That's... actually the whole point of the game. To struggle to finish it.

Difficulty is measured by a person's skill and also to a certain extent, the starting character's stats. Just like in the Souls games before.

Those who wants to be spoilt - http://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/b...ly-copy-16.html

Can't wait when the servers finally goes online. There are bosses in this game that are generally made for co-op.

It's not like the servers are online and those who are playing now does not have the day 1 patch either.

You want to sit through 40 seconds loading screens every 10 minutes?

As awesome as DS2? I think it is much better. I personally think DS2 was the worse in the Souls series, too many fundemental flaws IMO. Bloodborne is a Miyazaki game, just like the first Demon Souls. If you liked Demon Souls, you'll like Bloodborne, but if you hated it then chances are you will not be able to sink yourself into Bloodborne.

That's at least my view.


Miyazaki had very little to do with Dark Souls 1 and 2. So yeah, if you liked Miyazaki's design in Demon's Souls, you will love Bloodborne. Almost everything has been amped up.


Then that "infamous" 40 sec loading video is not having the day 1 patch installed. I can confirm this because I just watched a stream an hour ago and the loading after death was 23 seconds (I timed it).

Yes it will be buggy. Don't expect a solid, no-exploits, crash-free experience. That said, compared with Dark Souls 1 and 2, Bloodborne is definitely a lot more polished on day 1 in comparison.

Like I said, if you liked Demon's Soul, get Bloodborne day 1. It's damn good. Chalice dungeon can be accessed after you get the Holy Chalice.



Yes, always loved the monster designs from Demon's Soul. Bloodborne goes even better. The environments are also quite detailed, great level design too!


Yes, you can get a shield in Bloodborne. However, the shield is practically useless. The whole point of Bloodborne is to encourage offensive gameplay, no more of those turtling bs in last 3 Souls games.
You want to win, you fight smart and skillfuly. Not cover and wait until tomorrow for an opening. Love the new mechanic.

Which also means high risk = high reward.

Miyazaki's way of telling gamers not to be a puss.

Heavyarm actually has stocks now. So yeah, it actually wasn't going to be delayed.

Man, seriously loving how Miyazaki is giving everyone the finger, git gud or git out. That shield is such a cruel joke!

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Mar 24 2015, 06:17 PM

Loading time, SSD (Samsung 840 Evo) VS HDD (Stock 500GB).

Loading into Hunter's Dream:
HDD = 12s
SSD = 9s

Warping to 1st Floor Sickroom:
HDD = 36s
SSD = 26s

Warping to Central Yharnam:
HDD = 37s
SSD = 29s

Dying around Central Yharnam:
HDD = 42s
SSD = 32s

Warping to Great Bridge:
HDD = 33s
SSD = 26s

Dying around Great Bridge:
HDD = 34s
SSD = 29s

Warping to Tomb of Oedon:
HDD = 29s
SSD = 22s

Warping to Cathedral Ward:
HDD = 43s
SSD = 32s

Not my result but from a user at Neogaf.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Mar 24 2015, 06:39 PM

Is this your first "Souls" type of game? I do think Bloodborne is actually even tougher for those who has never had any experience with the previous titles, even though they are mechanically different to quite a noticeable extent.

With Demon's Soul, you have the opportunity to turtle with shields. Furthermore, parry and riposte was ridiculously easy, you just have to learn the relatively lax opening window for it for each enemy. This goes the same to an extent with Dark Souls 1 & 2 as well, the shield really did help many newcomers to learn the game.

In Bloodborne, things are different. You're into the game and then it expects you to either get good or keep dying (and stop playing). There's that sort of intense feeling there, turtling with a shield is impossible in Bloodborne. You will need to learn how to dodge, parry and riposte. You need to learn how to be offensive at all times yet not kill yourself by doing so.

So yeah, if you have never had any experience in how the Souls game work, Bloodborne will be a very difficult experience at least for the first 10-15 hours (heck, the game really only starts after 12 hours anyway).

Though, Souls games provide a type of satisfaction that not many games these days can achieve once you've beaten something tough skillfuly.

Bloodborne, even more so.
You can choose to wait a little bit for From Software to iron out some of the glitches (non of which are quite game breaking, yet) and to hopefully improve the performance of the game.

No, the patch only improved framers ten and fixed a few hugs with some of the bosses but does not really reduce load times.

All I know is that From Software is continuing to improve the frametime (to reduce stuttering) and is also looking at how to reduce load times. I honestly wouldn't be so bored at the land screens if they actually put some lore or artwork, instead of the just game's title.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Mar 25 2015, 10:51 AM

There's is one shield in the game, at least that's the only one I've found after half way through. The shield is near beginning of the game, but it's the shittiest shield you would have ever seen in any video game.

Yeah, that's the middle finger from Miyazaki to all turtlers.

If you are playing Bloodborne like you would play Onimusha, then obviously you're going to have a very hard time progressing. Timing is crucial.

I know Onimusha has timings for the "Issen" tech too, but unlike Onimusha games, monsters don't do pee damage to you. Movements are also entirely different between the 2 games.
If you think the Lycans are crazy hard, then what you will see just a few more areas after that will make you throw your controller against the wall.

So, what were all your starting weapons/build?

Started with Kirkhammer. I love the damage and versatality with the sword.
Now I know you can just purchase all of the other weapons a little later in the game, so it doesn't really make a huge difference.

Just interested to know what everyone started out with.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Mar 26 2015, 01:57 AM

Killed by gravity. I lost 20k echoes.

Actually, that's half correct. You need insight to talk to the doll, of course just seeing the boss once will get you 1 insight. But you can already get the Madman's Knowledge skull (which grants insight) after the area of the first mob.

So... yeah. Don't have to put yourself at risk with plenty of echoes before facing the first boss.

Ok...ay.

So the Burial Blade (the Scythe basically) can ONLY be gotten in NG+ after beating...




Damn it. I was so hyped to get it in the first playthrough.

Suspend mode doesn't work with Bloodborne, not if you choose to play online that is. Damn it. And I thought I can skip 2 minutes of waiting just to start the game.

Btw, if no one has managed to figure it out yet...