ghost whistler said:
OOh look a snide fanboy!
Moan because i don't play the game, moan when I do. Whatever.
The game hasn' tbeen totally honest at all. It's precisely because you don't know what's coming that people get all excited by it. At least that's what they claim on forums like this: "i love the tension".
But I don't recall the game being honest about how useless armour is (beyond a weapon and a shield, armour is pointless excepting special qualities or powers since all it does is slow you down). Endurance is the most useful stat, by and large, to increase accordingly because the developers placed too much weight on weight.
Nor were they honest about the crappy camera, environment design and lock on system. Cramped quarters for the Capra demon fight? Check. Narrow corridors with ambushes around corners? Check.
Great. You enjoy that? Knock yourself out. Just give me a sensible manual save and let me play the game like a mature person with the tools to make the decision about how i want to plauy. DOn't come up with a save system so lame that the game quits when my internet, for whatever reason, cuts out. Pathetic. Even Dead Island doesn't do this.
The elitist twats playing this game are the worst thing in gaming and that is the game's most unforgiveable sin. "didn't succeed at doing x? ooh epic fail!" Get a life little man.
Ooh look, an ignoramus who can't argue his way out of a paper bag!
Once again, I don't give a crap what you think of the game, but all the same I am going to respond to your poorly founded points. I don't give a crap whether you play the game, and I have never given a crap whether or not you play the game. You bought a game that you didn't think you would like. The game was upfront about offering a challenging experience. You didn't think that would appeal to you but you bought it anyway, and now you continue to burn through your leisure time doing something you don't enjoy. I think this makes you moron. But by all means, keep playing the game and bellyaching about it. In a thread full of Dark Souls players you are ironically making yourself out to be the biggest masochist, not to mention the biggest whiner.
You continuously claim that your failures are due to bad controls and design, but then provide ample evidence to the contrary. If you can't avoid the bushmen's bite attack, it is because you are hopeless, and not because the game is unfair. The attack is preceded by a distinctive animation that makes it easy to predict, and has a very short attack range so it is easy to dodge. The fact that you have failed to learn this is one example of many that your repeated deaths are due to your poor observation skills and/or reflexes. That is why you have failed where others have triumphed. Others have taken a thoughtful approach, have carefully considered the tools at their disposal, and have experimented with their tactics.
Once again you shriek "ELITIST! ALERT!" when attention is drawn to the evidence of your poor skills. If a player is getting massacred by cloaked units in a game of Starcraft, am I being elitist if I point out their failure to build units that can detect cloaks? How DARE I have a better understanding of the game's mechanics. Do you cry elitism to deflect all of your failings in life? Is your driving instructor being elitist when he flunks you?
If you had thus far been more civil, I would have responded in kind and given you helpful tips without the snark, but you have consistently attacked the character of others, and I therefore feel no inclination to be patient with you.
Please go back to this glamorous life of yours and quit trying to break down the brick wall that is Dark Souls with your nose. My friends routinely massacre me at fighting games, but I don't whine about how unbalanced the characters are, or how my teeny tiny hands put me at a disadvantage. I admit to myself that my skills are lacking, evidenced by the fact that others have succeeded where I have failed. And when the experience ceases to be fun for me, I find something better to do. I have a nice meal. I go for a jog. I wash the dishes. I have sex. But yeah, I'm obviously the one who needs to get a life.
