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greatn
Nov 15, 2006

by Lowtax
Everything from their Paper Mario Color Splash video was basically completely spot on.

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Hedrigall
Mar 27, 2008

by vyelkin
GameXplain is my guilty pleasure. The main dude's voice is SUPER irritating but I watch every loving 45 minute analysis video they put out. It's fun to get excited about games :3:

a.lo
Sep 12, 2009

One day Link will get a voice actor and that voice actor will be Andre.

Hedrigall
Mar 27, 2008

by vyelkin
Goddamn, the way he says "um".


*nasal* OMMMMMMMMMMMM

SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.



Hedrigall posted:

GameXplain is my guilty pleasure. The main dude's voice is SUPER irritating but I watch every loving 45 minute analysis video they put out. It's fun to get excited about games :3:

Same. They are super positive about games and that's nice.

Runcible Cat
May 28, 2007

Ignoring this post

a.lo posted:

what was that tingle hgame called?
Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland.

Kassad
Nov 12, 2005

It's about time.

Jonas Albrecht posted:

This is one of Twilight Princess' flaws, the inclusion of Ganon and Zelda. Both really have no place in the story, and I honestly would have preferred that it be about a Link getting drawn into some alien internecine shenanigans. It would have been a good chance to explore the concepts of all the Links who born, live their lives, and die without ever knowing about their lineage's destiny.

I'd say Midna is also part of the problem, in the sense that she's a well developed character whose story is clearly intertwined with both Ganondorf's and Zelda's. And yet, she's not the player avatar. Link is typically kind of a blank slate, but that makes it visible and pretty jarring. Like, in the cutscene before the fight with Ganon-possessed Zelda, she says something like "I'll stop you!", but the player knows it's going to be Link who actually fights.

Although, to be honest, Link being dragged into "some alien internecine shenanigans" is what Majora's Mask did, very well in my opinion.

a.lo
Sep 12, 2009

GameXplain has their BotW analysis up and it is over 2 hours long

greatn
Nov 15, 2006

by Lowtax
I've watched maybe 45 minutes so far, honestly not one of their best.

Lots of bad jokes and a really dumb live action opener.

Fortis
Oct 21, 2009

feelin' fine

Patter Song posted:

It'd explain his miraculous "recovery" after spending the entire game dead.

I always figured this was a result of Link's Triforce wish combined with NOA not wanting to directly reference death.

SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.



a.lo posted:

GameXplain has their BotW analysis up and it is over 2 hours long

The first half is kinda interesting but the last half is all boring piecing which scene is where on a map. I have to give them credit for the insane ridiculous effort that must have took though.

I have a feeling that some people will be upset with this when the game comes out but I love how desolate the world seems. It's going to be really fun exploring.

SeANMcBAY fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Sep 5, 2016

a.lo
Sep 12, 2009

Keiya
Aug 22, 2009

Come with me if you want to not die.
If we can't use bombs with the shield to fly I will literally cry.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012



"You're dancing with Chico now, fuckmasters"

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE
Judging from all these gameplay videos, I think it's safe to assume BotW will be the best Zelda. Yes, even better than Wind Waker.

Linear Zoetrope
Nov 28, 2011

A hero must cook
It would take something massive for BOTW to suck. Like, they seriously spent hours upon hours showing the game off and it never got old. I guess it's possible this is a long con and the first area is the only good part of the game, but it would take monumental incompetence to screw up given that we've seen freeform gameplay and not scripted playthroughs of linear areas.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Rexroom posted:

Judging from all these gameplay videos, I think it's safe to assume BotW will be the best Zelda. Yes, even better than Wind Waker.

It's going to be the best game ever made.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe
Ways BOTW could suck:

1. It turns out that the 100 shrines are all palette swaps of four or five basic designs.
2. The four main dungeons are cryptic impossible bullshit on a grander scale than ever before.
3. The bosses are lackluster.
4. The people/towns lack the life of towns in pervious Zeldas.

I think only #1 is likely, but still. What would a Zelda game be without dicking around in a town with a windmill and horribly ugly NPCs who make bizarre noises when you talk to them?

Junpei Hyde
Mar 15, 2013




Ways BOTW could become GOTY all years:

1. girl link

Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here
Welp, guess it's time to close the thread.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


BotW is going to be amazing and I need those amiibos.

spit on my clit
Jul 19, 2015

by Cyrano4747

Junpei Hyde posted:

Ways BOTW could become GOTY all years:

1. girl link

i'd rather have linkle because she talks

coffeecup
Feb 26, 2016
Where did the mention of four main dungeons come from? The Gamexplain vid is the first time I've heard about it.

Still excited as hell for this game.

Alxprit
Feb 7, 2015

<click> <click> What is it with this dancing?! Bouncing around like fools... I would have thought my own kind at least would understand the seriousness of our Adventurer's Guild!

coffeecup posted:

Where did the mention of four main dungeons come from? The Gamexplain vid is the first time I've heard about it.

Still excited as hell for this game.

Part of the rumor that initally said there'd be 100+ "mini-dungeons", which we know are the shrines now.

coffeecup
Feb 26, 2016
Shrine count isn't a rumor, though, Nintendo people talked about it at E3. Not trying to be pedantic, just curious.

e: or did you mean there was a mini-dungeon rumor even before E3?

DalaranJ
Apr 15, 2008

Yosuke will now die for you.

Patter Song posted:

Ways BOTW could suck:

1. It turns out that the 100 shrines are all palette swaps of four or five basic designs.
2. The four main dungeons are cryptic impossible bullshit on a grander scale than ever before.
3. The bosses are lackluster.
4. The people/towns lack the life of towns in pervious Zeldas.

I think only #1 is likely, but still. What would a Zelda game be without dicking around in a town with a windmill and horribly ugly NPCs who make bizarre noises when you talk to them?

I think I actually want 2 to be true.

SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.



DalaranJ posted:

I think I actually want 2 to be true.

I want 4 to be true too. It'll be weird to have a big happy town in this version of Hyrule. I want all the NPCs to be hiding out alone under rocks or something.

Alxprit
Feb 7, 2015

<click> <click> What is it with this dancing?! Bouncing around like fools... I would have thought my own kind at least would understand the seriousness of our Adventurer's Guild!

coffeecup posted:

Shrine count isn't a rumor, though, Nintendo people talked about it at E3. Not trying to be pedantic, just curious.

e: or did you mean there was a mini-dungeon rumor even before E3?

Yeah, I didn't feel like I needed to specify it was a pre-E3 rumor.

Patter Song
Mar 26, 2010

Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.
Fun Shoe
Also, there's four eerie monoliths in front of Hyrule Castle, so...

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE
Nothing.

greatn
Nov 15, 2006

by Lowtax

Patter Song posted:

Also, there's four eerie monoliths in front of Hyrule Castle, so...

I assume Hyrule Castle itself would be somewhat of a dungeon as well, making five

Blade_of_tyshalle
Jul 12, 2009

If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Junpei Hyde posted:

Ways BOTW could become GOTY all years:

1. girl link

Don't apply your normative labels to Link, you bigot. Xie is more than that.

Keiya
Aug 22, 2009

Come with me if you want to not die.
Honestly, Link's androgynous enough in modern incarnations that you could just write around using pronouns and just let people project their own gender onto them.

(It works slightly better in low-res depictions - how many people even noticed they were doing it with the Undertale character? - but most Zelda games are stylized enough it can work.)

SylvainMustach
Dec 12, 2007

Superior Trash Talk!
Any tips on the escort mission with the boomerang and the carriage on fire. Because the motion aiming sucks and none of it feels like it controls well at all.

I havent been this frustrated at something in a video game in a long long time.

edit: never save in the middle of a sequence like that because it started me over before the bridge joust that required the arrow and bomb and I'm all out of bombs haha
ugghhh


just when I thought I was starting to see what others did in this game it does something deeply un fun like this chase

I'm going back to SS

SylvainMustach fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Sep 6, 2016

frodnonnag
Aug 13, 2007

Patter Song posted:

Also, there's four eerie monoliths in front of Hyrule Castle, so...

My (obvious) guess is that there's 4 dungeons obscured by the clouds. do something to clear clouds > clear dungeon > unlock that pillar > 4 pillars > castle.

DalaranJ
Apr 15, 2008

Yosuke will now die for you.

a.lo posted:

GameXplain has their BotW analysis up and it is over 2 hours long

I want to know what Andre puts on his resume if he ever looks for another job.

Linear Zoetrope
Nov 28, 2011

A hero must cook

DalaranJ posted:

I want to know what Andre puts on his resume if he ever looks for another job.

"Slavish, disturbing, and possibly pathological devotion to decoding fine details and minutiae."

spit on my clit
Jul 19, 2015

by Cyrano4747

DalaranJ posted:

I want to know what Andre puts on his resume if he ever looks for another job.

"Pathological obsessor"

romanowski
Nov 10, 2012

SylvainMustach posted:

Any tips on the escort mission with the boomerang and the carriage on fire. Because the motion aiming sucks and none of it feels like it controls well at all.

I havent been this frustrated at something in a video game in a long long time.

edit: never save in the middle of a sequence like that because it started me over before the bridge joust that required the arrow and bomb and I'm all out of bombs haha
ugghhh


just when I thought I was starting to see what others did in this game it does something deeply un fun like this chase

I'm going back to SS

you should probably move your sensor bar out of sunlight because the only way you could possibly have any trouble with that section is if you're getting some kind of interference that's messing up the controls

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coffeecup
Feb 26, 2016

romanowski posted:

you should probably move your sensor bar out of sunlight because the only way you could possibly have any trouble with that section is if you're getting some kind of interference that's messing up the controls

This, but also check your strategy, op. You should primarily be focused on any pterodactyls. Kill them as they appear. Everything else is secondary. gently caress up the bokoblin riders if you're near them, but only enough to get away. Don't linger and try to take them all.

Sensor bar issues aside, you're not wrong if you think TP's Epona controls are kinda wonky.

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