The PC’s unique ‘Prepare To Die’ version of Dark Souls will probably be faraway from sale on STeam tomorrow, forward of the launch of the mildly fancier Remastered version, so purchase now if you’d like it for posterity. Folks who personal Prepare To Die will get a 50% low cost on Remastered, however that’ll nonetheless work out costlier, so the rationale to purchase now could be to have the outdated model. Why may you need that when you’ve gone nearly six years with out it? Ah, effectively, y’know, I don’t know the mysteries of your thoughts. Perhaps that is the ultimate prod it’s good to try some bizarre mod you noticed. Or maybe you gather delisted Steam video games? People.
Dark Souls: Remastered isn’t massively modified over the unique, sharpening up textures, fancying up lighting, and making minor tweaks together with including Dark Souls III-style password matchmaking, constructing an additional bonfire close to the skeletal blacksmith, rising the web participant restrict to 6, letting folks pop a load of consumables in a single go, and such. Couple that with built-in assist for decision choices that needed to be modded into Prepare To Die and yeah, indicators are that it’s in all probability the model you’ll wish to play.
But perhaps you do need the unique. This is RPS’s official best RPG, in spite of everything. It’s a high quality piece of historical past in an business which tends to, uh, pull historical past from sale so it will probably promote a mildly improved new model. And Remastered might but prove to have some iffy modifications. We don’t know if all of the bizarre mods will even work with Remastered both. Hey, I’m simply right here to cross alongside the knowledge.
Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition is £20/€20/$20 on Steam. It will probably be faraway from sale on Steam tomorrow, Wednesday the ninth, although it would in fact stay in gamers’ Steam libraries and be downloadable and playable. And keys purchased from third-party websites will nonetheless work, obvs. Dark Souls: Remastered is approaching May 25th; when you personal Prepare To Die on Steam, you’ll get a 50% low cost.
