[QUOTE="ArisShadows"][QUOTE="LegatoSkyheart"]

Dark Souls has appeared more times on this sale than just about any other game it feels like.

I think I should probably get this game now.

LegatoSkyheart

I should?

Yes, game of the gen as far as I'm concerned. On PC it shines if you run it with mods in 1080p and 60 fps. Beware tho that you ought to have a controller. 

These worry me:
- Fighting against four or more guards in combat wont go well - So you need an army for the game to become difficult. It should be two guards and you're dead.
- Navigation beacon shows players where to go. - Yeah, go where we want you to, while pretending you're exploring.
- Focus mechanic: has many uses, including being able to aid Garretts vision as he navigates through open levels
- Focus lights up the screen and highlights pipes you can climb + candles you can put out to make the room darker
- Can upgrade Focus - Anything with fokus sounds like an appeal to grab idiot dudebro gamers with flashy gimmicks that will make the game feel "cooler".
- Team is trying to find a balance between making combat enjoyable and allowing players to enter combat if they want. - Yeah, combat needs to be enjoyable in a game where combat should be pretty much suicide.

Other than that, a new Thief game is very welcome and I hope they can live up to a fraction of the awesomeness of the first two games. 

[QUOTE="theSADmafioso"]

[QUOTE="Nengo_Flow"]I dont want a touch screen or a touch pad. The touch pad doesnt even make sense to me. Whats it for? I cant even think of a single good reason to have it/use it. Im glad the PS4 controller didnt go to far from the classic iconic PS controller tho.Nengo_Flow

Try using the internet browser mouse with the analog sticks on the PS3, then try using a touchpad controlled mouse on a laptop. There is your answer why it will be a good thing for the PS4. Alot of new apps and social features will probably need better mouse pointer control. 

Exacly, it sucks and I haven't used it myself for like three years. The point is that they probably will want you to use your PS4 for alot more things, things that like you mention the PS3 has failed to deliver. Imagine a browser that works with mouse control that is good enough on your big screen TV, combined with gestures, like zoom in and out on a smartphone. My point is that it could have intresting uses that might help the OS navigation. 

I dont want a touch screen or a touch pad. The touch pad doesnt even make sense to me. Whats it for? I cant even think of a single good reason to have it/use it. Im glad the PS4 controller didnt go to far from the classic iconic PS controller tho.Nengo_Flow

Try using the internet browser mouse with the analog sticks on the PS3, then try using a touchpad controlled mouse on a laptop. There is your answer why it will be a good thing for the PS4. Alot of new apps and social features will probably need better mouse pointer control. 

Soooo did anyone find a use for the Move or the touchpad yet?  bobbetybob

I assume they want to go the apps route for the OS and one can use the touchpad like on a laptop to navigate? 

I know it's not going to happened but my dream would be to see Dark Souls 2 gameplay running on the PS4 tomorrow. 

I remember when I first saw this in school when our teacher showed it and I said it must be CGI and everyone told me I was an idiot. I guess I had the last laugh that time. =)  

Looks visceral. 

Why are we still talking about what is possibly the worst looking console game of the gen? I decided to take a look at Demons Souls which I hadnt played in a long time on ps 3 today and the graphics are simply atrocious, God of War collection which is the ps2 games at 720p look better. Have you seen Halo 4 or God of War 3 on a big screen tv? They look great.

Cranler

We're not here to discuss graphics king but how resolution works. Dark Souls works because we can isolate resolution pretty well since the whole game with assets and everything has been designed for the console 720p and it still looks alot better with a res boost.

The reason we're not talking about Halo or God of War is simple, we have no reference to what it would look like with a resolution increase. I think you'd be blown away by Halo 4 if we could double the amount of pixels being rendered. Now I don't want to appear anti-console since I still play console games and some of them still look amazing despite resolution but I don't still want to run a 720p resolution when the next gen comes and I have a flat screen above 50 inches. I know that would look far blurrier than my 32 inch TV running the same resolution.

[QUOTE="Cranler"][QUOTE="mitu123"]

Direct feed of Dark Souls.

mitu123

Nope. My screen was taking 720p upscaled through my GPU not monitor (Cramer) but showing what happens with that resolution when it has to cover a surface bigger than say 720p TV 3 meters away. I took that precious screen and ran it in fullscreen on my montitor so challanged people can understand the concept. Crude and not accurate but gets the basic point across of what happens. The bump into 1080p is getting more and more important by the day because 32 inch TVs are thing of the past and I personally will buy a new TV at 50-55 inches and 1080p resolution. Now imagine how that tiny image will look if streched through that real estate?