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- CALLES1
Breath of the wild yo. That shit is amazing
- mekk0
- CygnusZero40
I must be 100 hours into breath of the wild. I have 65 out of 100+ shrines completed, 2 of the 4 main dungeons completed, maybe 40 out of 900 korok seeds, many open shrine quests and side quests. 2 labyrinths left to do, and much of the world I havent been to yet. So much in this game.
- I'm about 8 hours into Horizon and i'm already pretty much done with it. There is no 'game', visuals and decent combat can only hold things together for so longface_melter
- Did my first 'dungeon' and had no compulsion to actually see the end, but did anyway just so I could save and quit out. Typical Guerrilla title.face_melter
- Play Zelda. Its far better.CygnusZero4
- every time i play this time of games reminds me of how long left i have to live and how much i have wasteddrgs
- wow ... that's a lot of hours in, and a lot to gomonospaced
- ^^ very tempted by Zelda & Switch, especially the exploration and being portable. But I have a games backlog (and work projects) I need to get through first.face_melter
- I'll probably have to wait until my birthday in the fall. Wife has been informed. :)monospaced
- CygnusZero40
I dont really view the game as a time sink. Im playing this instead of watching tv or whatever else any of us would do in our down time, and I dont see the difference between playing breath of the wild for 200 hours, or playing 10 other games that total 200 hours.
I play a lot of games and have been for decades, and its one of the best games ive played. Idk if I would call it the best game ever made like a lot of people are, no way to determine that to me, but its among the best I would say. Easily one, if not the best open world game ever made. There are no games on this level on any machine over the last couple gens.
Its weird bc the game often doesnt feel like there is a real goal to it. Immediately when you start the game you have a main quest in your list, DESTROY GANON. Thats the goal. Everything else is totally optional, but as you roam this incredible world, everywhere you head there really is incredible things to discover. Just random puzzles out in the world, beautiful sights that youll want to take screenshots of constantly, really funny writing with the people you encounter in the world, all kinds of really useful things to collect and upgrade that youll need since the game is not easy. Really well made. Everyone here should play it at some point.
- Dont be afraid of the size of it. It IS worth your time.CygnusZero4
- Even after 100 hours it never ceases to stop amazing and surprising me with new things.CygnusZero4
- cool!monospaced
- CygnusZero42
Heres an example of what happened to me yesterday. I saw an interesting looking area on the map I havent been to yet. So I head over there, and come across these hills with circular shaped rocks on them. Im like well wtf is this? I come across a bird playing a harp, and he sings this song to me about these rocks, which has a clue in it. So I just start trying to throw things through them, then finally I try shooting an arrow through 2 of them, and a little korok dude pops out rewarding me with a korok seed, which you need to upgrade your inventory (very valuable in this game).
And there are TONS of moments like this everywhere in this massive world. There are 900 of them to be exact, and thats just for the korok seeds lol. This isnt including all the other shit in this game. Really amazing stuff. What a colossal amount of work it must have been to build all this. You dont find these sort of depths in any other open world game ever made.
- Just read this thinking I was in the blog thread haha - really confused me.fadein11
- Sounds like this game can be relaxing when you want it to be. Personally, a good game is about getting lost in it, so your updates are really selling it to me.monospaced
- Nier: Automata does a similar thing. Yoko has jammed so many hidden activities in the game it fucks with your head. Every fish, weapon, and enemy has a story.face_melter
- dee-dubs2
I love the way you can be so inventive to solve problems in different ways:
This guy has some great examples of full on smart stasis abuse on his youTube channel
- Yeah, Ive done some wacky things to finish puzzles in this game. Really satisfying.CygnusZero4
- Btw I really struggled with this one. He found a creative way to bypass all the nonsense I went through lolCygnusZero4
- I want to talk about some of my puzzle experiences but don't want to give any of the solutions away!digitdaily
- Nutter0
The new gameplay trailer for "Shadows of War" looks pretty good.
I've finally gotten round to playing "Shadows of Mordor" which is the first game in the series. The Orc captains are really memorable with their own weaknesses and strenghts. Its got a "nemesis system" so Orc captains fight internally for power, they'll say a few lines if they've previously killed you (making them stronger) and other things.
There is a review of it here:
- spl33nidoru0
Hey Cygnus, I haven't played Zelda (or hardly any games) since Wind Waker on Gamecube, which I absolutely loved (the size, quests, atmosphere and cell shading look).
How would you compare Wind Waker and Breath of the Wild ? Thanks man
- CygnusZero40
I love Wind Waker. This is WAYYYYY bigger than that. It must be like at least 10x the size of that game at least. It takes like maybe 40 hours to see every single thing in WW, and it would take like 200 hours to see everything in this, not that you need to do everything in it of course.
If you liked WW youll really love this because its sort of similar to WW, better than it in every possible way. Its much prettier, more to do, more to discover, way more puzzles, the combat is MUCH more interesting due to the fact that there really are no limits to what the game lets you do. In most games, whenever you try something, the game is constantly telling you NO. This game is always telling you YES. It lets you do whatever you want. Watch these to understand what im talking about. Nintendo calls it emergent gameplay.
- I bought a Gamecube just for Wind Waker.
No regrets.ernexbcn - The emergent gameplay concept isn't new, in Quake from 1996 it manifested as rocket jumping and strafe jumping
https://en.wikipedia…ernexbcn - Cool, thanks Cygnus!
Ernexbcn : the Gamecube was probably my favorite system, everything about it was pleasing, its design, logo, discs etcspl33nidoru - No, but its not like it is in this game. Not to the extent of freedom that there is here, trust me.CygnusZero4
- I bought a Gamecube just for Wind Waker.
- CygnusZero41
A good example of this emergent gameplay concept is there is a shrine where the puzzle requires you to use these metal boxes to create a current between electrical nodes which would then open doors in the shrine.
Well people realizes that you dont even need to use the boxes. You can just take a bunch of metal weapons in your inventory, lay them down and create the connections that way. And this spreads all throughout the game in so many ways, not just with metal or electricity, but in all kinds of ways you dont see in any other game. So battles in this game can play out a multitude of different ways. Its really interesting.
You could come across a camp of enemies up on a platform that would be really difficult for you to deal with if you were just going to try and fight them. So instead you could do things like shoot fire arrows at the tree holding their little base up and burn the tree down lol. Or if you dont have fire arrows, you could set up some flint next to the tree, strike it with a metal weapon to create a spark and set the tree on fire that way. Or even start a fire in the grass further away, then shoot a wooden arrow through the flame to the tree. Really nutty stuff.
- Sorry rambling, its fun to talk about this game.CygnusZero4
- Thanks Cygnus, you're quite convincing too!spl33nidoru
- im not trying to sell it to anyone. trust me its just a really fun game to talk about. youll do it too once you play itCygnusZero4
- CygnusZero40
You could even go to the top of a hill above the enemy camp, chop down a tree, roll the trunk down the hill and then shoot it with a fire arrow to send this flaming tree trunk into the group of enemies. Really satisfying. Theres really no limits at all.
- and yet some people are still raging about zelda getting so many 10/10ernexbcn
- TOMMYxGUNN1
Pre-orded two Switches in store, bought one online that is on it's way via post, hoping for a delivery tomorrow morning. Can't wait to try Zelda, love the sound of being able to do what you want, how you want, when you want.
- well it delivers in all of those areas. have fun. see you when you resurface in april. lolCygnusZero4
- jtb261
To help with the discussion of Zelda Map size here is an image that should help illustrate the size of this new game.
- jeezdopepope
- Holy balls.DRIFTMONKEY
- now google the size of the cartridgesdigitdaily
- physical size i meandigitdaily
- yeah its massive. so i was a little off when i said it was 10x the size of wind waker. lolCygnusZero4
- looks inaccurate tbh.. Ocarina of Time is as big as the beginning of skyrim according to this image.mekk
- duckseason2
I've only scratched the surface of BotW (just got off the plateau), but I agree - the game is pretty remarkable thus far.
Here's a vid of a dude making an "airship" from a raft.
- i was wondering what good those octo-balloons were forCygnusZero4
- see you in about 2 weeks when you have a better understanding of the size of this game. lolCygnusZero4
- CygnusZero41
^ Theres a way to turn the raft into a motorboat
- That's a great idea...dee-dubs
- copied this! so much better than wind.inteliboy
- Love it!duckseason
- mekk0
Mass Effect Andromeda reviews are and and guess what... It's shit.
- *are inmekk
- I have a whole random shitpile of words that i'm working on for Mass Effect.face_melter
- Man I was so looking forward to this..mekk
- So was I, I love the previous three games. Proper, heavy, space-hopping fuckery. Now it's a sitcom.face_melter
- I read they gave the game to a new team with not much experience (multiplayer of ME:3) the facial animations and dialogues are not from 2017 :(ernexbcn
- Yeah, it was a different Bioware studio, not the team who worked on the prev. games. Frostbite engine is almost idiot proof, I have no idea how they fucked it.face_melter
- Battlefield 1, Mirror's Edge, SW Battlefront - all have good, solid animation and char. models. These look like Aardman creations.face_melter
- It has a 75 on metacritic. Thats pretty good.CygnusZero4
- ^ the 75 includes all the pre launch hype with sponsored reviewsmekk
- Yeah I dont really know. I liked mass effect but ill probably skip this. Had my fill of it years ago.CygnusZero4
- ernexbcn0
Mass Effect: Andromeda
- LOL at the Pingu.elahon
- noot noot!face_melter
- Haha she walks so derpymonospaced
- loolAl_dizzle
- Does she have a love egg inserted?set
- doze graphix suk azzmoldero
- ernexbcn0
- Wait. At about 0:57, did her nostrils just close and open?face_melter
- face_melter1
Herein lies a PSA for those miserable twisters out there who are thinking of indulging in the sick, almost criminal, activity of buying Mass Effect: Andromeda. Because I know some of you fuckers are. Don't lie to me - I can smell it. And even if you aren't - take these words as clumsily thrown-together and incoherent advice.
By the power pumped into me by alcohol and erect Cosmic Jesus, I warn you, not of indulging your fantasies and creating a character that looks like the girl at the coffeeshop or the friend you used to work with who looks like a blonde version of Françoise Hardy and every time you see her your heart melts. No. Society may judge you harshly, even punish, but I won't deprive you of those natural, human, urges. Just keep it quiet, boy - it's only weird if you make it weird, right?
What I warn against is simpler - to avoid buying this upon release. Life is fleeting and if you choose to spend money on videogames for your only source of happiness, then fucking own that shit.
In pursuit of some kind of floppy, human-shaped dildo aesthetic Bioware not Bioware have transformed the entire space saga into what now resembles the bastard result of when an episode of Terrahawks goes on the prowl full of wine and bubbling sexual menace and picks up a colour episode of Lost In Space from a street corner (NOT the peerless B/W episodes. Black and White LiS would never concern itself with talking carrots and silver-skinned space bitches - Allen lost his fucking mind with colour tv. Land of The Giants was some future-level shit though). Ahem. Right. Civil chit-chat done with and a price agreed, both go back to a decent motel and FUCK with a ferocity and volume that even the gods in Olympus think that someone is tearing the legs off a dog and call the cops.
The groundwork laid down by the previous three games, whether you like them or not, was a thrilling ride in the armoured pants of Shepard - a gleaming, galaxy-hopping, pan-sexual, robot-destroying fuck machine who had no trouble eradicating entire civilisations if it meant that she could get a handful of Yeoman Kelly Chambers. And by Christ she did. Until they were both sore. Evil was defeated blah blah blah and the galaxy collectively sighed in relief as Shepard became one with the universe and was transformed into some kind of flame-haired sexpot consciousness who had her eye on *everything* and *everyone*. Especially Kelly's gorgeous, pert, breasts and lithe dancers body and mainly when she showered. Watching as Kelly massaged the soap into her toned thighs, feeling the bubbles glide down to her toes. Eyes closed, her hands gently drift across her stomach towards... Fucking hell. Stop. Everything was right with the galaxy, totally cool - kids played in the sunshine-covered streets again, old folk danced with new-found youth, DFS had their sofas back on sale, The Strokes decided to kill themselves, and the Reaper's inert bodies were turned into glittering shopping malls and hollowed out to use as storage for ALL. THE. DEAD. BODIES.
Now we have a group of sexless potato head misfits who are bumpy in all the wrong places - with motion capture apparently taken from Bill and Ben and Gerry Anderson. This collection of waxwork atrocities travel the far-flung reaches of who-the-fuck-cares in their Lidl Normandy whip, on some desperate attempt to save humanity. But hold the fucking space phone! Shepard did exactly that in the previous three outings while these goofballs were in hypersleep, so the Andromeda team are basically surplus to requirements now. Why should we even care what fucking bizarre space nonsense they get up to? We could have cared if Bioware not Bioware had avoided completely fucking the whole thing sideways and turned what could potentially have been an interesting reboot into a parade of tawdry action encounters starring a cast of glassy-eyed sex dolls devoid of any worthwhile characterisation. We could have loved the new characters, we could have sat gripped as their grand adventure played out but no, what we have are mouths trying to escape from faces and dialogue with all the emotional impact of a shit-filled water balloon exploding on the face of a corpse.
Look. What i'm saying is that the game is a fucking nonsense and a piss stain on the ME games. The whole sorry affair smells like it was abandoned, restarted, and thrown together at the last minute because EA threatened to have everyone and their families boiled down into glue if it didn't ship on time. I'll still buy it and play it because i'm a silly cunt but that doesn't mean you have to. And for the love of fucking throbbing cock Jesus, don't buy Horizon Zero Dawn as a replacement - that thing should be fucking destroyed - more on that particular videogame prolapse later.
BRB. Thinking of Kelly Chambers in the shower.
- Im glad I read that.Al_dizzle
- is EA even fucking serious with this pile of shit?mekk
- Horizon Zero Dawn is pretty great that made this rant irrelevant!ernexbcn
- I am completely engrossed with HZD...MrT
- i just watched 2 hours of horizon zero dawn. man i want a console. gaming has gotten so goodjaylarson
- Not one of my best, I grant you. But I stand by saying Horizon is a bad game. Pretty, yes but oh so incredibly boring.face_melter
- It is an amalgam of all the worst things about games today. Hand holding for everything, no discovery whatsoever, map blocked until you move the story.face_melter
- You are given this amazing looking world and you can only explore the parts they allow you to. You can't even fucking climb unless there are yellow handholds.face_melter
- Not to mention the almost non-existent story, flat characters, and turgid dialogue.face_melter
- you are the only person I know that has played it that doesn't like it, I'm just at 20% or something and really enjoying iternexbcn
- I like bits of it - the combat is decent but the game itself is mediocre. Turn on your View-o-Vision to look for clues! No, fucko, let me look for myself.face_melter
- Sorry, but that Carrot man who turned Dr. Smith into a stalk of celery is way better than the black and white episodes of Lost in Space.CyBrainX
- http://farm3.static.…CyBrainX
- Get out. You're fucking dead to me.face_melter
- +since1979
- I still like Horizon as well, no matter how much effort you put into your profanity. Soz.MrT
