Comments on: Dark Souls Review

By: jt

jt — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:48:56 +0000

I think the game is ridicuous. Everytime you revive at a bonfire it revive’s your enemies. They died then come back in a few seconds. You are given a broken and long sword in the beginning and it takes 40 hits before the thing will go down. Then all of the other ones come from around the corner and you are stuck swinging hard and lighter blows 60 times if you can keep your 2 inch HP up.

By: Video-xboy

Video-xboy — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:32:03 +0000

@sean it totally agree you and @movado fi you have ever played demon souls and beat it your mind would be changed and if been playing mmo for a while too to me this doesn’t get redundant you just have to be aware of your surroundings and you could get past a lvl no prob but this game is by no means redundant

By: sean

sean — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:54:29 +0000

@movado

there is no grinding in this game. it doesnt play like an mmo at all. the combat is precise and intricate. its based off of skill and learning strategies. its not about grinding and leveling up to beat areas. its about learning and discovering and experimenting. i doubt this guy played demons souls and i doubt he got very far in dark souls. sounds like a noob to me, and he obviously doesnt understand the game if he thinks its about grinding. grinding is discouraged in this game just like it was in demons souls, in fact people have beaten demons souls without leveling up AT ALL, meaning no grinding required to beat it.

As for the review, “nothing has changed here as relates to combat and game structure”.

What the fuck are you talking about???? The game structure is completely different, dark souls is an open world game. Demons souls was a level based game where you’d return to a hub world every time you beat a level. The game progression is different and more open ended. Sorry but its a poor review.

By: Democracy

Democracy — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:12:36 +0000

The game is amazing, anyone who doesnt accepts that has already been corrupted by todays easy mainstream games *cough* CoD, Halo *cough*

By: Movado

Movado — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 02:23:42 +0000

Textures are amazing, (about the only thing this game has going for it)

Game play is the same MMO nothing great nothing new. Charter animation fair at bets (before you start to argue with me go up and down a few ladders) Everyone saying this is a hard game, As an MMO player of 12 years + i am not going to call this game hard more like over redundant.

The first few hours are fun, but after that it is more or less a drawn out grinding game

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:09:50 +0000

This game looks awesome! I never even heard of it until I read this. Thanks so much!!!

By: krishna

krishna — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:43:48 +0000

man only if i had a ps3 or xbox i aint hating , game looks soooooooo damn gooood, even though me wanting the game is like me asking ass rape … meh i ll do it for the game

By: Maximk

Maximk — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:59:17 +0000

ARRRGH! I am dead now :D Good review. Reflects the game well.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:57:10 +0000

I have had interest in this for ages but I’m not sure I want to buy it, the difficulty is really tempting me. I haven’t played an actually challenging game in the longest time and the visuals are beautiful.

By: Bozobucketeer

Bozobucketeer — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:58:15 +0000

It definitely is a giant grind fest for it to be 80 hours. A large portion of the game is based around dying and learning from your mistakes. So when you clear a ton of monsters, slowly and carefully since they can all mess you up and then get killed by some random event you didn’t foresee, you get to start all the way back at your checkpoint and clear everything all over again. It’s probably a 20 hour game if you didn’t spend 3/4 of reclearing after death.

By: Jon Tucker

Jon Tucker — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:20:50 +0000

I wish this game got more press, I would like to have had it on my radar. Now its on my list; “games to play during the summer when nothing comes out”.

By: drtotems

drtotems — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:09:09 +0000

80+ hours? I know it has a lot of content but given the number of employees and the development cycle For From Software it doesn’t seem like it would be a good 80+ hours. How different are the dungeons? Not just by architecture but by enemy dynamics. The videos make it look like a whole bunch of smashing and pretty basic dodge block concepts. I guess to sum it up it looks like a giant grind fest with maybe some interesting boss mechanics. An 8.5 seems generous but i guess that’s because there is all the 5/10 fodder games which seem like 1-2s for me.