Bloodborne - Bloodly Dark Souls (Zero Punctuation)

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[@hotsexspy2267]

"Same shit, Diffrent anus" - that's all I need to hear about this game.

[@portedbowl3939]

Hotsex spy yeah! me to. can't wait to play it! more dark souls please.

[@Hadouken714]

I always loved Yahtzee's way of describing things

[@morgan5127]

Ikr

[@hotsexspy2267]

***** Which means I'm not going to play it since it's the same as Dark Souls.

[@oxodunk]

Hotsex spy lol then you have not played almost any game that's not indie from this and last generation

[@Matuse]

"How many times are you going to pull back on monster made of multiple bodies smashed together" - Godrick the Grafted wants to know your location.

[@blizzardgaming7070]

The Rotten, The One Reborn, those fucking cages in DS3 and Godrick

[@KnjazNazrath]

You made me realise From Software are the only company which can make me happy to see a dead end.

[@DatBoi-mo9vc]

You mean happy after you smack the wall at the dead end

[@Vajrapani108]

@@DatBoi-mo9vc you mean happy after smacking every single wall leading to the dead end

[@eathotdog]

Because at least the dead end didn't instakill you.

[@Wandergirl108]

Minecraft? Any JRPG with exploratory elements?

[@Biodeamon]

not really. every fucking dead end means i went in a circle

[@SeanstonVA]

And lo and behold the loading times DID get patched.

[@therelaxalex1250]

Yay

[@help4343]

And ironically they now give you more to read than the title.

[@help4343]

@@dwhite8005 Yes it is because now the text serves less purpose than if it had been there originally.

[@help4343]

@@dwhite8005 Y, if it been there before it would have served the purpose of distracting the player from being annoyed by the long loading times, now you barely have time to read them.

[@help4343]

@@dwhite8005 I think you are missing the point.

[@yion47]

The dancing skeletons part popping champange with the message "GIVE US A SNOG" had me laughing all day

[@HORRIOR1]

"Its like that time of the month in the all female gladiatorial arena" Yahtzee you king of the similes!

[@team419]

Simile.

[@vzm_underscore]

CrashSable Metaphor is used very often now, so people like this still exist i guess.

[@thewolfex1]

CrashSable I think it's because we use the word like to much.

[@clakedenclaken]

+HORRIOR Did you worship papa bones today ?

[@19ryuusei]

Wow seeing how he didn't diminish the game before doing this review, but still even tho it was a joke, kinda still "spoiled" what type of blood your using is.

[@MrKubahades]

The first sentence of this video just made my fucking day.

[@havocgr1976]

Zachar Art The last made mine ;p

[@mr.outlaw231]

Mine was at 2:35 ...ish. And yes, I'm trying to make a pattern.

[@Lightwaverable]

Zachar Art "Ha!"?

[@RuneR96]

Zachar Art But thee are no sentences since there are no punctuation marks. The whole video is the first sentence!

[@Extreme_Gardening145]

Zachar Art The whoel thing is one sentence.

[@K4RN4GE911]

I love how Yahtzee reiterated what he said at the end of his Demon's Souls review: That being the banging your head against a brick wall until it breaks. "Yeah, it would give you a sense of accomplishment, but you'll have lost all of your other senses by then!"

[@SirVyre]

Something I learned to start doing in Bloodborne as I played: Whenever you decide it's time to level up at the doll, whatever Echoes you have left, spend them on Blood Vials. Doing this, it became insanely difficult for me to run out of Blood Vials, and I never had to stop to farm. Until I fought Orphan of Kos. /shakes fist

[@paradoxacres1063]

"Loadborne" is kinda accurate -there's just too much time wasted waiting for the loading to end. You sort of fear dying (or going back to the Dream World) a lot more in Bloodborne.

[@honzothesloth8075]

***** ME2 loading screens... now those were dark times indeed...

[@paradoxacres1063]

***** ..and what year did Mass Effect 2 come out?

[@NathanCassidy721]

Paradox Acres Considering it's a game based on the concept of learning from your mistakes, you can consider it "reflection time" and/or a "time to cool off". Not justifying it of course, but might as well look for the positives while you wait for them to fix it.

[@NathanCassidy721]

Paradox Acres January 26th, 2010

[@MiisterShane]

If anybody's interested, the next update coming to BB is supposed to cut down loading screens and handle the whole thing more efficiently. Just *how* efficiently is yet to be seen though.

[@iissacc]

"the time of the month at the all female gladiatorial arena" I grimaced at that line but it was funny as fuck

[@Luciffrit]

sammeboy11 When you were Grimace for that brief time... did you make a cheeseburger? Wha wha Whaaaaaaa!

[@serana1445]

Luciffrit Cringe worthy.

[@iissacc]

Luciffrit the other McDonalds characters didn't make it to UK

[@MiauFrito]

sammeboy11 I can see why www.one-quest.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/The_Purple_Grimace_by_porkcow.jpg

[@countdemonay5613]

sammeboy11 I thought he had said "vagitorial arena". Lmao

[@stingerjohnny9951]

Another funny thing is the loading screens WERE fixed

[@DarknessAmongUs]

+Stinger Johnny Eh, as best as they could have been I suppose. Loading times were only slightly reduced and having item descriptions only breaks the monotony in theory.

[@stingerjohnny9951]

Really? For me the load time was only a few seconds

[@omegalink8]

+Stinger Johnny too bad they never fixed the whole warping thing.

[@stingerjohnny9951]

I have no idea what your talking about, warping? Im guessing it wasn't a problem for me :P

[@omegalink8]

Stinger Johnny I'm talking about being forced to warp to the hunters dream instead of being able to directly warp between lanterns.

[@guardingdark2860]

This game is easy, all you gotta do is make the blood guys blood on their blood with your blood until they no longer have any blood with which to blood. Then you just blood your blood in the blood room and blood yourself up with blood before you go back into the blood to get more blood with which to blood. And then you win.

[@taitia8619]

As someone who excels in blooding blood guys, I can confirm that this is accurate.

[@CapraDaAlbaRegia]

Wait, what's *that* smell?

[@drakkiusgaming]

@@CapraDaAlbaRegia it's blood

[@AC-gt2hs]

Reeks of blood.

[@bloodstoneore4630]

who would name so many things after blood

[@thedarkdude134]

it honestly blows my mind that we HAVENT gotten a PC port of this game yet. seriously its been SEVEN FUCKING YEARS everyone has been complaining about this sense day one and their STILL silent about it.

[@shazb0lt]

The review itself was shorter than the loading screen.

[@h3w45]

shazb0lt its fixed

[@vicrattlehead5051]

How dare you?? I remember everything, REMOVE THAT PROFILE PICTURE!!

[@Pvsn08]

Nice profile picture you have there bud

[@kyro8581]

I'm a little late but please don't remind me of 177013. Not again

[@NoobsDeSroobs]

shazb0lt You get a like for a very good profile pic. I see you have a refined taste in reading, my good sir.

[@ladyhawk7408]

Bloodborne is also based on HP Lovecraft. It goes from werewolves to Lovecraft in 7.8 seconds.

[@Vajrapani108]

Werewolves are also verrryyy lovecraft. Like pikemens model

[@Dracinard]

Yes, but only when you're about 10-20 hours in. You've got the angry townsfolk, werewolves, a couple of super werewolves in graveyards and cathedrals, a deserted town with a machine gun and a big monster, another deserted town with a bunch of witches, big spooky snake forest, and then suddenly you're fighting unknowable godlike spiders, hiding from a brain in a nightmare which drives you mad if you look at it, and there's lanky eldritch bastards hanging off the walls. And all the clues are there if you go back and look for them - the lanky eldritch bastards have statues in the cathedrals, for instance - but still. If you didn't expect Lovecraft going in it would be quite a while before you spotted it.

[@Vajrapani108]

@@Dracinard the item description of madman's knowledge is a pretty big spoiler. Considering it literally read "the great ones". I was already more than familiar with lovecraft, so after hearing that, i knew what I was getting into. Due to that for me, it was a Lovecraft experience from start, considering all of lovecraft's stories start with madness or physical transformation, both being very visible all throughout yharnam

[@leothane5684]

"Estus is now Blood Vials." Don't you mean grass is now Blood Vials?

[@crashedforeigncar]

@@dragensen2348 I thought he was referencing demon's souls' moon grass things

[@LuffyBlack]

I would love the next Souls successor to take place in a world with a Feudal Japan appearance. Imagine having to fight yokai and stuff.

[@letz5464]

Sounds like terrible weeb shit, no thank you.

[@Changetheling]

Cue to Microsoft's E3 2018 presentation...

[@peterheck2429]

Did you just... predict the future?

[@stuartburchell5816]

umm

[@ricardopm81]

@@peterheck2429 holy shit sekiro?

[@0rthogonal]

Love seeing Yatzhee's view of the "Souls" games evolve over time. I still remember when he panned Demon's Souls as garbage and gave up after 2 bosses. Now it's his "favorite type of game".

[@Electric0eye]

Even funnier now 8 years on. Wonder if in a decade or so he'll have his passion for the genre re-ignited and it becomes his favorite type of game again

[@rightobalbo2157]

It would be nice to see FROMSOFTWARE actually get recognition for the Armored Core series... they DID make those you know.

[@TheBlackAshTree]

Really what brought their company up in Japan... Shame they've seemingly abandoned the series.

[@Sneeds_Feed_And_Seed69]

Its our time again, ARMORED CORE VI :)

[@Sneeds_Feed_And_Seed69]

@@TheBlackAshTree Armored Core VI fires of rubicon

[@Revalopod]

Armored boob

[@KrazyKaiser]

Yhatzee, it's unfair to FROM to say that they only have one game. Yeah, Dark Demon's Blood is all pretty similar, but they have been making games for a long time and have many older fantasy RPG games, which are referenced in Dark Demon's Blood. But don't forget that they also made the Armored Core games, which are badass mecha games.

[@lolrus5555]

And let's not forget METAL WOLF CHAOOOS, shall we?

[@stanley1698]

Luke DiDomenico Never in a million years. EAT MY MISSLE PUNCH!

[@Wandergirl108]

+zbo900 To be fair, King's Field, their 1995 game for the PS1, is another of the Dark Demon's Blood group, as you put it. It is literally the 1995 incarnation of the From Software game - I had my doubts when I saw the logo on the opening screen, then I played it, and after about five minutes I was like, "Yep, this is another version of the From Software game." XD

[@yamiookami]

+zbo900 Also that awesome NES Zelda homage, 3D Dot Game Heroes.

[@airthefallen]

Let's not forget Tenchu, Shadow Tower, and Chromehounds.

[@AusSP]

Yahtzee: They'll never fix the loading times, because they're jerks! *six hours previous* Sony: We're releasing a patch to fix Bloodborne's loading. Yeah, Yahtzee's time machine is totally on the fritz. I'll avoid mentioning that From Software does have other games, though. The others are about robots, which I guess no one cares about too much. EDIT: Oh, wait... He posts this a week earlier on a different site, doesn't he? Well, his time machine *still* doesn't work, whether or not he recorded it 7 hours ago or 7 days ago.

[@AusSP]

***** You, uh... Don't really understand the meaning of "time machine", do you? It doesn't matter when he said it. Either way, it was an unexpected bit of Sony-not-being-an-ass, that happened well after he wrote and recorded the clip. Well, From Software not being an ass, more likely, but either way, I am aware that it predates any reasonable way for him to learn about it. You see, Yahtzee talked about his Time Machine this time, leading to the premise of the comment. Congratulations to you, person shorter than this joke.

[@NathanCassidy721]

AusSP This video came out a week ago. You may want to check your sources before you open your mouth. Especially if it's an insult.

[@AusSP]

Nathan Cassidy What insult? I had a chuckle at Yahtzee's crass cynicism not holding up for once. You didn't even read the whole comment, and clearly didn't understand the intent. It's not like I insulted him, or said anything about his mother. Are you here to protect Yahtzee from what the mean people say?

[@NathanCassidy721]

AusSP This is the Internet. "Insult" and "Attempt to correct information" might as well be the same thing.

[@3choBlast3r]

AusSP They said they were going to fix the loading times, the day after release...

[@secondcaptainhomosexual7215]

i honestly prefer bloodborne to dark souls, it forces you to take a more active approach in combat and even when you're just exploring you have to pay serious attention to the environment and be able to react within the half a second wind up of the sneakier enemies to be able to avoid attacks, also, the diseased lovecraftian horror theme just works so much better for me than grim medieval fantasy. also, if you replay it a bit get somewhere around 20 insight and look at the odean chapel from the front. that is all.

[@theatomicbonbon3717]

It's one of those games where the experience is enhanced if you scream constantly while you play

[@puppet1show626]

@@theatomicbonbon3717 relatable

[@daneverharen1694]

Yes but it’s stuck on the piss 4 so it can’t be played at it’s full potential

[@emeraldblack842]

@@daneverharen1694 you can get a PC emulator if you know where your looking

[@quadbinilium8612]

@@emeraldblack842 Do you have any suggestions please? Because I sure would prefer a non-scam emulator over having to use Sony's fucking PSNow bullshit...

[@kickingmagpie]

"You can't fix the load times by adding more hardware" And here I am playing Bloodborne for the first time in 2020 on a PS5. Best game of the decade btw.

[@SolaScientia]

Same, lol. Loading times way improved compared to the PS4 gameplay I saw that made me want the game. I like it and Sekiro both more than Dark Souls.

[@XillyWonka]

@@SolaScientia sekiro is my favorite fromsoft game

[@SolaScientia]

@@XillyWonka I like what I've played of it and I need to get back into it. I need to figure out how to parry properly since I'm bad at it. I also hit a wall in the form of that first chained ogre in the Ashina Outskirts area. I went and started doing the Hirata Estate in the past bit instead.

[@XillyWonka]

@@SolaScientia Yeah fair warning; the Hirata Estate can get a bit difficult. For the ogre though, fire works really well on him

[@SolaScientia]

@@XillyWonka I tried fire, but I'm super low on the talisman things for the prosthetic tools. I'd gotten the flame vent tool and bought some oil urns from the talking pot in the water, but I didn't have much luck. As for the Estate, right now I'm stuck atop a tall tower just past that bridge guarded by the two guys with the massive shields. I got up there to get to safety, then I saw just how many guys were across the bridge, and then I saved and quit, lol. there's 5 or 6 or so from what I can tell and I'm out of gourd uses. I could try to stealth past them to try to find the next statue to rest at and then retrace my steps back to there. I explored one area and the guys with spears give me trouble too.

[@matheusb.dambrowski4639]

That ending was a gem! Sorry, a blood gem. I laughed so hard

[@NateTheScot]

Man, 6 years on and they STILL love that "monster made of lots of bodies smashed together" thing... that's half the enemies in Elden Ring xD The whole "grafting" thing as it's called. Yeah call it what you want FROM, it's still the same old trick. Not that i mind... i'm at almost 130h played on my character already xd

[@nephi-odandy9728]

hahahahaha, i couldn't contain myself anymore after hearing "7 bollocks for a neck." you sir have earned a subscriber

[@haibu128]

Nephi-O Dandy yo whatup how's Lehi-O?

[@nephi-odandy9728]

A . Tingey damn i was hoping nobody would make that joke. i am not associated with that stuff at all. my name is Egyptian.

[@joeymitchell2862]

Nephi-O Dandy "fucked up monsters with hammerhead sharks instead of toe nails" is my favorite, a description he used for dark souls 3.

[@draco2xx]

we need a remaster capped at 4k/60fps and 1080p/120fps

[@TeezyOrtiz]

This was probably my favorite review simply because i'm obsessed with Bloodborne and I literally cannot stop playing it....I've gone as far as buying a fucking 23 inch HD monitor so I can take my PS4 with me to work and play it there during the night shifts.......Goddamnit FromSoftware......Goddamn you all to hell.......

[@Rigel_6]

Well, they fixed the loading times.

[@NapoleonPicard]

It's WAAAAAY closer to Demon's Souls than Dark Souls.

[@T0mN7]

I demand an illustration for the following quote: "Its like that time of the month in the all female gladiatorial arena"!!

[@fugnuggets9316]

>1.03 update seeks to reduce certain load times in addition to performance optimizations. The patch also resolves an issue that resulted in abnormal game behavior after many continuous hours of play. - Playstation.blog So a patch IS coming to reduce the load time. However how much it actually reduces is the real question though...

[@xecium8780]

Deathprone01 My guess is 0.3 nano seconds in reduction

[@nokturnallex2160]

Xecium Games ^ unless the patch fixes how shitty the PS4's hardware is, the load times aren't going to suddenly become as nice as Dark Souls 2 on PC.

[@xecium8780]

Nokturnal Lex Indeed they won't. Inedd they won't

[@nokturnallex2160]

***** Much as I enjoy Souls games, I don't enjoy them enough to waste hundreds of dollars on a piece of shit toaster so I can play the newest one. I got other PC games to play in the meantime.

[@xTHIRDHORSEMANx]

Before that patch the load times were 13 seconds. Big fucking deal. You're a cry baby bitch if you're gonna complain about 13 seconds.

[@ingerasulffs]

It loads fast on PS5 - so for those who were turned away by the loading times (which have been fixed a bit already), then yay, better hardware to the rescue (if you can get one).

[@towerknight5012]

Now to watch the comment section devolve as baby-men bash their hands into stumps creating comment wars on how Bloodborne is shit (because they don't have it) or, alternatively how exclusives are shit. ...Even though it takes a lot of money to mass release a game on multiple platforms and seeing as though Dark Souls 2 was being developed around the same time, they spent all their money on that instead of Bloodborne, hence being only for PS4. Self explanatory really but carry on.

[@atlerthedark3639]

Tower Knight If they've already made the game, I can only imagine that they'd make more money by porting it over to other consoles. It's like filming a fantastic movie and then deciding you don't have the funds for the discs they get copied to.

[@towerknight5012]

Atler the Dark Depends who funded it. If it was say; EA (just an example) then yeah it would be multiplatform but since it's Sony, they've got their choker tight around FromSofts neck in order to sell it's console. And it's working.

[@travisbewley7084]

***** LOL!

[@MrBombastic799]

Travis Bewley It's true, ds2 was a huge dissapointment.

[@travisbewley7084]

MrBombastic799 To you personally perhaps, but not as a matter of fact.

[@ZhangHe2369]

After beating DeS again, it seems that everyone forgot those loading times where worse. And console ds2 had stupidly long loading as well. Its almost to be expected. What bb did wrong was not have item descriptions during loading.

[@Kuuenbu]

Kurt Horsting Should've had something like the phantom views while loading.

[@artorias-24]

Kurt Horsting its been patched so there are descriptions now during loading

[@Cyarb92]

richter3456 And? That... doesn't fix the problem... or really help it.

[@artorias-24]

Read what he said. He stated "What bb did wrong was not have item descriptions during loading." And I'm simply telling him that they patched the game so now it does have the descriptions. So the problem is resolved. Not that hard to understand

[@Cyarb92]

richter3456 Ah, my bad. I completely blanked that part and stuck with the loading time. Sorry.

[@capthavic]

From Software has made other kinds of games such as mech games like Armored Core and Metal Wolf Chaos (the latter I still have not forgiven them for never releasing here in the US), it's just recently they hit it big with the Souls games so they have been milking that golden cow for all its blood gems :P

[@VioletDeathRei]

capthavic And Tenchu though the King's Field games are really where the Souls ones come from. Hoping for more of pretty much all the other games still lol.

[@linkdude55]

You mean blood cow.

[@supercakefish]

capthavic Otogi II I'll always remember.

[@Seydaschu]

capthavic Metal Wolf Chaos is a From Software game? That does it, now they gotta make a Dark Souls in America game now!

[@mlpdaywulf796]

capthavic I miss badass robot/mech 'slposion mashups games (Mech Warrior/Amoured Core). hopefully they make a comeback like NEStalgia games (Shovel Knight), space sims (Elite Dangerous/ FTL), Old-School FPS' (Wolfenstein/Shadow Warrior/Brutal Doom) and MetroidVania games (Ori and the Blind Forest).

[@spunklord5000]

4:58 Well...

[@hakametal]

The funny thing is that the story does actually revolve around menstruation blood. Not kidding.

[@hakametal]

+ForeverLaxx You're an idiot...

[@spellbound1875]

+ForeverLaxx No he knows the difference. Both are very important to the story. Just look up the Umbilical cord item and think about the implications. That didn't spoil anything, right?

[@hakametal]

+ForeverLaxx The fact that you don't understand why I said menstruation and not ministration is enough proof you don't know Bloodborne well enough. Yeah, they're two completely different things. Menstruation blood and the Pthumerian Queen Yharnam are directly tied to the story and of blood MINISTRATION. There has been countless videos made on this theory, so to say it's "dead and stupid" simply proves you don't know what you're talking about. So before you start trying to be a smart ass, pointing out the obvious (we know dude, menstruation and ministration are two different things) maybe you could actually know about the game in question? Cheers brah.

[@hakametal]

+ForeverLaxx It's ok if you don't understand, I will help you. Just take my hand?

[@hakametal]

+ForeverLaxx You're still not learning! Brah, let it go and don't reply. I dare ya big man ;)

[@StrydarXtheXGrim]

What have you done to me funnyman? Just realise I've watched 71 episodes back to back. I was supposed to do things last night. Like sleep. Good job you're similes are as witty as... A... Really witty guy type person What? You're the funny guy, not me

[@juanmarodriguez6010]

hahahahahaha

[@StrydarXtheXGrim]

mikejonesnoreally so cunning you could strap a bushy tail on it and call it a fox?

[@DaftJok3r]

I feel like Yahtzee shines when he reviews From Soft games. Entertaining video as always

[@TevorTheThird]

So one complaint I've seen a couple times now is the bit about the chore of grinding low level areas and enemies for Health Potions. I can only imagine how tedious that would be. So here's a tip for anyone with that issue. DON'T. DO. THAT. They sell the things at your hub. And the tough area you need the potions for will doubtlessly be dropping more "currency" then the early areas, nevermind that as you go on they drop increasingly large amounts of Blood Echoes while the price of a health potion remains static. So just kill some dudes, bonus effect of the practice in an area you apparently have been wasting Blood Viles in, then go buy some. Grinding enemies for critical consumable items with lowish drop rates? No. Just no. It's slower, it's tedious, it's inefficient and you won't enjoy yourself.

[@aftermathgmgng]

You, Sir, are wrong. The prices of items in the shop are NOT static. As you progress through the game/die, the in-game time moves forward into the night. The deeper into the night the game goes, the more expensive do items become. Given the fact that what Yahtzee is referring to is the situations, where you are trying to beat a boss for about a week (i.e. me and Watchdog of Old Lords) and you suddenly find your bottomless box empty with no money in the bank. If that's the case me running through the entirety of Yharnam just waving my blades of mercy to mobs and picking up the pots they drop would be faster than actually grinding blood echoes in higher level areas and risking dying on a fluke and increasing the cost of the pots altogether.

[@noizepusher7594]

1:19 Oooh, he has a time machine! *That’s* how he makes his scarily accurate predictions of the future!

[@RubberFacee]

"Same shit, different anus." -Yahtzee 2015

[@Forcedminer]

"bonlandfireton." thats amazing.

[@yanipheonu]

Yeah the healing items not replenishing is easily the worst part of the game, adds a potential element of grind. Especially when one of the few things Lords of the Fallen offered a good choice where you could sacrifice experience for healing items.

[@mariovssonic2080]

You can buy healing items with currency (souls) in bb

[@xecium8780]

Cami Diago Surely the currency should be blood!

[@mariovssonic2080]

Xecium Games blood echoes

[@epithet052]

yanipheonu if you heal a lot, the problem is ultimately that you are bad at the game. As always.

[@K0sm1cKid]

All Hail Glorious Masterracists Yeah yeah yeah, sure. But I can see why it would be frustrating not having replenish able health. Like Yahtzee mentioned in the video a big part of Souls is getting stuck in places and ramming your head against a wall for a while. It's unreasonable to expect a person to NEVER be hit and every hit you take in Souls games takes away a good chunk of your health. Based on what I am seeing from Bloodborne it also has less room for tanking and shielding so its even more possible that you will be losing tons of health. Granted you can get it back by being aggressive and attacking enemies to get it back. So that means you need to be able to heal, but those healing items are a pain to get. Luckily it looks like the enemies you farm the items off of drop them consistently for the most part so you don't have to grind as much as you did in DS2 trying to kill fucking Drake dudes in Shrine of Amana to get Twinkling titanite only to have them despawn so you have to bonfire aesetic the area to get more, making them a fucking PAIN IN THE ASS TO KILL IN NG+ WITH EVEN MORE STUPID POISE DESPITE THE FACT THAT THEY ARE ONLY WEARING A ROBE. >.> Sorry some of my salt is showing

[@Comrade-Gandalf]

Anyone who is dealing with a lack of blood vials: you have extra! Anytime you pick up a blood vial and you have max it goes to your bottomless box in the hunters dream. If you run out and die pick up some from the dream before you leave. The bottomless box (it's not called that in game but we all know it is a bottomless box) is in the house and is next to the upgrade station

[@Nogardo]

Well the loading screens aren’t an issue anymore… if you play it on PS5

[@Pauly421]

Your videos always make me laugh and cheer me up, thank you for being hilarious and one of the best game critics there is.

[@swordhunter12]

"At least we can take solace in the fact the loading times will never be fixed will never be fixed." And then they fixed it.

[@JacobByus]

1. You can fast travel in the Hunter's Dream through the 4 grave stones to the right to any lantern you have activated. 2. You have to enter the Hunter's Dream to restock your Blood and Bullets (They automatically move from your stash to your inventory). 3. Unlike Dark Souls, Blood Vials are not free, any over 20 you pick up are added to your stash though. You can also buy them if you don't want to farm for them. I find this to be a good thing actually, no longer can you just kill a weak boss and get access to 20 healing items that instantly get restocked, now players actually have to learn to dodge. Other than that, love the review, I always get a laugh out of it.

[@catiseith]

+Jacob Byus He meant that he would have liked not to have to enter the Hunter's Dream every time he wanted to fast-travel.

[@JacobByus]

The loading screens are so short now that it is pretty much the same speed as Dark Souls overall.

[@PaladinfffLeeroy]

+Jacob Byus *note, this review was published at least 9 months ago so it's safe to assume that he played the game during the period in which the loading times were horrifyingly long. Even I can remember that and I didn't even have a playstation 4 back then...*

[@catiseith]

Paladin Leeroy I saw them in Angry Joe's gameplay video. They were also boring (the loading screens). They used to show only the game title. Now at least they show some item descriptions while you wait.

[@PaladinfffLeeroy]

CaitSeith I even wondered why they didn't show item descriptions like they did in Dark Souls. Bloodborne seems a bit weird because they didn't implement things that they improved on with Dark Souls 2.

[@daaaah_whoosh]

It took me entirely too long in this game to find out that you can just buy blood vials with blood echoes at the home base area. And stuff you put into storage fills up your inventory space when you respawn. So you can just buy like 100 vials and never run out.

[@benjamindavidson4680]

As much as I want this game I do not want to spend on a whole console to get it.

[@diesenutss]

it's worth it man trust me

[@BlazeBluetm35]

+eNDMyLifE bOi i'm itching to buy s ps4 just for this, but then i will feel the need to justify the price of the ps4 by buying other games.

[@GstroyHD]

+Blaze Blue Uncharted is good, if you like cinematic, story-driven kinds of games. Best part is you can get the first three for the price of one.

[@ThatDamnRaccoon]

it's funny that the one boss he specifically comments on for being bodies smashed together is the only boss like that in the game

[@dbfan199]

He's talking about The other game's not just bloodborne

[@Murillable]

For those who are curious, the photographer is Thomas Ruff, who is well known for photographing expressionless portraits. No idea what the name of the guy in the picture actually is, however. image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2002/02/01/ruff_head.jpg

[@InchonDM]

Just as a status update, it is now eight years after this game released, it is still trapped in the Wizard Sony's plastic prison, and anyone who wants to experience the game without forking over four hundred dollars to the wizard are, frankly, so desperate as to get on the verge of doing embarrassing things. It's like the negaverse counterpart to Capcom screwing over the Gamecube with RE4, and it makes you realize that that was, in fact, indeed the version without the mustache. At least the Gamecube had other reasons to buy it, was relatively cheap, and basically indestructible.

[@pentexsucks43]

I paid 150$ for a ps4 Pro refurbished and 11$ for Bloodborne on eBay, what the fuck are you looking at LMAO.

[@cptfreeman8966]

A used PS4 is not gonna cost ANYONE $400 in this day and age

[@cptfreeman8966]

Lmfaoooo dead ass bro @@pentexsucks43

[@Jeradactile]

Just watched this after playing Elden Ring. More bodies smashed together ha ha.

[@Klishar122]

Started playing this a couple days ago. Wow, does this game just have a siren call to keep pulling me back in.

[@nohomers100]

this game is a masterpiece. I love Elden Ring but Bloodborne I feel is still their finest achievement

[@acfanboy1997]

I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad they fixed the long-as-fuck loading screens with actual item descriptions

[@ChickenPika]

Hey everyone! Did you know the loading screens have been fixed? Yes? Because you read all the other comments mentioning that? Hurrah!

[@nathanoliver9237]

The funny thing is that this is still likely to end up on the top 5 list.

[@MrSanghelios]

Bloodborne deserves it tbh.

[@maltimoto]

UPDATE bloodborne SET name='Blood Vial' WHERE name = 'Estus";

[@kyleegeep]

no equipment load means armor is no longer trying to balance out weight protection it is just protection

[@Charsept]

This was my first souls game. Now I've played all of them. 😉

[@FortuitusVideo]

You know, I say a comment a while back about how Yahtzee was the Shakespeare of our generation. And I wholeheartedly agree, his masterful mix of crude jokes and clever word play pretty much puts him squarely in the ballpark.

[@Jamandabop]

Hearing about these load times, I'm somewhat glad that I skipped the PS4 and went to the PS5, since now I won't have to wait for such long load times.

[@justinschnoor9459]

Just played and beat Bloodborne for the first time. I really liked it when compared to Dark Souls which bored me

[@Believeblood2]

Do yourself a favor and just buy blood vials, seriously the amount of time it saves is tremendous.

[@Samagachi]

Not sure why he didn't just do that. Could've fought the stronger enemies and bought more blood vials with their blood echoes.

[@justincoltharp9701]

Or just dont use all your blood vials, abuse visc for full heals

[@Abon666]

I'm pretty sure you can upgrade the PS4 hard drive to a SSD, that might improve loadtimes a bit.

[@atlas8827]

Tony I hope the PS4 has the TRIM command.

[@gregsmw]

Tony from what iv heard the 40 second load times are WITH SSDs

[@atlas8827]

WHAT THE FUDGE

[@mattgriffin1528]

Whilst being more expensive, with less space and minor improvement! If you've seen how much space gaming takes up these days anything under 750GB is laughable, since you can't have two hard drives in the PS4 that's a problem! Also unlike PCs and Xbones the PS4 uses SATA 2 (as previously mentioned) so it's a whole lotta money for little gain...

[@259]

・ﾍﾘｵﾃﾞｨﾝ That's fine and all but SSDs will always be a viable upgrade for any hardware. If you have an SSD in your PS4 the load times will be cut almost in half, and that's incredibly significant considering the amount of times you will be expected to go through them. You are literally wasting your life the longer you have to sit through loading screens which is why I never want to go back to hard drives.

[@DuelistRL]

From Software also makes the Armored Core series. Please somebody check it out it's like an accurate representation of mecha when it comes to stat management. Metacritic has it at a 65 I believe (armored core 4 answer) it deserves a little more then that for how rewarding and challenging it is at least.

[@killerMILLER117]

I'm subscribed to a lot of channels on youtube and this one is genuinely my favorite. Thank you!

[@leeragdoll3458]

Bloodborne is a little backstep from DS in its variety of weapons, items, enemies, environment etc. Yet what it truly shines is its effort and complexity within its story and lore. It has presented a very spectacular world completely different from any other games can offer and is still very fresh and intriguing. That is something even great modern game studioes can rarely do.

[@jdrok5026]

Lee Ragdoll it has better weapon and enemy and boss variety tho the areas are also better put together and the move sets for weapons are just fucking badass and that's why bloodbourne is better then dark souls

[@MrSanghelios]

Those backsteps you mentioned don´t really bother me at all. I´d rather take a lot more quality over a little more quantity, because that´s what BB gave to me. Weapons are all cool af and completely viable. Enemy design is creepy and beautiful at the same time. Game is oozing with atmosphere and all around just brilliant.

[@nicklovejoy2876]

It is funny that i know which crows he is talking about

[@Shindai]

The descriptions and similes in this are awe-inspiring. Sincere bravo :D

[@GrahamChapman]

Funny thing about the warping mechanic is that if you were allowed to warp between any two laterns without having to make a stop at the Hunter's Dream first, the lore would get a bit bent out of shape... Not massively so, sure, but still...

[@cra2ydaev]

Love how there's like only 2 or 3 compliments in a review filled with comments ranging from snarky to outright bile-filled bitterness, so it only made it to #4 on the best of the year list 😂

[@AbombWatson]

Honestly From Software has been doing this since the mid 90's with King's Field...

[@Punishthefalse]

Andrew Watson I wish From Software will give Armored Core another look-see. That game is fun and hard as all hell.

[@AbombWatson]

I never did play Armored Core a lot, but what I did play was awesome. I think I'll go dig up a copy at a local game shop.

[@Kuuenbu]

Andrew Watson And they were a different time when things were different. Who'da thunk?! Nowadays PCs and consoles have interchangeable parts and From has more money than God thanks to the ginormous and obsessive Cult of Souls fanbase meaning they can p.much give that old stereo company a fond farewell.

[@MirandaStreeter]

Andrew Watson Yeah, seriously they've been doing the same game 10+ times in a row for 25 years (armored core being the exception), polishing it like a bowling ball buffer, and aged like fine wine. Yahtzee, do your research! Bah humbug!

[@Wandergirl108]

OMG THANK YOU! No one else in this entire comment section has known about King's Field besides me! :O

[@akiraigarashi2874]

Can't wait for it to eventually come to pc so I can finally play it. Any day now.

[@shepja87]

Playing BB for the first time this week, it's my first Souls game (though not my first Metroidvania style game) pretty much agree completely, especially the notion of having to go back and farm weaker enemies like some other games. It might not be so bad if they'd randomised enemy placement so each time you go through it's still a challenge and not a chore, apart from that this frustratingly hard game has won me over.... so far.

[@Goldmight]

Bloodborne - dark souls time of the month

[@generico366]

This game has some fucking great boss fight. Ludwig the Accursed/Ludwig the Holy Blade is one of the best boss fight I've ever seen, just after Undyne the Undying.

[@MrSanghelios]

*brofist*

[@Bones12x2]

In case anyone who hasn't played this game is curious. The loading times were significantly improved in the latest update.

[@rah_sollest]

Correction. They did had a updated patch where the loading times are slightly faster and showing you item descriptions just like the Dark Souls games did. Even with it's slow loading time that lasted nearly half a minute it did gave me a moment to get something to eat or snack on or to check my phone to see if I got any feedback on my art...which I hardly even do. :')

[@Bricksandgamesstudio]

I'm happy to see playstation 4 gets its first good exclusive.

[@nextlifeonearth]

AJ Nisich I'm not, exclusives are bullshit unless there is input limitations like with a Wii(mote) or PC(k&m).

[@Bricksandgamesstudio]

Hey i want it too. Just good to see sony has something

[@jfcmsb]

AJ Nisich you care more for Sony's business than the consumer.. why?

[@NathanCassidy721]

AJ Nisich A timed exclusive, considering that some dedicated fans found some information for a PC port. As for sources: www.ign.com/articles/2015/03/24/amazon-france-lists-bloodborne-for-pc www.kdramastars.com/articles/80705/20150406/bloodborne-pc-release.htm But I agree that it is about time the PS4 (heck any console) got a game worth playing. The main problem that I have with it is that rather than just make good games, the companies resort to tactics that make them look pathetic and desperate because they know they are offering a product that is just flat out sucks in comparison to their competitors.

[@Bricksandgamesstudio]

***** Actually... thats a good point. Screw this. Exclusives hurt

[@loyal-tf-fan]

Funny how they fixed the loading screen problem

[@SuperArppis]

+Loyal-TF-Fan _ Yes it was hilarious, I laughed so much.

[@Checkyourmail]

+Loyal-TF-Fan _ Improved, certainly not fixed, nowhere NEAR that. It's still excrutiatingly long, and endlessly obnoxious, even though it's more tolerable. Guess that's all they could squeeze out of the PS4.

[@loyal-tf-fan]

Aedd Gynvael Oh no, if you want to complain about loading times then go on about AC: Syndicate. The worst part of it is that their is a lot of loading screens and they stick you in an area to run in, personally that just drives me insane.

[@SuperArppis]

Aedd Gynvael I have to say, for me it was fixed. Each for their own, I guess. :)

[@Checkyourmail]

SuperArppis It's not a subjective preference, 30 seconds (in some situations) is still painfully bad. Hell, even chalice dungeons load slowly when you warp to them, which is completely stupid, as any one of them is way smaller than the game's world. Warping to the Hunter's Dream is way less time-consuming, but because they refuse to give you lantern teleporting and vial/bullet restocking on successful co-op or PvP, you still have to waste time traveling there and it still feels too long warping to and from. I guess that I might be less annoyed by it if I had played all the previous games on console, but the only one I did was DeS, and I don't remember it sticking to me that it loads too long. (I think it was faster than BB loads now) DkS1 and 2 on PC load for about ~3-5 seconds from when you select your character, or after you travel/respawn at a bonfire. That's what I'm used to.

[@ethanlawrence4890]

My friend(hostage) once asked me, 'what is blood borne?' And I replied 'it's dark souls on its period.'

[@McGooness]

idk bodies smashed together is better than just looking at the standard human everyday.

[@malanare]

I can only think of one boss in this game which is an amalgamation of body parts- The One Reborn. Not bad out of about 30, I mean the crows and dogs get a little surreal at the end but- All in all it seems like a bit of a stretch.

[@benjamontoasts]

malanare He's referring to the previous games, there's an amalgam boss in pretty much every souls game i.e. Gravelord Nito, The rotten, Leechmonger etc

[@odinofanime]

well Yahtzee, it looks like Dark Souls 3 is mainly going to focus on horrible, weird monsters in suits of armor, the perfect inbetween!

[@bakedbeandecree2921]

The video was funny but I fucking lost it at: "It makes me wonder if the bodies ever argue over who has to be the ass" this shit made my day

[@incjumpStARtR]

the monster designs make sense later in the game when the HP Lovecraft lore comes out.

[@sathyajithhv3330]

Still bloody amazing

[@dorungus]

I wonder if he knew that you can just buy Blood Vials, its extremely easy late game.

[@MrSanghelios]

They are also extremely cheap to buy and easy to farm at the beginning of the game.

[@mattell3302]

So you liked it? Although I don't own a PS4, I've been playing quite a bit of Bloodborne with my mate, and I've got to say its pretty darn good so far. I thought I wouldn't like the faster paced fighting, but its done really well. I was playing Dark Souls 1 the other day, and found my self trying to get health back by attacking enemies, which lead to many bloodstains being lost in Oolacile. Bloodborne shows up Dark Souls 2's world design imo. And reminds us why Miyazaki is the king of level design. The return of the interconnected areas and detailed "zones" is fantastic. And I'm beginning to think that Miyazaki has been reading up on some H.P.Lovecraft during development, which can only be a good thing. My only real issues so far are the loading screens, and the lack of options in weapons, magic, and armor. The lack of build variety might hurt replay-ability, but the world seems engrossing enough to bring you back for more. It actually feels like more of a character action game similar to something like Bayonetta, due to the smoother controls and faster paced action. However, it still retains the depth and contextual storytelling of Dark Souls 1. Now, if only I had a PS4.

[@Goonchtastic]

Central Yharnam is a bit nice for camping blood vials, it's the starting area, so it makes sense that everyone has gallons of healing blood. Right?

[@Sjono]

Sony could've had the Souls series their own exclusive franchise if they initially had more faith in it. Their loss is other gamers gain

[@daneverharen1694]

Well I’m fucking glad they didnt

[@TheRevsReturn]

@@daneverharen1694 lmaoo true imagine all the souls games running on a plastic 30 fps machine that sounds like a wind turbine every time I turn it on

[@JioVega]

Fear not! There's an upcoming patch which is going to improve loading times and fix some fps drops.

[@tequilafeline6552]

You'd be wrong to say most enemies in the game are mushed up creatures with other body parts as the only story existing ones is the one reborn and the yharnam shadows if you count the three snakes that appear out of their chests

[@SPM0717]

Scorcheriez I think he meant they did it several times throughout Dark Souls and Bloodborne, not just the latter.

[@tequilafeline6552]

SicParvisMagna123 i see but dark souls still actually doesnt do it that much

[@hendrikmaus3575]

Every time I watch Zero Punktuation, my video stops to load and I have the chance to witness the full madness of the intro....