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[hydrophilic attack]

So, is this the moment where Miyazaki officially jumps the shark? This seems like a really quick cash-in by From.

Merchant sells a clip-on lantern (hello Demon's Souls augite)

lol, ripped right out of Dragon's Dogma

Yharnam spends the game in the grip of a perpetual night

Guess the puny PS4 hardware couldn't handle a lightning system capable of showing different times of day.

Description on the first shield they found

lol, didn't all the previews say no shields? Guess they moved on from graphics downgrades to gameplay downgrades.

Transforming strikes and their follow-up attacks give you a way of reaching enemies that in other Souls games might be out of reach because they were pushed back by your earlier attacks

I guess casulization was to be expected in a peasant exclusive.

Surplus items are automatically sent to a storage box, and if you die your items are replenished from the box automatically

Further peasantization. I guess inventory management would be too much to ask of consolites.

Very few chests

Well, I guess that's one way for the developers to lighten their workload.

Only found 6 or so weapons and 6 or so guns in 40 hours

And I guess that's the other way. C team confirmed. I guess the fanboys will find a way to justify it. "Balance" seems to be the currently most common talking point.

They did not beat the game but they feel like it is less replayable than its predecessors

I wouldn't count on that. What other games would PS4 owners play?

We spent the rest of the level panning the camera endlessly for unseen threats, no longer scared of dying, but of moving. Imagine a whole game of that.

Shit camera confirmed.

There is a new mechanic they are not allowed to discuss

Watch this be a way to include microtransactions. $0.99 to skip the loading screen?

After reading this I feel very comfortable in being able to skip the inevitable PC port, and save my money for the Summer Sale instead.

 

[qa_engineer]

Bloodborne |OT| 6 + 6 = 12

 

[-MD-]

The low weapon count seems nice to me, hopefully they're all useful and serve a role.

I'd rather have that than hundreds of weapons go unused like in the other games.

 

[Jimmyfenix]

I love hydrophilic attack

 

[KennyLinder]

The Future Press guide is 400 pages. Based on DkS1 and 2 guides they don't dick about with filler so there must be more weapons than Eggs in a carton :-D

 

[Servbot24]

trolling

You had me for a minute there.

 

[Baldwin_the_First]

the question is "you use" not how many weapons are in souls games.

I've answered knowing fully well the question, thank you. In fact, I forgot to add in the spear also.

 

[BeEatNU]

people keep forgetting that this is not dark souls

bam

 

[Jimmyfenix]

The Future Press guide is 400 pages. Based on DkS1 and 2 guides they don't dick about with filler so there must be more weapons than Eggs in a carton :-D

400 pages of miyazaki pictures confirmed

 

[Icyflamez96]

If the weapon count is this low, they better have a higher number of useful ones.

 

[Ethelwulf]

So, is this the moment where Miyazaki officially jumps the shark? This seems like a really quick cash-in by From.


Guess the puny PS4 hardware couldn't handle a lightning system capable of showing different times of day.



lol, didn't all the previews say no shields? Guess they moved on from graphics downgrades to gameplay downgrades.


And I guess that's the other way. C team confirmed. I guess the fanboys will find a way to justify it. "Balance" seems to be the currently most common talking point.



I wouldn't count on that. What other games would PS4 owners play?


After reading this I feel very comfortable in being able to skip the inevitable PC port, and save my money for the Summer Sale instead.

Salt?
Edit: Oh trolling? never mind then.

 

[JudgmentJay]

400 pages of miyazaki pictures confirmed

I'd buy it.

 

[Vomiaouaf]

Snip

Geesh. Way to go. People like you make me want to stop reading forums sometimes... Did your day really become better when you decided to waste a few minutes shitting on a game that's not even out yet? Or is this just about stirring the crap in the pot to see what kind of exciting reactions and potentially spicy debates it creates?

 

[viveks86]

After reading this I feel very comfortable in being able to skip the inevitable PC port, and save my money for the Summer Sale instead.

 

[FATALITY]

I've answered knowing fully well the question, thank you. In fact, I forgot to add in the spear also.

lol

 

[Maximo]

The Crow Eating Thread for this game has so much potential.

 

[Tahnit]

I'm a shitposter and a fucking troll.

Fixed

 

[KennyLinder]

400 pages of miyazaki pictures confirmed

Or 33 pages dedicated to each weapon.

 

[i-Lo]

6 weapons? I need my Katana fix...

 

[piccio_ssl]

400 pages of miyazaki pictures confirmed

lmao

 

[Primethius]

Here's my take on the weapon "fiasco":

The previous games had tons of different style of weapons that were similar but had different movesets. Given that we are now moving into the territory of transformable weapons with a bigger emphasis on moveset diversity (and probably playstyle diversity), having a reduction in weapons doesn't seem bad.

However, as we don't have hard facts, I think its a bit pointless to speculate.

 

[-MD-]

Fixed

Too easy.

 

[viveks86]

And we have our first victim:

Geesh. Way to go. People like you make me want to stop reading forums sometimes... Did your day really become better when you decided to waste a few minutes shitting on a game that's not even out yet? Or is this just about stirring the crap in the pot to see what kind of exciting reactions and potentially spicy debates it creates?

 

[Zukuu]

Geesh. Way to go. People like you make me want to stop reading forums sometimes... Did your day really become better when you decided to waste a few minutes shitting on a game that's not even out yet? Or is this just about stirring the crap in the pot to see what kind of exciting reactions and potentially spicy debates it creates?

Guys... that must be the most utterly blunt and obvious sarcasm / troll post I've seen in the history of mankind.

 

[DealWithIt]

Geesh. Way to go. People like you make me want to stop reading forums sometimes... Did your day really become better when you decided to waste a few minutes shitting on a game that's not even out yet? Or is this just about stirring the crap in the pot to see what kind of exciting reactions and potentially spicy debates it creates?

Check his post history. He's just playing around.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

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Great PC Master race post there! /sarcasm

I can't tell if you're trying to be funny or sarcastic.

 

[lazer_bean]

This doesn't really make any sense in context of the series. Demon's souls and dark souls 1 didn't add any new enemies based on playthrough, everything was just made more difficult.

it's not what I mean.
The writer was talking about the Depths in Dark Souls, if you remember this moment:

There is a moment in Dark Souls that we will never forget: down in the Depths, picking up an item from a corpse and a slime dropping onto our head

I'm guessing that more enemies will take the player by surprise like the example above and during a second playthrough we will know where those "surprise enemies" are.

 

[Rurunaki]

lol

No point in arguing with him. He's adamant a put the low weapon count. Considering the 6 mentioned already counts as 12 because of transformation. Sword to hammer, etc.

 

[Wasp]

Do we know if the aliasing is as bad as that video suggested a few weeks ago or has it improved in the final build? It was atrocious in that video.

 

[Celegus]

Can we just give it GotY now?

 

[Dresden]

Can we just give it GotY now?

that comes out two days after bb.

 

[ANDS]

6 weapons? I need my Katana fix...

Realistically what could you transform the Katana into? And who is to say it is not in there in some form (Katana to Twin-Blade perhaps) -

 

[TeddyShardik]

Oh cool. Conan got his own Woolie.

OT, I start sweating just thinking about this game. I don't doubt for a second that PS4 purchase last week was worth it.

 

[Fbh]

Here's my take on the weapon "fiasco":

The previous games had tons of different style of weapons that were similar but had different movesets..

As much as GAF likes to think of this as Dark Souls 3, it's not.

It's a new IP, there are no previous games

Realistically what could you transform the Katana into? And who is to say it is not in there in some form (Katana to Twin-Blade perhaps) -

Katana to twinblade would be awesome.

 

[Aztechnology]

Here's my take on the weapon "fiasco":

The previous games had tons of different style of weapons that were similar but had different movesets. Given that we are now moving into the territory of transformable weapons with a bigger emphasis on moveset diversity (and probably playstyle diversity), having a reduction in weapons doesn't seem bad.

However, as we don't have hard facts, I think its a bit pointless to speculate.

Wellthereitis.gif

 

[BrianRoyale]

I'm very excited to read the impressions so far. I'm happy the game is adding enough to make it feel new enough but also having elements of familiarity. Kind of how Kings field to Demon's souls is (though 1st person to 3rd person is more of a drastic change, so maybe less drastic). I think the Souls games turned out to be some of my absolute favorites of last generation, but I was also feeling some fatigue from the familiar formula, so I'm excited that there are new things in here. I can't say if it'll all work or not until I get my hands on it, but I can't wait!

 

[FunkyPajamas]

"Peasantization" might be my favorite word of the current generation.

 

[nowai]

6 weapons? I need my Katana fix...

ugh, I really hope not.

Phantom range is bad enough online in Souls games, but a katana couldn't clash more with the Victorian Bloodborne horror setting.

 

[Newtype-001]

I've answered knowing fully well the question, thank you. In fact, I forgot to add in the spear also.

Wow so you actively switched between halbard, sword, medium size sword, big ass sword, hammers, whips, daggers, maces and spears during a single playthrough. Thats pretty amazing, 10 different weapons aswell as alternate versions readily swapping in the midst of battle.

Spoiler

unless you mean you used one for a bit then swapped for something else.

 

[Fury451]

The exclusive that we need, and the one that we deserve?

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

Can.Not.Wait.

 

[Clear]

To be clear he never finished it in 40 hours

I know, I was just reflecting on the relatively smaller range of loots they'd come across in that time and thinking that it seems unlikely to be indicative of the game as a whole.

Going back to Demon's there was a whole bunch of items that you could only get by changing world/character tendency, and I suspect the system that they aren't allowed to disclose is something that operates on those lines.

To be truthful also, I'd say that all the previous Souls games kinda suffered a bit from making armour drops too common from scrub enemies, forcing you to faff about with inventory management until you could finally unload all the duplicates at a convenient npc.
That's one thing I'd like not to have to deal with, minor inconvenience or not.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Wonder what the new mechanic is

Dying.

 

[SargerusBR]

that comes out two days after bb.

MGSV releases in September :3

 

[MMaRsu]

So, is this the moment where Miyazaki officially jumps the shark? This seems like a really quick cash-in by From.



lol, ripped right out of Dragon's Dogma



Guess the puny PS4 hardware couldn't handle a lightning system capable of showing different times of day.



lol, didn't all the previews say no shields? Guess they moved on from graphics downgrades to gameplay downgrades.



I guess casulization was to be expected in a peasant exclusive.



Further peasantization. I guess inventory management would be too much to ask of consolites.



Well, I guess that's one way for the developers to lighten their workload.



And I guess that's the other way. C team confirmed. I guess the fanboys will find a way to justify it. "Balance" seems to be the currently most common talking point.



I wouldn't count on that. What other games would PS4 owners play?



Shit camera confirmed.



Watch this be a way to include microtransactions. $0.99 to skip the loading screen?

After reading this I feel very comfortable in being able to skip the inevitable PC port, and save my money for the Summer Sale instead.

Lol i hope this is some sarcasm right here boy

 

[Servbot24]

The Crow Eating Thread for this game has so much potential.

Everyone thinks it's going to be great though. Unless you're saying it's going to be bad?

 

[Rurunaki]

Wasn't there a Sword-Whip weapon alluded to?

Also 40 hours, I wonder how far they got. 10 hours with Cleric Beast, another 10 hours with Priest Gascione, and the 20 hours trying to kill Darkbeast lighting skeleton. Then they called it quits.

 

[Deified Data]

Snip

Bravo. This post will derail the thread for pages to come.

 

[Darksol]

So, is this the moment where Miyazaki officially jumps the shark? This seems like a really quick cash-in by From.



lol, ripped right out of Dragon's Dogma



Guess the puny PS4 hardware couldn't handle a lightning system capable of showing different times of day.



lol, didn't all the previews say no shields? Guess they moved on from graphics downgrades to gameplay downgrades.



I guess casulization was to be expected in a peasant exclusive.



Further peasantization. I guess inventory management would be too much to ask of consolites.



Well, I guess that's one way for the developers to lighten their workload.



And I guess that's the other way. C team confirmed. I guess the fanboys will find a way to justify it. "Balance" seems to be the currently most common talking point.



I wouldn't count on that. What other games would PS4 owners play?



Shit camera confirmed.



Watch this be a way to include microtransactions. $0.99 to skip the loading screen?

After reading this I feel very comfortable in being able to skip the inevitable PC port, and save my money for the Summer Sale instead.

You're either a decent troll or a salty douchebag

 

[Slaythe]

IMO -- You can make really pretty faces in both dark souls games. So I would be surprised if it weren't possible in Bloodborne.

Here are some of my dark souls 1 characters:

Show me a beautiful guy., girls are easier.

I had to spent 5 hours to create a "Leon" replica in Dark souls 1 ... (because had to restart game after becoming human...)

My post was a semi joke anyway ;D .