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Hunter
🕑 Added 2018-02-13 05:15:10 +0000 UTC This was a somewhat spontaneous sketch that wound up having more work done to it - I didn't plan to make an illustration out of it initially. Still, it's pretty cool, and I suppose, a bit different when compared to other stuff - still a bit rough, especially in non-essential areas, but not a colour scheme I use often- in fact, the saturation (or lack thereof) was a bit of a challenge.I've been playing Bloodborne a bit the during the weekend - for the first time, really. It's a neat enough experience. I look forward to playing more. It's designed pretty well and might help ease me into playing the previous FromSoftware games in the Souls franchise - I own them, but they've always felt inaccessible to me. I think a big issue was their designs, from early on, encourage the use of shields - making new players more passive, and scared. Bloodborne's lack of a shield means you have to be aggressive, and that's a lot more fun a way to play.
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BytesizeGrizzly
This, too, is true. They gave the players the option and made it too effective on top of that. It was an issue they created. Unintentionally, I would assume. You're right.
brellom
It was FromSoftware's fault - they couldn't be nice or mean.
BytesizeGrizzly
Well not outright because FromSoftware was being nice about it. Nicer about it than I would be. Which is understandable. Shields are nice but being as effective as they were nullified some of the tension in the games.
brellom
They didn't call them cowards - they just recognized that shields encourage passivity and have seen the flaw in their game design - introducing a shield so early in the game in the context of an environment that suggests shielding as much as you can.
BytesizeGrizzly
Very nice, "good hunter". I'm loving this. Bloodborne is a solid game. Dark Souls 2 is actually where the discouragement of relying on shields started. Only one starting class in DaS2 has a sheild and you have to used a crappy broken sword as the trade off. Also few shields in DaS2 block 100% physical damage. Bloodborne went even further to get the point across, basically calling people who use shields cowards via it's item description. Being as I never relied on shields in the Souls games, I felt at home playing Bloodborne. I still need to finish it though. I keep getting destracted by other games.
