Skyrim or Dark Souls : If you had to choose one ...

I am a PC gamer but my vote will go to Dark Souls, although I'm getting both :D

Skyrim because I yet can't see the big deal with Dark Souls... I've watched some gameplay videos from E3 and I coudn't see nothing special about it... at the same time all I hear is good things about this game, so I'm keeping one eye on it and hoping they release a demo so I can play it and feel how it plays.

Dark Souls if it was on PC. Since it is not, Skyrim.caughtjoo

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Skyrim on PC. Cheaper, and will have mods.

[QUOTE="caughtjoo"]Dark Souls if it was on PC. Since it is not, Skyrim.Postal_Guy

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[QUOTE="caughtjoo"]Dark Souls if it was on PC. Since it is not, Skyrim.DragonfireXZ95

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At least, according to the previous games: Demon's Souls and Oblivion.

In your opinion. nothing shows this as fact, if anything Skyrim will have a higher metacritic and gamerankings score than Dark Souls, like the past games of each.

Oblivion outscores DS at mc,gr,gs.

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[QUOTE="DarkLink77"] Or the whole, "It's a console game" thing. :PDarkLink77

Well...console gamers win this round. They get to play both. :)

In your opinion. nothing shows this as fact, if anything Skyrim will have a higher metacritic and gamerankings score than Dark Souls, like the past games of each.

Oblivion outscores DS at mc,gr,gs.

Jankarcop

As a PC gamer I respect, I didn't think you would resort to just using Metacritic and Gamerakings as a be all, end all. ;)

Dark Souls will be quite different though, it isn't hub and locations, it is more like Zelda with just going everywhere at once.

I already am choosing just one, Dark Souls. Somehow this game keeps slipping off my radar, even though I love and own Demon's Souls.

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"][QUOTE="Postal_Guy"]

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Jankarcop

At least, according to the previous games: Demon's Souls and Oblivion.

In your opinion. nothing shows this as fact, if anything Skyrim will have a higher metacritic and gamerankings score than Dark Souls, like the past games of each.

Oblivion outscores DS at mc,gr,gs.

I can't believe you're using metacritic or any review scores at all for that matter to compare those 2 games. :roll:

That deserves a face palm.

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[QUOTE="caughtjoo"]Dark Souls if it was on PC. Since it is not, Skyrim.DragonfireXZ95

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[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"] Interestingly enough, Dark Souls will be a better game most likely

At least, according to the previous games: Demon's Souls and Oblivion.

DragonfireXZ95

In your opinion. nothing shows this as fact, if anything Skyrim will have a higher metacritic and gamerankings score than Dark Souls, like the past games of each.

Oblivion outscores DS at mc,gr,gs.

I can't believe you're using metacritic or any review scores at all for that matter to compare those 2 games. :roll:

That deserves a face palm.

As opposed to your opinion alone being the hard fact?

I've played oblivion, fo3, and demon souls. I think demon souls was the worst of the 3 and I completely disagree with your original claim.

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"][QUOTE="Postal_Guy"]

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caughtjoo

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[QUOTE="Jankarcop"]

In your opinion. nothing shows this as fact, if anything Skyrim will have a higher metacritic and gamerankings score than Dark Souls, like the past games of each.

Oblivion outscores DS at mc,gr,gs.

Jankarcop

I can't believe you're using metacritic or any review scores at all for that matter to compare those 2 games. :roll:

That deserves a face palm.

As opposed to your opinion alone being the hard fact?

I've played it enough to realize why it didn't get higher than oblivion or fo3 at gr or mc.

I've played it enough to realize why it didn't get higher than oblivion or fo3 at gr or mc.

Jankarcop

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I've played it enough to realize why it didn't get higher than oblivion or fo3 at gr or mc.

DragonfireXZ95

10 hours. You're not going to change my opinion, so theres no point in going any further in this discussion.

I think Skyrim will be far superior, as were Oblivion and FO3.

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I've played it enough to realize why it didn't get higher than oblivion or fo3 at gr or mc.

Jankarcop

10 hours. You're not going to change my opinion, so theres no point in going any further in this discussion.

I think Skyrim will be far superior, as were Oblivion and FO3.

I like Demons Souls better than Oblivion(borefest), so Dark Souls.

Also, User score for Demon's Souls is higher than Oblivion. Fancy that.DragonfireXZ95

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"]Also, User score for Demon's Souls is higher than Oblivion. Fancy that.Vinegar_Strokes

True, but too many critics gave Demon's Souls a lower score because it was too difficult when in fact, they probably just don't have patience for games with an actual challenge.

Simply put though, why would anyone give Oblivion a bad score if it didn't deserve it? It's not like it's in competition with any other game. It's not an exclusive. Why would they unless it was a bad game?

If anything, Demon's Souls deserved to get hit with low scores from Lemmings. It's a PS3 exclusive that won GOTY at a few places.

Skyrim for me.

Dark Souls but I will be buying both day 1

[QUOTE="Vinegar_Strokes"][QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"]Also, User score for Demon's Souls is higher than Oblivion. Fancy that.DragonfireXZ95

True, but too many critics gave Demon's Souls a lower score because it was too difficult when in fact, they probably just don't have patience for games with an actual challenge.

Simply put though, why would anyone give Oblivion a bad score if it didn't deserve it? It's not like it's in competition with any other game. It's not an exclusive. Why would they unless it was a bad game?

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[QUOTE="Vinegar_Strokes"] too many user give games 1/10 to lower average score making it utterly worthlessVinegar_Strokes

True, but too many critics gave Demon's Souls a lower score because it was too difficult when in fact, they probably just don't have patience for games with an actual challenge.

Simply put though, why would anyone give Oblivion a bad score if it didn't deserve it? It's not like it's in competition with any other game. It's not an exclusive. Why would they unless it was a bad game?

How come there isn't for Demon's Souls?

There is 49 of them, and Oblivion has 137 of them.

Also, did you read the Demon's Souls ones? They are all because the game is too hard for people. Now, the game is not that hard, I saw a youtube video of a guy speed running it in 10 minutes.

[QUOTE="Vinegar_Strokes"][QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"]Also, User score for Demon's Souls is higher than Oblivion. Fancy that.DragonfireXZ95

True, but too many critics gave Demon's Souls a lower score because it was too difficult when in fact, they probably just don't have patience for games with an actual challenge.

Simply put though, why would anyone give Oblivion a bad score if it didn't deserve it? It's not like it's in competition with any other game. It's not an exclusive. Why would they unless it was a bad game?

If anything, Demon's Souls deserved to get hit with low scores from Lemmings. It's a PS3 exclusive that won GOTY at a few places.

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True, but too many critics gave Demon's Souls a lower score because it was too difficult when in fact, they probably just don't have patience for games with an actual challenge.

Simply put though, why would anyone give Oblivion a bad score if it didn't deserve it? It's not like it's in competition with any other game. It's not an exclusive. Why would they unless it was a bad game?

DragonfireXZ95

[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"][QUOTE="Vinegar_Strokes"] just go skim through the user reviews for oblivion (or any game) there is loads of really low scores. Vinegar_Strokes

That still doesn't explain why there isn't that many for Demon's Souls, but a ton for Oblivion.

As I said, Demon's Souls was a PS3 exclusive, and Oblivion was a huge multiplat game. Why would Demon's Souls not have more negative user reviews considering all of the Xbox fanboys out there?

Skyrim for me.

Demon soul and Oblivion(360) have the same user rating on MC. also nearly the same amount of user reviews.

The pc version has slightly less, but nearly twice the user reviews.

Both versions of oblivion have a much higher professional review average

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[QUOTE="DragonfireXZ95"] How come there isn't for Demon's Souls?DragonfireXZ95

That still doesn't explain why there isn't that many for Demon's Souls, but a ton for Oblivion.

As I said, Demon's Souls was a PS3 exclusive, and Oblivion was a huge multiplat game. Why would Demon's Souls not have more negative user reviews considering all of the Xbox fanboys out there?

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[QUOTE="Vinegar_Strokes"]i don't know, but do you really believe oblivion is a 1.5/10

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That still doesn't explain why there isn't that many for Demon's Souls, but a ton for Oblivion.

As I said, Demon's Souls was a PS3 exclusive, and Oblivion was a huge multiplat game. Why would Demon's Souls not have more negative user reviews considering all of the Xbox fanboys out there?

It's not supposedly, it did dumb it down. That's a fact, if you've ever played Morrowind. Which basically surpassed Oblivion in everything except combat and easiness.

You would think a sequel to a game would improve on the aspects of the prequel, not in this case though.

Dark Souls probably

But my xbox 360 gets all of Witcher 2, Skyrim, Dark Souls, FF13-2 so i dont have to choose, i can play them all

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That still doesn't explain why there isn't that many for Demon's Souls, but a ton for Oblivion.

As I said, Demon's Souls was a PS3 exclusive, and Oblivion was a huge multiplat game. Why would Demon's Souls not have more negative user reviews considering all of the Xbox fanboys out there?

DragonfireXZ95

It's not supposedly, it did dumb it down. That's a fact, if you've ever played Morrowind. Which basically surpassed Oblivion in everything except combat and easiness.

You would think a sequel to a game would improve on the aspects of the prequel, not in this case though.

Dark Souls.

Skyrim combat just looks....dull.

Skyrim all the way for me, I'm a long time fan of the Elder Scrolls series and am a pretty big Fallout 3 and NV fan. Skyrim will feature a bigger world with more gameplay options and almost endless amount of fun time. Skyrim is a bigger game than Dark Souls and I'm sure you can just adjust the difficulty in Skyrim so you can make it just as challenging as Dark Souls.

Oh my God, an exact tie! Only broken by my choice of Dark Souls (by one).

But yeah, Dark Souls won't have as deep a world or NP interaction, but that action will be muchmore fluid and polished of Demon's Souls is any indication. Plus Elder Scrolls games are great, but they tend to be too easy, especially once you spend more time with it. With Demon's Souls, the game never let up in difficulty and tension.

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Dark Souls.

Skyrim combat just looks....dull.

Stringerboy

I don't see why. Infact the core gameplay is pretty much the same as Dark Souls, accept in first person.

Ugh, not even close. In latest videos, Skyrim doesn't look much better than Oblivion. ES combat has always been terrible.

Demon's Souls has the physics, the impact, the variety in weaponry, all of which actually feel different. Its combat is dozens of times better than all ES games combined.

Dark Souls probably

But my xbox 360 gets all of Witcher 2, Skyrim, Dark Souls, FF13-2 so i dont have to choose, i can play them all

loosingENDS

Lucky. The Witcher 2 looks so good.

Relating back to the poll, I would have to pick Dark Souls. I played Oblivion, and it felt so boring.

Just too difficult for me to choose, as they are both equally my most anticipated games of the year. I will enjoy them for what each brings to the table. Skyrim for it's vast world that is rich with exploration and overall content. Dark Souls for the incredible atmosphere and rewarding challenge. I am just happy that I don't have to choose between them and will be buying both.