"Does Dark Souls have action RPG elements to it? Yes. Is that genre befitting of Dark Souls?Hell no!!!" - Says "Bob the Hollow" on this opinion piece about whether the terminology that describes the series as an Action-RPG is flawed, and what we should be calling the "Souls Genre"
"Dark Souls: Archthrones is like playing a brand new FromSoftware game, and that speaks volumes about just how much good modding can do," says Hanzala from eXputer.
Parrying has been creeping into more games, with almost every high-profile title of the last few years featuring it in some way. Why?
i understand the authors frustration i'm not the best at parrying in games. not that i can't complete a game that requires it but it is a definite harder thing for me than other kinds of techniques in games. which might be the main reason it's so heavily added in games nowadays. want to make your game challenging without having to do a lot of work? just add a parry boss. (what i mean by parry boss is a boss you have to beat by parrying such that their attacks will kill you otherwise)
I always think it's fine as long as such games also have the roll/dodge panic button. But I understand the will to parry, it seems so cinematic in a fight when you pull it off.
Dark Souls 2 remains a divisive entry in the landmark RPG franchise, but Hidetaka Miyazaki believes it led to the success of Elden Ring.
DS2 was fine. While there was a bit of recycling assets or ideas for bosses, it was a bigger more open Dark Souls. The Fume knight boss is one of the hardest bosses in the series until Sekiro and Elden Ring were released.
The problem with Dark Souls 2 was the same problem when a different director takes over for a sequel to an outstanding movie. It typically (there are exceptions) doesn’t have the feel and vision of the previous movie.
I wouldn’t say Dark Souls 2 is terrible. Had Dark Souls 1 never been a thing and we got this, I think it would have been praised more. The problem is it didn’t have the Miyazaki touch to it and felt pretty derivative. The soundtrack is a banger though.
And it will happen in the future when he doesn’t touch them as he is planning on.
I like DS 2, might even be my favorite of the 3. But it's a hard sell, there's so many obscure things you need to do to make it an enjoyable experience. So always find it hard to recommend, but it is worth the trouble.
Speaking of which, The Legend of Zelda series isn't an RPG period
I feel like this is way too subjective and ultimately irrelevant to bother debating about it.
Depends how you define RPG. It has levels, stat points, gear, spells and abilities, items. It's absolutely an ARPG. No one should call it a "souls genre". This article is just someone that really likes Dark Souls, so much so that they think it deserves it's own genre. All of the things he listed are already variations within the RPG genre and have nothing to do with defining a genre.
I think Dark Souls is an Action-RPG, but it isn't as quest heavy as games like the Witcher, Fallout and Mass Effect. I personally, thought the genre of Action-RPG was pretty well defined. Unlike Action-Adventure, which seems to a be a catch all genre.
Yakuza is not an RPG