If you took a straw poll among gamers asking what kind of game they'd like to see get remastered or ported to PC, I feel like Bloodborne would be at or near the top of the list of answers.
The 2015 PlayStation 4-exclusive From Software masterpiece is a true fan-favorite for anyone who's played it. That specific twist on the Soulslike formula, adding weapons like guns to parry enemies and other slight tweaks to what makes those games so great, is just immaculate.
Earlier this year, the game's 10 year anniversary passed us by with no news about a remaster or port to modern day tech. I had hope that this would be the year, but my hope is fading, and now, it's over. In the latest episode of Jeff Grubb's Game Mess, Grubb has finally killed the remnants of whatever hopium and copium I had left for Bloodborne's revival, at least any time soon.
"Anything beyond, From Software would have to be involved and they're not gonna do it right now, I don't know," the in-the-know reporter said of a potential remaster. "But that's my understanding of the situation, and it continues to be that way. Checked in on it relatively recently, and kind of continued to hear nothing is happening with Bloodborne, so don't expect that."
In this particular segment of the podcast, Grubb and co-host Mike Minotti were discussing potential PlayStation exclusives that could come to PC, like so many others before them. The Giant Bomb duo mentioned games like Gran Turismo 7 and Demon's Souls as potential candidates, but Bloodborne is apparently not currently on the table.
And at this point, I give up. It seems like such a slam dunk for both From Software and Sony to come together on some sort of remaster, and it doesn't even need to be one that's on the level of Demon's Souls as a full-fledged remake. A PC port alone would do massive numbers, especially with the success of other recent games by the dev like Elden Ring and the Dark Souls franchise.
Alas, Sony has instead decided to focus its attention in the PS5 generation on live-service titles like Concord and Marathon. Either way, for this to happen, both From and Sony would have to find some middle-ground and desire to get it done, and Grubb says that's not in the cards at the moment. MASSIVE bummer.
I'm really hoping for some big news out of the rumored State of Play that could be happening next week, but I have zero hope that Bloodborne will be included in that discussion, and that just bloody sucks.
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