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Khanstant posted:No way they're ditching the handheld thing, so their next thing will presumably be inline with the handheld computers like Steam Deck No doubt, I just wonder what they could do with whatever's the latest mobile chips (or knowing Nintendo, the latest mobile chips of a year ago). It makes absolutely no sense, but an apple silicon SoC would be amazing for a Switch 2.
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May 14, 2023 22:17
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For how big this game is and what it is trying to do the performance is outstanding. For me performance only knocks a game if it is consistently poor most of the time.
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May 14, 2023 22:31
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OhFunny posted:Wow! After BOTW being so solitary. I was not expecting to run into a squad of Hyrulian soldiers who I would then charge into battle with against a monster camp. That was really cool. Ascend.
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May 14, 2023 22:37
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MonsterEnvy posted:Ascend. Ascend is certainly this game's Cryonis, the extremely useful power we all constantly forget we have.
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May 14, 2023 22:40
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Talking cuckoo? No! It's the Yiga Clan!
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May 14, 2023 22:50
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Albatrossy_Rodent posted:Ascend is certainly this game's Cryonis, the extremely useful power we all constantly forget we have. Speak for yourself, I was doing it so much I accidentally broke the lightning temple because the devs forgot I could do it
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May 14, 2023 22:52
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I don’t care about the performance at all. It would be nice if the game looked better but I can tolerate it. I mean, I remember PC games on a budget machine as a kid in the 90s-early 2000s and this is WAY better than that. Morrowind is one of my favorite games of all time and it looked like blurry mud, dropped to like 15 FPS if it was raining or there were too many buildings (yes, buildings) on screen, and crashed to desktop about once an hour.
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May 14, 2023 22:57
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Nintendo have long since proven to themselves that Nextgen hardware isn't necessary to be extremely profitable and well regarded. A huge part of their userbase are too young to care and the rest of us are going to buy anyway because we want Nintendo games. Frankly emulating this game and getting 1080p/60fps is viable if you're willing to spend several times the cost of a switch on hardware. I did it before release and then bought the game anyway to have on my cheap portable hardware and haven't gone back to the emulator since.
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May 14, 2023 23:05
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I said come in! posted:1000% agree. Between this, and Elden Ring, we have a new standard for open world RPGs. And TotK is less so an RPG, but open world games in general, we are eating really good right now for this genre. A ways back at this point, but I really think the next elder scroll game has it's work cut out for it if it wants to match up to those two open world games.
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May 14, 2023 23:06
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:A ways back at this point, but I really think the next elder scroll game has it's work cut out for it if it wants to match up to those two open world games. Hell even Witcher 3 outclassed every other Elder Scrolls game eight years ago. (I had to look to make sure it was actually that long ago. The passage of time is cruel and unrelenting  ).
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May 14, 2023 23:12
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I got loving called out for stealing stuff from a little kid 😩
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May 14, 2023 23:15
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https://twitter.com/SamFaustus/status/1657871294694830081?s=20
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May 14, 2023 23:16
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Bethesda-style open world games are pretty much dead if they can't match this poo poo. The thing that TotK (and BotW, and Elden Ring) do is they have the same, "go anywhere, discover things" vibe as say, Skyrim... except the stuff you find is actually interesting and fun. Even when half the time TotK just offers up more crafting resources or another shrine, it feels genuinely magical when you figure out how it works. Skyrim (and FO4) have this problem where the game feels scared to do anything interesting, so you end up with boring loot and most gameplay segments being another combat slog through prefab corridors. I am genuinely amazed at this game (and I had a similar experience with BotW, obviously) where you see something and think, "I bet there's something over there" and then you check it out and it's some wild poo poo you didn't even know was in the game. Also it's telling that both ER and NeoZelda games probably half a fraction of the writing that like FO4 or Skyrim has, yet they're better for it because the entire point of these games is to imply a story through exploration rather than have a bunch of NPCs voiced by the same guy just tell you what the story is.
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May 14, 2023 23:21
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lmao, I'm trying to clear the Hyrule Field Skyview Tower and just tried fusing a club with a bomb barrel Suffice it to say it didn't go well 
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May 14, 2023 23:33
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Olay, that statue quest at the Great Plateau is absolutely worth it. And it's actually pretty easy, the game gives you the tools to do it on site. Free health/stamina upgrade and if you brought Poes to a statue unlocks a piece of Gloom res gear.
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May 14, 2023 23:39
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Rageaholic posted:lmao, I'm trying to clear the Hyrule Field Skyview Tower and just tried fusing a club with a bomb barrel They make very good stick grenades, you can throw them farther than you would a barrel by itself
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May 14, 2023 23:40
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It does kinda suck checkmarks on caves don't include the possible clothes. Now I feel paranoid I missed a piece somewhere
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May 14, 2023 23:48
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Steve Yun posted:They make very good stick grenades, you can throw them farther than you would a barrel by itself boomerang barrels
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May 14, 2023 23:48
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:Speak for yourself, I was doing it so much I accidentally broke the lightning temple because the devs forgot I could do it I can guarantee they didn't forget and kept it in because it's a perfect use-case for the power. They turned off Ultrahand in one spot there, where I couldn't get one of the trap floor slabs out of the hole it fell in to block the flames that stop Riju, despite absolutely being in range outside the hole and being able to use it on them inside the hole. If they wanted to keep you from Ascending between floors where it wasn't "intentional" they would have.
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May 14, 2023 23:58
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Okay, I give up, haven't seen any hints or clues. Where do I get the flying horse?
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May 15, 2023 00:01
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GiantRockFromSpace posted:It does kinda suck checkmarks on caves don't include the possible clothes. Now I feel paranoid I missed a piece somewhere I’ve done like five caves and haven’t found a stitch of clothes lol
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May 15, 2023 00:02
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oh my god there's a combat shrine where they give you a loving mad-max style doom-mobile and tell you to go nuts  (i killed myself twice with it whoops)
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May 15, 2023 00:07
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I need so many drat arrows
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May 15, 2023 00:07
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I desperately want more stamina but I need so many loving hearts!!!
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May 15, 2023 00:09
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I dived down to the depths because I found a mysterious hole and thought "oh that's probably something", while I was down there I found a skellington horse and then got my rear end kicked repeatedly and comprehensively until I decided I wasn't prepared to be there yet and fast-traveled to the surface. Weird place.
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May 15, 2023 00:15
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do you have to use fast travel to get out of the depths?
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May 15, 2023 00:16
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okay so i thought the game only took place maybe one or two years later, but i just got to tarrey town and Hudson & Rhondson have a daughter?? Which is adorable, but it also means this game has to take place like, at LEAST 5 years later. Koko and Cottla looked mostly the same age, but I'm gonna chalk that up to the fact that the sheikah live longer, so they probably grow slower too.
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May 15, 2023 00:21
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cuntman.net posted:do you have to use fast travel to get out of the depths? Tei posted:
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May 15, 2023 00:23
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cuntman.net posted:do you have to use fast travel to get out of the depths? No, but it's far more convenient and faster than trying to manually do it. I'm pretty sure the tutorial forcing you to use the teleport to complete it is the game developers acknowledging that sometimes, you should just use fast travel
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May 15, 2023 00:27
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Gambrinus posted:I've not read this thread since before release, but can someone give me a yes/no answer on if we get the paraglider back at some point please? Now I’m imagining doing the map towers without a paraglider. Oops, Purah forgot something.
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May 15, 2023 00:27
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Can't believe how great this game is. Just failed a sidequest because I tried to escort some people in a cart with my untamed horse and just before the destination the horse decided to steer us on 30 degree slopes overturning them. Have barely scratched the caves, but the evil ninja gang being technophiles is fuckin' brilliant. While wandering in the dark of a cave, I got mowed down by a ninja riding a mad max jeep. How does Nintendo even make another Zelda game
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May 15, 2023 00:33
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Is shelling out a lot of rupees my best option for getting an armor set with decent defense early on? I tried fighting the monsters on the way to Hateno, and got one shot killed 5 times, oof.
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May 15, 2023 00:36
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Pro tip for climbing steep mountains on limited stamina: If you’re climbing and there’s a slope that’s like on the borderline of being walkable, you can switch from climbing to standing. Push the movement stick forward so that you don’t slide down. Even if it’s too steep and standing fails and you go back to climbing, the attempt to stand will mean you’re not climbing for that second or two, during which your stamina regenerates a precious little bit This is something I got a lot of mileage out of in BOTW and it seems to work in TOTK too
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May 15, 2023 00:40
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The lead up to the wind temple is probably the coolest couple hours of Zelda I've ever played
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May 15, 2023 00:41
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Have barely scratched the caves, but the evil ninja gang being technophiles is fuckin' brilliant. While wandering in the dark of a cave, I got mowed down by a ninja riding a mad max jeep. I was laughing too hard to shoot straight when that happened.
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May 15, 2023 00:45
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John Wick of Dogs posted:The lead up to the wind temple is probably the coolest couple hours of Zelda I've ever played Yeah, if Wind Temple isn't the game's peak then the actual peak will probably kill me. It was magnificent from approach to finish. Somebody said "this is where we're pointing people first, we need to knock it out of the park" and succeeded. Bruceski fucked around with this message at 00:53 on May 15, 2023 |
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May 15, 2023 00:46
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It's a small thing but kind of funny to me how the character profiles just kind of casually hard confirm the Sheikah as a Hylian race.
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May 15, 2023 00:54
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Bruceski posted:Yeah, if Wind Temple isn't the game's peak then the actual peak will probably kill me. It was magnificent from approach to finish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tteNQfN-zRs&t=723s
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May 15, 2023 00:57
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I spent about 2 hours mapping out the depths. It's a really cool area that I still kind of don't have a grasp on traversing yet... It feels great to fire a large light way off into the murky darkness and for this huge area to suddenly come into veiw. Deep alien underground Ruins never stop being cool. After that I decided to do some stuff with the resources I found but ended up getting side tracked by The hole in the wall in the Royal Shelter I've been in here for another two hours! I'm running low on food and Ammo and weapons even at this point. I've found 2 pieces of armor and I've died like 4 times and it's STILL GOING 
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May 15, 2023 00:57
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DemoneeHo posted:Is shelling out a lot of rupees my best option for getting an armor set with decent defense early on? I tried fighting the monsters on the way to Hateno, and got one shot killed 5 times, oof. If it's anything like botw buying gear strictly for the base armor stats is only gonna be an incremental upgrade, you're gonna want to upgrade them to become actually tanky
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