For everyone who doesn't want to play this game because of it's difficulty, you're missing out. I don't have Dark Souls, but I do have Demon's souls, and it was hard. But the thing is, no matter how much I raged out at the game by being killed by the guy who killed me before infront of my souls, the game kept me hooked as it actually gave me a challenge, I died multiple times, but if you just find out your opponent's weaknesses after a few times of dying, you can actually take it down.
I remember, I couldn't take down Old King Doran at all in Demon's souls, so I went to the staircase dungeon, which has a lot of of stairs, lured him there, and pushed him off the edge, free epic armor without breaking much of a sweat, died like 50 times trying to kill him though lol.