Why the enviroment in From software feel so...dead ?

[Uboa]

despite the effort they made in sekiro and elden ring feel different with vibrant colors , green grass , deers and goats . But the world they made still feel...desolated , haunted , hopelessness , not much better than dark souls or bloodborne . I swear if that was their intentional or not , there are somethings that make their games feel that way that i cant know why and I love it .
Lord of the fallen , ghost of tsushima , Mortal Shell and demon souls remake all have very pale and dark worlds but they do not have the same...sadness that a real from software games have . Can anyone please breaking it down for me ?

[Janthis]

Because it's empty. There are very few people and no settlements, towns or villages, just ruins and monsters. Plus the sound design and music contribute to it as well.

[endervale]

||| But the world they made still feel...desolated , haunted , hopelessness
bruh, cuz the world is meant to be this way

[MrWubzy]

It's intentional as far as I can tell. Since the days of Demon's Souls it's been meant to be a dark, desolate and fractured world to exist in. It plays to a high-dark-fantasy style, where hope is lost and the only savior we have is one who fell like the rest. Mortal Shell is similar with its world design, with creepy exteriors and strange creatures, and as far as I can tell with Google-fu Lords of the Fallen is more high-fantasy than dark, but shares a bit of its design with Soulsbornekiroring (wow, what a mouthful).

IIRC Miyazaki said in an interview that he based his stories in the Souls games from reading English fantasy books, where, at the time, he had little understanding of the English language, and could only read certain parts. So he'd fill in the gaps between the bits he couldn't read with whatever was in his imagination. It's no wonder that the games' narratives feel a bit disjointed when told, but come together in our imaginations.

[Ray]

You might not believe it but this is one of the reasons you get stuck in the game so bad that atmosphere they've created makes you fall into that darkness and in a weird way you and me just fall in love with it, in my opinion this is one of the important reasons most players don't get tired of playing the game...
Fromsoftware has created a world that you can recognize it from any other worlds of other games.

[Uboa]

Originally posted by CONSTANTINE:

You might not believe it but this is one of the reasons you get stuck in the game so bad that atmosphere they've created makes you fall into that darkness and in a weird way you and me just fall in love with it, in my opinion this is one of the important reasons most players don't get tired of playing the game...

me too

[R3dAlert93]

Demon souls remake looks amazing. I hope it really comes to PC one day in future.

[Uboa]

Originally posted by Bring3rOfGain495:

Demon souls remake looks amazing. I hope it really comes to PC one day in future.

but did it capture the sadness of a typical fromsoftware game ? no .

[R3dAlert93]

Originally posted by Uboa:

Originally posted by Bring3rOfGain495:

Demon souls remake looks amazing. I hope it really comes to PC one day in future.

but did it capture the sadness of a typical fromsoftware game ? no .

I could not care for sadness in games... If I want sadness, I would just watch a show for that.

[Uboa]

Originally posted by Bring3rOfGain495:

Originally posted by Uboa:

but did it capture the sadness of a typical fromsoftware game ? no .

I could not care for sadness in games... If I want sadness, I would just watch a show for that.

well , some chocolate or coffee lovers love the fruitiness inside their chocolate bars despite not liking fruits in general .

[Vinnolo]

Lands between has been at war for years since the shattering, barely anyone left, from games is always about the aftermath of great wars or something that left the world half empty, the ost helps alot too.

[Grizzly]

ironically its upside down, its so full that you get lost in it, making you feel like it sucks

[vamirez]

FS knows how to do grimdark fantasy right. Probably has to do a lot with Miyazaki's influences, from Berserk to Western fantasy rpg books he couldn't fully translate - which resulted in the idea that the player should fill in the gaps with their own head-canon.

[CourtesyFlush09]

Originally posted by Uboa:

Originally posted by Bring3rOfGain495:

Demon souls remake looks amazing. I hope it really comes to PC one day in future.

but did it capture the sadness of a typical fromsoftware game ? no .

Is this satire? Tower of Latria is probably the most depressing and melancholy zone From has ever created alongside the Valley of Defilement.

[Uboa]

Originally posted by CourtesyFlush90:

Originally posted by Uboa:

but did it capture the sadness of a typical fromsoftware game ? no .

Is this satire? Tower of Latria is probably the most depressing and melancholy zone From has ever created alongside the Valley of Defilement.

no...can be creepier for demon souls remake standard but no where near as creepy as the original one and even compare to a regular level of dark souls 3 or bloodborne .

[Sabaithal]

Always been that was since souls. Its just not quite to the same degree as the past souls games (because this game has some nice BGM).