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What do you think will be the perfect setting for a souls game? Futuristic? Aztec? Frontier? Lets talk about it.
>>332227357
They said they were moving away from Souls-esque games to pursue different projects.
post yfwit won't be on PC
>>332227423
adventures of cookies and cream 2 please
>>332227357
>Sci-Fi souls
>Combat still based on melee
>>332227357
Armored Core with a PC release when
I'm done with Souls games
A wild west Souls game would be fucking neat.
>>332227656
How would that even work
>yfw cyberpunk souls game
>>332227738
>ain't from around here are ya stranger?
>>332227738
It's literally bloodborne with revolvers its not that much of a change.
>>332227357
Like I said in the last thread, a Blame inspired setting would be perfect for sci-fi souls.
>>332227656
>>332227846
Why do I want this so badly.
I'd like Futuristic. Aztec could be neat. anything other than knighty-knight knight settings, as much as I love dark european fantasy shit.
>>332227357
i could imagine their sci fi souls to be like a dead space game
gay leather bar
>Armored Core with persistent souls world environment
Could be cool.
>>332227968
>Blame
how's the animation version of Blame!?
If they really work on it a cyberpunk souls game will be fucking amazing.
>>332227918
>Wild West
>swords
>>332227968
Only if it includes ridiculously long walks between areas and no fast travel.
>>332227357
Just give me another Bloodborne directed by Miyazaki.
>>332227918
How would swords work in the wild west, also what would you fight? Cowboys and wolfs?
>>332227987
>>332227656
>>332227846
>Imagine RDR with bonfires
Underwater Highschool
>>332228212
no it will become another dark souls 2
>>332228105
It's completely forgettable.
>>332228293
That's why I said directed by Miyazaki so it doesn't become like Dark Souls 2.
>>332228313
Shame.
Time to reread it. Need something to do with my rainy Sunday night.Was going to start Asscreed Syndicate but just can't bring myself to.
>>332227423
when
>>332227357
Armored Souls
>Ghost in the machine
>Rules of nature
>200% mad
>Cyberpunk wars 2099
>your soul is to be sacrificed so prolong cyber era
>>332228171
Hey swords work on bloodborne. And bloodborne is set on victorian era. Where everyone used muskets and shit. Miyazaki can do it.
French baseball sim/firefighting
>>332227357
>tfw they actually call it Dark Data
>>332228259
Dinosaurs.
>>332228414
Check out Biomega if you haven't already.
>>332228428
"Fans often speculate about whether the Souls framework and style of gameplay will ever extend to genres outside of dark fantasy. Have you thought about that, perhaps sci-fi Souls?
Dark Souls is my life’s work. Everything I came up with for Dark Souls 3 is based on my personal preferences. However, Dark Souls 3 is also actually the turning point for the franchise. This project was launched by the previous From Software management, before I was appointed president. In that sense, Dark Souls 3 is the turning point for the series.
As president of From Software, I am planning to launch several new projects. I can’t quite specify exactly what they are. Those could be something sci-fi, but you’ll have to stay tuned for more about that in the future."
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/dark-souls-3-interview-this-is-a-turning-point-for/1100-6429569/
>>332228330
DSII came out like it was due to executive meddling rather than poor directorial vision.
I just hope it won't be medieval or atleast european we had 4 games with medieval settings already.
Maybe ancient egyptian or roman perhaps?
Go the EX Troopers route and make it extremely anime.
All I know is that if the next From Software game isn't Souls like then I'm not fucking playing it.
>>332227357
Koei's Ni-Oh
>>332227423
in the garbage
>>332228758
>I just hope it won't be european
>ancient egyptian or roman perhaps?
I hope I don't eat shit but I wanna eat poop and pee
>>332228171
Use knives and axes. Have black powder revolvers so you either carry multiple guns or leave yourself vulnerable while reloading.
>>332227423
Yeah and it will be shit just like every other From Software game prior to Demon's Souls and it will sell like shit and they'll go right back to making Souls like games.
>>332227357
I want it to be a porn game directed by Quentin Tarantino
>>332229167
>just like every other From Software game prior to Demon's Souls
>Shitting on King's FIeld IV
>Shitting on Shadow Tower
>Shitting on Tenchu
Are you 17 or something?
>>332227478
Shucks, friendNever ever
>>332229167
You really don't think they've learned anything from 5 games and years of experience?
>>332229282
all pretty good games, but shit compared to the souls series
>>332227738
I'm the guy from last thread who said he wanted a Frontier Souls game.
Basically, I envision it as this;
You play as a drifter type, just rolled into camp. Town is seedy as Hell, real Wild West Sodom and Gomorah.
You sit down at a bar, and have a few drinks, next thing you know some local has spiked your drink and you pass out. You wake up in the basement of some boarded up building, with some bizarre Navajo type ritual having taken place with you as the subject (thus explaining your immortality). You get your shit together and decide to find out what the fuck just happened, only when you walk outside, the hell hole of a town you walked into is now a literal Hell hole.
You're faced with backwards locals deep in some pagan shit, spirit world beasts and entities seeking to consume the lands, and a Church at the centre that doesn't seem too bothered about the teachings of Christ anymore.
Basically, Bloodborne but Frontier America.
Fast paced Bloodborne combat with your sidearm as your main and your melee as your secondary.
>>332229375
but the Souls series is the worst thing they made
>>332227423
From will always make Souls game their all other series are unpopular garbage.
They have one thing they are great at and that sells pretty well with a large community.
I don't think they will put it in a trash bin and ''pursue new projects''.
>>332229413
I WANT THIS
>>332229375
Apples and friggen oranges jesus christ. This movement away from Souls can only mean good things. Miyazaki has an eye for direction, and DSIII will be the final game with Bamco so there'll be less fiascos like Dark Souls' second half and the entirety of DSII's development.
I understand it's good to temper your expectations but I really don't see anything too horrible coming out from them.
>>332229469
Let's not be idiots here.
>>332229282
Yes, all are major hits like DeS forward.
Money makes games and the money wasn't in those.
I want Blame Souls.
Or Giger Souls.
>>332229413
yuck we don't need more pistol fags
>>332229282
I didn't own a PS1 or PS2 as a kid I had Nintendo consoles but by googling them they sure look like trash and I'm sure you only say they're good out of nostalgia or you're just trying to be a contrarian faggot.
>>332229469
You are a hipster
.>>332229413
I came buckets.
>there will never be a Souls type game in a futuristic sci-fi setting
How would you make a Souls game in a modern day setting?
Hard mode: not "I wouldn't"
>>332227423
Yeah, cause it's not like they didn't have plenty of other successful franchises going for them before Souls, right?
>>332229538
Who the hell was talking about money in the previous posts? If we're talking money no shit the Souls games beat out but money isn't the sole indicator of quality in a product this is common knowledge.
>>332229602
Sure friendo.
Post more doll
>>332229586
Wheelbro pls
>>332229640
It's funny how the only articles you clicked on are both Souls games
>System Souls
>Implying i wouldn't buy that shit
We need aa sci-fi Souls game right the fuck now.
Or this >>332229413
>>332227357
>>332227990
Aztec would be rad, so much of theiir mythology is already perfect.
>pic related is their creator goddess
>>332229480
you know with all the souls fags around they just need to say from the devs that made dark souls and people will take it, whatever it is?
it's not like their other ips are bad
Aztec would be perfect for the tone of the games. Surprised I never thought of them using that.
>>332228157
not if it's sleek and clean like your pic.
gimme some grimy post-apo cybergoth vampires and shit
What about Egyptian Souls? You could have the whole Book of the Dead thing going on.
>>332229924
Nobody's saying they can't use a new IP but if the gameplay and story telling isn't Souls like then nobody is going to buy it.
>>332229527
>I understand it's good to temper your expectations but I really don't see anything too horrible coming out from them.
probably not, but I doubt they'll ever make something as innovative, successful and important as the souls games ever again.
I mean, the way Miyazaki talks about the souls games really makes me feel like he was just made to create these games, like they were absolutely perfect for him. He doesn't strike me as some genius director who has a billion of ideas for games.
>wanting the exact same game to be made in different flavor od infinitum
Jesus you guys.
As long as it's lovecraftian it's fine by me.
>>332230080
>>332229887
take elements from those, without copying.
>>332230072
Not that faggy though, needs some creepy sleekness.
>>332229527
Miyazaki is hit and miss as fuck. He ruined Armored Core.
>>332228171
>Victorian era
>swords
>>332230152
If the formula isn't broken then don't fix it.
>>332230126
Yes i meant this i don't want a new Dark Souls. But i want the same gameplay with changes like in Bloodborne.
>>332227357
Futuristic.
Even if another Souls game might not ever reach fruition, I would love one with neon lights and flashy weapons ond shit.
>>332229147
>Have black powder revolvers so you either carry multiple guns or leave yourself vulnerable while reloading
This is a great idea.
Make it a hot switch so you can string combos together.
Say your blasting with your six shooter and it's about to run out, time the switch to your rifle just right and you pull of an awesome combo.
Also trick weapons. Dual tomahawk pistols.
>>332230126
What? They can definitely do something that isn't souls-like and still sell. I want to see them try something completely different.
>>332227423
fingers crossed for Otogi 3, a new King's Field or a Berserk game
>>332229167
>hating armored core
FITE ME
Chefs
>>332230141
>I mean, the way Miyazaki talks about the souls games really makes me feel like he was just made to create these games
I agree. I don't know why people are saying they're throwing the Souls series away. I'm certain if they fuck up even one title they'll go right back to doing what they do best.
>>332230194
I've heard mixed things about Armored Core so I wouldn't know; I've heard people absolutely loving For Answer and people disdaining it so I can't comment. What I can comment is 3/3 Souls directed games by him were outstanding. Hit, hit, hit.
>>332230072
>>332230185
How about this?
>>332230274
How would you do a melee-focused game in a sci-fi setting? Something like lightsabers?
>>332230161
>Taking marine invertebrate course at Uni
>Prof opens every new section with Haeckel's sketches of the species
That mother fucker could draw, makes me thirst for some deep-sea horror vidya.
>>332230369
Yeah, that's the good stuff.
Warhammer 40k themed Souls game.
It actually makes a lot of sense.
Grimdark, gothic, hopeless setting.
Lore is very fragmented and twisted.
Most characters are morally imbiguous or straight insane.
Godlike powers that pull strings exist but don't interfer directly.
Many conflicting factions with their own agendas and worldviews.
Really fancy artstyle and due to how large the universe spans you can basically do with it whatever you want.
>>332230185
>faggy
it's the right kind of faggy, the gross and disturbing kind.
and yeah I guess we could go for some Giger shit but done right. Like, not just fleshy textures.
>>332230407
My nigga Haeckel's the fucking man.
>>332230141
Bullshit. He actually seems like the kind of guy who knows how to make a game in general.
>>332230395
Just melee weapons that can do weird, futuristic shit. And maybe weapons similar to lightsabers
>>332230369
make it a bit more decrepit and it works
I'm partial towards a more industrial and less high-tech design though.
>>332227357
i want to see a souls game take place in feudal japan with mythical creatures being the bosses
i think that would be really awesome
A Star War game
I want a souls game that isn't bleak and grimderp. If there's Scifi Souls, I don't want it to be like System Shock. If there's Western Souls, i don't want it to be like Darkwatch.
Come up with something else for the theme, please.
>>332230512
some straight up Elric/Moorcock trippy chaos gods multiverse nonsense stuff
>>332230715
no
your tastes are wrong, inaccurate, and reprehensible.
>>332230745
They already borrowed quite a lot from Moorcock for Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1.
Didn't you notice?
>>332230649
>how to make a game in general
Most game directors know “how to make a game in general“, that doesn't mean that they make games though.
Has anyone watched the movie 9 or Coraline
i don't know what you call that type of thing.
But you know like that pupeteer old dusty leathery kind of creepy as fuck setting might work.
>>332230512
Wait, did anyone check to make sure the Souls games aren't actually just warhammer?
>>332230838
No u
>>332229640
You really want Souls games churned out annually like CoD or FIFA?
>Deep Sea Souls
>>332229167
Have you ever played any of the early Armored Core games, you child?
>>332230910
He was a software dude for Oracle Corporation prior to making the career change to video games. He worked on Armored Core before Demon's Souls, and he had pretty much total control over Demon's Souls because nobody else wanted/everybody else thought it would suck. He himself made the push for the invasion/summon system, and he got a lot of ridicule because people didn't think you could implement that in the game.
Maybe it was the setting of DeS that got him so fired up, but the fact that he left his cozy software job to work in video games, I definitely think he has ideas for other video games.
>>332231191
I already said this earlier I never had a PS1 or PS2 as a kid but I'm sure they were trash.
>>332230715
>I want a Souls game that doesn't look like a Souls game
Half the appeal of the series is it's aesthetic.
Saying you don't want a grim dark Souls is like saying you do want a grim dark Zelda/Mario/whatever.
It's fundamentally the opposite of what the series is about.
>>332230704
Nioh might be just that.
>>332230369
That looks like a Strogg.
>>332231204
>Oracle Corporation
>Praise the Sun
no wonder he left
>>332231067
They could still make Souls games without doing annual releases, you idiot.
>>332231329
A lot of people ask for a dark souls Zelda
I'm not asking for happy balloon jumpy souls, just one that isn't thematically "your efforts are almost futile, fighting against this cycle". Just gets boring desu
>>332230995
how would they be warhammer?
I'm just playing the first Dark Souls and I FUCKING LOVE IT
why didn't I play it before
why can I never play another third-person-RPG with inferior combat (which is probably every single one out there)
why did I enjoy killing Solaire so much
>ctrl+F "Pirate"
>"0 of 0"
disappointed.
why not a (loosely?) pirate themed game? works nicely with the swords
>>332228721
Your quote doesn't say they're moving away from DaS.
FROM are now a rich company after 3 incredibly successful games in a row. They can afford to have more than one team working on games at a time, and worked on BB and DaS2 simultaneously. It's not a stretch for them to keep going on the cash cow that is DaS while working on more exotic projects
>>332228789
gizmo da nigga knows what's up
>tfw no science-fantasy souls
>destiny wasted cool lore and worldbuilding on a shitty discount borderlands
>>332231067
If every Souls game was
>Player character dumped in a new world with different set of lore, enemy designs, weapons, outfits, etc.
with the exact same gameplay, and they came out with these every few years, I'd be a contented man.
>>332231703
>Your quote doesn't say they're moving away from DaS.
Oh I know that. I didn't mean for that, I was pointing out that there are new games on the horizon from From Software.
>>332229635
You're an American cop in a drug infested ghetto.
>>332229167
Otogi is good though. Faggot.
>>332231329
This guy is right
>>332231620
Play elder scrolls or warhammer or other high fantasy shit, then, there are a lot of games for your taste
I want Great War Souls. This will be the shit.
Dragon Souls
>Each covenant is a different color of dragon
>Several different dragon forms that give different bonuses (defense/attack/mobility)
>Highly customizable dragon form appearance
>PvP is focused on invading dragons of other covenants
>>332231693
meh i don't know. But you know they could make it work if it has some deep sea themes.
>>332231675
Damn man you enjoyed killing Solaire? I was pretty bummed, myself.
>>332230715
>>332230715
>I want a souls game that isn't bleak and grimderp
That is literally the only fucking way these games work. You can't make a souls game that isn't set in a dark, unwelcoming and hostile world. Pulling you into a world like that is literally their main draw. It's the only reason why these games are challenging.
>>332231859
>Great War Souls
That would be sick. Intertwined real combat situations and feverish nightmares where the soldier is suffering shell shock.
>>332229413
I came a little
>>332231859
Those games have shit gameplay though. And Souls is high fantasy
There isn't a dragon dogma 2, sadly
>>332229413
>Fast paced Bloodborne combat with your sidearm as your main and your melee as your secondary
That would be boring as shit
>game designed around fast, 3rd person melee movement
If you keep the same control scheme, then it would be clunky and boring. If you change the control scheme to focus on shooting, then it's not even Soulsborne anymore.
>>332231917
Didn't get why he is so popular, he just talks shit about the sun and then all of the sudden he attacks me, that fucker had it coming
but hey, dank memes
>>332232023
They're challenging because of their mechanics, not their atmosphere.
>>332232228
But the atmosphere is one of the key elements, it's what makes Souls games so unique and memorable.
>>332232159
>He didn't even save Solly
call that a playthrough?
>>332227968
>FROM gets as much as inspiration from BLAME! as from berserk
i would buy that shit 10x on every fucking platform for the 3 months!
>>332232159
wew lad
Immediatelly start a new character and save that man, you owe him that much.
>>332231675
What are some tips on getting past the enemies in Undead Burg after killing Taurus Demon?
>>332232159
>Didn't get why he is so popular
I'm not one to completely overrate him myself, but he was an enjoyable character in that in this grim world he was always a joy to speak to. Seeing him how he was in Lost Izalith and killing him bummed me the hell out.
>>332231814
>with the exact same gameplay, and they came out with these every few years, I'd be a contented man.
That's not how it the industry works though.
Annual releases for well established franchises is more profitable and safer.
>>332232228
No, I mean the reason they made these games challenging in the first place.
And that reason is because it adds to the atmosphere. The mechanics are obviously used to create that difficulty.
>>332230697
Rationalise it by saying that body amour is so advanced that bullets are useless, but that there are advances in metallurgy that allow developments in weapons that can penetrate it. That's probably a load of shite though
>>332232469
>Annual releases for well established franchises is more profitable and safer.
True enough but Souls isn't exactly annual. 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016.
>>332232609
That always made sense to me in sci fi settings.
Shit like revengeance, of course a melee weapon is going to do more damage than a ranged weapon. You are putting them on fucking robots with muscles that can lift robots that weight tons! That shit hits you, it's going to make some damage
>>332232640
well, you add dlc and goty editions to that and it pretty much sums up to annual releases
>>332230995
Lore is completely different.
>>332231859
The war is raging for over 200+ years now, the resources are scarce, almost no powder, no fuel for vehicles, bullets are extra rare, people are fighting with sabers, trench clubs, bayonettes. Great warriors rule over the trenches with their mauser k96 gunblades.
Nodoby remembers why the war was started. Nobody remembers when people started return to trenches after their death, almost every soldier forgot how many times he died already.
(+ shellsock nightmares, religious themes, human versus god, deep trenches, witches in far away villages where are no men anymore, giant rats, spirits of sentient tanks and some other mistical shit)
Strange fog covered the battlefield and nobody knows what will happen next.
>>332232923
True enough, but I mean full on new game releases. Not expansions/re-releases.
>>332229167
Armored Core, Otogi, Tenchu, King's Field, all the other shit? Those are all great my dear man.
I'm quite glad they're going to do something different.
It's precisely why we got Souls in the first place. And now they've grown and are more capable.
>>332227357
>yfw big budget Armored Core game using Fox Engine
Just imagine.
I think Hindu mythology would work quite well, lots of material to work with, loys of cool imagery, though the risk if offending millons of people exists I suppose.
>>332232138
>That would be boring as shit
Why would it? Playing a bloodtinge build in Bloodborne isn't boring, so I don't see why it would be here.
>>332233594
Nah
>>332230995
>Gwyn (Emperor) and his race of giants (Space Marines) defeated and pushed back the Dragons (daemons)
>Gwyn gave parts of his soul to his Lords (Primarchs), his favourite son is missing (Horus), and Gwyn now rests half dead at the Kiln (Golden Throne)
>>332232093
>Souls is high fantasy
Souls is dark fantasy
>>332233594
>Poo Souls
>final boss is the Toilet Witch
>>332232967
>>332231859
This would be pretty fucking cool desu
>>332232923
That's pretty different from the AssCreed or CoD style of annual release, which is what people imply when they say that.
The fact is that the base games always get 1.5 - 2 years of dev work before release. DLC can be easily made by a skeleton crew, because all the hard stuff is already done.
>>332232093
I don't think you understand what high fantasy means, kid. Dank Souls is much closer to low fantasy
>egyptian mythology Souls
>every God is a boss
>>332233824
>>332233895
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zTfAFut0IE
>>332233715
Horus isn't missing
>Miyazaki directs the next God of War
How do you react?
>>332233824
Designated shitting bonfires
If Cyberpunk hire Nihei to help out so you don't get this fucking disgusting generic cyberpunk look made with by hacks with shitty photobashing.
And don't let Nihei write anything at all.
>>332233953
"These stories are often serious in tone and epic in scope, dealing with themes of grand struggle against supernatural, evil forces.[8] Some typical characteristics of high fantasy include fantastical elements such as elves, fairies, dwarves, ogres, goblins, giants, dragons, demons, magic or sorcery, wizards or magicians, constructed languages, quests, coming-of-age themes, and multi-volume narratives."
"High fantasy is defined as fantasy set in an alternative, fictional ("secondary") world, rather than "the real", or "primary" world. The secondary world is usually internally consistent, but its rules differ from those of the primary world. By contrast, low fantasy is characterized by being set in the primary, or "real" world, or a rational and familiar fictional world, with the inclusion of magical elements."
?
>>332233824
>will you put the poo in the loo?
>will you leave it floating in there?
>.. or will you flush it?
DARK SOULS 1: REBOOTYou know I speak the truth.Screencap this.pic for attention
>>332227423
They are not.
Verendus said the next game is another Sony collab and a JRPG. He said JRPG because that's "What the souls games are" even though you could argue that they are action games
Probably a spin-off like Bloodborne was.
>>332233953
>Low fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy fiction involving "nonrational happenings that are without causality or rationality because they occur in the rational world where such things are not supposed to occur."
>High fantasy is defined as fantasy set in an alternative, fictional ("secondary") world, rather than "the real", or "primary" world. The secondary world is usually internally consistent, but its rules differ from those of the primary world.
Yeah, because literal gods running around, everyone having magic, cities in giant trees, demons, huge birds, and magic paintings are all staples of the real world
>Westaboo game director
>Doing anything outside of Europe
Maybe he will do a Slav or Hispanian game.
>>332234206
People would hate it because it would not be 100% like the original
>>332234346
>>332234151
Dark Souls is dark fantasy.
It's in the title.
>>332234206
Kill yourself, t*rkroach.
>>332234365
But they will still buy it and From will still milk the cash cow.
>>332234206
>>332234451
What is going on?
>>332234365
I wouldn't want it 100% like the original. I'd want the latter half of the game to be finished.
>>332234352
>Dark Squats
>all dem Adidas sweat pants and track suits
>sipping from the Kvass Flask
>buffing with krokodil
>>332234352
>>332234851
>Gororovich, Lord Of Cigarettes
>>332234851
Some great locations awaits
>>332227593
PsP games on emulator with pvp, closest thing to a PC AC game we'll ever get.
>>332234851
>Last boss is a mass of soccer hooligans
>>332235258
This is not great britain souls thoughMass of soccer hooligans will be a bunch of mobs in the starting location in slav souls
>>332230365
>miyazaki ruined armored core:
For Answer is the best AC game for people who never wanted to play armored core in the first place
>>332227423
THANK FUCKING GOD
At least when they were making AC and KF games, they still released a bunch of new IPs or sequel games alongside. The last nonsouls shit they made was verdict day, like three years ago.
El Chavo Souls when?
The pic in the OP is my dream.
SystemShockSoulsBorne when
>>332235504
Which is only part of why it sucks.
>>332235551
When you build the wall.
>>332235619
FA sucks but there are still people who will defend it to the ends of the earth
The only thing that AC fans agree on is that Ninebreaker isn't worth buying
They're taking a break from the souls formula after Ds3.
>>332236082
Except their next Sony Souls was already confirmed.
>>332236134
Source. Miyazaki said himself after 3 he's gonna do something different. They've been doing Souls for 8 years now counting DeS dev time.
>>332236306
http://nichegamer.com/2016/03/15/atlus-marvelous-from-software-more-working-on-playstation-vr-content/
>>332234352
>Slav game
could work actually. think STALKER, it's a similar atmosphere/tone. the soviet style lends itself well to games of crushing despair. something like bloodborne, but with the healing church replaced by a corrupt government, gothic architecture replaced by the grim monumental concrete-and-steel structures commies liked to build, mixed together with dilapidated military and research facilities, and overrun with mutants and biomechanical horrors.
just need to sort out the gameplay somehow.
>>332236306
Souls-like is a genre, pretty much. Miyazaki said that he don't want to make another dark souls or bloodborne game. But he is making a spin-off souls-like game, right now. You can't do anything about that. Wait till E3.Also it will be a PS4 exclusive at 30fps. I really have to buy ps4
>>332236783
Nah, I live in Russia, I don't want realistic games
>>332236624
That doesn't mean they're gonna make another "souls-like" game.
>>332236978
And what will they make? Another Echo Night for vr?
>>332237057
Well it could quite literally be anything.
I doubt it would happen, but it'd be interesting to see a souls game with a revolutionary war setting
>>332230250
How about don't keep making the same God damn game?
>>332236978
It's literally the only thing they have been doing for years, and it's also what brings the cash, I doubt they'll stop now. Miyazaki might not work Souls games anymore, but to expect From Software to not be working on a new Souls game right now is stupid.
>>332236808
>soulslike is a genre
It's a style within a genre.
>>332229167
fucking this, its like they hate money
>>332228105
there is no animated version, just a collection of short animated scenes.
>>332237185
Blame! anime is confirmed when Nihei completed Knights of Sidonia
>>332233149
>King's Field
That's literally Souls game before they were called Souls.
>>332237136
I'm not saying whether it will be a souls game or not all I'm saying is that it could be anything.
>>332237161
They like their niche, it's not 100% about the money.
You don't make shit like Murakumo Renegade Mech Pursuit thinking you're diving into some ez cash.
this thread is pointless because there wont be any more souls games. from has already said this.
I want a new Echo Night. Set in space again with some elements from the Souls games since From always recycles SOMETHING from their other games.
>>332237328
It's an ultima inspired game, you nig nog.
>>332237379
>it could be anything
It most likely will be what's most profitable for them, japanese companies are not known for taking risks.
>>332237407
They meant Dark Souls games though
So if From aren't doing any souls games, is it okay if I take up the helm and make my own?
A boogeyman setting would be cool - Inside the head of a scared child trapped in a dark nightmare world who creates a heroic persona to fight his nightmares.
The day the move on from Souls games is the day they fail as a company. All their non-Souls games have been pure trash
>>332237561
Are you a head at Namco Bandai or Sony?
>>332237561
But I'm already making itJust kidding, I'm making a turn based rpg with dark souls stamina/guard/evasion system
>>332229167
You hating on
Lost Kingdoms, brah?
I'm pretty sure they'll make Bloodborne 2 at some point, Sony spent too much money creating a new IP to shelve it after the first game.
>>332237631
You've never even played them.
>>332237762
Not him but even though they do make some other games that are good, they're pretty niche, Souls is the first popular series they ever made.
>>332237740
Sony has a 3 game contract
next game is new, third game will probably be BB2
Aztec or Egyptian would be amazing. Something almost like a Zelda setup, you have to go to the tombs/territory of the different gods and fight your way up pyramids/down through tombs or temples to reach the God. It could be non-linear but beating each god/goddess could give you a different buff that you can use on your weapons etc. It'd be fun to explore a trap-heavy dungeon like Sens again, or fight mirages or a sphinx to gain entry to the areas beyond.
>>332237865
So why would that warrant them being called shit? You weren't the audience it was for.
Chromehounds is probably one the best mech games ever made and part of soul's concept of multiplayer stemmed from it.
>>332229413
>either go full cowboy with guns and knives or 'native' with bows/arrows and daggers
>priests and shamans are arcane type
>odd classes like train engineer/miner/bartender
>slightly more open world, can hunt larger monsters
>don't know where I'm going with this
>>332238119
They're not shit but they don't bring money either, if From Software stops making Souls game they'll either crash and go bankrupt or reduce to a considerable smaller size.
>>332238286
>reduce to a smaller size
Is this bad?
>>332238286
Do you not know how budgeting works? Perhaps they are smaller projects. The first thing they put out will be bought on the good faith they've earned with the Souls games. We don't even know what it is. You sound like those people who just want Kojima to make MGS until he dies.
>FROM SHOULD STOP MAKING SOULS GAMES
and Nintendo should stop making Mario games...right?
Youkai Souls
>>332238443
Well Nintendo should definitely stop making Mario games and make some goddamn 2D Metroid and F-Zero games, fuck those kikes.
>>332229602
>I never played them but i seen pics 20 years later and they suck
eat shit faggot
>>332238443
Yes?
>>332227357
I hope they move away from Souls, it's become so fucking bland and uninspired, even for FromSoft.
>>332238663
So, Otogi?
>>332238663
Fuck this, I hate oriental setting. You go play NiOh, it's a souls game for you (it's still in development though)
I hope FS will not making anything in japanese/asian setting because of NiOh (I will not be surprised if NiOh runs at 60fps)
>>332238897
I guess, but with BB game play.
That mean no shield.
I would give my left nut for Armored Souls
>>332238969
>I will not be surprised if NiOh runs at 60fps
>PS4 game
>running at 60fps
I seriously doubt it.
>>332238443
As a matter of fact they should
>>332238859
What was bland or uninspiring about Bloodborne?
>>332239085
Isn't that basically what Kojima is making?
>>332239134
Not a damn thing
>>332238286
They need to just keep pouring resources into one IP and hope that the sales numbers stay up forever, right?
>>332230185
WE NEED
BLAME! SOULS
>>332239085
>Yfw when armored souls never ever.
>>332238969
Nioh was announced in 2004! They said it would be ready in 2016, but I'm waiting.
>>332238443
But Mario is just a brand, its games span a lot of genres, Souls games are exact clones of each other barring the accidentals
>>332238079
They could go from one extreme to the other as well. From glistening sands and ascension to sky palaces above the clouds to dark, damp crypts and tombs with skellies and cobras. Giant scorpions, the sphinx, undead warriors and past kings, mummies, and goddesses like Tawaret, Bastet and Isis as protective Goddesses in the way of Ra, Amun and Khepri.
There'll be another rehash? Yet again?
Jesus. Maybe we can climb or dive in the 15th one, though.
>>332239309
>From the makers of Ninja Gaiden 3
I will wait for reviews and word of mouth.
>>332234216
It'll be multiplat Bloodborne, backstabbing Sony, just like they did with Dark Souls.
>>332239659
DaS multiplat was Namco's idea, you dingus.
>>332227357
Armored Core, can they please start making games that arent Souls.
>>332227357
>Aztec Souls
>>332239801
Yeah but why was Bandai Namco even involved in it when they weren't involved with Demon's Souls? From obviously sought them to fund their next game.
>>332227357
No setting. Stop making these shit games. Make something without magic and knights and all that shit for once From. You have been doing it forever.
>>332239467
That was a glorified tech demo if anything. Not bad, but a Japanese Dreamcast exclusive is hardly relevant in 2016. It wasn't even relevant when it was new.
>>332236783
Did someone say slav game?
>>332239404
Fuck, I wish we had more Egyptian-based games. Tomb Raider 4 scratches the itch best, but it still doesn't delve into gods/demons. It captures tomb exploration perfectly, but it'd be perfect to have a Sen-like ascension through a pyramid as the final sequence, where you fight Horus, Ra, then finally Ra-Horakhty (a fusion of Ra and Horus, god of the rising sun).
>>332239958
Because Sony thought Demon's Souls was shit and wouldn't sell then Namco cucked them.
>>332229167
>Otogi
>Shit
I'll fucking find you.
>>332239659
>Multiplat Bloodborne
>Multiplat a Sony IP
PKeks are more desperate than I thought
>>332239958
Sony owned the name of Demon's Souls. So they just went with the name "Dark Souls" instead, and yes Bandai Namco backed them up but Bandai Namco also fucked them up with the development cycles of DS1 and DSII. Miyazaki became president in 2014 and made a deal with Kadakowa games. Hopefully they are less intrusive.
>>332239576
>Ninja Gaiden 3
There goes my hype.
>>332229167
This fag is right. Armored Core is genreshit only propped up by being in a tiny fucking genre, and tenchu is just crap.
>>332240020
And it's more relevant now because of some animu and replacing Core with Souls?
>>332227423
They never said they were stopping souls-esque, just actual souls.
>>332240317
Nah, I mean how Dark Souls was a multiplat not-sequel to Demon's Souls. Quit looking for console wars where there aren't any.
>>332229167
Realest post ITT
>>332240634
>The two new games that Sony commissioned From to do under SCEJ turn out to be "Dark Spirits"
Pretty much any fantasy RPG could be better served to have spinoffs made in not-European fantasy settings. All sorts of untapped material.
>>332239802
Armored core will never happen unless Bandai Namco changes their mind about refusing to publish it.
>>332240441
It was also one of maybe a handful of TPS from last gen that didn't turn into gears of war or resident evil clones.
>>332227423
A r m o r e d C o r e JRPG when?!?!
space. destiny done right
Monster Girls Souls.
I wish we got more religion/mythology-based games. DaS had interesting gods/demons like Nito, but I'd fucking love some real deep mythology shit like >>332239404 or >>332233594. Egyptian, Graeco-Roman, Hindu, even Shinto or Christian. Christfags are way too sensitive over their religion even being referred to as mythology though, so no chance that could happen. I'd like a Dante-style journey through heaven and hell with everything included. The lore and the atmosphere is right fucking there waiting, it annoys me that devs daren't try anything tied to religions.
>>332241032
Formula Front?
>>332239404
You could have invincible mummies that slowly shuffle towards you, your weapons slowing them down slightly but the fight is unwinnable. You need to create a basic molotov/torch-like weapon with limited uses to burn them, creating a Resident Evil-like situation where you need to weigh up which areas you'll be passing through enough to be worth spending some valuable resources on.
>>332227512
my nigga, I would like to see that too
Anything that lets them try something new would be nice. I think the souls combat and atmosphere is perfect, but I wouldn't mind some puzzles/roadblocks that actually require thought to pass. I don't think there's ever been anything in the series that could count as a puzzle, other than killing an enemy to progress or backtracking to go through a specific door. They know they have a combat system that works, and the internconnectedness of DaS1 was amazing, but if they can't afford to create that every time they should try and expand past just killing things and walking across a thin beam.
>>332240445
...what? Can you rephrase that?
>>332227357
Mecha Souls is what I need in my life. Let me customiza my mecha armor and weapons then purge alien scum from the face of earth.
There won't be another Souls game, nor another spinoff like Bloodborne, at least for a good while.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/dark-souls-3-interview-it-wouldnt-be-right-to-cont/1100-6432425/
>I don't think it'd be the right choice to continue indefinitely creating Souls and Bloodborne games. I'm considering Dark Souls 3 to be the big closure on the series. That's not just limited to me, but From Software and myself together want to aggressively make new things in the future.
Sorry, OP.
>>332241176
Whose dick do I have to suck for this to happen
>mfw the make the next MGR games
>>332242541
right here buddy *unzips dick*
>>332242530
>Successful Sony IP
>Won't get a sequel
We'll see Bloodborne 2 and 3 before the PS4's lifetime is over.
>>332229413
...so Fallout New Vegas?
>>332242710
Well then I hope Miyazaki has Kojima syndrome and won't let Bloodborne be made without his (or at least FromSoft's) involvement, or we're gonna see some real shit games.
>>332228105
Nonexistent. They've just recently confirmed an adaptation but we haven't even seen any real progress.
Well, they already nailed the whole "Lovecraftian England" thing with Bloodborne, so I cannot think of much else I would want.My inner weeb is crying out for a feudal japan souls game
>>332242965
I hope there's no dialog. It should just be atmospheric exploration, perhaps a made-up language with no subtitles for any small conversations, and creepy music with metal clangs and distant creaks. I originally read through the japanese version without any understanding, and the bold artstyle alone told me everything I needed to know and it had way more impact. Reading it later in english kind of killed it for me.
>Ubisoft gets absolutely fucking punished for delivering half-finished games on an annual basis
>From doesn't
Fuck this board and fuck your double standards
>>332242530
Can't wait to see them making another souls game soon after they realize not making souls games will make them bankrupt.
>>332233594
special attack is summoning a toilet to scare all hindu ppl xd
>>332243421
Yeah, that's why I say "for a while." I'm sure they won't leave the series forever, but it might not be a bad idea to try something else next.
Who knows, maybe they'll somehow make a good first-person melee combat engine and make a new King's Field.
>>332243421
people love Armored Core, you don't perhaps, but it's very popular especially in Japan. If they just go and make another one of those finally they'll do as good as always.
from needs to stop making shitty cashgrab souls games and actually go back to their better IPs
>>332243312
haha nice man lol
>>332243312
Have you been living under the rock of all rocks? Everybody acknowledges the faults of Dark Souls' latter half, and we've had near daily threads ever since DSII came out about its faults. You moron.
Hopefully the next game will be PS4 exclusive again so we can have some more high level shitposting like with Bloodborne.
>>332227357
>Souls style game
>Evil Dead 2 Universe and weapons
>Sequel set in Army of Darkness universe
I'm sold
>>332243572
Bloodborne? Because they have no other good IP aside from Souls.
>>332243312
You must have missed all DS2 threads.
>>332243421
Remember how they were so bankrupt before Demon's Souls?
>>332243662
Sony have already signed From on for two more PS4 exclusives under SCEJ, one of which is apparently a sci-fi JRPG. No news on what the other one is yet.
>>332243772
>soulsfags in charge of being retarded
>>332242710
God I hope not. I loved Bloodborne but the twist was already done. It wont have the same effect if they do a direct sequel. What I want is X name borne. Set in the same universe but on a different setting and time. Egypt or Mayan setting would be awesome.
>>332243737
HOLY FUCK
Would pay an unlimited amount of money for this.
>>332227423
>Souls-esque
They just said they're not making anymore Souls games. Clones like BB aren't out of the equation.
>>332243884
Any source on this?
>>332227357
Dick in butt Souls
A game where they fuck their consumers raw in the ass by delaying the game 3 weeks after its Japanese release while still allowing people to go through loopholes to download the English version on one platform only. That will be known as Miyazaki's magnum opus
>>332244004
Dude on NeoFAG with a good track record in regards to calling Sony-related shit (This is the BB guy). From are also doing a VR project with Sony, but it's not known whether it's connected to either of those two it's an entirely different thing.
>>332244039
>Souls and Bloodborne games
Doesn't say he won't make another clone.
I don't think they've got anything else in them. They still want money, I'm sure.
>>332243737
SIGN ME THE FUCK UP
>>332243635
THEN STOP FUCKING HAVING THEM
>>332244253
Or it's an entirely different thing, rather.
devil may cry/ resident evil setting
present day horror/fantasy
>>332243934
>Chainsaw on one hand
>Shotgun on the other
>Of course not limited to these weapons but hand socket can be used for melee
>Making your way through deadites
>She-Bitch type bosses
>Entire game with the same sense of humor
FromSoft, you can have the idea. For free. JUST FUCKING MAKE IT.
>>332244039
And that quote specifically says "Souls and Bloodborne games".
Call the game anything else and that quote no longer applies, it's purposefully worded that way even to make it so they have the option open to them to make more of the exact same type of game if they want to.
If they didn't want to, they would have said "games in the mechanical form of souls and bloodborne" or even just "games like" those, not specifically "souls games and bloodborne games".
>>332244308
Yes, because after making a fuck ton of IPs, for some reason they just ran out of ideas when they made souls, which was just a series heavily inspired by kings field.
>>332244379
Contracts are contracts, nig nog. Namco signed them for three Souls games.
>>332229584
>Giger inspired souls
this needs to happen
>>332244474
This Souls formula is the only thing raking in the money for them. KF was barely known, and AC was underappreciated.
>>332244630
>Released in North America half a year after its Japanese release, in the middle of 2003, Otogi: Myth of Demons was loved by critics. It won EDGE's 2003 Game Awards as the Graphical Achievement of the Year, and many heaped praise on its musical score. Like many critically acclaimed niche titles, however, it didn't sell very well, and moved around 130,000 copies, 80,000 of those North American. This same pattern was repeated with the release of its sequel in North America almost a year after the Japanese release, with love from critics but a lukewarm reception in the market, a paltry 40,000 North American copies. One man even sent a letter to Electronic Gaming Monthly, curious on how short EGM's review of the game was, and received a response from the editor-in-chief at the time, Dan Hsu: "As good of a game Otogi 2 is, we still have to acknowledge that relatively few people want to read about it."
;_;
>>332227357
Pretty much anything other than a setting they've already done. If FROM excels at one thing its worldbuilding.
DeS
DaS1
BB
All three have fully fleshed out worlds with interesting settings, characters, enemies and so on. Any game they've made that expands upon those games has been complete trash because their biggest flaw by a mile is they re-use content out the fucking ass in lieu of creativity.
For people to say that they will be done with "souls-like" games is just foolish, its what they do and its what they do better than anyone else in the industry, With Kadokawa backing them now they actually have to produce numbers. They aren't the little studio that could anymore, they no longer get shoe-string budgets, they get funding and results are expected. They'd have to do 2 very successful non-souls games before the reins are pulled off.
I'll support what they do, but I have no delusions that they will always produce something fantastic. DS2 and from what I've played of DS3 has taught me to curb my expectations.
>>332244427
It would obviously tie in with Ash vs. Evil Dead but they could make fucking anything. Bruce would obviously be down to voice, and the final boss would be The Evil at the original cabin. For fucks sake, I wish it could be real.
>>332244772
ouch
>>332244630
Well they obviously don't give a shit since they said what they said.
>>332244907
Someone needs to tell Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell about this. Its the only way to make a game that would do justice to the series, not this piece of shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf3xQZDRR7c
>>332244460
It still wouldn't surprise me if Sony ended up funding something like Bloodborne again, that thing moved units. Hell its their only real exclusive that people gave a shit about.
Those rumors of FROM developing a new IP for them could turn out to be something really interesting, here's hoping this years E3 has some more info.
>>332244474
nobody gave a fuck about KF
nobody
you think they'd give up on the souls formula after making miyazaki prez?
lmao don't be delusional
majority of their IPs are trash
>>332244979
they're testing the waters which is good - but we all know miyazaki is a onetrick pony
watch them makes soulslike in a few years after people boo these ips
>>332230395
Also, enemies like robots and androids. Scaling huge mechs would be amazing to play.
>>332234206
That's pretty much what DS3 is. It uses and leans on so much of DS1 its not even funny.
>>332245145
>theyre all about the money
They're still ending the series.
>noone cared or bought kings field
Yet they still made like 5 games about it and spinoffs, one of which is fucking souls. Obviously they cared about the money.
>majority of their IPs are trash
According to you.
>soulsfags will boo at games that aren't souls
The sky is blue.
>>332235421
>great britain souls
>last boss is Abdul, Husband of Your Daughter
>>332244590
I know right? Imagine the possibilities.
>>332230395
Call it Armored Core Verdict Day.
>they need guns
lmao
I would honestly be okay with Souls games becoming the new Musou.
Also Beksinski Souls pls.
>>332245761
>they don't care about money
Do you honestly fucking believe this?
It's good they're giving the Souls formula a rest, and getting rid of Bamco, but they're still a business.
>>332245947
I thought this until I played 3. They need to do new settings with each one, DS3 feels so tired and lifeless all because it borrows so heavily from DS1 and some of 2.
They do great stuff with new settings, if they do that with 2 year release cycles I'd be on board. But I sincerely doubt they would be able to keep coming up with new shit every year.
>>332246186
Of course money factors into it, but when you're talking about a company that still released Armored Core games in Europe 2+ years after their initial release when they knew barely anyone outside of the hardcore fanbase will even acknowlege the game exists. You can't just say they're doing it JUST for the money.
>>332246003
Bigger better badder more badass Souls
>>332227357
Licencing Knights of Sidonia and/or Blame! would be the logical step. It's a point blank shot for success.
>>332246785
fuck this isn't what i meant pls no
I'm so glad they're stopping with the Souls shit for a while.
3 just really lack any originality, and is just a clone of the previous games.
>>332229480
Bungie did it
>>332238443
I'l call now
I would like weaboo souls
>heavy oreintal fantasy themes
>Tengu, oni and that sort of thing
>One western character is a cowboy
>Emphasis on eastern spears, naginatas, katanas chinese flip flop swords and martial arts styles.
>>332247412
So way of the samurai 3?
GUYS
WAIT NO
GUYS WAIT
A souls game... that takes place in 2016.
>>332247572
Gettin sentimental there
>>332227357
If any of you have read the manga Blame!, it would work as an excellent setting for a From Soft sci-fi game. It's an apocalyptic cyberpunk setting where everything is pretty much fucked and most humans are dead, with amazing art and a minimalist storytelling style, similar to the Souls games.
>>332247412
So Onimusha?
>>332247572
>Join filthy Way of Liberal covenant
>Doesn't work
>Nobody helps
>Get burned on a cross by Trump covenant
>>332227357
?
Dark souls 3 is the final installment in the series.
>tfw no cheeki breeki souls
>estus flask is a bottle of vodka
>bonfires are barrels of fire that you squat at
>weapons are slavshit guns, mosins with bayonets
>armor is all jogging suits, heavy coats and gas masks
>currency is tobacco products
>when you die "KURWA" flashes across the screen
>loaded with STALKER references
>>332247675
wanna melt wanna melt wanna melt
>>332247572
>neet covenant
>post dank memes for hot pocket rewards
>>332247572
Not sure about that.
Maybe a souls game based on being a random avatar trapped in the internet. I can't even imagine how retardedly deep they could make the lore.
>>332246354
That's a fair point, I was thinking more like how Musou has One Piece, and Gundam, and Hyrule Warriors, etc. and I think the Souls formula would work well with different settings/franchises as long as they switched things up just enough to let you know you aren't just playing a reskin.
>>332247871
I thought it was Gettin melt
>>332247871
>>332247675
GETTIN MILK GETTIN MILK GETTIN MILK
>>332243807
>Remember how they were so bankrupt before Demon's Souls?
Not him, but you obviously fail to realize what happens to a company that has taste millions of dollars in revenue.
Regardless of the quality of their earlier games, the Souls series is what made them on the world stage, and they are never going to go back to being a company that makes niche games anymore.
>>332247868
Yeah, the Dark series. Soulslike games though, that's another story.
>>332248223
Did bloodborne do well?
>>332248353
Yes, considering it's a new ip on a single platform.
>>332248353
One million in 10 days. Two million in under six months. Additionally, one million DLC sales in a week.
It sold very well, the fastest any Souls game ever has.
It's still behind Dark Souls overall, but if it continues to sell the way it does now, it'll have it beat. Dark Souls III will probably have beaten both by then, though.
>From's next game is already confirmed to be a PS4 exclusive
SONY ALWAYS ____ BABY
>>332248353
It did well enough for Sony to say they were surprised at how well it did, and that they want to work with Fromsoft on another exclusive.
>>332247572
I had an idea for a hip-hop themed gang warfare game with psychic powers a while back. Souls combat could work for street punks fighting with baseball bats, chains, rusty pipes and PSI.
>>332246549
>Of course money factors into it, but when you're talking about a company that still released Armored Core games in Europe 2+ years after their initial release when they knew barely anyone outside of the hardcore fanbase will even acknowlege the game exists. You can't just say they're doing it JUST for the money.
From doesn't release games in Europe, their publishers do. From has almost no control over what happens to their games outside of the US.
People need to fucking remember that 95% of that company doesn't speak a word of english and rely heavily on Sega/Ubisoft/Atlus/Bandai/Sony to market all of their stuff for them. They don't make games for US/EU reviewers, they leave that to the publishers.
Half of the reason Bloodborne was a success is that they had a multinational game company with a vest interest in selling consoles looking over their shoulders and correcting everything that might be received poorly.
>>332234086
Disappointed. Because he could have made a game which had a chance to be decent.
>>332249228
>From doesn't release games in Europe, their publishers do. From has almost no control over what happens to their games outside of the US
Outside of Japan I mean, fucking typo
Can we all agree that they should have waited a few more months to release Bloodborne.
Those initial release loadtimes were fucking killer, they must not have done a soak test on the game (to be fair I play new games in like 12 hour shifts or more) because half the bosses' forms and movesets wouldn't even load, and there were quite a few glitches that fucked with progression of the game at the beginning.
I never joined any covenants, but I think those weren't introduced until the first update anyway.
I won't say shit about the framerate, I mean everyone knows Bloodborne doesn't have an amazing framerate.
>>332250331
Sony probably held them fast to a release date and wouldn't let them take longer. They were in a rush to sell consoles.
>>332246785
>I used to think he was buff
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