gray_fox224
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Is it worth a watch?
Without a doubt! I'd still say that's the best content on the site.
Incandenza
Banned
Watch the Persona 4 ER, and also watch the Halcyon and Lego Island UPFs (they're one of the first ones)
I really liked Hyrule Castle. Sure you could run past everything, but it's fun to explore the castle. I liked how it felt like an actual castle where people lived many years ago instead of the general big room of other Zeldas. Enemy variety is a problem throughout the game, wasn't really expecting them to save something for the castle
too obvious which one the gb audience is going to vote for
gray_fox224
Junior Member
Great. Thanks!!
The snark is strong with this one.
Vinny skypes in halfway through and saves it
thanks, i'll skip to that then
That Persona 5 quick look is not the best "quick look" of the game because they haven't reached where the game actually starts. We haven't really seen the school mechanics, the social links and real dungeons. Newcomers to the game will not get a good idea of the gameplay loop of Persona.
Surely that can't be the end of their Persona 5 coverage right? An Endurance Run is out of the question but I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of their Persona 5 videos yet.
Or maybe I'm just wishful thinking lol
Surely that can't be the end of their Persona 5 coverage right? An Endurance Run is out of the question but I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of their Persona 5 videos yet.
Or maybe I'm just wishful thinking lol
anotherdoof
Member
That's a fair point. I wasn't sure what the castle/Ganon was going to hold so I kinda zoomed past all the encounters to save my weapons. Turns out that wasn't really necessary. Next time I through I'll explore more.
in JP they advertised that the music with that costume wasn't supposed to be Lone Prayer but it was, so they postponed it and gave it out for free to make up for it lol
Death Metalist
Member
I would have voted for Stormare if we got more of him, he only appears in the ending. Devil's Advocate on the other hand, lives and dies on Pacino.
Lord_Nergal
Member
I could see it winning. Jeff will come with a "Mass Effect 3 was already super disappointing, what did you expect?" angle, it's clearly the front runner so far this year.
I expect plenty of "5 years!!" and "When you look at the heights that Mass Effect reached...."
EdReedFan20
Member
GBW Playdate: NieR: Automata
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Hell yeah, they're QL'ing Snake Pass. Enjoyed what I played of it so far and David Wise is just *italian chef kiss*
Kinda Funny had the developer on their most recent Gamescast (Danny O'Dwyer was also on) during the fourth and final segment. That guy (and his road to game development) is fascinating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez7VSMPldgg
With him being in SF recently, it's a shame GB didn't do a QuickLook EX.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
GBwests playdate of Nier kinda sold me on it? That game looks legimitately interesting.
oh well good thing i didn't resume watching it yet
Finally watched that Destiny 2 CG trailer. As much as I was disappointed by the first game and everything that came (or didn't come) with it, I'm actually interested. I hope they actually have a story worth anything resembling a damn this time around. Also, I do love me some Nathan Fillion.
It's listed as the same time as always for me.
Weird it's showing 6pm unless that was East Coast
Edit: yup my laptop is in East Coast time
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I've done three of them so far, including that one. There's another one of similar brevity, but then the third I did felt more substantial. It probably wasn't actually larger but the stuff I was doing felt more involved and took longer
That's good to know, I guess the game kind of guides you to do Ruta first but it was a bit of a letdown how easy it was. At the same time that's probably the trade off of having it so open ended, probably would have been more novel if I hadn't done dozens of shrines beforehand.
Been in a relative blackout as I get through it, but from the screenshots I did see of the beast maps I pictured the scale on the inside being a lot more dramatic compared to Link. Dampened my excitement to see the others a bit but considering I'm over 30 hours and have huge swaths of map yet to explore I guess I can't be too mad.
LurkerPrime
Member
I kind of treat the lead-up to the Divine Beast as part of the "dungeon" itself, so I'm not too concerned with the length. Only done two so far, and while I would also appreciate dungeons, I wouldn't want to give up the Divine Beasts for them, either; they're so wonderfully mythic.
Still remember getting my mind blown when Gamexplain pointed out two of the Divine Beasts (in plain view! and everything!) in their BotW mega-analysis (2 hours for a 3 minute trailer or so). Was completely gobsmacked. That video was such a fun watch leading up to release.
Still remember getting my mind blown when Gamexplain pointed out two of the Divine Beasts (in plain view! and everything!) in their BotW mega-analysis (2 hours for a 3 minute trailer or so). Was completely gobsmacked. That video was such a fun watch leading up to release.
broncobuster
Banned
Divine Beasts would've been awesome encounters in the world, while you had proper dungeons for main quests. You'd see them wandering around a certain area, and rather than abandoning the open world nature of the game, it was up to you to figure how to board them. Maybe that main quest/dungeon gave you a tool or ability to help. But like with Hyrule Castle, you could've done it the hard way without the help.
The Dear Leader
Banned
That's inappropriate for this thread sir.
nckillthegrimace
Member
what if they turn out to be a memelord
Basileus777
Member
I was more underwhelmed by how samey they were. You do one, you've done all of them. Smaller dungeons could have worked if they weren't so formulaic. And maybe if the boss fights were better.
And the whole "do the dungeons in any order" thing doesn't really work here, just as it didn't in ALBW. All the dungeons need to be the same because any of them could be the first dungeon design isn't great. Keep the open world freeform, but having some sort of progression to the dungeons would have been preferable. Nothing is really gained by letting you do them in any order.
The atmosphere is what really sticks out to me. Game is haunting.
Definitely pick it up.
This Nier playdate is real good. I need to set a reminder for myself to buy it in a few months.
My worst nightmare.
Route B is really short, so if you got that far I think you should continue playing.
I did all side quests during route A and it took me 22 hours. Route B was maybe 4-5, because I didn't finish all side quests and you can just warp to story locations.
If you find the combat boring, you might try experimenting with different melee/pod weapons, since there's quite a lot of variation there. Using the same stuff through the whole game can definitely get monotonous.
The Dear Leader
Banned
texasairhead101
Member
That lego worlds quicklook was really good. I might actually have to pick that up later.
Chance Hale
Member
Does anyone know which bombcast Drew talks about using X-Plane to train for his pilot's license because I just bought X-Plane 11 to do the same.
The Dear Leader
Banned
FMVinny episode when?
That would have been awesome. Kind of what I had hoped for going in, along with more cave/underground exploration (at least I haven't encountered any in my time so far...not really counting the shrines since they're sectioned off behind magic load screens at all times).
I'm of two minds on it. I get that there are concessions design-wise like you mentioned but I really do appreciate that I'm not being railroaded from one dungeon to the next and can choose to approach a divine beast in whatever part of the world I happen to be invested in at a given time. Granted I've only done one beast so far but my only real complaint about it was that there just wasn't 'enough' to feel like as grand a mission as the narrative had built it up to be. Hell, a lot of the shrines I've come across had me more stumped.
Also I never played ALBW, but wasn't the idea that you'd have to go seek out/rent the item that was required to make progress? That didn't sound all too bad.