Not true. If you have a decent firewall that allows the defining of rules for each exe you can define one that blocks the DS2.exe preventing it from being able to dial home to the DS2 server. That will force it into offline while also keeping your internet up.

It's how I play DS1/2 as I can't stand all those annoying messages and white echos. They ruin the game for me.

I remember that from Demon Souls... You see replays of deaths, and notes like 'Watch out for the pit!' and obvious stuff like that... when i wasn't connected online while trying the game a second time and they were all missing.

Yeah, but my point is you can't choose to play offline like, in example, Bloodborne. You are forced to user other methods to do it.

You can, from what I recall *cough old age cough* log steam offline to play DSII offline. Fairly sure I did that once or thrice.

IIRC it's because they expected Steam to let you do it. Only Steam isn't that advanced, its offline mode is terribly unreliable. You could also do it on consoles by simple signing out or sommat I guess -- never played it on consoles so don't know for sure.

That may also work too. But it has the habit of also breaking achievements and won't record play time.

True it blocks achievements, but to me that is a bonus. Those things need an off switch, they kitten me off ;)

Though I certainly don't understand remasters like the one announced for Batman Arkham games for the new gen consoles. I don't really have an issue with remasters like this one or the Tomb Raider and DmC because all serve as a complete edition of the game as well. I would much rather have the option to buy the complete version of the game at a later date than not at all. Folks that buy and play games upon release may feel hard done by this but I along with some others am very patient in holding out for the eventual GOTY/Definitve/Complete Edition of games to consider a purchase. Its certainly not as big of a cash grab by the publishers like they do with preorder exclusive DLCs and season passes.

Also no one here mentioned that From Software is infact providing a free update to all previous owners of Darks Souls II which only leaves out the new enemy placements and slightly shinier graphics but that is the main draw of the new version so its understandable. Dark Souls II players that are done with the game if interested in the new experience can wait for a deeper discount on the Sins of the Scholar Edition as having already played enough of the game they shouldn't be in a real hurry to play it all over again so soon. Here is a comparison chart of what is included in each version of Dark Souls II.

http://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/file/view/SotFS_details.jpg

Yeah it's basically just a complete edition, it's also not the worst deal if you haven't bought any dlc yet but still own the original. And if you already own all the dlc do you really want to hurry to play it all again with slightly better (or some say worse) graphics and some mobs moved around? If you're that crazy for the game then I guess you won't mind buying it again, and others will wait for it to be like 80% off before they choose to upgrade.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/348684

This is true, by the way :D