Dark Souls. PS3, Xbox 360 system. £49.99. Prepare To Die. Never provides a game had a bit more fitting tagline, reside will die in Dark Souls. Considerably. Whether it’s from the flames of one’s fire-spewing dragon, the sword of a towering dark knight or even the boulder of a huge troll, this can be a fantasy world that doesn’t pull its punches.
Exactly why would someone is it so damn addictive? Well, it’s built around one of the tightest, most rewarding real-time swords and spells combat systems in gaming. Progression is slow but an absolute achievement, with the game play so beautiful that you just’ll be dying (literally) to work out the next sweeping vista or gloomy dungeon. Buying enough it’s a crushingly tough game, it truly is mischievously so. Any game that allows you to invade another player’s game online to irreversibly assassinate a key character is sadistic in all the right ways.
Dark Souls – is always a fair
Keep in mind, it won’t be in every case. Having to repeatedly replay the same sequence just to get a few more steps forward can be maddening. But Dark Souls is always a fair (if cruel) challenge instead of a chore.
Dark Souls is hard
Not the kind of hard coming from cheap AI tactics, but from an incredibly well refined AI that knows how to make innumerable Dark Souls gamers pull their head of hair out. Well it turns out the first headache comes just from pre-orderers attempting to pick up their game.
Dark Souls pre-order bonus
Recall the really cool Dark Souls pre-order bonus that was offered to people who dropped cash on Dark Souls early? These brave men and some women earned a free upgrade into the Collector’s Edition, sporting a steelbook case, soundtrack, art book, digital strategy guide and map. Well, it turns out that many retailers and frustrated people are reporting they’ve received no Collector’s Editions for Dark Souls pre-orders.
The shortage is not exclusive to any single retailer. Everyone from Greatest coupe to Amazon to Wal-Mart to Newegg are reporting they could not receive enough games to fill Dark Souls pre-orders, with many different brick-and-mortar stores receiving no Collector’s Editions at all.
In keeping with some tipsters, the problem stems from the advantage that the Collector’s Edition along with the regular edition both carry similar item number, or SKU, in retail databases. This caused confusion about how many Collector’s Editions to produce and ship. This of limited/collector’s editions is actually quite common, especially with more recent EA games, that have already a “limited edition” for people who buy the Dark Souls game within the first few months.
Dark Souls PS3 version
Both Best Buy and Newegg are selling a $20 gift card to anyone who pre-ordered and failed to receive their desired copy. Few others Collector’s Editions are likely to be stocked, although in a strange twist, GameStop still seems to remain carrying the Dark Souls PS3 version for the Collector’s Edition at time of this writing, so grab them quick!
What say you, gamers? It’s disappointing to check out such a fiasco like this, but as a minimum Namco will study a lesson about ways to number their Dark Souls games for retail.