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[smaug]

Is Demon Souls worth playing?

The original, yes. The remake? Hell, no!

?The remake is great. Drop dead gorgeous and 60 frames with instant load times.

 

[gabel]

And butchered art style everywhere.

 

[KIss My Ass]

Is Demon Souls worth playing?

The original, yes. The remake? Hell, no!

Oh piss off fork. The remake is great.

For those not in the know fork tried to get a tranny to stay at his parents house and fuck his dog. His opinions can't be trusted. Just a little bit of codexian lore for you.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Is Demon Souls worth playing?

Demon's Souls is still the best Souls game.

Soul of the mind, key to life's ether.
Soul of the lost, withdrawn from its vessel.
Let strength be granted, so the world might be mended.
So the world might be mended.

 

[Zombra]

For those not in the know fork tried to get a tranny to stay at his parents house and fuck his dog. His opinions can't be trusted. Just a little bit of codexian lore for you.

Updat'd yon txt x 1

 

[Great Deceiver]

Is Demon Souls worth playing?

The original, yes. The remake? Hell, no!

?The remake is great. Drop dead gorgeous and 60 frames with instant load times.

Butchered art, butcherered music (Flamelurker theme went from being an oppressive funeral dirge to generic bombastic film score #1923893489), butchered UI is a tough sell, especially when you can play the original at 4k/60 on RPCS3.

 

[KIss My Ass]

The game looks fuggin incredible. I dare say there's never been a better looking game.

 

[Great Deceiver]

The game looks fuggin incredible. I dare say there's never been a better looking game.

Technically excellent, yes, but looks much more generic than the original. There's just no comparison. Plus there's a lot of little details in the levels that made sense and which got changed for no reason at all other than "looks better to me".

Re: soundtrack, here are just two examples of massive decline IMO:

Original Flamelurker music:


Powerful, foreboding, oppressive, memorable. Still my favourite piece of music across all Souls games.

Remake:


Generic, Danny Elfman choirs, sounds like every other overblown orchestral score. Zero personality. Completely forgettable.

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Original Adjudicator music:



Interesting instrumentation, understated and insidious. Fits the theme of the boss pretty well (clumsy fat fuck)

Remake:



Generic choir staccato string piece #8938498945. Another Danny Elfman wannabe. Where's the cool woodwind instrument?

There are many other examples. The visuals also reflect this misunderstanding of the original style.

 

[KIss My Ass]

The art really didn't change all that much. Why you people always gotta be so overdramatic about everything?

 

[Great Deceiver]

The art really didn't change all that much. Why you people always gotta be so overdramatic about everything?

I liked the remake and played it to completion a few times. It's fine. However, it's inferior to the original in many respects, and if I were to ever replay DeS again, I'd replay the original through an emulator.

No drama about it. Bluepoint did the same thing to Shadow of the Colossus, a game with exquisite art direction that they butchered for the PS4 remake, making it much more generic. It's a shame too, because the team is technically excellent and they did a prior SotC remaster that was very good for the PS3. In that case, they didn't fuck with the original art but cleaned up the technical aspects. It's the best way to play the game (not the original PS2 release, which runs like dogshit).

So I'm not some purist zealot in this case. I just don't like people fucking up excellent art and replacing it with more generic stuff.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

Reality-photo-realism in games is a disease.

 

[Baron Dupek]

It's another example of old limits counterweighted by style and effort.
High resolution and fancy effects ain't cut it

 

[smaug]

The art really didn't change all that much. Why you people always gotta be so overdramatic about everything?

I liked the remake and played it to completion a few times. It's fine. However, it's inferior to the original in many respects, and if I were to ever replay DeS again, I'd replay the original through an emulator.

No drama about it. Bluepoint did the same thing to Shadow of the Colossus, a game with exquisite art direction that they butchered for the PS4 remake, making it much more generic. It's a shame too, because the team is technically excellent and they did a prior SotC remaster that was very good for the PS3. In that case, they didn't fuck with the original art but cleaned up the technical aspects. It's the best way to play the game (not the original PS2 release, which runs like dogshit).

So I'm not some purist zealot in this case. I just don't like people fucking up excellent art and replacing it with more generic stuff.

How is it more generic? It’s just different because they used more of a realistic western style

 

[Falksi]

It's another example of old limits counterweighted by style and effort.
High resolution and fancy effects ain't cut it

Jesus, how the downgrade for most of the latter entries is huge. How the fuck can those people have such little grasp on contrast and context?

 

[Great Deceiver]

The art really didn't change all that much. Why you people always gotta be so overdramatic about everything?

I liked the remake and played it to completion a few times. It's fine. However, it's inferior to the original in many respects, and if I were to ever replay DeS again, I'd replay the original through an emulator.

No drama about it. Bluepoint did the same thing to Shadow of the Colossus, a game with exquisite art direction that they butchered for the PS4 remake, making it much more generic. It's a shame too, because the team is technically excellent and they did a prior SotC remaster that was very good for the PS3. In that case, they didn't fuck with the original art but cleaned up the technical aspects. It's the best way to play the game (not the original PS2 release, which runs like dogshit).

So I'm not some purist zealot in this case. I just don't like people fucking up excellent art and replacing it with more generic stuff.

How is it more generic? It’s just different because they used more of a realistic western style

You answered your own question. "Realistic western style" = homogenized crap

 

[Raghar]

It's another example of old limits counterweighted by style and effort.
High resolution and fancy effects ain't cut it

Jesus, how the downgrade for most of the latter entries is huge. How the fuck can those people have such little grasp on contrast and context?

They are millennials.

They should release proper remake on PC as freeware, call it classic game which they are releasing for use of future generations, and be done with that.

 

[430am]

 

[Dr1f7]

It's another example of old limits counterweighted by style and effort.
High resolution and fancy effects ain't cut it

i love how many of the remake images have the soyest looking twitch streamer's face overlayed on a quarter of the screen. nice artistic touch

 

[Baron Dupek]

Something was off with the picture and turns out there is another, more complete one.

 

[Great Deceiver]

Yeah, Old Hero looks terrible in the remake. Same for Fool's Idol, Maiden in Black and various other NPCs, to a lesser degree.

 

[gabel]

Is Demon Souls worth playing?

The original, yes. The remake? Hell, no!

Oh piss off fork. The remake is great.

For those not in the know fork tried to get a tranny to stay at his parents house and fuck his dog. His opinions can't be trusted. Just a little bit of codexian lore for you.

I don't even have a dog, retard.

 

[Black_Willow]

Wizardry 4 is even easier.
Of course, Codex hipsters will disagree.

 

[KIss My Ass]

That is not a realistic depiction of Souls fans. People who brag about the difficulty, those "git gud" types aren't real Souls fans. Those retards have no idea why the games are so beloved.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

From's art department is unmatched and I think that's just down to Miyazaki's own taste, most likely. He probably has a final say in most things and after a while artists already know to follow their instructions and produce things he'd like.

 

[Dadd]

People keep saying if you don't like the remake don't play it, but the main problem is this shitty remake destroyed the possibility of getting a good remake anytime soon.