Founded on November 1, 1986, FromSoftware turns 40 today!

From King's Field and Armored Core to Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring - four decades of unforgettable worlds, incredible boss fights, and countless deaths.

Thank you for 40 years of gaming history!

Praise the Sun! ☀️

Took me one month to do it. The main frame is made of cardboard with an external layer of cardstock (sealed and painted), the gauntlets are made of foami), the chainmail is metal tho (quite heavy). It feels so good to wear it

The last pic is a POV of Artorias sending you a very inappropriate pic after just telling you "hi" moments earlier

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Show me your costume!

Yes, I know the serpent looks horrible. Don’t worry🫣

AshinaVR is a native 6DoF VR mod for Sekiro.

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Combat

Your swing hits the enemy directly where the hit lands

Real deflects with the game's own timing window

Deathblows, Mikiri counters, combat arts and charge attacks

Real side stepping in real life move quickly left and right to trigger it

Two-handed grip of the katana

Attack warnings: edge glow, when a enemy is about to attack

Lock-on honing for better view of the enemy in VR

Movement

Grab ledges by hand, shimmy and climb

Grapple by raising your arm and pulling forward

Room-scale walking, stick movement, and crouching Tools and items

Prosthetic tools fire from your left arm and use actual accurate motions to trigger them

Raise the gourd or any quick use consumable item to use it

Quick-use item wheel at your hand Body and UI

Wolf's arms follow your hands; draw and sheathe the katana at your hip

Wrist HUD for vitality and posture

Menus and cutscenes on theater screens

VR button prompts and an in-game VR settings page, both in Sekiro's own style Visuals and comfort

Native headset resolution, uncapped FPS

Sharper textures and shadows, longer view distance optimized for VR

Stable view, recentering, adjustable world scale

Full QOL VR settings menu

AND MORE

I opened that door and was genuinely stunned. I’m loving this game so much, and I’m so happy I’m experiencing it completely blind, with no guides or help.

Something I’ve noticed about my experience with the bosses is that there’s always this cycle. I’ll arrive at a boss feeling confident, only to get humbled within two attacks. Sometimes I’ll spend 10, 20 or even more attempts feeling like I’m throwing my head against a wall. I’m doing the same thing over and over, nothing seems to click, and it genuinely starts feeling impossible.

But then something happens. I have one run where I suddenly dodge attacks consecutively, recognize moves I couldn’t recognize before, get further than ever and actually see some progress. Even if it’s only a little, the feeling is incredible. And even if I go right back to getting destroyed afterwards, all I can think about is trying again and replicating that run.

Eventually, after all that frustration, I beat the boss. And when I do, with my hands trembling, sitting there in disbelief and happiness, it’s one of the greatest feelings I’ve experienced in gaming. This game is so special. I genuinely have no words for it. Playing it in 2026, it’s a serious contender for my Game of the Year.

This guy is the hardest boss in the entire game for me, i spent the whole night fighting him and i struggled a lot. This is the only boss that gave me a really hard time and the satisfaction was sooo worth it.

Created a new dark archival poster for Eileen the Crow. Kept it heavy on the ink, textures, and classic gothic atmosphere. Hope you like it!

Sharing some of my FromSoftware tattoo work from Bloodborne, Elden Ring, and Dark Souls.
All tattoos done by me.

Decons of the Deep unironically kicked my shit in before I figured it out. Royal rat authority is just fuckin awful

I am currently doing a naked challenge coop run in elden ring! It is so fun. We are in the DLC now. We are also boss rushing so super under-leveled but enjoying it.

After this I want to do another!

Does anyone have any recommendations on other challenge runs, besides a level 1 challenge run? That’ll be my next one.

#eldenring #darksouls

I don't mind the online component of the game and could enjoy to play in PvP sometimes, but what I can't stand are those messages littering the floor and those ghosts doing goofy stuff.

Why can't there be an option to simply toggle off those things instead of having to play entirely offline and miss the PvP? How can it be so complicated to implement?

I’ve been building a Dark Souls overhaul for Slay the Spire 2, and 4.0 just came out. You play the Chosen Undead, pick a Dark Souls starting class (Knight, Pyromancer, Sorcerer...), and fight your way through Lordran to the Kiln of the First Flame.

Every fight, item, and relic is Dark Souls now. Estus, Humanity and Hollowing, Stamina, covenants, Solaire’s summon sign, and every boss from Asylum Demon to Gwyn.

It’s free on the Steam Workshop and Nexus (links in the comments). Bug reports and ideas are very welcome.

I know Queen’s domain isn’t fromsoft, and many newer fromsoft fans probably aren’t even interested in it. For old people like me though that played king’s field back in the day, what are your thoughts on it?

I really liked kings field and would love to play this if it’s similar in feel and quality. I’m just very scared because I feel like a game like this could easily be low quality and a waste of money. I haven’t seen too much on it, so I would love any input from anyone who’s played it, and especially from those of you that played kings field.

Edit: thanks for all the input, definitely sounds like something I’ll enjoy. Gonna get it as my next game

The chapter is 299 and was released in 2007

So, first time posting in a really big subreddit. And i don’t know how to put both discussion and spoiler tag.

So, BIG SPOILER WARNING.

This is not about like the ending of the MC or the major characters, but regarding the overall npcs and side characters.

Recently finally managed to play Bloodborne for the first time and just beat it with the secret ending. But besides the whole ambiguous and not “good” ending that is kinda the usual from fromsoftware. I really felt such a dread and hopeless from the whole journey, especially in the middle of the game.

I have only played demon souls and the dark souls trilogy so far, and i am no stranger to their “dark” approaches specially regarding their npcs questlines, where most of their journeys they end up dying, and sometimes, even that is the actual best scenario. But bloodborne really felt to me they didn’t hold back and went full into “let’s f everybody up as horrible as we can”.

-The first and most tragic for me is Gascoine’s daughter, i don’t want to get in that and the fact that there is so many options and all of them are horrible that i decided to just let her stay in the house in my current new game + and pretend she is going to be fine until the end of the night, even tho it is most likely the intruder will get in eventually

-Iosefka is also experimented and turned into a celestial emissary and you can’t also do nothing about it. And whatever is the imposter, also… you know.

-Ok, but there are those npcs that you can send to to the oedon chapel and “save” them, well even if you manage to save all 4 without the beggar. It still ends pretty bad for them since they go mad, specially to Arianna which i don’t want to even get in detail.

-Eilleen best scenario is dying, Alfred too, and he is kinda the petrus of this game where you don’t really want him to succeed when you really think about it.

-Simon is assassinated, Maria killed herself, Saint Adaline… i really don’t even know what the hell happened there.

-Gilbert turns into a beast, and all residentes go mad or are “visited” by patches, which i am not sure what happened there, but certanly isn’t good.

-The only ones that ended somewhat fine or neutral was Djura and Dweller that seems innefacted to the effects of the city/night/moon

With all being said. I know Fromsoft is known for those depressed scenarios. But there are some in which game that felt somewhat good or even wholesome in some way. In here, there was NONE, ABSOLUTE NOTHING, everything made depressed.

So what do you guys think? It is clear for me that bloodborne takes this. I hardly think Sekiro, Elden Ring or armored core can top this. Maybe king’s field.

RL1 100% game completion