Dark Souls is bigger than Skyrim

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#1 lqcevox
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"The leader of the pack has clocked about 60 hours within the game - and judging by the information given to him by his US counterpart, he's only about a quarter of the way through the damn thing. Forget about randomly generated dungeons and sprawling scenic hills: from what I've seen so far, Dark Souls is going to be bigger than Skyrim. It might not be as infinitely playable, but in terms of the quantity of unique content to explore I can't see anything else that's coming out this year squaring up against something as big as this."

http://www.oxm.co.uk/34002/blog/dark-souls-is-bigger-than-skyrim/

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#2 fueled-system
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I STRONGLY doubt this, I will believe it when I see it

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#3 Vaasman
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60 hours and he's 1/4 of the way through, and 60x4=240 hours.

Skyrim is said to have 300+ hours of gameplay.

So......

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#4 foxhound_fox
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And that means what? Dark Souls is a better game? I doubt its bigger than Just Cause 2.
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#5 bleehum
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60 hours and he's 1/4 of the way through, and 60x4=240 hours.

Skyrim is said to have 300+ hours of gameplay.

So......

Vaasman
Yay math!
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#6 CODMan2014
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I prefer Dark Souls to Skyrim, not a big fan of the Skyrim medieval settings, Dark souls did it much better. Skyrim is basically trying to be the COD of RPG's.
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#7 casharmy
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perhaps they spent 60hrs on the same area?

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#8 lawlessx
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yeah maybe the main story quest ...but overall Skyrim is packed with 100s+ hours of entertainment
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Keep in mind that in Dark Souls probably 70% of that is dying and having to retrace steps.
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#10 casharmy
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Oh gawd, such an epic coment. lol, and this is OXM, after playing this they aretalking down on skyrim like a bastard step-child. Just like Ithought.

"If you've got the stomach to handle a game like Dark Souls, then this will be the only RPG you need to buy this Christmas. Forget about running around the hills collecting flowers to make potions - it's time to start preparing for a road trip straight to hell."

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#11 waltefmoney
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It's great that Dark Souls has that much content packed. But I doubt it'll match Skyrim.

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Oh gawd, such an epic coment. lol, and this is OXM, after playing this they aretalking down on skyrim like a bastard step-child. Just like Ithought.

"If you've got the stomach to handle a game like Dark Souls, then this will be the only RPG you need to buy this Christmas. Forget about running around the hills collecting flowers to make potions - it's time to start preparing for a road trip straight to hell."

casharmy
I hate OXM, but I actually like that comment.
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[QUOTE="casharmy"]

Oh gawd, such an epic coment. lol, and this is OXM, after playing this they aretalking down on skyrim like a bastard step-child. Just like Ithought.

"If you've got the stomach to handle a game like Dark Souls, then this will be the only RPG you need to buy this Christmas. Forget about running around the hills collecting flowers to make potions - it's time to start preparing for a road trip straight to hell."

and yet skyrim will score the same or better and sell more.
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[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"][QUOTE="casharmy"]

Oh gawd, such an epic coment. lol, and this is OXM, after playing this they aretalking down on skyrim like a bastard step-child. Just like Ithought.

"If you've got the stomach to handle a game like Dark Souls, then this will be the only RPG you need to buy this Christmas. Forget about running around the hills collecting flowers to make potions - it's time to start preparing for a road trip straight to hell."

and yet skyrim will score the same or better and sell more.

It will sell more, I doubt it will score better.
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#15 casharmy
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yeah maybe the main story quest ...but overall Skyrim is packed with 100s+ hours of entertainment lawlessx

uh hun...

"Unlike Bethesda's RPG beast, there doesn't appear to be much recycling in Dark Souls. Each area feels different, and enemies are rarely re-used for the sake of it."

And this is a comment from the official xbox mag. quality>quantity.

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#16 Kats_RK
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60 hours and he's 1/4 of the way through, and 60x4=240 hours.

Skyrim is said to have 300+ hours of gameplay.

So......

Vaasman

300 hours of gameplay :shock: well now i know what i'm going to do durning summer.

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ill put 200 hours into skyrim easily
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#18 dercoo
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My first DS game took about 60 hours

1/4 this game takes 60....

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[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"][QUOTE="casharmy"]

Oh gawd, such an epic coment. lol, and this is OXM, after playing this they aretalking down on skyrim like a bastard step-child. Just like Ithought.

"If you've got the stomach to handle a game like Dark Souls, then this will be the only RPG you need to buy this Christmas. Forget about running around the hills collecting flowers to make potions - it's time to start preparing for a road trip straight to hell."

DragonfireXZ95

and yet skyrim will score the same or better and sell more.

It will sell more, I doubt it will score better.

Metacritic score + GOTY awards says

Dark Souls > Skyrim, believe it.

if not who cares DS scored a 9.0 here on GS and still managed to be better than every 9.5 + rated game before it.

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[QUOTE="lawlessx"]yeah maybe the main story quest ...but overall Skyrim is packed with 100s+ hours of entertainment casharmy

uh hun...

"Unlike Bethesda's RPG beast, there doesn't appear to be much recycling in Dark Souls. Each area feels different, and enemies are rarely re-used for the sake of it."

And this is a comment from the official xbox mag. quality>quantity.

That's nice..still going to be putting 100+ hours in Skyrim

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[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"][QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"] and yet skyrim will score the same or better and sell more.casharmy

It will sell more, I doubt it will score better.

Metacritic score + GOTY awards says

Dark Souls > Skyrim, believe it.

if not who cares DS scored a 9.0 here on GS and still managed to be better than every 9.5 + rated game before it.

skytim will easily be better. its not even gonna be close
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I highly doubt DS will be bigger than Skyrim.
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[QUOTE="casharmy"]

Oh gawd, such an epic coment. lol, and this is OXM, after playing this they aretalking down on skyrim like a bastard step-child. Just like Ithought.

"If you've got the stomach to handle a game like Dark Souls, then this will be the only RPG you need to buy this Christmas. Forget about running around the hills collecting flowers to make potions - it's time to start preparing for a road trip straight to hell."

WilliamRLBaker

and yet skyrim will score the same or better and sell more.

Very rarely do the games of highest quality sell the best. Still, I will admit I'm extremely hyped for both.

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#24 casharmy
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[QUOTE="casharmy"]

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"] It will sell more, I doubt it will score better.mems_1224

Metacritic score + GOTY awards says

Dark Souls > Skyrim, believe it.

if not who cares DS scored a 9.0 here on GS and still managed to be better than every 9.5 + rated game before it.

skytim will easily be better. its not even gonna be close

:lol: like Oblivion to Demon's Souls right?

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[QUOTE="mems_1224"][QUOTE="casharmy"]

Metacritic score + GOTY awards says

Dark Souls > Skyrim, believe it.

if not who cares DS scored a 9.0 here on GS and still managed to be better than every 9.5 + rated game before it.

casharmy

skytim will easily be better. its not even gonna be close

:lol: like Oblivion to Demon's Souls right?

:lol: comparing games released 4 years apart. nice reach
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I will be playing both. I win.

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[QUOTE="casharmy"]

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"] It will sell more, I doubt it will score better.mems_1224

Metacritic score + GOTY awards says

Dark Souls > Skyrim, believe it.

if not who cares DS scored a 9.0 here on GS and still managed to be better than every 9.5 + rated game before it.

skytim will easily be better. its not even gonna be close

When Skrim still has the same ******* combat

Dark souls will destroy it

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#28 Ace6301
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[QUOTE="mems_1224"][QUOTE="casharmy"]

Metacritic score + GOTY awards says

Dark Souls > Skyrim, believe it.

if not who cares DS scored a 9.0 here on GS and still managed to be better than every 9.5 + rated game before it.

casharmy

skytim will easily be better. its not even gonna be close

:lol: like Oblivion to Demon's Souls right?

It will probably be just like Oblivion and Demon's Souls. TES will sell more, get a higher meta score, get more GOTY awards and have a longer average play time. So...yeah.
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[QUOTE="mems_1224"][QUOTE="casharmy"]

Metacritic score + GOTY awards says

Dark Souls > Skyrim, believe it.

if not who cares DS scored a 9.0 here on GS and still managed to be better than every 9.5 + rated game before it.

casharmy

skytim will easily be better. its not even gonna be close

:lol: like Oblivion to Demon's Souls right?

How do you measure that?

Because if it´s about scores the Oblivion scored much better overall than DS. If it´s about sales,then it also sold way better than DS. If it´s about GOTY awards,then it also got more GOTY awards than DS.

So how is it not?

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"The leader of the pack has clocked about 60 hours within the game - and judging by the information given to him by his US counterpart, he's only about a quarter of the way through the damn thing. Forget about randomly generated dungeons and sprawling scenic hills: from what I've seen so far, Dark Souls is going to be bigger than Skyrim. It might not be as infinitely playable, but in terms of the quantity of unique content to explore I can't see anything else that's coming out this year squaring up against something as big as this."lqcevox

If Dark Souls ends up being anywhere near as good as DS, I'm sure it will be even more infinitely playable than Skyrim :D

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#31 Master_ShakeXXX
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yeah maybe the main story quest ...but overall Skyrim is packed with 100s+ hours of entertainmentlawlessx

And so was Demon's Souls, so it's not hard to believe that Dark Souls will also.

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somehow i think this is more due to the player's inability to stay alive than the game's amount of content.
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#33 mems_1224
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[QUOTE="mems_1224"][QUOTE="casharmy"]

Metacritic score + GOTY awards says

Dark Souls > Skyrim, believe it.

if not who cares DS scored a 9.0 here on GS and still managed to be better than every 9.5 + rated game before it.

dercoo

skytim will easily be better. its not even gonna be close

When Skrim still has the same ******* combat

Dark souls will destroy it

if you go into an elder scrolls game looking for combat then you're doing it wrong. besides, combat in skyrim looks a lot better
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#34 mems_1224
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somehow i think this is more due to the player's inability to stay alive than the game's amount of content.BrunoBRS
yup, and for most gamers dying over and over is just not fun. i know its not for me. i dont play games for a challenge, i play to relax and have fun. dying over and over is not fun.
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[QUOTE="BrunoBRS"]somehow i think this is more due to the player's inability to stay alive than the game's amount of content.mems_1224
yup, and for most gamers dying over and over is just not fun. i know its not for me. i dont play games for a challenge, i play to relax and have fun. dying over and over is not fun.

you got me wrong. i'm anticipating this game as much as the guy that has the boxart in his sig, i just think that the guy who took 60 hours to get a fourth through the game sucks bad :P
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[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"][QUOTE="casharmy"]

Oh gawd, such an epic coment. lol, and this is OXM, after playing this they aretalking down on skyrim like a bastard step-child. Just like Ithought.

"If you've got the stomach to handle a game like Dark Souls, then this will be the only RPG you need to buy this Christmas. Forget about running around the hills collecting flowers to make potions - it's time to start preparing for a road trip straight to hell."

and yet skyrim will score the same or better and sell more.

And so will MW3 in relation to other shooters but that won't stop either from being garbage.
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It should be a crime to compare dark souls to a mainstream piece of trash like skyrim. Dark souls will be the real goty and skyrim will be the cowadooty of rpgs.

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#38 DragonfireXZ95
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[QUOTE="dercoo"]

[QUOTE="mems_1224"]skytim will easily be better. its not even gonna be closemems_1224

When Skrim still has the same ******* combat

Dark souls will destroy it

if you go into an elder scrolls game looking for combat then you're doing it wrong. besides, combat in skyrim looks a lot better

The only decent thing in Oblivion WAS the combat. Everything else pretty much sucked.
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#39 LORD_BLACKGULT
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You can't take that article seriously. :|

The most Skyrim has been played by any journalist is ONE HOUR. Dark Souls has been played for 60ish hours. Then he states some garbage about Skyrim like how it will have "randomly generated dungeons" and be "recycling" content. :roll:

He evidently didn't get the Bethesda memo that talked about HAND CRAFTED dungeons and caves (All 100+ of them),100%HAND CRAFTED environments, and RADIANT STORY (Tailors quests to your character, and aims at unique experiences for MULTIPLE play-throughs).

He also "conveniently" ignores how Skyrim has been worked on since Oblivion came out. (mostly conceptual stuff until Fallout 3 was released, I believe) That is 5 years, 3 if you want to ignore the conceptual stage. He also ignores how a team spent AT LEAST one year on building dragons alone, including an ENTIRE draconic language.

But I digress... I will buy, play, and enjoy both games.

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I can't wait to see the reaction this game will get from 360 players. Now, the only thing left is for From Soft. to show the PC some love ...
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damn level 1 must have been crazy then
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#42 Joedgabe
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Poor guy must have died a lot, I doubt dark souls is longer than skyrim. A lot of people won't like Dark Souls because it's harder than even demon souls which people complained that it was difficult. Either way I loved Demon Souls I'm pre-ordering dark souls and I know i wont regret it. Skyrim will probably sell more though since it has a long time fan base in the first place.

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Probably not gonna buy either of the game. But sounds like hes just been grinding for 60h.

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#44 gamebreakerz__
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Remember Demon's Souls? Remember playing the same level a thousand times? 60 hours does not mean 60 hours worth of 1 time play content.
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#45 stizz-
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^ Also remember what usually happened to you in Demon Souls if you moved through an unfamiliar area quickly? The dev actually promised for the game to be harder which probably means more traps and enemies the will own your face off if you blunder into them. I crawled through Demon Souls at a snail's pace.

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[QUOTE="dercoo"]

[QUOTE="mems_1224"]skytim will easily be better. its not even gonna be closemems_1224

When Skrim still has the same ******* combat

Dark souls will destroy it

if you go into an elder scrolls game looking for combat then you're doing it wrong

I went into oblivion thinking I could plow fields and ride flying cars... boy was I left disappointed. Now I know what to expect from Skyrim.

EDIT: Oh wait, I do know what to expect... repetitive quests and maps. I guess there will be ample quests like closing 100 oblivion gates (same map, each 15 mins or longer) in Skyrim.

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#47 bri360
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perhaps they spent 60hrs on the same area?

BTW:

WIN

casharmy

bahahhaaha you sir have just won this thread :P. And with Dark souls you cant really judge when he says he has more than 60 hours, you bring up a good point, there is alot of repeate cuz lets face it, everyone will die alot.

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is it bad i laughed really hard at the title?

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#49 Santesyu
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Yeah I doubt this aswell.

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#50 Sagem28
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I will be playing both. I win.

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