Like, maybe the worst since the PS1 era? It’s ludicrously bad
It definitely wears its license like an albatross. If you let these guys make the same game but gave them Ubi’s AssCreed art people and set it in Renaissance Someplace you’d really have a god damn game.
Have fun on Bitterblack Isle
I think I’ve learned that I enjoy hearing other people talk about and bring up the names of places in Souls and knockoff games more than playing the games and actually going to those places
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After 3 Souls games, finally got to Bloodborne and… it’s pretty good? The limited character development possibilities kind of suck, but uh, okay. What definitely irks me though is that, while it has become more aggressive and faster than Dark Souls, what with the emphasis on parry and whatnot, it takes some time to get used to it. I can’t really play it as slowly and mechanically as a Souls game, since the bosses whack the shit out of me. On the other hand, whenever I am pushed towards the twitchier gameplay style, my brain orients me to input commands as if it was a straight up character action game in the style of DMC, and it simply is too slow for that.
tl;dr I still kind of suck at it, even after mastering the other Souls games (III notwithstanding)
Also, I really don’t want to play anything remotely actiony below 60 FPS in my life again. Alas, I must endure…
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Bloodborne has the hardest bosses in the series. Just wait till you get to the final DLC boss: what a monstrosity.
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It is a boss that I had to practice for a week straight, every night. Finally clearing it was a sublime experience, but I think it emptied something out of me. I haven’t been able to go back to the game since.
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Same here (although for me it was more like the same amount of time spread over months). Meanwhile speedrunners can beat it at like 80% consistency and much faster.
so after being less than blown away with a lot of this year’s indie crop there were a couple games featured on eurogamer this week that I’m pretty taken with:
is like an expanded version of that one monkey ball battle mode with a lot more you can do, it’s got a bunch of different game modes, has the right balance between fair and silly, etc., my kind of local multi.
is one of those antigravity racers that’s been in the pipeline awhile, and it’s actually pretty good! looks great, feels pretty good, has neat pickups. I’m not sure that I love it necessarily but I can’t tell why not. felt similarly about the last penelope.
ahahaha i just got jumped by a chimera out of literally nowhere dragons dogma rules
Also this game does Big Swords way better than Souls #wow #whoa
Going back and trying to finish witch3r’s euro vacation dlc so I can finally get this ~100gig monstrosity the hell off my hard drive, but I find myself dicking around with sidequests and sunsets, of course. Whenever I come back to this game I’m always floored by just how danged beautiful it is.
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Playing W2 here and it looks fantastic as well. Significant improvement over Witcher 1, especially the combat. Always hated CD Projekt’s take on the NWN engine combat, and would’ve vastly preferred them to leave it as it was in the NWN games.
Playing on Dark is pretty intense, most enemies can kill me with one or two strikes, so I have to be wary of getting ganged up. Specializing in alchemy as well, since I’m a big fan of builds in RPGs where you need to use all sorts of gadgets and concoctions to save the day.
I just played through Inside over the course of two nights, and it sure was entertaining. I’m glad I didn’t see any screenshots beyond a certain point in the game that would spoil what happens.
The puzzles are all easy, so don’t expect a real challenge (or any frustration, for that matter). Your actions kind of carry the (not entirely coherent but fun nonetheless) story along more than anything.
To be an asshole, do I need to play it or would watching it get the same experience?
I’d recommend playing over watching. In places, just messing around with the controls is part of the appeal. And although the puzzles are simple, some of them are clever. That said, I suppose you could get almost the same experience by watching someone play. Especially in person, as opposed to a recorded video.
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Started up a game of Dragon’s Dogma too. I think I liked it as soon as I realised I could climb on the chimera and hack off its tale.
Also really liked the character creation. Made a gnarly, muscular, middle-aged woman covered in some kind of ritualistic looking white pigment.
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I played Dark Souls for 5 minutes yesterday and realized I was at peace with how far I got into the game, and I think the need is gone.
I’ve been streaming The Elder Scrolls: Legends for 2 hours on Saturdays and I’m getting pretty into it. Godawful at it but it’s fun.
My attempts at playing Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls and Bloodborne have all been abortive. Something about them makes failure deflate me very rapidly.
Now on the other hand, I’m playing Lords of the Fallen since it was one of the PS+ freebies this month, and getting killed by a boss doesn’t make me want to go lay down for a month. I can’t quite articulate what the difference is, at least not yet. And so much of this game is so artless and kind of laughably AAA Western Game in stark contrast with From’s output. Yet here I am, kind of feeling it. I might actually get a decent amount of the way through this game before my creeping videogame ennui makes me drop it in favor of something more novel.
- replaced my broken 3DS with a New one since there’s a ShinMegaTen on the way
- playing Smash Bros for 3DS in the meantime, working on some single player goals
- tempt myself into trying the multiplayer
- haven’t played online since it was ok to Bowser-grab people off a cliff
- do all right, for a while
- try some different mans
- fall into a slump
- ragequit
- deactivate the StreetPass for the game (I’m serious!)
This game demands skills that don’t make sense to me in the context of a fighting game. It’s the complete antithesis. Glad I got out before I was suckered into buying DLC.
I actually have played about 30 hours! But I hit a wall and just slowly gave up on it. I got past the wall in my 5 minutes of playing only to realize there was a door that I could only unlock through hours of “figuring out what the hell is going on.” I was just okay with not doing it anymore. I’ve gotten what I want to out of it, and I’m happy with it.
EDIT: Not to say your experience was invalid! I can imagine not gelling with this game at all, honestly. I’m surprised it’s as popular as it is.
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