I don't know about Dark Souls, but Demon's Souls was pretty fair. I wouldn't call it challenging, nor would I call it badly designed...as long as you keep aware of your surroundings and don't rush you should be fine. That being said, I couldn't care less about that uninteresting story whatsoever

maybe it's just because I like JRPGs so much but I rarely have that problem...I'm rather the opposite really. I feel like most games are too short, especially if they are under 25 hours

I microwave it for ramen

I dislike open-world games, but there should be room for both. It's a shame that people instantly think of more linear structures in games as an instant negative

UCBs and Unions are the main reason I'm here...please don't let them go

I don't, and thus I won't play online whenever I have to pay for it.

in everyday life, sure $100 isn't much and doesn't get you far. However, when comparing products...that is quite the difference

25, all physical (I guess I'll list them out later since that appears to be what everyone else is doing)

at least Korean has an alphabet, the people I know say Korean is the easiest of the three with it being: Korean ->JP->Chinese

Miles Davis