I had to look up frisson so i'm real fucking grumpy right now.
MX7 wrote:Guts does spend a lot of time hitting things with swords, but he also spends just as much time cultivating hyperintense homoerotic relationships and being a little grump. Imagine if the next game added something akin to this frisson of differentiation to the experience?
Back to university boys, this looks like a postmodern reading! Where's your bibliography?
So I'm talking about the Berserk manga here:
Lets ignore for a minute that your claim of "just as much time" is dead wrong.
Lets ignore that the 'intense homoerotic relationships' claim needs some work before I'll accept it at face value.
Lets ignore for a minute that your suggestion was the removal of combat from Souls-like games, and therefore Guts touching a dong on the side is irrelevant so long as there continues to be violence and combat as a central feature of Berserk.
Sure, There's other things besides combat in Berserk. As there are other things in Souls besides combat.
Fromsoft's worlds are compelling and immersive
Yuh.
If all you did in a souls game was fight without a compelling world to explore, there would be no souls fanbase, honestly.
There's already a frission of differentiation.
Also one compliments the other, actually. To quote Squire:
" I'm p.sure Miyazaki sees deathly, deliberately frustrating combat and trial/error as core to the experience and theme he wants to enforce. dude only talks about it all the time "
Pizza is great, but eating it for every meal is boring, no matter how much you vary the toppings. Let's dare to dream, eh?
How snide.
Literally go play something else?
Did you support From's endeavour to do something different; Deraciné? I'm guessing no.
Dreaming is alright, i've often talked about wanting to see a Lost Kingdoms III.
Demanding everyone share your dream lest they be labelled a screeching manchild is quite different though.
By the by, I do think sometimes about how nearly every popular game franchise involves some sort of violence/combat.
And I do wonder if this will ever be left behind or its exclusion commercially viable. That's for the entirety of gaming though, not muh FromSoft who've built their brand and legacy around solid combat in the past ten years.
The wider topic deserves
its own thread, really.
I fucking love Dark Souls and Kings Field.
Liar. Burn at the stake.
Get insulted by me then see an apology in two weeks time, also from me.