Dark Souls Port Brings Console Problems to PC

[Westaway]

I'm just worried that this flop will ruin their budget for the next game.

 

[gnihton]

If 30 FPS is choppy and 1024 resolution is blurry then the problem is probably with your eyes, not the developer.

I... don't... even...

Are you seriously trying to use 'You don't have shit eyesight' as an insult?

 

[gnihton]

If 30 FPS is choppy and 1024 resolution is blurry then the problem is probably with your eyes, not the developer.

I... don't... even...

Are you seriously trying to use 'You don't have shit eyesight' as an insult?

I'm not insulting anyone, I'm drawing conjecture. If someone is seeing 30 FPS as a slideshow then they probably have a medical condition that gives them mini-strokes everytime they look at a digital 3D image... or seizures when watching pokemon. Most movies run at just shy of 30 FPS and while I understand that more frames = smoother gameplay and what-not; 30 FPS is not a slide show.

Right. That's why we have 120hz monitors, and always have them at competitive gaming events. It's not to have the smoothest experience, but to cause seizures. How could I have been so blind, there I was thinking that some silly people on forums didn't have good attention to detail, when it turns out that me and everyone that plays video games above a casual level are simply wrong and have a medical condition that makes us think we see more... or something.

As incredibly likely and credible as that sounds, I'll have to go with Occam's razor on this one, sorry bud.

Edit: I'd also like to add that I find it interesting that you assume that it has to be something wrong with other people, have you not considered that perhaps it's you that's handicapped for eyesight, as opposed to the people that can easily perceive more detail?

 

[Waaghpowa]

30 FPS is not a slide show.

Yes it is, if you use a monitor as a previous poster pointed out. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/7.384561.15271133

Because of monitors don't work the same way a TV does , plus you are sitting a lot lot closer to it generally with a PC so it's blindingly obvious .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video

TVs use interlacing pc monitors do not, pc monitors us e progressive scanning. The difference is like night and day at 30fps, on a tv it's effectively 60 fps because of the way interlacing works, monitor users on the other hand have no such benefit.

Oh plus of there is fps drop which is quite possible with the way the game runs (dark town) then its going to look like a PowerPoint presentation.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

well if the uppity PC fans don't buy it after they demanded it, the developers won't even bother to release any more ports. They have implied as much in the past, and it's why they were hesitant to make the port in the first place.

This same argument could also be applied to why they should try to optimize it better for the PC. Why would people want to buy a product that doesn't respect their hardware?

It's a company taking it's first foray into putting on the PC game at all, let alone a port, and they get nothing but hate from it. I hope they never do anything nice for you guys again.

They are getting criticism for it because they haven't handled it well. They don't get leverage just because it's their first time, this isn't like a director's first film, these are technical issues that can be foreseen and fixed ahead of time.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

How would you react if one of your xbox/ps3 games ran like crap? You would be complaining your ass off I'm sure.

Man, the next time a PS3 game has *ahem* 'launch performance issues' (it's like erectile dysfunction for games!), and it's always the PS3 version that has the problem, I'm going to be tempted to use the 'you should be grateful' routine.

I'll laugh when they try to call you an elitist for it too.

Yeah but what doesn't get you called a PC elitist on this site?

 

[Sandjube]

How would you react if one of your xbox/ps3 games ran like crap? You would be complaining your ass off I'm sure.

Man, the next time a PS3 game has *ahem* 'launch performance issues' (it's like erectile dysfunction for games!), and it's always the PS3 version that has the problem, I'm going to be tempted to use the 'you should be grateful' routine.

I'll laugh when they try to call you an elitist for it too.

Yeah but what doesn't get you called a PC elitist on this site?

From what I've seen, not much. So quoted for truth I guess.

I'd write more but I've already said my piece earlier in the thread.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Another thing to note is that TVs, as someone pointed out something like 5 times earlier in this thread, use a different technique for frame updates

Not all TVs use interlacing. A lot of the newer digital tvs use progressive scan... and, gee, would the players at home like to guess why?

 

[RaikuFA]

Man, you guys got Namdai to listen to you through a petition(something Tales fans have been doing for years with no sucess). You're getting free DLC which console owners have to still pay for and you have the option to mod its issues(which console owners can't do) , AND YOU'RE STILL CRYING!!!

I'm just at a lost for words.

 

[Something Amyss]

Oh my God. Can PC gamers even ENJOY the game now?

let me tell you about the order of modders....

You say that like it's ever stopped tantrums from the PC Gaming Master Race before.

 

[Jazoni89]

You guys wanted Dark Souls, you're getting it, warts and all.


The game isn't going to be worse on PC, it's going to be exactly the same as the console version, the version you petitioned so hard to get.

And you get free DLC.

Telling PC gamers to deal with it, is like telling someone that you are dying of cancer to deal with it.

PC gamers are never pleased no matter what you do, unless the game gives you a blowjob voucher out of the game case. Which means, No DRM whatsoever (not even a once online authenticity check) or only online for that matter (coughDiablo3), Bind-able keys so they can go all Korean style, A godforsaken load of graphical options for better textured hair, A huge FOV so it looks like your playing Quake through the eyes of a Fish, Mod integration so they can walk around as a big boobed cat lady, and zero glitches, bugs, and no texture clipping whatsoever.

Also, No Games for Windows Live due to the...inconvenience of signing in to an account.

Most PC gamers demands are ridiculous, and I kinda feel sorry for all the PC devs, that try to please even the most demanding of PC Gamers.

 

[Ryank1908]

Now, I'm a PC gamer. Yes, I know, I'm terrible. But I own Dark Souls on Xbox 360 and I was thoroughly looking forward to the PC port, and after reading this, I'm afraid I'm just not going to bother.

I'm not being some PC gaming, master-race-psychopath, here, I'm just not sure what they were trying to do with this? If you're going to port anything, SURELY you would at least put some effort in and do it properly? It's as though they don't care that people know that they've put out a product well below what they could have achieved.

 

[MPerce]

Wait...isn't this what they said it would be from the beginning?

The developers never made a secret of the fact that it will be a straight port of the console game. Sorry it won't look better than the console version, but it is 100% playable and will still look quite pretty.

Please don't tell me that the majority of PC gamers are so obsessed with graphics that they won't buy an incredible game tailor-made for their hardcore mindset because it looks like a console game. That would be sad.