Great article. You very eloquently captured the spirit of the Souls' Games, which is very hard to do.

In Dark Souls, there is no "cheap" technique. You do what you can to survive. Even if you manage to find one cheap way to get one boss or enemy stuck, there are another thousand who will gladly screw you over mercilessly. You do what you must to survive.

Also, parrying bosses is diametrically the opposite of a cheap…

I think you're right. I usually am not big on multiplayer (although I did play fighting games at the arcades back in the 90's) so it's probably why I couldn't see it. But when I realize people still play Counter Strike I see it applies to all genres. Thanks.

I'm not saying that fighting games are "not the now thing to do". I'm saying they are born of and inherently an expression of the culture of the 90's, which have now been repeatedly carried from game to game and franchise to franchise for 20+ years ad nauseam with very little change to the core gameplay, art-style, or…

Fighting games are so 90s. Really, I don't understand how anyone can still play that shit nowadays.

Yeah everyone would be totally ok with a game spanking 8 year old boys in suggestive positions.

WAIT... NO... LOLWUT?!?

Dude, I lived in Italy and France. My sister still lives in Italy. The age of consent is low because 100 years ago adult men well into their thirties used to marry girls who were 13 and 14, who really didn't have much choice in the matter as women were still just barely more than cattle. The law in these countries…

If being brainwashed by pseudo-christian values means I'm weirded out by sex games that depict "women" who look like they are 14 years old then I guess I'm brainwashed by pseudo-christian values...

At this point, with streaming services, I'm not entirely convinced there will actually be a fifth playstation.

I guess you're really really really into found footage horror films for you to dig this. All I see is someone lazily slapped a video camera's information overlay onto P.T. and called it a day.

LOL UBISOFT.

Yeah I remember when it came out everyone thought the Quicktime Events were cool. lol

I played it on the Nintendo console it was meant for (can't remember the name, I'm obviously not a big Nintendo fan) and I still thought it's controls suck. I'm a very big Spelunky and Dark Souls fan, so I don't mind hard, but I like to feel I'm controlling a responsive character, not that I'm dying because I'm…

I'm not censoring this article. I'm saying "this article about the Mona Lisa's teeth not being perfect is kind of weird and creepy", but that's ok, maybe I'm not an orthodontist.

NO: An entire article crying about a 20 minute tutorial level that came out FIVE YEARS AGO.

[Kirk, Yannick]

No matter how much gamers may hate on them publicly, 1 out of every 10 of them are silently voting with their wallets when it comes to MTX. Many of you may tell me I am ruining gaming by working as a monetization design consultant, but enough of you are buying MTX to continue justifying my existence. Games are both an…

You think the target market for Sonic games is children? That's cute. Just google "Sonic Porn" and you'll see who actually still cares about Sonic these days.

We're going to have to invent a new planet for you to inhabit.