The first From Software game I've played was the long box version of King's Field on the PSX, then Armored Core 2 Master of Arena. I've purchased most of their Armored Core series, King's Field 2, Shadow Tower, Eternal Ring, Evergrace, Forever Kingdom, King's Field the Ancient City, Demon's Souls, and Dark Souls. They were always a good developer in my opinion, but their adventure games weren't ever amazing until Demon's Souls. Their adventure games were always okay or good. Most Armored Core games are good, though I feel Armored Core 5 is meh. Worst in the series.

And yes.  Sony has made FromSoftware the well respected studio they're known as.  Most of their games have been exclusive to Sony since the PSX.  So they're where they're at because of Sony, whether or not you want to think of  the reason as Demon's Souls or not.

First, I would need to recognize there name tbh

Not really, since Sony Japan Studio co-developed Demon Souls (and the upcoming game Bloodborne), while Microsoft Studios was in no way involved in development of any past Gears of War game.

In a way, they helped, I guess, but the credit goes largely to From themselves.

Of all the new IPs that were created in the last gen, Souls is my favorite one, and with the downfall of so many Japanese developers that used to be on top of the hill up until the 6th gen, From Software (along with Platinum) have become my favorite Japanese 3rd party developer.

And I also enjoyed 3D Dot Game Heroes quite a lot.

I've never ever played any of their games :S

Sony and Software made most of their games in tandem. Can't say the same for MS. This is why I love Sony Santa Monica and Sony Japan. The don't just pay their partners for IP's and let them fail. They help them finish their products because they actually have a standard. The same thing is going on with the Order right now.

He Knows he is wrong atleast...

Heck Hidetaka Miyazaki the director of the first two souls games out right said in an interview that the kings field games were a definite influence during the development of demon souls in an interview with gameinformer 

(posting the link to the article here cause its actually an interesting read) 

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/demons_souls/b/ps3/archive/2009/11/05/feature-demon-s-souls-director-discusses-difficulty-sequels-and-more.aspx

Some assistance with one game that they made does not change the fact that From Software made the game, or that they were known long before Demon's Souls.

Sony supported the game so much they opted to pass on publishing it outside of Japan, and it went on to sell almost 4 times as much outside of Japan and was a big enough success that it spawned Dark Souls, which is a bigger franchise than Demons Souls.

Of course does it really matter? From was already a "respected studio" and have been for 20 years.

No it doesnt... both games have very different lore, people just like to tie in little things here and there to try and relate both games despite that From has said a billion time that DaS is a spiritual sequel and not a Sequel, the only real realtion betwen the two games is Patches (the NPC) but thats a easter egg that From has used even in the Armored Core series, anyway if you played BOTH games you should now how vastly Different the lore is.

Edit: the only way i think you could tie both games in, is if DeS happened a LONG time aftter both DaS games maybe then it could make sense, if people forgot what originally happened before in DaS.