written by owen on 2025-Jan-28.

Andrew had still hard 4 games from his xbox360 - he plays games on PC now - so I borrowed them to test out. The games were not on my radar but popular none the less. Here are my first impressions.

Dark Souls

Released in 2011. This game is has bad frame rate, I mean really bad frame rate. The worse I have seen on the xbox so far. The game is creepy and you die very easily. No difficulty mode so I guess everyone is playing at the same level. The controls were simple enough but are very left-brain right brain compounded by being sluggish. Maybe I should not have chosen a battleaxe person. Right at the start regular enemies were killing me within seconds. I beat the first boss after getting confused and lost walking around the dungeon Saved and quit. I am going to test out Dark souls 2 to see if it has better frame rate and start segment. I am glad I did not buy this game.

Lost Odyssey

Considering that it was released in 2008 this is probably the oldest game I have played so far. The game feels like final fantasy 8 from the ps1 with its "cartoony trying to be realistic" art style. I did not like FF8. The game is spread across 4 disks probably because of all the FMVs I dont think I will be playing this for long.

Dark Souls 2

DS2 released in 2014 is much better right off the bat. The framerate is better, the tutorial is better. The controls are the same but they feel better. I have yet to see the first big boss but the game is better overall. I installed it right away. I definitely would recommend this over the first game simply based on the first 30 minutes of game play. I played a bit more so that I could find the first boss and 3 hours later and I say that this game is unforgiving - lovely but terribly unforgiving. You will walk into a room and get ambushed by arrows or go the wrong way and fall to your death. I probably died 5o times trying to kill this boss. Its annoying and fun. In a self torture kinda way.

Reckoning

Currently on sale for 2$ online so this should be fun.

Conclusion

You will be surprised how many people have games gathering dust in their homes.

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