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As some of you might know, I recently purchased Bloodborne for my PS4, a risky thing considering I despise hard games, and it's the reason why I avoided playing Dark Souls. However, I fell for the hype, (A principle of mine that I broke) and bought Bloodborne.
And honestly it's quite a fun game, yeah it's still difficult, and I got my ass handed to me alot. But hey I managed to pull through and gott the game's True Ending, quite a feat to say the least in my case.
However this is what irks me about the game's story, this goes for all the Souls games as they follow the same basic formula.
All the games, lack a traditional way of story telling, there's no prologue, no beginning, middle, and an ending. No backstory as to why you're here killing all these monsters. None of that!
It's up to you the player, to figure that one out for yourself. You'll get pieces of info about the game's lore from item descriptions or from NPCs you meet along the way.
And while some people prefer that kind of story telling, trying to figure it all out with your imagination, that's fine, in my opinion though that's an awful way to go about it.
I would love to know the lore of the world I am in, I want to know what's going on in it. Whose who, and why I should care about them or it. Leaving me to fill the blanks is kinda redundant. And it's pretty lazy writing.
And please the traditional way of story telling is not what you describe as a "spoon fed," or "shoehorned in plot" it's traditional story telling. So what every movie, book, play, or most video games with a plot spoon feed you it? Please that's a ridiculous thing to say. Experiencing the plot, the character development and the world's mythos the traditional way is not spoon feeding you it.
If you're a fan of Dark Souls, and prefer how they tell the story, then leave a comment if you want to have a discussion about it. I'm all for rational debates, and would love to hear your side of it. That is all.
And honestly it's quite a fun game, yeah it's still difficult, and I got my ass handed to me alot. But hey I managed to pull through and gott the game's True Ending, quite a feat to say the least in my case.
However this is what irks me about the game's story, this goes for all the Souls games as they follow the same basic formula.
All the games, lack a traditional way of story telling, there's no prologue, no beginning, middle, and an ending. No backstory as to why you're here killing all these monsters. None of that!
It's up to you the player, to figure that one out for yourself. You'll get pieces of info about the game's lore from item descriptions or from NPCs you meet along the way.
And while some people prefer that kind of story telling, trying to figure it all out with your imagination, that's fine, in my opinion though that's an awful way to go about it.
I would love to know the lore of the world I am in, I want to know what's going on in it. Whose who, and why I should care about them or it. Leaving me to fill the blanks is kinda redundant. And it's pretty lazy writing.
And please the traditional way of story telling is not what you describe as a "spoon fed," or "shoehorned in plot" it's traditional story telling. So what every movie, book, play, or most video games with a plot spoon feed you it? Please that's a ridiculous thing to say. Experiencing the plot, the character development and the world's mythos the traditional way is not spoon feeding you it.
If you're a fan of Dark Souls, and prefer how they tell the story, then leave a comment if you want to have a discussion about it. I'm all for rational debates, and would love to hear your side of it. That is all.
The dangers of talking about greed in gaming
If there's disturbing realization I've come across and trust me I'm kinda too late in saying the obvious here, but when it comes to exposing the fraudsters in this industry you'll get a sense of "why bother?" Let me clarify that by saying this. The video game industry and corporations in general will continue to find ways to be make money. Making money isn't a bad thing, let me clear. However, corporations will use any trick to get more money from consumers. When I discuss the blatant greediness these companies do, I do so in the hope of enlightening people. Sure I'm under no delusion my journals attract so much attention, I think at best they get like 100 views? But I still like to say something, and these journals help with that. If I can make even one person see how bad things are, I feel good about myself knowing people can be awoken to this madness and maybe push back against the Sonys and EAs of the world. However, at the same time they continue to do so and people are either so
I finally get to try out Hi-Fi Rush on ps5
So despite my earlier posts criticizing Microsoft for porting their own titles to PlayStatio,((My argument being it harms competition) I was still eager to try out hi fi rush. It’s a game I got recommended by someone and it’s one of the few Xbox series exclusives I wanted to try out. So in hindsight microsoft did me a solid and saved me 500 dollars in buying one of their oversized bricks. i just started playing but I wanted to comment on how amazing the game looks and how well it is animated. Like seriously it’s like watching an animated cartoon! I’ve been gaming for a long time and really it Is kinda hard to be impressed in an industry that shoots out the same game every week. Combat wise it’s fun, but I’m just starting out. It’s a wonderful hack and slash game (Yea I will call it that. I dislike the terms character action game or spectacle fighter because those sound dumb to me. I don’t care what you think or say lol)
My bad
So yesterday I foolishy let nostalgia and blind fanboyism drive me to make a fan boy post for Star Wars battlefront collection. This port has really bad bugs.It’s overpriced. 34 dollars for two old ps2 games. I bought more modern games for less. For some godly reason its memory is over 30 gigs for two ps2 games with barely any improvements. sooo yeah my bad. Don’t spend your money on a lazy port like this.
Star Wars Battlefront collection releases tomorrow
So tomorrow we're finally getting updated releases of not just two classic ps2 games, but arguably two of the best Star Wars games to date. No I don't mean EA's horrendous Battlefront reboots, but the ones by Pandemic Games (Which was closed down by EA funny enough). To say I'm excited is an understatement. Battlefront 1 and 2 were classic games I've replayed many times in my youth. Sure, it's been a decade or so since I last played them, opinions change over time, but I like to think the games are just as good as they were back in the 2000s. A time when gaming was corrupted like it is today (See Battlefront 2 EA for a good example.) These games were fun to play, were filled with so much content like Galactic Conquest which made it feel like you were actually trying to conquer or restore freedom to the galaxy. Those games didn't have any microtransaction or lame dlc passes. They are relics of a bygone era, but I can't wait to replay them.
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The items you pick up actually provide a great deal of lore in Bloodborne. In Dark Souls, all of the items including boss souls will share what's going on in Drangleic/Lordran.