EPTDark Souls - Prepare to Die (PC) - Page 15
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Gulf
Scotland213 Posts
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superstartran
United States4013 Posts
On August 24 2012 07:39 Telcontar wrote: I get that they have no experience with PC ports, but if you're going to do it, why not make sure it's done right? Hire some people with experience in the area and make sure it's a worthy port. I'm getting tired of devs releasing half-assed PC versions just to make some extra money. It's a pity they don't realise how much it would help their sales, if they actually put in the time, money, and effort to make it as good as it can be. I think I'll wait for some feedback before even considering getting it. Darksouls is the first PC game/port FromSoft has ever done. The only reason why the did it was for the fans, not for any ulterior motives. The fact of the matter is a smaller company like FromSoft has no reason to port to a PC because they will likely not see a huge return on their investment into PC. The reason why it is 1:1 is because FromSoft is a company that wants to make great games, and it shows in how they approach their design and such. If they had experience in PC developing, I'm sure they would try and make a good PC port, but they don't. People giving FromSoft flak for a "bad port" when they stated long ago that it would be a direct port due to the short amount of time, and lack of experience are just dumb. You need to look at FromSoft's recent history to see if they are really a company that is just in it for the money. The type of games they produce are very niche for the most part. Tenchu, Armored Core, Kingsfield, Dark Souls, Demons Souls, etc. are very niche games for the most part (except the more recent Tenchu games of course). Sometimes their games don't pan out well. It happens. But you can tell from the company's long lineage of making unique games, that they usually don't settle for making shitty games for the most part. They never purposely try and push out something that is garbage or bad. Sometimes the ideas don't work out, execution is bad, or maybe they didn't have enough funding (which was the case for a few of the Armored Core games). | ||
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SinTio
Germany871 Posts
On August 24 2012 08:39 Gulf wrote: I cant get my xbox controller to work with it, while the game is up the controller can open the windows live tab at the top and navigate the menues, but when on the game it does nothing...any help? I've never used a controller on my pc before. Should work without any problems. Though it's the D-Pad that's used for navigating the menu. Was there any software for the controller? | ||
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Gulf
Scotland213 Posts
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Medrea
10003 Posts
Nope.jpg Hopefully a mod comes out to fix this abomination of a port. | ||
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Kamikiri
United States1319 Posts
The game isn't laggy, can't notice only 30 FPS and the graphics look fine. The port was fine and the game is great and feels great I am having a blast atm!  Those of you who were wondering should really get it and try it out. | ||
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nihlon
Sweden5581 Posts
On August 24 2012 08:41 superstartran wrote: + Show Spoiler + Darksouls is the first PC game/port FromSoft has ever done. The only reason why the did it was for the fans, not for any ulterior motives. The fact of the matter is a smaller company like FromSoft has no reason to port to a PC because they will likely not see a huge return on their investment into PC. The reason why it is 1:1 is because FromSoft is a company that wants to make great games, and it shows in how they approach their design and such. If they had experience in PC developing, I'm sure they would try and make a good PC port, but they don't. People giving FromSoft flak for a "bad port" when they stated long ago that it would be a direct port due to the short amount of time, and lack of experience are just dumb. You need to look at FromSoft's recent history to see if they are really a company that is just in it for the money. The type of games they produce are very niche for the most part. Tenchu, Armored Core, Kingsfield, Dark Souls, Demons Souls, etc. are very niche games for the most part (except the more recent Tenchu games of course). Sometimes their games don't pan out well. It happens. But you can tell from the company's long lineage of making unique games, that they usually don't settle for making shitty games for the most part. They never purposely try and push out something that is garbage or bad. Sometimes the ideas don't work out, execution is bad, or maybe they didn't have enough funding (which was the case for a few of the Armored Core games). People just like to call a spade a spade, especially when they have paid for it. | ||
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DragoonPK
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Disengaged
United States6994 Posts
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ZAiNs
United Kingdom6525 Posts
On August 24 2012 08:24 Gulf wrote: game is playable now the resolution is not locked, so that was bullshit... It is locked unless you use a 'mod' some guy made. It upscales to whatever resolution you pick rather than render it at that res. How From released Dark Souls: ![[image loading]](http://www.abload.de/img/data2012-08-2401-28-0xepj9.png) What some guy did after 23 minutes of modding: ![[image loading]](http://www.abload.de/img/3ryjtu.png) | ||
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screamingpalm
United States1527 Posts
On August 24 2012 08:55 Kamikiri wrote: The game feels great for me atm, playing with Keyboard & Mouse it feels fine. The game isn't laggy, can't notice only 30 FPS and the graphics look fine. The port was fine and the game is great and feels great I am having a blast atm! Those of you who were wondering should really get it and try it out.Thanks for the feedback, that's really helpful as I might just wait on getting a controller for now. | ||
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Ljas
Finland725 Posts
On August 24 2012 08:41 superstartran wrote: People giving FromSoft flak for a "bad port" when they stated long ago that it would be a direct port due to the short amount of time, and lack of experience are just dumb. Lack of time? They decided to do a PC port, they could have set a proper deadline for themselves. And/or just outsource the thing to people who know what they're doing. There's really no excuse for getting the fundamentals wrong like this. | ||
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Rayeth
United States883 Posts
HERE The comparison shots are amazing. It doesn't unlock the FPS (yet) but there is hope that with more work it could eventually do that. Also the HUD elements are not currently upres'd. I know that in order to get it to work you must turn off in game AA, but other wise have at it! It REALLY REALLY improves the look. As usual the PC modding community is NEVER to be underestimated. | ||
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SeggsyLori
Germany80 Posts
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Kamikiri
United States1319 Posts
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ZAiNs
United Kingdom6525 Posts
On August 24 2012 09:11 Rayeth wrote: So there is a poster on neogaf who wrote a DirectX intercept to upres the PC version. HERE The comparison shots are amazing. It doesn't unlock the FPS (yet) but there is hope that with more work it could eventually do that. Also the HUD elements are not currently upres'd. I know that in order to get it to work you must turn off in game AA, but other wise have at it! It REALLY REALLY improves the look. As usual the PC modding community is NEVER to be underestimated. Bolded isn't really an issue because you can just set the internal resolution high and supersample, and because the max FPS is 30 on most rigs you won't be sacrificing any frames. | ||
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Medrea
10003 Posts
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Silidons
United States2813 Posts
i like the game so far, just got out of the first area, but i think i need to go to the church after the dungeon...those skeletons kill me in like 3 hits and take like 30 to die lol | ||
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Gulf
Scotland213 Posts
On August 24 2012 08:43 SinTio wrote: Should work without any problems. Though it's the D-Pad that's used for navigating the menu. Was there any software for the controller? I ended up having to completely uninstall my n52te controller for it to work. | ||
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Gulf
Scotland213 Posts
On August 24 2012 09:25 Silidons wrote: can someone tell me why my character randomly decides to slow-walk for no reason? annoying the shit out of me. i like the game so far, just got out of the first area, but i think i need to go to the church after the dungeon...those skeletons kill me in like 3 hits and take like 30 to die lol You are probably going the wrong way, from the firelink shrine face the npc there, and then look right, you should be able to find a path that goes up rather than towards the cemetery. | ||
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