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[maxcriden]

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it triggered for me at 600m IIRC

Nice, thank you!

 

[Dark Ninja]

The bowling minigame gives you potentially 300 rupees for something conceivably easier and just as quick. It's a problem with most of the missions/quests/minitasks in the game as the in-game rewards are pretty barebones.

I agree to a point. its really hard to get rupees in this game unless you sell your materials and then you run into sidequests that actually give you stuff like clothes or lead you to shrines. Now I just do them all.

 

[Crayolan]

Some more cool unique armor pieces or quest exclusive weapons would've been nice.

Though to be fair to the quest all you gotta do to get the rupees is glide down normally.

The game has cool armor to find, but it's kind of arbitrarily placed. They should've put all the hidden armor at the end of the shrine quests that require the greatest effort, like Eventide, Typhlo, the Kakariko Ball quest, etc. At least they got it right with the Labyrinths..

 

[maxcriden]

Edit: double post sorry

 

[Malus]

The game has cool armor to find, but it's kind of arbitrarily placed. They should've put all the hidden armor at the end of the shrine quests that require the greatest effort, like Eventide, Typhlo, the Kakariko Ball quest, etc. At least they got it right with the Labyrinths..

Yeah but the sheer quantity could've used improvement as well. There's lots of random buffs they coulda given you like infinite sprint, rain resistance, crit chance up or whatever. Or even just more cosmetic armor.

The lack of big rewards didn't stop me from enjoying the quests/challenges much, but if they do another open world game it's something to expand upon.

 

[mr_nexus]

I'm surprised they managed to make it so far without it raining.

 

[Arozay]

I'm surprised they managed to make it so far without it raining.

Or 3 blood moons

 

[Waddle Dee]

You can get that prize with a significantly lower distance, I imagine. Anyone know what the threshold is?

It's 600 I believe. I got 604 two nights ago and got the 100 rupee.

 

[perfectchaos007]

https://youtu.be/mQBXBFzcn88

They had a massive stockpile of stamina elixirs, and used hundreds of bomb arrows to keep creating updrafts to extend their airtime, which lasted over 20 minutes.

They glide all the way from the Ridgeland Tower in the northwest portion of Hyrule Field, to Eventide Island.

Spoiler

The prize is 100 rupees

About the same price of one bomb arrow. nice

 

[Poppy]

nice, really interested to see what speedrun tactics are possible with food and updrafts

 

[perfectchaos007]

nice, really interested to see what speedrun tactics are possible with food and updrafts

Looks like the speedrunning record is now down to 45 mins. incredible. Its taken me longer to beat one shrine, in a couple instances

 

[En-ou]

nice, really interested to see what speedrun tactics are possible with food and updrafts

Food and updrafts are fair game. What I cannot stand in speedruns are glitchfests like flipping thru walls etc

 

[Popsickles]

All I took from this video is how bad the graphics actually are

 

[ffdgh]

...I'm actually amazed they made it all the way to eventide lol.

Food and updrafts are fair game. What I cannot stand in speedruns are glitchfests like flipping thru walls etc

Speed runs may or may not start relying on food rng from amiibos.

 

[Aaronrules380]

Looks like the speedrunning record is now down to 45 mins. incredible. Its taken me longer to beat one shrine, in a couple instances

both are much more relevant in all dungeons (and all main story once more people get around to running that) especially since revali's gale is such a vital ability

 

[decoyplatypus]

All I took from this video is how bad the graphics actually are

Are you playing the game? It looks a lot prettier than is apparent from the video.

 

[zephervack]

Impressive the game didnt crash with the Eventide Island trigger, it was able to do things in order kind of cleanly lol.

 

[Chezzymann]

User on reddit used this to calculate the actual world area.

Man, so its 76 square km? Means it could fit into the city limits of paris. Just goes to show how pacing and level design can make a world feel much bigger than it actually is.

 

[GulAtiCa]

Just insane. And given s/he hasn't finished Eventide mission, could prob extended it even further!

 

[Stabby McSter]

All I took from this video is how bad the graphics actually are

sounds like you have an agenda against nintendo

 

[maxcriden]

It's 600 I believe. I got 604 two nights ago and got the 100 rupee.

Thanks!

 

[Pinky]

sounds like you have an agenda against nintendo

You could say that...

http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=232812435

 

[m051293]

Man, so its 76 square km? Means it could fit into the city limits of paris. Just goes to show how pacing and level design can make a world feel much bigger than it actually is.

Yup. Very few video game worlds are actually realistically sized. TW3 and TES games (ex. Daggerfall) are smaller. JC3 is massive for an open world, but an entire country fitting into a ~20km x 20km square is actually tiny.

Realistically sized game-worlds would be a mess (bloated budgets, even more repetive/bland/empty than they already are, less resources put towards level design, etc.).

 

[The Hermit]

I'm surprised they managed to make it so far without it raining.

I think this is precisely why he got so far. Previous attempts we're screwed by rain

 

[Gurrry]

ingenuity hype

 

[chaosblade]

I feel vindicated just watching this. I had the right idea, I was just too stingy and was trying to use fire arrows and not bomb arrows.

I still never would have dreamed of getting that far, I was just thinking hit a bit over 1k.



And yeah, no rain the entire way is practically a miracle.

 

[plufim]

But why

55K views on youtube and climbing

 

[Team Filler]

Beyond just science, I'm glad to learn that rewards don't climb past 100 rupees for this mini game, else I'd have wasted a ton of time going further than necessary to see if he'd give gold rupees.

 

[Crayolan]

Now try killing a Molduga without ending this minigame.

 

[Sword Of Doom]

No way I'd have the patience to do that for 20 minutes, haha.

Boy this makes the LOD/Draw distance of objects look really bad.

Cause the LOD IS really bad. It's the worst I've seen in a long time.

Anyways game is awesome and it's fun seeing what people do with the systems

 

[mlclmtckr]

Man, so its 76 square km? Means it could fit into the city limits of paris. Just goes to show how pacing and level design can make a world feel much bigger than it actually is.

Yeah, it's nuts.

On Idle Thumbs they've speculated that the game does some weird stuff with perspective and geometry to make areas look bigger than they are. Like possibly raising the edges of the visible gameworld to keep link permanently below where you expect the horizon line to be, making mountains feel higher and fields seem bigger.

 

[Popsickles]

Are you playing the game? It looks a lot prettier than is apparent from the video.

No I am not I am currently playing Horizon ZD on a PS Pro on a 50 inch 4k panasonic and that is pretty, this my friend is not pretty. It may be a good game but the graphics are not good sorry.

 

[Sword Of Doom]

Man, so its 76 square km? Means it could fit into the city limits of paris. Just goes to show how pacing and level design can make a world feel much bigger than it actually is.

Mountains. Lot and lots of mountains make it feel much bigger. I haven't played skyrim but BotW feels like the biggest world I've ever experienced in a video game. TW3 felt big but not vast like this

No I am not I am currently playing Horizon ZD on a PS Pro on a 50 inch 4k panasonic and that is pretty, this my friend is not pretty. It may be a good game but the graphics are not good sorry.

Please don't do this. you're going to derail the thread

 

[Popsickles]

sounds like you have an agenda against nintendo

No agenda my friend, it's just a brand new system in 2017 should at least try and compete with the completion technically

 

[Pops Maellard]

No I am not I am currently playing Horizon ZD on a PS Pro on a 50 inch 4k panasonic and that is pretty, this my friend is not pretty. It may be a good game but the graphics are not good sorry.

Have you played it?

 

[gingerbeardman]

Only in Japan

Also the Japanese place name font looks so good. Much better than the English one.

 

[Jack The Nipper]

Just give me a really good piliotwings game and I'd be very happy about that. Reminds me of not having one

 

[shiyrley]

Have people ALREADY exhausted all there is to do in this game? Jesus, is their whole life just Sleep, Zelda, Postmates, Zelda, Sleep?

People who supposedly like videogames complaining about how other people enjoy videogames.

Sigh. We're gonna shift from "stigma towards videogames" to "stigma towards certain ways to enjoy videogames".

 

[Mirand]

You have to hit 10km to get a gold rupee.

 

[gingerbeardman]

Just give me a really good piliotwings game and I'd be very happy about that. Reminds me of not having one

Well

Spoiler

you want to try the flight challenge after Eventide Island

 

[Marvie_3]

This is hilarious

 

[Benzychenz]

No I am not I am currently playing Horizon ZD on a PS Pro on a 50 inch 4k panasonic and that is pretty, this my friend is not pretty. It may be a good game but the graphics are not good sorry.

No agenda my friend, it's just a brand new system in 2017 should at least try and compete with the completion technically

You are aware the Switch is a handheld correct?

 

[Akhe]

Mind=blow

All I took from this video is how bad the graphics actually are

Spoiler

Ok...

 

[Rizific]

Have you played it?

Does it even matter? One can pass judgment on graphics alone based on media that's readily available without playing the game. It's clear what his standard of "pretty" is.

 

[Falchion]

That's really impressive, now I want to see someone snowboard on a shield that long.

 

[Dryk]

Mountains. Lot and lots of mountains make it feel much bigger. I haven't played skyrim but BotW feels like the biggest world I've ever experienced in a video game. TW3 felt big but not vast like this

Anything that obscures line of sight will do it. Morrowind looks waaaay smaller if you remove all the fog.

 

[Gamer @ Heart]

No I am not I am currently playing Horizon ZD on a PS Pro on a 50 inch 4k panasonic and that is pretty, this my friend is not pretty. It may be a good game but the graphics are not good sorry.

Lol

 

[chaosblade]

That's really impressive, now I want to see someone snowboard on a shield that long.

It would break well before then. Not sure how much (if any) terrain impacts durability but under normal conditions I doubt even the most durable shield would hit 500m.

Unless you can change shields while shield surfing, I don't think I've tried that.

 

[Crayolan]

That's really impressive, now I want to see someone snowboard on a shield that long.

Since you can paraglide and use arrows from on your shield it'd basically be the same thing.

It would break well before then. Not sure how much (if any) terrain impacts durability but under normal conditions I doubt even the most durable shield would hit 500m.

Shield surfing doesn't use up durability on snow or sand.

 

[En-ou]

All I took from this video is how bad the graphics actually are

All I took from this post is how dumb it is. It's a WiiU game open world game with a shit ton of mechanics.