I wonder how they'll get Dark Souls 3 running on the Switch. It didn't even have a rock solid frame rate on the PS4. THat said, hope it's true. I'd love to have the whole trilogy on a portable.
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Kotaku: Dark Souls 2 and 3 will eventually come to Switch
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Meh. I love the Dark Souls games having only played them on PC I can't imagine experiencing them at 30 FPS.
My guess is they'll use a "hybrid" engine developed by the porting company. Remember that the DS Remaster is being handled by a different company.
Why would they skip 2 though? DS2 is a part of the serie as much as DS1 and DS3. Would be strange if they jumped directly from DS1 to DS3, in my opinion. And personally, i think DS2 is a great game. Its my most played Dark Souls game as well, played it for nearly 400 hours (that includes the DLC). I played up to New Game 7+ or something.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.
Not mad at FromSoftware but Namco Bandai is gonna milk this series dry. It's the same issue with DOTA and Valve's treatment toward it while neglecting their actual stuff.
I'm tired of waiting for a true Pac-Man World successor or a new Klonoa game. Use your actual shit and stop living off liscensed games and
slapping your name on games you have no hand in making. Dark Souls is this generations COD when it comes to coversaturization and fanbase alone.
So sick of Namco being too lazy to make their own shit anymore yet are willing to overrely on DS.
Not mad at FromSoftware but Namco Bandai is gonna milk this series dry. It's the same issue with DOTA and Valve's treatment toward it while neglecting their actual stuff.
I'm tired of waiting for a true Pac-Man World successor or a new Klonoa game. Use your actual shit and stop living off liscensed games and
slapping your name on games you have no hand in making. Dark Souls is this generations COD when it comes to coversaturization and fanbase alone.
So sick of Namco being too lazy to make their own shit anymore yet are willing to overrely on DS.
Nice. Would have held off buying Dark Souls 3 on Steam this holiday if I knew it was coming to Switch.
I only played the original on PS3 so this gives me a reason to try it again and if is good enough I might get the rest.
Glad to see more Switch support.
Glad to see more Switch support.
First time players. Ignore the bullshit and give Dark Souls 2 a fair shake. You owe it to yourselves.
I don't get why people complain about remasters? Not everybody had the opportunity to play on the last gen of systems or the money/desire to buy said generation now just to get these games. Remasters allow more people to experience the games.
It won't, just like it doesn't run Doom acceptably, but you'll all still buy it :P
Difference is that Doom ran at 60fps on console with dynamic resolution while DS3 dropped had drops below 30 on XB1.
When something is milked and overrelied on, Yes. Although admittedly a more fair comparison would be like how Valve slaps their name on DOTA to make their buck and is giving that franchise a special treatment while neglecting all their actual intellectual properties (aside from TF2 finally being updated again as of recently. Don't count on any proper new games for any of their IPs though)
Curious how they'd do DS3. I don't doubt it's possible, but wonder at what hit to the resolution and framerate.
Because it's a good game. Not nearly as good as DkS1, but then neither is DkS3.
Back in my day we dodged poison arrows and battled terrifying camera angles at 20 frames-per-second, and we liked it!
You know what games deserve actual remasters?
Pac-Man World 2
Klonoa 2
Games that are over 10 years old at this point.
I agree with you. I think all games should be made available to play on modern system if possible but, unfortunately, only some are. You shouldn't be mad over Dark Souls getting a remaster, only upset that Bamco is ignoring other good franchises.
I'm mad because Namco has overrelied on Dark Souls since 2011 by slapping their name on it and making money off it when they have jack shit to do with development. All they ever develop anymore is Tales and generic liscensed anime games.
This isn't exactly a surprise that there will be nor trilogy bundle. The Switch is not even a year old. You can't port 3 games of that size in that timeframe.
well, they're the publisher for Dark Souls, so...I don't know why you would want them in development with FROM?
every game that actually had fans and doesn't exist on a modern platform?
With most console companies taking the posture of future-proofing their system architectures, everything should be moved onto those architectures so they're available to new customers for years to come.
Klonoa 2 still hasn't seen a proper rerelease and Pac-Man World, despite it's fair popularity and being the thing that made people WANT Pac-Man in Smash 4 to begin with has been almost completely ignored by Namco Bandai.
As someone who is "people" and who wanted Pac-Man in Smash 4 but who never had and continues not to have any interest in Pac-Man World, you're putting an awful lot of words into my mouth.
It's not surprising that companies would start by porting their most popular titles first, then niche titles later when the audience has swelled.
Most people I have seen wanted the character due to his movesets in said trilogy.
A lot of other people simply didn't want him because they never knew about said games and simply knew him as a flat eyeless shape.
Pac-Man World wasn't the first time we saw a Pac-Man design that wasn't the classic sprite.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net..._Boxart.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20151225080042
Exactly, But moves and abilities were moreso the common factor. People who didn't play the World Trilogy thought he would be boring and simply just chomp enemies.
I don't really see how people not being very imaginative about Smash movesets now means that the character was only added because of his appearance in this one particular game and that therefore it deserves to be remastered.
Yeah that is definitely a concern for me and I'm sure many sacrifices will have to be made to get it to run acceptably on the Switch. The game may end up looking like Xenoblade Chronicles on the 3DS but we shall see...
I can.
They simply need to cull a ton of geometry and reduce the resolution of some assets (and disable some features).
The only thing that keeps it from being as fast as DS2 (it's the same engine) is the complexity of the world. Reduce that, and it would probably run on a toaster oven (just like DS2).
Well, Bloodborne (and DS3) runs on an upgraded version of the DS2 engine, so... yes?
It could look like Demon's Souls and it would be nice. And to be fair, the only thing I ask to the Dark Souls Switch is stable 30 fps.
if the lastest sales reports showed anything is that no, they didn't.
Anyway, maybe they are the one that wanted the 64gb cards to make the trilogy, but the delay made impossible to do it, so the are tickle down instead.
Well it's $40 and not $60 so I'll bite. That $20 makes a world of difference! Hope the other ports will be in that price range too