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[Valhoven]

 

[Valhoven]

I’m assuming each shell has different backpack slotting because I’ve tried playing Assassin and he’s so limited I can carry ammo and a couple heals? Unplayable shell for me unless there are upgrades I don’t understand yet. Critical to play roles right in this, just like I’ve heard.

Game is so good. Love the VA. The abilities feel impactful.

Right now struggling with identifying healing or items in general. It’s all a big mash and visually hard to discern.

 

[Zazen]

Part of me can’t help but think From Software had their ego bruised a bit knowing Bluepoint made a superior product to the original Demon’s Souls game. They will never ever be on that technical level. Sony should have kept them around for something else. Why not one of the uncharted or god of war games stuck on the portable machines?

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Jason Schreier says Bluepoint pitched a Bloodborne remake and Sony was interested. Guess who rejected? From.

Interesting. It’s Hidetaka’s fave game, he’s said. Can’t tinker with his baby.

I guess it’s time to retire the Bloodborne hopium memes. Never going to happen.

 

[Bacco]

Jason Schreier says Bluepoint pitched a Bloodborne remake and Sony was interested. Guess who rejected? From.

Interesting. It’s Hidetaka’s fave game, he’s said. Can’t tinker with his baby.

Good choice imho, props to Hidetaka
BP are good with tech but had the habit of put their own flavor to things, and From games imho don't need any of that, let alone their masterpiece

Want BB remake just pay From to do it, or even better pay From for a legit sequel or some new exclusive instead let them waste time on Switch doing Duskbloods

Personally would love BB remake, but add some new stuff
If i could chose would love some huge vileblood themed castle with a totally-not-Dracula vileblood Boss with Messmer evel aura... i mean i understand why they did'nt went too much there first time (vampires are so iconic that focus more than how they did would have broken the balance of BB horrors), but if we speak expansion i say go for it, SotN that shit

Or better, Sony pay From for SotN remake BB style

Sony
From
Konami
Bacco
Everybody wins

Why world can't be this good?

 

[GtehMVP]

Part of me can’t help but think From Software had their ego bruised a bit knowing Bluepoint made a superior product to the original Demon’s Souls game. They will never ever be on that technical level. Sony should have kept them around for something else. Why not one of the uncharted or god of war games stuck on the portable machines?

Not that he'd ever shit on them openly, but since playing the remake, I imagined Miyazaki was appalled, or at least really disappointed, by how badly Blue Point butchered the details/themes of Demon's Souls. Now that we know he put the kibosh on a BB remake from them, I'm not surprised he said fuck that.

With little verbal exposition, and next to no cinematics, Miyazaki meticulously tells his stories in the vast texture details, sounds, and character models, of his environment storytelling as much as through item descriptions.

Blue Point either didn't get it, or didn't care to, focusing mainly on gameplay, and making the environments look incredible (which they do) without any thought to original intent. I noticed a bunch of issues, but two are ingrained in my mind that annoyed me.

Latria
I don't know if you played the OG, but I did, for the first time, fairly close to my playthrough of the Remake so it was fresh in my head. In the OG, right off the bat you're hit with dread. There are swarming bug sounds you'd associate with death, and some guy moaning really loudly. In the remake, you're almost immediately hit with a beautiful melody, making it feel almost tranquil instead of this oppressive nightmare. You don't find respite with the singing Queen until you've suffered your way to her floor. They almost skipped all the suffering. It would be like hearing mommy milker Gwynevere's uplifting song as you fight your way through Anor Londo, before facing Ornstein and Smough. It's a massive tonal shift

Fool's Idol
In the OG, she served a means to dupe inhabitants as a false deity (something like that) of goodness/hope by the Monk and his demons. No one is getting duped by what Blue Point changed her design as.

original: beautiful goddess, golden aura, false hope dupage understandable

Remake: horror setting and demon looking thing instead of hopeful goddess. No one is getting duped by this lol

It would have been harder for Blue Point to fuck up Bloodborne though, as less needed to be done. The game really only needs a texture upscale and 60 FPS patch with better loading times. I don't blame Miyazaki for not letting them touch it though, just wish he'd put some From Soft team in to give us a proper remaster like they did with Dark Souls 1. That could have been more ambitious, but at least the framerate was a slot smoother, and Blight Town wasn't near unplayable.

 

[method115]

Part of me can’t help but think From Software had their ego bruised a bit knowing Bluepoint made a superior product to the original Demon’s Souls game. They will never ever be on that technical level. Sony should have kept them around for something else. Why not one of the uncharted or god of war games stuck on the portable machines?

After the from situation and ND with tlou part 1. I’m wondering if Sony was having trouble getting studios to agree to having their games touched. God of war is being done by Santa Monica. I know Todd Howard also doesn’t seem willing to let anyone else touch fallout again.