I mean it’s for sure underwhelming. I figured it was going to be like this once I saw the first footage about a month ago. Prominent Dark Souls players like Peeve were arguing with me saying it’s a big difference and that the PS4 and XB1 versions would be way different... but it seems I was right afterall.
Still going to get it for PvP purposes. To both play with friends who I never got to play it with and invade all the new plebs. But I would not at all fault anyone who passes on this. Seems incredibly lazy and disappointing, and in a sense disrespectful to the masterpiece. I’d say if you have little interest in PvP and already played the original, probably best to skip this one.
That said, won’t know 100% my opinion on this until I play it.
Yeah I hadn't seen footage till recently, I don't know what people could have been seeing in this to be feeling that this is of much higher quality, but I'm with you, definitely not seeing it myself.
People still PvP on the old one, and that's where they have all their sets and shit grinded out, so I'm wondering what the point in buying this for PvP will actually be. I guess it will bring a bump to the number of active players? And a restart to everyone's stats? I think within a month or two though people will be back near max, and the playerbase will have gone back to the same old people PvPing who were doing it before, except now with a community fractured between two games.
I agree, even if they weren't going to add any new areas, items, controls or balance the graphics really don't look objectively better. Some stuff looks better, some looks worse.
Also when I think of remastered, I think of addressing notable gameplay flaws if nothing else.
I was originally excited and granted I had perhaps too high of expectations thinking it would be more like how Scholar of the First sin was, but there's not enough incentive to get me to buy it again with the minimal effort/changes involved.
I'm a big Souls fan myself, and I was planning to buy this, but I guess I was expecting something a little more than the minimum. I'd have been happy with significantly better graphics and no gameplay changes, or just this semi-better graphics with gameplay updates, but I'm not so rabid for them that I'll pay $40 USD for what seems to be essentially nothing.
The review I saw recommended it as pretty much a decent purchase for new Souls players in 2018 but not for returning players, which seems a fair statement, but I'm not even sure it's that. Prepare to Die edition is half this price for the original experience, if my friends asked me I'd still be recommending that over this, why would I tell them to get this one?
All I can think of is maybe if I didn't have nostalgia for the first one, this remaster might look better than it currently does to me. No biggie I guess, just a remaster. That $40 price tag feels kinda rich though, some triple A games are released at that price point.
