People with stress or anger disorders are advised to not play this title. Otherwise you will end up like the angry German kid.

XperiaRay

demons souls and dark souls are the spiritual succesors to the king's field series on ps1 and ps2, these games we almost exactly like the 'souls series' and were also quite hard, though they were in first person.

The game is not really hard unfairly, you just need to learn how to play it. Once you figure out how to earn the right gear and levels for the places you want to go, you can do it. As long as you don't run in like a call of duty moron and try to kill everything in sight you'll be fine, ohhh....and there is a block and dodge ability too!.....lol

It is sad that this generation in particular has went almost 90% casual, games like demons/dark souls were almost the norm back in the day. Gamers today expect to see the end of every game they buy, simply spending enough time (today that means 4-10 hours) with it and then see the credits roll and get some stupid digital medal/trophy for spending time with the game. 9/10 of these games that give out achievements and trophies are like giving you an award for putting your shoes on the correct foot. Not something to run around and brag about...."look at my gamer score dude"

I'm over 50 hours in now, and I've also had a few issues with the controls here and there. There's the *very* delayed actions, where I'll hit O to roll, get hit a few times by enemies, then my guy will decide to roll when I don't want him to anymore. Same goes for attacking, healing and, even more annoying because the timing is crucial for this one, backstabbing. But worse than the delayed actions, are just random actions I didn't even prompt. Those are rare, and I was never able to replicate them, but sometimes when I'm blocking, my character will attack, or I'm trying to attack and he'll roll, etc. One that happens very often, though, is rolling in a different direction than where I was aiming the stick. These quirks don't often lead to death, but they do lead to frustration.

Other than that, best game I've ever played.

About the "no story thing" everyone keeps saying: are you all retarded? Just because there's no voice narrating your every more, doesn't mean there's no story. FFS you go through hell and back in this game, kill hordes of demons and undead, and people have the nerve to say there's no story? ACTIONS make up a story too. A journey is a story, doesn't have to have a narrator to qualify.

I also have noticed that there is something off with the controls. I played Demons Souls right up to release and it feels different. Playing Demons Souls felt more tight and accurate and Dark Souls feels a little sloppy at times. Why can't developers ever leave well enough alone?

This article irritates me for a load of reasons...

First, it's "From Software", not "For Software".

Second, the tone of the article comes off as too whiny. Throughout the entire article he consistently goes back to how hard the game is, and keeps comparing it to other games for no reason. He seems to complain about things like there not being Health Regeneration and the fact that you lose your souls when you die. In fact, the only thing I agree with on the first -truth- is that it's bullshit that you can't see how many souls are required to level up (a feature that was available in Demon's Souls).

Third, the controls are definitely not 'laggy'. One example he points out is that he was being attacked by an enemy and was unable to bring his shield up quick enough to block the next three hits. He seems unaware that being hit temporarily stuns your character, which will interrupt attacks and prevent you for raising your shield to block.

Fourth, he claims there is basically no story, and that all you're going to be doing is killing enemies and ringing bells. This shows that he didn't get far into the game at all. Yes, like Demon's Souls, the story is quite absent, but there is far more to the main quest than ringing bells.

Fifth, he talks about how other games would be hated if they followed a similar formula and difficulty. He uses Gears of War 3 as an example, which is a completely different game. Seems like he could only think of four things to write about and came up with a crappy fifth 'truth'.

Dark Fantasy with some horror elements.

Gothic Horror - “the battle between humanity and unnatural forces of evil (sometimes man-made, sometimes supernatural) within an oppressive, inescapable, and bleak landscape.”

eh what?

its always been a gothic horror inspired game.

not sure anyone thought different

Horror simply means fear, shock, and disgust. I felt all of those things my first time seeing the Gaping Dragon.