Yup. This is it- this right here is the genuine downfall of SOULS games. Just look at this fucking picture - it says it all. It is quite certainly r*ddit incarnate, don't believe me yet? Just get a load of this:
>DeS Niche audience simply because PS3s weren't widely owned back then >DS1 Still fairly niche, obtuse and intimidated enough to gatekeep mainstream gamers >DS2 Bamco try to cash in on the difficulty meme, a wave of underage normies become fans >Bloodborne Loved by redditors and women for the lovecraftian horror setting, also easy to play so extremely mainstream audience >DS3 The last few redditors who couldn't get into DS1 enter here because it's a bit faster and smoother like BB >Sekiro Big curveball, suddenly the redditors have to have sense of timing to progress through the game. Filters millions. A step in the right direction. >Elden Ring Hyped to unprecedented levels, eclipses all other games and becomes the new assassin's creed/call of duty. Goes beyond reddit appeal and pulls the absolute lowest dregs into the "fanbase", which doesn't really exist at this level of popularity.
it's been a slow decline, hard to pinpoint to specific moment. But Elden Ring has certainly sealed the deal. Body type A/B and Gender Coffins is just the beginning, why do normies have to ruin fucking everything they get their hands on?
Because it is clearly effecting the way that the real fans actually enjoy games... we are the demographic for SOULS and SOULSlikes.
obsessed.
Ayden Nelson
>modding should be encouraged! the consumer should have as many options available to them as possible, we should be fostering new creative talent within open source communities! >....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Oliver Torres
Dark Souls was never hard. I beat Demon Souls on release as a 15 year old kid and had no idea it was even considered a hard game series until I came online more
Charles Bell
>things no one has ever said So, you got any more non-sequiturs or...?
Easton Ortiz
It has been since Dark Souls, you're just too young to remember.
Matthew Gonzalez
>PS3 >niche
Ryder White
Normie Ring is INCLUSIVE chud
Tyler Moore
100% it isn't actually all that popular and they're just spamming the headline to paper over the fact that the entire internet was shitting on them for having retarded tastes
Nolan Roberts
>DeS/DS1 >niche OP confirmed for not alive in 2010
Dominic Anderson
>NORMIES the motherfucking irony
Benjamin Johnson
I’m not reading all that bitch.
Hunter Morris
Mods are used by a minimal amount of players, probably less than 5% even on games like Elder Scrolls. This is not counting consoles but we all know no one gives a shit about doing anything with a console for any reasons besides getting free games on the system.
David Carter
Souls has been normieshit since 2.
Charles Lee
Unironically, what do you have to gain from lying on the internet?
Charles Brooks
>schizophrenic mental breakdown over a mod Who the fuck cares, these people didn't truly beat the game and they're a minority.
It's not just the mod you fucking moron, it's SOULS as a whole. This is just the sidepiece to what is actually happening, which is the normification of this series. After Sekiro, there has been nothing but steps down, appeals to women + niggers, and ease of access for normies. Not to mention the overhall hype of Elden Ring which exceeded even Cybershit, causing everyone and their mother to flock to this once beloved series like a pak of vultures.
Isaac Cruz
Beating the game with this mod is still more legit than letting a naked redditor with a pot on his head beat the game for you.
This schizo chimaera of (normies-woke politics-a game being shit) is the pinnacle of retardation, Like you are so fucking close to get the fact that these 3 are symptoms of a game trying to garner mass appeal, but instead of blaming it on that lowest common denominator marketing you live this fantasy of a clique of hyper satanist trannies who makes games bad then add 2 trans characters so it gets media attention and gets guaranteed purchases from dedicated retarded lgbt communities.
Carson Smith
Cybertranny sold 16m first week while elden tranny only 12.
Tyler Edwards
>muh secret video game lmao get a life bro
Colton Bailey
Yeah? And how about beyond that first week you sperg? What are the numbers then? Go on, I'll wait.
Camden Taylor
Someone made a godmode mod. Boo fucking hoo, retard.
Joseph Jackson
>thinks souls games have ever been niche You're an absolute fool if you think anything released on a consome will ever be niche, or non-woke. Console releases exist to get to the masses and people who make games for console will always appease to the masses. Go play a real niche game like InfernoMOO, get filtered and cry more.
You niggers say this about EVERY release. Goddamn don't think I forgot about how you niggers were having panic attacks about how Sekiro was going to be the easiest game the series. You fell into journo clickbait and now you're going through your own cycle of Yea Forums retards trying to incite panic about how "the next game will ACTUALLY be the easiest because it's mainstream NOW you'll see!"
For years women SJWs and blacks have been pestering our favourite franchises, there is nothing we can do. We’re losing this war, we’ve always been losing this war. Even since the golden days of PAX and evo, they’ve been slowly but surely taking everything away from us.
You just have to move on. We have to move onto something else, and hope that when the woke crowd finally let’s Soulslikes rest, that there is still at least a little bit of life left in it for something unpozzed to come out later, like with the revival of Spyro and boomer shootans.
Face it, the only way to beat niggers and trannoids is to wait it out.
>WOKESHIT INcOMING We're witnessing the collapse of wokeness right now. Leftists defending the idea that parents should be kept out of their kid's education is causing even bluepilled moms who've been letting the algorithm think for them to start wondering what the fuck is going on, and conservatives seem to be finding their spines. We've seen the beginning of the inevitable in Marxist cabals being liabilities who attack your profitability from every possible standpoint to the tune of literally tens of billions of dollars over a fairly short period.
It might seem crazy right now, but I wouldn't be surprised to see woke companies jump on board with anti-ESG lobbying to so that they don't have any reason to play these games anymore.
James Miller
Hey retard, Elden Ring has been touted as "the most accessible soul game" even before it s fucking release. One of the MAIN FUCKING SELLING POINTS of this title was to be accessible, appeal to fucking normalfags, and to make it easier for w*men to play. The freedom of fucking travel alone, picking which bosses to do, makes it infinitely fucking easier than any other SOULS likes.
William King
There is nothing more normie than thinking those game were only about the difficulty. You were the normie all along OP.
Asher Williams
>PC players
Anthony Jackson
>You niggers say this about EVERY release
Trying to revise Yea Forums history again I see, lol
Gavin Martin
Meds now
Preferably a blue pill for your terminally online poltard sickness
Isaac Garcia
Doesnt change the fact that more people on average played Elden Ring than Cyberpunk. Effectively meaning that ELDEN RING IS NOW MORE FUCKING NORMIE THAT CYBERJANK.
Austin Gonzalez
>Your brain ol /pol/
Ryan Murphy
It's literally just Dark Souls 4 retard, did you even play the game? We already went through the SAME CYCLE of journos complaining it's too hard, Miyazaki saying AGAIN that the series challenge is it's identity. Yea Forums saying the game is TOO HARD, Yea Forums saying it's NOT THAT HARD a couple weeks later. I fucking swear we keep going through fucking loops every time a game releases and you faggots NEVER LEARN. I feel like you're gong to be one of those schizos who've already made up their own reality in their heads and nothing I will say will get to you.
hahaha you retards getting angry over a video-game hahahaha adult men typing angrily ahahahahah
Jose James
tl;dr, kys yourself
Samuel Jones
>SAME CYCLE of journos complaining it's too hard Funny, since all the fucking journos have said that Elden Ring is, yet again, the most accessible SOULS game, and is much easier than even DS3.
Ethan Hernandez
That's not what happened at all, we had yet another barrage of articles and tweets from faggots saying "we need an easy mode!" "this game is too frustrating!" "It needs more accessibility options"
>STILL trying to revise history, 20 posts later Sad at this point desu.
Ryder Cox
From those two articles I read right now it highlights how it's more accessible because it's now open world, you have more build variety, and you can explore more instead of getting stuck on a level. The disabled one literally highlights just key rebinds, summons and the targeting system. Again retard DID YOU EVEN PLAY THE GAME and where you even here when journos were having their Fromsoft seethe and cope sperging out?
Read the OP again numbnuts. The Prepare to Die edition was literally cashing in on the difficulty meme for the normies, much like DS2 was. So fuck off with your tranny revisionist bullshit - you took this series away from us, and you clearly wont stop until its corpse has been thoroughly raped.
lol the redditor even uses rivers of blood, which fromsoft doesnt want to patch because shitters like it too much
Ian Martin
>add systems to the game that make it vastly easier, but you have to find it yourself
i like how even this filters people. i wish i could see what this person looks like and how they function day to day.
Ryder Myers
>be zoomer >get pandered to in game >look it up profit
Nathan Thomas
OP didn't mention prepare to die edition faggot. I'm not going to fall for your tryhard schizo doomposting. You're a faggot trying to obviously bandwagon and act like you were always there first when everyone else and I can tell you fucking weren't.
>even on games like Elder Scrolls if mods weren't a popular thing bethesda wouldn't bother with them, making a game moddable takes a lot of time and effort which means money
