BLOODBORNE given Feb '15 Euro/NA release date, deemed worthy of own thread by ilxor

On the other hand, I've won all the duels when people invade my world. Somehow there's a lot more pressure when you're the invader, it's very presumptuous. Guess I'm too Midwestern to be a vileblood.

loading times patched apparently: http://www.jp.playstation.com/op/bloodborne/news/2015/04/103.html

some beautiful maniac has written an absurdly detailed examination of the game's lore - definitely worth a read if you can spare the time. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k7ST7Ysc9I3s6zLXr-DOzWjoAtu6afOOCaU3ucCdBDk/mobilebasic

finished this over the weekend and uh

so this game is basically a cthulu-cronenberg nightmare about fertility, periods and childbirth huh

― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 17 April 2015 08:31 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me otm

really, really loved this from start to finish. need to get stuck into the chalice dungeons now.

i'm at the last boss. and i'm kind of glad i keep losing, because i keep thinking of little things that i want to go back and do/get before i'm kicked into ng+.

i really should have hung around for longer before the last boss - i managed to miss the upper cathedral ward altogether :(

and now i've gotten addicted to invading in the nightmare of mensis, so i'm going to hold off some more.

upper cathedral is definitely worth going back for.

dlc confirmed!

Shuhei Yoshida
‏@yosp

So I have been asked by many people if we are making DLC for Bloodborne. I can say... An expansion is coming. More info later this year. :D

yesss. i've been messing around with ng+ a little bit, but having more fun on a new character that's very different from my first (mostly threaded cane, arcane/bloodtinge build).

My friend got this so I've been playing it a lot. It's really good! Up there with Dark Souls, and way better than Dark Souls 2. I love the baroque steampunk apocalypse look. The combat is really fun, and can get super fast when you aren't using a shield. I think we are near the machinegun guy at the moment, but can't find out how to get up there. I'm pretty sure you can kill him and use the gun.

I finally beat this tonight! Struggled stupidly hard with that optional boss I mentioned above but eventually slayed her ass and ran a lap around the room. I basically dropped the game for a few weeks after that. Fatigue. And dread. Picked it up tonight and beat it in like 3 hours. Fought all of the available bosses, not much of a struggle.

Not sure how I'd rank this one amongst the other Souls games yet, but DS1 maintains top spot. Basically a battle between Demon's and BB for second.

Actually, to be real, Demon's has to take second. BB at 3rd. A respectable 3rd.

This is GOTY so far I really love the design here. There is so much attention to detail. The sharp iron spikes jutting out the top of a tall ladder for no reason at all other than to look cool and menacing. The winding patchwork of leaves and vines twisting around deformed iron fences. The world itself it portrays is a masterful example of twisted architecture. It is dark gothic, supernatural, steampunk, industrial. A world of cobblestones, brick, and rot iron, twisted together, the metal gleaming like the sparkling blood on your top hat.

That red-orange sky has a very dreamlike quality to it.

I felt bad about killing the sewer pig.

It feels like a big return to form following Dark Souls 2 imo. A more cohesive and logically inter-connected world with individual sections employing exclusive textures and a well-planed overarching aesthetic idiosyncrasy. Gone are the long stretches of empty running from one encounter to the next that plagued some areas in earlier games.

Instead of dungeons placed inbetween connecting areas, the whole game is a dungeon, all sprawling and inter-connected. And the attention to detail is great, something far beyond anything done in a Zelda game imo.

Tried playing this on a low-res projector and it looked really bad. Looks great on PS4.

finished this yesterday, took down that reaper thing HARDCORE

now considering whether to dive straight in to NG+ or leave it for a while

Finally got back to this in a big way and am trying to figure out where to go from here... i think i gotta get through the haunted wood? i'm up around level 56 and starting to just muscle my way through new areas.

had a good run today in the chalice dungeons, got through chalice Rom and the Blood-Letting Beast on my first try!

man, i was actually having way more fun going through the chalice areas than i expected, until i was on the final boss of Ailing Loran and accidentally removed the chalice, wiping out all progress. i don't think i'll feel like re-doing it for awhile (unless someone wants to do co-op!).

i want to go back and do chalices, i only go thru the first 1 or 2. you can't co-op on chalices that aren't unlocked yet right

ya i think so. i'm up for it if we're ever online at the same time.

i've gotten to lower pthumeru and hintertomb chalices, not sure how far i am from ailing loran. pretty fun so far, had some good jump scares and some of the new enemies are downright disgusting (crab scorpion thing with bright green stinger)

i missed hintertomb, need to go back for it.

i've been going back through ng+ and doing mostly terrible invasions. there was a rare great one in Cainhurst though where i successfully used a blue elixir to get a co-op party to walk past me, then was actually able to startle them from behind and take them out.

what level should i be for the chalices? im at 82 but they're starting to get more difficult so i might need to start going thru ng+ to level up

they don't scale with ng+...i'm over 100 and certainly don't feel over-leveled for the later ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPjJCVylFBo

okay, i'm on the fucking hunter after the spiders and i can't seem to beat him.
anybody wanna co op some time?

i started a new guy but not quite there yet. forgot how huge this game is

Started playing over the weekend. Through that street, over and over. kill kill kill, you died, back to the street.

I love it. I wish I were playing it now.

It feels more fun than DS2 (the only other ones of these I've played) - running around whacking things with my cane - not just dread, patience, care and thought.

i'll co-op with you forks, just message me if we're on at the same time. haven't tried it but i think that if we use a password now, it'll work regardless of level (and auto-adjust stats if there's a big gap).

i'm pretty much at the end of the game in ng+, just doing pvp and chalices. i finally beat Ebrietas for the first time because i semi-accidentally got him trapped behind some fallen pillars, and he gave up and stopped attacking. i'll take it.

Cool, I'll hit you up later.

yeah the cheese/glitch boss kill is a time-honoured tradition of the series, be glad of them on the rare occasions you can get them. the only time i ever killed old king doran he got stuck behind a barrel

i have not once figured a way to get a co-op chalice dungeon. search gets me nothing.

that was fun, forks.

Yeah, thanks! the help was welcome.

i'm kinda near the end, yes?

very near

I've killed some angry people, a few dogs and a big thing with a brick. Am I near the end?

okay, beat it. into ng+ prob should've waited and beaten some side quests as this is much harder now. at level 96.

at first ng+ seemed super hard, then much easier. i'm pretty sure this was not due to my skills improving, probably had more to do with going through some chalice dungeons and finding gems that compensated for enemies' increased hp. also you get crazy souls in ng+, so thankfully there is no need to farm for vials and bullets anymore.

chalice dungeon rom is some bullshit

first try ;)

i was watching vids of ppl rushing in and ignoring all the spawns but i had to take it slow and wipe out each wave. got bloodletting on 3rd try, much easier without lock-on. now i'm at ailing loran and lower hintertomb

finished hintertomb and ailing loran, now on lower loran. really fun, i might be enjoying this more than the main game. but the infinite spider bell chimes are starting to get rly annoying

i did ailing loran with a friend the other day, although it took us long enough to figure out the co-op. it was fun though, the abhorrent beast was a piece of cake with two people.

i got him down to 1/4 but that last phase is just ridic so i used a random co-op for that one. i've also helped ppl using the co-op quick search, seems to take a few minutes to connect either way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPs_cAdAhjU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPs_v2JAwjo

expansion announced, coming november 24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=106&v=NHmjtL-RsJ4

dunno why that didn't embed but it's worth a look!

yep that looks cool

so ready for this