Yep, which is my point that people cope themselves into thinking Fromsoft can do no wrong when they actually do a lot of wrongs and they’re right out in the open, people just refuse to acknowledge them.

ER 100% exacerbated many souls bullshit.

ie.

“everything sucks gais” so much that we forgot to make a meaningful open world, instead here’s just the same post apocalypse area reskinned 100 times. Every town, mansion, castle, settlement are all just a delivery vehicle for more zombies.

“NPCs will give you literally no information, aren’t we quirky gais?” so much that they still give you no clear instructions, drop a bullshit name you have no clue about, and telefuckoff to their next quest location across the map and hours of gameplay away and you’ll probably never find them again unless you read a guide.

In terms of tone, storytelling, world design, ER highlights why the way From does these things is god awful.

I won’t even get into the de-evolution of boss design

tl;dr: don’t become the soulsborne community that suck off miyazaki so much that he just keeps making the same game but worse each time.

YOu basically all make a bunch of alts and go to the xbox forums and be like “XBOX 360 SUKS LMAO IMAGINE RED RING OF DEATH PS3 FOREVER LAUGHS IN MGS4” until you all get banned

Reddit was actually really good back in the day when digg shit the bed. But then it got too popular and it became a target of astroturfing from mostly Western anglo countries who identified it as a prime tool for modern viral propaganda.