LogFAQs > #971934238

I love the games to death, and I still get embarrassed about how religiously defended every facet of these games are.

Ever since Dark Souls 1, we've had things like poorly translated/outright false item descriptions, bugs and glitches, broken features, all defended to the teeth. The games' online system is, frankly, piss poor when it comes to matchmaking specifically with your friends, yet to suggest so has historically been blasphemous. There was a vocal subsection vehemently defending the notoriously shitty PC port of DS1, attacking anyone who installed the mod that actually made it, yknow, playable. Fuck, a reviewer, who admitted they werent good enough and still gave the game a great score, once used a sekiro mod to make the game easier for the SOLE PURPOSE of being able to see/talk about some of the late game content, and invited some of the most hilarious and cringy "backlash" we've ever seen. Like this gem right here:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/6/6/AAOdzqAAEPR-.jpg

And calling out these ridiculous people is routinely met with "cry more," or some such.

Its ridiculous that From games are treated as some golden calf. It's straight up the only franchise I've ever seen where "its a design choice" is used to handwave ANY criticism; not only is it patently untrue that these ARE all design choices (sekiro plainly illustrates that they just can't be assed to figure out pausing with online, but would do it otherwise. Same with later releases of DS1 correcting shitty/false translations), but even if they were... a design choice can be bad. A design choice can be divisive. Some of the worst art we have ever seen was made very, very deliberately.

Blinx's pokemon comparison a few pages back is spot-on. No other franchise in the world would be given as much leeway as Fromsoft games.