Honest thoughts on Bloodborne... 10 years later?
>>721058297Dog poop
>>721058297>this shit becomes emulatable>98% of its threads fucking disappearAll you need to know.
Overrated as fuck
>>721058297it got ShadManned
cool settingmediocre gameabsolutely godawful chalice shit
>>721058297It's a 11 out of 10Tendies can keep screaming at the void about it. Go buy your $70 bing bing wahoo tennis game.
>>721058297GOAT atmosphereUnderrated as fuck soundtrackGreat level designCool as fuck unique settingAwesome weapons, just not that many of themLore is cool, there is actually something to dig deep instead of baseless theorizingLimp system is great, your ability to force your will on the opponent is greatBeing more aggressive overall really helps establishing yourself as the hunterIn general, I don't think there is a game that really nails this idea of confronting all this terror and horror and still being the primal top-beastShame about the performance on the PS4
one of the best games ever made. I feel sorry for everyone who missed one of gaming's biggest twists.
>>721058297Bloodborne is peak slop rendered 100% irrelevant by lies of P
>>721058297not as good as everybody says it is. I never touched it again after getting the platinum (around 80 hours playtime)
>>721058941so nobody? even shit tier indian pcs can play it at 60fps now with shadps4's new .11 update
>>721058297great game but has become vastly overrated
>>721058297best rollslop game.the combat is still garbage but at least music and visual design is good
There’s nothing to talk about. Everyone who has played it finished everything like 20 yrs ago. Nobody posts images or webms of their playthroughs either.
I couldn't get past the first guy. I thought you were supposed to fight him
>>721059130I thought it was neat
>>721058297The DLC does a huge amount of heavy lifting for its reputation, if it weren't for Old Hunters people would be a lot more vocal about how shit the base game bosses are and how badly the level design falls off in the second half (really post-Yharnam, but I'll be a little generous).
I enjoy it more than normal Souls now. I guess it helps that it's a one and done so it can't get worse.
>>721059613I fucking hated how there's barely any equipment to be found out in the open in the base game and most of it is locked behind some emblems and covenants instead that make it somewhat unceremoniously purchasable in the Dream afterwards.It feels like as if you find more shit in the Hunter's Nightmare alone than in half of the base game.
>>721058297When I think about having to grind enemies for estus flasks, I seethe. I haven't played the game since the year it came out and that design decision makes me seethe harder than anything a company not named Riot Games has ever done.
>>721059829Never an issue if you are not a shitter.
>pclards finally get the 10+ year old scraps (someone married and maybe died while waiting)>all internet discussion dies offpc cuck patient gamerbros...........................
>>721058297Ludocore
>>721058297first souls, still find it wonderfulit has flows though>fuck vial farming>fuck Sony and their laziness>fuck chalice dungeons; Platinum trophy was tedious just because of QoY requirement>DLC bosses are better than base game cucks lol
>>721059829I take more offense in the "we went back to Demon's Souls for whatever reason so those lamps are nothing but warp points - please wait through two loading screens if you want to do anything like reset the world or warp somewhere else (also, no one in all those years checked out the B-team so jumping is still total garbage instead of kinda garbage)" approach.
>>721059829It was an insane decision because it so obviously contradicts the whole "be aggressive" mindset the game otherwise heavily encourages. If I'm struggling with Gascoigne, say, and have 15 blood vials left and will need to grind for more if I use them up, why on earth would I play aggressively and burn them all in one attempt that'll end too quickly? It's not a matter of "git gud," it's a matter of blatantly contradictory encouragements.
Good game, but nothing special.It's still better than Dank Souls and Elden Shit, but worse than Sekiro.The soundtrack is great, but the visuals and art are overrated.
>>721058297Is the emulator good for this now and close to ps4 experience or do you still need mods to run properly?
>>721060089>flowsflawsalso fuck the lame ("wake up") ending, being forced to skip Gherman is gay
>>721060295You need mods and patches to NOT have the original PS4-experience.
>>721060169It encourages aggression in the case you got hit after making a mistake. Not encourage aggression as in mindlessly facetanking whatever your opponent throws at you and expecting to be rewarded for it.Usually, in any souls-games, once you got hit players start to roll backwards into safe distances to heal. Here, it can be a better use of your resources to regain some health by immediately striking back, and thus avoid the need to use a vial.
great game for its time, i was 5 years late to the party but it still held up.
>>721058297Takes itself too seriously for such a casual game Also the aesthetic and setting takes a nosedive as soon as you leave YharnhamDLC is a clusterfuckChalice Dungeons were wasted on it too
It's cringe
>>721060367I know about the fps unlock and other enhancement, but i'm talking about the general look of the game without mods and patches.
>>721058357happens to all the mid snoy slop, persona 5 is another great example
>>721060048I love that this is the new cope. The game was playable on ps now for years there, chungus molungus.
>>721061457I love this old cope because literally nobody used ps now.>b-b-but *insert cope*it must have been so good and popular that they axed it and merged with ps plus to justify the price increases
>>721060382>It encourages aggression in the case you got hit after making a mistake.You can do this but you'd still be worse off than if you were just playing defensively and not risking getting hit in the first place, then only coming in when it's safest.
>>721058357>>98% of its threads fucking disappearAh yes all the daily threads that kept begging for a port.Fucking retard.
>>721061637Anon, yes. You should not take hits in the first place. That's very right.But I hope you understand that you not supposed to exchange blows like a retard.
>>721058297Lies of Phaggot 3 cant even compete with this game
>>721058297Its great, but kind of easy after other From games. I picked it up again recently and practically no boss gave me much trouble except for maybe Pearl Beast, which took maybe 3-4 tries.
>>721061790My point is that the blood vial system disproportionately punishes making lots of short, aggressive attempts rather than a few defensive attempts where you survive longer because you get more knowledge/practice-per-blood-vial value in the latter, even with rallying. If blood vials weren't a limited resource there wouldn't be a need to think about that sort of thing.
>>721061579Quit stammering like a faggot no one cares.
>>721059613>how shit the base game bosses are and how badly the level design falls off in the second half I quit the game after The One Reborn because I lost interest in it for exactly that. Who even is The One btw?I dealt with the emulator jank, and everything after that, but I legit just couldnt care by that point, I got bored of the world and cba'dI think bloodborne, and souls games in general have great atmosphere and level design, kino settings, but the problem is that the gameplay doesn't synergize with it, you dont really get to bask in the great world around you if you just keep dying to some bullshit and continually get frustrated.I think the only boss fight I really enjoyed was Shadow of Yharnam, dodging everything and timing my parries was fun, but I couldnt really care about any other boss, though Paarl looked coolI will most likely come back and finish the game in some months, but I do hope the game gets better lol
The Bloodborne aesthetic is so great.
>>721058297Still the greatest game ever made
>>721063153>I do hope the game gets betterNot really outside of maybe the DLC.The Chalice Dungeon shit alone is reason enough for me to not consider this a 10/10 or even 9/10. Add the inexcusable performance issues which, given the overall asset quality and shit, have no justification outside of From's ineptitude and all the other smaller problems that add up and it drops even lower.
>>721058297Still the best Souls game, although I'm waiting for ER to come to Switch 2. Maybe ER is better but posts over the last 3 years seem to indicate otherwise.
>>721065791>The Chalice Dungeon shit alone is reason enough for me to not consider this a 10/10 or even 9/10You mean the entirely optional rougelike side content?
>>721059012Same. It's didn't hold up for me on repeat playthroughs.
>>721066098Yes, which is in the game that you (probably) paid for and entire rewards/lore/items in the main are related to it.They could've taken the time to flesh out the main game but nope, they dropped a massive deuce instead.
>>721066098If you're implying that bad side content shouldn't lower a game's score because it's optional then that's ridiculous, good side content would raise a game's score, why wouldn't bad side content lower it?>Just don't play it if it's badIt's not like players will know what's good or bad beforehand, or if something might start bad but eventually get better.
>>721066557It's more like getting a free beta version of some other game along with an already great game. I don't have completionist autistm so I just did a few to see what they were and then continued with the main game.
PS4's only game and now you can easily emulate it, so PS4 truly has no games.
>>721066659Agreed.It kinda reminds me of Shadow Warrior 2 that got a bunch of updates and free side content but all of it was so fucking bad (the bounty hunter board was nothing but mindnumbing fetch quests and the orb upgrade forge some of the worst MMO shit I've ever seen in a single player game) that it actively made the game a worse product.
>>721058297One of my favorite games of all time and imo peak of the souls genre.
>>721058297its my favourite souls game for its hunter v hunter fights, story, lore, art direction, soundtrack and voice acting. I don't play these games for boss fights and difficulty. in fact I never understood why that was what people always focused on with these games. Gothic horror is always cool.
>>721058297point of no return as far as the design philosophy of gameplay goes but still there's a lot to appreciate about the innovations it made even if they ended up hurting the overall experience in future gamesalso the best depiction of werewolves in video games and maybe media as a whole, the transhumanism themes and the parallels between the alien nobility and the beastly commoners are great, and they even cross those groups together sometimes. it's a once in a generation game
>>721058297It's no Silksong.
>>721058357pc poors dont even know how to fucking emulate these days
>>721067301>>721066659Meanwhile, a game where the optional roguelike side content elevates the game: Lufia 2The Ancient Cave is one of its most highly praised features, could be its own game and a lot of people even play the damn thing JUST to reach that dungeon - barely anyone would do the last one for the fucking chalice dungeons.
>>721059829its like 10 mins fighting those two fat guys
>>721061457cope I've plyed it 10 years ago and playing 100s of other games since and you pc poors still crying
>>721062406you get some health back anon so you might be able to take another hit you retard its not meant to give you all your HP back
>>721058297it's definitely one of the better fromsoft games but it still has some issues so it's not perfect or anything
>>721058297> First halfOverrated> Second halfBB becomes fun> DLCBest part of the game> CainhurstIt's bad> ChaliceBad, also you can get softlocked
>>721058297No clue, I have no Playstation 4.
>>721066387 Yeah, same here. The first time it was mindblowing, but once the mystery wears off and you know the beats, it just feels... empty. The pacing drags in the second half and replaying just reminds me how much is frontloaded. They nailed the atmosphere but forgot to make some areas actually fun to return to.
>>721058297I still rank it up as one of From top games together with Dark Souls 1 and Sekiro.
after the failed sequels ironically enough Bloodborne is the only one to come close to DS1
>>721058297The Old Hunters might genuinely be gaming's magnum opus
>>721058297Why even bother creating a game if it's not gonna be on pc ?
