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 Bloodborne is a Playstation 4 action RPG co-developed by From Software (Demon's Souls, Dark Souls) and SCE Japan Studio. You take the role of a wanderer making a pilgrimage to Yharnam, an ancient city known for its healing remedies. Yharnam has been blighted by a horrific illness that causes its residents to become monsters, and the people that remain engage in nightly hunts to kill the beasts. The settings are Victorian in nature, and combat differs from the Souls games with the inclusion of rudimentary guns, and a more active approach to enemy encounters. Development began shortly after the completion of the Dark Souls "Artorias of the Abyss" DLC, with Hidetaka Miyazaki as director. Release Date (2015): March 24 (US), March 25 (EU), March 26 (Japan), March 27 (UK/Ireland) Official Sites: US | JP         Gameplay IGN 2015 - Story Trailer IGN 2015 - First 18 Minutes IGN 2015 - New Boss Spoiler IGN 2015 - Character Creation PSX 2014 - Chalice Dungeon TGAs 2014 - Co-op Gameplay (Boss Spoiler) Network Test Alpha 2014 - All Weapons Gamescom 2014 - Gameplay Trailer Gamescom 2014 - Demo Playthrough Pre-E3/TGS 2013 Leaked "Project Beast" Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G203e1HhixYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmnGHp-NXuk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Crk_GpxGQEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5o8jwqKsDE Watchword GOONHUNT Goonborne PSN IDs (post in thread with ID to get added) PSN ID [SA forum name] pelvispinata [a harpy] sjackson12 [actionjackson] joe124013 [alansmithee] SeeMoreBears [Annoying Reveler] Drunkenengr [Anti-Hero] Azubah [Azubah] richardgatsby [Bogart] BreakAtmo [BreakAtmo] MartianHideEgger [BugBlatter] UltimateZAR [CharlestonJew] Demicol [Demicol] Dialgadude [DialtheDude] dontaht [dontaht] Robotisize [DrCthulhu] Hidolfr [Dzus] NotECEC [EC] Nexypoo [ecavalli] Kaje1980 [Floridiot] LotusGramarye [Genocyber] AxeFace [HairyManling] HaitianDivorce94 [HaitianDivorce] ProfVideogames [Harrow] DoctorKinbote [InnercityGriot] KingleyZissou [jtr] Sacrelicious_ [koshmar] Lafwanda [Lafwanda] kittypoptart [LawfulWaffle] Halgreth [Mr E] MrLonghair [MrLonghair] TheOriginalZDog [MZ] foxmedik [Nostalgia4Butts] mrhorrifying [NotAnArtist] EffEmmEll [OxMan] Cbouncer [RatHat] mera_mendacia [Real hurthling!] RealSovietBear [RealSovietBear] silkhorn [redreader] DeathShiki [Sakurazuka] Seiferguy [Seiferguy] Nos3ySA [Stringbean] Theradis [Tamayachi] An1m3w33dL0rD [The Crooked Warden] bl_4u [TheMostFrench] acanthocybium [THE PENETRATOR] thePope [Tokyo Sex Whale] icyfuzz [turtlecrunch] PolypPaul [Watrick] yoyadota [Yoya] SpacePrez [Zaphod42] Pre-Release FAQ Q: Is this more like DMC/Bayonetta than a Souls game? A: No. Souls' tactical combat remains in full effect, and if you charge straight into enemies mashing buttons, you will die. Guns are accessory weapons that allow you to stun and stagger enemies, and melee weapons will still be your main source of damage. There are no signs yet that the player can use any form of magic in Bloodborne. Q: Is this coming to PC? A: No. Sony is co-developing, so Bloodborne is exclusive to the PS4 console. Q: What is the target resolution and FPS? A: 1080p/30fps. Q: Will there be DLC? A: Unknown. There will be no release-day DLC. Q: What editions are there of the game? A: In the US: standard and collector's (steelbook, artbook, digital soundtrack) only. Outside the US: standard, collector's (steelbook, artbook, digital soundtrack), Nightmare (steelbook, artbook, digital soundtrack, "Top Hat" Messenger skin, book tin, bell trinket, quill&red ink set, gothic notebook), PS4 bundle edition (black PS4 unless in Japan). Q: What are the preorder bonuses? A: Preorder bonuses seem to be exclusive to particular vendors and what bonus is available also varies by region. All bonuses are Messenger skins- a Messenger is a little agent you use in the game for asynchronous multiplayer functions, such as leaving messages and marking where you die. You can get the following Messenger skins for preordering:
Q: Is there a strategy guide? A: Yes. Available only through Amazon, from Future Press. ENB and A German Spy are both contributors. Q: How long is the game? A: The "total game volume" is greater than Demon's Souls. Demon's Souls runs 25-40 hours depending on your skill and goals. In addition to the main game, Bloodborne includes an area of randomized challenges called the Chalice Dungeon. Inspired by rogue-likes, Chalice Dungeon configurations can be saved and shared with friends. Q: What kind of environment variety exists? Is there a day/night cycle? A: To quote an October 2014 interview with producer Masaaki Yamagiwa: quote:The question of whether the player would encounter more environments or settings in the released version of Bloodborne was also brought up. Mr. Yamagiwa mentioned that there would be more environments in the game such as forests and graveyards; and that the city portion that’s been seen in the demos is just the center of the very big city of Yharnam. Bloodborne has a contiguous world like Dark Souls, with warp points that you can unlock throughout. You access warp points you have unlocked through a hub, the Dream Refuge. Q: What kind of multiplayer does the game have? A: Bloodborne has co-op, PVP, and asynchronous functions (messages, bloodstains, player shadows). Co-op is no longer conducted through summon signs: a player who wishes to be summoned uses an item that grants them a passive "summonable" effect, a player who needs help uses a different item that makes their world permeable, and the game matches them by level. Friends will be able to use an 8-character "Watchword" to co-op with each other. Bloodborne's PVP mechanics are known as follows: if you wish to invade, you ring an Ominous Resonant Bell. The invader can send themselves home with Parting Shot. In some areas, a character called the Bell Maiden is present, and she lures invaders to your world. She may also appear when you attempt to summon co-op helpers or when you try to invade. Note that all multiplayer functions require subscription to PS+ (around $4/month) except for downloading of Chalice Dungeon configurations. Q: Is there character customization? Can I play a woman? A: Yes. Bloodborne has the same full character customization as prior Souls games, allowing you to choose build, hairstyle, eye color, gender, etc. It also has a few new features such as glasses/goggle accessories, body part dimensions, and hair physics. Q: Does armor come in full sets or pieces? A: As in the previous Souls games, armor comes as individual pieces (head/body/arms/legs) that you can FashionSouls with to your heart's desire. There is no heavy armor in the game, most sets are composed of leather and cloth. It is unknown how poise/other defensive benefits of armor may work in the game. Armor sets have physics effects and become soaked in blood as you fight. Armor is found either in the game world or via a merchant. Enemies do not drop anything besides items and upgrade materials in Bloodborne. Q: What kind of classes and stats are there? A: Bloodborne uses levels the same as the previous Souls entries. Classes are now called "origins", and only three have had their stats revealed. You can read more about origins and their stat allocations here. Bloodborne's stats are:
Q: What kinds of weapons are there? A: In Bloodborne you typically have a gun in your left hand and a melee weapon in your right hand. Your melee weapon (called a "trick weapon") transforms, giving it different possible attack styles. All trickweapons are customizable using "bloodgems", which allow you to apply effects to a weapon such as giving it poison attack, more physical attack, or increasing its scaling. Some of the demonstrated trick weapons:
Q: Are there shields? A: Yes, but it's implied they will be pretty awful. Rolling/sidestepping is Bloodborne's preferred defensive style. Q: Are backstabs/parries still in? A: Yes. Parries are now called "countershots" and conducted by shooting your gun at an enemy right before its attack connects. You can then riposte. Backstabs are now called "backstrikes" and are divided into two phases. The first step is to unleash a charged attack at your enemy's back. Charged attacks require you to hold down an attack button until your weapon gleams. The charged attack will cause the enemy to stagger, and after a certain window of time, using a regular attack on the staggered enemy will initiate a critical strike for high damage. The transforming strike of your melee weapon can also knock enemies back. Q: Is this a sequel to Demon's Souls? A: Umbasa. 
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I wonder how/if they're going to work in the classic Souls mechanic of trial and error death gameplay. They seem to be going for something more...fleshy and visceral and avoiding traditional sword and sorcery imagery. We have fog gates, so having an analogue to bonfires wouldn't surprise me. Is the plague going to keep us alive? Is time convoluted in the ancient city of Yharnam?
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Jun 10, 2014 05:27
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The more I've been thinking about the trailer, the stranger it seems to show the protagonist chopping that dead dog up. I wonder if there are more to drops than souls / glowing items once in a while this time. In that image the weapons look a bit goopy and organic - I wonder if there's going to be Monster Hunter style mats and crafting?
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Jun 10, 2014 05:31
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This almost looks like a survival horror game. It may not really be a "souls" like game in anything beyond a few aesthetic touches. For one, it seems you sort of have a set "look" and a set load-out too.
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Dogs confirmed for first reoccurring character.Lotish posted:I wonder how/if they're going to work in the classic Souls mechanic of trial and error death gameplay. They seem to be going for something more...fleshy and visceral and avoiding traditional sword and sorcery imagery. We have fog gates, so having an analogue to bonfires wouldn't surprise me.  The imagery in the video combined with the title makes me think this is going to have a lot to do with artificially created humans, among other things. The main character could be some sort of homonculus that is incapable of truly dieing and is basically just an undead from the Dark Souls games.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:32
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We need a souls game that involves werewolves.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:32
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That concept art is seriously cool
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Jun 10, 2014 05:32
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The Taint Reaper posted:We need a souls game that involves werewolves. My body is ready.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:34
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Instantly sold even before today. I will probably just not watch any more footage of this until it releases I'm loving excited.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:35
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The Hype Train is real.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:35
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Suddenly buying a PS4 was an amazing decision that I will never regret. I am so ready to wait like a year for this game.
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"Strategic Action Combat" hah, I guess that's as good a term for "Souls Combat" as any. It's interesting to me how the gameplay of early PSX action RPGs, which was slow just by necessity, was actually turned into something really meaningful. I'm wondering how much we should read into the apparent Souls connections. From Software kinda does do a lot of that; even the Armored Core games have Kings Field weapons in them and poo poo. Dark Souls 2 particularly was crazy full of things from old From Soft series. BottledBodhisvata posted:This almost looks like a survival horror game. It may not really be a "souls" like game in anything beyond a few aesthetic touches. For one, it seems you sort of have a set "look" and a set load-out too. It's certainly too early to say for sure but that weird flip-saw/scythe thing certainly seems to be a core part of the gameplay. Maybe you have to finish enemies to kill them? Cut out their spines and then use their spinal fluid for upgrades or something.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:38
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I was thinking vampire. They clearly define it as an RPG, so I wouldn't expect too much horror out of it. Unless they manage to be the first to succeed.
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http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/06/09/bloodborne-fromsoftwares-ps4-debut/ Looks like we're going to be seeing gameplay later as the show goes on. I'm super hyped about this game. It's exactly what Miyazaki needed to do, boy am I ever glad that him and the key Dark Souls/Demon's Souls staff didn't get to work on DS2. What a blessing in disguise that was. Now he gets to make something that has no ties at all to any of the previous Souls games...and can go hog wild. We've seen fog gates so we know that it's not a complete departure.
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I had a feeling from the earlier trailer it would be set in Fantasy London and you would be Fantasy Jack the Ripper, it seems to be I was right on the mark.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:39
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Even though we don't know jack poo poo about how this game plays yet the aesthetic design looks excellent all around. I'm mega excited to see some gameplay.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:41
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I do have to say that I'm actually happy it's not explicitly a Souls game. I absolutely love those games, but I'm excited to see From do something that's not tied at the waist to the Souls name.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:41
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Roflan posted:I was thinking vampire. I hope we're something more interesting like a Frankenstein abomination or a homunculus as Internet Kraken suggested.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:43
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I'm kinda hoping that the dude took the dog corpse to augment special dog powers to his body. I'd love a souls type game where you could switch out your own parts and have an array of abilities to get past a barrier. Like you turn into a wererhino and charge past a bunch of dudes giving no fucks but you have to remember to at least give one gently caress or the giant spider that's hiding in the cavern is gonna pop up at the end and eat you. also weretyrannosaurusrex is DLC
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Beard Yawn posted:I do have to say that I'm actually happy it's not explicitly a Souls game. I absolutely love those games, but I'm excited to see From do something that's not tied at the waist to the Souls name. I definitely agree. They have so much experience making 3D action-rpgs, these guys definitely have the talent to make a lot of different kinds of games. It'd be really sad to seem them pidgeonholed into just making one thing over and over. Part of what made Demon and Dark Souls great was that they did things that were so wild and new and crazy. I feel like a game that's very different is a more faithful successor in many ways.
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Because we really need a thread before the game even has a specific release date. e: Or anything at all about the game aside from the overall look it's going for. XboxPants posted:I definitely agree. They have so much experience making 3D action-rpgs, these guys definitely have the talent to make a lot of different kinds of games. It'd be really sad to seem them pidgeonholed into just making one thing over and over. Part of what made Demon and Dark Souls great was that they did things that were so wild and new and crazy. I feel like a game that's very different is a more faithful successor in many ways. We need more King's field. 
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Jun 10, 2014 05:46
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Look they already confirmed that enemies will be wearing top hats in game, has there ever been a souls game that has denied you the option of wearing NPC clothing? No.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:48
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Genocyber posted:Because we really need a thread before the game even has a specific release date. I don't think you get it.
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The Taint Reaper posted:I'm kinda hoping that the dude took the dog corpse to augment special dog powers to his body. I'd love a souls type game where you could switch out your own parts and have an array of abilities to get past a barrier. Re: the dog carving - my current feeling is that blood is the avatar of souls in this game, or to put it another way zenny is just another word for a dollar. But the name "Project Beast" also suggests that there might be some kind of inheritance from various beasts... Sony's description also claims there is an illness running amuck, and it's
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Jun 10, 2014 05:49
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Spellcasting is replaced with Gunmancy and Bloodmancy.
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Genocyber posted:Because we really need a thread before the game even has a specific release date. Eh, you can preorder it already and we're going to be seeing more of the game in the next few days. I can live with it. Almost didn't recognize you without your old avatar.
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Genocyber posted:We need more King's field. Second.
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Genocyber posted:Because we really need a thread before the game even has a specific release date. They're going to show more later in the week. As far as Souls conventions go, sure they have fog gates but I'm not even sure they need an equivalent to bonfires. Covenants, Invasions, Stats, Equipment, all of this stuff could not exist or be extremely different.
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turtlecrunch posted:but the protag gets an opposite reaction (becomes incredibly handsome and cool). I'll believe it when I see that From can make a character creator that doesn't make everyone look uggo.
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Genocyber posted:Because we really need a thread before the game even has a specific release date. We got it man that's the Old King! Just counting the days until every thread in the forums is about a From game.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:51
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Mischitary posted:They're going to show more later in the week. I did not know that. Still silly since the quality of the thread will be pretty terrible if the dks2 thread prior to release is any indication
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Jun 10, 2014 05:51
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Thread hasn't even been up for an hour and you're making GBS threads in it.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:52
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Genocyber posted:Still silly since the quality of the thread will be pretty terrible Well yeah, you're here.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:53
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Hey I'd like a dark souls game that has monster hunter style bosses lurking around instead of every section of the world trying to kill you so you could explore without worry. Maybe this will be that game.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:55
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Genocyber posted:Because we really need a thread before the game even has a specific release date. Absolutely. There is no good reason why Kings Field games, whatever Bloodborne is and Souls games can't all get made.
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The Taint Reaper posted:Hey I'd like a dark souls game that has monster hunter style bosses lurking around instead of every section of the world trying to kill you so you could explore without worry. From what I've seen of the Monster Hunter franchise, that style of game sure could benefit from not having the worst level design ever to be featured in a interactive video experience.
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Token Cracker posted:Thread hasn't even been up for an hour and you're making GBS threads in it. It's my job The Taint Reaper posted:Hey I'd like a dark souls game that has monster hunter style bosses lurking around instead of every section of the world trying to kill you so you could explore without worry. From what (very little) we know it looks like it might favor cramped spaces more, a la King's Field or Shadow Tower. Which is exciting.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:58
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XboxPants posted:From what I've seen of the Monster Hunter franchise, that style of game sure could benefit from not having the worst level design ever to be featured in a interactive video experience. My only issue with Monster Hutner's level design is that there's loading between areas when it's perfectly possible to have the world be entirely open. None of the recent games have had narrow places with awful camera angles like the original.
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Lookin forward to an uglier version of the equipment that guy has appearing in the game
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