Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition (PC Digital Download) $17.49 or less

How do you guys have time to play all these games? Aren't your backlogs just massive? I still haven't even played Final Fantasy X on PS2...

Quote from macschwag14 : Visit http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri and run the plugin. It will give you a good idea of if you can it and how well. Good luck!

All that program does is check your system against the back of the box requirements

Quote from kalrith : You lag comment concerns me. Can I play this game offline? I have satellite internet, which makes online gaming stink!

I would say dont worry, honestly the amount of people gaming on PC with this game is small. first of all you have to make a change in the game aka turn human in order to interact with any players online. So if you dont want to dont worry about it. Although I play the game looking for PVP I still would say about 70% of the time people fail to connect thats with ports forwarded and an open NAT with upnp enabled. Even if they do come in its not hard to beat people if your good at the combat system. Btw if you need any help check out my youtube channel Im doing a couple playthroughs on the game, and the one Im on now is thorough. youtube.com/thegenera1cs

This effin game sux!

Quote from darkonex : This effin game sux!

sounds like you just suck at the game

Quote from TheGeneralCS : sounds like you just suck at the game

Hes a troll, the game is a lot of fun its just very time consuming and very difficult. People who can't pick up a game and master it in 30 minutes hate this game. But for the rest of us its tons of fun!

Multiplayer is one of the best parts of this game honestly. It can be played single player but the interaction with friendly players for coop, or enemy players for PvP (person vs person) adds a whole other dimension to the game. I have the ps3 version so I cannot comment on how laggy or buggy the online play is for the PC version, but if it is seriously flawed, I would say get a console version. But if its not that bad then go for this deal if you don't have a ps3.

Quote from SuzukiDan7 : Hes a troll, the game is a lot of fun its just very time consuming and very difficult. People who can't pick up a game and master it in 30 minutes hate this game. But for the rest of us its tons of fun! Multiplayer is one of the best parts of this game honestly. It can be played single player but the interaction with friendly players for coop, or enemy players for PvP (person vs person) adds a whole other dimension to the game. I have the ps3 version so I cannot comment on how laggy or buggy the online play is for the PC version, but if it is seriously flawed, I would say get a console version. But if its not that bad then go for this deal if you don't have a ps3.

console has plenty of its own problems, blighttown lag in particular, long load times, locked frame rate, plus pc version comes with free DLC. the lag is due to non dedicated servers.

So is this game kind of like Ninja Gaiden Black in level of difficulty? Or much much harder?

Quote from macschwag14 : Visit http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri and run the plugin. It will give you a good idea of if you can it and how well. Good luck!

Thanks, gave it a spin. Said both my CPU and Video card don't make it. Then I tested for Sleeping Dogs ( which I run at 1280X720 and minimal video settings and works fairly well except with rain in car chases)
and it said CPU fail, but video card okay.

So, on my mediocre laptop (bought in 2012, sigh ) it probably won't run as well as Sleeping Dogs and would probably slow down to single digit FPS in major battles even at lowest settings.

Maybe I'll grab it next time around when I've got some hardware for it. I don't have an Xbox or Ps3 console, just the Wii for my kids. Not that I don't sneak in at night and play Monstor Hunter Tri & Goldeneye. :-). This current laptop is fairly okay on most 2011 major game releases, but Dark Souls is not one of them. Plenty enough games on my steam backlog, though, for now.

Looks like I have another EC code that I won't be using. Feel bad letting it go to waste, if anyone wants to send $12.50 through paypal I can send you the code for steam. It still also works for that windows arcade bundle and AoE III. So if anyone wants any of those let me know!

EDIT: Someone took me up on the offer, no longer available

So just to verify, does this validate on Steam?

Quote from dragonblade1214 : So just to verify, does this validate on Steam?

Yup, bought it a couple of hours ago, validated, and downloaded just fine

just chiming in to say this is a great game, very atmospheric, moody, challenging, rewarding, etc.

multiplayer on pc does seem to suck (gfwl or lag or something makes only 1/5 multiplayer attempts work for me), but you definitely do not need a friend to beat the game, and the game provides you with your own computer buddies anyway (\o/ praise the sun)

fwiw, i also found it okay to play with just a mouse and keyboard, although i did also grow up playing descent 1 on a keyboard.... anyway, the scheme is WASD as movement, IJKL as camera control, O as "z-targeting" from ocarina of time (and yes, you can tap it to center the camera behind you), and UH as strong and weak attack.

also, the game is hard because it requires patience, not because it is cheap and there are gear-checks or some nonsense like that. you can youtube some videos of lvl 1 characters with no equipment beating late game bosses...

Quote from shaosam : How do you guys have time to play all these games? Aren't your backlogs just massive? I still haven't even played Final Fantasy X on PS2...

You have no idea how massive my backlog is. I have games spanning from the PS3, 360, Wii U, and of course the PC that I haven't touched yet. At least half my console games haven't been open yet. I wish I didn't work so I can play all day