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A tangent: I strongly encourage anyone who is a fan of Cthulhu, Lovecraft, this quote, and video games to try Bloodborne for PS4. It's the best blend of these f

by nilkn 11y ago

A tangent: I strongly encourage anyone who is a fan of Cthulhu, Lovecraft, this quote, and video games to try Bloodborne for PS4. It's the best blend of these four elements I've ever experienced, and it still sticks with me months after I finished it.

thenomad 11y ago
God dammit. OP here - I'm a huge fan of the Dark Souls games too... But I'm trying to hold off on buying a PS4 until there's more than one game I want to play on it.
- s_kilk 11y ago
  For what it's worth, I bought a PS4 solely for Bloodborne and I think it was absolutely worth it, plus we have Dark Souls 3 coming down the pipe next year too...
s_kilk 11y ago
Seconded. Bloodborne is wonderful, with a genuinely hideous Cthuloid streak right through it.
sleepybrett 11y ago
I'm going to go ahead and disagree. If you are a huge demon/darksouls fan, bloodborne falls short. I feel like it's not possible to express yourself as fully as you can with the class/character system in DS2 in bloodborne. It's certainly not terrible and it's a nice holdover until DS3... but it lacks. (I do really like the parry and revenge systems though)
- nilkn 11y ago
  You're free to disagree, but Demon's Souls and Dark Souls do not touch on the Lovecraftian horror elements nearly as strongly as Bloodborne does, which is the whole reason I mentioned it here. Bloodborne is the only game in the series which is actually relevant to this thread. As for the class/character system, Bloodborne is actually not a Souls game and is deliberately different. I don't really want to get into a big discussion of the game mechanics here, but it took what worked best from Demon's Souls and invested everything in it. Nobody really played with heavy armor in Demon's Souls anyway except perhaps for a self-imposed handicap. Bloodborne is basically a streamlined Demon's Souls with the cruft that didn't work well thrown out and a more explicitly Lovecraftian story and world. DS2 has a lot more variety but also has a large number of basic mechanical issues, such as imprecise hitboxes. Dark Souls 1 probably hits the sweet spot between variety and solid fundamentals. Hopefully Dark Souls 3 marks a return to this style.
gknoy 11y ago
How does it compare (aside from graphics ;)) to Eternal Darkness (Gamecube)?

by nilkn 11y ago

thenomad 11y ago

God dammit. OP here - I'm a huge fan of the Dark Souls games too... But I'm trying to hold off on buying a PS4 until there's more than one game I want to play on it.

s_kilk 11y ago
For what it's worth, I bought a PS4 solely for Bloodborne and I think it was absolutely worth it, plus we have Dark Souls 3 coming down the pipe next year too...

s_kilk 11y ago

Seconded. Bloodborne is wonderful, with a genuinely hideous Cthuloid streak right through it.

sleepybrett 11y ago

I'm going to go ahead and disagree. If you are a huge demon/darksouls fan, bloodborne falls short. I feel like it's not possible to express yourself as fully as you can with the class/character system in DS2 in bloodborne. It's certainly not terrible and it's a nice holdover until DS3... but it lacks. (I do really like the parry and revenge systems though)

nilkn 11y ago
You're free to disagree, but Demon's Souls and Dark Souls do not touch on the Lovecraftian horror elements nearly as strongly as Bloodborne does, which is the whole reason I mentioned it here. Bloodborne is the only game in the series which is actually relevant to this thread. As for the class/character system, Bloodborne is actually not a Souls game and is deliberately different. I don't really want to get into a big discussion of the game mechanics here, but it took what worked best from Demon's Souls and invested everything in it. Nobody really played with heavy armor in Demon's Souls anyway except perhaps for a self-imposed handicap. Bloodborne is basically a streamlined Demon's Souls with the cruft that didn't work well thrown out and a more explicitly Lovecraftian story and world. DS2 has a lot more variety but also has a large number of basic mechanical issues, such as imprecise hitboxes. Dark Souls 1 probably hits the sweet spot between variety and solid fundamentals. Hopefully Dark Souls 3 marks a return to this style.

gknoy 11y ago

How does it compare (aside from graphics ;)) to Eternal Darkness (Gamecube)?