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So, all Bloodborne players who haven't played Souls before, how's it going?

Just beat
Father Gascoigne
on my 1st try and I'm all like
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and then I get my ass handed by one of the trolls in Central...
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Melchiah

Member
Damn, nearly beat Blood-starved Beast on the first try, but I forgot to use the fucking antidote in a timely fashion. =/
 
I am losing patience and not having fun anymore with this game. :(
I am now bored as I dominate the entire area I can roam (everything until father gascoigne). Trolls are systematically eviscerated. No enemy really poses major trouble, except the werewolves, and even those I can take care of fairly easily. Well, except that giant pig that I always engage from behind, but seems too strong for frontal assault for now. I enjoy fighting those tall, skinny, spear-carrying weirdoes.

But I. cannot. kill. this motherfucker. I can't. I think at this point it's trauma, because I used to be able to get to beast form pretty easily (back when I didn't realize he had two 'human' forms, but now I have problem getting past the second form (I can not figure out for the life of me the timing for parrying his longaxe attacks. I just try to parry pathetically, and get axed in the face). Sometimes I get the parry but i got axed anyway, so I can't even get the attack in. Often I'll get parries, and the visceral attack won't connect. Either I am too far, or by the time i get close and release the left stick it's too late. I got to the beast form a couple of times, got two visceral attacks in, but at my level/strenght, it gets him to a sliver of health away from dying, but then I die (and only my wife's look of disapproval prevented me from throwing the ps4 out of the window)
I went from a stockpile of tons of bullets and health vials, to 0 vials, 0 bullets (and while in theory i could beat father G without vials, doing it without bullets sounds like madness), and 0 echoes. And it's getting more pathetic as I try to rush and engage it with two vials and 5 bullets obtained from blood sacrifice, b/c I can't be bothered with roaming the stupid fucking city for a few bullets (I know 4 of them can easily be obtained from the wheelchair dude)
Given the gun does pathetic damage and is essentially the parry, I really wish they'd replenish the bullets when you resurrect.
I think I'll just stop. This stopped being interesting to me hours ago.
None of what I can read on this thread or online seems to help. The beast seems somewhat ok to parry, but is very unforgiving for mistakes. I run into motherfucking tombstones all the time.
Back to hotline miami 2 in hard mode, which somehow frustrates me much less. I'd do the boat level fifty times in a row rather than face that fucking asshole.
 

Gsnap

Member
I am losing patience and not having fun anymore with this game. :(
I am now bored as I dominate the entire area I can roam (everything until father gascoigne). Trolls are systematically eviscerated. No enemy really poses major trouble, except the werewolves, and even those I can take care of fairly easily. Well, except that giant pig that I always engage from behind, but seems too strong for frontal assault for now. I enjoy fighting those tall, skinny, spear-carrying weirdoes.

But I. cannot. kill. this motherfucker. I can't. I think at this point it's trauma, because I used to be able to get to beast form pretty easily (back when I didn't realize he had two 'human' forms, but now I have problem getting past the second form (I can not figure out for the life of me the timing for parrying his longaxe attacks. I just try to parry pathetically, and get axed in the face). Sometimes I get the parry but i got axed anyway, so I can't even get the attack in. Often I'll get parries, and the visceral attack won't connect. Either I am too far, or by the time i get close and release the left stick it's too late. I got to the beast form a couple of times, got two visceral attacks in, but at my level/strenght, it gets him to a sliver of health away from dying, but then I die (and only my wife's look of disapproval prevented me from throwing the ps4 out of the window)
I went from a stockpile of tons of bullets and health vials, to 0 vials, 0 bullets (and while in theory i could beat father G without vials, doing it without bullets sounds like madness), and 0 echoes. And it's getting more pathetic as I try to rush and engage it with two vials and 5 bullets obtained from blood sacrifice, b/c I can't be bothered with roaming the stupid fucking city for a few bullets (I know 4 of them can easily be obtained from the wheelchair dude)
Given the gun does pathetic damage and is essentially the parry, I really wish they'd replenish the bullets when you resurrect.
I think I'll just stop. This stopped being interesting to me hours ago.
None of what I can read on this thread or online seems to help. The beast seems somewhat ok to parry, but is very unforgiving for mistakes. I run into motherfucking tombstones all the time.
Back to hotline miami 2 in hard mode, which somehow frustrates me much less. I'd do the boat level fifty times in a row rather than face that fucking asshole.

Just take a break and come back when you're refreshed. Don't let it get you down. Everyone's been there.
 

Ferrio

Banned
How bout not parrying if you can't do it? Just dodge and attack? You don't *have* to parry, I didn't on that fight.
 
Just take a break and come back when you're refreshed. Don't let it get you down. Everyone's been there.

The later prospect of spending time in the boring main area to farm vials/bullets is extremely un-enticing, though :(
The game dynamics are fun, but not fun enough to be repeated that many times without novelty, for me at least. I'll give it a few more shots, but I don't think this is for me after all. It's too bad. Just give me bullets/health at resurrect and I wouldn't have minded as much. But right now it feels as if i had to farm the two extra lives you start with in a megaman level.
 

Taker34

Banned
I am losing patience and not having fun anymore with this game. :(
I am now bored as I dominate the entire area I can roam (everything until father gascoigne).
...
Back to hotline miami 2 in hard mode, which somehow frustrates me much less. I'd do the boat level fifty times in a row rather than face that fucking asshole.

Err, did you try to summon another player before the boss fight? It's so fucking easy then.
 

Yibby

Member
The later prospect of spending time in the boring main area to farm vials/bullets is extremely un-enticing, though :(
The game dynamics are fun, but not fun enough to be repeated that many times without novelty, for me at least. I'll give it a few more shots, but I don't think this is for me after all. It's too bad. Just give me bullets/health at resurrect and I wouldn't have minded as much. But right now it feels as if i had to farm the two extra lives you start with in a megaman level.

You tried coop ? I had a hard time with FG too and then beat him with a random helper.
 

Taker34

Banned
Nah, as illogical as it sounds, it feels like cheating. I can't get myself to do it.
But it's a fun mechanic and still very rewarding. It would be a pity if you'd not be able to experience the rest of this title. I like the way you play but don't let your pride ruin this game. :/
 
How bout not parrying if you can't do it? Just dodge and attack? You don't *have* to parry, I didn't on that fight.

Now that you say it, most Father G videos I am looking at involve just dodging him and destroying him with the hammer (which i don't have). I dunno. I am stubborn, and have become kind of wed to that riposte mechanism. Wish I understood it better. I might be underleveled / too low endurance because I could swear those guys survive what would definitely kill me (a third phase combo). I am not sure what i am doing wrong, but if i get hit once, I will not be able to do anything - I will get hit repeatedly, and die, no matter how hard i try to get up and dodge.
 

Raiden

Banned
I am losing patience and not having fun anymore with this game. :(
I am now bored as I dominate the entire area I can roam (everything until father gascoigne). Trolls are systematically eviscerated. No enemy really poses major trouble, except the werewolves, and even those I can take care of fairly easily. Well, except that giant pig that I always engage from behind, but seems too strong for frontal assault for now. I enjoy fighting those tall, skinny, spear-carrying weirdoes.

But I. cannot. kill. this motherfucker. I can't. I think at this point it's trauma, because I used to be able to get to beast form pretty easily (back when I didn't realize he had two 'human' forms, but now I have problem getting past the second form (I can not figure out for the life of me the timing for parrying his longaxe attacks. I just try to parry pathetically, and get axed in the face). Sometimes I get the parry but i got axed anyway, so I can't even get the attack in. Often I'll get parries, and the visceral attack won't connect. Either I am too far, or by the time i get close and release the left stick it's too late. I got to the beast form a couple of times, got two visceral attacks in, but at my level/strenght, it gets him to a sliver of health away from dying, but then I die (and only my wife's look of disapproval prevented me from throwing the ps4 out of the window)
I went from a stockpile of tons of bullets and health vials, to 0 vials, 0 bullets (and while in theory i could beat father G without vials, doing it without bullets sounds like madness), and 0 echoes. And it's getting more pathetic as I try to rush and engage it with two vials and 5 bullets obtained from blood sacrifice, b/c I can't be bothered with roaming the stupid fucking city for a few bullets (I know 4 of them can easily be obtained from the wheelchair dude)
Given the gun does pathetic damage and is essentially the parry, I really wish they'd replenish the bullets when you resurrect.
I think I'll just stop. This stopped being interesting to me hours ago.
None of what I can read on this thread or online seems to help. The beast seems somewhat ok to parry, but is very unforgiving for mistakes. I run into motherfucking tombstones all the time.
Back to hotline miami 2 in hard mode, which somehow frustrates me much less. I'd do the boat level fifty times in a row rather than face that fucking asshole.
No offense but you're not really dominating anything if you get killed by that pig mob. Give the game a chance until you beat Father G because the game only really starts then. Lots of new content and stuff opens up. Also use molotovs because he takes lots of fire damage.
 

Ferrio

Banned
Now that you say it, most Father G videos I am looking at involve just dodging him and destroying him with the hammer (which i don't have). I dunno. I am stubborn, and have become kind of wed to that riposte mechanism. Wish I understood it better. I might be underleveled / too low endurance because I could swear those guys survive what would definitely kill me (a third phase combo). I am not sure what i am doing wrong, but if i get hit once, I will not be able to do anything - I will get hit repeatedly, and die, no matter how hard i try to get up and dodge.

Hammer isn't that good actually.
 

Zafir

Member
Now that you say it, most Father G videos I am looking at involve just dodging him and destroying him with the hammer (which i don't have). I dunno. I am stubborn, and have become kind of wed to that riposte mechanism. Wish I understood it better. I might be underleveled / too low endurance because I could swear those guys survive what would definitely kill me (a third phase combo). I am not sure what i am doing wrong, but if i get hit once, I will not be able to do anything - I will get hit repeatedly, and die, no matter how hard i try to get up and dodge.

I dunno, after I did it solo I helped quite a few people do it in co-op. It seemed like Axe was the best weapon for him, some people using it staggered him easily with the charge attack. Hell it seemed like the best weapon in general. That said it's not the end of the world if you don't have it. I was using the Saw all the way up until I got Ludwig's and I don't feel like I was at that much of a disadvantage.
 

Sora_N

Member
I went back to Cathedral Ward, ended up finding some
Hunter in the Graveyard, am I supposed to not attack him? Would he not fight me back? Lol

WTF I just found a whole Armor Set and I got FRENZY, swirled up into the air and then I lost most of my health. WHAT IS THAT?
 

bigjig

Member
Nah, as illogical as it sounds, it feels like cheating. I can't get myself to do it.

Well it's not cheating because it's part of the game mechanics. It's much more preferable to take the game at your own pace summoning when need be to help you progress rather than banging your head against a wall for hours on end.
 
I went back to Cathedral Ward, ended up finding some
Hunter in the Graveyard, am I supposed to not attack him? Would he not fight me back? Lol

WTF I just found a whole Armor Set and I got FRENZY, swirled up into the air and then I lost most of my health. WHAT IS THAT?
Wait, in the Tomb of Oedon or the Graveyard right as you leave to the left of the Cathedral Ward?

And you'll find out what that was later on.
 

slade

Member
Hammer isn't that good actually.

You say that but the Kirkhammer is what saved my ass in this fight. His beast form took one charged hit from my hammer and the fight was over. Before that, I failed countless times with other strategies. Hammer is also great for staggering the big dudes.
 

Sora_N

Member
Huh,
I don't recall ever seeing a hunter there. What does he look like?

(Sorry so many questions, just curious)

Blonde hair, he's was crouching in front of a tombstone or something. I thought he was a troll NPC so I attacked him.

From the Cathedral Ward after you kill the purple lantern dudes on the left side, going all the way down and past the gunner with the 2 dogs, go into the building on the right then go straight through it, then down the stairs on the right.
 

Gsnap

Member
Blonde hair, he's was crouching in front of a tombstone or something. I thought he was a troll NPC so I attacked him.

From the Cathedral Ward after you kill the purple lantern dudes on the left side, going all the way down and past the gunner with the 2 dogs, go into the building on the right then go straight through it, then down the stairs on the right.

Surely he didn't attack you right away, right?

Usually NPCs will tank a hit or two before they become aggressive.
 
Blonde hair, he's was crouching in front of a tombstone or something. I thought he was a troll NPC so I attacked him.

From the Cathedral Ward after you kill the purple lantern dudes on the left side, going all the way down and past the gunner with the 2 dogs, go into the building on the right then go straight through it, then down the stairs on the right.

OH...
Laurence.
shit, I think you fucked up.
I haven't beaten the game yet, but it seems he has some significance (which I can't tell you since spoilers).
 

AlexIIDX

Member
I am losing patience and not having fun anymore with this game. :(
I am now bored as I dominate the entire area I can roam (everything until father gascoigne). Trolls are systematically eviscerated. No enemy really poses major trouble, except the werewolves, and even those I can take care of fairly easily. Well, except that giant pig that I always engage from behind, but seems too strong for frontal assault for now. I enjoy fighting those tall, skinny, spear-carrying weirdoes.

But I. cannot. kill. this motherfucker. I can't. I think at this point it's trauma, because I used to be able to get to beast form pretty easily (back when I didn't realize he had two 'human' forms, but now I have problem getting past the second form (I can not figure out for the life of me the timing for parrying his longaxe attacks. I just try to parry pathetically, and get axed in the face). Sometimes I get the parry but i got axed anyway, so I can't even get the attack in. Often I'll get parries, and the visceral attack won't connect. Either I am too far, or by the time i get close and release the left stick it's too late. I got to the beast form a couple of times, got two visceral attacks in, but at my level/strenght, it gets him to a sliver of health away from dying, but then I die (and only my wife's look of disapproval prevented me from throwing the ps4 out of the window)
I went from a stockpile of tons of bullets and health vials, to 0 vials, 0 bullets (and while in theory i could beat father G without vials, doing it without bullets sounds like madness), and 0 echoes. And it's getting more pathetic as I try to rush and engage it with two vials and 5 bullets obtained from blood sacrifice, b/c I can't be bothered with roaming the stupid fucking city for a few bullets (I know 4 of them can easily be obtained from the wheelchair dude)
Given the gun does pathetic damage and is essentially the parry, I really wish they'd replenish the bullets when you resurrect.
I think I'll just stop. This stopped being interesting to me hours ago.
None of what I can read on this thread or online seems to help. The beast seems somewhat ok to parry, but is very unforgiving for mistakes. I run into motherfucking tombstones all the time.
Back to hotline miami 2 in hard mode, which somehow frustrates me much less. I'd do the boat level fifty times in a row rather than face that fucking asshole.

I don't know if you want to know, but there is an item you can get from an NPC that works wonders on Gasciogne.
 

Sora_N

Member
Surely he didn't attack you right away, right?

Usually NPCs will tank a hit or two before they become aggressive.

OH...
Laurence.
shit, I think you fucked up.
I haven't beaten the game yet, but it seems he has some significance (which I can't tell you since spoilers).

He became aggressive after I attacked him and died, unless he's always aggressive when I stand near him and touch him (that sounded wrong).

The notes people left around said "friend" etc etc and he still outright tries to murder me.

When I first attacked him with a combo he said something like "Why are you attacking me?" or something.

I can't restart, don't know if I can beat BSB again lol.
 
He became aggressive after I attacked him and died, unless he's always aggressive when I stand near him and touch him (that sounded wrong).

The notes people left around said "friend" etc etc and he still outright tries to murder me.

When I first attacked him with a combo he said something like "Why are you attacking me?" or something.

I can't restart, don't know if I can beat BSB again lol.

He's friendly unless you attack him. I'm guessing you never got to talk to him?

Well, if you don't want to restart, he does show up later in a different part of the ward. No idea if that will be the case for you or if he'll even be friendly by then.
 

Gsnap

Member
He became aggressive after I attacked him and died, unless he's always aggressive when I stand near him and touch him (that sounded wrong).

The notes people left around said "friend" etc etc and he still outright tries to murder me.

When I first attacked him with a combo he said something like "Why are you attacking me?" or something.

I can't restart, don't know if I can beat BSB again lol.

That's what I'm talking about. You should have stopped there. Now he'll never forgive you.

I think. Maybe later on he won't attack on sight. But yeah, people you can talk to will only become hostile if you continue to attack. One or two hits and they'll just shrug it off or ask you to stop. So yeah, you messed up. lol. It's ok though. That's what the game is about. Do whatever you want and see what happens.
 

Sora_N

Member
He's friendly unless you attack him. I'm guessing you never got to talk to him?

Well, if you don't want to restart, he does show up later in a different part of the ward. No idea if that will be the case for you or if he'll even be friendly by then.

That's what I'm talking about. You should have stopped there. Now he'll never forgive you.

I think. Maybe later on he won't attack on sight. But yeah, people you can talk to will only become hostile if you continue to attack. One or two hits and they'll just shrug it off or ask you to stop. So yeah, you messed up. lol. It's ok though. That's what the game is about. Do whatever you want and see what happens.

Ok lol, I guess I'll see later on...

I missed some of the other stuff already anyways.
 

BraXzy

Member
I just beat the second boss on my third try, it's going pretty good now. The first area that seemed like a horrific, brutal barage of enemies when I first started playing now feels like trash mobs I've gotta clear out.

The enemies in the next area from second boss hit like bricks though got dayum!
 

ArcLyte

Member
I am losing patience and not having fun anymore with this game. :(
I am now bored as I dominate the entire area I can roam (everything until father gascoigne). Trolls are systematically eviscerated. No enemy really poses major trouble, except the werewolves, and even those I can take care of fairly easily. Well, except that giant pig that I always engage from behind, but seems too strong for frontal assault for now. I enjoy fighting those tall, skinny, spear-carrying weirdoes.

But I. cannot. kill. this motherfucker. I can't. I think at this point it's trauma, because I used to be able to get to beast form pretty easily (back when I didn't realize he had two 'human' forms, but now I have problem getting past the second form (I can not figure out for the life of me the timing for parrying his longaxe attacks. I just try to parry pathetically, and get axed in the face). Sometimes I get the parry but i got axed anyway, so I can't even get the attack in. Often I'll get parries, and the visceral attack won't connect. Either I am too far, or by the time i get close and release the left stick it's too late. I got to the beast form a couple of times, got two visceral attacks in, but at my level/strenght, it gets him to a sliver of health away from dying, but then I die (and only my wife's look of disapproval prevented me from throwing the ps4 out of the window)
I went from a stockpile of tons of bullets and health vials, to 0 vials, 0 bullets (and while in theory i could beat father G without vials, doing it without bullets sounds like madness), and 0 echoes. And it's getting more pathetic as I try to rush and engage it with two vials and 5 bullets obtained from blood sacrifice, b/c I can't be bothered with roaming the stupid fucking city for a few bullets (I know 4 of them can easily be obtained from the wheelchair dude)
Given the gun does pathetic damage and is essentially the parry, I really wish they'd replenish the bullets when you resurrect.
I think I'll just stop. This stopped being interesting to me hours ago.
None of what I can read on this thread or online seems to help. The beast seems somewhat ok to parry, but is very unforgiving for mistakes. I run into motherfucking tombstones all the time.
Back to hotline miami 2 in hard mode, which somehow frustrates me much less. I'd do the boat level fifty times in a row rather than face that fucking asshole.

Get up in his face and slash the shit out of him, while making sure to read his actions and evading appropriately. Back away and heal often.
 

AlexIIDX

Member
I'm really bad but I'm still having fun.

I was able to finally beat Father Gascoigne so I made a video.

I hate you

Man, I should parry more....that visceral attack was doing massive damage. My fight with Gasciogne lasted like 15 minutes.

edit: and wtf, he didn't even go beast form? You got pretty lucky with that shotgun loop lol
 

brb

Member
(Yharnam NPC spoilers)
The little girl jumped. this is seriously depressing, I'm going to equip the white ribbons to commemorate her. :(
 

Aspiring

Member
I did it i FINALLY FUCKING BEAT IT!!!!! I got past central yarnham. Sure i have still yet to beat the boss but the path there is unlocked and man whay a feeling. I have the parry, the dodge and the hit downpat. Hell i have even levelled up. What was no bullshiy around 8 hours of the FIRST SECTION is now over and it has clicked and man what a feeling!!!!
 
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