EternalGamer
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The game already has built in quicksave. You dont even have to hit a button. You turn off the game, you automatically start right where you left off.
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The game already has built in quicksave. You dont even have to hit a button. You turn off the game, you automatically start right where you left off.
drkOne
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Not to mention that it was sold at $20 from day 1.
Someone mentioned the Sonic Episodes but I can't think of a single 3D game in the last ~10 years that doesn't allow resolution switches. The big worry was a 30 FPS lock and it looks like you can override said lock in this game.
The resolution thing was sorted out a while ago so the thread title isn't news.
All of the confusion can be chalked up to a developer that isn't used to working on PC games + translation issues.
I can run BF3 on medium high settings on my old phenom x3 720 @ 3.5ghz, and an hd4890 @ 1920x1200 at around 30 fps. This is fucking like 5 year old hardware.
You're telling me, this game which can run on older hardware than the shit I have now at sub 30fps most of the time, is going to run sub 30 fps most of the time on a computer that's less than 6 months old?
No, fuck your shit namco. Go take another year, come back with some better optimizations, some actual graphical options, and get back to us then. PC Gamers like myself can wait, we aren't going to suddenly disappear. I'd rather wait longer and get a good product than this shit fed to us for $60.
I just read the "newer" information and I'm not going to believe some poster on some random Australian forum by a poster named in relation to namco.
It's just hearsay. It also doesn't touch base upon the one area that people who've played the game complain about in terms of fps issues.
Also the "free mousepad and mouse with your purchase from EB" is hilarious.
Also I'm going to be put off if it's letterboxed or only lets you display at 1080p. Come on, that shit's lazy.
It's just hearsay. It also doesn't touch base upon the one area that people who've played the game complain about in terms of fps issues.
Also the "free mousepad and mouse with your purchase from EB" is hilarious.
Also I'm going to be put off if it's letterboxed or only lets you display at 1080p. Come on, that shit's lazy.
Yeah. Anything else would be violating the game's design, the point is that there's a real risk to your actions, and a quick save you can quickly reload from will be completely destroying this, nevermind the potential problems for online play.
I can deal with letterboxed, not unless 4:3 IS supported on consoles (don't believe so), but I can't imagine any game actually displaying only at 1080p.
When has anyone allowed quicksaving when you play the game online?
I'm not interested in playing the game online.
HylianScribe
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So since this is coming to PC, and there's still a mystery behind the pendant that can be traded to Snuggly for a Souvenir of Reprisal (in regards to it possibly having some affect on the story), is there any chance that somebody could take a peek through all the files and figure this out quickly after release?
Just throwing it out there in case you're the person who could do this and figure it out--I really have wanted to tackle this on Pop Fiction, but without confirmation one way or the other, it would be a dead end. Doesn't seem like the developers will spill the beans anytime soon. Seems like being able to inspect the game files thoroughly, especially the text files, would solve this mystery.
Just throwing it out there in case you're the person who could do this and figure it out--I really have wanted to tackle this on Pop Fiction, but without confirmation one way or the other, it would be a dead end. Doesn't seem like the developers will spill the beans anytime soon. Seems like being able to inspect the game files thoroughly, especially the text files, would solve this mystery.
For better or worse the game's generally designed with the assumption you are, IE no pausing and saves always work the same way. I expect we'll see the same thing here, though online MAY be mandatory anyway without mods/hacks to shut off Live.
Online isn't mandatory in the console game, and I can't see the devs putting in the effort to stave off mods and hacks.
Game already has quicksave as already pointed out. What people really want are multiple saves, which is dumb.
Jawmuncher
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Like a lot of ports before it.
Dark Souls is gonna sale a ton of units once those steam sales hit.
Dark Souls is gonna sale a ton of units once those steam sales hit.
Thing is you generally have to be able to log into your Live account to access saves and all, not unless you can log into the account itself without going online now... Actually, I think that was possible with GTAIV if you didn't update to the latest version, so maybe it IS possible.
Multiple saves is never dumb I hate games without it because if i wanna do another play through i have to lose my old one :/
You get multiple character slots, so you still have that purpose fulfilled. Though this game is odd anyway in that you're immediately booted back to the start upon beating it, but with the difficulty knocked up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPbKOrh5Reg
This is another thing I hope they fix. Come on, I'm gonna be sitting arms length away from my monitor, I hope there's some sort of UI scaling
This is another thing I hope they fix. Come on, I'm gonna be sitting arms length away from my monitor, I hope there's some sort of UI scaling
me too - and you can't change your post count and pretty sure you can't have aliases. and fwiw he was also in the Demon's Souls thread when the AU BP version was released and soldout in a few days - gave us some pretty legit sounding info that wouldn't have been publicly available at the time
Yeah it appears that Alan Wake sold about half a million on PC on the first month. We don't know exactly how much it sold but we this is what we do know:
As of December 2011 Alan Wake sold between 1.4 and 1.5 million copies.
As of March 2012, 4 months after that last article and 1 month after the PC release the game was at 2 million copies sold across the 360 and PC.
Of course we don't know the sales break down of those half a million copies but it's fairly reasonable to assume that most of them were on PC.
Glass Rebel
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It was about $15 on Gamestop download (Steamworks) a few weeks ago.
Glass Rebel
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oookay...?
Mr_Appleby
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Fuck me, offical thread should be titled "Dark Souls PC: I hope it's not Dark Souls and only costs a dollar". Doubting the whirlpool stuff because "I'm a member", without bothering to do a shred of research is nice. Hey would you believe it - I'm a member too! Only I both did my research and stated my assumptions in my post.
On top of which you have this quote linked a few posts back:
And people still believe in the mythical 30fps cap? Next we'll have someone claiming it runs in 4:3, requires a VooDoo 3D and only plays with a trackball. Over RS-232.
On top of which you have this quote linked a few posts back:
And people still believe in the mythical 30fps cap? Next we'll have someone claiming it runs in 4:3, requires a VooDoo 3D and only plays with a trackball. Over RS-232.
rohlfinator
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Also if you log into GFWL, the game steals your actual soul.
That's ok, you collect souls in this game so it balances out.
There's no mystery behind the pendant. You don't need the PC version to come out to dig into the files and confirm that; we've had complete dumps of every single text string in the game from the console versions for months.
The whole pendant thing was just a bizarre flight of fancy to begin with.
oh look it's just been listed on EB Games and comes with a mouse + mousepad:
http://ebgames.com.au/pc-157565-Dark-Souls-Prepare-to-Die-Edition-PC
corroborating evidence or was it just a lucky guess by that guy with the 'fake' whirlpool id?
http://ebgames.com.au/pc-157565-Dark-Souls-Prepare-to-Die-Edition-PC
corroborating evidence or was it just a lucky guess by that guy with the 'fake' whirlpool id?
Clearly lends further credence to that post, this doesn't seem like something you'd just guess.
So, why do only the Australians get that package? I want the mouse pad at least
Dont worry though, theres enough time for namco to remove stuff from the pc version so it just comes in a flimsy plastic box and a piece of toilet paper known as the instruction manual.
based on what happened to the console versions.
Maybe Japanese devs are putting a quality effort into this game but they have no idea how to convey any sort of competence in PC porting so they keep digging holes with poorly made statements.
August will sure be interesting.
Probably because even "bare minimum" m/kb controls are superior?
I don't really want to start this discussion all over again, but I couldn't resist.
Felix Lighter
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Personally, I think $40 is an appropriate price point for a year old port with additional content. I have a feeling that they'll sell it for $50, though. $60 would be a disappointing but not completely surprising.
Is that the official price or just an assumption on EB's part? Also, how do Australian game prices compare to American?
I already bought this. There's no way I'm paying full price again. Even $50 is too much.
I can't think of many GotY editions that actually debuted at $60 rather than $50. Definitely expecting $40 or $50 in this case, especially with the game already going for $30 at some places.
They're almost universally double the price, or so it seems to me.
Nabs
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Diablo 3 and Borderlands 2 (PC) are both $88 bucks at EB.
Yeah as Lucentto sais $39.95 from gamestop
http://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/dark-souls-prepare-to-die-edition/102777
also lists minimum specs there too:
voice chat for pc version?
Robot Pants
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I was in this camp before the game was released. Thought the UI was monstrously big, but honestly you get used to it. It's not a problem for me at all. Scaling would be a nice option though - I'd make it a tad bit smaller - but I wouldn't hold your breath.
Lol, so what the guy said was probably the truth then...
fluffydelusions
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It's not bad when you play it on TV from a distance but up close it may seem a bit much.