Remaster vs regular

[Lars]

Thinking about getting this now when its on sale, but is it worth it if I have the Prepare to die editon already?

[spy]

Same game. Features are not important. If you want online experience, buy the remaster. There is no online in PTDE.

[Crypto Gamer]

Enemy placement and item locations are 98% the same in both games.

Biggest difference:
The remaster still has multiplayer it is stable 60 fps including Blighttown.

PTD is 30fps with low fps Blighttown. You can no longer buy it on Steam and it has no multiplayer anymore.

Remaster added one bonfire to the Catacomb Blacksmith making some infusions easier to make.

Remaster has higher System Requirements than PTD or DS2 as it has slightly better textures.

[TheAlmightySunBro, Silkaire]

I played PTDE yesterday and in my opinion it was worse in every way. I think the Remaster is worth it.

[Apathy]

If PVP is important to you stick to PTDE. If Co-op is your thing Remaster is more suited to you. If you're strictly PVE then it doesn't really matter.

[analnyj charodey]

Originally posted by Apathy:

If PVP is important to you stick to PTDE. If Co-op is your thing Remaster is more suited to you. If you're strictly PVE then it doesn't really matter.

How can you play PvP in PTDE when there are no players? PTDE is dead

[Vex Hilarius]

PTDE has better artstyle and it's lighting isn't ruined.

Remaster has a few QOL improvements and online play. It also runs better without mods.

[Apathy]

Originally posted by analnyj charodey:

Originally posted by Apathy:

If PVP is important to you stick to PTDE. If Co-op is your thing Remaster is more suited to you. If you're strictly PVE then it doesn't really matter.

How can you play PvP in PTDE when there are no players? PTDE is dead

All Soulsborne games are dead outside of Return to events save the most recent one. This game is no exception. PTDE will still connect via DSCM assuming anyone's playing. Outside of that there's always Discord servers. If installing some drag and drop (DSCM, DSFix, etc.) mods or joining a Discord is too much work for the people with access to PTDE oh well.

[jurando]

if you have friends with only this version you'd like to play with, yes
in any other context, no

[Old Captain Yon]

Originally posted by Apathy:

Originally posted by analnyj charodey:

How can you play PvP in PTDE when there are no players? PTDE is dead

All Soulsborne games are dead outside of Return to events save the most recent one. This game is no exception. PTDE will still connect via DSCM assuming anyone's playing. Outside of that there's always Discord servers. If installing some drag and drop (DSCM, DSFix, etc.) mods or joining a Discord is too much work for the people with access to PTDE oh well.

Huh, I get invasions here in DSR evrey ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ second, wdym dead

[causality]

Originally posted by spy:

Same game. Features are not important. If you want online experience, buy the remaster. There is no online in PTDE.

Ptde has online but it's a private server host with a few active players.

[carbonfibre]

One thing that sticks in my mind with the remaster is Blight town is slightly easier to see. The guys with the blowpipes in Prepare to Die version are harder to see, but the main reason I bought it was to have fun in jolly co-op.

[JellyPuff]

DS:R is the superior version, simply because you don't need mods to fix it, but if you already own the original, it's probably not worth 20 bucks imo unless you desperately need online /w decent activity.

Just get dsfix and play the original.

[Apathy]

Originally posted by Old Captain Yon:

Originally posted by Apathy:

All Soulsborne games are dead outside of Return to events save the most recent one. This game is no exception. PTDE will still connect via DSCM assuming anyone's playing. Outside of that there's always Discord servers. If installing some drag and drop (DSCM, DSFix, etc.) mods or joining a Discord is too much work for the people with access to PTDE oh well.

Huh, I get invasions here in DSR evrey ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ second, wdym dead

Remastered:

https://steamcharts.com/app/570940 = 4300 peak in the last 24 hours, total concurrent peak = 24,500

DS2:SotFS:

https://steamcharts.com/app/335300 = 2600 peak in 24 hours, concurrent peak = 12,000

DS3:

https://steamcharts.com/app/374320 = 7600 peak in 24 hours, concurrent peak = 130,000

Elden Ring (most recent) :

https://steamcharts.com/app/1245620 = 48,000 peak in 24 hours, concurrent peak = 952,000.

If you were to add up the playerbase for DS1, DS2, and DS3 they would still be much less than Elden Ring because they are dead games. Only hardcore player base is left. This is compounded by the fact that great many of the players left in DS1:R admit to blocking anyone that mentions PVP because it shares the degenerate matchmaking system with DS3 where you can't be matched with people that block you. In the last year I've been invaded less than five times in DS1:R.