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Bloodborne is now officially /tg/, lore discussion is acceptable
>Bloodborne is coming soon to a table near you; CMON Games and Eric Lang, designer on XCOM: The Board Game, have revealed an official card game adaptation of From Software's game about walking nightmares and the Hunters who slay them.
>Exact details on how the game will work have yet to be revealed, but Lang wrote on Twitter that play is based not on the story, but on the game's Chalice Dungeons - semi-randomized dungeons with monsters, traps, and bosses lying in wait at the end. Players compete to kill monsters, with each session of play taking around 30 minutes. There will be no teensy-tiny Hunters to move about, but Lang nonentheless promises "sweet components."
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>>46070600
As long as they don't use the mandatory forced use of an app or website to play the board game like they did for the X-COM board game then sure i'll be interested.
>>46070600Don't Trust the Doll.
>>46070640
>no models
>Root Chalice Dungeons
I really hope it's a legit good game, not just a cash in.
>>46070640
You're really missing out. Hybrid digital/physical gaming is a new area of game design which is producing some rally interesting experiences.
>>46070641
But she loves you...
>>46070662
>You're really missing out. Hybrid digital/physical gaming is a new area of game design which is producing some rally interesting experiences.
I wouldn't have a problem with it if they let me have an alternative way of playing the game out with say a randomized event deck or something but being forced to be "online" to play a board game is kind of a miss for me.
For instance in Space Alert the real time mode can be used with either app, mp3, cd player or randomized deck. I always have the option to choose and play with one of said modes rather than being forced to use one digital mode.
>>46070641
even the doll, if you like
>>46070692
While I can sorta see that, trying to make everything function 'offline' is limiting to game design. Hybrid gaming isn't just a matter of convenience, it lets you create unique gaming experiences that wouldn't be possible without the interaction between physical and digital elements. I think it has value on that basis.
>>46070641
>trusting anyone in a Souls game
How the insight mechanics will be implemented in the board game ?
>>46070754
unknown, just announced
>>46070754
I guess we'll have to keep an eye on that.
>>46070786
Wish we had some way of peeking into how the development is going.
Like an eye on the inside.
>>46070641
It's a parasite on a doll's body.
>>46070662
I wouldn't say a cash in, as BB came out last year and the hype for it has died down a lot.
>>46070802
Aye, I see what you did there.
>>46070713
Sundowner?
One thing that disappointed me about Bloodborne was that I couldn't have a normal weapon like a sabre or rapier like in the other Souls games.
>>46071076
>>46071076
>One thing that disappointed me about Bloodborne was that I couldn't have a normal weapon like a sabre or rapier like in the other Souls games.
Pleb : the human being
>>46071076
there was the Reitterpallasch
>>46071097
Go suck a snail.
>>46071134
It's just not the same.
>>46071134
I fucking love this name. One of my favorite weapons in the game.
About the cardgame: Chalice Dungeons? Seriously? Fuck.
Guess I must have this.
Squee
>>46070708
>trying to make everything function 'offline' is limiting to game design
>>46070867
This doesn't even look like a doll's body.
It looks more like fleshy bits trying to imitate the shape of the doll's body.
>>46070713
RED SUN OVER PARADISE
>>46070754
More insight means more cards get added to the deck?
>>46070713
this is some 90s TMNT toy tier shit, jesus
>>46070713
They look like shitty gardening equipment.
Still, they're not the worst weapons I've seen in a game. Pic related.
>>46073628
I can see the fineness in the second one, but still. What the fuck are these designs?
Quick!
I need those cute pictures of the Doll raising the baby Old One hunter.
>>46070600
On the one hand, XCOM was a pretty decently made game. On the other, this is being put out by CMON as opposed to FFG, which usually means that missing out or voiding the inevitable Kickstarter really fucks you over in terms of access to content.
>>46070600
I've enjoyed what I've played of Lang's, hopefully this'll be another good one.
I'm guessing it'll be a deckbuilding adventure card game where the players compete against each other and an event deck.
>>46073704
could be worse. could be a giant glass pizza cutter.
>>46070600
Please take your fucking /v/ shit and leave, we don't want it
>>46080595
>Board game
Get your shit together anon
>>46078789
Giant pizza cutters have been a part of dark fantasy for a hundred years anon.
>>46070633
>>46070670
>>46070713
Are these concept arts of scrapped weapons?
>>46070692
You have to be online long enough to download an app, once its installed you don't need to be connected to the internet and said app is on ios, android and you can get it on a PC. It's not hard to imagine people being able to access the internet for the short time it takes to get the app.
>>46082627
Naw. Just random fan concepts.
Guy get's a lot of flak, but at least he's creative. He's pretty talented too.
>>46070712
>not trusting Gary the Chapel Dweller
>entire game is chalice dungeons
Fucking dropped.
>>46070600
>chalice dungeons
>chalice dungeons
>chalice dungeons
>the game is based on the most unfun, boring, cancerous example of a souls area to disgrace my eyes
>>46084246
>>46071849
To be fair, I can see drawing inspiration from the randomly generated sections of the game for the purposes of a repayable card game.
I dont have a PS4 and as such will never play bloodborne. I instead get to watch youtube videos and envy others. Im hoping this game is good.
Course by then ill be playing dark souls 3. Which does not have tricorner hats.
>>46070641
The 'brain' is comprised of messenger corpses.
Man and beasts bleed red
Kin the intermediate stage between man and Great One bleed a pale yellowish fluid.
True Great One's bleed pure white or 'pale blood'
Incidentally the Doll bleeds pure white if you were ever sick enough to try and kill her.
>>46087741
It will actually, one of the confirmed outfits from promotional material appears to be a Highwayman outfit which incidentally has a Tricorne
>>46070600
Why would I play this when kingdom death exists?
>>46070641
I'd still give her theTLCI don't give a fuck.
>>46070655
>>46071849
>>46084246
>>46087545
>All these retards hating based on literally nothing
It's obviously going to have some sort of tile system where you randomly generate the labyrinth, do you faggots actually think it's going to be the boardgame equivalent of grinding for gems?
jesus fuck
>>46090247
I use the labyrinth as some extra few hours of adventures in Bloodborne to come back from time to time - they do that just fine as additional content outside of the main game goes.
But yeah, I would prefer if they didn't advertise game as being based on the chalice dungeons, most people don't like them. There's literally no reason to not to use Tharnam instead - it's a big city filled by beasts so you could randomly generate the streets an monsters and people would be way more excited about it.
>>46070641
The doll isn't antagonistic, she's your Wet Nurse after all. Maybe she's Oedon, but in any case she never acts against the player yet she does help and care for them. The Great Ones aren't the bad guys in Bloodborne, and they are usually pretty helpful and friendly. Rather than cruel gods, they're more like aliens who desire human companionship.
Mensis are the ones fucking everything up.
>>46090750
it's just unfortunate that TGOs didn't fully comprehend how some of their "help" might do injury to humans...
that break though, that provides most of the conflict actions...
The hunter who hunted who everything. What was there fate?
>>46070600
>by CMON
>>46087769
No, True Great Ones bleed an incredibly dark-red blood; much darker than human and beast blood.
It's kin who bleed the clear paleblood. That's why, when you get the secret ending, you've succeeded in seeking paleblood.
>>46090750
The doll isn't Oedon: Oedon lacks a physical form of any kind. It's much more likely thatMergois Oedon.
>>46090247
>have to play the game 20 times before getting anything worthwhile
>get a top-tier card but it forces you to discard one more every other turn it's in play
FUCKING HP DEPLETES -9
>>46093540
Actually I thinkMergomight be the child of Oedon and loses it to the Hunter asMoon Presenceintended.
>>46090973
I don't recognize the character on the left ?
>>46090247
It's Root Chalices: The Game.
Chalices are fucking awful, boring, no matter what you do with them because there's no variety. You get a sprinkling of different enemies, but it's the same environments recycled over and over again with a few filters. It's fucking boring. After a while, there might as well be no randomization it's so samey.
Why aren't they using the main game maps? This isn't story-based, so let me mix whatever I want for fun, give me Old Yharnam and Nightmare of Mensis and Fishing Hamlet areas mixed up instead of the worst parts of the game. Throw the chalices in, too, fuck it, but don't limit to just them.
That's what people are complaining about, don't be so fucking dense.
If Bloodborne gets a card game, can Dark Souls get a tabletop RPG now? Please?
>>46095382
Just play Kingdom Death.
>>46095389
All I know about that is it has bizarrely fetishistic models. In what way does it make for a good Souls RPG?
If the makers are smart they might do a expansion pack for Hunters Nightmare
>>46095257
>I don't recognize the character on the left ?
I think it's female Hunter (protagonist).
>>46095451
Prepare to Die. Lots.
More emphasis on gear over personal abilities most of the time.
Death is permanent but there's (almost) always more bodies.
Big fuck you monsters with fuck off abilities.
Personally I can't see the appeal of a souls RPG when most of the game is about getting your shit pushed in until you learn how to run/dodge with zero armour on.
>>46095547
What do you mean by there being "more bodies?"
>>46095639
You run a 'settlement' with a pool of survivors you can pick and choose to take on monster hunts. You can only take 4 at a time so the rest stay in the cumulative pool. Since your dudes mostly rely on gear, they can swap stuff around if someone gets a arm or leg torn off. Or you can send out Tilting Pete as a sacrifice if you feel like it.
You can upgrade stuff like Childbirth to fill out the population or replace dead people.
>>46095547
>More emphasis on gear over personal abilities most of the time.
>Death is permanent but there's (almost) always more bodies.
Neither of those are really 'Dark Souls'
>>46095639
>>46095775
The second is not but the first most certainly is - equipment upgrades > abilities upgrades is a thing in Dark Souls. Or are you thinking about player skills ?
>>46095257
When you kill the child of Oedon, play the music box.It makes the crying you hear all game laughs like a baby.
Also, what's the deal withThe Moon Presence? Why does it need/wanta hunter of the dream?
>>46095733
Huh. That doesn't seem particularly appropriate for a Dark Souls-based game. Feeling lonely in a world near-abandoned but by monsters and the mad seems important to the mood. And I'm not confident the undead can reproduce anymore.
>>46095266
It Videogames: The Game
Videogames are fucking awful, boring, no matter what you do with them because there's no variety. You get a sprinkling of different enemies, but it's the same environments recycled over and over again with a few filters. It's fucking boring. After a while, there might as well be no randomization it's so samey.
Please enlighten me to how this board game will be bad since you've clearly beta tested it to know so much about how it works.
>>46095885
damn never knew that happened, should have been tipped of since the bells that play when Wet Nurse is alive are the same tune as the music box
>>46095885
I know about the music box easter egg.
Maybe it lost it's own child and now makes sure that all children of other Great Ones are killed as well out of malice.
>>46095775
>Gear (Weapons) defines how you attack.
This is exactly like DS.
>>46095900
>Lonely.
I never felt Dark souls was ever lonely. You have spirits helping you, dicks leaving messages all over, a full town, NPC lurking around, dual networks..
Literally on of the more social adventure games around.
>>46095885One theory is that the Moon Presence is actually attempting to either kill all the other old ones through the hunters or at the very least give them a fighting chance against their involvement for it's own reasons. It's certainly not thrilled when it finds out you're becoming an Old One, after all.
>>46095908
Good argument 10/10 you sure showed me pal
I don't think you've played Bloodborne. If you did, you'd know the Chalice Dungeons are almost universally reviled as the most boring, grindy, uninteresting parts of the game. They are, with no exaggeration, the exact same areas, barely varied, with a few little filters over one or two of them. They made a card game based on this, they explicitly said it's based off of the Chalice Dungeons. That's not a good sign, especially since I've seen no mention of anything in this card game relating back to the base game itself.
Again, stop being so dense.
>>46096206
Don't talk like you're hot shit friendo. You're saying a board game is going to be shit because literally all you know about it is "chalice dungeons"
If you had played Bloodborne you'd know you can experience the entire game without chalice dungeons. Yeah they are the worst part of the game, but I fail to see how you expect a board game based on them to suck when practically nothing in the videogame will translate to pen and paper other than that the decor will be dungeons and spooky monsters.
>>46095968
not if you play in offline mode...
>>46095957
That reminds me, I've been thinking about Kos recently, and how much she's stated to be a female and a mother.
Does that mean that, unlike the other old ones, Kos mated with a human MAN to have a child? If so, who's the Orphan's Father?
My money's on it beingGherman.
>>46096368
For the love of God learn to fucking read. I never said it was going to be shit. I said it wasn't a good sign.
The fact the statement made was that it was based off Chalice Dungeons, with absolutely no mention at all whatsoever of anything from the main game included, worries me and I hope to all goodness I and every single other person with this concern are wrong. There's more stuff they can use, just more maps, more areas, more hazards, if anything at all, to add more variety other than Isz Spooky Blue Mist or Loran Brown Sand on the stone walls and pits. I really hope there's more to it than that because there's not a whole you can pull off with Chalice Dungeons. Until that's addressed, I will remain concerned, because I love this game and I'm happy to see the IP not just being swept under the carpet. But I hope it's utilized to it's fullest extent.
>>46095865
>The second is not but the first most certainly is - equipment upgrades > abilities upgrades is a thing in Dark Souls. Or are you thinking about player skills ?
In part, yeah. A well used basic weapon is a lot better than a poorly used impressive weapon. That and you don't really GET many 'Abilities' in Dark Souls. Even spells are gear.
good lord a RPG of Bloodborne would be cool
with a nice focus on the workshop and building trick weapons
two random generated objects together with a specific trait will make for a new weapon
>>46070754
Once you reach a certain level you have to start taking hallucinogens.
>>46096764
dont forget
>kick the baby of your buddy so it will cry the whole evening
>>46096630
Abilities as in stats.
>>46096471
I really doubt that last part.
But as for who... who knows if there was anybody. Remember, Old Ones are not humans, they mostly don't appear to be mammals etc. Heck, one of them appears to not have a body and yet may have had a child which didn't have a body of it's own. Rather than mating they might simply will their children to life in some way and used Pthumerian women as God used Mary.
As for Kos, perhaps she willed it onto herself but fucked up - I'd need to think about it for some time and recall some item descriptions. By the way, is the guy behind Paleblood Moon writing a new article for the Old Hunters ?
>>46097510
If it's notGherman, then why does the doll emntion him sleeping soundly when you kill The Orphan?
You see, that's why it was interesting that Kos is a female and a mother; she couldn't use a pthumerian woman like the other old ones, and actually had to bear her child. It leads to some interesting implications
I know the guy who did Paleblood Moon wrote something on the Bloodborne subreddit about The Old Hunters. If you do a bit of googling, I'm sure you can find it.
I hope they take this chance to expand on the lore instead of just copying wholesale from the game.
>>46093540
The sapient doll only exists in the dream, so I think it's reasonable for her to be Oedon.
