I can't agree.
Found it weird in Lord of the Rings and Knights of the Old Republic too. Civilizations/technology barely changing over thousands of years.
Game play should not be sacrificed in name of story. Dark souls 3's story shouldn't be an excuse for the same repetitive locations we've already visited and a dull colour palette.
Gears of war did it better and even Epic learned not to make a game brown and grey for 70 hours.
So does Dark souls 3. It has 1 memorable location and that's only because it's framed after you have spent a game in brown and grey nothing.
The grand finale of a series should build upon what's come before it to make the very best of each aspect it can. Dark souls 3 arguably is not good as an adventure game and not good as a boss rush game. So we're kind of left with it being nothing but a worse version of the last 2 games discarding the best aspects of those for little gain. It's okay to do call backs and say the world is shrinking but Lodran isn't the entire world and swamps wouldn't the last surviving remnants of everything being pulled together.
Did you actually play DS1? It nails "dreary" to a tee, much better than 3.
Perfect example of disproportionate hate. These games don't come near FromSofts moldiest turd, whichever one of them you perceive as such.
That's kinda fair but it could/should have been more subdued. Still, fair point.
Though I doubt it would ever stop being my least favorite in series.
Agreed, honeymoon phase was nice but it just became more and more grating as it went on, CLANG is fun but ultimately not enough when everything else is mediocre at best. Misjudged that one, would've enjoyed it a lot more as a boss-rush.
I would totally play a good Little Mermaid game. Always wanted another 3D Ecco, to explore the sea, and a half-woman is better than a dolphin.
You can hand wave problems away by saying LORE! but it doesn't matter. Anor Londo's call back felt poorly implemented and disconnected the game from the original's foundation. It doesn't even look like the same place outside of the reused area. They could have done Anor Londo in ruinings or at it's peak instead of the bland mess we got here using the name for reddit points.
How is it hateful to say other Souls likes games have done more interesting things with the formula From haven't progressed in any meaningful way since Demon's souls? I don't enjoy them any less than I did Dark souls 3 and most of them didn't have the annoyance of roll catching every other combo.
DaS1 has some very atmospheric part, being the Deep/New Londo part, but aside from that it's just standard fantasy stuff IMO.
The moment anyone complains about roll, stagger, parry, I tell them to git gud.
Dude, wtf. Dark Souls 3 doesn't have the vibe? I understand someone can like DS2, but let's get down to earth, never go full retard. Dark Souls 2 literally feels like a Dark Souls knockoff from the moment you run the game - starting with an intro, which could be thrown into any other random horror/mistery game, through "tutorial" section, where hags(giving the feeling they were cut out from some other game) are breaking the 4th wall and remind you that you are playing DARK SOULS and you will die a lot, ending with terrible, half assed, linear locations, bad animations, random connections between locations, crowd of retarded NPC's and god awful encounters with hordes of enemies. This world gives you a feeling - this is a video game and even NPC's know it, don't take it seriously. If there is a game in a series that doesn't have DS vibe, it's DS2, we know exactly what is the reason behind it. It was in development hell, two diffrent teams worked on it. Some of those people only heard about Dark Souls 1. It's a game glued together from a lot of ideas that don't fit together and even Miyazaki wasn't involved in it all that much.
Excessive hate or shit taste, take your pick. Also what interesting things? The only game that took some souls parts and thrived is Nioh, which strays so much that it can't be called a soulslike anymore anyway.
DS1 drips atmosphere all over, I think your sensors might be overloaded by all those set-pieces
All true more or less but forgivable as it's still fun and does have its qualities, some of which funnily enough derive from that list. DSIII just doesn't have that je ne sais quoi (feel free to call me a faggot for that one).
Input reading makes the enemies less erratic. You can bait bosses into doing exactly what you want and a lot of players do that. From AI isn't very good or dangerous, it's just roll timings are made awkward in later games so you die an extra couple of times and then learn them the same as previous titles.
Tbh I wouldn't mind a RPG where you roleplay as Simba and control a whole pride of lions, but I'd like to have the ability to fuck Nala. Also it would be pretty cool if Simba could turn into a human. Throw in some homosexual romances too.
