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Author:  Trousers [ Mon Mar 06, 2017 17:22 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Basically a massive spod


Isn't that a tick box before you can sign up here?
Author:  DavPaz [ Mon Mar 06, 2017 17:23 ]
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Trousers wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Basically a massive spod


Isn't that a tick box before you can sign up here?

I didn't spend 4 years in spod-college for nothing, dammit!
Author:  Jem [ Mon Mar 06, 2017 17:24 ]
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*whispers* I don't even know what a spod is
Author:  DavPaz [ Mon Mar 06, 2017 17:26 ]
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Jem wrote:
*whispers* I don't even know what a spod is

A fan of Julia Bradbury
Author:  Jem [ Mon Mar 06, 2017 17:26 ]
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Seems legit.
Author:  Squirt [ Mon Mar 06, 2017 17:28 ]
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Jem wrote:
*whispers* I don't even know what a spod is

http://www.fish-uk.com/tackle-spodding-using-a-spod.htm
Author:  Jem [ Mon Mar 06, 2017 17:31 ]
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Squirt wrote:
Jem wrote:
*whispers* I don't even know what a spod is

http://www.fish-uk.com/tackle-spodding-using-a-spod.htm


:blown:
Author:  Hearthly [ Mon Mar 06, 2017 23:55 ]
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I'm stopping playing this tonight simply because my gamepad battery is dying again. (It's still doing about five hours so not too bad really.)

This is such a lovely game, it's gentle and relaxing to play in the main, even though it'll kill you in an instant if you fuck something up, and the fights are very exciting. (In death terms so far it's been big falls, trying to fight something I'm really not equipped for, serious fail in one of the shrines etc, I've died loads of times already and I'm still in the starting zone, but I can't remember the last time I was so not in a hurry to progress, in fact it's the complete opposite, it's like, 'What else can I possibly do here before I venture into the next zone?')

It's not perfect, the controls are pretty clunky IMO, although that could just be my ineptitude with gamepads when it comes to third-person (and also first-person) games, both sticks, D-Pad, and all the buttons are used and often contextually as well, and the Wii-U gamepad has a lot of buttons.

Graphically it's pretty ropey, Nintendo have done a stunning job with the Wii-U hardware but there's no getting away from the fact it's a fairly unrefined 720p image at 30FPS, that drops down to 20FPS more often than you'd like, but hey, it's a an open-world Zelda game, so I forgive it completely. (The texture filtering is awful, it drops environment detail off a cliff face at any sort of distance, it's jaggy as fuck, the lighting and shadow models are flickery and crude etc, and yet you're still able to look around a massive open world environment Zelda game and it's immersive and believable, and that's all that matters.)

It's like, I think back to Zelda Link To The Past on the SNES back in the day, which I played to destruction, and wonder how I'd dare to even imagine that there could be a Zelda game like Breath Of The Wild one day, that the creativity and inspiration on show in Link To The Past, could be realised in something as gorgeous as this game at some point in the future.

What a remarkable last outing for the Wii-U, wonderful stuff.
Author:  romanista [ Wed Mar 08, 2017 22:27 ]
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Hearthly wrote:
So now it's finished downloading and it's estimating THIRTY TWO MINUTES to install it. (This is just for the first bar in the screenshot, I don't know what the second one will entail yet.....)

Thank fuck for the digital revolution, and that console games don't come on horrible shitty old-fashioned cartridges with their pesky instantaneous loading and no installation requirements.

EDIT - It'd got down to 22 minutes, now it's gone up to 35 minutes.

EDIT AGAIN - It's just gone up to 36 minutes.

EDIT EDIT EDIT - 39 MINUTES.

Fucking hell Nintendo.

40 minutes.

42 minutes.

43 minutes.

44 minutes.

I'm not even making this up.

45 minutes.

54 MINUTES FUCK YOU.

55 minutes.

OH MY GOD.

Attachment:
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Still, you could play fast racing neo in the meantime
Author:  Curiosity [ Wed Mar 08, 2017 23:32 ]
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I should probably play a Zelda game at some point
Author:  Satsuma [ Wed Mar 08, 2017 23:50 ]
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Nah, they're vastly overrated.
Author:  myp [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 0:23 ]
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Satsuma wrote:
Nah, they're vastly overrated.

:this:

I've tried a few but never got anywhere near finishing one.
Author:  TheVision [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 0:42 ]
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Satsuma wrote:
Nah, they're vastly overrated.


:wrong:
Author:  TheVision [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 0:42 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Satsuma wrote:
Nah, they're vastly overrated.

:this:

I've tried a few but never got anywhere near finishing one.


:hipster:
Author:  Sir Taxalot [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 1:23 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
I should probably play a Zelda game at some point


They're really really good, mostly, but I do think there is a touch of nostalgia there too. I loved Ocarina of Time, it really is one of my favourite ever games. At the time it felt so epic and exciting, new and great, so I have a lot of strong emotional connections to that game (and the series).

However, without those previous positive connections and feelings, I'm not sure how well it'd stand up as there have been plenty of other epic, exciting games since I jumped on board the Zelda-train. Ocarina was great, for it's day, and introduced me to a lot, but also things have moved on a lot since then. I think that for a newcomer some of the mechanics in the older games might be a bit annoying and harder to overlook.

Where would you start though? I haven't played Breath of the Wild, but it seems like they've ditched a fair bit of the old habits (linear progression, locked off areas, overly hand-holding tutorials).
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:10 ]
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I've tried several, but never really got into any of them.

I got furthest on the Wii one, but only three hours or so.
Author:  Jem [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 14:04 ]
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Grim... wrote:
I got furthest on the Wii one, but only three hours or so.

Which one, Twilight Princess or Skyward Sword?

Despite being a big Zelda fan I never got particularly far in the latter. ?:|
Author:  myp [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 14:07 ]
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The one I've put most effort into is A Link Between Worlds and while I enjoyed aspects of it, not enough to finish it. I think I got about halfway.
Author:  Bamba [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 14:11 ]
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I gave up on Skyward Sword because fuck the Wii and it's stupid bullshit controllers; which was gutting as I generally love Zelda games.
Author:  Findus Fop [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 14:12 ]
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I've only properly played Link to the Past and Windwaker, the latter I enjoyed the most. Looked lovely and was nice bezzing about on the waves.

Others I've started and given up on - the first hour or three do tend to be fairly unexciting and clingy.
Author:  Cras [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 14:24 ]
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I have a theory that you're either Zelda or Final Fantasy, never both.
Author:  Findus Fop [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 14:52 ]
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Cras wrote:
I have a theory that you're either Zelda or Final Fantasy, never both.


You're my final fantasy.
Author:  myp [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 14:55 ]
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Cras wrote:
I have a theory that you're either Zelda or Final Fantasy, never both.

Had a cursory look at FFVII on the Vita a while back. Might wait for the remake.
Author:  DavPaz [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 15:02 ]
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Cras wrote:
I have a theory that you're either Zelda or Final Fantasy, never both.

Never played either. Watched a friend play through Ocarina, but never been tempted to have a go myself. Never been a big fan of nintendo in general.
Author:  Mr Dave [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 15:11 ]
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Cras wrote:
I have a theory that you're either Zelda or Final Fantasy, never both.

I like both
Author:  myp [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 15:13 ]
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This is a poor theory so far
Author:  Cras [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 15:37 ]
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You're a poor theory
Author:  Cras [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 15:37 ]
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Even worse in practice.
Author:  myp [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 15:39 ]
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Cras wrote:
Even worse in practice.

Practice makes perfect!
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 18:03 ]
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Findus Fop wrote:
Cras wrote:
I have a theory that you're either Zelda or Final Fantasy, never both.


You're my final fantasy.


Snuff of that
Author:  Pundabaya [ Thu Mar 09, 2017 20:01 ]
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I like Final Fantasy, but Zelda is meh.
Author:  Sir Taxalot [ Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:58 ]
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I loved FFX, it was another one of my top gaming experiences. I even cried a little bit at the end. But, it wasn't enough to really make me want to play any of the other FF games.

i've played a fair few zeldas, although I didn't finish them all for one reason or another.

- Link's Awakening (GB) - I got stuck in the penultimate dungeon and couldn't find the Fire Rod to melt the ice in the odd, jarring 2D platformer section.
- Ocarina of Time - Superb experience, finished it
- Majora's Mask - Got stuck for ages in the last temple and kept meaning to go back to it but never got round to it. The creepy, sad atmosphere in this game was excellent and the time mechanic was interesting
- Wind Waker - The art style was (while controversial at the time) amazing to me. FInished this one. I quite enjoyed the sailing. It did feel quite lonely.
- Twilight Princess - kinda meh, didn't really get far at all. Can't remember much about it.
- Phantom Hourglass (DS) - I really liked the revisiting of the central dungeon and getting a bit further each time. FInished this one. It was good.


Findus Fop wrote:
Others I've started and given up on - the first hour or three do tend to be fairly unexciting and clingy.


I think so too - but it seems like this new one has tackled a lot of that.
Author:  LewieP [ Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:56 ]
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I like Zelda.

FF6 is great, the rest are shite.
Author:  romanista [ Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:52 ]
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Like windwaker, for a while, the finish cap (gba), because it was nice and compact, and going on the train in the phantom hourglass... just played enough of the twilight princess, to use the hack... generally i'm already bored in the on boarding stages... but this seems quite nice..
Author:  devilman [ Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:01 ]
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Played FFVII and FFX to death but have since gone off the series, although I did buy the remake of FFX/X-II, but never checked the specs - I don't currently have enough space to actually install them :)

I think the only Zelda games I've started are Ocarina and Wind Waker, but never had the urge to complete either.
Author:  Mr Dave [ Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:55 ]
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devilman wrote:
Played FFVII and FFX to death but have since gone off the series, although I did buy the remake of FFX/X-II, but never checked the specs - I don't currently have enough space to actually install them :)

I think the only Zelda games I've started are Ocarina and Wind Waker, but never had the urge to complete either.

Completed VII through X, which were all good. Also, less good: X-2 (annoying poppy), XII (poor combat and forgettable plot) and XIII (poor world design, terrible combat, duff levelling system, awesome Afro) also Played through the Japanese version of the X remaster. Which didn't have a poo dub.

Zeldawise, completed windwaker (bestest) , ocarina, LttP, twilight princess, minish cap. Couldn't beat the fish boss in majoras mask (but I loved the game, second bestest)
Author:  Hearthly [ Fri Mar 10, 2017 14:51 ]
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Sir Taxalot wrote:
I haven't played Breath of the Wild, but it seems like they've ditched a fair bit of the old habits (linear progression, locked off areas, overly hand-holding tutorials).


Findus Fop wrote:
the first hour or three do tend to be fairly unexciting and clingy.


I was going to write a post about how Breath Of The Wild really isn't like this, but then an article appeared on Eurogamer explaining exactly that :)

In a way it'd be good if Nintendo just 'did a Sega' and got out of the console business, to focus on software, then they could release this game on every format.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017- ... generation

Quote:
When Oli reviewed Breath of the Wild he pointed something that's fundamental to its divergence from other Zelda games. "It's the first Nintendo game that feels like it was made in a world where Half-Life 2, Halo, Grand Theft Auto 3 and Skyrim happened," he said. And there's another game on which Breath of the Wild seems to have an eye: Minecraft.


Quote:
The result is a wonderful sense of adventure and mystery. It feels like you're out alone in this vast land, with only your wits to help you, even though you're constantly guided by the invisible hands of Breath of the Wilds' designers. Hyrule is carefully laid out with encounters and puzzles, scenarios learned from three decades of Zelda dungeon design implicitly teaching the properties of its items, and there's a largely obvious critical path you can follow through the world (if you want to).
Author:  TheVision [ Fri Mar 10, 2017 15:02 ]
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I've just been playing this on my lunch break and it's still brilliant.

I came to a section where I had to operate a giant maze from above. There was a ball in it that I needed to get out and I was using the motion controls so swinging the Switch about. Because it's a handheld, I was moving it about and lost sight of the screen so I detached the controllers, and placed the screen down on my dashboard.

I was then able to use the controller on it's own to maneuver the maze but best of all, I was able to flip the controller 180 degrees which flipped the maze and gave me a completely flat surface to which the ball (when it spawned again) was able to roll off to where I needed it to be.
Author:  Satsuma [ Sat Mar 11, 2017 17:54 ]
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I saw something on twitter earlier about WiiU copies being hard to find in the shops so I urgently ordered a copy from Amazon because I'm, apparently, very impressionable. Time to bum it hard.
Author:  Pundabaya [ Sun Mar 12, 2017 22:26 ]
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Jim Sterling, Number 1 Boglin Boy, gave this a 7/10.
Author:  TheVision [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 0:05 ]
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Who is Jim Sterling? I've seen his name crop up a number of times but don't know who he is?
Author:  Grim... [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 0:09 ]
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He jizzes blue.
Author:  Bamba [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 0:21 ]
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TheVision wrote:
Who is Jim Sterling? I've seen his name crop up a number of times but don't know who he is?


Game critic. Used to be the chief guy at Destructoid and had his video series The Jimquisition on The Escapist. Has since struck out on his own and posts stuff both on YouTube and his website funded largely by Patreon. His Jimquisition videos are mostly consumer advocacy (i.e. spotlighting shady shit from game publishers and developers) and his other stuff is either straight reviews or ripping the piss out of the awful shit that makes up a lot of Steam's Greenlight programme.
Author:  LewieP [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 1:11 ]
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And he tends to use the full spectrum of numbers from 0 to 10 rather than just using 6 to 10.
Author:  Pundabaya [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 10:39 ]
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A link to the review. beware the crying fanboys

Jim is entirely independent, and has to go out and buy copies of games for review from several companies (EA and Square Enix Japan, and of course Konami) due to his 'Wild Card' status. (IE giving out review scores lower than 9 or 10).
Author:  Bamba [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 11:47 ]
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Ugh, I'd completely forgotten about the fucking bullshit stamina system from the last Zelda game until that review reminded me. And Jim's chat about weapons breaking confirms what I'd feared when I watched some videos of the combat.

Hilariously the comments on that page are no longer viewable because that aspect of the site's run out of memory.
Author:  TheVision [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 13:27 ]
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I was expecting that review to be full of bile and hate but I'm pleasantly surprised. He does make some fair points but none of which make it a terrible game. The weapons that break is annoying. No two ways about that but the stamina wheel and the rain are all things that are easily managed.

Personally I think the game deserves a higher score but I can see from his writing that it's a good game and he did enjoy it... just with a few niggles.
Author:  Pundabaya [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 17:24 ]
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Jim's scoring system is like Amiga Power and Edge, 5 is average. The fanboys tossing death threats don't understand this.
Author:  Satsuma [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 17:36 ]
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Let's not pretend he's the second coming of the Messiah. I've watched a fair few of his videos and I find him to be a fucking irritating self aggrandising cockbag.
Author:  Zardoz [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 17:41 ]
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Is it art?
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