FloydtheFathead
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NFL 2017 Offseason thread |OT| - Servicing Us Boys
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Fuck it. We having fried chicken this weekend!
I can start the 3rd dungeon in Zelda and now I am getting a little sad. I am putting it off though because I don't want to end.
I completed the map by activating all the towers. That task alone was funner than playing 90% of games. The crazy shit that happened to me on that journey was just so fun and unexpected.
Now I'm going to complete more shrines then make my way to the 2nd dungeon. After that, Master Sword time.
This is one of the best games ever made...
Floy's been the source of the Browns troubles all along!
Doesn't a nursing aid usually wake patients up in a retirement home?
It really is. There's always been talk of them topping OOT, but I think these mfers actually did with this game and I'm probably at best 25% through it.
I've never had fried chicken blow me away in my life and have had it pleny of times. At the end of the day it's chicken dredged in flour or cornmeal and seasoning and fried up. People doing backflips over Popeyes? Y'all crazy.
Yeah I definitely have my gripes with it that are becoming more apparent as I play more, but I think it's topping my list. It also just puts other open world games to shame. It's everything I wanted an open world game to be.
Grover Cleveland
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Is BoTW the greatest launch game of all-time?
That whole Switch stock thread is sad sobs saying "I didn't preorder the Switch because it has no games and friend codes but now I want one because of all of the Zelda hype"
That whole Switch stock thread is sad sobs saying "I didn't preorder the Switch because it has no games and friend codes but now I want one because of all of the Zelda hype
"AbortedWalrusFetus
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I wonder if Stone Cold likes Cabernet.
You know, he should just drink Beaujolais Nouveau because it's a red that you can serve cold.
You know, he should just drink Beaujolais Nouveau because it's a red that you can serve cold.
Is BoTW the greatest launch game of all-time?
That whole Switch stock thread is sad sobs saying "I didn't preorder the Switch because it has no games and friend codes but now I want one because of all of the Zelda hype
To me it's cheating because it's on WiiU as well.
Is BoTW the greatest launch game of all-time?
That whole Switch stock thread is sad sobs saying "I didn't preorder the Switch because it has no games and friend codes but now I want one because of all of the Zelda hype
Certainly in recent memory, but Super Mario World and Mario 64 are two of the all time great games.
Is BoTW the greatest launch game of all-time?
That whole Switch stock thread is sad sobs saying "I didn't preorder the Switch because it has no games and friend codes but now I want one because of all of the Zelda hype
Well let's look at it's competition:
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario World
Super Mario 64
Halo
SoulCalibur
Wii Sports deserves a mention
Any I'm missing? And damn, makes me realize we haven't had a single big launch title in over 10 years, and 16 if you cut out Wii Sports. That's a tough list but I think BotW cracks Top 3 at least
So I've got to cook the chicken up with an apple, mushroom and rock salt?
Duxxy3
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His preference is Appletini's.
Zelda: Twilight Princess
Tetris (game boy )
Virtua fighter (saturn)
Oh and panzer dragoon!
yankeehater
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Here is a list of every consoles launch games: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_console_launch_games
Man Colecovision had Ladybug and Zaxxon at launch. Those were my 2 favorite games for it. Every single launch game for the Atari 7800 went on to be a classic. I would still say that Super Mario world launching with the SNES is probably the single best launch game. I cant imagine many launch games have had the impact that Halo had. There wouldnt be an Xbox now without it and it also made FPS the dominate genre for home consoles.
Man Colecovision had Ladybug and Zaxxon at launch. Those were my 2 favorite games for it. Every single launch game for the Atari 7800 went on to be a classic. I would still say that Super Mario world launching with the SNES is probably the single best launch game. I cant imagine many launch games have had the impact that Halo had. There wouldnt be an Xbox now without it and it also made FPS the dominate genre for home consoles.
I wasn't going to put Tetris since it had already been out for 5 years, and I wouldn't even say TP is the best launch game on its own system. Virtua Fighter is a good pull though. I dunno it's hard. I don't have experience before the NES but for my list:
Super Mario Bros literally saved the console industry in America
Super Mario World is pretty much 2D platforming perfection
Virtua Fighter revolutionized 3D fighting games
Super Mario 64 revolutionized 3D games period
Halo, like YH said, was the reason to own an Xbox, and showed FPS could work on console
SoulCalibur was the evolution started by Virtua Fighter in 3D fighting
Wii Sports goes without saying
That's a hell of a list, and looking at it I'm not sure where BotW fits in. I think we'll need to wait a few years to see the impact its design has on other games
Best launch game?Is BoTW the greatest launch game of all-time?
That whole Switch stock thread is sad sobs saying "I didn't preorder the Switch because it has no games and friend codes but now I want one because of all of the Zelda hype
It might be the best of all time.
Need to give it like 5-10 years before I make that call but games like this are rare as fuck. I am jaded and I cannot remember the last time a game blew me away like this. Probably have to go back to the 90s...
yankeehater
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Yes they were I was just saying in terms of having a crazy good lineup the 7800 was crazy stacked. For the Saturn I would say Panzer Dragoon was an amazing launch game. Really showed off the new controller and that a game like that could be really good.
Goldeneye worked and was a lot of fun, but no one was going to pretend that was competing with shit like Half-Life, Quake, Doom, etc. Halo showed that you can have a reasonable approximation of the accuracy of a PC. Goldeneye can't be that based on the existence of Oddjob
Except there still hasn't been a console shooter that can compete with those.
No but Halo showed it could work more than Goldeneye. And I'd argue Halo was the first big game that shifted shooter development to console first except for the most hardcore ones. What was more influential on the modern shooter, Halo or Goldeneye?
Duxxy3
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Call of Duty.
I thought we were talking about the best launch game 🤔
Is there such thing as a "pc shooter" anymore?
Halo2 did so much to advance online gaming, and then... Call of Duty ate it's lunch. It was crazy.
Anyhow, I bought an Xbox1 strictly because of Halo. It was the first FPS I ever liked. Didn't care for Doom, Wolfenstein, Quake, Turok, or Goldeneye, etc.
All I can say is the game just somehow, made sense to me. Everything else was a nauseating experience.
yankeehater
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We were. Halo is a fantastic launch game on its own and when you consider how influential it is that is even more impressive.
Halo influenced Call of Duty quite a bit
Yeah that's the original discussion, where Goldeneye isn't even relevant. And I'd argue Halo belongs in the conversation of best launch game
Duxxy3
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Hopefully Bill isn't an idiot and actually accepts just the 32nd pick for Butler. It's just not enough. Rather hold onto Butler for another year.
Sit yo Kentucky Fried Pigeon Ass down!
We gonna eat that bland food for the next four years fam. Goodbye ethnic food, hello chicken noodle soup. It has no taste, flavors or spices. But when the gestappo comes round the corner, I'll make sure I think its Deeee licous!
There isn't even any doubt.
There are shooter games on PC, yes.
What was so influential about Halo? What unique changes to shooter games did it introduce?
Well yeah, but best and most influential are two different things.
yankeehater
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I think we can all agree that this was the best launch game ever right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udctHQ3eI6g
No pity.
You get what you deserve when you trust the Pats/Trumps.
Speaking of Zelda when is the last time people were this blown away by a game? I am guessing it was World of Warcraft but I could be forgetting something. As I said, shit like this does not come along very often. We JoyConBoyz so blessed to be able to experience this game at release!
It's ok to have bad taste, but not terrible taste
Lack of you respect after reading that first sentence.
Dutch Gronk
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I believe Killzone: Shadowfall should also be in the conversation for best launch game right guys!
Halo popularized regenerating health in shooters. That alone makes it one of the most influential shooters of all time. Games like Gears of War, Battlefield, Call of Duty, etc. would be vastly different if that mechanic wasn't there. It also expanded on local multiplayer shooters popularized by, yes, Goldeneye. It was among the first games where the developer formed a close relationship with their community. And it's controls set the foundation for the standardization of FPS controls ever since.
And as for the second part, I'd argue Halo is one of the best launch games of all time and one of the most influential games, as seen by the above points
Sorry Yankee but console and PC games before 1985 were straight up garbage. I say this as someone who actually loved those games growing up.
Back then the only choice for a decent game was the arcade (and even most of those games were total shit).
I have been appalled by most pre-NES games on my arcade. For every Tapper there are 10 garbage ass kickman games.
:bfp
But I mean one that is a pc game first and can't truly/fully work on console? Everything just seems so across the board now.
Maybe the arma games or the that world war two series of game? I forget the name, I think the pacific one is called rising storm?
As far as this forum goes, maybe San Andreas.
There are design concepts in BoTW that are groundbreaking imo and break away from the modern conventions of openworld game design. I don't think it's as revolutionary as some of the mentioned games though.
No game released today will ever do what Mario 64 or OoT did for games. Like, jumping from 2D to 3D, that will pretty much never happen again. But there are steps taken in BoTW that I think other developers should look at. This is the first Zelda that was molded by modern open world game design as it the first to truly break away from the OoT formula and embrace its roots.
I still need to beat the game, but I've played enough to know it is special. As someone who has played through those launch games, I don't think BoTW will shape the industry like they did. But I don't really think it needs to.
edit: thank me later JCBz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TYt61ywF-M
No game released today will ever do what Mario 64 or OoT did for games. Like, jumping from 2D to 3D, that will pretty much never happen again. But there are steps taken in BoTW that I think other developers should look at. This is the first Zelda that was molded by modern open world game design as it the first to truly break away from the OoT formula and embrace its roots.
I still need to beat the game, but I've played enough to know it is special. As someone who has played through those launch games, I don't think BoTW will shape the industry like they did. But I don't really think it needs to.
edit: thank me later JCBz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TYt61ywF-M
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