Is it bad I beat Bloodborne but don't understand wtf was happening in the game's lore?

Is it bad I beat Bloodborne but don't understand wtf was happening in the game's lore?

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me too but it was fun so I don't really care

Neither did the creators

not really as long as you understand the gameplay and enjoy it that's all that really matters with these games.

unlike dark souls, where you can reasonably put together some semblance of story, bloodborne is porpousefully vague on most stuff, like what the fuck yahrnam is for example, or anything about the one reborn

no, it's a video game where you kill shit and whatever lore it has is on the wayside

if you had fun killing shit then you did your part

Like all souls games, the lore is there for you to explore, but it's unnecessary to complete the game. You don't need to understand why everything is happening. Action is enough.

I really loved the aesthetics and the monster designs, discovering new areas was always a treat and felt like my reward for getting there by beating enemies but holy fuck I have no idea what was going on.

Could someone please post the yahrnam at peace art? It had a child. I don't know if it is official art but it looks nice and can't find it on google.

I don't dig too deep into the lore but iirc Yharnam is a pneumarian (the enemies that you find in the chalice dungeons) one of the earlier civilizations to contact the old ones and they paid for it I guess, also the one reborn Is just some abomination man made old one or something like that, coincidentally the main head and torso on top of it looks like the last boss in the dlc

it's just basically cosmic beings taking over and the beast and monsters are just a symptom to what is really going on, it's just lovecraft with beasts with the aesthetics of bram stoker's world

Demon's, Dark 1 and Bloodborne are the only games with a cohesive story to tell.

Dark 2 and Dark 3 go a little overboard with so many vague details they're like living metaphors rather than actual plotlines.

So anyway, there's a blood born illness going around that turns people into beasts and werewolves and they all feed on blood.
This is because the church was handing out some new medicine via injections like the one the player got in the very beginning of the game. They were injecting people with blood of the old one.
For whatever reason, the player needed it (illness? Dying? That's up to you) and got it as well.
So here's the thing.
Everything was fine and dandy but there were unknown side-effects, people turning into beasts. This shit started to go down and hunters began hunting. I think the illness just gets crazy bad on nights of the full moon.

The old one blood was likely taken from the randomly generated dungeons, which reflect the state of a long forgotten civilization that also attempted to use old one blood (or something similar).
The Yharnam Queen was impregnated by an old one, for instance.

The rest you can probably piece together yourself.

Where the fuck did the Aliens come from? The game just shifted from werewolves and witches to Aliens and I just was baffled

Demon's Souls and Bloodborne is related, right?

They're not aliens. They're the eldritch beings that have always been around.
The cosmos was never space, it was all around you. Another layer of existence all over the world. That's why when you kill rom, the layers merge and you start seeing them everywhere - you're able to interact with the cosmos now.
It was a really well done turning point.

Same multiverse, I guess.

Aliens were always there. They used fleshy women to breed, which caused the women to ascend to a higher plane of being while the kids would end up in the nonfleshy plane their daddy's resided in. People trying to achieve the same thing without getting knocked up is what caused all the shit to happen because cheaters never win.

Its soulsborne. Anything beyond what you are shown in game or read in game is speculation, and you can't even trust half of the shit you saw in bloodborne to have been the reality of the setting either.
It's basically a method of storytelling for talentless hacks.

I like to think The Old One is exactly like the ones from Bloodborne and he's just one of many. But there's no confirmation.

No

She's gonna catch cold

nah son she gon catch dis dick

I agree with you but it's sad how blood borne actually has a coherent and immersive story, yet it's told like garbage

The Healing Church are a bunch of assholes.

You're going to throw it at her?

That's a big shogoth

>Not having a detachable dick for maximum efficiency

>tfw we'll never get a Demon's Souls sequel that bridges the gap between it and Bloodborne

>Find living corpse of elder god deep underground
>Injecting its blood into people seems to have lots of benefits
>Build entire civilization on the basis of injecting this blood into people
>What could possibly go wrong

What about that part It was all a dream?

I mean really, what would you have done?

>o shit look at this weird ass thing
>let's inject their blood into us

open my eyes

Dreams are different layers of reality, too.
Just because you wake up doesn't mean your dream wasn't real.
Micolash and his groupies decided mass occult lucid dreaming would be fucking rad only their real forms died in the process.

I guess the healing church is just an organisation of poz breeders

See, that's what I'm confused about. It took place in a dream world, right? So, when Gherman kills you, you just wake up back in the real world? Is real Yharnam still fucked?

Look

The dream worlds are real, they're just like pocket dimensions.

>Hey yo Yharnamites what up check this sick ass blood it'll make your skin smooth and your dick 3 feet long, you can see in the dark and do calculous and shit
>Oh shit dawg that's the tits whered you get it
>Don't even worry about it
>Aight

I've completed that and DS trilogy without having a fucking clue what was going on storywise.

The Yharnam you wake up in is most likely the same Yharnam you've been playing in, only all the realities have unmerged and things have gone back to normal.

Humans dived into underground crypts and found a dead race and alien blood. They also found magic scriptures. One faction of the humans experimented with the blood to give themselves super human strength and healing powers. The other faction experimented with the magic scriptures and performed human experiments.

For some reason, the humans' activities caused an otherworldly being to mess with the town over and over again.

I'm geniunely too dumb for the Bloodborne story. Still I loved the game.

This is exactly what happened.

Why the fuck didn't they STOP injecting blood to everyone as soon as they noticed they were turning into flesh-hungry beasts?
The transformation after receiving blood seems to be relatively fast but the city looks like it has been in disarray for fucking years, what the fuck happened?

It's made pretty clear that the blood is super addictive, or everyone needs to rely on it once they start taking it.

Partly because they were trying to use the blood to ascend existence. So they have an entire town to experiment on. The townspeople were more then happy considering the blood is clearly addictive and intoxicating.

They were experimenting. The overall goal of the healing church was to become more like the elder gods

These:
Also the blood is so fucking tangled up in their entire culture, religion, general way of life that it's basically impossible to even begin to extricate it.

What is the best weapon and why is it the Chikage?

Look at the church giants and those smaller church monsters, they were aiming to make themselves super-human.

BYRGENWORTH BYRGENWORTH

Never really cared that much about the plot in soulborne games, all I wanted to do was killing monsters

What's that smell

yes, bloodborne is much more consistent and easy to follow in it's story telling than das

mostly thanks to it borrowing everything from actual books

Are you the guy who started that plagiarism thread? Like 5 minutes ago.

It didn't go well did it?

Only shit i had a hard time understanding was cainhurst. The fuck where those guys about

BLASPHEMOUS SCHOLARS
BLOOD CRAZED FIENDS

They were desendants of the queen who used blood in a different way that was a lot more in tune with human consciousness. Basically the polar opposite of the space stuff. You control the flesh and blood without giving into bestial urges and live forever. Also vampires vs. werewolves.

killin plebeians and fucking bitches

Basically the same thing as the rest of Yarnham, but for way fucking longer and with a different type of blood, and with nobles.

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They were degenerates that needed to be smashed to a pulp, nothing more.

Lore is the distraction for retarded rejects who either can't progress in the game or hate playing games in general.

Literally for retards.

Some pleb from Byrgenwerth wanted some sweet sweet noble pussy so he stole "forbidden" blood from the college and took it to Cainhurst. It wasn't the ayy lmao blood but it did have affects such as longevity and super healing, sometimes to the point of near immortality. So the nobles turned into vampires and had sick ass parties and orgies in Cainhurst and the pleb from Byrgenwerth drowned in sweet pale noble pussy. The fags from the Healing Church got super butthurt because their blood turned people into smelly werewolves instead of sexy vampires so they gave a bunch of retards some wagon wheels and told them the vilebloods were super lame.

THE END

>a bunch of retards
Words hurt.

bloodborne really needs to be played a couple times for you to get a handle on the story. there's a reason it hints about the secret ending to you with the "three third cords" note. the thing about bloodborne is it doesn't really have a single cohesive storyline, it's more about lots of smaller stories about different people and organizations after an initial discovery of a greater power is made, and you need to understand all of them before the bigger picture becomes clear

What is the night of the hunt? The way the citizens say it sound like it's a normal thing.

godamm i loved that fight. sucks that marias wasn't as cool because of parries

>Blood ministration creates monsters
>Instead of getting rid of it they just periodically hold hunts to clear the streets of monsters so people can get to work and not be stuck in werewolf traffic

I beat the game 5 times, including a 100%, before just reading that 200 page thesis on google docs explaining the story and lore
I feel like the game would've been better with a DaS1 style intro giving us more than a vague idea of the story, to give the player a little bit more to go on when exploring the rest of it

This is a picture of a guinea pig.

Its bluud

but isn't it just a dream? or did the dream stuff only kick in after Rom?

Dreams are just a different reality, albiet with looser rules as to what is possible

If anyone actually wants to read it, search up "The Paleblood Hunt". It answers pretty much everything in-game

Absolute kino moment. 10/10

Just look it in another way. Bloodborne plays a lot with the same reality taking place in differente planes or layers of existence connected and merged and at the same time not.

It's a take in cosmic horror. You can even see the different layers in the game by looking around in the nightmare zones wich are connected to the "normal" ones.

so are the citizens of Yharnam inside a dream or in the real world?

Yes

All the places you go are 'real'.

But Yharnam would be classified as the human world.

>tfw when you're a victorian wizard pushing the boundary of science and magic and your victorian hunter doesn't want you to continue

Both you fuckmunch.

it's like that by design. The game's creator got the idea to make stories like this when he was learning english, he would try to read books but not be able to read every word so he would get bits and pieces of the plot and had to fill in the details himself. Most of the "story" in these games is conveyed by the short descriptions from the items.

If you're confused about why the main character "wakes up" after Gehrman lops your head off take a look at where he kills you.
It's a place called "The Hunter's Dream."
Yharnam is just Yharnam.
Rom was stopping Micolash from using the baby's wailing to call down old ones onto the world and merge dream and reality layers.
When you kill rom, shit merges and everything gets fucky.
Killing Mergo's wet nurse destroys the nightmare and everything goes back to normal - but you've experienced too much and you'll forever see shit you're not supposed to.
Gehrman takes pity on you and cuts your head off, freeing you from the nightmare that you were bound to by old one blood.

>I know I look like a hideous mutant freak with no legs and considering what you've run into out there, it would be completely understandable if you decided to lop me head off, but could you do me a solid and go look for survivors in an obviously dead town filled with horrible beasts? If you do, please tell them to come here where they'll be safe even though I look like a monster. I promise I have no ulterior motives.

All he wanted was some friends

In the original Alpha trailer, Gascoigne said "Umbasa.." and he's a referred to as a cleric from a foreign land.

Unfortunately that's about as far as it goes.

One Reborn is a failed/incomplete attempt at creating a Great One, which was formed by sacrificing the citizens of Unseen Village. This is why there are petrified citizens climbing and fleeing in terror near the boss room, and why there are enemies made of bound corpses throughout the area.

Yharnam is more complicated, but she was basically the mother of Mergo, a Great One infant that's kind of the key to everything.

Just watch the VaatiVidya videos.

He has legs. And an ass. Place the camera behind him and pan it down. Enjoy your boney monster butt.

>When you kill rom, shit merges and everything gets fucky.
>Killing Mergo's wet nurse destroys the nightmare and everything goes back to normal - but you've experienced too much and you'll forever see shit you're not supposed to.
>Gehrman takes pity on you and cuts your head off, freeing you from the nightmare that you were bound to by old one blood.
This Part doesn't sound right. Pretty sure this isn't true.

Gehrman frees you from the hunter's dream now that your purpose has been fulfilled. Killing Gehrman means you take his place. Killing Moon Presence ascends you beyond humanity.

I want to _____ Vicar Amelia

People give Yahar'ghul a lot of flack and say it's a bad level but fuck I love it's design both pre and post Rom.
>Get snatched and put in the wacky sack
>Wake up to youtube.com/watch?v=NlQcKBUcgmA and immediately get the feeling you should get the fuck out
>Potentially the first area you see the Amygdala statues

and then there's post Rom
>The hallway filled with bodies trying to get to safety
>The mass of corpses piled at the gate
>People who handled the revelation so fucking poorly they exploded and are constantly immolating

kill

Rom is meant to be keeping the cosmic fuckery from being seen, is what I think it meant to be going on. As in, it's already happening but hidden from regular people, and when you kill Rom suddenly you can see all the bad shit going down.
This is also backed by the fact that you can see the lesser amygdala who are already settled in once you gain enough insight.

:(

This game would be far less confusing if bosses dropped some kind of item that explained things about them.

Can't really see what more we would need to learn about them. They seem obvious enough.