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I just used a bleed Katana and a Mimic lol
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Apr 25, 2023 01:33
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I picked up my BotW save again, last accessed in 8/2021. Wandered around Zora lands looking for the eight stone tablets I never found, still didn't find any. I am so bad at this game, and I love every loving second of it. I'm a 2D Zelda diehard, because I missed the window for my brain to have developed native competence in 3D games by about three years. I find it confusing and chaotic trying to fight, and I don't think I've completed a single dungeon in any 3D Zelda games other than BotW. As you can imagine, Souls games are a hard and final no for me. Also I feel like a huge idiot for only now spotting the mythical creature in the TotK logo and making a connection about what it means for the plot and timeline...I'm now liking a certain theory that has been lightly bandied about here: Ouroborous in the logo, suggesting that TotK's story will wind up leading into Skyward Sword - the first game in the timeline - via time-travel shenanigans, thus closing the Zelda timeline into a loop.
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Apr 25, 2023 02:15
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Gwely Mernans posted:I mean, the Souls games are basically grimdark Zelda with combat emphasis and a more obtuse story I’m struggling to find any common ground between the games besides “you use a sword sometimes and fight monsters, and it’s a fantasy setting”
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Apr 25, 2023 02:16
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I think of souls enemies as basically the combat version of Zelda puzzles.
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Apr 25, 2023 02:20
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Orange Crush Rush posted:While enemy variety is better then BoTW, I can't help but point out how the Haligtree, the end game super dungeon, is made up of 99% enemies you fought already. Including the minibosses, high end guards, and even the same zombie soldiers that you have been fighting since literally the start of the game, that even fight the exact same way (only now they blow up when you kill them)(and also heavily resist Holy because gently caress YOU if you dared make a FTH build in that game) You stop encountering new enemies like 75% of the way through the game. Can you name a single game that does a better job of pacing the way it doles out new content?
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Apr 25, 2023 02:21
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CK07 posted:I picked up my BotW save again, last accessed in 8/2021. Wandered around Zora lands looking for the eight stone tablets I never found, still didn't find any. I hope it doesn't, because that means that everything that happens going forward now takes place between these two points. It makes the universe feel closed in.
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Apr 25, 2023 02:22
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Shiroc posted:Its time for Link to say 'gently caress' I'll pay extra for this. Like, not adding actual dialogue for him, just peppering that in as the one occasional legible word when he's taking damage and stuff.
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Apr 25, 2023 02:26
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Albatrossy_Rodent posted:I hope it doesn't, because that means that everything that happens going forward now takes place between these two points. It makes the universe feel closed in. It doesn't have to if they introduce more new timeline splits. Look forward to the timeline debates if that happens.
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Apr 25, 2023 02:27
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Clockwork Link is inevitable, gonna have goggles and some gears sewn into his cap
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Apr 25, 2023 02:31
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Captain Hygiene posted:I'll pay extra for this. Like, not adding actual dialogue for him, just peppering that in as the one occasional legible word when he's taking damage and stuff. Dead Space 2 stomping style. When Link does a flurry rush its just all "gently caress YOU loving gently caress"
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Apr 25, 2023 02:57
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MokBa posted:Zelda and Souls also have the thing in common where they're my two favorite video game series. I can argue against that partially with tunic, which frankly felt like trying to decipher zelda 1 from scratch with a half translated japanese manual. Would highly reccomend if you enjoy the puzzles and exploration in zelda.
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Apr 25, 2023 03:55
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Darksiders 1 is a pretty good Zelda clone, with a bit of God of war thrown in. Only the 1st though, 2 is more of an action RPG and 3 takes heavy influence from Dark souls
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Apr 25, 2023 03:58
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Albatrossy_Rodent posted:I hope it doesn't, because that means that everything that happens going forward now takes place between these two points. It makes the universe feel closed in. There would still be 10,000 years to fill, minimum. That seems like plenty of space to me, even if they don't go all timeline-weird, or dimension-weird, or something. Which, c'mon, of course they would. But if that's how you feel, that's how you feel.
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Apr 25, 2023 05:15
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Shiroc posted:Its time for Link to say 'gently caress' Albatrossy_Rodent posted:I hope it doesn't, because that means that everything that happens going forward now takes place between these two points. It makes the universe feel closed in. Link sitting at a table cutting beer cans into little figurines with a small folding Master Knife: “Time… is a flat fuckin’ circle. Hyaa!”
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Apr 25, 2023 05:45
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CK07 posted:There would still be 10,000 years to fill, minimum. That seems like plenty of space to me, even if they don't go all timeline-weird, or dimension-weird, or something. Which, c'mon, of course they would. But if that's how you feel, that's how you feel. But wherever you are in that period/alternate timeline, it would still always be leading to that endpoint. If it's all just a cycle, then nothing Link does ever really matters, it's just endless bloodshed, forever and ever. I like that in souls, it fits the theme. In Zelda it would feel weird
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Apr 25, 2023 06:14
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With Ganondorf returning for the first time in years, I wonder if a humanoid Ganon will also return.
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Apr 25, 2023 06:35
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I want a 3D mainline next-gen Zelda to have Ganon Classic, the fat blue pig king with the tridents.
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Apr 25, 2023 06:39
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MokBa posted:Zelda and Souls also have the thing in common where they're my two favorite video game series. play Ittle Dew
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Apr 25, 2023 06:46
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MokBa posted:
Darksiders
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Apr 25, 2023 06:50
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I really like Tunic, it's a really, really clever way to update the concept of a Zelda puzzle. Wish its story made sense and was good, though.
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Apr 25, 2023 06:54
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Anyone tried Blossom Tales 2? I'm hoping they fixed the dungeons being way too long.
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Apr 25, 2023 06:55
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With how popular of a feature it was in BotW Hero’s path has gotta be in TotK right? Though with the map being more vertical it might not work as well
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Apr 25, 2023 09:15
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RatHat posted:With how popular of a feature it was in BotW Hero’s path has gotta be in TotK right? Though with the map being more vertical it might not work as well If they use one color for ground level and another for the sky areas, it should be fine.
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Apr 25, 2023 09:17
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RatHat posted:With how popular of a feature it was in BotW Hero’s path has gotta be in TotK right? Though with the map being more vertical it might not work as well Layered? Green for ground, blue for sky, yellow for underground? Efb
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Apr 25, 2023 09:19
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Depends on how they do the separation between surface and underground I guess. They could just use the whole spectrum: deepest underground is maximum violet, turns blue and then green as you ascend, hits yellow right around z=0, turns orange and then red as you gain height. You would learn to read it. Might get confusing though if there are sky islands lower than some mountains or underground areas inside mountains so you’re underground but still at positive z.
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Apr 25, 2023 09:31
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MokBa posted:Zelda and Souls also have the thing in common where they're my two favorite video game series. souls is a zelda clone tho. lock on, roll, strafe, block, attack etc. magic spells and magic meter. levels are mildly metroid like, where you open paths to where you've already been, defeat boss at the end. drink from a bottle to heal, gain bottles as you go. etc etc edit: illusory walls, a two handed sword that means no shield, mean spirited things e.g. like likes stealing your shield. skeleton enemies that rebuild themselves. its really all there Antonymous fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Apr 25, 2023 |
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Apr 25, 2023 09:33
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Pirate Radar posted:Depends on how they do the separation between surface and underground I guess. They could just use the whole spectrum: deepest underground is maximum violet, turns blue and then green as you ascend, hits yellow right around z=0, turns orange and then red as you gain height. You would learn to read it. Might get confusing though if there are sky islands lower than some mountains or underground areas inside mountains so you’re underground but still at positive z. Yeah, that's too complicated. They want it readable by children.
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Apr 25, 2023 09:34
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Comedy option : the map is redone in the 3D wireframe style used for the divine beasts and the castle in BotW. It would make sense for the sky islands where a flat map would get confusing if there's one island above another.
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Apr 25, 2023 09:40
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They'll just have a button that switches between overlays of the three levels, assuming they bother.
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Apr 25, 2023 09:43
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Albatrossy_Rodent posted:I hope it doesn't, because that means that everything that happens going forward now takes place between these two points. It makes the universe feel closed in. you're right. ALTTP, OOT, WW, MC, SS and BOTW all took place at what was the extreme end of the timeline when they came out. Most of them vying to be the earliest story in the timeline, or wind waker kinda the end of a new timeline. And they are basically the complete list of iconic zelda games
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Apr 25, 2023 09:45
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Mister Facetious posted:Yeah, that's too complicated. They want it readable by children. Yeah, you're probably right.
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Apr 25, 2023 09:47
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I wonder if its the same ganondorf in totk as the one in oot who died in wind waker and twilight princess. in wind waker you see the sages from the N64 games up on the wall so it necessitates that game is part of the same universe. but there's nothing in BotW that requires the other games to be literally what happened before except the master sword looks the same and some referential locations which is more minor but ganondorf is major
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Apr 25, 2023 09:49
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Mister Facetious posted:They'll just have a button that switches between overlays of the three levels, assuming they bother. That's what I actually expect but hey, they pointedly avoided showing the menus during the gameplay demo so a man can dream, right?
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Apr 25, 2023 09:49
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https://youtu.be/kchmXDGDAWk
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Apr 25, 2023 10:14
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Apr 25, 2023 14:14
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Mister Facetious posted:Yeah, that's too complicated. They want it readable by children.
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Apr 25, 2023 15:39
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I didn’t really fully sink my teeth into the game on my first run (didn’t even finish), but the thing that’s impressing me more and more is how many events and side quests there are to do. Like gently caress, they really could have just not put in, say, a side quest where you build an entire town after buying a house. Or had the sequence for the ice dragon just be shooting a stationary dragon’s creepy eye tumors off. And a horse that’s just randomly the descendant of Zelda’s flashback horse. Or poo poo, even the Korok seeds that are more involved than lifting/throwing a rock. Etc. and people would have still said this game had a crazy amount to do/see. This is a game i understand why people have issues with, and some people would (probably rightfully) argue that a lot of those quests are just superfluous fluff when you can just make 300 rupees by hunting for five minutes, but it’s just a great vibe. Can’t wait to finish exploring and kill Calamity Ganon in like thirty seconds while taking no damage the whole time.
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Apr 25, 2023 15:50
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Fifty Three posted:I'm still suspicious that the gameplay demo was on a dev build and the final game won't have coordinates, but the numbers being gracefully curved along the map is an argument against that suspicion. Kids understand xyz coordinates these days thanks to Minecraft
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Apr 25, 2023 15:53
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Antonymous posted:I wonder if its the same ganondorf in totk as the one in oot who died in wind waker and twilight princess. TP Dorf and WW Dorf are two different timelines in the Historia, but the really all we got is the Gerudo distantly have heard he was one of them and that they're offended by the suggestion. All else is buried by Operation Dorf Down being 10k years ago, a stretch of time similar between now and the invention of agriculture. Maybe instead of Zelda/Champion memories we can ideally have an album of places to go to hear Ganondorf read transcripts of his autobiography instead.
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Apr 25, 2023 16:19
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Got my time off request approved, can't wait to spend 4 days just digging in. Time to stock up on Gatorade and adult diapers.
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