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Post by Warmonger on Oct 1, 2018 11:08:24 GMT -5
Less than 4 weeks to go
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 1, 2018 18:53:59 GMT -5
I'm kind of disappointed in how Breath of the Wild ended.
Part of it was my own fault, I spent like a month grinding through just about every area trying to find as many temples as I could and collecting all the ancient parts I could find so that when I finally decided to go face Gannon I had 100 ancient arrows, two full lines of hearts and two wheels of stamina...which meant that I could just stroll through the front door of the castle and blow away anything that dared oppose me...including Gannon.
So a little anti-climactic there as I prepped too much...but what really bumbed me out was something that should have been an easy fix: the save point should have been after you beat Gannon so that when you play on through afterward everyone sees you as the hero who saved Hyrule. That simple thing would have made continuing to play more rewarding and it would have taken so little effort.
I mean, I'm still likely to keep playing occasionally as it's a beautiful world and I've yet to capture the legendary mounts, nut it was a little bitter sweet that you're denied a real reward.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 1, 2018 20:18:23 GMT -5
I agree that there being a game after defeating Gannon would have been nice. Different commentary from NPCs, maybe different weapons/armor, different behavior from enemies maybe. It would have made all the farming you might want to do like korok seeds or more shrines a bit more exciting.
That said the actual Gannon battle didn’t bother me. I could tell halfway into the games 50% of the powers/weapons weren’t needed to defeat Gannon. I just enjoyed the tasks and quests themselves to get these things. So in my mind I was not holding the Gannon fight to any kind of critique. It’s just another boss battle in another video game. I’m finding boss battles being good is rarer and rarer. In video games in general not just Zelda.
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Post by impulse on Oct 2, 2018 13:11:19 GMT -5
I'm kind of disappointed in how Breath of the Wild ended. Part of it was my own fault, I spent like a month grinding through just about every area trying to find as many temples as I could and collecting all the ancient parts I could find so that when I finally decided to go face Gannon I had 100 ancient arrows, two full lines of hearts and two wheels of stamina...which meant that I could just stroll through the front door of the castle and blow away anything that dared oppose me...including Gannon. So a little anti-climactic there as I prepped too much...but what really bumbed me out was something that should have been an easy fix: the save point should have been after you beat Gannon so that when you play on through afterward everyone sees you as the hero who saved Hyrule. That simple thing would have made continuing to play more rewarding and it would have taken so little effort. I mean, I'm still likely to keep playing occasionally as it's a beautiful world and I've yet to capture the legendary mounts, nut it was a little bitter sweet that you're denied a real reward. I agree with you. That was very disappointing and sucked away any interest I had to keep going. It would have been neat to see the people trying to rebuild the world so it's less bleak, they recognize you, etc. Not only that, but I was disappointed in how little story there really was, too. The game had a beautiful aesthetic and had fun gameplay mechanics, but it was really thin on content I'm afraid. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 2, 2018 13:52:41 GMT -5
I'm kind of disappointed in how Breath of the Wild ended. Part of it was my own fault, I spent like a month grinding through just about every area trying to find as many temples as I could and collecting all the ancient parts I could find so that when I finally decided to go face Gannon I had 100 ancient arrows, two full lines of hearts and two wheels of stamina...which meant that I could just stroll through the front door of the castle and blow away anything that dared oppose me...including Gannon. So a little anti-climactic there as I prepped too much...but what really bumbed me out was something that should have been an easy fix: the save point should have been after you beat Gannon so that when you play on through afterward everyone sees you as the hero who saved Hyrule. That simple thing would have made continuing to play more rewarding and it would have taken so little effort. I mean, I'm still likely to keep playing occasionally as it's a beautiful world and I've yet to capture the legendary mounts, nut it was a little bitter sweet that you're denied a real reward. I agree with you. That was very disappointing and sucked away any interest I had to keep going. It would have been neat to see the people trying to rebuild the world so it's less bleak, they recognize you, etc. Not only that, but I was disappointed in how little story there really was, too. The game had a beautiful aesthetic and had fun gameplay mechanics, but it was really thin on content I'm afraid. I thought the story was pretty good, especially the way it was revealed through the memories and bits of songs from that Rito Troubador, but yeah not having the save point occur after the end was a major bumber and like I said it wouldn't have needed anyhing major, just give me a few new lines of text from the npcs and I'd be willing to buy into the story continuing even with out any other real content but as is the reward just wasn't there especially as I had already ground through, as it turns out, 70% of the game. |
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Post by impulse on Oct 3, 2018 8:27:11 GMT -5
I agree with you. That was very disappointing and sucked away any interest I had to keep going. It would have been neat to see the people trying to rebuild the world so it's less bleak, they recognize you, etc. Not only that, but I was disappointed in how little story there really was, too. The game had a beautiful aesthetic and had fun gameplay mechanics, but it was really thin on content I'm afraid. I thought the story was pretty good, especially the way it was revealed through the memories and bits of songs from that Rito Troubador, but yeah not having the save point occur after the end was a major bumber and like I said it wouldn't have needed anyhing major, just give me a few new lines of text from the npcs and I'd be willing to buy into the story continuing even with out any other real content but as is the reward just wasn't there especially as I had already ground through, as it turns out, 70% of the game. Oh yeah, what was there was good. There was just so little of it it left me wanting and made the game feel a bit emptier. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 6, 2018 21:50:32 GMT -5
I haven’t played Warframe in like 3 weeks. I log on tonight and there’s a new glaive throwing weapon. But at this time it can only be bought with platinum which is one of the in game currencies but has to be bought real world money. And my daily tribute was a 50% market purchase so I could buy it with the platinum I already have. But I may need it in the future because I said I was done spending money on this game.
Damn you free to play game developers! You know exactly what you’re doing. (It’s still a great game though and I’d recommend it to anyone.)
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Post by impulse on Nov 7, 2018 11:39:32 GMT -5
Okay, for any of you guys with a PC made this in the last decade, I finally recently tried this "Brutal Doom" mod that exists for the old school Doom games (think Doom, Doom 2, etc). OHHHH man, it is so much more fun than I anticipated. Cartoonishly over the top and modernized gameplay. It's a delight especially with the music replacement mod that uses real heavy metal recordings of the songs.
Don't be scared off by the word mod, either. It's shockingly easy to setup. You just download a modern engine port for Doom (Gzdoom or Zanondrium I think). They are free. Just unzip them, and assuming you own a copy of one of the Doom games, you go in the directory, looking for the doom.wad file, and copy and paste it into the folder with GZdoom or whatever. Download brutal doom and drop it in the same folder. It's so easy and all free (except getting a copy of Doom which is regularly on sale for a couple bucks). The websites have instructions for any slight tweaking. i.e. I wrote a 2 line batch file that loads brutal doom and the music mod at the same timne. And by I wrote, I mean I used the template they gave me and dropped in the filenames of what I have.
Super easy and super fun.
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Post by Warmonger on Nov 8, 2018 23:00:42 GMT -5
I can’t even say enough about RDR II.
Talk about a revolution in open world games. When it’s all said and done, I’ll probably invest 30-40 hours just hunting and fishing.
Studios like Bethesda better take their asses back to the drawing board. Rockstar has taken it to another level.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 14, 2018 10:57:53 GMT -5
Need advice about the Xbox One S console. My brother's Xbox 360 recently crapped out and stopped working, so I'm thinking of buying him the newest Xbox One S console as a replacement. However, he doesn't have an internet connection at his home (he's disabled, unemployed and can't afford one). I've read that you need to be connected to the internet for the initial setup of the console, which we can get around because he can always bring it to my house and we can do the set up there, right? But he's going to be using the console offline for the rest of the time. I'd like to get an idea of how important an internet connection is in the day-to-day use of the Xbox One S console? Will his not being online be a big problem for him, which may affect his ability to use the console to play games by himself? Also, how many modern games require your Xbox One S to be connected to the internet? Thanks in advance for your help in this, people...I'm utterly clueless about this sort of thing! 
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Post by bor on Nov 15, 2018 13:25:35 GMT -5
Need advice about the Xbox One S console. My brother's Xbox 360 recently crapped out and stopped working, so I'm thinking of buying him the newest Xbox One S console as a replacement. However, he doesn't have an internet connection at his home (he's disabled, unemployed and can't afford one). I've read that you need to be connected to the internet for the initial setup of the console, which we can get around because he can always bring it to my house and we can do the set up there, right? But he's going to be using the console offline for the rest of the time. I'd like to get an idea of how important an internet connection is in the day-to-day use of the Xbox One S console? Will his not being online be a big problem for him, which may affect his ability to use the console to play games by himself? Also, how many modern games require your Xbox One S to be connected to the internet? Thanks in advance for your help in this, people...I'm utterly clueless about this sort of thing! I dont have a S model but the original Xbox one model, but the basic setup should be the same. As you said having an internet connection when you first set it up is a good idea and the same applies when you install games but other then that it really depends on what kind of game it is. One player games can be played with out much trouble. If you just want to replace the 360 they are dirt cheap now. However, with the one/s/x model you get access to xbox one games and on top of that its backwards compatable with a whole bunch of 360 games. But keep in mind that if you do install 360 games you need to have an internet connection because the machine does not actually play the game but download a digital version where you use the disc afterwords as key of sort. |
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Post by Confessor on Nov 15, 2018 16:18:43 GMT -5
Need advice about the Xbox One S console. My brother's Xbox 360 recently crapped out and stopped working, so I'm thinking of buying him the newest Xbox One S console as a replacement. However, he doesn't have an internet connection at his home (he's disabled, unemployed and can't afford one). I've read that you need to be connected to the internet for the initial setup of the console, which we can get around because he can always bring it to my house and we can do the set up there, right? But he's going to be using the console offline for the rest of the time. I'd like to get an idea of how important an internet connection is in the day-to-day use of the Xbox One S console? Will his not being online be a big problem for him, which may affect his ability to use the console to play games by himself? Also, how many modern games require your Xbox One S to be connected to the internet? Thanks in advance for your help in this, people...I'm utterly clueless about this sort of thing! I dont have a S model but the original Xbox one model, but the basic setup should be the same. As you said having an internet connection when you first set it up is a good idea and the same applies when you install games but other then that it really depends on what kind of game it is. One player games can be played with out much trouble. If you just want to replace the 360 they are dirt cheap now. However, with the one/s/x model you get access to xbox one games and on top of that its backwards compatable with a whole bunch of 360 games. But keep in mind that if you do install 360 games you need to have an internet connection because the machine does not actually play the game but download a digital version where you use the disc afterwords as key of sort. Brilliant and really useful info, bor. Thank you so much. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 15, 2018 16:41:12 GMT -5
To add to what Bor said, if he is at certain points going to have access to the internet and is interested in downloading digital games and/or playing 360 games on it, I would either suggest a console with at least a 1TB HD or planning on buying an external HD down the road if money is an issue. Money wasn't an issue at the time I got my Xbox1 S but I bought a 500GB HD thinking it would be enough. Unfortunatly a lot of AAA digital games are nearing 100GB on their own. Plus as Bor said you will need memory room on the HD to install 360 games as well.
The only thing he really couldn't do is play free to play games like Warframe, that while they can be played offline (I have played Warframe solo) they need a constant internet connection, not only to be played, but to get the updates.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 16, 2018 0:41:11 GMT -5
Thanks for that, adam.
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Post by bor on Nov 17, 2018 19:01:53 GMT -5
To add to what Bor said, if he is at certain points going to have access to the internet and is interested in downloading digital games and/or playing 360 games on it, I would either suggest a console with at least a 1TB HD or planning on buying an external HD down the road if money is an issue. Money wasn't an issue at the time I got my Xbox1 S but I bought a 500GB HD thinking it would be enough. Unfortunatly a lot of AAA digital games are nearing 100GB on their own. Plus as Bor said you will need memory room on the HD to install 360 games as well. The only thing he really couldn't do is play free to play games like Warframe, that while they can be played offline (I have played Warframe solo) they need a constant internet connection, not only to be played, but to get the updates. Yeah good point. I have a original 500 GB model which I added a 2T but even so I have had to delete stuff, although a big part of that is because of a rather large 360 collection and free games with gold membership each month. |
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