Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@nessisonett

@JohnnyShoulder Come on though, bosses like Shadows of Yharnam and The One Reborn, areas like Old Yharnam, Nightmare Frontier and the prison just aren’t very fun. The Old Hunters condenses the fluff and delivers only brilliant content in a well-paced space of time. It’s a great DLC that only emphasises the issues Bloodborne suffers from.

@nessisonett Horses for courses though. Some of those are my favourite areas and bosses in the game. You might not have found them fun but I did. Doesn't make either of us wrong, as all of that is subjective. Not to say the game is perfect, but it is far away from being a bad game.

@Arugula I’d watch but unfortunately I have three different assignments due this week that I’ve totally neglected since my PS5 arrived 😂

@Arugula It’s so annoying because this season’s shaping up to be a great one! It’ll be really interesting to see the back and forth between Red Bull and Mercedes.

So after all these years, the entire Kingdom Hearts series are on PC. This is what I bought my PS4 for back in the day!

@nessisonett Kingdom Hearts is what I bought my PS2 for back in the day. And PSP. Man, I feel old.

@mookysam I actually did own the first two games on PS2 but never beat them. So I’d completed the two DS games and the 3DS game beforehand but PS4 was the first time I beat the first game!

I think “my” PS5 is due back tomorrow

@nessisonett How did you find it coming off the modern-playing 3DS one? The jumping is so strange in the first game, but the remaster is very nicely done in terms of presentation. Re:Chain of Memories really surprised me, too. I'm a sucker for Kingdom Hearts so it's one of the few series I'd buy a console for. Once I found out about Birth By Sleep I simply HAD to have a PSP. I was obsessed until I'd saved enough.😂

@mookysam The flowmotion thing was great in the 3DS game but I actually loved how the stiffer platforming made getting chests in the first two games a lot harder and less of a box checking exercise. Especially the second game with the platforming in the Cavern of Remembrance, which is one of my favourite areas in any game.

@nessisonett Yeah, chests are almost right in front of you in later titles. You sort of adjust to the strange platforming in KH1, but one section that will forever annoy me is the area behind the waterfall in Deep Jungle. I liked finding all the Dalmatians; it forces the player to explore the levels more thoroughly. The Cavern of Remembrance is such a great addition to KH2 Final Mix! Even though the game's ancient at this point it still blew my mind to discover that new area. The challenge is pretty refreshing.

@mookysam Oh yes, I remember that exact area of Deep Jungle well. Many, many hours spent in frustration in that world in the original game and remake alike.

@Jimmer-jammer Yeah, can't win 'em all eh?

@Rogerroger Have you ever tried Hitman 3(or the trilogy I guess lol) in VR?

@RogerRoger I have been. I went back and replayed the first few levels in VR, then just started playing in VR from the Japanese Hospital and on. It's absolutely incredible. How personal it all feels is incredible. Aside from a few cinematic kills (many unique kills are still in VR), it's all right from your perspective. The scale of the levels and exploring feels different in VR, as the levels feel bigger than before, almost overwhelmingly. It feels like a different experience honestly.
The sightseeing is also incredible. In the Japanese resort I spent an hour sightseeing as a patient before I did anything else. The tourism is on steroids. Just seeing everything in scale, observing the art up close, hearing the conversations around you. Watching a trap you set through the cracks in the closet. It's all something else and one of the best VR games/experiences I've had.
It's all incredibly immersive. Frankly, if you have any interest in VR, and you might be able to get over that fear, given your love of Hitman, I wonder whether it would make VR a good purchase for you on its own. I think it's funny that people say PSVR has slowed down when this just released.

@colonelkilgore @nessisonett Do either of you believe that Ludwig the Accursed is meant to be the "dragon" of Bloodborne? As he looks a bit like one and gifts you the Moonlight Greatsword, associated with Seath and Oceiros from the Dark Souls games, upon his ultimate demise? Credit for this theory goes to a user on Reddit who posted about it on there, I am just seeing what people think about it here as I found it quite an interesting theory, despite a lot of people shooting that person down on there.

@Jimmer-jammer How's the piano going, buddy? Do you drink beer to relax nowadays? I remember you saying you had some problems in the past, if so, which beer(s) do you like?

@TheBrandedSwordsman I’m not sure. Seath’s originally from King’s Field and was brought forward into Dark Souls so technically he’s either an anachronism and nothing to do with Dark Souls or they exist within the same universe. IIRC, the game states that Ludwig found the HMS on his travels so no, I don’t think that makes him the dragon of that game as the others were all going after the power of Moonlight. If anything, it’s more likely to be related to Ebrietas given that the Great Isz Chalice allows people to commune with her and Ludwig likely found the HMS while he was a tomb prospector in Isz.

@TheBrandedSwordsman hmmm... not sure about that, would have to read the theory though, just to drain a full understanding of the perspective. As far as the aesthetic of Ludwig, he is more horse-like than dragon-like but obviously the Moonlight sword is generally something associated with dragons... so maybe.