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Demon Souls was a spiritual successor to a series on the ps1/ps2... damn what was it called.... Kings Field!
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So a game like demon souls could at least be called, somewhat original with its multi-player aspect. I'll have to look at this Kings Field for sure, I'm intrigued.
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Well, I'm with some other commenters here. I'm simply dumbfounded that Dark Souls doesn't even appear on anyone's list.
Denny called it in the comments section of his review: "simply THE greatest game of this generation". I think pretty much anyone who's played it would have to agree.
Dark Souls (and it's predesessor) are so far ahead of anything else released this year (or indeed the previous half-decade) - it really is no contest.
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Hyperbole aside, the reason I bought up Dark Souls in the first place is because it is in the elite "Perfect 10" club on this site, yet not a single current staff member mentioned it in their list. Which, from an outside observer point of view, can only hurt the credibility of reviews and best-ofs going forward.
So in that light, I'm curious - Has any of the current staff played the game? Or played it through?
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| AlaCarcuss wrote: | Well, I'm with some other commenters here. I'm simply dumbfounded that Dark Souls doesn't even appear on anyone's list.
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Your taste =/= everyone else's taste.
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I work full time, I play cricket in the summer and I attempt to run the site - and anyone with half a brain will realise that it's not all fun and games.
My gaming back catalogue is freaking massive. Dark Souls is sitting in that back catalogue, along with many of the titles considered amongst the best of 2011.
Quite simply I can't get to everything, let alone a title that will take up 60 hours... **** wouldn't I love a spare 60 hours... While I can't speak for others, we're all busy individuals. At the same time, this is an article with the purpose of allowing individuals to articulate their own tastes, and not purport any "PALGN thinks this is teh best". And Denny was allowed to put in his choices, if he wanted to add them.
Now you see, the point of then attaching a forum to post with this article, is for you all to discuss what you liked/didn't like and agreed/disagreed with. You liked Dark Souls? Good for you! By you mentioning games that we didn't mention, everyone wins! I can look at what staff have played, what readers have played and think... "Hmm... you know what? I should probably consider playing Dark Souls".
As I've mentioned before, PALGN belongs to the writers and to the community, not to one massive collective cause. I've always believed in giving everyone the freedom to express their tastes and preferences as they see fit. The article was posted over three weeks ago, and everyone's made their point pretty clear by now - you like Dark Souls. Get over it. And in the last six months, I've learned that there are many, many worse ways to hurt the credibility of a site...
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mmmm 60 hrs, that would be living. I get maybe 15 hrs a week game time max. Gotta be jelly of all those dole bludgers....
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ah those were the days, i was a professional final fantasy VII player back in the day...
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Benza
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God I can't handle doing that anymore. I remember when I got Tales of Symphonia on the cube I sat down and beat it over one weekend. Like 40 hours or something.
I can't physically do that anymore.
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Gaming in your teenage years was the best *sigh*
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| Benza wrote: | God I can't handle doing that anymore. I remember when I got Tales of Symphonia on the cube I sat down and beat it over one weekend. Like 40 hours or something.
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I remember one night we were sitting there at like 3am, text, press button, text, press button.....oh shit, what were we meant to do next....added 6 hours to that game just wandering around pressing on dudes to see if that was where we were meant to be going.
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oh man I remember I used to get that when playing something till like 3am, then saving and starting the next morning and having no fucking idea what I'd spent the last hour doing the night before and having no idea where to go.
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this is why they made everything corridors
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My game of the year would have to be Deus Ex. I completed that game like 3-4 times got all achievements for it for steam and was still left with a sense of wanting to play it again. That to me is game of a year quality.
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