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pentyne posted:From memory the entire southern tropical jungle area and that coastal fishing village had no actual purpose in the game they were just there to explore for the of it. yeah i couldnt believe that village when i stumbled into it 200 hours in or so. i spent a comfy afternoon just sailing along that coast (until i crashed into Hardcore No Gear Island
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Apr 2, 2023 01:56
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the coastal village was the coolest little creepy spot in botw. i just wandered around waiting for around to happen.
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Apr 2, 2023 01:58
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The coastal town used to be populated but the draw of the distant island became too much to resist for the locals.
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Apr 2, 2023 02:21
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Lunatic Sledge posted:then he made me pay 20 rupees for blowing a hole in his cave (not a euphemism) If they bring this mechanic back then it’s automatic GOAT and also this will be the thread title
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Apr 2, 2023 02:28
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all they gotta do is put one old man in some cave with a sword
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Apr 2, 2023 03:03
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just realizing there will probably be another one of those Metal Gear Solid Sustenance levels in TotK. drat that was such a great mission, one of the most memorable ball fetch quests. i think it also had the one blood moon i remember being happy to see, since it reset some monster or item that i needed another one of but had messed up or lost in an attempt.
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Apr 2, 2023 03:12
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One time I knocked the orb on top of the island into the ocean and it was quite the struggle to get it back up.
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Apr 2, 2023 03:53
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It's laid out like Outset Island was, right down to Arryl's perch. I adore that little fishing village. It's extremely Washington State.
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Apr 2, 2023 04:00
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Augus posted:not true at all, individual pieces of gear in BoTW give you bonuses, not just the full sets. there are many areas in botw where you only need one piece of gear with heat/cold resistance and then you can use the other two slots on whatever. Link is Hyrule's winter coat and shorts guy
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Apr 2, 2023 04:28
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There’s a decent argument to be made that Lurelin Village was meant to be involved in the plot, probably involving another Divine Beast based in the ocean, and all of that was cut during development The main two arguments are A) that entire region being the only really irrelevant region in the final game, almost like there was supposed to be something big there, and B) there’s a whale-looking Divine Beast figurine hanging from the ceiling of the Hateno Lab that also closely resembles one of the Divine Beasts in the concert art It’d be cool to see them bring that cut concept back, like they did with Link’s hosed-up arm
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Apr 2, 2023 05:02
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Procrastine posted:
Umm, my uncle is asleep now but I think...was it finding Yoshi in the basement, or getting Mew from under the truck? The third cutscene is gonna be so good, I heard that you finally get to see the Legends of Zelda, if you know what I mean.
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Apr 2, 2023 05:03
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The Maroon Hawk posted:There’s a decent argument to be made that Lurelin Village was meant to be involved in the plot, probably involving another Divine Beast based in the ocean, and all of that was cut during development Akkala also doesn’t figure much into the main plot. It has the ancient tech forge but that’s about it. Lots of nice world building though. There’s lots of places like that actually. Faron Grasslands and Hebra Mountains (beyond the tiny bit of the Archery Range) are also examples. Lurelin Village is just more populated than those other areas.
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Apr 2, 2023 05:27
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Akkala has the prettiest trees, 10/10 area of the map
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Apr 2, 2023 05:42
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hope there's a korok you only get by rolling a boulder up a hill, but the boulder is programmed to slip away when you get close
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Apr 2, 2023 05:45
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Faron's pretty important, all told. It has several shrine quests, at least two with Kass, a goddess spring, eventide, a tower. Easiest place to farm hearty ingredients, with the durian trees. Area north of lost woods feels much less important. Pretty much nothing of note along the central-north border.
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Apr 2, 2023 05:57
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MokBa posted:One time I knocked the orb on top of the island into the ocean and it was quite the struggle to get it back up. That is super frustrating. Especially starting out not knowing where they even go.
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Apr 2, 2023 06:09
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Something about the way Zelda devs design their world makes the areas that are unfinished or pared down really stand out. Since as far back as OoT people have really fixated on these spots, and they've been the sources of playground rumors or lore speculation
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Apr 2, 2023 06:17
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was messing around in twilight princess HD and noticed something that i never did before because i exclusively played this game on gamecube, at a decent distance away from the screen i knew there were theories that the twili's ancestors were sheikah but some of the evidence seemed kinda nebulous - the eye iconography never seemed THAT similar to me - the one on the front of midna's helmet looks closer to yugioh designs than anything.  but, uh. That's unmistakably a sheikah eye on the back of midna's helmet. Neat!
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Apr 2, 2023 06:21
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I think with BotW it makes more sense that not every major area is important and it builds the character of the world. At least compared to something like WW, which has a destroyed island that was obviously meant to be a major area but they ran out of time and they had to cut it.
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Apr 2, 2023 06:22
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Albatrossy_Rodent posted:You happen to run across enough stables that restocking arrows isn't really something that you have to go out of your way to do. Wait, are you just stealing arrows from the archery targets at the stables or something?!? You can do that? Dang. FWIW I still never beat BOTW after several hundred hours so I'm resurrecting my run from late 2020 which has two Beasts and all the towers but I don't think a whole lot else. I don't have Epona for instance. In a curious coincidence I spent the evening on horseback finishing off trails my Hero's Path says I never rode on. It's pretty drat satisfying. I'm still pretty shook when it comes to hand-to-hand combat. I want to do it "right" and shield block but I'm pretty bad at the timing, even against Bobokin.
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Apr 2, 2023 06:22
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Link really needed to learn CQC once they added weapon durability
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Apr 2, 2023 06:26
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Unlucky7 posted:I think with BotW it makes more sense that not every major area is important and it builds the character of the world. At least compared to something like WW, which has a destroyed island that was obviously meant to be a major area but they ran out of time and they had to cut it. It does at least help build the idea that they're places that escaped Ganon's wrath - they're just not important enough for the Big Evil to bother with. Just a tiny lil' fishing village with like five people in it, tucked away on a remote beach, not worth worrying about when you have all of Castle Town to obliterate
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Apr 2, 2023 06:51
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Tayter Swift posted:Wait, are you just stealing arrows from the archery targets at the stables or something?!? You can do that? Dang. Nah but Beedle's always around the stables, you buy arrows from him.
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Apr 2, 2023 08:04
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Lurelin village was actually the first landmark I came across in BotW because the first thing I did was glide south off the plateau and then travel through that valley with the lynel. I had been wandering through a thunderstorm along the coast until I came across the village. It's one of my most incomparable gaming memories, but I did experience some disappointment when I learned there wasn't much to do there.
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Apr 2, 2023 08:39
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I'm gonna go to a print shop and print out a high res map of BOTW Hyrule, and only use that map for navigation except for points where the game requires me to use the ingame map. I've been wanting to do this since the game was announced, because I was thinking that 1. being the one to mark changes to the geography from the original would keep the exploration feeling fresh, and 2. orienting myself based on landmarks feels like it might be more fun than just checking my bearing with a map cursor.
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Apr 2, 2023 08:59
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One of the floating islands should be the Zelda stage from Smash Bros Melee.
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Apr 2, 2023 09:41
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blakyoshi posted:One of the floating islands should be the Zelda stage from Smash Bros Melee. And you have to beat it to get the ultra hand power
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Apr 2, 2023 11:29
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Argue posted:I'm gonna go to a print shop and print out a high res map of BOTW Hyrule, and only use that map for navigation except for points where the game requires me to use the ingame map. I've been wanting to do this since the game was announced, because I was thinking that 1. being the one to mark changes to the geography from the original would keep the exploration feeling fresh, and 2. orienting myself based on landmarks feels like it might be more fun than just checking my bearing with a map cursor. Ive done a no fast travel run of botw and it’s amazing how much stuff you miss with fast travel
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Apr 2, 2023 15:05
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Kassad posted:Nah but Beedle's always around the stables, you buy arrows from him. Yeah, but he quickly runs out of arrows and you have to wait for a blood moon to get more. At least, that's my experience. I wanted to stock up on arrows and shops and beedle seemed to only carry a few at a time and took forever to restock. How I made money was from doing that deer hunting challenge in Hateno or Kakariko or whatever town it is in. Using the free knight bow that spawns at one of the stables every blood moon and being economical with arrows, you can make decent money from both the reward from the challenge as well as the meat you collect. And you can do it as many times as you want. Cojawfee fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Apr 2, 2023 |
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Apr 2, 2023 17:32
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If he's out of arrows, it's because the game considers you have too many arrows already. I guess in that case you can murder your way up the path to Zora's domain?
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Apr 2, 2023 18:12
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https://twitter.com/aquatic_ambi/status/1642359402966679552?s=46&t=Mu6ngisnZlTkezPxh7sqCQ
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Apr 2, 2023 18:23
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Tayter Swift posted:Wait, are you just stealing arrows from the archery targets at the stables or something?!? You can do that? Dang. The only two things I would suggest to a newbie player are to save up rupees from the start to afford the cold/warm gear asap, and to take a horse and just follow the roads. You'll hit all the stables, which all have a nearby shrine for fast travel, and every stable has a plethora of weapons/arrows/food along with some sidequest NPCs.
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Apr 2, 2023 18:25
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:https://twitter.com/aquatic_ambi/status/1642359402966679552?s=46&t=Mu6ngisnZlTkezPxh7sqCQ 
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Apr 2, 2023 18:26
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:https://twitter.com/aquatic_ambi/status/1642359402966679552?s=46&t=Mu6ngisnZlTkezPxh7sqCQ Using Fuse to combine Epona's Song with the Song of Soaring
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Apr 2, 2023 18:34
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I saw a few posts now saying caves are back in a big way and I wanted to ask where was that confirmed outside one of the two cutscenes being in one Not really saying it's impossible but the only caves I remember were little holes with a shrine in them in 1 and I don't recall seeing anything about them in 2
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Apr 2, 2023 19:18
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:I saw a few posts now saying caves are back in a big way and I wanted to ask where was that confirmed outside one of the two cutscenes being in one There was a trailer with a wide shot of an before-unseen location that people are speculating is underground because of an -oblin mining operation and what appear to be giant mushrooms. Another trailer shows a hinox chasing link through a tunnel.
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Apr 2, 2023 19:24
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I think it's just speculation and a counter to "it's all the same map." Maybe there's a huge underworld. Maybe you just fight an alligator man with an axe. Who knows
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Apr 2, 2023 19:25
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:I saw a few posts now saying caves are back in a big way and I wanted to ask where was that confirmed outside one of the two cutscenes being in one There are clear cave indicators on the minimap in the ten minute gameplay demo. That said we have no idea what those actually mean or what kind of gameplay is available at those icons.
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Apr 2, 2023 19:27
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The final boss is using Ultrahand and Fuse to build the legendary third cutscene
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Apr 2, 2023 19:31
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:I saw a few posts now saying caves are back in a big way and I wanted to ask where was that confirmed outside one of the two cutscenes being in one Caverns feature prominently in the trailers, both in cutscene form and with enemies in them. In the latest demo we saw on the minimap that caves are tracked somewhat like shrines, with icons that can be checked off. The Ascend ability seems made with spelunking in mind and presumably there are big holes where parts of the sky islands were. still not clear if all the sky islands were risen from underground or somewhere else, but at least hyrule castle and the labyrinths were raised so it's all just inferences, but pretty strong ones
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Apr 2, 2023 19:35
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