Gamers Demand Dark Souls PC Port

[5t3v0]

And how would you keep a permanently online game fair and balanced? A game like Dark Souls, where people can join another's game easily to either help or attack one another, is impractical with mods in and of itself.

You could have modder A have both the Sword of Infinity + 1 and Armor of Invulnerability thanks to modding, who joins into non-modder games and continuously attacks and kills the player. How will you keep Modders and Non-Modders separate, so Modders don't grief and ruin the experience from non-modders?

^ This. Seriously.

The problem with the online portion of Dark Souls is that when you're online, there is no way to prevent an invasion. There are no separate rooms or password-ed games to separate modders from non-modders. You can't prevent any hacker or cheater from joining your game. If you're online, you're online; exposed & vulnerable.

The console versions already suffer from glitchers & griefers; do we really want modders with "Sword of Infinity +1" and "Armor of Invulnerability" to join in & ruin everyone's fun? This game will die in a heartbeat.

Oh sure, play offline. But if you do, you're missing out a huge portion of the game, especially the coop. Want to do coop? Need help with a boss? Gotta connect online & risk invasion; there is no other way.

Oh sure, maybe the devs can fix it or something... but I think they moved onto next project, so if they just port it as is, then it'll be a disaster waiting to happen.

As much as I'd love to see this game on PC, I agree that it may not be a good idea.

Well Im not that interested in this at this point (Fantasy games are not really my thing, and Im not the most hardcore gamer out there because of my not-thinking-at-the-worst-possible-time attitude) but Personally I think that the Modded Console versions are a factor of complacency. We all think that because of the (comparitive to PC) difficulty of Modding games is difficult that we don't implement ANY form of Anticheat, whereas on the "Glorius PC platform" we have developed many anti- cheating measures, such as database verifiers and Anti-cheat platforms.

Though people say that they don't work, but in reality its due to us PC gamers being very demanding (I mean, we willingly pay craploads and research a fuckton for our gaming systems, Learn the ins and outs of many games, fall and trip over many times, there is a lot of work that goes into it, who wouldn't be overly particular)

 

[DementedSheep]

Well looks like Mr. and Mrs. High and Mighty have gotten off of their silver pedestals to try and get a console game!


Tell you what PC gamers, we'll give you Dark Souls if you give us the Witcher 2.



But in all seriousness, I'm surprised Dark Souls never came out on the PC, it seemed like the kind of game that you would expect on the PC first.

The Witcher 2 is actually being ported to the 360.

 

[Strazdas]

fans are gong about this the wrong way. ports dont work. they should craft the game for pc and then pot it for console, since console is the limited one.

 

[R1ou]

Ninja Blade was an awesome game. --_

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I thought those were just rumors?

If by 'rumours' you mean all the official media releases by CD Projekt saying they were bringing The Witcher 2 to the 360, then yes.

 

[kradx]

This is also precisely the reason why I think that Dark Souls wouldn't work on PC. Same thing, only the other way around. Dark Souls is an experience meant to be played on the couch. Not at your desk.

Ehm... If that's so then I just play it from my couch... Like I do with every game where I don't have to concentrate (aka SS3 and SC2). Not like I am chained to my desk while playing on my PC.

I hope you realise how stupid the comment "it is ment to be played on the couch" is.

I am wondering how you use a mouse and keyboard at your couch.

You use a gamepad: http://www.giantbomb.com/guides/using-a-gamepad-with-your-pc/1479/

 

[DementedSheep]

Well looks like Mr. and Mrs. High and Mighty have gotten off of their silver pedestals to try and get a console game!


Tell you what PC gamers, we'll give you Dark Souls if you give us the Witcher 2.



But in all seriousness, I'm surprised Dark Souls never came out on the PC, it seemed like the kind of game that you would expect on the PC first.

Well looks like Mr. and Mrs. High and Mighty have gotten off of their silver pedestals to try and get a console game!


Tell you what PC gamers, we'll give you Dark Souls if you give us the Witcher 2.



But in all seriousness, I'm surprised Dark Souls never came out on the PC, it seemed like the kind of game that you would expect on the PC first.

The Witcher 2 is actually being ported to the 360.

And Now It Comes Full Circle...



But on a less silly note, I thought those were just rumors?

The Witcher 2 is actually being ported to the 360.

Nope, its official. They were always planning on porting it into the consoles but issues with their publisher have held things up and according to them they want to do it properly.
They even have an Xbox section on their site now and they said quarter one this year so it will probably be out relatively soon
http://en.thewitcher.com/the-witcher/2/xbox/
They want to do a ps3 port as well but don't have the manpower to do it at the same time as the 360.