Bloodborne: The Old Hunters is FROMSOFTWARE’S best work yet

Keith: Well, here we are folks. After playing through not one but two different characters in FROMSOFTWARE’S recent DLC for Bloodborne, I have to say that this is definitely their best work yet. Yes, that even includes all of the DLC that they provided for Dark Souls, which weren’t bad at all. However it’s just the shear amount of content that was poured into their first and sadly their last DLC for Bloodborne, that it simply shines. And the fact that I’ve gone through multiple times to play it all over and over, well that should say something.

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

Maybe From Software wasn't aiming for just simple DLC but "gasps" an actual expansion.

[ifistbrowni]

I'm sorry, but paying $20 for a pack like this drives me nuts. I loved the DLC (I 100% "trophied" it), that Laurence First of Vicar was a total prick.

But, praising the game for charging $20 and making a decently lengthed DLC seems out of my "wheel house."

It's sad that we have gotten to this. DLC should always be like this, especially when paying $15+. (I'm thinking back to Fallout 3)

I could only imagine what other devs would do with this pack, though. They'd probably split each of the 4 (I played it at launch and think there is 4) new environments into individual DLCs and charge $15 a piece, then, instead of having the 9 new weapons as collectibles, theyd be on a staggered release for $2.99 a piece. To make it all seem more "valuable" and to make you feel like you're getting a good deal they'd throw a $50 season pass on the market place.

Actually.... wait a second... I guess I should be praising From Software.

[Maxor]

I disagree. The base game is way better paced and less grindy than this expansion. This DLC hands out new toys like candy then I'm crushed when I realized that must once again grind blood rocks to upgrade them to +10.

[Master-H]

Um. You should pick only a weapon or two to upgrade to +10 (weapons that go with your build). You're not required to upgrade all weapons to 10+ nor do you need that in anyway to finish the DLC.
Plus with the recent patch, you can now buy Blood Rocks for 60 insight.

So on a ng cycle you can collect: 1 bloodrock in the nightmare of mensis, 1 bloodrock near the end of the DLC, u should have enough insight to buy at least 1 Bloodrock off the messangers, and if you want more you can always jump into the Chalice dungeons

[Bolts]

You can play this entire DLC with the original game +10 weapons just fine. However if you want to see your new babies shine then you're going to have to crank out another NG+ to see what they can do. That or run dungeons, or pony up 60 insight.

Yup that's not grindy at all. Lol. I'm already on NG+3 and that's enough. I don't care what this new saw can do. I'm not doing another NG for it. Too bad we can't just transfer one +10 to another. That would save a lot of hassel.

[ifistbrowni]

That's cool that they added Blood Rocks for 60 insight. I never tried more than 2 weapons in my initial playthrough (main game) since It was a lot of effort to get two +10.

I tried upgrading the weapon you got for killing the two beasts in the well, but even at +10 I didn't find it better than my +10 saw clever and +10 Ludwigs blade.

(I'm strictly talking PVE. Never found PVP enjoyable in this game).

[Master-H]

Well at high blood levels, those probably do more damage because they're quality weapons whereas the Rakuyo only scales with skill.

To me, movesets matter more than pure damage and the Rakuyo definitely doesn't disappoint in that regard.

[VsAssassin]

I'm so happy that From Software is where it's at right now, in many ways thanks to Miyazaki. I am pretty sure the management at From Soft is happy they have someone as visionary as HM. Can't wait what they have in store for us moving forward!

[jerethdagryphon]

Did they nerf the pizza cutter

[Gatsu]

I haven't played this yet. Dark Souls + DLC is still their best work for me and not easy for other to top it. The bosses were so cool and Artorias is such a badass. I love that fight the most as a Berserk manga fan, which has similarities. Such an intense duel.

But who knows, maybe I agree when play this :).

[esmittystud101]

I'm on the last Chalice Dungeon now, I think its the Izzy one Depth 5. I have not found one blood rock in all the rest of the Dungeons and I know I didn't miss any collectables either. From the way they set them up, its hard to miss collectables in the Dungeons.

Am I suppossed to change a setting when your selecting a Chalice Dungeon to get a better chance of a Blood Rock?

It doesn't matter anyway, I'm level 189 and I still have one Depth 5 Chalice Dungeon to complete. Then off to the DLC. I hope I'm not overpowered to much. I didn't want my character that powerful but running those Depth 5 dungeons, its too easy not to get alot of blood echoes. I'm always running back to Hunters Dream when I'm around 950,000 blood echoes. Does anyone know if you can get over 1,000,000 without dumping them? I'm always scared when I hit 950,000 blood echoes that I'm not going to be able to go over 999,999 and then I end up waisting when I get kills just to get back to the dream.

Thanks in advance for the help.

[stuna1]

You can collect as many blood echo's as you want. I've collected as many as 7 million at one time, but the next time I got up to about 6 million and got careless where I died twice back-to-back and lost all of them! It was so crushing, I stopped playing for abour 3 weeks. Now I'll only collect a little over a million at a time.

Sorry I hit disagree by mistake, I meant to agree with you.

[esmittystud101]

Its all good bud, thanks for the info.

[Jaegar]

You can now purchase Blood Rocks for 60 Insights. Farm bosses or PvP to get insight easily.

[esmittystud101]

On another note Hidetaka Miyazaki is the most under rated guy in gaming. Everyone and there brother praise Hideo Kojima. Yeah, that guy that can't hit a deadline to save his job and has the most blandest open world map I've ever seen. There is nothing in that map at all. Not even enough wildlife. No wonder they could hit 1080p 60 fps on PS4. I bet if they filled that map up some, they would have never hit that mark. I like MGSV:PP, but just a bland map.

[CaitSith]

It pains me to say this, but I agree with you

[esmittystud101]

I finally got a blood rock from the Chalice Dungeons. It was a Sinister depth 5 one.