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Alfalfa The Roach: Oct 13, 2012; You need to be a badass first.

Don't cancel your Switch pre-order

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:01

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 02:25

Ehud: Sep 19, 2003; football.

8-bit Miniboss posted:

I like this a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXATVhNiNOI

lol if you canceled your preorder before watching this vid

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:02

Kashuno: Oct 9, 2012; Where the hell is my SWORD?; Grimey Drawer

Kotaku pre-review went up and then back down, but from reading a cache of it it sounds amazing. This is it, the game I've been waiting for.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:03

well why not: Feb 10, 2009

These 'leaked' previews are so transparently an attention grab. Can't fault the companies for trying I guess, but it's very challenging to believe that both Kotaku and Polygon have their systems 'accidentally' drop their most anticipated articles early.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:11

Jonas Albrecht: Jun 7, 2012; Can't post for 4 hours!

Kashuno posted:

Kotaku pre-review went up and then back down, but from reading a cache of it it sounds amazing. This is it, the game I've been waiting for.

Has it been reposted anywheren

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:14

Infinitum: Jul 30, 2004

I'm going to be paying my Switch preorder off completely later today :toot:

Might swap out the second set of Joycons for a Pro Controller if I can manage it.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:20

Decius: Oct 14, 2005; Ramrod XTreme

well why not posted:

These 'leaked' previews are so transparently an attention grab. Can't fault the companies for trying I guess, but it's very challenging to believe that both Kotaku and Polygon have their systems 'accidentally' drop their most anticipated articles early.

Yeah, unless they use CMS from 1992 this isn't happening accidentally.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:23

deadly_pudding: May 13, 2009; who the fuck is scraeming
"LOG OFF" at my house.
show yourself, coward.
i will never log off

Infinitum posted:

I'm going to be paying my Switch preorder off completely later today

Might swap out the second set of Joycons for a Pro Controller if I can manage it.

I paid mine off weeks ago. I'm sad now, though, because my girlfriend needs the car next Friday. I won't be able to pick up my Switch at noon like I wanted to, so I'll have to just kind of stew in my office until 5:00.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:23

glassyalabolas: Oct 21, 2006; I want to bowl with the gangsters...

deadly_pudding posted:

I paid mine off weeks ago. I'm sad now, though, because my girlfriend needs the car next Friday. I won't be able to pick up my Switch at noon like I wanted to, so I'll have to just kind of stew in my office until 5:00.

Use Uber?

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:26

EpicNemesis: Dec 3, 2005

deadly_pudding posted:

I paid mine off weeks ago. I'm sad now, though, because my girlfriend needs the car next Friday. I won't be able to pick up my Switch at noon like I wanted to, so I'll have to just kind of stew in my office until 5:00.

Get your priorities in order.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:28

Amcoti: Apr 7, 2004; Sing for the flames that will rip through here

well why not posted:

These 'leaked' previews are so transparently an attention grab. Can't fault the companies for trying I guess, but it's very challenging to believe that both Kotaku and Polygon have their systems 'accidentally' drop their most anticipated articles early.

But then doesn't that just mean sites reposting the articles are getting the clicks polygon would want?

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:31

deadly_pudding: May 13, 2009; who the fuck is scraeming
"LOG OFF" at my house.
show yourself, coward.
i will never log off

EpicNemesis posted:

Get your priorities in order.

Physically leaving the building in the middle of the day is a good way to break up the tension of being completely psyched about the new Zelda?

I apologize for being excited about a thing that I genuinely like on the Something Awful Comedy Forums.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:32

ethanol: Jul 13, 2007

Do not skip work for video games

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:33

deadly_pudding: May 13, 2009; who the fuck is scraeming
"LOG OFF" at my house.
show yourself, coward.
i will never log off

ethanol posted:

Do not skip work for video games

It's called a lunch break, friend.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:34

ethanol: Jul 13, 2007

deadly_pudding posted:

It's called a lunch break, friend.

Good

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:35

irlZaphod: Mar 26, 2004; Kiss the Joycon to Kiss Zelda

I live in a country with labour laws where you get more than 2 days holidays a year or whatever.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:35

EpicNemesis: Dec 3, 2005

deadly_pudding posted:

Physically leaving the building in the middle of the day is a good way to break up the tension of being completely psyched about the new Zelda?

I apologize for being excited about a thing that I genuinely like on the Something Awful Comedy Forums.

I was being sarcastic and saying you are putting the pussy on a pedestal.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:36

Monkey Fracas: Sep 11, 2010; ...but then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you!; Grimey Drawer

8-bit Miniboss posted:

I like this a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXATVhNiNOI

Ah, there's that trademark silly Nintendo fun nonsense. Reminds me of the different Gamecube startup noises

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:37

deadly_pudding: May 13, 2009; who the fuck is scraeming
"LOG OFF" at my house.
show yourself, coward.
i will never log off

EpicNemesis posted:

I was being sarcastic and saying you are putting the pussy on a pedestal.

Eh, fairness goes in her favor on Fridays. If I have the car then she has to follow my schedule, which means I drop her off on university campus at 7 AM and then she has to wait 6 hours for her first and only class that day.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:39

Sakurazuka: Jan 24, 2004; NANI?

irlZaphod posted:

I live in a country with labour laws where you get more than 2 days holidays a year or whatever.

I get five weeks a year and always take two around E3

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:41

Auron: Jan 10, 2002; <img alt="" border="0" src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-auron.jpg"/><br/>Drunken Robot Rage

deadly_pudding posted:

Eh, fairness goes in her favor on Fridays. If I have the car then she has to follow my schedule, which means I drop her off on university campus at 7 AM and then she has to wait 6 hours for her first and only class that day.

instead of buying a switch you should probably look at second car, it'll at least provide more than 35 hours of use

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:42

Overbite: Jan 24, 2004; I'm a vtuber expert

Is dark souls coming out for the Nintendo switch

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:42

Modus Pwnens: Dec 29, 2004

ethanol posted:

Do not skip work for video games

Or, do.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:44

deadly_pudding: May 13, 2009; who the fuck is scraeming
"LOG OFF" at my house.
show yourself, coward.
i will never log off

Auron posted:

instead of buying a switch you should probably look at second car, it'll at least provide more than 35 hours of use

I could definitely not do that, thereby avoiding repeating the mistake I made like 10 years ago of letting a significant other get anywhere near my credit score. I know I come off as a manchild, but I do think my decisions through. We have one car that's fully paid off and another car that exists in the future when she has a Master's degree and can buy it herself :v:

You know, like,
Sometimes you want to do nice for somebody you think you're going to marry. And sometimes that backfires a year later and now you can only get an apartment from a shady slumlord who never ran a credit check because she never asked for your SSN, even though you make like $50k :unsmith:

deadly_pudding fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Feb 24, 2017

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:50

deadwing: Mar 5, 2007

ethanol posted:

Do not skip work for video games

Oh no not the sacred institution of work, what kind of hosed up man would skip work to do something they're looking forward to???

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:50

Auron: Jan 10, 2002; <img alt="" border="0" src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-auron.jpg"/><br/>Drunken Robot Rage

deadly_pudding posted:

I could definitely not do that, thereby avoiding repeating the mistake I made like 10 years ago of letting a significant other get anywhere near my credit score. I know I come off as a manchild, but I do think my decisions through. We have one car that's fully paid off and another car that exists in the future when she has a Master's degree and can buy it herself

You know, like,
Sometimes you want to do nice for somebody you think you're going to marry. And sometimes that backfires a year later and now you can only get an apartment from a shady slumlord who never ran a credit check because she never asked for my SSN, even though you make like $50k

yeah never buy a girlfriend a car

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:51

EpicNemesis: Dec 3, 2005

Auron posted:

instead of buying a switch you should probably look at second car, it'll at least provide more than 35 hours of use

drat everybody's getting on this poor guys case. I just wanted to make a joke at someone else's expense. You do you pudding. You do you.

Also gently caress everybody who is getting their switch on Friday. I have to wait for it to arrive to my parents house in LA and then I have to get someone to ship it from there to here. (Here being loving Nigeria) for hopefully less than 100 bucks and hopefully less than a week.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:52

Auron: Jan 10, 2002; <img alt="" border="0" src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-auron.jpg"/><br/>Drunken Robot Rage

deadwing posted:

Oh no not the sacred institution of work, what kind of hosed up man would skip work to do something they're looking forward to???

loving millennial work ethic

*calls in sick to go jetskiing*

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:53

DLC Inc: Jun 1, 2011

enojy posted:

Polygon's pre-review of Zelda leaked a lil early.

gonna take a polygon review talking about how a game is hard with a huge grain of salt

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:55

The Duchess Smackarse: May 8, 2012; by Lowtax

Go to work and also use your lunch break to eat lunch

Haha JK I have friday off but it's for unrelated reasons

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:55

Kashuno: Oct 9, 2012; Where the hell is my SWORD?; Grimey Drawer

Jonas Albrecht posted:

Has it been reposted anywheren

quote:

There�s a literal list of things in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild I�m not allowed to talk about yet, but right now, a week before launch and about 20 hours into the game, there are really only two things I feel I need to talk about. First, Breath of the Wild respects your intelligence as a player more than any Legend of Zelda game before it (with the possible exception of 2013�s 3DS release A Link Between Worlds). And second? Breath of the Wild demands your respect. And if you forget that for longer than a few minutes it�ll remind you by knocking you flat on your rear end. A quick bit of housekeeping: these impressions are based on a lot of time with a final, retail version of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Nintendo Switch. This isn�t a review exactly � these thoughts aren�t final, as I�m not finished with the game. Nowhere close, in fact. But I have played enough to have some very strong opinions that are solidly formed, big surprises or changes of pace notwithstanding. Lets get Breath of the Wild�s demand that you take it seriously out of the way first, in case you haven�t been following the interviews and narrative surrounding it in the last year or so. Breath of the Wild is, without question or debate, the hardest Zelda game of the last twenty years. In fact, as an �old� who literally grew up playing the original Zelda games on NES and SNES when they came out, I�d argue it�s the hardest Zelda game period. The first twenty minutes or so are pretty low key � you can kill the scrub bokoblins and other minor enemies you meet without much trouble using nothing more than a tree branch picked up off the ground. But once you leave the initial learning spaces and venture into more typical zones, you�re probably going to die.
And, like, you�re probably going to die a lot, honestly. Often without much warning. Or at least I did, and still do, if I�m not careful. This is in large part because Breath of the Wild gates off areas of the world behind specific kinds of equipment less than any third-person Zelda game. The geographic options in front of me felt almost overwhelming right from the start, and that was just in the opening plateau that serves as the game�s tutorial space. Once you obtain a specific item that allows you to leave that plateau, Hyrule is your oyster. It just happens to be an oyster full of really angry monsters and ancient death machines that will murder you if they see you. Often, the only indication Breath of the Wild might give that you are under-equipped for the space you�re in is an enemy taking you from, say, six hearts to a quarter of one in a single axe swipe or spear lunge (assuming, you know, they don�t just kill you outright). Or, like I said, they�ll just kill you with no real fanfare or warning, and the game will reload you fairly close to where you were, hopefully having learned an important lesson about Hyrule�s ecosystem and its desire for you not to exist in it.
Comparisons to games like Dark Souls are probably inevitable, but they�re not exactly fair. You don�t lose anything when you die, other than the time lost getting back to where you were. You do have to contend with equipment with a finite lifespan however, and resources will often be scarce unless you gather ingredients to make potions and meals. This is something I�ve typically avoided in open world action RPGs in the last several years � I find this kind of thing incredibly boring. But for whatever reason, cooking and mixing in Breath of the Wild feels a little more loose and a little more immediately rewarding, and, well, it�s an absolute necessity. There�s a practical reason for this. While spaces in Breath of the Wild aren�t item gated exactly, aside from the aforementioned enemies that will smash you, they can be beyond your physical capabilities. While Link is physically capable � he can climb most walls and use a sort of hang glider, and he can swim right away, no items required � more strenuous activity depletes Link�s limited stamina bar. However, if you cook the right things together, you can create meals and elixirs that, say, refill your stamina completely, or even give you temporary extra stamina that might allow you to reach a spot you otherwise couldn�t. Also if you don�t make meals that give you more than a heart or two back � or, eventually, that give you bonus temporary hearts � you�re not going to survive against more powerful common enemies you�ll find out in the world.
At first this all feels like a lot to keep track of and consider while playing a Zelda game, but it quickly became second nature for me. And it all ties into the first idea I talked about above, that Breath of the Wild feels like the first third-person, big budget Zelda game to eschew a meandering, elaborate, incredibly extended tutorial section. Breath of the Wild teaches you to play it, don�t get me wrong. The plateau you start on gives you the powers and abilities you�ll use for much of the game�s puzzle solving via shrines, and each shrine is a series of instructional scenarios for a particular ability. But you can also screw around and kill Bokoblins and climb and explore the area to your heart�s content if that�s what you want to do, and you could spend hours doing it before you left for the rest of Hyrule. Put another way: as I was playing the first few hours of Breath of the Wild, I was capturing gameplay for Polygon�s coverage. At a certain point I considered restarting the game to get better footage. I considered restarting a Zelda game�s first hours without hating life. Breath of the Wild, in respecting your intelligence, also respects your time. That respect radiates outward. The puzzle logic in Breath of the Wild feels legitimately logical, and smartly physics-based. There are optional shrines scattered throughout Hyrule that act as mini puzzle dungeons, and almost without exception, they�ve all been a lot of fun to figure out. After more than two dozen of them, Breath of the Wild also doesn�t seem out of ideas. And so far, this is the thing I�m most struck by. Breath of the Wild has so far managed to integrate a steady stream of new ideas and twists on existing Zelda concepts, including weapon durability and variety. Example: boomerangs are now dual use tools that can be wielded as melee weapons or thrown in traditional Zelda fashion, but if you do the latter, you�ll need to be quick and catch it on the way back. Every weapon I�ve found so far is a finite tool as well, so I�ve learned not to get too attached. But even with these and other, bigger changes, Breath of the Wild has never stopped feeling like a Zelda game � and what�s more, it seems poised to establish itself as the first current, vital feeling Zelda title in longer than I can remember. You can read my final thoughts on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on March 2 at 3AM PT.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:56

TheScott2K: Oct 26, 2003; I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.

deadwing posted:

Oh no not the sacred institution of work, what kind of hosed up man would skip work to do something they're looking forward to???

You should only take time off work for important things, like taking a half day for a family member's funeral, and maybe Christmas if workload allows it but your phone better be on. #TheAmericanDream

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:56

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

deadwing posted:

Oh no not the sacred institution of work, what kind of hosed up man would skip work to do something they're looking forward to???

one who doesnt care about getting fired ig

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:57

Jonas Albrecht: Jun 7, 2012; Can't post for 4 hours!

MinibarMatchman posted:

gonna take a polygon review talking about how a game is hard with a huge grain of salt

Deffo.

Kashuno that review was from polygon, not kotaku.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:57

Andrast: Apr 21, 2010

TheScott2K posted:

You should only take time off work for important things, like taking a half day for a family member's funeral, and maybe Christmas if workload allows it but your phone better be on. #TheAmericanDream

Do you really need to go to a funeral though? It's not like the person is coming back, better work instead.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 14:57

DLC Inc: Jun 1, 2011

the last thing I need in a Zelda review is "it's kind of like dark souls" oh wow a weapon has durability, which dark souls invented.

I would be interested in a game where heart collecting in Zelda mattered though

# ? Feb 24, 2017 15:01

Endorph: Jul 22, 2009

This may seem an odd statement to make, but in a lot of ways, Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam Bros. feels like Nintendo�s answer to Dark Souls.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 15:03

TheScott2K: Oct 26, 2003; I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.

Andrast posted:

Do you really need to go to a funeral though? It's not like the person is coming back, better work instead.

Look, we're in a crunch right now. (and have been for three years, while posting record profits each quarter)

# ? Feb 24, 2017 15:05

Augus: Mar 9, 2015

But is the game as hard as doom?

# ? Feb 24, 2017 15:05

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 02:25

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

pixaal posted:

But do you really need both Redout and Fast RMX? Both are coming to the switch this year and both are basically F-Zero

That's the first I hear about two fake F-Zero games coming for the Switch. poo poo, my list of games I want to buy grows longer and longer.

Good thing I'll start a new job next week. Also good thinking to take a job where I have to commute a lot. Looks like both my 3DS and my (soon coming) new Switch will see a lot of use. :v:

# ? Feb 24, 2017 15:05

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