Ehm.. about textures..

[X6205]

After talks about high quality 2k textures or uncompressed textures, loking at the remaster i must say i am dissapointed.. Updated armors looks nice, but enviroments are the same, with added reflextions and minor paralax effect but with no new details. Why they have not fixed at least the most annoying textures? Did they run out of time or out of budget? I think that porting company can do better than this.. ehm.. remaster..

Unfixed examples which should have been fixed in the remaster:
https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/268
https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/132
https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/1109
https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/148

So just wanted to say.. i am dissapointed and it hurts. Whoever is resposible, porting company or publisher, they should have tried harder !

Post here your own ugly low-res findings..

[X6205]

Darkroot Garden - "2K" trees ;)
http://oi67.tinypic.com/20qgmsj.jpg

[Zefar]

They didn't update the textures. They just allowed people to have a higher resolution and adding in that it isn't blurry anymore it will look better than the original. Effects have been given an update in terms of graphics at least.

[X6205]

Originally posted by Zefar:

They didn't update the textures. They just allowed people to have a higher resolution and adding in that it isn't blurry anymore it will look better than the original. Effects have been given an update in terms of graphics at least.

They did update textures, armors are new, full of details never seen before with DSfix, but enviroments are 90% untouched. And it looks terrible on a few places..

[JaKeD]

Is it that big of a deal though?

[ABCDEFG]

If you're just playing and enjoy the game in general, most people probably wouldn't have noticed these ugly textures but yeah, it's there.
I've been enjoying the remaster in general. The game do look great and feel great, but occasionally I'd bump into one of these textures and it's honestly painful to look at. They could've done a whole lot better but they chose not to, and the fact that the game is selling quite well is proof that their decision to do minimal work yielded great result.

[X6205]

Anor Londo - "2K" rooftops..
http://oi67.tinypic.com/118pvd4.jpg

[Spindles]

Originally posted by X6205:

After talks about high quality 2k textures or uncompressed textures, loking at the remaster i must say i am dissapointed.. Updated armors looks nice, but enviroments are the same, with added reflextions and minor paralax effect but with no new details. Why they have not fixed at least the most annoying textures? Did they run out of time or out of budget?

I mean, they do not need to upload 50GB 4k texture pack like for FF15, but after so many talks about original feeling and aesthetics i think that porting company can do better than this.. ehm.. remaster..

Unfixed examples (essential mods for PTDE owners):
https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/268
https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/132
https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/1109
https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls/mods/148

Well... i just wanted to say, i am dissapointed and it hurts. Whoever is resposible, porting company or publisher, they should have tried harder !

Post here your own ugly low-res findings..

It's ok, you bought it anyway. So why try harder?

[Apanatchanka]

because "remaster", they could have use some tricks so trees doesnt look like 2d.
but lets hope its in the next 20dollar patch

[X6205]

I get the point, it is capitalism. Minimize the costs and maximize the profit.. I was propably fool to think, that publisher values their cult series a bit more and porting company will pay attention to small details. Specially if these ugly textures are small and easier to fix like complete texture overhaul and they would still make a difference. Quite dissapointing..

Anyway, what is that blue shine on some textures? IMHO this should not be there..

http://oi68.tinypic.com/2rndf1s.jpg

PS: Just beated Sif and moon texture is indeed missing, noticed also in fresh Digital Foundry analysis..

[JaKeD]

Mk so this seems to be just another highly original hate thread

[X6205]

Originally posted by JaKeD:

Mk so this seems to be just another highly original hate thread

Not really, i like the game and many others have the same mixed feelings about this remaster. There is a difference between hate and a dissapointment, in my case a small..

[X6205]

More updated high quality "2K" textures from remaster..

Blocky, pixelated lava from demon ruins and famous tree lod around sens fortress.

http://oi65.tinypic.com/15ppvdi.jpg
http://oi67.tinypic.com/2wnz3o0.jpg