Wonder if they'll do a Bloodbourne PS4 package. With those do you end up getting a discount or is it the same cost as system+ game just in one box?

Edit: still mad they moved away from a game coming with the system. If the NES could include SMB, every other system can include something too.

Holy ****.

Looks alright, I guess.

So I'm probably gonna buy a PS4 for this, but I need at least 2 or 3 more killer exclusives before I do. What's only coming out on the PS4 (or more appropriately, not coming out on PC) that I should look out for. It's just wrong to pay $460 for one game.

Does exclusive mean exclusive forever? Or will this likely get to PC eventually?

Financially it makes sense, the PC version of Dark Souls 2 sold the most of any platform*, and I believe they're using a modified version of the DkS2 engine. Then again, Sony seems to hold on to their exclusives pretty tightly. A PC version of TLoU would be hugely profitable, but it seems they're more interested in potential profit coming from console sales to PC players. You'd think that has to still be a pretty big financial mistake, but who knows.

I'm interested to see where they go with Playstation Now with other platforms. I'd pay $15/mo to have Netflix like access to streaming games if they added PS4 titles along with the older stuff. At the moment they've only said they're bringing it to their Sony Bravia TVs and Xperia tablets along with the PS3/4 and Vita. This article is the only place I could find this, but they quote Sony saying I'm still on the fence about a PS4, haven't owned a console since the N64, but if PS Now comes to PC with access to Bloodborne in a few years I'm fine waiting.

* Not sure if still true, but a month after the PC version came out the PC in game death counter was over half of the global death counter on the DkS2 website, and the XBox and PS3 versinos had been out for a month prior to PC release.

Obviously PC players just suck and die more.

Anyone think there will be decent Black Friday deals on PS4 or is it still too early in the system's life cycle? I got a black Xbox 360 bundle in 2011 at a price point that it didn't really even hit until after the next gen came out last year - it was actually cheaper than buying the top bundle at Best Buy right now.

I'm just getting into Dark Souls and already willing to buy a PS4 to play Bloodborne.

Praise the sun.

For all you Souls fans

http://www.destructoid.com/bloodborn...y-281923.phtml

Two hours of Bloodborne Alpha

http://www.thumbsticks.com/notes-on-...odborne-alpha/

The most interesting part to me:

*The absence of a shield is highly disconcerting for a player like me, who played all of the Souls series with L1 held up 90% of the time. Out of trepidation, I would accidentally click L1 only to find a more aggressive stance my character had taken. If that’s not a way to spite the reluctant and risk-averse players – who have maybe cheesed/shielded their way through the Souls series – I don’t know what is. It is a clear message from the makers: The risks are high here and so are the rewards. Which brings us to the most revolutionary mechanic Bloodborne employs.

*I call it the “courage counter”. Every time your character gets hit,a fraction of theirmaximum HP (denoted by the red bar) is lost, but a part of that lost HP is still hanging in the balance to be claimed back (denoted through a lighter shade of red). You can only reclaim that lost HP if you choose to hit the enemy reactively within the next few seconds, otherwise it is lost forever. It is a highly risky tactic that rarely led me to the most favorable results. I was either able to recover a miniscule amount of HP or I died horribly in my greed to maximize the returns, hacking and slashing mindlessly towards zero stamina, only to be bludgeoned/shot/slashed/pierced to death. But there is something deeply psychological about this mechanic. Not only is the game suggesting that you react to enemy hits and not wait it out, it is slowly punishing you for not doing so, by taking away the HP that could have been yours. So the evergreen strategy of a Souls player – to take the hit, retreat with the shield up, take an Estus swig, fight back – is thrown out the window from the get go. And due to this simple-yet-twisted take on battle, Bloodborne seems like its own game.

Meh I'm honestly not feeling that at all.

One of my favorite parts of the Souls games has been going through as a straight tank, straight rolling and dodging, and straight magic. It really added to they replayability as all three loadouts played very different.

Still have full faith and will be getting day 1 but not really a fan of this decision atm.

They've added a new feature, separate from the campaign, called the chalice dungeon. It's procedurally generated dungeons that you can play solo or co-op. Dungeons can also be shared. Amazing.

FYI I'm planning on getting a ps4 pretty much exclusively for this game (as I expect others may too) so if anyone comes across especially good deals or pre-orders or whatever you should post em here!

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The first eighteen minutes.

The video is mostly the same area that's been shown already plus the nexus/hub. The NPCs are in now and you can see some of the stat and inventory screens.

The embargo lifts on Monday the 16th.

There are new PvP and co-op mechanics. Here's the gist:

There are no longer summon signs. You ring a bell in your inventory ("beckoning bell," I believe) to signal that you want someone to enter your world for co-op. If you are looking to enter someone else's world for co-op, you ring a different bell.

Ringing the beckoning bell also causes the bell maiden to spawn somewhere in your world. The bell maiden's existence makes you open to invasion. Finding and killing the bell maiden ends the possibility of invasion. Co-op partners now enter the world in a completely random location, rather than always right where you summon. Invaders also enter the world in a completely random location. From what I understand, you will no longer receive a message indicating that you have been invaded.

I don't know the exact details regarding how to invade, etc. but this race to kill the bell maiden mechanic sounds pretty incredible. The tension is going to be through the roof.

Also, some areas have a bell maiden already there when you enter and you can create a password to use for easy co-oping with your friends.

does this work with a 360? or just the One?

It's a PS4 exclusive.

Edge preview is out today. I found a post with some details.