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I was going to say, oh yet another Soulslike, boring but unlike most of them, it looks like it's doing its own thing with combat which is cool. I'm tired of all the ones just trying to be a direct Dark Souls clone.

"fOr deMOcrACy!" 🤓

I think people got tired of not just the same content but they got tired of the community too.

@Kanji-Tatsumi That would be a terrible idea.

@GymratAmarillo Your criticism is wrong. If it was about sales, plenty of games would reach 9 million sales in 5 years. Yet they don't. It seems that once again, critics were wrong about the game considering most people seem to say the game was good and word of mouth ends up being good marketing.

And let's be fair, very few Sony games are as amazing as you make you out. Most are decent cinematic story experiences but that's it.

I've got to be honest, the writing in From Software games has never been that great. The worldbuilding is interesting but the characters are relatively cliche, even quite one dimensional. They all have singular goals that, most of the time, ends up with them dead or depressed. This isn't mentioning their dialogue, often ending with the same depressed or mechanical laughter.

And most of the characters just seem to be the same archetypes from prior games, often with their story being a mere retelling. Take Alexander the Jar, who is clearly just Siegmeyer from Dark Souls 1.

@NightshadeNL

It makes sense. They were perhaps expecting new mechanics or updates to existing ones. Maybe an update to the Ash of War system to have switchable skills or new weapon categories with completely new movesets for example.

If what's avaliable are weapons still using movesets from Dark Souls 1 like the base game of Elden Ring...yeah I can understand why some people would find that lacking. It's the reason I find Elden Ring overall quite lacking despite enjoying it. After several games of the same combat and same animations, it's time From Software does something different because they're beginning to remind me a bit of Bethesda where eventually we'll all be saying whatever new game From Software does is "just Dark Souls but in [insert setting here]".

Elden Ring is already that, Dark Souls but in an open world setting complete with the same combat, lore, quest design and exact same writing. Even the overall plot still is technically Dark vs Light with an undead curse.

Maybe that's amazing to new players but it's been four games of this and even the majority of the characters in Elden Ring are just retellings of Dark Souls characters. I imagine even the new characters in the DLC.

@DETfaninATL Well it actually is. The new hairstyles will be new models or whatever. Trophies are just a quick add that don't require any effort. I'll take new cosmetic options in any game over pointless trophies.

I tried doing a new playthrough recently and just got bored. Three playthroughs was enough for me. I'm still not a fan of the open world of Elden Ring and it doesn't help that the world progression is pretty much just one path forward i.e going from Limgrave, to Liurnia to the Atlas Plateu. The only exception being Caelid.

I feel the open world would have benefited from being truly interconnected, it would help with replayability.

With any Dark Souls, I replayed each up to 10 times, although the third one suffered from the same type of linearity progression as Elden Ring does, forcing you into going one direction.

@GymratAmarillo You're right and looking at Ghost of Tsushima on Steam, according to SteamDB, it's sold somewhere 552.8 k to 990.5 k.

Granted that's only been in a month and I expect it to reach maybe 1.5 mil to 2 this year but it was the same story behind that, with people online acting like it would sell as much as it did on PlayStation at 10 million. If the hype was real, Ghost would already be at 2 million. Helldivers 2 sold approximately 4 million in a month on Steam. You can look here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240313222632/https://steamdb.info/app/553850/charts/

So yeah, it's about hype.

Bloodborne is an even older game. It's not going to sell as well as some people think. It's mainly the people who have already brought and played it on PS4 asking for a remaster/remake. A strong but vocal minority.

The success of Elden Ring doesn't guarantee anything either, sales of the Demon's Souls Remake didn't shoot up on PS5 after Elden Ring. Last time we heard of it, it's only sold 2 million copies.

Reminds me of the pirate "community" where there are two Russian men pretending to be girls.

As for the video game leaker "community" well just a visit to the gamingleaksandrumors subreddit shows you there's a load of pointless drama. I'm not suprised to learn that this guy is actually a guy and not a "cute Japanese girl" lmao.

@AdamNovice Starship Troopers: Extermination was in early access on PC last year in May. So it's already been out for longer than Helldivers 2. So it's not a copy.

It actually looks really bad. The animations are extremely janky. No weight to attacks either. I'm not sure why people are comparing it to Ninja Gaiden as Ninja Gaiden's animations are fluid and the attacks have weight to them.

@Korgon No he's right about it being overrated and it has flaws a lot of people overlook including the recycled Chalice Dungeons and dumb enemy AI.

FromSoft fans are the new Bethesda fans, trying to convince everyone their games are flawless. Bloodborne in particular has a vocal fanbase that act as if the game is bigger than God of War or the Last of Us, yet it didn't even come close to the sales of those games.

Sounds like those fans need to go outside and try interacting with real women. Ah, who am I kidding? We know they'd never do that.

@B0udoir Nobody will care about physical old games in decades apart from collectors. Why are some people here acting as if current games won't be retro by then with compilation releases?

This isn't mentioning emulators or, you know, piracy.

@Uromastryx Yeah and they keep trying to roast it in every article.

OK, PushSquare, we get it, your one reviewer believes it's an "inferior version of everything it's inspired by" which goes against the consensus where all player reviews are positive and the game has had a far higher player retention rate than Dragon's Dogma 2.

https://www.truetrophies.com/news/rise-of-the-ronin-ps5-player-count-april-2024

@Radekbejbl1 Again, where were you when Nioh 1 featured a white man as the protagonist? Or is it only pandering if it's a black person? Meanwhile if it's Cletus Clyde in a non European setting, running around and yodeling about good ol' England or America whilst drinking moonshine, that's OK? You guys are hilarious.

@ReadySlayerOne You literally interviewed every Japanese person in Japan? Tens of millions? Must have taken you years.

You have a second protagonist who is Japanese. Where were these complaints about Nioh having a white man as a protagonist?

@GagaOooLaLa

Was it pandering when William Adams, a white man, was the protagonist of Nioh 1? It seems it's only pandering to some people when it's a black person. This isn't pandering. The other protagonist is Japanese.

Look I get it, I hate "woke" identity politics too. But this isn't that. Yasuke was a historical person, an actual black person in Japan at the time. They haven't just put him there for no reason, just like William Adams wasn't the protagonist of Nioh 1 for no reason.

@homelesscretin This. Nioh 1, like you said, forced you play as a white man who was a real Samurai during that period. Nobody cared, so it's clear the backlash to this is because it's a black man this time, even though he too was historical (he's even in Nioh).

I was hoping the dislikes would be simply because it's Ubisoft and Ubisoft have not put out a good game since forever but no, the dislikes are from racist idiots who are triggered by a black man being ONE of the TWO protagonists you can select. The other one being Japanese.

@Uromastryx 3 wasn't a failure though unless you count the story and writing but both of those things have been bad since Borderlands 2 which also had terrible writing.

@NinjaNicky Borderlands 2 has bad humor too and 90% of it is outdated meme humor that wasn't even funny when the memes were fresh.

@ChrisDeku Guy made one comment saying he didn't enjoy the game and then you jump down his throat, accusing him of being an Xbox fanboy with no life? Lol Calm down bro, it's just a game. There's no need to roast the guy for his opinion. Lol

@Vaako007 You don't need to build a gaming PC. There are premade desktops, gaming laptops and even the Steam Deck. Meanwhile gaming on PC is just as easy as gaming on console. Steam has its own big picture UI that can even be controlled with a console controller.

@playstation1995 PlayStation is dominating Xbox but they're not better than them. They're just as bad. Both PlayStation and Xbox have been disappointing this generation which is why I'm glad I switched to PC + Switch. The few interesting Xbox and PS games are already on PC now so it seems like the right move.

@Victor_Meldrew The game isn't about atheist beliefs in things like astrology or something from nothing so it's not about superstition, unfortunately.

Not to get political but it's just another piece of media in the long list of media that has a negative portrayal of Christianity. I think it'll appeal to those who still think Richard Dawkins is wise I guess.

@Bolverkr I doubt this game will make anyone question or think on their religious beliefs. It's from a self avowed "hardcore atheist" so I imagine it will be just childish attacks at best combined with a terrible childlike understanding of philosophy. Either way, the makers of this game are a decade late as new atheism died a pathetic death back in 2013.

No amount of miniscule updates will ever make Fallout 4 good though. Sorry Bugthesda. Can't even say that they're trying. The "updated" graphical improvements are barely noticeable according to what I've seen on the comparison videos and the whole game still looks ugly.

@TheAmbienWalrus Elder Scrolls isn't any good. Dragon's Dogma was already better. Unfortunately, Dragon's Dogma 2 has fallen short. Capgods? Not this time. Between the bad technical performance, the open world still has the same flaws as the first game with repetitive enemies and the combat feels waaay more janky. Stop this stuff about vision. "Director's vision" isn't an excuse for bad game design or not improving over 10 years later.

If Capcom spent more time and money on the game instead of paying for social media influencers to shill the game, it probably would have been better. But for now, it still deserves that 6/10 rating on Steam.

@Ravensbane It wasn't a flop but it was never their best selling game either. It didn't even come close.

@Ravix The guy made a joke about fast travel. Why are you getting upset? Also, well the director's vision sucks in this case. The open world is boring and filled with the same enemies.

@nessisonett I've not heard of the director being an abysmal human being. Everything I've heard about him makes him sound like a decent person. I did hear about how some of his most outspoken critics are abysmal human beings though so maybe you're getting confused with that?

@thefourfoldroot1 Steam already has achievements. Honestly what's the difference other than this incorporating the PS ecosystem?

@ChrisDeku You do realise Hogwarts Legacy is a year old now right? So I'm not sure why you think Helldivers 2 beating it today in the charts is impressive.

@Kalime78 The story still sucked even in the subsequent playthroughs.

@Savage_Joe No, Helldivers 2 wouldn't like a word with him. It doesn’t look like a Switch title. What are you smoking?

@Strikke You're being disingenuous. The difference between this and those smaller multiplat titles is that this has a huge development and marketing cost. If it's underselling vs the first game, then it's absolutely not making a profit. Screaming about analysts over and over again won't change that.

@Splat Is Ghost of Tsushima even that good? Halo Infinite scored 87 on Metacritic so that game is better according to critics. Also just another reason why I'm not trusting critic scores either.

@mrbone Yeah and keep in mind, unlike DD2, this game is actually reviewed well among players. With DD2, after the dust had settled towards its MTX and performance, I'm still seeing people bash the game for its open world and repetitive enemies. DD2 I refunded on PC after its issues. I'll get in on sale maybe in a year when they've finally fixed it.

@kazuyamushima I think he's describing both games.

@fancy_bandage_PSN

Elden Ring is trash compared to Nioh. And really? You call Minecraft and Mario games forgettable? Minecraft is one of the best selling games of all time as is Mario Kart. Minecraft is also more played and spoken about than every From Software game combined. So your opinion isn't just bad, it's objectively wrong.

@DennisReynolds I Googled what you said, the only results that come up are forum posts so you're lying. 220,000 player count on Steam hasn't broke records for Capcom either. Monster Hunter World was higher. This game isn't reaching 300,000 and it's not outselling Monster Hunter.

Like I said in another article, this is down to the performance issues and people waiting for patches. Also a lot of people have been put off by the MTX.

@Nepp67 With its vast performance issues, Dragon's Dogma 2 in no way deserves GOTY. That it's released in such a terrible state with poor optimization should be unacceptable for an AAA $70 title. It's funny how Rise of the Ronin gets called out for PS3 graphics when people should be more concerned with the PS3 performance of this game.

Also I really don't get the people defending MTX with whataboutism defenses. OK, they had them in Resident Evil 4 Remake and Devil May Cry 5, people did complain, maybe not as many but people did and maybe the lower volume of complaints for those games is because all these games have different fanbases. Also, those games were perfectly optimised at release with good performance. Having framerate drop below 30 FPS in Dragon's Dogma 2 though is atrocious.

I refunded the game on Steam. This game is now a bargain bin buy once it's been patched. I've seen lots say the same and I suspect sales have suffered because of it. Undoubtedly it has already sold a fair amount but probably not as well as it could have. The peak players on Steam has been 220,000 and nothing higher. It's not even achieved Starfield numbers and then that ended up being a flop especially when taking into consideration that it was a high profile AAA release. Monster Hunter World achieved higher than both so I think all these issues have definitely impacted the sales and you know what? Deservedly so. People need to stop justifying poor releases and waiting for months of patches. This game is merely part of the narrative once more of the problem with modern AAA games: release a broken game or game with technical issues and then fix it months later, oh and add unnecessary microtransactions.

@Sifi The preview says it's good. Lol

@TrickyDicky99 Nah, you mean it'll be on PC by next year because all PS5 exclusives eventually go there.

@KundaliniRising333 That gear system in Team Ninja games is actually good and Team Ninja have never disappointed with gameplay or combat so I expect them to be good.

Another remake/remaster in the era of pointless remasters/remakes. What Sony game will be remade/remastered next? God of War 2018 as opposed to the older PS2 titles which would actually benefit from remakes?

There are old games that could do with remakes. This isn't old or a game that needs a remake because it still looks good.

It seems to eliminate the need for vocations. Although tbf, this will make solo play far more fun.