What went wrong?

What went wrong?

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Became a one trick pony.

You're mother said the exact same thing about you when I was sleeping with her.

they forgot how to design interesting encounters and instead focus on roll spam gameplay

the fanbase

They got too big too fast.

>What went wrong?
Nothing.

Everything but Bamco's marketing department.

jewish business practices
Dark Souls PC servers are still down after 5 months. Granted there's a huge security flaw that needs to be fixed but it's funny how they waited until right before Elden Ring was released to address it.......will never buy another fromshit game again

Abandoned the switch and with it, japan's biggest market. What the fuck were they thinking? I'm glad all their games are flopping trash that are forgotten after a few weeks.

>shuts your game servers down for over 150 days
you have stockholm syndrome

>I'm glad all their games are flopping trash that are forgotten after a few weeks.
what planet are you from

they got lucky once and have been too afraid to step outsider the established formula, incredibly ironic considering DeS caught on because it was anything but formulaic. literally every game they've made from 2009 onward has

>same exact bleak setting with a sense of a decaying world
>same exact "le less is le more" writing style that was cute 10 years ago but is now predictable and boring in addition to allowing lazy writing
>same exact button layout and HUD
>same exact bare bones ARPG roll-dodge gameplay with no mechanical depth to speak of
>same exact supplementary mechanics
>covenants somehow get WORSE every game

it's so god damn tiring, i genuinely do not know ho people can still be exciting for this shit when they know it's going to be the same copy pasted shit as last. monster hunter can be accused of the same thing but at the very least monster hunter has engaging gameplay and capcom isn't constantly reskinning monster hunter and trying to sell it as a new IP to you like From did with BB and ER.

Everyone and their mother kept sucking their dick non stop because of the difficulty meme so they just decided to focus on that as they slowly got rid of all of the things that really made their games great in the first place.

truly a "die a hero or become the villain" stituation
sad!

The fanbase has never been the same since DS3, invasions are dead because of these mouthbreathers

>literally every game they've made from 2009 onward
You DO know that they made more games than Souls shit during that time?

Normalfags and commercial incentives. Yet retards on Any Forums still think people only get mad when a game becomes popular simply because of contrarianism

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>What went wrong?
They make shitty publishing deals and have to rush the game
Happened with Souls and ER

They're too incompetent to make their games run at stable 60FPS or even fix their own goddamn servers.

Dark Souls 3 will always stand as the worst case of "What could have been!"
The Kingdom of Lothric has a lore, after you connect the piece together though retail, leaks and cut content that is WONDERFUL
A society, nearing End of the World, built over its obsession for the Dragons and their immortality, its knights hunting them and training and riding drakes to battle
A Kingdom stuck in a civil war of contrasting religions and relative ideals regarding the future of the world, and with defined sides and balancing powers within those, and even a secret police force keeping the Three Pillars under control.
Its King consumed by the obsession of producing a worthy heir to the point of chasing the power of the Dark Souls in the Chasm of the Abyss, with immoral experiments secluded in a dungeon of horrors and his land falling to the corruption of the Dark he unearthed.
Near that even older ruins of a Kingdom where its ruler created an eternal flame of Abyss as last hope to keep the Darkness at bay.
The abandoned land of Anor Londo, once home to the powerful deities, now a desert with their knights wandering as mindless beasts.
A rejected son, Lothric, that chooses to carve his own path, using the power his father harvested to be reborn as King of the Eclipse.
You can feel the despair and the grim darkness of the setting. There's actual political and religious implications to the world nearing its end after society actually realized the stream of sacrifices to link the Flame is pointless. AND THAT is the biggest plotpoint that is missing, what would have elevated Dark Souls 3 beyond the original and as Fromsoftware's magnum opus.
It's like a masterpiece axed, scrambled and put together back again in a messy order. If you can see the full picture, the pieces are great, and that's a curse as you'll never get to fully experience that masterpiece as it was intended.
What happened was a crime.

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they're still better than Capcom. Play G rank in a MH then come talk to me about bad end game design. From is 10x better at itl

they're still one of the best AAA developers but their current output just isn't as groundbreaking and innovative as demons souls/dark souls 1 were

Stopped making games about robots.

Yeah, how could anyone forget Deracine?

Based and wrong

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Very strange funbase which has fun from repeated mechanics and games with bananas

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And one of the worst games in recent times.

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same game for 10+ years
cancerous fanbase
got BTFO by Team Ninja

This
I wanted to play DS3 first time, but it's single game now

I want this to be real so bad. I love mecha media and there's way too few mech games coming out.

They keep making Dark Souls sequels.

Being a subsidiary of a publicly owned corporation.