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Streamer Finishes All 7 FromSoftware Soulslike Games in a Row Without Taking Damage or Leveling Up

A streamer completed seven FromSoftware Soulslike games in sequence without taking a hit or leveling up.

thorstein124d ago (Edited 124d ago )

"...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.

Duke19124d ago

What a thing to get upset over

thorstein124d ago

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.

isarai124d ago

Literally every single one of those games is a definitive soulslike

thorstein124d ago

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."

xHeavYx124d ago

@thorstein What am I picturing you on the floor throwing a tantrum? Chill dude.

thorstein124d ago

@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.

adamwparker124d ago

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.

thorstein124d ago (Edited 124d ago )

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.

gleepot124d ago (Edited 124d ago )

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.

gleepot124d ago

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.

jsiddlehfx123d ago (Edited 123d ago )

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"

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Relientk77124d ago

How do you kill that which has no life

mudakoshaka124d ago

Haha, rewatched that episode yesterday for like the 10th time.

Sciurus_vulgaris124d ago

Then there’s me with a copy of Sekiro that I will never finish….

Lexreborn2124d ago

I like leveling up to much to not use it. Stat boosting makes me happy

Smellsforfree124d ago

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.

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Rogue Trader producer reveals his dream project: a CRPG SCP game with an actual budget

Owlcat Games producer Anatoly Shestov reveals his dream project: an SCP game with Owlcat RPG flair and a proper budget.

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While Layoffs Hit the Industry, Nintendo Retains 98% of Staff Including 78 With Disabilities

TNS: Based on its most recent ESG data, Nintendo boasts a remarkably low staff turnover rate of just 1.9%, with virtually no reported layoffs.

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Jin_Sakai1d 9h ago

Because Nintendo makes great games.

Yesyes11h ago

It’s unreal that people are downvoting this when they consistently have the best scoring games on metacritic.

1d 7h ago
rlow11d 7h ago

Well it doesn’t surprise me. As much money as they make and how they value their employees. It’s a great company in that regard.

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drivxr1d 3h ago

Well, when your games remain full price many years after release.

And you make profit off of outdated hardware.

I would be shocked if they couldn't afford to retain their staff.

lodossrage1d 1h ago (Edited 1d 1h ago )

I didn't want to say anything but drivxr is right.

Nintendo always sells at a profit because they purposely use tech that's always 5 or more years behind. And it's also true their games hardly ever get price decreases.

Don't get me wrong, it's great they kept most of their workforce, but making a point to have your tech specs behind everyone else affords that luxury.

Darkegg22h ago

I don’t think it’s their purpose to use old tech. It’s their purpose to make value of software and know their value. Nobody makes games like them that’s for sure. I just don’t appreciate their customer unfriendly policy.

It’s not impossible to take their status. Companies need to have a selection of 8-bit and 16-bit. Now imagine a split screen for 8 player game for SNES Mario kart and selling at $9.99. The problem is that it doesn’t make profit. So many companies won’t invest in “old” technology. Everyone guns for triple AAA modern technology software but honestly we can enjoy modernized 16-bit creative ideas that allows 8-player mayhem. It’s a pipe dream, possible but impossible.

Shane Kim23h ago(Edited 23h ago)

If they ended up kicking people out after all of that stated above, it would be truly shameful.

DivineHand12518h ago

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Tesla and Meta are all trillion dollar companies yet they are laying people off in large numbers.

I believe the reason Nintendo layoffs off less workers may be a result of their culture. It seems Japanese companies believe in giving their workers long term or life long employment opportunities and will exhaust all options before laying off workers. This is something we don't see much of in the west unfortunately.

Rdeal12h ago

might be something to do with the fact all those companies hire more than 20x the employees than Nintendo

LoveSpuds18h ago(Edited 18h ago)

What the hell are you talking about? It has nothing to do with how profitable they are. Its completely cultural, MS and Sony make stacks of cash and still lay folks off. Nintendo chose not to lay off staff for the same reason their execs took pay cuts to increase staff pay instead; because they value their staff and view them as colleagues, and respect them as such.

If Sony weren't so US centric I fancy they'd fare better too, they should get shot of US and European leadership and go back to when Japanese execs were running the show if you ask me!

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Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc To Rock San Diego Comic-Con

This should make fans attending the ahow event happier as Bandai Namco is bringing some interesting game experiences to the convention.