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A more apt comparison would be a real vocalist vs auto-tune, or food from scratch vs TV dinner. Dark Souls makes you actually be an awesome gamer. You're going to fail and fail and fail and hopefully quit and save yourself a lot of time and heartache unless you are truly creative, curious...

Demon's Souls had a better world and enemies, but Dark Souls is a huge improvement in terms of game design. Any Dark Souls fans that haven't played Demon's Souls yet need to, no question. The best thing ever of course would be adding all of the Demon's Souls areas as Dark Souls DLC. The...

In Demon's Souls the scaling weapons would benefit from Cursed Weapon while elemental ones were out of luck. The Dark Souls drain-health-for-more-damage spell is a character enchantment and boosts your damage no matter what you're swinging, and also a pyromancy... the net result is that the best...

The lag was really nothing to worry about. There were a few items that were tremendously fixed in a patch, and you could screw yourself as an archer if you killed the one and only NPC that sold cheap arrows. SO: PLEASE MAKE MORE SOULS GAMES

For the first time against Taurus, I went by the rule of "if you can roll between its feet, that's probably how you should be taking it on" and killed the thing on my second try without any of that elbow-off-the-top-rope stuff. Catacombs was a miserable place to fight through and the Tomb of...

That's why Dark Souls and its predecessor are all about opening shortcuts as you go along. Take the Taurus Demon... your first go through, you'll clear all the zombies including rooftops, get owned by the fire trap, fight the big black knight, go up the tower and start fighting Taurus. Good...

Tough it out, or suck it up and use the drake sword for now. Undead Parish has a blacksmith and you can get him to beat your scimitar into something decent.

I remember that. I've never been so insulted. DMC3: "Loser. Here's easy mode since you clearly need it lolololol" Me: "gtfo" DMC3: *lies down at bottom of trash can* At least Dark Souls kills you like it's all business... die and try again as long as you like at whatever you want to do...

Nice to see Dark Souls get a little attention here :D been hitting F5 for a week looking for a review or something.

I beat him at lv20 with a Zweihander+5 ... part of it was getting an early swing in that killed both dogs. Capra was plenty scary, but manageable, with his pets out of the picture. About difficulty and saves I think trying to get the ghost bonuses and win some of the stupid boss fights in...

A psp with a touchpad on the back would be brilliant for shooter games... the touchpad would be way better than an analog for aiming. You would probably use your index finger for it, so you'd sacrifice full-time use of the right (or left) trigger. This news has me excited about PSP2, I'm...

I really doubt that a turn-based XCom sequel could have been better than the original game. Prettier, sure, but not better... technology can't help you there. So it's just as well that the new game is only tangentally related. I think setting the game in a very conservative 80's USA could...

That would have been a horrible choice. FFXIII is a great rollercoaster... other FF games are sandboxes (sort of, well not really, they're still horribly linear) but it's a critic's failure when they complain that a rollercoaster isn't a sandbox instead of telling people if the rollercoaster...

Diablo didn't have a button to make your character "run", or a stamina gauge to monitor. Games should only put things in that are fitting and useful. If jumping isn't a major gameplay element, don't put it in. If running isn't a major gameplay element, just have characters travel at a...

... because guys are so stupid? If you're going to start a post by repelling your audience, why bother putting mileage on your keyboard to finish it? Or alternately it's a projection of what feminists want to see on people with so little opinion of the issue that they're basically a blank...