Dark Souls 2 developers 'have not put any thought into' Xbox One, PS4 versions

<< LINK REMOVED >> How do you feel "inside the game" when you can only interact with a small fraction of the objects you see? At this point we've pretty much been trained to ignore things like telephones, computers, and books in games. In most cases they're just part of the scenery, you can't use them. But that's realistic? A game like Super Mario 64 might look simple now, but when you play it, every new thing you see you can pretty much count on being able to interact with.

If developers want to increase the level of immersion in their games, they should focus less on detailed graphics and more on making everything function. You shouldn't have to give me a button prompt to make me understand that I can use something, I should assume that I always can.

@Dasim64@mr_enlightened Of course, graphics also serve to hold a game back. Sure, if you get two 100% identical games with only their difference in graphics, the one with better graphics is obviously better. But for just slightly better graphics, the cost of production sky rockets like mad, development time is extended far more than worth it. And lastly, such extra requirement in resources is exactly what scares major companies out of experimenting and creating great games such as the Souls series. And prevent smaller companies who would do something like this series, from being able to afford to make such games. In this case, unless it's a company like Nintendo who has proven to be capable of affording to make beautiful games that are also amazingly fun at the same time, I rather most companies focus on making the game actually fun, instead of more crap like Killzone Shadowfall, Knack, or Ryse.

Anyways, I agree graphics is a good thing. But only a very TINY and miniscule factor in a game's overall quality. You know what I care more about than graphics? Overall aesthetics, which graphics only play a really small part of. Why does Gears of War and CoD look like grey coloured shit while the graphically inferior Muramasa on the Wii look like a work of art? Because the latter has actual art direction. Where Muramasa comes short on graphics, the developers are so much better at everything else that factors into aesthetics.Compare Demon's Souls and Ryse. Ryse, while graphically pretty, is really bland outside of how shiny it is. It has realism...and nothing more. The characters look ugly, it's sets are narrow corridors, it has barebones gameplay, and nothing separates it too much from your typical game based in Rome. Demon's Souls, despite it's graphical inferiority, has environments that evokes the kind of atmosphere and emotion the developers of Ryse can only dream of. Just look at the Tower of Latria or Valley of Defilement, and compare it to the best Ryse has to offer.

I don't feel fully immersed in a game with chappy graphics, I want to feel like I'm inside the game

Graphics and realism provide immersion

<< LINK REMOVED >> Graphics can make a good game even better but a crappy game will still be crappy. Graphics aren't the most important aspect of gaming but they certainly can improve the experience and I'm one that wants to see things move forward not remain stuck in the past. Unfortunately the money is still with the PS3 and 360 because so many people own them. Until the new systems really take off it's going to stay that way.

<< LINK REMOVED >> False. Interactivity depth and intuitiveness are the most important.

@divinejester keep your "yous" BS.

<< LINK REMOVED >>the online aspect would be affected if everyone had it for different consoles, alot less people in each world to fight/help/pester

<< LINK REMOVED >> I believe the res fix was fan made. Makes it look much more beautiful than the vanilla Steam release.

I have the PC version of the first game, as well as ps3. Not sure about the res fix, it was just the standard steam version. No stutters in blight town was a nice change.

<< LINK REMOVED >> You are right, and that what most people should realize. Dark Souls is mainly about pure action (in an RPG sense of course.) But in Skyrim there are other things to killing mobs. That what make both game unique in their own way IMO.

@Gamerhomer @TzarStefan @<< LINK REMOVED >> Can't compare Skyrim with Dark Souls....come on, they are not the same type of game...!!!

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I disagree. No amount of mods can make Skyrim as good as Dark Souls

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Skyrim is EASY mode

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Yeah if you were playing it on PC to start with.