Nick Plays FROM; Currently - Bloodborne

[Latrine]

A few DS2 clips from me, mostly just funny moments and not any major point in the game:

 

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/GlamorousFlamingoVoHiYo Nick reads donations (thanks to whoever tweeted this one out on @Idlethumbs, it's at 260 plays :)) 

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/PricklyDuckDatSheffy There's no way

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/FineBarracudaCorgiDerp RNG manipulation

[eot]

So, there was no BB stream I take it?

[eRonin]

Nick knows me as superhiero, so may as well call me that, @SL128 Thanks for putting these together

[Gerretic]

No idea if these overlap with others', but here are my clips. Please credit as Gerretic

DS1:

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/ColorfulPenguinDendiFace ("Press R1 to Talk")

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/GlamorousSeahorseCorgiDerp (falling in Anor Londo rafters)

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/DeadSkunkHotPokket (O&S: A Narrow Escape)

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/PleasantOwlDansGame ("I just like, pay, like, a modicum of attention when things are happening in the game.")

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/FilthySpiderPermaSmug ("This whole time I had never realized what the point of this was; I was just doing it because that was the next step.")

 

DS2:

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/WittyCamelVolcania (Nick falls down; unexciting on its own but could be part of a falling down supercut)

[Upthrust]

DS1

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/AlertSquidSmoocherZ - Nick mocks Dusk, to Janel's horror

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/AmusedHerdBlargNaut - Social Eating

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/PowerfulSardineSmoocherZ - Nick ruminates on his experiences, gets meta

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/BreakableOpossumPicoMause - Nick walking off the branch on the Bed of Chaos

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/LuckyElephantMikeHogu - Janel leaves, Nick is free

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/HelplessDuckCoolCat - Nick likes the ending

 

DS2

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/EnthusiasticPoultryOSsloth - Nick narrowly avoids defeat against the Dragonrider, immediately dies

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/ExcitedOpossumAsianGlow - Nick getting killed by a mob at the primal bonfire after Freja

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/DifferentOryxSoonerLater - Nick likes the Covetous Demon

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/AlertGooseNoNoSpot - Nick falls off the cool bridge

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/MuddyFoxFunRun - Nick kills the Smelter Demon

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/HilariousBadgerRaccAttack - Nick's great escape from an invader in the Gutter

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/GleamingSalamanderOhMyDog - Nick meets Aldia

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/PerfectJaguarPazPazowitz - Nick's future girlfriend

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/ProudSnailAsianGlow - "Are you a spooky bad man?"

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/LovelyFoxDatSheffy - Nick picks up a Schwarzenegger soundboard

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/ProudOstrichHeyGuys - "Free to play the game the way it was intended"

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/StupidCockroachFuzzyOtterOO - "Sometimes you gotta use your words"

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/GentleSalmonGingerPower - Nick politely asks Sinh to die

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/ProudLeopardBrokeBack - Nick responds to Kyir's concerns re: a horse

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/JollyNarwhalBlargNaut - Cheatin' Hitman World Champ

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/TalentedEchidnaWinWaker - Nick beats Alonne

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/SmilingCamelOSkomodo - Nick is let down by a chair

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/LuckyScorpionSoonerLater - Vendrick kills Nick without even trying

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/RichSquidDendiFace - The ending, Nick is thoroughly satisfied by a chair

[Nick Breckon]

Hey all. I'm about to PM SL128 a list of all the clips, so that should hopefully be that on clips.

 

As for Bloodborne, I've been considering waiting on that until I can get a streaming setup that would allow for the internalization meter/etc to continue, but given the reality of how long it'd take to get that up and running, I'll probably just go ahead and start streaming it tomorrow. 

[sclpls]

Yay! That seems pretty reasonable, I'll miss the internalization meter, but it'll always be there for future PC games.

[Upthrust]

Sounds alright to me! I think I'll miss Omar Sharif most of all, but I'm sure we'll carry on the tradition in-chat.

[Nick Breckon]

Update: Sorry folks, no stream today. I have been totally owned by incredibly loud construction going on outside my apartment. Which, for the next month, probably means I'll only be doing 5pm Pacific streams. As it happens I'm busy tonight after 5, so tomorrow it is. 

[Paul Smith]

 

 

 

[eot]

The guy who voices the clinic cutscene sounds a bit like Jonathan Pryce to me.

[infamous space turtle]

Bloated crows is such a nice little tweak to what would normally be cliche.

Also Nicks horror when the corpses in the corpse pit began to move... so good. 

[SL128]

There's a solution to your chat problem, Nick!

[sclpls]

Man, I feel so bad for Nick. Basically everything that could make the beginning of this game a nightmare to play has happened.

[Kyir]

18 minutes ago, sclpls said:

Man, I feel so bad for Nick. Basically everything that could make the beginning of this game a nightmare to play has happened.

 

Can you give me a rundown? I'll watch the VOD when I find the time, but it might be a while.

[SL128]

Feeona's stream has had some good content tonight

https://clips.twitch.tv/feeona/VictoriousBearBleedPurple

https://clips.twitch.tv/feeona/WildGoshawkGingerPower

https://clips.twitch.tv/feeona/LuckyKoalaHassanChop

[sclpls]

Where to begin???

 

-Picked the Waste of Skin character class (starts at level 4, all others start at 10)

-Picked the weakest melee weapon out of all the starting weapons

-Picked a bad firearm for parrying

-Chat seemed to insist that Nick should learn how to parry, he proceeds to waste a bunch of time (and more importantly blood vials) working on that

 

When I stopped watching the stream today Nick was totally out of blood vials, and basically still not in great shape to beat the Cleric Beast. It feels bad to me because I beat the Cleric Beast on my first attempt, and I think I am worse at Souls games than Nick, but the difference is I didn't have all these different factors setting me up for failure.

[Kyir]

Sounds like a classic case of chat leading Nick astray. What dastardly malcontents.

[sclpls]

Indeed!

[Upthrust]

49 minutes ago, Kyir said:

Sounds like a classic case of chat leading Nick astray. What dastardly malcontents.

Funny of you to mention that:

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/FriendlyDogSwiftRage

[eot]

I think struggling with Central Yarnham is a pretty typical experience with Bloodborne. The cane is not that bad either, just takes a bit more finesse to use. More fun to watch in my opinion. I'm sure he'll get to a place where he's powering through the game soon enough.

[Cbirdsong]

The blood vial system is such a massive downgrade from estus when it fails, and there are no upsides to counterbalance that. Nick, if you have any trouble the Cleric Beast, feel free to postpone the fight and explore more. That will help you build up a buffer of vials and other items, and possibly even level yourself or your cane.

[WIde-Boy 64]

I was interested to see Nick play Bloodborne because this is the only souls game i have ever played, and it broke me.

 

I tried two playthroughs and got stuck on Amelia both times (the 3rd or 4th boss), and both times i eventually gave up and uninstalled the game. The thing that broke me, like it seemed to be doing Nick, was the farming for blood vials. I knew i could only die to Amelia a few times in a row before i would have to go waste time grinding through enemies again, and the knowledge of that mentally exhausted me, because i hate it. Especially in a game where grinding is such a damn struggle.

I understand that the Dark Souls games have a system where your healing items automatically refill, and i really wish they had used that here, because it's an incredibly cool game but i don't believe i will go back to it.

 

To be fair i'm pretty bad at games (incredibly bad considering how many games i've played), so i'm sure Nick will be able to beat this now that he's used to it. Also i did get Amelia down to about 15% health at some point, so i would probably have beaten her eventually if i kept grinding.

 

I never learned how to parry either, because you never know which attacks can be parried for different enemies, the only ones i could parry were the big brick guys and a very easily-parried boss. Should i not have used the blunderbuss?

 

Edit: Oh i hope i don't get deleted for spoilers because i said Amelia. She broke my heart.

[Kyir]

16 hours ago, Upthrust said:

Funny of you to mention that:

https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/FriendlyDogSwiftRage

 

I feel like Nick continues to overstate my aggravation. The times I was being helpful and supportive just got lost in the increasingly fast paced chat. I am not an angry person at heart.

 

It's a tragedy.

[RubixsQube]

So, watching Nick play Bloodborne after playing it myself and I think that Nick just is too stubborn for his own good. The game really rewards a kind of slower, more methodical approach near the beginning. Enemies do drop enough blood vials, and what Nick needs to be doing is not Cheatin' Hitman style stuff. When he first started playing, he did amazingly since he kind of took it easy and fought each enemy one at a time. After that, he just decided to spend a bunch of time just trying to run to the Cleric Beast, which costs him vials that he's not recovering, and also caused him to fail repeatedly at different points. This is not how this part of the game was designed, at all. The early part of the game almost requires you to just be patient and kite enemies around so you can defeat them. They will drop blood vials, and you'll start storing them. 

 

Also, WIde-Boy, the thing about Amelia that allowed me to beat her (on my first attempt) was just leveling more than I perhaps needed to (I suggest going to a few different places before fighting Amelia, there is actually another boss at the end of the Charnel Lane that's not so bad), and calling Henriett, who helped immensely. As for parrying, Nick practiced on the wrong enemy to practice this on. The way to do it is with those stupid brick trolls. They leave huge openings for parrying. If you start in Central Yharnam and take the left (through the shortcut), you can pick up a bunch of quicksilver bullets from an old man with a gun in the house, and then head down and fight a few brick trolls, which will teach you how to parry. Essentially, you gotta look for the opportunity when they go in for a big attack, and shoot then, and quickly rush in to gouge away with the visceral attack. It's tricky, and very helpful against hunter bosses.