The were trying to go the RDR2 route but half-assed it. I did like the car and melee combat quite a bit though. Eden Ring went the opposite and did looting conveniently. Aside from chests you can just ride near stuff and tap Triangle to pick up instantly. Then any craftable stuff is highlighted to just tap another button. No hassle with inventory management.
Did you platinum it? What did you think of the Secret Treasure puzzles?
Yeah the devs were clearly obsessed with having animations for everything. Which... I can understand to an extent in a Mad Max game. But they way they pull it off feels really quaint.
I got the Plat and had a lot of fun doing it. The high point for me was figuring out the Golden Path. I drew my own map too, which is always fun.
The golden path was definitely a highlight.
The alphabet thing was definitely the worst of it, being so unlike the rest of the game. The only other thing that I looked up, because nothing was working, was that you're supposed to translate words phonetically. So it's "sord" instead of "sword"; "foks" instead of "fox". Yeah. Who the hell figured that, I can't imagine.
I should say that I think the skulls were fine as a puzzle, but just terrible mechanically. I think it took me half an hour to get them all in the hole without getting them stuck or lost somewhere and needing to reset.
Ehh…technically true, but for me it sure was the longest cumulatively with how many attempts it took. I think maybe the Red Smelter from DS2 was the other standout but I didn’t know about the shortcut (which still takes about a minute). I recall killing the knights and archers enough to be perma-dead and still had a few attempts after that. Sir Alonne was the same way but didn’t seem as bad. Bed of Chaos was under ten attempts first playthrough plus it had checkpoints, so the act of fighting it was more annoying than anything.
FRC, you mean the bonus rites Fetid, Rotting, and Cursed? I never did any of the chalice dungeons with those on. I do remember fighting Amygdala for several hours though.
The only bosses in the series that I recall needing multiple hours to defeat were Ornstein and Smough, Gwyn (I'm bad at parrying sue me), and Orphan of Kos, which was about as long as the previous two put together. Out of those I think I had the worst time with the runback to O&S, especially when I started picking up Solaire on the way. There's a bunch of them that I haven't done yet though, all the DLCs except The Old Hunters and other than one session no Chalice Dungeons.
To be clear, I was talking about Amygdala from the Cursed Pthumerian Defilement chalice dungeon. Regular Amygdala is a pushover. I actually really liked the chalice dungeons. I think it would be cool if Fromsoft made an entire game around the concept.
The Pthumerian Descendant from the Chalice Dungeons en route to Platinum is the one boss that gave me the most trouble of Bloodborne, or any Souls game for that matter.
Fair enough.
The bespoke worlds and setups are a huge part of the series, and replacing that with randomly generated dungeons full of randomly placed enemies just never felt quite right to me. But, I guess an entire game built fully around the concept rather than having them tacked onto a game that was already brilliant could be possible. Never liked the Wild Area in Pokemon Sw/Sh either but Legends made the 'fully open world Pokemon' concept work.
Yup, it was my personally generated one. Definitely memorable and I considered these dungeons to be a good idea for rare loot farming.
See this is part of the reason that I think the chalice dungeons need their own game built around them. You say it's good for rare loot farming, but, like what loot do you actually need? Once you've got your weapon to level 10 and have a good stack of blood and quicksilver you're pretty much set for anything the game throws at you and it doesn't matter how many more slabs of titanite you get it's not helping you. The chalice dungeons were crying out for a loot system that Bloodborne just didn't have.
