At times, playing Dark Souls can be compared to torture. It's a game that really personifies a love/hate relationship where you'll literally be on edge for hours on end. Since most of us end playing for hundreds of hours, that's a lot of suffering for your monies. Those outside the Dark Souls fanbase simply can't understand this. It's an unfortunate side effect of the games industry today; it's a world now where every game is easy-peasy to beat and Dark Souls' complete indifference to telling you how anything works, instantly turns a lot of people off. For those who do stick with it there's no greater feeling than finally becoming triumphant in Dark Souls. Beating such levels of extremely torturous gaming is a landmark achievement and should be high on the priority list of all gamers.
6. Never Blame The Controls!
If you tied a Dark Soul player down to a chair and threatened to tickle them with feathers, they may well break and tell you that, honestly, the controls of the Dark Souls games aren't brilliant. They're a tad...well, clunky. Of course we'd never admit this to anyone usually. We will profoundly deny that there's anything wrong with the Dark Souls experience whatsoever and will repeatedly blame ourselves rather than our controller. It's the old platform game mentality where you simply don't blame your controller for failing to make you jump in the right spot; just this time it's much more brutal. For series veterans, the weird controls of Dark Souls are second nature. Coming into it new is akin to trying to play Street Fighter against a world champion; you're utterly boned before you've even started.
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If you tied a Dark Soul player down to a chair and threatened to tickle them with feathers, they may well break and tell you that, honestly, the controls of the Dark Souls games aren't brilliant. They're a tad...well, clunky. Of course we'd never admit this to anyone usually. We will profoundly deny that there's anything wrong with the Dark Souls experience whatsoever and will repeatedly blame ourselves rather than our controller. It's the old platform game mentality where you simply don't blame your controller for failing to make you jump in the right spot; just this time it's much more brutal. For series veterans, the weird controls of Dark Souls are second nature. Coming into it new is akin to trying to play Street Fighter against a world champion; you're utterly boned before you've even started.