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Subject: Re: Bloodborne (Out now) Sat 28 Mar 2015 - 1:17
I wish I knew that before I spent echoes on some bullets etc I reckon I might have good few spare.
Crumpy Andy Zeta Metroid
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Subject: Re: Bloodborne (Out now) Sat 28 Mar 2015 - 6:54
Nice shout Jay, I was going to start taking them for slivers of health just to have them. Also those crow noises are far more fearsome than what they are
Didn't get a chance to play yesterday but it's my main task for today...
Crumpy Andy Zeta Metroid
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Making some good progress in this now. Really started to feel how connected the world was last night when I ended up back at the start. Glad Easter Weekend is coming up, will be very glad to get properly stuck in with no distractions (unless I finish it, then I'll be sad).
Also everyone should watch these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dNKoJWbFLw
The_Jaster Din
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Making some good progress in this now. Really started to feel how connected the world was last night when I ended up back at the start. Glad Easter Weekend is coming up, will be very glad to get properly stuck in with no distractions (unless I finish it, then I'll be sad).
Also everyone should watch these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dNKoJWbFLw
Those videos were great! Subbed as well so I don't miss out.
EDIT: I also made the same mistake as him with picking a strength based class but opting for the skill based weapon.
Crumpy Andy Zeta Metroid
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Yeah Matt Lees stuff is normally pretty good. I'd recommend his podcast Daft Souls as well. I didn't get to watch his Dark Souls series having barely played the games but I'm glad I can watch this one.
The_Jaster Din
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I really do need to play this - it's sitting there waiting for me to finish with Fallout. Can't wait to jump into this.
Buskalilly Galactic Nova
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Subject: Re: Bloodborne (Out now) Sat 21 Nov 2015 - 16:11
Just started DSII today. After I've gone that, the plan is to buy Blooders to play on Muss' PS4.
The_Jaster Din
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Subject: Re: Bloodborne (Out now) Sat 21 Nov 2015 - 17:51
JayMoyles wrote:
I really do need to play this - it's sitting there waiting for me to finish with Fallout. Can't wait to jump into this.
Do you reckon you'll tackle the DLC areas since you can access it pretty early on or wait until later? I think it'd be interesting with a fresh characater.
JayMoyles Galactic Nova
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Subject: Re: Bloodborne (Out now) Sat 21 Nov 2015 - 17:56
Hmm, it depends. I'd probably tackle it later on in the game once I felt comfortable with the combat and my character.
The_Jaster Din
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Subject: Re: Bloodborne (Out now) Sat 21 Nov 2015 - 18:00
If you do you'd have access to more weapons, my game should be interesting anyway since I'll be on NG+3 & I cannot wait.
JayMoyles Galactic Nova
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Subject: Re: Bloodborne (Out now) Sat 21 Nov 2015 - 18:02
I suppose it depends on how well it's balanced too. DSII's DLC is obviously meant to be played after you've gained considerable knowledge about the game, and the Artorias DLC in DSI was much the same.
The_Jaster Din
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So I played the dlc last night for about 4 or 5 hours starting with easily sweeping Vicar Amelia aside so I could access the new area & oh man is it rock hard (definitely for end game play) but really clever stuff, I feel like such a newb again using nearly all my blood vials before getting to a boss which I still can't beat.
The new weapons I've picked up are really fun as well with the Whirligig Saw being my favourite so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eSoF79e1uE
EDIT: Ludwig, The scummy bastard more like.
Muss Shiny Shuckle
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Made a start on this yesterday, got past the first couple of bosses. I like the high tempo relative to souls games and switching between two and one handed weapons on the fly
The_Jaster Din
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Good to hear you are enjoying it, combat is especially nice when you learn to transition the weapon transformations into your combos.
Muss Shiny Shuckle
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Subject: Re: Bloodborne (Out now) Sun 27 Dec 2015 - 16:09
I've just managed to get to lantern in Byrgenwerth. I had been going around the unseen village for a while but I think that's beyond me at the moment, although I managed to pick up a pretty nice electro mace there.
So far in terms of bosses I've only had real troubles with Vicar Amelia and the Blood-Starved Beast, but those fights have definitely helped me improve my dodge skills and I'm sure there's worse to come.
I seem to be building up quite a lot of insight and not really spending it on anything but hey ho.
The_Jaster Din
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Subject: Re: Bloodborne (Out now) Sun 27 Dec 2015 - 23:22
Unless you plan to beckon people for co-op insight is mostly handy for getting bolt and fire paper when you think you need it.
Jimbob Bargain Hunter
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Ooh! Guys! Guys! Ooh! I'm playing this now. Or was until the Zelda DLC dropped.
As I know I won't have time to play through the game a second time, I'm wussing out and asking for confirmation on a couple of bits - in the Souls games I've been burned by bad decisions before.
So I've:
killed the blood-thirsty beast, and got the ptherumuermuerm chalice. I've started to explore a bit further on, rather than using the chalice. But also, last time I carked it, I got dragged off to the unknown village or whatever it is. So - two questions:
I know the chalice is used on a gravestone to make a dungeon (if you've not played Bloodborne, that sentence is nonsense); am I right in thinking that I need to make the first dungeon as part of the progression of the game?
Am I right in thinking that the Village is another "Awakening" point, so, now I've got to a lantern there, can I jump back to here via one of the gravestones in the Hunter's Dream?
The_Jaster Din
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Well, I beat Amelia Bedelia "Be a dear and clean up the church"*, didn't understand the cutscene I was given after that, and apparently now need to go to the Unseen Village. Everything there seems a big step up and is kicking my arse.
*I thought that was clever, however it turns out everyone in the whole world has already done this joke
Muss Shiny Shuckle
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Extremely artsy wanky Bloodborne talk that doesn't spoil the game its just well wanky:
I have fond memories of the Blood-Thirsty Beast as "the boss that made me understand Dark Souls." Oftentimes people would say, nah but its that feeling of immense satisfaction you get after felling a Dark Souls boss that makes it all worthwhile. For me I always felt empty. Even with the Chuckle Brothers, I was just relieved it was over* rather than celebrating some great feat of perseverance and self-improvement.
*i.e., I would have to repeat this process again against another big bad later
The Blood-Thirsty one changed all of that. I found a tempo - fast fast, attack, fast fast dodge, fast fast counter, fast fast flee, fast fast compose yourse--- fast fast no time- but a rhythm that pulsated ever more violently over time. The visceral snarls and screams of this insatiable, massive, lightning-fast creature, supported by a manic moveset, made it clear that the more I fought, the more I was just pissing this thing off. The battle brought the series to life for me. But not life as in the realism of the daily grind, life as in the vivid un-reality of dreams - that frantic, instinctual, pre-symbolic/pre-language reality.
Immersion in games is ethereal, like dreaming one's liable to be pulled from slumber's cocoon by anything from noise to hunger. But in the Blood-Thirsty Beast I discovered my match, my beat. A fragile hunter, pulse pounding, "physically" never more than mere inches from "death" but mentally closer to "life" than ever before. Nothing was pulling me away from my trance until the final chord had sounded.
It was that, edge of your seat, one small hunter against the world, naked without a shield and armour, stuff that all came together in that fight. I'd always found Dark Souls too plodding and methodical. It had a lot to appreciate artistically, but like Once upon a Time in the West or Citizen Kane the fascination for me remained a distant appreciation of form, not an infatuation. The constant danger, the speed, coupled with all that gothic lore, that's what separates Bloodborne from Dark Souls to me, and all of that became crystal clear in that Blood-Thirsty fight. Can't say that the rest of the game held me within the same tight grasp of revelation, but it still had me ready to play it, and only it, until the tale had concluded.
Vicar Amelia I found no less challenging, but she was a much more serene and thoughtful entity. I wasn't ever on the edge of my seat with her, and I didn't know what was going on in that cut scene either at the time.
Jimbob Bargain Hunter
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Subject: Re: Bloodborne (Out now) Sun 15 Oct 2017 - 22:43
I think I'm finally near the end of this.
I killed
Spoiler:
Rom the Vacuous Spider, and then the moon went weird and there was a baby
And I've got
Spoiler:
Two umbilicial cords; I at least know I'm supposed to get 3.
Why?
Spoiler:
To stop a beast thing from blood the moon happening. Once again, From Software: love playing the game; no idea why I'm playing it.
The_Jaster Din
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This is going to one of March's Plus games which is rather big news, and might be the first game to come to plus for ages that I will give ago and see if I get further this time as this almost clicked when I did play it.
I wonder if it hints at a sequel or anything especially with the From teaser at the game awards.