Video Review - Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
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Death is just a setback in this video review for Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition.
They have released the game without any proper improvement in graphics quality in PC version.
So, leaving the rating aside, which from what I understood is highly subjective, is that game worth trying or not?
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Just 3 words: WORST PORTING EVER.The game can be great with its atmosphere or gameplay or exploring or whatsoever but with a porting like that it can be rated 6,5 at best. Play it on some console or spare those 50 bucks
9.5? this is on of the most horrible ports i have played on pc this year
just bought it for my ps3, I spent around 300 hours of gameplay in Demon Souls and now I'm ready to Die)))
what a difference.. 9.5 to 7.1. i know nothing of this game nor have i tried it... but this rating seems to show this game is a hit or complete miss.
Lace3 In my honeset opinion, the game's 9.5 rating is more in favor than 7.1. The game is in fact, pretty difficult, however once you figure out all the little gimmicks, it isnt that hard. Dark souls is a game of skill and one little mistake will screw you over. 9.5 GREATLY describes the awesome environment this game has. Music, boss battles, are all epic and beautiful. Story is very vague, but lore from items lets you go really deep and form a story on your own, and is all very interesting. Lookup Epicnamebro on yt if you pick this up. 7.1 is only given by butthurt users who treat this like a hack and slash game. Hope this helped (: liking the game is personal interest. I personally like gaming for experience, cuz hack and slashes get boring from button mashing
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This game is amazing,an epic journey fighting enemies,exploring and fear surrounds you in every step.This might be for hardcore players,or for those that want to spend lots of hours trying to reach the end,but they enjoy the journey until the end,players that want to feel the thrill of battle,the thrill of losing even from the weakest enemies,this is a nouvell compared to other games these days.This is a good sign that gaming industry can be fun and emotional rewarding.One thing though the graphics look a bit old and not so good,i was expeting better graphics but if the fans graphic mode makes it better then there is nothing that stops you from playing it.
The thing about very challenging games like Dark Souls is that they don't just require a lot of patience and skill, they are VERY time consuming. Hard games, are LONG. and the fact they the average gamer is 30 years old it's quite possible many gamers just don't have the time and patience for a game like this. A 25-30 year old gamer is likely to have a job, wife kids, school, and other adult responsibilites. in previous console generations people were much more accustomed to hard games probably becasue gamers were younger and had much more time to get into them and master them due to a lack of adult responsibilites. Times are different, Video games aren't just for kids anymore just as many adults play them and they play them to escape stressful days at work at school, and just the stress of everyday life . So they want to be entertained and have fun not be frustrated and pissed off. That's why games have gotton easier lately and why a game like Dark Souls gets a lot of flack.
zfazal84 I don't think anything has changed. You are assuming that people just play to finish a game. I would rather buy a game like this and play it in short bursts for months than a cod game over the weekend.
Leejjohno Don't compare Dark Souls to COD two completely different games. and just because people don't like Dark Souls, doesn't mean they like COD either..
zfazal84 It was the time it would take to complete I was comparing, not the gameplay. Nobody plays dark souls just to finish it.
To all people who think this game is severely overrated, two things. One, they're rating this for people who have the skill to deal with the game. If you are a bad gamer, this will require a lot of patience. Second, they're rating it on the scale of only costing $30. This game is absolutely terrific for such a low price. It makes me want to tear my eyes out with a melon baller because my computer sucks and can't run it. xD
Excuse me; $40. Close enough.
anyone saying this game does not deserve a 9.5 has either never played this game, or not given this game enough time, or they are simply crap at playing games. this is the best game iv ever played and also one of the most time consuming games iv ever played. Never have I ever been this satisfied with a game until I played Dark Souls, it is the most challenging thrilling and weirdly beautiful games to ever hit console and pc. This game has better combat than wow period.... Fed up of losing souls? O boo hoo, I lost 100 thousand souls against dragonslayer ornstein & smough, and iv completed the game twice and on my third playthrough now lol, still playing :P.
Aaronp2k I couldn't agree more
Aaronp2k i totally agree with u, though it should also be pretty clear to u that this is not a game for everyone, especially gamers who r frustrated quickly
Aaronp2k
but the port to pc is really bad, shouldn't that be reflected in the score?
it is well reflected in the user score, i think. it is fair.
(yes, it's lame to respond to a 10 day old comment)
Aaronp2k i'm on my fifth playthrough at lvl 243, and still enjoy the challenge. (But I guess I should start playing some other games)
This game is the best thing since ever.
Oh boy, Dark Souls has been overrated again...
I will give it a try and......wait i didnt finish skyrim yet , and borderlands 2 and did not play darksiders 2 yet , and dishonored ,oh yeah what about my character at lvl 40 on GW2 ? ......damn i have to take a loooooong vaccation or go to an island or a cave or somewhere isolated from the world . shit man i have to stop playing video games LOOOL
I think the game is overrated, 9.5 is too much!
I believe 6 is good for this mediocre game, taking into account: not very good graphics, frustration and cruel awarding logic (one you die, you lose all the souls/artifacts you collected and have one shot to get back to the exact place where you were killed and get them back, oh and every creature you killed along the way is alive again, so it will be extra boring if repeated multiple times). Monster are extremely powerful while player movement is a little jerky (bad aiming, no pause while changing weapons or choosing a spell to cast or something) ...
This game is bad on so many levels, I just wasted 50? :(
JosefHa I don't think you're playing the same game.
JosefHa I didn't experience any of this. It sounds like you are pretty bad at the game. It doesn't baby you, that's for sure. Kind of like witcher 2, which is one thing I like about it. I like that dying actually matters and you don't just respawn.
Excellent Game. Get better at it.
9.5? wtf is gamespot thinking, i'm sorry but this game is lucky to scrape a 6
jamesdvhunt lol this is a great game..ur just bad
jamesdvhunt but multiplayer does suck
Too bad who ever plays this footage on the review doesn't know how to really play the game. Drake sword in Duke's Archives? If you haven't replaced that sword by then your doing it wrong.
i like ur review
is it gonna be on PS3 soon?
Pooky-Raed it's already on PS3 for a year, not sure about this edition
Is it just me that finds this game really frustrating to the point that I fucking hate it? I bought this game after watching this review. I thought wow, 9.5, it's gonna be a really good game, and I'm gonna have lots of fun with it. FUCK NO. It is unplayable with keyboard and mouse. Why would they even release the game on PC if they wanted everybody to use a controller? I honestly can come and develop a good keyboard and mouse integration. It's seriously not that hard, and they fucking screwed it up.
Now I'm playing with just the keyboard, and it is taking me forever to get through the second stage of the game. I feel stupid playing the same shit over and over again. It's a waste of time, no fun at all. How can you guys give this game a 9.5/10. I wish I could return the game. Seriously gamespot, not cool. You cost me $40.00 in exchange for sth that I deeply hate.
Raiden8 Did you get to the part of the video where he mentiones how it's unplayable on a keyboard and requires a controller? (1:58)
Lasperic Yes I did, but a score of 9.5 for a game that is on PC and cannot be played using keyboard and mouse is absolutely not justified.
Jesus, that enormous health bar! You must have spent some hours/days in soul farming to level up... Hehe, I did the same. :-)
Okay seriously, good review Carolyn. Well done.
Rheinmetal He has loads of health but still rocking the Drake Sword. Focus on a good weapon and make things a lot easier on yourself.
What brain dead person would release such a low rez game. I have been over 1080p for years now. Wow. That fact alone scares me from buying this. Sure there is a mod but are you serious? Just how bad is this port?
Thank you for the great developer of DS, and Carolyn for this wonderful presentation, it is one of my best videos review for all times,
crap game.....jus kidding its Gr8 :)
if you have not played Dark Souls yet, shame on you.
The new content is great and offers a bunch of new ways to set up certain character types. They are finally starting to fix the multiplayer on the PC edition too.
I have uploaded my first PTD edition playthrough:www.youtube.com/classwarrior87
Bought an Xbox controller. Amongst the best games i´ve ever played. Ill make a review for the game.
The port is bad, especially the controls part, the resolution is easelly fixed and i havent in game bugs, unlike Skyrim or Fallout.
fix the controls then. then you can k+b it to daeth hah wasted ed you money
julianboxe
there a mod for it to lazy to fix
julianboxe
link it julianboxe
lol-Recruiter Could any MOD ban this guy please?
"YOU DIED" is a nightmare in this game.
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
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- Publisher(s): Namco Bandai Games America
- Developer(s): From Software
- Genre: Role-Playing
- Release: Aug 24, 2012 (US) »
- ESRB: M
