@Lulu_Lulu said:
@ SolidTy
Dark Souls kinda is Demon Souls in the Same way Bioshock is System Shock 3
Firstly, I own all these "Souls" games.
Second, your comparison ultimately doesn't matter as the situations are entirely different. Sony owns the Demon's Souls IP and co developed it with From Software. This game seems to be another Sony and From Software project. Miyazaki directed Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1, but he chose not to work on Dark Souls II and has been working on something else for a long time. This new game popped up with screens indicating a Souls type game, but made with Sony and From Software.
Your comparison using 1994's System Shock doesn't work because Looking Glass the developer is defunct as of 2000 and Origin Systems the publisher is gone as well. Ken Levine (Designer of 1999's SS2) wanted to continue, and 2007's Bioshock was born of that effort many years later (almost a decade). Here's why it doesn't work, Sony and From Software are still around and active. Demon's Souls isn't some super older IP that is being resurrected a decade later. It was just a matter of opportunity getting these two companies to work together again. Based on the screens, what we know about Miyazaki, things are pointing to a DS2. Anything can happen. Maybe it's a new IP completely, but that seems less likely based on those screens.
Things are adding up. I know a LOT about this game and the series that From created independently after. Here's a post of mine from 4 years ago explaining the Demon's Souls IP ownership to newbs. Your GS account is not even a year old, so you must have missed out on all the education I laid out last generation. The opportunity for Sony to revisit their old IP was always there. Is it going to happen? Who knows, but it's possible which is all I indicated.
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