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I've been waiting to play this on the PC since I saw the reviews of the console versions. I just got my key from GMG, gotta wait till midnight. So I have few questions: - how does the game hold up in terms of replayability? - is there any missable content/alternate paths? - is there a new game+? - is this "naked guy with a club" class (I've been reading the manual) basically a DS version of the tourist from Nethack?
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Terminally Bored posted:I've been waiting to play this on the PC since I saw the reviews of the console versions. I just got my key from GMG, gotta wait till midnight. - oh god yes - oh god yes - dunno about nethack but your starting class is not so important in the long run
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Aug 23, 2012 18:53
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Terminally Bored posted:I've been waiting to play this on the PC since I saw the reviews of the console versions. I just got my key from GMG, gotta wait till midnight. It's very replayable, with lots of different builds to try and gimmick methodds. You will almost certainly miss a great deal on your first playthrough. There are infinite NG+s, but they stop getting harder on NG+7 The classes only matter in the very beginning, after a few hours in it's all about how you built.
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Aug 23, 2012 18:53
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Terminally Bored posted:I've been waiting to play this on the PC since I saw the reviews of the console versions. I just got my key from GMG, gotta wait till midnight. -It has a vast amount of replayability. -There are lots of secrets and hidden stuff but nothing is permanently missable due to the nature of NG+. -There is NG+ -Starting classes don't really matter that much in DS, but it does start with no equipment and very spread out stats so you could say that its kind of the challenge class.
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Aug 23, 2012 18:55
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Terminally Bored posted:I've been waiting to play this on the PC since I saw the reviews of the console versions. I just got my key from GMG, gotta wait till midnight. In order: 1.) Fantastically. This is an incredibly replayable game because it encourages so many different playstyles, and gimmick runs are tons of fun. 2.) Only eight out of the twenty-two (twenty-six with the new content.) bosses are mandatory. You can conceivably beat the entire game without knowing two of them even exist. There's one thing and everything associated with it that's permanently missable, because it wants you to do a thing early. As for alternate paths: tons. This is built like a metroidvania-style game where while there is a linear progression, you can take a bunch of different ways to get there, all dependent on your skill level. 3.) An extremely robust NG+ system! You keep everything except keys and key items from the previous run and everything gets stronger. This keeps happening until NG+7. 4.) Pretty much.
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Aug 23, 2012 18:58
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=41330816&postcount=686 So uh, some dude edit: Maybe, probably not. News at 11. boxinglemur fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Aug 23, 2012 |
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Aug 23, 2012 18:58
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iuvian posted:Man I was expecting it to look bad, but this is actually worse than I could have ever imagined. This might actually be the worst port since Resident Evil 4, where they forgot to include the lighting engine. Can't believe they want $40 for this poo poo. The PS3 version is below $40, so you can just toddle off and buy that instead then.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:00
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 woop woop! e;fb  ee: are you guys loving blind Nebelwerfer fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Aug 23, 2012 |
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Aug 23, 2012 19:01
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boxinglemur posted:http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=41330816&postcount=686 Edit: eh, one screenshot of a side shot isn't a good basis for a judgement.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:01
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Lazy Programming posted:Yeah, really easy to tell the art wasn't designed for higher resolution, can't say it looks better. 100% agree here. That doesn't look any better at all.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:02
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The art might not look better, but I'd imagine the actual geometry will look much nicer in native resolution than if it were stretched.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:03
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boxinglemur posted:http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=41330816&postcount=686 Is the internal renderer really at that res? Looks like it was upscaled to me. No AA would look much more jagged, and the smoothing looks uneven as though it was on a different res.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:04
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Are people playing with :files: copies or is there some VPN fuckery going on already?
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Aug 23, 2012 19:04
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Stele007 posted:Is the internal renderer really at that res? Looks like it was upscaled to me. No AA would look much more jagged, and the smoothing looks uneven as though it was on a different res. That's with AA off.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:05
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dreffen posted:Are people playing with :files: copies or is there some VPN fuckery going on already?  .
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Aug 23, 2012 19:05
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gibbed posted:Anything prior to midnight UTC is Thats what I was figuring but wanted to be a little hopeful that maybe it wasn't. Only chance I'm going to get is playing this at work or on a friends machine!
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Aug 23, 2012 19:07
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So like, is anyone gonna post how to change the resolution? If its done that quickly I can't imagine its very complicated.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:07
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voltron lion force posted:So like, is anyone gonna post how to change the resolution? If its done that quickly I can't imagine its very complicated. I think the dude just posted to haggle the glory himself and will post detailed how-to later on.  Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition |OT| Durante Does In 23 Minutes What From Can't
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Aug 23, 2012 19:08
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voltron lion force posted:So like, is anyone gonna post how to change the resolution? If its done that quickly I can't imagine its very complicated. The guy said he'd post the instructions when it's in a release state. Whatever the hell that means in this case. e;fb
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Aug 23, 2012 19:08
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Nebelwerfer posted:I think the dude just posted to haggle the glory himself and will post detailed how-to later on. loving neogaf...
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Aug 23, 2012 19:09
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Meowjesty posted:100% agree here. That doesn't look any better at all. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=41331991&postcount=807 Walls aren't as blurry, I'd say that counts as better.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:10
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I absolutely loved Demon's Souls and pre ordered this almost as soon as it went up. I played a faith warrior in Demon's and plan on doing something similar here. It's the perfect kind of game and setting for a paladin style character even if that's not usually your thing like me.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:10
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Also I absolutely love how people are bitching over $40, when it's actually $70 elsewhere thanks to Steam's lovingly necessary regional pricing.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:11
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Gazaar posted:I absolutely loved Demon's Souls and pre ordered this almost as soon as it went up. I played a faith warrior in Demon's and plan on doing something similar here. It's the perfect kind of game and setting for a paladin style character even if that's not usually your thing like me. Paladin might be the defacto strongest build in the game as it gives you access to both powerful ranged magics, additional albeit very slow heals, and two different blessings that increase weapon damage dramatically. Plus you gain a golden color and worship the sun as you vanquish foes in other players dimensions.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:13
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VarXX posted:That's with AA off. I think that's what he's saying. If you look at the aliasing along the edge of the character model you can see that the "pixels" look pretty huge, which wouldn't be the case if it was actually rendering at a higher resolution. Edit- I could be wrong, though, it's honestly hard to tell from just one screenshot.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:14
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This is a better shot, it shows how the game isn't a blurry mess of smeared poo poo anymore http://i.imgur.com/iZHN3.jpg He hasn't posted how it done though, it might be too early to get excited. Megalixir posted:The PS3 version is below $40, so you can just toddle off and buy that instead then. lol  do not dare insult my precious Japanese gameugu
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Aug 23, 2012 19:14
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Nebelwerfer posted:
oh my god  If anyone says this doesn't look better I don't know what the gently caress to say to them
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Aug 23, 2012 19:15
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I dunno if there's anything you can do to make the game look good close-up. Even if I get it on the PC I'll still be playing it on my TV from the sofa.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:16
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Samurai Sanders posted:I dunno if there's anything you can do to make the game look good close-up. Even if I get it on the PC I'll still be playing it on my TV from the sofa. I like you man, we should hang out.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:18
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jesus I can't wait to see what the mod community does with this game by mod community I don't mean hex editor PvP shitlords
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Aug 23, 2012 19:18
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SixtySix posted:by mod community I don't mean hex editor PvP shitlords
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Aug 23, 2012 19:20
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Samurai Sanders posted:I'm definitely still worried about this. I don't care about PvP so much but I don't want unkillable wallhackers invading my game every single time I unhollow myself. When you unhollow? Oh no, I don't think the hackers will stop with that. Hopefully they'll mostly be content to fight each other in the new Free for All PVP mode and build their own fighting game community.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:24
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SixtySix posted:by mod community I don't mean hex editor PvP shitlords Hopefully they can do something about that, considering they're adding that PvP arena, but I doubt it.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:26
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SixtySix posted:oh my god This looks way, way, WAY better. I thought that it will take a lot more time to fix the resolution than -5 hours. So I'm probably buying this now.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:27
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Barudak posted:Paladin might be the defacto strongest build in the game as it gives you access to both powerful ranged magics, additional albeit very slow heals, and two different blessings that increase weapon damage dramatically. That's pretty much how I pictured myself in Demon's so right up my alley.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:27
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Barudak posted:. "The DSFGC is literally the biggest cesspool of poo poo I have ever seen in a community." - Mike Ross after 3 phantoms spammed Well What is It on his corpse.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:27
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Count Bleck posted:"The DSFGC is literally the biggest cesspool of poo poo I have ever seen in a community." - Mike Ross after 3 phantoms spammed Well What is It on his corpse. Don't act like you don't want to see Infiltration hyper mode dragon head fireball Daigo into losers bracket.
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Aug 23, 2012 19:30
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RE: hackers ruining PvP, my hopes are: 1. Most hackers would probably have pirated this thing to begin with and the DRM would prevent them from engaging in MP 2. Hacking in a 1v1 niche game like this might get pretty boring pretty fast, leading them to move on to greener pastures 3. My "I don't give a gently caress, 420 wear silly costumes and spam emotes" attitude towards PvP will prevail 4. I can always go back to consoles when the DLC drops, I guess
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Aug 23, 2012 19:32
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All I see is some Lanzcos upscaling. He didn't increase the actual video buffer resolution at all. That said, it will make the game display in larger resolutions, just that the actual resolution isn't actually increased. As was predicted. If anyone can actually internally increase the resolution of the game and make it as sharp as one would expect on computer monitors I'd give them a massive fistbump.
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Hey, quick question, Steam isn't allowing the game to be pre-loaded right? Is this because of GFWL?
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