Games

Post by **dng** » Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:52 pm

i played that last year with my neices (and then twligight princess afterwards). its deifnitely better than twilight princess but also was deifnitely worse than i remembered. but the whole time stones desert/sea section's brilliant so that's okay, and it is fun seeing what they used/re-used and what they abndoned entirely in making breath of the wild so good

i just don't know why they made the flying between islands so tedious. like, absurdly tedious for no apparent reason (it doesn't even seem to be to hide load times because you still have to load when you go down to the surface anyway)

Post by **dng** » Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:52 pm

lets hope they aren't bringing that boringness back for the new one with all the sky islands

Post by **dng** » Tue Apr 04, 2023 2:00 pm

also i haven't played the switch swyward sword so i don't know what they changed, but there are one hell of a lot of pointlessly tedious things they hopefully tidied up (such as how bloody long it takes to pick up beetles, monster parts, money, etc)

Post by **vom** » Tue Apr 04, 2023 2:11 pm

I liked the way the flying and islands was just How To Train Your Dragon (presumably coincidence? they seem to have been in development at the same time) but yeah they didn't really find a way to make it fun.

I never really struggled for bugs / treasures / money so presumably there were some improvements made. perhaps I will look up what they changed! beats work!

Post by **dng** » Tue Apr 04, 2023 3:01 pm

for some reason every time you picked up anything it gave you the description of it again, but it seems they did fix that

"Alongside this, all cutscenes and dialogue can now also be skipped and, very important this one, items are only given a description the very first time you pick them up. It may seem like a small tweak that last one but it's quite remarkable just how much better it feels to play Zelda without being stopped with descriptions every single time you pick up an item."

Post by **dng** » Tue Apr 04, 2023 3:02 pm

(also it wasn't actually every time but it was the first time in every session, so it felt like every time)

Post by **vom** » Tue Apr 04, 2023 3:28 pm

ah yes, that's a big improvement

they definitely could have made Fi less chatty though, the bit I rolled my eyes hardest at was when I got the heatproof earrings and got the item description "you got the heatproof earrings! you can go to places that were previously too hot!" and then she popped out to tell me that "you can go places that were previously too hot! there is a 90% chance that this means the volcano you're stood next to!" or whatever.

Post by **dng** » Tue Apr 04, 2023 3:46 pm

yes. poor fi. my niece liked the bits where she danced around when you learnt new songs or whatever it was, so she wasn't all bad i suppose

Post by **vom** » Tue Apr 04, 2023 4:51 pm

that's true, those bits are pretty good

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Fri Apr 07, 2023 10:49 pm

I seem to have spent the entire day playing Mario Tennis (all normal cups won with all characters) and Goldeneye (Agent and Secret Agent done and dusted). Oops.

Post by **dng** » Fri Apr 07, 2023 10:49 pm

hooray

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Apr 08, 2023 2:28 pm

Agreed. Good man.

Post by **dng** » Sun Apr 09, 2023 1:58 pm

I've been playing Valkyria Revolution, an incredibly crappy action rpg spinoff of the Valkyria Chronicles games (which were turn based strategy games based during dome gibberish version of World War Two). Anyway, it might well be the worst game I've ever played. I'm about six hours in, and there's been about twenty minutes of game and the rest has either been cutscenes or loading screens, and the game bits were terrible, and the cutscenes might be the worst cutscenes of all time, and also the entire story seems to be that the war criminals who started their gibberish version of World War One were actually heroes all along, like if you made a film where the true hereoes of the second world war were lord haw haw, oswald mosley, diana mitford and that nazi king we had that time (and also they were all sexy teenagers for some reason)

Absolute fucking piss

Post by **dng** » Sun Apr 09, 2023 1:58 pm

(Some of the musics quite nice)

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Apr 09, 2023 3:56 pm

dng wrote: Sun Apr 09, 2023 1:58 pm like if you made a film where the true hereoes of the second world war were lord haw haw, oswald mosley, diana mitford and that nazi king we had that time (and also they were all sexy teenagers for some reason)

It's about time this happened.

Post by **The Robotic Anomaly** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 8:15 am

I'm trying to enjoy Breath Of The Wild, because I didn't enjoy it the first time round, but every time I get to the Zora I just want to smash my Switch up because they're so shit and creepy

Post by **endar** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:14 am

Play Astral Chain instead

Mon Apr 17, 2023 10:56 am

I'm going to get Metroid Prime and hide under the duvet instead

Post by **Bruce Sato** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:01 am

I still haven't played Breath of the Wild, because I still haven't got past Wind Waker in my big playthrough, or played any of the Zelda games that come after it. My sister said she liked it but 'it's not really a Zelda game so I hope they're not all going to be like that now'. She accidentally finished it very early by climbing through Ganon's window without knowing he was there and then killing him, which still amuses me.

Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:09 am

Yeah it's best to think of it as "not a Zelda game". When I stopped expecting nice dungeons and a linear path, it became more bearable.

Just pick a direction and go look at stuff.

Post by **vom** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:16 am

I'm not always into open world stuff, due to option paralysis etc, but I loved the way Breath of the Wild did it

Post by **vom** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:17 am

I'm playing Pentiment now and finding it a little stressful because every time I make a Choice it pops up and says THIS WILL BE REMEMBERED and argh what if I made a stupid choice

Mon Apr 17, 2023 12:07 pm

I embrace that
If you made a stupid choice, the game becomes about the consequences of that choice. There's no "winning", just different endings

Post by **vom** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 1:22 pm

yes but it's too much like real life, where I can fuck things up constantly all day and feel bad about it

Post by **The Robotic Anomaly** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 1:31 pm

the greatest secret of the modern world is that everyone is fucking everything up, all the time

at least that's my experience

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Apr 17, 2023 3:20 pm

vom wrote: Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:16 am I'm not always into open world stuff, due to option paralysis etc, but I loved the way Breath of the Wild did it

A potential LP/EP album title, there!

Post by **Mrak** » Sat Apr 22, 2023 10:24 pm

I am selling all my trading cards/etc on steam. I am up to £1.69. I was thiking about buying vampire survivors. Any other suggestions?

Post by **endar** » Sun Apr 23, 2023 12:42 am

Boneraiser Minions

very fun

Post by **endar** » Sun Apr 30, 2023 4:57 am

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2114 ... _Violence/

ULTIMATE GAME

Post by **The Robotic Anomaly** » Tue May 02, 2023 8:40 am

Ok I like Breath Of The Wild now
But it's still an 8/10 at best, mainly because of that thunder boss guardian guy

Post by **dng** » Wed May 03, 2023 10:38 am

you can boil eggs by throwing them in the hot springs. therefore its the best game

Post by **endar** » Wed May 03, 2023 5:35 pm

can you throw hard boiled eggs as weapons?

but then they disintegrate?

Post by **dng** » Wed May 03, 2023 6:30 pm

You can eat them

Post by **vom** » Sun May 07, 2023 8:14 pm

I just finished Pentiment. Good game, very unusual. I liked it.

Post by **richschnauzer** » Fri May 12, 2023 5:12 pm

Post by **blombluss** » Fri May 12, 2023 7:54 pm

"All you need is your own TV (any model that receives BBC2)"

Interestin'! Well, to me, anyhoo.

My grandparents had a telly with an ITV 2 button onnit, with that predating the actual 'proper' ITV2 freeview channel by 30 or so years? Actually... maybe they were time-travellers from the future?

Post by **blombluss** » Fri May 12, 2023 9:50 pm

The best 6m 28s I've watched all day!

BBC - Micro Live 1986: COMPUTER GAMES - More Than Just SHOOT-EM-UPs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iweTvbi0_8w

Features barely concealed contempt for arcade games (except Marble Madness)!

Brilliant!

Gravid · Post by **Gravid** » Fri May 12, 2023 9:50 pm

Is anyone playing the new Zelda then.

I’m going to play it in 2025.

Post by **vom** » Fri May 12, 2023 10:27 pm

I have started playing it yes

Post by **vom** » Fri May 12, 2023 10:28 pm

it seems to be extremely good

Post by **dng** » Sat May 13, 2023 12:23 am

i'm stdiously avoiding all mentions of it so i know nothing about it until i play it in 2029

Post by **dng** » Sat May 20, 2023 6:12 pm

I played the first few hours of new Zelda this afternoon. Nice, but also it feels like all this raft building might get kind of wearying after a while

Post by **vom** » Sat May 20, 2023 6:28 pm

I'm pretty into the building stuff so far, but it is early days

Post by **endar** » Sat May 20, 2023 7:58 pm

do you have a switch now too david

Post by **vom** » Sat May 20, 2023 10:33 pm

of course how else would he turn the lights on ha ha

Post by **vom** » Sat May 20, 2023 10:34 pm

I did my first big boss fight today and it was pretty brilliant

Post by **vom** » Sat May 20, 2023 10:34 pm

I think I quite like these "Zelda" games

Post by **dng** » Sun May 21, 2023 10:45 am

endar wrote: Sat May 20, 2023 7:58 pm do you have a switch now too david

I’m at my sisters for a barbecue

Post by **dng** » Sun May 21, 2023 10:46 am

Sitting inside playing zelda

Post by **endar** » Sun May 21, 2023 11:52 am

groodf mAN