How was From Software perceived before Soulsborne?
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Xbox players knew them for this little gem.
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Such a gem! The sequel too.
They made kings field! Which to this day is the best game in existence and I'll fight anyone who claims otherwise.
I only knew they did Tenchu after the fact as I was too young to care about who developed what back then.
Armored Core 3 was the first game that made me really take notice of them. It was one of those games that I found so appealing from a design point but the gameplay was incomprehensible to me yet I could not drop it just because everything else about the game was pulling me in. Eventually I got to grips with the game and became good at it and that was when I knew of From Software. It was also one of the early games I remember playing where the scope of the boss battles blew my mind. Here you have giants robots duking it out and then here comes and even more giant spaceship/robot thing that covers the distant sky.
Armored Core 3 was the first game that made me really take notice of them. It was one of those games that I found so appealing from a design point but the gameplay was incomprehensible to me yet I could not drop it just because everything else about the game was pulling me in. Eventually I got to grips with the game and became good at it and that was when I knew of From Software. It was also one of the early games I remember playing where the scope of the boss battles blew my mind. Here you have giants robots duking it out and then here comes and even more giant spaceship/robot thing that covers the distant sky.
Had no clue who they were. They had something to do with the armored core series, right? I had played the shit out of those, but had no clue who made them until after the Souls games brought them to my attention.
And part 2.
The flying stages and the fight with the 9 tailed fox were amazing.
Hey!!! My ancient Otogi 2 videos. Man loved those 2 and and always wanted an Otogi armor set in a Souls game.
I didn't know who they were before I played 3D Dot Game Heroes. Even then I don't think I really took notice of them until after they blew up with Dark Souls.
Even though I played 3D Dot Game Heroes quite a bit, I was unaware that From made it, or even heard of them before Dark Souls.
I think they published it in Japan. It was just the first time I remember seeing their logo in a game.
Otogi and Lost Kingdoms were two of my favorite series, and were actually the reason I had high expectations for Demon Souls when everyone else was luke warm on it before release.
I never personally cared about Armored Core, but everyone I knew generally considered it a solid series, and it was fairly well known. So, before Souls, I would have been like "FROM? Oh, the Armored Core guys, cool."
They were niche, but it was the kind of niche that I'm in. Love the Armored Core and Lost Kingdom games, and played a fair bit of King's Feild and Eternal Ring as well. And with stuff like Metal Wolf Chaos and Chromehounds, they were always the solid mecha game team. But those games weren't really in the conversation, except for enthusiasts.
I would have never expected them to achieve mainstream success here in the States, but I'm glad to see it happened anyway. Strangely enough, I still haven't played a Souls game (I know, I know), though I've been interested since Demon's Souls -- just one of those essentials that somehow keeps passing you by. I'm in on the Switch version of Dark Souls, come hell or high water, so it'll be a really interesting return for me.
I would have never expected them to achieve mainstream success here in the States, but I'm glad to see it happened anyway. Strangely enough, I still haven't played a Souls game (I know, I know), though I've been interested since Demon's Souls -- just one of those essentials that somehow keeps passing you by. I'm in on the Switch version of Dark Souls, come hell or high water, so it'll be a really interesting return for me.
These types of situations fall into 3 tiers.
Same thing that happened with FROM happened with Mark Cerny.
1. Didn't know them before but love them now.
2. Knew them before as a relative no name but appreciated their work.
3. Didn't know them before but want to be part of an echo chamber so you yell their accomplishments past and present at the top of your lungs claiming to be a true fan before they were hip.
Edit: I guess more tiers if you didn't know them prior or after and don't like their work, but generally the above 3 apply.
Me, I'm group 1, didn't know them prior to dark souls but they are now on my radar.
Same thing that happened with FROM happened with Mark Cerny.
1. Didn't know them before but love them now.
2. Knew them before as a relative no name but appreciated their work.
3. Didn't know them before but want to be part of an echo chamber so you yell their accomplishments past and present at the top of your lungs claiming to be a true fan before they were hip.
Edit: I guess more tiers if you didn't know them prior or after and don't like their work, but generally the above 3 apply.
Me, I'm group 1, didn't know them prior to dark souls but they are now on my radar.
Otogi was all I had really played from them before DeS, I really enjoyed it.
Man, Miyazaki really did put Fromsoftware on the map. His promotion to president makes a lot of sense, the team over there is incredibly talented, but Miyazaki's vision really helps them shine really bright.
Man, Miyazaki really did put Fromsoftware on the map. His promotion to president makes a lot of sense, the team over there is incredibly talented, but Miyazaki's vision really helps them shine really bright.
Despite playing like 2 Armored Core games I didn't know who they were until they made Demons. Miyazaki put From on the map. What an incredibly talented man.
To me, they made awesome games from mecha to Japanese mythology. I grew up on the Armored Core series, and I still love it to this day.
Then, on Xbox OG, From put out this amazing title called Otogi. Outstanding music, graphics, water effects, environmental destruction...it had it all. Then they made a sequel which as arguably better, where you could play a floating tree stump with a pirate ship steering wheel for a weapon, and summon crazy magical dragons and butterflies.
From used to make amazing games to me. Lately they've all been focused on the soulsborne games. It's cool for some people, bitchin I wish we could get a revival of their earlier projects.
Then, on Xbox OG, From put out this amazing title called Otogi. Outstanding music, graphics, water effects, environmental destruction...it had it all. Then they made a sequel which as arguably better, where you could play a floating tree stump with a pirate ship steering wheel for a weapon, and summon crazy magical dragons and butterflies.
From used to make amazing games to me. Lately they've all been focused on the soulsborne games. It's cool for some people, bitchin I wish we could get a revival of their earlier projects.
Are people doing that? That's kind of sucky. Or are you just dismissing people who actually did know who From was pre Dark Souls? The Otogi games were superb and I was a huge fan. The atmosphere, the lore, the action and destruction. Incredibly well done. Those games are the reason Dark souls was even on my radar. So for me it was quite the opposite. I'm still waiting for an Otogi sequel. That would be fucking awesome!
They made tons of good titles before Souls, but they were always niche. Lots of mech games, first person RPGs, horror titles, and action games.
Wasn't aware of them as a studio. knew about armored core series, never knew who developed the games.
If you love mecha games, you mainly will know from software from Armored core or another century
I knew them due to Tenchu, and then Tenchu started to do weird things like remove the protagonist Rikimaru as a playable character or release on 360 with horrible HD PS2-tier graphics (given the 360 standards of the time, even) and janky gameplay.
After that, I just kinda forgot about them.
After that, I just kinda forgot about them.
This is the best description of Dark Souls I've read in a while.
It's like playing a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
On Topic: I remember being aware of Otogi since it reviewed well and I even considered buying it, but I always thought of it as a Sega game since they were the publisher. I had no idea who the developer was and only in retrospect, post Dark Souls did I find out they developed Otogi.
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