Dark Souls III celebrates its success

Game2k
Monday, April 18, 2016 | 4:55 PM
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Bandai Namco has announced strong first week sales for Dark Souls III and revealed that the RPG developed by From Software has become the "the most successful day-one launch and fastest selling title" in the publisher's history. New accolade trailer inside.

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Kingdom Fall - Accolade Trailer

Nathaniel_Wu

Commented on 2016-04-18 17:47:07

45 hours now and still can't stop playing it. Long may the sun shine!

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ProfSebastian

Commented on 2016-04-18 18:33:37

Praise the Sun!

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Zat

Commented on 2016-04-18 20:58:00

So it IS good.

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Megido

Commented on 2016-04-18 21:42:22

It's good. I mean, i have my reservations about some parts of it, but it's a great game. If you liked Bloodborne this will be an amazing game.

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elpesado

Commented on 2016-04-18 22:44:04

They could celebrate less and work on the big bugs this game has. I have one of the reportedly unfixed problems and the game crashes when I start a new game.

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Megido

Commented on 2016-04-18 23:07:08 In reply to elpesado

Posted by elpesado

They could celebrate less and work on the big bugs this game has. I have one of the reportedly unfixed problems and the game crashes when I start a new game.

Tried taking the graphics settings down to low and starting as a knight? lol

I'm not making excuses, the random crashes and issues are terrible. Just trying to share the workarounds that seem to work atm. And there was a patch today, fixed many of the crashes for me.

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elpesado

Commented on 2016-04-18 23:41:45 In reply to Megido

Yep, googled the problem and tried everything. It's a bug that reports that can't write to a memory adress. It's confirmed by the devs and the still don't have a fix or estimated time for it. It's the first time that I'm considering a refund.

Funny thing is that every other crash seems to have a workaround, like you said.

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scoobs0688

Commented on 2016-04-18 23:47:40

Do you have a 7 series nvidia card? I've heard people w/ that line of cards in particular are experiencing this issue

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elpesado

Commented on 2016-04-19 00:35:59 In reply to scoobs0688

Posted by scoobs0688

Do you have a 7 series nvidia card? I've heard people w/ that line of cards in particular are experiencing this issue

A GTX 670. It's the same architecture , so it could be that. The latest patch didn't help at all with the issue either.

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ProfSebastian

Commented on 2016-04-19 14:57:02

I have a GTX 780 ti and I had these problems but setting the lighting quality to low fixed it, even with the other settings maxed.

But since yesterday's patch I don't need that anymore, It plays perfect without crashes now.

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Megido

Commented on 2016-04-19 15:50:16

Yeah i run it on a GTX 780 as well, and post patch it runs fine. Still some stutter left, but i cna live with that.

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Loakum

Commented on 2016-04-19 16:38:05

Dark Souls 3 has the best dragons of ANY game out there! So much detail.

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Megido

Commented on 2016-04-19 16:46:17

Maybe i missed a boss or something but sorry, Kalameet is still the king of dragons :)

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omniscient

Commented on 2016-04-19 20:01:53 In reply to elpesado

buy a PS4 MWAHHHAHHAHAHAHAH take that PC elitists I knew there was some benefit to console gaming.

In all seriousness the bugs are abysmal and some issues like frame pacing that have persisted since bloodborne days are inexcusable. It either speaks to their inability to code or inability to care they seem selective of what they fix.

That said a worthier game for such success few will find it is a masterclass of Adventure and Roleplaying.

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Megido

Commented on 2016-04-19 22:21:41

The souls games have never been good in terms of tech. They all suffer from shotty frame rates, weird bugs, crappy ports and so forth. Not really excusable at this point imo, what with the series being so popular.

But the games are great games of you can look past the technical shortcomings.

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Kingdom Fall - Accolade Trailer

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