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Dune flight simulator :0

Also I was taking a shit and missed the first 10 minutes, I miss anything good?

For a second I thought that was TES6 and was like wow, Elder Scrolls 6 looks mid lol

GanglyKhan posted...

if everyone stopped doing crime we wouldnt need cops tbh

Can't have crime if there's no laws *forehead.jpg*

You're talking about antiheroes. Like Tony Soprano, or Walter White, or Don Draper.

Dawg posted...

It's hard to think of any type of stickers on cars that aren't tacky tbh. Your child is a middle school honor student? Okay. Wow, you have a dog? You must be really special!

Baby on board? So why you driving like a maniac

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/4/1/AADH07AAEjid.jpg

Oh so that's why I saw a bunch of Trump flags and maga hats on my walk this morning.

The scary thing is he can still run from prison and win.

Well, at the very least, the idea of mummies being monsters might be construed as insensitive. But maybe that has nothing to do with why they changed gibdos, I dont know.

Never played it, but doesn't Titan Souls(think that's what it's called) do this thing where you only have to hit the boss once to kill it, but figuring out how to hit its weak point is a puzzle?

What I think happened with the gibdos, is they basically combined them with redeads and got rid of the mummy design to avoid offending people, and added the insect qualities to maybe try to make them creepy but still safe for kids? Idk, old redeads were plenty creepy, and I played OoT and MM when I was like 8 and 10 years old.

Wow. I have like 190 after 120 hours lol

Yeah I went around getting all the Sages Wills I was missing. Turns out the Kings arent that bad, just beefier Gleeoks. Thought theyd be a lot more challenging lol

Going around the sky islands getting all the koroks and maps and Sage's Wills I missed. I'm gonna have to fight those King Gleeoks sooner or later. >_>

Aint losing any sleep over this one I can tell you that

I love putting bombs on my shield and shield surfing in the middle of a pack of monsters. Makes a big explosion and launches you in the air at the same time.

I played a lot of Age of Calamity so I got REALLY good at flurry rushing Lynels, so that coliseum was no big thing for me lol

I beat Tears of the Kingdom! That finale was incredible, even if those bosses were easy. So some thoughts on the game:
Combat is even more fun than it was in BotW. Sure it's the same weapon types, but fuse gives you so many more options to mess around with, mostly with putting different devices and objects on your shield for movement. Next time you raid a monster mining camp in the Depths, put a bunch of bombs on your shields, and go wild with bomb jumping. Also fusing monster parts to your weapons makes them way stronger and more durable. I'll be honest, I never minded weapons breaking in this game, since I was changing it up so often. My only wish is there were more enemy types. Yes there is more variety than in BotW, but it's still not enough. The new minibosses are fun to fight though. Flux Constructs are neat because they're designed around all of your main abilities. You can fight every Flux Construct in the game, and have completely different experiences with every single one. Froxes are terrifying to fight, but if you can shoot its eye and get into a good rhythm of keeping it stunned, it aint no thing. Gleeoks are just plain cool, though easier to take down than I'd like. Frost Gleeoks in particular are neat because you can climb onto the icicles it drops and recall them to get some airtime. Wish there were like 1 or 2 more miniboss types though for more variety.
Story. Okay I'll be honest, the story I think is good. It's just told poorly. Watching the geoglyph memories, even doing them in the correct order, it felt like a lot of scenes were missing from the story. They get the point across, but I wish there was more to it, and that it was more seamlessly woven into the adventure as you complete major objectives. There is also a major theme of sacrifice throughout the story, but I feel that it has poor payoff in the end, especially for Zelda, turning back into a human and forgetting what it was like to be a dragon. Just kind of makes the whole thing pointless for her character? Idk. I think she should have either not been returned to human, or if she has to forget, she should forget Link. But also that final boss fight, where Ganondorf turns into a dragon, and you ride noodle Zelda high above Hyrule. One, it's epic as all fuck, but also, the symbolism all throughout the marketing and trailers and the logo of 2 dragons chasing each other is what came to mind during this fight. Nintendo knew what they were doing.
Exploration: They did what I expected them to do when they announced all those years ago that they were using the same world map and made it feel unrecognizable. It helps that you start in Hyrule Field and go to the Castle early on, which are places in BotW you didn't want to go to until you were stronger/more skillful. So a lot of the early hours of the game feel like you're in places you've never seen, because often times you were chased by Guadians in these places, so you probably didn't take long to look at the scenery. And they put new things to do all over the place. New quests, new shrines and puzzles, Addison, caves, new enemies, new minigames, etc etc. The map is VERY dense with content, even more so than I was expecting. Just roaming around doing things in this game is fun, especially with the new abilities. Ultrahand is incredible, and the amount of different devices and objects they made to utilize it is way more than I was expecting. You can build some crazy contraptions in this game. The two fan hoverbike kind of breaks exploration, but that's the beauty of this kind of system is putting things together to see what you can do. And I use ascend all the time. While exploring out in the world, in shrines, even in combat. There are enemy encounters that were designed with ascend in mind, it's incredible. And the shrine puzzles are much more enjoyable this time around. There are some shrines in this game that I don't know what kind of black magic Nintendo is performing under the hood to make this run, and on the Switch of all hardware, but it's far beyond what anyone else is doing in terms of physics engine capabilities it's unbelievable. How is the Switch not melting while running this game I will never know.
But that's not all, there are two entire other plains of existence besides Hyrule. I was hoping there would be caves in this game. I didn't know there was going to be an entire massive cavern that spans the entirety of Hyrule. The depths are spooky, with scary armored Lynels, and Froxes, and gloomed monsters all over the place, and tons and tons of treasure to find. I just wish that there was more variety to the environments. Everything is grey, with the same trees and rocks everywhere. I remember going to Akkala early on and going into the depths and looking out and seeing massive lavafalls in the distance and realizing I was seeing the underside of Death Mountain. It filled my mind with possibilities of what could be under the desert or Hebra, or the jungle, and was disappointed when I want to those places and the scenery looked the same as anywhere else. That's my one big gripe with the Depths. Essentially though, I like to think of the Depths as the Dark World of this game, and I'm glad they managed to shove that kind of content in here.
The sky islands though, not as great as I was expecting. Lots and LOTS of copy and pasted islands here. There are some islands/archipelagos that are entirely unique, and have things that you won't see anywhere else in the game. There are fun, cool things to do up there. Just wish there was more of that. It is incredible leaping from a high sky island and diving down to the surface, or down into the depths and it's entirely seamless. They even thought to show you the curvature of the earth while you're so high up, it's a really nice touch.
And finally the dungeon content. Okay some of he theming of the dungeons is down right incredible. The Wind and Fire Temples come to mind. The stories surrounding the dungeons are just blegh to me except for the Gerudo story. The Rito are cold. The Gorons got addicted to crack rocks. The water is too gross for the Zora. Big whoop. :| The Gerudo are literally fighting off zombie hordes in the midst of a giant sandstorm. That's awesome. I do think the puzzles are generally better designed than most of the dungeons from BotW. It's just they're still overall not where they should be. I know that BotW/TotK are all about freedom and creativity. So why don't the dungeons feel more creative? The worst is the water dungeon. Wow is it bad. It's so short and the puzzles are so simple, and it's not fun or interesting to explore this dungeon. What happened? Then the Gerudo dungeon conversely almost feels like something you'd see in OoT, and the puzzles all use light and mirrors, which is good. The Construct Factory is great. The puzzles are real tests of your reasoning skills and knowledge of your abilities and how the physics engine works. Too bad the section after the Construct Factory when you ride Robo-Mineru to the Spirit Temple and fight the boss there is so blegh. Robo-Min is a cool idea on paper, but in practice she's so slow and weak and just gets in your way. And the boss Spirit Temple boss is too easy.
But GameFAQs is warning me my post is getting too long, so I'll leave it at this. I loved this game. I've put 125 hours into it and don't want to stop playing. I want to 100% complete this game. I want to keep building weird crazy contraptions. I hope they are taking the criticisms of the lack of enemy variety, and the poor dungeons and champion abilities(yeah did I mention the champion abilities? they're garbage except for the Wind one, and using them is annoying as all fuck) to heart and they can make the next Zelda game a perfect video game. Because other than those problems, they're already there.

Tears of the Kingdom. 120 hours in, still have not beat the game. But I just did a bunch of prep work like make food, upgraded some sets, went down to the depths to hunt for better weapons, stuff like that. Going to fight Ganondorf this afternoon.

I told myself I would go beat the game today

Instead I built and crashed semitrucks for 5 hours

Yes this game is very dense

Yes when you enter a cave it gets marked on the map, and when you kill the bubbulfrog and take the gem that also gets marked on the map.

And yeah I do want to upgrade everything eventually for funsies. I think my post game goal is going to be 100% completing every single region one by one. Every quest completed, every cave checked off, every miniboss killed, every Korok found. Even if I take years to do this, playing off and on I'm going to do it. Next mainline 3D Zelda game probably isn't for like 6 or 7 years off at least anyway.

Okay so I did the quest to photograph all the lore stones, then I did the storm over the jungle, the construct factory, and the fifth temple. That whole section felt like it's supposed to be a dungeon. A linear combat section, followed by 4 big puzzles you can do in any order, followed by another linear combat section with a boss fight at the end. What I liked about this part: the construct factory. I thought all of these puzzles were really good, the best in the game. What I didn't like: riding the robot. It's slow. It's weak. And I didn't like the boss fight, it was too easy. It's really cool that you get a mech that you ride around wherever you want, and you can put whatever weapons you want on it. Too bad it's not that fun to use. Then I did the Korok Forest cus the Ya-Ha-Has kept telling me something funky is going down there. I wish this was a dungeon. This quest was too short and too easy. But then I completed my last four shrines which were in the forest, and I got the reward for completing every shrine. This thing is weird and cool, and I wasn't expecting anything like this.

Going to go beat the game tomorrow I think!

GEKGanon posted...

They are the ones seeing money from the sales in the sense that being employed gets them paid, and they are more likely to be employed if the thing they worked on has success.

Getting employed gets them paid, but game development is a long process that takes years. Hence why they're getting paid through money raised from investors and publishers, and why often times developers are not permanent employees. They're hired to work on a single project, then they need to find a new job when that project wraps up development. Longterm employment at a single company like Nintendo is the exception and not the norm in the games industry.

Zareth posted...

Blizzard employees have asked people not to boycott their games as apparently it doesn't help them

Its not like theyre the ones seeing the money from sales. Game development gets funded from investors or publishers.

GanonsSpirit posted...

Got the Master Sword

Wasn't that cool

I'm basically in like "clean up" mode just going around doing quests and stuff I want to do before I go do the fifth Temple and go beat the game. I'm going to keep playing after I beat it, but it just feels like these certain questlines are things I should do before. Also I'm only missing 6 shrines!

Yeah I'm probably not going to buy it regardless. I just don't care for Blizzard anymore. It might be the best game they've ever made, I wouldn't know, I just can't stand them as a company anymore.

Yes.

I suspect I might actually be autistic, but I've never been tested/diagnosed.

I like amogus cus it's got a lot of action

Onions, bacon and mushrooms

Did Blizz not fuck up for once?

potdnewb posted...

not nuked but naked at least I am anyone else

Pants are more of a suggestion than a hard and fast rule

Its like a neer-do-well

Did a bunch of sky islands, a bunch of random quests here and there, did the final labyrinth, went around the depths farming minibosses for crystallized charges. I'm missing something like 12 shrines total, like 600 charges to finalize my battery wells. I think I'm going to finish my battery wells then finally move on with the story. At some point I want to go around and kill all the minibosses for the medals, but I might wait for postgame to do that. But in the mean time I'll keep getting a bunch of those in the depths out of the way.

Of course I am

Kill bosses and mini bosses and raid yiga strongholds in the depths, youll get more than enough items for upgrades without dipping into your zonaite.

Muscles posted...

It means the government is incompetent and usually just fucks things up when they try to help. Which makes sense, it's out of control bureaucracy with no competition for them to need to try. Unlike the private sector the government has no accountability or competition to make sure they actually perform like they should

The accountability is the government can be voted in or out.

LinkPizza posted...

While I think it would have been better to get those shrines earlier, Nintendo probably also cant say what order youll do the shrines in

This.

Also there are a LOT of hidden shrines. There's I believe 152 shrines total. A lot of them are blessing shrines, but there's some blessing shrines that are extremely well hidden, or the puzzles you have to do to solve them are really neat.

I got on today like yeah, Im gonna finish my battery wells!. On the way to my first miniboss I ran into Ferosh, so I said well I do need to farm dragon parts so I just farmed dragon parts for four hours. Nice thing is dragons dont despawn, they are always loaded in, they are always progressing their tracks. So once you get a part you just grab onto a back spike and just wait 10 minutes for the dragon to be ready again. Holding onto the dragon does not spend stamina.

What he means is the government doesn't exist to protect its people, people exist to protect the republican stranglehold on America.

Looks like Home support is going out tonight, so the wait wasn't that long.

But still the fact that they aren't on top of this is silly.

The Wizard of Oz

Yeah had Nintendo Power from like 1997 to whenever they discontinued it. Also occasionally had other stuff.

Banana's are the only fruit I can't stand eating. The texture and flavor are weird and gross and I don't like it. But I'll eat just about anything else.

hot chocolate

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxVCbC3aEAAoP6N?format=jpg&name=large I found the Fierce Deity's sword! The set is complete :D

Gen Z was a mistake, its nothing but trash