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I just finished bloodborne and the DLC and I know this is a very hot take but it’s been the least favorite of the souls games I played so far (I still need to play Demon Souls, Sekiro and DS3) I really wanted to like it so bad and it was a fun game but I just felt disappointed after hearing what a masterpiece it was compared to other souls games. Before anyone asks why some reasons I didn’t enjoy the game as much as others

First off blood vial farming, it’s very frustrating in the first half of the game when you’re learning the bosses, areas and mechanics to have to stop fighting to go farm for a bit after dying which makes deaths feel very tilting and tedious

Also I know this is subjective but for me more than half of the bosses are not fun or enjoyable in my opinion. I don’t want to fight another dog variant or a boss that is 50 times my size with a shitty camera lock on system at 30fps, it feels like sometimes its hard to even see his attacks while being able to properly attack too. I do think some bosses are absolutely peak in this game though and hard carry the boss roster for me. The bosses that I liked I really loved and feel like they compliment Bloodbornes combat system very well such as Father G, Blood Starved Beast, Logarious, Mergo’s Wet Nurse, Gehrman, Ludwig, Maria and Orphan of Kos

I think Chalice dungeons are a grind and not fun to explore/do but they also hold the best loot in the game so gatekeeping partial character progression through a not fun system is not enjoyable.

Not nearly as much build variety as other From Software games with there being hardly any weapons and spells and spells only being 1 stat in this game (arcane) instead of 2. I don’t like how they’re treated as an item and uses quicksilver bullets (pretty quickly too) another consumable you need to manage that is also used to parry so magic really feels like an after thought in this game.

The world feels a little too linear for my liking. I unironically enjoyed DS2 exploration a lot more than bloodborne because it felt like you had a lot more freedom to go wherever you wanted and just pick a path and the amount of NPCs you would find while exploring that made the world feel alive that bloodborne lacked unless you really went out of your way because it feels like a lot of npcs are hidden away in hard to reach areas.

I also think enemy placement is almost at DS2 levels at some points in the game (Unseen village post Vox which btw is a not fun boss imo) and can feel worst at times because of how aggressive the enemies are that you will get ganked around corners if it’s your unfamiliar with the area.

In case you guys are curious on how I rank the soul games that I’ve played so far it would go

Bloodborne < Dark Souls 1 < Dark Souls 2 < Elden Ring

Demon Souls is next on my From Software journey

Recently I'm making my second-ish playthrough of the game with a modded version and I'm impressed with how good it is.

I've played the game at a friend's house over 3-4 sessions and we got to the Windmill in Forbidden Woods.

During this sessions, having to farm for vials and the boss runbacks were a great detriment to this spotty type of gameplay.

So when I finally got to play it on my own, I decided to play a modded version. Specifically I played with two mods: auto refill of vials and bullets and lamps of Marika, that basically puts a lamp outside of every boss. There are even more intrusive mods that let you do everything from the Lamps, erasing the need to go back to the Hunter's Dream, but I specifically wanted to have to interact with the Doll and Gerhman, because I feel that's integral for the experience.

Basically, you know how Bloodborne is everyone favorites Fromsoftware game except for the fact of the mandatory farm. Well, now it's just the best Fromsoft game fair and square, no asterisks.

WORLD: Bloodborne is the true Dark Souls 2. In the sense the world is a real new iteration of the philosophy of DS1. And it's peak.

COMBAT AND BOSSES: this is the embrional state of modern Fromsoft and even if it's tamer than later iterations, it's still captivating enough.

LORE: as much as I thought the game was about Beasts and Eldritch and not that it would pivot from one into the other, it's simply super cool and interesting.

If I have to find a spot into this awesome game, I'd say that it's the vaguest when it comes to your character is even doing.

Like, no two bells or 4 old souls, no lords of cinder or two+ runes or seeking the flame of ruin.

Seek Paleblood. Ok. Which is? Idk, I feel like for most of the game you just go around slaughtering things for the sake of it and you don't even realize when you kill a boss that's actively moving the plot forward. But again, it's Eldritch horror it's probably the intended experience.

Just wondering what the general populous thinks about this?

So I was thinking, maybe From's next big game mechanic will be; Bosses that flee from battle if you don't take them down in a certain amount of time.

Bosses won't go down by simply smacking them like in all Souls games, there will be certain mechanics to them, like a little puzzle to solve.

If the boss runs away, it is gone from the entirety of that playthrough until NG+ or if you start a new game.

Defeating and not defeating bosses will either open or lock you out of certain areas of the game. And of course it will affect the ending you'll get. All bosses=good ending, no bosses=bad ending and something in between.

Miyazaki already stated that they won't be making another game like ER any time soon so, it would be a small game.

My reasoning and why I would expect a mechanic like this in their next game is because I've been playing a couple of Japanese Shoot em ups lately and I've noticed that From games share quite a few design philosophies with these old arcade games.

What do you think?.

i have the plat for both bloodborne and demon souls and they were really fun (more bloodborne than demon souls) but i only really struggled on ludwig in the dlc and the bloodletting beast in the chalice dungeon, i just got elden ring because i wanted a game to platinum and i think hard games to plat are more fun to play (examples being super meat boy and ff7 remake) does it have a ton of gimmick bosses like demon souls? and is the parry system too easy like bloodborne?

Hi everyone,

I started with Elden Ring and recently finished Bloodborne. I was planning to pick up Demon’s Souls next, but I just noticed that the Dark Souls games are on sale on the PS Store.

Do you think I should go ahead and start with Dark Souls Remastered now, or is it worth waiting? I’ve heard rumors that FromSoftware might release a remastered collection of all three Dark Souls games. Does anyone know if that’s actually happening?

Would love to hear your thoughts. Should I jump in now or wait it out?

First let's start with Bloodborne. So you come out with a game that's almost universally loved, has some issues in that it's locked to one console ( or playstation in general ). This audience has been requesting for years a sequel or a port to pc. Instead we get a movie. FINE

Now Elden Ring, why in the f*ck, would anyone want to watch a damn movie about it. These are action games that are known for their unique gameplay and approach to difficulty. Instead, they're turning a story that was once hidden and understood through item description into a movie. I don't understand the move, maybe financially it can be a hit.

But for the majority of people who like these two games, what is the point ? Especially that after the dlc I'm pretty burnt out of souls and Elden ring specifically.

Sekiro made sense in that until now, it's a standalone game. And it looks like it's adapted fairly accurately and with a cool art style. Bloodborne I could MAYBE understand you know they didn't do anything with this IP and they know people are interested, FINE, WHY NOT.

Elden ring movie is just a head scratcher. I am absolutely not looking forward to any of these apart from the Sekiro anime.

EDIT : thanks for the lively convo everyone, glad some people still understand we can have different opinions.