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bewilderment posted:Unless you're counting the PS4 pro as an entirely separate console generation, Assassin's Creed was first released on the PS3 and 360, only last generation. What are you talking about? We've gone Wii -> Wii U -> Switch, haven't we? Not my fault everybody else is being Captain Slow.  Thanks for the pointer. Still and all, early-era PS3 probably couldn't do The Real Assassin's Creed (the theoretical game where you manually scan the city streets for points of interest and can land anywhere) but an end-of-generation machine probably could. If they wanted to waste money on that rather than an HD remaster for some reason. Looking forward to some tutorial zone videos!
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I've only just started on this game so I'm not going to follow the LP as closely as I otherwise might until I've gotten a good deal ahead of it, but I am looking forward to the videos all the same. I do want to point out this game sets off my Dark Souls player instincts something fierce, to the point I keep trying to hit the A button to dodge roll and wondering why I can't. It's actually a little bit frustrating!
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 With the intro and dicking about easily accomplished, it's time to dive into the first two shrines, learn some enjoyably ridiculous new abilities, and get a taste of true fear.
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Jun 24, 2017 17:41
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There are 900 Koroks to find...
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I usually save the Bomb shrine for last (yes, even after the ice-cold mountain shrine; it's not actually that hard to get there once you know what you're doing) because I am a tiny little Hylian child and Guardians terrify me.
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But you already have the Pot Lid, the only thing you need to completely own any and all Guardians!
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Jun 24, 2017 20:36
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Too bad Travis isn't in on this cause he'd love the Bokoblins. Also Mimics really should be a thing in BotW cause it make more sense here than in Kid Icarus Uprising.
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Jun 24, 2017 21:05
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I've completed one of the big dungeons. I've explored roughly 70% of the map. And yet I still fear the guardians
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I've fought the final boss. (And lost, naturally.) I've killed more Guardians than I can count. (Because I hate counting... it's probably only a couple dozen.) And I still run away as often as try to fight them. They're scary.
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Frankly BotW is enough to make me want to buy a Switch. It's like Skyrim for Zelda  And that's fuckin' wonderful.Also Thorn please continue war-crimes against the Bokoblins. It's actually mildly amusing to consider this isn't some evil cult-army of Gannon but just semi-primitive hunter-gatherers that you're running a race war against for no reason.
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Jun 25, 2017 02:33
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Welcome back to LoZ:Breath of Vietnam. Those poor god drat bokos
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I, uh, got very good at countering Guardians. It absolutely is a good skill to develop. Also of note for later instances, Guardian shots are not instantaneous, meaning getting some distance often means being able to do the counter perfectly.
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http://i.imgur.com/YGSOpkM.mp4 http://i.imgur.com/m9XzOgi.mp4 HYRULE BELONGS TO THE HYLIANS RareAcumen fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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Jun 25, 2017 14:04
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RareAcumen posted:
Hylia? The goddess?
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Carbon dioxide posted:Hylia? The goddess? The last thing we need is for those lesser races to start worshiping our goddess!
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RareAcumen posted:http://i.imgur.com/YGSOpkM.mp4 Wow reported for egregious abuse of cuties
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And I will forever be annoyed by that unclaimed glowy thing above Link's head when he drops the rock on the korok.
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Jun 25, 2017 17:57
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Should I have just gotten like 30 Patreon emails from you? I can't check them at the moment (nor should I be on SA) but I thought I'd ask.
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Ometeotl posted:Should I have just gotten like 30 Patreon emails from you? I can't check them at the moment (nor should I be on SA) but I thought I'd ask. Sorry about that. I've been inconsistent in setting the videos public on there, so I had to catch up. There's nothing new in those emails except a mention that I'm drawing now. RareAcumen posted:http://i.imgur.com/YGSOpkM.mp4 Added to the OP, you monster. ThornBrain fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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Jun 25, 2017 18:13
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I like how the old man's camps around the grand plateau are kind of a quiet tutorial in the arts that sustain life.
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I'm not seeing much arson. There's some gratuitous bokocide, yes, and you're beating the crap out of adorable treebabies, but I haven't seen any forests truly burn. Please fix, tia.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:I'm not seeing much arson. There's some gratuitous bokocide, yes, and you're beating the crap out of adorable treebabies, but I haven't seen any forests truly burn. Please fix, tia. Can... Can you burn it all down?  I don't think I'm likely to buy a switch, but this game is seriously neat. Being able to screw around is loads of fun, even assuming Nintendo doesn't allow you to deforest large swathes of terrain.
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Yeah, I get the Mistborn reference. Too bad it doesn't quite work the same, that'd be interesting to see.
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ThornBrain posted:Added to the OP, you monster. I did not commit the sins, I merely documented them so as to bring them before the court.
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Ah yes! Just got back from being overseas and see this posted; I've been waiting for this thread. I don't foresee me being able to access this game anytime soon (no WiiU or Switch, atm) so I'll be enjoying this vicariously through ThornBrain enterprises, Inc, LLC (a subsidiary of TSHN, Ltd.). This game is gorgeous but I do feel it looks a little too washed out. I like the return to the coloring style from WW (and SS, kinda) but a little contrast couldn't hurt anyone, could it? (This being my only gripe about this game so far speaks volumes because I usually despise the opening grind to most Zelda games).
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I do like that, inside the first hour or two of play, you can reasonably have every basic tool you will need throughout the rest of the game. Once you're off the plateau, that's it. The literal entire game world is opened up to you, there is no place inaccessible or blocked off for later or requiring this, that, or the other key item to explore. You have everything you're gonna need. EDIT: Which is not to say this game doesn't have other, more interesting and insidious ways of gating content, such as interesting puzzles or just monsters that'll kick your rear end eight ways from Sunday.
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MeccaPrime posted:This game is gorgeous but I do feel it looks a little too washed out. I like the return to the coloring style from WW (and SS, kinda) but a little contrast couldn't hurt anyone, could it? I agree with that. Sadly it's what Nintendo thinks next-gen looks like. And this is after I indeed increased the contrast of the footage for the videos.
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Are the Sheikah and Hylians different species or different cultures?
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It's more like Hylians are Europeans, Gerudo are Arabic/African, and Shiekah are Asians. I think they're all different races of the same species (which would be essentially humans). The Zoras, Gorons, Rito, and Koroks are the different species.
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ThornBrain posted:I agree with that. Sadly it's what Nintendo thinks next-gen looks like. And this is after I indeed increased the contrast of the footage for the videos. So you've already boosted the contrast and this is what we have? Jesus Christ.. (This isn't a slight on you, definitely the game)
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I don't really get this objection? Nintendo deliberately went with an art style that uses slightly muted colours and has this ethereal haze over everything. It's not "too washed out", it's exactly how the art team wanted it to look. (Not for nothing, the literal art style that inspired the game's look is based on the notion that painters would paint the outdoors the way the outdoors actually looked to humans when they actually went outside rather than according to some preconceived notion of how anything "should" look freed from the confines of our pathetic human eyeballs and the inconveniences of nature.) Saying that BotW is too washed out is approximately as valid an objection as saying Wind Waker is too cartoony. Here are what Wikipedia tells me are some exemplars of the plein air form, one hyperreal, one more stylized: Maybe some given human doesn't like muted colours very much, which, y'know, whatever, tastes and all that. Here is a screenshot from The Witness, from which BotW stole the all-time crown for Best Videogame Grass and which could also be accurately described as "painterly" but gives not the first gently caress about realism and goes straight for idealism; If BotW is "too washed out", then The Witness is also "too saturated". Or possibly both of these objections are bananas and both games look exactly as their creators intended them to look. If we're not going to take creators at their word on these things we might as well just enable all of the poo poo on our TVs that "corrects" images for us so we get our recommended hourly dose of saturated colour. I sound bitter about this but really I'm just mystified at the notion that there can't be a saturated style that is good and a muted style that is also good, and that neither need resemble the other. Breath of the Wild looks really good. Fedule fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Jun 26, 2017 |
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I agree that it looks good overall. It was mainly a minor complaint that got blown up. Tastes are different and all etc... edit to clarify; I also agree that the games definitely look as intended. They got what they were going for, I'm just not a huge fan of one very minor part. MeccaPrime fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Jun 26, 2017 |
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Link goes thru excruciating pain while getting dissolved for teleporting reasons. The fresh copy of Link on the other end has no recollection of this.
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Calamity Ganon is really just the collected, manifested fury of all the dead teleported Links, haunting Hyrule out of rage against the Sheikah for inventing such horror
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I am now going to take this knowledge and teleport from one end of Hyrule to the other. Repeatedly.
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Hedrigall posted:Calamity Ganon is really just the collected, manifested fury of all the dead teleported Links, haunting Hyrule out of rage against the Sheikah for inventing such horror
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Teledahn posted:Can... Can you burn it all down? This gif exists for a reason: 
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 We collect the last two runes, plus a nice jacket the hard way. By being spicy. 
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Bombs most certainly do hurt you with their explosions. I have managed to Bomberman myself once or twice. It's especially easy on the Plateau, where your best armor is still paper-thin.
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Here's a fun one: Try bombing yourself by accident and the resultant shockwave throwing you from the plateau, the damage from that being what kills you.
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