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Bloodborne gameplay : The first 18 minutes
- Thread starter shinobi602
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Looks the same, just different lighting. The concern is so strong in this thread.
Krusenstern
Banned
Someone always breaks the ranks.
shinobi602
Member
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
I can't see any differences except sunset. What do you see?
Love Deterrence
Member
Jimmyfenix
Member
15 minute speed runs!
The Artisan
Member
wait a sec, is that dark souls pc vs console?
Pound_lb003
Member
We've already seen pretty different settings in screenshots. So, no it's not.
These new videos don't have enough off screen at a tilt with blue glow everywhere...just terrible.
TheCongressman1
Member
Technically it's their shoddy PC version vs. fixed PC version.
KyanMehwulfe
Member
...There's no persistent blood and damage on your character?
How is that not a given for a game with action and gore like this.... What that does for games like Sleeping Dogs or Dragon Age INQ's fighting is far more important than anti-aliasing, lighting, etc. Persistent blood at the least should be standard for any violent action game by now. Any chance it's just missing from this build? Or I somehow missed it?
How is that not a given for a game with action and gore like this.... What that does for games like Sleeping Dogs or Dragon Age INQ's fighting is far more important than anti-aliasing, lighting, etc. Persistent blood at the least should be standard for any violent action game by now. Any chance it's just missing from this build? Or I somehow missed it?
Beelzebufo
Banned
Maybe the screenshots are from cut content? Or a different version of the alleys before Cleric Beast?
Imru al-Qays
Banned
If they drop like candy what's the point? And if they don't drop like candy am I going to have to farm up a ton of them before particularly difficult boss fights?
Did I really need to put a /s on that?
Bloodbourne is serious business.
It's up-scaled PC version vs native res PC version.
I'm not really sure why having high standards is such an issue. Shouldn't people expect more from the supposed next generation of gaming?
Jimmyfenix
Member
Matt Damon is back! in his darkest adventure yet
JudgmentJay
Member
It's console/vanilla PC, which both render at 720p, vs modded PC which allows you to render it at whatever resolution you want.
Imru al-Qays;150315863 said:
But Demon's had this too...? As did Dark, although it beautifully interconnected to another area more often.
Both paths lead to a boss. They're almost exactly the same distance. The only difference is that the main path leads to the next area, whereas the other path leads to an optional boss and a covenant. This is extremely similar to 1-1, where you're caught at a crossroad between going through the fog that the blue knight blocks and progressing the "right" way, or by heading past a bunch of guys and daring to face the red eyed knight who blocks the door to King Doran (?).
Right, let's just reduce level design and optional paths to loot cubbies. 2-2's diverging path towards the crystal lizards is a loot cubby, the NPC (forgot his name) might as well be a loot cubby too.
Harvest Valley, whether you like it or not, has a bunch of paths. No need to draw strawmans about zone titles not defining area boundaries.
How the hell am I exaggerating? It's a big room, with a bunch of stuff in it, and you can, simply explore to find a way to skip that fog door. Simply put, it's another path, which in your mind seems oh so insignificant in Dark2, but so significant in the other games.
And there is a completely different path is the room with the collapsing platforms lol. If you pull the lever and bring down the level with the minotaurs breathing fire, you can jump to the ladder in the center of the room, climb up, and make your way to a completely different area with a three Alonne Captains and a bunch of cool stuff. This then drops you back to the main path, but allows you to efficiently bypass getting cornered by the Alonne knight waiting to ambush you and the fog which had the Iron Warrior remains closed.
So now we're admitting that Demon's has "corridor" design, whatever the hell that is. Great.
Demons does not have the same tension with durability or health. In Dark2, durability is much more of a constant concern, since there are generally more enemies in each area, and because the actual stat for the weapons is considerably lower. I enjoyed that repair powder actually meant something, and I was happy to receive it whenever possible. Thus the design of the game revolves around bonfires more consistently, but fortunately it also makes each area a consistent challenge after the next. A virigin souls player can experience Demons for the first time, but there's a good chance that the experience will become incredibly trivial once they discover magic. Dark2 fortunately doesn't fall for this, so no matter what character the they roll with, the enemy encounters and general stats for the game ensure little to no coasting for new players. I've watched many a stream of beginning Souls players playing Dark2, and it is HARD, consistently for them. But because of the damn Royal Knight in Demons, most players coast through the whole beginning of the game, until either they reach the Tower Knight or Flamelurker. Magic (and grass farming) really, really inhibits that "nervewracking" progression you refer too.
JudgmentJay
Member
Not when they understand the hardware inside the consoles, no.
God of War III demo to full game.
Much better? An off camera video of darker gameplay looks "much better. . ." I'm not buying it.
RustyNails
Member
Maybe its the darker setting that hid the aliasing and clipping. All I know is that I did not get wowed like I did during TGS 2014, which was my highlight for the show.
The last 5 min could fit right into a lord of the rings scene with a wraith.
Witcher III releases in May. Bloodborne is next month.
Are you sure the terrible off screen video is not hiding that stuff?
Did you not watch any of the beta footage people were streaming?
StrongBlackVine
Banned
We don't know how old that build is though.
The Witcher III was pushed to May.
That's not the standard you set:
Again, you might want to skip a console generation.
Is it really ridiculous to expect my games to not be full of jaggies? I mean come on, some of those places look REALLY awful.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Stop buying console games for the next decade or so.
Thank you.
They aren't competing with each other. Bloodborne is - I would say - the major release for March.
You're not listening to them. You're still expecting the hardware to deliver something it can not.
The Witcher and Bloodborne are both big niche games, wasn't DS1 released around Skyrim? Didn't really have an impact then.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Also i'm disappointed that firearms are restricted to your left hand. I was realing looking forward to do a gunslinger build 
Phaethon0017
Member
Much thanks to Milkham, iRAWR and Firewalker (the Hawkmoon thief) and Mescalito for helping me and my buddy get caught up on our Crota/Atheon kills. You da real MvPs :").
Seriously, none of you needed them, but you helped out. That's why this community is my jam.
Seriously, none of you needed them, but you helped out. That's why this community is my jam.
Pop
Member
You must've missed it so I'll let you know.
This is gameplay captured from an early build, maybe possibly months old. Just maybe
Why? Clean looking console games exist. Or at least, cleaner than this mess.
Why can't it? Infamous had better IQ than this, didn't it? That game wasn't perfect either but I'm pretty sure it looked better than this.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Crota is the final boss of Bloodborne