In an interview, the developers of the upcoming Lords of the Fallen talked about how concerned they are about the abundance of games in the genre.
I wish developers took genre as gameplay elements and not entirely mimicing settings and tone and themes along with the gameplay. Lots of people were hoping AC6 could be a soulslike in a different setting, because no ones doing it.
I don’t like soulslikes and how everything has to be a soulslike these days, but maybe I’d be more willing to try if they weren’t all so bleak.
I also think there are too many souls likes.
If you told 15 year old me that I’d be nostalgic for scifi shooters they’d scoff.
It takes a lot to make a soulslike
But when it comes to me and you
And him, and her, and the baby too
Too many soulslike, it’s trueToo many soulslike
Too many soulslike
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