This game is poorly designed with broken clunky controls that masquerades itself as "Difficult"

[King Hadu]

This game seems to garner a lot of positive reviews from IGN etc and I struggle to understand why, I tried this game and there was nothing impressive about it even the story is lazily designed and incomplete there is the suggestion that its done in such a way for the player to come up with his own ending in his head but you can say the same about any game that has an incomplete generic story.

Why should poor control design from a lazy studio be given praise?

My guess is in Demon Souls PS3 because of how much trash the clunky failed control system was it made the game legitimately difficult to play kinda like playing street fighter with a steering wheel it's possible and people have done it but doesn't mean the game itself is hard because you opted for a harder way to play? or you failed to make a proper control system so you claim this makes it good because it's hard?

I tried dark souls 1 remastered and it still felt horribly designed as if the devs didn't really know what they were doing and didn't have a budget to make a proper game

Remnant 2 graphics is light years ahead of this ugly trash

Dark Souls 3 graphics and level design and combat is light years of this ugly DS1 trash

Sekiro graphics is a trillion times better than this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ugly DS1 remaster

I don't think this series is anywhere near as good as a vocal minority pretends it is, I think in reality it is lazily designed and it became something of a meme that people were tricked into taking seriously.

Like if you play Tekken or SF3 3rd strike and you perform a parry or even perfect parry in street fighter 6, you feel very rewarded for the parry and the impact of following up on the parry feels very much rewarding.

Not so in this series it feels incredibly clunky and just mad

For example if you try to dodge with knight half the time he won't dodge because of how bad the controls are you need to release the movement then tap omni direction and spacebar. It isn't fluid at all

There is also an auto lock feature which gives away how bad the combat and control design is, a properly designed game wouldn't need auto lock. It wouldn't even be a thing

[VeliusFox]

Nice cry. Get filtered, nerd.

[King Hadu]

Originally posted by VeliusFox:

Nice cry. Get filtered, nerd.

Try playing a real game that takes real skills like Tekken 7 or USF4 with 1 Frame links

It's like saying you made a car with no steering wheel so your car is better than a fully functional Skyline GTR

Until Dark Souls can achieve a skill ceiling that comes anywhere near Tekken 7 and SF4 then I cannot take this game seriously.

The game isn't hard either and doesn't take any skill, that's the next thing

If you want to see a real Souls Like that is actually difficult and takes real skills then try Remnant 2, now that's a real game played by real men.

[dcy665]

How to rage that a game over a dozen years old doesn't play like your favorite arcade style game, even though the game in question is not an arcade style game, and never was. Also, good way to look like a total dork.

Next time you want to write a review, go write one. Steam will actually let you do that, and they will prompt you for one. No sense in littering your excrement in a forum where we try to help gamers new to Souls genre.

[Kevin Ryan]

Dang you came up with a rage bait post for both here AND on Reddit?

That's some top tier boredom right there.

[VeliusFox]

Lol real men cry for 8 paragraphs for sure...

[King Hadu]

I played Dark Souls 3 and its waaaay better than this DS1 trash

Graphics in DS1 looks like dog feces mix with pig feces I love how you all call it "art"

Also Dark Souls 3 map is better, combat is better budget is better story is better PVP is better a superior game than the dead DS1 trash.

[King Hadu]

If you look at Bloodborne artstyle and overall design and combat it is soooo much superior and better than this DS1 trash.

This remaster is a joke the game itself is trash compared to any modern souls like.

Why would I subject myself to this ugly trash when there exist Dark Souls 3 have you seen the lighting in DS3? the color palette? the artstyle? how amazing?

It looks nothing like these first 2 trash dark souls 1 and 2.

Sekiro graphics is FAR better than DS1 nastiness.

Sekiro combat is FAR better than this trash, try doing parry in Sekiro and see how satisfying it is.

DS1 is like a turn based game, yuck

[King Hadu]

Originally posted by dcy665:

How to rage that a game over a dozen years old doesn't play like your favorite arcade style game, even though the game in question is not an arcade style game, and never was. Also, good way to look like a total dork.

Next time you want to write a review, go write one. Steam will actually let you do that, and they will prompt you for one. No sense in littering your excrement in a forum where we try to help gamers new to Souls genre.

DS1 and DS2 are both ugly looking feces with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ map design

Real men with a PC from the 21st century plays real games like Sekiro, DS3, Elden Ring and Remnant 2.

[Kevin Ryan]

Just pass this one up folks.

Hadu's just bored and lookin for fights.

They posted basically the same thing on Reddit.

It's a different name so I wasn't sure at first but the talking points are the same so Hadu here is REALLY trying to get a rise out of the community. lol

[Bandy]

@King Hadu
You know you can edit\append your own posts, right?

EDIT: so you refunded the game and felt so 'put out' by your experience (of less than 2 hours) you required this blast of diarrhea to somehow feel better? You probably spent more time typing this cr@p OP than you actually played. Just sad, no, really...

[Bender]

YOU DIED YOU DIED YOU DIED YOU DIED YOU DIED YOU DIED

GET FILTERED GET FILTERED GET FILTERED GET FILTERED GET FILTERED GET FILTERED

[enigma]

Get filtered noob. Fighting games are an entirely different genre , comparing it to Souls games is retarded. Both have different complexities and mechanics. The fact you went for this comparison tells me you must suck at games in general. Learn the system or gtfo, you give FG players a bad name.

[WhiteMamba]

"even the story is lazily designed and incomplete there is the suggestion that its done in such a way for the player to come up with his own ending in his head":
- that is straight up wrong. The story is absolutely and its delivery amazing and it is the part of the game that developers put the most effort into.

As for the controls there are 2 things that are bad: buffering inputs and rolls working in only few fixed directions. Except for that everything is precise.

As fot the rest of your comment - you started trying to sound like you're making an objective review and few lines later you went straight into salt-filled whining mode

[sekai]

Dark Souls 1 isn't really an action game but more that it's kinda an action puzzle game like Legend of Zelda. This is why the game was intentionally designed around deliberate action and discourages button mashing.

It's a genre thing. You either roll with it or you don't.

Also the game is only intentionally hard in presentation and marketing. The game is actually very generous when it comes to dying penalty, considering you don't lose actual progress. Bosses you killed, gears you picked up, quest you complete, etc all stay when you die regardless if you used bonfire or not. All bonfire does is mark where you will respawn but none of your stuff is lost outside of souls, and souls are very easily farm-able by mid-game.

The game was initially marketed as being the this mean and tough experience because of the game's lore, really. But the game itself is more of a harsh mistress than a cruel master.

Still, the game is bound to be cluncky, since this is a remaster to a game that was released in 2011. It is not a remake, more of a QoL patch. For a much more fluid experience try Dark Souls 2 or 3 (though you probably would want to play through 1 at least once for the narrative context), as well as other recent FromSoft games like Sekiro or Elden Ring; and if you own a Playstation, you can also play Bloodborne. The later FromSoft games are far more polished and fluid.

[sekai]

Also it appears you are playing this game on keyboard and mouse.

Please don't. The game is essentially unplayable with keyboard and mouse. You know something is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ when the game tells you to use keys like 'Delete' or 'Insert' to navigate the menu. Or at least that's what the game used to demand the players do on Prepare to Die Edition and I just give up since then. This happens because at the time the devs had no pc gaming experience and directly mapped the various sticks and pads of the controller directly onto keyboard resulting in that mess.

Still, it's most recommended you use a controller to play the game. The game has in general a very bad keyboard and mouse setting and support. It is simply designed to be played with a controller.