Dark Souls 2 downgrade full comparison 

"Perhaps you've seen it, maybe in a dream, a murky forgotten land"

I feel ya bro. Dark Souls 2 was the first(and only) pre-order I have ever got in my life. Nothing tops that sense of absolute despair I had when I saw the graphics and that shitty level design for the first time....... ;_;

Than*

Hey i watch your videos

LadyKraken Would you really rather have amazing graphics or good game performance?

You can do that in the game...just use a sweetfx mod

@@ash_1419 they actually banned people in the early days for using any type of shader mod. Stupid ass FromSoftware

@@ash_1419 sweetfx doesn't add dynamic lighting and shadowing. It's just a glorified filter

I think they should remove all mentions of women

honestly, this entire situation feels like a sonic unleashed situation that game looked way ahead of its time and they went for it, unfortunately it played like shit in a lot of areas and later sonic games made the graphics worse for playability ds2 had a similar fate except they never released the super good graphics.

yep u can make as high quality assets as u can but if lighting and shadowing isnt proper on scene this shit will look like 80s game

Yeah, that's why despite all the bs, I love ffxiii

Thats why a lot of people use minecraft shaders.

Lighting plays a huge factor. Just look at the first FEAR and Doom 3... Without lighting, the two games would look like absolutely dog shit smeared on a bathroom stall's wall.

I know that they removed the lightning because of performance issues, and the absence of Miyazaki as the director.

Preview - motion blur Blur all round Lighting and shadow FX Final product - No ambience Barely any lighting Less blur Higher fidelity of textures/higher resolution

No it doesn't, it just looks worse.

its brighter and more clear to see where your going. i do agree it looks worse but from a game play perspective i prefer the right.

It does, I want a mixture of both

I was thinking the same.

Bubble Double for real

Bubble Double and actually that's The reason for it was downgraded in The first place. Edit: i wonder if Low Spec Gamer worked with From Software (?

The original demo ran like shit so they had to follow that FPS boost guide you talked about.

It still won't run well because fromsoft can't make good pc ports.

Butter Butt actually The port for DS 2 Is pretty good, i can Run it my laptop with Intel graphics 4000 at 40 fps (in low qualtity sure) and without need of some External mod like ds fix. Now The port for DS 1 and 3 on The other Hand...

not even true, look at the giant sword at 5:00 the old quality is way better

Urm... i think its because the old one was still in beta?

the lighting was definetely better, not just artistically. However the rest was worse. I think they could not pull off that lighting on the old consoles

Noze I think they did it to be more fair. It’d be pretty bs if half the time you had to sacrifice a shield for a torch. It’d like if Tomb of the Giants was in multiple different areas. And they knew everyone hated that area, and likely why they made the new lighting more simple and fair

The old one had that Dark souls 1 look

huge reason why the bluepoint demon souls remake looks so good. the lighting improvement is incredible

@lelandrb Bluepoint ballsed the Demon's Souls lighting up much more than it improved it. Took away a lot of the fantasy lighting in favor of realism in more cases than improvement. In my opinion the best way to play Demon's Souls is on RPCS3 with the 60 fps patch and a simple resolution upscale.

@@420malbania4 if by "fantasy lighting" you mean "no lighting". pretty much every single from software, especially elden ring, has flat, neutral lighting. sometimes bright, sometimes dark. no surprise that adding lighting makes it more realistic

​@@420malbania4 the tower of latria is a great example. the prison is just drab yellow and green in the original, which is randomly cast from the walls, lol. the remake has the green be emitted by flickering, sinister torches. way more atmospheric

@@lelandrb Yeah I can't stand the lighting in ER most of the time. There is no bloom. Funnily enough, ER has a lot of that DS2 look to it. DS2 with just lightingengine and 4k textures looks really good though. Honestly ER graphics are a step backwards. Bluepoint not even being a developer of the original game, still has the most next gen looking Souls game, and by extension, Fromsoft game.

Raider2k not really. The only time you will use it is in the boss fight to lock on and that's it. The area resets and so do the torches which makes them useless.

Raider2k Lost Sinner

Promant something tells me you never found the key that lets you light up oil ducts on both sides outside the bosses room. It turns the lights on in there so you dont have to waste room in your inv with a torch

Mark Franco Of course I found that key. Where did you get that idea from? You asked which boss, I just answered. You can lock on the Sinner from further distance if you have torch, but you can use it (the torch, not Sinner ;) )to light up lamps aswell, what pretty works the same.

Xcho you do though. Many enemies react to fire and you need it to light several darker areas. At least in SotFS.

GloryToStan Well they could have upgraded it in the new gen systems but NOOOO...

I imagine it's hard to take assets from a gameplay reveal and use them to make an upgraded version of a game you've already made with different assets. Seriously though, there is so much more to doing that that it's absurd

I rather have the later version with 60 FPS than the E3 version at 25-30 FPS on current gen consoles. I think they made a wise decision.

AJ Singh I don't give two shits about fps when it comes to third person. I don't think they've made a good decision at all.

ak so K

final product is to light hearted, to many lit areas

Sownheard mgp

Dark souls 2 is an arcade game

I gotta put on sunglasses every time I go to majula or iron keep. Fucks sake From

well it wasn't friendly to me first time I've played it

This needs more likes

Soxer lol

i still want to play the game on the left

Not really possible.

Shane everything does

Ah yes, my favourite game franchise.....Souls

Lucas Montero Actually by removing all the dark in the game they removed all the heart and SOUL the game has so now it’s just called... Man? Sword Man?

The only true “Souls” title

How true

@@lucasmontero1456 And if you play offline it's the new movie: Soul.

Everything is insipired by dark souls if you look hard enough.

Karmic Lucke “if you look hard enough you are dark souls” - IGN

lmao good one

This is the Dark Souls of the comments

This is truly The Dark Souls of reviews

And the fact that they disappear as time goes on

@Zoe Kin Don't blame consoles for downgrading a game, are you saying that they removed lightning and dark places to be console compatible? Lol

@@leoortiiiz Yes, many other games have had to change their original vision to be able to be run on consoles. It would make since that consoles caused this as pc can easily handle it.

@@DukeoftheAges The creator of the mod that fixes the lightning said that it's because the game was rushed and made crossgem

@OX XY ds2 was originally supposed to be a ps4, xbox one game. But there were problems during development and bandai namco got annoyed so they fired the director and told the new one to release the game for ps3 and xbox 360 and way earlier than it was originally planned to release. So yeah the game wasn't meant to be cross gen, only current gen. So despite wanting to shit on consoles like a typical redditor, the problem was that the game was rushed and had a new director half way through development. That's why a lot of areas in the final game are connected in such weird ways (you know, elevator up the sky). They had already made those levels but didn't have time to connect them properly

It was probably to optimize its performance. I remember this game ran smooth af

Sadly the game came out for the ps3 when the ps4 was already out, while most of the studio was working on an actual ps4 exclusive game. they didn't want to deliver laggy game again and had to remove all of the lighting system in the process, They could've revived it fot sotfs but didn't bothered to.

Nah. People didn't care that DS3 downgraded their lighting to DS1 levels

Huge Hombre lighting doesn't matter in the slightest, in fact, the pre-release version looks unplayable

Willy et scientia your opinion is bad.

Twilight princes for the GameCube had better lighting, until it was washed out in the wii u version. Hope Skyward sword doesn't get the same treatment

Are there any mods which make ds2 look like riginal

TriggeredSaiyan he comments in the title and description with clear bias, fuck do you mean?

that his "bias" is actually supported by the content of the video, he doesnt need to add any stupid obvious commentary or over the top humor to appeal or some shit.

some of his content are usually saturated on the worst possible case of the topic but then again, truth is truth, no matter which part you shine the lights on

but he does, which he does in the description and title, not the video. he does it to create a false sense of neutrality that’s somewhat passive aggressive, like FOX or MSNBC.

Marvin Butler II oh fuck off. Hes presenting an argument and backing it with visual evidence. His bias is clear and understood that he sees these changes as a negative. You as a living, thinking human should be able to understand this and still accept his evidence as true enough reason to think negatively of this practice. If the fact that game developers lie makes you so butthurt maybe you should go see what its like to work as one in this industry.

lol good comment

Let's now talk about the superior game: Shrek Super Slam.

Holy fuck, you're absolutely right

Doesn't even look remotely like it

Good call 👍

Make places that are supposed to be dark darker Upgrade graphics so it won't look like it's upscaled PS2 game, the game looks so crispy... in the worst way Imagine making a game that looks better and worse at the same time

Hence, the balanced lighting of Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3, and even Sekiro.

all this because consoles suck. if they released this one on pc, the console players would cry because theirs look way inferior. we all have to receive the same product. in that case - a worse product

@@martinivanov1319 Didn't Dark Souls 2 release on PS3? Probably why

@@royolaniye6643 idk, ps5 is the first time consoles are powerful tho. previous playstations always have been weak(can barely hold 30 fps on ultra low) compared to pc hardware when they came out. this is the first time that games can actually advance in performance, visuals and physics because everything is made with ps in mind and this time ps isnt weak

thank god the gutter exists

no, fuck the gutter.

Why, exactly? There were better lighting effects in some games made before 2008...

its not how good it looked, its how it was utilized, without torches you could barely see ahead of you, but with torches you could light up the place and from the 1st bonfire you could see these lights which were the torches you had lit up, probs the most original area in the game

@@TheSpyChecker there was better lighting effects in 1998, in Unreal

Salokin You're right This upload is shit

roasty toasty you are not even trying to hide the massive butthurt

He definitely has a talent for riling up crowds.

I don't think getting called a nerd under a crowbcat video counts as an insult

it's almost like content cop, but less beef, just facts

It'sAGundam hello there mate just finished watching one of your videos

ReShade is my butt buddy.

Problem is these shader mods doesn't have the proper art direction nor the proper implementation to be highly optimized on the level that these development teams can make them.

+Blag Cog Agreed. They are, however, amazing tools. SweetFX, especially the older versions, is ridiculously easy to tweak and you can make the game look however you want once you've learn which effects do what. We'll never have E3 DS2, but being able to apply "my" own post-processing to games is both fun to do and look at afterwards.

mods don't fix a shit game.

Facts. Dark Souls 2 just seems way to bright and dark at some times. It would’ve have been really cool to see realistic lighting in the game. I bet they removed that feature because they thought it would piss off a lot of casuals.

@@Jmoney10000 pretty good for an excuse but no the dude here lied with a straight face for reasons that he knows , probably orders from the previous director who by the way is now replaced by the better man .

@@taroken8846 What is shown is a genuine build of DS2 running. Its just that the Ps3 and 360 would never be able to handle the lighting they initially showed off.

@@armando1is1great No, it could. The beta version (2013) of Dark Souls 2 has this lightning effects, the frame rate was like 25-30fps. The retail version is like 35-40fps.

@@armando1is1great fromsoft always has perfomance issues on their games even on high end hardware such a shame

Nani??

except it's not an upgraded texture, I don't get where people are saying the comparison on the right has upgraded textures at all. The only reason any of the textures on the right look better is because they are comparing a capture from an IGN video of a 360 game to a PC port so of course certain things will look clearer.

@@Jaqen-HGhar except the game as a whole used to have much better lighting with dark rooms you had to take slow and methodically now it's bright as hell with no need for a torch throughout the entire game. In an atmospheric game, lighting is everything and they ruined it

Wait why they removed the monsters in the new one what ? 🤦‍♂️ why they downgrade it ....

@@jaheim123 i know its late but the Game Development was Hold 2 years Too Early also and PS3's then cannot run the pre release because the fps is extremely low

@@jaheim123 They didn't remove the lizards dumbass, there's just less of them so they're not impossible to fight.

jethical b15 The media is the Dark Souls of Earth.

Dark Souls is basically the Dark Souls of the Dark Sous franchise.

Dark souls is like Cuphead but in 3d

Cupdhead is like 2D Dark Souls

dan c Darksouls, the Cuphead of videogames

and it still does !! Seeing the old DS2 also reminds me of demon's souls. It uses lighting very well

The textures thing is bullshit excuse. Splinter Cell Blacklist on 360 comes with an optional hd texture pack. Which looks a hell of a lot nicer then the textures in this game. The 360 could've done better, the devs just can't make a good looking game.

It's not the Scholar of the First Sin at all, enemy placement isn't the same.

Scholar of the first sin looks a shitton better

someguy2351 yeah i don't think the footage on the right is from scholar

someguy2351 on video it is not the remaster

Prosper Kelley Underrated comment

lol that's what I was thinking, I was gonna write "Is it just me or is Dark Souls 2 too bright?"

Prosper Kelley OH SNAP!

Prosper Kelley Now o get The sentence From The Herald: ''To See LIGHT...'' (?

Lite Souls

Nikola B What does that do?

god tier comment

lowspecgamer approves

Is this a joke, or do they have it labeled "downgrade" in the settings txt?

I wish

I don't think that is the case. Other areas that need to be dark are kept dark. Like drangleic castle and such. Cardinal tower having less light doesnot even make much sense. Theres fire from down below near the fireball lizards location. Lighting up the whole area near it.

irvanCrocs I mean it's dark souls, right?

Ernest Mil what if its just a mod for cuphead?

All From Software games are the same

Looks like a Minecraft ripoff to me :/

*just like dark souls* get it??

Don't let this distract you from the fact RigeGum owns the clown 10 grand.

I have no words for how much I love both of your comments

RowdyRamen Kun So wait are souls from Dark Souls 62 cents each?

Jesus fucking Christ, you got me off guard.

Just looking at the first area they showed off I immediately saw why they gave you a torch off the bat. To bad that we never got to FUCKING USE IT. Even in some of the darkest areas of the game, I never found myself needing to use a torch like I did when I was in TOTG. It's sad that just the lighting alone would've made this game look so much prettier.

yeah what I thougth has well, hopefully you can activate the old lighting or mod it so it has the same feeling

SkyNinja759 The textures are way shittier too.

Wow, cannot use the torch now. What a big deal... Don`t confuse challenge with poor gameplay mechanics. You think people would have fun fighting against enemies which you can`t see where their attacks are coming from or where you can run to evade them? What about suddenly dying by an attack or enemy you didn`t see? Sure, the game had a downgrade, but the gameplay improved. You could argue they could make good graphics without the super dark contrast, but that`s unrelated to the comparison and intention of this video. Good graphics don`t equal good gameplay. For a better understanding of this, go watch videogamedunkey`s video called "Bad Graphics".

fuck you fanboy

Have you played both of them?

"Low texture resolutions is a fine price to pay and easily remastered" This is the fucking problem we have with games nowadays. We just expect them to be fixed by remasters instead of looking good when they come out. Also, what are you talking about? People bitch about the low quality textures in DS2 release.

@@iloveyoushima You can just tell by the demo, the door frames in the demo look WAYYY better. especially the pillars when player goes down the ladder. You can see it in the side-by-side comparison in the video.

P R A I S E \[T]/

Your brain was trying to help you. Who still gives a shit about this good lord

evangelism It isn't bad. People jusylt make it out to be so.

@multideivas Yeah, I disagree it was fucking bad. They spend almost the entire demo highlighting the lighting system and how much it adds to the game, with it ending up being removed right before release. Not to mention the texture downgrade, particle effects, reflections as well.

@ballin People who care about the video game industry for more than just 'muh madden and 2k'

LUL

Some Prick can't wait till next year for the ds3 comparison

Except we were notified of the changes with DS3 because there was live betas.

Some Prick How?

^Woosh

I love you videos! (classic comment)

Indeimaus Top 10 dark souls 2 light sources video.

Indeimaus "darn"

Holyshit you watch crowbcat! We must connected (*_*)

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That's me but with Skyrim and how few areas are dark enough to use a torch or light spell. Lighting as part of gameplay, can be very interesting at times and I like games that explore more of it.

@@cherrygrabber7172 Making magelight relevant would really be a boon to spellsword characters. Having a lantern option for two-handed ungabunga warriors that can't cast anything would be cool too. I'll write this down on my game design notebook.

@@luizhenriquebraunermoraes3175 Me lighting a match in a dark cave, Falmer surrounding me; was cool while it lasted, near the Snow Elf Temple.

@@cherrygrabber7172 Falmer would be a really good choice for a creepy dark cave. Their whole lore was made specifically for dark places, even though I hate low visibility, I think it was a waste to put mushroom lightbulbs everywhere in their biomes lol

jippalippa when i go back and llay the first DS there is an atmosphere that DS2 just never had. DS2 just feels like a land with no Soul.

Jordan Myers Ahhhhh ahaha he, get it? No SOUL?!?!?

PotatoizedRock *laughs in skeletor

So fucking shit

That was supposed to be the game. You know, tactical?

@@hatskeleton635 eye strain is not tactical.

teehundeart that comeback was actually pretty good lol

@@teehundeart Tactical eye strain deployed! We'll get 'em next time.

@@Yawyna124 Frigid Loyce sends regards.

Its because Miyazaki didn't direct the game

It’s entire combat and hitbox system needs reworking tbh

@@RCD97-hm5mv This is quite misleading, since the second director was a very competent guy. If they had him from the start the game in my mind could be exceptional.

It really doesn't. Dark Souls 2 was a cash in by FromSoft and Namco. It's a mess with some interesting ideas, but ultimately boring levels and uncreative, repetitive bosses. Trying to improve it would be to greatly overhaul most of the game.

@@Pan_Z it has arguably the best pvp in the series

Noche de Juegos best comment

F1rsttime_online _burn_

Ubisoft has only downgraded games when asked to by fans.

Killer Ubisoft has already touched these graphics.

Ubisoft is Older than all of you filthy subhuman imbeciles , they downgraded a game or two because of console peasantry now it's all " oooh ubisoft downgrades oooh " shut the fuck up !

LOOOOOOOL

consoles happened

@@Zamalshkay STFU part 1 original was on console

Zamal don't blame console for shitty game designers

@@Jon_1996. it was consoles who caused this downgrade cause it couldn't go beyond 10 fps on ps3 so yes, console is to blame for this pathetic display;

Alexander Verjans I'm not defending consoles but if FromSoft had actual good designers and programmers they could've work around it. But no they shit out this abomination of a game

Do you know the release day?

Energize_r No one knows yet.

Dammit, I’m also finish with DS1 remastered and I don’t want to play DS2 with graphics like that

@@julianas.3352 I think you'll get used to it just like i did

@@julianas.3352 Imagine playing dark souls games for the graphics lol wtf?

Bruce 'We want this to be the Dark Souls of FPS games'

Content cop of video games

Bruce Crowbcat is the final boss of youtube

He is a scumbag. Dunkey will punch him

I don't want to break the 666 likes lol.

How do we know crowbcat isn’t a girl? Might not be a dude...might not even be human

🤯

I can't look cause now i'm Blind

Oh no, a moment of the game that will hardly be noticed and isnt even important is repeated, this is the most pressing issue of this game

This cracked me up hahahahaha

@@mooganify It was a valid point tho since it repeats itself multiple times through-out the game, your sarcastic comment can't ignore that fact

Truly the best souls game, b team perfecting the genre...

On what grounds?

coffee

*Dark souls 2 is the Bloodbourne of the dark souls genre

Cody Grounds Cause it's tough as nails boi

I can't disagree with this.

BeerMeJesus this comment is like the whole video but in words

Dark Souls? More like, Cheery Spirits.

beer me jesus

That’s a brilliant observation! It would have been interesting to see how the game turned out if they stuck with that idea.

@Я не знаю как говорить по-русски a few rooms?🤔

Wulfgraar nobody noticed

I am definitely second-guessing my preorder now.

They should compare DS2 lighting vs DS3 lighting to see you can downgrade your game between sequels

@Ldybug Good lighting would be something like the Metro series, DS lighting is average at best from the tech available.

Darnefergitu Dark Souls 2 is the Dark Souls of Dark Souls games

Go to dollarshaveclub.com/official for the dark souls of shaving products

Dark Souls 2 is the last proper Souls game. Use SweetFX and you fixed the downgrade, apart from that its outstanding in every aspect mostly. Stuff that Dark Souls 3 can't touch due to it being entirely broken by mechanics sadly. Dark Souls 2 had so much more details and build variety while Dark Souls 3 dont has any of it anymore and has overall way less content with DLCs that are too short, overpriced and that are breaking the game even more, the last DLC in particular. Adding new weapons that straight up outclass anyother, 10/10

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Incorrect. Demon's Souls is the Dark Souls of action games.

DS3 didn't lie when they downgraded their lighting to DS1 level and people slurp it up. Why try to improve things if people will look at you with more critical eyes?

@@fnd2583 Really, they downgraded DS3? Well, Im sure it wasn't pathetic, like DS2 since I didn't notice a difference between the trailers and the game.

@@yeahwellthatsjustlikeyouro7466 They ditched a major feature from Dark Souls 2 like dynamic lights from torchs, you would notice it if you took the time to compare the graphics and features between sequels (as it should be, trailers and previews are bs propaganda as far back in early 2000, that's why i rarely watch them)

@@fnd2583 Dynamic lightning? In DS2? Torches? Even in the "darkest" locations in the game like the Gultch torches weren't necessary. And the only deceptive trailers I've come across are Ubisoft trailers (which I don't gave a damn about since I don't buy those) and Dark Souls 2. (This one did hurt)

@@yeahwellthatsjustlikeyouro7466 Torches where useful in some places(not much tho', blame the level designers but the potential was there), but it's more about graphical features (which is the main point off all the people complaints in regards to DS2). Torches and a lot of light sources in DS3 doesn't cast shadows like DS2 does(the exception is some static bonfires), there is even a dumb feature of stripping the main character of his own shadow if he is hollow(good job making the game uglier). I don't care that much about trailers, but sequels stripping good features from their predecessors pisses me off much more.

We're sitting in the middle of a horrible pandemic and fascist uprising and all I can think about on the toilet is "the dark souls 2 visual and tonal downgrade was a fucking disaster!"

@@operandassembler "fascist uprising" Take your meds schizo

Imma take this thing with me till the grave man

@@c.f9448 stop huffing that Copium, weirdo

@@MatPost it just how big of a disappointment it was

Atomsk ThePirateKing agreed

+Atomsk ThePirateKing I would agree, but dark souls 2 was supposed to add the "torch" mechanic. Therefor I think the "demo" version is better as more areas = more usage of the torch.. Not like im saying youre wrong, its just an opinion thing!

Niggas u blind final looks like PS2 emulator first looks like Bob vegana

i dont think u ever played any ps2 games also pretty sure this guy just has his brightness too high

Atomsk ThePirateKing agreed

J Victor comparing Dark Souls difficulty to Cuphead is pretty retarded

Shhh just let him him keep that mentality....

J Victor nice profile pic!!! Don't see enough of them

I see that Brand New avatar.

What?

Dynamics and layered textures are harder to run.

xD

Minifridge this comment Is The Dark Souls of Crash Bandicoots

Hilarious and original

Minifridge wtf is cuphead

Minifridge ok this is weird I seem to see you in every comment section of EVERY video I watch so what is going on here

Salokin Nah. Not even close. This is one occurrence compared to Ubisoft's repeated offenses.

Somebody always have to put down ubisoft huh, cause that totally fair...

Berzerk Llama Siege, Watch Dogs, Division, I think that's it but I don't know.

Feakasso it's their fault.

it is totally fair which is why it is sad

Except for 360 and PS3, man that game has a terrible framerate and screen tearing, specially on PS3

The pros of having a huge wallet but not soul.

DS2 ran horrible on PS3 and 360

bloodborne doesn't run well but it's actually a good game. And ds3 runs pretty well on low budget builds on pc.

​@@mikemiles2241 I call cap, it doesn't. Even has fucked up hitboxes.

You could've delivered that yourself with SweetFX/Reshade to restore those lighting settings actually. Not your job but hey its a workaround that works well at least.

@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi Wish I could have, but I'm not a PC player. That mod does look good though! I knew dsfix was a thing on the first game, but I didn't know one existed for DS2.

@@Mick-hp4yg Its not dsfix basically but simply a sweetfx/reshade preset that reverts the lighting to E3. Not fully but surely 90% closer to it~ and yeah thats why I love PC you can sort out problems yourself sometimes :3 Playing like that makes the areas feel so much better because you play them the way they were intended to do

@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi Yeah, it's high time I get a PC. Last time I splurged I picked PS4 because of bloodborne, but I don't know if the demons souls remake is worth buying a PS5 for.

@@Mick-hp4yg I personally find it sad that they still go for such shady strategies to give people a reason to buy a console, I expected that to be over considering how much they praised the PS5s specs. I just dont get it why making an exclusive for no reason, I mean it would've not been hard for them to port bloodborne or Demon Souls to PC as they did before /= Its a real shame, I would've loved it to have played Bloodborne too x.x

DammitSinged What the fuck is a crowent?

I think Crowtent Cop would be better.

reference to a youtube series "content cop"

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@@beetheimmortal ay but is still have souls in it heart atleast it not platstic souls remastered

@@k54maclosky97 Indeed

@Benghazi gaming Its annoying

It's called Dark Souls for a reason. Also darkness in a compressed stream always looks harsher.

@@ExterminationVideos yeah but Dark souls would have to sacrifice one playstyle

Casuls.. You realize you are one of the reasons they changed the lightning? People cried in the testing, they are afraid of the dark , and being at a disadvantage and forced to get even gooder and adapt to a situation affecting the person behind the screen is annoying for some people that want it easy. I like the dark , it adds a whole new dimension to the gameplay and force you to be even more careful instead of just rushing everything and going pass the mobs and challenges like some pussy likes to do..Ofc in those situation you want to see , nobody likes not seeing, we are like that in real life..When want the informations , we dont like unkown..WE dont like the dark..its incomfortable even in games , as if it is constantly missing something or constantly at a disadvantage. But when you start to see it from a gameplay perspective , and part of the game and challenge , instead of your own little desire , its actually enjoyable. See difficulties in game are a strange thing. We dont want it to be difficult , we like to succed. but not enough difficulty while we succed everytime , doesnt gives us that certain feeling of accomplishment.. ,Even if the game can make us rage , its actually because of that , that we likes it so much. Being forced to go through what we dont want to go through. Being forced into the uncomfortable , and getting out of that byu desire to be better is almost what characterise the darksouls special feeling. Deepdown.

@@baronnashor158 dude, stop lying lmao. They changed the lighting because the engine couldnt handle it, not because of "casuals". Stop spreading misinformation to try to cover for this mess of a game (i like the game btw, but its a poorly designed mess)

3 years of japanese back in highschool but I forget.. is baka pig or fool?

The upgrade isn't that good

And "buta", ironically and randomly enough, is Hungarian for "stupid".

What's the process on Skyrim

1un4cy sell the game in 2003 > re-sell the game in 2008 > re-sell the game in 2011 > remaster the game in 2017

And they're doing it in these very comment sections. Dark Souls fanboys are right up there with Blizzdrones when it comes to delusion.

It's almost like aesthetic is a completely subjective topic that there is no right answer to.

Breh. Are you serious? The left objectively looks way fucking better. It has more advanced effects and better atmosphere. You can clearly see that the game was built around the darkness, but had to be downgraded last minute at 2:30 when the guy goes to pick up the torch. The torch is absolutely useless in the final version because the game is missing lighting effects.

Sketchy West117 Its not subjective because both iterations are trying to go for the same design philosophy. Its just that the left one achieved that visual philosophy much better. If we were discussing between two different styles of design in a game then yes, its subjective. But this video showcases texture resolution, polygons, pixel shading, lighting, geometry, etc. All of which are technical. ALL OF WHICH ARE QUANTITATIVE. Thus, its objective.

I mean they upgraded nearly as much as they downgraded.

im dead

Execpt Watchdogs' downgrade was way worse.

Lmao!

except watchdog downgrade is huge as hell and this seems like lighting is the main reason it looks like a downgrade.... look at 4:51 man do the old version look crappy

leonthesleepy Yeah by it runs smoother than any game I've ever played on my PC, where Dark souls 1 and3 run at 20 fps on my PC

leonthesleepy but you forgot that ds2 came out in ps3 with A better framerate than ds3 on ps4.

You can blame the consoles for that.They downgrade the graphics with every game to maintain a stable fps on consoles

leonthesleepy I like the scaled down version more.

ZOMBIE It's not the consoles fault, it's the developers who don't put it on PC 1st and downgrade it from there

this, i always will prefer gameplay over atmosphere.

@@MigBaez Dark Souls 2 has no atmosphere, because it has 2007 lighting. The only place that looks nice is Majula, where as DS3 and DS1 had beatiful scenery everywhere. The game would at least have SOME with the original lighting. It's okay if they toned it down a bit, that makes sense for gameplay, but they didn't have to remove it.

@@gu3z185 If you say so lol. (Keeps enjoying the scenery of Heide' Tower of the flame, Drangleic castle and other places along their hommies who keep praising it via orange sign soapstones).

@@gu3z185 I have a lot of friends with visual disabilities and functional eyes who think the same. The graphical change was necessary as the ones in the first game lack horridly of contrast, graphically speaking Dark Souls 1 aged a lot in terms of optimizatiom and graphical playability, its graphics although interesting these are physically tiring (after a while my eyes get watered down and pink when i'm forced to grasp in the environment). By other hand a lot of areas are full of framedrops that forced the fandom to depend on mods like Dsfix to do something about, in that mod to increase performance you need to sacrifice those graphical enchancenents. Not even Dark Souls Remastered fixes a lot of those problems as you require a pc with a lot of RAM even if you have a DX11 graphics card and the contrast is still bad (and to think those motherf*ckers of namco removed PtdE from sales in general thinking the ramastered could replace it). I don't have issue with Dark Souls 3 in the graphic gameplay sense BUT that's what you you'd expect after two games, even though its optimization is as crappy as in ds1 even for console versions, i blame the shading in part of that too. Dark souls 2 is very good in both of those aspects: 2nd place in being visually approachable (imo) and 1rst place in being affordable for low spec gaming.

May be they could put a look in the middle for DSII (considering the existence of games like Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2 which has good shading and optimization) but you have to consider the developers were missing time at the end to rethink the shading from the scratch. things like performance would have been sacrificed and i'm thankful they weren't.

MrNotSpecified Someone already commented this.

Stolen Comment

It's not necessarily stolen. The odds of someone commenting this is probably higher than average, due to this joke being kinda overused.

this is like the dark souls of comments

The Dark Souls of stolen comments?

Crowbat.

CrowbCat* but yeah true.

KnowYourMeme wants the joke back

its the Dark souls of jokes.

Yeah right, the game is already a joke that's it's so hard to make a joke

*knock, knock* "Who's there?" "Dark." "Dark who?" "Dark Souls." "Oh, really? That's funny because my name is Dark Souls 2." Sorry, but that's the best I can do.

I just saw you make a flyro comment 2 fucking minutes ago

vtastek its a shame since this series already had a big fan base they didn’t need to make something to drag more people in and then lie to the entire group...im sure if they just showed something of the right it would have been fine but this isn’t the first ( and probably not the last) time this kind of thing has happened

Salty Kenny KENNY

=-= roumaji is the worst

b o k k u m a n 牛頭 Watashi wa mata, watashi wa chōdo gūguru toransurēta ni tawagoto o nyūryoku shi, sore ga hakidasu randamuna clusterfuck o kopī shite hari tsukeru nihongo o yomu koto ga dekimasen.

Salty Kenny Why is this written in roumaji

b o k k u m a n 牛頭 We yes I'm studying it, so don't make random assumptions. You're the elitist here

what makes you think that

maybe the fact that there is a graphical difference between the 2 versions of footage? can you not see it? +Childish Calvino

they're definitely lying. he said in the video about graphic upgrade from ds1 which completely untrue

Med jed pfft, yeah... surely...

I remember back then that they promised that the game was going to have next-gen graphics. I mean don't get me wrong, i'm sure gameplay is much more important than having just prettier graphics. However, if you're developer and if you make a promise to the fans, then you can't break it. Just look at what happened to Mighty No. 9.

scholar of the first sin has both

Crow b cat, or Crowb cat?

It's crowb cat. The be stands for brandon, Crowbcat's real name is brandon.

João Paulo Brazil fuck ya chicken strips!

#ricegumisabitch

I always read it as "crow b cat"

Nickanator58 No it's not dumb ass Calling this game Cup-like is like calling TF2 an Overwatch clone

DatGameh you call me the dumbass yet you can't see the joke in it lol

"It's cuphead with swords" -IGN

Nickanator58 You actually missed the actual joke in my comment.. canine esperanza Then what does that make you?

Nickanator58 He was also making a joke

ThomasTheLuckyGamer lols

thegreatcalvinio Here comes the money!! (8)

dunkey bird

am i the only one who read that in dunkey's voice

Mastapeece!

It's SUPAH MAWIO BRUDDAS 2!!!!

Oh man, fancy seeing you here lmao.

Touche.

kinda looks like shit on both versions tbh

the graphics are better on the released version, only the light effects were much better

Chaosian01 released version looked way better 10:28