Bloodborne review

[briareos_kerensky]

I'm OK until he spazzes out then I don't really know how to get hits in as he poisons me immediately, he's relentless. I even enlisted help a few times but the helpers were worse than me!

Dodge and use molotovs or get good at viscerals, including the timing for the counter; during visceral animations you're invincible.

[Brad]

I'm good at viscerals during the first stage but I'm kinda lost once he goes mad. I get him to half health using 3 or 4 visceral ripostes but after that my gun stops staggering him. I guess I haven't figured out the timing for his stage 2 attacks.

[dataDave]

I'm good at viscerals during the first stage but I'm kinda lost once he goes mad. I get him to half health using 3 or 4 visceral ripostes but after that my gun stops staggering him. I guess I haven't figured out the timing for his stage 2 attacks.

Trying to master viscerals vs. enraged phase bosses just isn't worth the effort, stick to dodge and spank.

Stick to WoW Arena PvP style pillar hugging and exploit its stupidity.

[Brad]

Gotcha

[doodledude]

Having tried Dark Souls and more recently Demon Souls and not enjoyed either I was a bit unsure whether I'd enjoy this game.
However I played the beta and enjoyed it because it was more like a DMC/Bayonetta in terms of attacking rather than defending like the souls games which I wasn't a fan of.
Bloodborne also gives me a similar vibe and feeling to Biohazard 4 when I played that on the cube.
I have really taken to this game now after dying ****loads of times and enjoy the atmosphere of the Victorian era world.
I've beaten the first 2 bosses now after a bit of farming to get myself upto to a level where I could just about survive Gascoigne!

[Golgo]

Gascoigne's alt form, when he goes from fresh-faced footballer to paranoid alchie, is doing me in!

Seriously: any tips for dealing with this dude when he turns? He's pounding me to jam.

[briareos_kerensky]

The Music Box should stun him once, and then lose effectiveness. I've actually found him easier in this later form, at least you can get at long range and heal. Anyway, stay away from the tombs, and keep dodging, striking once or twice (depending on the weapon you have) during the brief pauses. Fire paper and molotovs work great, as he'll take increased damage due to his fur (beast status).

[dvdx2]

Gascoigne's alt form, when he goes from fresh-faced footballer to paranoid alchie, is doing me in!

Seriously: any tips for dealing with this dude when he turns? He's pounding me to jam.

summon someone to help?

[Golgo]

Summoning? Balls! Will stock up on molotovs. Could do with some oil urns but can't source these yet, drops unreliable. Never heard of music box or fire paper.

[dave heats]

I found Gazza to be fairly straight forward, surprisingly. The music box stunned him, and he was finished before that wore off. I did get to the point where i was doing an almighty lap of Central Yarnham though, on a ridiculous grinding marathon (and mostly to get to grips with how to play it properly).

So...to all the fellow forumites currently around the Blood Starved Beast, what are you doing for armour and weapons? And at what point do we find twin blood shards to continue progressing our weapon pimping?

[briareos_kerensky]

The BSB was discussed few posts back. I'm running with an Axe and Blunderbuss, armor is a mix of Gascoigne's, Ashen Hunter and Yharnam Hunter.

[H-Man]

I'm finding armour to be one of the more disappointing aspects in Bloodborne. There's a fair bit of choice and some of it looks great, but everything's pretty much outclassed by the set you get a few hours into the game. What you wear doesn't affect how fast you can move meaning there's no benefit in going for a light, cloth set, or ramping up stats so you can be a walking sheet of metal. It's all a bit dumbed down and makes build options more basic. Infact, are there any build options in Bloodborne? Otherwise I'm loving the game and am flying through the second play through! If anything the bosses seem a whole lot easier second time round as there's nothing unexpected coming. Here's hoping we get a shed load of dlc

[dataDave]

The resistances can aid a great deal, and for me have stopped many special boss attacks from one-shotting me with my 21 Vitality.

[Goemon]

Trying to master viscerals vs. enraged phase bosses just isn't worth the effort, stick to dodge and spank.

Stick to WoW Arena PvP style pillar hugging and exploit its stupidity.

I was the complete opposite to this! I literally viseral'ed BSB to death, I never engaged him in open combat as I considered the risk too high.
For me I just constantly hopped back, staying out of his range and when he stood on his hind legs into left swipe, right swipe, charged left swipe I would shoot him during this charged attack and it would stun him every time. (3rd form does an extended version of this attack pattern)

Using this method I think I used 1 antidote and 2 vials to beat him, whereas before I was chugging health and antidotes like pop!

You've mentioned before Dave, it's sooooo worth for the first few attempts at a boss just going in and learning stuff. Don't wade in and start necking items immediately. If you die, you die but it hasn't cost you anything (if you've ran straight to the boss) but you've learnt something about the boss
Against VA there were rounds where I literally didn't attack, I just danced around, learning attack patterns seeing what she did and how long her took to recover. After a few attempts you can see the openings of when you can get a few hits in.

[dave heats]

The BSB was discussed few posts back. I'm running with an Axe and Blunderbuss, armor is a mix of Gascoigne's, Ashen Hunter and Yharnam Hunter.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen plenty of mention of techniques on how to beat him (which I'll be attempting to follow closely when I meet the bastard again). I'm more curious about how people are progressing with armour and weapons. I currently have no desire to change my weapons, so I'm curious if theres more freedom and progression in the armour side of things.