NA March 24, 2015
EU March 25, 2015
JP March 26, 2015
UK March 27, 2015
Assuming you are 'murican. 24:th has always been set to be the releasedate over der.
I am not sure if i should cancel my preorder and just buy the digital version of the game.
I donāt want to wait to get my copy of the game, specially because it could be delayde due the holidays, but at the same time i want to have it on disc 
Hopefully my usual spot ships early like always.
Iām contemplating going digital as well.
Not because I ordered the game online or something, but because I want the game literally the second it drops and I canāt seem to find a Game Stop holding a midnight releaseā¦
Buying retail games digitally makes me cringe as of late though. Iām trying to build my collection of physical discs and going digital at all only hurts that endeavor.
PHYSICAL ALL DAY
I donāt invest too much into the digital marketplace of any platform(PSN, Live, Wii Shop, Steam) because their policies are fucked up+I donāt get the strange satisfaction of owning the physical copy of the game. I look at my physical game collection and I think to myself āFUCK YEAH!ā but then when I look at my digital library on PSN/Steam I have I think to myself āwhelpā¦thatās some nice text of the digitally licensed games I own.ā
I got the digital version myself as well. I am so ready to play that game ASAP.
I used to care about having physical stuff but it takes up so much space to have a bunch of disc games and Iām trying to limit the amount of physical things I own(I used to collect statues/figures but I sold like 95% of them) simply because I want to be able to be mobile in living situations. Plus thereās the fact that with games needing to be fully downloaded onto the console anyway, it doesnāt save space or anything either And when it comes to archiving for the long haul weāll probably be able to easily afford several TB HDDs by the time the PS4 is unsupported, so you can just DL everything and store it all on your console by that time.
Edit: Also, not having to change discs is pretty damn nice. Itās small and certainly not a deciding factor, but itās nice.
Edit: Even when it comes to bringing a game to a friendās house, because of the fact that you have to DL the entire data anyway, it doesnāt actually save any time or anything to have a physical disc, you can just sign in on their system and DL it there. If they donāt have internet for some reason, might as well just bring the console since modern consoles only need the system, controller and 2 cables. Itās so simple nowadays.
I got my BB nightmare edition pre-ordered. Iām thinking i might wait a couple of years and then maybe sell it on ebay or something if i can get good money from it.
Might just keep it too depending on how cool i find the bell trinket to be.
Thatās what I hate about current gen though. Every single game installs the ENTIRETY of itself to the hard drive, and a lot of these new games average at least 30 or 40 gigs a pop. In a way, it almost feels pointless going physical because itās not even saving you any space. The disc essentially becomes a paperweight that you NEED to play a game that is already fully downloaded on your hard drive.
A terabyte shouldāve been the minimum default system storage capacity, imo.
Yep, this bugs me too. With the lack of console exclusives, forced installs, huge patches, licensing fees and forced pay 2 play multiplayer I have a hard time justifying buying a next-gen console when 99% of games I want to play get released on PC as well.
Iām jelly of Bloodborne, though. B)
I would agree were it not for the fact that you can just delete and re-download games. Frankly, I have never switched between more than 3 games at any one length of time (including rentals/borrowing) and there is MORE than enough space to hold 15-20 games on the console as it is now. Personally I only use it for games too so I have no video, music, etc on my PS4, just games. So when Iām playing something Iāll keep it on and keep playing it until I want to move on a few months later. So if I want to play an older game Iāll just re-download it cause Iāll be playing it for the next few weeks to a month anyway so itās not a big deal.
So if I was not amazed with the other Souls games, will I like this?
Not that I think they were bad games, the combat wasnāt my cup of tea, couldnāt really get into them
Well itās faster, if that helps.
Helps alot actually. I wish there was a demo to really get a feel for it, but Iām sure one of my friends will Share Play it so I can give it a whirl
The combat is precisely what makes Bloodborne different from Souls.
Offensively based, and fast paced. As opposed to the defensive turtling a good portion of the Souls franchise presented. If your main gripe about Souls was the combat, Iād definitely at least give BB a chance.
Now is certainly the time to give the franchise another chance since they are changing combat pretty drastically.
Iām liking what I see from gameplay vids (which is what happened when I bought the first Dark Souls game)
I really want to enjoy Bloodborne tho cuz it looks fantastic
@HD-Man I will say that sometimes these games take a while to get into. I restarted Demonās Souls 4 times, and Dark Souls 3 times before I finally really got into Dark Souls (and eventually went back to Demonās Souls.) Like it took a while for everything to click and for me to find my groove, and to realize that the game truly does let me play the way I want to play. In Dark Souls you can play however you want so long as you do your build right. My first time through the game I played a huge tank and hid behind my shield the entire time. The second time I played a Ninja flippin bitch who used her shield for parrying and blocking light quick attacks.
These days I donāt use a shield at all and I play pretty aggressively. Even that Tank who hid behind a shield her first time through the game, hasnāt used a shield at all for around two NG+ cycles, and sheās on NG+4 now.
Hell you can even build a fast moving wizard/witch and Hadouken your way through the game throwin fireballs and soul arrows and shit. It really is one of those games that lets you play the way you want to play.
This. During my first play through of DeS I absolutely hated the first 4ish hours but as soon as I downed the Tower Knight something just clicked. Demonās is now one of my top 5 of last gen.
yeah I had a rough time with Demonās(I never actually finished itā¦) but when I first played Dark Souls was about to come out in a few months so I decided to buy it to get a fresh start. I liked the previous one already but I just got really bogged down by the learning curve at first. After taking that ābreakā and starting with Dark Souls i really got into it.
Yeah, I remember dying in DeS a BUNCH of times in the first area. I 'd get relatively far and die off some gay ass trap, and just stop playing the game. I hated it. For years I seen people singing the gameās praises and Iām over here like āFUCK DEMONāS SOULā and shitā¦until last year when I decided to give it one more chance. When I killed the Tower Knight, and then the Penetrator, it was a WRAP. You just get smarter, learn the nuances of combat, and just generally mold the character the way you want him/her to play. The game is amazing, and Iām glad I picked it back upā¦5 years after buying the imported version, lol.
I canāt WAIT for BB.