Why is everyone upset at the remaster?

[Shix]

All I hear is "This is a cashgrab" and "if you are a new player go for this, sure."

What were you expecting: bug fixes? balance changes? This is the industry standard: Just a new coat of paint, port to a new engine or whatever for current operating systems, slap a full price tag on it, good to go. Bioshock, Metal Gear, Zone of the Enders, etc, etc, etc.

Not that I disagree with asking for more, but I mean, what were you expecting? And why? During all the interviews and trailers they pointed out they would leave it EXACTLY as the original game was, just up the framerate to 60 fps and give it a new shiny polish.

Seems to me that nostalgia is just not holding up properly.

[MobiusPizza]

引用自 Shix：

What were you expecting: bug fixes? balance changes?
Bioshock, Metal Gear, Zone of the Enders, etc, etc, etc.

They didn't fix bugs but they removed all menu exploits, what caused no trouble to anyone. All Bioshock Remastered games (no idea about the others) were given by free to everyone that already had them. Here we only got a discount and PTDE got removed from the store.
I like the Remaster, 60fps and better online is really cool, but I can't say I expected something at least a little bit better.

[Sm0k3f47h3r]

you come to late to the party. nobody is talking about this anymore....you play it or you dont.

[Washing Machine]

Pay full price just to get ds3 casualization added into invasion matchmaking.

And then bazillion script kiddies ran around launch weeks eggheading & cursing newbies since like ds3, the anti - cheat mechanics only ended up being used to grief legit players.

I think it's the same deal as ds2 Scholar. Split the existing playerbase with a patch that came at the price of a full game. Kinda lame, but on the plus side it did fix the online since in PTDE you needed 3rd party software to connect to anyone.

[Dexter]

First You need to understand that Prepare to Die on PC is complete garbarge. Remaster is nothing more then patch that we players waitied for 7 years and needed to pay 20$ for it.

But I bought it.
Stable, kinda, 60fps, fixed connection and revive of multiplayer.
It was fine for 2 months now it's dead.

There are remasters that give players so much more: - they are free if You own the game
- they completly change and improve graphics and not some lazy hd textures or new effects to game, there are still plenty of places where textures are missing, are stretch out or look like garbage straight from ps2.
- they add more things into the game and do not break base aspects of it, hello changing convenants at bonfire.

They made Ds1 Remaster so casuals can play it and thus giving them more money.
I'm suprised they did not added lootboxes or skins for real money into the game.

There is much more to tell on subject as multiplayer in all 5 games(DS PTDE, Ds Remaster, Ds2, Scholar, Ds3) is dead so is this topic.

[Din511]

Bad weapon matchmaking system
Example
you can invade with 15+ armor on some sl 20 person who has a 5+ weapon ofc and none other than the giant dad armor

with the bad weapon matchmaking they made co-op more dead and limited

The amount of hackers on launch day and who kept going through the months
destroying peoples saves and cursing them
No protection or punishment


adding more fhantoms which this game is not meant for that many and ended everyone having steamrolled it and more gank squads

the unberable estus chugging from ds3 was brought in here
atleast in ds1 you can get punished with backstab if you were going to estus chug on pvp or pve

no bug fixes

lighting on most areas is bad i have to raise brightness on 8 to see ♥♥♥♥

[TheRealMcDan]

They’re upset because they think multiplayer is the main focus of the series and multiplayer was treated as merely a side feature in what’s primarily a PvE experience. Coincidentally, the focus on a great PvE experience rather than PvP “balance” is what makes this the best game in the series.

[TheRealMcDan]

The “dead and limited” co-op is easily circumvented by the password match system and people getting their saves ruined by hackers for some reason aren’t backing up their saves for a game with no cloud feature for some reason.

[Metric Guard]

If they simply just made it run better and made it free for PtDE owners, I and many others wouldn't complain. However, the devs at QLOC's attempt to clean up the visuals ended up being a downgrade in detail, and the changes and additions introduce problems that weren't present in the original. And it's $20.

The visual and gameplay changes in DSR were likely to prevent the DS3 kiddies from crying, but it turns out that just wasn't enough because it's getting trashed by that crowd since the combat isn't spam roll to win, backstabs aren't useless, and the graphics aren't washed-out enough.

In short, Dark Souls Remastered is unsatisfying for both new and old players. That's one heck of an accomplishment, and not something the devs should be proud of.