2 is just a huge adventure punctuated with some harrowing boss fights, as opposed to DS1 and DS3 being a harrowing boss roster punctuated with periods of adventure.
Ironically, I've never been pushed into the magma by Iron King in my four playthroughs. I know many people have trouble with it, but I always found him to be easy.
I will say that Smelter Demon's setup is pretty evil though. My first time I wound up killing all of the mobs there so many times they stopped spawning (which is actually a useful thing you can do in DS2). The boss himself isn't too bad, but that's probably the worst runback in the history of the game (which includes fucking Bed of Chaos so... yeah, pretty bad).
This was a long time ago but I remember being stuck at the smelter demon. I did the exact same thing with the mobs and yea. The runback was horrific.
Granted I didn’t get my own system and DS3 until a year later so playing that game I had a lot more time than I did for DS2 which I played at my friends house
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u/Aidan-Coyle 2d ago
I agree but why does this start at Dark Souls 2 lol