Durante's really impressed with the port actually. Where'd you get the impression that FROM did a poor PC port for Dark Souls 2?
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Durante's really impressed with the port actually. Where'd you get the impression that FROM did a poor PC port for Dark Souls 2?
also im not that crazy about watch_dogs either at all, but I can get it pretty cheap I think
oh, that's cool. I havent read that much about it but I know the comparisons between the console versions and the PC were underwhelming. Im looking forward to see what he does with it for sure tho
oh, that's cool. I havent read that much about it but I know the comparisons between the console versions and the PC were underwhelming. Im looking forward to see what he does with it for sure tho
Nabs
Member
Man, didn't you roll with the Drake Sword and quit after the Gaping Dragon since the game was ezmode or something? I just remember being mad at your Dark Souls impressions.
toddhunter
Member
Actually it looks like they did a great job with the port. It is just that the game people wanted/expected the port from doesn't actually exist.
lol, I was jokingly fishing for reactions. I knew about the drake sword before the game came out on PC so I did do that and breezed through the early parts of the game up until you start to struggle with it. Game isn't easy at all, it's just that the biggest enemy is always yourself and learning to have patience. It's very similar to Monster Hunter.
The Dear Leader
Banned
The port is actually looking very good. The lighting downgrade happened, but its gone and we need to deal with that. Durante got a hold of a copy and he is very impressed, but the port quality is not in question at all.
GFWL Dead
60 FPS out of the box
Arbitrary resolution support (4K and beyond)
Native M/KB support including mouse driven menus
Dedicated servers
Steamworks including Steam Achievements and lower prices through competing retailers
Incredibly optimized even for low end platforms. Built for PC from the ground up
Higher resolution textures and a loaded video options menu
I'd rebuy. I had tons of fun playing this game with friends on the PS3.
The port is actually looking very good. The lighting downgrade happened, but its gone and we need to deal with that.
GFWL Dead
60 FPS out of the box
Arbitrary resolution support (4K and beyond)
Native M/KB support including mouse driven menus
Dedicated servers
Steamworks including Steam Achievements and lower prices through competing retailers
Incredibly optimized even for low end platforms. Built for PC from the ground up
Higher resolution textures and a loaded video options menu
very cool, I stand corrected
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Alright, DreadOut info (I-am-hyped) post.
DreadOut is an Indonesian horror game that went through a successful crowd-funding campaign last year and was greenlit on Steam around the same time. The game takes a lot of inspiration from the Fatal Frame series, starring a girl who comes with a group of friends who takes care of spirits and supernatural beings with a phone camera.
Before I go too deep into this, the game released a demo over a year ago that is about 15-20 minutes long. The game (and demo) can be played on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
DreadOut deals with a group of teens who on their vacation trip end up in an old, deserted town. Linda, our main character who has a sensitivity to the spiritual, senses something within the town, but her friends don't listen to her. And before they know it, they find themselves dealing with the spirits and monsters depicted in Indonesian mythology.
The game deals with the sort of horror stories that come from Indonesia and wears it very proudly. I don't know how many of you know much about horror stories from Indonesia, but it's very promising and something horror games haven't dealt with. They have very rich folk-stories and myths, and there's a few very good foreign horror films that deal with these stories. They have very fascinating monsters and folkstories.
The gameplay is also like an updated Fatal Frame. The game claims you'll be using a variety of different tools in your environment for puzzles and combat. smartphones, microphones, digital cameras, digital video cameras, and more. You're also exploring the odd town, which includes locations ranging from market venues to schools to forests to graveyards, sewers, and other things.
There's also been further updates and demo builds for those who supported the campaign, but development has been coming along nicely. They've been kind of quiet to the public as they've been rapidly designing areas as they hired more staff to get more down.
Here's a couple trailers though:
March 2013 Demo Teaser Trailer
December 2013 Teaser Trailer
I was waiting to post more on the game when new public news was out since the last public update was almost five months ago, but since it seems most don't know what it is even I think I should post about it. If you like horror games, or Fatal Frame, or want a sort of modern old-school styled horror game, I'd keep your eyes on this one.
DreadOut is an Indonesian horror game that went through a successful crowd-funding campaign last year and was greenlit on Steam around the same time. The game takes a lot of inspiration from the Fatal Frame series, starring a girl who comes with a group of friends who takes care of spirits and supernatural beings with a phone camera.
Before I go too deep into this, the game released a demo over a year ago that is about 15-20 minutes long. The game (and demo) can be played on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
DreadOut deals with a group of teens who on their vacation trip end up in an old, deserted town. Linda, our main character who has a sensitivity to the spiritual, senses something within the town, but her friends don't listen to her. And before they know it, they find themselves dealing with the spirits and monsters depicted in Indonesian mythology.
The game deals with the sort of horror stories that come from Indonesia and wears it very proudly. I don't know how many of you know much about horror stories from Indonesia, but it's very promising and something horror games haven't dealt with. They have very rich folk-stories and myths, and there's a few very good foreign horror films that deal with these stories. They have very fascinating monsters and folkstories.
The gameplay is also like an updated Fatal Frame. The game claims you'll be using a variety of different tools in your environment for puzzles and combat. smartphones, microphones, digital cameras, digital video cameras, and more. You're also exploring the odd town, which includes locations ranging from market venues to schools to forests to graveyards, sewers, and other things.
There's also been further updates and demo builds for those who supported the campaign, but development has been coming along nicely. They've been kind of quiet to the public as they've been rapidly designing areas as they hired more staff to get more down.
Here's a couple trailers though:
March 2013 Demo Teaser Trailer
December 2013 Teaser Trailer
I was waiting to post more on the game when new public news was out since the last public update was almost five months ago, but since it seems most don't know what it is even I think I should post about it. If you like horror games, or Fatal Frame, or want a sort of modern old-school styled horror game, I'd keep your eyes on this one.
Nabs
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Don't you have a better card/monitor setup now? You should totally give DS another shot at some stupid resolution/60fps. Just sayin'.
Chance Hale
Member
Fingers crossed I suppose, but ending the account bound discount nearly 2 weeks before release doesn't seem to spell good things :/
How are the menus mouse driven though? Giantbomb video showed that they were clearly the same as the console versions with arrow keys added. You couldn't drag anything, had to click through boxes(which would drag the cursor down) and so on.
Oh I still played it pretty okay. It just kinda pissed me off from the get go and there were some annoying things that not even him could fix.
Coming back to it is not off the table at all, i'll most likely do it. I probably don't have that much left to go either
The lighting thing is overbloated in my opinion. As I figured myself and as some people (who played the network test) pointed out in the relevant threads, it's really not nice having to carry a torch all the time. Sort of messes up your game. The torch mechanic is annoying even in the final version, while being largely unnecessary.
The thing is, you can only light the torch at a bonfire or a sconce (there also are some items you can use for that, but they are limited) and if you swap with a shield or wield something with two hands, it goes out. It would be dark pretty much all the time with that glorious dynamic lightning system everybody's so sad to see gone, so using a shield would not be an option (unless you want to be left in complete darkness), as well as two-handing or dual-wielding (it's a new mechanic in DSII). And please don't start with "but it makes the brutal game even more brutal". First of all, it's not brutal, it's just well-designed. The torch mechanic was and still is half-baked and making it so prominent was an all around bad gameplay decision that only looked cool in the trailers. Everybody's better off without it.
Anyway, I've played plenty of DSII and I'm enjoying it more than Demon's or Dark Souls one. Hopefully that's something.
BinaryPork2737
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IV's definitely longer than the others, for me at least. I don't remember much of I other than the main plot, let alone how long it took me to beat. I remember spending about 24-ish hours in II with my cousin completing all of it over the course of one of my spring breaks a few years ago. I think Brotherhood was around 17 hours, Reverations around 13 since I was tired of the formula by then. III took me around thirty hours because it was finally my own copy and I wasn't mooching off of other people.
IV took me about 60+ hours.
My advice: don't get the orbs of adventure, or whatever they're called. Easily saves a bit of time. Maybe skip the shanties. The messages in bottles at least have some relevance to the plot, and try to make it meaningful to collect them all by presenting a side story. The diving stuff is interesting, so try to do that. The forts are easy enough once you've upgraded your ship.
I remember seeing a gameplay video about this from TBFP. It looked really neat, especially the enemy designs.
where how why
Chance Hale
Member
All areas weren't completely dark before, they just removed 95% of any type of dynamic lighting which is why so many areas look completely flat compared to previous games. Especially given previous games had baked in lighting where much of Dark Souls 2 doesn't have any because it was supposed to be something much more involved. When you take into account how stunning some areas look it was clearly a very hasty decision.
And the torch items aren't rare, I had 35 by game's end and I used quite a few as well.
And the torch items aren't rare, I had 35 by game's end and I used quite a few as well.
MMBosstones86
Member
fucking Shaun
Child of Li...
...ohhellno
20 hours in and I just got the drake sword. Moreso out of curiosity. It's slightly less strong than my current weapon and i'm 20 hours in.
I can see how this could ezmode things.
you need to join my "Dark Souls II is totally cool but c'mon I mean let me be" steam group
That's encouraging. Seems like most people think it's weaker than the other games in the series, so my hype levels have dipped to a manageable level, lol.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Is it normal for RE: Revelations FPS drop to 1-2 for a few second when loading a new area through an elevator or similar?
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I've had a drop sometimes when it's loading stuff in things like elevator sequences, but not to 1-2 frames or anything like that, and it usually happened only 1-2 seconds for me.
I thought I might have been alone on GAF with hype for this game, and hadn't heard a damn thing about it since it's indiegogo campaign ended months ago.
Glad it's still coming along. Hope to hear/see more in the near future.
There was a GMG sale a few weeks ago, think it was $8 with a 20% off voucher. I'd expect a Dark Souls sale in the next week or so to promote the sequel, but otherwise check with traders.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I'd have to dig through my email as most of the updates on my end have come through email, but they had some screenshots they've been releasing of what they've been working on. They got some more enemies in, they finished the school location, were working on the sewers and some surreal dream sequence last I heard.
But they have been silent for the most part, especially publicly. My guess is that they're trying to get a lot done before they show the game next next time. But I am assuming DreadOut may be the closest we'll get to Fatal Frame on Steam.
corrosivefrost
Member
Whoa there, Captain Optimist...
I don't see how Dark Souls II can get credit for killing GFWL -- or even for not using it at this point. And as far as Steamworks goes, what else were they going to use now that GFWL is pretty much gone?
Higher resolution support is only meaningful to the handful of people gaming on 4K displays. Compared to the majority of gamers who probably don't have a 4K display, it's kind of a moot point.
I'm not sure who in their right mind would want to play a Souls game with M/KB -- it'd be like trying to play an RTS on a gamepad.
So incredibly optimized that they had to drop the lighting engine.
And based on that one shot you posted (looking at the textures on the character's hair specifically), higher could mean very little. Technically 1.1 is higher than 1. :lol
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This is finally done:
Time to delete Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate HD. Very glad I got this for $12 or so on Steam as I'd have been pissed if I'd bothered to buy it for my Vita.
Friendly tip for anyone playing the game and going for all the achievements/trophies -- fight
Joker
derExperte
Member
Whoa there, Captain Optimist...
Haven't you read Durante's posts? He can't say more yet but reading between the lines...
He's even writing an article for I think PC Gamer about the port, should be good stuff.
toddhunter
Member
Whoa there, Captain Optimist...
He was comparing the quality of the ports. All of his points are completely valid.
MMBosstones86
Member
hopefully to go along with GFWL-removal
Whoa there, Captain Optimist...
you definitely are the yang to Grief's yin on DS2
corrosivefrost
Member
I've only read the one post Grief quoted in here -- but I'm not quite sure how reading between the lines of Durante wishing he could "say more" or whatever now that he has a copy of the PC version early changes any of the footage or screenshots that have come out this week.
Sure, they fixed a few of the things that the last port got wrong (GFWL, resolution options), but the rest of the points such as "60fps out of the box" have no place in a comparison as the original Dark Souls wasn't designed to run at 60fps. The port of the original fixed and stabilized the framerate from the console version, which the port of the new game does as well (to the tune of running at 60fps constantly).
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
I was actually going to chip in but I didn't have money for the duration for the whole thing sadly.
RavenValor95
Member
Yeah, that's normal.
I played it on 3DS and PC, and both versions have those framedrops in the exact same places, guess it's just how the game is coded.
toddhunter
Member
You are trying to argue with people who have made hundreds of posts about the game and have followed it in detail, every second of every day, for the past few months.
I'd just nod and go with their opinions.
-MD-
Member
I get that in elevators for a split second so yes.
$19.99.
But no english audio... Gods dammit. if only Ignition has released it years ago like planned...
RavenValor95
Member
Yep.
I'm pre-ordering the PC version next time I get paid, can't wait to play it, I really enjoyed evolution and can't wait to play more.
How much?
Armoured Priest
Member
I'm a bad person:
I got my best friend's wife....
...addicted to Steam and the various game bundle sites.
I got my best friend's wife....
...addicted to Steam and the various game bundle sites.
corrosivefrost
Member
You mean the same Grief who spent his time writing up a post about how there was hope that the PC version could still be like the TGS demo footage based on some screenshots and stuff?
And there's no "arguing" here. I'm merely pointing out contrasting viewpoints to Grief's overly positive ones.
You saved them money!
... that can be spent on more bundles.
Well thank you for passing that info along. I've never played Fatal Frame, I just liked the concept/demo enough to get hyped.
That's the same situation I was in at the time.
derExperte
Member
So you're one of those that don't care about the actual quality of the port, which by all accounts is very good, but only about the game not looking like in the old screens/videos.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Man all those Dark Souls impressions are hitting hard.
Guess I'll save money for Smash Bros coming this summer.
Guess I'll save money for Smash Bros coming this summer.
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