Just wanted to say, I'm so happy you guys are sticking with this! Some of my favorite content during this lockdown, easily. Very excited to see you guys finally get off world and discover the weird and wonderful world of Large-sized construction.
Thank you guys so much for streaming this. I know a lot of people would have preferred more Satisfactory (or Factorial) but I'm stubbornly waiting for the full release, and trying not to get too spoiled on it beforehand.
I just finished playing Astroneer a month or two ago and it is just such a pleasant game. Plus, this might just be me but I find it easier to keep track of what both of you are doing than in those games.
Alex has been straight up killing it ever since he started streaming. I don't know why, but I think I enjoy these solo truck streams even more than when you were all together in the studio. Looking forward to Civ!
"Imma pick Samara, the lady who is a part of an archaic group of warriors that makes her own people nervous about her and also the lady who has worked alone for likely all of her time as a justicar, to be the leader of people for this one life-or-death team situation." is definitely not 'some bullshit'. You fucked up, Alex, and that's fine.
Y'all for real still salty about that, huh? Let's keep in mind that the "correct" choices there were Garrus, Jacob, and Miranda.
Fucking. Miranda.
All this guff about Samara only working alone really makes me question if people paid any attention to all the backstory she gives you whatsoever.
Been loving the Beastcast these past few weeks. Bloodborne is absolutely worth beating once and yet doesn't feel nearly as satisfying to replay as the Souls games. New game plus seems especially ill-fitting for this game both naratively and mechanically. There are alternate builds sure but very few seem as user-friendly as the straight forward strength based ones. In my first play through I leveled myself into a Bloodtinge hybrid build before realizing too late how pointless that stat is. I managed to get through the game with the Rifle Spear but I think I would've been better served min maxing like most people. The style and lore are the parts of the experience that make that game great, there are just enough design flaws that prevent it from being my favorite of From's games.
Just to counterpart, I've played Bloodborne through at least 15 times across 10+ characters - far more than any of the Souls games - many with wildly different play styles. I do agree with you that going NG+ beyond the first tier is not the most satisfying, as it's mostly just adds to the number of things that can one shot you. Luckily there's always co-op if I just want to do a bit of comp-stomping.
Bloodtinge is basically the Luck stat of Bloodborne. Very few things scale well with it, but the ones that do are among the most powerful in the game.
A short feature where Vinny gets back into Bloodborne with Mahardy as his coach would be the absolute best! You can even treat it as a Vinnyvania if that helps, since it has similar trappings.
As Mike said, it's not a long game once you know what you need to do, so you don't have to worry about setting aside a lot of time for it.
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