People talk about the story but I haven't really got anything out of it so far. Not that I'm not loving the game - maybe I'm just bad at reading into environmental clues.
Just feel like a guy running around killing stuff
Well if you want to knwi a theory that I have based on what I've seen in the game so far
it would appear that someone is/was/has purposely tried to turn Yarnham into a cursed city as part of some type of ritual with introduction of the curse of the beast. Which stands in contrast to Dark Souls lore where it would seem that everyone was trying to prevent darkness from taking over Lordran by figuring out ways to either fight it or rekindle the flame and because of their quests were twisted into making poor choices either by ambition or over confidence.