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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (PC) - New interviews, details, artwork/screens
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I mean, you can check out the wiki, but it's really hard to understand the game system without playing it. Even then, it's really best to play it first. Spoiling yourself kinda makes it... less fun. Or at the very least, less challenging, particularly for Dark Souls, since finding the waypoints/shortcuts can be a really exciting/scary part of the game.
bone_and_sinew
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I wish there more npc/standard enemy black phantoms, period. Encountering them in Demon's was like "OH SHIT! ok keep your head straight, don't make any mistakes". It's such a rush fighting them. I think I've only encountered them in Dark like twice after a couple hundred hours and almost always online.
The black dragon. He was also in King's Field.
Minsc
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Release date is August 24th, you can pre-order it now, if you want.
Technically, we still don't know 100% for sure if you can switch resolutions, though you probably can; and we were told not to expect higher framerates, so a framerate cap is not confirmed either, but seems likely. Nor do we know for certain if the PC version will have slowdown hardcoded in to it, but the fact the performance varies slightly iirc from 360 to PS3 from reading user impression earlier on indicates to me it should be removed on faster hardware...
There have been no PC screens released yet.
Haunted
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Rawket Lawnchair
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Has there been a AAA game console port to PC with locked framerates and locked resolution before? If yes, I haven't played/noticed it. :-/
This isn't going to have a lock resolution, it was a misquote.
Lost Fragment
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Shit-ass games journalists who don't understand PR-speak, or shit-ass games journalists writing sensationalized headlines to get more hits from people who don't know any better? You make the call.
Wolf Akela
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They'd be dumb to announce the content for consoles right now. They have to give people more reason to double dip on the PC version.
H_Prestige
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It's really a dirty tactic. I mean, would all the PC guys who signed the petition suddenly not care if they found out the consoles were getting the new edition as well? I thought all they wanted was their 1080p and 60fps.
Enabling the in-game v-sync in Dead Space locked the game into 30fps (as well as creating massive input lag).
D3RANG3D
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I think people would be less likely to double dip if they already have the console version if the content was confirmed coming to consoles before the PC version is out. PC gamers just wanted the game with better resolution, frame rates etc,. I was surprised about the new content honestly.
assuming the new content comes to consoles, my guess is it would be on a goty/prepare to die edition type thing, and not be sold as dlc
assuming that's true, i really hope we can use our save files from the vanilla version on the new one
does anyone have experience with this with other games? do they goty editions use the same save files?
assuming that's true, i really hope we can use our save files from the vanilla version on the new one
does anyone have experience with this with other games? do they goty editions use the same save files?
I've watched some LPs too. The game is just as good as I tought. It's 3D, but very open (I get bored with very open games and drop them really fast).
Also the difficult seems fair to me. I can't wait to have this on my PC.
H_Prestige
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It would suck if we have to start everything over. Also the BB glitch probably wouldn't work in a new release.
It still doesn't make sense because even if they announced the new edition for consoles, they'd still get all the same double dippers plus a whole lot more who would not double dip on PC.
The marketing and PR this gen has been total shit. Nobody is allowed to say anything. Everything is kept a secret from consumers.
D3RANG3D
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Basically what I tried to say is they don't want to kill the PC version before it is out, why wait for the PC version if you can just play what you already have with the new content on consoles? What they want is to have impulse purchases because people think this content in exclusive on PC. I am sure there will be some double dipping anyways.
Death Dealer
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I hope they let the PC version exist with exclusive content for no longer than a month or two, and then announce/release it as DLC for PS3/X360.
It's a ripoff to make people re-buy a $40+ GOTY edition just for a little extra content.
Release a GOTY edition if they want, but make it available as DLC as well.
It's a ripoff to make people re-buy a $40+ GOTY edition just for a little extra content.
Release a GOTY edition if they want, but make it available as DLC as well.
H_Prestige
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It's not just a little content though. It's at least two new dungeons among other things.
I get that, but just because it's a black dragon, it has to be Guyra?
The fact that they're so cagey about console support would suggest that is not the case.
captainnapalm
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Just saw this news and I'm gonna go with pleasantly surprised that they're even doing this and happy to be getting a chance to play the game. I can handle 30 frames per second over 0 because the game doesn't exist. The fixed resolution is crappy, it has to be said, but hopefully that's just a rumour.
Sweet, didn't think I'd ever get to play Dark Souls.
Sweet, didn't think I'd ever get to play Dark Souls.
bone_and_sinew
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How many black dragons do you know of with 1 eye in the middle of their heads?
(adding link since it doesn't seem to image) http://www.flyingomelette.com/greatgames/screens/kf-guyra.jpg
Glass Rebel
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why?
Abandoning the fanbase that made the game popular is not the best way for them to push Dark Souls 2.
Glass Rebel
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No, why does it have to be on the same day. And I was asking Canova on purpose.
I can almost guarantee you that fixed resolution isn't going to happen - it doesn't make sense. It's a combination of 'games journalism', translation, misquotes, gaf over reaction.
I've said it a few times now but Dark Souls for consoles doesn't strike me as being outfitted for DLC. Really wouldn't surprise me if we just got a separate SKU for the Prepare to Die Edition on consoles. Just guessing obviously.
indigo-cyclops
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I just got my Design Works art book in the mail, and boy, did that fucking pump me up for this...I'm so conflicted
Sentenza
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Voice your dissatisfaction:
https://www.change.org/petitions/namco-bandai-games-from-software-cancel-fail-pc-port-of-dark-souls
D3RANG3D
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that petition smh...
Cloudius12
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dear god, that's a horrible petition lol
I don't even understand. What would they gain?
Can I petition to cancel the petition instead?
AlphaDragoon
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Yeah, basically. Screw them.
http://www.360magazine.co.uk/interview/dark-souls-game-director-apologises-to-console-players/
lol author of this article is called David Lynch...
lol author of this article is called David Lynch...
Don't feed the troll (the petition, not Tuco).
GhostWriter24
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Did Dolan write that petition? :lol
Haunted
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goddamnit canova
Ghost_Protocol
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Did you read the OP? It's adding a minimum of 3 new areas and 3 new bosses, new weapons, armor, NPCs, and story. It's well worth the money for the fans who made this happen.
Dwight Schrute
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Fans beg for pc port. PC port announced. Fans displeased.
That's why we never get ports.
That's why we never get ports.
darkpaladinmfc
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Imagine you really wanted to play Witcher 2, so you 'begged' for a console port. Then CD Projekt announced a console version of Witcher 2, hooray! Then CD Projekt said it would have a locked framerate of 24 and run in 480p.
Dwight Schrute
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If it was this or no play, I'd be happy.
Except the fixed resolution was debunked for Dark Souls I think. It was about texture res.
Zomba13
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JUST BE HAPPY YOU GET IT! God, so entitled. You aren't entitled to a good port so stop being upset that you're not getting one!
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
I'm not gonna lie, this is hilarious XD
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