Utterly Mad

Oh god I hope no one read too much of the moderator discussion.

All hail Boztakang, the Troll Lord.

Bloodborne really suffers from a lack of content.  There just aren't all that many weapons, items or covenants, which leads to a serious lack of build variety and experimentation, as well as it being somewhat lore deficient, since a significant portion of the background lore in Souls games comes from the item descriptions. 

Chalice dungeons are really not that interesting, because there's only one unique weapon you can get from them, and the rest is pretty much just grinding through procedurally assembled prefab rooms for randomly statted bloodgems, and it takes far too long to get any of the interesting ones, leaving the bloodgem system kinda samey and boring unless you invest inordinate amounts of time into it.  Otherwise, you just slot in the largest +ATK% gems you've got into your weapon of choice with no real thought whatsoever. 

I honestly haven't touched the game since the first week and a half after I got it, and the half week was me struggling to justify to continue playing the game. 

The aesthetic and core gameplay is fantastic, but it really does feel a little barebones in a lot of ways. 

I turned on my PS4 for the first time since March yesterday, then just turned it off again.  There's still nothing else to play on the damn thing, and I'm just going to keep whoring my PC with the Witcher 3, GTAV, KF2, a bunch of stuff in late May, and then more all throughout summer. 

Hey aj, Nice profile pic. I see you enjoy Darkest Dungeon.

I'd love to play Darkest Dungeon some more, but I also want to just wait until the game's actually done so I don't burn myself out on it. 

On the topic of Bloodborne, here are a few confusing design decisions that seem to do very little to benefit the game and instead just make everything more tedious. 

1. Blood Vials and Quicksilver Bullets.  Why are these even lootable consumables?  Why don't they just automatically restore your stock when you respawn without needing to have them in storage?  Sure, I guess it theoretically means that you can go for longer without needing to hit a lantern, but the much more damning downside is that if you run out of these, you have to go and tediously farm for more echoes or drops to replenish your stock (ESPECIALLY **** WITH THE LONG LOAD TIMES TO GET TO YOUR FARM SPOTS).  It takes away far more than it adds to the game, and Estus Flasks from Dark Souls were a much better healing mechanic overall because it didn't waste my TIME. 

2. Costs of consumables increases as your progress through the game.  This serves no purpose other than being a sink for your blood echoes, which probably wouldn't have been a problem to begin with if there were actually weapons, armor, and other bits and bobs you'd want to spend your **** on and experiment with.  Just makes me waste my TIME for basic supplies. 

3. The lack of high end upgrade materials.  This only further discourages experimentation because there's only one Blood Rock in the entire main game, and you have to farm a ton to get Blood Chunks just to get your items to +9.  They could've like...made them available for purchase for large amounts of blood echoes to serve as a sink instead of just bumping up consumable costs across the board, but they didn't, because **** you.  Go waste your TIME running boring ass chalice dungeons that don't give you anything interesting so we can pretend our game has more content than it actually does. 

4. Having to go back to the Hunter's Dream to fast travel between areas.  Why?  Just give a list like in Dark Souls 2 that allows you to port between areas without having to triple the number of load screens for no goddamn reason so I don't have to waste my TIME looking at your limited as hell item lore entries. 

Probably more my pet peeves about the game that waste my TIME that kills my desire to play it again until they have a real content update for the thing, but there they are. 

Nah, I'd say Last Man Posting is sort of off topic in every way possible enough that game discussion is fine here, since it followed the flow of the thread.

Also I am concerned about how many people read the moderator forum, there are things you couldn't even imagine in there.
It's also where we talk about how much we hate Rhodri.
I'm joking