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We’re going to be doing a hangout this Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Josh will be playing that whimsical little journey into friendship and laughter, Bloodborne. We will be watching him make friends with the inhabitants of that fairy-tale land.
The stream begins at 3pm Eastern US time. If you live in one of the civilized places in the world that doesn’t do the stupid Daylight Saving Time nonsense, then here is a timer to the stream so you don’t have to convert from Stupid Time to Actual Time:
The stream will be here when it goes live.
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Aw man, I’ll be driving for most of Sunday. Hope you guys record the stream! I’ve been having loads of fun with Bloodborne myself so I look forward to watching Josh stumble around in it.
Also:
“whimsical little journey into friendship and laughter”
Eh heh heh heh heh.
Well, they say you can’t spell “slaughter” without “laughter”…
Heads up: the link to the stream resolves to http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/twitch.tv/spoilerwarningshow
This is a 404.
Is this the time of year in Stupid Land where our time (Stupid Time) lines up with Actual Time?
I’m just happy that my robot overlords can convert and track them both.
I bought a PS4 specifically to play this game. It came in this morning.
The actual game won’t arrive until Tuesday. I can wait for it but miss out on the ability to play it over the weekend, or I can rebuy it digitally and have paid for it twice.
It’s a legitimate struggle at this time, let me tell you what.
Gonna make a broad generalization here, but you probably have at least a few, not saying if more than 10, games on steam you haven’t touched, or at least haven’t finished. Just saying :P
I also bought a PS4 specifically for Bloodborne. I also pre-ordered the collector’s edition from Amazon.
My PS4 arrived about two weeks ago, along with download codes for Last of Us, Infamous: Whatever, and Killzone: Whatever. After I downloaded them, my PS4 went dark until this Tuesday.
I am very disappointed that Pillars of Eternity just came out too, because I won’t be playing it for at least another week.
P.S. Bloodborne is really good.
Hope you guys have fun with Bloodborne! The game can be tough to commentate because the load times are very long (>30 sec) and you tend to die a lot, but it’s wonderful for me so far.
The load times could actually be useful for a stream – it gives the streamers some time to catch up on the chat box, and respond to comments. It also gives everyone a moment to catch their breath after laughing at Josh’s latest death.
They should print that feature on the back of the box.
Weren’t you competing with my Skype tabletop game the last time you did one of these too? Stop that! My players are also your fans.
It’s a conspiracy! They’re trying to destroy tabletop games! DAMN VIDEO GAMERS!
The one souls-like game I’ll never get to play…ah well, it’ll be nice to see Josh dying in it.
It’ll also tide me over waiting for WFTO to release :P
wow, what an eminently nice time for people in Europe … too bad I have other things that require doing :(
… hope there’ll be an archived version.
Aw, I can’t do Sundays. I have a standing obligation and also potentially a test-drive of a new old car. So, if you wind up needing names for an unplanned game, put mine in the hat, I guess, and I’ll watch the archived stream.
Any idea if we can expect Campster to join in? Then again, this may have the Dark Souls problem of not being able to easily collaborate with friends.
As much as I enjoy watching these hangouts I also want to go into Bloodborne blind. You usually move through more than one game so I might not miss it all.
Victory!! Love it when you guys do these.
… except that basically a million games have either just come out or were otherwise coincidentally purchased by myself within this last week, and I was hoping to get through some of them.
Ah what the hell, I can play them anytime :3
I’ll just point out that it would be even more difficult than usual to convert it to UK time, as Sunday Morning is when our Daylight Savings Time kicks in & our clocks all change…
(so we’re 4 hours ahead of you now, but by the time the stream starts on Sunday we’ll be 5 hours ahead)
… so yeah. The countdown timer is a Good Ideaâ„¢.
looks like 6am monday for me. Gotta pass.
‘STRAYA MATE
(Translation; “Me too. Also, we’re still under daylight saving here even though it’s well into autumn and, according to the official time, the sun is rising at 7am. What’s with that?”)
Oohhh yeah. It was just yesterday that I spent the entire day at a friend’s place playing Bloodborne :P Now to not forget the stream…
Bloodborne is looking to be a rather unique addition to the Souls series. It still has the same core gameplay loop (get mauled, learn, become the mauler), but the natural flow of combat is surprisingly different due to some very clever little changes.
It has always been massively beneficial to be aggressive in Souls games. You want to be in weapon range as much as possible. You want to dodge forwards, past the enemy’s attack, so you can stab them during their followup. Heck, to backstab if possible. If you know your running attacks stagger the enemy (Undead Burg, for example), then use those running attacks, interrupt their opening swing and just kill them. Get in, deal the damage, prevent the enemy from retaliating. That is how you git gud.
A lot of people played Dark Souls 1 very defensively. Hanging out beyond their weapon range, shields up, head down. It wasted time, but it worked just fine (mostly), because shields in DaS1 are really good. The game told you it was fine to play that way (and I like it for that, mind!*). If someone starts to play Bloodborne defensively however, then they’re utterly misinterpreting signals from the game. The parts I’ve played brought no incentive to hang back, except to get a quick heal in.
Bloodborne manages to convey that aggressive playstyle through mechanics better than any previous Souls game. When you are hurt, you can recover most of your lost life by hitting enemies. To parry an attack, rather than pushing their weapon aside, you shoot the bastard. Weapons have two forms, and switching between those two modes is an attack. Dodging to the side doesn’t turn you away from the enemy anymore, allowing more rapid retaliation.
I am very curious whether the game keeps that up. It’s still a Souls game, so odds are there’s That One Area where it falls apart a little. There’s a few things I’m wary of. Sadly I won’t be getting the game myself… It’ll be a bit until I know from firsthand experience. The worst. :)
* = Dark 1 is a really good place to start playing. It can be relatively easy. Demon’s and Dark 2, not so much. It’s the… Kindest Souls game.
Huh. I think this is the first time the hang-out has actually been at a reasonable time for me… Too bad I’ll be busy GMing a Ravenloft game.
I am going to buy a PS4 in a couple of days exclusively for Bloodborne. I did not care one way or the other for that console before, and likely would not have cared if it were available on the consoles I own.
…You know, when I say it out loud, I kind of sound like someone who’s bad at making financial decisions. And contributing to why the industry is so effed and divisive, what with exclusivity and such.
Still, me wantee. As much as I’d like to go into the experience fresh, I’ll try to make it to the hangout.
Sadly I’m working until 7:00 EST tomorrow. Bloodborne is the one reason I have to regret not having a current-gen console so hopefully they’ll be a VOD I can catch later.
i think they forgot :P