jhoroz said:
Casual Shinji said:
It's still a fine game, but in the shadow of Dark Souls...
In the shadow of what? Dark Souls being an overrated piece of shit?
I'm really baffled when people complain about the lack of variety in weapons and environment. The core combat of DS always basically boiled down to two handing a melee weapon, rolling out the way and wailing on the enemy. BB basically capitalized on that. Yeah there's spellcasting and archery, but they've always been god awful mechanics. I'm glad Bloodborne decided to focus less on them. BB has also a much more specific theme when it comes to environments, and it still has more atmosphere and dread than Dark Soul: Prepare to Play Unfinished Edition and Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the First DLC. Give me the tightly designed atmospheric quality of Demon's Souls and Bloodborne over anything in either Dark Souls or Dark Souls 2. Artorias of the Abyss is the only piece of content I genuinely love in Dark Souls, the rest I can take it or leave it.
Gonna be third here. And I'm firmly in the "DS2 is better" camp. Anyone that thinks that doublehanding is the only way to play really has either gotten too scared, or is not gud enough at the game to do anything else. Hell, most people Havel/Towershield's it up on their first run. But melee alone, there's at least a dozen viable weapons you can take through the entire game you can get pretty easily from Firelink, with another dozen or so types that have countless specific entries throughout the rest of the game.
There's something like a hundred different sets of armor/clothing that you can mix and match if you want to make your own hodge-podge, since if you get good enough armor sorta becomes an afterthought since specific rings/items are the only thing really needed for some places.
Hell, I've run through the game five times, the only time I've had similar playstyles at all was because I couldn't pass up Ornstein's spear(I love that damn thing so much) anymore on my most recent playthrough. I've done Pyro Duelist, Pure Mage, even tried a bow only(don't do it unless you REALLY hate yourself, it turned into the Ornstein mkII playthrough pretty quickly), even did a Mr.Fisty. Every run the game was different in some way. Havel was easy with the magic playthroughs, but really didn't have much use for his stuff. Spear runs once I got Ornstein's soul were a cakewalk, especially against Four Kings but Discharge was a pain in the ass. Hell, I've been trying to do the Dragon Covenant for the better part of a year too, but PvP has largely swapped to DS2 because it's better.
Dark Souls you can even play alot like Bloodborne if you want to, just crank up Endurance and rush for the Grass Crest Shield, don't even have to ever use it if you want, just have it equipped. Only downside is that you don't have armor(and while armor doesn't
really matter, as fashion souls shows, not having any armor is noticeable in the damage you take early game). Going from Deprived, it really only takes to level 30 or so to do it, which is pretty early on in the game.
Hell, there's people talking about the game being obviously melee focused from the devs perspective. And I'll agree, but as I said, you've got a dozen weapon types with a dozen each that all have their own moveset that appeal to alot of people. Some liked clubs and maces, others rapiers and estoc, so much was viable to play the game if you wanted. BB I only found the Cane to be enjoyable to use, since it gave you options, every other weapon was just too heavy and slow for how I like to play or even lower range somehow. Blades of Mercy are ok, but just...feel like you're doing nothing.
Hero of Lime said:
Picked other, because Splatoon. I know it won't be making it onto many GOTY lists, but it will always be GOTY 2015 to me!
Whoo-hoo, didn't care for Splatoon myself, but it is nice to see something from Nintendo be talked about here!
