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BakusaiTenketsu posted...

Is it unpopular to say that I actually preferred Breath of the Wild over Tears of the Kingdom. Playing Tears of the Kingdom felt like a really big DLC and it didn't hit me the same way Breath did. In addition, I really liked Champions over Sages and the abilities in general felt more "Zelda"-like in Breath. I just feel that awed by Tears.

I'm with you on this. Tears of the Kingdom felt a lot more...checklisty, for lack of a better term. Additionally, the sky area and depths felt underdeveloped, and while I know some people loved the building, it kinda just felt like a chore to me.

I think the worst part of the sky/depths is that I became less familiar with the main overworld since you're spending so much time going above and below. In BotW, I had a much better sense of where everything was along with the terrain between areas because of how you traverse it. In TotK I was pretty much skipping past a lot of the terrain and never really got to know the map.

I still enjoyed TotK, but it definitely didn't match the experience I got from BotW.

He's so cool

Grand_Kirby posted...

This is the company that developed it so...:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexon

lmao. They just called it "indie" because it has pixel art. Yeesh.

I suspect many people (myself included) assumed it was indie because of it being listed as developed and published by Mintrocket, not knowing that was just a Nexon subsidiary

So, as someone who has only played Control + DLCs and only knows the basic plot of Alan Wake, can someone explain this?

Alan Wake 2 marks Remedy Entertainments first foray into the survival horror genre.

Does...the first game not count? Are they vastly different in terms of gameplay/atmosphere?

Joining the people who think Mario Wonder doesn't make it, even though it's probably my personal GotY. 2D Marios don't generate the same buzz as 3D.

Tears of the Kingdom
Baldur's Gate 3
Starfield
Spiderman 2
Street Fighter 6
Dave the Diver

I think top three are guaranteed, but the others I'm less sure about. Spiderman 2 seems like a safe bet, and SF6 is a high-profile fighting game release. I think those two make sense if the goal is to capture a varied "audience".

Dave the Diver is the pick if they decide to include an indie game. While it wasn't on the same level as Vampire Survivors or Stray, it seems like that game was something of a phenomenon for a little while.

If they don't go with an indie, I think probably Armored Core 6 in that spot? Maybe Alan Wake 2 or RE4 remake.

mnk posted...

I just completed special 1 with only a few deaths, but then died probably 50+ times on special 2. It may just be beyond the capabilities of my reflexes. Most runs end in the same spot when it gets to climbing the 2-block walls, and I know my problem is that I'm not letting go of A fast enough to press it again, but knowing that doesn't seem to make it any easier to improve it.

Climb to the Beat is probably the second hardest level in the game in my opinion.

Part of the issue I had is that walljumping feels a bit wonky. The main issue I had is that it feels like the game expects you to still be pressing in the direction of the wall when you press jump. So if you change directions to early in your walljump, you'll fall instead.

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RikkuAlmighty posted...

and ginhyun who sucks

rude but not incorrect

The jet run "coyote time" was something that took me a while to get used to. It's good that the game's collectibles basically tell you exactly when to jump because I don't think I ever truly mastered the timing on that.

Spin boost was very easy though. Probably the easiest one.

I think the fact that they put spring feet and invisibility at the end of their respective sections was kinda frustrating.

Also the crouching high jump section was the one that finally broke me and made me swap my controls because up until that point I was using down in midair to do a ground pound. That killed me a lot.

Ok, finally at 100%

The reward is kinda underwhelming

I missed the flag...

I missed the fucking flag

Kill me

I do not like Final Final

Huniepop
Huniepop 2

Or maybe you own those already I forget

_Blur_ posted...

I think I would agree if there was some sort of different final level and boss other than the palace and Bowser Jr. fights. I was expecting some sort of twist when getting the Royal Seed, but nope. Not having anything at all was an anticlimax and a disappointment for me personally.

Yeah, World 5 seems like it's about to have an alternative finale and then it just doesn't.

I kinda liked the Search Party levels with online ghosts enabled. Was fun helping each other find stuff.

First one did suck though.

Yeah, I was never huge into the contests. I filled out brackets, but I don't think I was ever super invested in them.

It's weird to think that I am still on this board because 15 to 20 years ago I found some posts by AmazingTelephone funny (also Aeon eating FFX).

Tacking on the word "objectively" to opinion and conjecture does not make it a fact

lol, and furthermore, lmao

Declarations of how you are right are always the sign of a well-argued point

paperwarior posted...

Secret exit

Yeah, I ended up having to look that up because it was driving me crazy. That was well-hidden.

_Blur_ posted...

Yeah it's getting hard for me to imagine this not beating out 3 as my favorite 2D Mario ever and I'm 2 worlds into this. How is this game so good

It's a delight. The game just feels so fresh. There's a bunch of new enemies, the levels are creative and wacky, and there's what feels like the right amount of challenge.

Piranha Plant Reprise was fun

Really wondering what I'm missing in W1 since I apparently got all of the Wonder Seeds in W2 and W3

I'm apparently missing something on the second level of the game since I don't have the checkmark there but I have no idea what it is

_Blur_ posted...

This game is somehow exceeding my expectations and they were very high.

So like, standees...can you place unlimited of these things or what?

You can have one out at a time. Placing a new one removes the old one.

I do not like Climb to the Beat

I don't know what it is but I have not missed this many walljumps in a game ever

This game is good

Very wowie zowie

Someone out there has to interact with Lopen in real life

WhiteLens posted...

Did GameFAQs even have more than like 2 people working it throughout most of its time? I'm talking well before the Fandom buyout.

Allen was on more than just GameFAQs.

I doubt GameFAQs had much in the way of dedicated resources under CBSi or RV.

End of an era

@SBAllen Were you ever working out of the CBSi office in SF at any point? I was briefly visiting that office for a meeting years ago, saw the GameFAQs logo, and I've been wondering ever since

I'd probably give it somewhere around 6.5/10

I don't usually feel too awful reading age-related things, but knowing that I am the same age as Tingle did make me weirdly upset

Been thinking about this some more now it'd been a bit since I beat the game.

The major issue with the game that I have is that it feels like the world was put together from a jumble of "cool ideas", with the story following along a path to get you from one idea to the next. The cast almost feels like an afterthought in a weird way.

I thought it was cool that there were various stories about the world that Teaks could tell you, but I found it a little silly how you are shoved into all of them over the course of the story. Part of me longs for something like Planescape: Torment, where you hear about other places but never actually visit those places. It made the world feel so much larger rather than the theme park approach of seeing everything.

The cast left a lot to be desired. Obviously everyone talks about the protagonists having no distinguishing personality traits, but Resh'an and B'st felt like they had similar issues. The former is very detached from everything and the latter comes so late that he almost feels like a bonus character rather than part of the main cast. It felt like Garl and Serai are the only characters I was interested in, and the game doesn't even tell you anything meaningful about Serai until 2/3 of the way through the game.

Minor gripe: I hate how the game decided to write out "Hahahaha!" whenever someone laughed. I could be wrong, but I feel like Chrono Trigger just used the sprite animations to get this across, and that felt so much more natural.

I think the battle system was fine, but it really did need more skills. When I'm still using Moonerang against the last boss it feels kinda...eh. as someone else mentioned, delay is broken as fuck though. Once you figure that out, some of the late game bosses become jokes.

I'm a little miffed that the game locked me out of selecting only offensive stat boosts for the entirety of the game. If you're gonna give me a choice, let me commit to it!

Air

I really liked it but I don't think it would hold up if I wasn't playing it with friends via link cable

I have to say the music is legit great

Maybe even the best part of the game

Yeah, I think so too.

I think this game got too caught up in its worldbuilding and forgot to craft a good story arc

Beat the game last night, including all the bonus stuff

The ending was a pretty big letdown

This may be a dumb question, but if a car is flashing, does that mean it's close to death, or does that mean it has a full meter and can go to the skyway? I assume the former, but I've crashed into some flashing cars and not gotten a KO.

Highest I've gotten so far is 8

I was doing well in the Grand Prix and then placed 20/20 on Silence. That track wrecked me.

Of the 99s, this might be my favorite so far

<$5 maybe

I'm sort of at the point where I just ignore sales though. If I intend to play a game immediately, I'll buy it regardless of the price. If I won't play it immediately, I don't buy it.

RikkuAlmighty posted...

So this is all Ginhyuns fault for not getting hired and stopping it, as I see it.

I guess I should have tried harder to get that role as vice president of installations

I once interviewed at Unity and didn't get the job.

It feels increasingly like I dodged a bullet!

including making bad fad topics

Yeah I have never successfully boosted my healing with timing as far as I am aware

Didn't even know about it until the quiz question like someone else noted

I feel like the constant and asynchronous nature of Discord does make it different from AIM. Along with the fact that it's able to hold way more users.

Grimlyn posted...

As someone who arrived in 2005 Ulti was always this way, the thing I watched people change is how people reacted to it.

but if you look back at Old B8, things could be uh pretty garbage there in the old days. we like to reminisce on fr0q drawings but then you see the one for MYC and jesus fuck

actually page 2 of the current dillos topic I mentioned looking back on the legendary Kuge To Catch a Predatory topic and hooooly shit you got a lot of abhorrently misogynistic & pedophillic takes in there - although worth pointing out on #2, most the board was still teenagers so it more-so helps you relate to today's era of Tate boys

bringing up that topic though since we are talking about ulti it's worth noting he was a voice of reason when on-topic there (although historically if you remember anything about Ulti that shouldn't be a surprise on the topic of child predators). although even there he does the thing Chris mentions of side-track attacking Kuge for alcoholism & gambling.

Yeah agreed on most if not all of this. Ulti was always more or less like this, but in the beginning there was some weird Ulti worship going on. I was a lot more timid back then, so it kinda put me off posting much back then (not that I post a ton now).

The alpha male stuff was a real low point for the board.

On an unrelated note, I don't get how people constantly fell for Kuge's stories back then when they were all obviously made up. I remember people going into the youtube comments of the To Catch a Predator video trying to explain it was Kuge and it was...strange.

oh they said the thing

Dels posted...

oh speaking of villains, i'm (third island spoilers) sort of confused about the motivation of the two mentor characters. like, the impression i thought the game was trying to give me was that they were cynical about the solstice religion and didn't want more kids to have to become warriors, which is fair enough. but their solution to this is to... summon a dark god to murder everyone and destroy the world??? like. that just seems inconsistent with their character unless i'm supposed to believe that they're actually just pure evil now? why is that the solution they turned to??? was that the only alternative? maybe this will make sense eventually because it doesn't to me right now.

Yeah, I'm also confused about this. Hoping there's a better explanation later. So far the game really enjoys delaying any explanations as much as possible.

I just got the ability to find out if I missed treasures in previous areas, so I'm doing a bunch of backtracking right now.

I've kinda gone back and forth on my opinion of the game. I think Wraith Island was pretty boring and had too much combat without enough to break it up. But the game has felt a bit better since then.

I still wish there were more skills. Like, finding new combos is cool, but I do not use those nearly as much. Moonerang is still one of the best skills I have after 15 or so hours, which seems a bit silly.

foolm0r0n posted...

Is there a reason they let you pick the lead character? I don't think I've ever seen that done really well outside of Seiken Densetsu

Unless there's something significant later in the game that I haven't reached yet, it's mostly just a cosmetic change, like picking a male or female trainer in Pokemon.