bloodborne is a terrible game

Arioch·Aug 11, 2017·2 votes·4,272 views

i beat the game (dlc included) in just under 4 hours my first time

gascoigne was a loser with a shit side story, i dont know why people hype this guy up so much

for how hard this game is hyped up to be, i found a majority of the "harder" bosses such as ludwig and those found in the DLC gimmicky and tedious at best

ranged parries are dumb, unintuitive and anti-fun, takes 0 skill to use, a monkey with coeliac disease could do it

Most trick weapons are worthless outside if one form, idk why they even put this feature in the game

exactly why do people think this is the best and/or hardest souls game?

its like they didnt learn anything from their success in ds2, they took 12 steps back and this one is honestly worse than ds1

fuck this game man

16 Comments

Colgate GatorAug 11, 20173 votes

So this is what being a fool is like.

You could say you lack...insight :^)

JamareeAug 11, 20172 votes

I love Dark Souls 2, but when it came to anything except PvP, it was the worst soooooo don't know what successes you are talking about.

TwitchInMyPantsAug 11, 20171 votes

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I love Dark Souls 2, but when it came to anything except PvP, it was the worst soooooo don't know what successes you are talking about.

Not only that but the lore was just straight up uninteresting

You don't have things like the Fair Lady, Anor Londo, mysteries like Gwyn's firstborn, touches like Iron Tarkus' lootable corpse underneith a high up walkway... Dark Souls 1 had so much environmental storytelling. Also the fact it was designed to be completable in different patterns with the multiple paths through the world and big hidden areas like Ash Lake... Great fuckin game.

Edit: I will give DS2 credit for having great fashion souls and great weapon play. Whips actually feel kinda useful, spellcasters are crazy strong, duel wielding is more viable with 2-handing working on both slots

JamareeAug 11, 20171 votes

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Not only that but the lore was just straight up uninteresting

You don't have things like the Fair Lady, Anor Londo, mysteries like Gwyn's firstborn, touches like Iron Tarkus' lootable corpse underneith a high up walkway... Dark Souls 1 had so much environmental storytelling. Also the fact it was designed to be completable in different patterns with the multiple paths through the world and big hidden areas like Ash Lake... Great fuckin game.

Like I said, PvE in Dark Souls 2 was shit, that game did have the outright best PvP though, which is why I liked it the most personally, but I'm not gonna blind fanboy and act like it was the best OR act like PvP is the draw of the Souls series.

TwitchInMyPantsAug 11, 20171 votes

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Like I said, PvE in Dark Souls 2 was shit, that game did have the outright best PvP though, which is why I liked it the most personally, but I'm not gonna blind fanboy and act like it was the best OR act like PvP is the draw of the Souls series.

Other than samey bosses and levels being too linear I actually thought PvE was pretty good. I hated shit like the lava level where you'd actually have to stack fire resistance or die to get certain treasure and archers cheesed you, I honestly thought even the Anor Londo archer duo was easier to deal with. But even if mechanics were obnoxious you could beat the game with most builds.

I never actually got to play PvP without being invaded. I was too lazy to get soul level to 100-150 to be good for arena and every time I tried to use red orbs to invade it never found anyone. I think part of the issue is soul memory determining matchups rather than soul level... even if I'm fighting an experienced smurf in DS1 I'd rather have them invade me when I'm human rather than have no PvP happen ever. PC player if that gives any insight.

JamareeAug 11, 20172 votes

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I never actually got to play PvP without being invaded. I was too lazy to get soul level to 100-150 to be good for arena and every time I tried to use red orbs to invade it never found anyone. I think part of the issue is soul memory determining matchups rather than soul level... even if I'm fighting an experienced smurf in DS1 I'd rather have them invade me when I'm human rather than have no PvP happen ever. PC player if that gives any insight.

Yeah, the pvp scene in that game is long since dead, because it wasn't well received, it doesn't have a sprawling PvP like the current game does (objectively of course.) Back in it hayday, invades were frequent and often enough without ever being obscene, unless you equipped the ring that made it do so. I have mixed feelings of the soul memory system. I see what they were going for, playing Dark Souls 1 for the first time and getting invaded by a giant dad who twinked is the most cancerous shit. Like, that shit is dumb and anyone who says otherwise is an idiot. There is nothing fun, enjoyable, or realistic about fighting someone who knows the game, combat, and general shit so well they can sequence break the game to such a point. Soul Memory in theory fixed that, but then broke the PvP exact level.

What it did get right however was everything being viable. You could legitimately dual wield everything, you could use any weapon, you could actually be a pure spell caster and win duels (looking at you Dark Souls 3), you could be invaded in zones you already did instead of just having only one area and one area only that pvp is honestly done, the pvp covenants actually fucking worked (once again, dark souls 3, what the fuck?), there was no estus chugging, none of this getting to walk at a decent pace and quickly drink your flask, sure, invaders couldn't use estus, but neither could summon phantoms and the animation was so slow that if you tried in the middle of a match, your ass was getting punished.

TwitchInMyPantsAug 11, 20171 votes

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Yeah, the pvp scene in that game is long since dead, because it wasn't well received, it doesn't have a sprawling PvP like the current game does (objectively of course.) Back in it hayday, invades were frequent and often enough without ever being obscene, unless you equipped the ring that made it do so. I have mixed feelings of the soul memory system. I see what they were going for, playing Dark Souls 1 for the first time and getting invaded by a giant dad who twinked is the most cancerous shit. Like, that shit is dumb and anyone who says otherwise is an idiot. There is nothing fun, enjoyable, or realistic about fighting someone who knows the game, combat, and general shit so well they can sequence break the game to such a point. Soul Memory in theory fixed that, but then broke the PvP exact level.

TBH I was more upset with people that exploited in other ways. Dark Souls 1 had an exploit on PC that could give you infinite hp, or close to it anyway if you scripted and there's PvPers still doing it. Someone coming at me at lv1 with a boss weapon in the middle of Undeadburg though is still a low hp enemy, I'm ok with something they earned because they're good, just not literal cheating. I still insist that's better than PvP basically never working because there isn't someone at the same soul level in the same zone as you, there's too many areas in Dark Souls 2 for PvP to even work anymore really. At least Dark Souls 1 actually works and when you get high enough level people have kind of agreed on Anor Londo and the Forest Zone being arenas for PvP, even years after the games population dwindled you can still fight people regularly.

CamilleRule34Aug 11, 20171 votes

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Not only that but the lore was just straight up uninteresting

You don't have things like the Fair Lady, Anor Londo, mysteries like Gwyn's firstborn, touches like Iron Tarkus' lootable corpse underneith a high up walkway... Dark Souls 1 had so much environmental storytelling. Also the fact it was designed to be completable in different patterns with the multiple paths through the world and big hidden areas like Ash Lake... Great fuckin game.

Edit: I will give DS2 credit for having great fashion souls and great weapon play. Whips actually feel kinda useful, spellcasters are crazy strong, duel wielding is more viable with 2-handing working on both slots

Dark Souls 2 didnt have the creator/writer/director from DS1 or DS3 working on it so that probably explains the weak and odd atmosphere of the game.

Ðeath XIIIAug 11, 20172 votes

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Not only that but the lore was just straight up uninteresting

You don't have things like the Fair Lady, Anor Londo, mysteries like Gwyn's firstborn, touches like Iron Tarkus' lootable corpse underneith a high up walkway... Dark Souls 1 had so much environmental storytelling. Also the fact it was designed to be completable in different patterns with the multiple paths through the world and big hidden areas like Ash Lake... Great fuckin game.

Edit: I will give DS2 credit for having great fashion souls and great weapon play. Whips actually feel kinda useful, spellcasters are crazy strong, duel wielding is more viable with 2-handing working on both slots

Power stanching greatswords was cool and fun

OceanicEyesAug 11, 20171 votes