Thread 724517347

ITT: /v/ is in yharnam

This board's finished.

>>724517347 (OP)
What do they eat?

There are no humans left. They're all (You)-hungry shitposters now.

Jeet... Jeet

kek or some say kekm lmao

can't even get period blood anymore, fuck my incel chud life

RRRRAAAAAUUUUGGHHH
*BANG* *BANG* *BANG*

AWAY AWAY

*CLANG*
BLOOD
*CLANG*
MOOOOOOOOOOORE
*CLANG*
BLOOD

>>724519271
You blood drunk, son?

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>724517347 (OP)
Heh...
To think I'd be in Yharnam for real before being there with my PC...
I'm going in blind there...

Me and my wife

Nope. not leavin' this thread.

TIS
OR SOME SAY TISM
DO YOU READ OUR POSTS?

Vilebloods or Executioners?

*AHEM*
Fuck beasts
Fuck kins
Fuck the Church
Fuck the Choir
Fuck Mensis
Fuck Executioners
Fuck Vilebloods
Fuck Hunters of Hunters
Fuck Pthumerians
Fuck Yharnamites
Fuck hunters
Fuck Great Ones
And most importantly
FUCK VERMIN
A toast to my fellow confederates of the League

She whirly on my gig until I saw?

>>724522132
>picking vilecucks

>>724517347 (OP)
bros, why is the doll leaking white fluid?

>>724519550
Imagine a second life as a Bloodthirsty Beast. A life worthy of a king.

Tonight, Anon joins the thread.

We are made by the shitpost
Undone by the shitpost
Our games are yet to the played

*cough cough* -Just a bit of absinthe and I'll be back on me feet, heheh...
Help a fellow hunter out...

Which one of you fucks locked the great bridge door again?

>>724524327
hee hee hee

>>724524389
YOU PLAGUE-RIDDEN RAT

>>724524436
Good luck finding me, I'm behind 7 chalice dungeons

if you have 69 insight you will see something amazing during the wet nurse fight

>>724524840
I cannot dodge the breastfeeding grab attack bros...

Just saw some filthy outsider hover in mid air and vanish, good riddance I say.

>>724517347 (OP)
Why does it look.... EXACTLY like DS3?

there has been a statue or perhaps several statues stuck together floating outside my hovel for weeks now very odd
also some freak firing off his minigun constantly does he even have a license?

>blood vial prices have gone up
WHICH ONE OF YOU FUCKS

>you are a skilled shitposter. Adept, merciless, half-cut with ban dodging. As the best shitposters are. Which is why i must stop you!
Djura the jannie

We MUST be better Hunters

TO THE FUCK WITH THE CHAINGUN
CUT IT THE FUCK OUT, I"M JUST TRYING TO GET HOME

BULLET GLITCH STILL WORKS GET FUCKED

I ATE A SLUG AND NOW I SEE A HUGE FUCKING MONSTER OUT THERE JUST HANGING OUT AND NO ONE NOTICES IT WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING

>>724517347 (OP)
MATING PRESS SOME FEMALE BEASTS

>>724517347 (OP)
Gherman is a faggot, and Doll likes me better.

>>724526258
What are you talking about anon? There's nothing there. Take your sedatives.

I own a gatling gun for home defense, since that's what the good church intended. Four beasts break into my workshop on the night of the hunt. "YOU ARE NOT WANTED 'ERE!" As I grab my Bone marrow ash and pistol. Blow a pebble sized hole through the first beast, he's parried on the spot. Draw my blunderbuss on the second, miss him entirely because it's quicksilver and nails the patollers dog. I have to resort to the church cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with blood bullets, "AWAY, AWAY!" the quicksilver shreds two ROTTEN BEASTS in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel could be heard in Yahar'Gul. Take out my flamesprayer on the last PLAGUE RIDDEN RAT. He burns to a crisp waiting for the night to end, since beasts are naturally weak to fire damage. Just as the healing church intended.

>>724526509
But they'll get pregnant?

LA LA LAAAAAAAAA
LAAAAAAA LAAAA

>>724517836
I'm pretty sure that your flesh powers 90% of the ecosystems in the game.

>>724517347 (OP)
AWAY, AWAY

>>724517836
Church blood clots, obviously.

I want to RAPE the Doll, bros...

went to the old workshop to fix my gear and caught Gerhman crying while gooning to his Maria doll again. Should I tell Ludwig about this?

Guys, something's off about Iosefka...

What's his bloody problem?

>>724518113
https://youtu.be/TfLt0iNnHiE?si=HMb8TQunGXALhOnW

>>724527941
Prob'ly on the verge of turnin' into one'a them beasts. Sad, innit?

Are we in a dream?

>>724528114
Life could be a dream.

>>724527454
I bet those brains feel like a giant titty.
Let me get close....

is BB emulation stable now?

>>724517836
You not from Yharnam if u never had fried beast pussy

>Take the time to setup friends pc to emulate bloodborne
>change his desktop to a shitty pornjoke
He didnt even notice it
Fucker completely ruined my fun
I even added the shitty goosebumps font and everything
https://files.catbox.moe/f2nf5m.jpg

>>724528114
Yes. Eternal slumber is the baseline state.

>50% of bloodbornes content is blocked behind the ps+ chalice dungeons
FUCK TROONSOFTWARE
FUCK TROONY

>>724528431
You can create the fixed dungeons or random dungeons for yourself. You just cant find specific dungeons created by others

>>724518113
EW

>>724528501
Theres a workaround to that to iirc.

new lady maria on r34.

breddygud

luv me church
luv me blood
luv me moon
luv me ya'nam

ate outsiders
ate unters
ate beasts
ate vilebluds

simple as

>>724529313
Yeah that's pretty good
would like it more if it was full pov

We are kin
We are many

>>724517987
Cope, or some say Seethe

So cold...

>>724525103
When DS3 came out people were calling it a Bloodborne asset flip, for good reason.

Those buildings look like a flat image.

>>724529313
I love her so much

>>724519271
Best weapon.

>>724525017
lol

>>724530623
big dork girlfailure

>>724517347 (OP)
Imagine upgrading Bloodtinge
>this post was made by the unga bunga gang

Oh for Junipers sake, put some spring into your step.

>>724530983
slander

*jerks off*

Where do they shit?

>>724531213
You know those destructible pots you roll through?

>>724530962
Speaking of Chester, a gameplay accurate hunter would absolutely trash everything in Lordran

>>724531628
Champ's Asses?

>>724531628
That's not really that surprising given the level of technology
Though if you really want to get autistic about it, hoonters are powerful because of the way they're attuned to their own world/dream. In bonfire-based Lordran they would run out of resources quickly.

good thing the human eye is only capable of perceiving its surroundings at the equivalent of no more than 16 fps

>>724531628
Chester isnt from Yharnam hes from Carim.

BLOOOOD
NOOOOWW
>RRAAAAAUUUUUUGGGHHHH

GRANT US FPS

There really is nothing else like it. I know a remake would ruin a lot, but I hope for a remake. It deserves to be part of the zeitgeist for all time.

>>724532331
>I know a remake would ruin a lot, but I hope for a remake

If you didn't play the game at a squeaky smooth 18 fps as god intended, you did not beat the game.

>>724532674
I didn't stutter.

>>724517347 (OP)
YEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOW

>>724532905
>The final boss of Bloodborne's DLC is... a screaming manchild.

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>724517347 (OP)
>DOF
Bloodborne on PC will give me endless wallpapes when I can turn that shitty setting off. DS3 is my favorite of the series just because of that kino view of Irithyll

>>724530514
"girls"

>>724519271
so who's gonna make the mod to give the player the same screams from blood drunk hunters when you swing this thing?

>>724517347 (OP)
>Consuming ayy lmao blood
What the fuck were they thinking? This is chink mentality.

>>724533614
Trust the experts
The science is settled
Safe and effective

>>724533614
SAFE
AND
EFFECTIVE

>nice alium just wants to have sex and cuddle with (You)
wat do?

>>724533957
I really don't think that's what she wants
I think she wants to phone home

>>724533092
I look like this and say this

where's the updated emu guide
do i still need to download patches?

>>724533614
Its a repeated pattern in their world. The Pthumerians, Loran, some unexplored areas mentioned in item descriptions like in Valtr or Yamamuras set. Some idiot or group of idiots gets an entire city, town or country to start using the Old Blood for sustenance or disease curing properties, then they all go insane and turn into beasts or get fucked by old ones.

awwwwwWWWWOOOOoo

soulsbornekiro stopped being kino when the A Team stopped having an NPC that teases the next project in the DLC

Bros what's a fun build to replay with?

>>724534351
When did they stop?

>>724534378
Blades of Mercy, you start to understand why Eileen got her ass kicked so much.

>>724534429
after DaS

>>724534650
You lack insight

>>724528319
How did he not notice the furry porn lmao?

>>724534059
anyone?

>Good hunter, have you seen the thread of light? Just a hair, a fleeting thing, yet I clung to it, steeped as I was in the stench of blood and beasts. I never wanted to know, what it really was. Really, I didn't.
What exactly was he talking about here, his sanity?

>>724528053
ME OWN FOOKIN PARTNER, A BEAST

>>724534836
The Holy Moonlight Sword is heavily implied to be somewhat sentient and channels the abyssal cosmos. The blade's description states
>The Holy Moonlight Sword is synonymous with Ludwig, the Holy Blade, but few have ever set eyes on the great blade, and whatever guidance it has to offer, it seems to be of a very private, elusive sort.
take from that what you will. He was a beast but the sword did break through to him despite it all.

>>724532331
All I ask for is a port, that's all. Nothing fancy, just performance and resolution increases with graphical options.

>Be Me, Classy /V/ictorian Pedophile
>World goes to shit, figure it's the perfect time to get myself a QT phlegmatic waif
>First day on the prowl, run into a fucking psychopath with a rocket hammer
>He absolutely merks everything in his path until he gets to me

"Oi Bagman, I need you to tuck me to the Hypogean Gaol"

>Try to tell him I don't swing that way, sphagetti keeps falling out of disappointingly childless pockets
>He gets pissed and starts shouting
>I sperg out and start screaming at him to tell me where a little girl is
>He gets this awful look on his face and walks away
>90% sure I heard him crying later

I fucking hate this place.

>>724528158
If I could take you to the nightmare, up above
if you could show me to make contact, with the blood
life could be a dream, sweetheart
(goodnight goodnight again, kos-a-kos sh- kosm)

>>724534650
Agreed but this is a BB circlejerk thread so you won't get sane posters here (ironic). I wonder if From will ever return to from and discard spamslop that's everything post DS1.

>>724528527
> cum ministration
> "You may think this... all a wet dream"

>>724534650
Sekiro was teased in Bloodborne.

>>724535205
>spoonfeeding

>>724535268
He wasn't asking, he made an incorrect statement.

>>724535205
It was like one NPC that didn't do shit, you couldn't even see him you had to find a key just to open his cell, goddammit and he keeps repeating the same phrase FUCK

See? Ignore insightlets.

>>724535597
>From Software stopped after Dark Souls
>Bloodborne teased Sekiro
>*shitposts*
Now shush. They actually stopped with Dark Souls 3's dlc.

>>724535360
which is the best way to get engagement here

>>724535826
technically they stopped with Sekiro because Sekiro didn't have DLC and the only people from the A Team that worked on DS3 instead of Sekiro were some high level designers

>>724535702
I hope he's okay...

>>724535826
Wow you like missed the entire plot of the DLC

>>724535990
This, the painting was the Armoured Core universe

>>724536061
No it was the upcoming sequel to Metal Wolf Chaos XD

>>724535946
I love this image.
>>724535990
We're talking about bespoke references. Chester could be slotted into Bloodborne, for instance. Yamamura, conceptually, looks like Wolf. Elden Ring takes cues from all previous games, and most notably it takes the idea of a fucked up landscape from Dark Souls 3 (High Wall, Dreg Heap, Ringed City), but nothing specific in Dark Souls 3 teases Elden Ring. Sekiro doesn't for Elden Ring, either.

>>724536112
>most notably it takes the idea of a fucked up landscape from Dark Souls 3 (High Wall, Dreg Heap, Ringed City)
and God's Grave lmao

>>724536112
lmao you're so close and yet

>>724527714
don't do it, Gehrman.

Now I'm no Vileblood, but Annalise makes me feel things...

>>724536224
>Blood dregs

>>724536161
Are we not talking about DLC? Holy shit keep up you moron.

>>724536224
>one of if not the hardest to find item in any souls game is the wedding ring
>the only thing you get for proposing to her with it is getting laughed at
they went ham on the waifufags in BB

is Maria wife material

>>724536368
???? God's Grave was infamously cut content from DS3 that they threw assets from all over the game and managed to reuse more from in ER

>>724517347 (OP)
/v/ is already in Bloodborne.

>>724517347 (OP)
will we get it on pc now that ps5 has halo?

>Be me
>Tryin' to go home afterwork
>Stayed in late 'cause the holidays are comin' up
>Suddenly some GIANT nonce leaps towards me outta nowhere and stuffs me into his sack, he does
>Wake up to the sound of bloody singin' everywhere
>Wander around to look for help
>Old hag pops up and rips my bloody eye out before disappearin' into the night
I hate this bloody city so much

>>724536379
Any beautiful woman is wife material. So long as you have your shit together and are attractive, women are like dogs to you. Easily trained, wanting to please a master. I'm not kidding.

>>724536458
>Out for an evening stroll
>Those bloody crazies are burning a giant dog or something on a pyre
>Spot me
>Quicken my feet
>OY YOU GOT A LOICENSE FOR DAT EVENIN' STROLL GUVNA?
>Y-yeah I sure do-
>Five of them grab me, put a rifle in my hands
>JUST STAY THERE UNTIL THEE HUNTER COMES. PAYMENT FOR NO LOICENSE
>mfw

>>724536379
From what little we know of her, she's kind of a sad forlorn idiot. This is actually a recurring motif in Miyazaki's games, there's always some (seemingly) stronk woman and she's actually a tragic idiot living out a perpetual humiliation ritual. Maria, Tomoe, Malenia. And before them all Ciaran.

>>724517347 (OP)
Why does this game look exactly like DS3? This shot is basically just the Lothric Castle.

>>724536627
Miyazaki knows women. Any woman, and I mean ANY woman, who is strong, is suffering because they aren't at a man's behest. They are not instinctually meant to lead. That's what men are for.

>>724536812
Well Maria worked under Gehrman but he gave her the ick. She wasn't built to be a hoonter anyway, she should have been some decadent Cainhurst bloodslut.

>>724536696
Dark Souls 3 was supposed to be more of an ash heap with mechanics that made the game more desolate, like making your own bonfires. But it was all scrapped, so we were left with a Dark Souls asset flip mod for Bloodborne.

>>724536696
Ds3 looks amazing so thats good

>>724537283
>She wasn't built to be a hoonter anyway
That was the crux of it. She felt guilty over her part in whatever truly happened at not-Innsmouth and took up helping afflicted people. But like was said, women aren't instinctually meant to lead. She was atoning for what she'd done, but she couldn't handle it anyway and tried to kill herself. Women need good men. Gehrman isn't a good man. Just a useful one.

>>724537401
most of those screenshots look the exact same

>>724533614
>surely butchering this eldritch god and making a deal with a different one won't have terrible consequences
>ACK

>>724537429
Yea, peak

>>724534836
>>724535036
lyrics of his OST are latin version of the prayer the NPC hunter behind his arena repeats to keep his sanity. the MLGS basically sings to Ludwig to bring him back, pure kino

>>724537434
I like this image but it seemed p. clear to me Kos has nothing to do with the Moon Presence. The Moon Presence has its own thing going on with Yharnam, feeding off their suffering, whereas Kos is more akin to a Dagon type entity.
>>724537484
Based

>>724537507
Wasn't it the MLGS that encouraged him to be such a butcher in life though

>>724533614
FAVSTIAN SPIRIT

(Unironically, these niggas embraced tanshumanism)

alas, not too fast

>>724537524
Kos has personal beef with the hunters themselves

Moon presence is a great one serial killer that uses the hunt and hunters to kill great ones for it, and also it's Yearning for a child..?? Bloodborne lore is all over the place but I think that's intentional

>>724537362
>Miyazaki gets so annoyed by his incompetent team dragging him back to finish yet another tired contractually obligated Dark Souls game he literally destroys the entire universe, and also makes the plot about people who don't want to get dragged back to "kindle" this old jumbled mess of a continuity
>while he's at it, includes all sorts of small barbs and spiteful jokes
My least favorite Souls but I appreciate the sentiment behind it

>>724537882
I figured (not figured out, just figured) Queen Yharnam's suffering at losing Mergo was able to hijack the Moon Presence's, well, presence. Once Mergo is put down, the cycle the MP puts Yharnam through resumes. Like a "gaiden" adventure, if you will, that Mensis business.
>>724537915
There's definitely a lot of love behind DS3. The whole naming the painting after the player thing is the best
>Thank you for playing!
ever in video games.

>>724519550
One of my favorite sounds

>>724537915
Idk for me the bleakness is what really sets it above the rest. Not to mention how amazing the soundtrack is, he'll it may even be on par with BB.

https://youtu.be/A1FRAQeBU28?si=GxI2uW_66yr_zHB8

>>724537989
Kojima did the exact same shit in the end and he had been trying to kill off Metal Gear since MGS2. Except despite all his efforts it kept chugging along. MGS4 had all the same shit including loads of sardonic "fanservice" and shitty answers to shitty questions yet people still gobbled it up and cried out for more.
I think these gestures are more "carving a name on the tombstone of finality" than a sincere thank you. To Japanese auteurs, the mindless players and the hungry publishers become almost antagonists but they can't actually do or say much else because Jap corporate culture

>>724537915
They were probably just overwhelmed trying to add too many features at once, not foreseeing how they compound upon each other. And then there's the hardware and network limitations, and the conceptual flaws in the new features, and their proper integration in the story.
I dont think anyone liked the bonfire creation mechanic in Lords of the fallen. Or lords of the fallen for that matter.
Bosses are still the best ones ever, though.

>>724534836
By saying that he didn't care to understand his guiding light, he's inadvertently setting himself apart from pretty much every other major character (especially church-affiliated ones) who have spent decades obessing over "understanding" blood and beasts and the cosmos and kin and dream worlds and whatever the fuck else. Here is a man who's witnessing yet another weird mystery that only he can see and instead of trying to dissect its origin and purpose, he uses it to fuel his hope and sense of resolve to help others.

>>724538393
>and sense of resolve to KILL others.
ftfy

>>724537605
The sword gave him the guidance rune, which made him more confident and fearless.
In game, guidance runes increase your rally potential.

this stupid cannon blows you up in one hit if you shoot it because there is a little pole hanging from the ceiling right in front of it. It's like a fuck-you trap from the devs

>>724534836
>Good hunter, have you seen the thread of light? Just a hair, a fleeting thing, yet I clung to it
Its the guidance rune that the sword branded on his mind. It made him fearless.

>>724537915
DS3 DLC is literally about the creator of the world being tortured and forced to keep it alive using his own blood because some of the people didn't want to move on

I'M FUCKING DEAD

*blocks*

i dont wanna kill things anymore, bros...

>>724538554
F O O L

>>724538316
Miyazaki has never publicly expressed disinterest in directing Souls. In fact, Edge Magazine did an interview the week Dark Souls II was announced where Miyazaki said he would have wanted to direct Dark Souls II, but that it was an executive decision to remove him from the director's chair. He is not the same as Kojima. This auteur shit you're talking about has no basis in reality. Siegward is not sardonic fanservice, he's a sendoff. Siegmeyer is a sad story about an aging knight who never found his calling and died. Siegward is a gallant knight who wields a mighty weapon to help you take down a mighty Lord of Cinder. Anor Londo is covered in muck and ice, not as a middle finger to players, but as a diegetic storybeat; Gwyndolin has held on to his father's legacy for so long, and the thesis of Souls is to let things die, so Gwyndolin was punished in one of the worst ways possible. He was eaten alive by people who had enough of his bullshit.

The closest we get to whatever you're talking about is actually an extension of Dark Souls II's theme of humanity ever wanting. Dark Souls 3 doesn't necessarily go further, but it does play with it. Friede and Vilhelm both tell you to fuck off, "curiosity could be your cross" / "thy duty is all." But he balances that with the fact that the corvians are abjectly suffering under Friede's dominion and seducing of Father Ariandel. To not want, to live and let live, is to let the corvians continue to suffer.

He continues to play with the idea in The Ringed City. All Lapp wants to do is get his memory back. Meanwhile, Gael, and presumably the player, want the Dark Soul. Patches gets his memory back, and he chastises the player and all humanity:
>Every age, it seems, is tainted by the greed of men. Rubbish, to one such as I, devoid of all worldly wants! Hmmm, I dunno, maybe it's just the way we are. I'll stick you in my prayers. A fine dark soul, to you
However, he notably becomes a summon for the Church Spear fight.

>>724538562
And thats why it's peak

>>724538316
>>724538713
Cont.

It's been said that Patches is Miyazaki's avatar, and so while he may disdain the idea of ever wanting, he acknowledges that it's simply human nature, and so extends his blade to our aid.

I can go on but I'll cut it short. This all to say, it's not as cut and dry as Kojima not wanting to direct MGS, which Kojima was VERY cut and dry about. From Software is just more nuanced than him, as much as I enjoy the works of Kojima.

>>724538713
Ah yes, rememberries are high art.
Kojima himself has never uttered much dissatisfaction either as tumultuous as his relationship with Konami got, that's how Jap corporate culture is and both he and Miyazaki are class acts in that regard compared to certain big mouth firebrands out there. You have to be insane to take interviews with these guys as the whole truth and nothing but the truth, the entire basis of polite Japanese culture is to never complain about this sort of shit openly and find other plausibly deniable ways of expressing it.
These are big projects though with a lot of staff working on it who have just as much claim to the franchises as the hyped frontmen directors do so yeah, there is a lot of love as well and the art is as always impeccable. But the overarching themes are just too blatant to ignore. No auteur wants to churn sequelshit out forever which is one of the things they actually are open about.

>>724538991
>Ah yes, rememberries are high art.
I didn't say anything about rememberries. Did you read my post at all?
>Kojima himself has never uttered much dissatisfaction either as tumultuous as his relationship with Konami got
I wasn't talking about Kojima and Konami at the end, I'm talking about actual interviews where Kojima says, in plain language, that he did not want to direct more MGS games. You can find these interviews. Miyazaki, by contrast, stated that he did want to direct Dark Souls II. He was known as "Mr. Dark Souls" by his staff in another interview of From Software employees because he was so passionate about directing the first game. He spearheaded the multiplayer system for Demon's Souls much to the disapproval of his superiors. He loves these games. I have no reason to believe your assertions of whatever Japanese culture you're talking about over documented facts. But the thing is, you don't care about discussion, because you can just say
>Well it's Japanese culture to never complain in public
So you don't care what I say. The records are public. Still, I'm going to reply in good faith and then leave this waste of time be.
>But the overarching themes are just too blatant to ignore. No auteur wants to churn sequelshit out forever which is one of the things they actually are open about.
Again, Elden Ring is just Dark Souls 4. That's blatant, black and white. Stop pretending Miyazaki has that kind of integrity. Dark Souls 3 was the end of Dark Souls, not the end of the-kind-of-game-Miyazaki-likes-to-make. It wasn't like Kojima going from MGS to Death Stranding, which showed a LOT of heart and integrity. Didn't you notice that Elden Ring also has an inextinguishable flame, just like Dark Souls' First Flame, or the Profaned Flame? He likes remixing his ideas, like ancient stone dragons, or a race of giants, humanity caught in the middle of everything. He's not who you think he is just because you think you have some line on Japanese culture.

Why doesnt Fromsoft just make a spiritual successor to Bloodborne? More trick weapons, Victorian inspired visuals and Lovecraftian monsters but call it something else? They’ve already done two spiritual sequels to DeS and one of those got two sequels.

>>724539343
Also that was my last post. Goodnight. I hope you actually read my posts this time.

>>724536812
Malenia suffered the most because she followed her brother's orders at all turns and it ruined her.
Maria suffered because she listened to Gherman and followed him into the Fishing Hamlet.

>>724539474
Sorry I meant a good man's behest. Gurman and Miquella are not good men. Miquella is a genuine tranny who seduces any and all to get his way, and Gurman was like I said in an earlier post just a useful man. Useful to the church, and useful to the player. He's no real leader, and certainly not a good man.

>>724539460
I doubt he'll do another medieval setting for a good while. So probobly.
The other option is going further back, and maybe we'll see a bronze age mythical hyperboria esc world

>>724539463
Well not much point if you're just going to fuck off now but right away I see you bringing up all sorts of weird shit that I never claimed so I don't think there's any real discussion to be had

>>724539460
>>724539589
uhhhhhhhh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKHDEKQ7xA

I want to lay my head in Lady Maria's lap and have her say comforting things to me in a Romanian accent

>>724539620
Do you think I live under a rock?

>>724539460
At this point nobody knows what the fuck Fromsoft is doing. Sekiro despite being a success didn't get a DLC, AC6 which also overperformed expectations didn't get the usual AC expansion/subsequel. Now they're doing shit like Nightreign and Duskbloods. And this is with Miyazaki as president. After they made an ungodly amount of money with Elden Ring.
This is the point in From Software history where they could do anything they fucking wanted. Until they announce a real project, we just have these really odd multiplayer-only things.

>>724539343
Man I'm still fucking mad about how badly they squandered the angel concept
it was bad enough that the pilgrim butterflies were just kind of there in the background except for the one that you can't even interact with directly in the dragonslayer fight but they literally just made these stage hazards

>>724539784
Miazakibis just cooking, bloodborne followed right after ds2 so who's to say we won't see somthing crazy after duskbloods has been out a while

>>724539784
Fromsoftfag here. The only reason Sekiro exists is because of Activision. From Software went to multiple publishers, including Bamco, and nobody wanted it. Activision took a chance, and so it got made. This next part is speculation: Considering how many publishers they went to, they likely only budgeted x amount of money for Sekiro, and from the outset, agreed on no dlc so that they could focus on Elden Ring. What you'll enjoy knowing, however, is Activision sold the rights to Sekiro to From Software, so From Software completely owns the Sekiro IP. I'd bet decent money they'll make a sequel someday, otherwise there would have been no point in buying it.
>AC6
We know from interviews that AC6 has been in development since at least 2016, and likely had a similar "no dlc" clause like Sekiro. But honestly? That game's story is so perfect I wouldn't want dlc or a sequel.
>I always envied you
>The freelancer who had it all
Capital K Kino.

>>724539879
Nightreign was weird enough but then to announce Duskbloods immediately after?
I'm wary. Every shitty modern game corporation was once upon a time small plucky and soulful. Then they made a lot of money and things began to change.

>>724540007
To be desu Nightreign is still full of soul and the only knock I truly have against it is
>Raider rememberance ends with a fucking Ulcerated Tree Spirit fight
The guy who approved of that should be slapped.

>>724540007
I think everyones anticipating their “main” project to be teased later at TGA or sometime next year. Elden Ring will be 4 years old by then and DaS3 will be 10 years old.

>>724540095
It's still weird. I mean From was weird before they became The Souls Corporation but this is weird in a different way. Enshittification isn't instant and some might say From's already been on this path for a while now. I'm not denouncing them, just expressing my unease. They've certainly earned a bit of faith.

I'm not going to be worried unless they have nothing new to show at the VGAs this year

I'll see all of you good fellows at the swastika tower tonight

>>724536696
Bloodborne has a lot of the gameplay feel of DS2 while being slightly faster, but the graphics of DS3, its a transitionary title.
The PS4 couldn't handle it. Couldn't handle DS3, either.

>>724517347 (OP)
>be at house party
>wine is flowing and spirits are high
>suddenly hear pounding at the door
>move towards commotion with a few other party goers
>hear anon crying at the door about a pig eating his loli waifu
>me and the lads begin laughing uncontrollably while asking what kind of faggot OP would be out on a night of the hunt
i flip flop on which fromsoft world would be better to live in between bloodborne and DS2

>>724540506
I do not care for the research hall

>>724539620
>the monkey paw curls and then fists you viciously

I really should get around to emulating this game for new playthrough since I've long since parted with my PS4
is there a specific version of the game/emulator everyone downloads for playing it on shadPS4?

For me it's the beast claws

>>724540537
>Bloodborne has a lot of the gameplay feel of DS2
wut
they're like polar opposites
meanwhile people accurately group BB and DS3 as infinite stamina games

>>724539620
This looks like BB for the first 30 seconds then introduces all kinds of unfitting garbage, also multiplayer only. What a waste of everyone’s time.

>>724540705
I bet tendies won't even like it. Not that I'd blame them. But then what was the fucking point.

>>724539620
> Internet teases me with talk of new bloodborne
> Check out the trailer
> Switch exclusive multiplayer game
Everyone who laid this trash before me should be castrated and thrown off a bridge

>>724527221
that's the idea

>>724539620
>guy who turns into a trex from the waist up
We'll see if my dinosaur in vidya being an omen for failure hypothesis holds up or not

Is it fully playable on shad or should I wait another year?

it's genuinely baffling how they put so many red flags in this game and noone noticed
>me and the boys showing up to the party with our confederate drip

>>724538316
Miyazaki wanted to end Dark Souls so badly that with his first new IP in 10 years, he just did Dark Souls but bigger with Elden Ring. The guy was king of FromSoft by that point and his choice was to double-down on everything in the Dark Souls series for his next title.
He really likes making these apocalyptic hack and slash games where NPCs all laugh at you and then kill themselves the second you do them a minor favor.
Its his jam. He's talked about wanting to keep making his ideal game until he gets it correct. And that is so far what we've seen him do, iterate on a formula with slight tweaks or expansions of scope with each new version.

>>724540947
They should have added a swastika, thats the best red flag

>backstep is a poison attack
what a psychotic moveset

>>724519550
Pretty much the one good theme in all of BB, so much that From Software released a video showcasing it.

>>724540272
They earned all my faith back with
>Libra
>Heolstor
>Everdark Adel
etc. I was addicted to Nightreign for three months straight. I lost so much sleep. Just waiting on the dlc now.

>>724541019
I love the floppy roll it gives you

>>724541019
I felt like I was playing Voldo
Not my favorite build honestly

>>724539784
Sekiro was clearly not built around the franchise formula.
It could have sustained a DLC, but FromSoft was working on Elden Ring at the same time as it, and didn't want to cannibalize their own workforce, most likely.
AC6 being a decent success was probably expected, but you could also position it as a smaller title that was done to give devs and artists a break from working on medieval fantasy for the last 10 years.

>>724541007
>equip the swastika rune
>boosts your stamina
how did they get away with this?

>>724541075
Hey you've got something...on your...there...

>>724540674
How the levels are laid out and the like. Enemy designs and distribution, etc. Bosses have more of a DS2 style than DS3, I think, as well.
Its faster than DS2, but a lot of the controls and the world design feels like DS2 when you play. More than it feels like DS3.

>>724528431
What are you talking about? The game's base dungeons give you all the content they would provide.

>>724541129
>AC6 being a decent success was probably expected
Really? Even ACfags were expecting it to flop as I remember. Mech games have had it rough for a long time and ACV wasn't really a high point for the franchise.
Seemed to me like a game for old time's sake, Miyazaki's first project was AC4 wasn't it?

>>724533842
Why were they stronger in their incomplete state than their ascended state?

>>724541228
Just the brand value that Fromsoft has these days is enough that they could sell 1 million ciderblocks to fanboys if they ever wanted to.
AC6 was always going to be a success, just how big of one was variable.

>>724541103
lmfao
>>724541093
yeah it's pretty funny. that's the thing i also like about the transformations in bb. floppy roll and the beast form has the hunched over run

>>724535097
Funniest enemy in bloodborne, almost out of place with their kung fu if they weren't based on some Innsmouthians.

I'm 90% sure they get buffed up with Odeon power given you hear a xylaphone.

>>724537362
People who claim DaS III lacked polish because it was "required by namco" are retards.
Someone for example, painstakingly modeled profaned masks on the Cage-hollow spiders that nobody probably noticed unless you were autistic.

>>724541597
and then you have the walking ghru which are almost DS2 falcon knight tier of dogshit

>>724541597
whut but they dont have masks. it's ust a bunch of hollows ina cage

>>724541597
What cage-hollow spiders with profaned masks?

>>724538804
Speaking of Patches, The ringed cities way of dealing with him is probably the highest point in the series.
I feel like if Patches didn't nope out of the Radhan fight Elden Ring would have been lesser in that regard.

WHICH ONE OF YOU FUCKERS DROPPED SNAKES ALL OVER THE FOREST

>>724541761
They're the only big name studio that has any soul. You'll never see anyone else pull something as funny as Patches leaving the Radahn fight.

>>724541808
I died the first time I fought Radahn because I was laughing hard at Patches noping out

>>724536440
>get to them on my first playthrough
>think it's a shitty filler boss
>music goes quiet mid battle
>these fucks rounding up and putting their hands up to the sky
>cue majestic choir
>fucking meteors
absolute kino and despite being one of the worse fights gameplay-wise, still one of my favourites in the whole soulsborne

>>724530514
>girls

>>724541597
Dark Souls obviously lacks polish but included Solaire being mindjacked by a bug and a way for you to circumvent that and had reactivity in the finale for it.
Souls games have always been very uneven in that way.

>>724517347 (OP)
AWOOOO.....AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Oi boys, don't ya think this patches fellow looks abit like that georgian chap?

>>724541750
>>724541760
The Caged Hollow "spider" enemies in Lothric Dungeon have the brass masks the jailers/profaned priests wear.
It's the same enemy as in the Undead Village but they decided to give them area appropriate attire solely to make them more authentic to the area.

>>724542009
gimme dat spussy

>YEEEEOOOOOAAAWWWWW
Fuck Hunters and FUCK Byrgenwerth.

>>724542064
Hah that's cool.

>>724541695
Facefucker Ghru are animated fine compared to Falconers?

did gehrman really rape the kos?

>>724542203
Where do you people come up with this shit

>>724542249
Where else would the babu come from?
Why would Gehrman stop having nightmares after its killed?
It was his child.

>>724542340
yeah naw I ain't doin this, go ask Vaati

>>724542249
>>724542203
BB's lore got fucked up when miyazacki decided at the very last second that the simple
>Kos was discovered by the Byrgenwerth and used her to ascend the Choir while the church used her blood to Shepard the masses.
>Rom ascended through her to hide the ritual
story was too simple and changed her name to Ebrietas while then creating a DLC around the Kos that used to so conveniently meshed with Mensis, who is now some unrelated mermaid lady that was murdered by Gherman and friends.

>>724541597
I didnt say it wasn't polished, of course its polished. But its also jumbled and incoherent, and they didnt have the raw manpower to fix it like they did with elden ring. Half of the bosses are in the wrong arenas according to the leak, because Oceiros' area was scrapped so he replaced Gundyr. And Gundyr replaced Yhorm, and Yhorm replaced Wolnir, and Wolnir was put into a cup. Its crazy.
Also, I actually did notice the masks on the irithyll hollow spiders and I thought it was stupid. Its an aristocrats mask, so why are they in the peasant cage? It makes absolutely no sense and i think they were just ashamed that they reused an enemy here. It also isnt that impressive.

>>724542461
Agree, that's the most obvious case of Miyazaki scrambling things for cheap mystique and who knows how many times he's done it less sloppily but it's separate from the weird rape lore theories that have cropped up since DeS

>>724542506
Gundyr makes total sense as a starter boss and then a bookender as you move into the endgame.
I don't see why you'd think he was moved or modified at all.

>>724542624
He was supposed to be the King of Lothric. The "Consuned Kings Garden" was supposed to be a Mausoleum and thats why there are graves on the wall. Its also why there are Pus o Mans in the Garden and hardly anywhere else.
Yhorm was supposed to be the first boss, evidence by the giant coffin.

>>724542073
YOU ARE NOT WANTED 'ERE!

>>724542751
The giant coffin doesn't mean much, Souls games are always covered with megastructures.
Regarding Yhorm not being able to fit in his own room, none of the Gods we see in Dark Souls could actually fit in Anor Londo's rooms, either.

>>724542506
>Half the bosses are in the wrong areas
True, but keep in mind the infamous leak image is half one anon info dumping what was datamined and half another anon making up a bullshit story.

The beta story beats are relatively unchanged, Old King of the Eclipse and Pontiff Sully have the same exact character and goals.
The main difference is Oceiros was blended with the Angel of Dragons. We know very little of beta Oceiros other than he was clearly supposed as chad as whatever character traits they lent to Gundyr.

Oh, and I guess Wolnir probably had a completely different story given he was Profaned capitol boss/Covenant leader (probably for the mound makers as the data leak revealed the altar for it is a means to block a scrapped passage).

Point is, the bitching about the "Scrambling" isn't as bad as /v/ thinks it is, because /v/ was mislead by a larper. Yes everything about the Serpents in that fanfiction was based on a literal meme image from like 2015.

>>724542340
The Hunters nightmare is a hell for hunters that Mother Kos pulls the blood drunkened into, along with the perpetrators of the massacre of the Hamlet.
Gehrman might be going there whenever he sleeps and becoming the orphan.

>jailbreak my ps4
>activate freecam, start messing around and take screenshots
>look up on Hunters dream
>see this
quite possibly the greatest moment in my gaming life, goosebumps all over my body

>>724542461
>>724542616
idgi the story and lore still works if kos isn't ebrietas. it's better, because yes, the story would be too simple without what's in the final product. am i missing what we're bitching about here.
>>724542203
gehrman is the orphan of kos as he sleeps. when you defeat the orphan of kos, gehrman sleeps better. that doesn't disprove he had relations with kos, however.
>>724543000
?

>>724536627
We know stuff about Tomoe beyond being the larval form of malenia from the NEVER EVER Sekiro DLC?

>>724542506
>It's an aristocrat mask so why are they in peasant cages
The profaned survivors are implied to be deeply cursed and vindictive as evident by the jailor stares depleting your health and their supernatural speed.
There are normal hollows who also use the masks, it was probably a case of the cursed turning on the less cursed.

It's literally a repeat of the Izailith situation. People got fucked up by fire aids and fled upward into a shitty area (DaS its a swamp, DaS III its a prison). It's not like Sulyvahn was paying them to be there, they clearly just kind of took over the prison.

>>724543098
the spectral eyes on above
can't see them normally because the camera is locked

>>724543098
>Am I missing
now Rom's shed skin in Ebrietas's chamber makes zero sense.

>>724543205
She was basically a previous version of Wolf that failed because she couldn't die and revive.

ITS ALL YOUR FAULT

>>724540001
>Activision sold the rights to Sekiro to From Software, so From Software completely owns the Sekiro IP. I'd bet decent money they'll make a sequel someday, otherwise there would have been no point in buying it.
Don't do that. Don't give me hope.

>>724542340
>>724542912
From what I remember, Kos was already dead and her entire concept is based off washed up dead whales that would get worshipped by cults, its possible the parasites were what actually killed her. What got the hunters in doodoo was what they did to the orphan and/or the people of the hamlet but the source of the curse was the orphan itself. I'm not entirely sure if the orphan was corporeal either, Mergo wasn't. And the game stresses the issues Old Ones have with procreation. It's probably not just regular old human-style fucking however.
So the nightmare curse may have been the orphan fulfilling the will of the hamlet people who worshipped Kos though it does seem particularly mad at Gehrman, putting him through the despair of being born an orphan again and again. Though I wonder if the punishment is somewhat self-inflicted. Many of the hunters are suffering from guilt while the actual blood drunks are having the time of their life in there. It may be in the nightmare, you get what you think you deserve and so the ones most plagued by doubt and guilt get it the worst.

Also I think Kos might be a former human since she has a very human face.

>>724543417
Kos was blatantly killed by the armada of whaling boats sunken along the coast.
Also pretty sure the first fishman you see ranting implies Kos was killed by the school.

>>724543303
Oh I knew that bit, and the lightning, and I think a long-necked okami women connection.
I'll just load up the game again

>>724543205
She was a huge fuckup who dragonrotted Ashina, which is only possible if you die a brazillion times
Which is funny because all her simps endlessly hype her up to the extent that Isshin almost seems enchanted
She and her child lord died as absolute failures
Probably best we didn't get the DLC though since aside from Old Hunters they tend to make the state of the lore even worse

lads, i think these foreigners look a tad weird...

Fear the oldfags

>>724543417
Kos having a human face plays into a mermaid image.
Where shes her life in love for a human man because she cannot walk on land with him. Sometimes because he loved another woman (in this case Maria).
Still can follow Gehrman being the father.

>>724542863
sex with right

>>724543532
>no harpoons in her
>lack of salty seadogs in the Nightmare
>absolutely stuffed with parasites

We are born of the dubs. Made men, of th e dubs.

>>724543578
She couldn't use the Mortal Blade, so she probably couldn't come back after death.

>>724543623
>where she's her life...
*Where she loses her life
I accidentally a word.

>>724543283
i can see how that'd be annoying. i just wrote it off as a failure to create another, or previous rom. the connections to annalise are vague as well, but neither of these impact the story enough to bother me. bloodborne is still a story of the church finding gods, using their blood to ascend, and it all goes awry.

i will say that with this new knowledge, as i never knew until i read your post that ebrietas used to be kos, it's quite clear bloodborne was being pulled in multiple directions and they had to rein it in. i read a post the other day that posited bloodborne was a direct sequel or prequel to demon's souls, as it was discovered years ago in the files that there's a "true moon presence" boss just like demon's souls, and that the idea is
>the fog? actually just a dream world
>demons? no, they're aliens
>demon scourge? the beginning stages of the beastly scourge, most likely still in its infancy because there wasn't a dumb priest in boletaria that took a look at the blood of the infected and thought "hmm so what if i injected it into my veins? maybe it'll heal me? these things look very lively after all haha"
>why does true king allant look like a giant squid? because that's how newly born great ones look, they look like aquatic beings because earth itself is probably the dream world of another god, and since dreams are layered, that means everything is just a incredibly large ocean of sorts
>why are there fluted armor knights and zombies healing with grass in the chalice dungeons? because the moon presence built yharnam on top of boletaria
zero evidence, but i sincerely believe it. hence, i think bb was being pulled in too many directions, from soft had a deadline, so things got shifted.

>>724543414
just sit in a pit in a depressed stupor for an unspecified amount of time, I'll drop you a note when we get word

Guys my neighbor is doing weird sounds, I hope he's doing fine

Guys my neighbor stopped doing the sounds I'm going to check on h

>>724543000
it's probably just bad UVing on the skydome they figured no one would see but it really does look like an eye doesn't it

>>724543774
>i read a post the other day that posited bloodborne was a direct sequel or prequel to demon's souls
Gross, DeS doesn't deserve that sort of hokey connection. It's such a great setting and story, underappreciated in fact.

>>724543635
>no harpoons
She has hands, she could have pulled them out
>Lack of salty sea dogs in the nightmare
Gherman was a janny, a good number of those hunters could have been former sailors.

The hamlet is like the heaven part of the nightmare, all those fish people were slaughtered but get to continue living undisturbed.

>>724543926
i thought that as well, so i actually checked every single skybox in the game like that.
hunters dream is the only one that had it, so I'm pretty sure it's intentional

>>724543921
oh hi anon, i am just fucking my wife, she might be a bit hairy desu

>>724543993
i don't have a dog in the fight, i wouldn't get mad or sad if later in life the connection was bona fide, but it's hard to ignore how reminiscent this is
https://youtu.be/GRmGLF3YWBA?t=21
of true king allant. or the fluted armor knights healing with grass in the chalice dungeons, etc. gascgoinge used to say the word "umbasa." luckily for you and history, miyazaki seemingly agreed with you
>hmm this seems a little out there even for me to connect this medieval setting to this victorian gothic lovecraft one. someone get me a coffee we have work to do

>>724543235
>>724544031
Well that's fucking spooky.

>>724544000
>The hamlet is like the heaven part of the nightmare, all those fish people were slaughtered but get to continue living undisturbed.
Actually now that I think of it, a lot of innocents got pulled into the curse, and they're not really enjoying it especially in the research hall. Even though infant old ones are beyond human capacity, its believable that they could wield great power but not necessarily the intellect. The Nightmare itself maybe isn't particularly malevolent or sophisticated in meting out karmic retribution, just a dream world everyone in the vicinity got sucked into.

>>724517347 (OP)
IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT

>>724543774
>and zombies healing with grass
What? Please explain?

>>724544237
I think the clock tower residents got sent there by being part of KoS, assuming the brain fluid was derived from her blood.

>>724544237
All the people who are brain experiments in the RH are apart of the church. To say their innocent is being very loose with the word. They all imbibe blood and participate in or are privy to the horrors there.

>>724528527
I'm dead.

>>724544379
What really gets me is how much fun the blood drunk hunters are having, in fact until we show up and kill them they're just enthusiastically bullying beasts. I'd expect them to be the hardest punished were it actually a hell set up to punish hunters. Then you have fields of emaciated skeletal corpses like Ludwig's arena, most writhing eternally, a few who can still speak. Who are those people? I don't think they're hunters. Were they victims of Ludwig's purges?

From needs to make a truly unique game like this again

>>724517836
why, my umblie cordie of course :)

hahah! :D

it's my uuuuumblie cordie! :) hahah

What do they eat? - my answer is, of course, my umblie cordie :D

hahaha!

>>724517836
BLOOD Pokemon pussy

>we all had her, but he married her
We must be better hunters

>>724543417
These things never make perfect sense past the rewrites but yeah, its probably based off of three things.
Whale cults, junji itos "the thing that washed ashore" and shadow over inssmouth.

I personally think Byrgenwerths experiments somehow attracted Kos or caused her to die, and those parasites were her augurs or phantasms. The villagers just assume theyre parasites.

The orphan lived because she died, which is an eldritch trope. The orphan was actually alive in the womb. Mergo on the other hand, was killed long ago with her mother, but its spirit lingered on in the nightmare realm.
I dont know if it was Kos or the Orphan who made the night mare realm, honestly

>>724537434
Why does Ludwig have two swords down there? He has his MLGS, but Ludwig's Holy Blade was built after his time as a homage to it.

>>724544879
Vilecucks never scored, Annalise can't get her hands on prime alien jizz so she has to send out her simps to drain it from healing church approved hunters except its all nasty and cold at that point
Oh did I say alien jizz out loud? Haha whoops. Fear the old blood!

>>724544783
If you've never gone out on a cold fall night and did the gascoign breath, you've never played this game right.

>>724545095
Lore is hard, Bloodborne lore is especially hard. I gave up drawing fanart for certain things because it was so easy to get lore wrong.

>>724541019
I dance like this.

>>724543578
Wasn't she doing it on purpose after a while?
Because the blood wouldn't let her die, but something something she wanted to die (her lord was gone? I don't know).

>>724544328
Enemies in the chalice dungeons can rarely heal by eating grass, and you can rarely find dozens of dead fluted knights in some treasure rooms

>>724546378
I'm pretty sure the dead fluted knight piles set dressing prop is actually recycled from early Dark Souls assets because it's also found unused in the Dark Souls files

>>724546584
Well I was actually just in a chalice dungeon and saw them, and its the one from Demons souls. But maybe its a model that was remastered and unused in DS1.
Theres also cut dialgue where Gascoigne says "umbasa".

>>724546779
I found it some years back when digging through the models in Dark Souls PTDE, well before Remastered was ever announced, iirc it was in the folder with all of the meshes for the Depths
came in two parts, the dead knights, and then some piles (which might have been textured with sewer gunk or more dead knights, I wasn't able to view them with textures)

Fear the old fag...

Was she actually Gascoigne's daughter or an imposter?

>>724550937
Wait, does the older sister's corpse ever lie around like that?
That quest confuses the hell out of me.

Will someone be online on Halloween?

Wich Soul level are you guys all?

>>724536378
I believe the reason why is because that ring signifies betrothal and baby making with an Old One

>>724551479
I've got a BL4, 31, 80 and a 125. That's covers most ranges.

Bloodborne threads were the most fun threads
No other From game compares (so far)

>>724551714
mostly because PC couldn't shit them up with their garbage takes, their sour grape-ing and shitposting was easy to ignore most of the time

>>724551606
You gonna invade or coop?

Im starting a new playthrough with friends, would love to see you spook us dude

>>724550937
Shes bullshitting because the little girl whos actually his daughter mentions mom and grandad. The mom is obviously dead and Henryk is her grandfather. Now why would she leave out her other sister? The girl clearly was some neighbor or friend who was going insane and coveted the other girls little ribbon.

>>724551916
Coop on the lower levels, invade on the higher levels.

>>724543417
Does it ever state where in the waking world the fishing hamlet was?

>>724543774
Yeah, I do believe it too. It was just DS2 but they kept messing things up (as from does) and it ended up as bb.

It actually bothers me because it just doesn't make sense. Apart from things like Laurence boss replaced with ebrietas, just think about nurse making 0 sense without og iosefka, or the ptumerians coexistence in modern yharnam

I remember reading the original story draft and it just make sense, not like what else ended up with. Dlc just made things even worst

>>724537882
I remember reading somewhere that Moon Presence used the hunt to finally have its "child/surrogate", and the slug ending is the culmination of that. 4D Chess type of gimmick. Given how fucking convoluted everything is, might as well believe in this since it's at least cool

I'm still mad that they weren't able to sort out having Lady Maria as a present NPC while also having her gatekeep the Hamlet
>The cut dialogue where she calls you "My good hunter"
Pure kino

>>724553121
Thematically it makes sense but I don't think that's what the Moon Presence planned for, considering none of it involved the cords and how it's upset at you for not fulfilling your role as the new Gehrman

People had baited me for years saying FRC chalices were hard and other than some slight annoyances (Like Bloodletting Beast's many oneshots) it wasn't that bad

>>724517836
Eachother

>>724519550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrjGCG6Bh4U

>>724553121
The surrogate child of the Moon Presence was Mergo, the invisible baby that you fucking murder. The cords give you enough of the power of the Great Ones to resist the Presence trying to possess you and turn you in to its servant, but as a result you turn in to a baby Great One. The doll will take care of you, don't worry.

>>724553193
something something not really her something something projecting herself while real body is in the clocktower etc.

>>724553871
But the Moon Presence is a female (named Flora) and Mergo is Queen Yharnam's child so that can't be. Yeah the world of Bloodborne might be full of horrors beyond human comprehension but thankfully homosexuality isn't one of them

>>724554118
That's where the surrogate part comes in, great ones make mortals have their babies for them, just like the whore gives birth to formless oedon's subtle berserk reference

>>724554118
I'm suprised, Loran seems like the kind of eldrich god that impregnates anything that moves including males

>>724554249
Oedon* got a bit confused there

>>724542905
>Old King of the Eclipse and Pontiff Sully have the same exact character and goals
What? Lothric and Sulyvahn are completely different characters
Lothric also got overhauled to where he's now too sickly to move around much on his own in the same final product where they forgot to take out the statue that shows him holding Sulyvahn's sword

>>724554236
The thing is that we don't really know if that's the case for sure, because some Great Ones can become pregnant themselves like Kos. Maybe surrogates is the approach male Great Ones take like Oedon or whoever impregnated Queen Yharnm while female ones fool men to take their seed (maybe the orphan's father was a sailor who got charmed by her looking like a mermaid or so)

>>724519550
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICSk8-pJkX8

I remember fighting him for the first time and getting teary eyes from just the fight/OST
so hype, this is just PURE bloodborne

>>724534059
you need
game iso
patch iso
old emu with unpack feature unripped
new emu
patches for light and textures still need to be applied

>>724554923
And DO NOT install Fromsoftserve's remaster, that shit tanked my frame rates for no reason

>>724554670
Wasn't Sulyvahn the Old King of the Abyss? Pontiff used to be Aldrich, right?

>>724518113
One of the things on that plate is a literal slimy brown asshole. Do british "people" really?

>>724555104
Not to mention he's retarded with so many of his changes. Sure some of it is cool like extended lod's and shadows, but he also forces shadows for everything when the game is clearly designed to have shadows and lighting set up in specific ways a lot of the time for mood and atmosphere (like basically all older games that didn't use raytracing did, and even ray traced games do some pre placed lighting to set up a scene) but he just blanket sets all shadows and lighting a specific way, so the mood and atmsophere is altered away from its intended purpose, as well as many areas just being overly dark for no reason.
His mod also makes meshes flicker in and out of existence all over the place because the game and especially the emulator is not in a state to handle everything he does yet

My PS4 broke recently and I can't play this game anymore :(

Anyone have 1440p working on the latest emu? It just crashes at boot for me. I have a 4090 so it should be able to work.
I heard the latest mainline shad works better than the bb fork now, but maybe it just works on the bb fork?
Using Shad WIP 0.11.1

>>724540001
>otherwise there would have been no point in buying it.
Erm... Your Netflix original anime?

>>724546378
>Enemies in the chalice dungeons can rarely heal by eating grass
Is there footage of this?

>>724555740
buy a new one goy

>>724557114
I'm saving up for a new shotgun so no. But I'll still lament i can't replay this kino this year.

>>724556730
I also tried to find this, so far i've only found people on gamefaqs talking about it. I'm sure there exists footage but google and youtube search is so fucking useless these days

>>724535092
Well I would also like the ability to warp between lanterns. And a boss rush mode.

>>724555272
>a literal slimy brown asshole
Others voted for one...

>>724557915
kys

>>724558110
why

>>724558161
To open the mensus.

it's a miracle this game turned out as good as it did. after finding out about all the cut content and the story/characters being switched around last second, i'm surprised the game is as coherent as it is

>>724558662
>men sus
Distillation of the thematic elements of bloodborne

>>724557221
Guns kill people, you know

>>724559196
I will be killing a lot of clay pigeons with it, that much is sure.

>>724543628
You can't
artist only draws lesbians exclusively

Bros I can't believe it I was actually accepted into Byrgenwerth!

>>724544328
>>724556730
>>724557356
That anon is talking about this video since it got posted in a recent bloodborne thread
https://youtu.be/ZiT1wLoMxmY?t=480

>>724555139
King of the Eclipse is just what they were calling Lothric at the end of the game after he transformed. There was no Pontiff character in the game period until they split off Lothric's final boss design into a separate character and there's various levels of speculation on if what eventually became the ulcerating tree spirit in ER was the original draft for the Gundyr fight or if it was supposed to pop out of the coffin in the Cathedral of the Deep and be the plan for the Aldrich fight.

>>724517347 (OP)
bloodborne is the poor man's project nortubel

>>724563140
nortubel isn't real
kill yourself

>>724520247
Based

>>724543774
that is way too much speculation based on what got removed from the game
What actually happened was that there were 3 planned phases for the Moon Presence fight and ultimately only one made it into the final game. Of the two others the "middle" form has unused assets and the artbook alluded to the winged attacks it was capable of but has never showed up in any remotely playable form in any of the builds of the game out there, while the final form is the one everyone knows about secondhand.
People took the third form in a broken boss rush chalice to mean that there was some grand unused plan for the chalice dungeons in the game's story, but the reality is the devs used the chalice dungeons for drafting and testing a ton of things the way most developers would have dummy maps for loading in enemies, testing enemy AI, etc. including most other unused bosses.

>>724525732
>oldfag got hunter's remorse
pathetic

>>724530514
God I love women

>>724518113
>Tomatoes on a vine
>Mushrooms that haven't even been cut once
>Crispy bacon
Literally no full English does any of these.

>>724553112
>or the ptumerians coexistence in modern yharnam
The Cainhurst bloodline are descendants of the Pthumerians, and they still exist in the Chalice Dungeons in the present tense.
We go to the Chalices through gravestones, but they're also just a place that you can physically go to in the real world.

>>724553193
Sister Friede is basically the only time they were able to get that to kinda work.
Malenia was another that was supposed to be an ally to the player who'd later become a boss.

Every time I replayed this game I'm reminded who's the best waifu/girl. She's just too cute.

>>724544560
Plot twist, all the generic beasts in the nightmare are the hunters reincarnated.

Oh the sweet (You)s. They sing to me.

>>724553486
/v/ managed to convince the rest of /v/ to not even do them at launch, because they were filler/fluff and everyone was already busy jerking off this idea that DaS had set such a high bar that the mere presence of them was an insult to brushed under the rug to make BB the best exclusive ever.

When I played BB finally nearly a decade after its release I found out that my friend who was really into BB never even did them nor fought Queen Yarhnam based on /v/ telling everyone to skip the "wasted content".

/v/'s autism is insane, who gives a fuck if the chalice dungeons are just the same repetitive level set ups with different enemies, you aren't doing every fight if you aren't doing them, you don't encounter Hound of the Old lords on the surface!

I fucking hate /v/ sometimes for shit like this, telling people not to use shields on Malenia was the other big thing, or telling people shields are bad in DaS III.

>>724567006
>Malenia was another that was supposed to be an ally to the player who'd later become a boss.
I hate , really hate ER and how unfinished it was.

>>724554670
You misread my post. I admit the transition was weird though. I wasn't saying Ocieros and Suly were the same.

>Lothric also got overhauled
I don't know, a character that was born to be a savior of a kingdom but ended up being a crippled homosexual would obviously be depicted as a healthy god tier ruler by his own kingdom.
No one depicted Baldwin IV's grotesque leper face.

>>724562982
It was clearly going to be a phase 2 of a final form of the Pus of Man. Tree Spirits have the same basic body plan as Pus.

Aldrich probably never even got a model, From Soft has supposedly (this might just be a /v/ meme though) been trying to make a DND inspired slime fight since DeS and scrapping in each time.

Aldrich was clearly the time they would get it right, except they didn't and had to re-conceptualize a way to fight him without him being a formless blob.

>>724568251
Shields are good in DS3 and Elden Ring, but they're not freebies you can add to any build anymore.
People have like 15 Endurance and then try to shield turtle against a Revenant and then complain that shields are useless.
You basically have to invest in them as much as you would any other weapon class. With Endurance replacing or being leveled alongside Strength or Intelligence or whatever.

>>724539460
ancient Egypt
Mesoamerica

why Maria so eepy

>>724569534
I know, I specifically did an entire DaS III run starting with the petrified shield and working my way to the Curseward.

It was fine, the only boss that gave me trouble was Champ Gundyr due to his improved stamina damage and surprisingly Aldrich and Soul of Cinder, because the former has a lot of magic attacks that slip past GSs and Soul has juggle slash grab you can't block through completely.

>>724569807
Anemia.
You should donate some of your blood to her.

>>724538393
Good take

>>724568251
I kinda look at it more in terms of retards getting what they deserve for being retards who let random people online dictate what they do. You're not wrong about /v/, but it's not exactly a secret or hard to figure out, and it's not like it's any better anywhere else when it comes to horribly shit takes.

>>724571247
I've never made a bad purchase off of /v/'s brutal criticisms, but I think at some point a population of faggots that like e-celebs started parroting their bad opinions.

In the souls community This was Matthew Mattosis, who was confirmed the source of "Shields bad in DaS III".

>>724542506
ER is still by FAR the most unfinished souls game to date. It is actually only 60% complete with anything after limgrave having only base mapwork done without any real content. Most of NPCs and their quests got cut, the world changing mechanics got cut, asteroid shit got completely wiped out, anything related to madness got cut (At least a few quests and npcs). The whole underground are was gonna stretch out throughout the whole map etc etc. The story is nonexistant since most of it is literally not present in the game (Like whole godfrey questline). Whatever characters and ideas you see in the final game are just prototypes.

>>724572204
I strong doubt anything involving changing the world map massively beyond what we got with Nokron was ever going to be included.
Fromsoft games avoid doing anything that involves changing the map except for big climax moments.
The Nomadic Merchant quest was cut, but that as far as I see it was the main mostly implemented quest that was axed. There was another with the Mimic Tear, but I don't see any evidence of that one getting any kind of mechanical implementation.

>>724571721
there's also a bit more nuance there because in this case, for example, it's not as simple as:
>anon says shields bad
>shields actually work just fine
>anon is full of shit reeerr

I happen to also think shields are bad in DaS3 and souls games in general, and it's not because they don't work or even because they don't make the game easier, because they do on both accounts, but because they are strictly sub optimal. In that sense they are bad. But me saying "shields bad" and then another faggot saying "shields bad" (but because he actually thinks they don't work properly) both sound the same to a random retard npc who just goes with whatever seems to be the most prominent opinion. That's why I say I tend to have little sympathy for those people. They are not even victims of disinfo, they are just too stupid to even discern what they are reading and have any clue about context.

feed or some say seed

>>724572204
That area looks like it just got turned into the minotaur gardens.

>>724572204
uhhh thats just Things Betwixt

>>724574730
>Betwixt
What a stupid fuckign word btw

>>724537434
Bloodborne has some of the best fanart of the series

>>724577363
I think it's consistent across all games, I especially love fan depictions of background lore.

>>724517347 (OP)
the hunter's eye can't see past 21 fps

>>724528297
I have to exit to main menu then load back in to fix some graphics bugs but I mean otherwise it seems fine to play
Killed the cleric beast then realized he is optional and I can't even progress that way cuz of a locked door or some shit
And this father gascone guy is graping me, if only there was margit's shackle or some shit to use on him

>>724581867
>if only there was margit's shackle or some shit to use on him
too obvious sis 3/10

>>724557383
lol

Schizos all over the shop... You will be one of them, sooner or later.

>>724557383
>Look inside the window and it's just brick walls.
This was worse than any tucked away graphical oversight in Dark Souls III.
From clearly knew that we'd want to take a look inside, what the fuck were they thinking?

>>724582695
A window should be left well alone.

>>724582695
I've seen a gorillion BB playthroughs and nobody ever looks into the window.

>>724582891
Playthroughs aren't for checking out shit little details, of course they didn't.
>>724582841
There isn't even a texture of the door on the other side, the door would open to bricks.
They could have modeled a complete room in there, in much the same way someone did the entire interior of the winter cabin in Fable before it transforms.

monsters = anons
hunters = janitors
old one = moot & hiromoot

>>724583132
>Playthroughs aren't for checking out shit little details, of course they didn't.
Right, but that's the majority of players. They don't give too much of a shit about people like you.

>>724583420
Ok, but then someone will unload their graphical oversight image folder of DaS II and III to make a point that their bad.

oh yeah it's BB time!!!!

Post your OC's!

>>724583991
Most people don't engage in social media where people do such things

>>724517836
Blood sausages

>>724517864
A hoonter must hoont

>>724578586
gorgeous

>>724522331
HIS HAT. WHACK
HIS CHAIN. WHACK
HIS CAPE. WHACK
HIS JACKET. WHACK
HIS CANE. WHACK
HIS GLOVES. WHACK
HIS PANTS. WHACK
THE WAY HE STANDS. WHACK
ME? IM DOPE AS FUCK

>>724578586
For me? It's pic related.

>>724567024
rawr

>>724536440
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAVrSh9SRLI

>>724587621
>MY LEG

>>724578586
>>724587196
For me

>>724524436
Wait I thought that they were saying "YOU MISCREANT RAT" this whole time...

>>724588191
heh

>>724580357
lmao this is suspiciously high effort
either a tf artist or they totally nailed the look

>>724588191
what's wrong with whale meat

>>724517347 (OP)
>dies in the first five minutes
cool lol

>>724582020
I'm afraid to use the music box because it breaks after a few times, what if I don't kill him and use it till it breaks? I'm fucked

>>724589119
Have you considered gitting gud?

>>724589119
It doesnt break, but if you use it 3 times he will go into phase 2 early

>>724587946
I really, really like this one. The Emerald Maiden having faith in you being able to overcome everything Nashandra has.

>>724527454
There is any explanation of why they have the doll body?

>>724536112
>sekiro was just a dream this one hunter was having while hitting his head against a wall.
Bravo miyazaki.
Shrouded by night but with steady stride, coloured by blood but always clear of mind.

>>724589578
for maximum spoopage
they probably look like someone else to another hunter

>>724587196
>omen tranny fanfiction

>>724589578
The Nightmare of Mensis and the Hunter's Nightmare were both at least partly created by Hunters that once dreamed and would have known the Doll.

>>724590625
How the fuck did Radahn even lose to Margit?

>>724545136
Kek

>>724590693
Margit is basically Batman.

>>724544630
:D

>>724590693
Morgott has mid-boss syndrome.
He's like Gwyndolin or the Pontiff.
Big hype in the lore, in the game he has to be balanced around a player with only mid-level stats.

>>724572204
Nice headcanon bro
ER is by far the most complete Souls game to date.

>>724590693
Had to have been a surprise attack.

>>724590991
It doesn't have any obviously unfinished areas, but it also probably had the least complete story.
Enough that Fromsoft had to patch out last minute story rewrites after release twice.
Its clear they focused on getting the map to work and left everything else for later. So you never have a Demon Ruins scenario, at least.

>>724540095
>Nightreign
>full of soul
Fucking kek
Kill yourself shill

>>724591510
Nightreign is full of soul, yes.

>>724554810
crying from fighting the cleric beast
this is something else

>>724591604
No, not at all

>>724589578
The winter lantern design didnt originally have a dolls body, so it isnt important.
But there is a scrapped enemy that is a doll with a bulbous fleshy head, and our doll is implied to have been made with Marias remains.
So maybe its just an experiment from Mensis, who are just throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks.
The reason why it uses the dolls model specifically is just reusing assets, and it makes them more nightmarish anyways.

>>724540095
>>724591510
There are some good aspects to Nightreign.
Like the Hero System is something I hope that they keep going forward.
Having an actual character with a plot to follow along, is nicer and paradoxically makes it easier to immerse yourself and adds replayability, compared to playing as a total blank slate.
Having a sorcerer archetype, a bruiser archetype, a John Dark Souls archetype, a dexfag archetype, and some weird one, would really cover what most players want out of any Souls game, and you can build out the style and plot attached to those characters to give them a sense of identity that people will latch onto.

Souls backgrounds have never had any more meaning than getting a player slightly closer to some build that they want to put together 20 hours later.
Nightreign giving that character creator choice some meaning was its best aspect.

>>724592431
>Like the Hero System is something I hope that they keep going forward.
God I hope they won't listen to stupid fucking retards like yourself

>>724592341
Yes, Nightreign is full of soul.
>>724592431
I didn't like anything you just said.

The medical metaphor videos were really well done. I didn't think a new interpretation of bloodborne was possible.

>>724591346
>M-Martin-sama...the portion of the story you promised to write...the rest of the game is nearly ready to ship...surely you are finished?
>Oh...okay...it can't be helped then... *bows furiously*
>Iyaaah! Forgive me Martin-sama, we will send another shipment of kobe beef as an apology for disturbing you!

>>724591346
>So you never have a Demon Ruins scenario, at least.
The shitty ass Consecrated Snowfields.

>>724593558
that place wouldn't be so bad if there was a checkpoint once you get to the boss so it's just an experience and not the most bullshit runback to a difficult boss ever created.

>>724592831
These videos? They are good yeah
https://youtu.be/SkNVKkYpgVU?si=fv6eDoZCPWTB6_YO

>>724593642
That is the DS2 snowfield.
Arguably better than the Elden Ring one.

>>724590693
This was before Radahn go really big and strong + no one knew about Margit/Morgott, who not only had the element of surprise but probably had much greater knowledge of Lendeyll's military and operations. Brains beats brawn.

>>724532765
>Cream first on a scone
kys Devon scum

>>724533614
Common Lovecraftian trope

Which enemy do you want to fuck the hardest?
Bonus point for unappealing to most.

>>724597642
>it is the hairy hunter that goes swimming
>with little fishy women

>>724590693
>A guy with the power to summon weapons of pure holy power is somehow a push over just because the other guy has gravity magic.

>>724597642
Mine is snailwoman. Not just for sexo but handholding and reassuring.

>>724597642
Witches are made for dickings.

>>724589518
>>724587946
The art is really cool, but it doesn't make that much sense when you consider that Velstadt and the other knights who followed Vendrick into the crypt were preventing Nashandra from claiming the Throne of Want. Can't be too picky when it comes to DS2 art though.

>finished bloodborne 3 times
>still get stuck on that cunt with the gatling gun
WHY THE FUCK DOES HE TWO-SHOT ME WITH HIS BLUNDERBUSS

>>724598624
Just do the Old Yharnam skip and befriend him early.

What's the latest version of shadmanps4 that runs the best? the very latest versions have had performance regression for a while now

>>724598624
Just stunlock him with your pistol as soon as you get up there. No one fights him fairly

>>724598203
It's been awhile since I played DS2, and I never actually finished the game so I didn't know that. Based knights serving their king and kingdom.

>>724572204
That's just Siofra river