Can we get some coverage on RPS? I'd love to play these games and am without one of those small closed system computers every is all the rage about. [edit: sry PEBKAC when using rps search function, it was covered and I missed it when published]
Also sign this:
http://petitionbureau.org/DarkSoulsForPC
Last edited by HothMonster; 08-03-2012 at 03:40 AM. Reason: PEBKAC
There has been.Originally Posted by HothMonster
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/Dark-Souls/
Can't find any official statements from Bamco regarding it, though. But there is a chance.
Maybe they learned from Alan Wake´s success that ports can be made to work and make a profit. Granted Remedie had previous experience with Max Payne and Dark Souls devs would probably have to go outside for a port.
Anyway, would love if this game came out on PC
Have there been any updates from Bandai-Namco?
The representative who was the one communicating with the forumers posted in the old topic that spawned the petition a small while back, asking for the creator of the petition to contact him/Namco. Why, not told.
Give me steam and how you feel to make it real.
At this point Dark Souls PC is unlikely. I just doubt that Namdai would want to go back to the game and do the work required for a decent conversion from scratch. Especially given how much work making a brand new multiplayer network would be.
Dark Souls 2 (or whatever it'll be called) on PC on the otherhand...
Last edited by Bhazor; 08-03-2012 at 10:58 AM.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and speculate that Hidetaka Miyazaki dose not want to see it released on PC, for 2 reasons.
--Part of the beauty of the game is that you cannot cheat, and that gameplay is wholly dictated by the game designer. A PC version would not only be cracked day 1, the gameplay would also be violated day 1.
--It cannot be tuned properly because of the varieties of hardware. Bolting on KB/M controls, or having people use anything other than the controllers the game designer used during development would alter the designer's vision.
The artist dictates to the audience, and if a videogame designer aspires to create videogame art, then artist must have control over the experience. And that can only happen on a console.
Imagine if modders could change Citizen Kane because they wanted to see Susan Alexander's vagina? Or 8 1/2 because it was too hard to understand?
Basically you're saying that they'd have to dumb down their game for a PC audience then?
(I'm joking)But... it does raise an interesting point about how the PC as an open platform can perhaps be bad for auteur-like game designers (not that many exist these days).
Yeah, only videogames are nothing like films and are defined by interactivity.
Where did all this tripe come from anyway? Cheaters, seriously? Not only a minor part of players would do that, how would that even bother the developer? If he understands that games are systems and mechanics that the player interacts with, why he would so be against releasing his game on a more open platform just to deny some people the possibility to interact with the game the way they want (and spoiling it in the process, sure, but whatever).
And it's a third-person action game which is about exploring and combat with carefully timed attacks. How could that not be easily translated to keyboard and mouse? And without ruining 'the designer vision'?
Like, am I being trolled here?
Dude really wrote biggest pile of shit i read in a while :D
... I take the lives of a few to protect the lives of many. I commit acts of war to preserve the greater peace. I take no joy in killing, but make no mistake; I'll do what needs to be done. Because it's my job. It's my duty. My name is Sam Fisher, and I am a Splinter Cell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKQ1fvcw6qY
They can. Video-editing is relatively simple these days. I assume you've seen the Star Wars episodes 1-3 that don't mention Jar Jar, or at least heard of them.
Nope.
My point was that some creative people want to maintain control over how people experience their output, not that it wasn't technically possible to hacknslash or mashup some video files. You know, like artists with this kind of attitude: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0 , who actually get pissed when their work degraded or altered.
But whatever, I was only speculating. Maybe Dark Souls guy doesn't give a rat's ass & there is no such thing as an uncompromising visionary videogame auteur who wants to ensure that anyone who plays his game experiences it exactly the way he intended.
It'd be too bad though, as creative products designed by committee and based entirely on market research are always milquetoast and quickly forgotten.
He shouldn't and there isn't. What you've described can never be a game.
Yeah, why there can't be a creative lead that is supported and challenged by other people in his or her team? That's how most games are made, isn't it.It'd be too bad though, as creative products designed by committee and based entirely on market research are always milquetoast and quickly forgotten.
If you think interactivity or immersive gameplay ruins what you're making then you have no place making computer games.
I'm sure Valve would have something to say about that.
?? Are you intentionally being obtuse. & I don't make computer games.
I don't think Mr. Valve cares.I'm sure Valve would have something to say about that.
?? A game wherein the player cannot mod things, cheat etc.? like, oh idk, both Souls games?
so what. Most movies are made that way too, that doesn't mean there isn't room for the odd uncompromising visionary.Yeah, why there can't be a creative lead that is supported and challenged by other people in his or her team? That's how most games are made, isn't it.
Anyway, I'm done with this thread as I like discussions, not attacks. cheers.
Horrendous! It's certainly a good thing it's totally impossible for anyone to modify Citizen Kane to subvert the films original intent.
EDIT: Oh, beaten. I should have read further before posting.
Last edited by JackShandy; 08-03-2012 at 01:30 PM.
This guy did.
And Square Enix.
And Sega.
And Konami.
Last edited by Bhazor; 09-03-2012 at 12:29 AM.
Japanese developed games, not former Eidos etc... studio's works.
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