Sometimes it's good to have an independent opinion about a topic. So funnily enough while I was watching Tornis he started to talk about Dark Souls 2, here's what he had to say about this:
http://www.twitch.tv/tornis/b/526069217At around 1:00:43
"Well I played the first Dark Souls, the game is about correct timing when you battle.. well it's all about the timings, dodges and all that in the battle systems. And that's it." (What I was telling you)
"It's pretty much the same feeling as I was experiencing Witcher 2 (another casual action game!) prior to the patches when the battle systems was really arcade-ish, and really depending on the timings. Its not something I would call, you know, super hard for myself. Since I have reactions. (Wow, after 20+ years of gaming I have acquired reactions as well, ropa) I need something different though, where my brain is also being challenged. Because I don't want to become like an idiot. (lmao)
So yeah, famous russian hardcore gamer, german hardcore gamer tell you DS is not special, require basic arcade-ish reactions which can be found in every action game. Just because it took your months to learn a simple action game does not make you good at gaming, if anything it made you look like a fool thinking DS has the hardest combat system on earth.
That's all I have to say, if you wanna PvP learn a game that is not based around a simple console controller that has 8 buttons to press. Learn games that require twitch skills like a shooter or if you don't like shooting people learn to play games such as Chivalry or War of the Vikings.