I was thinking about why journalist won't shut the fuck up about "the Dark Souls of X". then I found an old article/blogpost (whatever it is) titled "Dark Souls has ruined video games". First pic related (sorry for the retarded pic but that's just what happens when i try to screen capture the whole thing, and it doesn't archive properly)
The person who wrote it said that after playing Dark Souls They couldn't stand how Dishonored dumps exposition on you, and they didn't like how much Tomb Raider (2013) held your hand and gave you no freedom. They liked Dark Souls because it didn't treat them like a retard and they had to actually think in order to play it.
The article end with it saying.
This person says Dark Souls will ruin every game you play so never play it, what they don't understand is since they played Dark Souls they actually developed a bit of Taste, and with that Taste they start to see that AAA games are Shit.
Whoever says "The Dark Souls of X" knows there is something about Dark Souls that makes it good, but they are too stupid to understand what that is, so when they come across another game that doesn't hold their hand and doesn't treat them like a retard, they can't comprehend that it's just a good game, they need to compare it to Dark Souls since that's the only other game that made them feel this way.
They Spend too many years Playing AAA shit that they have been told was good, and have played so few games that are legitimately good that they need to use the "Dark Souls of X" label to differentiate the two.
At least I think this is why The Dark Souls of X meme won't fucking die. I don't know I just got really pissed when someone called Ninja Gaiden Black "the Dark Souls of Ninja games" is all.
