Because it’s something fans of Dark Souls seem to like, and Dark Souls is pretty popular so of course everyone else is gonna wanna get in on that success. Same for why so many games are also adopting similar dodge mechanics, obscuring info conveyed to the player, and being weird for the sake of being weird. Dark Souls did it and was a massive hit.
These comments reminded me of Minecraft. It’s the same story there. Crafting became popular because of Minecraft and now every game seems to have crafting mechanics whether they’re fun or not
Because it’s something fans of Dark Souls seem to like, and Dark Souls is pretty popular so of course everyone else is gonna wanna get in on that success. Same for why so many games are also adopting similar dodge mechanics, obscuring info conveyed to the player, and being weird for the sake of being weird. Dark Souls did it and was a massive hit.
The annoying part about it is that far too many titles that do these things don’t actually understand why it works for Fromsoft.
These comments reminded me of Minecraft. It’s the same story there. Crafting became popular because of Minecraft and now every game seems to have crafting mechanics whether they’re fun or not