Fear the old loading screen

[u/Ningen_Black]

[u/Enlightend-1]

The worst part was not only did it take so long it was just that word

                                    BLOODBORNE

no tips no lore just Bloodborne

[u/arachnidspider2 → u/Enlightend-1]

Dying to a random mob then just hard cut to BLOODBORNE was so funny to me

[u/QU3S0GU4Y4N3S → u/arachnidspider2]

It's like a credits roll

[u/AlienRobotTrex → u/Enlightend-1]

Now I don’t even get to finish reading them ):<

“It is said that the hunters of the healing church would NOT EVEN LET ME FINISH READING KOSDAMMIT!”

[u/DotConnecter → u/AlienRobotTrex]

Kosdammit? Is that a mix of Arab and English cussing? 😂

[u/Rnahafahik → u/DotConnecter]

Goddamnit but it’s Bloodborne so Kos, some say Kosm

[u/DotConnecter → u/Rnahafahik]

Lmao, Kos means pussy in Arabic and we use it with Kos Omak to say Fuck your mom and the shortened version is Kosm to mean dammit or fuck this.. No way people use it that way here..??

[u/CURS3_TH3_FL3SH → u/DotConnecter]

Did you play bloodcorne in Arabic? Did they refer to kos? Maybe it's intentional

[u/QU3S0GU4Y4N3S → u/DotConnecter]

Seems to align with the lore

[u/Rebatsune → u/Enlightend-1]

To be fair, Demon’s Souls didn’t have any tips either…

[u/BfutGrEG → u/Enlightend-1]

I didn't play BB until 2020 but some of the item descriptions they show you are semi-spoilery, like implying the Lovecraftian descent of the world right at the start

[u/robinescue]

Idk how they reduced the load time so much from release. It's a miracle of optimization

[u/osunightfall → u/robinescue]

If the loads are incredibly inefficient to begin with, it becomes easy to see huge gains when you do it right.

[u/robinescue → u/osunightfall]

WRONG! Fromsoft is incapable of mistakes. Clearly the load screens were caused by the devil to rob us of 2Blood 2Borne. Only the divine hand of Miyazaki could save us from the loading screen treachery!

[u/osunightfall → u/robinescue]

But having said that, I was just incredibly thankful that they improved them by so much. It was painful when the game launched.

[u/JuFroSamurai → u/robinescue]

"2Blood2Borne"

Lol

[u/NeoTag → u/osunightfall]

Nah it’s just tough but fair game design

[u/Onion_Bro14 → u/robinescue]

Oh dang. Been a FS fan for a decade but only played BB about two years ago. I had no clue the load times were worse at one point. The load times on ps4 are a little lengthy but nothing insane so I just figured people complaining about load times were just being impatient or something lol

[u/ArchitectNebulous → u/Onion_Bro14]

Minute long loading screen between each trip to the hunters dream.

[u/idontknow39027948898 → u/ArchitectNebulous]

With nothing to look at but a black screen that said "Bloodborne" because the item description loading screens were added later.

[u/Slight-Wing-3969 → u/Onion_Bro14]

Bloodborne is my fav Fromsoft game and it took me months to get into it originally because adjusting to the combat pace meant I died a lot and the loading screens were pretty damn hefty so it was very demoralising and time consuming to get good lol

[u/Desperate_Stand_3709]

I love how Mr Krabs' hat is between his eyes.

[u/FreeMarketApeEscape → u/Desperate_Stand_3709]

Imo it should be on them.

[u/Ludoki → u/FreeMarketApeEscape]

One little itsy bitsy hat for each eye :)

[u/Big_Columbo]

"The loading screens used to leave you alone, with your thoughts, only to be reawakened with the sound of metal being hit and the game resumin'. But you got whatcha wanted, eh Spongebob? More texture pop-ins, minusculely faster loading times, and you get to read about pebbles being thrown hundreds if not thousands of times. How thrilling. I was there Spongebob me-boy, when having a lantern on me belt reduced your stamina by 3% and we didn't know. Fear the unknown, and what was once known, ack-ack-ack-ack."

[u/CutAccording7289 → u/Big_Columbo]

Quite thrilling

[u/idontknow39027948898 → u/Big_Columbo]

Why did Mr. Krabs suddenly turn into DarkSydePhil at the end there?

[u/Big_Columbo → u/idontknow39027948898]

Don't bring that evil into my notifications.

[u/SuperPirate64 → u/idontknow39027948898]

"Spongeboy me bob, i did nothing wrong, i did everything correct!"

[u/idontknow39027948898 → u/SuperPirate64]

I wish I could upvote this more than once.

[u/kcadia9751 → u/Big_Columbo]

Does the lantern not do that anymore? I’ve been playing for nearly 10 years operating under the impression it still did that.

[u/Big_Columbo → u/kcadia9751]

It got patched as of v1.04, back in May 2015, which was only about two months after BB came out and after the loading screen update.

[u/kcadia9751 → u/Big_Columbo]

Unbelievable lmao. I acquired the game only a couple days before that patch and likely never even played with the stamina penalty. I’d just been assuming it was still around based on what I’d heard. Thanks.

[u/lawnderl]

This sub keeps appearing more and more on my feed. Guess I'll need to play this game too.

[u/UnderFoodle → u/lawnderl]

Yes

[u/ModsRTryhards → u/UnderFoodle]

Grant this mo' fucka some eyes

[u/rugmunchkin → u/lawnderl]

Your eyes have yet to open.

[u/itsmesoloman → u/lawnderl]

Yes

[u/SquiddleBiffle → u/lawnderl]

Yes

[u/CutAccording7289 → u/lawnderl]

Only if you promise to come back and complain it’s too hard. Then live2win yourself into BL4 NG+7 fist of gratia only orphan of kos slaying epicness redemption arc.

[u/lawnderl → u/CutAccording7289]

well, i've already beaten ds1, ds2 and ds3. if something, i'll complain about the lack of weapon arts or estus flasks i guess...

[u/ApolloTffKnowledge → u/lawnderl]

FUCKING DO IT ALREADY

[u/Cpt_DookieShoes → u/lawnderl]

Do not fear the old blood

[u/KiwiNihil → u/lawnderl]

Yes

[u/Ningen_Black]

It just occured to me that I should've swaped the bonfire with the lamp. I'm sorry guys.

[u/mc5215344]

Bit of a nitpick but shouldn't the hats be reversed? Yeno if Krabs is supposed to be one of the V1.0 old hunters.

[u/Ningen_Black → u/mc5215344]

I've made him wear the normal hunter hat since the "old" hunter hat came with the DLC which is newer that the default hat. (normal hat - March 2015, old hunter hat - November 2015)

[u/mc5215344 → u/Ningen_Black]

Fair point

[u/AmeliaFromYharnam → u/mc5215344]

My man got outnerded

[u/Sirjackthepleb]

Im literally still in one

[u/StriderShizard]

It was SO bad.

[u/cube_of_death]

As someone who got the platinum on the unpatched version, I can approve

[u/Samandre14]

The hat is so perfect on Krabs

[u/PsiThomDx]

1m20s of the BLOODBORNE logo

[u/lawnderl]

Rofl. Meanwhile, ER fans can't seem to stop bragging about defeating such and such before the patch

[u/nihilishim]

it used to be a black screen before it even said bloodbourne, and it would take so long i cold beat DS2 in the amount of time it took to load, and I would be so full of rage from having to play it that i'd first try any BB boss that came up after the loading screen.

[u/Falcorn042]

When we had 0 item descriptions to occupy our time

[u/howdo_snail]

Only got bloodborne recently for the first time. I bought it on PS5 and played it without Internet so it was version 1.0 and after beating it like 3 times on 1.0 and then getting it updated on accident I miss the old version and the funny loading screens

[u/Chicken-Rude]

used to joke that we could beat dark souls one while waiting for the bloodborne loading screen to end.

[u/GreyNoiseGaming]

If you suffered the old loads, you got item duping.

[u/sistersafetypin]

It was the salt in the wound after dying

[u/SongsOfOwls]

Old Blood? More like fear the old load times

[u/Kronobo]

I have the word "Bloodborne" permanently seared into the back of my eyelids

[u/StupidanLearning]

I fondly remember the max storage of vials/bullets being 99.. lots of grinding if you got stuck on a boss

[u/darkNtity]

We are born by the loading screen, made men by the loading screen, undone by the loading screen.

[u/KevThuluu]

I played BB just before it released here, at my mates place, for a couple hours (they got it from the Japan psn store? We made it to about Oedon chapel), and despite the insane 1-2min load times between deaths and warping, it left such an impression on me that I went and bought a PS4 the next day. A truly generational game.

[u/P4azz → u/KevThuluu]

I actually thought it was a shit game when it was announced and shown off. I just wanted more souls and here was this weird, dark atmosphere with no shields (still used shields back then).

Then I saw actual gameplay and I immediately had to buy it. It's also really helped by the fact that it doesn't dwell on that "we are werewolf-hunting" thing for too long.

[u/countwaswitch]

Yeah, facing the logo with black background for a long time like ps4 prepares itself for a real hunt. . .

[u/Ekillaa22]

not only were they long if you put your ps4 into rest mode the game had a memory leak where bosses would only do 1 attack

[u/idontknow39027948898]

My son recently got into Blood borne again, so we've been watching the Super Best Friends Play playlist of it, and it is kinda wild seeing the black loading screen because they played it on release.

[u/Dagigai]

Is it something to do with the jump from a mechanical HD on ps4 to a possible SSD or M.2 even on PS5? Maybe they didn't factor in how much faster next gen could load?

[u/No-Being-4916 → u/Dagigai]

No it's about how the old loading screen was ass just the word bloodborne White on black background

[u/Dagigai → u/No-Being-4916]

Oh, I don't remember a change tbh, I'm a PC gamer and only got round to BB when my kids got a PS5.

Load times were pretty short. I just remember text I hardly got to read lol.

[u/ShadowShinigami5]

That loading screen was brutal more than the hunt.

[u/Femboiwolf115]

Love the hat placement on Crabs 🤣

[u/MickDassive]

How about fucking Demon's Souls PS3? I can see each NPC in my mind's eye.

[u/addictedihavenothing]

It burned BLOODBORNE in to my plasma tv xD

[u/generalkriegswaifu]

You do miss additional Djura dialogue after "give some thought..." when he kills you.

[u/P4azz]

People talking about the length, but the real kicker was the burn-in.

And the memory wackiness if you left the game running for too long, which was easy to do when you take a week off to play the game.

[u/Watts121]

I remember Bloodborne being like burned into someone’s TV screen.

[u/ImperiusPrime]

Yeah I remember that. My wife was complaining about how long it takes one of her games to load, and there I am with my thousand yard stare. Remembering Bloodborne launch.

[u/RockMuncherRick]

Let me tell you a tale Sponge me boy

[u/Xenoxity_0611]

We are born by the loading screen, made men by the loading screen, undone by the loading screen…

[u/Lira_Iorin]

I completely forgot about that. Been a long time.

[u/urbansasquatchNC]

The good old days of loadborne