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To defeat the lynel, stab it until it dies. Or just avoid them.
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ItBreathes posted:just avoid them
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:i'm real bad at perfect deflections and dodges so i guess i'll just need to practice. and no not for the shock arrows (i had accumulated enough to not even need any at that point) i saw one in the Ruined Colliseum, which i assume is a shrine quest. You almost have to get good at guardians but at the same time you can pass the game without killing one by running away. Like a little weakling. And then you find out beast mode Ganon is a chump compared to two guardians or one Lynel. ItBreathes posted:To defeat the lynel, stab it until it dies. This has been my philosophy. Needless to say I’m not a twitch superstar.
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Real talk, one of my most fundamental problems with the game was that its lethality and the weapon damage system combined to make an almost perfectly-tuned negative reinforcement training for me and combat. By the time I had a good amount of health, my gut reaction was basically to just not fight anything. Then I'm extremely bad at it when it becomes necessary in the "dungeons" - I eventually bumbled my way through, but largely ran past the guardians and tried the final Ganon fight one time before giving up on it forever. Just not for me.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Real talk, one of my most fundamental problems with the game was that its lethality and the weapon damage system combined to make an almost perfectly-tuned negative reinforcement training for me and combat. By the time I had a good amount of health, my gut reaction was basically to just not fight anything. Then I'm extremely bad at it when it becomes necessary in the "dungeons" - I eventually bumbled my way through, but largely ran past the guardians and tried the final Ganon fight one time before giving up on it forever. Just not for me. I’ve always looked at it as a fun exploration game with puzzle dungeons. And fetch quests, but it doesn’t feel like the fetch quests are as abused as they were back in the day. I’m very much comparing its looks to Skyrim SE and I can see like whoa those streams and waterfalls and northern lights are amazing but the beauty of a more cartoonish Hyrule is not to be dismissed. And the music and lore. But you’re not wrong.
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Yeah, I've tried it twice and the most fun I have is opening the map up and finding as many shrine points as possible, then I'm pretty much done, I've accepted it's just not for me. If BotW2 has a more traditional solid dungeon progression I'll happily work through all my other issues, but the short, samey ones here with most of the puzzles randomly scattered through shrines just didn't grab me enough to stay motivated beyond that.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Yeah, I've tried it twice and the most fun I have is opening the map up and finding as many shrine points as possible, then I'm pretty much done, I've accepted it's just not for me. If BotW2 has a more traditional solid dungeon progression I'll happily work through all my other issues, but the short, samey ones here with most of the puzzles randomly scattered through shrines just didn't grab me enough to stay motivated beyond that. King Rhoam help me but I used a bunch of IGN tutorials the first time. After that I got comfortable enough to just wing it and do whatever. Don’t even pass the game because I’m on 100% completion mode. Which hilariously leaves Zelda in the lurch for tens of hours. It’s not like there aren’t beautiful mountains where I live but I’m afraid of hangliding.
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I briefly showed off BotW to a friend. “See it’s more action oriented than Skyrim” He was like “I’m into roguelikes let’s play hammerwatch and look out the window sometimes.”
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Friends are for idiots.
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Pollyanna posted:Friends are for idiots. Hammer Watch is pretty fun for a light roguelike
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I have an unusual request. In the 90s, there was a website called Zelda Headquarters. Since it was the 90s, it had midi background music. 3 different tracks it would switch between. Two original tunes, and 1 techno remix of the LoZ overworld. I've had these songs stuck in my head for years. Did anybody save those midis before the site disappeared? Edit: found it! https://web.archive.org/web/19981203040633/http://www.zhq.com/zelda.htm LividLiquid fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Oct 25, 2019 |
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Oh my God, that site is almost a parody of what late 90s websites looked likequote:There is no why. This is goodbye. RIP to a real one
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It's a wonderful artifact of history.
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Complete with an auto popup asking me where I want to save the midi file upon loading the page, well done 
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LividLiquid posted:It's a wonderful artifact of history. Truly. It was kind of a better internet back then. There’s no limit to what you can’t google today and it sort of feels creepy. I’d trade ads for under construction gifs and bad midi any day.
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A pokemon fansite (the unknown dungeon) with a bad MIDI of Cruel Angel's Thesis is almost singlehandedly responsible for getting me into anime.
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I used to go to this site on my dad's CompUServ account every day because pre web 2.0, you just did that every day despite the fact that sites only updated like once every six weeks.
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LividLiquid posted:I have an unusual request. In the 90s, there was a website called Zelda Headquarters. Since it was the 90s, it had midi background music. 3 different tracks it would switch between. Two original tunes, and 1 techno remix of the LoZ overworld. Holy gently caress I used to go here, the name "Neils'T Hooft" brought up tons of nostalgia, I remember the site being a baby blue though.
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I don't know how anyone can have even a smidge of difficulty with guardians the instant you get ancient arrows. even the flying guardians aren't bad if you, like me, obsessively hop around the map buying up huge stockpiles of arrows. peg em in the eyes during bullet time, no muss no fuss. it's simple to me, honestly.
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It's also very satisfying that you can go into battle naked, with only a pot lid, and take out some of the stronger enemies in the game.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:I don't know how anyone can have even a smidge of difficulty with guardians the instant you get ancient arrows. even the flying guardians aren't bad if you, like me, obsessively hop around the map buying up huge stockpiles of arrows. When you're me and obsessively stockpile I guess. No no don't waste an ancient arrow on it they're expensive! Which shield should I use? No, not that one, it's my favourite... that one's so pretty... need to hang on to that one in case of lightning... that one's too strong to waste on laser parries, I want a crap-tier one - no, not the one with the bunnies, I want to keep that it's cute. Basically there needs to be some kind of "enemies get to advance a pace for every move you make in the menu" thing to make me get my finger out and start killing robots.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:I don't know how anyone can have even a smidge of difficulty with guardians the instant you get ancient arrows. even the flying guardians aren't bad if you, like me, obsessively hop around the map buying up huge stockpiles of arrows. I virtually never used ancient arrows on them because they felt too expensive, especially given that you can't get the ancient part rewards then. Instead I learned how to bruteforce/cheese Guardians using Stasis+ and Master Sword (or any other big/glowing sword, but MS doesn't break) and that was the big turning point for me.
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getting good at shield parrying is good for making you feel invincible if you can pull it off during the sword trials
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Zat posted:I virtually never used ancient arrows on them because they felt too expensive, especially given that you can't get the ancient part rewards then. If I remember right, ancient arrows still get you drops from guardians. It's just regular enemies that are 100% obliterated by them.
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One of my fave BotW moments was starting a Hero Mode file and being met by a Lynel on the fuckin' Great Plateau.
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An update downloaded for Link's Awakening when I started it this morning. Fixed something about Marin not moving and locking the game up.
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Gruckles posted:If I remember right, ancient arrows still get you drops from guardians. It's just regular enemies that are 100% obliterated by them. Heh, apparently so. Me not knowing or remembering that shows that I definitely didn't use them much despite playing through it twice.
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Gruckles posted:If I remember right, ancient arrows still get you drops from guardians. It's just regular enemies that are 100% obliterated by them.
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Runcible Cat posted:When you're me and obsessively stockpile I guess. No no don't waste an ancient arrow on it they're expensive! Which shield should I use? No, not that one, it's my favourite... that one's so pretty... need to hang on to that one in case of lightning... that one's too strong to waste on laser parries, I want a crap-tier one - no, not the one with the bunnies, I want to keep that it's cute. Hey it’s a me Link. I’m buying a house to mount shields on the walls. Oh Zelda, she’ll be fine just the ultimate struggle against evil. I really want to get this village built now.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Hey it’s a me Link. I’m buying a house to mount shields on the walls. Oh Zelda, she’ll be fine just the ultimate struggle against evil. I really want to get this village built now. aka the Lazy Hero timeline
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Hey it’s a me Link. I’m buying a house to mount shields on the walls. Oh Zelda, she’ll be fine just the ultimate struggle against evil. I really want to get this village built now. 
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Honestly I wish there was a way to throw shields like one does weapons. I have a surplus of royal shields and would love to smash a Lizalfo’s face with one.
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Does bonking enemies on the head with a shield (jump, stand on shield like to surf (speedrunners would do this to super jump before the bomb chain was found)) damage the shield or do damage to the enemy?
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Zat posted:Heh, apparently so. Me not knowing or remembering that shows that I definitely didn't use them much despite playing through it twice. You still get fewer drops from guardians with ancient arrows, because you're not cutting off their legs.
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Son of Sam-I-Am posted:You still get fewer drops from guardians with ancient arrows, because you're not cutting off their legs. You also don't get those from the pot lid method, the superior way of defeating them.
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Spanish Manlove posted:Does bonking enemies on the head with a shield (jump, stand on shield like to surf (speedrunners would do this to super jump before the bomb chain was found)) damage the shield or do damage to the enemy? I'm fairly certain it does both. I believe I've wiped out after breaking my surfin' shield on a bokoblin's face, before.
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mastajake posted:You also don't get those from the pot lid method, the superior way of defeating them. But the best way to simply defend against Guardians is meat defense  https://twitter.com/Bot__W/status/1187967525834747904?s=20
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:But the best way to simply defend against Guardians is meat defense Full of DLC. Cheat mode. Wagging my head.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Full of DLC. Majora's Mask does not affect Guardians.
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maltesh posted:Majora's Mask does not affect Guardians. No it doesn’t. And I was kidding but I always go for Midna’s helm first. Got that dlc
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