CrackaF3tt
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I doubt they will do any major damage if you can upgrade them. They are used for parrying/crowd control.
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Bloodborne gameplay : The first 18 minutes
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I doubt they will do any major damage if you can upgrade them. They are used for parrying/crowd control.
Icyflamez96
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I'm just going to go with this honestly. This happens so much, and people will say things like "it's an early build, wait till the game is out!" which is honestly reasonable to think, but so many times for me, that has never been the case. Expecting the worst (how it looks now)
That seemed overly negative compared to how I feel about the whole thing though. I'm very satisfied with how it looks now, even if it doesn't look as good as other videos have shown. I'm just very glad this looks better than Dark Souls, but even without comparisons, I think it's a pretty visually appealing game.
This is coming form a person who was pissed off with the Dark Souls 2 situation. I can't even say it looked better than DS tbh
RustyNails
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Vire
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In some respects yes, but I don't really remember Dark Souls 1 having this bad of aliasing.
http://assets.ign.com/videos/zencoder/1920/da63268d356566fdd0b48623dd2435da-8000000-1422662286-w.mp4
I'm watching this video and in certain scenes it genuinely looks like PS1 level of anti-aliasing and that's not really an over exaggeration. The opening sequence around the 2:30 minute mark showcases how the game really struggles to render thin metal objects.
It's really disappointing too because the world design is so sumptuous and beautiful.
Icyflamez96
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I hope not. I would much rather have a whole interconnected world like DS rather than something like Nexus from Demons
I don't know if you can really say that you are "meant" to die there, because by now a lot of people have played the Souls games and a good chunk of them should be able to evade this creature without fighting it. It just seems like that to me. There's this one wolf in the room and nothing else. You should be able to do it. Maybe I'm wrong though.
dark_prinny
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Do you like good videogames? This seems like it can be a very good one.
Besides the videos of what they showed, the actual playable console versions ran horribly, framerate wise, even not far from release. That is what the rumors stated anyway.
Yes indeed. I'll take good gameplay and art style over graphics every day. Just a shame that it's not 60 fps
Icyflamez96
Member
Agreed.
chromatic9
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It may be trivial but the footstep sounds really grate. I would wish for an option to lower the sound effect volume for footsteps or change it. Also the aliasing looks really bad.
True. The environments, effects and enemies looks very, very good despite some technical issues. They make up for anything else imo. The game does really well to create a good atmosphere and that's what matters most.
http://www.popcultureonline.net/interview-with-bloodborne-producer-masaaki-yamagiwa/
I assume this is what the 'behavior change' is centered around.
At this point, these enemies will prey on everyone, even humans. They cannot longer distinguish between humans and beasts. They even might be beasts themselves without knowing it.
JudgmentJay
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Pretty sure the only thing the devs have said is that it's going to be like Dark Souls where the time of day depends on the area. For example Darkroot Forest is always nighttime and Undead Burg is always daytime.
http://www.playstationlifestyle.net...alks-frame-rate-messengers-and-more/#/slide/1
crap monkey
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Well, I didn't know that, when did that happen?
Miles Quaritch
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I think it looks fantastic.
Fantastic visuals, amazing art style, incredible atmosphere that's literally oozing out of the screen. I can't wait to play it.
Fantastic visuals, amazing art style, incredible atmosphere that's literally oozing out of the screen. I can't wait to play it.
thewhitehawk
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ArkkAngel007
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Looks fantastic, and glad that the stats are simplified. Feel like I may have ruined my Dark Souls run due to how stats are in that game.
Yes indeed. I'll take good gameplay and art style over graphics every day. Just a shame that it's not 60 fps
And I'm sure that while I'm playing the game, there will be parts where I say "Just a shame it's not 30 fps".
I'm guessing that you're not meant to fight the wolf there but rather take the path to the right, which was ignored by the player in the video. You're defenseless at this point, so it wouldn't make sense if you're actually supposed to just walk up to the wolf and wait for it to kill you. I suspect that later on there's a boss enemy that'll kill you like in DeS, or you get an opportunity to visit the dream before getting off the operating table in the first room. The latter would probably make more sense since the messengers visit the player in the opening cutscene, after which the player just gets up. It seems like there's something missing in between the two sections.
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Removing lighting tends to help with that.
SweetJohnnyCage
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Friendly reminder that barely any of this content has been shown outside of this Project Beast trailer that was supposed to be shown at TGS2013. Hopefully none of this content was cut, because it looks like shit just gets more and more evil after we leave Yharnam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx8KTIeSnzs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx8KTIeSnzs
Yeah, that's probably what it was. I don't remember what those people who played the previous build said about what was removed/changed other than that the framerate was dramatically improved.
Haunted
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I only watched it because a friend of mine said it looked pretty bad (well, very similar to Dark Souls 2, which would be bad seeing how there should be significant gap between a last gen and a current gen game).
While I wouldn't go so far, it definitely seems less impressive compared to the previous footage we've seen. Rough aliasing, tons of flickering and I'm seeing quite a few reused animations from DS2...
Hm.
While I wouldn't go so far, it definitely seems less impressive compared to the previous footage we've seen. Rough aliasing, tons of flickering and I'm seeing quite a few reused animations from DS2...
Hm.
you're intentionally missing my point. died there to show the refuge/pick up weapons/make this video different from just the same area from the alpha that everyone's seen.
Despite the technical issues here and there, the game looks dramatically better than DS2 in my opinion. The lighting, environment detail and certain animations look like a step up. The enemy models also looks a lot better. The game does seem to share some similar effects and texture style with DS2, which is why in a previous post I wondered if Bloodborne was using an evolution of the DS2 engine.
gunslikewhoa
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Yeah, and punch it with your bare hands. He didn't even have his gear yet. Of course that's supposed to happen.
Beelzebufo
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Eww, really? Haha
Frame rate slowdown is like the one thing that I can actually recognize when playing games, outside f the difference between SD and HD.
thewhitehawk
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You could always backtrack in those areas in most parts. But I remember there being more than a couple of locations in which you couldn't backtrack until you reached a bonfire. I don't mean to imply those areas are the largest problem of the game, I don't think the game has a single glaring flaw, but instead a growing collection of them (that depends on your level of familiarity with the series, and personal preference).
For me the biggest problem the game has is the lack of coherency of the world. There were some parts of it that I really appreciated and found immensely enjoyable, but there's also a significant amount of content that I found a bit too linear and repetitive. I wish the entire game had as much care put into it as the DLC got in which every area felt unique and presented us with unique enemies and challenges.
Compared to Dark Souls, DS2 just doesn't have as memorable moments and locations and the way monsters behave and track your movements, together with how they implemented some of the PVP areas/covenants left me feeling as if the game was sometimes "cheap" or poorly designed. Almost every single aspect of Dark Souls 2 feels a little bit worse, a little bit less memorable or thought out than Dark Souls and I have a hard time thinking of anything that it does better. The way players can set whichever difficulty they prefer is in some ways an improvement, but I thought that limited number of spawns between areas and the way some weapons/armors only dropped once per playthrough/bonfire-aesthetic made that feature worse, because at some point it seems forceful if you are a completionist.
It's not because of a "number" of things, it's not the number of linear areas, it's not the number of weapons and armors, it's not the number of humanoid bosses, it's not the number of PVP areas or ways to engage in PVP. It's not a problem of quantity, it's a problem of quality.
IAmRandom31
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Pound_lb003
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People talking about jaggies...
If you're watching the 1080p video on a display that doesn't support that resolution it WILL look jaggy - or at least overly sharp.
The graphics look amazing and I love the outfit so much.
If you're watching the 1080p video on a display that doesn't support that resolution it WILL look jaggy - or at least overly sharp.
The graphics look amazing and I love the outfit so much.
JudgmentJay
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BenTheLazyGamer
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This looks really good. The art direction is fantastic. PS4 is looking more and more tempting.
People keep saying that it looks worse than the previous demos, that's because the previous demos were at night. It is much much easier to make things look fantastic and atmospheric in the dark. Though, compared to seeing this section being played through at night, I do feel like this footage is a little lackluster.
As for the missing giant hand spider monster thing, one of the NPCs said something along the lines of "be prepared for what tonight especially brings" (yeah, i'm butchering the line). But, that implies that certain monsters and terrors will only become active at night, which to me, sounds incredibly exciting.
I will say that the way his IGN dude played was annoying as fuck. He did zero exploring or examining the environments and cut of npcs as they were speaking, which made Bloodborne look like just some typical action game. Though I am greatful, in part, as I will be able to do this myself.
As for the missing giant hand spider monster thing, one of the NPCs said something along the lines of "be prepared for what tonight especially brings" (yeah, i'm butchering the line). But, that implies that certain monsters and terrors will only become active at night, which to me, sounds incredibly exciting.
I will say that the way his IGN dude played was annoying as fuck. He did zero exploring or examining the environments and cut of npcs as they were speaking, which made Bloodborne look like just some typical action game. Though I am greatful, in part, as I will be able to do this myself.