


That day has been and gone, we’ve played the game, but was the PC version something that was worth waiting for? Has the inexperience of From Software as a PC developer created cracks in the game that weren’t there with the console releases? Is Games for Windows LIVE as intrusive as everyone expected it would be? They held up to their end of the bargain and announced that Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition would be coming to the PC on August 24, 2012. The petition ended up getting almost 100,000 signatures and gained the attention of From Software and Namco Bandai who eventually promised to port the game to the PC. As we all know, that was never going to happen, a group of PC gamers banded together and started a petition, a petition to bring Dark Souls to the PC gaming market. They couldn’t test themselves with Dark Souls even if they wanted to, unless they ventured out of the PC gaming space and grasped a controller. If you were a player who wanted a bit of a challenge then you no doubt picked up Dark Souls.Īll you have to do is take a quick glance at the internet (I know, we’re told not to do that, looking directly at the internet could have disastrous effects like looking into the heart of a T.A.R.D.I.S.) and you’ll see that a lot of the people that would describe themselves as being “Pro” tend to confine themselves to the realm of PC gaming. Dark Souls, the spiritual successor to the aforementioned Demon’s Souls, was released last year and while people definitely knew what to expect from the game this time around, there was enough of a fan base, enough of a cult following, for it to not matter that much. They didn’t know that they were delving into a dungeon crawler with absolutely no mercy some people loved it for that, while others downright hated it. When Demon’s Souls was released back in 2009 for the PlayStation 3, it was one of those games that came out of nowhere, people didn’t really know where it came from and a lot of them certainly didn’t know what to expect.
