Talk:Frostwyrm/@comment-86.11.99.35-20130523141049/@comment-94.140.84.108-20130603195212

demon's souls is greatest game, dark souls couldn't even nearly get to same standard. they tried to make harder game, but instead they made it cheaper with ?hard? features.

one could easily beat demon's souls as level 1 with fists only. game respected pure skill. dark souls kinda messed up here. introducing things like undodgeable lighting strikes where there is no way/gear to protect from it and so on (i really loved when i fought smough just to suddenly see ornsteins lightning spear passing trough him or telegraphing attacks from gargoyles).

as far as DD, well... blame it on bad damage algorythm. it works like this

monster has X physical cap, Y fire...

and if your weapon is X-1 you're scratching at best. all other games more or less take something like inverted gaussian curve to balance that out, so your damage is never invisible and at the same time never skyrockets.

in this game weapon with X-1 is like beating over metal armor with spoon in real life