Posted May 05, 2020
Dark Souls III (Steam)
Third play through in 12 months, first two were on Xbox. But the game is so good that I bought it on Steam when on sale. Played out the End of Fire ending. From Soft have come a long way with their PC ports, this one is a work of art compared to the original PC version Dark Souls. It runs really well. I played at 1080p maxed settings, I tried 1440p but could only get around 45fps average unless putting settings to the bottom end. The advantage of Steam was far more players available for co-op boss fights, I never had to wait more than a minute to call someone in or get called in. Other than that, it's the same experience as on Xbox- I honestly don't even think the frame rate jump made any difference, I even started up my Xbox game to compare.
Anyway, it's still one of the best games ever made, and the best game since the first Dark Souls. Only NieR: Automata comes even close in modern times. Playing a game I'm already quite familiar with made things go way faster and allowed me more time to notice small details that From Soft put into their games. Like the AI...just little things like misfiring a spell at an unaware enemy results in them flinching and glancing where the spell impacted and not immediately turning (and magically knowing exactly where you are) and charging straight at you like in most games. Or how enemies that cannot reach you easily will take cover out of you firing line or stay with fire support of their archers- even when the archers move. These are the things that set From Software games apart from otherwise really good similar games like The Surge or Ashen.
Oh yes, I tried mouse and keyboard to see how it felt. Don't do it. These games are made for a controller, and that's how I played.
Third play through in 12 months, first two were on Xbox. But the game is so good that I bought it on Steam when on sale. Played out the End of Fire ending. From Soft have come a long way with their PC ports, this one is a work of art compared to the original PC version Dark Souls. It runs really well. I played at 1080p maxed settings, I tried 1440p but could only get around 45fps average unless putting settings to the bottom end. The advantage of Steam was far more players available for co-op boss fights, I never had to wait more than a minute to call someone in or get called in. Other than that, it's the same experience as on Xbox- I honestly don't even think the frame rate jump made any difference, I even started up my Xbox game to compare.
Anyway, it's still one of the best games ever made, and the best game since the first Dark Souls. Only NieR: Automata comes even close in modern times. Playing a game I'm already quite familiar with made things go way faster and allowed me more time to notice small details that From Soft put into their games. Like the AI...just little things like misfiring a spell at an unaware enemy results in them flinching and glancing where the spell impacted and not immediately turning (and magically knowing exactly where you are) and charging straight at you like in most games. Or how enemies that cannot reach you easily will take cover out of you firing line or stay with fire support of their archers- even when the archers move. These are the things that set From Software games apart from otherwise really good similar games like The Surge or Ashen.
Oh yes, I tried mouse and keyboard to see how it felt. Don't do it. These games are made for a controller, and that's how I played.
Post edited May 05, 2020 by CMOT70