Bring Demon Souls/Dark souls to PC

[Kirkreng]

I don't think I have, since you bring in another angle.

 

The problem is that when you are developing for another platform you have to do it properly. As with another car example, if you buy a Lamborghini you don't expect it to have wheels of a mountain bike. It's a similar issue as with FOV. A console is not the same as a PC, therefor you will have to adjust the game as necessary. And it is not like this a big thing. A single modder has made the framework for the mod in a week and implemented it for the game within minutes after release. If a big studio with multiple professional developers cannot do that than it is nothing but pure laziness.

 

Granted, we will have to wait for the mod to be fully tested for the whole game to see if there maybe is a huge, unfixable, gamebreaking bug that caused developers to not do it. If so I will rethink my opinion, but I am not holding my breath.

[Alyxx Thorne]

My point is, if it's a good game then it's still a good game, regardless of whether it got a facelift or not.

[Kirkreng]

Whether a game is properly adjusted to the platform it is on must be taken into account whether is game good or not. For example Duke3D is(the what I've played of it) pretty good. The android version, however, is pretty bad because playing with dual sticks on a touch screen is an awful.

[Alyxx Thorne]

Well, I don't own a 360. I don't own a PS3. The only chance I'm gonna have to play Dark Souls is on PC. I couldn't care less about the graphics unless I already owned it on console but I don't.

[Bravetriforcer]

While I agree whole-heartedly with the "Make the game for its platform and make it well" argument, seeing as how the Resolutions issue was fixed within half an hour of release (Sure the modder was working on it a week beforehand but that's not as funny or degrading), I'm sure we can at least count on the fanbase fixing the game for the devs.

 

Ultimately, storm rough seas for now and we may be rewarded. With Dark Souls 3 (2?) being released on PC at the start with proper features due to ample dev time. Or they'll take us buying it as a signal that they can half ass it and we'll be ok with that. Can go either way.

[Kirkreng]

Or they'll take us buying it as a signal that they can half ass it and we'll be ok with that. Can go either way.

This is exactly what I am afraid of. It is already going this way on PC and if we support half-assness as big as this, the future is going to be grim.

[Bravetriforcer]

Or they'll take us buying it as a signal that they can half ass it and we'll be ok with that. Can go either way.

This is exactly what I am afraid of. It is already going this way on PC and if we support half-assness as big as this, the future is going to be grim.

 

Well considering the conditions that got the game to PC, I'd say by this half ass and mod the issues away if you can. If the next one continues the halfassedness, then don't buy it because there's no point to uphold. We asked for Dark Souls to come to PC, we got it, and conditions made it a meh port. If the next game decides to be PC from the start and still is sub-par on features, then we can just write it off without second thoughts.

 

If From Software picks up their game next time, we win.

If From Software does not, then we show them that we only accepted Dark Souls because of its situation, not its genuine quality as a PC port.

 

Just because they think we're ok with half-assedness no matter what doesn't mean we actually are.

[Axeldeath]

Why are some of you guys Kirk so goddamn picky about how the graphics look? The point of a game is to be fun to play, not to necessarily look like Battlefield 3. I personally don't care at all if it has console graphics, it's still the same game.

 

Maybe because upscaling 720p to 1080p gives you a blurry mess on the screen and makes anything like text or huds very hard to read. This isn't about graphics this is the resolution for God's sake.

 

 

This isn't giving the game a facelift, it's not improving the graphics, it's not hard to do. This is literally 1 minutes work if you have the source code, the reason it took the other guy so long is because he had to use a DLL injector (because no source code). This is plain laziness.

 

To everyone else saying "hurr gamplay > grapix" the mouse controls are also awful, instead of working like normal KB&M they've gone so far as to simply emulate gamepad controls. That means that no matter how fast you move your mouse it will only go at a set speed.

 

This is, in all honesty the worst console port ever released. The only worse one was perhaps RE4 because it had no mouse controls (meaning you had to play it with WASD and arrow keys), but at least that had resolution options FFS. Don't buy this piece of shit until From Software fix it, or all you're doing is setting a precedent.

[Alyxx Thorne]

Well I honestly haven't played it yet so I can't really speak for anyone.

[Kirkreng]

Well, for the resolution problem, here is a comparison: