Bissell is great, big fan of him. His grantland writings are great and I'm very happy he has such a prominent place to wank his ideas of videogames on.
However, I thought the tone of his article was more negative based upon the mediocre story telling. I might just be projecting too much onto his current review because I just finished his Extra Lives books, but oh well.
I'll be addicted to Dark Souls for the next few weeks finishing up on some new game +'s, until Skyrim comes out.