That is still the biggest problem here.
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Dark Souls PC 1080p. Confirmed, like, for real.
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That is still the biggest problem here.
dragonlife
Member
That's pretty cool. They should at least brand it.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Out of the two I would choose GFWL over 30fps. GFWL is bad but it doesn't make me physically ill like bad framerates do.
TheExplodingHead
Banned
Glad to hear this, we would have gotten this anyway through a mod of some kind no doubt, but great to hear. Now we need no GFWL, because again I can see the 30fps lock being modded at some point, whereas GFWL needs to be dealt with now.
Visualante2
Member
RockPaperShotgun, Steam's homepage, PC gamer, maybe Total Biscuit? The PC audience is so consolidated I don't think it'll require a ton of marketing. It'd be great if it was just on shelves.
Sentenza
Member
Hard to say. I thought the game could eventually do more than fine on word of mouth alone, but they apparently worked hard to surround this port with the worst possible reputation before launch.
While I originally expected sales to top by far those 90 thousands signing the petition (my guess: roughly half million sales in the first month) now I'm wondering if sales will even barely match the number of signatures.
Ghost_Protocol
Member
The back and forth with this port is wearing down on my heart. Someone please add that new info the OP/title.
Sentenza
Member
I'm really curious... Why do you care about it at all?
Weren't you strongly against it before it was confirmed?
If the port is good enough, I hope good word of mouth follows launch. If so and it sells well, it'll probably be a long-tail game. I just hope FromSoftware and Namco can recognize that.
Half a million wut
oh look, i was right again
Ghost_Protocol
Member
Half a million first month on PC is a mega impressive number, very few games do that. Like, Blizzard and Bethesda only (maybe Valve too). Maybe Civ.
And for Dark Souls to do that? A game which has sold...1.2ish million copies in almost a year? That's exceedingly optimistic, no matter how well the game will fit with the pc fanbase.
I can see it reaching that number after many steam sales though.
rohlfinator
Member
Yeah, half a million seems high. I know there's a lot of enthusiasm and it seems like a good fit for the PC audience, but it's also been out on consoles for most of a year and a lot of people probably already picked it up there. And I don't expect double-dippers to be a significant portion of the sales, especially since the extra content is coming to consoles.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Sonic 4 episodes come to mind.
Good to see that everything I expected to be a misunderstanding/overreaction actually was -- check out the original thread for a laugh. Looking forward to playing the game with great IQ at 120 FPS.
No, not at all. Locked resolution or framerate would have reduced the actual in-game advantage of the PC version. GFWL is a minor inconvenience at most.
A friend of mine who is a PC-only gamer is pretty hyped. He always referred to Demon's Souls as the only reason he would ever want a console.
viewtifulsub
Member
My concerns about hearing about a choppy framerate on a GTX680 have been put to rest.
Time to double dip.
Prophet Steve
Member
GFWL is a horrendous game-breaking experience at the most when it deletes your save files (does it still do that?).
Not saying that resolution and framerate are less important, but GFWL can cause huge issues for people.
Spectacular Dr Dawg
Member
Witchfinder General
punched Wheelchair Mike
Sweet, I'll get this.
Hopefully quick saves can me patched in.
Death Dealer
Member
Yeah half million in one month sounds very optimistic. If it does 250k, I'd be happy.
Glass Rebel
Member
Nice to hear about the performance stuff but I'd prefer it to be delayed to remove GFWL and release alongside the console versions/DLC. Console Souls fans would be happier too I think.
That would ruin the game.
Witchfinder General
punched Wheelchair Mike
My bus passes by the Sydney Namco Bandai offices. I should stop by and beg to play the game.
Haunted
Member
Sounds excellent.
I've got the PC to crush this game. Fluidly playable Blighttown with improved image quality, here we come.
please god no
abstract alien
Member
This release would be worth it for a fix in the one area that had the single digit framerate issues alone. So stoked for this.
Damn PC gamers are terrible
Damn PC gamers are terrible
Don't like it, then don't use it.
abstract alien
Member
Haunted
Member
The biggest mechanical change I'd like would be to make every bonfire warpable, not only those near covenants. Would eliminate a lot of the pointless back and forth travelling.
Also design some of the encounters better (hello bs archers on a small ledge) - the game's hitboxing/collision detection (including walkable areas) isn't good enough to support that shit.
Also design some of the encounters better (hello bs archers on a small ledge) - the game's hitboxing/collision detection (including walkable areas) isn't good enough to support that shit.
Sentenza
Member
Uh, no.
Some of these games sold MILLIONS in the first days, not half a million in the first month.
Half a million is what can you expect from some solid but not exceedingly famous game, like The Witcher 2, which is exactly where I would put a decent port of Dark Souls in popularity.
We are talking about a game interesting enough to convince almost 100,000 peple to sign a petition for a port, and these kind of petitions usually barely reach a fraction of the actual, potential user base.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
lol you would think some dev or media would have a better rig instead of just 5000 series GPU's. It's nice to read it running well on low-mid range GPU's but I want to read about better rigs here 
Because it was locked at 720p before.
Sentenza
Member
More than 93,000 sounds way closer to 100,000, to me.
Backfoggen
Banned
Sounds good
Try to name me one game that's sold that well after a years release that was ported to the PC that did 500k numbers in a months time.
I frankly can't think of any, many games have come and never sold so well. Guys if your coming one year after, good luck.
Do we have numbers on Alan Wake? That seemed to be very successful, though I don't know if it cracked 500k.
Now I'll have to agree with the purists here and say that it would break the game. It already technically quicksaves after almost everything you do. It just doesn't save your position in the world, only your items. The whole rotten form reclaim souls mechanic would disappear.
Sentenza
Member
Who cares when it came out on consoles? It's a popular genre on PC, and not an overcrowded one, too.
Those concerned about "double dipping" seem to ignore that the largest chunk of customers is made out of people who never played the game on console.
What I can do, on the other hand, is listing a bunch of titles with LESS appeal than Dark Souls that sold roughly that much, if not more: Terraria, Amnesia, Risen II, Divinity II.
Anyway, that's a pointless argument right now.
It's a GFWL title, and those are never particularly successful.Even when they are "AAA+ wake up and run to buy it" like GTA IV and Batman they barely reach decent numbers.