I’ve been a fan of ign since 2011, kinda funny since the beginning and the comedy button since 2014 thank you so much for the feedback Brian,kinda funny and all the best friends!
Back when bloodborne first came out, One of my favorite moments was hearing about Brian figuring out the game and saying he felt like a “Goddamn champion” when he beat the blood starved beast.
I think the craziest shortcut is when you go into the caves in the Forbidden Woods and you take two long ass ladders up and walk along a rooftop and walk a bit. All of a sudden you are back at the beginning of the game. gawd level design of madness
Altano and Tamoor joining KF to talk about one of the best PlayStation exclusives ever?! Hot damn, this is one of my favourite PS I Love You XOXO episodes!
Same thing for me! I got stuck because I complete forgot how to upgrade my weapons and they were all broken I was lost in the dark for years and thought it was impossible but now I beat it.
@@Caveboy0 hell yeah man! I was stuck at vicar Amelia forever and when Greg started playing it I thought I’d pick I back up. Never thought I’d love the game as much as I did and I’m so glad I gave it another shot
Sometimes I have a fever dream where I open RUclips and Andy's full Bloodborne playthrough is on this channel or his... and then I wake up from that wonderfully happy dream.
On the story of the game: For me this is one of the most philosophical games ever. One of the key themes is existentialism with a question: "how can we transcend to a better human?" This question from Niztche & Dostoevsky to Camus was about a balancing between beast and being insanity on a way to a "superhuman". And this is shown not only in the factions: William vs Lawrence, but also hame mechanics, antagonising Beasthood and Insight. And this is amazing how this game conveys these ideas without proper dialogue or story, just through own discovery.
It really is one of the most underappreciated aspects of the game. It floors me to think about how well they fit these ideas into the game with so little exposition.
This was a great podcast, I hope you do it for Sekiro as well at least, would be great to see these for games that could've been overlooked by the community. Sekiro at least has the Fallen Order combat comparison that may convince new players.
I remember achieving the platinum trophy for Bloodborne and experiencing that genuine feeling of achievement. It wasn’t just the extremely challenging difficulty that made me fall in love with this game but it was also everything that came with it. The lore, the story, the gameplay, and the world. The risk-reward factor was also just so addicting. I’d give anything to experience this game for the first time again! Fear the old blood!
Not to mention, The Old Hunters DLC is some of the best DLC for a game you can play. It truly expands on the lore and offers some of the most unique enemies and areas in all of Bloodborne.
So glad y'all did this ep, and thanks in general for making Bloodborne your January game because it helped give me to courage to try it out myself. For years I've counted Bloodborne among my favourite games but up until a month ago I'd never actually played it. It's like what Tamoor wrote in a couple weeks ago and what he echoes here at one point - the gameplay in this game mightn't be for you (and that's perfectly okay!) but the way From tell the story, the design, the structure of the whole thing...all of that on its own is worth diving into, even if it's just through watching videos on youtube. I stumbled across a walkthrough years ago and I watched the first ep because that gothic architecture and gorgeous skybox mesmerised me. I saw the gameplay and immediately knew it wasn't for me but I wanted to see more of the world, so I kept watching. We met Gerhman and Eileen and Iosefka, and I listened, captivated, as the player pieced together the world through the scraps we were fed through item description, and even sometimes item location. I still remember the moment the player went back to Iosefka and pointed out how strange it was she was acting like she just met us...and just why the heck was she now holding a weapon? Over and over this video series kept introducing me to ways of telling a story I'd never seen in games before and, for me, that's the genius of From and Miyazaki. I kept thinking about if I'd been the one to play it. If I, Average Jane gamer, made my way through this popular horror game called Bloodborne and what my reaction would have been to Iosefka and the truth is...I would have never found her. In the beginning when I got off the bed and went downstairs and died to the werewolf and went to the dream and picked out my weapons and spawned back in to the clinic, I never would have noticed that the room I woke up in was now closed off and even if I did, why would I go up there? I'd want to go forward, to the wolf, to outside, to progress. I would completely miss out on a really cool twist, I'd miss out on an alternate location to send my npcs, and if I didn't find her in the woods, I'd miss out on Cainhurst entirely AND an item that can help you unlock the third ending of the game. From games taught me what games could be, and I don't mean to say that they're without flaws or even that every game should be like this (despite what obnoxious Souls fans would tell you), but I just can't recommend enough checking them out, whether it's through playing or watching or reading. FromSoft has this ability to to create striking, wondrous cities and drops you into them not in their prime but when they're broken-down and decaying and full of horrors. They not only place you in these worlds with a task for your character (seek paleblood to transcend the hunt), but with one for you too. They ask you to find out what happened to the world like they're not even really sure themselves, like they're just passing on the scraps of lore they found, and never is this design more successful, in my opinion, than in Bloodborne, wherein the very nature of the game is that everything is already beyond our comprehension. If we only had more eyes... Anyway, this brings me to a month ago, after years and years of watching playthroughs and lore videos on youtube and pouring over official art design and unofficial fanart, and laying in bed in the middle of the night and instead of thinking about all the embarrassing things I did when I was younger like I usually would, a thought would catch in my mind, would worry about in my brain, and I'd start thinking, well just how long IS the night of the hunt, and before I knew it three hours had passed and I was elbow deep in theories on reddit. I'd seen the resurgence of interest in the game on my timeline and I started to think that maybe I should finally give it a go. I usually play games on easy, I'm into them as narrative, interactive adventures, not as challenges I have to conquer, but a few years ago I'd taken the plunge with Dark Souls 3 and had surprised myself by getting through it. Maybe it was finally time to try my hand at Bloodborne. I'd never been keen on the mechanic of healing as a resource you have to acquire, and Gascoigne has always scared me, but I thought if nothing else, at least I can wander around Yharnam - that city and that skybox still remain my favourite thing about the game. And yesterday I finished the game, DLC and all. I didn't do it on my own. I pulled up that same playthrough I found years and years ago - epicnamebro's Bloodborne walkthrough (ruclips.net/p/PLQDWoXFQ-YLqnVUES5NZmzh8sQ3VrOnnP) - and let it function as my guide. This isn't the way for everyone to play but if you've ever tried and bounced off Bloodborne, if you've ever looked at gameplay and thought it was beyond your skill, try watching an ep of this and then go do what he did. I can't begin to express how helpful this series is. He shows you careful approaches to areas (as careful as Bloodborne ever gets anyway) and gives you genuinely useful tips that the game never really explains. Having trouble hacking away with your saw cleaver five, six, seven times at the brainsuckers or the aliens in the woods? One carefully timed thrust attack with the right weapon annihilates them. The kidnappers kicking your butt? Two poison knives and some distance is all you need. At the end of the day it's still on you to defeat the enemies, you're still facing down giant bosses than can - and will - kill you in two or three hits, but this guide makes the game feel less punishing. Even if you never plan of playing Bloodborne, this is the guide I recommend for people who are curious about what makes Bloodborne and From Software games in general special experiences. Some lore and gameplay aspects in the guide are dated, what with fandom discoveries and patches respectively, but the careful, explorative way epicnamebro shows and explains things, whether it's lore or level design or hidden gameplay mechanics, is invaluable. Then when you're done there watch Vaati's vids, and group lore discussions with Redgrave and Jerks Sans Frontieres and Sinclair Lore and Aegon of Astora, and then google random questions at 2am and find people who think Redgrave's 108 page essay Paleblood Hunt is nice if you only want to scratch at Bloodborne on a surface level, and then watch LobosJr kill Ludwig using only bare fists, and then start greeting other Bloodborne fans with a simple 'Michael' because you've watched more episodes of Prepare To Try (now RKG) in the last three years than you've watched episodes of television, and then just accept that Bloodborne is a part of your life now and there's not much you can do about it.
I got "stuck" with Demon's Souls copy because Gamestop only had PS5 bundles. Never planned on playing it but after Miles Morales, it hooked me. Just beat Dark Souls 3 last night and plan on going to Bloodborne next. This video is psyching me up real good! Well done, fellas.
That’s awesome. I avoided these games prior to Bloodborne because of how people talked about it. Sounded completely unfun. Tried Bloodborne when it came out as a lark and it became my favorite game of all time. Then I played them backwards; Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls, Demon’s Souls. Now they’re my favorite series.
@@n2nother Nice! I tried Dark Souls 2 when it came out and went the wrong way and banged my head against a wall for 2 hours and gave up. Glad I gave these games another shot because now I'm hooked.
I got the platinum at 2 am Sunday morning and was so hyped I couldn't sleep. 6 years between my first trophy and getting the Plat. So long ago some of them don't even have screenshots. This was a great show and a great way to celebrate this game.
really appreciate non-expository lore which i first experienced in DS. connecting each character’s stories, item’s histories with the world seems to be more memorable to me.
I got my butt kicked in by Father Gascoigne and almost gave up. Stuck with it and platinum'd the game in 3 weeks! Thanks for this excellent episode and for Bloodborne month gents!
Glad everyone played it and liked it, finally. But I do wonder how much of the atmosphere and exploration was lost by streaming it in groups. It's more of a fighter, in that sense.
Wow, having Tam and Brian on is incredible! Bloodborne was my first soulslike. Over the years is has become top 2 favorite games of all time. I have a bloodborne tattoo. The world and story and combat is like nothing else out there. The lore and mechanics is the most interesting a game can be.
I got back into Bloodborne because of Greg's playthrough and fell in love with the game. Yesterday I popped the platinum and this may be the platinum I'm most proud of.
Bloodborne is one of my all time favorite games. I first played on release, and Vicar Amelia made me quit lol. But I came back later that year, and conquered it. Since then I've put over 500 hours, and platniumed it. I last played it a few months back when I did an Arcane run, and that changed the game for me.
I don't have enough time on my hands to listen to kinda funny as much as I'd like. Following greg since Beyond! But you all are an utter delight. The last of us remastered was the first game I owned/played on my ps4 because it came with my console. I beat the last of us and right as I was burnt on multiplayer, Bloodborne came out. That was my 2nd game on ps4. I played no other game for two months. I got the platinum and I continued to put hours into this game.
So hearing Greg, Andy, Bless and everyone talk Bloodborne over the last few months and now do this podcast with Brian and Tamoor I’ve decided to go back to it. I played it years ago and think I got to the Witch of Hemwick and put it down. This time I’ve just got to the Blood Starved Beast and I’m struggling lol. Currently farming to give myself a chance.
I’m very glad this panel mentioned the atmosphere of Bloodborne and Soulsborne in general is so different and enticing that you just look for more fiction outside of games like that. I nosedived into Lovecraft works, read the entirety of Berserk, found Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun which feels vague and cosmic like the lore establishes. It’s like getting spicy food and just wanting that kind of dark, foreboding spice wherever you can.
Man, just, wow. Never thought we'd be here. My favorite Podcasters ever, discussing my favorite game ever extremely in depth. I got choked up at some of the stories, I had a shit eating grin from ear to ear basically the entire episode. This is easily my favorite single episode of any podcast ever. Thank you guys soooo fucking much for doing this. 💖💖💖
Thanks for reading my comment on the show! I'm so glad they did this. Just having Brian and Tam together to gush about this game is exactly what I've wanted.
While you may not be able to pause the game you can just quit out and it will reload you exactly where you left off, unless your fighting a boss in which case it will spawn you outside the boss door. The game saves constantly. Kill an enemy-save. Pick up an item-save etc.
I got stuck for a little bit the first time but I kept trying because the concept interested me enough, after I got past gascoin, I couldn’t stop. One of my favorite games ever. I even helped someone on Twitter get past a roadblock of not knowing how to level up bc of the need for insight. It was a great feeling seeing him tweet back a day after saying he found out how to level and is in love with the game.
I haven't beat bloodborne yet, so Ill come back to this, but I just wanted to say thank you to Blessing and Greg and all the other Kinda Funny people like Andy who have been playing Soulsborne games. It's finally got me to try one (bloodborne) and it's amazing. I am a fan and can't wait to platinum this and the other soulsborne games.
I've owned this game since 2019 and never touched it. I picked it in December last year and got hooked it was weird timing since last month it seemed like everyone started playing it. I'm not a FromSoft gamer but there is something about Bloodborne that's different. I actually love this game it's became one of my favorite exclusives and one of my favorite games in general. What an amazing journey beating this game
Thank you so much for this review. Nothing makes me happier than hearing people talk about the things that they love! I love Bloodborne so much and I'm so happy that more and more people are getting into. I think I actually got the Platinum Trophy in the same month as Brian, so that was cool to hear. Thanks again guys!
Great podcast. I haven't beaten the game. I got stuck at Rom and meant to come back to it. I loved it, but just needed a break from it. I'll definitely try to go back and finish it.
I feel like saying the game isn’t difficult isn’t accurate either. Unless we’re willing to throw out that games aren’t easy either. Saying that it’s not difficult, it’s just that you haven’t learned how to play well yet, is like EVERYTHING in life. Building a house, learning to pole vault, buying your first car, are things that are difficult and get easier the more you do them. What makes them “hard” is how long it takes you to cross that threshold before you feel completely in control. If all it took was up to Father Gascoigne, then the challenge has been met, and you’re ready for the next challenge. What makes Bloodborne so good, in my opinion, is that it escalates the difficulty real well so, unless you are far too OP, that you feel that level of challenge and difficulty just enough to feel the wave of satisfaction after you defeat a boss or tough section of the game. So many see the game as being about punishment, and I get it, if you’re stuck and can’t get past a boss, it feels like punishment, but I think Bloodborne is more about accomplishment and excelling against the most difficult of odds. This game will always be very special to me and it was my first souls game (other than dabbling with Demon’s Souls back when it came out). And they do plant those seeds that Tam was talking about, but I don’t think it was Lady Maria, it was Yamamura the Wanderer. He is from an eastern land and has a very samurai looking armor set.
Living for this discussion. Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time and I think this could've easily been a 12-hour podcast. I just want to give a special shout-out to the genius weapon design with respect to the 2-form melee weapons and transform attacks. Currently attempting a gun-only run with the Evelyn and Reiterpallasch and it's a different game.
Great show, all. Loved having Tamoor and Brian on talking about why they love the game. Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time, and I love seeing more people discover all of its hidden secrets.
The night, and the dream, were long... Great review on this game. This game has such a way of just crawling into your subconscious and I play this along with Breath of The Wild yearly. By the way you should do a Zelda BOTW review around the 4 year anniversary.
This is awesome. I’m just getting into bloodborne right now. Never played it until just recently. Can’t believe I passed on this for so long. Bloodborne is a masterpiece
I've been watching FightinCowboy to help on things I might have missed and to see what is ahead. I'll watch Zeus's speed runs to just see some of his techniques, not for speed running but just his methods in general. Plus his commentary is great. "The booty slap! " - Zeus I got stuck on Cleric Beast in 2015 and now I'm about to fight Mergo's Wet Nurse. I love this game but it kicks my ass.
And I’m over hear having beat Rom on my first try on my first playthrough. Vicar Amelia and Martyr Logarius were the two bosses that gave me a hard time.
everyone struggles differently. thats one of the great things about this game. i smoked Amelia my first go around. Rom was awful and same with Micolash
Brian touched on my favorite thing about souls games at about 27:00 - they feel like a real adventure because your enemies actually do NOT want you in those areas and WILL kill you if given the chance. In a lot of games everything is just too inviting and enemies are like waiting for you to kill them.
Listening to this has gotten me to retry Bloodborne for the 3rd time.....while also trying Dark Souls on Switch. I'm thoroughly enjoying both after doing more research on issues I was having during my first few plays!
@@TheAndyCortez I’m a teacher so my students have definitely made me aware of mine, doesn’t keep me from still saying them though haha. I just listen to so much of kinda funny content that it kinda makes me feel like one of my students haha.
@@TheAndyCortez do you find that you develop some from your co stars, because I especially notice similar ticks or tendencies between Greg and blessing, have you developed any of the same ones as Nick?
@@Cooplord564 yea absolutely. Even from shows I watch or podcasts I listen to. Some sayings are good for transitioning and some are great for putting the listener in your shoes to get them to understand how you feel.
Glad you guys finally got into the game. Another creator that deserves a shoutout for Bloodborne content is EpicNameBro. He acted as a sherpa for me with his Let's Play Walkthrough and does an amazing job covering the lore. In fact, he was part of the team that made the official Player's Guide for the game. After I would play through an area I would watch him go through it, understand the lore, and discover tons of stuff I missed. It made my first playthrough so special. Nowadays ENB doesn't upload to the old EpicNameBro channel, but you can find him on Twitch under the same name.
My moment that will stick with me forever is the moment you kill Rom and wake up in yarhagul for the first time greeted by a giant fucking amygdala staring down at you. Gave me the creeps. Then walked out and saw more of them on the walls and I was like yeah get me the fuck out of here. Lanterned back to central yarnham only to realize they were everywhere. They scared the fuck out of me but I couldn’t look away. I love this game so much. I have the hunters mark combined with the moon rune tattooed on my sternum.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not mean that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." -H.P. Lovecraft. I mean... if that wasn't a huge inspiration to Bloodborne, I don't know what is. Sums it up so well.
Greg: “ Look at us. Hey, look at us”
Bloodborne: “Who would of thought?”
Greg: “ Not me.”
This comment made my week, holy shit.
THIS TOWN'S FINISHED!
I fucking love you
You plague ridden beast.
AWAY, AWAY
Foul beast!
Turns out I've been hearing PLAGUE RIDDEN RAT as VAGRIANT RAT all these years! I assumed From just made up a word cause why not!
Holy shit. Is this real life? KFGD doing a bloodborne podcast WITH Brian Altano? What is happening right now?
I see Brian Altano in the thumbnail preview? A click it is.
“My Italian meatball”
That will never not warm my heart
I’ve been a fan of ign since 2011, kinda funny since the beginning and the comedy button since 2014 thank you so much for the feedback Brian,kinda funny and all the best friends!
More and more people have been granted eyes, all is right with the world
Back when bloodborne first came out, One of my favorite moments was hearing about Brian figuring out the game and saying he felt like a “Goddamn champion” when he beat the blood starved beast.
I think the craziest shortcut is when you go into the caves in the Forbidden Woods and you take two long ass ladders up and walk along a rooftop and walk a bit. All of a sudden you are back at the beginning of the game. gawd level design of madness
Blew my mind
I'm a simple man. I see Tamoor, I click.
up you go 🙌
How is there not a PS5 patch for this game yet? This game deserves to be 60fps. I really want to replay it, but I'm trying to wait lol
Altano and Tamoor joining KF to talk about one of the best PlayStation exclusives ever?! Hot damn, this is one of my favourite PS I Love You XOXO episodes!
Greg, after 4 years of being stuck, you inspired me to go back and beat bloodborne! What a fuckin ride!
And I think I’ve been bitten by the from software bug because I just started sekiro!
Same thing for me! I got stuck because I complete forgot how to upgrade my weapons and they were all broken I was lost in the dark for years and thought it was impossible but now I beat it.
@@Caveboy0 hell yeah man! I was stuck at vicar Amelia forever and when Greg started playing it I thought I’d pick I back up. Never thought I’d love the game as much as I did and I’m so glad I gave it another shot
@@rckstr_ntraining ha! Same exact spot I got stuck
Sometimes I have a fever dream where I open RUclips and Andy's full Bloodborne playthrough is on this channel or his... and then I wake up from that wonderfully happy dream.
On the story of the game:
For me this is one of the most philosophical games ever. One of the key themes is existentialism with a question: "how can we transcend to a better human?"
This question from Niztche & Dostoevsky to Camus was about a balancing between beast and being insanity on a way to a "superhuman". And this is shown not only in the factions: William vs Lawrence, but also hame mechanics, antagonising Beasthood and Insight.
And this is amazing how this game conveys these ideas without proper dialogue or story, just through own discovery.
It really is one of the most underappreciated aspects of the game. It floors me to think about how well they fit these ideas into the game with so little exposition.
This was a great podcast, I hope you do it for Sekiro as well at least, would be great to see these for games that could've been overlooked by the community. Sekiro at least has the Fallen Order combat comparison that may convince new players.
I remember achieving the platinum trophy for Bloodborne and experiencing that genuine feeling of achievement. It wasn’t just the extremely challenging difficulty that made me fall in love with this game but it was also everything that came with it. The lore, the story, the gameplay, and the world. The risk-reward factor was also just so addicting. I’d give anything to experience this game for the first time again! Fear the old blood!
The thing with this game is that every time you hear about it or watch a video about it, the itch to play again pops up. Greatest Game
24:42
"I've had it with these mother f***ing snakes in this mother f***ing game" -Andy probably
BRAP BRAP
I platinumed Bloodborne 5 years ago now but watching this podcast made me want to jump right back down the rabbit hole of lore videos
Not to mention, The Old Hunters DLC is some of the best DLC for a game you can play. It truly expands on the lore and offers some of the most unique enemies and areas in all of Bloodborne.
my first playthrough was offline, alone, with the lights off. i changed in those 60 hours xD
Tamoors hair is so luscious. I can't avert my eyes
I think ALL hair is impressive for obvious reasons but his is especially wondrous.
So glad y'all did this ep, and thanks in general for making Bloodborne your January game because it helped give me to courage to try it out myself. For years I've counted Bloodborne among my favourite games but up until a month ago I'd never actually played it. It's like what Tamoor wrote in a couple weeks ago and what he echoes here at one point - the gameplay in this game mightn't be for you (and that's perfectly okay!) but the way From tell the story, the design, the structure of the whole thing...all of that on its own is worth diving into, even if it's just through watching videos on youtube.
I stumbled across a walkthrough years ago and I watched the first ep because that gothic architecture and gorgeous skybox mesmerised me. I saw the gameplay and immediately knew it wasn't for me but I wanted to see more of the world, so I kept watching. We met Gerhman and Eileen and Iosefka, and I listened, captivated, as the player pieced together the world through the scraps we were fed through item description, and even sometimes item location. I still remember the moment the player went back to Iosefka and pointed out how strange it was she was acting like she just met us...and just why the heck was she now holding a weapon? Over and over this video series kept introducing me to ways of telling a story I'd never seen in games before and, for me, that's the genius of From and Miyazaki.
I kept thinking about if I'd been the one to play it. If I, Average Jane gamer, made my way through this popular horror game called Bloodborne and what my reaction would have been to Iosefka and the truth is...I would have never found her. In the beginning when I got off the bed and went downstairs and died to the werewolf and went to the dream and picked out my weapons and spawned back in to the clinic, I never would have noticed that the room I woke up in was now closed off and even if I did, why would I go up there? I'd want to go forward, to the wolf, to outside, to progress. I would completely miss out on a really cool twist, I'd miss out on an alternate location to send my npcs, and if I didn't find her in the woods, I'd miss out on Cainhurst entirely AND an item that can help you unlock the third ending of the game. From games taught me what games could be, and I don't mean to say that they're without flaws or even that every game should be like this (despite what obnoxious Souls fans would tell you), but I just can't recommend enough checking them out, whether it's through playing or watching or reading.
FromSoft has this ability to to create striking, wondrous cities and drops you into them not in their prime but when they're broken-down and decaying and full of horrors. They not only place you in these worlds with a task for your character (seek paleblood to transcend the hunt), but with one for you too. They ask you to find out what happened to the world like they're not even really sure themselves, like they're just passing on the scraps of lore they found, and never is this design more successful, in my opinion, than in Bloodborne, wherein the very nature of the game is that everything is already beyond our comprehension. If we only had more eyes...
Anyway, this brings me to a month ago, after years and years of watching playthroughs and lore videos on youtube and pouring over official art design and unofficial fanart, and laying in bed in the middle of the night and instead of thinking about all the embarrassing things I did when I was younger like I usually would, a thought would catch in my mind, would worry about in my brain, and I'd start thinking, well just how long IS the night of the hunt, and before I knew it three hours had passed and I was elbow deep in theories on reddit. I'd seen the resurgence of interest in the game on my timeline and I started to think that maybe I should finally give it a go. I usually play games on easy, I'm into them as narrative, interactive adventures, not as challenges I have to conquer, but a few years ago I'd taken the plunge with Dark Souls 3 and had surprised myself by getting through it. Maybe it was finally time to try my hand at Bloodborne. I'd never been keen on the mechanic of healing as a resource you have to acquire, and Gascoigne has always scared me, but I thought if nothing else, at least I can wander around Yharnam - that city and that skybox still remain my favourite thing about the game. And yesterday I finished the game, DLC and all.
I didn't do it on my own. I pulled up that same playthrough I found years and years ago - epicnamebro's Bloodborne walkthrough (ruclips.net/p/PLQDWoXFQ-YLqnVUES5NZmzh8sQ3VrOnnP) - and let it function as my guide. This isn't the way for everyone to play but if you've ever tried and bounced off Bloodborne, if you've ever looked at gameplay and thought it was beyond your skill, try watching an ep of this and then go do what he did. I can't begin to express how helpful this series is. He shows you careful approaches to areas (as careful as Bloodborne ever gets anyway) and gives you genuinely useful tips that the game never really explains. Having trouble hacking away with your saw cleaver five, six, seven times at the brainsuckers or the aliens in the woods? One carefully timed thrust attack with the right weapon annihilates them. The kidnappers kicking your butt? Two poison knives and some distance is all you need. At the end of the day it's still on you to defeat the enemies, you're still facing down giant bosses than can - and will - kill you in two or three hits, but this guide makes the game feel less punishing.
Even if you never plan of playing Bloodborne, this is the guide I recommend for people who are curious about what makes Bloodborne and From Software games in general special experiences. Some lore and gameplay aspects in the guide are dated, what with fandom discoveries and patches respectively, but the careful, explorative way epicnamebro shows and explains things, whether it's lore or level design or hidden gameplay mechanics, is invaluable.
Then when you're done there watch Vaati's vids, and group lore discussions with Redgrave and Jerks Sans Frontieres and Sinclair Lore and Aegon of Astora, and then google random questions at 2am and find people who think Redgrave's 108 page essay Paleblood Hunt is nice if you only want to scratch at Bloodborne on a surface level, and then watch LobosJr kill Ludwig using only bare fists, and then start greeting other Bloodborne fans with a simple 'Michael' because you've watched more episodes of Prepare To Try (now RKG) in the last three years than you've watched episodes of television, and then just accept that Bloodborne is a part of your life now and there's not much you can do about it.
One of the most beautiful posts I've ever read on this site. Your Eyes have truly opened.
I got "stuck" with Demon's Souls copy because Gamestop only had PS5 bundles. Never planned on playing it but after Miles Morales, it hooked me. Just beat Dark Souls 3 last night and plan on going to Bloodborne next. This video is psyching me up real good! Well done, fellas.
That’s awesome. I avoided these games prior to Bloodborne because of how people talked about it. Sounded completely unfun. Tried Bloodborne when it came out as a lark and it became my favorite game of all time.
Then I played them backwards; Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls, Demon’s Souls. Now they’re my favorite series.
@@n2nother Nice! I tried Dark Souls 2 when it came out and went the wrong way and banged my head against a wall for 2 hours and gave up. Glad I gave these games another shot because now I'm hooked.
I got the platinum at 2 am Sunday morning and was so hyped I couldn't sleep. 6 years between my first trophy and getting the Plat. So long ago some of them don't even have screenshots. This was a great show and a great way to celebrate this game.
really appreciate non-expository lore which i first experienced in DS. connecting each character’s stories, item’s histories with the world seems to be more memorable to me.
I got my butt kicked in by Father Gascoigne and almost gave up. Stuck with it and platinum'd the game in 3 weeks! Thanks for this excellent episode and for Bloodborne month gents!
Glad everyone played it and liked it, finally. But I do wonder how much of the atmosphere and exploration was lost by streaming it in groups. It's more of a fighter, in that sense.
Wow, having Tam and Brian on is incredible! Bloodborne was my first soulslike. Over the years is has become top 2 favorite games of all time. I have a bloodborne tattoo. The world and story and combat is like nothing else out there. The lore and mechanics is the most interesting a game can be.
I fell in love with Bloodborne just by watching a streamer named Maximilian play it.
Awesome episode! Looks like I'll be starting up my new playthrough soon...
I got back into Bloodborne because of Greg's playthrough and fell in love with the game. Yesterday I popped the platinum and this may be the platinum I'm most proud of.
Bloodborne is one of my all time favorite games. I first played on release, and Vicar Amelia made me quit lol. But I came back later that year, and conquered it. Since then I've put over 500 hours, and platniumed it. I last played it a few months back when I did an Arcane run, and that changed the game for me.
I don't have enough time on my hands to listen to kinda funny as much as I'd like. Following greg since Beyond! But you all are an utter delight. The last of us remastered was the first game I owned/played on my ps4 because it came with my console. I beat the last of us and right as I was burnt on multiplayer, Bloodborne came out. That was my 2nd game on ps4. I played no other game for two months. I got the platinum and I continued to put hours into this game.
So hearing Greg, Andy, Bless and everyone talk Bloodborne over the last few months and now do this podcast with Brian and Tamoor I’ve decided to go back to it. I played it years ago and think I got to the Witch of Hemwick and put it down. This time I’ve just got to the Blood Starved Beast and I’m struggling lol. Currently farming to give myself a chance.
I’m very glad this panel mentioned the atmosphere of Bloodborne and Soulsborne in general is so different and enticing that you just look for more fiction outside of games like that. I nosedived into Lovecraft works, read the entirety of Berserk, found Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun which feels vague and cosmic like the lore establishes. It’s like getting spicy food and just wanting that kind of dark, foreboding spice wherever you can.
I really like Tams hair. Reminds me of the main dude from Nioh.
Bloodborne is the greatest game of all time. The Lore and World feel is unmatched.
Man, just, wow. Never thought we'd be here. My favorite Podcasters ever, discussing my favorite game ever extremely in depth. I got choked up at some of the stories, I had a shit eating grin from ear to ear basically the entire episode. This is easily my favorite single episode of any podcast ever. Thank you guys soooo fucking much for doing this. 💖💖💖
Same here!!! I’ve just started it and I’m sooo excited!
Thanks for reading my comment on the show! I'm so glad they did this. Just having Brian and Tam together to gush about this game is exactly what I've wanted.
Awesome episode! Can’t get enough
Played Bloodborne before and LOVED Demons souls for PS5 but went back to try Dark Souls 1 because of Andy... GREAT games.
While you may not be able to pause the game you can just quit out and it will reload you exactly where you left off, unless your fighting a boss in which case it will spawn you outside the boss door. The game saves constantly. Kill an enemy-save. Pick up an item-save etc.
Ya I was thinking the same thing lol
Is there a way to watch Greg’s or Andy’s full play through? Loved this discussion
I literally typed in Bloodborne on the search bar and this pops up. Fuck yes. Love Bloodborne, still play it religiously!!!
Martyr Logarius was the hardest fight for me during my playthrough. Became one of my favorite boss fights of all-time.
I got stuck for a little bit the first time but I kept trying because the concept interested me enough, after I got past gascoin, I couldn’t stop. One of my favorite games ever. I even helped someone on Twitter get past a roadblock of not knowing how to level up bc of the need for insight. It was a great feeling seeing him tweet back a day after saying he found out how to level and is in love with the game.
Of course Greg is the one who says he’s not going to play other From games.
I could listen to people talk about this game forever, I reckon.
Love that the kinda funny crew took on Bloodborne. I hope Greg gives Sekiro a shot!
I haven't beat bloodborne yet, so Ill come back to this, but I just wanted to say thank you to Blessing and Greg and all the other Kinda Funny people like Andy who have been playing Soulsborne games. It's finally got me to try one (bloodborne) and it's amazing. I am a fan and can't wait to platinum this and the other soulsborne games.
I've owned this game since 2019 and never touched it. I picked it in December last year and got hooked it was weird timing since last month it seemed like everyone started playing it. I'm not a FromSoft gamer but there is something about Bloodborne that's different. I actually love this game it's became one of my favorite exclusives and one of my favorite games in general. What an amazing journey beating this game
I've beaten this game three times, and I'm learning stuff from this podcast! the beauty of bloodborne
Wow, great discussion with such an all-star cast!
Thank you so much for this review. Nothing makes me happier than hearing people talk about the things that they love! I love Bloodborne so much and I'm so happy that more and more people are getting into. I think I actually got the Platinum Trophy in the same month as Brian, so that was cool to hear. Thanks again guys!
Relistening to this now and man one an episode and what a god damn game. Favorite piece of KF content this year
Andy NEEDS to play The Old Hunters. And put the VOD on RUclips ;-)
Great podcast. I haven't beaten the game. I got stuck at Rom and meant to come back to it. I loved it, but just needed a break from it. I'll definitely try to go back and finish it.
What an amazing game, it turned me on to trophy hunting. How does Bloodborne not have a sequel yet?
I feel like saying the game isn’t difficult isn’t accurate either. Unless we’re willing to throw out that games aren’t easy either. Saying that it’s not difficult, it’s just that you haven’t learned how to play well yet, is like EVERYTHING in life. Building a house, learning to pole vault, buying your first car, are things that are difficult and get easier the more you do them. What makes them “hard” is how long it takes you to cross that threshold before you feel completely in control. If all it took was up to Father Gascoigne, then the challenge has been met, and you’re ready for the next challenge. What makes Bloodborne so good, in my opinion, is that it escalates the difficulty real well so, unless you are far too OP, that you feel that level of challenge and difficulty just enough to feel the wave of satisfaction after you defeat a boss or tough section of the game.
So many see the game as being about punishment, and I get it, if you’re stuck and can’t get past a boss, it feels like punishment, but I think Bloodborne is more about accomplishment and excelling against the most difficult of odds. This game will always be very special to me and it was my first souls game (other than dabbling with Demon’s Souls back when it came out).
And they do plant those seeds that Tam was talking about, but I don’t think it was Lady Maria, it was Yamamura the Wanderer. He is from an eastern land and has a very samurai looking armor set.
FINE, I’ll try it again
Loved this collab with Tam and Brian! I down for more of this type of specific game discussion. Great content and I loved every minute of it!
WTF?!!!! 2 hours of bloodborne talk on kinda funny?! This is great? I need to get a fine wine to drink while watching this!
Living for this discussion. Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time and I think this could've easily been a 12-hour podcast. I just want to give a special shout-out to the genius weapon design with respect to the 2-form melee weapons and transform attacks. Currently attempting a gun-only run with the Evelyn and Reiterpallasch and it's a different game.
Definitely need more Altano collabs on this channel! Great discussion
I was excited for this, but Brian Altano takes it to a whole new level!
Great show, all. Loved having Tamoor and Brian on talking about why they love the game. Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time, and I love seeing more people discover all of its hidden secrets.
By the Gods, fear it.
Awesome seeing Brian and Tamoor on. Hope to see them on more.
The night, and the dream, were long...
Great review on this game. This game has such a way of just crawling into your subconscious and I play this along with Breath of The Wild yearly. By the way you should do a Zelda BOTW review around the 4 year anniversary.
Fantastic video. Absolutely love the depth. Would dig more like this.
Best game ever made. The more you play it, the better it gets.
This is awesome. I’m just getting into bloodborne right now. Never played it until just recently. Can’t believe I passed on this for so long. Bloodborne is a masterpiece
More Brian on everything. Italian Food In Review with him, let's goooooooooo
I've been watching FightinCowboy to help on things I might have missed and to see what is ahead. I'll watch Zeus's speed runs to just see some of his techniques, not for speed running but just his methods in general. Plus his commentary is great. "The booty slap! " - Zeus
I got stuck on Cleric Beast in 2015 and now I'm about to fight Mergo's Wet Nurse. I love this game but it kicks my ass.
My game of last gen.
I've always loved cosmic horror. I just didn't know what it was called. Or, it being a sub genre until BB 🦑
And I’m over hear having beat Rom on my first try on my first playthrough.
Vicar Amelia and Martyr Logarius were the two bosses that gave me a hard time.
everyone struggles differently. thats one of the great things about this game. i smoked Amelia my first go around. Rom was awful and same with Micolash
Came back to watch/listen to this at work for the 3rd time
Tam is looking luxurious
Brian touched on my favorite thing about souls games at about 27:00 - they feel like a real adventure because your enemies actually do NOT want you in those areas and WILL kill you if given the chance. In a lot of games everything is just too inviting and enemies are like waiting for you to kill them.
and I just re-downloaded Bloodborne. Third times the charm.
Listening to this has gotten me to retry Bloodborne for the 3rd time.....while also trying Dark Souls on Switch. I'm thoroughly enjoying both after doing more research on issues I was having during my first few plays!
When you realize how much ok cool and I get it are used by kinda funny, it truly changes your world.
yea i didn't realize verbal ticks were a thing until you're asked to talk on camera for 3-6 hours a day
@@TheAndyCortez I’m a teacher so my students have definitely made me aware of mine, doesn’t keep me from still saying them though haha. I just listen to so much of kinda funny content that it kinda makes me feel like one of my students haha.
@@TheAndyCortez do you find that you develop some from your co stars, because I especially notice similar ticks or tendencies between Greg and blessing, have you developed any of the same ones as Nick?
@@Cooplord564 yea absolutely. Even from shows I watch or podcasts I listen to. Some sayings are good for transitioning and some are great for putting the listener in your shoes to get them to understand how you feel.
I really love watching people play Bloodborne and other souls games. I find it highly entertaining. However I don't think I can handle it myself lol
Bloodborne content on KF absolutely warms my heart.
I want a full blown PS5 remaster but I won't hold my breath.
Tamoor and Brian, too much good on one podcast!
Well, now I'm really bummed I got stuck and hard quit at Rom.
At first glance it looked like brian was in some futuristic, cyberpunk wrestling ring where the ropes are glowing neon.
You spelled it wrong in the description! The phrase is “a hoonter must hoont.”
Glad you guys finally got into the game. Another creator that deserves a shoutout for Bloodborne content is EpicNameBro. He acted as a sherpa for me with his Let's Play Walkthrough and does an amazing job covering the lore. In fact, he was part of the team that made the official Player's Guide for the game. After I would play through an area I would watch him go through it, understand the lore, and discover tons of stuff I missed. It made my first playthrough so special. Nowadays ENB doesn't upload to the old EpicNameBro channel, but you can find him on Twitch under the same name.
I SEE Tamoor I CLICK! Shout out Brain and Andy too. Not Greg.
My moment that will stick with me forever is the moment you kill Rom and wake up in yarhagul for the first time greeted by a giant fucking amygdala staring down at you. Gave me the creeps. Then walked out and saw more of them on the walls and I was like yeah get me the fuck out of here. Lanterned back to central yarnham only to realize they were everywhere. They scared the fuck out of me but I couldn’t look away. I love this game so much. I have the hunters mark combined with the moon rune tattooed on my sternum.
Absolutely love this, only wish Imran was on this too!
From Soft fever
BRAP BRAP!!! I see Brian Altano and I am here. I love Brian and the comedy button.
Dawwww thank you
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not mean that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
-H.P. Lovecraft.
I mean... if that wasn't a huge inspiration to Bloodborne, I don't know what is. Sums it up so well.
I’m stuck on the blood starved beast
I'm only 14 minutes in and already this is so good.