Share on:The newly remastered Dark Souls PC edition has avoided many pitfalls of the classic “Prepare to Die” version.Dark Souls wasn’t exactly something PC fans got excited about at launch. The featured poor keyboard controls, a nonadjustable resolution, and various other problems the modding community needed to fix.

The good news is that Dark Souls Remastered seems to have avoided many of these problems, raising the experience to be on par with the console versions.This report comes courtesy of DigitalFoundry, who published a video comparing the remastered game with the Prepare to Die and the Xbox One X editions. Right from the start, you can adjust your in-game resolution, and UI and HUD elements will render natively at the option you select. And that’s not getting into options like buffering, motion blur, and anti-aliasing, which are also included.

While there aren’t quite as many options to tweak as hardcore PC players are used you, comparative videos do show this is a vast improvement on Dark Souls Prepare to Die.The video descends into technical jargon moving forward, so you watch it for full details. The main summary is simple: Dark Souls Remastered doesn’t have much in the way of new content, but offers superior post-processing options. On the one hand, this means casual players will have a much better experience loading the game onto their system and jumping in right away. On the other, players who prefer to tweak their systems for highest performance aren’t going to gain as much of a benefit as you might hope.Thankfully, these options do ensure that Dark Souls Remastered is the best looking version of the game on PC, even if you can’t tweak everything you’d like. And perhaps that’s enough, especially if you’re a fan who avoided Prepare to Die.Perhaps the few criticisms DigitalFoundry has will be patched at a later date. Until then, as always, try not to die.

Last year, Dark Souls mastermind his twisted action role-playing series complete with the launch of its Ringed City DLC. Now, Bandai Namco and From Software have revealed the original game is being remastered—set to land on PC later this year.Announced at this afternoon's Nintendo Direct Mini, Dark Souls: Remastered aims to let players 'experience the rich world of Dark Souls in upscaled 4K resolution with 60FPS', so says the game's publisher in a statement. Similar to the PC's Prepare to Die edition, this reinvention also comes with the base game's Artorias of the Abyss DLC in tow.As you may recall, the 2012 PC port of Dark Souls' original console variation, and was described as 'strictly a port from the console version' at the time. The second game's producer Takeshi Miyazoe later admitted in a bid to serve players as quickly as possible, something underscored by a self-confessed 'lack of experience of working on a PC platform'.To this end, Durante's DSFix, among a number of other performance-adjusting mods, have since become essential installs for PC players—to the point where I myself find it hard to remember the original port pre-modification.

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With this in mind, I wonder how much Dark Souls: Remastered can improve what many PC players now enjoy as standard.In any event, Dark Souls: Remastered is due May 25, 2018.Lordran beckons. #NintendoSwitch #Playstation4 #XboxOne #PCgaming pic.twitter.com/mShA6tbqmU.

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