Bloodborne Press Preview Impressions (16/03/2015)

TetraGenesis said:
Where is everybody getting detailed info on the weapon choices? I'm assuming the spoiler thread but I don't want to go venturing through there.

Can anybody put up a quick summary or quote the relevant info here? (Or if that's already a few pages back and I missed it, just let me know where?)
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I'd rather they PM'd you. Spoiler thread is there for a reason.
 
Yeah I have already seen too mcuh ofthe weapons choices....there are lots, there arecool ones, and there are no worries about weapon content...that is all.
 
Why is GAF doing this to me all the time. I go not being interested at all since announcement, to being excited only a few days before release. The wait have surely been easy doing it this way heh.
 
TimeEffect said:
So what's your guys's history with the Souls games?
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I remember renting Demon souls around the time it came out cause everyone was screaming about how hard it is. So i played the first world and was like meh its not THAT hard. Seems more fair than anything. So i stopped playing. Then Dark souls 1 gets announced and im like hmm maybe theres more to this game since a sequel is coming. So i get that on 360. Play for a bit. Enjoyed the combat a lot. The pc version gets announced so i pretty much stop playing that since the frame rate and the image quality were really killing it for me. PC version comes out and durante saves the day so i buy it. The game rekts me but I rekt the shit out of it later with the great life hunt scythe. Demon souls goes free for a month for plus member's. Of course I HAVE to go back and see whats different. Ended up platinuming Demon souls. Which is probably why i got the alpha invite for Bloodborne. Dark souls 2 comes out. I get the CE edition on ps3. Beat that and then double dip on pc and rekt that too. Everything about these games is just addicting.
 
Did this thread just die out all of a sudden?

I think the first Souls game I bought were Dark Souls for Xbox 360 but didn't open it up, as around the same time I bought Demon's Souls. I think it was late 2013. Then I went on to buy Dark Souls for PC and playing it at maximum.

But to be honest, I haven't played much of either. Maybe 2-3 hours each. I haven't gotten around to Dark Souls II, I don't feel like it before I have been through the prior games.

But I'll be on Bloodborne this coming April.
 
Man, I am not going to finish shadow of the Colossus before Bloodborne is released...I guess this means I will be waiting for my CE edition ....will be ready to go by 10am Tuesday.

Colossus 10 is done though, only 5 more to go!
 
TimeEffect said:
So what's your guys's history with the Souls games?

I've been a fan since Demon's Souls and bought the collector's edition on a totally blind whim. My first collector's edition of anything ever.
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I picked up Demon's Souls a few months after release date in the West, and went on to platinum it.

Was really excited for Dark Souls and obsessively followed release info. Platinumed it on PS3, and then platinumed it again on GFWL. Yes, I did the entire platinum run twice for that game. Loved it too.

Was also excited for Dark Souls 2 and picked it up on PC - I skipped the console releases. I liked it, but not as much as the first two. First Souls I did not platinum, but I did pretty much everything there was to do. Put hundreds of hours in, but not as many hundreds as the other two.

Now I'm here waiting for Bloodborne.
 
TimeEffect said:
Ha, I remember the negativity with Demon's Souls when it was releasing in Japan. People laughed at the "cheesy" trailer, and I think commented on the technical state of the game. No one expected anything of it
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I had the opposite reaction. I was introduced to the trailer right before the US release (and I had never heard of the game), and it instantly made me think of King's Field...which was one of my favorite early PSX games. That trailer had me heavily considering getting a PS3 just for it (which I ended up doing along with UC2).
 
TimeEffect said:
So what's your guys's history with the Souls games?

I've been a fan since Demon's Souls and bought the collector's edition on a totally blind whim. My first collector's edition of anything ever.

My first feeling was of dread. "This is good, it's nice and challenging but ... ehh"

Didn't know where to go and was unsure to want to explore. But I did, and eventually unlocked the Phalanx boss. Lost to it. Then learned about its weakness to fire and in a nerve wracking battle, defeated it. And it felt so good. It just clicked at that moment.

Felt so good to own the artbook/collector's edition too.

I unfortunately cant afford it this time around, but standard is good enough for me. Will probably upgrade sometime down the generation
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I kept seeing import threads pop up about a game called Demond Souls back when it was in Japan. I kept hearing about how difficult it was and how awesome and atmospheric it was.

So come when it launched in the US I picked it up that day and jumped in. I had no idea about anything really, but due to hearing about how difficult it was I wanted to get through 1-1 without dying. So I actually did that, beat Phalanx my first go around. Took like. 45 minutes or so.

The decided I didn't like my character enough so remade into a Wanderer starter. It then took me 3 hours to beat 1-1 lol. Died like 8 times in various places. Atleast 8 times.

I was instantly hooked by the atmosphere within the Nexus. The way they used the tutorial section and integrated it into the story as you had to die to get trapped by the Nexus. Loved the voice acting and the sound effects and everything.

Went on to play for probably 500 hours over many years my. My game of the generation last gen. Truly revolutionary online gameplay that fit perfectly within the world.

There was nothing like being absolutely defeated and having to resort to hunting other players to regain your soul and your human form to get some extra health just to survive a little better toward your next boss battle. All the various secrets that were unlocked or found by mistake or by careful planning throughout the entire playthrough.

Truly amazing game.
 
TimeEffect said:
So what's your guys's history with the Souls games?
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Stumbled across a few minor, no name sites with just some write ups on Demons souls. It sounded really compelling so I imported it. It was the first time ever doing that.

The day it came I missed the mail lady and drove around the neighborhood until I found her, showed her my liscense, and got it.

Played the living hell out of it. Had a friend play it who ended up buying a PS3 for it. From there its been day 1 for the others.

Im slightly hyped for BB.
 
Madridista said:
Why is GAF doing this to me all the time. I go not being interested at all since announcement, to being excited only a few days before release. The wait have surely been easy doing it this way heh.
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It's called group dynamic

You want to smoke that Bloodborne cigarette or won't you?
 
Veritigo_X said:
I feel like I already know the answer to this, but does the game come with a manual? When she opened up the steelbook cases I noticed they were empty besides the disc.
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Sony doesn't make manuals anymore unfortunately. Most developers don't. I find it funny that the holder is still there.
 
It'll probably be 85-93. The games are too hard and have too big a barrier of entry for higher scores. While I feel they should be rated higher, I agree that a lot of the things that make the souls games so "interesting" are poor design decisions that are unraveled or solved by the community. Strictly from a product standpoint it probably doesn't get a 10 even from me. I'd give both dks and ds a 9/10, but I've never played a game better than either of those.
 
LunaticHigh said:
It'll probably be 85-93. The games are too hard and have too big a barrier of entry for higher scores. While I feel they should be rated higher, I agree that a lot of the things that make the souls games so "interesting" are poor design decisions that are unraveled or solved by the community. Strictly from a product standpoint it probably doesn't get a 10 even from me. I'd give both dks and ds a 9/10, but I've never played a game better than either of those.
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The hell does that even mean? Too hard to have higher scores? What?
 
AmethystEnd said:
The hell does that even mean? Too hard to have higher scores? What?
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Video games are products. If a game is difficult to the point that it is painful to most gamers, that is a problem with it.

I love the souls games, they're my absolute favorite. But they're not for everyone. Some reviewers it will click with. Others it will not. If a review score is, for that site, supposed to represent a value in which a general consumer can decide whether or not a game is worth buying, (which is a wide spread usage of the review score) then I can understand the game getting a slightly lower score.

I think one of the reasons the souls games didn't hit the 95+ score mark is because of that. They are certainly games that are of equal quality to games like Half-life 2, or OoT imo.

I think a few reviewers even mentioned that in their reviews.
 
Im expecting the same as previous Soul games. So a metacritic in the 90's

But in a age where so many websites are strugling and need a reason to generate clicks, who knows. I dont really care about game scores, but while they still exist at least i hope they are fair to reward or not the developers work.
 
This series has got to the point where the person reviewing it for websites most likely knows how tough its going to be and enjoyed the previous ones.

I'll say 87
 
LunaticHigh said:
Video games are products. If a game is difficult to the point that it is painful to most gamers, that is a problem with it.

I love the souls games, they're my absolute favorite. But they're not for everyone. Some reviewers it will click with. Others it will not. If a review score is, for that site, supposed to represent a value in which a general consumer can decide whether or not a game is worth buying, (which is a wide spread usage of the review score) then I can understand the game getting a slightly lower score.

I think one of the reasons the souls games didn't hit the 95+ score mark is because of that. They are certainly games that are of equal quality to games like Half-life 2, or OoT imo.

I think a few reviewers even mentioned that in their reviews.
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I'm not really on board with this. Maybe for Demons souls since it was new, but this is the fourth game in the series. They're not going to stick the guy that only reviews FPS games with a copy of bloodborne.


Plenty of reviewers are fans and everyone understands what these games are trying to do. The last three all had VERY high scores all things considered, though not "perfect" scores because let's be honest the games aren't perfect.

All three had some fairly obvious and glaring technical issues at launch that took many patches to correct. You can't possibly have played through blighttown and tell me dark souls is a 10/10 game. There are also some questionable design decisions that needlessly obscure important gameplay elements, like the covenant system in Dark Souls or world tendency in Demons souls.

With some tweaking the games could definitely get there (SOTFS just might, who knows) but so far? None of the three have been "perfect game" material and I say this as a huge fan.
 
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