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 Current Episode  About the Game Bloodborne is a 2015 action role-playing game released on the Playstation 4. Developed by the (in)famous FromSoftware it is considered to be adjacent to the similarly (in)famous Souls series, taking many of the aspects of those games and transposing them into a Gothic, Victorian setting. Players are dropped into an expansive Metroidvania style gamespace and asked to explore and understand the mystery of what has happened to the city of Yharnam, fighting a myriad of humans and monsters along the way. Bloodborne was released to near universal acclaim with critics praising its setting, gameplay as well as its unyielding difficulty and vision. In the seven years since, millions of players have entered the streets of Yharnam and found themselves giving it similar praise. As of 2022 the game has not seen a release on any platform beyond the PS4 and there's been a growing outcry for a remake or port of the game elsewhere. Even though the response on these requests remains unclear, what is clear is that even after all this time this game is absolutely adored by its fans. About the LP I am Natural20 and I am a living god of videogames. (Ignoring ridiculous mechanics like Space Jumping, or dealing with Spikes, or that insanely difficult corridor in Aria of Sorrow.) Despite being an avatar of game supremacy, I have never played a Soulslike. Unless you count Hollow Knight, which I don't think does count? I'm not really sure. In any case I am going to slap this game around despite the fact that I've never played it before because that's how good I am. If I do die, it's because I'm playing on a Playstation controller and has nothing to do with my failure to adapt, understand or read. The purpose of this LP is to show you that this "hard" game is actually super easy and everyone else needs to get good. This, as with many of our LPs will be a Guided Blind LP, where I will play with no foreknowledge of the game and my erstwhile colleague and best friend Yorkshire Tea will guide me through the world, ensuring that I don’t go too far astray. (Without good reason) Episodes will release on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11pm BST, 6pm EST (or as close to that as I can manage) with cheeky Patreon early episodes for those who are really invested. Art and banners, will, as ever, be handled by the amazing Bifauxnen. Episodes                                          Natural20's Notes On Game Design 1. Items and Hoarding 2. The Run Back 3. Bloodborne and World of Warcraft - How I stopped caring and embraced the grind. Links Our Patreon! - In case you want to support our LPs and see episodes early! (Incidentally this is also the only place where I can actually time video releases, so if I need to delay posting a video here, it will show up on Patreon on its own.) Natural 20 fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Sep 12, 2022 |
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Jun 8, 2022 23:15
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Well, this is going to be interesting. This game is like a strange nightmare of being in England. It is also never coming on PC, ever. SIGSEGV fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Jun 9, 2022 |
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Jun 9, 2022 00:20
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From the exactly 3 days I have spent in the UK, it looks exactly like London to me, depressing murderhobobeasts and all
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Jun 9, 2022 00:25
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SIGSEGV posted:It is also never coming on PC, ever. This will be my first experience with Bloodborne for that exact reason. This is gonna be good.
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Jun 9, 2022 00:29
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Let's purge the night of these beasts, 2HP at a time!
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Jun 9, 2022 00:45
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Fie, it rises quite quickly after a few trivially cheap level ups.
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Jun 9, 2022 00:48
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Ah another Nat20 LP.
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Jun 9, 2022 00:49
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Oh, this should be good. e: Yup, first episode and Nat is already being brilliant. Great comic timing, too. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Jun 9, 2022 |
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Jun 9, 2022 00:52
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That's what you get for not paying attention.
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Jun 9, 2022 01:23
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This hurts.
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Jun 9, 2022 01:41
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This is already amazing.
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Jun 9, 2022 01:44
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I can't believe Nat missed getting a weapon.
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Jun 9, 2022 02:54
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theenglishman posted:
This is also why I have never played the game, though I have watched more LPs of it than I can count (my thumb confuses me).
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Jun 9, 2022 06:02
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Well, now a top tier god gamer is taking this game on, maybe I'll finally come to understand it.
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Jun 9, 2022 07:28
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We're off to a good start  Where's the first weapon supposed to be, in the dream? I guess we'll discover next episode.
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Jun 9, 2022 10:33
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Omobono posted:We're off to a good start _______________________________________no it's not______________________________ ___________________he's just blind and impatient______________________________ buddy of mine missed getting the Estus Flask in Dark Souls 2 as well because you have to talk to an NPC that's just standing there and he didn't see her Only thing that would have been better than this start was if the beast had grabbed him in a way to push Nat through a gate that's supposed to be locked, skipping a huge chunk of the game
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Jun 9, 2022 11:04
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Finally, someone I can learn how to "get good" from.
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Jun 9, 2022 15:15
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This is a subgenre of game I have only ever enjoyed from the outside, but something about these sorts of games makes them very entertaining for me to watch. Bloodborne, in particular, is one I'm forced to enjoy vicariously due to not having any of the Playstations, which is too bad because the trick weapons and how they define one's playstyle seems like my kind of jam for the sort of gameplay found in Soulslikes. I'm curious which one you'll end up sticking with. Assuming you ever find one, of course. Me, if I ever get a chance, I'd go straight for the Kirkhammer, it just looks rad as hell. EDIT: By the way, the word "milquetoast" is actually a reference to the character, Caspar Milquetoast, from a 1920s comic strip, The Timid Soul. The character was named for milk toast, which is toast in warm milk, and was generally given to children and the infirm, as it was considered easy to digest (as we all know, nobody anywhere has difficulties processing dairy products or wheat). Thus, the character was timid, ineffectual, bland, and that's why we now use the word to refer to anyone who displays those same qualities. EclecticTastes fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jun 10, 2022 |
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Jun 10, 2022 01:37
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Can't wait to see a legendary god gamer do a fists only run of Bloodborne.
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Jun 10, 2022 01:58
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Thank you for not saving Natural 20 from himself.
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Jun 10, 2022 07:35
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EclecticTastes posted:This is a subgenre of game I have only ever enjoyed from the outside, but something about these sorts of games makes them very entertaining for me to watch. Bloodborne, in particular, is one I'm forced to enjoy vicariously due to not having any of the Playstations, which is too bad because the trick weapons and how they define one's playstyle seems like my kind of jam for the sort of gameplay found in Soulslikes. I'm curious which one you'll end up sticking with. Assuming you ever find one, of course. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 09:02 on Jun 10, 2022 |
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Jun 10, 2022 08:59
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anilEhilated posted:Personally, I hope they stick with Arcane since I haven't seen an LP like that yet. Not sure when you get your first magic thing, though. First offensive tool: gauntlet in Cainhurst First possibility to make weapon arcane scaling + elemental: fire gem protected by brainsucker in the streets down in Cathedral Ward EDIT: bottom line, you should know what you're doing if you're going into Arcane, so obv Nat should do it Simply Simon fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Jun 10, 2022 |
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Jun 10, 2022 09:23
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Jun 10, 2022 22:58
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Man Tea one can already hear you gritting your teeth to tiny stubs as you accompany the world's leadt observant man lol
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Jun 11, 2022 00:17
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Wonder how many updates it will take for Nat to remember that he has a gun.
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Jun 11, 2022 00:22
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That's just disappointing. I was counting on a full weaponless run.
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Jun 11, 2022 01:17
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Gnoman posted:Wonder how many updates it will take for Nat to remember that he has a gun. What's a gun? Epicmissingno posted:That's just disappointing. I was counting on a full weaponless run. Tea tricked me into picking up a weapon.
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Jun 11, 2022 01:47
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Good choice on the threaded cane, I enjoy seeing that one in action, probably because it's the classiest of the starter weapons.
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Jun 11, 2022 02:21
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Having never played the game or seen a nat 20 lp. I get the feeling I'm in for a ride.
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Jun 11, 2022 02:21
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hell yeah he picked the correct one
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Jun 11, 2022 02:30
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Natural 20 posted:Tea tricked me into picking up a weapon. You can always unequip it, can't you? If you don't challenge Lady Maria of Cainhurst (the DLC final boss I think?) to a bout of fisticuffs we'll be very cross.
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Jun 11, 2022 06:01
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYcXh3be3n0 Largely just highlights for everyone here. But I had fun making it.
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Jun 12, 2022 23:11
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Extremely ready for this  A blind Arcane run is going to be interesting, though with the level of skill already on display, Nat probably doesn't even need stats.Also, in case you haven't seen it yet, it's recently been confirmed that Silksong will be released within the next 12 months. Carpator Diei fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Jun 12, 2022 |
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Jun 12, 2022 23:16
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Natural 20 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYcXh3be3n0 This highlight reel inspired me. 
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Jun 12, 2022 23:47
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The prompt is pretty clear that the Messengers are offering you a trick weapon. Nat20 was smart not to fall for it.
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A round of  for Yorkshire Tea who somehow managed to refrain from either fits of giggles or exasperated yelling.
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One mechanic I'll point out because it appeared in the video, and apologies if it's out of line to do so, but you might notice if you keep whacking an enemy after they're dead, there's actually a brief window in which hitting them will still recover your health, if you have any pale red bits on your health bar. Good way to mitigate the game's attrition mechanics.
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I know nothing about this game that hasn't already been covered in the OP, but I can already tell this is going to be an absolutely wild ride
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