nckillthegrimace
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Exactly. Like earlier today I noticed a weird puddle of water and that chain of events led to a surprise boss.
Also, if there's a rock by itself in a weird place, always pick it up.
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Exactly. Like earlier today I noticed a weird puddle of water and that chain of events led to a surprise boss.
Also, if there's a rock by itself in a weird place, always pick it up.
LurkerPrime
Member
If it works the way it sounds, the stamp and waypoint system in BotW is simply brilliant. It's the biggest mechanical surprise I saw in the non-spoiler parts of the QL. It's such an elegant way to gamify the map into something that matters to the player.
It's crazy other games haven't given players back control like that. IIRC Dead State sort of does (albeit automatically), but the scale is nowhere near the same. A lot of games avoid the problem entirely by having "discoverable" POIs, like the Witcher 3, Fallouts, or Skyrim; they're generally optional and not nearly as satisfying as making the map yourself, but still serve a vaguely similar purpose.
...Amazon pls hurry.
It's crazy other games haven't given players back control like that. IIRC Dead State sort of does (albeit automatically), but the scale is nowhere near the same. A lot of games avoid the problem entirely by having "discoverable" POIs, like the Witcher 3, Fallouts, or Skyrim; they're generally optional and not nearly as satisfying as making the map yourself, but still serve a vaguely similar purpose.
...Amazon pls hurry.
Johnny Ryall
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TheHollowNight
Member
watching that last UPF was extrrrraaaaa weird for me since I was wandering around the CBS offices on Monday whilst waiting to do a GDC thing. Didn't see any of the duders though sadly!
Farewell Drew! It's been a pleasure watching you on the site over the last 5 years I've been tuning in!
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Farewell Drew! It's been a pleasure watching you on the site over the last 5 years I've been tuning in!
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BreezyLimbo
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Twin Tails
Member
Did you gaze upon their majestic idea forest?
TheHollowNight
Member
ah dang, well that might explain it.
Haha no! I was over on the Gamespot side mainly for a livestream we were showing our game on, I did walk past the GB studio (it was closed) when I went to take a pee though lol
Piston Hyundai
Member
I was just thinking about how there's a real lack of super-casual "fucking around with a camera in the office" videos.
I wonder if having to be around coworkers makes those harder to do, but also they poured 20,000 pogs on Dan in the current office set up.
ScottSullivan
Member
Catching up on the switch stream, love a good tom nook joke. NECK BREAKAS SON
I'm still sad about Drew, what should I change my avatar to?
I'm still sad about Drew, what should I change my avatar to?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I must say I actually like using the joycon separated.
Had an amazing time playing botw yesterday night, the range of options they give you to achieve what you want to, and the way the world is (imo very smartly handcrafted and) designed to encourage exploration - oh I just did a challenge where I learned this, I wonder if I can use what I learned to get up this nearby
since there wasn't anything behind it when I checked before. There must be something up there. There is.
I bet if I keep going and can make it up this hill there's something there. (There is) but I don't quite have the stamina... I JUST can't make it after numerous tries and waiting for the rain to go away which affects climbing. Decide I need to make elixirs to help. Decide to spend those elixirs helping to tame a wild non-spotted horse. Take him for a ride. Find there's another way round to the top. Get there, complete two cool challenges on either side. Make it down to the bottom to finish off something I rushed past earlier because I was excited to get a horse - receive something that would have made that climb possible.
Watched 40 mins of the GB commentary with Fast and Furious. Then went to sleep, had a nice dream where I was beating a frustrated Jeff at some sort of weird racing thing involving skyscrapers... get woken up by my mechanic telling me there's another issue with my car. Not even mad.
When they said they wanted the player to feel smart playing this, I didn't realise to what extent. I can't think of another game where they nail mechanics and exploration to this degree in an open world. I got a taste of that early on when there was more than one way to do achieve a task that was going to be difficult with my current situation, and managing to find a way to skip past that restriction early on by exploring.
waterfall
I bet if I keep going and can make it up this hill there's something there. (There is) but I don't quite have the stamina... I JUST can't make it after numerous tries and waiting for the rain to go away which affects climbing. Decide I need to make elixirs to help. Decide to spend those elixirs helping to tame a wild non-spotted horse. Take him for a ride. Find there's another way round to the top. Get there, complete two cool challenges on either side. Make it down to the bottom to finish off something I rushed past earlier because I was excited to get a horse - receive something that would have made that climb possible.
Watched 40 mins of the GB commentary with Fast and Furious. Then went to sleep, had a nice dream where I was beating a frustrated Jeff at some sort of weird racing thing involving skyscrapers... get woken up by my mechanic telling me there's another issue with my car. Not even mad.
When they said they wanted the player to feel smart playing this, I didn't realise to what extent. I can't think of another game where they nail mechanics and exploration to this degree in an open world. I got a taste of that early on when there was more than one way to do achieve a task that was going to be difficult with my current situation, and managing to find a way to skip past that restriction early on by exploring.
Piston Hyundai
Member
every once in a while, sure
we're pretty far removed from the days where nearly every first-party Nintendo game was essential, though
Piston Hyundai
Member
Man, I remember playing the Wii sequel to Mario Superstar Baseball and just being sad for the whole day.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I don't actually really care about most Nintendo games outside of pokemon, fire emblem and this particular Zelda.
OdysseusVA
Banned
Brad "The Party" Shoemaker tier
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
sammyCYBORG
Member
UPF is making me really miss ghetto GB.
Stan is a bit mild of a descriptor.
I'm watching UPF new and im getting all the feels. Short hair drew was the best imo.
Exterminieren
Banned
Internally-developed Nintendo games are almost universally worth playing. It's the collaborations with other companies you need to watch out for- HAL, Game Freak and Intelligent Systems generally make good games, but the likes of Arzest, Camelot or Vanpool don't.
Piston Hyundai
Member
That's maybe stretching it a bit. I can think of plenty of internally-made Nintendo games from within the past decade or so that most people here would agree aren't great.
Twin Tails
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Exterminieren
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OK, I'll alter that slightly- internally-made Nintendo games tend to be high quality, well-made examples of their genre. You might not, for example, want to play Nintendogs, but that's a damn well-made one of those.
sammyCYBORG
Member
God I love that they're doing a coke challenge again in 2017.
This is the best UPF is ages, even with the QL EX bit.
This is the best UPF is ages, even with the QL EX bit.
CoolBatteryCharge
Member
GBC one is usually seen as top tier Mario Tennis, but N64 was up there too.
Heckler456
Banned
I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me out. I need to fill some time until Mass Effect releases, so I was thinking I would get a month of premium, and was wondering what you guys think the must-see content of the last year or so is?
Piston Hyundai
Member
This is the Run
any Demo Derbies
Game Tapes
GBE Playdate: SMB2
their Premium HITMAN content
What was the PC point-and-click adventer game alex, vinny and austin played? Because that is must-see.
Piston Hyundai
Member
What's left of gamespot?!
sammyCYBORG
Member
And that's the end of the Drew era
West down to just Jeff and Brad. It's all on East's shoulders now.
West down to just Jeff and Brad. It's all on East's shoulders now.
funkystudent
Member
A lot of Vinnys production style rubbed off on Drew.
Gonna miss that.
Gonna miss that.