stranger of paradise is still the king of translating classic FF gameplay concepts to an action game which is really kinda sad when you consider that that game had like no money and a significantly shorter dev time than any of the action game FFs bar maybe 7 rebirth

it sucks cuz the old 90 minute edits of shit like Curse of Fenric are good, it's not even that it's totally undoable but I think you should maybe be reasonable with setting your target runtime closer to the size of the story lol

"what if we cut a 4 hour story down to an hour and a half" like I know that shit has padding cuz it's classic who but not THAT much

it's funny how like star trek and red dwarf both had contentious "we updated the visuals with modern technology" and then doctor who was like "hold my beer I can do you one better"

Again, if we get multiple years out and nothing, then sure, I'll be right with you, but IMO there physically hasn't been enough time since the last major singleplayer fromsoft release for me to doompost and make myself miserable yet, I'm willing to let them cook

I would be right with you if they were charging 40$ for skins and John elden ring could buy default dance emotes and there was fuckin crossover IP slop everywhere, but that is not even close to what the game is

If you don't find it fun, that's fine, it doesn't need to be your cup of tea, but I think treating a weird side game, what is effectively the Armored Core Formula Front of souls as a grand betrayal is a bit of an overreaction

Sekiro didn't get a big expansion or anything either, not every game needs that

Ok but like
AC6 doesn't *need* new fancy content updates, it's a well paced singleplayer action game that from what I've seen of it isn't hurting for content, it's a complete package. Nightreign I finished and actuallywanted more bosses/stuff to do because it's more open ended and I enjoyed it

Fromsoft used to make other weird games that weren't just the standard souls mode all the time, as a company they have a pretty clear track record of not just tying themselves to one idea

I don't know what to tell you other than I don't need literally every fromsoft game to be a dark souls level artistic masterpiece, nightreign is just a fucking fun videogame that's not even full price or asking you to open your wallet for shit constantly

I will gladly eat my words if we get multiple years of nothing but multiplayer games but I'm not counting two clearly smaller projects coming out within a year or so of each other as fromsoft giving up making normal video games, we literally JUST got ac6 and the game-sized elden Ring dlc

if they wanted to switch to just doing multiplayer stuff to make money they'd be pushing actual moneymaking stuff way harder, there isn't even anything you can spend real money on in nightreign other than the game itself and a deluxe pack! The Elden Ring dlc literally just came out last year!

Nightreign has consistently felt like "some dudes in the office had a weird side project idea and have been maintaining it", it is not seriously detracting from whatever else they're working on (which sounds like it's also a bunch of smaller experimental games now that Elden Ring is done)

it's not even like the stuff they've been adding before this dlc has been much major, just harder versions of bosses and an endless mode