Dark Souls 3

Armenius said:
Don't know why it would be an issue now when Dark Souls 1 (30 FPS), Dark Souls 2 (60 FPS), and Dark Souls 2 SotFS (60 FPS) all work fine with G-Sync on.
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Was just saying that as a suggestion if he was having issues with a high refresh display. Would think if you set the monitor to 60Hz and no g-sync, why wouldn't the game treat it as a standard 60Hz display?
 
BeavermanA said:
Was just saying that as a suggestion if he was having issues with a high refresh display. Would think if you set the monitor to 60Hz and no g-sync, why wouldn't the game treat it as a standard 60Hz display?
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That's what I hope, there's no way it's that fucking specific I would be pissed. Also post was deleted.
 
[L]imey said:
After hearing that it's capped at 60FPS on pc, I'm kinda sad (but I guess it's to be expected)
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Doesn't matter, it's Dark motherf*cking Souls, edge case hardware with extreme refresh rates be damned. Japanese developer that's always been console-focused, PC as an afterthought and that's just the way it is. Game's physics are tied to framerate so they weren't exactly going to do a ground-up rewrite of the engine for edge cases on the afterthought platform.

We're lucky they've come around to PC as far as they have, and I for one am grateful I won't have to play this on a console.

[L]imey said:
I've never seriously played any souls game,
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And I think therein may lie your problem, no offense.
 
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aeliusg said:
Bad news for us PC folks, again: PSA: Dark Souls 3 (PC) has no frame rate options, is currently only playable in Windowed Mode for 120/144hz monitors • /r/darksouls3

He says he has the 1.01 patch.

Hopefully modders can step up to the plate again.
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I have a 60hz monitor so doesn't affect me...only 1.5 weeks left!...I still haven't pre-ordered yet because I'm waiting to see if the Collector's Edition with the Red Knight figurine will be made available in the USA...with digital orders it doesn't matter if I buy it 1 hour before release or 1 week
 
Quix said:
I'm getting Dark Souls 3 for PS4, the previous PC ports of Dark Souls games are crap.
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Really? I bought Scholar in June 2015, 300 + hours in not one crash or bug that I can remember. I play it maxed out at 1440p 60fps pegged. Game is perfect on my PC
 
74.99 right now on GMG with season pass without any codes (none of them work cuz pre-order?)
should I do it?
 
Rattle said:
74.99 right now on GMG with season pass without any codes (none of them work cuz pre-order?)
should I do it?
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The code did work the other day when I was debating buying it. They have lowered prices on all three items since then though. Their codes sometimes don't work on games that are already on sale.
 
Early PC Impressions: Dark Souls III (RockPaperShotgun)

Our full review will be closer to the international release but I wanted to share some thoughts about the opening areas, the PC version and the overall quality of what I’ve seen so far...No spoilers regarding bosses or locations...The atmosphere is almost perfect...I’ve been delighted by the early hours of the game...Combat has an extra bit of pace and fluidity, but is missing none of the weight of the original Dark Souls, and experimenting with character builds and classes shows just how many solutions are actually possible when faced with seemingly insurmountable obstacles...

Early Impressions: Dark Souls III
 
Dark Souls 3 Animated Trailer Directed by Eli Roth

Eli Roth, the actor, director, and writer best known for his work as director of the Hostel horror movie series as well as Cabin Fever, teamed with Bandai Namco for a Dark Souls III animated short called 'The Witches'...Roth directed the piece, which was put together by Six Point Harness, an animation studio out of Los Angeles, CA...

 
polonyc2 said:
Dark Souls 3 Animated Trailer Directed by Eli Roth

Eli Roth, the actor, director, and writer best known for his work as director of the Hostel horror movie series as well as Cabin Fever, teamed with Bandai Namco for a Dark Souls III animated short called 'The Witches'...Roth directed the piece, which was put together by Six Point Harness, an animation studio out of Los Angeles, CA...
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Has anyone watched this? Do we know if there are spoilers? I assume so, but that would be lame so ... then again it's Eli Roth so ...
 
Anyone having luck getting 20% off the pre-order at GreenManGaming with the "SPRING20" voucher? It says that it applies site wide for purchases >$10, but it is not accepting it at checkout for me.
 
Ryom said:
Anyone having luck getting 20% off the pre-order at GreenManGaming with the "SPRING20" voucher? It says that it applies site wide for purchases >$10, but it is not accepting it at checkout for me.
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*Excludes selected titles.

Usually when the game is already discounted from full price, you can't stack a voucher.
 
Problem with GMG is that lately publishers have been penalizing them for their coupons so are putting in min price requirements especially to US buyers so a larger and larger amount of new games won't let you use the coupons. I am personally tired of it so I am basically most likely going grey market for the first time with Dark Souls 3 + Season Pass.
 
LurkerLito said:
I am personally tired of it so I am basically most likely going grey market for the first time with Dark Souls 3 + Season Pass.
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OTOH if a new Souls game isn't the rare exception to having to resort to shady keysellers and just buying it legit without worry of getting burned, I don't know what is.
 
with a little over a week remaining until release my hopes for a PC Collector's Edition looks to be gone...the Lord of Cinder Collector's Edition statue is what I really wanted instead of the Red Knight one...on the bright side buying the Digital Deluxe version on Steam I can play at 12:01 AM on Monday evening (April 11th)

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polonyc2 said:
with a little over a week remaining until release my hopes for a PC Collector's Edition looks to be gone...the Lord of Cinder Collector's Edition statue is what I really wanted instead of the Red Knight one...on the bright side buying the Digital Deluxe version on Steam I can play at 12:01 AM on Monday evening (April 11th)
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The Prestige Edition was an Amazon UK exclusive apparently. PC CE is Europe only.

Set up alerts to let me know if they come back in stock now. They did about a week ago briefly, but I missed it.

Canceled my XB1 CE from Amazon.com. Comes with less stuff compared to the EU version, and I don't have an XB1 anyway. If I fail to get a imported PC CE, will just hope the PS4/XB1 CE is available in a year or two for $40 or something.
 
BeavermanA said:
The Prestige Edition was an Amazon UK exclusive apparently. PC CE is Europe only.

Set up alerts to let me know if they come back in stock now. They did about a week ago briefly, but I missed it.

Canceled my XB1 CE from Amazon.com. Comes with less stuff compared to the EU version, and I don't have an XB1 anyway. If I fail to get a imported PC CE, will just hope the PS4/XB1 CE is available in a year or two for $40 or something.
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you plan on buying (importing) both Collector's versions?
 
polonyc2 said:
you plan on buying (importing) both Collector's versions?
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No, I'd prefer just the standard PC CE.

Prestige is pretty steep at 300 euros + whatever shipping to US would be. Might do it if it becomes available though.

In either case not getting gouged, will get it through Amazon UK or not at all.
 
Are each of the Dark Souls games stand alone experiences? Could never get into DS1 because of the clunky interface and controls, but have been waiting for DS2 to be on a decent sale to give it a go.
 
Blade-Runner said:
Are each of the Dark Souls games stand alone experiences? Could never get into DS1 because of the clunky interface and controls, but have been waiting for DS2 to be on a decent sale to give it a go.
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There's a common theme/lore of sorts but you can get the gist of that from a few YouTube videos if replaying DS1 and DS2 aren't your thing. Given that there's a healthy amount of PvP and coop possible, I would dive into DS3 as that's what will be the most popular right now (granted, highest cost of entry too).
 
review embargo has been lifted...here are some PC reviews...

"Archery is more viable as a whole in Dark Souls III, and the sheer amount of magic options had me fiddling with multiple characters and playthroughs to try to find everything....It probably has the most well-rounded combat of the entire series...playing on PC (with 60 frames per second) made a huge difference...This should be the gold standard for a twitch game like this, where frame-perfect attacks and dodges are key to your survival...on PC especially, the aesthetic choices for Dark Souls III really shine...The uniform theme of fire and strong crimson tones unite the visuals more than any other entry to date, especially when players sport their "non-hollow" form and are pulsing with heat energy...Enemy models, all the way down the standard grunts, look fantastic. Some are even more impressive than boss characters in other, similar games...

Almost every major encounter is well done, with very little recycled material...Suffice to say I won't spoil the nature of the brawls here, but we'll be talking about several of them for years in the same class as Ornstein and Smough...

Review: Dark Souls III
 
Blade-Runner said:
Are each of the Dark Souls games stand alone experiences? Could never get into DS1 because of the clunky interface and controls, but have been waiting for DS2 to be on a decent sale to give it a go.
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It's a little like the Legend of Zelda games. Similar items, characters, setting, etc. but the stories don't really intersect much. In Dark Souls, it's more about the lore of the land.
If you get #2, I'd probably get the vanilla one. I fired up Scholar of the Last Sin this weekend and I swear the new content is simply designed to frustrate you. Key items you want/need are now intentionally placed in ridiculous places just to make the experience maddening.
 
what about CHEATING though?

i couldn't get into DS2 because i watched my brother play it and how easy it was to use a trainer and hack the game and be some overpowered unkillable jerkoff that pops into other peoples games and rapes their character.
 
all the Dark Souls 3 PC reviews I've read (non-spoiler) talk about frame rate drops in certain large areas...one reviewer mentioned using dual Titan Z cards and still having occasional drops...hopefully From Software can work on this before release...another great thing about the Souls games is that there are rarely any bugs or serious issues (outside of Blightown type of frame rate ones)
 
delita said:
what about CHEATING though?

i couldn't get into DS2 because i watched my brother play it and how easy it was to use a trainer and hack the game and be some overpowered unkillable jerkoff that pops into other peoples games and rapes their character.
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Sure and get your ass banned, or placed into a "cheater pool" where you are matched with other cheaters.

If you skipped DS2 just because of 'watching your brother play/hack' you missed out on a great experience. Generally speaking there wasn't any issue, but claims of hackers are always greatly exaggerated. People tend to act like the game was completely overrun and that simply wasn't reality.
 
DPI said:
Sure and get your ass banned, or placed into a "cheater pool" where you are matched with other cheaters. If you skipped DS2 just because of 'watching your brother play' you missed out on a great experience. Generally speaking there wasn't any issue.
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The other reason is because we were living together at the time and I could hear him raging and throwing his controller at the wall every once in a while and I was like "eh maybe I dont need that drama in my life" -- lol.

I did play Lords of the Fallen though instead and had a pretty decent time in that game.
 
delita said:
The other reason is because we were living together at the time and I could hear him raging and throwing his controller at the wall every once in a while and I was like "eh maybe I dont need that drama in my life" -- lol.

I did play Lords of the Fallen though instead and had a pretty decent time in that game.
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That's the kiddy ride.. no big bumps,, no huge drops, gentle as it goes.. Nice and Safe...

bah time to get off the kiddy ride and go on the Gut Buster Drop Your Bricks ride
 
H-street said:
That's the kiddy ride.. no big bumps,, no huge drops, gentle as it goes.. Nice and Safe...

bah time to get off the kiddy ride and go on the Gut Buster Drop Your Bricks ride
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Guess I'll go for it, just built a new rig and I'm literally not playing any games right now :\
 
The big downers for me with Dark Souls games were a) clunky controls and b) grinding back through the same mobs over and over just to get back to a boss after dying.

I heard in DS2 they made it so the enemies don't respawn? Or respawn less often? Have they made any other improvements in 3 that you guys know of?

I've played a lot of Monster Hunter which relies on the same sort of frame-perfect, twitch style combat as DS, but for the above reasons plus several other gripes I just couldn't get into DS.

Maybe this one will be the one, though, who knows.
 
MavericK said:
The big downers for me with Dark Souls games were a) clunky controls and b) grinding back through the same mobs over and over just to get back to a boss after dying.

I heard in DS2 they made it so the enemies don't respawn? Or respawn less often? Have they made any other improvements in 3 that you guys know of?
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you don't have to grind through the same enemies at all...at all...those are complaints from people who've never played a Souls game...you can easily run from any bonfire to a boss without engaging any enemies...I think that's what you're supposed to do...you only kill enemies over again for farming purposes...as far as DS2, enemies stopped respawning after you killed them a certain number of times (8 or 9?)...DS3 will thankfully not have that feature as there are no limits on enemy respawning
 
in DS2 - if you kill a MOB 10 times or so it doesn't respawn - DS1 its infinite and fromw hat I've read in DS3 its infinite.. After playing DS1 and DS2, I always felt DS2 was lame because of it..

you can always Sprint to 90% of the bosses bypassing any of the MOBs once you open up the pathways and know the MOB locations.
 
Mob spawning limits in Dark Souls 2 is probably my least favorite mechanic of the game. I think they did it to try and force players into NG+? You can use Bonfire Ascetics, but that is basically the same thing as moving onto NG+, only area specific.
 
polonyc2 said:
you don't have to grind through the same enemies at all...at all...those are complaints from people who've never played a Souls game...you can easily run from any bonfire to a boss without engaging any enemies...I think that's what you're supposed to do...you only kill enemies over again for farming purposes...as far as DS2, enemies stopped respawning after you killed them a certain number of times (8 or 9?)...DS3 will thankfully not have that feature as there are no limits on enemy respawning
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Not all places allowed you to run past enemies...half the time you would get hit in the back regardless of what you did.

Sorry, I just can't agree with that mechanic being good, and I'm kind of disappointed to see it back in DS3. I think overall the game just isn't going to work for me.
 
MavericK said:
Not all places allowed you to run past enemies...half the time you would get hit in the back regardless of what you did.

Sorry, I just can't agree with that mechanic being good, and I'm kind of disappointed to see it back in DS3. I think overall the game just isn't going to work for me.
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you might get hit here and there but it's pretty easy to run and juke your way past any area to get to the boss...at most you might have to use 1 Estus flask (health)...it's all about becoming familiar with the area and enemy types and movement...that mechanic sucked for a lot of people because 1) it limits your ability to farm for souls and 2) it makes the game easier...was one the many little things that I disliked about DS2...still a great game compared to most other games on the market but when compared to the other Souls/Bloodborne games this was my least favorite (although the 3-part DLC made it much better)

the only area where making the trek from bonfire to boss was a major pain was in Dark Souls 2 Frigid Outskirts area
 
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yeah, the frigid outskirts would fuck your shit with the respawning unicorns. Does not matter how many you kill, there are so many random spawn points they just don't stop. Other DLC areas I would help people would be devoid of enemies. Which was sad, because you know they have made at least 8 attempts, probably many more to get stomped the way they had been. In DS1 though you can run by all the enemies. The speed runners do it all the time.

Note, the enemies in DS2 will always spawn while you are in covenant of champions. For farming I would join CoC and then light the tar pits for titanite, also kill those dragon things in the DLC for dragonbone.
 
MavericK said:
Not all places allowed you to run past enemies...half the time you would get hit in the back regardless of what you did.

Sorry, I just can't agree with that mechanic being good, and I'm kind of disappointed to see it back in DS3. I think overall the game just isn't going to work for me.
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Here's what I can tell you: The run-throughs of the Souls games have been precision-tuned to the extreme, and the right way to do or get past something isn't usually immediately apparent, but at least one way always exists, narrow as it may be. It's up to the player to find the way, and once you do, once it finally clicks, it's more rewarding than really any other game.

Thus there's no such thing as "regardless of what you did" - you just didn't find the way, you did something wrong. I realize not everyone's going to have the patience to find it, but those that do tend to find it rewarding, especially in this era of Press A to cutscene.

This is a "desert island" series - these games are simply transcendant. It's surreal that we're only a week out from reportedly the best Souls game in the series. Just surreal.
 
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