What do you think of games that try too hard to be like Dark Souls like Salt and Sanctuary or Lords of the Fallen?
Lords of the Fallen bothered me because it didn't feel like it was really trying to be anything but a 1:1 clone of Dark Souls.
Darksiders, for instance, has God of War style combat, but also uses a progression and item system similar to Zelda. Even with similar gameplay mechanics like bomb-plants, it tries to be its own thing. LotF was trying to be Dark Souls right down to the control scheme.
>>330647130
The same happens with Salt and Sanctuary but in 2D.
You can see in the videos that is nearly a ripoff of Dark Souls but with shittier artstyle and in 2D.
Without understanding what makes Souls good all of them are just superficial reproduction which are generally shit.
But they could be good with the right developer and the right understanding.
Honestly they could also be better. Its not like from is a perfect dev and it is not like they invented action rpgs.
>>330647130
How was LoF both a shameless attempt at a copy and worse in every way, it fucking blows my mind.
Wow let's monetize on this popular game, but let's also make the story and the art direction shit and the combat clunky as hell, why not make the main character some unlikable generic bald guy too, that's what the demographics wants, clearly.
>>330647687
The combat looks nothing like dark souls, and the the stat system is more complex.
The devs are pretty cool too, they made the dishwasher games.
>>330648547
One of the things that makes Soul series and Bloodborne good is the art direction, lore and characters
They thought that just copypasting the gameplay would be fine but they lacked heart
>>330648649
I don't mean the combat itself but more the mechanics of the game.
Salt equals to souls, you even can get pouchs of salt like you could get souls from corpses in Dark Souls
They even took the mechanic of Bloodborne that you need to kill the monster that killed you to get your salt back
>>330646627
Fuck off with your gay indie shit, and fuck Sony for continuing to "give" us these piss poor excuses for games.
Are you guys assuming Dark Souls has gameplay that unique to itself only? Lords of the Fallen IS a Dark Souls clone but not every hack and slash is a Souls Clone. That's as ignorant as saying every turn based game is ripping off Final Fantasy
>>330649568
Easiest way to ID a souls clone is a slow paced "block and slash" gameplay with stamina draining attacks
What do you guys think of games that try too hard to be like Severance: Blade of Darkness like Demons Souls or Dark Souls?
>>330650008
That they did a good job at being their own games.
I heard konami try to make soul like game too but the setting is samurai era or something. What do you guys think?
>>330650271
If that's true, they're stupid for fucking over Kojima considering he'd be perfect for that.
>>330650008
The difference is that these games are blatantly trying to copy Souls games instead of making their own brand of gameplay. Severance is its own distinct game, Souls games are their own distinct games, Lords of the Fallen plays like Dark Souls lite, it doesnt have its own identity, its just that game that is like Dark Souls.
>>330650326
Im sorry it is koei tecmo, not konami.
The game called nioh
>>330650508
Yeah, Ni-Oh is good. I played it at TGS
>>330646627
I honestly hate all these new "souls like" games way more than Lord's of the Fallen. NONE OF THEM ARE EVEN REMOTELY LIKE THE SOULS GAMES
Lords of the Fallen is just a shallow cash grab, clones of popular games existed for ages. However all the "souls like" developers seem to actually believe their games are masterworks.
Don't forget demon sperm the 2d soulslike, featuring a scantily clad busty MC
>>330646627
>Le salt
I hope it fails just because of its name
>>330651071
Stop being so salty.
>>330650573
Glad to hear that.
After they release toukiden which like monster hunter with samurai/jappanesse theme and nioh which like dark soul with samurai theme, I'm kindda worried they just try to clone some popular game
>>330650763
where
>>330650763
>check it out because I can definitely masturbate to porn games
>boring as fuck
>not even hot
why
