Incredible score, finally the successor to the best game this generation (as most people who acutally played it would tell you) is here and it gets the recognition it deserves.

But I still am not happy with the way the difficulty is being hugely exaggerated by the reviewers (same as Demon's Souls which was hard but not as hard as they would have you believe)

Any game can because easy if you play it enough. The fact that it has a steep learning curve makes it harder than other games. mrmusicman247

I played Demon's Souls to death and loved it. my favourite game of this generation.

I know Dark Souls will follow a similar fashion, some things are more difficult while some are easier (no soul form which halves your HP and bonfires i.e checkpoints).

Now I have read both Demon's Souls reviews and the Dark Souls reviews and previews and I have to say the reviewers are WAY exaggerating the difficulty. I completed Demon's Souls four times and I am by no means a pro. True the game has a STEEP LEARNING CURVE but when you finally understand how the game works and figure out the strategies for the boss fights it becomes much easier.

Don't let these clueless reviewers put you off the game. It is hard, but easier than games like Ninja Gaiden where the game itself is punishing rather than having a steep learning curve (there is a big difference)

Since there is a huge number of good games being released this fall and I am a student, I don't want to fail and can only choose between one of these two games.

Skyrim or Dark Souls.

I played both Oblivion and Demons Souls (as you can tell I like RPG's) and loved them both. But I enjoyed Demons Souls more because of Oblivions problems such as stupid design choices (all dungeons looked the same, lack of variety in environments, guards arrest you even if they don't see you commiting a crime e.t.c), one dimensional auto-leveling, bugs and glitches (on the PC) and a non-convincing world (I mean look at the stiff un-expressive faces of the NPC's!)

Granted I thought Oblivion could have been the better game if they had fixed up these issues from the get go.

I need you to advise me because I have been confused about this for some time.

[QUOTE="9a3iqa"]I have done some research but I still have neither played on a high-end rig or a PS3 with monitor so I cant possibly know what its like.alfredooo

I have played 360 on a monitor and it looks fine, better than the small crappy TV I used to have in my room. Getting sound is where it can get more complicated you will need something to get the VGA cables to connect to speakers or something. Sound should work fine as well but I can't speak from experience when it comes to it.

Depends on what games you want to play. [QUOTE="edidili"]

I don't know from experience but I've heard that a PS3 + monitor is not a good combo.

mitu123