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I long to return and build in Minecraft, but I've been away for so long I fear it'd be a lot to catch up on.

And while I did a lot of the fun Hunger Games and Zombies servers etc. back in the day, I feel like I just want to build these days.

adjl posted...

Especially seemingly having both Demise and Ganondorf, when SS all but explicitly said that they're the same entity. Personally, I'm inclined to just go with "they make up whatever timeline they need to shore up the story they want to tell." The official position was that there was no timeline outside of the direct sequels, right up until they decided they could make money knitting one together to sell Hyrule Historia, so I don't think there's actually any plan to establish and maintain a consistent canon.

IIRC, they said there IS an official canon timeline in file folders, but it's a secret, and did likely come about from fans speculating of a timeline. The breakdown generally makes sense, but I guess it'll depend on the explanation of how Ganondorf is alive again.

Everyone beat me to it, but yeah, storywise you can literally beat the temples in just a few hours from turning the game on, and/or fight Ganon immediately. The story objectives are never a mystery. Everything else, though? Well, that's par for the course of an open world "go explore and have your own fun", which fit in with the theme of a ruined, nature-took-over Hyrule. I myself would like more Zelda-like dungeons and a larger story arc this time around, but BotW was easy to follow.

I haven't met a single person not excited about Tears, let alone bitching about it/calling it DLC. Which is especially odd, considering all of the plot and a huge chunk of the game mechanics and everything is still a mystery, one which I assume a final direct will shine more light on.

Then again, I don't visit the wretched hive that are the system and game boards.

It definitely wasn't, because it really wasn't a well main game. The fun of the bosses and general Dark Souls-gameplay masked how it's 2022 and we still have a AAA without a mini-map (or readable map at all), functioning targeting controls (which I thought stopped being a problem to make after LoZ: OoT showed the world how it was done), stun-locking to death as the main vehicle the game gets called "hard", and etc. upon etc. It's just a really poorly made game.

I just started Xeno 3, and I haven't played Kirby. Jugglinh Xeno, FE: Engage, and MP: Remastered on the Switch alone at current, but ER definitely wasn't GoTY for 2022.

Looks like next week, then.

I'm trying

The amount of plastic waste from Funkos alone is staggering

Lokarin posted...

nintendos have always been aged technology, that's their model... 'innovation with withered technology'

The GCN was the best of it's class, or at least, was graphically on par with the Xbox. They basically got away from that ideology after the GCN.

adjl posted...

Technically, those are the same thing. It has existed for 6 years, meaning it is now in its 7th year of existence. It's a relatively unusual way of describing something's age (at least in American culture) that's clearly meant to make it seem as old as possible, but it's not actually inaccurate.

It's a bit misleading, in this case. Technically not incorrect, but it's Day 3 into what will be leading to it's 7th full year, but one wouldn't nomrally describe it that way without an inherently negative slant.

papercup posted...

I could totally see this actually. The Switch really is in its twilight years. It's entering its 7th year, the hardware is really starting to show its age, I can totally see a successor being officially announced this year. Now if it would launch this year or next year who knows.

"MP Remastered looks so goegeous, but the Switch is also showing it's age." Wut?

Considering there hasn't even been news of a Switch successor in development (although given the time it takes to develop new consoles, it certainly is), I could see maybe *news* of a successor in the works, maybe even details, around E3 this year. But even that may not happen. I made a topic a couple of weeks back here about how the Switch is (now) 6 years old, which is typically the end of any console's life cycle, but a ton of stuff is being developed for it still. It's close to becoming the best selling console of all time, so Nintendo probably felt self on letting it live longer. Tears of the Kingdom coming out with no new console announcement seems to support that.

It also just hit Year 6, so it's not going into it's 7th year. It came out March 2017.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I wonder if Prime 4 is turning out to be another DNF. It's now 2 other titles released while waiting for it.

Nah. It's not the same team that did Dread, and I question how much time was really lost by Retro doing MP Remastered, if they did it all. Remember, Nintendo giving Prime 4 to Retro basically caused the game to go back to Square 1 (it should have been retro all.along)

For some reason I thought it was longer than 4 years for him.

I actually just beat it last month. It's one that sticks with you for a while.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Well they also didn't intend to let every american vote. They only intended for the elite to vote. Now we are in a scenario where people vote their politicians based on how much they reject reality and pander to their post apocalyptic larp setting.

(Is this also going to get me randomly modded? I have no clue what will get me modded by the far right wing mod who is stalking me)

The biggest flaw there wasn't believe only the elite should vote, but that elite = white, male, and owning land.

darkknight109 posted...

Hence, at least in theory, democracy does have some natural defence mechanisms against a tyrannical majority - not great ones, but they exist.

The issue with American-style democracy is, of course, it supports the Tyranny of the Minority. This was intentional, so that change would be slow and deliberate, and force the majority to hear the voice of the minority. Not a bad idea in a fantasy world where every citizen is a philosopher-king, but pretty horrible in real-world practice. Now, the minority can paralyze the entire government into a standstill, just because (and often do).

If you're going to have a tyranny either way, at least the majority makes sense. The current system of letting the minority obstruct everything is wholesale bad.

https://tinyurl.com/525yy6pd

In September of last year, after years of careful planning and development, NASA crashed a spacecraft smack into a rock drifting through the Solar System, just minding its own business.
It wasn't for the sheer hatred of space rocks, or the joy of collisions; the motive behind this exercise was to test our ability to knock an asteroid off-course, in the interest of Earth's safety. And now we know we're onto something. The measurements have come in, and the rock's course changed by significantly more than expected.

A series of five papers describing this course deflection, and the mechanisms behind it, have been published in Nature.
Right now, the planet beneath our feet appears to be sailing serenely through empty space. But there happen to be a lot of big space rocks out there, and if one were to hit us, we'd be in for a rough time. Just ask the dinosaurs.
One way we might deflect any large asteroids coming our way is by smashing into approaching rocks with a speeding spacecraft. The transfer of momentum from the spacecraft to the asteroid could alter its trajectory through space just enough to steer it away from its destiny with Earth's surface.

SCIENCE!

Hilariously, women of proper birthing age basically have to fight tooth and nail to get their tubes tied.

Her gerrymandered district has a lot of stupid people, to answer the question. And screw her name for looking like Magic: The Gathering.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

what does woke even mean anymore

"things conservatives don't like", basically,

papercup posted...

I honestly don't know if there will be a trilogy release. Could be later this year we get a shadow drop for Prime 2, then Prime 3 next year but who knows.

Feels like they would, as a build up to Prime 4.

Not sure what happened to Wave, but here's my attempt to revive the Geek topics.

@ParanoidObsessive

Brain is failing to remember who else to invite.

Anyways, who is watching TLoU? Thoughts on Elden Ring announcement of DLC? Civ 7? Tears of the Kingom?

Loving it so far. It always had gorgeous graphics and a great art direction, but just looks so good now. I like the motion controls, too.

Are they going to introduce a minimap and non-shit lock-on mechanics?

In all seriousness, we'll get this in a year, maybe. Too late for my already dwindling level of care.

They read much better in book form, than Sunday strip form. There were plenty I thought hilarious, and they can be applied to virtually any corporate setting. But jesus christ, what a piece of shit he is.

BlackScythe0 posted...

"Damn technology that is over 20 years old!"

It was shoddily built at the time. People being on their 2nd or even 3rd systems because of driver failures (among other problems) wasn't that unheard of. It's also easily factored into their huge sales total.

Not sure what you mean by "finished." All those countries have major challenges in their near/immediate future. Russia will have the hardest. But "finished"?

Dikitain posted...

Most people do exclude the GBA because they are different consoles/hardware. They include the Gameboy color because, for all intents and purposes, the Gameboy color is just a regular Gameboy with the Super Gameboy enhancements built in. Sure, there are exclusive games for it, but the only difference is the games make use of the color pallet.

True, I figured this is what you meant.
wolfy42 posted...

I'm curious, can people list 10 switch exclusive games (I'll allow games out for the Wii U as well, even though I have one) that they feel are worth getting a switch for, and if so, what is the top 10 on their list?

Off the top of my head, and I'll exclusives BotW and other non-pure exclusives:
-Super Mario Odyssey
-Fire Emblem: Engage
-Fire Emblem: Three Houses
-Bayonetta 3
-Splatoon 3
-Xenoblade 2 & 3
-Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
-Mario & Rabbids 1 & 2
-Metroid Dread
-Luigi's Mansion 3

I left out some obvious ones, like Mario Party, Animal Crossing, etc., for variety sake, but I could easily list 20 myself. There's also stuff like Tetris 99 and Pac-Man 99, which you need a switch for. There's honestly a lot of variety throughout, with exclusive FPS being the big noticable thing lacking (well, "exclusive" FPS games don't really exist anymore).

You mentioned JRPGs, and those are a little lacking, too, but JRPGs have also been dying a slow death for a while now. As stated by others, the Xenoblades should easily scratch that itch, and Fire Emblem games technically count, but they aren't "pure" JRPGs you're likely thinking of. There's also the Octopath Traveler games, Triangle Strategy, and Rune Factory. While ports, ToS Remastered just came out, and they are doing the same for the 2 GCN Baten Kaitos games, fantastic JRPGs that were easy to miss back in the day.

Dikitain posted...

The Switch is the best selling Nintendo console ever and that is with the Gameboy and all its variants (including the color) combined. And it doesn't show any signs of slowing down.

I thought it was still the Wii, but holy crap, you're right - it blew past the Wii. Doubtful it catches the DS/PS2, unless it really has 2+ years on it. Not true about the GB, however, unless you were excluding the GBA.

FrozenBananas posted...

I was thinking of buying a switch but now Im thinking I might be too late. Should I get one still? There were plenty of games to play

It depends on what type of games you like, of course, but there has been a ton of releases and support as of late, and to come. Since Last July until this coming July, there's at least 10 titles I'll buy and play.

March 3, 2017 is was released. Quite long for a Nintendo console, but makes sense given the popularity of the system. There's been a huge release of support and games for it as of late, too.

That's almost as big as a whale.

This is a really bad move for Netflix. Audience dissatisfaction with them is at an all-time high, mostly from their habit of canceling shows and rotating out a lot of their library. Giving viewers a reason to drop them, when competition abounds all over, seems ridiculously short-sighted.

And it's something that absolutely must not be encouraged. It's easy to think it's just $3...until it becomes successful, and everyone else copies it. This is definitely a litmus test for streaming at large. Everyone cut the cable, but streaming has just been slowly morphing into that, and worse.

That said, if you have a Firestick and live near the primary account holder, brining it to their house and logging on every 31 days negates this.

I'm not quite sure what the TC is trying to ask, but a shit-ton of boomers were killed by Covid, so....

But really, plenty from the next generation will just morph into "boomers", and so on and so forth. The particular type of, well, Boomers is dying off, sure, but the influence and corruption implemented may never fully be gotten rid of. Depending on how one defines that, of course.

One Piece is still and always has been the answer.

BlackScythe0 posted...

It doesn't feel that way. Because of how it snow balls I remember always feeling like I'd have a good game and the other team surrendered at the 15 minute mark resulting in really unsatisfying victories. While my bad games were bad, I'd have a feeder or I'd have the ass clown who keeps crossing the river when you say "I can't see anyone on the other team don't cross the river" and it's obvious we are losing but everyone refuses to surrender and the enemy team is milking it for all it's worth and you're stuck for 30+ minutes in hell before they finally get around to finishing it. I would rage so hard at it.

Maybe my win rate was close to 50/50. I don't remember, but it wasn't evenly distributed. Typically it was 5 or so losses in a row then maybe I get kicked down into a lower bracket and I win a few super easy games before going back into a higher bracket and losing multiple matches in a row there was no chance my team was going to win before I had the opportunity to win again.

The game was really stressful, and it was super toxic. I was super toxic when I played it. I played mobas for like... 10 years. I can't imagine wanting to go back and play it again.

Yep, basically. Towards the end, I just played whatever I would want strictly top (usually Illaoi for the lolz), dominate lane, lane push hard (eventually the entire team is ganking me top), and essentially ignoring what else the rest of the team was doing. Considering whether winning or losing in that game is largely arbitrary outside of professional play, I figured that I might as well get to have fun, rather than worrying about the myth of carrying the team. And the end result W/L was essentially the same (hell, I'm pretty sure it improved, seeing as so many resources would have to be sent top).

Ferron posted...

Horrible performance on pc is an issue for everyone not just people with ancient parts! The stutter is really bad

While I certainly won't sit here and deny that developers have been shafting PC versions of multi-ports for a decade and change now, this is still likely due to individual PC comps. I never had such issues, and my rig definitely isn't on the cutting edge.

Never much cared for Scooby, but whatever Velma is ain't it.

TC complaining about running it on an ancient card that doesn't even meet the game's minimum requirements. I shudder to think what else is tower has in it.

That said, ER DOES suck, but not for reasons the TC is mentioning.

What poll?

Or rather, I guess I'll answer the TC, since all the oldsters that would get my question are basically dead.ER probably does win, but mostly because no other game really showed up this year to contest it, give or take. But it's a pretttttttyy poorly made game, and one I personally wouldn't give GotY to. But it's by and away the biggest AAA release of the year, so, yeah.

Played LoL "seriously" from I think 2010-2018 ish. Just missed Masters my last season. God, what a massive waste of time playing that cancerous game was.

papercup posted...

Its long overdue tbh

Is it though? Because honestly, they are kinda ugly. 32 bit is a hard pass, but you need basically Majora's Mask HD remake levels to make 64 bit passable these days.

Have we entered the phase of 64 bit graphics being retro-cool now?

keyblader1985 posted...

It still bothers me how much it changes when it evolves. It goes from a being of pure joy...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/4/7/AAHsOgAAD9HL.jpg

to..

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/4/8/AAHsOgAAD9HM.png

an unholy abomination of 2.5 beings that have become one. The light has left its eyes, and it now only knows pain.

To be fair, it's supposed to be the embodiment of air pollution, so...

That said, Grimer also looks pretty happy, whereas Muk looks more menacing. The only thought I have to this is because final evolution forms tend to look more "fierce" as a rule of thumb.

Isn't dunkey that guy who is just a poor man's Yahtzee?

Anyways, Xenoblade is great.

Those are cooler than basically any new Pokemon in a while.

No rules, just right.

But really, I can count on one hand the amount of times I've eaten there, and don't remember anything remarkable about it, aside from being able to order semi-unique stuff for a national chain (like swordfish). It's really just "Australian" Chilis.

Count_Drachma posted...

I feel like there must be a better way to get this thing to work than a strike, but obviously railway workers need paid leave.

It would require corporations to stop being greedy cocks, but since we don't live in a good and fair world...*gestures slowly*

Cacciato posted...

What a dumbass, long-winded way of saying yes to the question.

The kicker is, Biden can't do anything at all. It's a Congressional power, and spoilers, roughly half of Congress hates the average American.

PMarth2002 posted...

I'll almost always side with workers over the management.

That was kinda going to be my follow up question, in why the hell any random American would be against the rail workers, here. Unless you're one of the handful of railroad tycoons, this doesn't affect anyone else one way or another.

Oh, bonus points, every House GOP member (save for 3) voted against the workers. Shocker. It's nothing short of amazing that millions vote for the Right, when they have nothing but active disdain against their voters.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

If Hollywood wasn't so obsessed with cannibalizing and corpse-fucking every successful franchise of the past, I'd say they'd almost be better off letting the brand name die entirely and just tell similar stories with different characters (I may be one of like 3 people on Earth who would have been absolutely fine if they'd eventually segued to Mutt being the new lead, but I mean more along the lines of how Tomb Raider and Uncharted are basically channeling the spirit of Indy without having to explicitly BE Indy).

This. Hell, we already have proof it works, with stuff like The Mummy and National Treasure being popular, very much in the same genre-type, without straight-up aping IJ entirely (and Tomb Raider and Uncharted and other films, to a lesser extent). We already have proof that we can maker good Indian Jones-esque movies.

But yeah, I'm sure I'll end up seeing this, but I have no desire too. The character of Indiana Jones is young and strong. 80-year old Harrison Ford has roles in many movies (see the upcoming Yellowstone), but old Indy ain't it. Never mind whatever story mess they come up with. It *not* being Lucas makes me have zero hope, since every franchise Disney tries to take over ends horribly.

Yes. It's exposed how cruel railroad workers are treated. Which is insane, considering how the country relies on rail for virtually everything.