Gamers Demand Dark Souls PC Port
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Because PC gamers are willful and disobedient and often mod games even without official mod tools being available.Raiyan 1.0 said:
Of course any game with a significant online component can be a massive pain in the arse to mod and, depending on the coding, even make it impossible to use mods on official servers.
Keep on truckin' PC bros. You deserve the opportunity to enjoy such a fantastic FROM title.
Maybe they can port the entire Armored Core series next, and then you'll REALLY be having a blast.
Maybe they can port the entire Armored Core series next, and then you'll REALLY be having a blast.
I consider myself a hardcore stradegygamer.. But even with guides Dwarven Fortress was still a big ??? to me. Im a big pictures guy, and the first might and magics are amongst some of my favorite games so you cant really say graphics matter that much to me but... I just want pictures of trees to symbolize trees q_qThe_root_of_all_evil said:Pfftt...Dark Souls is kindergarten stuff next to Dwarf Fortress or Eve.
Okay first of all, mods, by their very nature, are not compatible with online play, because a mod essentially alters the version of your game. Just like the way you can't play MP if you don't have the right patch update, having certain mods installed that no one else has leaves you without MP features (or breaks the feature entirely).Korten12 said:
Not saying people can't use mods in MP. Aesthetic mods like skin packs, decal packs, texture packs and other purely visual mods do not interfere with a game in the slightest (bar potential performance issues on the user who installs the mod).
For more comprehensive mods, like unofficial balance changes, new items/weapons with unique stats and new locations/enemies etc. it requires other people to have the same mod installed for a game to operate on MP, if at all... as I said earlier, mods can break online features.
Ultimately, however, Console ports to PC rarely if ever ship with mod tools anyway and even after that, never truly support Mods for online play, leaving it to the communities themselves to work around that obstacle (thus keeping it within that community) . For the average, un-modified joe the presence of mods changes nothing. Unless people use trainers/hacks which are a form of mod. These however, exist with or without dev support and are highly frowned upon (and breaks the ToS/CoC of most companies).
Simply put, there is no reason for the presence of mod support to affect your decision in buying the game. If you don't use them, it does not affect you at all.
Dark Souls for PC? Sure, why not?
How about a trade? PC gamers get Dark Souls if consoles get The Witcher. And don't tell me it wouldn't work out.
How about a trade? PC gamers get Dark Souls if consoles get The Witcher. And don't tell me it wouldn't work out.
Quite the contrary. The Witcher 2's battle system works really well with the XBox360 controller. In fact, the devs said that the revamped combat was inspired by Demon's Soul, now that you mention it. And as far as I remember, they're working on an XBox360 port.chimpzy said:
Oops, I wasn't finished with this quote and I forgot about it when I hit post.The_root_of_all_evil said:Pfftt...Dark Souls is kindergarten stuff next to Dwarf Fortress or Eve.
Those two games aren't so much hard as so immense that it's difficult to figure everything out and I firmly believe if Dwarf Fortress was graphical instead of Ascii and had a proper tutorial it'd be far easier.
Dark Souls is hard in a much narrower way than them.
I could only hope they would port Armored Core, my favourite series before I ascended to the PC gaming master race.Pendragon9 said:
Disclaimer: If it wasn't obvious already, that last bit about the PC gaming master race was a joke.
Oooo-kay... But has anyone here stated that they were expecting to mod this game in the first place? I doubt it. Besides, refusing to buy a game because it can be modded is the same thing as my not buying Skyrim *because* it has mods.Korten12 said:
I.E. it makes no sense at all.
If you'd rather play the port without mods, then just do so. Even if folks start modding it, you won't be forced into modded servers because I highly doubt that any modded content could be made to show up in vanilla game sessions. You'd probably have to end up using Hamachi or Tunngle in order to actually see mods being implemented. Even then, you'd have to somehow reverse-engineer the way Dark Souls goes online and coax it to access servers other than those it's dedicated to - which wouldn't be an easy task.
So yeah. Modded or otherwise, I'd say you're safe.
Korten12 said:
Also, I think the furthest extent for modding this game for the majority would be graphical mods or maybe a refining for mouse and keyboard control (if necessary). It's not exactly a big game so I doubt there will be anything going wrong. But the game looks great on vanilla. Any massively game changing mods would either be for (and this would definately be only doable offline) veteran players/people who are buying the game a 2nd time for the PC.
But I don't think anyone could complain about the game not being moddable personally (it can only be seen as a plus if it can though) due to the fact the way the game is designed doesn't really warrant any mods, compared to say an elder scrolls game, which could potentially warrant massive changes for people to want to keep playing the game in a different light.
EDIT: There's no difference between offline and online play? Do you need to be online to play the game? Oh well even then there are mods for console ports anyways, but they are minor tweaks at best (MW3's FOV mod comes to mind).
