Lexx

Damn, I'm "only" playing for 15 hours, but it feels like I'm already completely overleveled. Just defeated the Shadow of Yharnam on first try. I remember back in the days it took me a couple attempts to get it done... this was barely a struggle. Guess the game gets a lot easier once you have meta knowledge and know what to put skill points in / which weapon to use. Grabbed the Tonitus quite early and boosted it up and now I'm melting everything in my way.

Balance in Bloodborne is all over the place. I remember that oftentimes I found the generic mobs to be more difficult than the actual bosses. Majority of the boss fights I was able to win on first or second try, which is funny since I'm terrible at souls like games. The mobs on the other hand... Elden Ring on the other hand... I honestly can't go back to it. I like the style and feeling and stuff, but some of the bosses feel so frustratingly hard to me, I just don't want to anymore.

Is it just me or does the forum run terrible again in the last few days? I have lots of timeouts. What's going on, did I miss some game release?

tbh, sounds like something russia would want-- just anything that bleeds the EU and forces them to buy russian gas and stuff again.

Ah ****, here we go again.

Yes. Now I'm missing out on some endurance bonus thingy, which sucks a bit, but oh well.

And I'm still Bloodborning. Eileen just died in front of me. Henryk killed her before I was even able to get to her. Now I'm missing out on the fight at the Cathedral. God damnit.

Few years ago this felt impossible. Now it seems actually very feasible. Shame they didn't catch the booster again, but hey, maybe next time.

Nightmare blunt rotation.

There are some mods for the issues. I followed this tutorial and it's working quite smooth (see video comment for the mod list): Had one crash so far, and occasionally the sound doesn't work -- the sound issue is noticeable already on the main menu, though, and rebooting the game will fix it. So generally, so far, pretty good experience. They are also updating extremely fast. At this pace, I guess, maybe in a few weeks or early next year, the game is probably going to run super fine without needing any mods.

Oh boy, oh boy, I have just booted up my Bloodborne on PC with latest emulator. 60fps, higher resolution, NO INPUT LAG AT ALL. Input lag was the hardest boss for me when playing Bloodborne last time. Also it looks so much better than on the PS4, jeez. After so many years, finally. Didn't expected this to happen at all, tbh. F- Sony for not releasing an official PC version.

Starfield probably would have been better already if they just went with the Outer World-route and made like 2 or 3 planets and scrap all that generated content crap. Sometimes less is more.

That tells you how bad it was. For me it's funny, because we saw Bethsoft's decline ever since Oblivion. Every game they released got worse, but since you were able to make mods so easily, and the bare minimum gameplay loop was still fun, the majority of people never really cared so much. Starfield is just the next step down the ladder, and truth told, I have no trust in the next TES game either. They just can't do it.

Of course you'll need a game base first that players want to make mods for. That's the bare minimum you have to do. Actually Outer Worlds had a huge hype on release. Everyone was expecting FNV in space and it got a big amount of positive/hype reviews from "professional" reviewers.

The way I see it, nobody really cares about Avowed. Not sure if it's marketing failure or if nobody has any trust in it. Even me... I guess will check it out, but am I really hot on it? Nah, not so much. Also, it will just not compete with Skyrim. Forget it. The reason why Skyrim is still as popular as it is ... is because of it's modding community. Avowed runs on UE(?), so forget about that right away. People will play it once and then that's it. Same deal as with Outer Worlds. Nobody is talking about that one anymore now either.