Since it's apparently never ever coming to PC, how does Bloodborne compare to Elden Ring (base game)? Or I guess I'm asking how 'get gud' do I need to be? Getting my shit pushed in over and over is not my idea of fun and on the PS5 I cannot mod around game flaws. It's only $20 on PS store but it's wasted money if I play it for 10 minutes and decide it's more like Dark Souls than say Sekiro or ER
It's much harder than Elden Ring base game since it doesn't let you just skip bosses and go around to level up and find better gear before trying them again. There are some twists and turns that somewhat let you go to other areas, but for the most part its progress is like DS. To move on, you need to kill X boss. It's much faster with the system in place to make you play more aggressively (you take damage, some of the damage is "temporary" and comes back if you damage mobs before it fades).
It doesn't have health vials that replenish, but items that drop from mobs that heal you. You might encounter times where you need to go to a lower level area and farm mobs for health items, though depending on skill level, maybe not.
That said, the atmosphere and aesthetics is probably the best they've ever done and there is a reason people want Bloodborne on PC, so they can play it again. Even locked to 30 fps, with horrendous loading times (on the original PS4), it's one of the best games I've ever played. In terms of the whole 'get good' thing though, it is up there. ER brought in a lot of new people to the souls genre. If Bloodborne released today, with just some updated HD sprites and 60fps, it would sell millions in days from the old players, and be hit with a "mixed" rating on steam within the next week as "new" players who started with ER will go "wtf this is too hard!". Not ER DLC last boss / Bayle hard, but more like if the first time you encountered Margit you "had" to fight him, no running around and come back and chunk him down. Then that is every boss. On my first run of the game, I don't think I oneshot any boss at all, and died quite a lot on my way to them, but it's not "unfair". It's rare to not see progress so to speak.
Go Axe at the beginning if you want an easier time and take some time at the beginning to learn to shoot enemies right as they attack, that's the "parry" mechanic of the game. Getting that down makes the game much easier.
Tl;dr - Game harder. Game one of the best ever made. You've already know "souls mechanics" so it won't be too bad. Buy it, but be prepared to die, learn, die less and fist pigs.
Bald Brah
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