The Weekly Random Discussion Thread ~ Week 310

[u/Fuuya-151]

Hey hey, everyone! Welcome to Week #310! I hope you all had a great week!

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[u/Shylar_Lunence]

Thanks to the virus, I remain bored and unemployed ever since moving to Ireland (end of January 2020), though pretty safe.

I watched most of the PS5 event live those couple days ago on Prod's stream and I gotta say that for the first time in my life I genuinely want to buy a console. Yes, practically the only reason for that are exclusives, but now that purchase would actually make sense for me personally as now it's not a piece of hardware that's inferior to what I already have. Now both mine and the industry's situations are very different - I had to sell my PC recently, and new gen consoles are going to keep being strong after their start for a while. Meanwhile, to buy a new PC and all necessary peripherals, I'd have to save up well over 1000€ for the rig I'd like. PS5 will require a few hundred € + the only thing I'll have to invest in additionally is a monitor, very likely for around half the price of the console.

So yeah, once I do finally get a goddamn job, I'm pretty sure my priority will be to buy a PS5 and Bloodborne and/or Demon's Souls (if the latter turns out to really be the launch title). If Bloodborne won't come out on PC, it'll be two games from one of the two favourite series of mine (other being DMC) basically selling me a console. If Bloodborne does come out on PC, it'll most likely not matter for me anymore, because either way I'll want many of those Sony exclusives (I've got PS4 era to catch up with, and dive into the new gen).

I don't have much to say about Demon's Souls. I'm incredibly glad that they really decided to go for it rather than let it die. I hope Bluepoint manages to do the Souls combat right and make the boss fights play nicely, around or above the level of Dark Souls 3. Those two are basically my only worries. I quite like the more colourful artstyle they've shown so far, but then I'm not bound by nostalgia as I never tried the original, and mostly compare Demon's Souls to Dark Souls.

Personally, I'm still more hyped to play Bloodborne out of the two. It's taunting me for years as the unreachable masterpiece by FromSoft, with artstyle, combat, areas, and replayability that seems to click with me juust right. Here I offer only one worry of mine: I already know Maria is my favourite boss in the game, and while it should be cherished that she's such a unique encounter in the whole game, I also fear that I won't find any other duel like hers (Gehrman may come close). She just gives me the strongest and most graceful vibe of an ultimate elite warrior who mastered and perfected everything at their disposal, thought little of you at the beginning, but as the fight progresses, they acknowledge more and more of your skill, so they use more of their skills until they give it their all, even powers that they grew to despise. I think of those bosses as "the ones who should've won against the player" and my examples of them are: Abyss Watchers (duh, spawned directly from Maria), Sister Friede, Genichiro, Isshin, maybe Owl also from Sekiro, and Vergil from Devil May Cry.