Dark Souls is 50% off on Steam right now

[Boris Goodenough]

So I recommend anyone who likes a challenge to go get it and be frustrated for the first 6-8 hours and then enjoying the rest.
Remember to upgrade your weapon!
P.S. A controller is STRONGLY recommended though.
P.S.S. get http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?p=275 to get higher than 720p internal resolution rendering and get other nice things like no logos during loading. A user manual is in the download.

 

[Slaanesh]

Word of warning to anyone interested:
Games for Windows Live *cue thunder and lightning*

Thats seriously enough to keep me from buying this game. GFWL is the most buggy, annoying DRM I have ever experienced.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

As much as I love the game, I'm pretty much done playing it, I've gotten everything I wanted from it and I eagerly await DS2.


Best trailer ever.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

Word of warning to anyone interested:
Games for Windows Live *cue thunder and lightning*

Thats seriously enough to keep me from buying this game. GFWL is the most buggy, annoying DRM I have ever experienced.

I feared that as well, and for the first time ever it actually worked 100% for me, I might just be lucky though.

As much as I love the game, I'm pretty much done playing it, I've gotten everything I wanted from it and I eagerly await DS2.


Best trailer ever.

I fear the worst because of new people making it and yet hope for the best. I hate Jung' dualism.

 

[Colt47]

I like Dark Souls, though I haven't beaten it yet unfortunately. The difficulty ramps up once you get past Orenstien and Smo quite a bit as a melee centric Red headed pyro. On the upside, I did get a black knight sword and the thing tears just about everything a new one after some basic upgrades.

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

To anybody worried about the quality of the port: the game is pretty much identical to the console version if you have a controller. Slightly better, even, as there's no slowdown even on fairly modest hardware like mine.

If you don't have a controller, don't even bother.

 

[lRookiel]

As much as I love the game, I'm pretty much done playing it, I've gotten everything I wanted from it and I eagerly await DS2.


Best trailer ever.

HNNNNNNNNG! I can't wait!

OT: Anyone reading this, buy dark souls. Even if you already own it buy it for someone else, spread the word that Dark souls is a great fucking game!

 

[lRookiel]

To anybody worried about the quality of the port: the game is pretty much identical to the console version if you have a controller. Slightly better, even, as there's no slowdown even on fairly modest hardware like mine.

If don't have a controller, don't even bother.

I play without a controller, no issues at all.

Does that make me ze best? :3

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

To anybody worried about the quality of the port: the game is pretty much identical to the console version if you have a controller. Slightly better, even, as there's no slowdown even on fairly modest hardware like mine.

If you don't have a controller, don't even bother.

I play without a controller, no issues at all.

Does that make me ze best? :3

It does indeed, sir/madam! I tried, I really did, but it just handled so much better with a controller.

I do believe that there's a mod that fixes the M+KB controls, though. I might give it a try.

 

[StriderShinryu]

If you do not have it yet, for either console or PC, get it now. It's not as hard as you may think it is as long as you're willing to learn and play the game on it's onw terms. You won't find a more atmospheric and gripping game this generation.

 

[Razentsu]

Already bought it for %50 off during a previous Steam sale. I can attest to its exceptional value at that price. Though, like others have said, a controller is recommended.

 

[DoPo]

To anybody worried about the quality of the port: the game is pretty much identical to the console version if you have a controller. Slightly better, even, as there's no slowdown even on fairly modest hardware like mine.

If don't have a controller, don't even bother.

I play without a controller, no issues at all.

Does that make me ze best? :3

No, it makes you a masochist. ...well, OK, maybe more recent patches and/or DSfix versions make the use of the mouse actually, you know, useful, as opposed to frustrating and just plain bad. A few months back it still showed the mouse pointer in game by default (unless disabled by DSfix) and the mouse also mover very...choppy - not slow, just really jumping over pixels for some reason. But other than this single flaw (which made the game even more frustrating and hard) the K+M control was fine.

 

[Maxtro]

Meh, it's not worth $20.

I'm not into S&M so it was never more then a rental to me.

 

[Terramax]

Word of warning to anyone interested:
Games for Windows Live *cue thunder and lightning*

Whoa! Thanks for that. I was close to buying the physical copy, but I'll stay away from it now.

 

[thesilentman]

Word of warning to anyone interested:
Games for Windows Live *cue thunder and lightning*

Whoa! Thanks for that. I was close to buying the physical copy, but I'll stay away from it now.

Steam version also has GFWL. It's not that bad for this game though, and I highly recommend grabbing a controller for it.

OT- YES, MORE NEWBIES! Awesome, awesome game, and I highly recommend it to any gamer to try at the very least. It's such a fine example of a game I tell you...

 

[V8 Ninja]

I've heavily been considering getting the PC version of Dark Souls as while I can play it on the PS3, the system and game are not technically mine to own. Also, the DLC is enticing. However, I am curios of how well the game will run on a laptop with a 512MB Radeon HD 7640G, as having portable Dark Souls would be immensely awesome. Anyone have an HD 7640G and tried Dark Souls on it?

 

[thesilentman]

I've heavily been considering getting the PC version of Dark Souls as while I can play it on the PS3, the system and game are not technically mine to own. Also, the DLC is enticing. However, I am curios of how well the game will run on a laptop with a 512MB Radeon HD 7640G, as having portable Dark Souls would be immensely awesome. Anyone have an HD 7640G and tried Dark Souls on it?

Are you talking 512 MBs of VRAM? Then you'll be fine. But of you're talking about 512 MB of total RAM, then no. It's surprisingly stable too, so don't worry about having enough RAM. I've only had two crashes since I installed it, and both were because I wanted to play the game at 60 FPS.

 

[V8 Ninja]

However, I am curios of how well the game will run on a laptop with a 512MB Radeon HD 7640G, as having portable Dark Souls would be immensely awesome. Anyone have an HD 7640G and tried Dark Souls on it?

Are you talking 512 MBs of VRAM? Then you'll be fine. But of you're talking about 512 MB of total RAM, then no. It's surprisingly stable too, so don't worry about having enough RAM. I've only had two crashes since I installed it, and both were because I wanted to play the game at 60 FPS.

From what I have read from the internet in the past five minutes, it appears that I have 512MB of VRAM (RAM that is contained in the video card). The actual laptop I'm using has 6 GB of dedicated RAM, so I have no worries about that aspect.

 

[Little Gray]

Yes please people buy this fucking game right now.

I've heavily been considering getting the PC version of Dark Souls as while I can play it on the PS3, the system and game are not technically mine to own. Also, the DLC is enticing. However, I am curios of how well the game will run on a laptop with a 512MB Radeon HD 7640G, as having portable Dark Souls would be immensely awesome. Anyone have an HD 7640G and tried Dark Souls on it?

While I enjoyed the dlc it really felt more like fan service then part of the actual game.

 

[lRookiel]

No, it makes you a masochist. ...well, OK, maybe more recent patches and/or DSfix versions make the use of the mouse actually, you know, useful, as opposed to frustrating and just plain bad. A few months back it still showed the mouse pointer in game by default (unless disabled by DSfix) and the mouse also mover very...choppy - not slow, just really jumping over pixels for some reason. But other than this single flaw (which made the game even more frustrating and hard) the K+M control was fine.

Huh, I never got stuck any where for too long. Granted it took me like 5 tries to beat Gwyn but still I didn't have to use any FPS patches or anything. The only areas that had noticable drops in FPS were blighttown (While looking down from the top) and the DLC area Chasm of the abyss. The game even then was still easily playable.

It's just my mad 1337 swag yolo skillz DoPo :3