Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition Is A Lazy Port

Odds are I'll still be picking this up. Dark souls is one of the only games i took the time to get the platinum trophy. I have to urge you to try the game again. Few games give you the same rewarding feeling after defeating a tough boss or area.

I can't agree with Denis more.

I consider myself to be a lifelong gamer on the decline since graduating college, and doing the whole responsible adult life. I have been subconsciously losing my interest in many games, and I honestly thought it was because I was getting that dreading feeling all gamers swear they will never get; being burned out in general. This game, its challenge and straightforwardness to targeting a gamer that isn't looking for a story that is spoken through hours of dialog, or run-around aimlessly on redundant quests redeemed my sense of gaming. I even went back and played and beat Demon's Souls.

Blighttown sucks, sure. There are bumpy parts in any game, bugs that are ridiculous and what have you. But I would rather deal with some graphical sputter than run across the world to hand somebody something just to run back and then do it all again plus kill 10 rabbits and a wolf.

720p!? 30 fps!?!?! I think I'll wait and get this for $5 at next year's summer sales then.

What do you expect from a company that has no idea how to make PC games. It's really a disappointment, though. And Jon, they actually fixed some of the framerate issues in Blighttown, at least on the PS3 version.

I'm in the same page as you Jonathan, although I experienced no problems whatsoever in Blighttown, and if I did and cannot remember, they were minimal. I've got the slim ps3 by the way.

Anyway, I was also thinking about buying the PC version, mostly for the PVP thingy, although I would like to explore the new content as well, I might wait a bit now though, are you going to give this a review?

Honestly I think you are making a mountain out of a mole-hill here. 30 fps is a shame, as is the framebuffer issue, but considering you wrote that this version fixes the performance issues directly responsible for your giving up, I'll take the improved performance and console-level image quality, with the extra content. I haven't had the chance to play either Dark Souls or Demon's Souls, so I think 40 bucks is still a pretty good deal.
Hopefully, this will go over like Rage, and maybe a patch will add some more options.

I don't get it. The game was absolutely amazing on consoles, why do "the numbers" matter. So would you rather them not port it to PC? I could see if the game was unplayable on console and needed major fixes for it to be good. That's not the case here. In it's current state the game is phenomenal, why do you demand more than that just because it's on PC?

Sounds about right. You do own the console version so there isn't much reason to buy it on PC unless you just want to tell From, "Thanks for the port". I'll probably do the same.

Even if the performances issues are "fixed" it's still, at max, running at a framerate that I would consider poor on any of the other PC games I own. I recently bought a whole new video card just because ARMA 2 was running at an average of around 30.

"few new bosses, areas, and equipment"

Basically $10 DLC, no big deal. and ya know...it's a PC game. There'll be a community fix within a week of the launch.

just another reason to never listen to whiney pc gamers, they wanted a port of the game, they got a port of the game, no where did they say they were gonna super enhance it for the pc, there getting the same game as the console oh noes!!!11

This is one of the most deliciously ironic comments in a while. I hope it's intentional. If it is, disregard everything that follows.

PC Gamers repeatedly told From Software they were interested in their product. Now, From Software could have, like smart businessmen, done some solid research prior to making a move into a platform with which they were largely unfamiliar - learning which services were popular with PC gamers versus which ones they did not like, what the specifics of localizing and optimizing it for PC would demand of them and, more importantly, what it could afford them; how they could take advantage of the platform to do things the aging X360 and PS3 hardware could never do - for example, they could push resolutions not possible on consoles and ensure steady frame rates through problem areas. They did none of these things. Lazy is the right word to describe it.

Really.... I thought I was bad

A simple solution for PC gamers if they feel this port is not up to snuff is to not buy the game, simple. The game will fail, (sounds like it already has judging by the sniffy reactions from some in this comments section). From Software will never offend you again with a poor port but will continue to create fantastic gaming experiences for console players. Or you could stop pre-judging the experience and wait until you have actually started to die, a lot.

This being in my top 5 games, I was ready to throw down some more money for a superior PC version. But now, I don't see the point. Guess I'll just download the DLC on 360 when it becomes available.