RPG Battle: Dark Souls vs. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Forget all this Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 vs. Battlefield 3 talk. For role-playing fans, the battle might be between Dark Souls and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Thankfully, fans of the genre should have time for both, as the follow-up to the award-winning Demon's Souls will release on October 4, and Skyrim won't be ready until November 11. Of course, given the amount of time people may spend with Dark Souls, maybe there isn't enough time...
So what will the hardcore role-playing fans choose? These are very different experiences, although both will likely offer 100+ hours of gameplay for those who want it. Dark Souls will tax your combat and strategy abilities to the limit; it's a real-time, third-person adventure that builds upon the success of Demon's Souls. On the other hand, Skyrim features a gigantic open world (Dark Souls isn't quite as open) and a first-person viewpoint. The style is different, and so is the progression.
There's little doubt that Skyrim will be the most popular, but that's hardly the intriguing question. MW3 is destined to trump BF3 on the sales charts, but that's not what gets headlines; it's a quality vs. quality battle. In that case, which of these RPGs will emerge victorious according to reviews? We'll let the RPG fans weigh in with their picks.
Tags: dark souls, elder scrolls v, skyrim, rpgs
7/28/2011 9:04:20 PM Ben Dutka
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Alienange
Thursday, July 28, 2011 @ 10:26:22 PM
Pandacastro
Thursday, July 28, 2011 @ 9:36:06 PM
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Claire C
Thursday, July 28, 2011 @ 9:58:52 PM
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Thursday, July 28, 2011 @ 10:09:39 PM
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Thursday, July 28, 2011 @ 11:18:44 PM
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Thursday, July 28, 2011 @ 11:56:56 PM
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Thursday, July 28, 2011 @ 10:06:04 PM
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Dreno
Thursday, July 28, 2011 @ 10:08:17 PM
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Have you seen the graphics of both the video AND the gameplay? its effing stupendous. I'm not knocking on dark souls though, I'm sure it'll look fantastic too, but it just seems like to me that the fine folks at bethesda invested a lot of time in just how things look.
But my opinion could be veiwed as biased, as I own tec4 and demons souls, but havnt played much demons souls. Its on my list, but I've been imursed in wkc, so really thhats the only game that's been gettin play from me.
But yeah, skyrim.
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Friday, July 29, 2011 @ 1:19:13 AM
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Friday, July 29, 2011 @ 3:13:35 AM
Codeez
Friday, July 29, 2011 @ 3:59:14 AM
@World: Claymore is great, and you were right about the narration, but have you noticed the UNGODLY amount of crying? Good god, I've never seen so many eye droppings in my life.
@Geobaldi: How do you like High School Of the Dead? I thought about purchasing that but I'm on the fence.
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Geobaldi
Friday, July 29, 2011 @ 6:56:12 AM
It was awesome in my opinion. Any zombie fan should enjoy it as it brings to mind the classics of old. You can watch it on the Hulu website to see what you think. One episode was enough for me to purchase it. The manga's, it's based on, are pretty good as well.
@sirbob6
Nice to see somebody else likes Hellsing :)
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SoulController
Thursday, July 28, 2011 @ 10:36:23 PM
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Oh and btw for anyone who got frustrated with Demons Souls difficulty, co-op was your missing link.
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Clamedeus
Friday, July 29, 2011 @ 8:23:46 AM
But my friend told me there is another way to cure it, you have to find a scroll that cures all diseases including Vampirism I don't remember where he said it is though.
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Ben Dutka PSXE [Administrator]
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Friday, July 29, 2011 @ 1:53:26 AM
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crossing my fingers that skyrim will be a stable ps3 game and bethesda puts a lot of of effort into debugging and testing the game. all the footage that came from e3 was of the 360 version. i always get a little nervous when a multiplat developer only showcases 1 version of the game.
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Dark Souls









Palpatations911
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Thursday, July 28, 2011 @ 9:35:22 PM
These days many action games have the same elements that RPG's have. I think a good example is Skill distribution, character growth, and an epic storyline - Each God of War game did a great job of that.. As did Darksiders, Demon's Souls and other games. Heck, you collect souls in Demon's Souls and distribute them to your skills much like you would in action games. Is inventory management the biggest difference between an Action game and an RPG game - Sometimes it seems that way to me.
Anyways, I think Dark Souls will be a better RPG than Skyrim just because I have owned 4 elder scrolls games and while they are fantastic and epic games, the enhancements between the games are minimal. There wasnt *that* many differences between Morrowind and Oblivion, for example. Of course, i'm merely speculating and I am interested to hear other peoples feedback and why.
One thing is for certain and that is that both games should present a very good value for gamers. Both games should be loaded with replayability.
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