Earlier today, Bandai Namco revealed that Dark Souls Remastered will be coming to the PC on May 25th. Naturally, and given the awful initial state of the PC version of the first Dark Souls game, a lot of PC gamers wondered whether this would be a free upgrade for them. Well, contrary to the Bioshock remasters, Dark Souls Remastered will be a separate product. However, there will be a great discount for all PC owners of the original game.
According to Dark Souls Remastered’s store page, all Steam owners of Dark Souls: Prepare To Die will get a 50% discount. So yeah, while this isn’t a free upgrade, PC/Steam users will be able to acquire this remastered version of Dark Souls at a normal price. According to the pre-order page, Dark Souls Remastered is priced at $39.99 so PC gamers will be able to get it at $19.99.
Dark Souls Remastered will support native 4K resolutions and 60fps, as well as upscaled textures. Furthermore, the game will support up to six concurrent players in multiplayer.
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still a rip off. this should have been the f*ken game in the first place
Frankly, the technology didn’t support it at the time (aside from PC), but yeah I sort of agree.
just a heads up:
LawBreakers Player count finally dropped to Zero on PC. Ouch…….. i see that today.
It was a bug in the Steam API. Even PUBG’s reported number of players dropped to 0 that day.
Still, the true number is very close to zero, regardless of any bugs.
They say it was PUBG fault, lol.
There are like 4 people playing right now lmao.
“NONE OF THAT 60 DOLLAR MULTIPLAYER ONLY BULLSH*T”.
Well, it looked fairly uninteresting, and like a FP2 version of other games…so I can see why this happened.
They’ll go F2P and maybe find success there.
It’s not awful considering they’ve most likely ported the game over to the Dark Souls 3 engine, but I’d have liked to see it at around $10. If it’s just an up-ressed port in the original engine with slightly better textures, they can go f*ck themselves.
The Engine change was a rumour. The official press release does not state anything about moving the game from the DS1 Engine to the DS3 Engine. So yeah, this is the original engine with slightly better textures
so basically for curent owners its 20 bucks for something that few texturemods can solve
True, but it will still sell because there are plenty of people out there that can’t figure out how to apply mods or they are too lazy to bother learning how.
I’m hoping it will look (and run) better than the modded versions. DS1 has a lot of jank, and hopefully that will be ironed out.
It’s actually mentioned elsewhere that it’s using the DS3 lighting engine, so it would be just an updated version of what they’ve been using all along. Just to the more modern (but still dated) engine DS3 is using.
Better than nothing
YOu know I see these people bashing at BANCO when they were pretty clear about the state of the port on the PC release before releasing it. They said it was a straight port of the PS3 version much before release and people still complains…
This exactly. People knew what it was, they bought it, and now they’re begging again. People feel so entitled these days.
“upscaled textures”
So the ‘remaster’ is merely upscaling the old game’s often rough-looking textures while PC users are currently free to update the original game with far superior new textures free of charge from the Nexus?
Well, there are two ways to upscale. You can do it with software, or you can do it by hand. Hopefully, it’s some of both. Those textures were…bad…
The fact that it’s coming to the chronically weak sauce Nintendo Switch probably hints at it using the same old textures from the PS3/360 version in lazily up-rezzed form because I don’t imagine a publisher like Bandai Namco being bothered to commit the necessary resources to making the game all it could be on all platforms when it’s cheaper to use the same low quality assets across all versions.
A different developer is handling the switch version, so hopefully it’s getting some love.
Either way, the Switch has 4gb of ram, 8 times that of the 360/ps3. Updating the textures isn’t a technical issue.
We can but hope. Probably wise to have the lowest of expectations, though.
Oh, PCG are now reporting that the game won’t have a loyalty discount for PC gamers after all.
sorry, either its free or not bothering with it
Dont bother the original game works fine once you use the player patch. Save your cash if it bothers you that much.
LMFAO yeah works fine if unstable and the risk of a ban is fine…Stop pretending that a user mod that doesn’t always work, can cause frequent crashes and might just get you banned is fine….
So you value people’s time as free.
Now I know where to get free labor.
Thanks for the hook up.
You mean like modders do stuff like this all the time for free and much bigger in their own free time.
You don’t know Modders motivation.
Fame. Job application. Donations.
I can tell you know, if modders could make money, they would.
Sadly most people don’t even donate.
So while your response might not be wrong, it ain’t right that’s for sure.
PS these aren’t modders, but a company making employees do a job. The modders already made the game better. 😉
Entitled much? smh…
If the new lighting system is good, I’ll get it, I guess..
WOW, I aint buying
The first game was a disaster , and they still want to charge people smth
I’m not against charging for a remaster so half off seems fair to me. Would have I been happy if it were free ? Sure but I won’t fault them for not going that route.
This is the best you can get of Banco right now, but its a good offer for those who bought the original game very cheap on the last winter sale.
If this versione works with the Prepare to Die save file, it would be great for a NG+1. I’m not against to pay an upgrade, it’s like a DLC but $19.99 is quite expensive.
Remastered editions offer what graphics MODs used to do for years.
It is nice when the developers of very successful (and profitable) games decide to do it themselves, it revives a game already completed and opens it up to the current market.
And that is why it is inexcusable to try to make ever more money off your own customers.
If someone had bought the original on STEAM, he should be getting the updated edition for free.
Twenty bucks? I’m fine with that. I mean, they are putting (I imagine) a lot of work into the port. It’s a shame the original was so bad, but from what I understand they had little understanding of how to make a PC port back then.
I’m just curious to see how it comes out looking. The textures and lighting really needed some work, so hopefully the change is dramatic.
I disagree.
Sure, the original was bad, but it was known to be bad and people bought played and enjoyed it (with a little patching) anyway. It’s not like the original is or was unplayable. If it was, that would be a different situation. You can play it at low resolutions with a 30 fps lock just fine.
PC gamers basically begged for a port of the original, and despite the team not really knowing what they were doing, they provided that. You can’t expect anyone to work for free and I expect (we’ll see) that they’re putting in a lot of work into this one. I mean, the entire physics and animation engine has to be reworked to properly work at 60 FPS.
Dude, the actual game has no anti-cheat the online is barely funcional if you don’t use the connection mod made by the community and the problems u already stated. Oh and lets not forget that they went at the time with GFWL. I’m a Souls boy and i have all 3 games, but still i’ts very clear that the upgrade should be free for those who already paid to have a barely funcional port as it is, games that had better ports upgraded the current users with “remaster edition” for free you telling me these Devs that are not even using DS3 engine for the remaster should not be expected to work for “free” ? Plz be real.
They already stated it’s using the DS3 lighting engine, which obviously suggest it’s getting moved to the new engine (not to mention the old engine didn’t properly support 30 fps).
No they didnt, the only thing confirmed is the 2k textures and 60fps and that is it.
It’s what other sites are reporting.
Dude its just a rummor. There is a news in this site saying its just a rummor.
And news sites are saying it’s not. So….
You make some good points, but the assumption you’re making is that ports and remasters are free and don’t cost the company anything. It’s likely costing them thousands of dollars (or millions). We’ve not saw the port and we really have no idea how intensive the work their putting in was.
Sure, the old port was jank, but they’ve improved since then. If you don’t like the original product, you shouldn’t buy it. When you do, don’t complain about getting exactly what they promised (they warned about the port ahead of launch).
Free would be nice, sure. But 20 bucks, not exactly tyrannical, now is it?
Entitled much…..Thats OK you’l probably just steal it anyway. Well after someone creates a mod to hide the pirated game so that you can actually get online with your stolen copy……