There is one reason and ONE reason why I love this game so much: what I like to call the CRINGE factor!
Most games I play when I make a mistake I don't get mad. I just shrug my shoulders and carry on as though nothing happened.
However, in Dark Souls when I make a mistake I literally CRINGE! You know that hunch your shoulders, suck in your breath, say something like "I can't believe I just did that" kind of CRINGE.
Dark Souls is the first game in probably about 10 years that I seriously CRINGE when I make a mistake b/c I know the consequences are so huge. Consequences like getting stun-locked by the hollows in the Parish, or you just start to cast a spell when the Moonlight Butterfly zings you with one of hers and kills you, or you hit the attack button and realize it was a half second too soon and "YOU DIED" appears on the screen.
The game 10 years ago that made me CRINGE was Thief: The Dark Project, especially the Return to the Cathedral level; God that level was scary the first 3-4 times I went.
Here's a link to that level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahs6OCkfZM4
Most games I play when I make a mistake I don't get mad. I just shrug my shoulders and carry on as though nothing happened.
However, in Dark Souls when I make a mistake I literally CRINGE! You know that hunch your shoulders, suck in your breath, say something like "I can't believe I just did that" kind of CRINGE.
Dark Souls is the first game in probably about 10 years that I seriously CRINGE when I make a mistake b/c I know the consequences are so huge. Consequences like getting stun-locked by the hollows in the Parish, or you just start to cast a spell when the Moonlight Butterfly zings you with one of hers and kills you, or you hit the attack button and realize it was a half second too soon and "YOU DIED" appears on the screen.
The game 10 years ago that made me CRINGE was Thief: The Dark Project, especially the Return to the Cathedral level; God that level was scary the first 3-4 times I went.
Here's a link to that level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahs6OCkfZM4