In DarkSouls1 and 2 I dodged backwards most of the time for this very same reason. Until I was completely sure of the enemies attack animations it was always the safest. But it made fights take a lot longer since I always went melee route and its putting a lot of space between my enemies and myself.

Yep, thats a Souls game alright.

I want it so bad. I can never get enough of these games.

I already preordered Bloodborne, I didnt think this was possible but Im more hyped for this than I am for the Witcher 3. Imagine this scenario, From Soft anounces Dark Souls 3 for next gem consoles comming by the end of 2015 and we get 2 Souls games on 2015, throw the Witcher 3 on top of that and most likely Uncharted 4 and thatd be the best year ever.

Looks early of course, but also soooooo good

Yoshida dun gud!

Project is just almost as leaky as Battlefield Hardleak

So hyped, wish they would have shown this at e3 and minus 10 min of the powers stuff but hey atleast i get to see it now. I was never heavy into the souls game but being a huge fan of the early devil may cry series this seems like its right up my ally

Technically, dodging an attack to allow an attack or attack pre-emptively both are counter attacks :) I think whats cool is that there may not be an actual "counter attack button" so every counter will be skill based. I think the shot gun is for stuns or their take on magic/special attacks as theer will probably be different kinda ammo with different properties for the shot gun.

Holy crap so good!

It's too bad they didn't prepare a gameplay trailer for E3. It would have been so hype.