Videogame rant review time! 8D With your very special Host, X-Playsomegames.

Alright, I been going over my time in games and gamers, and I gotta say; people who compared Dark Souls to Skyrim and say it's better then Skyrim obviously has severe issues.

No it's not for the ungodly fact that I'm an Elder Scrolls Fan! But it surely doesn't help,
but for a gamer like me, once owned Demon's Souls can clearly see the fact in everything that went wrong with Dark Souls.

Dark Souls by all accounts, is a copy pasted gameplay mechanics designed for the purpose to give you simplicity and eye candy while playing this. Demon's Souls is an example of this, but being stand alone and popular for it's time, it gained a popular reception. (Being that it was a spiritual successor to King's Quest I believe)
But for Dark Souls, it did not take a step forward, it took a step BACK! Way back. Sure it's nice to bring up old school gameplay mechanics that made us admire games. Yet making it too simple, added with clunky control schemes and a difficult environment in which camera and movement is difficult.
Added that, Dark Souls is twice as tougher and difficult than Demon's Souls is. That is true. Trial and error is one way to make us look back on our mistakes, but to push that in our face and constantly make us go through it over and over again and again even though we know their strengths and weaknesses gets overly repetitive real quick.
Demon's Souls was different because you weren't confined in close spaces so much. And neither did it let you go alone too much either. Dark Souls puts more on the player and the player's exploits rather then the mechanics that gave players in Demon's Souls the Advantage.

Next comes the environment. I am sick of people saying it's more better and diverse then Skyrim and it's an open world. Uhhh, no it isn't. It merely acts like an open world non linear environment but keeps a linear story and game. Plus, there wasn't that much to explore in Dark Souls as there was in Demon's Souls. Everything in Dark Souls were rather narrowed, closed off, and isolated till you gain something to get access to it. And often enough, it lets you go back to the same area again and again when on quests or trying to find a key or access to another area. Even one of the Lords' Souls. It gets repetitive.

Combat is another of course, repetitive mechanic. It pretty much a slow paced hack and slash combo fighting scheme, coming off as bland and downgraded. Demon's Souls combat system was a lot more functional and easy to get  used to. Skyrim's combat mechanic isn't supposed to be focused on. Sure it may have been nice, but I could had fun without it. Because focusing on one mechanic to appeal to gamers would lead to it's inevitable downfall. I.E. Dragon Age 2. You try and improve combat trying to gain admiration to a more action focused fanbase.

And as for Dragons? Seriously; do I have to fucking explain this? Do I really really have to fucking explain how stupid and how useless and unnecessary this argument was.

Lastly, there's no focus. No direct story. I know really a game like this isn't story focused, but for people to go through this game fighting for a goal, they need a clear goal and a sense of the path where players are going. Yeah, a lord and several dark figures rose up and combat against giant stone dragons. Yes they get power and abuse it for their own gain. But where does that leave the player to go? You either go to the Lord's daughter or to the witch in the depths, yet there are several other paths to take that leads to the same endings. Just where do I need to go and how do I? I got a clear path with Demon's Souls and it sure as hell didn't make much sense story wise. But at least interpretations were strong enough to tell what happened through dialogue and background.

This is why I hate Dark Souls.
And this is why I hate these stupid comparisons to Dark Souls and Skyrim as well as saying Dark Souls is better than Skyrim. I mean SERIOUSLY! Comparing games like these are like comparing God of War to fucking Spartan Total Warrior.