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Bloodborne's Chalice Dungeon explained (+Bundle)
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Personally I don't either, I think Dark Souls' story was a lot more interesting.
Well, yes. It's not like I'm using hacks (or hexes Kappa) or anything like that, I have to be good at the game and overcome its challenges in order for this to work.
If I'm careless, any random enemy will still kill me. I have to play it right to get shit done the way I want to.
I don't even use transient curses in New Lond Ruins in some of my playthroughs anymore, you can imagine how well that goes when I make a couple of mistakes
I still get my ass handed to me by some bosses every now and then.
Veritigo_X
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Veritigo_X
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What do you mean? It was originally scheduled to come out next Friday.
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With Dark Souls being more challenging in a clever way, his statement doesn't really make much sense.
Cheap PR' trick by referring to Demon's Souls now that there are 2 sequels released since then.
A problem I have with multiple playthroughs of Souls games it that once you complete it once, you know the extent of the level. Places like Tomb of Giants which was once a vast pit of darkness filled with deadly enemies turns into about a 10 minute jog. Optimization and experimenting with new builds to tackle the same encounter does offer replayability but it's like going back to your old house growing up and seeing how small everything really is when you're older. I'm sure something similar will happen with the Chalice Dungeon once you can abstract out how the pieces will fit together but at least not knowing exactly what will be ahead means the borders of the levels aren't visible as well.
Jimmyfenix
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Can't name drop Dark Souls though
Necromanti
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Yharnam = Southern Boletaria
I completely agree, I guess the only difference is that while you find this problematic, I find it amazing
It's part of the sense of accomplishment, imo. The fact that the level design even allows for this kind of skip is sooo goooood. Mechanical shortcuts that you unlock are cool, but rolling and jumping to skip entire dungeons is even more brilliant.
TheCongressman1
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Right, procedural means there is a method to it. After a while you'll get an idea of how it operates. You won't know layouts for certain, but avoiding things and generally being more prepared is something you can learn.
I'd rather have the plain black PS4 tbh.
Needs to be more demented.
I'm only scared of the framerate. Only this year I played Demon's for the first time, after playing the series on PC.
It was rough, let me tell you. Especially 2-3, I was actually afraid my PS3 was about to die.
Jimmyfenix
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In regards to Demon Souls stuff in Bloodborne
Nanomachines is always the answer
Nanomachines is always the answer
Lumination
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But there wasn't any new information here.
hydrophilic attack
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If it's released in Sweden, the bundle will be mine.
I hope it would amount to saving a bit of money.
I hope it would amount to saving a bit of money.
I should probably assume that as well, can't get my hopes up for prerelease story theories. Remember when we thought "When the giants crossed the sea" in the Dark Souls II alpha/beta was about
the Anor Londo gods who left?
There were some really good side stories, though.
I think it's really cool they're doing that, I'm really interested to see what kind of connections there are to Demon's Souls.
I haven't watched many videos or read a lot of news about this game, unlike with Dark Souls 1 and 2, so I have really no idea what they're doing with Bloodborne.
hellmonkey
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All over my face and deep inside me!!! 2 more long, agonizing moths left to endure. There is going to be so much dust on my PC and other games by the time Im done with this game.
ehhh, no? Dark Souls had "checkpoints", usually right before the boss area, which meant that you didn't have to do the entire level if you die, your flask refills at every check point too so you're never out of healing items, you also play with only half your health in soul form in Demon's Souls.
Demon's souls is definitely more "exploitable" though (by farming grass), & had a puzzle boss in each world that is pretty easy in subsequent playthroughs.
Even if you ignore the above, black world tendency Demon's Souls is far far more challenging than Dark Souls.
& I'd go even further & say that even ignoring the whole difficulty thing, Bloodborne is closer to Demon's Souls because the entire game is inspired by a level found in Demon's Souls.
No. Also TLOU is available on the PS3.
PS4 is a wasteland aside from Bloodborne. It's going to hurt dropping that $600 to play but what can I do?
Veritigo_X
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=946963
See if anything in that thread suites your fancy.
Personally, I'm excited for No Man's Sky, Wild, the Tomorrow Children, Rime, and Abzu.
$600?
The Order: 1886 in 3 weeks.
Knack.
$400 system, $60 Bloodborne, $60 PSN+ to play online, then the man taking his 6%, damn near $600 just to play one game. Bummer!
fierrotlepou
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TheCongressman1
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Uhh, I'm pretty sure they are making the comparisons with Demon's Souls because it's the other game they collaborated on with Sony. It wouldn't make sense to bring Dark Souls when Sony had nothing to do with that.
Morrigan Stark
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat :O
Backfoggen
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Do you need PS+ to play this online? Seems like that would hurt the game.
Let's hope they went the Destiny way of allowing "random" MP.
Conventional wisdom says this should be sarcasm, but something about it reads sincere.
I actually don't know. Assumed so. Would be great if it does not.
Second Son/First Light are good, but not system sellers by any means.
DriveClub has shaped up quite well post the horrendous launch.
Kyleripman
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Pretty cool to see the
thing. Any other connections we know about other than the Maiden's VA? I haven't followed this as much as I should've.
Umbasa
The only thing I use mine for is the occasional loot binge, in Diablo 3.
Nothing else on the system compels me.
Not even the other games that I actually own.
Ditto.
It is the same for Diablo 3, for me... but at least I have couch cop-op for that.
Veritigo_X
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Unless you're live in a state that taxes Amazon purchases, you should get it all there. I just did a test and everything came out to $510 shipped on Amazon for me. There will probably be a bundle in the US as well to save you a couple bucks. Still a big purchase for one game, but I'm willing to bet there will be more than just Bloodborne for you to play.
I would assume so. How does Destiny handle MP without PS+? I was under the impression that you needed PS+ for every MP game unless it is F2P.
If MP means that much to you, you could just get a 3 month sub for $18.