![]() 'Intelligent and intense, it's simply PS4’s best exclusive game.' 4.5 / 5 - GamesRadar+ “A macabre masterpiece.” 9.75/10 – Game Informer ![]() These procedurally generated dungeons offer brand new challenges to master, and can be uploaded or shared with friends. Ever-changing Chalice Dungeons to Explore: Use holy chalices to gain entrance to a network of vast underground ruins, filled with traps, beasts, and rewards, to explore and conquer alone or with others. A New Generation of Action RPG: Stunningly detailed gothic environments, atmospheric lighting, and advanced new online experiences showcase the power and prowess of the PlayStation(R)4 system. Strategic Action Combat: Armed with a unique arsenal of weaponry, including guns and saw cleavers, you'll need wits, strategy and reflexes to take down the agile and intelligent enemies that guard the city's dark secrets. A Terrifying New World: Journey to a horror-filled gothic city where deranged mobs and nightmarish creatures lurk around every corner. Danger, death and madness lurk around every corner of this dark and horrific world, and you must discover its darkest secrets in order to survive. To make those now-uprooted Prepare to Die Edition players pay to keep having an experience that’s clearly sufficed for them over the years feels like wringing every last bit of soul out of a hollowed corpse.Hunt your nightmares as you search for answers in the ancient city of Yharnam, now cursed with a strange endemic illness spreading through the streets like wildfire. There’s also the principle of the matter - that if people who have already bought Dark Souls on PC want to keep having the full Dark Souls experience on PC, then they shouldn’t have to cough up more money to do so, especially as many of those people paid for a game that was seriously compromised from the start.įrom Software have never been known for their charity - you won’t find their games in free giveaways, you won’t see free upgrade offers to the ‘complete’ version of a given game (they did a similar thing with Dark Souls 2 and Scholar of the First Sin), and you won’t even often see their games on sale. They’ve already cashed in on the remaster plenty, they’re sitting pretty after the formidable success of Elden Ring - what’s a few thousand giveaways of Dark Souls Remastered going to affect apart from goodwill from some of the series’ longest-serving PC players? So what’s the solution? Well, it’s hard to imagine that FromSoft would stand to lose a lot of money if they just gave the mere hundreds of remaining holdouts of the Prepare to Die Edition a free upgrade to the remaster. In short, people who bought Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition on PC had already suffered plenty, and could certainly feel like they never really got their money’s worth for the game. Non-Steam players were also saddled with the Games for Windows - LIVE DRM, which meant they had to find workarounds when the service was shut down in 2013. Modders had to step in with mods like DSfix to sort out the frame rate, and DSCM to make the online component of the game work properly. The PC version of the Prepare to Die Edition was pretty poor too, with a 30fps frame rate cap, low resolutions, and no way to configure the graphics in-game. RELATED: Elden Ring Proves Dark Souls 2 Was Actually Good Unlike some more magnanimous publishers who have released remasters in the past (Bethesda with Skyrim, 2K with Bioshock and Mafia 2, to name a few), FromSoft never offered a free upgrade for Prepare to Die Edition players, instead sticking to a 50% discount that lasted for some time after the game’s release (even at 50% off, you were still looking at around $20 for a fairly rudimentary remaster).
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