While its release on the PC was marred with controversy - and a ton of optimization issues - patches have somewhat improved the overall experience. RELATED: Dark Souls: The Coolest Berserk References In The Games Dark Souls was - and still is - a raging phenomenon that has birthed a genre in itself, while simultaneously becoming a common comparison when it comes to analyzing difficulty in video games. The game single-handedly proved a solid and decisive point that most gaming studios at the time were failing to understand - that there was definitely a viable market for hardcore AAA video games that wouldn't hold a player's hand at every step of the way and actually treated them like rational adults. Dark Souls is easily one of the important video games released in the modern era.
