Success: Dark Souls is coming to the PC this August

And as you may have guessed, all those rumors were true all along. Dark Souls is officially coming to the PC. As promised, german magazine PC Action had a feature for a console exclusive RPG hitting the PC and that was Dark Souls. The PC version will be called ‘Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition’ , will feature new boses and will be released this August. You can find below an image from the cover of PC Action. Great day for PC gamers. Enjoy and prepare to die… a lot… this August.

[NYC_Gamer]

Here's the official magazine site...It's all legit and plus common for European mags to break/leak news first...i'll be buying it over again just to show my support...please let the PC version have a steady framerate/higer rez.

http://shop.computec.de/pc-...

[-Alpha]

Better framerate and higher resolution sound like a given, mod support would truly make it a class better than the console counterparts.

So happy to see how far this series has come this gen.

And to think that most of us saw the original trailer and played it off as just another junky Japanese game

[8bit_Nes_Rambo]

"just another junky Japanese game". Nice bit of not so stealthy trolling.

[SilentNegotiator]

"And to think that most of us saw the original trailer and played it off as just another junky Japanese game"

Who's "most of us"?

[wollie]

Well to be fair, there have been a few good Japanese games this gen, just not as much as last gen.

I pretty much only played Japanese games last gen with a few American/European games. This gen is the opposite.

Kinda sad I love Japanese games so much i actually minored in Japanese so i could play imports... To bad there is very little worth playing.

[-Alpha]

I remember a lot of negativity when they first revealed the trailer, a lot of people passed the game off until first reviews came in. Not trying to troll, just telling you what I remembered (and I'm talking about Demon's Souls)

Maybe not on N4G, but I used to hang out on other forums and nobody seemed to expect much at all

[codename13]

Nice to hear that finally. After all number of hardcore RPG gamers are more on PC platform. So this game is really worthy of being on PC.

[Moncole]

I hope it has Steam works

[Lionsguard]

Awesome, now the armor can be easily ported to Skyrim,

[MagicAccent]

What, who disagrees with this?
Dark souls armor in skyrim is a great mod idea!

[theeg]

Sweet, loved the game, but could not stand the framerate and low resolution that plauges most console games, cannot wait to play this beast again in full true 1080p at 60 frames with 16x anti aliasing!!

fingers crossed for mods!

[Louis_Guzman]

Only framerate issues where in Blight town. Hardly a deal breaker.

[wollie]

to a pc gamer anything lower than 60fps is a problem

[specialguest]

Blight town wasn't the only area with frame rate issues. There's the Firelink Shrine, New Londo Ruins, Boss fights, and many other spontaneous occasions and areas.

[CarlitoBrigante]

You didnt even play the game, only 1 little place had framerate issues in the game.

This game will suck on PC, itll be pirated and stupid mods will be created that gives you infinite stamina and health wich takes the purpose of the game away.

[theeg]

yes i played it and i loved it (though demons souls was better) there were framerate problems EVERYWHERE!!

The Firelink Shrine area is 20 frames the entire time at best and everytime you got near the crow it went down into the teens

the sewers with the diseased rats occasionally fell into the singlle digits!

darkroot basin by the swamp monster, everytime it shoots those annoying water missles the game chugs in single digits

every single bossfight was a SLIDESHOW!

you such a hater carlitiot

just because you are used to this type of terrible performance from console games does not mean they are non existant

unfortunately on consoles, there is 100% nothing you can do about it, you just stand there and take it, you can't change the settings, you cannot modify config files, you cannot download a user made fix, you cannot remove or create ANYTHING!

you just sit there eating your digital govbment cheese

this game will be beautiful on pc, like every game on pc!

i play games from 2004 on pc that look better than 90% of console games

by 2007 pc was already a full generation of anything on console

uncharted 3 is LAST GEN to me!

[jon1234]

next, dark souls for vita!, better yet demon souls!!!!

[clrlite]

More of a PS3/PSP gamer right now, but I consider PC a true gaming platform, so I'm happy about this. Might even pick it up on Steam, unless it comes to the Vita with the same content.

[caboose32]

Tis a glorious day!

[Raider69]

Finally im going to get back to this game and play it like it should be!I really dont care much about the graphics part,but the low framerate on consoles was the reason i stop playing it;been able to run it at a smooth 60fps its all that matter for me,and the reason im picking it again but for PC!

[Hellsvacancy]

wtf, frame rate? your talkin as if the WHOLE game is ruined because of that, the frame drops a "little" when you go to certain areas......for a few seconds, its nothin like Fallout or Skyrim where the game becomes unplayable

"Finally im going to get back to this game and play it like it should be" lol, no your not, the game was made for consoles, that was the way it was inteded

[Lucretia]

lol Hell

he is trolling dont bother with him. as cool as the pc version sounds, it will be ruined by hackers. if everyone hacks then the online would be completely ruined.....and since the only is 40% of the experience then it basically ruins the game

[Unlimax]

Can't wait to put my hands on it .. Especially on the PC :D !

[Series_IIa]

Keyboards are a lot easier to smash in rage than controllers...

[hiredhelp]

I never was able get this for ps3 well now im able too on PC this one title i didnt expect on pc im very happy.

[paddystan]

My PC is ready. *putsonsunglasses*

[JellyJelly]

Congratulations, PC gamers! You are in for a treat!

[TheModernKamikaze]

Have fun PC Gamers! :)

[Dowie]

Don't get me wrong i'm happy for purist PC gamers who have missed out but when Rich Bantegui said about a huge exciting annoucement I was one of the few that was hoping it wasn't about the PC release.

It's great news like I said but it's hardly exciting for any current fan of the game. The only exciting news is that the PC version will have different bosses. How true that is or how far that will stretch is still up for debate.

What did I want from the annoucement? a brand new game coming to vita would've been nice or DLC for the current game.

[Letros]

Start an online petition :-P

[Lucretia]

but we did get the announcement that they are making a new souls game so isnt that better?

[Nevers]

Yeah... I'm with ya DuncesOfWur. I'd rather the announcement contain something for the console fans that supported the creation of this PC version.

As it is, I'm glad PC'ers are getting the game... I just hope they get their own servers cuz I don't want any of them screwing up the console online aspects.

Apparently most if not all of the PC gamers on here believe that this is not a valid concern *rollseyes

[Somebody]

I really don't know what everyone's excited about since it was a console exclusive (I did signed the online petition for it though). But since it is coming to the PC, I'll join in the merriment.

Yay...

[PersonaCat]

Very rare to see console exclusives go to PC lol. Grats guys, hope you enjoy it as much as I did :)