Considering that's like a 300% increase compared to DaS 1/2 yeah it's pretty terrible. And it's definitely not 15 s across the board, the other day I was trying to kill the Shadow of Yharnam on my lvl 4 character (and died quite a few times in the process) and those loading times were closer to 30 seconds. They are long enough to make me feel like I'm wasting my time.
Sure it could be worse, the loadings could all be 1+ minute long but that would enter unplayable territory for me.
That probably depends on the platform. I played Dark Souls 1 and 2 for PS3 and it didnt have a 5 second loading every time i died, it was rather closer to 15 seconds or so i would guess, perhaps longer at certain places. It was probably faster compared to Bloodborne though, but not as much as ~300%, at least for me on PS3.
But fair enough. I can see that it can be boring to wait many times, i agree to that, but personally i just feel that words like 'terrible' and 'horrible' are quite strong words for situations that are mildly incovenience (at least in my opinion), that is why i mentioned it
And yeah, its true that the loading after dying isnt 15 seconds everywhere in Bloodborne. Forbidden Forrest respawning is close to 30 seconds on a stock PS4 harddrive for me as well.
I wonder if its possible for the developers to get the loading time down more. Bloodborne will remain a PS4 exclusive though, so people wouldnt have much other option if they want to play it.