Okay so couple tips, firstly look up a couple quick early souls guide it will show you how to get to the dragon barrow quickly to kill a giant sleeping dragon for a bunch of souls at basically level 1, next pick up the meteorite staff and rock sling, again check a guide but easy enough, in fact you can basically get to this point without fighting anything that fights back near enough, focus a caster build and meteorite staff and rock sling will basically carry you to a point in the game where you can pick up better weapons and have some upgrades for them, this is going to be staffs for a sorcery build, you should be able to get to and defeat Renala to pick up her staff, if you look up a guide you should also be able to upgrade it quite quickly. and then from there aside from levelling to max your stats for optimal scaling (again look up soul farm guide) you're pretty set to have a go at getting through the bosses from there.

exactly my thought reading the rumour.

Weirdly my VOG raid ring from D2, first raid I did in D1 and then made sure I completed the reprised one in D2 in the first week, would never wear it more of a Trophy.

Reviews matter in the context of the general discussion and perception of a game, but never let someone else's opinion colour your personal enjoyment of any media.

I don't disagree but It's impossible to escape and usually explains the various outliers in review scores.

Think that last bit is key, this is absolutely not my type of game so a 6 from where I'm sat is probably right, but someone who likes these walking sims is probably over the moon with this type of title.

The Gen 7 comparison is a bit dis-ingenuous though, the wii and Nintendo are to be commended for breaking into a wider market but it's not really an apples to apples comparison as both the Kinect and Move offerings demonstrated. Xbox and MS have clearly kept Sony and PS more on their toes especially in Gen7 where for the majority of the time MS was the leader in the "core" gaming market.

The switch is the better hardware, but I have to be honest I had more fun with the 3ds, I've got no justification for that just purely personal experience.

Presumably to carry on playing with friends on that platform/access to an established digital library, the calculation being done by Sony and MS right now is their "invested" player bases are static regardless of what they do in terms of exclusives essentially as long as content arrives on those platforms the players will hang around.

So the question is how to maximise money from that content, hence the move away from exclusives it's more beneficial to MS as they get access to a well of players that's more than double the total xbox player base but even Sony regardless of their regressive views have to look at the numbers, if the numbers remain static which everyone is assessing as being likely then Sony is ignoring what? 20 million+ potential consumers to win a market share war it's already won whilst the competitor in that war effectively monetizes Sony's own userbase.

You may see more of a shift if the platform holders drop back compat and render digital libraries locked to legacy hardware.

Who benefits from limiting access to those games?