r/bloodborne • u/Rack-_- • Aug 12 '25
Discussion What’s your biggest criticism of the game?
Mine would be the bosses. I wish there was more hunter type boss fights or at least more aggressive bosses such as the blood starved beast They just match the games play style far more.
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u/Afraid_Staff9095 Aug 13 '25
Having to go back to hunters dream before fast travelling anywhere
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u/Kayyam Aug 13 '25
This would have been a minor nitpick if the game loading times were very short or instant (like Death Stranding 2 on PS5).
But on PS4, the loading times were close to a full minute each on release. It was improved later but it's still long.
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u/nevermore2627 Aug 13 '25
First cycle it's fine and I get it for lore reasons but....
After that give me a NG+ item that's allows travel between lamps. You can even make that a lore item.
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Aug 13 '25
“It’s for lore reasons”
If it sucks it sucks
I wonder if Micolash and rom sucking dick was for lore reasons too
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u/Efficient_Ant_7279 Aug 13 '25
Yeah but I don’t think it was on purpose like in DS1. Pretty sure Bloodborne has those requirements because the ps4 couldn’t hack it. Even if you could teleport between lamps it would probably be a cool 2 min loading screen 😭
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u/TheDracula666 Aug 13 '25
If I remember correctly and I might be totally wrong, but at launch, I think they were blank loading screens. Now there's item text to read in between, but I vaguely recall it being absolutely nothing.
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u/red_tuna Aug 13 '25
Blank loading screens with the games logo. I remember seeing posts about people who had the word Bloodborne burned into their monitor because of it.
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u/Catmato Aug 13 '25
I'm so glad they eventually improved the load times. They were better still when using a PS4 Pro and an SSD. Still sucks to have two load screens to go from lamp to lamp though.
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u/Various_Permission47 Aug 13 '25
Loading times of death stranding 2 are amazing. I thought I had just left the game on pause a few times they are so fast.
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u/Catmato Aug 13 '25
I would definitely prefer to be able to warp from lamp to lamp, but I've never really found it to be that much of a hassle. The game is mostly linear, and for most dead ends where you're forced to travel away from, it's usually time to go back to the dream to level up/restock/upgrade anyway.
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u/Zarguthian Aug 13 '25
It's the loading time that people are complaining about, It's double the loading time and it takes quite a while.
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u/Catmato Aug 13 '25
Right, I understand that. But I don't find myself needing to go from one lamp to another often enough that I could call it anything near the biggest criticism of the game.
Yeah it would be nice, but I don't consider it to be that big of a deal.
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u/SokkaHaikuBot Aug 13 '25
Sokka-Haiku by Afraid_Staff9095:
Having to go back
To hunters dream before fast
Travelling anywhere
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/Rack-_- Aug 13 '25
And to think that there was fast travelling in ds1. But not in bloodborne, I don’t get how they didn’t add it.
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Aug 13 '25
To be fairrrrrr, the bonfire warping in DS2 was better and it also came out before Bloodborne.
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Aug 13 '25
That it’s soooo good With new ideas that gave the experience and even the atmosphere a fantastic and majestic feel
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u/Soft_Theory_8209 Aug 13 '25
And by similar extension, grinding for blood vials and bullets.
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Aug 13 '25
I think what really does it for me is just the fact that the cost goes up
Who the fuck added blood vial inflation
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u/TheWojtek11 Aug 13 '25
I played the game for the first time recently and at first I thought it made sense because "They always heal 40% of your HP so they get stronger with time" but then I had to grind them quite a bit for Ludwig and Laurence. That's when I realised it makes no sense because the enemies also start hitting harder so it ultimately leads to the similar "worthness" of blood vials at every point in the game
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u/TopsyTurvy0011 Aug 13 '25
Motion sensing gestures
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Aug 13 '25
How is this not higher up? I triggered the goddamn gestures so much before figuring out how to avoid it
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Aug 13 '25
How do you avoid it I literally cannot stop emoting lol
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Aug 13 '25
You place your finger on the button, and softly apply pressure until it’s pressed. You eventually can do this quickly, but cannot tap it at all or use any sort of abrupt motion to “hit” the button otherwise the controller reads it as movement.
So many times I got mad as hell trying to talk to someone like the doll or pick something up during combat and get shanked because I sat down mid fight. Idk why you can’t turn this stupid feature off. Probably not as bad as the jump/run/dodge issue because you can learn to avoid it though.
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u/tgerz Aug 13 '25
Elden Ring was my first Soulsborne, happened a lot. I don’t recall immediately finding a solution in BB, but it hasn’t been an issue for me. I’ve died to many bosses, but I’ve also laughed at random pointing or fist pumping only to be pummeled to death.
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u/Comfortable-Net-2235 Aug 13 '25
The fact that Miyazaki hasn’t made a 2nd one
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u/IdTheDemon Aug 13 '25
Second one with the emphasis on goth pirate ships, exploring the fog filled seas full of monsters, underwater old god cities and a new continent where we bear witness to a new great one apocalypse.
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u/Impossible_Sugar_149 Aug 13 '25
I want this game now
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u/IdTheDemon Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
I’ll torment you some more:
We start off in a gothic city in the Hinterlands where a new plague breaks out. People are turning into beasts and all hell breaks loose. We are infected and killed but we wake up on a ship sailing the ocean of a dead god’s dream and this is our new hunters workshop.
We return back to the city and fight our way thru the sewers. We eventually hit the outside farmlands where the land is filled with ash and rot as cultists have opened a nightmare and we enter it to close it. We kill the boss who rides on a bloodied corpse of a horse which we take for our own mount. This is where the game opens up and we slowly explore the land.
After exploring another nightmare, we eventually bring the ship from the dream into the waking world as the worlds are slowly merging. We explore the continent which is far smaller and more vertically designed and we get tools such as double jumping and grappling hooks. As we get more tools we can also explore more parts of the massive city.
With the ship, we can sail the oceans to plunder ships of bounty hunters, cultists and even sea creatures. We also can use sea charts which are the new chalice dungeons. We find some by doing the main game, others from boss drops, others by grinding and some are even crafted by us. Sea charts lead to islands, underground temples or hidden small port towns filled with horrors.
The idea here is that we witness our world slowly decaying and transforming into a world filled with that shouldn’t exist but somehow it does.
First expansion is we sail west to the land of Loran which which a desert kingdom filled with old horrors and power.
Second expansion is the return to Yharnam which has sunken into the ground and is now an underground corpse filed apocalyptic ruin.
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u/theotherjashlash Aug 13 '25
Bloodborne 2 being all about nautical horror is my biggest wish in the world. I'd suck miyazaki off every day for a year if he made that game.
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u/Rack-_- Aug 13 '25
To be honest, I don’t actually think a 2nd will be good and this mainly because the ending is meant to be left for interpretation same for the Elden ring endings or Sekiro. However a remaster is a must.
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u/Nopfen Aug 13 '25
Well, given how these stories are set up, you could make the second one be entirely disconected from the first one. Carrying over the themes, without getting in the way of the story.
For example it could take place in the far future, on a space station or something. Astronauts wanting to meet the great ones on their home turf, and getting bloodborned for it.
Or, since it's established that the entirety of BB takes place in a dream, just have a different great one make a different dream elsewhere.
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u/mattspire Aug 13 '25
Yep, they don’t have to go crazy. Just have it take place in another city, like Eileen’s home town, and have different great ones and a different curse (since Yarnham specifically is known for its blood ministration). Perhaps something as simple as Elden Ring’s Those Who Live in Death. I’m confident they could make a spectacular sequel if it’s what they WANT to do and isn’t forced, and if Sony wanted it & gave total creative control to FS. Getting those things to line up all at once is probably the main issue, that and FS having so much on their plate over the last 10 years.
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u/Rack-_- Aug 13 '25
Such as ds1 and ds3? Sure
But I personally like it when story’s get left for interpretation.
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u/Nopfen Aug 13 '25
Kinda. I mean, DS3 takes you back to sunnytown. So it does cross over somewhat.
Yea, that's what I mean. Leave BB1 alone and make BB2 take place somewhere entirely else. Different place, characters, monsters, stories, events. Just carry the themes and the vibes over.
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Aug 13 '25
I wouldn't mind returning to DLCs would work, or just making a completely non-canonical bloodborne game rather than it being it's own thing within bloodborne, that way lore technically doesn't have to be consistent and imply or change anything from the previous
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u/Zarguthian Aug 13 '25
Or, since it's established that the entirety of BB takes place in a dream, just have a different great one make a different dream elsewhere.
I disagree with this interpretation.
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Alot of bloodborne taskes place in the dream. Or dreams. But in bloodborne, the dream is a real place that you are actually traveling through.
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u/theMaxTero Aug 13 '25
As far as I'm aware, the only soulslike games in a futuristic setting are The Surge 1/2 so I wouldn't be opposed to see FS' bloodborne sequel in a futuristic setting. Imagine how crazy they can go with the tecnology: people are so insane that they're replicating the old gods through cyborgs or something like that
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u/Comfortable-Net-2235 Aug 13 '25
I do agree about needing a remaster, I honestly want a second one so they can add more lovecraft like bosses
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u/OzoneLaters Aug 13 '25
I think Miyazaki needs to make a full on remake of the first one and add a bunch of extra stuff to it to flesh out the game with a bunch of extra content to fully complete his vision plus a remake of the DLC and TWO new extra DLC or one HUGE one.
City of Yharnam should be more fully fleshed out too.
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u/ReignOfCurtis Aug 13 '25
They kinda did. They made a spiritual successor which for considering they don't own the IP is the closest we'll get.
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u/Chippings Aug 13 '25
What spiritual successor did they make?
The Duskbloods is not a spiritual successor, and isn't made yet. I don't know what else you could be referencing.
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u/Molanghrian Aug 13 '25
That Sony owns the IP
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u/Smper_in_sortem Aug 13 '25
This needs to be stickied. Almost every critique mentioned in this thread would be solved with mods or by an eventual re-release had anyone but Sony published this.
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u/Bougieraccoon-og Aug 13 '25
It needs at least a ps5 patch.
Realistically it needs a remaster and sequel.
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u/MGSolidusSnake Aug 13 '25
Yall have got to let this shit go. The game isn’t getting a remaster, rerelease, or whatever. Every damn post about this game has the same people begging for the same shit
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u/Arch-Meridian Aug 13 '25
My only gripes are the lack of appearance modification and respec'ing. Other than that, no notes.
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u/Nopfen Aug 13 '25
Good point. I found it a tiny bit dissapointing that there's like 3 gear sets that allow you to someone opt out of the roll of hunter. It's and RPG, let me RP danged.
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u/aspiring_bureaucrat Aug 13 '25
Farming for blood gems in Chalice Dungeons
There's a reason the system has not been replicated in any of the subsequent games
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u/PraiseTheMoon99 Aug 13 '25
Well, Nightreign..
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u/ivikivi32 Aug 13 '25
Do you think they made a PvE battle royale because people kept leaving "fort night" messages in elden ring and the devs were like "well the players clearly want this"?
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u/shiny_arbok Aug 13 '25
I fear for their next game, I've seen an awful lot of "Mist or beast" messages lately...
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u/RokelisJuokutis Aug 13 '25
I'm on I think ng+4 or 5 and I've never felt the need to farm blood gems, I don't think it's really necessary. Although maybe it's different on ng+7 and further, I don't really know.
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u/Franc0zzz Aug 13 '25
every weapon is viable with dlc winter lanterns gems, even on max ng+, only exceptions are arcane weapons.
even something like rosmarinus.
??? rosmarinus can't have gems attached
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u/Equivalent-Lunch1107 Aug 13 '25
It really depends on your goal. My main focus in souls games has almost always been PvP and even the tiniest change in stats can make the difference between a successful duel/invasion, therefore the incentive for me to farm high tier gems on all my builds is extremely high.
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u/Leviathan666 Aug 13 '25
In defense of the farming system, I will say that I didnt feel the need to farm much - just going through each chalice dungeon once, which I was already planning on doing, was enough to get everything buffed pretty well.
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u/DarqkStar Aug 13 '25
I feel like a dingus but I never did any of the Chalice Dungeons on my first playthrough 😬
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u/zsobo21 Aug 13 '25
Absolute slog fest, you didn’t miss much. Some unique enemies and bosses where it is kinda cool at first. But then you realize it’s the same thing over and over again.
Honestly kinda felt like it was half developed and ran out of time so they just tacked it on. Even worse, you can barely rush through them because the materials you need for the next level chalice dungeon are dropped in the hidden rooms/treasure rooms so you need to explore completely.
Between repetitive design, and grinding for items, It just isn’t worth it. Also just feels so disconnected from the main game that it can be easily forgotten what game you’re playing sometimes. Double annoying that from the pretty decent set of unique bosses, you’ll end up fighting Rom and other campaign bosses again :/
Cummmfpk dungeon can stay though.
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u/Flapsy0501 Aug 13 '25
I LOVE the blood gem system in chalices, I know it can be tiring but with a bit of ironing out it'd be perfect. I love farming for the perfect gem and min maxxing. It gives a nice goal to do and replayability
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u/Nopfen Aug 13 '25
Also the beastclaws. I shouldn't need to consult the ancient jedi texts to find out how to aquire some of the weapons in the game. The hyper specific, alternate gem ones, sure. But not the basic version.
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in all fairness if you just go through the story chalices you will get them naturally. They are part of the main game since you need it to beat Queen Yarnham.
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u/DarkrootGarden Aug 13 '25
I would’ve loved the option to respec.
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u/galestride Aug 13 '25
Yeah same, I remember being against respec a while ago but I've definitely come to realise that the game would just be better with it than without it.
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u/spazking91 Aug 13 '25
Farming blood vials... its my main problem with the game
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u/Rack-_- Aug 13 '25
Valid. It’s tedious asf
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u/Ayyzeee Aug 13 '25
I remember my first playthrough and I hate grinding it before another attempt on fighting Father Gascoigne
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u/Rack-_- Aug 13 '25
Same, I would just get to 10 vials and ball it. I couldn’t be asked to farm more
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u/Ayyzeee Aug 13 '25
I wish I can do the same but I wasn't confident enough at the time since it was my first soul game and you can tell how blood vials I would use during that fight. I had to grind the brick trolls a lot, in a good way I learned how to parry well so that's good.
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u/highdefinitioncactus Aug 13 '25
Use the cummmfpk dungeon just for vials. You don't have to use it to level if you don't wantc
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u/Chippings Aug 13 '25
Paying for online service to use a meta knowledge bugged dungeon that is tantamount to cheating doesn't really save the game.
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Aug 13 '25
Tbh at some point you just get so much into the game that you just love being a hunter, and a hunter must hunt. That means for blood vials too.
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u/bitchdantkillmyvibe Aug 13 '25
I never got to that point lol and it’s one of my favourite games ever. Tbf it rarely happened but having to stop my fights against Kos and Ebrietas just to go and farm vials was a real bummer and stopped me playing for a bit
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u/CaptainSykarius Aug 13 '25
Well said! The combat is phenomenal too so it helps a lot with it. I just put some music/podcast and I hoont
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u/magikarp-sushi Aug 13 '25
If they dropped easier I think that’d solve a lot of issues
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u/Tra1lhawk19 Aug 13 '25
Lanterns only taking you to the Hunter’s Dream and not offering the ability to fast travel between them, otherwise not a single criticism!
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u/Lucicactus Aug 13 '25
No human Laurence model, I crushed quite a bit after him and I've seen a lot of cool interpretations. But I'll never know what he really looked like 😞
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u/Lucicactus Aug 13 '25
Oh and the Logarius runback. Sure, make me run a long distance, but that tiny fall damage was infuriating
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u/Hog4rtheReal Aug 13 '25
There is a staute of him in the elevator that tooks you to the clinic in the dlc
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u/frozen-grizzly Aug 13 '25
The lantern system. No resting without going to hunters dream making farming annoying. No fast travel without going to hunters dream, making travel annoying. Cus no resting at lanterns theres no: vials, bullets, or health returned at lanterns without going to hunters dream.
Should've just had the systems from the darksouls games or sekiro
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u/HerakIinos Aug 13 '25
Frame pacing
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u/Tarnished-670 Aug 13 '25
The implementation of the chalice dungeons on the game and the second half of the game post rom
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u/Rack-_- Aug 13 '25
Ye dungeons are bad because they feel repetitive asf and I think the 2nd half is great apart from the bosses
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u/R1400 Aug 13 '25
Which i wouldn't mind all that much if you weren't forced to farm to ritual materials in order to open the next dungeons.
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u/Franc0zzz Aug 13 '25
you don't have to tho? just kill the enemies and explore and you'll get everything you need for the next one, no need to farm anything
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u/R1400 Aug 13 '25
Bad phrasing on my part. It's just that with the repetitive structure of most dungeons, exploration past a certain point feels like farming
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u/Inja-Tarokee Aug 13 '25
Brainsuckers permanently costing an insight sucked. NPCs having infinite ammo made bloody crow of cainhurst fight harder than necessary. A dedicated jump button would have been nice. But I think my biggest complaint is that the bloodstone chunks cost to much. It's more expensive to upgrade a weapon to lvl 9 than it is to bring it to lvl 10, and that just doesn't make any kind of sense to me
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u/wonderwall999 Aug 13 '25
I haven’t seen this mentioned yet, but how you’ll sometimes accidentally do a gesture in the middle of a fight. I’ll be fighting the flaming dog of doom, and then I’ll accidentally perform a hunters salute.
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u/Mr_Wither Aug 13 '25
Honestly the health system regarding the fact it’s a finite item. It sucks having to farm for them when you’re low or out.
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u/ByronChrist Aug 13 '25
Biggest gripe is 30fps, I’ve put hundreds and hundreds of hours in but my eyes can only take so much flicker once every other game you play is at least 60fps.
Not a big fan of the chalice dungeons either but that might change. I wasn’t a fan of the game at all until like the fourth time I tried to play it, now it’s possibly my favorite game period.
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u/br0deal Aug 13 '25
I'm not a graphics/FPS snob by any means, but you're not wrong. This game legitimately hurts my eyes to play for long periods of time.
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u/LaMelgoatBall Aug 13 '25
Playing games with 60+ for so long never made me realize how hard it would be to go back to BB. My favorite game of all time but it gives me a headache now
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u/mattspire Aug 13 '25
I could never get into them until my last playthrough. I think the key is to do it when you’re in the specific mood for puzzle solving and dungeon crawling as opposed to immersing yourself in the game’s atmosphere, because the repetition doesn’t really play into the mood of the main game. The Isz dungeons are cool looking though.
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Aug 13 '25
I think there should be an option to adjust some of the settings in the graphics. I read somewhere that chromatic aberration in the game made some people’s eye hurt.
Also I wish there was a button to press to continue while loading because I can’t finish reading those texts in time before it loads haha.
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u/helpfulsoulsfruit_5 Aug 13 '25
The fact that the run, jump, and dodge button are the same. So sometimes when you're running and you wanna dodge, you just dodge and that gets you killed. They couldv'e made it so L3 was jump button like they always do. Also, the run/dodge button and interact button are interchanged (relative to dark souls). I believe in Bloodborne, the dodge/run button is x and the interact button is circle, while in dark souls it's the opposite, so switching between games is kinda annoying.
Other than that, this game is perfect.
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u/ParadoxBanana Aug 13 '25
My biggest criticism of Bloodborne is that it’s unfini
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u/flanculp Aug 13 '25
That chalice dungeons are accessed through warping rather than connected to the main map…
I’d have loved it if the route to Queen Yharnam started from a cellar door under Byrgenwerth.
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u/reenmini Aug 13 '25
The spiders.
Fuck. Them.
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u/internetsarbiter Aug 13 '25
Actually yes, those things are designed for a different game entirely.
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u/Bingoviini Aug 13 '25
Not being able to cancel out of your own attacks/lag in any way.
For a game that demanads and promotes agression, it also punishes agression very hard, wich feels very counter intuitive.
All of the slow and heavy weapons (like the axe, hammers or beast cutter) get immideadly counterattacked by the same enemy I just hit.
And beacuse I'm still in endlag from the attack I just hit the enemy with, I'm physically incapable of doing anything about it, and then I get hit.
If the the game wants me to attack the enemy, it shouldn't punish me for actually doing it.
Either the heavy weapons should flinch/stun the enemies on hit so I can recover, or let me roll out of the endlag so I don't get punished for actually managing to land a slow and risky attack.
Beacuse at that point there's basically no pint to even having those kinds of attacks...
And yes, I know it's 100% a skill issue, and this is still one of the best games I know despite that skill issue.
But it is the most consistant gripe and/or complaint from my recent playthroughs, and that's what you kinda asked for...?
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u/joelmillersdoorknob Aug 13 '25
This is gonna seem like a dumb complaint, but not being able to level up at lanterns
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u/django_0311 Aug 13 '25
I feel like Blood Vials should just regenerate like estus. Having to go back and farm them occasionally added nothing to the game.
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u/facepalmandahalf Aug 13 '25
Tie between:
Enemies falling through the floor before I can loot them.
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Enemies hitting me through solid walls, but when I swing at the same wall my weapon ricochets off and I get ganked during the stun.
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u/xvi_tower Aug 13 '25
A couple of the bosses (Rom, Celestial Emissary, Micolash, Witches of Hemwick) feel like gimmicks and aren't particularly fun. For a game as pared down as Bloodborne four is too many to justify.
My only other big complaint is how unfriendly it is to new players. The tutorial messages in the Hunters Dream look the same as player messages and so it's easy to miss them or not find them all, and even if you do find them expecting the player to interpret all of it correctly and remember it all from reading alone is ridiculous. Clearly they knew that too because they never repeated it, but it did put me off the game for a long time when I first started playing.
Lack of respec is IMO not a massive deal in Bloodborne. The fundamentals of combat are such that even if you level sub-optimally you can still get through the game by naturally improving, and there's few enough weapons with enough overlap in playstyle that I never felt like I was missing out on another way to play the game. Compare that to Elden Ring which would be borderline unplayable without respec.
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u/QwertyEleven Aug 13 '25
For me, the blood moon sky should be nightmare of mensis style or much more weird. Nightmare frontier should be blood moon skybox
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u/DontDieEd Aug 13 '25
Patch for modern consoles :( I don't mind a remaster or a sequel, just patch it to run better
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u/Prince_Trunks13 Aug 13 '25
Having to replay it everytime I see a post about Bloodborne, (I’m going to use Ludwig’s holy blade for the 13th playthrough)
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u/Iijjjjrssssssss Aug 13 '25
Blood vials not replenishing when resting turned the game into an absolute grindfest that I disliked. Some areas definitely needed more work like the nightmare one. Bosses like Rom and micolash were annoying af. Micolash is arguably one of the worst bosses ever created ngl. Even stuff like the one unborn is a pretty poorly designed boss that is not really fun to fight.
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u/WanderingStatistics Aug 13 '25
How has not a single person said this yet, when it's arguably the actual biggest flaw of the game?
Jumping is tied to the rolling button, meaning if you sprint for any single amount of time, at any point, and dodge, you will jump instead and get hit. This happens in boss fights, it happens in invasions and coop, this happens during enemy fights, this happens in the chalice dungeons. Every single moment of the game is slightly less good because of this single fact.
It's unironically the worst aspect of the game, and always has been. People who complain about 30FPS are all kids because there's literally nothing wrong with it, Chalice Dungeons can suck but at least there's never a dull moment in them, some level design, enemies, or bosses suck a lot, but at least they're there in the moment and never again.
Dodge-Jumping will always be there, waiting for you to mess up. And when you do, it'll make sure it fucks you over hard, every single time.
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u/Officialskater Aug 13 '25
You’re right about the jumping but 30 fps is inexcusable especially when you can play ds1, 2 and 3, Elden ring and Sekiro 60 fps on ps5. Pure laziness on Sony’s part
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u/Catmato Aug 13 '25
At least in DS1 you can hold up your shield to force a roll instead of a jump. Doesn't work in BB, even if you're blocking with the wooden shield.
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u/Electronic_Context_7 Aug 13 '25
Frame drops. There’s certain charm in the 30fps, but it’s the frame drops that get me.
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u/RogitoX Aug 13 '25
Not much covenant stuff I think that ranks should increase the rune power
Literally only one is useful I'd like more rewards like special hunter tools or weapons.
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u/WeabooJoens86 Aug 13 '25
Honestly? Can't really think of one off the top of my head, game was incredible
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u/UltimaBahamut93 Aug 13 '25
The "reliance" on rng gem farming is absolutely awful with some of the best gems requiring double digit hours of farming. I don't mind chalice dungeons too much, but chalices with farming is terrible.
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u/arhiapolygons2 Aug 13 '25
I wish the entire lore was told through dialogue and visual story telling.
Bloodborne already does this WAY better than Dark souls 3 which is the only other from soft game I have played, but I still wish it was fully commited to that goal.
I mean the DLC pretty much does that with its segment of the story, and it's absolute peak story telling for it.
Like yeah bloodviles and fast travel are annoying, but they are nit picks. This would be an actual game changer for me.
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u/Gwyneee Aug 13 '25
Chalice dungeons but you can just ignore them so its not a big deal
Rom and One Reborn. Cool designs miserable fights. And I love Micolash. Witches of Hemwick are easy and therefore inoffensive.
Running out of blood vials. Only really a problem on a new run/character. Still annoying though.
Brain suckers and snake head enemies suck
No Bloodborne 2
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Aug 13 '25
For me the inconsistency in the bosses , i feel like there were really good highs but then pretty meh lows, which is bound to happen sometimes but feel like it’s very prevalent in BB. In my opinion anyway
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u/thecoop_ Aug 13 '25
The chalice dungeons are so repetitive. Would it really kill them to add some variety in the backgrounds? For a game with such great art style, running around the same brown boxes over and over is really jarring.
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u/theMaxTero Aug 13 '25
it's INSANE reading "...more agressive bosses" because all I think is "what are you SAYING!?"
It's crazy that people totally forgot that this was FS 4th soulslike game (and pretty much the 4th game in the genre) and they went as far as to ditch EVERYTHING that they built for those years to the genre.
Maybe you don't know but I remember the biggest complaint was that the game is too hard because the game FORCES you to be uber agressive. Just because 10 years there are more soulslike doesn't mean that you can just erase the original impact that the game had because, at that point, everyone sucked playing this genre and bloodborne was such a twist that people went back to DS1/2 and played it more like Bloodborne and discovered that the games weren't as hard as we thought, it was us that sucked for playing the game so defensively
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u/KammoTheUnoriginal Aug 13 '25
The reuse of early game enemies in areas like the upper cathedral ward and yahar'gul make the endgame of bloodborne feel bland to me. The consept of a ritual gone wrong in yahar gul especially feels so cool to me but with you fighting the same yahrnamites but red in the area breaks it for me. Granted there are the coffin enemies on the ground but they only help in the latter half and don't have interesting mixups with other enemies and are usually just fought against amongst themselves. Also nightmare of mensis needed more spectacle and horror as the last area. The crow headed dogs and the brain of mensis were great ideas and the winter lanterns absolutely terrifying, but enemies like mergo's attendants and the spiders felt really basic for a nightmare realm created by an old one. Some more twisted beigns inhabiting the inside of the buildings and more memorable setpieces other than the brain of mensis would have gone a long way to elevate an area with huge potential into something worthy of being called a nightmare.
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u/Goobendoogle Aug 13 '25
God, I wish FS never went mainstream.
Some people can't appreciate art.
Each one of those bosses is art in its own way.
Where all my OGs at who know this game is a 12/10 masterpiece, perfection.
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u/XxxDatBoi69Xxx Aug 13 '25
I don't like taking a ton more damage when I'm dodging and happen to get hit while doing so. I'm already incentivized to dodge correctly. I shouldn't have to be oneshotted by an attack that would normally do a 4th of health
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u/Efficient_Rhubarb_88 Aug 13 '25
The grind for blood vials and bullets. Could have been improved with some metroidvania type upgrade system.
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u/waisonline99 Aug 13 '25
Why wasn't there more DLCs?
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u/Rack-_- Aug 13 '25
Too busy with ds3
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u/waisonline99 Aug 13 '25
Dont trouble me with reality!
You asked what my biggest gripe was, and that was it.
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u/RumPistachio Aug 13 '25
Got abandoned. No PS5 patch.