>>723201140 (OP)
Halo popularised throwing grenades from a button instead of having to equip them directly
Also driving vehicles around freely
Also regenerating health
Also carrying two weapons at once
Also having a flashlight
And many other things too
Easily the most copied game of all time
>>723201140 (OP)
In regards to the OSTs in Souls and Souls-adjacent games, I really do believe From peaked with DaS1 and it went all downhill after that game. It feels like almost every song, not all of them, but most, are just generic male orchestras bellowing over spastic violins and double bass.
I played Demon's Souls first, so it's very much not a case of "DaS1 was your first game." DaS1 had these really beautiful, sombre pieces that have stayed with me for over a decade.
>>723201846
Ludwig's theme kinda fits with the sombre tone though. Maybe it's a bit more bombastic, but it's still a tragedy piece. Even if you disagree, I'm not denying there aren't exceptions, but I'm talking in general.
There are only two (2) songs that stuck with me after my Elden Ring playthrough two years ago. The Ancestor Spirit theme, and the ambience track for Leyndall. I have almost zero recollection of any other song.
>>723201215
I’m surprised that we’re over 15 years into this subgenre and still haven’t seen a strait-laced “I made a Zelda game for adults” take on it, complete with puzzles and stuff.
>>723201629
I'm starting to agree more and more with this opinion as time goes on. It's all been downhill since Dark Souls 1. but there has been a few ups throughout From's stuff, but it's all been so "casualized" since then.
>>723205706
I really, really want From to take a second hash at the proper Metroidvania-style level design of the first half of DaS1 and gut the teleporting so badly. It felt like a real adventure through this fucked up world, instead of constant black loading screens like in DaS3 because I'm just jumping everywhere.
>>723203438
the only memorable tracks are >the main theme, which rocks and by extension radagon's theme >the horrible shrill limgrave ambient music that is a 50 second loop because fromsoft is deranged (Skyrim has dozens of tracks) >the beginning of the stormveil castle track that kinda sounds its going to break into the halo 3 main menu theme >the fucking didgeridoo song that plays during underground combat with the spirit archers
>>723201140 (OP)
Dark Souls is just Demon's Souls and Demon's Souls is just Monster Hunter 2 Dos with humanoid enemies. So fromslop clones are monster hunterlikes
Monster Hunter is the most copied franchise.
>>723212552
Bloodborne had the benefit of being orchestrated by Sony's sound team. Which is why it is far and away their highest quality soundtrack https://youtu.be/NHIkUzmNmc0?t=14
>>723205596
Souls pretty much is adult Zelda. Its just not structured exactly like OOT or similar Zelda games but that is a good thing. Otherwise it would just be a shameful copying of a successful game.
