Well, I think I’m done with the game.
Did you do chalice dungeons yet?
Nah, I’m gonna play Oneechanbara Z2: Chaos Banana Edition Soul Sacrifice Delta now.
Souls virgin, playing BB for the first time. An hour in. Fuck this. That is all.
Should do the chalice dungeons if you’re looking for the most challenging stuff in the game. Takes a bit to get there, but they end up being pretty fun.
git gud
In all seriousness, try to take things slow and play defensively until you get a better feel of the game.
You can play really aggressively and keep your VIT at 10. Makes the game really fun.
Sempai, plz
Gotta git gud, kouhai.
“Chalice Dungeons” and “fun” don’t belong in the same sentence.
They aren’t actually that bad but I can’t say they were that enjoyable either.
Chalice dungeons are fun at first, and there are some genuinely clever standalone challenges in the rooms themselves. And, man, some of the best bosses are in there. But if you’re trying to get through all of them it becomes a boring slog, since you’re doing a lot of the same rooms over and over in different configurations.
If you’re going to do chalice dungeons, I’d recommend doing it as the co-op experience it seems intended to be. Invite other players to yours, put yourself up to be summoned into random ones. Makes it much more fun. You can always solo the bosses later, once you know the dungeons and can take the fastest path there.
Random thought… I was just thinking about lufia 2’s ancient cave the other day and thought something like that would be awesome in bloodborne. Starting out at level 1 each time you start the dungeon would be cool since you could try different builds. Could get weapons, blood gems, upgrade materials, and runes from “blue chests”. Could get all the same stuff along with blood vials in normal chests but just not keep them when you start over. Maybe you could spend your blood echoes at the end of each floor.
Made a MTG card of Eileen for fun. Going to make an entire album for funsies, probably including every boss plus some NPCs.
I must say the gratification for a game like this is like nothing I’ve experienced in at least a couple of decades. You would think the frustration would be enough to keep you away, but each small victory and each death (effectively a lesson) keeps you coming back. I legitimately feel good to have conquered this learning curve. Father Gasoline is still pretty rough at this point, but Cleric Beast really wasn’t a problem.
This game seems a hell of a lot easier than Demon’s and DS1&2.
Is the general consensus that it’s the easiest of all the Souls games?
They’re different kinds of difficulty. Souls games reward being careful and methodical, while this one rewards what I’d describe as smart aggression.
The regular Bloodborne campaign is definitely more forgiving than the Souls games can be. But some of the areas and bosses are just as tough as the toughest Souls bosses.
No, the easiest one is the one most recent for the player. I’ve met tons of people who disagree on the hardest one and the most common factor is that the one they started on was hardest.
But to answer your question, I’ve heard just as many people say it’s the easiest as I’ve heard say it’s the hardest. It really depends on my first point as well as how you played in the souls games. I already played DkS2 shieldless with fast weapons so the transition was pretty smooth for me but it definitely still has been much harder for me than DkS2 ever was.
DeS frustrated me the most, and yeah it was my first, DkS1 was hard but doable for me, and DkS2 was basically a breeze until some of the DLC bosses that were a fun challenge
Yea DSII is the easiest imo.
Can’t really speak on the Souls games, as I’ve never played them directly (they have no appeal to me) but it would seem that there is parity between them as far as difficulty.
Common opinion seems to be that “your first Souls game is always the hardest”.
If you guys found vanilla Dark Souls II easy, the Scholar re-release will change your mind. There are some brutal encounters in that game and that’s before you NG+
I feel they give you a lot early on in Bloodborne whereas in DS you’re pretty limited. I have a cap of 20 health recovery items that I can spam, and whenever I hit the limit whatever I can’t pickup goes automatically to my stash. This is huge imo, it’s a big difference compared to DS1 or 2 where you’re limited to a couple Estus Flasks early on and that’s about it, you’re forced to work with the few Estus Flask you have and it forces you to learn encounters.
I got to the Yharham place or whatever it’s called shortly after the 2nd boss last night before I stopped playing. There are dudes walking around with canes that kind of resemble Q. It’s so easy to shoot them with the Blunderbuss --> one-shot follow-up finisher.
There were a fair amount of bosses that I killed on my first try in Bloodborne. I think I just had a good feel for the invincibility frames on dodges for whatever reason. But dont take it as bragging because I still can’t beat defiled Amygdala.