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Part of me wishes I'd gotten a Switch so that I could play this game handheld anywhere I want to, and so it has my saves on it when the Switch eventually becomes a full-fledged Nintendo console with all the Nintendo games I want and I won't want to keep my Wii U plugged in anymore. And then I read things like Kashuno posted:lol there isn't even a way to transfer saves from one switch to another if one breaks. and I can't imagine owning a Switch in the first place, at least not for a good, long while. So many boneheaded things about its design, both on the hardware and software side, I don't understand it at all. I feel like the Switch clearly needed longer to cook but I guess Nintendo really wanted something new on the market since they weren't going to make new Wii U games anymore. I'll probably still get one at some point but jeez, what a weird piece of hardware the Switch ended up being. And maybe by the time I get one I'll be down to replay Breath of the Wild anyway.
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20 hours into this game and I'm loving it.. except still wrestling with controls midbattle. Does anyone know if the unfocused jump actually works for dodging? I'm still getting used to not being able to roll when not locked on. I can't tell if link dodges any quicker with unfocused jump
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Harrow posted:Part of me wishes I'd gotten a Switch so that I could play this game handheld anywhere I want to, and so it has my saves on it when the Switch eventually becomes a full-fledged Nintendo console with all the Nintendo games I want and I won't want to keep my Wii U plugged in anymore. I think the Switch's hardware is pretty great, personally. It's a small-form-factor machine with decent battery life for its graphics quality, fully portable, and comes with two controllers (technically, depending on the game). The launch could've had a broader selection of titles, definitely, but Breath of the Wild was a guaranteed cash cow. The drat thing's apparently outsold the Wii's launch figures.
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Mar 7, 2017 18:08
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I think the Switch's hardware is pretty great, personally. It's a small-form-factor machine with decent battery life for its graphics quality, fully portable, and comes with two controllers (technically, depending on the game). The launch could've had a broader selection of titles, definitely, but Breath of the Wild was a guaranteed cash cow. The drat thing's apparently outsold the Wii's launch figures. My take on the Switch is that they need to start advertising it as a handheld first and a console second. As a console, it's so weak compared to even the base PS4 and Xbox One that it's hard to see multiplats coming out on it or third-party games delivering anywhere close to the experience they can on the other two consoles. But as a handheld? Holy poo poo. This is a handheld that can run the biggest open world Nintendo has ever created at 720p, rock-solid 30 fps, and, oh yeah, it's a massive open world Zelda game on a handheld. If you think of it as a handheld that can optionally dock to your TV, literally the only downside becomes the battery life, and if they release some sort of battery pack and/or a future hardware revision with a longer life, that disappears. It's even a handheld that easily support local multiplayer without needing multiple systems. The Switch owns as a handheld.
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I'm home during my lunch good for a poop break and I'm so tempted to stay in and just play zelda until tomorrow
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Mar 7, 2017 18:16
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I missed fish dating chat but that reminded me of the creepiest quest I found yesterday. In Zora's Domain you can literally help one of the Zora children hook up with a HyIian pedo. I wish I was kidding.
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Out of curiosity, does anyone know if the WiiU game will transfer over to the Switch in the future? I bought it digitally, but it will kind of suck if I get a Switch later.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Out of curiosity, does anyone know if the WiiU game will transfer over to the Switch in the future? I bought it digitally, but it will kind of suck if I get a Switch later. I would guess no. Like you didn't get the Wii Twilight Princess if you bought the Gamecube one.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Out of curiosity, does anyone know if the WiiU game will transfer over to the Switch in the future? I bought it digitally, but it will kind of suck if I get a Switch later. As someone who as paid for Punch-Out like four times, lol
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Out of curiosity, does anyone know if the WiiU game will transfer over to the Switch in the future? I bought it digitally, but it will kind of suck if I get a Switch later. I'd love it to, but I doubt it. It'd be a good thing for Nintendo to implement to drive future Switch adoption, though, along with a free or discounted Switch version of Breath of the Wild, but I'm real, real doubtful.
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Harrow posted:I'd love it to, but I doubt it. It'd be a good thing for Nintendo to implement to drive future Switch adoption, though, along with a free or discounted Switch version of Breath of the Wild, but I'm real, real doubtful. The system has been out 4 days and has been selling really well by all accounts?
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Mylan posted:I missed fish dating chat but that reminded me of the creepiest quest I found yesterday. In Zora's Domain you can literally help one of the Zora children hook up with a HyIian pedo. I wish I was kidding. 
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Zore posted:The system has been out 4 days and has been selling really well by all accounts? I'm not saying that it isn't, I'm just saying that they'll make it easier for people like me who got Breath of the Wild on Wii U to get the Switch later. Hell, even if they didn't offer cross-buy for BotW, save transfer would get a lot of people like me to buy the same game twice. I'm not at all saying they need to do it, just that it'd be super cool if they did and I'd probably buy a Switch sooner than I otherwise would (like, by late summer 2017 instead of waiting until next year or something, so not a huge deal).
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Zore posted:The system has been out 4 days and has been selling really well by all accounts? At launch, sure, but in a few months when it slows down it would be a nice touch. Not like Nintendo would lose money out of it. Oh well, WiiU ho.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:At launch, sure, but in a few months when it slows down it would be a nice touch. Not like Nintendo would lose money out of it. Yeah, that's what I mean. It'd be cool for people who waited on the Switch and get stupid people like me to buy the game twice, that's all.
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Despite having a Wii U, getting a BotW for the Switch has turned out to be a fantastic decision. I cannot understate how amazing portable BotW is on a train commute. I feel like the people that got it for Wii U kinda hosed up.
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Yeah honestly Nintendo would hate it if you bought their game twice
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I probably won't buy the game again when I do get a Switch because I know how unlikely I'm going to be to want to play all the way through again, do all the shrines and koroks again, all of that. But I definitely would if I could transfer my save. That's a huge hypothetical, Nintendo are definitely not going to do that, but I'd still probably buy a Switch several months earlier than I otherwise would (and BotW a second time) if they did.Kirios posted:Despite having a Wii U, getting a BotW for the Switch has turned out to be a fantastic decision. I cannot understate how amazing portable BotW is on a train commute. I definitely do feel like I hosed up a bit, though at the same time, it's literally the only game for the Switch that I would strongly want until at least November. Mario Kart 8 rerelease and Spla2n are great but not system-sellers for me. Not buying it now is probably the right call for me, but drat do I wish I could play BotW handheld.
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Kirios posted:Despite having a Wii U, getting a BotW for the Switch has turned out to be a fantastic decision. I cannot understate how amazing portable BotW is on a train commute. It cost me £35 insted of £350 for the same game and I drive to work  I'll get a Switch when they release an Animal Crossing on it like God intended (and by God I mean Mrs Jones). Edit: £60 when you throw in a new gamepad battery.
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I... I think this is the best game of all time? 30 hours in or so, have only done one of the dungeons. My excitement for it hasn't slowed down at all. Even Witcher 3, my previous game of this generation, got a little long in the tooth towards the end.
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Kirios posted:I... Yeah i've never bothered to actually beat morrowind, or oblivion, or skyrim, or witcher 3, or dragon age inquisition (even though i liked all of them and have played them all more than once) or anything else in the genre but botw has grabbed me in a way none of them did i'm pretty sure it is because traversing the environment is part of the game, it feels like playing rather than just what sits between the points of interest
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Welp I decided to play my wii u for the first time in over a year to play some zelda. Of course I get an error message and have to send it back to nintendo for repairs 
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Mylan posted:I missed fish dating chat but that reminded me of the creepiest quest I found yesterday. In Zora's Domain you can literally help one of the Zora children hook up with a HyIian pedo. I wish I was kidding. What in the gently caress... Where do I start the quest?
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I think part of it is the reward for exploring. In a lot of open world games you will see a dungeon and have a really good chance of it being weak/crappy gear and loot in the dungeon and having some of the dungeons be extremely long for no payoff. In BotW, you know that exploring will yield shrines which have a clear and consistent prize that is always valuable, it's usually a quick one to three puzzles, and you don't have to worry about how long you'll be there. That predictability makes it all the more enticing to just pop in them real quick and enjoy them before going right back to exploring.
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Mylan posted:I missed fish dating chat but that reminded me of the creepiest quest I found yesterday. In Zora's Domain you can literally help one of the Zora children hook up with a HyIian pedo. I wish I was kidding. I'm not certain how large the age difference there is supposed to be, to be honest. I don't think he's as tall as other adult male Hylians (he's about Link's height?), and who knows how fishgirl adolescence works. If she's ~13 and he's, like, ~16, that's... still not great, but a little better?
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Autonomous Monster posted:I'm not certain how large the age difference there is supposed to be, to be honest. I don't think he's as tall as other adult male Hylians (he's about Link's height?), and who knows how fishgirl adolescence works. I haven't done that quest yet, so I have no idea what the age difference is. In a flashback, Mipha does say that, even though she grew up with Link, they matured physically at different rates because of their different species, but again, I really have no idea if that makes it better or not.
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Autonomous Monster posted:I'm not certain how large the age difference there is supposed to be, to be honest. I don't think he's as tall as other adult male Hylians (he's about Link's height?), and who knows how fishgirl adolescence works. The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Breath of the Wild: who knows how fishgirl adolescence works
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I picked up a variant on an item I hadn't seen before last night. Picked up a bow (one of the bows that fires two arrows with a very flat arc, great for sniping) with a little diamond icon on the tile (not + or ++, I've seen those). In the description it says it's an extra-durable version.
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Harrow posted:I haven't done that quest yet, so I have no idea what the age difference is. In a flashback, Mipha does say that, even though she grew up with Link, they matured physically at different rates because of their different species, but again, I really have no idea if that makes it better or not. Yeah. I mean, so, my reaction when I got the quest was "You're sending love letters downriver? Blind? Girl, you are probably flirting with a Lizalfos or some poo poo. It is a post-apocalyptic wasteland out there. So when I finally got it all the way to the end and found just some dork it was kind of a relief.
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Kashuno posted:I think part of it is the reward for exploring. In a lot of open world games you will see a dungeon and have a really good chance of it being weak/crappy gear and loot in the dungeon and having some of the dungeons be extremely long for no payoff. In BotW, you know that exploring will yield shrines which have a clear and consistent prize that is always valuable, it's usually a quick one to three puzzles, and you don't have to worry about how long you'll be there. That predictability makes it all the more enticing to just pop in them real quick and enjoy them before going right back to exploring. Yeah, I feel really motivated in BotW to just pick a direction and go there. I'm not kidding when I say that I've never played an open world game that has done that for me, ever. They made traversing the environment part of the fun, and not a chore that you do on the way to a quest, while managing to pack the world with cool things to find, both big and small, and avoiding making it feel like an overstuffed, cluttered world on top of that. It's pretty remarkable world design. It took me ages to get around to finally doing a real dungeon because I was having so much fun just going places and seeing what I could find, and I'm pretty sure I've gone to like a third of the map so far. I haven't even touched the far north, northwest, or southern regions. The only downside is that weapon durability makes me want to avoid combat when I can, because even though I usually win, it often costs more than I gained. Maybe when the light scaling kicks in and enemies start carrying better weapons I'll stop feeling like I wasted durability on my good weapons just to walk away with a handful of arrows and a club.
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Autonomous Monster posted:I'm not certain how large the age difference there is supposed to be, to be honest. I don't think he's as tall as other adult male Hylians (he's about Link's height?), and who knows how fishgirl adolescence works. We know that Zora age slower than Hylians and live a ton longer. Mipha talks about it during the cutscene you get with her and Link on the Elephant. Sidon is over 100 for instance. Also Zora's domain is the only place you go where a bunch of people are like "You're that fucker Link! Go to hell!" Because they remember him.
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Just confirmed that chickens are still the same deal as every other Zelda game.
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dragon enthusiast posted:Does parrying eat up shield durability? I think it doesn't, since a pot lid can survive a guardian laser if you party it
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It's all well and good that link wants to gently caress fish, but can I date Paya please
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Harrow posted:Yeah, that's what I mean. It'd be cool for people who waited on the Switch and get stupid people like me to buy the game twice, that's all. That's why I'm debating doing a full %100 run on the Wii U vs when I get a switch late summer. About 20 hours in, and this is easily my favorite game of all time though so....
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