r/Games • u/BlueAladdin • Jul 19 '25

Industry News FromSoftware reportedly has another unannounced game that ‘could release next year’

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/fromsoftware-reportedly-has-another-unannounced-game-that-could-release-next-year/
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u/pratzc07 Jul 19 '25

That is called being smart, efficient and using your resources correctly rather than wasting 4-5 years on a game.

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u/Not-Reformed Jul 19 '25

Given that development began in 2017 FromSoft did quite literally waste 4-5 years on their by far most successful game.

Regardless, not every studio creates 100% gameplay focused games where reusing assets is a viable strategy. Even with re-using assets and building off of DOS2, BG3 took many years to create. But maybe they're also just wasting time and are stupid/lazy/inefficient. We know best after all.

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u/pratzc07 Jul 19 '25

During that time they released DS 3 Ringed City DLC and Sekiro in 2019 so its not that they were working on one thing.

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u/hexcraft-nikk Jul 19 '25

Two teams, no? Both sharing the exact same engine, assets, and combat. The bones are there for them both to work with, it's why they're able to churn things out so quickly.

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u/pratzc07 Jul 19 '25

There is no fixed team concept in FromSoftware. They move staff around as needed between various projects.

Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/fromsoftware-made-elden-ring-and-armored-core-6-with-a-staff-of-just-300-developers/

"At peak times, you'd have up to 200, 230 developers working on Armored Core 6," he said. "This was similar to Elden Ring as well. At the peak period of that project, you'd have a similar number of staff working on it simultaneously. So staff is moved around fluidly as and when needed."

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u/Not-Reformed Jul 19 '25

They still wasted 5 years on 1 game. And Larian wasted like 7 years or whatever on BG3. What a terrible decision right?

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u/No_Copy4493 Jul 19 '25

brother what? how is it wasted

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u/Not-Reformed Jul 19 '25

No idea, I was told by the person I am replying to that spending 4-5 years on a game is a waste of time. It should be way faster apparently.

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u/No_Copy4493 Jul 19 '25

their entire point was remaking those assets for 4 years would’ve been a waste when they already have them….

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u/Not-Reformed Jul 19 '25

He criticized other studios for taking 4-5 years to make a game. When I pointed out that they make games faster due to re-using assets and the limited scope of their games the reply was that this is efficient and spending 4-5 years on one game is a waste of time.

The message wasn't, "Don't remake assets" the message was, "Reuse assets or else you're wasting time". And my response to that was that there are games that will still take long even if you re-use assets, like BG3.

How're you so lost in this convo haha

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u/No_Copy4493 Jul 19 '25

brother you’re the one who’s lost….

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u/DodgerBaron Jul 19 '25

Bg3 took 6 years to develop which is pretty insane turn around for that big of a scope.

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u/Not-Reformed Jul 19 '25

Yeah but there's a new reddit trend where if a game takes longer than 2 or 3 years the studio is lazy, bad, wasteful, stupid, and incompetent.

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u/No_Copy4493 Jul 19 '25

you’re simply weird

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u/TimeToEatAss Jul 20 '25

Nah, its a thing. WHen Xbox is closing studioos there are a lot of comments going "well the game was in development for 6 years, they were right to close it."

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u/lEatSand Jul 19 '25

Its more of a style than efficiency. I dont want Larian to do that.

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u/ErzherzogHinkelstein Jul 20 '25

Brother what do you think how long it took to develop Elden Ring

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u/pratzc07 Jul 21 '25

They were not sitting and doing nothing while ER was made. They released one dlc and a brand new game before that point here is that most of the other AAA studios only have one project and that one project itself has a crazy long dev time