I find the dungeons way more unsettling than past Zelda games despite not being as gloomy or encompassing
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
weirdly this game feels like it pulls more beats from twilight princess than any of the other 3d zeldas stylistically. I think city in the sky is the closest past dungeon in look and feel to the divine beasts, and same with palace of twilight for the shrines and sheikah tech
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
fighting with a giant club feels like battletoads
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
octoballoons are fun, i guess? i might have had some fun? or pain? it was definitely fun or pain.
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 September 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
aside from that one quest i had no idea what to do with those things
― Nhex, Friday, 22 September 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
apparently you were 'supposed' to use them to get up the faron tower but i just climbed the mountain next to it and jumped over instead
― ciderpress, Friday, 22 September 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
Ive had no luck with those things. ON a raft it just tilts all over the place and then they pop after a few seconds anyway!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 23 September 2017 05:30 (six years ago) link
they are good but also bad
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 23 September 2017 05:40 (six years ago) link
you can put one on a bomb and then use a leaf to blow it across a gap but i have no idea whether that ever becomes necessary in the game
― ciderpress, Saturday, 23 September 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
neat thread about the game world design/dev
Got around to reading some of the BotW CEDEC articles. Interesting fact - https://t.co/494TwAuYxi— Matt Walker (@gypsyOtoko) October 3, 2017
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
thank u i enjoyed that thread, also the second one on the ui design
Thanks to @Nibellion and tonyh24613 from Gaf I've been alerted to articles based on the other BotW CEDEC talks - so how bout a new thread?— Matt Walker (@gypsyOtoko) October 4, 2017
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
going to paint my kitchen "zelda white" so it's less startling to look up from my switch
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
very cool!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
also need botw.css for ilx
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
from the world design thread: "after a marathon of herzog documentaries, designers decided that it should rain every time a player hoped to climb a tall mountain, fight a stone talus, capture sunset fireflies, etc. this would really drive home the uncaring chaos and brutality of nature."
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
there should be dlc narration
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
The WiiU lets you see how much time youve spent on a game. I have now clocked up over 300 hours on this thing :/ Prob at least 100 of those is me just aimlessly wandering around, because I find this thing so meditative.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
i could wander around and collect virtual mushrooms or i could see what's happening on the internet... yeah i think virtual mushrooms win this one. am so, so glad that nintendo is still making great offline games.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Thursday, 5 October 2017 01:06 (six years ago) link
ugh, trying to read that Matt Walker twitter thread is a total mess now with all the replies. and his medium summaries have no images. bummer.
― Nhex, Friday, 6 October 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
oh geez he deliberately deleted the original tweets "out of respect" to the original talkers. someone get him on twitter and tell him the images don't embed on medium
― Nhex, Friday, 6 October 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 October 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
man, this game, even the glitches are cool. spouse just ran across a dlc bug where a treasure chest falls out of the sky over and over again.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 02:34 (six years ago) link
The other day I used one of my amiibos to do a treasure drop, and it dropped a chest and 2 wooden crates. Then there was a flash of lightning and one crate just blinked out of existence.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 02:38 (six years ago) link
I also found and rode the King of the Mountain the other day! He was spooky.
Lord of the Mountain rather.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 02:39 (six years ago) link
Oh man this game. I've pretty much ignored a whole bunch of mechanics - quests, mini bosses, riding horses, shrines, korok seeds - and I'm still clambering over new mountains and creeping along new valleys, just trying to find out what's around the next corner. This is after about 40 hours. I got the house, though - Bolson is a dude. And now my kids are playing it and noticing things that I breezed right past, setting bomb traps for octoroks, catching horse after horse - they're approaching it. in such a different way to me, it's an education.
― calumerio, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
So I’ve got like 80 shrines, and all of the beasts. I’m kinda petering out. I guess I should go to the castle and finish this, but I don’t want to end the game. Once I go to the castle can I keep playing the game after, or is that it (spoilers, I guess)?
― DJI, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
that's it, pretty much. you'll get a save with a * so you can keep trying to 100% after if you want
― Nhex, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
there's the DLC, some of which isn't out yet, no?
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
I've only done two beasts. I became obsessed with obtaining and upgrading armor for awhile when life got very busy. I've also been playing mario kart because I switched game cards to play with friends awhile back, and it's hard to justify not playing mario kart whenever I pick the thing up. Now the new mario is coming out, and I don't think I can juggle 3 masterpieces.
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
xp oh yeah that DLC- will definitely buy when it's complete
the nice thing about single player masterpieces, they'll always be waiting for you =D but zelda is so good, finish it
― Nhex, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
finishing games is overrated imo
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
I wandered around for like an hour last night trying to find more shrines and ended up with like 2 stupid korok seeds. Guess it's time to wrap it up. Or I could just talk to every goddamn NPC in Hyrule and do all the side quests (many of which reveal shrines, I guess).
― DJI, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
the ones that open shrines go into a separate section in your quest log iirc so you know which they are
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
Good to know, thanks!
― DJI, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-is-getting-a-second-wind-thank-1819802965
― DJI, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
using the magnet on a lizal boomerang is a great idea
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
a lot of those are fantastic
― Nhex, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:38 (six years ago) link
holy shit I'm riding a bear
― calumerio, Sunday, 29 October 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
take it to the gay thread buddy
― proton, neutron, electron and crouton (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 29 October 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
yeah, quit with the gay stuff, we're trying to discuss our video game about the adventures of a fairy boy
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 29 October 2017 12:43 (six years ago) link
otm
― proton, neutron, electron and crouton (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 29 October 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
still riding him. he's way more biddable than I thought a bear would be
― calumerio, Sunday, 29 October 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
Ive only ridden one, but it was fun, plodding thru the snow.
Catching/riding a fuckn reindeer was way more impossible - and that one was a shrine quest. Took me forever to get one, they just heard me no matter wjat sneak shit I did. I ended up parachuting down onto one lol.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 29 October 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
I didn't know that any of this was was possible
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 30 October 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
shut the fuck up, tree, and let me get this sword
― calumerio, Monday, 13 November 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
a free bit got added to the DLC the other day. I finished it in 10 minutes. It was just to go to 3 places and stare in the right direction til you saw a red shooting star, to get some goodies.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 04:10 (six years ago) link
New set of amiibos out a few weeks back, featuring the 4 champions. I snagged Daruk and Revali. Couldnt justify paying for all 4 this close to xmas :(
Anyone else collect the amiibos?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
unless it's spoilery for some reason..
what IS the "breath" of the wild?
― Karl Malone, Friday, 8 December 2017 02:35 (six years ago) link
The wind/weather, I always assumed! It has such a vital presence in the game.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 8 December 2017 02:39 (six years ago) link