Dark Souls was among those cheap -75% games I bought while thinking "Does it worth buying it? Would I play it someday?" and... yes. It was worth it.

What's really important to know is the fact Dark Souls is not like The Elder Scrolls or The Witcher. There is no large open world with plenty of secondary quests, dungeons and NPCs. While the introduction is great, it's the only long cinematic in the game, and of course, there is no dialogue option. When it comes to the playable character, you are as gregarious as Link from Legend of Zelda... and you start the game as the ugliest thing of the entire video game industry... even uglier than Oblivion home-made characters, I swear!

So did I really played more that 1100h a RPG with no large cities, without any quest log and, worst of all, a main character who is not a "bad @ss white haired monster slayer who banged every women of the known world" ? Didn't I just passed out for almost 42 days after seeing the character editor ? Don't worry, it just lasted 15 minutes, the other 1000h45min are legit.

To keep things clear, Dark Souls is one of the best RPG ever made although it does not use most things that makes other RPGs... RPG. How is that possible?

Because unlike many games, Dark Souls did not forget what most gamers want : being tough but fair, showing common graphics but awesome art, offering complex but fast gameplay, including few but unforgettable locations, and most of all: offering an online mode so awesome it is actually harder to summon a friendly sunbro to enjoy jolly cooperation than to kill the boss by oneself, thus forcing everyone to give up this grossly incandescent covenant to become a dirty Darkwraith.

Did I really said "finish" the game? Is not Dark Souls a hardcore game that only the Master Souls Race can complete it? No, every single motivated player can made it. Yes they will die, but every death will be one step ahead and after they finished the game they will think "well this game was easy, how could I died that much?", then they will try NG+1 and die again on the Four Kings. This is the cycle of life.

Of course, I'm aware that does not explain my play time, actually an average player will finish the game between 20h and 200h of love / have relationship called "The First Playthough", and I'm maybe bad, but to the point to require 1000h to reach the game's end.

Actually, Dark Souls has a very very huge replay value, thanks to PvP and its diversified content. You can create a large number of different PvP and PvE build, enjoy jolly cooperation run with friends (replaying the entire game with a friend, it's actually quite fun when you can summon each other), become a real masochist and doing challenge run or simply try new play styles you're not used to and die as much as the good oil day.

So what's about the cons ? Well GFWL is dead and DSFix... fixed everything. So I would say lag-stab, summoning issues and the character editor, everything else is perfect.

TL;DR => Just buy it, whatever it is in sales or not. Even if the game was at 70€ / 60£ / $70 it would still worth every single penny.