Rickyraws
This mean you don't like me?
"Welcome home, good hunter. What is it you desire?"
"The blood makes us human....makes us more than human....makes us...human no more..."
"Fear...the old...blood..."
"You know....it's just what hunters do.....heh heh heh....."
Ladies and gentlemen, the PS4 Exclusive title that has tantalized our eyes and circumcised our genitals is nearly upon us. Some people, primarily those who are unfamiliar with the Souls series may ponder: "What's Bloodborne? What's it about?"
I pity these people. They eat. Drink. Breathe. But they have not yet lived. Shed tears for our brethren and sistren. For they are ignorant to that which eludes them.
There are others....wretched ones...who betrayed the covenant that bound them. They are brethren no more. Abandonment their creed. Disregard their code. Shed no tears for these wretched ones. For they have abandoned the brother hood for more...boxy indulgences. X boxy indulgences to be precise.
Wall of Shame:
@Qwark28
@Juggs
@LEGI0N47
@Ra Helios
@Jer
@Saboteur-6
Come now! Who are our hunter brethren? Those amongst us who do not falter to the adversities and hardships that await us in Yharnam? @EGP Wonder_Chef wilt thou be partaking in the undertaking?
Should we concoct a TYM password for exclusive co-op cooperation? Those of you who do not know what I am talking about have either failed in thine quest for knowledge...or succeeded in remaining in the dark, ready to tackle the tortures that await with no aid what so ever.
@Saboteur-6
@EMPEROR_THEO
@Vulcan Hades
@Rathalos
@BaronVonRupert
Which of you shall join us? Which of you are wont for the wall of shame?
EDGE PREVIEW (Controversy and misunderstandings about their 6 weapons statements were proven to be misleading. There's are more than double that number confirmed)
Cliff notes:
-Playthrough did not involve Chalice Dungeon or multiplayer.
-This is not an official review/no score, despite the cover of the game saying "THE VERDICT"
"Bloodborne is Hidetaka Miyazaki's brutal riposte to the section of his playerbase that thinks it has seen it all before."
-Merchant sells a clip-on lantern (hello Demon's Souls augite).
-"Yharnam spends the game in the grip of a perpetual night...that can only be brought to an end by the player finding and finishing off the source of the scourge of beasts." (this could be referring short term like...defeat a major boss, get some daytime, or overall, I guess)
-Description on the first shield they found: Shields are nice, but not if they engender passivity.
-Some enemies in the game can use spells
-Confirmed Bloodtinge stat governs bullet damage
-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 - they say stamina management is a more diverse process in Bloodborne than in the earlier games
-Clothes found in the world or from a merchant whose catalog expands when you defeat bosses
-Bloodstone shards = titanite, coldblood = portable souls, most common items are blood vials (healing) and quicksilver bullets, but stocks can grow low later in the game
-Surplus items are automatically sent to a storage box, and if you die your items are replenished from the box automatically
-They say your starting stats are dictated by the trick weapon you choose, which runs counter to the origins shown in the character creator...
-Only found 6 or so weapons and 6 or so guns in 40 hours
-Very few chests, almost all have something good inside
-Enemies only drop upgrade mats and items
-Bloodgems are an upgrade item that allows you to change the attributes of a weapon, ex. increasing physical attack power, adding poison damage, or increasing scaling - all the weapons in the game are customizable with bloodgems
-Did not beat the game but they feel like it is less replayable than its predecessors (this does not count the Chalice Dungeon or multiplayer components)
-You can keep up to 5 dungeon configurations in your Chalice Dungeon stock
-Lantern checkpoints are not "overabundant" like the bonfires of Dark Souls II, you open shortcuts rather than getting new bonfires (ala Demon's Souls), interconnectivity approaches Firelink Shrine type numbers of access and departure points in a few places
-"Discrete areas flow together to create a believable world" - separating the hub from the main gameworld allows the world itself to be more coherent
-They say in Souls you are frequently scared of dying, but in Bloodborne you are also scared of what is coming to kill you - "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. 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." - For this reason they think taking the replayability factor to CD makes more sense.
-Torch may be very important for newcomers/first playthroughs
-There is a new mechanic they are not allowed to discuss
-"If you thought From Software was going soft, Hidetaka Miyazaki is about to put you brutally back in your place. And if you've been watching this generation from the sidelines, unmoved by the remasters and rush jobs while you wait for the first true essential to arrive, now's the time. As if there was ever any doubt, Miyazaki and his team have done it all over again."
"The blood makes us human....makes us more than human....makes us...human no more..."
"Fear...the old...blood..."
"You know....it's just what hunters do.....heh heh heh....."
Ladies and gentlemen, the PS4 Exclusive title that has tantalized our eyes and circumcised our genitals is nearly upon us. Some people, primarily those who are unfamiliar with the Souls series may ponder: "What's Bloodborne? What's it about?"
I pity these people. They eat. Drink. Breathe. But they have not yet lived. Shed tears for our brethren and sistren. For they are ignorant to that which eludes them.
There are others....wretched ones...who betrayed the covenant that bound them. They are brethren no more. Abandonment their creed. Disregard their code. Shed no tears for these wretched ones. For they have abandoned the brother hood for more...boxy indulgences. X boxy indulgences to be precise.
Wall of Shame:
@Qwark28
@Juggs
@LEGI0N47
@Ra Helios
@Jer
@Saboteur-6
Come now! Who are our hunter brethren? Those amongst us who do not falter to the adversities and hardships that await us in Yharnam? @EGP Wonder_Chef wilt thou be partaking in the undertaking?
Should we concoct a TYM password for exclusive co-op cooperation? Those of you who do not know what I am talking about have either failed in thine quest for knowledge...or succeeded in remaining in the dark, ready to tackle the tortures that await with no aid what so ever.
@Saboteur-6
@EMPEROR_THEO
@Vulcan Hades
@Rathalos
@BaronVonRupert
Which of you shall join us? Which of you are wont for the wall of shame?
EDGE PREVIEW (Controversy and misunderstandings about their 6 weapons statements were proven to be misleading. There's are more than double that number confirmed)
Cliff notes:
-Playthrough did not involve Chalice Dungeon or multiplayer.
-This is not an official review/no score, despite the cover of the game saying "THE VERDICT"
"Bloodborne is Hidetaka Miyazaki's brutal riposte to the section of his playerbase that thinks it has seen it all before."
-Merchant sells a clip-on lantern (hello Demon's Souls augite).
-"Yharnam spends the game in the grip of a perpetual night...that can only be brought to an end by the player finding and finishing off the source of the scourge of beasts." (this could be referring short term like...defeat a major boss, get some daytime, or overall, I guess)
-Description on the first shield they found: Shields are nice, but not if they engender passivity.
-Some enemies in the game can use spells
-Confirmed Bloodtinge stat governs bullet damage
-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 - they say stamina management is a more diverse process in Bloodborne than in the earlier games
-Clothes found in the world or from a merchant whose catalog expands when you defeat bosses
-Bloodstone shards = titanite, coldblood = portable souls, most common items are blood vials (healing) and quicksilver bullets, but stocks can grow low later in the game
-Surplus items are automatically sent to a storage box, and if you die your items are replenished from the box automatically
-They say your starting stats are dictated by the trick weapon you choose, which runs counter to the origins shown in the character creator...
-Only found 6 or so weapons and 6 or so guns in 40 hours
-Very few chests, almost all have something good inside
-Enemies only drop upgrade mats and items
-Bloodgems are an upgrade item that allows you to change the attributes of a weapon, ex. increasing physical attack power, adding poison damage, or increasing scaling - all the weapons in the game are customizable with bloodgems
-Did not beat the game but they feel like it is less replayable than its predecessors (this does not count the Chalice Dungeon or multiplayer components)
-You can keep up to 5 dungeon configurations in your Chalice Dungeon stock
-Lantern checkpoints are not "overabundant" like the bonfires of Dark Souls II, you open shortcuts rather than getting new bonfires (ala Demon's Souls), interconnectivity approaches Firelink Shrine type numbers of access and departure points in a few places
-"Discrete areas flow together to create a believable world" - separating the hub from the main gameworld allows the world itself to be more coherent
-They say in Souls you are frequently scared of dying, but in Bloodborne you are also scared of what is coming to kill you - "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. 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." - For this reason they think taking the replayability factor to CD makes more sense.
-Torch may be very important for newcomers/first playthroughs
-There is a new mechanic they are not allowed to discuss
-"If you thought From Software was going soft, Hidetaka Miyazaki is about to put you brutally back in your place. And if you've been watching this generation from the sidelines, unmoved by the remasters and rush jobs while you wait for the first true essential to arrive, now's the time. As if there was ever any doubt, Miyazaki and his team have done it all over again."
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