When I read those horrible boss battles from the first installment were gone, I suddenly got way more interested in the game.

I dropped the first game because I went full on stealth and was ill-equipped against bosses - it was broken.

I like this marketing strategy! I'm sure they'll release to console if the game is good, but this way they really get PC gamers' attention. And it's nice not to have a shoddy console port. I'm looking at you From Software!

6 teraflops isn't enough to do 60 FPS 4k on TODAY'S games, much less games out more than a year from now. The GTX 1080 does an admirable job with its *9* Teraflops but can't always make 60 fps. Sounds like a bunch of marketing B.S.

This is the last weekend I'll have to be without Overwatch. Yay!

Only 60 FPS? :-P

How many frames can that thing push if you uncap the framerate?

This series is one of the only franchises that seriously make me regret not having a Playstation - those animations are incredible! Still not buying a Playstation though :-P

With the way WoW has been slowly becoming a shell of itself, I have been wondering if Blizzard has been losing their magic too - I hope Overwatch is a great game! The stress test weekend was really fun at least.

"Something's gotta be done here.."

Don't buy the game! Problems solved :-)

The review was well-written, but I have to agree with some of the other comments below - I feel like I'm left with questions about some of the technical flaws and specifics that drive the general feelings and experiences referenced in the review. Deal less in the abstract and your feelings and more in the specifics. Aside from an opinion that the experience feels less inspired than previous Souls games, I don't really know why the game is falling short of your expectations.

I absolutely loved the franchise, but I think if they had managed to convince Daniel Day-Lewis to be Aragorn that would have been spectacular.