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Path of Exile The Dark Souls of Action RPGs Dragon's Dogma - The Dark Souls of fantasy RPGs Dark and dreary environment? Check. Minimal story elements that can be discovered through sidequests? Check. Crazy and unrelenting difficulty? Well, maybe when you unlocked it. While it was never confirmed that Dragon's Dogma was Capcom's answer to Dark Souls, it's hals to deny there are parallels. Aside from the obvious similarities in setting and the use of mythical beasts fights were no joke Sure, Dragon's Dogma focused on having a party made up of other NPCs while Dark Souls relished Dogma had a bit of a difficulty curve to get used to, and boss For Path of Exile, it was more about the tone and lore than it was about its actual gameplay styles or like Chimeras and dragons, Dragon's crazy difficulty. I mean just look at the Witch's description They laughed at her. They pointed fingers, pulled their children away and whispered in the streets. They burned her home and drove her from the village. She got even. Flame, shadow, disease and in making the player feel alone and helpless, but most Dragon's Dogma players who have prior frost. These are the tools of the mighty control. witch and she wields them with a reckless power she can barel) experience with Dark Souls might agree that the two have more in common than is first apparent That is some dark stuff. One look at Path of Exile and most should agree that it looks like Dark Souls from a top down perspective.

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My biggest problem with this is that…YES, those are valid comparisons. Dragon's Dogma does share Dark Souls' sense of being a frail human biting off more than you can chew. Path of Exile has a similar tone; you're trapped in a bleak, hopeless situation and you only learn about the strange world you're inhabitting through small bits and pieces of information. But those traits aren't entirely unique to Dark Souls. You could just as easily say Path of Exile is "The Mountains of Madness as an Action RPG" or that Dragon's Dogma is "The Berserk of video games". Those comparisons are both accurate and inaccurate in almost all the same ways. That's the entire point of GENRE: to group many things together that are only slightly comparable. Dragon's Dogma isn't the "Dark Souls of Fantasy RPGs", it's a Dark Fantasy Action RPG, which Dark Souls also is.

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