The Duskbloods

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No thread for this yet so here's one.

New Fromsoft game, likely release date October (not June like most people expect). Similar aesthetic to Bloodborne, may be a spiritual successor of sorts.

Switch 2 only which will upset everybody. Looks good otherwise, is a system seller like it or not.

Multiplayer focus that hopefully pans out better than Nightreign. 12 playable characters (four more than Nightreign at launch) with their own playstyles.

As someone who wasn't a fan of Nightreign, I'd personally vastly prefer another single-player Fromsoft game where you make your own character, rather than another multiplayer "choose a character" game. Hopefully it has a different structure from the "choose a premade character and then beeline around for 20 minutes getting rushed along by a fire wall and then die to a big boss you didn't have time to adequately prepare for" Nightreign structure.

Doing two multiplayer games on back to back years is probably a mistake. Then again, From doesn't usually give us games on back to back years anyway (except for SOTFS/Bloodborne/DS3 all being on yearly cycles). Not sure what this phase is with them loving threesomes so much, but hopefully they get back to basics with their next game whenever that is. Looking forward to this regardless because it's From.


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Never going to get it if they actually keep it purely exclusive. With Miyazaki actually tied to this game, unlike Nightreign, and with Bloodborne hints, having this on all consoles and PC would sell millions of more copies than a Switch exclusive. As of March 31st there are 20 million Switch 2s sold. Out of those, half (at least) are for kids, with no intention of getting this game. Whereas PS5 is closing in on 100 million units sold. PC market is a hell of a lot bigger than that too.

Putting this on a limited new platform, with less hardware power than modern phones makes no sense to me unless the money given is nearly the cost of the production of the game, so any unit sold is bank. It's certainly a console seller though, so for Nintendo maybe it's worth funding the entire thing. If it is actually good, as far as third party studios go, I can't think of anyone else being able to make something that would sell as many Switch 2s just to play one game.

I'm much more excited for their next single player project whatever that might be.
 
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Noodleface

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Rumor is their next big game is getting announced at summer games.

I'm day 1 for this though. I actually thought it was a bloodborne 2 when I saw the trailer.
 
Penance

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It looks cool but I bought a switch 1 and never played some of the best games ever made for ot. I'd just feel like a dumbass buying any console at this point.
 
spronk

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beta/preview keys went out and lot of youtubers etc are posting impressions



i don't really play coop games so zero interest but seems like it might be fun if you liked elden ring nightreign or coop games. too bad its switch 2 exclusive
 
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That was a great video as it really showcased that I won't like it. Fallguys rounds, big emphasis on time (why I've never played Nightreign as I hate time mechanics in games), PvP focused not really coop.

Made for people like Oroboros and Peeve on Twitch, but not for me. I don't have a Switch 2, so this certainly doesn't give me an incentive to get one.

Can certainly see it was developed for a console with lower end hardware. Looks very fluid and runs well, but at the expense of it looking .... ehh.
 
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Some big gameplay leaks already doing the rounds - Looks really bleh to me. If it didn't have FROM name behind it, it seems like exactly the kind of game people would eviscerate
 
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