This is true if you stand to the left. If you move way over to the right so the bird tries to run off to the right side of that tree down there, it still works every time. After a lot of the bird leashing I just moved way over to the right and it was fine after that.

I haven’t played this and don’t plan on it anytime soon after how grating and unfunny the Tiny Tina character was in BL3 (I actually liked her in the BL2 game proper and didn’t mind her in the fantasy dlc for that), but, I will say that the M rating vs what probably could have been a T rating for BL2 was actually…

Melania with a moonveil or rivers of blood or blasphemous blade along with a mimic tear IS easier than O&S without summoning, though. It’s mindboggling how much easier the mimic tear makes things, and any of those three weapons can have their weapon art spammed to victory against her.

Yeah, my first time through Bloodborne, the DLC bosses were like:

Haha. Yeah, that’s all true. I guess the equalizer is that you can summon the mimic tear, while I don’t recall you being able to summon anything for Maria. But that only cancels out some of the difficulty increase!

This game is INCREDIBLY unfriendly to experimentation with different builds just due to the complete impossibility of farming any of the last-level upgrade materials. Basically, assuming you did all the sidequests, you can upgrade a grand total of what, like 6 unique weapons and 10 regular weapons? And that’s it,…

Malenia and it’s not even close. Maria is properly tuned, Malenia has multiple attacks that will kill you INSTANTLY even with 50 into vigor and medium armor, most obnoxiously the infamous “waterfowl dance” where she abruptly dives at you 3 times in a row and explodes in a huge blade flurry on each dive, and if you get…

Worse immersion-wise, sure. But worse waste of time wise? Definitely not. Quit and reload takes about 10 seconds on PS5 and you don’t have to reclear any enemies or travel anywhere.

Oh, I definitely used that option when grinding. It was more that some of the big monster fights (ex, the “elite” version of the bat, or the spinosaur) would take upwards of five minutes each kill and involve a ton of healing/waiting around. Or I could set it to story mode and it would fall over in about 20 seconds.

You can just save and quit and it will progress the quest without respawning the enemies.

There’s some give and take with story mode, though. Bosses can go from frustrating 10 minute fights where every attack you get hit by hits you for 80% of your health on normal to “boss dies in like 10 seconds, hits you for about 5% of your health bar, and gives you zero sense of accomplishment” on story mode. I mean,…

He specified in the article that he didn’t let the kid play any part where you fight humans, though maybe he edited it in response to your comment??

You will pick up thousands of items but you have infinite inventory space, it’s not like Skyrim or Demon’s Souls or something where you have carrying capacity. You can basically choose to ignore just about every single “usable” item in the game and just stick to using the basic healing flasks if you want. The vendors…

Apparently version 3.0 of Radahn is in the middle of the two versions, they INTENTIONALLY nerfed some stuff like his ranged damage but unintentionally nerfed some other stuff like his melee hitboxes. So he’s still easier than he was in the first place.

At this point, if you plan on getting a PS5, I see no reason to get an Xbox. There are virtually no good exclusives that are Xbox-only, while there are several that are PS only. And some of those are PS5 exclusive if you’re a glutton for punishment, like Demon’s Souls and Returnal. The ones that are available on PS4…

My options on iphone are either use an ad blocker and be completely unable to see more than the first few comments, or be inundated with tons of ads that completely cover the screen and often lead Chrome to crash. Great web design.

The games I’m most interested in are the old multi-platform games like Fallout New Vegas that I never got around to playing and never saw “remasters.” Since I loathe playing games on PC, I’d be all over that. Even though I know those Bethesda games are incredibly janky on console vs the fan-patched PC versions. Same…

It’s locked to what it was when you killed them and they dropped the bell bearing. So if they had inventory that increased later in the game if you completed more quests/gave them spell books, it will never show up on the round table vendor. 

Possible spoilers:

I’m confused by this review. You played it for 90 hours, but are only 1/3 through it? How far are you?? I took about 100 hours for my first playthrough where I did just about everything, and I’m closing in on the ending with all major bosses and only a couple dungeons I hate (ex the Hero’s Tombs) getting skipped in 65…