Why do Soulslike/FromSoft clones never come close?

[GymratAmarillo]

People can take this comment as they like but for a lot of people it's not about the game, it's about the name of the game.

"Why they don't come close" because a lot of people don't give the games an actual chance, everything is about finding what's wrong with the game even when things aren't wrong they are just different but if it's a FS suddenly nothing is wrong lol. I'm not going to say that there aren't games that are just the minimum effort but there are great games that don't have the attention they deserve just because they don't have the logo in the box.

When Nioh released it had way better gameplay than the DS franchise, where is the appreciation to the Nioh franchise? When Elden Ring came out a lot of people who never played other things than Fortnite and the Sims played the game, that's cool ER is a great game so ... why not playing similar games that are also good and share similarities? Because you can't brag you "know about videogames" if you play a game people don't give a damn about lol. So no, it's not about the games it's about knowing that it's a FS game.