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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on May 1, 2023 12:56:27 GMT -5
FYI, there is apparently a real leak of TotK that someone has, so be wary of spoilers of the plot until release.
Nintendo is gonna be on their asses, that's for sure.
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Post by chrom on May 1, 2023 19:44:43 GMT -5
Cadence of Hyrule is available to play for a trial week.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on May 5, 2023 14:20:30 GMT -5
Feel like I'm in this weird stasis right now of not really wanting to buy anything on the Switch due to a wealth of options to buy. Right at this moment Live A Live, Final Fantasy 4, Tears of the Kingdom, Rain Code, Pikmin 4, and A Wonderful Life are all on my radar and they're all kind of an, "Ehhh, I'd like to have them eventually but I'm not hyped for them," thing and I'm not really wanting to drop the money on any of them right this minute.
What's probably going to end up happening is I'll finish Live A Live - rented it from Gamefly wanting to try it out before buying it (since I forgot it had a demo) - and send it back then buy it whenever I want to play it again down the line, wait on FF4 and A Wonderful Life, use the vouchers to get TotK and Pikmin, and Rain Code, but I'm not really enthusiastic about any of that on paper. Decent chance I just end up ignoring all of that and only get A Wonderful Life of the lot.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2023 7:10:26 GMT -5
Battle Kid, a homebrew NES game that came out in 2010, is finally coming to switch.
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Post by Mike Strike on May 6, 2023 10:16:33 GMT -5
Cadence of Hyrule is available to play for a trial week. With the final 2 days running alongside the Triforce Splatfest. Come in guys, I can't play both at the same time!
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Post by Von Wagner's Brownies on May 8, 2023 15:39:48 GMT -5
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Post by Raskovnik on May 9, 2023 23:35:49 GMT -5
What the Nintendo fans say: “Tears of the Kingdom will DEFINITELY be worth $70, but if it bothers you so much, then you can just buy the Game Vouchers because Zelda is covered by that…”
What I hear: “why spend $70 on this game when you can spend $100 on it”
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Post by Push R Truth on May 10, 2023 9:48:26 GMT -5
What the Nintendo fans say: “Tears of the Kingdom will DEFINITELY be worth $70, but if it bothers you so much, then you can just buy the Game Vouchers because Zelda is covered by that…” What I hear: “why spend $70 on this game when you can spend $100 on it” That's similar to what stage I'm at. "But Val, you'll save money on the voucher!" The only game on the voucher list that I don't already own and want to play is Tears of the Kingdom. It's cheaper to spend 70 than 100 for shit I don't really want. And my buddy thinks I'm crazy and wasting money. Oh well. IF this is one of my life complaints than life can't really be that bad, right?
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on May 10, 2023 10:06:19 GMT -5
What the Nintendo fans say: “Tears of the Kingdom will DEFINITELY be worth $70, but if it bothers you so much, then you can just buy the Game Vouchers because Zelda is covered by that…” What I hear: “why spend $70 on this game when you can spend $100 on it” That's similar to what stage I'm at. "But Val, you'll save money on the voucher!" The only game on the voucher list that I don't already own and want to play is Tears of the Kingdom. It's cheaper to spend 70 than 100 for shit I don't really want. And my buddy thinks I'm crazy and wasting money. Oh well. IF this is one of my life complaints than life can't really be that bad, right? The voucher makes sense if (1) You are an NSO subscriber and would be regardless of the vouchers and (2) You are definitely planning on buying 2 games at retail price It becomes a little more compelling if you are also a Costco member and can take advantage of one of their gift card sales. I got $100 in Nintendo gift cards for $80.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on May 10, 2023 10:59:35 GMT -5
I'm definitely opening to using the voucher for it, since I buy digital games all the time and there are several I would like to get that could go with Tears of the Kingdom... but the problem I'm running into is that I'm really not interested in TotK.
I dunno, I think it's the aggressive hype cycle more than anything. I know I'd enjoy it - though I really never wanted a BotW sequel to begin with and what they've shown off while it looks good isn't wowing me by any means - but right now it seems like everything to do with Nintendo anywhere is just endless people going, "YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS, IT IS MANDATORY," and my response to that is just kind of, "No, screw you, you don't dictate my purchases." It's taking a game I'd probably put at like a 7 or 8 and telling me it's an 11 and it's just obnoxious.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on May 11, 2023 7:56:47 GMT -5
Zelda review embargo has dropped. A whole lot of 10/10 reviews, with most saying it builds on and surpasses Breath of the Wild
From the review aggregators,
Metacritic - 97 OpenCritic - 97
IGN - Tom Marks - 10 / 10
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an unfathomable follow-up, expanding a world that already felt full beyond expectation and raising the bar ever higher into the clouds.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on May 11, 2023 8:02:41 GMT -5
Great line in the Empire review : “You can really improve upon perfection”.
Can’t wait for tomorrow and for this game to take over my life to a point I’ll be thinking of it as I try and sleep.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on May 11, 2023 10:11:41 GMT -5
12am cannot come quick enough
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on May 12, 2023 1:21:06 GMT -5
I decided to go ahead and give Tears of the Kingdom a whirl and does the goddamn sky tutorial ever freaking end? I have spent like the last hour and a half trying to reach the third shrine and made absolutely no progress and while I was having fun at first I'm rapidly losing my f***ing patience.
Edit: 20 minutes later I still haven't even budged. This game's level design is absolutely f***ing horrendous, you end up off track and you're just hopelessly f***ed and god forbid they give you the teleportation from the get-go so you can return to familiar territory if you get stuck.
Further edit: FINALLY. Even then I guarantee I didn't do it correctly, ended up just building a gigantic tree bridge to jump straight to it.
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Post by Raskovnik on May 13, 2023 1:58:19 GMT -5
I decided to go ahead and give Tears of the Kingdom a whirl and does the goddamn sky tutorial ever freaking end? I have spent like the last hour and a half trying to reach the third shrine and made absolutely no progress and while I was having fun at first I'm rapidly losing my f***ing patience. Edit: 20 minutes later I still haven't even budged. This game's level design is absolutely f***ing horrendous, you end up off track and you're just hopelessly f***ed and god forbid they give you the teleportation from the get-go so you can return to familiar territory if you get stuck. Further edit: FINALLY. Even then I guarantee I didn't do it correctly, ended up just building a gigantic tree bridge to jump straight to it. Two of my friends and myself all wound up having to build a stupid tree bridge to get to that third shrine so you're not on your own. I'm not enamored with the building in general, it's so goddamn finicky and if I'm feeling that way right now right at the start of the game when it's supposed to be nifty and novel, I can't imagine being stoked hours in whenever I have to do it.
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Post by dirtyoldman on May 13, 2023 2:39:09 GMT -5
I see Hogwarts Legacy for the switch is delayed to November now. Wonder if that was because they knew they'd still be up against Zelda?
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Post by Raskovnik on May 13, 2023 3:03:27 GMT -5
I see Hogwarts Legacy for the switch is delayed to November now. Wonder if that was because they knew they'd still be up against Zelda? I’m honestly expecting it to be outright canceled by this point, like they wound up doing with Midnight Suns.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on May 13, 2023 13:19:02 GMT -5
Nintendo making you fight 200 gold Lynels with a tree branch at the beginning of the game was something else.
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Post by darbus alan on May 13, 2023 13:22:08 GMT -5
Nintendo arbitrarily raising the price of some new Switch games to $70 is going to really suck with their evergreen titles.
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Post by Mike Strike on May 13, 2023 14:52:08 GMT -5
I see Hogwarts Legacy for the switch is delayed to November now. Wonder if that was because they knew they'd still be up against Zelda? I’m honestly expecting it to be outright canceled by this point, like they wound up doing with Midnight Suns. Midnight Sons in general bombed while Hogwarts Legacy was a success. Not an apt comparison.
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