What makes this version so desirable on Steam?
What makes this version so desirable on Steam?
It's not the utterly butchered """remaster""".
Elaborate
I own both so I will for him.
If I had to pick one to actually play, I'd go with the the remaster personally.
If I had to pick one based on the graphics, I'd go with the PtD version, since they've completely fucked most of the...art style? Textures? I don't know how to describe it, but it looks worse than the original.
elitism and collectionism.
I own it btw, the forums are full of people gloating that they own the game or they want to buy it lol
precisely this. The original also has to be modded to hit 60 frames and the online is effectively dead
I don't know.
The shitty code means that your options are either running the game at 30 FPS or 59 FPS, and shit randomly glitches at 59 FPS.
t. own both PTDE and Remaster
it runs like shit and i have a high end pc
Everything in it was made by Fromsoft, and not handed off to literal whos to touch it up (aka make it look like shit).
ENTER
all the QoL changes without the art changes
30fps
compressed sound
playing ds with sound
Not that bad in handheld mode.
The compressed sound is the only drawback. The 30fps is at least stable unlike the ps3/360.
Also the remaster has some weird timing issues if framerate drops from 60 even for some fractions of a second.
remastered edition
download mods to unfuck the textures, lighting, specular occlusion and effects
enjoy stable 60fps
ez
Hipster faggots.
truly the definitive edition I see, I wonder how bad the Elden Ring port will be
it's a mystery
uh.. you know that DSR was ported to everything right?
try to better articulate your point so that I can reply
you already did goofy ass nigga
I’m bitter about them delisting it and shutting down the online functionality
The only thing about the remaster that actually pisses me off is the garbled roll animations where the feet/ankles never change angles
Still in the game in 2025 btw and it cannot be unseen once you see it
The remaster made the game a horrific solid 60 fps instead of the kino 20 fps
Dark Souls was made on a ps3-specific engine that Demon's also was made with. It did some things well, but I'm not technical-programmer enough to explain all the cool shit that was unique to it.
The remaster is just lacking in a bunch of those atmospheric and material effects.
Tfw "Remastered" is actually a code word meaning brownified, uglified, and de-souled
The "remaster" fucked up multiple aspects of the original game's graphics:
textures
Dark Souls' armor's specular textures (the texture maps that influence reflectivity) were gorgeous, and the remaster gutted them. You can restore these with a mod, but it's still a flaw.
lighting
The lighting is different in many areas of the game. Multiple areas are overly bright, and enemies and destructible objects (barrels, crates, etc.) often look like they're not being properly affected by lighting.
particle effects
The most notable of these is the bonfire being changed, but a lot of small particle effects were changed for whatever reason. You can, however, restore some of these with a mod.
distance blur
The original game had a distance blur effect (not depth of field) that was an important element of its atmosphere. This effect is completely absent in the remaster, and you cannot restore it.
Anyone who is telling you that mods can fix anything other than the armor textures or particle effects is either ignorant of lying. If you don't care about online features, you should just play PTDE with dsfix. It's a simple drag-and-drop mod that takes like 2 minutes to install and configure, and it's still the ideal way to play the game except for one, singular branch in Blighttown that you'll slip off of unless you toggle the fps to 30 with a hotkey.
You can't un-fuck the remaster lighting. Don't tell me you're using that buggy, unfinished piece of shit mod?
yaeh those don't exist noob lol you're still playing an ugly POS
or you could just download ptde and dsfix for free since the game's abandonware
pirate PTDE
install dsfix
game looks great and runs on 60fps
no online
forced to play the game solo like god intended
no SL1 cheaters with lighting +10 weapons invading in Undead Parish
I'm sitting on 5 Steam keys for PTDE that are still fully redeemable but I'm waiting for the prices to get even higher.
nothing looks like plastic
All the bosses have summons anyways
Nothing beats the original (no dlc) running on xbox sex at perfect 30 fps
it has the art changes
it just doesnt have the fire changes
you must be a smooth brain to not tell the difference
This mod is an unfinished, buggy piece of shit that doesn't even come close to restoring the game to its original state. Opinion discarded. Laughable.
i remember this being far from ideal, but it seems the mod has been updated recently. i'll check it out but i don't have high hopes
whats there to be elite about? games like $400 right now. now if it was something like war/fall of cybertron I would understand. they go for $3000.
85 bugs reported
Dark souls remaster does the bare minimum, it's just DSfix but with some lightings and flame changes
the fanbase goes apeshit
Demon Souls remaster completely destroys the original atmosphere and artstyle, downgrading it significantly
PS5fags defend it to death because it's an exclusive
Maybe PC-fats were right
man, the blur effect is amazing
i fucking love this game
No it doesn't. It uses the original art for everything.
Basically a bunch of shit that doesn't matter and can be modded.
I never understood why the remaster didn't get the same amount of shit as Demon's Souls remake. It completely butchers the atmosphere the same way
It's one of those things that I didn't really think about until I played the remaster and realized how much I'd taken it for granted. It gives a lot of Lordran this surreal, dreamlike atmosphere and does a decent job of suggesting a sense of scale that doesn't really exist due to how small the game actually is.
People with no perception of aesthetics.
DS1 is literally the least-popular entry in the series.
The fog effect is one of the only things that remaster got right
it did, but there's only so much you can do when the original's servers are DELIBERATELY KILLED OFF and the game is pulled off the storefront
actual fans were not happy with it on release, despite whatever toxic positivity bs is going on now
youtube.com
youtube.com
Im pretty sure the gaping dragon still got that toy-ish plasticky texture redone applied to it. thats when I dropped the switch version and sold it on facebook.
pretty sure people shit on it in nearly every thread about dark souls 1 the moment the word remaster pops up.
its a FROMSOFT game made by FROMSOFT
Remaster is a FROMSOFT game retouched by Qloc
You also get to tell youre an OG fan and not a tourist who jumped in the bandwagon
DELIBERATELY KILLED OFF
I was fucking pissed. There was one lone retard who kept cheating on Elden Ring and provided the methods on how to cheat on MP for the rest of the games prompting From to shut down every server while they work on it. Every fucking game got back up (with very little difference btw, people still cheat and the cheats still work) except this one. I didn't mind putting on PVPWatchdogs, cause who gives a fuck it's just one extra step to filter niggers but shutting the servers down because of muh cheats and muh haxxors was fucking retarded.
I seethe just thinking about it. I want to kill that faggot for publicizing his dogshit cheat engine edits.
i think it is in part because a lot of people who were into the Dark Souls series already owned PTDE when the remaster came out. the remaster and fromsoft pulling PTDE from the steam store was 2 years after DS3 came out, after all. PTDE was easy to get because it was like 5 bucks on sale on steam.
Demon's Souls on the other hand was locked into the shitty PS3. Disc copies weren't readily available a few years after release and both physical and digital copies were pretty expensive for an old ass game, selling over $30. A lot of secondaries probably waited for the remaster in hopes of finally playing DeS for the first time. getting it on PS3 just sucked unless you already bought it close to release. and then snoy butchered the remaster so people got mad.
He trooned out, so there's no need. He'll do it for you.
He was a fucking tranny too? What a fucking joke, really caps off the shit cake with a nice shit-stained cherry. All that for some redditor approval. Fuck's sake.
Yeah, I hope he fucking dies soon. No lie.
I was fucking pissed.
I am STILL fucking pissed
As much as I hate him for killing PTDE, he's given us seamless co-op for every game except DS2 (and I think he made the anti-cheating thing for DS3), so he's ultimately a net positive. Leaving invasions enabled by default so retards get filtered by opening Notepad and changing a 1 to a 0 is also based.
Nah, don't blame the tranny. Blame FROM for seeing the opportunity to sell their shitty demaster by refusing to enable the servers again, just in time for release
oughie thoughie our servers are agingu
it's too orudo for anon to play on!!
PS3 and 360 servers still chugging on
I'm fucking aching here.
seamless coop
He could've done that without crashing and burning the best version of the game. I am ultimately ambivalent on the mod, memes aside, I put it on ER to placate one of my friends and it was just disconnect after disconnect, at some points we were fighting two different enemies too. That was about 4 or 5 months ago.
Weird, I've never had connection issues. It does hard crash for me occasionally, but I don't really care because the game auto-saves and it takes like 15s to reboot it.