Thread 718498965

>2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97YBoOR1-Kk

you have a containment thread

>>718498965 (OP)
>epic exclusive
it's going to flop what a bunch of retards

>still using the retarded and pointless lamp gimmick
yeah, thats a skip for me

>>718498965 (OP)
unironically too bleak for a souls game

>>718499515
Nah, it was a 200IQ move
>Game was unpopular on Steam and everyone shit on it due to not having From Software's logo on its box so there is no loss at not releasing it there
>Epic paid for the development so even if they sell 0 copies they're still making risk-free profit.

>>718498965 (OP)
>dark souls but what if we put a cross on everything and made the gameplay suck

If they had any confidence in this slop it wouldn't be EGS exclusive.

I wish them luck with Timmy's cash influx. Hope it lasts. Won't be touching it and I bought the first one on release.

>>718500925
i liked the first game despite the jank but i will never use epic's store

The people mad at the game being EGS exclusive isn't mad due to missing the game but are simply mad at the game not being available on Steam due to being Valve fanboys.
If the game were available on Steam too it would be dismissed by that same people as "another Soulslop".

it's not even EGS exclusive its on console as well. Original (after updates) runs great even on base PS5.

It'll probably end up on steam after a year or whatever.

>>718501964
>It'll probably end up on steam after a year or whatever.
They already explained it's a permanent EGS exclusive; Epic paid for the game's development for that very reason.

Who the fuck asked for a sequel?

>>718502230
ah damn. Oh well ill just get it on ps5 then.

My brain is fucked up, I thought they already had a sequel to this game

>>718501028
You can downgrade rollslop?

>>718502861
the second one was a total reboot of the IP, this is a sequel to the reboot

>>718503062
It's not a reboot, the story follows the first one

>>718498965 (OP)
Where the cute girls at kurwas?

>>718501030
This game wouldn't exist without Timmy. Steamcuckies didn't buy it.

>>718502886
Slide-slop

>>718499515
Neat, I'll just pirate it with a clear conscience then

>>718504161
Then no one bought it on EGS either, so Timmy has no reason to fund it. But Timmy is funding it, meaning it did sell. We know EGS sells single digit percentages of what Steam does. Therefore, we know it must have sold on Steam to make Timmy see it as worth spending the money to fund the sequel in the delusional hope that this time an EGS exclusive will actually sell copies on EGS.

>>718504953
They literally said they couldn't even break even. Timmy saw it as a cheap enough way for him to market UE5 features again.

LoTF sold over a million copies in 10 days

>>718506363
only recently it reached 2 million

>>718504953
Timmy funded it because he wants EGS to have its own big budget Soulslike, a counterpoint to Steam having From Software games.
Still >>718504161 is right; the game exists because Tim is paying for it and the developer is getting a net gain.

>>718502230
>They already explained it's a permanent EGS exclusive
Lmao what the fuck.
I understand timed exclusivity shit to get timmy money and then sales money later, but no one ever buys games on EGS, it will just gather dust there in perpetuity and return no profits whatsoever.
To make this offer lucrative, timmy had to pay more than 100% of all dev costs upfront. What a generous patron of arts.

>>718499515
Welp, guess I won't buy it then

looks kino
People would be jizzing themselves if it said From Soft somewhere in there.

>>718508507
Timmy did because he wants his own in-house Soulslike.

>>718508793
plus he only gets PC exclusivity, it will still be sold on ps5 & Series X

>>718499515
It's a shame, but it is what it is.
I will wait for official confirmation that it's not coming to Steam later and not what forum posters say.

>>718502230
Fine by me. I played some excellent games on EGS, such as Blades of Fire.
It baffles me how hypocrites gamers are, shitting on another game launcher when most of them have Battle.net or some similar shit installed.

>>718509108
xbots don't buy shit because of gamepass and snoys play only movie games
50% of elden ring sales came from steam how can a dev be this retarded?

>>718509174
I only use Steam and GOG, and still I understand why accepting Tim's deal was the best decision the developers could have made.
I mean, the money from the console ports are literal free money.

>>718504014
>Where the cute girls at kurwas?
There had better be some shown if they're going the anti-woke route. Character creator had better show male and female too, no half-measures, no being coy.

>>718499817
you're a tasteless fag
I bet your favourite souls games are DS3 and ER because you can rush from one boss to the next with no attrition

>>718509554
>50% of elden ring sales came from steam
Because Steam users like From Software games.
They didn't like either Lords of the Fallen game so the developer had nothing to lose and everything to win by accepting the Epic deal.

SEGGS

>>718502230
>permanent EGS exclusive
i've lost track of the amount of these games that ultimately ended up on steam

>>718510609
Imagine the handjob

>>718510984
Those were timed exclusives.
Lords of the Fallen 2 is a permanent exclusive like Alan Wake 2 due to Epic funding the game's development.

>>718509554
LoTF sold more on ps5 than steam, at least during the initial 1 million sales at launch. Not sure how its changed since then.

>>718511172
No. I'm talking specifically about games that were labeled "permanent exclusives" like World War Z or Airborne Kingdom and a whole lot more.

>>718498965 (OP)
I will not let these devs sweep under the rug how embarrassing they are. They actually thought that by changing body type 1 and 2 to male and female they would get an increase in player base. Pathetic. I have more respect for the shitty gen z woke game than these retards. Learn to make a fun game and people will buy it, don't advertise it to the retards.

>>718498965 (OP)
Was the first one even worth playing?

>>718511514
I played those 100 hours this year and almost every single player I played with, both summoning / being summoned and invaders, were console users; I only got summoned by another PC player once.
Probably the game does super well on consoles so the PC sales don't really matter, which explains the entire deal with Tim Sweeney.

(You know because the player's name has an icon at the left of its name showing its platform of origin).

>>718500925
>everyone shit on it due to not having From Software's logo
It's the definition of a 6/10 game, just incredibly middling in ever way

>>718512238
they casualized the shit out of it, now:
invasions are optionals and turned off by default
bosses are weaker
the umbral realm has been nerfed to the ground
theese fuckers have no vision

>>718510609
Hana Hana no Mi - Butterfly Orchid

>>718512151
fuck off, karen

>>718512358
PC launch was rough so it wouldn't surprise me if people picked it up on ps5 instead because of that. Console performance wasn't amazing at launch either but seemed to have a lot less issues in general

>>718506363
The game was terrible at launch, sales halted instantly.
They only got back up and crawled to 2m because the devs started promoting the game like crazy in social media, themselves, released several patches and did several deep sales.

The game struggled to break even.

>>718513079
If the PC well was already poisoned then they had less of a reason to take the risk with a non-Timmy funded venture.

>>718512151
You talk like the 'modern audience' is a big segment of the market and buys openly woke media.

>>718498965 (OP)
where are the big tits they promised

>>718512613
Remember when on release the ONLY NG+ option was the one that removed nearly every regular bonfire from the game and forced you to use the player-spawned ones only? That shit ruled.

>>718514546
yeah i loved that because the level design is tight and you can loop around the main sanctum (i think it was called skyrest) from a lot of zones

>>718512151
The fact that they released the game with type 1 and 2 but only changed to male/female once that was cool says a lot about their artistic integrity.

I hate woke stuff but I don't respect flip flopping artists either.

>>718509931
>Benis
>Bagina
>Bermaphrodite

>>718515258
We should reward them for eschewing demented gender ideology and correcting the labels.
If using proper sex terminology doesn't net sales, why would anyone bother using it?

>>718498965 (OP)
>Epic exclusive
why?

>>718516327
It did boost their sales, but still sounded like a desperate measure for a failing game instead of a sincere commitment.

>>718516526
epic funded the game

>>718516616
then I won't play it, simple as.

Its a given that the game will tank hard on PC.
Their only hope is the PS5 sales now.

>>718516327
we should punish them for using type 1 and type 2 in their initial build

>>718498965 (OP)
>mocking Christian iconography again
Pathetic.

>>718512238
It has the best dark souls level design than any from software game starting with dark souls 2. Nothing else about it is remarkable though.

>>718512613
The most casualized thing about it was nerfing enemy placement on levels. The game made with any character build always having available ranged options, so they made levels with that in mind. Then, fromtards started playing the game in their minimalistic cuck playstyle and ate a lot of shit for not using ranged, so they started screaming and crying and devs had to nerf the levels. But IIRC you can optionally enable original ones.

>>718517984
the ganks weren't even that bad if you were a pure melee character, that lamp could ledgekill iirc

The OG Lord of the Fallen was one of the worst games I have played. Then for some reason they decided to make a new game that had the same name that was shilled here to fuck and surprise, surprise, it sucked as well.
Epic game store exclusive will make sure no one buys this

I hope they change the lamp gimmick. I've done multiple playthroughs and it's only interesting in the very first blind playthrough when there's an element of mystery. After that, it just becomes "something annoying you have to do to proceed" while adding absolutely nothing of value to the gameplay.

>>718498965 (OP)
the lamp gimmick was pretty cool, but man, the rest of the game was really mediocre

the writing, the combat, the ui.... it was just another souls clone, copying also the worst elements of From games
how about somone makes a souls clone with a fucking plot, better gameplay and proper difficulty progression and abalance?

>>718499515
It's also on the PlayStation Store, silly.

>>718519358
At launch having to go to lamp world was a fucking chore.
You'd get swarmed by those small weak enemies in no time.

>>718520243
that was the best part, umbral is an eldritch relam full of horrors, it's supposed to be hostile

>>718520465
When you're advancing in an area, and after you look around and realize:
"Fuck, I have to go to umbral mode again, fuck my life"
Means that the design isnt a good one.

>>718520738
personally i enjoyed but i see your point

>>718498965 (OP)
Wait where is the little demon girl? I was promised profane cunny!