Gotta disagree with that, frankly I think the Dark Souls formula would work well with nearly any IP as long as it's executed correctly. The sequel to Fallen Order can only get better, too.
Dark souls is a series that abuses decisions that fake a challenge into being the central focus of its marketing. And then morons misconstrue this as fun and rewarding. There's nothing rewarding about dodge rolling for ten minutes at a time to wait for the
singular frame wherein you can attack any given enemy before it goes into another ten minutes of i-frames. There's nothing fun, about dealing with invaders being dicks and attacking you with mouth-frothing aggression.
Worse still, the marketing for From Software jumped on this meme status and use it as a selling point with the whole "git gud" stupidity. Dark Souls left such a sour taste, that even
hearing about its influence on Fallen Order made it a hard pass for me; that EA wants you to use Origin even with it being on Steam now, is another.
Also, it's EA we're talking about. When LucasGames was around and able to freely contract with others to make Star Wars games, we had the best part of
twenty games in the span of four years. What did we get from EA since their exclusivity purchase?
One. One crappy game that re-used the name of a game that came out earlier and better (Battlefront) and infested so hideously with lootboxes, to forever stain the name. It was only when
political intervention was likely, that they even considered backing down from a business model where, when #RedditDidTheMath, expecting every player to drop a minimum of $2100 USD in loot boxes, to even unlock all the characters possible. The sheer brazenness to go there, is why EA should be dismantled. The fact that Android Wilson still is running the company, and still has this toxic mindset, is why EA should
never be trusted.
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