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Anyone one else taking a break from Bloodborne to play Dark Souls 2?
- Thread starter AgentOtaku
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GrandHarrier
Member
Those are all accurate valid complaints.
Instead you're just going to miss PvP because Bloodborne doesn't have much of it.
These plus weak NG+ and the online system are the main complaints I would say.
No break from the greatness that is Bloodborne, BUT I did start my first ever Dark Souls 1 playthrough and I have to say that I'm pretty enchanted by it. There are gameplay differences that I can now appreciate in Bloodborne, mainly the combat. I love it even more now. But that is actually not a slight towards DS1. So I'm only at the beginning, sporting a Zweihander, thinking about going str build. I already love the game's atmosphere. Whereas BB has this very visceral, menacing and scary atmosphere to it, Dark Souls has this more apocalyptic, somber feel to it. What really surprised me was how good the game looks. I mean I am downsampling from 4k to 1080p, but the game actually has pretty sharp textures and assets that really benefit from downsampling. No need for texture mods as far as I'm concerned. Also 60fps makes it feel buttery. In a short while I'm gonna hop back in to the streets of Yharnam and somehow enjoy it even more now that I have played DS1 before it. After I'm done with these two, it's prolly time for DS2 and if god is willing, we'll hear something from DS3 at this year's TGS or something
Yeah right
TharpDaddy
Member
Yeah I don't think there's any way they announce a new game soon. The B-team just finished up Dark Souls 2 revision and A-team just put out BB. I think Souls fatigue could be a real thing as well, having a break from releases for a year or two could do some good.
IAmRandom31
Banned
lack of environment variety ???????????????????????????????????????????
BAHAWHAT
I agree. If I were Sony I'd be pushing for a simple expansion, not a whole new game. Expand on this world. Build up the chalice dungeons, add new clothing and weapon sets, etc. etc.
Yep. The hurdles of learning to develop for a new hardware and doing the DS2 port propably ensures that we'll have to wait more to hear from their next game. That might not be a bad thing at all, like you said.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
I've completed Bloodborne, might start a second playthrough sometime later, but for now, I've just moved on to Demon's Souls, which I've never played yet. Kinda disappointed that there is zero footstep sound in spirit form, as that was my favorite aspect of music/sound in other Miyakazi games.
Will pick up DS2 when it's cheaper.
Will pick up DS2 when it's cheaper.
FunkyMunkey
Banned
Woah I didn't say it was difficult, just moreso than BB. Many people, including myself, who know DaS1/2 inside and out, have gotten through BB with relative ease in comparison.
Now if you somehow find BB harder than DaS2, whelp. (Wait I forgot let me play an overpowered mage and say it's easy peasy, BB is harder because they limit the way you can play the game in comparison and help prevent cheesing like a mage in DaS2).
Wow, that's just exactly me. I started Bloodborne but it felt wrong leaving DS2 halfway through, so right now I'm getting my ass kicked on Dark Souls 2 instead of getting my ass kicked in Bloodborne.
Everybody seems to be fallen in love with Bloodborne but I don't see the difference. To me they're all impossible games for me to beat. Too bad I don't like to give up.
Everybody seems to be fallen in love with Bloodborne but I don't see the difference. To me they're all impossible games for me to beat. Too bad I don't like to give up.
Hippopuncher12
Member
Platinumed BB last night so it's all about DS2 now. Can't wait to play through again. I loved BB but I definitely prefer the Souls games.
IAmRandom31
Banned
welp what?
bosses are faster, more aggressive, have to rely on parry and countering skills compared to just cheesing your way through a fight or hiding behind a shield and then countering.
then you have scenarios where you have multiple bosses coming at you at once, or bosses that add other tricks to their sleeve to make it even more difficult.
Yeh ... BB is no joke dude. Saying otherwise is nonsense.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Because Bloodborne was designed to not revolve around shield, whereas Souls were. I think shield-less run in Souls can still be done with some effort, but in Bloodborne, we got a lot more stamina to boot, no weight limit and the stamina regenerates as if we had Cloranthy ring equipped by default.
As I just started a playthrough in DeS, the slower-paced combat does felt different than what I'm used to BB, but the overall combat design felt familiar and still works well.
John Bender
Banned
So true ;D
Bloodborne is so much better imho. I like the "faster" gameplay more.
BUT DS2 Remaster will be next, as soon as I'm ready for it (...and Bloodborne got completed several times
)
Robot Pants
Member
I will be, yes.
Darth_Caedus
No longer canonical
I'm taking a break off Bloodborne NG+ for DS2. It will be hard to get use to no trick weapons and slow combat though, maybe impossible.
Yeah. It's still a great game. "Worst souls game" is like "Worst BJ", it doesn't mean that it's actually bad, it's not.
Funny you say that because Nashandra is all teeth.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
I die plenty in BB but its because I make a tactical error. When I die in DS2 its typically due to some jankiness.
Deified Data
Banned
I've probably got one more playthrough of BB in me before I move on, but it's probably going to be to Pillars of Eternity or the next Age of Wonders III expansion before it's DS2.
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Banned
Going back to DS2, ewww. That game almost killed my love for the series. Bloodborne pulled me back in, thank god for this game. I can now be excited again for future Souls games.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
I'm probably going to have BB platted this weekend, so I'll just roll into the Dark Souls 2 without a hitch.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Is Dark Souls 2 really that bad? People made it sound like it's worse than Sonic Boom or something.
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
No. In fact it's pretty damned good. The problem is that it's the follow up to what some consider to be one of the greatest games of last gen and they slipped up on some things.
Hell no.
bladerunner672
Neo Member
It's a great game. It's just missing the magic that the other games have.
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Banned
DS2 isn't a bad game, it's just the same shit for the third time in a row, in a slightly blander variation. The whole vision behind DS2 was "more Dark Souls", which is to say, there was no vision. Majula and some late-game areas were nice to look at but the package as a whole is really lacking in atmosphere thanks to bland enemies, bosses and locations. The game is so fucking lame.
The Lamonster
Member
the sad truth about this gen.
I'm not quitting BB until I've beaten it at least once maybe twice. I'll get back onto DS2 eventually, still haven't played the DLC and the rejigged enemy placement interests me. The game gets a lot of hate but I really love it in parts.
Chances are I'll take a break and play something completely different in between though.
Chances are I'll take a break and play something completely different in between though.
ArkkAngel007
Member
I'm going to wait a bit for DS2. Some financial things came up, but I also have to finish the last area in Dark Souls after I get through Bloodborne.
....Ok. So BB is only harder because of the things that make it harder? I'm not sure what has you so upset that you can't just write what you want to say.
Jeffolation
Banned
Maybe, I'm not enjoying BB as much as I thought I would and while not quite on the same level as the first two entries of the series I really did enjoy Dark Souls a lot.
It isn't, people are exaggerating.
Deified Data
Banned
Absolutely not. It's flawed, perhaps more flawed than any other game in the series (just so you know where the sentiment comes from), but it's still a solid sequel and a fantastic game.
-MD-
Member
It's probably the weakest of the series but it's not bad at all.
"They don't understand the series, so their opinions do not matter."
And...
"They inflated their scores to appease fans or to prove their street cred."
IAmRandom31
Banned
it just has no vision. No Miyazaki at the helm to give it his artistic touch. Everything is pretty bland and just .... MEH through my experience with it.
One of the rewards for the punishment you take in Demons / Dark 1 / Bloodborne is an awesome new landscape to explore and get intimately familiar with. It was like ... ahhh yes ... say goodnight my old friend the Ward, helloooooo Forest. Ahh man, such an awesome forest this is. Ahhh man say goodbye
But in DKS2 it was like ... no. You went from one bland corridor castle interior to some bland little sunny forest to some dank swamp ... exactly like you just had in Dark Souls 1. Then you were fighting with these dumb looking uninspired enemies. Or just plain bland enemies, or rehashes from Demons / Dark.
But, I mean its a souls game. So the main gameplay elements were there that I guess people enjoyed. I just never saw the Souls series as some sort of masochist fantasy game. I was in it for the exploration, the discovery, the atmosphere, the aesthetics, the mystery of the story. All that sort of thing. The things surrounding the solid gameplay. And that is where I thought DKS2 failed HARD.
Some people liked it though. So as with most things, its up to the end user.
Raonak
Banned
I don't know how I would stop playing bloodborne. You know a game has hooked you when you have multiple dreams about it. When I'm not playing it, im constnatly thinking about it, i havent been this engrossed in a game since TLOU.
Technical issues don;t bother me at all.
If im hungry for more souls afterwards, i'm definitely gonna pick up DS1, since i've never properly played that before. (only demons via PS+, which is what got me into the series)
Technical issues don;t bother me at all.
If im hungry for more souls afterwards, i'm definitely gonna pick up DS1, since i've never properly played that before. (only demons via PS+, which is what got me into the series)
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Nope. I don't really have any interest in that game. Bloodborne setting is so much more interesting to me.