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as for the boss fight i just felt it didn't really expect you to master any sort of technique or skill to beat him... i felt like i had to "cheese" him to win rather than properly parry or aim for a week spot. i also found rudania's puzzles to be rather uninspired and aimless so that doesn't help, especially in comparison to naboris and the elephant.

Oh, you're talking about Fireblight Ganon? I thought you were talking about Calamity Ganon's fight, which actually does require quite a bit of skill.

Loving a dog doesn't make you a bitch. I'm really sorry for your loss, sounds like he lived a nice long life.

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Quote from: branches on March 15, 2017, 10:56:55 PM

final fairy wants 10Gs to free her? lol fuck that

Gut Check bro

800 every 4 minutes (3min game + loading screen) = 10k in an hour.

still not worth my time. id rather just get good at the combat mechanics

What does gitting gud have to do with money?

final fairy wants 10Gs to free her? lol fuck that

Gut Check bro

800 every 4 minutes (3min game + loading screen) = 10k in an hour.

Is it me or does Akalla have a really forlorn feel to it? It might just be that it was cloudy when I entrered the region but it's just... Idk.

Question about Ceremonial Trident Zora side quest

What exactly are you supposed to do with the Trident at Veiled Falls? It says a poem or song or something but I'm not sure exactly what to do.

Haven't seen them in a while but I used to watch them with my family a lot when I was a kid so I remember them favorably due to nostalgia, but these movies are almost universally considered bad films. Why? The cast is really good, with interesting protagonists and Ian McKellen as a villain, so it can't be the characters (maybe with the exception of some cheesy ones, but it's a X-Men film...come on. I remember the action being pretty good and diverse. And who really cares about the plot of a comic book movie? So what's the issue? Is it just the bits of cheesy writing and characterization?

Quote from: Töqi on March 15, 2017, 07:05:13 PM

It's weird when YouTube personalities do this, as if these discussions are new or interesting, rather than every other Thursday on most online forums.

The difference, of course, is that these people have huge followings and massive influence. JonTron's audience consists of teens to young adults, many of which look to him as a hero and wouldn't necessarily know better to not to take his worldview seriously. So naturally, when these super popular people engage in political discussions, it instantly matters a lot more.

I completely agree, especially with your suggestion to "stay in his lane".

Bit of spoilers about where BotW may fit on the timeline, not that it really matters:

https://u.nya.is/hiqgry.webm

"My dad is dead"



"Alec... is dead..."

I think I'll play as her just to see how bad her animations are.

I personally haven't played yet, but What do ya think about this perspective on the brittle weapons?

YouTube

So I watched this, and it's along the same lines I was talking about. But I still think it was poorly implemented. Is the best way to teach players to try new techniques really to just break their shit? Because I don't think so. I'm not a game developer so I don't know how to balance it, but it feels like they had all these fun techniques to fight with and in alpha testing discovered that spamming attack really is the easiest, quickest way to kill enemies and that there isn't really a need to use stealth or swing crates around, and they decreased weapon durability to counter it. Maybe make the durability more contextual, like blunt and wooden weapons are better for fighting armored or shielded enemies, and are more susceptible to being burned, and edged weapons are better for fighting unarmored enemies, etc. And the reality is that until much later in the game, players will be breaking weapons multiple times in big fights, causing them to stop combat and switch weapons. It's very stilted.

Idk Ganon as a character just seems way less interesting than he used to be.

It didn't really help that Skyward Sword solidified Ganon as a literal embodiment of evil that was destined to reappear over and over, rather than how he was presented in OoT as a really evil character that managed to resurrect himself a few times.

would the game's shitty DLC practices affect your opinion on the game itself?

Nah, I'd review only what's in the base game. I don't like how the DLC is planned, but it's not what I paid for in the game (and neither is the amiibo content), and I can accept that.

should the purpose of game reviews be to evaluate art, or to advise consumers?

it's hard to have both because they don't really mix well

I'd say most reviews are 10% evaluating the artistic aspects of the game and 90% advising consumers. Maybe that's not how it should be. Personally, I'd rather someone examine the subjective aspects of a game at length and only very briefly discuss why it's worth purchasing. I can play the game and experience the mechanics very well on my own.

Quote from: Töqi on March 13, 2017, 09:27:46 PM

I personally haven't played yet, but What do ya think about this perspective on the brittle weapons?

YouTube

Can't watch it right now; can you summarize it?

Early on the durability system is hard to handle, but once you stop getting attached to your weapons, the game becomes more manageable.

Gonna respond to Jim Sterling's article, though I can't pull it up now due to the DDoS. Obviously he has no way of responding to these remarks, but I think a lot of people (including myself) have felt the same complaints he has.

First off, I'm really not a fan of comparing this to Dark Souls. The AI difficulty is very artificial; they level up as you progress, and difficulty is merely a function of their HP vs your HP; there are really only four types of enemies you'll be fighting (bokoblins, moblins, lizalfos, and lynels), and except for the latter, it's your basic turtle and slash strategy. Dark Souls has a very polished and detailed combat system; BotW does not. In the next paragraph, I explain how combat is not the real means of difficulty in the game.

He criticizes frequent inconveniences like constant rain or stamina loss while climbing, and here's where the real comparison to Dark Souls lies: the game is not open world in the sense that you can go anywhere whenever you want. Can't take a shortcut by climbing a huge sheer rock face due to rain/stamina? Maybe you shouldn't be taking that route without upgraded gear and stamina containers. Dark Souls does this by placing enemy and environmental hazards in your way. The game pretty successfully guides beginners to towns and stables using the roads, putting large mountains or rivers as barriers. I pushed through those barriers early on, and became very frustrated with the systems Jim mentions; I have a feeling he did the same, but didn't quite understand why they're there. Weapon durability is bad as it is and should be fixed, but it also forces players early on to take advantage of the environment and practice parrying, which is an absolutely crucial skill to have when fighting Ganon; you literally cannot beat Ganon without mastering it, and I think its importance was unfortunately understated. Yeah, the lack of any real top-tier or endgame weapons is disappointing, but the castle and other high-level areas are absolutely littered with royal gear. You'll want for nothing at the end of the game.

Another complaint he has is of the canon-breaking multitude of shrines. Is it really fair to complain that enemies are tough and stamina is necessary, and also criticize that there are 120 ways to get those necessary heart and stamina containers? Of any Zelda game, BotW is the easiest to get what are exactly tantamount to heart pieces. It practically hands them out. I have more heart containers than any Zelda has offered at full completion, and I'm only halfway through the shrines. And yeah, it's a bit silly to have separate little puzzle rooms littered around, but in my head they're perfectly canonical, having been made by the scattered Sheikah monks upon Ganon's return as a source of power for Link when he's revived.

A couple other complaints I attribute to Nintendo launching a relatively innovative new type of open world: stamina bar placement (which truly is ugly), frequent menu-hopping and freezing gameplay to access things, and a very simplistic story (easily one of the weakest in the 3D iterations). And yeah, the english-accented characters are voiced very badly.

I'm not sure what his rating scale is like, but a 7/10 seems a bit unfair. They've shattered traditional open world concepts and innovated in a series that had done almost nothing of the sort in two decades.

I'm worried about Aku

easily the best part of Samurai Jack but Mako died, and I don't know if Greg Baldwin can voice Aku and still have him be so awesome

Wasn't he Mako's understudy?

Anyway, that episode was fantastic. I really love the animation style, and I'm glad they haven't changed it.