dark souls is for hardcore rpg fans, id recommend it if you've been playing rpgs since the days where you lost a constitution point when you died lol its one of my favorite games of all time, and you'll hear many people saying that, for good reason dragon`s dogma seems to be CAPCOM`s first serious forray into rpgs, and its a decent effort, very great visual boss fights, and very very open world ,to the extent its almost too big without a integral fast travel system. dragon age origins was good, dragon age II was not so good, so linear and they re-used the same landscape SO many times, every cave/dungeon is the same exact level except maybe one passage is open and another is not. it was rushed and so bad and I don't know if i'll continue buying their series kingdom of amaldur looks very similar to fable, but the company went bankrupt after its release, so dont buy it if you like to buy rpgs for their story and want a series to continue the ongoing story.