Comparison of 2 games

Dark Souls and Skyrim

Dark souls and skyrim are both Action, role playing games but with many differences, the differences in both games is what makes them lovable and still on of the greatest games to be played today. One notable difference that people love about each game is that you can redo a level or mission in skyrim and make it appear like you first went into that level again but in dark souls if you fail or die from a certain mission (or boss) the game remembers and takes all of your souls (experience) and humanity (lives) and the NPCs you attacked will constantly will attack you. This is why both games are loved because people love the hard difficulty that dark souls comes with even from a simple enemy where you may let your gaurd down and skyrim if you made a mistake or massacred a town you can just re load the game to your last save point.



Dark Souls                                                                                                    Skyrim



 As you can see from both games have a soldier as a front cover of both game cases but the differences in both is that one is a more nordic time (skyrim) and the other is a medievil knight (Dark Souls). From looking at the dark souls cover if you have played the game and aquired either the armour set or sword/shield of artorias you can see that the knight in this cover is him whilst the dovakin is the cover of skyrim. On the background of dark souls you can see souls of other knights who may be a very important part of the overall story and because they look like souls is a reference to what you collect in the game (souls). On the skrim cover it is the nord dovakin on a rock with a trail of faint mist and a dragon tail rapping around him what this could mean is that he is the only one who can stand against the dragons as he is the only one in that cover image.

  As you can see from looking at these two players who are controlling the main character dark souls players sword is positioned differently to that of Skyrim as the sword is either in his hand but at his side or over his shoulder. The shield is positioned the same way as it looks as if none of the weaponry or shields are completely in his line of sight that skyrim seems to be sporting when in first person view. Skyrim has both 3rd person and 1st person and when in 3rd person you can see the dovakins weapon either to his far right (as seen in the image on the right) which can't possibly be seen as well as it does in first person, when you are in first person you can see your hands right in fron of you as if you have your hands in front of your face. The same is said when you have a weapon in hand and instead of having your arm resting with your weapon by your side either in battle or a casual stroll instead you have your weapon right in front of your face where a normal persons hand would get exhausted from holding a weapon in tyhat angle if you haven't taken a battle stance as first person view doesn't seem to support instead it saupports as if you are standing perfectly straight up. In dark souls when in battle or on a casual stroll through zombie/ demon lane you are always sprting your weapon either at your side and over your shoulder no matter what weapon you have minus the crossbow and bow. Dark souls has no first person view but only when you use binoculars (even though it is best not to use them in battle) so I can't really compare the full battle systeem of first person view on that part exept that even though skyrim was made using motion capture for a lot of the game including the battle system they didn't get the full effect for first person view as the camera is in a still motion and dark souls even though it was mostly made mostly on PC animation it has captured the full effect of real life terror and a real life battling as most people with swords with be sporting thier shield more than a sword to protect themselves from eminant death or failure.

The way to go about things in skyrim and dark souls is completely different as when you first start in skyrim you have to first start by doing a few of the main quest missions before fighting any dragons and getting the words of power and you need to be a certain level to start other quests or covernants. In dark Souls when you first start the game you can pretty much go anywhere you want and take any shortcut you want which means completely missing most of the main quests and also jumping into big boss fights at level 1. Skyrim does not have cutscenes or any form of cinematic the only thing it does have to get close to a cinematic is a animated character talking to you or moving somewhere that is part of the story and corisponding with your question/answers. Dark Souls has got cinematics/cutscenes when you meet certain boss fights, when you start the game and when you end the game, when you talk to the NPCs they will be animated just like skyrim and corispond by what you said and what you do aswell.

Skyrim is influenced by the viking era such as the clothing, the icy mountainous plain, the way they interact and talk, the taverns, the bards and many more bits to link it to the viking era. Skyrim has many attributes of the elder scrolls franchise bult into it aswell such as the start classes of nord, dark elf, breton and so on.
Dark Souls is a game that was insperated from the medievil times and that of undead zombie myths as those undead that lose their mind go crazy and kill on site either it be with there bare hands or witth the medievil theme with a sword or bow. Dark souls is more insperated from Demon Souls (its predicessor) as that game is simular to the medievil zombie apocalypse that is namco bandia soul series.
Dark Souls and Skyrim are both in equally as fantastic as each other and are both played as regularly as each other but a lot of people don't enjoy dark souls as they do Skyrim because in Dark Souls you die and die again over and over because of these over powered bosses or because you let your guard down on a simple enemy and then you lose all of the souls you created and the item called humanity that gives oyu your human form with skyrim if you die it is simply game over and then you are asked to load to the point you last saved oyur game and dark souls has no such function as Dark Souls wants you to live with the mistakes that you have caused. the simualries is only in 3rd person view as dark souls has no first person and they both have the same type of attack patterns when the main character is concerned and they both have character customizations along with changing the armour set as much as you want. The audiance that appeals to Dark Souls are those that have patience and enjoy the mysteries that the game brings whilst people who play Skyrim dislike that and prefer to rush things and have the information given to them in all sorts of layouts either it is from the main menu screen or from a character telling you.