Video Games - a general discussion thread — Page 366

chyron8472 said:

I have Dishonored on Steam, and though I haven’t beaten it, what part I played I liked.

From the little bit I’ve had time to play, it seems like it might be a game more suited to a mouse and keyboard than a console.

ray_afraid said:

Possessed said:

I don’t yet have any interest in the switch. When I finish playing through the twilight princess remake for wiiu I plan on picking up breath of the wild for the wiiu.

Hey, how’s that going? How much have ya played and how do ya like it?

Progress in Twilight Princess is slow since I only play it when my dad is over, but the last time I played it I had just beaten the temple of time and I think I have to go to the sky next. I absolutely love it but I’m only doing the main quest so there’s huge areas of the overworld I haven’t even been to because I’m just not somebody that likes to do sidequests.

ray_afraid said:

Possessed said:

ray_afraid said:

Possessed said:

I don’t yet have any interest in the switch. When I finish playing through the twilight princess remake for wiiu I plan on picking up breath of the wild for the wiiu.

Hey, how’s that going? How much have ya played and how do ya like it?

Progress in Twilight Princess is slow since I only play it when my dad is over, but the last time I played it I had just beaten the temple of time and I think I have to go to the sky next. I absolutely love it but I’m only doing the main quest so there’s huge areas of the overworld I haven’t even been to because I’m just not somebody that likes to do sidequests.

Cool! I love sidequests, but I’ll tell ya (spoiler free) that most of the ones in TP are a frustrating runaround with no rewarding story additions or valuable gear/treasure. Sticking to the main quest makes TP more enjoyable -IN MY OPINION- (I’m sure a certain someone will still pop in to argue this 😉 ).
I don’t remember the order of events in TP… have you gotten to the Hidden Village yet? I’ll remain spoiler free, but will say that that place has one of my favorite pieces of music in the entire series!

I don’t believe I have. And yeah I play Zelda games mainly to get immersed in the story and get escape to another world so sidequests don’t do much for me.

Which makes it interesting that Majora’s Mask is my favorite Zelda game. I just love the dark subject matter and themes throughout the game. It is LOADED with subtext of existential fear and it just really speaks to me.

Played a bit of Cuphead. It’s quite nice and have been watching a lot of cinematic animated shorts from the 1930s recently because of it. Fairly fun.

I recently purchased the Nintendo Switch & Zelda BOTW. I don’t know how many hours I’ve played so far, but I haven’t followed the Main Storyline, after the initial requirements in the beginning, in order to progress the plot. I’ve been exploring as much as the map as possible. The teleportation feature is what makes exploring more of the map that much more enjoyable.
I especially love the fact that you can save & quit the game at almost any point, & not have to wait for a silly automatic save.

Mario Odyssey is on my list, and I may eventually get the Mario + Rabbids game.

chyron8472 said:

Been playing Stardew Valley on Switch. It’s really enjoyable.

Oh yeah? Well, I’ve been playing Stardew Valley [GOG] on PC! With Mods! And More Fish! And more I dunno what! AND it’s a fun game too!

Been replaying the Command & Conquer: Red Alert Trilogy, Borderlands 1 2 & Pre-Sequel, and EMPIRE: TOTAL WAT.

Just bought a replica master sword and hylian shield. Spent about 300 dollars. There were plenty of combo sets that were under 200 for both, and while some looked quite good, I didn’t want anything that was gonna be flimsy and fall apart so I bought each separately and spent $200 just for the sword. I mean it’s gonna mostly be just for display, but hey if I get attacked by a dodongo in the middle of the night I need to actually be prepared.

I’m going to gardening stores and breaking pots with it

If I were you, I’d attack chickens with it.

But I don’t want an angry swarm of them to descend upon me

What’s life without the occasional chicken attack?

Well the link from ocarina of time died because he went crazy and got depressed and turned into a stalfos wandering the lost woods. Was it because of chickens or because he skipped seven years of his adolescence to defeat a dark lord only to be sent back in time and have everything he did undone and nobody but him remembers, or was it because of chickens? I dunno seems pretty clear.

Yeah but if you read the timeline that is how the link from that game meets his end. Supposedly the events of ocarina of time and majoras mask drove him insane and he ends up wandering the lost woods until he becomes a stalfos. You talk to his ghost in twilight princess.

thats just a fan theory and I don’t think it’s true. For one thing you very blatantly talk to his spirit as a stalfos in twilight princess and it seems clear he made it to adulthood. Also I’m pretty sure Miyamoto has officially confirmed that Termina is a real place and not in Links sunbinscious as a result of that theory. I do believe that the events of the game had a strong effect on that links mind and contributed to his insanity. And some aspects of the game may have been exaggerated in his mind. I do believe that the games levels may represent the stages of grief but I think it’s over losing Navi rather than accepting his own death. As an aside though the game does conjure a feeling of existential dread for me. One of the darkest games ever made probably and yet most of its darkness is symbolic so I didn’t notice when playing as a child.