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Calwings posted...

Boy, I wish we still had him here in St. Louis...

It's quite remarkable how bad the Cardinals have been. You never see that. Their record is only just barely better than the A's record, and they're on pace for a historically bad season.

Harrison Bader is almost singlehandedly carrying the corpse that is the Yankees offense until Judge and Stanton come back. It's wild how much better the AL East is than every other division. The new balanced schedule really emphasizes it even more than previous years.

https://twitter.com/JomboyMedia/status/1652339861280440320

lmao. Ryan Noda of the A's hit a home run and the MLB.com highlight had to crop out a couple "Sell the Team" signs A's fans had hanging over the railing.

MLB continues to be a clown organization.

Getting closer to 200. But then I probably won't play the game for some time when Zelda comes out. Still, it's fun enough to get to 300 eventually. It'll just be a while.

I think in most cases it probably stems from whatever team your parents, friends, or neighbors root for. But sometimes it could just be timing. My Dad is a Mets fan, so logically, I should be a Mets fan. But when you were a kid in the late 90's it's hard not to end up a Yankees fan. Now I watch both teams equally, and I'd consider myself slightly more of a general baseball fan than a Yankees fan.

Smashingpmkns posted...

I'm 11 minutes in and this shit looks fucking insane. I'm sure there will be dungeons or something to replace shrines but tbh my favorite part of BotW was exploring the Great Plateau so this is right up my alley.

Yeah I enjoyed exploring the world and I'm interested in seeing what's happened to it since BOTW. But I get why that might not be enough for everyone. Open world games can be very hit or miss. For me, it worked though.

When I do, it's usually never for more than a couple minutes at a time. But very rarely I will spend some actual time on a livestream. Jerma's baseball game last year comes to mind.

--Zero- posted...

Thats exactly what it was in the video. The YouTuber is a huge Zelda mark and was trying their best to hype the game in the end despite not really showing anything exciting.

I mean he was only allowed to show select footage. Almost all of it was showing off the new abilities and how you use them in the world. I do think by this point though, most people should be able to tell if they'll like the game or not. While there is a lot left unseen, the whole open world sandbox is undoubtedly a significant part of the game. If you're not thrilled with that, it's probably not going to be for you.

Smashingpmkns posted...

Is there new footage in this vid or is it just an amalgamation of previous footage?

There's a good deal of new footage shown.

TheGoldenEel posted...

has there been any indication this game has dungeons, or even shrine type challenges?

There almost certainly will be something. We just don't really know what it is yet. Nintendo is being very secretive about it.

https://twitter.com/GenePark/status/1651215481196404737

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Kratos was mortal Kombat

He was in the Soulcalibur game for PSP as well

Yeah the beginning of the game is pretty limited, but that's only part of the game. It never does open up like the other 3D Zelda games do either, but I don't think that's a bad thing. Linearity is mostly fine.

It's not my favorite, but I can understand why others might consider it theirs.

It will eventually be available through other means with a better framerate. Much like BOTW is.

Neat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMZzW7hj0M

Performance looks pretty bad in spots. And Ultrahand does seem to be a bit more of a necessity in getting around than I was expecting. It also seems somewhat limited. You can attach rockets to your stuff for example, but after activation they disappear within a few seconds. Kinda lame. Also I think the Fuse system for arrows in particular might get tedious for a lot of people as your inventory bloats. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to hotkey specific materials to use.

Still not really a whole lot of information on dungeons or their equivalent as far as I can tell for those who consider them to be a dealbreaker.

Otherwise, it looks fun.

It was the Ice Age obviously.

Rich people are weird, but this is just bizarre if true.

I haven't played them, but the NSMB games don't even seem that bad. They're just a way to make the 2D Mario games more accessible to modern audiences. Most Mario fans are going to vastly prefer World/SMB3, but those are old games and not likely to draw in the casual audience.

Like all franchises now, they just aren't pumping out great games at the rate they used to. But I don't think that means the series is declining. Odyssey was incredible, and there's no reason to doubt whatever the next 3D Mario will be. The only thing I'm concerned about is the death of Mario RPG games. I'm not sure they have any interest in that part of the franchise anymore.

ED-E > any dog

That distinction between post-apocalyptic and post-post-apocalyptic is important. Fallout as a series had established itself as the latter by that point, so Fallout 3 is kind of a mess in hindsight. That was and still is one of the major complaints that game had. I think it's ultimately down to player preference. In my opinion, Fallout 3's world at a glance looks and feels like the more interesting setting. But it's not like the Mojave is lacking or anything either. New Vegas is also a superior game for a number of other reasons unrelated to the setting.

That said, it doesn't need a remake. Mods have given it more life than a remake could ever offer.

Sounds too indie for me.

Yankees offense continues to disappoint. And Vlad Jr. continues to kill them. As always, I think the AL East will be a toss-up this year. The Rays will cool down, but I think at the end of the day they're still equally as good as the Yankees and Jays. And then who knows with the Orioles and Red Sox. I don't really put them on the same level as the other three AL East teams, but all five of them are above .500 right now.

Also, Pirates now have the best record in the NL. Quite the rare sight.

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Jonny2284 posted...

No, it's someone trying to justify why they're being a dick.

This. They don't give a shit they just want to make fun of fat people.

I don't see how this could be the worst era for either when you can watch basically anything from any era if you want to. As far as new releases go, I don't think I've been alive long enough to have an opinion on that. But in all likelihood it's probably not much better or worse than any other era.

I always liked Ricco Harbor the most because of the platforming on the catwalks. But you can't really go wrong with most of them. Even the ones that aren't as exciting for the gameplay are nice to look at.

legendarylemur posted...

Shaggy is no Risen CGV, still the best fight maybe now topped by Amatsu if not for Amatsu's poor stats. However, I think he's fairer than he seems.

His attacks don't let up and feel bullshit, but you gotta realize something crucial about Shaggy.

ALL of his attacks attack forwards. His backside is so vulnerable. You're almost always safe attacking his tail for instance. If you're on a mobile weapon, he's a bit of a pushover.

You do have to attack the front eventually though if you want to recover from Frenzy. And you're obviously a bit limited in how much time you have to actually whack the tail and back legs since he'll turn around pretty quickly. And being under him you can still get hit easily by his charge attacks and some close range frenzy blasts.

It's pretty hard to keep up with I'd say. I think it and Risen Valstrax are going to end up being the hardest monsters in the game. Which one is the hardest will probably vary per person. We'll see how the Malzeno variant compares in a few months.

brestugo posted...

Umpires said whatever he used was the stickiest substance they've ever seen on a baseball diamond.

It was just rosin mixed with sweat. But there's apparently a limit to just how much rosin you can have on your hands I guess. Like all things, it's probably MLB's fault. Either they're not clarifying rules or not enforcing them correctly.

He'll appeal, so maybe it gets reduced. 10 days for a pitcher is only 2 starts anyway.

According to someone on the Rise board, the only difference they've seen in Special Investigations so far is that the monsters have much more health. Pretty disappointing if that's the case.

Seems I'm pretty rusty. Both new fights ended up taking excruciatingly long to beat. Hard to hit either of them. But no quest failures I guess. Carted twice on Amatsu and once to Risen Shagaru. Beating Risen Valstrax was more satisfying I felt. Still, both new fights are pretty exciting. Good stuff.

I play the games mostly in first person, but it'd obviously be a bad design decision for a number of reasons. I do think the lack of third person would absolutely make the game worse.

I just don't think Scherzer is the type of guy who'd be stupid enough to get caught doing that. Also, since they introduced this rule, this is the only third time they've ever ejected someone. All by the same ump. So that looks suspect as well.

Between this and the Domingo German situation with the rosin the other day, MLB is going to have to address this I imagine.

Looks like the main villain is an original monster. Or at least it will be likely one of the antagonist monsters. Orangutan Kong it looks like. Godzilla vs. Kong was fun, but it did somewhat feel like a Kong movie that had Godzilla in it. This one will probably have that feeling even more. Nothing wrong with that of course, but man, Toho needs to start making Godzilla movies again.

Kind of disappointing we have to wait till June for Malzeno. And getting to 300 AR is gonna be a hell of a grind. Last I checked, I was on like 150 or something. Otherwise, it's fine.

Medussa posted...

ok, what're everyones' thoughts on the pretty obviously larger strike zone being called early on this season? it seems expanded by half a ball or more in every direction to me.

That's just umps being umps isn't it? I haven't noticed anything all that different.

I have a feeling it will be Dodgers.

ViewtifulGrave posted...

???

Ganon is just Ganondorf using the Triforce of Power. Where are you getting this avatar nonsense?

There is Aganhim, who is referred to as Ganon's alter ego. Aganhim was definitely a proto-Ganondorf at the very least.

Hopefully they do a nice job with a Ganondorf boss fight. The fights in Wind Waker and Twilight Princess were at least thematically cool. It's certainly got to be better than BOTW's final boss fight.

The game was fine for me. Performance wasn't great on my PC, but it wasn't terrible either. I ended up not playing a ton of it, but that ends up happening to a lot of games for me.

Played the first two missions. Minecraft weapons are surprisingly good. TNT blocks are pretty potent grenades.

https://youtu.be/ldwoiMHiyL8

I remember when this first came out and it looked like some stupid fun for a few hours. But now it's a hell of a lot more. I'd highly recommend watching most of InfernoPlus' mod videos. Even if you have no plans on playing any of them, they're very interesting videos.

Would be funny if they lost 13 in a row now.

FortuneCookie posted...

In the first movie, sure. In the second movie, she's pretty Rambo if he were a surrogate mother.

If Aliens were released today, the anti-woke mob would have a field day with how she singlehandedly took down the hive of aliens that wiped out a battalion of space marines.

I would say learning that she outlived her daughter and missed the majority of her life made her pretty vulnerable. But her determination to prevent humanity from potentially dooming itself in the name of greed and her determination to protect Newt are what drive her to fight.

The DLC seemed really good, but the game was starting to feel like a slog for me at that point. A lot of the DLC stuff seemed like it was going to take multiple cycles to complete, and I was just tired of the game by then I guess.

Shotgunnova posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/0/7/AABhrNAAESJb.jpg

This and Tokyo Gore Police came to mind for me, and I saw them both mentioned a couple times here. I hated Rubber though. Might be the worst movie I've ever seen. Pretentious garbage. Tokyo Gore Police on the other hand was quite fun.

I've only been to two, but one of them is now defunct and the other doesn't really count. I went to the Continental Airlines Arena a couple times back when the Nets were the New Jersey Nets. I've been to the Prudential Center a few times as well, but not for any basketball games. The Nets weren't there very long anyway.

MaxEffingBemis posted...

And anytime these bums are good they fail to win it. Just gets frustrating to root for them so thats part of the reason I just dont engage with baseball anymore. Not to mention the good players get traded after a few years because the team is so poor

The main thing the Rays have going for them is they're a very well-run organization. Like despite the payroll, they clearly have a good team and have been consistently good for a while. Having a cheap owner is unfortunate, but they're still way better off than perennial losers like the Pirates or A's.

As far as action movies go, I think it's easily in the Top 5. It does everything right. The Alien franchise has obviously sputtered ever since, but it's literally impossible for anything they could churn out to even come close to being as good as Alien and Aliens were.

Looked great.

Punished_Blinx posted...

I think people are gonna be disappointed if they expect Illumination to do a massive cinematic universe thing. That doesn't really seem to be their style. Or Nintendo's really who have never made a story based Smash Bros style game.

Unless you consider Despicable Me to be a cinematic universe I guess.

It wouldn't really work anyway due to tonal clash of some of these franchises. You can realistically sell something like Mario and Kirby teaming up, but it gets a bit more ridiculous when you add the more mature series like Metroid and Zelda.

I still want a Super Smash Bros. RPG kind of game though. Or any Nintendo crossover that isn't a fighter.