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Post by Lizuka #BLM on May 30, 2023 8:46:46 GMT -5
My main complaint is the rupee situation. The way they handle it is at odds with itself. They appears to want them hard to get, yet anything worth while to buy takes an absurd amount. Second complaint is semi-related. The requirements for armor upgrades go from "that ain't bad" at the start to "Oh just f#$@ off with that bullshit" at the end. Takes hundreds of Amber just to upgrade like one piece. Their economy of things is out of wack. No wonder so many people are using dupes. It's either that or grind Amber for 80+ hours of real time. All that said, this is one of the best "f around and wander for hours" games I've ever played. And I've played WoW when it was good. Really I'm coming down more harshly on it right at this moment than I probably should be, kind of annoyed with it at the moment and kind of just ready to be done with it but I have definitely largely been enjoying the game, but that does kind of cut to the core of the biggest problem I have with it. It's all just way, way too much. Too much farming for things, too many shrines, too many steps in a lot of the sidequests, too much cost for things while cutting all of the good money-making methods from the first game, way too big of a map... It just feels so suffocating. It's probably stellar if you're someone who's into the whole, "Just fiddle around for hours on end trying to do nothing in particular," thing but as a very, "Don't bore me, get to the next mission so I can hurry up and reach the credits," kind of player I just often find it incredibly irritating and aimless.
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Post by chrom on May 30, 2023 9:36:37 GMT -5
My main complaint is the rupee situation. The way they handle it is at odds with itself. They appears to want them hard to get, yet anything worth while to buy takes an absurd amount. Second complaint is semi-related. The requirements for armor upgrades go from "that ain't bad" at the start to "Oh just f#$@ off with that bullshit" at the end. Takes hundreds of Amber just to upgrade like one piece. Their economy of things is out of wack. No wonder so many people are using dupes. It's either that or grind Amber for 80+ hours of real time. All that said, this is one of the best "f around and wander for hours" games I've ever played. And I've played WoW when it was good. It's not like Link to The Past where you could just swipe grass for five minutes and get three hundred rupees.
Only real way to get money is to sell the parts of enemies you slay.
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Post by Fundertaker on May 30, 2023 9:51:20 GMT -5
My main complaint is the rupee situation. The way they handle it is at odds with itself. They appears to want them hard to get, yet anything worth while to buy takes an absurd amount. Second complaint is semi-related. The requirements for armor upgrades go from "that ain't bad" at the start to "Oh just f#$@ off with that bullshit" at the end. Takes hundreds of Amber just to upgrade like one piece. Their economy of things is out of wack. No wonder so many people are using dupes. It's either that or grind Amber for 80+ hours of real time. All that said, this is one of the best "f around and wander for hours" games I've ever played. And I've played WoW when it was good. It's not like Link to The Past where you could just swipe grass for five minutes and get three hundred rupees. Only real way to get money is to sell the parts of enemies you slay.
And do quests. And help some signs staying up. And cutting grass
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Post by Push R Truth on May 30, 2023 10:33:47 GMT -5
I find the sign thing oddly fun. I try to put it up in the stupidest way possible. It's become a competition with my buddy for who has the most over the top bullshit sign fix.
One thing I'm curious about is I've seen a couple people now complain about not having food materials to make the gloom food. Yet I have literally hundreds of glowing mushrooms and cave fish because every well/cave has many of them. Gloom removal food is the one thing I have massive amounts off. Am I just lucky? Or is it too easy to overlook caves/wells since they weren't in the first game. Or are people eating massive quantities of the stuff and I apparently aren't there yet.
Well that... and baked apples. Hitting a grove of trees with the lightning skill is kinda my calling card. Plus I just find it funny that during a fight my wife is like "So wait a sec: as you are burning and flying thru the air while fighting a lynel, you found time to eat 16 baked apples?" .... "yup"
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Post by Gerard Gerard on May 30, 2023 10:54:47 GMT -5
I’m making a killing with little Poe farming to rare clothes then selling that for mad money. There’s also offloading your stones and big meals which tends to rally the tally a fair bit.
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Post by The Ichi on May 30, 2023 10:57:02 GMT -5
I don't bother much with armor anyway because my strategy with most enemies is sneak attacks with arrows/explosives/warmechs, plus defence points seem to make minimal difference. For rupees though I just run around the Goron area for a while.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on May 30, 2023 10:58:04 GMT -5
One thing I'm curious about is I've seen a couple people now complain about not having food materials to make the gloom food. Yet I have literally hundreds of glowing mushrooms and cave fish because every well/cave has many of them. Gloom removal food is the one thing I have massive amounts off. Am I just lucky? Or is it too easy to overlook caves/wells since they weren't in the first game. Or are people eating massive quantities of the stuff and I apparently aren't there yet. I think we're talking about different things, since I was more referring to food that gets around the stupid lock-off-your-health-from-healing bullshit.
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Post by Push R Truth on May 30, 2023 11:53:25 GMT -5
One thing I'm curious about is I've seen a couple people now complain about not having food materials to make the gloom food. Yet I have literally hundreds of glowing mushrooms and cave fish because every well/cave has many of them. Gloom removal food is the one thing I have massive amounts off. Am I just lucky? Or is it too easy to overlook caves/wells since they weren't in the first game. Or are people eating massive quantities of the stuff and I apparently aren't there yet. I think we're talking about different things, since I was more referring to food that gets around the stupid lock-off-your-health-from-healing bullshit. Oh yeah I got the glow/gloom crossed on my brain. I am at the point I just eat glow food for random hearts when I don't have another positive buff to override. I have about 50 sundalions, I think that's gloom food. I know I ate some in the depths last night. I seem to find them a lot anywhere in the sky with grass.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on May 30, 2023 14:12:18 GMT -5
It's probably stellar if you're someone who's into the whole, "Just fiddle around for hours on end trying to do nothing in particular," thing but as a very, "Don't bore me, get to the next mission so I can hurry up and reach the credits," kind of player I just often find it incredibly irritating and aimless. This is exactly why I love the game so much, although I really haven’t had a tonne of time to spend with it. Give or take 15 hour so far. But I’m they guy who will run around doing as many side quests (or shrines and sky towers in TotK) as I can before I even look at my next main story mission. I’ll be playing this game til f***ing Christmas (not sure if it’ll be XMas 2023 or 2024) due to my schedule, but I’m having tonnes of fun with it thus far.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on May 30, 2023 15:36:54 GMT -5
Tears of the Kingdom is f***ing spectacular. That is all. Honestly I'd genuinely appreciate it if you could explain your perspective on the matter since from where I'm sitting it pretty much just feels like all you actually need to get rave reviews is an impressive physics engine and 200 hours worth of busywork with fun or halfway decent level design being completely incidental. They’ve taken a map which was genuinely one of the greatest open world maps ever and made it even better. They could have just copied Hyrule from BOTW and pasted it here and said “there, more of the same”. Instead they shuffled things around and added things like caves and wells to increase the amount of things to do. And then they added a whole new map underneath that of almost exactly the same size. Granted there’s not nearly as much to do down there but it’s still pivotal to the game. And then to triple down on that, they throw sky islands into the mix. And that’s just commenting on the map. I haven’t even finished the game yet but the storyline has already completely drawn me in. The construction side of the game is something you can dip into as little or as much as you like. I’m not interested in building war machines or anything beyond the most basic vehicles you need to construct to progress in the game and the game allows me to do that. Whereas if you’re that way inclined there are dozens of things to construct to get you from one point to another. And there’s another thing I adore about this game (and BOTW). I love that you can plan to go from say, the castle to the mountain, but along the way you’re distracted by caves, shrines, NPCs, animals, food to the point that three hours later you’ve not even got close to your planned destination, if anything you’re even further from it than when you started. The side quests are like the construction, It’s up to you how much stock you put into them. Take the Korok seeds, you don’t need to collect them all if you don’t want to (and after I did it once in BOTW, repeating the task on TOTK is not high on my to-do list) but collecting a few along the way is extremely helpful. One of the biggest criticisms of BOTW was the use of Divine Beasts in place of traditional temples. The temples in TOTK aren’t quite the usual Zelda trope of “find a map, find key item, find boss key, kill boss” but they’re a marked improvement over the Divine Beasts and even have a variety of bosses to fight rather than another Ganon Blight. Another criticism was weapon durability. They could have just done away with it altogether, instead they came up with the fuse mechanic and let you create your own weird and wonderful designs if you want to or use it the bare minimum. It’s up to you. To summarise, it feels like Nintendo listened to the feedback on how to improve upon one of the best received games ever and incorporated that into it. And then made it bigger. And added new mechanics. And made it better.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on May 30, 2023 20:24:38 GMT -5
Absolutely insane luck I just had. Was evolving a spare shiny Goomy and Bergmite in Legends to get their regional forms while thinking, "I should really try and hunt down a shiny Stantler," and then I just happened to run into one.
Edit: Then I turn on SV and immediately run into a shiny Tauros. Weird.
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Post by Push R Truth on May 31, 2023 6:04:37 GMT -5
I feel like it's going to be a long time before I get bored of strapping rockets and shit to the "I NEED MAH FRIEND" Koroks. Little dude points at a campfire a mile away. Attach his ass to a board with some rockets, a fan or two and blastoff.
Found my first couple cannons last night. Kinda fun playing with a cannon fused to a stick. Might end up replacing the bomb barrel on a stick that I always make sure I have handy. I've learned that I love having a bomb barrel fused to a shield too. When you suddenly find yourself in a pack of stuff, pulling that out and blocking with it clears everything out to give you a chance to bail or turn the tables.
I've also learned that I love hunting with the Goron's cannon ability. You get meat and cook it at the same time. I made made a lot of rupees fairly quickly last night sells stacks of cooked meats while I was just screwing around.
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Post by chrom on May 31, 2023 7:48:42 GMT -5
Absolutely insane luck I just had. Was evolving a spare shiny Goomy and Bergmite in Legends to get their regional forms while thinking, "I should really try and hunt down a shiny Stantler," and then I just happened to run into one. Edit: Then I turn on SV and immediately run into a shiny Tauros. Weird. Some people just have all the luck
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Post by The Ichi on May 31, 2023 15:22:46 GMT -5
I wonder how many other people like me have awakened to their sociopathic tendacies with the Korok stuff.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on May 31, 2023 15:50:04 GMT -5
I wonder how many other people like me have awakened to their sociopathic tendacies with the Korok stuff. As with BOTW, if I ever find one under a rock I then drop that rock on the little bastard!
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Jun 1, 2023 0:22:11 GMT -5
So...I bought Battle Kid: Fortress Of Peril and...is this a remake/reboot of the original game or something?
I have not played the original Battle Kid but I saw playthroughs of it a couple of years ago and comparing it...the artstyle in the cutscenes is different, it has an "intro level" of sorts, the area until the first checkpoint is different, the normal mode has hit points where the original was a one hit death game etc....
I don't mind it that much since then my parrot brain won't be of much use but so far no sites I have seen mention that there is any difference.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jun 1, 2023 0:44:47 GMT -5
So...I bought Battle Kid: Fortress Of Peril and...is this a remake/reboot of the original game or something? I have not played the original Battle Kid but I saw playthroughs of it a couple of years ago and comparing it...the artstyle in the cutscenes is different, it has an "intro level" of sorts, the area until the first checkpoint is different, the normal mode has hit points where the original was a one hit death game etc.... I don't mind it that much since then my parrot brain won't be of much use but so far no sites I have seen mention that there is any difference. It's a semi-remaster that fixes up the graphics and cutscenes
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jun 1, 2023 2:54:11 GMT -5
Rain Code on anyone else's radar? Finding myself really unsure on how to approach it because 1), A Wonderful Life is out three days prior, and 2), I really have no confidence in Kodaka whatsoever when doing a story that isn't a killing game. I think I'm being hit by FOMO on it because I feel like on every level it makes sense to wait to buy it - not convinced it'll be good, game will drop in price pretty quickly anyway because Spike Chunsoft games always do, not really at all hyped to play it, other game I'm more interested in out right at the same time - but finding myself tempted to pick it up anyway pretty much entirely out of not wanting to risk getting spoiled on the thing, plus if it is good then I'll probably absolutely love it.
Granted it's probably a dumb concern anyway because I didn't play AI: The Somnium Files until like a year after it came out and still managed to know almost nothing about it going in.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jun 1, 2023 3:11:22 GMT -5
Rain Code on anyone else's radar? Finding myself really unsure on how to approach it because 1), A Wonderful Life is out three days prior, and 2), I really have no confidence in Kodaka whatsoever when doing a story that isn't a killing game. I think I'm being hit by FOMO on it because I feel like on every level it makes sense to wait to buy it - not convinced it'll be good, game will drop in price pretty quickly anyway because Spike Chunsoft games always do, not really at all hyped to play it, other game I'm more interested in out right at the same time - but finding myself tempted to pick it up anyway pretty much entirely out of not wanting to risk getting spoiled on the thing, plus if it is good then I'll probably absolutely love it. Granted it's probably a dumb concern anyway because I didn't play AI: The Somnium Files until like a year after it came out and still managed to know almost nothing about it going in. It's one of my friends at the store's most anticipated game of 2023 apparently He's really annoyed that there really hasn't been a lot of American trailers for it and most of everything's been in Japanese.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jun 1, 2023 20:11:28 GMT -5
This will delight the seven people who wanted a sequel to 1 2 Switch
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