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"New map feature" is vague, so I assumed it'd be something much simpler. Maybe a way to reveal collectibles or encounters on the map.
That'd be a bit of a bummer, though. The one thing I hope developers take away from the game is, hey, maybe leave a little bit of mystery to your open world again.
That's my assumption too.
The 2nd DLC has a new dungeon but we'll see what it is
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Ah yeah, I was thinking a geographical feature on the map, but I suppose it's probably a feature of the map like you said. Lame.
Yeah that's what I was thinking of.
the most mountain of dews
Member
Any rumors or ideas on who the next hire might be? As much as I live jeff and brad its starting to feel a little empty.
I think you need to rewatch the trailer
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Don't be silly now
Check. Mate.
I'm looking forward to them mashing up art styles like they seem to be alluding to.
Mike Mahardy's audition went well.
Death Metalist
Member
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Drew's Cloth Map outtakes video was good. I can't wait until he starts making content.
the most mountain of dews
Member
so his appearance was an audition? That was the first time I've watched, or heard him, and I'm down. He seemed chill.
Apparently David is really impressed with Colin Moriarty's Patreon numbers, take that as you will
ShinoguTakeruKoeru
Member
Who's David?
Am I alone in hoping that the November Season Pass thing for BotW is a legit Second Quest?
darkwing-buck
Member
Do you guys think Dan saved Alex's dark soul
I assumed it meant they'll add some new stamps because the current selection is so limited you have to invent your own meaning for half of them (in my game chests are shrines, swords are combat shrines, shields are tough enemies, stars are unsolved secrets and crystals were towers until I get the map, then I used them to mark rare ore... it's a mess).
ThanksVision
Member
all i know is nintendo knocked it out of the park with that mario kart dlc and if that's any indication of what we can expect with the the zelda addition, i think we'll be okay
anotherdoof
Member
Man, what am I watching here.
Oh, I love the stamp system, there's just not enough of them and there's lots of varied stuff you might want to mark.
No, I was just joking.
But who knows, really. Maybe it was an audition of sorts (though I don't think they'd get someone from within the parent company).
Mike seems cool.
One of my gripes with the game. They were poorly implemented to boot.. I was afraid to move forward while listening to one due to fear of prompting other dialogue that would overlap with it.
ThreePiMatt
Member
Danny bringing up SWAT 4 and Brad saying he should play it is a very good thing.
Get Vinny and Brad to play co-op. Vinny would be hilarious.
Yeah, this is definitely one of the shortfalls of the narrative arc since most of the heavier stuff is covered in this way. It make sense in the context of the game, but still a real bad way to implement as an exposition dump. I did really like some of the holos because they felt more like cutscenes as opposed to straight audio, but it's still a relatively poor solution to the problem.
Incandenza
Banned
Someone really has to figure out a better way to tell video game stories than audio logs and diaries containing three increasingly ominous entries.
brainzelda
Member
I skipped a lot of audio logs in the back third specifically because of that overlap issue, but I felt confident that I didn't miss any major story revelations because of the amount of cutscenes.
But then I visited the GAF spoiler thread and was super disappointed to learn that there were some key story-related plotpoints in those logs. Sucks.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I for one, love finding audio logs that end with "Oh boy, thank god I'm totally safe here! The ghouls won't get to me here! ." on a corpse surrounded by dead ghouls.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Heck yeah! I've been playing the hell out of Isaac this week.
I'm just hoping they'll release BoI physical in eu as I don't like importing for fear of fees.
GustyGardens
Banned
I liked the way that The Division handled some of their logs. They've got these windows into the past called Echoes. While the audio log is playing, you can see what was happening at the moment.
They also had standard audio logs in the form of cell phone calls and messages.
Mass Effect: Andromeda did something similar in one of the early missions.
Horizon does the same thing as the division's echoes. Though I think division executed them better. Loved walking through the echoes.
I played a good bit on Vita, but never did anything close to everything. I hear this has even more stuff in it so I am excited for that. One of my favorite of the "goes on forever tons of secrets" roguelike games.
Macho Madness
Member
Binding of Isaac is a perfect Switch game. I also hate it but that's a game that begs you to hate it.
I love the physical goodies they included. A retro style instruction manual rules:
I love the physical goodies they included. A retro style instruction manual rules:
This year? Everyone has been bringing that up for like a decade now every since every AAA game started using them heavily.
It's just because notes and audio logs are way cheaper and easier to make than full on cutscenes and their nature as collectibles means they even double as some easy extra gameplay addition.
Macho Madness
Member
I stopped liking audiologs when they stopped the action in DOOM 3. They became a real annoyance in the Bioshock games.
Maybe so but this one is done deliberately in the style of NES Zelda.
Maybe so but this one is done deliberately in the style of NES Zelda.
I mean, instruction manuals themselves are essentially retro now.
Don't get excited.
wild_fire987
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You must be new here... Brad says this about a lot of games and he probably ends up playing 0-1% of them.
Infinite was about the worst offender for me when it came to audiologs. In context, it makes at least a little sense in Doom 3 since their audio logs and emails were all attached to PDAs attached to dead UAC employees. The voxophones tho barely fit and make next to no sense because of their bulk alone.
I'd like to see some sort of solution to the audiolog issue in games, but I think we'll never fully see the day they get removed.
kingofthedead45
Member
I had a dream that nintendo announced a new mario game for the wiiu. They wanted a "switch style" (don't ask me) game for their still supported wiiu. This was at a conference mind you and after that some bioware devs came out dressed as stormtroopers to unveil that they got unreal engine 4 working on the switch and they would be using it to make a new quake.
I don't fucking even know, anyone else have weird gaming dreams recently?
I don't fucking even know, anyone else have weird gaming dreams recently?