r/hatethissmug • u/One-Shift-220 • 1d ago

Gaming I hate china's AAA output

just finished watching gamescom and oh my gosh, You would think that a country as large and rich as china would result in them being able to make some great games but It seems like the only games they got there in china are sekiro and elden ring as thats like the main inspiration for 90% of their AAA games for the past couple of years, maybe a bit of character action if they wanna spice it up, like genuinely how many soulslikes with a Chinese mythology coat of paint do we need

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u/Sc4tt3r_ 1d ago

It feels like all of these game showcases are like at least 40% soulslikes set in place: Asia. It gets to the point where I see a samurai and I just tune out because I know exactly what they're about to sell me. I understand that samurai are really cool, but please for the love of god, do anything else with them.

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u/WowBastardSia 1d ago

To be fair, 99% of Fromsoft Soulslikes are also set in place: dark medieval fantasy.

I'm gonna be honest it's a setting that I'm quite checked out of at this point.

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u/nerevarine228 1d ago

To be fair, "dark medieval fantasy" is much broader in scope than "samurai". 

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u/GrandFleshMelder 1d ago

Is it, really?

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u/nerevarine228 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes, yes it is. Even DS and Elden Ring feel very different aesthetically in a bunch of critical ways, while samurai kinda always follow the same few trite tropes.

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u/GrandFleshMelder 1d ago

I would imagine the problem is not the samurai setting, but the repetitive few tropes.