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Elden Ring or Bloodborne
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Bloodborne is my fourth favourite game ever. Elden Ring is great, but it is not up there for me. So yeah, easy answer for me.
Elden Ring isn't just the best game From has made, its in contention for the best videogame. Tell me when Bloodborne isn't stuck on PS4.
Elden Ring for sure, Bloodborne is second worst only to Demon's Souls. The gothic shit is just super uninteresting, the game didn't interest me until you get enough insight. Gameplay wise it's also super limited with build. The transforming weapons are gimmicky (it's just like switching weapons). None of the bosses are memorable besides Gascoigne and the end game ones. The gothic architecture and design just reeeaaally don't do anything for me
I like them both.
Bloodborne was the first Souls game I beat before going back and revisiting the prior entries. So for that alone it has a special place in my heart.
Elden Ring proves that you can have an amazing open world game primarily built off great combat and exploration.
Bloodborne was the first Souls game I beat before going back and revisiting the prior entries. So for that alone it has a special place in my heart.
Elden Ring proves that you can have an amazing open world game primarily built off great combat and exploration.
ask after elden ring dlc comes out or is confirmed to not be happening, cuz old hunters makes bloodborne at least 50% better
BB had like 4 good boss fights not including dlc. People always bring up the hit or miss elden ring end game bosses but like Bloodborne ended with Rom, one reborn, micolash, wet nurse, Gherman... I one shot all those bosses and it was my first souls game. I love Bloodborne but I think people got a little too much nostalgia for some of the bosses.
Bloodborne is a tight, brilliant, masterpiece game.
so that makes it 15 out of 10?..
so that makes it 15 out of 10?..
I don't understand the correlation between killing the boss in the first time with how the boss is good?
Bloodborne.
Elden Ring has better controls, but that's all I personally can give it. I have not had much fun against the ER bosses, as I found them tedious and boring. I mostly just wanted to cheese them. In Melenia's case, I absolutely did.
I look forward to reading more about ER's lore, but Bloodborne's is so damn good. The setting and style of BB is just so incredibly beautiful. ERs world has some cool parts.
edit: ER had respec, which honestly should've been something From brought along years and years ago. The only reason I'll do NG+. Such a great addition.
Elden Ring has better controls, but that's all I personally can give it. I have not had much fun against the ER bosses, as I found them tedious and boring. I mostly just wanted to cheese them. In Melenia's case, I absolutely did.
I look forward to reading more about ER's lore, but Bloodborne's is so damn good. The setting and style of BB is just so incredibly beautiful. ERs world has some cool parts.
edit: ER had respec, which honestly should've been something From brought along years and years ago. The only reason I'll do NG+. Such a great addition.
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I think BB is the better experience, but ER is the better game. Before ER I think I would clearly recommend BB if only one game can be chosen from their catalog. Even though for me ds3 had significantly more replayability, BB had to be experienced once. It's a much harder choice between BB and ER and I would not be able to just blindly recommend one over the other if asked.
I dropped Bloodborne, but completed Elden Ring. For me...it is Elden Ring. Both games are great in their own way, though.
Because the bosses weren't interesting, and were a cakewalk to kill. Weren't memorable at all. Usually when you say a boss is good, it has interesting mechanics and abilities that require you to learn and adapt, that in most or all cases take more than one try. I don't remember a single boss I killed first try thinking that was a top tier boss, but maybe that's just me, and this falls under other games and genres.
Do you think any of those bosses I listed were good, especially for end game bosses?
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Elden Ring.
But you are asking this in a PS centric forum OP so expecting BB to lose is not an option. Lol
But you are asking this in a PS centric forum OP so expecting BB to lose is not an option. Lol
Bloodborne is better paced and there's way less running into areas you're way over-leveled for. Less repeating bosses too (normally I wouldn't mind especially with the sheer number of bosses in Elden Ring but some of them show up in weaker forms kind of making the "real" versions a bit disappointing to encounter).
Its still pretty close but Bloodborne just feels tighter.
edit: Sekiro is tied for best for me.
Its still pretty close but Bloodborne just feels tighter.
edit: Sekiro is tied for best for me.
Bloodborne, it's my favorite game of all time. I like ER, and DeS and DS1 a lot too, but only Bloodborne makes mutilating monsters with an axe feel as smooth as ballet.
Bloodborne is the only From game I gave finished where the arse didn't just fall out in the second half. So it wins by default. Also it's one of my favourite games of all time with amazing art style, music, mechanics, boss design etc.
Easily Bloodborne. It was more interesting in every way for me and dodge step > roll. Amazing bosses Lovecraftian stuff works better with their types games and storytelling too. Overall best music out of all the Fromsoft games. I even preferred chalice dungeons to the ones in Elden Ring.
My only issues with Bloodborne is having to farm for blood vials and that it's stuck on console .
Elden Ring is still my favorite open world though, by far. Didn't think a modern open world game could actually create a genuine sense of wonder but then Elden Ring proved me wrong.
My only issues with Bloodborne is having to farm for blood vials and that it's stuck on console .
Elden Ring is still my favorite open world though, by far. Didn't think a modern open world game could actually create a genuine sense of wonder but then Elden Ring proved me wrong.
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Kinda silly to choose, they are such drastically different games lol. But hey, I'll play....
As someone who almost exclusively played Dark Souls games & Bloodborne for years prior to ER (It's all that is on my PS4 and has been for a LONG time lol), ER is everything I wanted it to be and beyond. Still playing, still loving it, and like I said in the first line of this post, such a drastically different game, but if I have to pick one I will choose ER.
The variety in enemies, bosses, environments and the ungodly amount of playstyles you can use and be successful is mindblowing at times.
There is so much to unpack and every day I discover new stuff. While I altered back and forth between the Souls games and BB over the years, I think I will be exclusively in ER through this year and well into the next.
Also, "cheeseing" things in this game (or any Souls game) is robbing yourself of the joys of a successful win against a tough enemy. Personal opinion of course ;)
As someone who almost exclusively played Dark Souls games & Bloodborne for years prior to ER (It's all that is on my PS4 and has been for a LONG time lol), ER is everything I wanted it to be and beyond. Still playing, still loving it, and like I said in the first line of this post, such a drastically different game, but if I have to pick one I will choose ER.
The variety in enemies, bosses, environments and the ungodly amount of playstyles you can use and be successful is mindblowing at times.
There is so much to unpack and every day I discover new stuff. While I altered back and forth between the Souls games and BB over the years, I think I will be exclusively in ER through this year and well into the next.
Also, "cheeseing" things in this game (or any Souls game) is robbing yourself of the joys of a successful win against a tough enemy. Personal opinion of course ;)
what does that have to do anything, lol
and still that PS centric forum shit?! another lol
I feel like people gloss over Bloodborne's issues. Loading is bad, performance is janky, base game difficulty curve is a bit busted (gets easier closer to the end), fighting other Hunters isn't great, some average bosses, Challice Dungeons are bad, and honestly I think the best content and level design is front loaded.
It's still a great game for sure, and I have no issues with anyone choosing it over Elden Ring... but like all From games it's far from perfect. Both are likely in my all time top 10 anyway.
It's still a great game for sure, and I have no issues with anyone choosing it over Elden Ring... but like all From games it's far from perfect. Both are likely in my all time top 10 anyway.