I ended up buying Bloodborne and honestly it might already be one of my favorite all-time games. Just like Dark Souls 1 did before, it's just got so much different and going "right" for it. And it's one of those games you think about when you're not playing it. Like at work, now.
DelDuio I love Dark Souls and I didn't like Bloodborne, yes, I get past through Cleric Beast, Father Gascoine and Blood Thirsty Beast, but didn't enjoy it anymore after that.
Victor Silva because right after that is the Forrest and then the real game begins as the beasts aren’t the only monsters in these parts, once you reach the edge of the woods the lovecraftian freaks of bergenwerth are awaiting the good hunter
I got Bloodborne for free this week, and just caught Dark Souls 3 Deluxe Edition on sale for $25 on PSN this morning. I'll see you guys some time in 2020. Update 4/22/20: Never finished either game, made it quite a ways into Bloodborne before I moved on to something else. Appreciate all the likes, had no idea until recently that this comment was in any way popular, lol.
Haven't started DS3 yet but Bloodborne is great, although I still pretty much suck and haven't progressed far at all. The combat is fun and challenging but so far hasn't felt cheap when I die, which happens a lot. The frame rates are a tad disappointing, if I had to nitpick. Would be nice to have a 60FPS mode on the Pro, but not the end of the world by any means.
I just realized that the gane mechanic of regaining HP when you hit an enemy back it actually fits within the story of bloodborne. The blood is supposed to cure any illness, so when you hit an enemy, (which has had some of the ancient blood) it splatters blood on you (possibly on your face and mouth) and it "cures" you a bit.
I like to believe that its because the blood heals as it entero your wounds, and being more and more agressive for the blood makes you "blood thirsty" for a while and eventually "blood drunk". I think it fits in the hunter's nightmare lore, because you can also heal as you keep slashing through an enemy thats dead and falling for a brief time, making hunters eventually losing themselves in the hunt and the blood.
“Throughout the whole game, it only takes place in this Victorian-like city.” What, so you never discovered the hunters nightmare, nightmare frontier, nightmare of mensis, forbidden woods, byrgenwerth, or the lecture building? Wow.
I’m good at parrying in both. The only time in Dark Souls I cannot parry is when I am in PvP. Usually in Dark Souls though, I can parry just about any enemy that’s allowed to be parried.
+Χρονης ολυμπιακος I thought dark souls 2 was a lot easier, even demon souls if u played a sorcerer...filthy casuals man they 1 shot flamelurker without any trouble at all, but yeh if u don't play a sorcerer than it is a lot harder than bloodborne
yes you have right ,but when I right that dark souls it is harder from bloodorne i mean not only bossfight but th whole world of souls such as enviroment desigh.Personally, i haven't take the feeling of every time enter in tomb of giants or blightown scares my heart...
i found it to be the exact opposite way around, where bloodborne was the hardest,because they stripped you of your shield, took away the regenerating health vial, had it so you have to do a full charge attack to get a backstab, made the attacks of enemies much faster, more damaging, and with less breaks, and compared to ds3 had much shorter s on roll. also they didnt have any bosses like the deacons, or many staggerable ones like the abyss watchers.
+Palo Tove i have finished bloodorne in ng+8 including dlc and chalices dungeons and i agree that bloodorne has some hard and annoying bosses but i think that souls games continiue are more hard and punishing for me
Bloodborne isn’t more limited in types of weapons you can use. Every weapon is highly different, they’re basically all their own weapon type. Just because ds3 has more weapons overall doesn’t mean it has more variety when most weapons have 5 or 6 or more weapons that are basically the exact same thing with a new skin doesn’t mean it has more variety. You also don’t give bloodborne enough credit with level types. It doesn’t just have cityscapes it has lakeside colleges, dark swampy forests, horrible nightmarish realms, snowy castles, the insides of lecture halls. That’s just the main game when you add the dlc there’s a lot more.
Ethan Hudson the folks here saying such kinda things like most of bloodborne weapons are reskins, bloodborne has no memorable area, bloodborne has no this and that.. Damn these guys either haven't played bloodborne or are full of jealousy and hatred or are total retarded fools to make such claims. Even the damn video maker sucked at bloodborne and in his every statement his idiocy and ignorance about bloodborne is reflected.
Bro it has like less than 10 Spells, including DLC. There are more pure Magic projectiles alone in DS1 than there are spells in BB entirely. If you include Sorcery, Pyromancy, Miracles and Dark, there has to be at least 100 Spells in DS1 and a huge variety in how you build. I love BB but he is absolutely right in saying it feels secondary. If you run a Bloodtinge build, you really only get 1 Spell, and 2 good RH weapons, 1 of which is STR and the other is SKL. The bow is cool too. I usually run a Quality/ARC build but even then the only spells I use are Blacksky Eye to pick people off and Executioner's Glove for actual DMG up close. The most powerful Spell, A Call Beyond, rarely hits how it's supposed to. Meanwhile, in DS1, you can run a MLGS build, a CMW build with a variety of RH weapons, a pure ranged Sorcery build, etc, and that's just one of your magic types.
@@Jordan-up6fy my ARC/quality build is my most OP character too. My HMLS does disgusting damage and I use the Executioners Glove to great effect. But it still is NOTHING compared to my Sorcery build on DS3 as far as combining damage with versatility of options. Using 1-2 spells gets old, so I end up just smashing through enemies with the sword.
Bloodborne changed my gamer life. I was done with gaming till i saw some footage of bloodborne when it was out and instantly i want amazed and bought a ps4 just to play it. It light the inner fire in me. It was a struggle at first to get use to but didn't give up and got better and love the shit out of it. Dark Souls is close behind but bloodborne was special. Something about it made me feel like no other game before. Platinum and 100% the game with dlc and will always hold a special place in my heart. Now i just need a bb2 and my life can be complete
I love how he complains about BB being hard and “unfair” and complaining about how different it is from DS lol that’s the point and its not unfair you just have to figure out a bosses moves
I find Dark Souls 3 much harder than bloodborne. Levels and Bosses. On the same day I 1-shotted Vicar Amelia in NG+ , Dragonslayer Armor kicked my ass 20+ times before I got him.
@@airdev3386 That's weird because I find BB much harder. It took me like 20 tries to beat Amelia but DS3 hasn't had me die more than a few times to a boss.
Bloodborne's art style is more late 1600's early - mid 1700's. It isn't Victorian as most people think. That's considered to be the gothic period which you can notice in the clothing style and pistol design in particular.
I meant gothic architecture. Much of Yharnam is ripped straight out of Oxford University. It is true that much of it is Victorian inspired but then you also have the more baroque style seen in Cainhurst etc
Ben Dover In what way is he being unfair? He literally went too easy on Bloodborne if you ask me. There‘s actually a lot more to criticize. And this comes from a person who got into the Souls series through Bloodborne. Bloodborne may be literally Dark Souls + Coolnes Factor times ten, the combat is better, the designs of pretty much everything are better, the setting is better etc. The bosses? The bosses are plain and simply terrible in comparison to the Souls games especially DS3. The boss fights don‘t feel monumental at all, the first half is just different werewolf variations that try to outscream each other and will most likely oneshot you because of one mistake in their second phase. I shouldn‘t even mention Rom I think. The worst boss in DS3 has more depth and interesting gameplay variation than some of BB‘s best bosses. Bloodborne has some typical RPG elements which simply don‘t fit into a From game at all, touching a head and being told parts of the story through a flashback? Just like in DS2 with the memories, like that‘s the least From Soft thing ever. Interacting with the story indirectly is what makes From games so amazing. The idiotic Lamp system speaks for itself, paired with the fact that YOU HAVE TO farm in the game to even play it makes for an even worse experience. The lores of these games don‘t even deserve to be compared, Frampt being shocked about the fact that the „apparent chosen undead“ managed to retrieve the Lordvessel speaks more than yet another document talking about how Ludwig styled his hair and what kind of food he preferred. (Obvious hyperbole don‘t take it too seriously). Bloodborne is amazing, I love it of course, it‘s better than almost all the games I‘ve ever played, but both Dark Souls games have way more heart than Bloodborne, which feels like it intentionally did everything that Demon Souls did wrong, simply for the fact to be as different as possible from Dark Souls.
+The R R No only for PS4. Xbots don't need to play it. They need to switch consoles to play it and remember in the future to never purchase a console owned by Microsoft again
Tokeidoesgames !!! Also you do realize that they already revealed that they have no current plans for a Soulsborne game, and instead they'll be working on a new IP and continuing the Armored Core series?
You shouldn’t be talking about how monotonous the combat-blood vial cycle is when you aren’t even utilizing Visceral Attacks in your playthrough. Not only are they easy to pull off, they’re easy to learn as well. And you could say that they negate switched-weapon combat, but that isn’t true. I constantly switch between my Chikage normal-form to its two-handed variant. It’s all about circumstance in this game, and to knock it because you’re not realizing the weakness almost every enemy has (visceral attacks) is a detriment to yourself. It may be hard to pull of parries, but they work really well, especially in the Blood-Starved Beast fight. To be honest, Bloodborne isn’t an overtly-aggressive Souls game. It’s conscious risk-taking, I’d say every new encounter to an enemy requires some interesting plan-making and a different approach to how you’re gonna take up the fight. Believe me, I used to be that guy who always used a +10 saw cleaver and specked out Vitality, Strength, and Endurance. Now, after beating the game twice, I’m using arcane and bloodtinge weapons and having a blast. Point is, don’t call this game’s combat loop unrewarding when it has varied situations with varied gameplay.
What? What are you talking about, what the fuck do Visceral Attacks have to do with blood vial farming? He even praised the combat, he just said it’s tedious to farm blood vials every time you have to redo a boss, which it is. The points you made sound literally like you just wanted to randomly defend the game from arguments which were never even made. As if using visceral attacks on trash mobs for farming blood vials would make the farming less tedious, they‘d die to one hit anyways so what the hell man.
true also you don't need to farm at all just slap on some runes that give more echoes when u slay an enemy or visceral it to death and go buy those things Also even if you struggle with echoes you could just go to a chalice dungeon since those things give big boi echoes
+The Dark Mandate Yeah in Bloodborne even though the bell system was trash at least it allowed even not-as-good players to deal with ganks You had so much counters for things in that game available to you: Parrying heals, stunning at will, evading gankers easily, pulling off menacing combos to combat the clueless gankers that walk up to you thinking they're tough shit and more In DS3 it's not the same case You invade like 4 people and all odds are immediately against you Unless you're good at parrying it's hopeless All you can do is just try to dispatch a phantom or the host but unless you're a really smart person you'll most of the time end up hiding behind enemies which the host can turn on you Healing isn't a problem for the gankers as once they've killed you they just receive more charges Healing is super fast with nothing to punish it unless you keep breathing down the person's neck All in all I just wish they hadn't neglected the PvP of Bloodborne to the point of it being super basic with covenants that are worthless Game would've been superb for PvP
Doubt there will be a second the way BB came out. But at the same time its not impossible. Imo BB is better as a standalone and better for multiple expansions over the years. It make sense given how massive the world is. They can continue to build as they did with the Old Hunters world. Maybe something more to do with the Celestials? Plenty of lore that can be tossed in to explain their part further. Dunno just my two cents.
Gilbert Tibor Jakub Behold Grasshopper.... the giant rocks are your saving grace... The patient will presevere. I beat in on my first go treating them like normal hunters. Its all about getting your crowd control and working one to two hits then repositioning. While it is a hard fight, the real challenge is avoiding the stunlocks teamwork.
“The whole game is very dark” It’s literally an horror game set at night Also, torches Also also, lantern Also also also, game brightness Also also also also, the fucking massive moon that you could be forgiven for mistaking it with the fucking sun because of how bright it is
@@JadenSanchez6622 it's an rpg with a lot of horror elements. So can be considered a horror game, just not in the classical sense like survival horror games
@@JadenSanchez6622 maybe not in the traditional sense that you see horror games in, but I 100% think that they definitely went for a horror theme. the game has you using lanterns and torches, the game has enemies that are definitely designed to be unsettling and even scary at times (blue eyed mother fucking werewolves), there's unsettling music, unsettling story aspects, jump scare moments even, and I mean, just look at it. its eldritch lovecraftian sorry elements and themes alone, in my opinion, give this a horror aspect.
bloodborne makes the healing items a consumable because you are supposed to use the retaliation mechanic to heal in battle, and only use the items when you are in dire need of healing and already cant retaliate. also learning to stagger enemies with the gun makes it much more easier, as it is a core mechanic. finally, you should mostly use the two handed weapon for swarms of enemies or to get some extra range if its a monster you dont want to get close to (bloodborne is better played up close anyway imo though).
You can but healing items in Bloodborne one solid farming run can net you enough Blood Echoes for easily over 100 blood vials, that's how you're meant to get them. The ones the enemies drop should be seen as a bonus so you can have more than the allotted 20 in one run.
Yup, you'll rarely if ever find a need to farm vials if you make use of the mechanics provided. Even if you did somehow get low on vials, you can literally do a quick sweep of the starting map, get masses of vials drops and spend those blood echos on 100s more. I can't really see a 5min sweep of a starting area any more a pain in the ass than doing the DS version of running all the way back to a bonfire to refresh your estus. I suppose a small improvement I guess they could make is ALWAYS starting you off with maybe 5 or 10 vials? So even if you were to constantly die to a boss and have 0 vials left, when you respawn, you have some back in your inventory, so like a partial estus only when you have none left. Him admitting he never even tried to get used to the parry mechanic was a sad thing to hear too, it's really something worth learning early on. And agreed with the two handed thing too, especially the axe, it's so much slower when two handed without much extra damage potential, I think your better going one hand and using that extra speed and stam for more dodge and hits. Two hand is great as part of r1/l1 combos though.
I get your point but keep in mind that some use them to refill their health between blood bullet recharges. Now, while most people have this gamestyle as it is the most effective for the game. Some people don't and just want to enjoy the game the way they do. For example, keep in mind that having more range allows for a wider margin of error especially if you don't know that well boss patterns/master your weapon range and you get a slightly better point of view to see ennemies from max range (negligeable let's be honnest but usefull on small/medium ennemies). So yeah, some people with old DS reflexes would rather not risk getting bashed a second time especially when as he said he first tried a lot of bosses in the second half of the game by playing safe and not using the retaliation mechanic. Finally, you can store and purchase a shitload of vial to make it a nonexistant problem.
Actually vials are just one of 2 options. If you get hit, the game gives you the opportunity to back off and heal with a ressource that is limited. Or be agressive, take the risk and attack him back to get your hp back. Which decision is the right one depends on the attack the enemy is doing. Is he doing one ore 2 attacks at a time? Attack back. Is he comboing? Dodge towards him to get behind him and now attack or heal. If he AOE's combos, just roll backwards and heal. If the motherfucker is constantly doing long range attacks or just ranged attacks, bro you won't get your attacks in time. Just heal you get vials all the time.
I'm stuck in Cathedral Ward. Have no idea where to go and all the guides are so complicated that I kind of put it down. Gonna come back once I finish Ds3 and it's dlc.
@@thesnatcher3616 Cathedral ward is pretty simple once you get used to it. Just explore a bit and kill every enemy. Eventually you'll find your way through. If you get a lot of echoes you can open a certain gate using a cloth found at the messengers bath that costs 10000... I think...
The blood vials being a limited item has to do with the lore of the game. The relationship between hunters, beasts and blood. It the same way that Estus, bonfires, leveling up, homeward bones and the undead are an example the the FromSoft effort for seamless connection between gameplay and lore. That's a big part of what separates them from other games, not just that they're challenging with a high learning curve.
Very true. And this sure is amazing and admirable. But the question still remains: did they make the design choice of limited blood vials first, and then create the lore for them, or was it the other way around? The reason this is important is because if they made the blood vial gameplay mechanic first, they might as well had created equally awesome lore connections with an entirely different system altogether. With this being said, I still have no issues with the blood vial system as it stands, both gameplay and lore wise. It's awesome imo.
They likely would have preferred to use recharging healing like estus, but that mechanic isn't logical in bloodborne's world. The idea with the blood vials is that the whole of Yharnam society is hooked on the blood like a drug, and people carry syringes full of the blood around for when they need a fix. So making them a drop makes sense. I'm sure they tried to figure out a better solution but having them magically refill does not make sense.
It’s a made up world, they could’ve just as easily make an estus like blood vial system make sense. No matter how you cut it, there’s no way to make running out of blood vials and having to farm for more interesting from a gameplay standpoint.
@@SuperSecretAgentNein Are you serious? Damn near half the beasts I killed dropped blood vials. I had like 200 in storage after a few hours. I NEVER had to farm them.
James Reese the first area of the game where the enemies frequently and consistently drop them, if you had an easy enough time with the bosses and don’t end up running that’s awesome, but for those who do end up hitting that classic “boss wall” and on top of all that need to take a break from attempts just to farm? That sucks. It brings the fun to a screeching halt.
***** the only part of blood borne I would remotely consider artificial difficulty is the frenzy mechanic. Blood borne has the best weapons, the most exciting combat, and the best story. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's not good. You become a "squid" in the alternative ending because you killed the moon presence and ascended your humanity into godhood, you've become an old one.
***** Dude, first of all, those games were instantly easy for me because of shields, that's why I liked Bloodborne, and go ahead and mention Ludwig. Also going through the defiled chalice reminded me of the Pure Black mode in DeS, which made me happy, but also made me happier because of the new combat system, yes it made killing things swifter, but that's the point of being a badass hunter. Also, you turned into a squid because "SPOILER ALERT" After killing the Moon Presence you decided to ascend into a greatone which is known as a cosmic being, and in order to undo the curse of the greatone which turned everyone mad, you turned in to one by obtaining the insight of the Moon Presence.
Yep I got into the game way too late recently despite owning it since 2016 lmfao. I finally had the patience to play it and even got the platinum trophy for it.
I don't know why, but I'm far better at Bloodborne than I am at DS. Any of them. As such I enjoy Bloodborne more, it's a challenge for sure but an extremely enjoyable one.
I actually prefer Bloodborne to Dark Souls 3 for a few reasons. Be warned, there are spoilers below. Bloodborne brings more "new" ideas to the table than just combat-related aspects. The Lovecraft-inspired lore of Bloodborne adds a significant amount of depth to the plot and enriches the world. The way in which it's presented is genius and especially impactful to those of us who played at release. I remember watching the initial trailers of Bloodborne and thinking, "wow, this looks like a boring Dark Souls clone taking place in a medieval Raccoon City (from Resident Evil)." All we saw was the Hunter battling undead creatures, it was really quite dull by Dark Souls standards. And the beginning of Bloodborne definitely does feel that way. But as you progress further, you start to get little hints of what's really going on. And by the end of the game you're battling otherworldly beings who drive normal people insane with their image alone. Once you start putting the pieces of lore together, you realize that, much like Dark Souls, just about everything in the game is there for a reason. Even the simplest environmental objects in the game have a lot of meaning beyond explaining the events that are taking place in Yharnam. There's this feeling that you, the player character, are relatively insignificant in the grand scheme of things, especially as you start to piece together what's going. That eventually extends to feeling like Yharnam itself is fairly insignificant, and as you delve further, the entire planet starts to feel relatively insignificant, as you begin to realize that the ancient beings you're dealing with are otherworldly and beyond normal human perception. Then the beauty of the lore and the world really starts to sink in: you have these human beings so desperately trying to "ascend" and comprehend the incomprehensible. As a result, everything they built and worked for begins to crumble as insanity takes over. And you, the Hunter, eventually go toe-to-toe with these celestial beings. I think it actually catches that feeling of progression better than any Dark Souls game before it. I think all of us Souls fans love that feeling of growing as a character and a player. We started off by killing that weak Asylum Demon (or maybe Phalanx for Demon's Souls fans) and by the end of a Souls games we're facing off against gods and ancient horrors. In Bloodborne by the end of the game we're battling Celestial beings who are painted as being impossible to perceive completely, beings that go beyond what we can imagine with our feeble human minds. Dark Souls 3 has great lore but I feel it relies a bit too much on the first game. It does feel a bit "fanservicey" to me, and sometimes not all that inspired. It's still overall pretty deep but I think for a game whose story relies so much on Dark Souls, I think there could have been far more done either in connecting Dark Souls with Dark Souls 2 or perhaps giving us a far different view of Dark Souls rather than showing us what happened after the events of Dark Souls. On a different subject, while I do agree with you that Bloodborne's environments can feel a bit too similar, I do think the world itself is more enjoyable to explore and overall feels more expansive. It feels more rooted in reality at the beginning, but once you start traversing some of the later areas and especially the Nightmares, I do think it ends up being just as varied as Dark Souls. Bloodborne could have benefited from more variety in the first half of the game, but I think as far as an overall package goes, you do end up with a lot of distinct environments. There's Yharnam, of course, and there's the snowy castle of Cainhurst, the Lecture Building, Nightmare Frontier, Nightmare of Mensis and Yahar'gul. The DLC adds even more variety with the warped landscapes and the aquatic themed fisherman's village. Also, remember that the world does change after killing Rom, something I think is really cool and reminiscent of Anor Londo if you kill Gwyndolin. The blood-red moon hanging down provides a different glow to Yharnam and gives it a unique atmosphere. Then there's the chalice dungeons of course, of which there are some unique looking areas. I still think Bloodborne's world is more memorable than Dark Souls 3. You mentioned the shortcuts, and that's a big part of it. But I think the way in which areas are accessed and how it all comes together really does have a lot more impact than even Dark Souls. I really like how getting killed by the kidnapper enemies takes you to a whole new area upon respawning. I love how hidden Cainhurst was. I enjoyed re-traversing older areas under the glow of the blood red moon and eventually making my way to the horrific Nightmare areas. The world of Dark Souls 3 is awesome, but I will say that I think it does feel sometimes a bit too similar to Dark Souls. I was a bit disappointed by how small some areas are. Take the Consumed King's Garden. I think a lot more could have been done with that. Instead of being this expansive maze filled with unique plant-life, it's a few props with some tough enemies patrolling around that you can sprint by to the boss. I feel like a lot of areas in Dark Souls 3 are very small, especially in comparison to Bloodborne. I remember getting lost for quite some time in the forest in Bloodborne. In Dark Souls 3, I don't think I ever got lost or felt like I was exploring. It's a very straightforward experience. I know this has been long so I'll make my last point short. I think Bloodborne brought more innovation to combat to the table than Dark Souls 3. Dark Souls 3 has engaging and fun combat, but ultimately it's not too much different from Dark Souls or Dark Souls 2. And that's okay, it really shouldn't depart that much. But Bloodborne really did feel like a fresh experience. The faster pace, the trick-weapons, the lack of shields, the inclusion of guns and timing stuns with guns, it felt VERY different from any of the other Souls games while still retaining that definite Souls combat structure that emphasizes careful response to enemies. Anyways, love your videos and I think you did a great job with this one. I may disagree but I respect the points you made.
I agree with everything you said. I did think that Dark Souls 3 lacked a lot that could have made it unique but instead relied on already established things. I just hope with their next game, they take a new approach like they did with Bloodborne
As much as I love Bloodborne, there was something about the Great Ones that didn't make me love it... I enjoyed the game, don't get me wrong. I just felt more engaged with DkS' story. It's probably due to the fact that I love big swords and shields, but enh.
I thought I liked DS3 more than BB as I couldn’t get into it. But after playing BB fully I am completely admitting that BB is the most incredible unique experience. DS3 is brilliant too but damn BB is so good. 3 playthroughs in and it still keeps pulling me back with more and more secrets missed
Bloodborne was the first Fromsoft game i ever beat....and I played through it twice. LOVE BB.....I tried ds3, but that Quickstep vs roll....gimme Quickstep. All day.
ngl at first when I entered Bloodborn I was disappointed and didn't like it, it was also my very first soul game and I found it very hard but then I kept playing and and getting further in it and now I love the game
Scuba Steve I hear demon souls has some of the toughest bosses out there. First game I played in the series. Couldn't even get past the first level and I played 30+ hours.
Flight Never played Demon's Souls, but most people I've talked to say it was easier than Dark Souls and Bloodborne, but harder than Dark Souls 2 and 3.
If you say so. Most people who have played multiple games seem to say that DS and BB are nearly equal, with DS maybe being a bit harder, DeS being cheap rather than legitimately hard, and DS2 and 3 being almost disappointingly easy. I tend to agree.
Kos and Maria were easier for me than Laurence and Ludwig. Maybe because I'm 150 against Kos and Maria but its easier to read them for me. If it is non DLC, Mergo is easy than most beast type bosses (I suck at them.) For Micolash, the place is hard. I hate Mensis. Same like Kos, the place is harder than the boss (Freakin Shark Giants.)
@@AIIXIII0 same here. Although it was Maria, Laurence, and fishing hamlet that gave me trouble. I was extremely over leveled when facing Ludwig (120) and I was able to tank his long range 1 shot attack (got lucky there). Cannot tell you how many times I died to Laurence or Maria, and I still haven't gotten to Kos yet
I think this review is too biased for nostalgic reasons. I've played both games for the first time this year and both are really good, but bloodborne is a masterpiece.
khalil jason I'm not, I'm ok ay Souls games :)) To be honest DS3 is great but there are quite a few things in it that are quite unacceptable and should be improved or rethought
@@idkwtcm984 Max, I think. But more of a subjective issue than anything. I would argue it makes the game more atmospheric. No my biggest gripe with Bloodborne is how spammy it sometimes feels. But that's another subjective issue. I don't really see a lot of problems in Bloodborne.
Bloodborne is my favorite game of all-time. However, it introduced me to the Souls series and in turn the Souls games became my favorite game series of all-time. I don't think it matters which individual game is better, each one is amazing in their own right and deserves respect. I believe that when you put the Soulsborne games together, that's the true masterpiece.
Playing bloodborne cost me almost 600$ CAD, since I bought a ps4 only for this game. And I dont regret one cent of it. Bloodborne is a masterpiece. It is a least on par with dark souls if not better.
thetizzle Yeah, since I already bought a ps4, i went ahead and bought The Last of Us remaster, which happen to be very good. And I bought some other game that are just on console. I always been a pc gamer so i was not thinking about these games, but now I'm very happy I get to try them.
Tadlada pate The Last of Us became the greatest game I have ever played. Never thought I would put another game over the original Silent Hill games (1-3) but it's right there with them.
and no, I don't consider tlou "survival horror" but its a masterpiece. The telltale TWD series is great too, first season hit my ass hard. But I believe that's on PC also.
Eduardo Tejera exactly. If required, once in a while convert your big stash of echoes into blood vials instead of gear/levels. Boom you're done. No need to think about it for a good long time.
This is one of the things that definitly becomes better in a second playthrough. Once you know it's easy to avoid - no farming required, decent stash of vials at all times. But yeah at first it can be annoying.
William Barefield Eh, I mean, compared to the souls games, it definitely doesn’t. I love BB, but yeah, the amount of Arcane magic, ain’t really much. Souls games definitely have more magic than BB...
The Ancestor Because I am too lazy to watch the entire video, I am gonna say that maybe he didn’t completely neglect it. He’s just saying, compared to Dark Souls it has barely any. Idk.
i extremely like both , but i just fell in love with BB , everything about BB just screams atmosphere and horrific elegance , the way it looks and the way it plays and the way it fucking flows , bloodborne consumed me in a way DS3 didnt quite manage . when i was playing dark souls 1 and 3 i was thinking of bloodborne , yes , that is how good that bitch is
w wyborn It’s subjective. I personally like DS3 much better. I think Bloodborne’s healing system kind of broke the game. Having 20 blood vials is just too much for experienced players. I never died to any of the main game bloodborne bosses more than 3 times, and I don’t mean that as a brag, just that as someone with an inherently aggressive play style, bloodborne was too easy for me. A cap of 10 blood vials would have been perfect because not only would it further incentivize rallying but also be a great cap for experienced players. It also works for new players because they can use the Caryll tunes to increase their max blood vial count to 15, which should be enough. I think Dark Souls 3 is also a bit too easy for experienced players, but the boss fights were much more memorable because the bosses’ move sets were more interesting. It doesn’t help that a majority of the boss fights in Bloodborne are just rampaging, flailing beasts that you can deal with in the same way. Plus I understand what he means in terms of the lack of “settings” in Bloodborne. The theme of every area is too similar. They’re all dark, grey, have tombstones littered everywhere and don’t really ever feel fresh, especially in the early game (with the exception of Cainhurst).
That bitch is bad...baad i'm playing ds3 now and can't shake that bitch out of my memory...playing the most aggressive play style ever with light armour and no shield...that makes dealing with invaders a pain though 😂
Tbh the bosses in Nightmare of Mensis are extremely easy so I understand being disappointed in that, even if I thought their atmosphere/design made up for it. But clearly he didn’t play the DLC because those bosses are absolutely brutal.
I don't think that this guy ever finished game. I haven't finished the game yet (just started) but i can tell you that there are plenty of environments; there are plenty of weapons/gear; you can buy healing pots from the shop.. The list can go on and on
DmChunky he complains about the farming, on the way to the boss you get enough blood vials if you kill everything, and that should be more than enough to win the fight imo
@@iliasrydlakowski1420 True. I only need blood vials against beast type boss, Rom and Ebrietas. I suck against them. When I fought Kos and Maria, I didn't need it much (Maybe because they have two hands and easier to read for me?)
@@Skankhunt668 By the time you reach that part of the game you can buy a ton of vials after a single run through a late game area. It's absolutely not that bad.
@@AIIXIII0 the great/ancient one were all a learning curve and all use acarne magic in there attacks which can insta kill. i remeber being stuck in a certain chalice with amy. however where there is cheese you will find mice basically most bosses had a hardcore appproach or you can cheese them. once i learned amys cheese, micolash's cheese and eribitas cheese i was blesssed. who did you find most challenging?
Oh reaaaaally... BB is also my first soulsborne game (after doing The Surge (a soulslike sci-fi game and Salt & Sancturary (a soulslike side-scroller)). Now I'm looking forward to doing Dark Souls 1 Remastered and hopefully burning through it.
Bb was my second souls game , when I jumped to ds3 , combat felt a bit slow and boring (still loved it), but the speed and anime dodges in bb made it mad good
"You can only have a Max of 20 Blood vials" that means you didn’t go to Hemwick Charnel lane, Iosefkas Clinic, Cainhurst Castle, didn’t encounter 2 bosses, missed a covenant, an entire weapon/armour set and a character questline Also: guess you didn’t also venture through the Chalice Dungeons (a HUGE part of the game)
Phoenix Zero I did I played it with no guide completely blind and I missed most of those (I think). The only quest line I fully did was the Eileen quest. But like there are so many vague things in the game like how to get to Cainhurst Castle or to losefkas clinic. The game is good but the layout is a such a mess and it’s so vague.
@@someguy9496 i totally agree with you. I also wouls have missed a lot, if there were not good guides available. The same for the third ending, the one with the umbilical cords, thank god that there is internet 🙏 bloodborne it s the first gave on which i got a platinum trophy
Bloodborne taught me to play aggressively, I had finished all souls games with shield and heavy armor, after bloodborne i went back to those games with just bow and katanas, running around naked and dodging the shit out of everything, it is quite thrilling to say the least and i actually found myself struggling less than before, ornstein and smough, nameless king, for the first time i have beaten them solo
Shaun Dennis Bloodborne is only easy once you perfect dodging and the game encourages you to do so but even then getting over run or a first boss fight normally results in death if you lose agressiveness to heal and never recover stance, I've heard DS3 is easier than Bloodborne though so It's also opinion but It's probably easier because Bloodborne taught them how to be agressive and dodge and DS3 followed that styel but also gave you the shield mechanic that's always been there this you could dodge and block.
Fariko Wishless I played DS3 and became very good at dodging attacks through practise and thereafter began Bloodborne and was alredy great at dodging attacks without putting any effort. Bloodborne's Quick-Step mechanic is more fluent than DS3's Roll mechanic and enemies of Bloodborne usually have lower poise than those of DS3. People find Bloodborne harder because they're not used to dodge. I dodged a lot in Dark Souls 3 and was great at dodging in Bloodborne as a result of that.
tembloroso23 I actually never played a souls game before my friend forced me to try bloodborne. I've not yet used shields, and am never over 70% carry weight. The entire game for me is dodging, and I kind of want to do a knight in shining armour build where i have the best armour and use massive shields all the time
“I never really learned how to parry so I mostly two handed my weapons” sounds like a personal problem, here’s the solution learn. “Don’t like that the blood vails are consumables cause it makes me grind when I couldn’t defeat the bloodstarved beast” sounds to me like you should have learned to parry him “No magic” arcane and bloodtinge dude, just cause it’s less doesn’t mean it isn’t there
i have to agree with the second point though. I came from ds3 and the grinding process sucks ass. when fighting bosses, the process seemed too tedious. when i was stuck at ludwig, i spent more time grinding for the blood vials then actually fighting the boss
@@brianw.2791 yeah that’s one of the few things I didn’t like about bloodborne. Most bosses I was to scared to use blood vials because “hey if I die I’m only limiting my healing in the next try at the boss” it’s exactly what happened with the blood starved beast because most enemies right next to the arena don’t drop blood vials consistently enough
@@wtimu6945 A little quick tip Just use every single Blood Echo on Blood Vials because if you get more than max, they go to your storage If you die or go back to the dream, it will automatically fill in your Blood Vials, same with the Bullets
It's always strange to me how people started with using shields... I never liked shields so I learned to dodge. Maybe it had something to do with piccolo...
***** I guess you are right, but the story in dark souls is more depressing i think, because even if you link the fire the age of darkness is coming and everyone is going to die
My theory for why the devs wanted you to farm blood vials when you died is because they wanted you to do what you were there for: hunt beasts. It makes sense storywise so I think thats a cool little detail.
@@user-pc3nc3hg6w Hunter tools count as the "spells" but "magic" technically also falls under intelligence/faith and the weapons that scale with them with attunement being how many spells you can fire off. Also hunter tools are more companion pieces to your base weapons. Except a call beyond... That's a straight up DS1 level spell... Like dark bead in damage potential with a slightly longer wind up and outward spread.
Ive played all of the dark souls games for a couple years now and i dont think i have ever blocked an attack, Why block an attack if you can dodge out of the way?
For the complaint about blood vials: If you collect more than twenty, I'm pretty sure they go into storage, and will automatically be pulled out when next you die.
Charles Tabing I also finished Bloodborne a while ago and started dark souls 3 I never use the shield that made the gameplay a lot more fun than it would've been if I used shield I two hand all my weapons which is much more effective also (just ditch the shield)
aaaand, if you actually went ahead and watched the video, you would know he did not play Demon Souls. :) - But you're right, he needs to check facts first, before he states them to us..
Kaci Zeigler When I said it did so first, I meant that it did so first in the Souls series. And surely enough the magic bar would count as *new* since DS2 didn't have it, but not exactly as *brand new*. Also don't be so fucking rude the next time, thanks.
Bloodborne was my first. Absolutely stunning game, perhaps one of my top 10 games ever. Dark souls 3 was a wonderful game, that at it's peak rivaled bloodborne. Knight Gael, is my favorite fight period. More than anyone in bloodborne, the world was less dark, and much nicer. But bloodbornes mechanics were better, and overall just more enjoyable for me.
@psykosonikwarrior Don't understand how it's limited when nearly every weapon in the game plays entirely different, even the saw cleaver and saw spear play completely different in their second form and they're the most similar weapons in the game. Compared to DS3 most of the weapons are just reskins withe slightly different ranges, and the armor might be more diverse but you end up wearing whatever doesn't make you fat roll and gives you better stats. BB has less but none of the stats on the clothing matter so you can dress up however you want which makes BB more diverse in terms of how you want to look. Level design in Dark Souls always made it feel like a check list to me, like here's the token fire, ice, poison levels that ultimately makes the game feel less connected, while BB had a strong theme going for it the whole way through with tons of care put into the design of the city and how it related to the lore, along with a great lovecraftian cosmic horror vibe. The only reason I think BB is easier is probably because youre way faster than in any of the DS games and it rewards being agressive, instead of sitting behind a sheild or waiting your turn. Also, how is it more streamlined? It's a Ps4 exclusive, less people know about it than Dark Souls.
You know, just because someone doesn't like your videogame as much as you do, doesn't mean that person didn't "really" play the game. What a childish way of thinking
@@doktorwollknaul443 the guy didn't know about magic in bloodborne. He said that they ditch the magic in exchange for guns, which is completely incorrect because of arcane build.
@@lordofolimpia1 oh, i´m sry. i forgot. the arc scaling boom hammer is what i think of when i talk about magic. a giant exploding sledgehammer. ofc that's only one example. then there are hunter tools. hunter tools legit use BULLETS. you know why? cus gunplay is the bigger focus in BB than fcking magic. there is a reason there's no mana or arcane meter for your "spells". you are a hunter. you´ll never be anything else but a hunter. no matter how you´ll build, you´ll never end up as a mage. you know why? cus they kinda ditched the concept of magic. arc scaling is not the same as magic builds and hunter tools aren't magic. they are tools. would you consider throwing a molotov magical? i mean, you throw it, it explodes, fire spreads. great spell. or the flamethrower wich scales with arc? amazing burning hands spell. don´t be so butthurt just cus someone didn´t like the game you liked a lot. they ditched the concept of magic. cus slinging spells around in BB would be fcking weird. he was 100% correct on that and you´re just looking for ways to discredit him cus your feelings got hurt cus someone didn't like your game :(
@@doktorwollknaul443 you seem like the person who didn't play the game with an arcane build. molotov cocktail and sledgehammer is not the "magic" type. Search the broccoli man in bloodborne and you'll understand what I'm talking about.
@@lordofolimpia1 u mean the kos parasite with the milkweed rune? again, how could u ever consider this to be a traditional magic fighting style. molotov cocktails legit scale with arc. are you serious? i´m starting you think u didn´t even "really" play the game with an arc build. then again, you get buthurt over someone not considering slaping someone with alien tentacles magic.
The Anor Londo reveal was awesome but when I realized it was already over after Aldritch I was profoundly disappointed. It's just the one spot outside the cathedral that you've already seen, when I saw "Anor Londo" appear on the screen I got excited because I thought I was about to explore other parts of the area I never got to see in Dark Souls 1.
Ngu Mi'gogl I was actually super disappointed before I even got the text because I looked around Irithyll and noticed 'oh, its like 5% of anor londo... oh look, theres the cathedral... goddamnit...'
Ds2 had “Old dragonslayer”, which was Ornstein except he seemed corrupted, having dark magic instead of lightening. I wish instead of having Aldrich there, they would’ve place Aldrich somewhere else and instead kept Smough and made him mutated/corrupted, bringing “Old Executioner” or something along those lines. Especially since the Lore is that he didn’t abandon his post like Ornstein did. Also having burnt out bonfires both outside Gwynevere’s room and Gwyn’s tomb would’ve been amazing.
+hani The Dancer is a really easy boss fight actually, she does a lot of walking around without attacking and telegraphs her attacks quite clearly, keeping an eye on your stamina and her attack patterns, she is a very easy boss.
after playing through Dark Souls 3, I went back and played Dark Souls for the first time....Beat Ornstein and Smough within an hour. Some bosses took me HOURS to beat in Dark Souls 3. O & S are tough but for me personally, I feel there are at least 3, maybe as many as 5 bosses in DS3 that are tougher than those assholes. But everyone else played DS first so they have that nostalgia/extreme difficulty memory that makes them a bit biased. Having played through Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 and am now nearing completion of the original, I can honestly say the original ranks 3rd in difficulty for me out of the 3.
In fact, the only part of Dark Souls that offered anywhere near the frustration/difficulty as I had with the Twin Princes, Pontiff Sulyvahn, Ludwig, Gehrman and Orphan of Kos is probably the Crystal Caves and of course Blighttown. The invisible paths are complete horse shit and the boss fights in those areas are atrocious. In fact, most of the bosses in the original are either unmemorable and underwhelming, terribly designed, borderline boring or straight up easy. I died around 250 times in Dark Souls 3 on my first playthrough. Bloodborne, including DLC, I'd say 300+ times, seeing as I did the DLC on NG+. I'd say up until having 3 bosses left in Dark Souls, I died less than 100 times. I'm not denying that the original is a great game or that it is difficult. It is. I still have enjoyed it immensely and the way the game is designed, i.e. interrconnectivity and seamlessness, is astounding and the music is second to none. But having played Bloodborne, a near perfect game, and Dark Souls 3, a perfect marriage of Dark Souls and Bloodborne, before the original, I just don't have as high of an opinion of Dark Souls as most of the nostalgic fanboys in the community have. Don't even get me started on DS2. I despise that game. And before anyone starts talking about PvP, I couldn't care less about it personally. I don't like competitive multiplayer in any games. I'm a single player/cooperative gamer at heart.
SUCKMANOSE Same, I started with dark souls 3 and about halfway through (excluding Pontiff) I gave up on shields and learned to dodge. Just started Bloodborne last week and combat feels very similar.
TheChickfilacowz actually I take what I said about shields back when I was in dark souls fighting the tintite demon having a shield helped me dodge his attacks and when I was in darkroot garden using a shield helped me against those giants especially aginst those plant Monsters
I too love grinding for healing items for a few minutes only to get to practice against the boss for a couple. And the fact that there was one color palette.
The game is easy going back through and on NG+, especially with parries, but you can't say you didn't farm healing items on certain bosses in the beginning. After a while it wasn't necessary but I fought some of the hardest bosses in the game only in NG+ (because I didn't do them the first time, DLC, etc) and I had to farm some because I had used them all for whatever reason. It's much more pleasurable the 2nd time through but I played the BB playstyle (aggressive) in DS1 and 2 before this because it's the easiest way to play. Just saying, it's unnecessary to have the healing items as consumables you have to acquire when estus style items are perfect already. They just tried to reinvent the wheel; it works well for the bullets, however, especially when you can hurt yourself for more. Healing is also incredibly fast in BB which only makes the game easier.
However, I do absolutely love the music and some of the NPCs and the way weapons change. Other than that, I do prefer my high fantasy DS games. And they are more colorful, actually. Look at the settings in the game and then look at the settings in BB. Colorful doesn't just have to mean palettes, although they have a wider range of those, too.
The only time i've had to farm so far was that fucker on the gattling gun royally fucked me several time when I was fighting the hunter-of-hunters, or whatever that thing was called. It countered my playstyle (kirkhammer transform attack, strong attack, transform attack ect.) completely and drained all of my vials.
I can only compare Bloodborne with Demon's Souls. I like the gameplay mechanics and music more in Bloodborne, but fuck do I hate how everything looks the same. Without a minimap I just felt lost and actually looked up things online just to find which location to go to next. It feels bad, since I almost never cheat in games :/
No such thing as an unbiased review. But I don’t think this guy really understood Bloodborne at all. The fact that he talked about never using parrys despite them being really easy to pull off on giant enemies/other hunters shows that he really didn’t put enough effort into learning the games systems. He wanted to play it like Dark Souls but the game actively encourages you not too
Bloodborne was my introduction to the souls formula and any souls like game I've played, I played it the was I did in bloodborne. Hoping for a bloodborne 2 some day, maybe on ps5.
also, you dont understand anything about the lore of these games, stop pretending to. "this boss eats other bosses!" he didnt kill them, hes the survivor of what did kill them.
Dark souls 3 not only lacks setting but originality aswell soo many things are just ripped off from DS 1 Bloodborne has the strongest setting in the entire series though
@@نونيم-ي4ح Eh not realy Ds3 settings were amazing but feeled in many areas wery cold and grey and while Bloodborne has very detailed areas the all felt very ganky anoying and in general you were always in an dark Building or Street. But I liked ds3s more because at least the areas felt special.
Bloodborne introduced me to souls game and I only picked it up because the gothic atmosphere of it was very compelling to me. I've played Dark Souls 3 as well, but the former is just so much more fascinating. It's definitely easier than DS3, but it also feels more original.
Tabish Arif not easier, it's more fair and balanced.. I just started playing both and I'm utterly disappointed with how lame and broken DS3 is.. Enemies are too fast and aggressive whereas ur char is slow and clunky, attack animations look weight-less and cartoonish, enemies have endless stamina, insane tracking and poise/hyperarmor.. Bloodborne is way better, even though I'm kinda of a Souls guy
DaugSteel 1 in Demons Souls I feel like they really had infinite stamina, whereas in DS1 and DS2 enemies kinda take breaks inbetween combos (except Gwyn, he's always on crack and adderal lol)
Bdubzs PVP lol pathetic bitch full of herself showed up to deliver the usual "git gud".. Just so ya know, I have DS3 almost beat by now, days ago I beat Midir, Nameless and Gael in the same day :))) Bloodborne is almost beaten as well, I have only Gherman, Orphan, Laurence and Moon Presence left to finish my first playthrough
ZFF-NOKOS I disagree.. I started playing both BB and DS3 (after having beaten the 3 previous Souls games on my PS3) and I can confidently affirm that Bloodborne is better in every way.. Better pace, better mechanics, better combat, better animations, better world and level design, better lore... DS3 is so disappointing, enemies are on adderall all the time, pulling endless combos at you while your char is as slow as in previous Souls games.. Swinging your swords suck, the weapons have no weight at all, not to mention the complete absence of poise and insane tracking and roll catching enemies have..
Just bloodbourne. Purely subjective if either of them is good. I like playing co op while playing games. In my 30+ hours of dark souls.. It is never ending invasion.. One after another.. Zero fun.. I stopped playing.. Went to bloodbourne.. And i never looked back..
For me personally: BB: best pve, graphics DeS: need to play more DS1: best world design, lore DS2: best pvp, covenants DS3: best...um...Final boss? I dunno.
Dark Souls 3 is still garbage though. The game's fun but the lack of poise, decent weapons other than Dark Sword, Estoc, Fume Greatsword and Twin Prince's Greatsword (in some cases other weapons for one-shot builds and such) difficulty as you go into NG+'s and practicality of Armor (due to no poise) I would prefer Bloodborne any day.
And keep in mind, other weapons can be used ofc, I myself usually go with Onokiri and Ubadachi without any bleed build or whatever and it works fine. But the best ones are listed above.
Eh bloodborne is the better game for story and creativity also the expansion was a lore explosion along with the epic trick weapons. Ahem sorry for praising ds3 got boring for me after ng+ 2
+PhantomFucks eh it wasn't really that fun I do like the connected world but blight town and sens fortress bored me they weren't engaging and left I always left kinda meh after every session.
Your comment near the beginning of the video on Bloodborne being more about being agile and dodging rather than using your shield: That's playstyle. I never play with a shield in the older games because it's more fun that way. From Software just forced you to have fun in Bloodborne :b
snomaN Gaming Agreed. I was lucky enough that my friend introduced me to Dark Souls and told me right away to never touch a shield- Also that I never play tanky / shield builds in any game anyways; So I was already playing that way before Bloodborne came out.
Totally agree. He just played the main story once and doesn't even know about side quest characters. Then there is a actual bigger variation of weapons since they have actually differnces between them and transformed modes + transformed attacks add a lot variaton too. He also probably didn't play the dlc which contains half of the weapons. Also he says he had to farm blood vials because he ran out of them, but ignores to use the other ressource because he doesn't want to learn to parry. Of course you run out of vials if you don't take the risk of attacking to heal back up or using bullets to parry.
@@gargola1887 I personally would say Bloodborne. The Levels are better designed and most weapons in Bloodborne feel unique. Also the fact that they removed shields, leads the player to play more agressive which is much more fun. Bloodbornes DLC is also one of the best dlc's in the world. And the most important thing is that the hunter stuff is just much more cooler, making you feel like a real badass. But you should play DS3 afterwards.
Not to be a contrarianist, but the small boss rooms in Dark Souls made dodging the only viable choice, if you tried. They just did a horrible job telling you the game was designed around you dodging first, blocking in a pinch.
The awesome thing about dark souls though is that it guides you a efficient way of playing. For me this is true for almost everything, except dodging. I blocked everything all the time through both ds1 and ds2. After i had playd ds2 i returned to demon souls were i had earlier failed. I try to use the same block method as in dark souls but the game made me use movements more, and more as i feeled benefited by doing so. in the end i dodged more than i blocked. something i continued for all replays and new games since then. Demon souls also later made me exploit the i-frames to full efficiency. So even if Demon souls is not as good as dark souls, i would say that it is a far better teacher. This may not be true for others though but it is for me.
Strat-Edgy Productions but you don't have to that is the beauty of it you could play it in a multitude of ways and still enjoy the experience which is where it really shines acceptanc3 of how the player wants to play
This is why I firmly believe the souls series is not primarily pvp focused. What keeps a game popular is the story, the nostalgia and the feeling you get when you enter a new/new old area for the first time.
“Not what I’ve known the souls series to be like” Nothing he said is wrong, most people didn’t play Demon’s Souls and most of the people who did agree that estus was a huge improvement over farming for plants. I loved Demon’s Souls but understand that most of the fans didn’t start there, and Dark Souls is THE touchstone.
Really? Is bloodborne that good? I'm a huge souls fan and the idea of of was a big turn off, I don't have a PS4 and haven't played it. PlayStation has all the good exclusives...
Larry Larrys Too bad its PS4 exclusive, were it on PC I'd have baught it by now. I wish I had a PS4, they've got countless games I _desperately_ want to play.
TheTyphoon365 have you played it yet? I've played Demons, DS1 ans DS2 in my PS3 and recently bought a PS4 second hand to test BB and DS3 and... So far I'm loving BB and feeling very very disappointed with DS3... BB is better in almost every way
Bloodborne = masterpiece
Dark souls 3 = masterpiece
Why not just own and love both
Bloodborne is better
@@CrowofYharnam true
@@cpn0415 in your profile picture who's that ? Why it's famous
@@CrowofYharnam Than explain why?
If only your comment had more likes
I ended up buying Bloodborne and honestly it might already be one of my favorite all-time games. Just like Dark Souls 1 did before, it's just got so much different and going "right" for it. And it's one of those games you think about when you're not playing it. Like at work, now.
DelDuio After playing Dark souls 3 for about 500 hours. Bloodbornes weapons and story pve is very very VERY refreshing. Its just plain better.
DelDuio but seriously dark souls 1 will never be forgotten its the best souls game
DelDuio I love Dark Souls and I didn't like Bloodborne, yes, I get past through Cleric Beast, Father Gascoine and Blood Thirsty Beast, but didn't enjoy it anymore after that.
Victor Silva because right after that is the Forrest and then the real game begins as the beasts aren’t the only monsters in these parts, once you reach the edge of the woods the lovecraftian freaks of bergenwerth are awaiting the good hunter
DelDuio hahhaha I'm relieved to hear that I'm not the only one that thinks alot about it while not playing it.
I got Bloodborne for free this week, and just caught Dark Souls 3 Deluxe Edition on sale for $25 on PSN this morning. I'll see you guys some time in 2020.
Update 4/22/20: Never finished either game, made it quite a ways into Bloodborne before I moved on to something else. Appreciate all the likes, had no idea until recently that this comment was in any way popular, lol.
trza49er so? How are they? Having fun?
Haven't started DS3 yet but Bloodborne is great, although I still pretty much suck and haven't progressed far at all. The combat is fun and challenging but so far hasn't felt cheap when I die, which happens a lot.
The frame rates are a tad disappointing, if I had to nitpick. Would be nice to have a 60FPS mode on the Pro, but not the end of the world by any means.
trza49er great man, nice to hear someone having fun in these games
trza49er did you beat it yet?
trza49er yea same i got bloodborne for free cus of ps plus on my ps4 pro and now lvl 174
I just realized that the gane mechanic of regaining HP when you hit an enemy back it actually fits within the story of bloodborne. The blood is supposed to cure any illness, so when you hit an enemy, (which has had some of the ancient blood) it splatters blood on you (possibly on your face and mouth) and it "cures" you a bit.
The blood splater on your open wounds. That's why you can only regain health a short time after getting hit, before your wounds heal.
@@user-pc3nc3hg6w This is so visceral and badass.
I like to believe that its because the blood heals as it entero your wounds, and being more and more agressive for the blood makes you "blood thirsty" for a while and eventually "blood drunk". I think it fits in the hunter's nightmare lore, because you can also heal as you keep slashing through an enemy thats dead and falling for a brief time, making hunters eventually losing themselves in the hunt and the blood.
“Throughout the whole game, it only takes place in this Victorian-like city.” What, so you never discovered the hunters nightmare, nightmare frontier, nightmare of mensis, forbidden woods, byrgenwerth, or the lecture building? Wow.
Don’t forget cainhurst castle
Couldn’t forget that.ولد الورغي
Also, he says shields are useless. They’re good against gun-shots. Boi.
question should be: so you never discovered 70% of the game?
May the Fuhrer of Understanding Guide Us yep.
"Bloodborne ditched the concept of magic altogether in exchange for gunplay."
*_Laughs_* *_in_* *_99_* *_Arcane._*
Nice.
This is called murder
Lol arcane is god
Yes until you see the Satan of a man using arcane bloodtinge build
Arcane and Bloodtinge
"The whole game is very dark" ...it takes place at night.
Alex Kerley and during the dark depressing Victorian era lol
Knowing why it’s dark might help, but the critique remains. If you don’t like constant dark, then you will have an issue
You can just adjust tv brightness and everything is cool
after beating vicar Emilia
@@landrysaathoff2418 It's the night of the hunt, almost every npc in the beginning area references that lol.
In Bloodborne I'm the parry god
In Dark Souls 3 I'm the parry scrub
Same
So damn true😂 me as well
In Bloodborne I only consistently and continuously used parry in the fight with Gehrman, I was more of a dodge master
I’m good at parrying in both. The only time in Dark Souls I cannot parry is when I am in PvP. Usually in Dark Souls though, I can parry just about any enemy that’s allowed to be parried.
@@fillipitibell4646 Damn bro, you gonna flex the screen right off my laptop with that much flexing.
Bloodborne changed my life. It's my favorite game of all time.
bloodornre its really good game but i think its the eaziest of all series
+Χρονης ολυμπιακος I thought dark souls 2 was a lot easier, even demon souls if u played a sorcerer...filthy casuals man they 1 shot flamelurker without any trouble at all, but yeh if u don't play a sorcerer than it is a lot harder than bloodborne
yes you have right ,but when I right that dark souls it is harder from bloodorne i mean not only bossfight but th whole world of souls such as enviroment desigh.Personally, i haven't take the feeling of every time enter in tomb of giants or blightown scares my heart...
i found it to be the exact opposite way around, where bloodborne was the hardest,because they stripped you of your shield, took away the regenerating health vial, had it so you have to do a full charge attack to get a backstab, made the attacks of enemies much faster, more damaging, and with less breaks, and compared to ds3 had much shorter s on roll.
also they didnt have any bosses like the deacons, or many staggerable ones like the abyss watchers.
+Palo Tove i have finished bloodorne in ng+8 including dlc and chalices dungeons and i agree that bloodorne has some hard and annoying bosses but i think that souls games continiue are more hard and punishing for me
Bloodborne isn’t more limited in types of weapons you can use. Every weapon is highly different, they’re basically all their own weapon type. Just because ds3 has more weapons overall doesn’t mean it has more variety when most weapons have 5 or 6 or more weapons that are basically the exact same thing with a new skin doesn’t mean it has more variety.
You also don’t give bloodborne enough credit with level types. It doesn’t just have cityscapes it has lakeside colleges, dark swampy forests, horrible nightmarish realms, snowy castles, the insides of lecture halls. That’s just the main game when you add the dlc there’s a lot more.
Ethan Hudson they have weopon arts tho and alot of bloodbornes weopons are reskins
Nerd pepe the only one I would really call a reskin is the saw spear and cleaver. The kirkhammer and Ludwig’s greatsword all play differently
Ethan Hudson the folks here saying such kinda things like most of bloodborne weapons are reskins, bloodborne has no memorable area, bloodborne has no this and that.. Damn these guys either haven't played bloodborne or are full of jealousy and hatred or are total retarded fools to make such claims. Even the damn video maker sucked at bloodborne and in his every statement his idiocy and ignorance about bloodborne is reflected.
Yeah, I felt he didn't make much of a good argument in those criticisms as they're rendered null by anyone who's explored the whole game.
Nerd pepe not at all
"Bloodborne ditched the concept of magic all together in exchange with gun play" did u even play the game?
That's what I was thinking
Bro it has like less than 10 Spells, including DLC. There are more pure Magic projectiles alone in DS1 than there are spells in BB entirely. If you include Sorcery, Pyromancy, Miracles and Dark, there has to be at least 100 Spells in DS1 and a huge variety in how you build. I love BB but he is absolutely right in saying it feels secondary. If you run a Bloodtinge build, you really only get 1 Spell, and 2 good RH weapons, 1 of which is STR and the other is SKL. The bow is cool too. I usually run a Quality/ARC build but even then the only spells I use are Blacksky Eye to pick people off and Executioner's Glove for actual DMG up close. The most powerful Spell, A Call Beyond, rarely hits how it's supposed to. Meanwhile, in DS1, you can run a MLGS build, a CMW build with a variety of RH weapons, a pure ranged Sorcery build, etc, and that's just one of your magic types.
I cAnT BlOcK REEEEEE
Sean Cone it didn’t ditch magic though i have an OP af arcane player
@@Jordan-up6fy my ARC/quality build is my most OP character too. My HMLS does disgusting damage and I use the Executioners Glove to great effect. But it still is NOTHING compared to my Sorcery build on DS3 as far as combining damage with versatility of options. Using 1-2 spells gets old, so I end up just smashing through enemies with the sword.
Bloodborne changed my gamer life. I was done with gaming till i saw some footage of bloodborne when it was out and instantly i want amazed and bought a ps4 just to play it. It light the inner fire in me. It was a struggle at first to get use to but didn't give up and got better and love the shit out of it. Dark Souls is close behind but bloodborne was special. Something about it made me feel like no other game before. Platinum and 100% the game with dlc and will always hold a special place in my heart. Now i just need a bb2 and my life can be complete
It lit the inner “Bonfire..?”
*Jk Bloodborne is better than Dark Souls any day*
same here stoped playing games for 10 years then i saw bloodborne and bought a ps4 and i have like 20 games already lol
gAmEr LiFe
Dark Souls 3 is good, but Bloodborne is king.
gtfo
is he not aloud to have an opinion???
stfu you virgin
+Estus Chugger lol
+Estus Chugger stay 12
I love how he complains about BB being hard and “unfair” and complaining about how different it is from DS lol that’s the point and its not unfair you just have to figure out a bosses moves
He basically just said that its hard to play the game. Like you have to learn a bosses moves in every game that has bosses.
Imdrowsy lol yah I know but he was saying like it was a bad thing it makes the game so rewarding
This video makes me think he hasn’t gotten past Gascoigne.
I find Dark Souls 3 much harder than bloodborne. Levels and Bosses. On the same day I 1-shotted Vicar Amelia in NG+ , Dragonslayer Armor kicked my ass 20+ times before I got him.
@@airdev3386 That's weird because I find BB much harder. It took me like 20 tries to beat Amelia but DS3 hasn't had me die more than a few times to a boss.
I love Dark Souls 3, but Bloodborne will always be my favorite
agreed!
double agreed!
Triple agreed
quadruple agreed!
quintuple agreed!
Let me show you my favorite moment in the entire game.
*shows footage of Curse Rotted Greatwood*
Did he really?
Oooh 69 likes
I love Bloodborne because I love the 1800's time environment.
Bloodborne's art style is more late 1600's early - mid 1700's. It isn't Victorian as most people think. That's considered to be the gothic period which you can notice in the clothing style and pistol design in particular.
No way. Its 1800s for sure. Have you seen these top hats?
Haha. Yeah mate I'll give you that one! There's certainly a lot of 1800's in there too I guess! It's an amazing gothic horror experience anyway!
Man, 19th century is 1800s ;d
I meant gothic architecture. Much of Yharnam is ripped straight out of Oxford University. It is true that much of it is Victorian inspired but then you also have the more baroque style seen in Cainhurst etc
Clicked on video for comparison. Got a video just on dark souls 3
Your forgot the segments with DS1 and 2. Which makes it even.
@Smallss34 And you sound like an angry fanboy.
@Ben Dover heyy lol
Ben Dover In what way is he being unfair? He literally went too easy on Bloodborne if you ask me. There‘s actually a lot more to criticize. And this comes from a person who got into the Souls series through Bloodborne. Bloodborne may be literally Dark Souls + Coolnes Factor times ten, the combat is better, the designs of pretty much everything are better, the setting is better etc. The bosses? The bosses are plain and simply terrible in comparison to the Souls games especially DS3. The boss fights don‘t feel monumental at all, the first half is just different werewolf variations that try to outscream each other and will most likely oneshot you because of one mistake in their second phase. I shouldn‘t even mention Rom I think. The worst boss in DS3 has more depth and interesting gameplay variation than some of BB‘s best bosses. Bloodborne has some typical RPG elements which simply don‘t fit into a From game at all, touching a head and being told parts of the story through a flashback? Just like in DS2 with the memories, like that‘s the least From Soft thing ever. Interacting with the story indirectly is what makes From games so amazing. The idiotic Lamp system speaks for itself, paired with the fact that YOU HAVE TO farm in the game to even play it makes for an even worse experience. The lores of these games don‘t even deserve to be compared, Frampt being shocked about the fact that the „apparent chosen undead“ managed to retrieve the Lordvessel speaks more than yet another document talking about how Ludwig styled his hair and what kind of food he preferred. (Obvious hyperbole don‘t take it too seriously). Bloodborne is amazing, I love it of course, it‘s better than almost all the games I‘ve ever played, but both Dark Souls games have way more heart than Bloodborne, which feels like it intentionally did everything that Demon Souls did wrong, simply for the fact to be as different as possible from Dark Souls.
Dude straight up ignored me
I hope from software make Bloodborn 2
They are
+Tokeidoesgames !!! And release it on more consoles 😞😭
+The R R No only for PS4. Xbots don't need to play it. They need to switch consoles to play it and remember in the future to never purchase a console owned by Microsoft again
+隠れ変質者 lols PS4 Master console race
Tokeidoesgames !!! Also you do realize that they already revealed that they have no current plans for a Soulsborne game, and instead they'll be working on a new IP and continuing the Armored Core series?
You shouldn’t be talking about how monotonous the combat-blood vial cycle is when you aren’t even utilizing Visceral Attacks in your playthrough. Not only are they easy to pull off, they’re easy to learn as well.
And you could say that they negate switched-weapon combat, but that isn’t true. I constantly switch between my Chikage normal-form to its two-handed variant. It’s all about circumstance in this game, and to knock it because you’re not realizing the weakness almost every enemy has (visceral attacks) is a detriment to yourself. It may be hard to pull of parries, but they work really well, especially in the Blood-Starved Beast fight.
To be honest, Bloodborne isn’t an overtly-aggressive Souls game. It’s conscious risk-taking, I’d say every new encounter to an enemy requires some interesting plan-making and a different approach to how you’re gonna take up the fight. Believe me, I used to be that guy who always used a +10 saw cleaver and specked out Vitality, Strength, and Endurance. Now, after beating the game twice, I’m using arcane and bloodtinge weapons and having a blast.
Point is, don’t call this game’s combat loop unrewarding when it has varied situations with varied gameplay.
Well....
Ganes like this are meant to be played in different ways.
It is Dark Souls that is overly defensive. Bloodborne is more like 50/50 attack-defense.
What? What are you talking about, what the fuck do Visceral Attacks have to do with blood vial farming? He even praised the combat, he just said it’s tedious to farm blood vials every time you have to redo a boss, which it is. The points you made sound literally like you just wanted to randomly defend the game from arguments which were never even made. As if using visceral attacks on trash mobs for farming blood vials would make the farming less tedious, they‘d die to one hit anyways so what the hell man.
@@EpsilonBiatch Use your bloodechoes right and you don't have to farm.
true also you don't need to farm at all just slap on some runes that give more echoes when u slay an enemy or visceral it to death and go buy those things
Also even if you struggle with echoes you could just go to a chalice dungeon since those things give big boi echoes
Personally, Bloodborne is my favorite PVE experience in the series.
+The Dark Mandate Duuude DS3 was seriously lacking in the boss quality section. Like damm.
+The Dark Mandate Yeah in Bloodborne even though the bell system was trash at least it allowed even not-as-good players to deal with ganks
You had so much counters for things in that game available to you: Parrying heals, stunning at will, evading gankers easily, pulling off menacing combos to combat the clueless gankers that walk up to you thinking they're tough shit and more
In DS3 it's not the same case
You invade like 4 people and all odds are immediately against you
Unless you're good at parrying it's hopeless
All you can do is just try to dispatch a phantom or the host but unless you're a really smart person you'll most of the time end up hiding behind enemies which the host can turn on you
Healing isn't a problem for the gankers as once they've killed you they just receive more charges
Healing is super fast with nothing to punish it unless you keep breathing down the person's neck
All in all I just wish they hadn't neglected the PvP of Bloodborne to the point of it being super basic with covenants that are worthless
Game would've been superb for PvP
for me too, what a great game!
I really liked the pve but one thing that ruined it was the lack of weapons, even in the dlc you have to be a high level to stand a chance
gravendanger Didn't mind lack of weapons but lack of attire was a bummer
Here am I in 2018 and still waiting for BB 2 to be announced.
Hell yeah!
From software are working on a game now with miyazaki but it's all secret and very hush hush right now
Doubt there will be a second the way BB came out. But at the same time its not impossible.
Imo BB is better as a standalone and better for multiple expansions over the years. It make sense given how massive the world is. They can continue to build as they did with the Old Hunters world. Maybe something more to do with the Celestials? Plenty of lore that can be tossed in to explain their part further.
Dunno just my two cents.
Here am I in 2018 and I still can't beat the Shadow of Yharnam... :D
Gilbert Tibor Jakub Behold Grasshopper.... the giant rocks are your saving grace... The patient will presevere.
I beat in on my first go treating them like normal hunters. Its all about getting your crowd control and working one to two hits then repositioning. While it is a hard fight, the real challenge is avoiding the stunlocks teamwork.
“The whole game is very dark”
It’s literally an horror game set at night
Also, torches
Also also, lantern
Also also also, game brightness
Also also also also, the fucking massive moon that you could be forgiven for mistaking it with the fucking sun because of how bright it is
@@JadenSanchez6622 it's an rpg with a lot of horror elements. So can be considered a horror game, just not in the classical sense like survival horror games
@@JadenSanchez6622 maybe not in the traditional sense that you see horror games in, but I 100% think that they definitely went for a horror theme. the game has you using lanterns and torches, the game has enemies that are definitely designed to be unsettling and even scary at times (blue eyed mother fucking werewolves), there's unsettling music, unsettling story aspects, jump scare moments even, and I mean, just look at it. its eldritch lovecraftian sorry elements and themes alone, in my opinion, give this a horror aspect.
@Caiden Annetts ask your sister lmao
“Bloodborne ditched the magic for gunplay”
Arcane builds: -_-
I mean you can summon a goddamn tentacle to blast people for Christ’s sake!
Yes, and it’s fucking awesome. Thanks
bloodborne makes the healing items a consumable because you are supposed to use the retaliation mechanic to heal in battle, and only use the items when you are in dire need of healing and already cant retaliate. also learning to stagger enemies with the gun makes it much more easier, as it is a core mechanic.
finally, you should mostly use the two handed weapon for swarms of enemies or to get some extra range if its a monster you dont want to get close to (bloodborne is better played up close anyway imo though).
And that is how bloodborne is played! Bravo
You can but healing items in Bloodborne one solid farming run can net you enough Blood Echoes for easily over 100 blood vials, that's how you're meant to get them. The ones the enemies drop should be seen as a bonus so you can have more than the allotted 20 in one run.
Yup, you'll rarely if ever find a need to farm vials if you make use of the mechanics provided. Even if you did somehow get low on vials, you can literally do a quick sweep of the starting map, get masses of vials drops and spend those blood echos on 100s more. I can't really see a 5min sweep of a starting area any more a pain in the ass than doing the DS version of running all the way back to a bonfire to refresh your estus. I suppose a small improvement I guess they could make is ALWAYS starting you off with maybe 5 or 10 vials? So even if you were to constantly die to a boss and have 0 vials left, when you respawn, you have some back in your inventory, so like a partial estus only when you have none left.
Him admitting he never even tried to get used to the parry mechanic was a sad thing to hear too, it's really something worth learning early on. And agreed with the two handed thing too, especially the axe, it's so much slower when two handed without much extra damage potential, I think your better going one hand and using that extra speed and stam for more dodge and hits. Two hand is great as part of r1/l1 combos though.
I get your point but keep in mind that some use them to refill their health between blood bullet recharges.
Now, while most people have this gamestyle as it is the most effective for the game. Some people don't and just want to enjoy the game the way they do. For example, keep in mind that having more range allows for a wider margin of error especially if you don't know that well boss patterns/master your weapon range and you get a slightly better point of view to see ennemies from max range (negligeable let's be honnest but usefull on small/medium ennemies). So yeah, some people with old DS reflexes would rather not risk getting bashed a second time especially when as he said he first tried a lot of bosses in the second half of the game by playing safe and not using the retaliation mechanic.
Finally, you can store and purchase a shitload of vial to make it a nonexistant problem.
Actually vials are just one of 2 options. If you get hit, the game gives you the opportunity to back off and heal with a ressource that is limited. Or be agressive, take the risk and attack him back to get your hp back. Which decision is the right one depends on the attack the enemy is doing. Is he doing one ore 2 attacks at a time? Attack back. Is he comboing? Dodge towards him to get behind him and now attack or heal. If he AOE's combos, just roll backwards and heal. If the motherfucker is constantly doing long range attacks or just ranged attacks, bro you won't get your attacks in time. Just heal you get vials all the time.
I liked Dark Souls 3 a lot but Bloodborne was a strong hit for me. I couldn't stop playing it for 3 months.
I'm stuck in Cathedral Ward. Have no idea where to go and all the guides are so complicated that I kind of put it down. Gonna come back once I finish Ds3 and it's dlc.
Same here, dark souls is great, but bloodborne is one of the best games ever made. I still cant stop playing 5 years later
@@thesnatcher3616 my PSN is LawyerOfBirdLaw
Add me bro I’ll summon in and help you with any area you wanna explore
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Cathedral ward is pretty simple once you get used to it.
Just explore a bit and kill every enemy. Eventually you'll find your way through.
If you get a lot of echoes you can open a certain gate using a cloth found at the messengers bath that costs 10000... I think...
@@thesnatcher3616 What bosses have you beaten already? Once I know that I can probably give you good enough directions.
The blood vials being a limited item has to do with the lore of the game. The relationship between hunters, beasts and blood. It the same way that Estus, bonfires, leveling up, homeward bones and the undead are an example the the FromSoft effort for seamless connection between gameplay and lore. That's a big part of what separates them from other games, not just that they're challenging with a high learning curve.
Very true. And this sure is amazing and admirable. But the question still remains: did they make the design choice of limited blood vials first, and then create the lore for them, or was it the other way around? The reason this is important is because if they made the blood vial gameplay mechanic first, they might as well had created equally awesome lore connections with an entirely different system altogether.
With this being said, I still have no issues with the blood vial system as it stands, both gameplay and lore wise. It's awesome imo.
They likely would have preferred to use recharging healing like estus, but that mechanic isn't logical in bloodborne's world. The idea with the blood vials is that the whole of Yharnam society is hooked on the blood like a drug, and people carry syringes full of the blood around for when they need a fix. So making them a drop makes sense. I'm sure they tried to figure out a better solution but having them magically refill does not make sense.
It’s a made up world, they could’ve just as easily make an estus like blood vial system make sense.
No matter how you cut it, there’s no way to make running out of blood vials and having to farm for more interesting from a gameplay standpoint.
@@SuperSecretAgentNein Are you serious? Damn near half the beasts I killed dropped blood vials. I had like 200 in storage after a few hours. I NEVER had to farm them.
James Reese the first area of the game where the enemies frequently and consistently drop them, if you had an easy enough time with the bosses and don’t end up running that’s awesome, but for those who do end up hitting that classic “boss wall” and on top of all that need to take a break from attempts just to farm? That sucks. It brings the fun to a screeching halt.
The fighting mechanics are so much better and fun in Bloodborne
YES
Nah
its more fun but its more limited compared to ds3 imo
Nah
True, but for me Sekiro has better fight system
Anor Londo is memorable, because wondrous chests.
And in the first dark souls I remember them bewbs ☺️😎💯
Its for real when it comes to boobs my dude 😂
amazing chest ahead
Try holding with two hands.
1. BB
2. Demon Souls
3. DS
4. DS3
I'm not even gonna list 2.
Hey man, it's my couch!
+Travis Law (TheLawModzz) nostalgia is not an argument, besides blood borne is the hardest of the games.
***** the only part of blood borne I would remotely consider artificial difficulty is the frenzy mechanic. Blood borne has the best weapons, the most exciting combat, and the best story. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's not good. You become a "squid" in the alternative ending because you killed the moon presence and ascended your humanity into godhood, you've become an old one.
***** Dude, first of all, those games were instantly easy for me because of shields, that's why I liked Bloodborne, and go ahead and mention Ludwig. Also going through the defiled chalice reminded me of the Pure Black mode in DeS, which made me happy, but also made me happier because of the new combat system, yes it made killing things swifter, but that's the point of being a badass hunter. Also, you turned into a squid because "SPOILER ALERT" After killing the Moon Presence you decided to ascend into a greatone which is known as a cosmic being, and in order to undo the curse of the greatone which turned everyone mad, you turned in to one by obtaining the insight of the Moon Presence.
+Travis Law (TheLawModzz) psn id?
Bloodborne is a masterpiece
Watermelon dog best game ever made 😎
@@josephkitchen3059 nah
if only bloodborne had more sidequests and covenants
Requiemoooo woooah woooah
Yep I got into the game way too late recently despite owning it since 2016 lmfao. I finally had the patience to play it and even got the platinum trophy for it.
It feels like he didn't even finished bloodborne
WORD. What he’s complaining about seems like whining.
@@coldblizzard5880 he died to the one reborn lmfao
Agreed
nope bloodborne just sucks
@@fineapplejuice0622 come on bro give it another chance, just because you couldn't beat the first boss doesnt mean it sucks.
I don't know why, but I'm far better at Bloodborne than I am at DS. Any of them. As such I enjoy Bloodborne more, it's a challenge for sure but an extremely enjoyable one.
Yeah after playing all the games BB is definitely the easiest, probably because of the faster movement.
@psykosonikwarrior not the defiled chalice dungeon xD
You must play aggressively then
oh, i feel like dark souls 3 is easy compared to bloodborne.. the game is too fast for me
DS3 was much harder for me. And more fun
I actually prefer Bloodborne to Dark Souls 3 for a few reasons. Be warned, there are spoilers below.
Bloodborne brings more "new" ideas to the table than just combat-related aspects. The Lovecraft-inspired lore of Bloodborne adds a significant amount of depth to the plot and enriches the world. The way in which it's presented is genius and especially impactful to those of us who played at release. I remember watching the initial trailers of Bloodborne and thinking, "wow, this looks like a boring Dark Souls clone taking place in a medieval Raccoon City (from Resident Evil)." All we saw was the Hunter battling undead creatures, it was really quite dull by Dark Souls standards. And the beginning of Bloodborne definitely does feel that way. But as you progress further, you start to get little hints of what's really going on. And by the end of the game you're battling otherworldly beings who drive normal people insane with their image alone.
Once you start putting the pieces of lore together, you realize that, much like Dark Souls, just about everything in the game is there for a reason. Even the simplest environmental objects in the game have a lot of meaning beyond explaining the events that are taking place in Yharnam. There's this feeling that you, the player character, are relatively insignificant in the grand scheme of things, especially as you start to piece together what's going. That eventually extends to feeling like Yharnam itself is fairly insignificant, and as you delve further, the entire planet starts to feel relatively insignificant, as you begin to realize that the ancient beings you're dealing with are otherworldly and beyond normal human perception. Then the beauty of the lore and the world really starts to sink in: you have these human beings so desperately trying to "ascend" and comprehend the incomprehensible. As a result, everything they built and worked for begins to crumble as insanity takes over. And you, the Hunter, eventually go toe-to-toe with these celestial beings. I think it actually catches that feeling of progression better than any Dark Souls game before it. I think all of us Souls fans love that feeling of growing as a character and a player. We started off by killing that weak Asylum Demon (or maybe Phalanx for Demon's Souls fans) and by the end of a Souls games we're facing off against gods and ancient horrors. In Bloodborne by the end of the game we're battling Celestial beings who are painted as being impossible to perceive completely, beings that go beyond what we can imagine with our feeble human minds.
Dark Souls 3 has great lore but I feel it relies a bit too much on the first game. It does feel a bit "fanservicey" to me, and sometimes not all that inspired. It's still overall pretty deep but I think for a game whose story relies so much on Dark Souls, I think there could have been far more done either in connecting Dark Souls with Dark Souls 2 or perhaps giving us a far different view of Dark Souls rather than showing us what happened after the events of Dark Souls.
On a different subject, while I do agree with you that Bloodborne's environments can feel a bit too similar, I do think the world itself is more enjoyable to explore and overall feels more expansive. It feels more rooted in reality at the beginning, but once you start traversing some of the later areas and especially the Nightmares, I do think it ends up being just as varied as Dark Souls. Bloodborne could have benefited from more variety in the first half of the game, but I think as far as an overall package goes, you do end up with a lot of distinct environments. There's Yharnam, of course, and there's the snowy castle of Cainhurst, the Lecture Building, Nightmare Frontier, Nightmare of Mensis and Yahar'gul. The DLC adds even more variety with the warped landscapes and the aquatic themed fisherman's village. Also, remember that the world does change after killing Rom, something I think is really cool and reminiscent of Anor Londo if you kill Gwyndolin. The blood-red moon hanging down provides a different glow to Yharnam and gives it a unique atmosphere. Then there's the chalice dungeons of course, of which there are some unique looking areas.
I still think Bloodborne's world is more memorable than Dark Souls 3. You mentioned the shortcuts, and that's a big part of it. But I think the way in which areas are accessed and how it all comes together really does have a lot more impact than even Dark Souls. I really like how getting killed by the kidnapper enemies takes you to a whole new area upon respawning. I love how hidden Cainhurst was. I enjoyed re-traversing older areas under the glow of the blood red moon and eventually making my way to the horrific Nightmare areas.
The world of Dark Souls 3 is awesome, but I will say that I think it does feel sometimes a bit too similar to Dark Souls. I was a bit disappointed by how small some areas are. Take the Consumed King's Garden. I think a lot more could have been done with that. Instead of being this expansive maze filled with unique plant-life, it's a few props with some tough enemies patrolling around that you can sprint by to the boss. I feel like a lot of areas in Dark Souls 3 are very small, especially in comparison to Bloodborne. I remember getting lost for quite some time in the forest in Bloodborne. In Dark Souls 3, I don't think I ever got lost or felt like I was exploring. It's a very straightforward experience.
I know this has been long so I'll make my last point short. I think Bloodborne brought more innovation to combat to the table than Dark Souls 3. Dark Souls 3 has engaging and fun combat, but ultimately it's not too much different from Dark Souls or Dark Souls 2. And that's okay, it really shouldn't depart that much. But Bloodborne really did feel like a fresh experience. The faster pace, the trick-weapons, the lack of shields, the inclusion of guns and timing stuns with guns, it felt VERY different from any of the other Souls games while still retaining that definite Souls combat structure that emphasizes careful response to enemies.
Anyways, love your videos and I think you did a great job with this one. I may disagree but I respect the points you made.
Bloodborne's lore and world is so much better.
I agree with everything you said. I did think that Dark Souls 3 lacked a lot that could have made it unique but instead relied on already established things. I just hope with their next game, they take a new approach like they did with Bloodborne
+Drazor123 well it is a sequel so it is to be expected
As much as I love Bloodborne, there was something about the Great Ones that didn't make me love it... I enjoyed the game, don't get me wrong. I just felt more engaged with DkS' story. It's probably due to the fact that I love big swords and shields, but enh.
Oshiria Your reasons to dislike Bloodborne are the reasons I love it.
You do know that you can just buy blood viles in the hunters dream. And you stock the excess viles in the dream too where you automatically restock.
I thought I liked DS3 more than BB as I couldn’t get into it. But after playing BB fully I am completely admitting that BB is the most incredible unique experience. DS3 is brilliant too but damn BB is so good. 3 playthroughs in and it still keeps pulling me back with more and more secrets missed
Bloodborne was the first Fromsoft game i ever beat....and I played through it twice. LOVE BB.....I tried ds3, but that Quickstep vs roll....gimme Quickstep. All day.
ngl at first when I entered Bloodborn I was disappointed and didn't like it, it was also my very first soul game and I found it very hard but then I kept playing and and getting further in it and now I love the game
Poor Demons Souls always gets ignored
Demon's Souls was the Dark Souls beta. You don't hear people talk about betas, just the refined and finished product.
Scuba Steve I hear demon souls has some of the toughest bosses out there. First game I played in the series. Couldn't even get past the first level and I played 30+ hours.
Flight Never played Demon's Souls, but most people I've talked to say it was easier than Dark Souls and Bloodborne, but harder than Dark Souls 2 and 3.
Nothing is easier than DS2 & BB
If you say so. Most people who have played multiple games seem to say that DS and BB are nearly equal, with DS maybe being a bit harder, DeS being cheap rather than legitimately hard, and DS2 and 3 being almost disappointingly easy. I tend to agree.
“I felt like the bosses at the end were easier then the ones at the end”
laughs in dlc (except the failures)
"this game has guns" *laughs in two handed Hunter axe*
@@buckspoppy9810 laughs in blade of mercy r1 spam
Failures are there to give you a tutorial after that Maria is gonna show you how shitty you are while looking cool asf
Kos and Maria were easier for me than Laurence and Ludwig. Maybe because I'm 150 against Kos and Maria but its easier to read them for me. If it is non DLC, Mergo is easy than most beast type bosses (I suck at them.) For Micolash, the place is hard. I hate Mensis. Same like Kos, the place is harder than the boss (Freakin Shark Giants.)
@@AIIXIII0 same here. Although it was Maria, Laurence, and fishing hamlet that gave me trouble. I was extremely over leveled when facing Ludwig (120) and I was able to tank his long range 1 shot attack (got lucky there). Cannot tell you how many times I died to Laurence or Maria, and I still haven't gotten to Kos yet
I think this review is too biased for nostalgic reasons. I've played both games for the first time this year and both are really good, but bloodborne is a masterpiece.
do what an opinion is
khalil jason do you?
And what stops what you said from being biased? Every opinion is fucking biased.
@@wallacesousuke1433 stfu are you sad cause you are bad at the game
khalil jason I'm not, I'm ok ay Souls games :))
To be honest DS3 is great but there are quite a few things in it that are quite unacceptable and should be improved or rethought
*entirety of game in eternal night* “The whole game is very dark”
To be fair it is a little hard to see at times.
@@thesnatcher3616 use the torch 🤷🏻♂️
@@thesnatcher3616 what brightness you be playing on?
@@idkwtcm984 Max, I think. But more of a subjective issue than anything. I would argue it makes the game more atmospheric. No my biggest gripe with Bloodborne is how spammy it sometimes feels. But that's another subjective issue. I don't really see a lot of problems in Bloodborne.
@@thesnatcher3616 what? I play on half and I can see everything perfectly.
Bloodborne is my favorite game of all-time. However, it introduced me to the Souls series and in turn the Souls games became my favorite game series of all-time. I don't think it matters which individual game is better, each one is amazing in their own right and deserves respect. I believe that when you put the Soulsborne games together, that's the true masterpiece.
Playing bloodborne cost me almost 600$ CAD, since I bought a ps4 only for this game. And I dont regret one cent of it. Bloodborne is a masterpiece. It is a least on par with dark souls if not better.
comeing from an all around gamer.. there is some really good games on the ps4 now.
thetizzle Yeah, since I already bought a ps4, i went ahead and bought The Last of Us remaster, which happen to be very good. And I bought some other game that are just on console. I always been a pc gamer so i was not thinking about these games, but now I'm very happy I get to try them.
Tadlada pate same shit
Tadlada pate The Last of Us became the greatest game I have ever played. Never thought I would put another game over the original Silent Hill games (1-3) but it's right there with them.
and no, I don't consider tlou "survival horror" but its a masterpiece. The telltale TWD series is great too, first season hit my ass hard. But I believe that's on PC also.
But blood vials are super cheap and you can buy a ton no need to grind that much.
Eduardo Tejera exactly. If required, once in a while convert your big stash of echoes into blood vials instead of gear/levels. Boom you're done. No need to think about it for a good long time.
It's great to know in hindsight. But if you die on a boss and have no echoes, it's too late
snomaN Gaming easier to farm echoes tho and then buy vials instead of farming vials directly.
but its still farming :(
This is one of the things that definitly becomes better in a second playthrough. Once you know it's easy to avoid - no farming required, decent stash of vials at all times. But yeah at first it can be annoying.
"Bloodborne has no magic" *laughs in arcane*
Imagine him saying bloodborne has no magic hahahaah
William Barefield Eh, I mean, compared to the souls games, it definitely doesn’t. I love BB, but yeah, the amount of Arcane magic, ain’t really much. Souls games definitely have more magic than BB...
"Bloodborne has no magic" *laughs in arcane/skill build*
The Ancestor Because I am too lazy to watch the entire video, I am gonna say that maybe he didn’t completely neglect it. He’s just saying, compared to Dark Souls it has barely any. Idk.
@@fillipitibell4646 nah fuck this dude
i extremely like both , but i just fell in love with BB , everything about BB just screams atmosphere and horrific elegance , the way it looks and the way it plays and the way it fucking flows , bloodborne consumed me in a way DS3 didnt quite manage .
when i was playing dark souls 1 and 3 i was thinking of bloodborne , yes , that is how good that bitch is
w wyborn It’s subjective. I personally like DS3 much better. I think Bloodborne’s healing system kind of broke the game. Having 20 blood vials is just too much for experienced players. I never died to any of the main game bloodborne bosses more than 3 times, and I don’t mean that as a brag, just that as someone with an inherently aggressive play style, bloodborne was too easy for me. A cap of 10 blood vials would have been perfect because not only would it further incentivize rallying but also be a great cap for experienced players. It also works for new players because they can use the Caryll tunes to increase their max blood vial count to 15, which should be enough. I think Dark Souls 3 is also a bit too easy for experienced players, but the boss fights were much more memorable because the bosses’ move sets were more interesting. It doesn’t help that a majority of the boss fights in Bloodborne are just rampaging, flailing beasts that you can deal with in the same way. Plus I understand what he means in terms of the lack of “settings” in Bloodborne. The theme of every area is too similar. They’re all dark, grey, have tombstones littered everywhere and don’t really ever feel fresh, especially in the early game (with the exception of Cainhurst).
@@curtisscarlos5761 well i died more than 12 to the third boos in the game
@@curtisscarlos5761 ok if u said easy..just play super mario
That bitch is bad...baad i'm playing ds3 now and can't shake that bitch out of my memory...playing the most aggressive play style ever with light armour and no shield...that makes dealing with invaders a pain though 😂
I guess Bloodborne is your first Souls game? I feel the same about Dark Souls 1
“I felt like the bosses at the end were easier then the ones at the start” maybe you just got better at the game forehead
i don't think he's fought the orphan.
Tbh the bosses in Nightmare of Mensis are extremely easy so I understand being disappointed in that, even if I thought their atmosphere/design made up for it. But clearly he didn’t play the DLC because those bosses are absolutely brutal.
shawn lepine literally harder than isshin
Hol Horse club Nah, Orphan of Kos is predictable and you can literally parry him to death if you really wanted to.
Kenny Green orphan is not predictable in your first play through and he’s got some weird timings and on top of that he can combo you to death.
i like bloodborne more, but both game will make you stay in ur room for a few weeks
I just bought blood vials for blood echoes that remained after leveling up.
Yeah you can literally buy blood vials plus they restore once you die so as long as you are smart about it you can always have more.
Yup
I don't think that this guy ever finished game. I haven't finished the game yet (just started) but i can tell you that there are plenty of environments; there are plenty of weapons/gear; you can buy healing pots from the shop.. The list can go on and on
DmChunky he complains about the farming, on the way to the boss you get enough blood vials if you kill everything, and that should be more than enough to win the fight imo
@@iliasrydlakowski1420 well not at the endboss that was soooo annoying
@@iliasrydlakowski1420 True. I only need blood vials against beast type boss, Rom and Ebrietas. I suck against them. When I fought Kos and Maria, I didn't need it much (Maybe because they have two hands and easier to read for me?)
@@Skankhunt668 By the time you reach that part of the game you can buy a ton of vials after a single run through a late game area. It's absolutely not that bad.
@@AIIXIII0 the great/ancient one were all a learning curve and all use acarne magic in there attacks which can insta kill. i remeber being stuck in a certain chalice with amy. however where there is cheese you will find mice basically most bosses had a hardcore appproach or you can cheese them. once i learned amys cheese, micolash's cheese and eribitas cheese i was blesssed. who did you find most challenging?
"Now in dark souls three we have a NEW blue bar for magic."
*Laughs in demon souls*
Approved pfp.
@@hammerite6418 only in the way magic is handled , literallly everything else is better in ds1
Bloodborne is my first Soulsborne game. Trying Dark Souls 1 after that feels like Bloodborne in slow motion.
Oh reaaaaally... BB is also my first soulsborne game (after doing The Surge (a soulslike sci-fi game and Salt & Sancturary (a soulslike side-scroller)). Now I'm looking forward to doing Dark Souls 1 Remastered and hopefully burning through it.
Bb was my second souls game , when I jumped to ds3 , combat felt a bit slow and boring (still loved it), but the speed and anime dodges in bb made it mad good
"You can only have a Max of 20 Blood vials" that means you didn’t go to Hemwick Charnel lane, Iosefkas Clinic, Cainhurst Castle, didn’t encounter 2 bosses, missed a covenant, an entire weapon/armour set and a character questline
Also: guess you didn’t also venture through the Chalice Dungeons (a HUGE part of the game)
All those things are so easy to miss. Those quests and areas are poorly integrated into the game
Some Guy I don’t think you’ve played the game then
Phoenix Zero I did I played it with no guide completely blind and I missed most of those (I think). The only quest line I fully did was the Eileen quest. But like there are so many vague things in the game like how to get to Cainhurst Castle or to losefkas clinic. The game is good but the layout is a such a mess and it’s so vague.
Chalice dungeons were a pain in the ass but worth it for the platinum
@@someguy9496 i totally agree with you. I also wouls have missed a lot, if there were not good guides available. The same for the third ending, the one with the umbilical cords, thank god that there is internet 🙏 bloodborne it s the first gave on which i got a platinum trophy
Loved both of them. I started with Bloodborne as my first "Souls Game" so it has that nostalgia factor ;)
im thinking of getting ps4 soon, this looks awesome, should i get it
definitively. You can get Bloodborne for round about 17 bugs on amazon.
***** yeah i just might get it. im trading my xbox in soon... seems like ps4 has better exclusives
+Ssj .Blurr did you get it? Bloodborne is a fucking masterpiece
T-Raww The GOAT nope, but i got uncharted and the last of us lol
"Pop an ember" Sounds like some kind of drug even though it's not.
He was playing too much Bloodborne
I mean this game is a drug, is it not?
Nick H no.. no its not lol
"Pop an ember" sounds like something a Fortnite player would say
Bloodborne taught me to play aggressively, I had finished all souls games with shield and heavy armor, after bloodborne i went back to those games with just bow and katanas, running around naked and dodging the shit out of everything, it is quite thrilling to say the least and i actually found myself struggling less than before, ornstein and smough, nameless king, for the first time i have beaten them solo
Bloodborne is easy.
Shaun Dennis
Thank you, I am indeed. 😉
Shaun Dennis Bloodborne is only easy once you perfect dodging and the game encourages you to do so but even then getting over run or a first boss fight normally results in death if you lose agressiveness to heal and never recover stance, I've heard DS3 is easier than Bloodborne though so It's also opinion but It's probably easier because Bloodborne taught them how to be agressive and dodge and DS3 followed that styel but also gave you the shield mechanic that's always been there this you could dodge and block.
Fariko Wishless
I played DS3 and became very good at dodging attacks through practise and thereafter began Bloodborne and was alredy great at dodging attacks without putting any effort. Bloodborne's Quick-Step mechanic is more fluent than DS3's Roll mechanic and enemies of Bloodborne usually have lower poise than those of DS3. People find Bloodborne harder because they're not used to dodge. I dodged a lot in Dark Souls 3 and was great at dodging in Bloodborne as a result of that.
tembloroso23 I actually never played a souls game before my friend forced me to try bloodborne. I've not yet used shields, and am never over 70% carry weight. The entire game for me is dodging, and I kind of want to do a knight in shining armour build where i have the best armour and use massive shields all the time
“I never really learned how to parry so I mostly two handed my weapons” sounds like a personal problem, here’s the solution learn.
“Don’t like that the blood vails are consumables cause it makes me grind when I couldn’t defeat the bloodstarved beast” sounds to me like you should have learned to parry him
“No magic” arcane and bloodtinge dude, just cause it’s less doesn’t mean it isn’t there
i have to agree with the second point though. I came from ds3 and the grinding process sucks ass.
when fighting bosses, the process seemed too tedious. when i was stuck at ludwig, i spent more time grinding for the blood vials then actually fighting the boss
@@brianw.2791 yeah that’s one of the few things I didn’t like about bloodborne. Most bosses I was to scared to use blood vials because “hey if I die I’m only limiting my healing in the next try at the boss” it’s exactly what happened with the blood starved beast because most enemies right next to the arena don’t drop blood vials consistently enough
@@brianw.2791 why not just go to a chalice and parry enemy’s to death? Is way easier to just buy them in bulk then to grind for them
He should also have paid attention to Item Descriptions (*Ehem* Pungent Blood Cocktail and Molotov Cocktail *Ehem*) that could've helped him on BSB
@@wtimu6945 A little quick tip
Just use every single Blood Echo on Blood Vials because if you get more than max, they go to your storage
If you die or go back to the dream, it will automatically fill in your Blood Vials, same with the Bullets
It's always strange to me how people started with using shields...
I never liked shields so I learned to dodge.
Maybe it had something to do with piccolo...
😂😂😂
Only reason I use shields is to parry. Other than that I think it's pretty scummy holding up a shield to protect yourself.
That REFERENCE!! 😂😂
Shields; not even once.
At least not for blocking.
DODGE!!!
I liked Bloodborne more.. a lot more depressing and violent
I wouldn't say more violent, but depressing yeah
Atleast more bloody :D
***** I guess you are right, but the story in dark souls is more depressing i think, because even if you link the fire the age of darkness is coming and everyone is going to die
The same is with BB, The nightmare doesnt end
Yea and in my opinion, its harder than ds3 and 2. Not sure about 1, dident play enough of it when I had the chance too.
just can't deny Bloodbrone is so much better.
Its just opinion. I prefer DS3
My theory for why the devs wanted you to farm blood vials when you died is because they wanted you to do what you were there for: hunt beasts. It makes sense storywise so I think thats a cool little detail.
"Bloodborne ditched magic"
- Arcane
- Hunter tools
- Moonlight greatsword
- Milkweed rune
- Kos parasite
Someone forgot.
Only hunter tools can be called magic (in the sense of "spells"). And they are kinda lame compared to the 3 Dark souls.
@@user-pc3nc3hg6w Hunter tools count as the "spells" but "magic" technically also falls under intelligence/faith and the weapons that scale with them with attunement being how many spells you can fire off. Also hunter tools are more companion pieces to your base weapons. Except a call beyond... That's a straight up DS1 level spell... Like dark bead in damage potential with a slightly longer wind up and outward spread.
@@fizzie6902 Yeah, but I think that's what he meant when he said there's no magic.
Ah yes, the space broccoli
3 of these are in DLC, and arcane spells are just a waste of quicksilver bullets.
Dark souls: Praise the sun!
Bloodborne: Praise the Moon.
Dark souls: Slow and defensive.(relatively)
Bloodborne: Quick and aggressive.
Ive played all of the dark souls games for a couple years now and i dont think i have ever blocked an attack, Why block an attack if you can dodge out of the way?
Dark souls 3 is definitely not slow and defensive, it’s also not as fast as bloodborne.
Did this guy ever play ds? Lmao
Adam Chahbani compared to bloodborne it is slow
@@yodathemassshooter5161 The blackbird is also slow compared to light.
For the complaint about blood vials:
If you collect more than twenty, I'm pretty sure they go into storage, and will automatically be pulled out when next you die.
5:08 LOL you were too op if you killed micolash like that
Or mabey he was so so bad that he run away a second time lol
BB introduced me to the souls series so it'll always have a place in my heart
CrashesCripplingDepression luckily its arguably the best in the series. Everything else will seem easy
my only problem is getting into DS 3. since I only played BB, I'm still trying to figure out when to use shield and when to dodge in DS
Charles Tabing I also finished Bloodborne a while ago and started dark souls 3 I never use the shield that made the gameplay a lot more fun than it would've been if I used shield I two hand all my weapons which is much more effective also (just ditch the shield)
8:07 "But now in Dark Souls 3 we see a *brand new* bar at the top, for our magic"
**ehem**
Demon Souls did that first...
I guess but Kings Field would be the original who used magic bars first.
aaaand, if you actually went ahead and watched the video, you would know he did not play Demon Souls.
:) - But you're right, he needs to check facts first, before he states them to us..
sergiocast345 don't think he played demons souls
Kaci Zeigler When I said it did so first, I meant that it did so first in the Souls series.
And surely enough the magic bar would count as *new* since DS2 didn't have it, but not exactly as *brand new*.
Also don't be so fucking rude the next time, thanks.
Actually he said at the end that demon souls is the only game that he never played, so thats why i think he didn't know about it.
Bloodborne was my first. Absolutely stunning game, perhaps one of my top 10 games ever. Dark souls 3 was a wonderful game, that at it's peak rivaled bloodborne. Knight Gael, is my favorite fight period. More than anyone in bloodborne, the world was less dark, and much nicer. But bloodbornes mechanics were better, and overall just more enjoyable for me.
@@wallacesousuke1433 Have you even played these?
Monkey D Luffy yes, I did after making that comment and completely changed my views on Souls games... They're amazing xD
@@wallacesousuke1433 Glad to hear it.
Monkey D Luffy yep, lesson learned: never judge a game w/o trying it first xD
@psykosonikwarrior Don't understand how it's limited when nearly every weapon in the game plays entirely different, even the saw cleaver and saw spear play completely different in their second form and they're the most similar weapons in the game.
Compared to DS3 most of the weapons are just reskins withe slightly different ranges, and the armor might be more diverse but you end up wearing whatever doesn't make you fat roll and gives you better stats. BB has less but none of the stats on the clothing matter so you can dress up however you want which makes BB more diverse in terms of how you want to look.
Level design in Dark Souls always made it feel like a check list to me, like here's the token fire, ice, poison levels that ultimately makes the game feel less connected, while BB had a strong theme going for it the whole way through with tons of care put into the design of the city and how it related to the lore, along with a great lovecraftian cosmic horror vibe.
The only reason I think BB is easier is probably because youre way faster than in any of the DS games and it rewards being agressive, instead of sitting behind a sheild or waiting your turn. Also, how is it more streamlined? It's a Ps4 exclusive, less people know about it than Dark Souls.
Did you actually “play” Bloodborne or just “played” 2/3 of the way and said “ I’ve seen everything
You know, just because someone doesn't like your videogame as much as you do, doesn't mean that person didn't "really" play the game. What a childish way of thinking
@@doktorwollknaul443 the guy didn't know about magic in bloodborne. He said that they ditch the magic in exchange for guns, which is completely incorrect because of arcane build.
@@lordofolimpia1 oh, i´m sry. i forgot. the arc scaling boom hammer is what i think of when i talk about magic. a giant exploding sledgehammer. ofc that's only one example. then there are hunter tools. hunter tools legit use BULLETS. you know why? cus gunplay is the bigger focus in BB than fcking magic. there is a reason there's no mana or arcane meter for your "spells". you are a hunter. you´ll never be anything else but a hunter. no matter how you´ll build, you´ll never end up as a mage. you know why? cus they kinda ditched the concept of magic. arc scaling is not the same as magic builds and hunter tools aren't magic. they are tools. would you consider throwing a molotov magical? i mean, you throw it, it explodes, fire spreads. great spell. or the flamethrower wich scales with arc? amazing burning hands spell. don´t be so butthurt just cus someone didn´t like the game you liked a lot. they ditched the concept of magic. cus slinging spells around in BB would be fcking weird. he was 100% correct on that and you´re just looking for ways to discredit him cus your feelings got hurt cus someone didn't like your game :(
@@doktorwollknaul443 you seem like the person who didn't play the game with an arcane build. molotov cocktail and sledgehammer is not the "magic" type. Search the broccoli man in bloodborne and you'll understand what I'm talking about.
@@lordofolimpia1 u mean the kos parasite with the milkweed rune? again, how could u ever consider this to be a traditional magic fighting style.
molotov cocktails legit scale with arc. are you serious? i´m starting you think u didn´t even "really" play the game with an arc build. then again, you get buthurt over someone not considering slaping someone with alien tentacles magic.
The Anor Londo reveal was awesome but when I realized it was already over after Aldritch I was profoundly disappointed. It's just the one spot outside the cathedral that you've already seen, when I saw "Anor Londo" appear on the screen I got excited because I thought I was about to explore other parts of the area I never got to see in Dark Souls 1.
Ngu Mi'gogl I was actually super disappointed before I even got the text because I looked around Irithyll and noticed 'oh, its like 5% of anor londo... oh look, theres the cathedral... goddamnit...'
Ds2 had “Old dragonslayer”, which was Ornstein except he seemed corrupted, having dark magic instead of lightening.
I wish instead of having Aldrich there, they would’ve place Aldrich somewhere else and instead kept Smough and made him mutated/corrupted, bringing “Old Executioner” or something along those lines. Especially since the Lore is that he didn’t abandon his post like Ornstein did. Also having burnt out bonfires both outside Gwynevere’s room and Gwyn’s tomb would’ve been amazing.
Isnt this what irithyll was though, this time we were in the actual city streets or whatever
Blazzered if you look closely at the mid quarter of Aldritch you can see part of smoughs hammer
Aldrich is the devoured of Gods and Gwynnith is absorbed by him... that’s why it’s brilliant and horrific. Aldrich was one of the best momenta
I've only played Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 and for some reason I find DS3 bosses extremely easy compared to BB's :/
The dancer??
because they are. Try Ornstein and Smough from the 1st Dark souls they will kick your ass.
+hani The Dancer is a really easy boss fight actually, she does a lot of walking around without attacking and telegraphs her attacks quite clearly, keeping an eye on your stamina and her attack patterns, she is a very easy boss.
after playing through Dark Souls 3, I went back and played Dark Souls for the first time....Beat Ornstein and Smough within an hour. Some bosses took me HOURS to beat in Dark Souls 3. O & S are tough but for me personally, I feel there are at least 3, maybe as many as 5 bosses in DS3 that are tougher than those assholes. But everyone else played DS first so they have that nostalgia/extreme difficulty memory that makes them a bit biased. Having played through Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 and am now nearing completion of the original, I can honestly say the original ranks 3rd in difficulty for me out of the 3.
In fact, the only part of Dark Souls that offered anywhere near the frustration/difficulty as I had with the Twin Princes, Pontiff Sulyvahn, Ludwig, Gehrman and Orphan of Kos is probably the Crystal Caves and of course Blighttown. The invisible paths are complete horse shit and the boss fights in those areas are atrocious. In fact, most of the bosses in the original are either unmemorable and underwhelming, terribly designed, borderline boring or straight up easy. I died around 250 times in Dark Souls 3 on my first playthrough. Bloodborne, including DLC, I'd say 300+ times, seeing as I did the DLC on NG+. I'd say up until having 3 bosses left in Dark Souls, I died less than 100 times. I'm not denying that the original is a great game or that it is difficult. It is. I still have enjoyed it immensely and the way the game is designed, i.e. interrconnectivity and seamlessness, is astounding and the music is second to none. But having played Bloodborne, a near perfect game, and Dark Souls 3, a perfect marriage of Dark Souls and Bloodborne, before the original, I just don't have as high of an opinion of Dark Souls as most of the nostalgic fanboys in the community have. Don't even get me started on DS2. I despise that game. And before anyone starts talking about PvP, I couldn't care less about it personally. I don't like competitive multiplayer in any games. I'm a single player/cooperative gamer at heart.
Bloodborne is THE game that can teach anyone how to like and play Soulsborne games.
That's how I got to into them
Trash game
“You can only use 20 blood vials” so I’m guessing you haven’t played long enough to get runes bud?
When I played dark souls 3 and saw Anor Londo after 6 years seeing it again made me tear up
i never really blocked in dark souls. i guess i prefer fast paced combat so thats how i played even prior to bloodborne
SUCKMANOSE I thought I was the only one who didn't use shields
SUCKMANOSE Same, I started with dark souls 3 and about halfway through (excluding Pontiff) I gave up on shields and learned to dodge. Just started Bloodborne last week and combat feels very similar.
TheChickfilacowz actually I take what I said about shields back when I was in dark souls fighting the tintite demon having a shield helped me dodge his attacks and when I was in darkroot garden using a shield helped me against those giants especially aginst those plant Monsters
My creation, don't you have more beasts to slay? xD
USW It's hard to find beasts to slay now cus they all fear the name SUCKMANOSE!
Blood borne is the best in bloodsouls
I too love grinding for healing items for a few minutes only to get to practice against the boss for a couple. And the fact that there was one color palette.
The game is easy going back through and on NG+, especially with parries, but you can't say you didn't farm healing items on certain bosses in the beginning. After a while it wasn't necessary but I fought some of the hardest bosses in the game only in NG+ (because I didn't do them the first time, DLC, etc) and I had to farm some because I had used them all for whatever reason. It's much more pleasurable the 2nd time through but I played the BB playstyle (aggressive) in DS1 and 2 before this because it's the easiest way to play. Just saying, it's unnecessary to have the healing items as consumables you have to acquire when estus style items are perfect already. They just tried to reinvent the wheel; it works well for the bullets, however, especially when you can hurt yourself for more. Healing is also incredibly fast in BB which only makes the game easier.
However, I do absolutely love the music and some of the NPCs and the way weapons change. Other than that, I do prefer my high fantasy DS games. And they are more colorful, actually. Look at the settings in the game and then look at the settings in BB. Colorful doesn't just have to mean palettes, although they have a wider range of those, too.
The only time i've had to farm so far was that fucker on the gattling gun royally fucked me several time when I was fighting the hunter-of-hunters, or whatever that thing was called. It countered my playstyle (kirkhammer transform attack, strong attack, transform attack ect.) completely and drained all of my vials.
I can only compare Bloodborne with Demon's Souls. I like the gameplay mechanics and music more in Bloodborne, but fuck do I hate how everything looks the same. Without a minimap I just felt lost and actually looked up things online just to find which location to go to next. It feels bad, since I almost never cheat in games :/
4:15 git gud, scrub
Add “scrub” to that sentence so it could be “Git gud, scrub”
Bruh when I first play this game I suck but I got good after keep playing over and over
@@cottony4dr LMAO he took ur advice
Cringe
@@cottony4dr how dare you give him cringe advice
In all the clips of BB he has more than 1 blood vile when he dies and when he said no magic in BB I got so triggered
The Game feels the same at EVERY FUCKING PART. THE HOLE of THE GAME IS AN BEAST BOSS OR AN BORING GANK.
@@w.s.7567 beat the game mate then talk
@@gregoryc6656 Yeah i beat every boss and played with moust of the weapons.
@@w.s.7567 but the whole point of the game is to take part in the hunt where you hunt beasts :d
@@gregoryc6656 But its still boring and ganky I mean Beasts can be very cool but why do they reuse the same beasts over and over again?
Bloodborne gameplay is my favorite, I love the fast pace
This review just starts biased in general. I don’t trust this review
Yeah agreed, this vid. didn't give bb enough credit wayyyy too biased.
That's why you get both games
No such thing as an unbiased review. But I don’t think this guy really understood Bloodborne at all. The fact that he talked about never using parrys despite them being really easy to pull off on giant enemies/other hunters shows that he really didn’t put enough effort into learning the games systems. He wanted to play it like Dark Souls but the game actively encourages you not too
Agree . This isn't a real review. Sounds like he's never played bloodborne
Yeah, his bloodborne review was so eh and then when he got to dark souls he got super excited about it
Bloodborne was my introduction to the souls formula and any souls like game I've played, I played it the was I did in bloodborne. Hoping for a bloodborne 2 some day, maybe on ps5.
"bloodborne lacks settings"
hahaha, alright then. beat the game before you review it
also, you dont understand anything about the lore of these games, stop pretending to. "this boss eats other bosses!"
he didnt kill them, hes the survivor of what did kill them.
Ouch, salty. I'm currently playing Bloodborne. Doing Chalice runs before finishing. Definitely lacks settings.
Oh my god guys I think that theres a word called subjective you don't know.
Dark souls 3 not only lacks setting but originality aswell soo many things are just ripped off from DS 1 Bloodborne has the strongest setting in the entire series though
@@نونيم-ي4ح Eh not realy Ds3 settings were amazing but feeled in many areas wery cold and grey and while Bloodborne has very detailed areas the all felt very ganky anoying and in general you were always in an dark Building or Street. But I liked ds3s more because at least the areas felt special.
Bloodborne introduced me to souls game and I only picked it up because the gothic atmosphere of it was very compelling to me. I've played Dark Souls 3 as well, but the former is just so much more fascinating. It's definitely easier than DS3, but it also feels more original.
Tabish Arif not easier, it's more fair and balanced.. I just started playing both and I'm utterly disappointed with how lame and broken DS3 is.. Enemies are too fast and aggressive whereas ur char is slow and clunky, attack animations look weight-less and cartoonish, enemies have endless stamina, insane tracking and poise/hyperarmor.. Bloodborne is way better, even though I'm kinda of a Souls guy
@@wallacesousuke1433 Enemies always had infinite stamina tho
DaugSteel 1 in Demons Souls I feel like they really had infinite stamina, whereas in DS1 and DS2 enemies kinda take breaks inbetween combos (except Gwyn, he's always on crack and adderal lol)
@@wallacesousuke1433 dude you sound like you're just trash, git gud.
Bdubzs PVP lol pathetic bitch full of herself showed up to deliver the usual "git gud".. Just so ya know, I have DS3 almost beat by now, days ago I beat Midir, Nameless and Gael in the same day :)))
Bloodborne is almost beaten as well, I have only Gherman, Orphan, Laurence and Moon Presence left to finish my first playthrough
Stop this, this are both great games
If everyone could think like that, there will be no better shits. What a way of idiot thinking man.
ZFF-NOKOS I disagree.. I started playing both BB and DS3 (after having beaten the 3 previous Souls games on my PS3) and I can confidently affirm that Bloodborne is better in every way.. Better pace, better mechanics, better combat, better animations, better world and level design, better lore... DS3 is so disappointing, enemies are on adderall all the time, pulling endless combos at you while your char is as slow as in previous Souls games.. Swinging your swords suck, the weapons have no weight at all, not to mention the complete absence of poise and insane tracking and roll catching enemies have..
Just bloodbourne.
Purely subjective if either of them is good.
I like playing co op while playing games.
In my 30+ hours of dark souls.. It is never ending invasion.. One after another..
Zero fun.. I stopped playing.. Went to bloodbourne.. And i never looked back..
@ZFF-NOKOS But i like arguing about things. I think its fun and really intersting comparing different things with each other.
@ZFF-NOKOS Nobody's arguing. The video is a comparison that's sparking a friendly debate.
7:45 'more opportunity to succeed'. Agreed. That's also a good way to say 'it makes it easier' lol
I like having consumable health items as it gives your decisions more weight.
Can't have that, cuz naive people want to get spoonfed on gitting gud.
For me personally:
BB: best pve, graphics
DeS: need to play more
DS1: best world design, lore
DS2: best pvp, covenants
DS3: best...um...Final boss? I dunno.
Still love Dark Souls 3 though :D
I'd say that DS3 had the finest fan service amongst the series. The final boss, the lore implications with the Namesless King, etc.
Dark Souls 3 is still garbage though. The game's fun but the lack of poise, decent weapons other than Dark Sword, Estoc, Fume Greatsword and Twin Prince's Greatsword (in some cases other weapons for one-shot builds and such) difficulty as you go into NG+'s and practicality of Armor (due to no poise) I would prefer Bloodborne any day.
And keep in mind, other weapons can be used ofc, I myself usually go with Onokiri and Ubadachi without any bleed build or whatever and it works fine. But the best ones are listed above.
+Link Hyrule People are allowed an opinion. I think dark souls 3 is an amazing game
You should really play Demon's Souls if you haven't already, it may be old, but it absolutely holds up and is one of my favourites in the series.
Yeah I really want to but I don't have a PS3 :( I hope they do some sort of remaster or something
its worth finding a cheap PS3 solely for that game
Demons Souls is supported on the PS3 emulator. Just do it already.
you need a super high-end computer then tho
Then buy one! I did too and it was absolutely worth it! demons souls is a jewel:D
Love dark souls, but bloodborne is an unforgettable experience. I got bloodborne themed tattoos for fucks sake
“Brand you bar for magic”
*laughs in Demon’s Souls*
Eh bloodborne is the better game for story and creativity also the expansion was a lore explosion along with the epic trick weapons. Ahem sorry for praising ds3 got boring for me after ng+ 2
Agreed. they need to add more ncp to the mix or various different encounters.
bb might be better than ds3 but it will never be better than ds1
+PhantomFucks in my opinion I disagree it's my least favorite souls game gameplay wise .
+The Good Hunter why gameplay wise it's the predecessor of the modern soulsborne series
+PhantomFucks eh it wasn't really that fun I do like the connected world but blight town and sens fortress bored me they weren't engaging and left I always left kinda meh after every session.
Your comment near the beginning of the video on Bloodborne being more about being agile and dodging rather than using your shield: That's playstyle. I never play with a shield in the older games because it's more fun that way. From Software just forced you to have fun in Bloodborne :b
Yeah, and I think it improves the whole series once you learn how to play like that
snomaN Gaming Agreed. I was lucky enough that my friend introduced me to Dark Souls and told me right away to never touch a shield- Also that I never play tanky / shield builds in any game anyways; So I was already playing that way before Bloodborne came out.
you didn't play Bloodborne long enough, this review is so clueless it hurts.
Totally agree. He just played the main story once and doesn't even know about side quest characters. Then there is a actual bigger variation of weapons since they have actually differnces between them and transformed modes + transformed attacks add a lot variaton too. He also probably didn't play the dlc which contains half of the weapons. Also he says he had to farm blood vials because he ran out of them, but ignores to use the other ressource because he doesn't want to learn to parry. Of course you run out of vials if you don't take the risk of attacking to heal back up or using bullets to parry.
Why should I play bloodborne over dark soul 3?
@@gargola1887 Play both
@@SgtYTube well i need to pick one ..so please tell me which one is better
@@gargola1887 I personally would say Bloodborne. The Levels are better designed and most weapons in Bloodborne feel unique. Also the fact that they removed shields, leads the player to play more agressive which is much more fun. Bloodbornes DLC is also one of the best dlc's in the world. And the most important thing is that the hunter stuff is just much more cooler, making you feel like a real badass. But you should play DS3 afterwards.
Not to be a contrarianist, but the small boss rooms in Dark Souls made dodging the only viable choice, if you tried. They just did a horrible job telling you the game was designed around you dodging first, blocking in a pinch.
The awesome thing about dark souls though is that it guides you a efficient way of playing. For me this is true for almost everything, except dodging. I blocked everything all the time through both ds1 and ds2. After i had playd ds2 i returned to demon souls were i had earlier failed. I try to use the same block method as in dark souls but the game made me use movements more, and more as i feeled benefited by doing so. in the end i dodged more than i blocked. something i continued for all replays and new games since then. Demon souls also later made me exploit the i-frames to full efficiency.
So even if Demon souls is not as good as dark souls, i would say that it is a far better teacher. This may not be true for others though but it is for me.
Strat-Edgy Productions but you don't have to that is the beauty of it you could play it in a multitude of ways and still enjoy the experience which is where it really shines acceptanc3 of how the player wants to play
Jonathan Lindström demons souls is better then ds1 in ways especially difficulty but it's fair to you
Cole R
In good game design it is teached you without being annoying.
Dark Souls doesn't do that at all. That is bad.
Strat-Edgy Productions Except Gael boss room! :D
This is why I firmly believe the souls series is not primarily pvp focused. What keeps a game popular is the story, the nostalgia and the feeling you get when you enter a new/new old area for the first time.
“Not what I’ve known the Souls series to be like.”
That’s how the series started in Demon Souls, health as a consumable. So ignorant it seems.
He thinks BB is dark souls. What a idiot
“Not what I’ve known the souls series to be like”
Nothing he said is wrong, most people didn’t play Demon’s Souls and most of the people who did agree that estus was a huge improvement over farming for plants.
I loved Demon’s Souls but understand that most of the fans didn’t start there, and Dark Souls is THE touchstone.
I can tell the nostalgia factor greatly affects this review.
and the ps fanboys greatly affect the comments
@@shrekonion7032 dark souls III is on ps4 lmao
@@ZerolinGD but its not exclusive.......... meaning its on xbox, meaning ps femboys
@@shrekonion7032 Do you hate Bloodborne?
@@vlone2212 no its my favorite, I'm just tired of people bashing dark souls tho
Really? Is bloodborne that good? I'm a huge souls fan and the idea of of was a big turn off, I don't have a PS4 and haven't played it. PlayStation has all the good exclusives...
Bloodborne is great. Though I will admit I love dark souls so much more. But damn, bloodborne is an amazing game.
Larry Larrys Too bad its PS4 exclusive, were it on PC I'd have baught it by now. I wish I had a PS4, they've got countless games I _desperately_ want to play.
It's one of those games that's going to age pretty well. So even if you don't get to play it for awhile, you'll still thoroughly enjoy it when you do.
Larry Larrys nice! Good to hear
TheTyphoon365 have you played it yet? I've played Demons, DS1 ans DS2 in my PS3 and recently bought a PS4 second hand to test BB and DS3 and... So far I'm loving BB and feeling very very disappointed with DS3... BB is better in almost every way
Bloodborne is definitely my favourate souls game.
wtf
Bloodborne all fucking day
Sir Potato git gud
Fuck u and ur Bloodborne
“Going through a fog wall might lead to a horrifying boss fight”
*shows iron golem*