by The Lich Tree » Fri May 22, 2015 8:19 pm
Been playing Bloodborne & Witcher 3.. been enjoying both quite a lot.
Bloodborne is fantastic and in my opinion leagues better than dark souls 2, it may lack as many weapons or armor sets but everything feels unique and there is quite a bit of depth in customization for weapons in the form of blood gems from what i can tell watching pvp videos.. as i haven't even gotten to the end of the game.. the game is difficult and the weapons are all a breath of fresh air.. each main hand weapon can transform and have an entire different set of moves so each weapon is like wielding two in one! with there being less in the game its easier to find the one that best suits you but takes extra time to master them because its like two weapon movesets in one weapon.. from what i have tasted and seen of pvp its a lot more fast paced and intense. Co-op works a bit differently and so does pvp but not in a bad way, just a little different.. the bosses are awesome and some will really kick your ass! then aside from that is chalice dungeons that have their own unique bosses and some not so unique and bosses from the main game.. the real kicker for chalice dungeons is they pay off with high level blood gems that can socketed into your weapons to make them even more devastating and you can get different versions of your main weapon that allow you to use different blood gems on them, that and you can have randomly generated dungeons from root chalices. The only thing else to mention is the awesome lore and the world design.. the only negatives i can think of is the game isn't very long and the chalice dungeons do not scale with each playthrough.
To sum it up bloodborne is fantastic and quite enjoyable ^_^ and made me feel much better after the hole in my heart Dark Souls 2 left me with.
Witcher 3
i haven't gotten very far in the witcher 3.. the open world is amazing and the prologue area took me a little under a whole day to complete everything in it and i probably missed a few hidden things in the wild.. the combat is challenging at times, of course i play on the second to last hardest difficulty and im sure the hardest difficulty forces you to do everything more precise... i think the game looks fantastic and i love doing witcher contracts.. hunting down nasty monsters and filling my bestiary up with lore entries is lovely...the game requires a lot of exploring to find better gear diagrams so you can craft good gear for your level, kind of makes sense shops wouldn't always have everything you need and it certainly encourages exploration.. the game also acts like an mmo in the sense of area levels.. its mix matched everywhere so you really have to keep an eye out.. that bandit camp you're riding up on to take down for some item diagrams might be too high of a challenge for you.. there's a lot of thinking ahead and a lot to do and perhaps two of my favorite things to do is play the card minigame gwent and get into fist fight tournaments. npcs and their quest lines are often more interesting compared to most open world games i've played, its fun to hear them talk and convey their worries or problems through expressions and you can often tell when someone isn't who or what the say they are but even then things can be tricky.. can i really trust this npc? for instance i did this quest and this lady seemed believable but when i helped her she turned out to be a bad guy and killed someone.. i didn't except nor did i take the extra time to find all the clues before talking to her. Whether or not you completed witcher 2, when starting up witcher 3 you can choose to simulate your witcher 2 saves on ps4 or xbox1 and after the prologue area you get your beard cut and a guy asks you some questions and based on what you choose changes the world and adds whole new questlines and dialogues.. i made a decision that led to witch hunts being reformed so now important characters like triss or yennefer have a problem with witch hunters among other witches you'll meet in the game... and this is cool really cool.. that whole quest lines only exist because of your choices.. that your choices make real impact within the world. unlike some other games i know *cough* dragon age *cough*.. seriously though i hate dragon age and bioware for that shit.. yes i killed Liliana in dragon age origins.. yes i do get to choose who lives and dies bioware because you gave us that choice and Liliana stepped up my grey warden and got knocked the fuck down. i hate bioware so much and i greatly dislike dragon age as a whole as its not that entertaining for me. never played mass effect so can't judge them there. but enough rambling witcher does have real choice and i heard that there are 36 different world states the game can end up in or endings.. dunno which.
it's a great game and i enjoy it very much.
thats what i been up to.
There would be a pretty good signature here if I was witty enough! Probably.
