Why don't other video game companies copy their formula?

Why don't other video game companies copy their formula?

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Have you forgotten about the Chinese?

Because they don't understand the formula.

idk what you're talking about, theres a bunch of dark souls ripoffs and a bunch of recent games have ds inspired combat

What are you talking about? We had four clones: Nioh, The Surge and Lords of the Fallen.
Nioh and The Surge were successful enough to get sequels (Lords too but that one went into development limbo); the people behind the God Eater series are trying their hand with Code Vein too.

Have you been in a coma for the last decade? Every other fucking game released is """""souls inspired""""".

I PRAISE YOU GAMING GODS. NIGGERS TOUNG MY ANUS

OP is a retard lool

Becasue even they know it's forgotten now. Time to copy rockstar like everyone esle

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That's what Great Rune will be but no one believes it. Why else would they hire Game of Thrones man?

just off the top of my head: salt and sanctuary, hollow knight, lords of the fallen, the surge 1 and 2 and Nioh

You mean make things unnecessarily tedious and complex and let your fanatics shout down any and all dissent?

Hollow Knight is a metroidvania game that owes nothing to Fromsoft. Everything else there is pretty terrible other than nioh. Their formula has came and went and it wasn't that big of a deal

Immortal: Unchained

The Surge 2 isn't out yet but there's no reason to get our hopes up

>owes nothing to Fromsoftware
Except for the part where the plot and currency mechanics are copy/pasted from Dark Souls

Because they're copying their own formula quite enough.

From Software actually doing a true open world game would be amazing.

No. Open world games are pure cancer.
That's why I'm not touching their new project, not even pirating it.

But you haven't played a Fromsoft open world game.

The genre is inherently garbage, like gacha smartphone games.
That and the fact that they went as far as hiring the hottest celebrity western writer tells me that their new game is not for me. It's for the people that buys Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, not for me.

It's arguable that the latest God of War as well as Breath of the Wild took inspiration from Dark Souls
There's plenty of clones in the indie scene, Ashen, Salt and Sanctuary, Death Gambit, Immortal Unchained, etc
Of course you also have stuff like Nioh, Code Vein and The Surge which are more straightforward whith their inspiration