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I like it 'cause it looks cool.

I really don't follow competitive Dota at all (in no small part because of the lack of structure throughout the year - which may or may not be addressed with Valve's seasonal tournaments?!), so I honestly don't know. I don't even recognize 90% of the team names, and those I do recognize don't have the players I'm used to seeing there (from last year's TI). I just picked from a list of what my friends who do follow told me.

No, you get 100 coins for completing your challenge, and like 14 for other people completing theirs. It might also be based on compendium level. You also have to win the match. You also only get three challenges every five days. Once again I find myself being annoyed by all the negativity. I'm enjoying it. The compendium is super rad for lots of reasons and they give extra cool shit on top of that and still people complain. Whatever. Fucking whatever.

Yeah that was one sick room.

Haha I started up Dark Souls again recently and it's definitely not slow or methodical the second time through! I think it's all about experience, tbh.

Keep this thread going so one day I'll be motivated to paint the tons of miniatures I've been getting from all my Kickstarter board games. Okay thanks!!!

I managed to grab a ticket but still not sure if i'll even be able to go. We'll see.

I dove in mostly blind to Dark Souls (the only vision I had being that "it's goddamn hard") and hit a wall on the first bridge boss, as do a lot of people, I'm told. But the wall was entirely my own making, because I just completely forgot the fact that I could do jumping attacks from above. The wall had nothing to do with the controls. The same cannot be said about MH4u, and I think that's the number one problem. I might actually get it on the ol' Wee Woo should it ever be released because I'm pretty sure having Good Controls would enable me to love the game. Instead I kind of fucking hate it.

eot you sound like someone who's good at the game. I'm not, so I still play it at the same pace I played Dark Souls! You claim larger parry windows. I still miss parries far far far far far more than I hit them. You say you can dodge randomly 8+ times while cornered. I die nearly every time I'm cornered. You say stamina barely matters. Running out of stamina is the number one reason I take damage, and I take a lot of damage. I mean I could go on, but I think I've made my point. You clearly played the game significantly differently from how I played the game.

Well what'd you do that for, you goof.

I dunno when I watch people play Dark Souls they all play a million miles per hour faster than I play Dark Souls, and the same is true for Bloodborne.

I have a hard time believing you won't be able to hard disable the feature if you don't want it.

That's exactly how I played Bloodborne, though. I'm honestly not too sure what has given you the impression that that playstyle is invalid. I've beaten the game by doing that.

I disagree with basically all complaints re: weapon variety. I think people are crazy. (compared to Dark Souls) As for quickening the pace, I dunno. I still feel like I mostly play the game at the same pace. I just can't use a shield anymore so I had to learn to parry. I still suck at it, but I'm definitely better than I ever was in Dark Souls.

Yeah I haven't seen it but definitely seemed spoilery. Although given the title of the movie and the descriptions of what happened it seemed like fairly predictable spoilers. Nothing described there sounds like the sort of thing I would've gone "wow I never expected that". But then I don't give a shit about spoilers, so YMMV! If you're worried, I'd definitely hold off.

Yeah the controls are absolutely terrible. I tried so hard, but couldn't get over that awful, awful, awful camera. ): I might try again soon now that I'm "done" with Bloodborne but I am not very hopeful.

So I played some Dark Souls tonight after all. Made it to Firelink Shrine and then forgot where to go and couldn't find where to go because I'm dumb... holy shit that run animation looks so bad haha wow

I remember a lot of people talking about Souls burnout when Dark Souls 2 came out. So, no, I don't think Bloodborne is the beginning of the end. What I'd like to see is more things like Lords of the Fallen. Not, like, sub-par Souls clones. But different takes on the... "Souls" "genre".

I'm sorry. They're just so great and all. Everyone should have a taste! And yes I am sitting on my politics right now.

That last sentence, holy shit. Who is that, though? (EDIT: Oh it's Miyazaki I guess I should click links.) I saw a similar photo of a Miyazaki interview where he said Rom was his favorite!

I don't wear sleeves.

Dang. I helped like ten people with that. Well tried. I died a bunch or they died when they didn't know how the fight worked (still amazes me how many people summon help without even trying once on their own).

Also part of it is that when I originally played Dark Souls I'm pretty sure it was during that period when my CPU wasn't seated properly and so everything was being constantly throttled and it wasn't running optimally. So maybe this time I can play with Better Gfx.

I dunno I honestly prefer Bloodborne in almost all the ways (farming for blood vials being the number one reason I don't, now that loading screens are better).