Another one of those dumb "which is better" posts...ugh... Still, I play along: The Elder Scrolls. Just because I love open world games, and I hate games where every move is predetermined.
Well, I have to say...for a troll-post you did put a lot of effort into it! Seriously, why are you comparing apples and oranges? Dark Souls and Skyrim are both RPG's, and that's where every comparison stops. Skyrim is open-world, while Dark Souls is more of a dungeon crawl. Skyrim is "free", while Dark Souls is restricted. Skyrim puts the emphasis on exploration and freedom, while Dark Souls is about strategy and more action oriented. Skyrim is easy, Dark Souls is hard. Want more? Especially your last paragraph is full of it. Sure, Skyrim holds your hand, but with a game world that huge, you need some guidance. Dark Souls is the game that doesn't need to hold your hand, because of it's linearity. Just walk, fight, walk, fight, etc. It's basically a guide tour with a lot of cool fighing at every corner. Sure, bosses are hard, and you need to figure those out, but an RPG isn't just about boss fights. "All this is what makes a role playing game a role playing game; CHOICE." Well, then Skyrim is the better game. There is much more to choose than in Dark Souls. Because let's face it, there are so much more choices to make in Skyrim then in Dark Souls. A very flawed point you make here, just quite frankly purely based on your bias. Thing is, Dark Souls is simply the "cool thing" for posers in the gaming world ATM. It's what Justin Bieber is to teenage girls: you HAVE to love it because all the other girls around you like it, and you don't want to be the one left out. So you say "Dark Souls is sooooo much better then (insert random good game here), I'm soooooo good at it and therefore sooooo much better than you!. In your excitement you would probably also add a "OMG!!!!" at then end. It's sad really, that a good game like Dark Souls has become material for posers. Very, very sad... Both are excellent games, same setting, but totally different in play style. I played them both, enjoyed them both. Skyrim is more my kind of game due to freedom and scale, but Dark Souls is just awesome in the combat department. But since I'm not one of those players who grinds the same stuff over and over (I got a life...), if I had to choose it would be Skyrim. Next time you have a bone to grind with a game, just stick to making a user comment.
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