
just do a Youtube search to see what i mean. And i haven't even had the time to sign on and participate in online Player VS Player. Dark Souls is now one of my top games, along with GTA Vice City, Morrowind, Half Life, Thief 2, Might & Magic 5, Ultima 4, Super Mario World, Zelda (Ocarina of Time), Jade Empire, Assassin's Creed, Fallout 3 and Mass Effect. While playing Dark Souls, i was distinctly reminded of many classic arcade, console and computer games that stood out: Atari 2600's Adventure and Dolphin, NES's Castlevania, Contra and Rygar, the Mario series, the Grand Theft Auto series, the Diablo and Baldur's Gate series and even the Sonic the Hedgehog series (mini speed-runs). You either love it or you hate and i happen to love it (and my Chaos Scythe +5). Dark Souls is controversial, no doubt about it. You literally can make suicide runs and pick up some great booty in the process, although you won't know to do so on your first run with your first character. The trick is to learn how to gain from dying, and more importantly, how to spend your currency before you do die (and potentially fail to retrieve your blood stain). You "reincarnate" as do the minor enemies and you have to march back up that hill one more time.

And you cannot load some previously saved state just before you died. From this experience i learned not only the mechanics of the combat system but i learned how one should approach and play the game itself.

Before i attempted to play Dark Souls, i first finished its spiritual predecessor Demon's Souls.
