It’s not the opposite of Japanese PlayStations, which use O to confirm and X to cancel, I hasten to pedantically observe.Anyway Nintendo has been using the same button layout this whole time, why would they change
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Monday, 1 January 2018 17:28 (six years ago) link
oh man, it is definitely the xbox which has ruined me for switch controls.
― Scatperson (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-whore.) (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 1 January 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
i def struggled with the aiming controls at first. for the first week i had my switch i thought i had a defective right joycon. every time i tried to aim an arrow the camera would be jittery and shakey. eventually i realized it is setup to use not just motion control instead of analog stick controls but both at the same time.
ive somehow found a way to make it work. really think that having both options at once is an optimal setup even if its weird at default. you can aim by pointing at the screen and you can also swing the camera around w the stick if that isn't doing it for you.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 1 January 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
yeah, I had no complaints with the combo mode after I realized what was happening
― Scatperson (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-whore.) (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 1 January 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
i swapped the jump and run buttons right away and never had any control issues after that
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 03:41 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fantastic! cheers, i will definitely do that.
i had a crack at water ganon and walked away because (a) i still only have five hearts (b) trying to aim an arrow while monitoring for various attacks is a nightmare (c) the. fucking. camera. pretty bloody hard to attack an enemy who appears behind you and pulls off a one-hit kill before you can even find the bastard.
one of the beautiful things about oot was the camera never ever getting in the way. not once. maybe i'm doing it wrong but the whole elephant dungeon feels like the buggiest part of morrowind.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 1 January 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
You can switch that motion control off, you know.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 11:27 (six years ago) link
oh i did that
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
i kinda love the motion control for precise aiming, but it feels natural on the handhold and weird on the big screen -- but yeah i've been playing the last of us this week and i keep trying to aim by tilting the ps4 pad
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link
the first thing I played on my switch was 50 hours of Splatoon so now the motion controls are totally natural and I can't deal with any game that doesn't use them for aiming
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
I cant use it, my hands arent steady enough. Tho obviously its neccesary for the tilt puzzles in some of the shrines.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 03:35 (six years ago) link
the first time i had one of those i was so annoyed that you can't really just glide over there and do it manually. i mean you can but it's even futzier than it is to just do the tilt puzzle.
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 05:35 (six years ago) link
just did the korok trials. they were extremely annoying, and I loved it. think I might try dragging out the main quest for a full year. don't want to disappoint the weapons connoisseur.
― Scatperson (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-whore.) (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
low note swell when you're swallowed by the lost woods fog is very twin peaksy
― Scatperson (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-whore.) (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
would welcome major briggs head shield dlc
― Scatperson (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-whore.) (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
I can read a thousand more of these "why Breath of the Wild is so great" gushing articles.https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/10/16868292/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-best-games-2017-year-in-review
― Nhex, Thursday, 11 January 2018 10:11 (six years ago) link
One of my hands doesn't work that great anymore - I can play Ocarina on the GameCube fine - but would you say Breath is stupidly difficult? I've always kinda hated complex-control games, right back to when Elite made me cry out of boredom.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 11 January 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link
i didn't find the controls complex so much as i found that they require lots of menuing, which to me is the opposite of complex because it doesn't require me to master complicated real-time fluid hand gestures - the fact that i can't quite remember how to shoot arrows a lot of the time and wound up trial-and-erroring it didn't really keep me from beating the game. i can see how having to spend 30 seconds scrolling through your inventory to find a healing item can break immersion, though.
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Thursday, 11 January 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
it's more difficult than the other 3d zeldas - you can't just mash your way through fights like you can in much of Ocarina. you need to either use your tools and the environment in clever ways or get good at dodge/parry timing.
― ciderpress, Thursday, 11 January 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
Love it, had it delivered today, accidentally played for six hours. It turns out the wee controls are perfect for somebody with slightly incapacitated movement.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 14 January 2018 02:07 (six years ago) link
awesome!
― Dat Login was the dname u doofus (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 14 January 2018 02:34 (six years ago) link
I am dying a lot. Don't save your game on top of a broken temple roof. Still amazing though!
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
the game autosaves pretty much any time you're about to encounter anything, i only ever manually save when i'm done playing
― ciderpress, Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
finally saved up 13 hearts and made it to the master sword. 2 divine beasts down but i think i will wander aimlessly, im in no hurry to finish this game ever.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:37 (six years ago) link
yeah thats about as far as i ever got as well
― ciderpress, Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
been doing all side/shrine quests. Amazing how much you miss following the main quest.
― Dat Login was the dname u doofus (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
I've been saving before I cook so I can experiment with different recipes
Not a sentence I was expecting to type after I bought Zelda, but part of the fun is knowing nothing in advance
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 14 January 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
yeah I have one beast to go (the desert one's internal puzzles are actually really confusing, so I'm not sure I can do it!) and Ive wandered a lot. Actually havent touched zelda in a few weeks tho - I got caught up playing civ V during my hols.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 15 January 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link
Tip also for anyone who didnt know: when you see the very start of a blood moon happen (you'll see a red moon rise, then eventually notice the misty smoke in the air), cook if you're near a cookfire! All recipes will get the bonus.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 15 January 2018 03:45 (six years ago) link
there's a blood moon cooking bonus??
― Nhex, Monday, 15 January 2018 04:23 (six years ago) link
yep! its a pretty small window but time seems to stop when you throw food in the pot so if you do that over and over in quick succession Ive found I can fit in at least 4 or 5 recipes if I time it right.
That said I never seem to be near a bloody pot when it happens.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 15 January 2018 04:26 (six years ago) link
The bonus appears to stop after the moon peak/cut scene, its worth noting.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 15 January 2018 04:27 (six years ago) link
that is really cool, first i've heard of this bonus!
im unlocking the various shrines in the lost woods. this game is magic
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 15 January 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
blood moon cooking bonus is news to me as well. finished up goron beast yesterday. felt like a stroll through tarry town square after gerudo beast. I can see by what you carry (about 40 loads of wood) that you come from tarry town.
― Dat Login was the dname u doofus (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 16 January 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
this game
wow
― ||||||||, Saturday, 27 January 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link
I wasn’t sure at first. the world seemed so empty for stretches. but you really need that emptiness to make all the little discoveries so magical
<3
― Nhex, Saturday, 27 January 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
the dev presentation about the world design someone posted is fantastic if you can find the link
― Dat Login was the dname u doofus (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 27 January 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
it was great, but got screwed up because the guy took down the pictures by request since they were from a private presentation
― Nhex, Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
Damn. I would read a book about BotW design.
― Dat Login was the dname u doofus (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
Had this for a month now and still loving it. I'm pretty inexperienced/slow - I just made it to hurricane windy Ganon, my first boss fight, and decided to run away again until I've got more hearts. That fucker's tricky - or is it just me? I hope it's just me.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 17 February 2018 12:39 (six years ago) link
Thunderblight was trickiest for me
― Dat Login was the dname u doofus (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 17 February 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
the others seemed to have tricks to beating them
yeah the wind one is prob the easiest of the four tbh
― ciderpress, Saturday, 17 February 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
still cant kill the camel one, been about 5 months since my first effort lol
its the second bit with metal shards where i just cant see him anywhere
― nxd, Saturday, 17 February 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
I'm so excited, because I've been piddling around with a bunch of indies but have yet to start this or Odyssey. One of them will be my reward for finishing "Celeste."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
I found the camel one the hardest by far
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
Josh it's AMAZING and you will be AMAZED
I've also held back on Odyssey as a reward - gonna buy it when I've finished some university coursework next week...
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 17 February 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
Thunderblight Ganon is the undisputed hardest boss ime
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Saturday, 17 February 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
Oh I see, you gotta use the wind turrets, duh
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
only way to beat thunderblight (camel) is to take your licks along with shock resist or a ton of hearty heart heart meals
― Dat Login was the dname u doofus (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 18 February 2018 04:49 (six years ago) link