What's the verdict on The Duskbloods?
I'm not buying a Switch 2.
>>745994684Shit.
Wasn't worth the wait.
shit no one cares aboutthey need to make something like kenshi next
Absolute embarrassment that will lead video games as a whole further off the right path, like every FromSoft title before it.
I don't have a fisher price tablet so I won't play it unless they port it to real platforms, in which case I will just pirate it because the game looks like dogshit.
>>745994684Never heard of it. Qrd?
>>745994864>waiting for thingsgo to bed kid, you have school tomorrow
>>745994794FPBP/thread
I had fun. Loved sniper Layla and pajama ace Jan. Curious what progression is like. It's not a $70 game though, judging by the test. But if you already have a switch two & Disposable income and the Nintendo tax paid, then It's a fun fun time sink.
It's an inverse of Nightreign developed for people who prefer PvP over co-op. It is, oddly, not as deep as Nightreign. I'm probably going to give it a miss, which is a piss-off because it's Legally Distinct Bloodborne and I'm all about that.
Its funThe pvp is the worst part ironically
How do I Zork?
Not buying a console just for a single game. If they make it multiplat I might give it a shot, however the increasing divergence from the souls formula doesn’t really instill confidence that this’ll be a product I enjoy.
>>745995628i found the pvp to be the best part, there's too much pve downtime in it honestly. hopefully the other 2 maps are 1 pure pve focus and 1 pure pvp focus so we can both be happy.
>>745994684I really enjoyed the network test, definitely a day one purchase for me
>>745995980buy an ad
>all this seething because the game is switch exclusivefucking KEK
It’s a game for faggots.
It wasn't what I expected based on the information we were fed prior to the network test, so my feelings are mixed.
>>745994684I hear if you like Fromsoft PVP, you'll like it.
>>745994684>Shitbloods
>>745994684Looks cool, but its not worth buying a console for a PvP game.
>>745994684I personally hated it during the network test. Movement is floaty, combat is a button mashing clusterfuck, popping back into a splash screen between phases ruins the pace, the character abilities are too wacky, and the game just isn't fun. It's the worst of souls pvp without what makes souls games good, with a big splash of super hero battle arena games added.
The movement and play styles loom really funSadly I could not give less of a fuck about poopsock and Smurf PVP and that’s seemingly the main part of the game
It looks cheap. Like they barely put any effort into it.
>>745994684Wanted Bloodborne 2, its not that but some piece of shit PvP focused crap. Dead on arrival.
>>745994684You can try it out right now, there's still this session left.
>entire thread is either people saying it’s fun or decent after playing it or seething browns angry that a game is a switch exclusivea tale as old as time
Looks neat. bit upset I'll never get to play it. oh well.
>>745997559weird horsefuckers.
>>745994684EhBig ehThe game flow suffers a lot from the PvPThe movement options are mostly such that if you want to fight, and they don't, they can usually have their way. If you spend the game trying to fight people that don't want to fight, you lose. If they spend the game avoiding fights they don't want to have, they probably win. Maybe with time, techniques for more consistent picks will be developed, but, as it stands I don't think that's likely. So, it's a game that wants you to pvp, rewards avoiding pvp disproportionately, and offers few tools for forcing pvp on someone who doesn't want it. And all of that on Fromsoft's shitty netcode, with Nintendo's shitty online.
>>745997973PVP isn't remotely worth it unless you're at a ritual site.
Bloodborne 2? Possibly GOTY. It makes Snoytrannies seethe they will NEVER EVER get to play this game either. The sourest of sour grapes.
>>745995348Didn't play the test, but how do you figure? I can think of fewer enemy types, lack of character building and weapon choice, differently-shaped time pressure, or no confirmed deep of night equivalent. My estimation is that if the competitive incentives are right the level of optimization pressure will be similar to nightreign, and they said there'll be character customization.
>>745998192>multiplayer game>gotylmao
Is the game really as generic as it looks? A Hero PvPE Soulslike where you run around doing objectives, and then the final phase is a three person fight? I'm not saying it sounds awful but after all the hyping up about how Miyazaki wanted to make something new it sounds like a pretty typical 2026 multiplayer game. I guess being able to find optional bosses on the map during a match is cool?
Did anyone's game just crash? Wtf
>>745998206The character customization is gonna be a big nothingburger since its a pvp game, they can't let you be overpowered from the very start of the match, especially so with the ranked mode.
Fromsoft pvp has always been dogshit, this game is centered around it, so it is dogshit focused.
>>745994684Frankly and honestly i'm glad this game is a multiplayer game and exclusive to the switch 2 so i can easily ignore it, there's tons of games coming out in the coming months that it would have been hard to focus on this with the others.September is already looking spicy and this game would not survive that month if it does come out that time plus i don't think Nintendo would want this and Fire Emblem to compete. I'm already eyeing Onimusha, Trails in the Sky, Control Resonant and Silent Hill Townfall, fuck my wallet honestly.Then October got me by the balls with Ace Combat 8, Star Wars Galactic Racer, Dragons Dogma 2 Expansion, Stupid Never Dies and a couple smaller ones like Silver Pines and Hellraiser.Since there's almost literally nothing in November and December curtesy of a certain open world game, I'm gonna completely ignore GTA 6 and try to focus on the previous month games because fuck me, no way in hell am i gonna be able to finish all of them. (unless a certain leak happens kek)If Duskbloods releases anywhere near the end of October or in November, then it absolutely will die with everyone dead set focused on GTA 6, it actually would be smart of them to delay it all the way to next year.
>>745994684Kino
>>745994684The reality is that if it weren't made by Fromsoft I feel like nobody would care about it. Actually I think everybody would shit on it just like Concord and Highguard. Its just another pvp hero game in an ocean of them.
>>745998192I wish it was Bloodborne 2, but its multiplayer slop.
Nightreign light with OHKO zogfest pvp.
>>745999182>Actually I think everybody would shit on it just like Concord and Highguard.Wasn't "Hero Shooter on big map with shifting objectives and phases" literally Highguard's selling point lol
It's better than other fromslop, but not great.
>>745999182ThisIt's utterly unspectacular within the genre, except the netcode which is spectacularly bad, and the predictable, only relevant piece of information that comes with "From the makers of Dark Souls"
>>745994684It's Nightreign but PvP. I thought for sure it would be something more than that. Other than giving players an air dash and multiple air jumps, the characters act like just any other Souls game, and Souls combat is only good because it's against NPCs who are designed around it, it's janky and awkward against other players. And sure, everyone knew this would be a game for people who like Souls PvP, but I thought they would innovate on it; I thought they'd push the formula forward and show us the next page in Souls combat. I would not say that's what they've done, this feels more like a lateral move. The only thing this has over Nightreign is that the assets are new (for From standards). It makes me wonder why it's taken them 9 years to make and what's Miyazaki's contribution.I also feel like the characters aren't as cool as Nightreign's. I'm not sure why. Most of them just seem like random dudes. It's hard to compete with a loli doll and a giant birdman, I guess.I also thought the objectives felt arbitrary. You're not running around doing stuff that makes intuitive sense. Lighting flames in skulls and playing king of the hill with a ritual site, but make sure you're holding the correct colored rock? That was the best they could come up with? Why are there so many chairs with skeletons in them lying around? Why are we putting flames in their skulls? The objectives could've been anything, it's just pressing a button, but why that?So if you like Bloodborne PvP but wish your character could move around like ACVI, this game is for you. I'm just not sure how many people that applies to. Especially on the Switch 2.
>>746000187As soon as info about the game started coming out I said this game felt like some shareholder brainchild made out of scraps from cancelled/unfinished projects. Slapping Miyazaki's name on this and talking about how "only Nintendo was willing to fund it!" felt like deliberate damage control
>>746000632I don't feel that way, I think Miyazaki really wanted to make it, just like Deracine. But Deracine was marketed from the beginning as just a little VR experiment while this game has been treated as the next big thing from FromSoft. It really doesn't feel that way. And From has said nothing about any future games. Even if Duskbloods was a bigger game, they should have two other big games around the corner. Now that we know it isn't that big of a game, it feels like those two other big games should be here already, but not a peep. What are they doing?
>>745994684No weapon swapping (Souls staple) No two handing (Souls staple) No dual wielding (unless you have an always dual wield weapon)No dodge step/rolling attacks (Souls staple) No backstep attacks (Souls staple) No crouching attacks (Elden Ring addition) No trick weapon forms (Bloodborne mechanic) No trick weapon transformation attacks (Bloodborne mechanic) No weapon swap attack (Bloodborne mechanic) 90% of your weapon movesets are gutted compared to other souls games. If I had to describe it, it feels like you're piloting an Armored Core with two variations of the same style melee weapon on r1/r2 (light/heavy) a shield (L1) a ranged weapon (L2) and a special weapon (Triangle). You can parry with L1 + R2, which makes you roar. Every character can do it, and it's much lamer than using the gun to parry in bloodborne.THE GAME SUCKS
>>745997559The only "people" that tossed money to ninpedo for an inferior tablet ARE brown third-worlders, redditpedotroon-kun
>>745994818SBPB
>>745998262>I'm not saying it sounds awfulI am.
>>745994684I'm getting it, ponies can still play concord tho
>>745994684>it was Miyazaki's idea, not a cash grab Bandai Namco forced him to do or anything like thatI am worried... my boy Hidetaka is losing it a bit.
>>746000632>let's make live service PvP sloppa to extract as much money from your rabid fanbase Miyazaki-san>oh yeah, let's also make it Switch 2 exclusive for maximum gain!
>>746001198Wait a minute. This whole time I've been shitting on this game by arguing that it's the same game again. You're telling me it's actually not the same at all?
>>746004042I thought that was why people were disappointed
>>745998617That's a lot of ignoring you're doing.
>>745994684my verdict is that its another asset flip with 80% same assets and ideas, on the same engine with all its terrible foundations, even same exact fucking ui and combat, and is /v/ and reddit normie bait
>>745996631Same honestly, they could have explained things much much more clearly without it being crypticIm curious if this game got changed around a lot like other Souls games right prior to release. Maybe thats why they really didnt want streams this time, cause theyre still finalizing stuff? Its incredibly strange
>>746004439I was just a little sad no one replied to my post to see what they think. Maybe they didn't see it so it tried posting it in other threads to see if anyone would reply but it's clear now no one cares. I'll stop now.
>>745994684/v/ seems to be malding about it, so I guess it's good
>>745994684Not for me. Sure it’ll have its fans but I really would have preferred a single player experience.
>>746001815I dunno i see a lot subhuman complaining about the switch 2 price. It's like 2 month of salary for the median favella monkey
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>>746008256weird and pathetic
>>746008741He said he was looking forward to stupid never dies. That should have been your hint
>>745994684It's fine, I just don't think it will have longevity. I played every session except the final one. Won a few matches. Really enjoyed sniper chick but she'll probably get nerfed. I just really think this should have been a side mode in a single player game. Not being able to explore this entire world they built because you're always on the clock is bootycheeks. The bosses suck ass and are easy af to defeat because everyone is summoned in and it's a huge gank fest of players + their kin. Babbys first 'souls' game imo. The reward of winning without the struggle and feeling of overcoming obstacles. I loved fromsoft games for the hit in my brain I'd get. It just wasn't there.Unless something comes out as to a hidden mode or different way to play the game, I'll probably be skipping it
>>746008840nta but stupid never dies does look cool in that cringekino kinda way, reminds me a lot of suda51 games.
>>745998262From everything I've heard, this game sounds like Angel Arena from wc3 if it was a real game, which is bizarre.
>>745994684>MP only game>ExclusiveYeah I'm not caring about a game that will die soon enough after it's launch.
>>746012070The network test pulled bigger numbers than Nightreign's.
>>745994794fpbp
Best game he's ever made shits on all soulslike this is the game fromsoftware needs to be making.
>>745994684The concept is shit, the online only is shit.It's shit.
>>745994969But fromsoft's only following a trend in this case, there's been a million hero extraction battle royale type games before and approximately 90% of them flopped. Even the ones that were melee based like Duskbloods. Remember rumbleverse? It died in a COUPLE OF WEEKS.
>>745994684Breath of fresh air in a stale genre.
>>745996272No I'm seething because the areas are beautiful and complex with lot of verticality, it'd make a legendary ground for Bloodborne 2 with fast paced aerial gameplay. But it's used for battle royale souls. It's a map in which you want to explore every nooks and crannies and get amazing fights and bosses in at your own leisure. Not sprint around looking for virtue points. What's this ADHD shit?
>>745997973>armored core had problems with kitting, so let's make a game with triple jumping dashing cunts who can use long distance abilities It looks fun to troll as leylaa or whatever she's called. I can give them that.
Triple jump + air dash makes the PvP look more like Armore Core than fucking Souls or Blooborne.Also not buying a switch2.
>>746000187The skeletons sitting in chairs were already in Elden Ring. They symbolize the fans waiting for bloodborne 2.
>>746001198Are you real? It's really dollars store souls? What the FUCK IS HAPPENING WITH FROM.The only audience interested in this game are the ones fully captivated by the depth of pvp fights and they took away all that?
>>745994684Lot of fun. Looking forward to next stress test and the final product. Day one.
>>745998192>BB2It's less interesting than both Nightreign and the Chalice Dungeon section of BB.The fact that unlike NR you're stuck with 1 melee weapon per character sucks for combat variety. Also the enemy and boss variery is mediocre, especially for a roguelike MP game.
>>746001198Gotta simplify it for the Switch audience.
>>745994684im patiently waiting for thr steam release
>>745994684I will not buy a switch2 but I will watch jeenine play it I guess
>>745994684>asking /v/ about a FromSoftware Switch 2 game OP, you know damn well that Anons are going to seethe.
>>745994684Kino that is and will make snoys seethe into endless duskbloods hate threads on /v/
undersea cable is a fucking baller weaponnot buying a switch double tho
>>745994794/thread
>>745994794FPBP
Will he even play it???
>>745999371>shifting objectivesnot really, the gamemode was as far as I understood shifting between ctf and base defense/siege. Which doesn't sound like a bad idea on paper, but you could probably mod in any other team shooter.
>>746014197All of FromSoft's games will be Switch 2 exclusive or Switch 2 focused from now on.
>>746014197? this thread has been pretty chill so far
>>746014810Majority of Japanese developers qill bw Nintendo focused tbqh
>>745994684>SAAARbloodsFuck off hackazaki, sell out more fucking faggot
