As an outsider to the Soulsborne genre (it's not my cup of tea) I can see why people like them and why they dislike them. I can see what they do right (old school challenging trial and error to learn patterns) and I can see where they falter (horrible IQ, performance, jankiness, and accessibility).
What I don't see however is why FromSoftware and the Soulsborne genre is treated with such mythic reverence here and elsewhere online. The games can be rightly called good, some excellent even, but they aren't revolutionary. They are an evolution of an existing genre and From isn't even the sole proprietor of said genre.
Every good developer gets praised here for the most part, that's not an issue. What I see however, is an intense hyperbolic worship of FromSoftware and the Soulsborne genre. It even gets to the point where it gets nasty, see the accessibility "debate" over Sekiro.
I want to understand why.
What I don't see however is why FromSoftware and the Soulsborne genre is treated with such mythic reverence here and elsewhere online. The games can be rightly called good, some excellent even, but they aren't revolutionary. They are an evolution of an existing genre and From isn't even the sole proprietor of said genre.
Every good developer gets praised here for the most part, that's not an issue. What I see however, is an intense hyperbolic worship of FromSoftware and the Soulsborne genre. It even gets to the point where it gets nasty, see the accessibility "debate" over Sekiro.
I want to understand why.