I put off getting this game cause in the videos it just didn't look that great but all the hype made me give it a try...

User Rating: 10 | Dark Souls X360
I'm not going to give an indepth review of the game cause there is a ton of them out there and i'll just be repeating whats alreadly a well known fact: this game is heaven for hardcore gamers and hell for the fable loving mass effect crowd.

I've always considered myself a hardcore gamer. I've been gaming ever since the Atria 2600. I'm going on the 30 year mark, only being 4 years shy. And i must say that on a console game this game is far so far far beyond epic that i couldn't even begin to describ it.

I had my doubts on this game cause i always heard what people said but when i looked at the youtube footage and review gameplay i wasn't immpressed. It looked to slow, with average graphics and its a well known fact the game is lacking in the story department. Anyhow, after i played skyrim for 500 hours and played through all the mass effects from 1-3 in the last couple of months i started thinking about dark souls again.

Now, the fact that i'm coming down off a good stroy from ME1,2 & 3, (expect for the ending) and a beautiful world that was created in Skyrim i was missing some hardcore game play. LIke the kind i used to get when i started guild/kin in WoW and LOTRO, but i didn't want to get back into an MMO cause it ceases being a game and crosses the bounds to real life drama.

Thus, i spent 5 hours yesterday reading both good and bad reveiws on Dark Souls and watched several hours of you tube vids, and dug deep into the offical forums for Dark Souls and on the basis of that i decided i had to give this game a try.

All i can say is that every game i own for the next 6 months to a year will be collecting dust. I'll probably wont even need to buy a new game for the rest of this entire year because dark souls is just that bad a**. The combat is so fun, and the diffuculty is not cheap. It mends both skill and RPG elements the best i've seen in any game i've played. The fact that while you play solo while online and having that chance of invading, co-op and getting invaded is really just the icing on the cake.

This is the best gameplay fun i've had in recent memory. I was a die hard SKyrim fan defending against all its faults, but now it seems like its just a game for kids. Although i play in ways that make it way more difficult but nothing in skyrim can hold a candle to Dark Souls gameplay wise.

This just goes to prove once again that good graphics simply doesnt mean the game play will be epci. DOnt get me wrong, i still love skyrim but dark souls has me hooked to the CORE. There is so much risk involved, skill development and a decent character creation system that I'm going to be purly addicted to this game without getting that superfiscal feeling i have got from the most recent games i've played or the real life drama i you get from MMOs.

If you considered yourself a hardcore gamer, that loves a titanic challengethis game is for you. If your game taste is more casual and just a simple past time where you only play 1 or 2 hours every couple of days, dont get this, its not for you.

Finally, somebody out there didn't make a game that appeals to the mass market and dumbs the game down so anyh 1st grader cant pick it up and play.

The devs that made Dark Souls, thought about the hardcore minority of gamers like me. If you consider yourslef a hardcore gamer, this is a MUST buy for you PERIOD.