Still working on Bloodborne and am having a pretty good time. My local library happened to have the strategy guide available so I checked it out and have kind of been retroactively checking to see what I missed in a given area when I move onto a new one. I’m at Mergo’s Wet Nurse and somehow I completely missed the Forsaken Cainhurst Castle and Upper Cathedral Ward, so it looks like I have some stuff to catch up on before I tackle her. I was also pretty surprised to see that Mergo is, at least by percentage of the guide remaining, towards the end of the game. I thought that couldn’t be right and checked to see how much time I’ve put into Bloodborne and I’m at about 25 hours, which is way more than I was expecting. Not sure where I’m going with this, but that feels like some sort of testament to how fun the game is when you get so lost in the game and your concept of time just dissapears.

broke: I use Arch, btw

woke: I use CachyOS, btw

sincerely, someone who uses CachyOS, btw

I’ve been making progress on my first playthrough of Bloodborne and am at the Witch of Hemwick. Aside from hearing so much general praise for the game over the years, I’ve gone in blind and it’s been a real treat. If the quality of the game remains constant, I can see this easily becoming my favorite From Software game, and probably one of my favorite games in general.

Dang, I would sell a nut to run this game at 60fps.

Glad you liked it as well! How was the performance via emulation? It seems like every time I’d hear something about playing it through emulation would be about how a lot of improvements were being made, but it wasn’t quite there yet.

Wasn’t sure what the rules are for linking to that type of stuff is here, so the powers that be can remove this if it’s against the rules. Worth mentioning I have no affiliation with these sellers or anything like that.

Bloodborne custom case - big fan of the PS1 aesthetic

Dark Souls III custom case - it looks alright, nothing too special, but still cool

I’ve been a pc gamer for the past 13 years, but decides to get a ps5 to play some exclusive ps4 and ps5 games as well as have some physical copies of games I really enjoy. I picked up all the Dark Souls, Elden Ring, and Bloodborne today and have started playing Bloodborne for the first time and it seems pretty neat! I love gothic and lovecraftian horror, so this is hitting a sweet spot. Shame the framerate and resolution are relatively subpar.

I don’t really have any cool soulslike merch, but the copies of Dark Souls III and Bloodborne I got came in generic cases, but I managed to find some custom cases online to replace them with. Looking forward to having them on my little blossoming game shelf.

Hey everyone, new to the community as well as being new to Lemmy (well my account is new at least, I’ve been lurking for a while). I just wrapped up my first NG+ playthrough of Elden Ring and decided to fire up my Dark Souls 1 save that I was stuck at Sen’s Fortress on and hadn’t touched in a year. To make things short, I made it through the Fortress, got hung up on the Anor Londo archers, got past them and just got done beating Ornstein and Smough on my third or fourth try, so I’m feeling pretty good right now!

Don’t really have a question, just happy to be here.

Alright I stuck with it and just beat Ornstein and Smough on my third or fourth try, feeling pretty good! I now see why people speak of them so fondly, pretty decent boss fight.

I just wrapped up my first NG+ run of Elden Ring, which also included my first playthrough of Shadow of the Erdtree. I enjoy the base game quite a bit, and while I think it loses a bit of steam during the last third or so of the game (in regards to the environments; the bosses are cool), I intend to do a second NG+ playthrough to try to get the Lord of Frenzied Flame ending as well as the legendary achievements. I’m not an achievement hunter or anything, but 100%ing Elden Ring sounds like a fun goal to have. It’s a toss up if I’ll revisit Shadow of the Erdtree, because I’m pretty neutral on it.

In the meantime, I’ve returned to my first save file of Dark Souls that I put down at Sen’s Fortress a year or so ago. I just wasn’t having it, but this time everything clicked, the snake dudes caused me no trouble, and I made it to Anor Londo. But now I’m dealing with the AL archers and they are a real pain. I wouldn’t be surprised if I put it down again and revisit it at the end of 2026.

Chugging along through NG+ in Elden Ring. Just beat the Fire Giant and am messing around in the sewers of Leyndell before I

I’m pretty sure I’m over leveled because things haven’t really been that challenging until maybe around the Mountaintops of the Giants, but the novelty of laying a beat down on everything that caused me grief during my first playthrough has yet to wear off.