This is the second call of duty game in the past 2 or 3 months and I just could not care less about them. I have zero nostalgia for the originals and even less desire to play the remakes. Bleh.
I tried playing the CoD MW remake and idk if I'm just bad at console shooters now or if it's kinda dated compared to modern shooters, but man, it felt kinda clunky.
GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
edited July 2020
For it's time MW was smooth as butter and I dumped hundreds of hours in to the MP...but by modern standards it's clunky.
My Ghost journey continues. I've reached that point in open world games where you've opened enough skills, upgrades and tools that you become a whirlwind of death. I basically don't care if I get seen at this point, I have seven or eight different ways to dominate a fight in grotesquely comical ways. I tend to play these games in a particular way, where I spend a lot of time upgrading my character and then push through the main story...I'm just about to the point where I'm ready to push and close out the main story.
So far Ghost is my GOTY. I'll admit this isn't the strongest year so far, and Cyberpunk 2077 will almost certainly de-throne it for me. For right now this is the game I've spent the most time with this year and it's been a great ride.
For it's time MW was smooth as butter and I dumped hundreds of hours in to the MP...but by modern standards it's clunky.
My Ghost journey continues. I've reached that point in open world games where you've opened enough skills, upgrades and tools that you become a whirlwind of death. I basically don't care if I get seen at this point, I have seven or eight different ways to dominate a fight in grotesquely comical ways. I tend to play these games in a particular way, where I spend a lot of time upgrading my character and then push through the main story...I'm just about to the point where I'm ready to push and close out the main story.
So far Ghost is my GOTY. I'll admit this isn't the strongest year so far, and Cyberpunk 2077 will almost certainly de-throne it for me. For right now this is the game I've spent the most time with this year and it's been a great ride.
For it's time MW was smooth as butter and I dumped hundreds of hours in to the MP...but by modern standards it's clunky.
My Ghost journey continues. I've reached that point in open world games where you've opened enough skills, upgrades and tools that you become a whirlwind of death. I basically don't care if I get seen at this point, I have seven or eight different ways to dominate a fight in grotesquely comical ways. I tend to play these games in a particular way, where I spend a lot of time upgrading my character and then push through the main story...I'm just about to the point where I'm ready to push and close out the main story.
So far Ghost is my GOTY. I'll admit this isn't the strongest year so far, and Cyberpunk 2077 will almost certainly de-throne it for me. For right now this is the game I've spent the most time with this year and it's been a great ride.
Did you play Doom or TLoU2?
TLoU didn't need a sequel, and nothing I've heard about 2 changes my mind on that, so no on TLoU2.
Yes, I played Doom. It was good, but worse than 2016 in most ways for me personally. It was a great game but felt like an overall step backwards (despite having more of everything).
I wanted to like FF7:R more than I did. Frankly I beat it and then quickly forgot I played it. It was fine, above average, but it didn't occupy my mindspace enough to be my GoTY. Even when I was playing it actively I never felt the pull to play it constantly like I have with Ghost. By the end I was having to remind myself to play it just to finish it.
I have not yet finished TLoU2 and I wasn't sure the story from the first needed continuing but I will say I am enjoying the hell out of it and do think it has built well on the world of the first one.
I am also very keen to play some Fall Guys but it looks like a title that would go really well with local play as well as online and I'm a bit baffled that's not included.
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I have not yet finished TLoU2 and I wasn't sure the story from the first needed continuing but I will say I am enjoying the hell out of it and do think it has built well on the world of the first one.
I am also very keen to play some Fall Guys but it looks like a title that would go really well with local play as well as online and I'm a bit baffled that's not included.
Oh it doesn't have local? Nevermind then.
I suppose it's time for me to let ps+ lapse. I don't think I've even installed any of the free games since maybe Darksiders 3? Even then I didn't think it was any good.
As a batle royale type game, I guess I didnt expect Fall Guys to have co-op out of the gate.
It does look fun however, and getting into it while its brand new sounds appealing.
Im an old fogey, I cant resist trying free games. Back in my day we only got a new game on our birthdays IF we were lucky, etc etc.
Picked up Stellaris during the last sale... Man that is nearly incomprehensible to a beginner. I was surprised they didnt offer a Civilopedia type information resource. And as its on console, you cant just hover your cursor over icons to see what the eff they represent.
But after a few 40 minute videos about the basics, Im totally onboard. 100 things all happening at once but at a glacial pace is somehow the recipe to keep me up past bedtime. I met a enclave of galactic space badger artists who give me a yearly newsletter and ask for donations. Whats not to like.
Huh! Cuphead's out for PS4. As in, right now. Definitely check it out if you haven't already.
(Be warned it's tough and "easy" mode only skips a few phases of each boss fight, and you want to see each phase of the boss fight. That said there's no real penalty for dying and you are put back in action really fast.)
FF7 Remake is already my GOTY. It literally doesn't matter what else comes out.
I thought Last of Us 2 would take that title, but it just didn't. Then Ghost of Tsushima came out. It put up a massive fight, but yeah FF7 still GOTY for me, with Ghost in a REALLY close second.
I actually don't have a GOTY yet. I've played a ton of older games but the newer ones have been full of disappointment for me. Death Stranding is the only game I've played this year that I've 100% enjoyed but that came out last year I think.
I'm finally playing through God of War, it's very good. I think I'm approaching the end. Kinda wish I played it back when it came out instead of trying to (and abandoning) playing the older games first. Got through the first OG God of War, but gave up playing the second because man, those games do not hold up at all.
Also, people weren't kidding about God of War making their PS4 Pros sound like a jet engine. Holy crap. It's the loudest I've ever heard my PS4 and it's almost constant. Also heated up my room to the point where I was sweating.
I'm finally playing through God of War, it's very good. I think I'm approaching the end. Kinda wish I played it back when it came out instead of trying to (and abandoning) playing the older games first. Got through the first OG God of War, but gave up playing the second because man, those games do not hold up at all.
Also, people weren't kidding about God of War making their PS4 Pros sound like a jet engine. Holy crap. It's the loudest I've ever heard my PS4 and it's almost constant. Also heated up my room to the point where I was sweating.
I played the first one until I was asked to push a crate, with dudes shooting at the crate and needing to start over if the crate got broken. I don’t know if it got better after that.
I plan to play the modern one at some point because apparently it is very good and I have not heard about any crate pushing.
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Inquisitor772 x Penny Arcade Fight Club ChampionA fixed point in space and timeRegistered Userregular
edited July 2020
The latest God of War is one of the best games for PS4, period, and you don't need to have played any of the previous games to enjoy it. Some of the references and backstory may not make much sense, but the fundamental design and mechanics of the game are tremendously enjoyable on their own, and the main narrative stands alone just fine.
PS - You can just assume that Kratos was a grimdark emo guy who killed everything and everyone (spoiler alert) before the start of the game, and you're pretty much there.
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So far The Last of Us 2 is my GOTY, but Ghosts is a very close second right now and as long as it doesn't go full pants on head, could take it.
The latest God of War is one of the best games for PS4, period, and you don't need to have played any of the previous games to enjoy it. Some of the references and backstory may not make much sense, but the fundamental design and mechanics of the game are tremendously enjoyable on their own, and the main narrative stands alone just fine.
PS - You can just assume that Kratos was a grimdark emo guy who killed everything and everyone (spoiler alert) before the start of the game, and you're pretty much there.
So to that end, a slightly longer and essentially totally spoilerific synopsis of the original 3 God of War games (so only 1-3, not the other four side games):
Kratos was super kickass and won a bunch of battles then lost one and basically made a devil's bargain with Ares that turned out pretty much how those things go, in this case with Kratos killing his own wife and child and swearing vengeance on the god who had wronged him. Through a bunch of super-bloody fighting, he gets the power to kill a god and kills Ares and takes his throne. Zeus gets scared he'll try to kill all the gods so he preempts this by killing Kratos instead. With Gaia's help you go on a bloody rampage through time and space to kill the sisters of fate and realign the world to kill Zeus, which you fail to do but kill Athena instead, oops and find out Zeus is your daddy so that's a thing you're half god. Then you and Gaia climb Olympus to bring the fall of the gods themselves, and surprise Gaia betrays you too, and then surprise surprise, you claw your way back up topside anyways and murder your way through basically the entire rest of the pantheon until you get to Zeus, you realize that the strongest thing in you is hope and then you . . . beat just the everloving shit out of Zeus in first person until the screen is red with his blood. And then you find out that that Hope in you came from Pandora's Box, which you used to beat Ares back in the first game, and when you opened it all the other gods were poisoned by some element of the ills of humanity, so then he stabbed himself straight through because in killing the gods he'd basically brought an apocalypse on the land and so he freed hope from inside himself with a noble sacrifice and then at the very very end of the game there's a cliff and a trail of blood leading to it that suggests he threw himself off it.
I really boiled it down, but that's really it.
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God of War PS4 is weird. Given the insane respect they gave towards Kratos's story and character, I would argue that it's extremely important to play/watch/experience the previous games beforehand. Maybe play 3 if you want, or just watch a lets play of the series. And yet... it's not exactly a deep story either. It's important to know Kratos's backstory, but you can sum up the entire plot of the old games in about 5 words.
Greek gods: "Fuck you."
Kratos: "No, FUCK YOU!"
God of War, everybody. All you really have to know is that Kratos was a very angry boi. Though as Mimir puts it "From what I heard, the Pantheon had it coming."
"The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
The latest God of War is one of the best games for PS4, period, and you don't need to have played any of the previous games to enjoy it. Some of the references and backstory may not make much sense, but the fundamental design and mechanics of the game are tremendously enjoyable on their own, and the main narrative stands alone just fine.
PS - You can just assume that Kratos was a grimdark emo guy who killed everything and everyone (spoiler alert) before the start of the game, and you're pretty much there.
So to that end, a slightly longer and essentially totally spoilerific synopsis of the original 3 God of War games (so only 1-3, not the other four side games):
Kratos was super kickass and won a bunch of battles then lost one and basically made a devil's bargain with Ares that turned out pretty much how those things go, in this case with Kratos killing his own wife and child and swearing vengeance on the god who had wronged him. Through a bunch of super-bloody fighting, he gets the power to kill a god and kills Ares and takes his throne. Zeus gets scared he'll try to kill all the gods so he preempts this by killing Kratos instead. With Gaia's help you go on a bloody rampage through time and space to kill the sisters of fate and realign the world to kill Zeus, which you fail to do but kill Athena instead, oops and find out Zeus is your daddy so that's a thing you're half god. Then you and Gaia climb Olympus to bring the fall of the gods themselves, and surprise Gaia betrays you too, and then surprise surprise, you claw your way back up topside anyways and murder your way through basically the entire rest of the pantheon until you get to Zeus, you realize that the strongest thing in you is hope and then you . . . beat just the everloving shit out of Zeus in first person until the screen is red with his blood. And then you find out that that Hope in you came from Pandora's Box, which you used to beat Ares back in the first game, and when you opened it all the other gods were poisoned by some element of the ills of humanity, so then he stabbed himself straight through because in killing the gods he'd basically brought an apocalypse on the land and so he freed hope from inside himself with a noble sacrifice and then at the very very end of the game there's a cliff and a trail of blood leading to it that suggests he threw himself off it.
I really boiled it down, but that's really it.
You missed one very important thing
his ashen skin isn't just makeup, it's literally ash - after Ares tricked Kratos into killing his wife and child, Ares took their ashes and bound them to Kratos' skin to forever remind him of what he did.
God of War and Spider-Man are currently the oldest games in my backlog. (Well, Metal Gear Solid 5, which I can't bring myself to play.) Maybe I'll save those for the last games I play on my PS4 when I finally upgrade to a PS5 in a few years. Give it a great farewell.
The latest God of War is one of the best games for PS4, period, and you don't need to have played any of the previous games to enjoy it. Some of the references and backstory may not make much sense, but the fundamental design and mechanics of the game are tremendously enjoyable on their own, and the main narrative stands alone just fine.
PS - You can just assume that Kratos was a grimdark emo guy who killed everything and everyone (spoiler alert) before the start of the game, and you're pretty much there.
So to that end, a slightly longer and essentially totally spoilerific synopsis of the original 3 God of War games (so only 1-3, not the other four side games):
Kratos was super kickass and won a bunch of battles then lost one and basically made a devil's bargain with Ares that turned out pretty much how those things go, in this case with Kratos killing his own wife and child and swearing vengeance on the god who had wronged him. Through a bunch of super-bloody fighting, he gets the power to kill a god and kills Ares and takes his throne. Zeus gets scared he'll try to kill all the gods so he preempts this by killing Kratos instead. With Gaia's help you go on a bloody rampage through time and space to kill the sisters of fate and realign the world to kill Zeus, which you fail to do but kill Athena instead, oops and find out Zeus is your daddy so that's a thing you're half god. Then you and Gaia climb Olympus to bring the fall of the gods themselves, and surprise Gaia betrays you too, and then surprise surprise, you claw your way back up topside anyways and murder your way through basically the entire rest of the pantheon until you get to Zeus, you realize that the strongest thing in you is hope and then you . . . beat just the everloving shit out of Zeus in first person until the screen is red with his blood. And then you find out that that Hope in you came from Pandora's Box, which you used to beat Ares back in the first game, and when you opened it all the other gods were poisoned by some element of the ills of humanity, so then he stabbed himself straight through because in killing the gods he'd basically brought an apocalypse on the land and so he freed hope from inside himself with a noble sacrifice and then at the very very end of the game there's a cliff and a trail of blood leading to it that suggests he threw himself off it.
I really boiled it down, but that's really it.
You missed one very important thing
his ashen skin isn't just makeup, it's literally ash - after Ares tricked Kratos into killing his wife and child, Ares took their ashes and bound them to Kratos' skin to forever remind him of what he did.
Right, except
It's the oracle of the temple where his family died that cursed him, not Ares.
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@cloudeagle I can't imagine what MGSV is like now but that game seems insane even just a few years later. The systems, the online component, the combat (but really just the "approach" to combat) seems bonkers all this time later.
Also, that story is beyond problematic. Something that I didn't see as clearly then as I do now.
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
God of War is easily the best PS4 game available. I hated the original games with a passion but the new one cut deep.
Bloodborne is the best game available for PS4, and possibly the best game of the generation on any platform, but God of War is very good 8-)
I have Bloodborne, and have not played it. I have Spiderman and GoW, which I have played. Based on my play time with these three games, I have to disagree, either of the other two are much more engaging and fun.
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KalnaurI See Rain . . .Centralia, WARegistered Userregular
God of War is easily the best PS4 game available. I hated the original games with a passion but the new one cut deep.
Bloodborne is the best game available for PS4, and possibly the best game of the generation on any platform, but God of War is very good 8-)
I'm only going to argue with this over the general inaccessibility of From Soft's game difficulty level. I love me some Dark Souls, and Bloodborne is awesome, but it's not the best game on the PS4 (for me) because I have to be in the mood to be repeatedly kicked in the nads by a game, and Bloodborne's rather specific melee focus tends to do that more than other games of its type with more ubiquitous ranged options.
My favorite games are generally ones that aren't super-duper hard.
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PSA, in case it hasn't been mentioned, but it seems like the CoD:MW2(remake) is already available for PSN+.
I can't verify since it seems I've run out of PSN+.
(I only buy pre-paid PSN+/PSN cards, since getting PSN to accept any of my cards is just a nightmare...had to give up.)
Has given me time to work on my (non-PSN+) backlog.
To give you an ide of what type of consumer I am,
I'm the person who finds FF15 at 80% off within a month of release (!!!) and then don't play it for 1 (2?) years....
That said, MW2 for "free" almost got me to re-sub.
To each their own. (Warzone is still free, but...)
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
God of War is easily the best PS4 game available. I hated the original games with a passion but the new one cut deep.
Bloodborne is the best game available for PS4, and possibly the best game of the generation on any platform, but God of War is very good 8-)
I'm only going to argue with this over the general inaccessibility of From Soft's game difficulty level. I love me some Dark Souls, and Bloodborne is awesome, but it's not the best game on the PS4 (for me) because I have to be in the mood to be repeatedly kicked in the nads by a game, and Bloodborne's rather specific melee focus tends to do that more than other games of its type with more ubiquitous ranged options.
My favorite games are generally ones that aren't super-duper hard.
To be clear, I was mostly being tongue in cheek to poke fun at the idea that anyone can definitively name the best game on any platform, ever, because it's subjective as hell.
That said, all of you are wrong, and Bloodborne is the bes' game evah.
(Seriously, I love Bloodborne a lot, to me it's among the best games of the generation, but subjective opinion weeeee).
God of War is easily the best PS4 game available. I hated the original games with a passion but the new one cut deep.
Bloodborne is the best game available for PS4, and possibly the best game of the generation on any platform, but God of War is very good 8-)
I'm only going to argue with this over the general inaccessibility of From Soft's game difficulty level. I love me some Dark Souls, and Bloodborne is awesome, but it's not the best game on the PS4 (for me) because I have to be in the mood to be repeatedly kicked in the nads by a game, and Bloodborne's rather specific melee focus tends to do that more than other games of its type with more ubiquitous ranged options.
My favorite games are generally ones that aren't super-duper hard.
I don't think Bloodborne is super hard. Not trying to be a 'I'm just good at games...' person.
(I'm 45 and have to acknowledge I can't hang with the kids in plenty of genres.)
I do think the game is just awful at telling people ... what . . . kind of ... game it is.
I know I'm now the only one who's been 'done' with the game only to hear there might be more to it (that I might like); go back and fall in love again.
I haven't beaten it, but I think I only have one (+1) boss left (plus dungeons(?) and expansion).
If the game just ... somehow told me to keep pushing until I found the first shortcut, and hinted that it usually had multiple routes, in case I got stuck on one mechanic/enemy . . . I would have fell head over heals a lot faster.
tl;dr Game has plenty of fun loopholes that are hella fun to find/figure out
I guess to be clear... If I say "The best game on the PS4 is God of War" it should automatically implied that I mean "The best game on the PS4 is God of War to me".
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
edited July 2020
I knew what you meant, It was still fun to be tongue in cheek about it because there are still people who don't read the implied "in my opinion".
It's not that hard. It's like any other From game, once you get in the rhythm of it and understand what it's asking of you it's not as punishing as people make it out to be. I can see a TGS demo not being the ideal environment to have that design conversation with the game, making it seem harder than it is.
From games will absolutely play on your impatience and frustration if you let them, but once you understand that, you can find a zen with them that greatly diffuses the difficulty.
Going in blind, the game is ... maybe not as enjoyable as it should be.
My point is that the game is ... manageable when you know how it works. Which you do not at a demo kiosk.
/IMO
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Next months PS+ titles are Call Of Duty MW2 Remaster and Fall Guys
That’s a hell of a lineup.
MW2 is meh.
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My Ghost journey continues. I've reached that point in open world games where you've opened enough skills, upgrades and tools that you become a whirlwind of death. I basically don't care if I get seen at this point, I have seven or eight different ways to dominate a fight in grotesquely comical ways. I tend to play these games in a particular way, where I spend a lot of time upgrading my character and then push through the main story...I'm just about to the point where I'm ready to push and close out the main story.
So far Ghost is my GOTY. I'll admit this isn't the strongest year so far, and Cyberpunk 2077 will almost certainly de-throne it for me. For right now this is the game I've spent the most time with this year and it's been a great ride.
Did you play Doom or TLoU2?
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TLoU didn't need a sequel, and nothing I've heard about 2 changes my mind on that, so no on TLoU2.
Yes, I played Doom. It was good, but worse than 2016 in most ways for me personally. It was a great game but felt like an overall step backwards (despite having more of everything).
I wanted to like FF7:R more than I did. Frankly I beat it and then quickly forgot I played it. It was fine, above average, but it didn't occupy my mindspace enough to be my GoTY. Even when I was playing it actively I never felt the pull to play it constantly like I have with Ghost. By the end I was having to remind myself to play it just to finish it.
I am also very keen to play some Fall Guys but it looks like a title that would go really well with local play as well as online and I'm a bit baffled that's not included.
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Oh it doesn't have local? Nevermind then.
I suppose it's time for me to let ps+ lapse. I don't think I've even installed any of the free games since maybe Darksiders 3? Even then I didn't think it was any good.
It does look fun however, and getting into it while its brand new sounds appealing.
Im an old fogey, I cant resist trying free games. Back in my day we only got a new game on our birthdays IF we were lucky, etc etc.
Picked up Stellaris during the last sale... Man that is nearly incomprehensible to a beginner. I was surprised they didnt offer a Civilopedia type information resource. And as its on console, you cant just hover your cursor over icons to see what the eff they represent.
But after a few 40 minute videos about the basics, Im totally onboard. 100 things all happening at once but at a glacial pace is somehow the recipe to keep me up past bedtime. I met a enclave of galactic space badger artists who give me a yearly newsletter and ask for donations. Whats not to like.
(Be warned it's tough and "easy" mode only skips a few phases of each boss fight, and you want to see each phase of the boss fight. That said there's no real penalty for dying and you are put back in action really fast.)
I thought Last of Us 2 would take that title, but it just didn't. Then Ghost of Tsushima came out. It put up a massive fight, but yeah FF7 still GOTY for me, with Ghost in a REALLY close second.
Also, people weren't kidding about God of War making their PS4 Pros sound like a jet engine. Holy crap. It's the loudest I've ever heard my PS4 and it's almost constant. Also heated up my room to the point where I was sweating.
I played the first one until I was asked to push a crate, with dudes shooting at the crate and needing to start over if the crate got broken. I don’t know if it got better after that.
I plan to play the modern one at some point because apparently it is very good and I have not heard about any crate pushing.
PS - You can just assume that Kratos was a grimdark emo guy who killed everything and everyone (spoiler alert) before the start of the game, and you're pretty much there.
So to that end, a slightly longer and essentially totally spoilerific synopsis of the original 3 God of War games (so only 1-3, not the other four side games):
I really boiled it down, but that's really it.
Kratos: "No, FUCK YOU!"
God of War, everybody.
You missed one very important thing
I absolutely would follow a guide for them. I have one missing trophy and it's the ravens. Would be my only platinum too.
Right, except
Also, that story is beyond problematic. Something that I didn't see as clearly then as I do now.
Bloodborne is the best game available for PS4, and possibly the best game of the generation on any platform, but God of War is very good 8-)
I have Bloodborne, and have not played it. I have Spiderman and GoW, which I have played. Based on my play time with these three games, I have to disagree, either of the other two are much more engaging and fun.
I'm only going to argue with this over the general inaccessibility of From Soft's game difficulty level. I love me some Dark Souls, and Bloodborne is awesome, but it's not the best game on the PS4 (for me) because I have to be in the mood to be repeatedly kicked in the nads by a game, and Bloodborne's rather specific melee focus tends to do that more than other games of its type with more ubiquitous ranged options.
My favorite games are generally ones that aren't super-duper hard.
I can't verify since it seems I've run out of PSN+.
(I only buy pre-paid PSN+/PSN cards, since getting PSN to accept any of my cards is just a nightmare...had to give up.)
Has given me time to work on my (non-PSN+) backlog.
To give you an ide of what type of consumer I am,
I'm the person who finds FF15 at 80% off within a month of release (!!!) and then don't play it for 1 (2?) years....
That said, MW2 for "free" almost got me to re-sub.
To each their own. (Warzone is still free, but...)
To be clear, I was mostly being tongue in cheek to poke fun at the idea that anyone can definitively name the best game on any platform, ever, because it's subjective as hell.
That said, all of you are wrong, and Bloodborne is the bes' game evah.
(Seriously, I love Bloodborne a lot, to me it's among the best games of the generation, but subjective opinion weeeee).
I don't think Bloodborne is super hard. Not trying to be a 'I'm just good at games...' person.
(I'm 45 and have to acknowledge I can't hang with the kids in plenty of genres.)
I do think the game is just awful at telling people ... what . . . kind of ... game it is.
I know I'm now the only one who's been 'done' with the game only to hear there might be more to it (that I might like); go back and fall in love again.
I haven't beaten it, but I think I only have one (+1) boss left (plus dungeons(?) and expansion).
If the game just ... somehow told me to keep pushing until I found the first shortcut, and hinted that it usually had multiple routes, in case I got stuck on one mechanic/enemy . . . I would have fell head over heals a lot faster.
tl;dr Game has plenty of fun loopholes that are hella fun to find/figure out
It's not that hard. It's like any other From game, once you get in the rhythm of it and understand what it's asking of you it's not as punishing as people make it out to be. I can see a TGS demo not being the ideal environment to have that design conversation with the game, making it seem harder than it is.
From games will absolutely play on your impatience and frustration if you let them, but once you understand that, you can find a zen with them that greatly diffuses the difficulty.
Going in blind, the game is ... maybe not as enjoyable as it should be.
My point is that the game is ... manageable when you know how it works. Which you do not at a demo kiosk.
/IMO