Infinite_Daremo
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Looking forward to this. Playing it with my two mates. 1 of whom hasn't played it before. Were all gonna record the boss fights from each perspective and keep a YouTube record of it. Its gonna be great watching my friend die 
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Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition |OT| Durante Does In 23 Minutes What From Can't
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There are stress scares. Realising that anything can cost you twenty minutes of progress and then having something happen can scare some people. The game doesn't really have any jump scares or dark caves or anything, though.
It's not scary at all from what I've played so far (the original not the dlc of course), and I usually can't play games with dark/depressing atmosphere.
There are some open areas and it's bright for the most part, the dark areas usually have enemies standing still until you get close to them to fight them (other than archers), and most enemies are slow and are just typical skeleton/zombie enemies wearing armors and such. So I would say something like Skyrim.
I'm with what Eusis stated above: resolution is far from being priority #1 for me. The missing lighting in RE4 PC was a far bigger disaster and no super high resolution could compensate for that.
Yeah, if you consider "the port sure is disappointing but don't act like it's suddenly unplayable...the game is still great" to be hardcore trolling. I don't. And I still laugh at people who completely lose their shit and act like their eyes would fall out if they looked at a console game.
Most any horror from the game comes from the few jumps that come out of nowhere, and they aren't framed like they are in the likes of Dead Space to try to get a scare out of you. Instead it's more of a "shit I didn't see this thing and it might kill me", and that's doubly true when you go poking somewhere you shouldn't just yet and come across an enemy that will fuck you up, moreso when you simply can't escape it. It was a pretty big shock when
Atmosphere's pretty dark though, but I can really dig those whereas straight up horror is harder for me to deal with.
I tried to get rid of a Black Knight by going to the bonfire, only for it to keep coming. Then I died.
Atmosphere's pretty dark though, but I can really dig those whereas straight up horror is harder for me to deal with.
Not scary in a traditional way. But it is scary when you first see a gigantic, mean, ugly looking boss rushing toward you after you walk through the fog, and you have no idea how to fight it, or what it's capable of.
Besides that, the atmosphere of the game is much more depressing than scary. No jump scares, for the most part. Though there's a couple spots where an enemy is hiding in hard to see spots as you walk by and can surprise you. Actually, there is one type of jump scare, but I'm not going to spoil it for you. It's very rare though.
If it was any other game, I'd complely ingore it given the overall quality of the port. However, this is dark souls; I'll make an exception this once. Besides, Blighttown @ 30 fps will be a huge improvement!
Also, this is exectly the kind of hardcore game that gets fan fixes for framerate limitations, etc. out fairly quickly.
Also, this is exectly the kind of hardcore game that gets fan fixes for framerate limitations, etc. out fairly quickly.
Spoilers dude.
That's probably the freakiest monster design I've seen in any game yet though.
Too bad that he was so easy
Pre-patch Tomb of the Giants was extremely tense. No skull lantern drops, so you had to go through the darkness until you found one down in the pit.
Minsc
Gold Member
Not supporting modern resolutions is pretty bad though. Worse still that at no point does the game ever output a non-scaled image. It's bad enough the framebuffer is sub-HD, but on top of that, there is no way to actually play a crisp non-scaled output. Even at a windowed 1280x720 resolution the game is still scaling prior to outputting it. But you're right, there's been worse technical issues in games, that weren't even ports, like RAGE. That one didn't even run at release for a fairly large number of people.
I'm still hoping this is all one big mistake, and in a few days the problems will be easily fixable or we find out it at least uses a 1280x720 framebuffer. But if the game's as great as everyone says, ultimately I will forgot all the flaws and be lost in the atmosphere and world the game creates. That or wait a few months and hope things get straightened out.
That was the gif from the cam recording of the first DS trailer. That's no spoiler, everyone saw this and everyone knew that Dark Souls gonna have a giant teethy vaginal monster.
Edit: I guess it IS a spoiler, lol. Damn you, people who didn't follow this from the start!
Nope, the game always renders at 1024x720. Same res as the console versions.
I hope for you pc players that this gets fixed, but I'm guessing that some other code depends on the hardcoded framebuffer resolution (maybe shaders? Don't know much about game development, so could be totally wrong) which is why the devs haven't changed it.
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not scary at all the only scary thing for me was not wanting to get hit and cursed by those basilisks
Think you misunderstand, there's a difference between the internal render and the resolution of the game.
Oh yeah, it's definitely bad and outright stupefying for a non-2D game especially since it's at an odd resolution that'll never be native on anything unless you have a CRT or LCD monitor of that resolution and can somehow force a stretched image, and even then that switches the problem to aspect ratios. I just mean that failing to properly support multiple resolutions =/= worst port ever in and of itself, stuff like failing to support basic graphical features consoles had comes off as far worse.
Obviously, but the final output image will be upscaled from that res. Though in your case I guess it will upscale twice, that is obviously pretty bad.
Exactly what I meant, plus it's not even 16:10, so it'll be double blur with black bars ... ( Black bars are probably too technical, stretched perhaps? )
Holy shit.
That's actually the guy I got stuck at on my Xbox character, and the reason I decided to wait for this port so I could re-roll.
You claimed you were "really torn" so I addressed both your reasons for (friend says it's a great game, and it is) and against (don't want send the wrong message) purchasing it. I never claimed it wasn't a bad port. You want the "reality" so here it is, it's a bad port. It's still not as bad or expensive as the PS3 version you're considering getting. It's still a great game, the game that was getting 9-10s and goty nominations. You're right in that there's no guarantee Namco doesn't do this again with the sequel, but it can't get any worse than it is right now.
It seems you had made up your mind already and weren't "really torn" at all though. I was just trying to address your concerns of sending the wrong message while reinforcing the "it's a great game" comments.
PixelHorror
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Backfoggen
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So it's 4 am for me too. Crap.
Nostalgic Nightmare
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I can totally understand the letdown on this port but let me just say that this game was amazing on the consoles. If you go into this thinking only of the story and allow yourselves to play, youre going to find that its an amazing adventure, unforgiving but fair. You will see yourself improve in combat and relish the exploration, witnessing the masterful ways the world is connected. Once you beat it there is a ton of replay value as well due to the abundance of gear and playstyle around said gear.
If you havent played this yet I envy you and heres to hoping you decide to play.
If you havent played this yet I envy you and heres to hoping you decide to play.
Pick 1920x1080 and set your video card to letterbox it. Crisis averted!
When you meet the archers of Anor Londo, then you shall know fear.
I read about these guys before I even played the game and when I came across them.. they didn't live up to the hype.
Sentenza
Gold Member
Well, I'm not.
There's nothing I hate more than being forced to play with anything but native resolution. I will gladly renounce to AA, shaders, lighting.
Hell, I would even play in wireframe as far as resolution is native and animations are good.
You got lucky.
Like most things in the game it becomes easier with time / once you learn about it, but they were quite the point of frustration at one point. I remember seeing them for the first time on Japanese streams prior to the NA release and the stream chat was in a collective (ﾟoﾟ;;
Felix Lighter
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I have a feeling there are quite a few modders chomping at the bit to get their hands on this game so they can be the first to remove the caps. I have a feeling by the end of the weekend we'll know if they are making progress.
Ugh. Probably the only point in the game where I lost all my souls. At least it taught me to use spells more liberally.
Felix Lighter
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I faced the archers in new game and new game + and both times my tactic was to
Those are the right archers, right?
wait for them to shoot, then run full speed up the flying buttress without hesitation and straight to the archer on the right until I was face to face. Once I was face to face I blocked his attacks with my shield and counter attack between shots, both times he ended up falling off the ledge. I probably got lucky but it worked out perfectly both times for me.
I won't argue about its status as a potentially big deal breaker, it's certainly going to frustrate me far more on a 1680x1050 monitor than a 1366x768 TV where nothing's native resolution anyway, I just don't see something like that alone making it the "worst port" over others that actively throw out features that were there on consoles, especially true if we go way back rather than simply in the last 5-10 years. This is squandering the potential of PC in blind pursuit of equality (if they didn't actively screw it up in a way it CAN'T easily scale up), not being straight up objectively inferior to the console versions. It takes the 15 FPS limit being a serious problem or GFLW continually eating saves to properly go there.
Yes. If it didn't I'd be right there calling it one of the worst ports ever rather than just one of the most disappointing because seriously, what the fuck?
Yes.
Piercedveil
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I thought this was coming out at midnight, but it appears I was incorrect. I'm looking forward to hear some impressions from GAFfers later on. Hopefully there are pleasant surprises...
Ingueferroque
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Am I crazy to think it won't run well on a brand new, pimped out Retina Macbook Pro with Windows 8/16GB ram?
zephervack
Member
Someone got in contact with the dude that created Widescreen Fixer, he has fixed more than 20 games to support Widescreen, Triple screen and custom FOV changes as needed.
He says he is really excited about the game.
So there is hope, I will start playing the game as is and hopefully run the fixer as soon as he figures it out, I have a lot of faith in him.
He says he is really excited about the game.
So there is hope
, I will start playing the game as is and hopefully run the fixer as soon as he figures it out, I have a lot of faith in him.Probably not.