One of the most challenging games ever made gets an updated PC version.
Do you remember when video games were obscenely hard? Do you remember when games where so hard that you needed tips and tricks that could only be found on magazines?
"Online features for the PC version of Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin (DX11) have been reactivated.
Online features for the base version of #DarkSouls II for PC (DX9) will be made available at a later date.
Our thanks for your continued patience and support."
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition saw the Souls series debut on PC 10 years ago today, alongside Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 re-releases.
Still use it as my go to on Steam, but I will never make the mistake of booting it up without mods ever again.
And it was garbage.
Luckily it was easily fixed by a modder who actually wanted a good product to be sold to people.
Dark Souls tweets: "PvP servers for Dark Souls 3, Dark Souls 2, and Dark Souls: Remastered have been temporarily deactivated to allow the team to investigate recent reports of an issue with online services.
Servers for Dark Souls: PtDE will join them shortly.
We apologize for this inconvenience."
"In terms of story though, the game doesn't offer much"
I highly (respectfully), disagree. It's not your typical story showed to you in cutscenes and speech (though there is still cutscenes and speech). It's a story you need to find on your own, and those who care enough about the game like myself, will tell you so much about the story in both games, that you would have never known by just playing the game normally. I, along with the die hard fans, have done extensive research about what each piece of dialogue really means, more understanding of the cutscenes etc.. Each boss has their own back story that the game doesn't tell you about, or most of the bosses anyways. There is such a huge story in these games, and when you put in the time to learn it, it's quite incredible, and deep. Some may prefer to get the entire story in the game itself, and I think I do as well. But I don't mind how From Software does it, I enjoy reading about my favorite games on the internet, getting a better understanding of them and so forth.