Fair but from software make quality games unlike others

I never had any issues with their games. Graphically they may not be the best but all of their games i have played are fun which is more important. They aren't a bug fest like Bethesda that sometimes need modders to fix their games after launch.

I think so

Who would you put as the best developer?

@Bobertt

When I think of the best devs things like Naughty Dog, Rockstar, and Insomniac come to mind.

I'm not trying to rag on FromSoft.

I love their games, but let's be real, where was everyone before Demon's Souls came into the picture? Miyazaki turned the company around in my books, but I've been with this company since the PS1 days and while I love a lot of their games, aside from the Souls-like series, I haven't thought of them as like the best developers over all developers. Have you played Enchanted Arms?

But the technical issues bruh? They exist.

But yeah, ppl dress it up as brilliant storytelling and at times it's simply messy and confusing. From was influenced by Shadow of the Colossus and models some narrative elements from that game. However, does anyone say SotC has a brilliant story? Again, cool lore, kinda, but masterful storytelling? Not really.

For those who are smarter than the room and claim From Soft storytelling is brilliant , i ask this. Why then do films and most books waste time developing a clear narrative path? Why aren't they just a bunch of lore you have to piece together? Or has From Software elevated the artform beyond what we formerly perceived as the apex? Like..can you rightly say Dark Souls has a better story than TLOU? No. Because TLOU, narratively, is crafted appropriately.

"What good is amazing lore if you scatter it to the winds and make your audience piece things together where even once they are done they still argue over it on places like Reddit about what's actually right."

So should there only be one true interpretation of the story? Where's the fun in that?

“ So should there only be one true interpretation of the story? Where's the fun in that?”

Oh come on I didn’t mean it like that, it’s just their games do it to EVERYTHING.

Every single thing in the game is like it’s own mini discussion where fan theories go wild

It’s alright if you have set story lore in place but when your fans are literally at each others throats over almost every thing it just seems silly

It’s nice to have fun discussions and about some open ended things but with games like Elden Ring it’s a lot

I understand the appeal of filling in the blanks, Returnal did this well, but ffs it had cutscenes, it had enough well placed breadcrumbs to not feel completely lost but rather question what is going on. From Soft isn't even storytelling it's scattered lore.

I'm not asking for a Telltale game but a few more threads to stitch together would be nice. A couple cutscenes? Again, Returnal did this brilliantly and still kept it open for interpretation. Imo Returnal did story better than any From Soft game while adhering to similar principles.

And it's basically every game. No longer a novelty. It's the same thing from DeS 2009 to ER 2022. 13 yrs and 5 games, i didn't play Sekiro enough to know. Some elements to connect it, some coherence, some production. Again, like cutscenes in Returnal which only further pushed the investment and mystery rather than spoiling anything.

No From Soft game has been a technical or graphic standout. To the point where not have met average AAA standards. DS3 did 10m. E Ring will dl 30 million units. It has nothing to do with scale or weapons as that would be attributed more to file size and compression. From has the overhead with current gen to implement better visuals and not change a thing about design other than their engine.

When games do 10-30m copies you can afford to develop better tech. You can have a good looking Soulslike. Look at Demon's Souls. Blue Point given the resources could do the same to ER. Despite the scale.

See if that happened people would complain that PlayStation paid off From Software to keep it off Xbox without realising there was no game to pay off and games like that don't get made unless someone takes that step and makes it happen.

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse