It's probably my most anticipated game of this year, though I'm trying not to get too "hyped up" for it.
I didn't get into the series until I bought Dark Souls II in December 2014. I finished that game, played all the way through Dark Souls I near the end of 2015, played some of Demon's Souls, and now I'm playing through Scholar of the First Sin. I've enjoyed both of the Dark Souls games a lot. I liked Demon's Souls quite a bit, too, but for some reason haven't jumped back into it. I don't have a PS4 so I didn't get to play Bloodborne. I have also only finished Dark Souls I and II once, although I'm well into the latter third of Scholar of the First Sin. If you're one of those people that has played through NG+++++++ on every one of these things, yeah, I imagine you are tired of the formula. That said, if you're one of those people, you're probably going to own a copy of Dark Souls III at some point and you're probably going to finish it a time or two.
I'm going to bet there's a lot of people who have only played the two Dark Souls games - remember that Demon's Souls came out ages ago and only on the PS3 and Bloodborne is a PS4 exclusive, so anyone who's not really into Sony's platforms hasn't played those games.
Also, unlike pretty much every other annualized franchise, Souls games fill a niche that isn't really filled by anyone else. It's not another linear shooter, it's not another open world Assassin's Creed-like game, the Souls franchise is very much its own thing, and I think it's a thing that the video game industry really, really needs. Yes, I want to keep seeing games of this variety until I get as sick of them as I am of open world games.
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