Once you buy it you get access to the complete package, and there are no battle passes or microtransactions to contend with. It can also be played in singleplayer should you wish to stay offline, with enemy health pools that scale down so that it’s not too overwhelming for solo players (although curiously, there are currently no plans to allow players to play in pairs).

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[–] FooBarrington 30 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Souls games are nowhere near "yearly", and there's been massive changes throughout the games. How do you get anything close to "yearly FIFA slop" from that?!

[+] [email protected] -15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

2009: Demon's Souls

2011: Dark Souls

2014: Dark Souls II

2015: Dark Souls II King of whatever expansion

2015: Bloodborne

2016: Dark Souls III

2019: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

2020: Demon's Souls (again)

2022: Elden Ring

2025: Elden Ring 2

Thats almost yearly releases.

You'd think after like 10 games of the same monotonous bullshit people would get tired of it but ig not

[–] FooBarrington 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Meh, on average more than 1.5 years between games doesn't qualify as yearly for me, especially if you're counting DLC.

It's also simply not "the same monotonous bullshit". Each game has variations and improvements, sometimes leading to drastically different gameplay (compare Sekiro and Elden Ring). Otherwise, why not also count Armored Core?

Now they are releasing an experimental spin-off that again drastically changes a bunch of mechanics, but that's also somehow not good enough? Seems like you just don't like their games, irrespective of how much they evolve from the Dark Souls formula.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Sekiro and Elden ring are literally just a demon souls reskin, I already played that game for free with ps plus on the PS3 and it was an ok time waster in school

[–] FooBarrington 2 points 3 days ago

You either didn't get past the start screen, or you're trolling.

Sekiro has a single weapon, Elden Ring has hundreds
Sekiro has death blows and the parrying mechanic, Elden Ring has staggering, dodging and blocking
Sekiro has prosthetic tools you can upgrade and switch through, Elden Ring only has ashes of war
Sekiro has lots of vertical movement through grappling and jumping, Elden Ring has no comparable mechanic

Elden Ring is an evolution of the Demon Souls formula, but already with large changes. Sekiro is completely different.