Dark Soul's: Prepare to Die Edition (PC)

Witcher1979 · 23 Aug 2012 at 11:08

platypus said:
Uh, when does this unlock?

Christ tomorrow night and I can't bloody play it this weekend !

Yes it is such a tease:

Omaeka · 23 Aug 2012 at 11:20

voorhees1979 said:
No retail would be GFWL only. I want the box and all the extras you get in the box

Good call, Demon's and Dark Souls both have amazing goodies retail, I still have all the special content from Dark Souls on the 360, the artbook is fantastic. I'ma have to wait a bit to get this though, so enjoy all of you! If it works as a PC game should, you'll be having too much fun!

Cue all the moaning crybabies tomorrow, too used to being spoon fed and claiming the game is unfair! Gonna be fun.

dmcg · 23 Aug 2012 at 11:25

meh didn't check my mail this week and my order was halted forgot to put the money in my bank account

have to wait till next week now I think

dogmanstaruk · 23 Aug 2012 at 12:03

Omaeka said:
Cue all the moaning crybabies tomorrow, too used to being spoon fed and claiming the game is unfair! Gonna be fun.

hahaha

I've finished both Demon and Dark Souls on my PS3 and they are very tough, but in twisted self-harming way still fun

The bonus is that they shouldn't have many invasions to begin with.

Tibbz2 · 23 Aug 2012 at 12:21

Omaeka said:
Cue all the moaning crybabies tomorrow, too used to being spoon fed and claiming the game is unfair! Gonna be fun.

Tbh I don't think there will be that many.

People who have bought this for PC either know what to expect or have already played on consoles. However there will be some

Always fun

Pighardia · 23 Aug 2012 at 14:29

Omaeka said:
Cue all the moaning crybabies tomorrow, too used to being spoon fed and claiming the game is unfair! Gonna be fun.

.....this comment is quite amusing.

Witcher1979 · 23 Aug 2012 at 14:56

Got around it, no GFWL at all so can't even save with a offline profile. Not that I care as I could play this over and over, and I will at one stage lol. I find using 1920x1080 makes it a bit blurry actually so I am actually playing this at its native 720p res, will take another look at my native res later it could just be my eyes. Little tiny sneak peak at her running on the PC.

Capture settings are poor as did not want a big file to upload.

Afterburner, MJPG, 1/2 frame, 30fps.

dmcg · 23 Aug 2012 at 15:09

Witcher1979 · 23 Aug 2012 at 15:10

voorhees1979 said:
It was a chance using simplygames as never used them before. But they get a big plus 1 from me. But now I am gutted that I have to just sit and look at it and can't play it

dmcg said:

Errrr?? Guess you never saw my boxed version?

dmcg · 23 Aug 2012 at 15:11

was joking

Paul_cz · 23 Aug 2012 at 15:29

Huh how did you get around it ? xliveless ?
So how does it run and look? Tried mouse controls? Not that I will play with mouse and kb :-)

Witcher1979 · 23 Aug 2012 at 15:33

Paul_cz said:
Huh how did you get around it ? xliveless ?
So how does it run and look? Tried mouse controls? Not that I will play with mouse and kb

I downloaded 3 files from the net and added them to my install folder. Not xliveless, just google and you will find it. Only a 5meg download. Backup your original files, then can copy them back over tomorrow. Keyboard and mouse suck, pad all the way for this. Runs great so far, no slow downs. Looks wise, I can't remember what the console versions look like now but from what I understand it should look exactly the same. I also blocked all .exe files in my firewall as well just in case. But GFWL is not even loaded, cant use it at all. Put it this way, from what I understand it looks the same as the consoles but it will run smoother in the couple of places the console versions don't, added DLC, shed load of goodies in the box. Win win for me this game. #

Texture work may have been done, but I don't think so.

dmcg · 23 Aug 2012 at 15:45

any option to change the screen res?

Witcher1979 · 23 Aug 2012 at 15:49

dmcg said:
any option to change the screen res?

Yeah you can change it, I thought it looked a bit blurry but I went back to 1920x1080 and I think I was wrong. But it is still native 720p so it is just up scaling same as the xbox/ps3.

bakes0310 · 23 Aug 2012 at 16:02

PCGAMER gave it 89% i havent read the review yet but they said it was a pretty bad port. But at 89% they must have liked it enough to look past that.

platypus · 23 Aug 2012 at 16:04

bakes0310 said:
PCGAMER gave it 89% i havent read the review yet but they said it was a pretty bad port. But at 89% they must have liked it enough to look past that.

I think thats going to be the biggest let down, a shoddy port. Bound to happen though.

Tibbz2 · 23 Aug 2012 at 16:10

bakes0310 said:
PCGAMER gave it 89% i havent read the review yet but they said it was a pretty bad port. But at 89% they must have liked it enough to look past that.

Well they would have just marked gameplay and stuff and only deducted a few % for it being crappy

Witcher1979 · 23 Aug 2012 at 16:11

I think if you aim for exactly the same game as the consoles but with the slow downs gone you will be spot on. Trouble is this game is so damn good I am happy to play the console version, but would rather play it on my PC. Is a good game on the consoles and is a good game here as well. The slow downs are gone as we have more grunt to keep it from dropping. I must add at the start my GPU was at 5% and my CPU was at 20%.

dmcg · 23 Aug 2012 at 16:13

why would it struggle on pc though would think the brute force of high end pc hardware would overcome the struggles of 7 year old hardware

Witcher1979 · 23 Aug 2012 at 16:15

dmcg said:
why would it struggle on pc though would think the brute force of high end pc hardware would overcome the struggles of 7 year old hardware

Some ports do push PC hardware when they shouldn't. GTA for example pushes PC hardware and it should not push the way it does at all. even though that may be a bad example as GTA does look a lot better come to think of it. It was more of a passing just to say it runs like it should.