Dark Souls is harder than Mass Effect?

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#1 Future_Unknown
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I died sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many times in ME and ME2 because of cheap enemies that kill you in two or three shots. In some playthroughs it was impossible to finish. Peeps are saying Dark Souls is the hardest game this gen, how hard must it be then?

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#2 Words-of-Sorrow
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Dark Souls is far, far more difficult. Some sections required me replaying (damn those boss fights) several dozen times. ME on Insanity is pretty tough at parts, but it really isn't anything compared to Dark Souls.

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#3 needled24-7
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i haven't really played mass effect but dark souls is hard as sh*t. to anyone that's thinking about buying it: be prepared to die a LOT.

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#4 DJ_Lae
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Pretty hard, although it's the sort of difficulty that can be overcome with patience (both in terms of being very methodical in exploring and attacking and learning enemy placement). It's a very bleak game, too, which contributes a bit to how you play it and how rewarding it feels (or doesn't feel, depending on the player). Dark Souls' difficulty can be summed up by this - enemies are usually placed around corners where you would otherwise find your back to them, they have more health than you, do more damage than you, and drawing aggro of one enemy in a group is usually prudent (or required) so you're not fighting more than one guy at a time. It results in a painstakingly slow game that appeals to a certain type of gamer.
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#5 x-2tha-z
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I didn't think Dark Souls was that hard. I have all 1000GS for it.
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#6 The-Apostle
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I tried DS and couldn't even make it past the first boss. So I ran away and got a swoard and then the door to the boss was locked and I couldn't open it. :( ME is far easier.
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#7 BlackDevil99
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dude if you found Mass Effect hard don't even consider Dark Souls, just stay away from it and switch your difiiculty to casual

as for the apssive-agreesive swipe/troll at mass effect, move on dude, move on

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#8 Fairmonkey
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Ive beat both Mass effects and am pretty far in Dark Souls. Dark Souls is much, much harder than Mass Effect. Dark Souls can be daunting but i still believe anyone can beat it if they have the determination, patience, and strategy.

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#9 tjricardo089
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Mass Effect is a walk on the park when you compare it with Dark Souls.

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#10 Ghost_702
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I would say Mass Effect is like playing that toddler game where you put the square's in the square holes and circles in circle holes, matching the shapes. Dark Souls is like solving a rubik's cube in the dark without having first seen it, while in a SAW trap, with less than a minute to live.
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#11 k2theswiss
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can ppl stop saying dark souls is hard. It hard if u make it be. dark souls does not kind to rushing people. once you learn how fight. it's over.
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#12 vashkey
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Mass Effect isn't hard. Dark Souls is partially well known just because it's hard, it's probably tougher than the Mass Effect games on their hardest difficulties.
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#13 firefox59
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can ppl stop saying dark souls is hard. It hard if u make it be. dark souls does not kind to rushing people. once you learn how fight. it's over.k2theswiss
Yes. This. People don't understand how to play the game.
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#14 Mo-licious
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Mass Effect is a walk on the park when you compare it with Dark Souls.

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I got spanked playing DS and I know it all comes down to patience and strategy but I had to set it aside. I'll give it another eventually. As for ME ... not hard at all.
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#15 Warablo13
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The only thing that's hard about Dark Souls is they don't tell you where to go and how to do ****. The rest of the game just takes patience and tactics...

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#16 kozzy1234
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I like ME series better as it has much better story, better characters, better music, controls better and it runs better ( not nearly as many spots where it slows down to low FPS).

Dark Souls/Demon Souls has better combat and is harder, thats it, everything else ME does better.

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#17 deactivated-5d10fd97c5249
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Uh, zero comparison.
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#18 GamesRing
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Dark souls is the hardest game ever and mass effect doesn't stand a chance against how hard it is :|

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#19 ispeakfact
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Mass Effect isn't hard. In fact, it isn't even good.
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#20 Dordledum
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all depends on your playstyle.

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#21 Legolas_Katarn
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Mass Effect is a very easy game. Dark Souls would be much harder, of course that's also a completely different kind of game. But if you had problems with Mass Effect you should probably just avoid playing Demon/Dark Souls.
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#22 Blueresident87
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Mass Effect can be challenging, at least some specific parts of the game, but it is nowhere near as difficult as Dark Souls.

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#23 scouttrooperbob
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Dark souls is ten times cheaper when it comes too getting killed than mass effect

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#24 Cyanide4Suicid3
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I dont know about Dark, but Demons Souls was incredibly punishing. Mass Effect is a cake walk compared to Demons.