Fappy said:
I don't feel the combat system is nearly that good though. I was wanting Dark Souls to have combat where every action mattered and had to be thought out due to the stamina system. I quickly found out that I never really had to concern myself with how much stamina I had. With that management out of the game, the combat is extremely simplistic and rather repetitive. Plus, the controls could definitely be better.Digi7 said:
At least so far in Bloodborne (I've only beaten 2 bosses) there's a decent amount of enemies that are worth parrying with the gun. If I choose to not parry, it takes me quite a bit of hits to kill them so chances are I'll probably get hit if I choose to play it safe just dodge and use normal attacks. Dodging has its own risks to begin with whereas shielding is much much safer. The enemy having less attacks on you means less chance of one of them landing. Taking out the bigger, stronger enemies faster is in fact less risky IMO. I played a completely dex-based character (always at 25% weight to roll the fastest) in Dark Souls and I could block just about any enemy's attack, plus I'd be at full stamina after the attack since I'd lower my shield between strikes. Why would parrying ever be a viable option if I'm trying to not die?Casual Shinji said:
Because I could block everything with something like the spider shield. I'd hate to see how awesome the big shields were when my small shields were already so awesome. You almost always had the choice to fight 1v1 in Dark Souls. I could completely block the knight's triple sword attack and most bigger enemies even (most boss attacks as well). The game shouldn't have allowed me to block that stuff with the character I was and the shield I was using. Enemy mages were few and far between and the shield would still block magic decently well IIRC, especially when I got the crest shield.
Oh, you mean that combat engine that has you use the same three attack animations to kill everything in the game?Digi7 said:
Well, it does largely come down to perspective, and likely the sheer gap between the two ends of the spectrum between those who don't care for this game, and those who really, really enjoy it. From your perspective, the fact that people consider it to be exceptionally fantastic is nonsense. From the perspective of others (myself included, to be honest,) it's the fact that you don't consider Bloodborne good that seems a fair chunk of nonsense in and of itself. =Phybridial said:
Meh. Like I said, it's not to everyone's taste. I admire the simplicity and purity. The combat system has basically everything it needs and nothing more.hybridial said:
Glad you're enjoying it.JagermanXcell said:
You also need to take Youtube's poor handling of fps/video quality into account. But yes, if you do watch some really good streamings of the game, I can confirm to you that you're right in that Old Yharnam does have issues online and off. Great area, but it needs to be put through the patch ringer indefinitely.Ishal said:
Youtube amplifies the frame rate issues. I've seen a couple of videos too, and they look way worse than when you're actually playing it.Ishal said:
Did you go through the entire game like this? So you circle back-stabbed Ornstein and Smough, casually blocking their attacks with the spider shield?Phoenixmgs said:
What is your Vitality? There are some instant kills in the game, but not many at all unless you have meager HP to begin with.Benpasko said:
Likely a bug with the recent PSN update. If you ever suspend the software and put the console in rest mode it breaks online until you reboot the software. Try that and see if you can find people.
These guys play off Lovecraft lore. That giant hit that is instant killing you? That's your Frenzy meter filling up because you have spent too much time looking at them and going insane. The best strategy for these guys is to wear Frenzy resist gear (optional) and zerg them hard. If the meter gets close to filling use a Sedative which cures your Frenzy. Also keep in mind that the more Insight you have the more vulnerable to Frenzy you are. These guys really aren't so bad once you figure them out and my character had enough Vitality to survive one Frenzy hit at around 50 Insight.
I am pretty sure DS1 had really cryptic stuff too, it's just that this game is brand new so people haven't figured it all out yet.
Why does every Dark Souls fan have to big up Ornstein and Smough? Just because there's a few enemies my dex character couldn't block well, that makes everything OK? My character shouldn't be able to fully block any enemy's attack that is stronger than me. For example, the knights and crystal golems, I shouldn't have been able to block. That's what a strength character with big shields should be able to do. The fact is outside of a few rare enemies, I can use the same strategy (that I shouldn't be able to use to begin with) to beat basically every enemy. Different enemy types should force different strategies on the player like any other good combat game. And no, I didn't circle strafe every enemy because that takes too damn long. The fact that I was able to block pretty much anything and be a full stamina afterwards makes the game super easy as having the safety of being able to block without fear of losing health is HUGE.Hugga_Bear said:
But that's what I hate about Bloodborne, the one play style. There's no variation. You either run STR or DEX now. Sure shields are gone but armor is basically useless too. The first armor you're able to find replaces your starter and there's very little reason to change that out. And since guns are useless for anything besides the parry mechanic why use them for combat, especially since you have a smaller ammo pool. Since spells aren't in the game along with the fact that anything arcane based takes forever to get a hold of, why try to run that UNLESS you want to gimp yourself.Phoenixmgs said:
