The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

dunkey vid makes it look like this owns. hard

It does. One of the monsters just picked up a smaller monster and threw it at me lol.

i ran into a couple archers on horses the other day and it was pretty tight

i've been dating a gamer for a few months and this is by far the best thing i've seen him play. it's really magical.

I fucked up the use of an amiibo today though.

There's a one time only bonus of a horse awarded for syncing an OG Link figure in game. Not knowing this, I used my amiibo in a dumb location. And my one-time-kickass-bonus horse spawned on top of a tower.

I gave it a Viking funeral because why the shit not.

so the real real question i have is if this game is worth the roughly $450 it would cost for me to buy the system, the spare joystick and zelda (when it's eventually available in wide release this summer) because i'm guessing there might be five or six more games I'll buy for this thing over the life of the system? so i kinda want to know that one of them will be among the very best games I've ever played.

This game looks great. I'll buy it on the WiiU when the price drops, and I might get a Switch when they bring out a Mario Kart that isn't just MK8 with 4 new coloured shyguys or whatever.

This game looks great. I'll buy it on the WiiU when the price drops, and I might get a Switch when they bring out a Mario Kart that isn't just MK8 with 4 new coloured shyguys or whatever.

― barbarian radge (NotEnough)

nintendo games are about the only games where i don't wait for the price drop. first because it doesn't come - if you're waiting for the price to drop you will be waiting a very long time - and second because unlike other companies' AAA games, nintendo games aren't completely buggy and broken on launch.

"so i kinda want to know that one of them will be among the very best games I've ever played.

― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses)"

i haven't played the same games you have so i have no basis for making that claim. all i can say is that i play games very, very rarely. the last game i played regularly was civilization v. before that it was rock band. i'm playing the shit out of this game, which is kind of a problem because i really should be packing. (if you don't already have a wiiu they seem like they're going to just rerelease all the best wiiu games for the switch, so you should probably get some of those too.)

I suspect that the WiiU version is going to have a limited print run and prices are liable to stay the same or go up as they did for Twilight Princess on Gamecube.
Was playing this last night and marvelling how seamless everything is, then thinking about how buggy Bethesda etc games are. The verticality in the world is also really good, feels similar to XCX in that respect and I believe some of the staff on that game also worked on this.

played this on Switch yesterday for the first time. very impressive! the graphics are really nice, like really really really nice! best-looking grass in a videogame yet. really goes a long way to capturing the feel of running over a sunny hillside. the wind blows and the grass moves like it would in real life. someone was playing Horizon next to it and while that game is a graphical powerhouse, it was still a little obvious that the plants and stuff were just assets stuck to the world mesh. the Breath in the title of this game is v significant: this may be the first open world game where it felt like there was actually wind in the air.

To hell with you, Ziga clan. Eighty bajillion deaths at your katana-wielding paws.

Just got this for my birthday. Now to kick the bf off the TV so I can play it.

Yiga Clan ain't nuthing ta fuck wit

i haven't had much in the way of problems with the yiga clan yet. lynels, on the other hand... i'm pretty sure they use an aimbot.

you can actually mount lynels and whack them in the head a bunch before they attack back...

completed the first 'dungeon' today - the final battle was greeeeat

hahaha, the spouse and i were just speculating this morning on whether you could ride a lynel... though the spouse wanted to tame them. :)

i definitely am having nostalgia for the old-school lynels who shot swords out of their mouths book of revelation style

I love how the Northeast of the map looks like New Hampshire in early October. Also, I bought a house and a lot of furniture and...? There is no benefit except I can dump extra weapons in the middle of my room.

i named my horses Mr Horsu and Horseface. i loves them.

oh my god, the fucking Trial of Wood, i'm going to have a sore throat tomorrow from screaming at my television

Possibly a dumb question, but how much does your left hand have to press buttons in this game? I'm slightly paralysed in my left hand - so games where you only have to move the stick are fine, but games that rely on constant left-finger-buttoning can be difficult.

the left hand buttons are primarily used to quickly switch equipment which you do pretty often. but you can do it by going into yr inventory only using right hand though (is obviously a lot slower).

also left hand triggers are used fairly often as well for guarding and abilities.

Thanks! Do you use your thumb for all of that or 2nd/3rd fingers? (My thumb is the good one!)

no problem, thumb for weapon switching, 2nd/3rd finger on the back trigger and bumper (this is on wii u i should say, dont know if its much different on the switch)

Same on switch, use thumb to click on L stick to crouch/sneak, use thumb to press buttons to change weapons and skills quickly (handy tip: hold down ZR and you can cycle through arrows), use finger on L button to activate skills (most of the time during puzzle solving), use finger on ZL to lock on to enemies/raise shield. Depends on your play style I guess, I play without locking on/raising shield and game is perfectly playable this way.

So, I started this yesterday and it took me basically all day just to get off the fucking plateau. Comedy of errors really - when I realised I needed to get that Warm Doublet I was pissed off to realise I'd accidentally eaten the only raw meat I had on me. I then managed to kill a bird - but then promtly died 3 mins later and lost my save. I then spent TWO HOURS stalking/creeping in the forest trying to catch a fucking bird/squirrel/boar. &*$%^%^$%$!!

Rest of the level was a cakewalk in comparison lol.

Still I suppose I'm real good at hunting animals with a bow now, haw :(

The doublet was the only thing I got on the plateau before I took off with the paraglider btw - have I missed anything else? I take it you cant get back there?

didn't know you could get the doublet on the plateau, just cooked loads of spicy meat. you can always go back, stamina and extreme temperature the only things limiting you from going anywhere.

Yeah you make the spicy meat/ seafood fry for Old Man and he gives it to you.

my girl and i have made a pact that we are going to get a switch/zelda if we hit some specific money goals. this game is helping me budget!

i love this game, but it can definitely be frustrating. but frustration is used as a feedback tool in this game, i think? when i am frustrated it has come from the knowledge that i am doing something ineffectively, not that the game is holding back or setting up artificial difficulty barriers. so far i have been annoyed w/ the warm doublet quest (b/c there were a million ways to solve it, and i was looking for the "right" one, though i eventually switched tactics and solved it easily).

the lynel in the zora domain
getting zapped while hiking into the zoras uglyass domain
the one tower i *still* can't climb due to electro guys swimming nearby
another fucking lynel
a boring shrine quest where i had to kill three giants
a horse-taming quest
some bullshit in the lost woods
the goron quest
gathering wood to build my effing house

Apparently having metal items mean you get struck by lightning during rain? Fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXMlXSDwzU8

I'm already overwhelmed looking at how much map there is to cover. Its not just that its large - its that so much of it is only accesible in really gruelling ways like slowly climbing cliffs. I feel like I'll be playing this game for years at this rate.

cliff-climbing gets much easier by mid-game, once you gain some stamina and other stuff that makes you climb faster/longer.

One of my workmates recommended gunning for stamina over health in the early stages of loading up on upgrades, I wonder if thats a good idea? Ive just been gathering a lot of staminella shrooms and the fish that do stam and storing a ton of meals.

Oh and Ive already hit a snag - I'm trying to do the sheep rustling side quest on Hatero beach and those monsters are really hard to kill - and Ive only got piddlepuff weapons :( I need to find somwwhere that sells bows.

...aaaand apparently I now find out weapons cant be purchased. Gah! The breakability of weapons is the most frustrating part of the game.

You can buy some weapons, but I think it's only Guardian weapons and the like up at Akkala Ancient tech lab. Don't remember seeing any others for sale elsewhere.

None of the side quests proved to be super essential, and some were downright tough at low levels. I'd focus on uncovering the whole map, walking everywhere you can, and finding shrines over Official Questing during the first 20-30 hours. Sell ALL of EVERYTHING at first for new armor, and remember that after blood moons you can re-obtain armor from the shrines that have it.

Re-obtain good weapons at shrines. Also, silver hinox is super hard.

Cheers - yeah I'm aiming to get to all the towers - though that fucking central tower is brutal and I dont see how I'm possibly going to get to it with all the Guardians around it.

after blood moons you can re-obtain armor from the shrines that have it.

I didnt know this! Thats good to know. I've also of course discovered that my amiibo gives me weapons once a day (I have Archer Link) so theres that too.

stealth armor is worth the high price, it makes all sorts of tasks easier

https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/12/15223338/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-nintendo-amiibo-hacking-ethics

I would love to get my hands on the Guardian amiibo but it seems like that was rarer than hens teeth.

Whether that constitutes cheating in the true sense of the word is debatable

Lol this is the least true sentence on the internet.

Finally got up Central Tower because I managed to kill both the Guardians ! Using parry with a Guardian shield. Hard to do but I got there in the end. And blowing them up rather than avoiding them means extra robot loot like cores and springs.

only just started this and i'm sure someone has mentioned this itt already but the moment i realised that i could climb every single thing in the overworld was one of those 'holy shit' gaming feelings that will make it hard to look at other games the same way again