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Dark Souls Review - Shrewd Gamer

If you play games – you have probably heard of Dark Souls. You know, intriguing, atmospheric and devilishly hard, it’s the type of game that people like to admire from afar and not take the risk of losing their sanity (and a couple of controllers along the way) to it. However if you do decide to take those first tentative steps into From Software’s masterpiece, you will find a world of wonder, danger and death – so much death.

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Dark Souls: Archthrones Reaffirms Modding Is The Best Thing To Happen To Games

"Dark Souls: Archthrones is like playing a brand new FromSoftware game, and that speaks volumes about just how much good modding can do," says Hanzala from eXputer.

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The prevalence of parrying: Why is it so popular?

Parrying has been creeping into more games, with almost every high-profile title of the last few years featuring it in some way.  Why?

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phoenixwing40d ago (Edited 40d ago )

i understand the authors frustration i'm not the best at parrying in games. not that i can't complete a game that requires it but it is a definite harder thing for me than other kinds of techniques in games. which might be the main reason it's so heavily added in games nowadays. want to make your game challenging without having to do a lot of work? just add a parry boss. (what i mean by parry boss is a boss you have to beat by parrying such that their attacks will kill you otherwise)

Dudeson40d ago (Edited 40d ago )

I always think it's fine as long as such games also have the roll/dodge panic button. But I understand the will to parry, it seems so cinematic in a fight when you pull it off.

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Dark Souls: 10 Best Weapons In The Series

TheGamer writes, "Some weapons resist the test of time."

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Father__Merrin68d ago

bastard sword and claymore do the job when grinded up