During its latest earning report the giant Japanese corporation Kadokawa Shoten, that spans every aspect of publishing from manga to games, announced the purchase of the majority of the stock of Dark Souls II’s developer From Software.
Dr. Serkan Toto says: While things do not look great for many studios in the West, things are very different in Japan – and I was shocked how little people in the industry still know and understand about the third biggest gaming market in the world (which is a probably a positive for a Japan game industry consultant like myself).
Honestly, it looks about the same if we are measuring a company's success on their all time high stock price. It has nothing to do with the sentiments some in the industry have.
Objectively the two biggest problems are cost cutting and consolidation.
"The more I learned about Nightreign, the more my concerns started to grow that FromSoftware might lean too hard into chasing more mainstream success." - Ethan Krieger
Eh we'll have to see. Elden Ring was/ is very good, I'd personally still put Sekiro and Bloodborne at the top but really FS seem to nail it every time.
A streamer completed seven FromSoftware Soulslike games in sequence without taking a hit or leveling up.
"...known as Nico, who completed Demon’s Souls, the Dark Souls trilogy, Bloodborne, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and Elden Ring in sequence"
Those games aren't Soulslike. WTAF?
Words have meanings.
Are you sure you meant to respond to me? The only angry person on this thread is Isarai. He's always having a go at someone for no reason at all.
But if you were, "huh?" =/= "angry." It's text, people misread tone all the time. No biggie.
TF are you talking about? Words have meanings.
They're literally not. Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne are all Souls games, there is nothing "like" about them. They're literally the OG souls games that other games are "like."
@Heavy, I don't picture you at all. Lulz.
Isarai is always having a go at someone. I guess I'm his latest target? I guess that makes me special.
If you described him that way it would make sense.
But in the future, just assume that anything you read from me is with a smile on my face relaxing with a drink and watching hockey.
Like my first comment, just me smiling, smh, and saying what the fuck at some journo who doesn't know what "like" means.
You are correct in the Dark Souls games being "OG" Souls games, but those games with many other similar and copycat games birthed a new genre called "Soulslike" games, which even though the OG Dark Souls games were before the term, are now also in that genre.
If a game creates a genre, it is also in that genre.
No. Doom is not doomlike, Rogue is not Roguelike, and Demon's Souls is not soulslike.
"Like" is congruent, or similar to not "equal" or "is." Now smile because it's not that serious.
That's incorrect. The souls games did not create the genre of soulslike, they are souls games. Games that mimic these games are what spawned the genre of "soulslike", as they are like souls games. Dark Souls is not a soulslike.
I'm not sure why you're getting down-voted or disagreed with so hard, as you are correct. A "like" implies that it derives from something, and soulslike is a sub-genre. Souls games cannot occupy a sub-genre that was derived from it, haha.
Missing the point. Example: Super Metroid and Castlevania SOTN birthed the genre Metroidvania...
They are still metroidvania games. I believe the confusion is because the genre has the word "like" in the naming. If the genre were dubbed "Souls-Style" instead, I bet this conversation wouldn't even be a thing. I bet everyone would agree that the original Dark Souls Trilogy could be classified as "Souls-Style"
I love articles like this that talk on and on and on about something and never link to it. Fuckers. This site sucks for promoting garbage.
Hmm could be good or bad.
Hopefully we won't see the Souls series turn into a yearly affair.
Can't wait to see what they work on next though as the Souls games were some of the most rewarding I've played in years.
One Souls game is enough to tide me over for a very long time.
Totally agree: no annual releases.
I wish they would redo the King's Field series from the old Ps1. I have no idea why it is not on PSN now. Stupid Sony.
Surprising. You'd think Namco Bandai, or to a much much lesser degree, Atlus would have attempted a purchase!
Please bring me a new Tenchu game, or sell the rights to someone who will. Someone like Sony would be good, it would be nice to see it come full circle, and someone needs to give that series the AAA spit shine it's always deserved and never had.