i just found out about the memory-leak issue and now i'm wondering if my relative success against bosses is less due to my hard-won l33t skillz than the fact my opponents might have been nerfed by me leaving my ps4 on standby between sessions over a few days :(
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:59 (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i rebooted the game yesterday and the enemies in the nightmare of mensis definitely seemed more aggressive than they were before, so i think i may indeed have unwittingly benefited from memory-leak nerfing. fuck :(
still managed to pwn the mensis hunter even without the advantage of accidentally-nerfed enemies tho
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 20 April 2015 10:57 (nine years ago) link
i reaaally liked the Upper Cathedral Ward (and i died once to Ebrietas and was like, nope, not coming back to that for quite awhile).
got through yahar'gul (again) too, i feel like i missed some things and took a weird route though. at one point i rang my beckoning bell to get some help with the three hunters by the broken lamp, but ended up doing them solo. then i got turned around with all of the shortcuts and warping and was surprised when i ended up at the boss...my bell was still ringing so i inadvertently got help on the One Reborn, which made it seem super easy.
also, after countless botched co-op attempts, i ended up beating Logarius solo, and it felt great. probably my most breathless boss fight along with Gascoigne.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 20 April 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link
the little Celestial Emissary aliens who run after you with arms outstretched are adorable.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 20 April 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link
those 3 hunters was one of the best parts of the game for me. i kited them all the way back to the lantern and they started pacing around outside the room. i was like "haha safe zone" until one of them said fuck this and ran in and fought me while the other watched, arena-of-death style
― am0n, Monday, 20 April 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
yeah i got the beast claw guy back to the bridge before the lamp and had him almost down, then the cane one comes flying in out of nowhere. very tense.
one of the hardest/most frustrating parts was the two cthulu-headed guys where you get the orphanage key. lost a bunch of insight to them and had to resort to using the cannon. still, walking around that place in the dark is super spooky.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 20 April 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
the nightmare frontier is a crazy area, even after getting the shortcuts, beating the boss, and finding lots of random nooks & crannies i still don't have a great mental map of the place.
also i tried doing some invasions at the beginning and i'm still the worst at pvp. i get all nervous with a human opponent and do stupid things, so embarrassing.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 14:27 (nine years ago) link
this fuckin' game
― Punny Names (latebloomer), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
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.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 23 April 2015 04:54 (nine years ago) link
loading times patched apparently: http://www.jp.playstation.com/op/bloodborne/news/2015/04/103.html
― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 23 April 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
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
― bizarro gazzara, Sunday, 26 April 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 27 April 2015 10:50 (nine years ago) link
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+.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 27 April 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
i really should have hung around for longer before the last boss - i managed to miss the upper cathedral ward altogether :(
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 27 April 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link
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.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
dlc confirmed!
Shuhei Yoshida@yospSo 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
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
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 21 May 2015 08:41 (nine years ago) link
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).
― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 21 May 2015 13:54 (nine years ago) link
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.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 23 May 2015 00:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Saturday, 23 May 2015 01:34 (nine years ago) link
Actually, to be real, Demon's has to take second. BB at 3rd. A respectable 3rd.
― circa1916, Saturday, 23 May 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
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.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 1 June 2015 03:18 (nine years ago) link
finished this yesterday, took down that reaper thing HARDCORE
now considering whether to dive straight in to NG+ or leave it for a while
― Keith Moom (Neil S), Monday, 1 June 2015 08:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
had a good run today in the chalice dungeons, got through chalice Rom and the Blood-Letting Beast on my first try!
― lil urbane (Jordan), Saturday, 4 July 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
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!).
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 20 July 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
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
― am0n, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 19:31 (nine years ago) link
ya i think so. i'm up for it if we're ever online at the same time.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
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)
― am0n, Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
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.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
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
― am0n, Thursday, 30 July 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
they don't scale with ng+...i'm over 100 and certainly don't feel over-leveled for the later ones.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 30 July 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPjJCVylFBo
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 8 August 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
okay, i'm on the fucking hunter after the spiders and i can't seem to beat him.anybody wanna co op some time?
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 August 2015 05:26 (nine years ago) link
i started a new guy but not quite there yet. forgot how huge this game is
― am0n, Monday, 17 August 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link
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.
― woof, Monday, 17 August 2015 16:20 (nine years ago) link
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.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 17 August 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
Cool, I'll hit you up later.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 August 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
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
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 17 August 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
i have not once figured a way to get a co-op chalice dungeon. search gets me nothing.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 August 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
that was fun, forks.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 03:57 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, thanks! the help was welcome.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 03:59 (nine years ago) link
i'm kinda near the end, yes?
very near
― lil urbane (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
I've killed some angry people, a few dogs and a big thing with a brick. Am I near the end?
― woof, Wednesday, 19 August 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
okay, beat it. into ng+ prob should've waited and beaten some side quests as this is much harder now. at level 96.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
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.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link
chalice dungeon rom is some bullshit
― am0n, Thursday, 20 August 2015 05:09 (nine years ago) link
first try ;)
― lil urbane (Jordan), Thursday, 20 August 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
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
― am0n, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
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
― am0n, Monday, 24 August 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
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.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Monday, 24 August 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link