What game are you playing?

[stormvermin]

I set up the emulator a while back and played 30 minutes but never got back to it, I'm hoping the emulator gets touched up to the point where I can play at 4k without crashing, I have a 4080 Super and still couldn't even play at 1440p without issues but that was many months ago at this point I'm not sure if it's gotten any better

It has (or had) issues when trying to render display at over 1080p in excess of the crashing. One I remember being particularly egregious was ground textures disappearing.

yes I used that mod to fix this issue.

Are you using the main shadps4 build or the fork dedicated to Bloodborne? I think the fork fixed the vertex explosion issue a month or two back.
https://github.com/diegolix29/shadPS4

[wndrbr]

Are you using the main shadps4 build or the fork dedicated to Bloodborne? I think the fork fixed the vertex explosion issue a month or two back.
https://github.com/diegolix29/shadPS4

****, I should've done a better job with googling. Not going to switch to this fork for now, who knows if the saves are compatible between these two versions.

[Lich]

Any cool mods for BASEDborne?

[rusty_shackleford]

Any cool mods for BASEDborne?

dorkborne*

[Lich]

It would be cool if someone could flesh out the Chalice Dungeons in BASEDborne.

[Oyster Sauce]

Any cool mods for BASEDborne?

you could be referring to like 30 different games at least

[Lich]

Context matters.

[Statesman]

Playing Bloodborne on PC (via ShadPS4 emulator), finished the first area and reached Cleric Beast.

The game is fairly playable, so far I've only encountered a couple of stray non-repeatable crashes and one visual bug (vertexes on my character's face suddenly exploded and filled the whole screen with one inflated face). Performance isn't great (25-30 fps on ryzen 7 3700 and geforce 3070ti), but i guess you can call it an authentic console experience.

The game apparently is playable at 60FPS on a decade-old hardware if you are willing to finagle settings quite a bit and compromise your graphical quality. Have you tried these mods:

► Show Spoiler

https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/28
https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/251
https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/114
https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/41

It might also be worth checking out some of the BloodbornePC communities for further details/emulator settings that might help your usecase.

They're all playable with keyboard really. Beat DeS on the emulator, DS I,II and Sekiro with k+m, no problems encountered

well yeah, i did that too.

What is wrong with you both?

I have completed several games with a Guitar Hero Controller

[wndrbr]

Playing Bloodborne on PC (via ShadPS4 emulator), finished the first area and reached Cleric Beast.

The game is fairly playable, so far I've only encountered a couple of stray non-repeatable crashes and one visual bug (vertexes on my character's face suddenly exploded and filled the whole screen with one inflated face). Performance isn't great (25-30 fps on ryzen 7 3700 and geforce 3070ti), but i guess you can call it an authentic console experience.

The game apparently is playable at 60FPS on a decade-old hardware if you are willing to finagle settings quite a bit and compromise your graphical quality. Have you tried these mods:

► Show Spoiler

https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/28
https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/251
https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/114
https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/41

I don't want to compromise the graphical fidelity, and i think it's a bit too early to try 60 fps hack. I don't want to stumble across any possible game-breaking bugs. I'll keep those links in mind, thanks.

[rusty_shackleford]

Are you using the main shadps4 build or the fork dedicated to Bloodborne? I think the fork fixed the vertex explosion issue a month or two back.
https://github.com/diegolix29/shadPS4

****, I should've done a better job with googling. Not going to switch to this fork for now, who knows if the saves are compatible between these two versions.

I can't see any technical reason saves would break just from using a different emulator as long as it's actual saves created by the game rather than something like save states

[wndrbr]

Are you using the main shadps4 build or the fork dedicated to Bloodborne? I think the fork fixed the vertex explosion issue a month or two back.
https://github.com/diegolix29/shadPS4

****, I should've done a better job with googling. Not going to switch to this fork for now, who knows if the saves are compatible between these two versions.

I can't see any technical reason saves would break just from using a different emulator as long as it's actual saves created by the game rather than something like save states

i don't know if the emulation is accurate enough.

[weaselus]

Just uninstalled Dark Souls while trying to beat the Capra Demon.

My level was 23, with vit 18 end 18 str 13 and dex 15, and a +5 club and unupgraded heater shield.

I went in blind and could not figure it out after the first five deaths, then started reading online and still could not beat him after five more tries.

The boss was guard breaking me even with judicious shield lowering in between strikes.

May have been more deaths than that, but the distance to the boss is staggering and there is only so much punishment I am willing to take for such a cheap encounter.

The fact it is in the final build of the game cements the dev team's legendary ability to weather design flaws as if they were features.

Final verdict on Dark Souls: 1/10 unbeatable blind

I'm done with this studio. Also have 150 hours in DS2 which is a 3/10 (downgraded from 8/10 while struggling) and I was playing Dark Souls second.

This series is Japan's revenge for not being able to afford full plate in the middle ages.

"You think European armor is invincible? It's paper in my game!"

[Oyster Sauce]

Just uninstalled Dark Souls while trying to beat the Capra Demon.

My level was 23, with vit 18 end 18 str 13 and dex 15, and a +5 club and unupgraded heater shield.

I went in blind and could not figure it out after the first five deaths, then started reading online and still could not beat him after five more tries.

The boss was guard breaking me even with judicious shield lowering in between strikes.

May have been more deaths than that, but the distance to the boss is staggering and there is only so much punishment I am willing to take for such a cheap encounter.

The fact it is in the final build of the game cements the dev team's legendary ability to weather design flaws as if they were features.

Final verdict on Dark Souls: 1/10 unbeatable blind

I'm done with this studio. Also have 150 hours in DS2 which is a 3/10 (downgraded from 8/10 while struggling) and I was playing Dark Souls second.

This series is Japan's revenge for not being able to afford full plate in the middle ages.

"You think European armor is invincible? It's paper in my game!"

I beat him on my first try

[weaselus]

That is really impressive to me. What level were you? 100?

[Tinky Winky]

May have been more deaths than that, but the distance to the boss is staggering and there is only so much punishment I am willing to take for such a cheap encounter.

You can just unlock the path to Firelink shrine which makes the distance to the boss much shorter.
but yeah that boss is objectively ****. This and sen's fortress are the worst part of DS1, blighttown is actually quite decent comparing to those.

[DrSneed]

I've never actually gone through blighttown the intended way.

[gerey]

Just uninstalled Dark Souls while trying to beat the Capra Demon.

He's not a particularly fun boss to fight, but the general idea is to climb the stairs if you survive the initial onslaught when entering the room, and kill the dogs before the Capra Demon reaches you.

Once the dogs are gone he's much, much easier to manage, to the point you can just do the dropdown kill while he's beneath the ledge.

Also, use a weapon whose primary attack is a thrust, not a swing/slash - the room is very cramped, and if you're using the stairs to put distance between yourself and the demon, to deal with the dogs, you'll be hugging the wall pretty closely.

Though, that being said, if you were being this frustrated by the Capra Demon, then you were going to have a bad time with Ornstein and Smough, or the DLC bosses (Artorias, Manus, Kalameet).

[DemoGraph]

Just uninstalled Dark Souls while trying to beat the Capra Demon.

My level was 23

Your level almost doesn't matter in this game. There're people who finished it at the starting level and naked.

The only thing lvl does is increase your roll capability, spell slots or gear you can have. Damage increase is of secondary importance and there're no feats.

Carpa is gimmicky. Killing him depends on either you realizing that rolling makes you invulnerable and rolling through him. Or you making a specific gear set (100% melee def shield or particular spells). Most people just do rolling.

IIRC, I killed him with dragon tail sword.

1/10 is butthurt grade. The game has its strong points (level design, visuals, plot presentation), but yeah, IMO slasher mechanics is not one of them.

[Trickster]

Just uninstalled Dark Souls

A truly game for ******* with joystick.
"It's about GamePlay Brotha. Yo, just throw in some dodge rolls and mobs that one-shot you, and boom, you got a masterpiece RPG, ya dig?"

[weaselus]

I already beat Tomonobu Itagaki's version of Ninja Gaiden on a blind playthrough. Implying I am butthurt by this travesty is....a plebeian take?

The Capra Demon can't be beaten blind by a knight build. Self-respecting players will uninstall on the 5th time the camera blindfolds you at the start.

From Software is cancer.

[stormvermin]

So don't tell me I'm butthurt by this travesty.

You're butthurt.

[weaselus]

So don't tell me I'm butthurt by this travesty.

You're butthurt.

Fromdrones will be prison laborers in the next Reich. The Fuhrer will not permit neets to go on.

[stormvermin]

So don't tell me I'm butthurt by this travesty.

You're butthurt.

Fromdrones will be prison laborers in the next Reich. The Fuhrer will not permit neets to go on.

Fighting words from someone whose army got brapped on by a lesser demon and a pair of zombie dogs.

[KnightoftheWind]

I'll always argue that From's best game is Demon's Souls, and they've only gone downhill since.

[weaselus]

You're butthurt.

Fromdrones will be prison laborers in the next Reich. The Fuhrer will not permit neets to go on.

Fighting words from someone whose army got brapped on by a lesser demon and a pair of zombie dogs.

We don't play action games: the post.

[weaselus]

I'll always argue that From's best game is Demon's Souls, and they've only gone downhill since.

Patiently waiting for a PC transfer as it didn't feel right when I emulated it. They are probably saving it for a "break the glass" scenario.

From Soft also have other properties like Enchanted Arms and Kings Field which were highly regarded at the time.

[Tinky Winky]

Playing Bloodborne on PC (via ShadPS4 emulator), finished the first area and reached Cleric Beast.

The game is fairly playable, so far I've only encountered a couple of stray non-repeatable crashes and one visual bug (vertexes on my character's face suddenly exploded and filled the whole screen with one inflated face). Performance isn't great (25-30 fps on ryzen 7 3700 and geforce 3070ti), but i guess you can call it an authentic console experience.

The game apparently is playable at 60FPS on a decade-old hardware if you are willing to finagle settings quite a bit and compromise your graphical quality. Have you tried these mods:

► Show Spoiler

https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/28
https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/251
https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/114
https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/41

It might also be worth checking out some of the BloodbornePC communities for further details/emulator settings that might help your usecase.

They're all playable with keyboard really. Beat DeS on the emulator, DS I,II and Sekiro with k+m, no problems encountered

well yeah, i did that too.

What is wrong with you both?

I have completed several games with a Guitar Hero Controller

Decided to give this one a try after seeing this. So far it runs okay-ish with mods outside memory leak crashes and janky *** mouse control. 2.5 hours in and just killed Amelia.

[Classix]

D2 with little bro. (H) Meph Down.

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Diablo down.

D2_Diablo_down.png

Baal down, done.

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[Jordy]

Started Soul Reaver Remastered. It's a lot easier than I remember but still enjoyable.

The voice acting is top notch and the language use plus brevity is impressive.

The level design is also impressive but can get a bit frustrating constantly retracing old steps as you unlock abilities to see if you can access somewhere that was previously beyond your grasp. I guess an arguement for this would be that these are all for ability upgrades which you can probably finish the game without.
A lot of thought must have gone into planning the world to ensure you don't ever get trapped anywhere. I've often wondered why so few games have similar mechanics.

Given how little free time I have, I didn't think I would get too far into the game but I've actually cleared a fair amount. The Cathedral section was pretty frustrating due to the confined space and the dodgy camera.

I often find myself just mashing F1 to flick between the original and remastered graphics. I do like the remastered graphics but could happily play it with the original graphics (which I did for a while without realising I had hit F1).

[Tinky Winky]

Playing Bloodborne on PC (via ShadPS4 emulator), finished the first area and reached Cleric Beast.

The game is fairly playable, so far I've only encountered a couple of stray non-repeatable crashes and one visual bug (vertexes on my character's face suddenly exploded and filled the whole screen with one inflated face). Performance isn't great (25-30 fps on ryzen 7 3700 and geforce 3070ti), but i guess you can call it an authentic console experience.

The game apparently is playable at 60FPS on a decade-old hardware if you are willing to finagle settings quite a bit and compromise your graphical quality. Have you tried these mods:

► Show Spoiler

https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/28
https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/251
https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/114
https://www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/41

It might also be worth checking out some of the BloodbornePC communities for further details/emulator settings that might help your usecase.

What is wrong with you both?

I have completed several games with a Guitar Hero Controller

Decided to give this one a try after seeing this. So far it runs okay-ish with mods outside memory leak crashes and janky *** mouse control. 2.5 hours in and just killed Amelia.

Finished this one in about ~13 hours with only necessary bosses + the secret ending done, will probably not do the rest until an official port happens (which means likely never since snoy would rather make another Concord than porting this). Didn't really like it honestly. Part of the reason is because of how janky the control on m&b is and how unstable shadps4 still is now, the rest are for the game itself. It is basically identical to other soulslop but even less inspiring because it has the same color scheme as your typical CoD where everything is either brown or grey, and the Lovecraftian setting failed to impress me either since I'm not 16 anymore. Also there's no fun pewpew range build available which is one of the two only ways to enjoy soulslop (the other one is using a tanky build fyi).
Lovecraftian "horror" is stupid and overused nowaday btw. It looks more silly than ever being creepy, I'm tired of it and hope this boring style can just die.