Cheaply made, terrible PC port from console

User Rating: 1 | Dark Souls II PC

This is an absolutely terrible console port. This is a shame, as I'd recently become interested in playing this after seeing it on my nephew's PS3, and finding out it was also available on PC. Sadly the developers obviously spent as little time porting to PC as possible - just going for the money. Here's a list of the problems:

1) All menus display XBox controller buttons as options - there is no option to change this to show keyboard/mouse options (to the people claiming that everyone should buy an XBox controller, that's like saying XBox owners should buy a keyboard+mouse to play FPS games, and all the menus should default to keyboard+mouse options - pretty stupid, right?)

2) The keyboard remapping in the game is a complete joke. Unable to reasign many keys, and no option to truly customise. There are just horrible mouse+modifier options to pick from in most cases, which don't even make sense.

3) The static keys are all over the place on the keyboard, making it virtually impossible to play.

4) Graphics and textures directly from PS3. It looks like something from 10 years ago on PC.

5) Incredibly clunky gameplay due to it being tuned only for joypad. Mouse input is laggy and inconsistent.

6) Blocky or blurry textures in many places. It's only DX9, but the graphical assets are obviously cut down to work with the PS3's memory - unsuitable for PC.

7) In game menus glitch, and often don't operate correctly. Some items need to be double clicked to work at all, others don't.

8) Crashes (tested on i7, 32GB RAM, dual GTX780, SSDs, watercooled - high end gaming rig which NEVER crashes with other games)

9) Clunky and bizarre menus. Exiting a game restarts the whole game, including logging back into servers!

10) Running the game on a PC with SSDs means levels load almost instantly unlike a slow console disk loader - which would be a good thing except it means that the between-level text flashes on and back off too quickly to read making it feel even more clunky.

11) Company have abandoned the game to leave it to modders to try to fix it.

Basically this is the epitome of a cheaply done conversion, where the people involved have no interest in the PC platform, and have obviously not bothered to properly test it before pushing it out. Basic Q&A missed, it's a travesty. Shame there's no way to get a refund on Steam, as this is not fit for purpose.

I'd score it 0/10 if that were possible.