I always describe Dark Souls to people as "Survival Horror Zelda."

Only the first one, really. Most Zelda games have a very strict order that must be followed, getting an item from one dungeon in order to open the path to the next dungeon and so on until you get to the end of the game and can go anywhere. There are a few instances in the original NES game where a "key" item is…

Your mom sounds like she was pretty awesome.

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Yeah when I think old JRPG, I think Final Fantasy 1 or Phantasy Star.

First game I remember playing? Space Invaders in the arcade, loved that game back then. I'm old.

Armor Ambush, man I put in hours of time on that with my cousin.

I was wondering about this myself. I am on the PC and at the end of my first game and I haven't been invaded at all, outside of the belltowers.

Get NOS4A2, by Joe Hill. Joe Hill is the pen name for Joseph Hillstrom King, Stephen King's son. NOS4A2 is his most recent novel and it's written in the style of his father. Awesome book. Really anything by Hill is worth picking up.

Lucas has said in interviews that the Ewoks were originally Wookies. When he wrote the original story he wrote all three movies at once, including the final battle on Endor with the primitive, hairy aliens helping the rebels. When he realized that he would have to split the movie up he assumed that the first one…