Pretentious condescending prick mindset in action: "Let's bash on this guy without even reading his entire post and addressing all the reasons that formed his own personal opinion."

Also, let me assume that the concept of capitalizing certain letters in your sentences is alien to you. You mistook the continent I'm on, let alone the country. Like I said, that was my opinion of Demon's Souls(and seeing how Dark Souls is extremely similar, my opinion of it as well). A game that fails to entertain me while managing to annoy me is hardly a good game in my opinion. It appears you failed to see that I wrote this as well:


Would you deny that in order to win against relatively strong opponents in these games, you have to employ a very specific strategy(or a set of very specific strategies), thus severely limiting the amount of improvisation you can employ? I have no problems with learning how to play games. Of course, you like to assume that I am somehow inferior without any evidence whatsoever(except a personal opinion on a game we've both played and one of us enjoyed). I'm quite confident in saying that I am very proficient in a lot of games from different genres - and that is achieved by playing games for days/months/years. Even so, one thing I don't tolerate much in games is cheapness and non-responsive controls. And in my experience Demon's Souls had quite a lot of that, especially as far as platforming went. Collision detection was off in a lot of places - what especially pissed me off was the amount of times I died while falling through solid floors or standing near edges where both of my feet were no closer than 30cm to the edge. I did not enjoy that aspect of the game in any way. When I die such a cheap death hundreds of times and I am legitimately killed in combat tens of times less frequently, I become annoyed. I play games for two reasons - some in order to enjoy a masterful story, some in order to relax and have fun. The best games deliver in both aspects. For me, this one didn't deliver in each aspect. I rest my case.