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Great One Beast Is a Bloodborne Boss You Never Got to Fight
Cut content is nothing new in video games; they are the remnants of characters, enemies, items, and locations the developers planned to include in their games, but for one reason or another, never did. Lately, a lot of gamers have found a treasure trove of cut content hidden in the files of Bloodborne, and just before the weekend, a YouTube user by the name of Sanadsk found a boss monster gamers never got a chance to hunt: the Great One Beast.
According to the Reddit thread by Kanista17, the Great One Beast would likely have been encountered in the Chalice Dungeon, a procedurally-generated labyrinth that houses numerous unique enemies and bosses. While the Great One Beast appears to be a lupine, long-necked dragon-horse with wavy “hair” similar to the Cleric Beast and Darkbeast Paarl bosses, its name implies it might be related to the eldritch, Lovecraftian bosses referred to in the game’s lore as Great Ones.
Cut content, when discovered, tends to exhibit varying degrees of incompleteness. Some pieces of cut content don’t have any animations and are only viewable in the standard “t-pose,” while others lack even textures. The Great One Beast, though, appears to be mostly complete: its animations seem to work fine; it is fully textured, and the creature even comes with its own (terrifying) sounds. All of these assets imply the Great One Beast wasn’t abandoned until very late in its development cycle, but judging by the video, it is still missing various effects and hitboxes (how a game determines if a player hits an enemy with an attack of vice versa). Still, the creature is almost complete, so one must wonder why FromSoftware cut it from the final version of Bloodborne.
The Great One Beast wasn’t the only piece of cut content discovered last week, as Sanadsk’s partner in discovery, Zullie the Witch, posted a video of yet another abandoned Chalice Dungeon creature. Unlike the Great One Beast, though, this…thing…is nothing more than a standard (and unnamed) Chalice Dungeon enemy, but it too seems almost complete; all of its animations, textures, and sounds are intact.
Again, we are left with the question, “Why did this enemy not make it into Bloodborne?” Well, that and, “How much more cut content is waiting in the game’s files?” Then again, one particular enemy remained undiscovered in the Chalice Dungeons until 2017, so gamers might have a lot more content to discover in Bloodborne, cut and otherwise.
One player found an unusual way to roam Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s New York City as Venom again. However, intentionally crashing your game during a story segment requires nerves of steel, so we wouldn’t recommend it. Possible Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 spoilers!
UnderTheHood788 explained their method, which involves reaching a cutscene that switches players to Peter. They unplugged their PS5 when the screen blanked while switching to fidelity mode. As the game renders slower, fidelity mode was used. Players get Don’t Be Scared, a mission without an objective, after reloading the last save.
UnderTheHood788 advises, “Wait a bit and go to an unidentified target mission or talon drone mission to become Venom. Reload and become Venom, committing crimes against hunters, the flame, thugs, and even symbiotes. Bases are possible.”
If you like causing carnage, get a move on—Insomniac will spoil the fun in the next update. This indirect approach—what do you think?
On December 7, Ubisoft’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora hits PS5. Fans can expect new creatures, characters, and storylines that are influencing other Avatar projects as part of James Cameron’s canon.
Massive Entertainment director Magnus Jansén told IGN that the game’s new Western Frontier region—from plants to Na’vi clans—is now Avatar lore: “The Western Frontier is no less a part of the world of Avatar than what’s in the movies.” Jansén says one of their creations is in an Avatar exhibition, but most excitingly, “there is already some talk about maybe using some of the stuff that we did in the upcoming movies.”
Jon Landau, producer of the Avatar films, said: “I think clans are a perfect thing to someday try to weave into the movies. However, new environments follow. Go and say, “Okay, let’s explore what you did in the video game in the movie.” Frontiers of Pandora introduces the Aranahe, Zeswa, and Kame’tire Na’vi clans.
In addition, Lightstorm VP of franchise development Joshua Izzo teased: “I can say that there are going to be some future sequel elements in Frontiers of Pandora that will pay off when the movie comes out when Avatar 3 comes out in 2025. Because of ’25, careful Avatar fans may want to revisit certain things.
CD Projekt’s live-action Cyberpunk 2077 won’t arrive until 2025. In the company’s latest earnings call, the PM project was only mentioned as not expected in 2024.
During a call with IGN, chief commercial officer Michał Nowakowski stated that the company will continue to promote the game and develop the Cyberpunk IP through activities beyond the game.
Nowakowski said, “We’re not really discussing specifics here, but one of the obvious things that we have announced, not happening next year, but going to be developed or moved in the direction next year, is the project we have announced with Anonymous Content.”
Anonymous Content, which produced Crime & Punishment, True Detective, and Mr. Robot, seems like a good fit to bring Night City’s mean streets to life. We don’t know if the project will be a TV show, movie, game adaptation, or standalone story.
Would you attend a live-action Cyberpunk event? Would you like it in what form? Jackie and V lost six months. With Johny Silverhand, Behind the Music?
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