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how many cutscenes must a game walk down, before you can call it a good
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Apr 1, 2023 13:02
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ninjoatse.cx posted:Why is this $70 wtf nintendo Welcome to Joe Biden's America
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Apr 1, 2023 13:05
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Hey, you know what game didn't reuse a map? Zelda 2. It does  , the lower part of the zelda 2 map is the zelda 1 area, which was just the surrounding death mountain areaEdit: i should read more posts before replying
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Apr 1, 2023 13:50
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BotW had a sweet-looking world and I don't mind the recycling of the map at all, but when it comes to meaningful content the game didn't hold a candle to Majora's Mask. I really dislike collectibles (like the korok seeds) that are detached from story-threads and thrown into the game in order to pad out the playtime (hello, Ubisoft). Same goes for the shrines, whose cookie-cutter design was the least immersive part of the BotW. The villages also felt too devoid of content. Hope they integrated more dungeons and fleshed-out NPCs / sidequests this time.
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Apr 1, 2023 14:19
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Yeah, I don't get the map issue. So what if the physical geography is the same on the surface if what's meaningful about it has completely changed? Yeah, I scaled Death Mountain in BotW...to kill a huge lizard, but now there's weird malice goop stretching skyward out of the caldera and this doesn't pique my interest at all? And oh, of course I know everything about the Hebra region because I explored it ad nauseum in BotW, except now there's a dungeon under Mount Hebra and get to see a cutscene of a Divine Beast lasering the mountain. I get it, "familiarity breeds contempt" but if you flip this issue on its head, now I have to be suspicious about everything I once knew on the map. Exploring becomes less of "what's over the next hill" and more of "there was X over the hill last time, I wonder if that's still true?" Now, the critics will have a point if 6/10 times, the old thing is still there but I don't see it happening. I'm sure most of the points of interest that were shrines and korok puzzles before (and had queues to say "LOOK OVER HERE") have their rewards replaced. The locations themselves might not change but what greets you when you get there will be totally different.
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Apr 1, 2023 14:32
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sigher posted:Or a Cuccoo to an arrow and you can orbital strike snipe from a distance. If we can’t call in cuccoo air strikes by bow & arrow, I’ll now consider TotK an abysmal failure of imagination.
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Apr 1, 2023 14:34
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seeing how the map has changed in subtle and less subtle ways is one of the things i'm most excited about tbh
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Apr 1, 2023 15:50
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The map is the same. There are only three new caves total. There are seven sky islands that just have one puzzle each. Ultrahand and Fuse only work in like, ten different combos. And two cutscenes.
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Apr 1, 2023 16:05
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and they shrunk Link's wiener
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Apr 1, 2023 16:06
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Lunatic Sledge posted:and they shrunk Link's wiener Cancelling my preorder
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Apr 1, 2023 16:16
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Lunatic Sledge posted:and they shrunk Link's wiener Won't matter: Link's seductive powers have no limitations
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Apr 1, 2023 16:42
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tag yourself. I'm warlord garfield.
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Apr 1, 2023 16:42
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:tag yourself. I'm warlord garfield. The Korok on a motorbike.
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Apr 1, 2023 16:50
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:tag yourself. I'm warlord garfield. 9/10, didn't spot a crying statue of liberty edit: 9.5 for the happiest bullet bill I've ever seen though, that fucker is jazzed Lunatic Sledge fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Apr 1, 2023 |
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Apr 1, 2023 16:52
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Winifred Madgers posted:the elusive third cutscene OK so my uncle said first you have to get General Leo in your party
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Apr 1, 2023 16:57
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how weird is it going to be if we get two mainline Zeldas in a row with no triforce or is that the third cutscene
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Apr 1, 2023 16:59
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My uncle said that you can only unlock the third cutscene if you play the game on the Zelda edition OLED switch with the Zelda edition pro controller, and then you recite the magic phrase from the original Japanese version of the collectors edition art book.
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Apr 1, 2023 17:00
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Cojawfee posted:My uncle said that you can only unlock the third cutscene if you play the game on the Zelda edition OLED switch with the Zelda edition pro controller, and then you recite the magic phrase from the original Japanese version of the collectors edition art book. no Zelda amiibos required? I'm calling bullshit
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Apr 1, 2023 17:04
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Lunatic Sledge posted:how weird is it going to be if we get two mainline Zeldas in a row with no triforce you actually have to craft the triforce out of bokoblin guts and a knight's claymore
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Apr 1, 2023 17:08
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Lunatic Sledge posted:no Zelda amiibos required? I'm calling bullshit You don't need them for that because you already have to scan every Zelda amiibo just to start the game. And if your wolf link amiibo doesn't have 20 hearts, the game deletes your save file when you go to start the final boss battle to defeat Calamity Tingle.
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Apr 1, 2023 17:23
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https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1642180190351548416
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Apr 1, 2023 17:26
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Unlucky7 posted:Just get one of those e-shop vouchers and use it on this game and another game you want. If you have a Costco membership they currently have a sale on gift cards. So you can get 100 eshop bucks for $80, use that on a set of vouchers, and get TotK plus something else pretty reasonably.
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Apr 1, 2023 17:45
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Nintendo is being extremely coy about what’s new so any judgement call on the amount and quality of content at this point is pure guesswork. I just used a voucher to get the game (along with Kirby RtDL Deluxe) edit: fwiw here’s what ceo bowser had to say about it quote:“We look at what the game has to offer. I think fans will find this is an incredibly full, deeply immersive experience. The price point reflects the type of experience that fans can expect when it comes to playing this particular game. This isn’t a price point that we’ll necessarily have on all our titles. It’s actually a fairly common pricing model either here or in Europe or other parts of the world, where the pricing may vary depending on the game itself.” 
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Apr 1, 2023 18:14
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I guess at this point it feels like this game is just going to be BotW but better, which is great and all, but where will that leave BotW? Just TotK but worse? Will there be any reason to replay BotW? If TotK has a distinct identity outside of BotW+, they certainly havent shown it. Not that I'm not going to play the poo poo out of it, but the reused map is still going to be a disappointment. I've climbed death mountain, it can't possibly feel as special when we do it again to deal with those malice tendrils or whatever.
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Apr 1, 2023 18:22
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i really think people are underestimating how significant the changes to the map will likely be. "re-used" is a starting point, they didn't develop this for six years just to add a bunch of floating stuff.
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Apr 1, 2023 18:31
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At what point in the leadup to this game did people come to believe we weren't going to be, at least in part, exploring Hyrule?
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Apr 1, 2023 18:32
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My Second Re-Reg posted:At what point in the leadup to this game did people come to believe we weren't going to be, at least in part, exploring Hyrule? People are loving stupid.
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Apr 1, 2023 18:39
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Mister Facetious posted:People are loving stupid.  It's a sequel to an open-world game that was universally lauded. "Dammit, I guess I'll have to play more of this piss poor GOTY/GOAT game again...woe is me."
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Apr 1, 2023 18:48
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My Second Re-Reg posted:At what point in the leadup to this game did people come to believe we weren't going to be, at least in part, exploring Hyrule? No, the issue is that we already explored it. I hope caves/sky islands are a whole game's worth of exploration, but if that's the case, they certainly haven't demonstrated it.
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Apr 1, 2023 18:50
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Albatrossy_Rodent posted:No, the issue is that we already explored it. I hope caves/sky islands are a whole game's worth of exploration, but if that's the case, they certainly haven't demonstrated it. You do know that, unlike real life, nothing prevents Nintendo from modifying vast areas of the map, right?
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Apr 1, 2023 18:56
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Albatrossy_Rodent posted:No, the issue is that we already explored it. I hope caves/sky islands are a whole game's worth of exploration, but if that's the case, they certainly haven't demonstrated it. My best hope is that I'm thinking in terms of surface area when the actual exploration will be in volume; like, not enough sky islands to get a whole new Hyrule but that the volume is multiplied several times over now that empty air is explorable space. Still wish they'd built a new map so I can be excited about seeing what's behind those bluffs again.
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Apr 1, 2023 18:57
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Mister Facetious posted:You do know that, unlike real life, nothing prevents Nintendo from modifying vast areas of the map, right? If they've done that they haven't shown it. Even the area around the woodland tower has the exact same towers and barricades (minus the actual sheikah tower). The dueling peaks tower is in exactly the same place, so presumably all the other stables will be too. I guess the plateau doesn't have snow on it anymore?
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Apr 1, 2023 19:00
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Albatrossy_Rodent posted:If they've done that they haven't shown it. the thing about video games is that it's cool to not know everything before you start playing them
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Apr 1, 2023 19:10
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I recall distinctly looking into the distance on a rewatch of the gameplay trailer when he fell and seeing a ton of new weird poo poo on the ground too. I think perhaps people are getting "same map" mixed with "same geography". This is not going to be the exact same map its going to be a new map using the same geography as a baseline, something easily seen in the trailer.
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Apr 1, 2023 19:28
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:tag yourself. I'm I'm teletubby wolfos howling twice for the kids at home
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Apr 1, 2023 19:47
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kidcoelacanth posted:the thing about video games is that it's cool to not know everything before you start playing them And if you absolutely need to know everything before you consider playing it there's this period after launch where anyone can tell ya
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Apr 1, 2023 19:48
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I'm Homer Simpson.
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Apr 1, 2023 19:48
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For me it feels like the Dark World in LttP or Adult Links map in OoT. Sure the topography hasn’t changed but everything is different. Also mark me as a sucker that loves to see a landmark or environment I know changed because of circumstance or weather.
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Apr 1, 2023 19:51
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kidcoelacanth posted:the thing about video games is that it's cool to not know everything before you start playing them Thr difference of course being that in the trailers for literally 100% of games I've ever seen, it's been all new material, where large swaths of these trailers are "yep, that's Hyrule Field alright."
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Apr 1, 2023 19:53
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Albatrossy_Rodent posted:Thr difference of course being that in the trailers for literally 100% of games I've ever seen, it's been all new material, where large swaths of these trailers are "yep, that's Hyrule Field alright." you ever hear of a game called Yakuza?
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Apr 1, 2023 19:54
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