Turns out I still suck at Dark Souls lol, I guess I should have played more of the first one. Aparently that was a better game anyway, and they still haven't moved it away from GFWL so I probably should have finished (or at least tried and failed again) it when I had the chance... Oh well sucking at II now
And OP it really doesn't look like you were the only one
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