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[Auctopus]

Really cool. Feeling jealous from the Sony House.

 

[Noobcraft]

Yes! I own it on 360 but only ever got past the first boss (Asylum demon?). Maybe I'll finally finish it.

 

[OrbitalBeard]

I hope this doesn't hurt our chances of getting a dark souls remaster. I wonder how performance will be.

Yeah, I want a remaster on PS4 / XB1 at some point.

The season pass also confirmed two DLCs coming to DS3.

Sweeeeeeeet

 

[silva1991]

GOTY 2016 contender right here.

 

[GrayChild]

The best game of the previous generation is about to become the best game of this generation.

 

[Red Hood]

Seeing as how an emulation doesn't make it run any better (at least in my limited knowledge), I don't know if I should congratulate or warn XBO owners.

 

[shortsFortallPeople]

eh, i guess this is good but the 360 version of DS was already the worst performing of the lot and 360 emulation has been pretty iffy at times. I guess this is still better than not getting a free game with your preorder, though

 

[Noobcraft]

Seeing as how an emulation doesn't make it run any better (at least in my limited knowledge), I don't know if I should congratulate or warn XBO owners.

Fallout 3 runs better in BC than on the 360. Dark Souls ran terribly on 360/PS3 so I hope it can't get worse lol.

 

[Already Torn]

How's Blighttown on X360? Played it on PS3 but could never do it again due to the performance.

Even worse, believe it or not.

This is the first time I've wanted an Xbone
PS Now when?

 

[Easy_D]

That DLC better be Lost Crowns tier DLC

 

[jbug617]

I bet this was suppose to be announced at the Xbox/Windows 10 event at the end of the month.

 

[RespectThySole]

Already have the PC version, but this is good to see. XB1 BC is delivering so far.

 

[Already Torn]

That DLC better be Lost Crowns tier DLC

So pretty good but still by far the worst in the series?

 

[Backfoggen]

That DLC better be Lost Crowns tier DLC

Weird way of spelling Artorias of the Abyss/The Old Hunters tier.

 

[Easy_D]

So pretty good but still by far the worst in the series?

Weird way of spelling Artorias of the Abyss/The Old Hunters tier.

Whats next, are we gonna post that Matthewmatosis video and start the cycle anew?

Edit: Hell, I'll do you a solid and link it myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UScsme8didI

 

[Already Torn]

Whats next, are we gonna post that Matthewmatosis video and start the cycle anew?

Edit: Hell, I'll do you a solid and link it myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UScsme8didI

The DLC isn't in the Matthewmatosis video.

And 'the cycle' was a dumb idea.

 

[butman]

OK Sony, do your move and bring to PS4: Demon's Souls + Dark Souls - ReDie Edition

 

[ironcreed]

I already own it, but great news.

 

[Bread]

fuck yesssss hopefully it runs well

 

[OrbitalBeard]

OK Sony, do your move and bring to PS4 Demon's Souls + Dark Souls - ReDie Edition

No way this ever happens.

A separate Demon's Souls remaster needs to happen though. And hopefully Bandai Namco will release a new version of DS1 separately on current gen systems as well.

 

[Backfoggen]

OK Sony, do your move and bring to PS4: Demon's Souls + Dark Souls - ReDie Edition

No Demon's Souls on PS4 is just a literal crime.

 

[Easy_D]

The DLC isn't in the Matthewmatosis video.

And 'the cycle' was a dumb idea.

I was just making a joke about how threads where people disagree on DS2 usually go down :lol. All in all, I hope the DLC is something everyone enjoys.

 

[RiccochetJ]

This is nice! I have a physical disc of the game but would much rather have a digital copy in my library.

 

[RespectThySole]

No way this ever happens.

A separate Demon's Souls remaster needs to happen though. And hopefully Bandai Namco will release a new version of DS1 separately on current gen systems as well.

Please Sony.

 

[nOoblet16]

Entirely depends on the bottleneck I guess, correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I remember from the DigitalFoundry analysis the emulator generally performs worse than the original when it comes to CPU intensive situations while generally performing as good or better than the original on GPU intensive situations.

Of course there are always exclusions on both ends, but that's what I remember being said in their BC analysis.

Blighttown was GPU heavy because From Software used too many light source in that area (although why this is a resource hog I don't know since it was running a defered renderer), they should have culled the lights far ahead because they provided no purpose as they were dim enough to not matter.

 

[dancrane212]

Blighttown was GPU heavy because From Software used too many light source in that area (although why this is a resource hog I don't know since it was running a defered renderer), they should have culled the lights far ahead because they provided no purpose as they were dim enough to not matter.

I wonder if it will perform better on XB1 then. I may have misunderstood Digital Foundry but I was under the impression that processes that tax the GPU performed better on XB1 (which is why many cutscenes in games run better on the emulator) while CPU intensive moments were hard for the Xbox One to keep up with and cause dips in the framerate.

 

[Garcia el Gringo]

I'll be playing my GwG copy when the BC is up. I hope this sets a trend for more retail Bandai Namco games coming to BC. Pls, Beautiful Katamari and Eternal Sonata and Tales of Vesperia and...

 

[AgentOtaku]

YEEEEEESSSSS!!!!

 

[Backfoggen]

Please Bamco.

You mean please Sony.

 

[comshoplesce]

DS3 will have season pass? What will be included? I hope not too expensive.

 

[Disaster Nebraska]

This is awesome! For those who haven't played DS, it's worth the investment of time.

 

[Iva Demilcol]

This is neat. I actually bought the digital version during one sale so I guess I can play it now on the xb one.

About the concerns of it being a little bit choppy in Blightown, it actually depends a little bit on whether or not you had it installed in your HD. I can't say about how it is compared to the ps3 version, but in the case of DSII the 360 version runs better than the ps3 one.

 

[J_Viper]

Great deal, but I'm not confident in Dark Souls running well through the emulator, or even DS3's performance on Xbone for that matter

I don't trust like that.

 

[RoKKeR]

Nice. May try to return where I left off. Never made it past a few hours in to Anor Londo. (?)

 

[Mik3F]

Hope this is included with physical copies too

 

[Ninja Sharingan]

Holy crap! xbox one BC just keeps on giving! Lets gooooo!

 

[Nazo]

That's awesome! I never did pick up the Artorias of the Abyss DLC for the game so I guess now is a good a time as any.

 

[PlayMaker]

The season pass also confirmed two DLCs coming to DS3.

So this is real... I don't like doing thing in that way. DLC's and Season Pass announcement earlier than the game's release.

 

[DedValve]

I wonder if it will perform better on XB1 then. I may have misunderstood Digital Foundry but I was under the impression that processes that tax the GPU performed better on XB1 (which is why many cutscenes in games run better on the emulator) while CPU intensive moments were hard for the Xbox One to keep up with and cause dips in the framerate.

Plot twist: the entire game runs like blightown except blightown which runs at 60fps.

Finally I get to play Artorias of the Abyss! Will absolutely be replaying this in preparation of Dark Souls 3.

 

[TheKeyPit]

I think I got this back when it was GWG. May eventually give it a go..

Me too. It will be cool to record all the fails or stream a first playthrough.

 

[Vince DiCola]

God I hope Blighttown runs smooth. I hope the whole game runs well tbh

 

[VR_RaidenXOF]

Will the Xbone version include Artorias?

Something seems wrong about the words "Season Pass" and Dark Souls.

 

[Doug Heffernan]

Nice!
Maybe I'll finally beat the game.

 

[Kudo]

Are the pre-orders already online on Xbox Live? When will pre-orders open on Steam and PSN?

Also great that DS1 gets some BC love.

 

[Backfoggen]

Are the pre-orders already online on Xbox Live? When will pre-orders open on Steam and PSN?

Also great that DS1 gets some BC love.

They are online in Australia. My guess is tomorrow we might hear news for the rest of the world.

 

[Retrozocker]

Mmmh DS1 BC will come at a later stage then anyway or? I really want to support From by buying the collectors edition as usual...

 

[Black Republican]

nice, was this better than DS2?

 

[Feel_The_Pain]

After enjoying dark souls with durante fix on pc, it would be hard to play this on console, and the only possible positive would be a higher player count on Xbox? Or would the pc version still have higher numbers?

 

[silva1991]

nice, was this better than DS2?

Easily

it's better than the other souls games combined.

it's the Uncharted 2 of the series.

 

[RecursiveFault]

After enjoying dark souls with durante fix on pc, it would be hard to play this on console, and the only possible positive would be a higher player count on Xbox? Or would the pc version still have higher numbers?

Nowdays PC is probably most populated.