I love swords and I think I mostly like maps, so yeah I will probably eventually give Elden ring a try. And maybe one or two of the yakuza games (I only ever played the psp one strangely lol). Those are the only 100+ hour games I plan to give a shot to at least until I’m 50 or maybe until I die, man, 100 hours really feels like a lot of time these days
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i think both games are like Endearing Mid more than anything tbh… was perfectly content to put down both well before id come close to finishing them
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re: horse posts— if you’re on a horse and you hold z target you can kind of manually shuffle your horse around. i’m not sure it would work in every situation mentioned here but it’s got me through some tough ones
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I think we’ve talked about it before the horse tech in Elden Ring is vastly superior. Zelda horses seem intentionally aggravating by comparison.
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I was like 50/50 on frustation and enjoyment with the game before I was out due to hand injury. and was playing pretty irregularly compared to how I usually play any game to try to not get too annoyed. frustations: having to constantly build any of that shit with controller controls for every little puzzle thing. horses. combat before I grinded out max upgraded armor and duplicated diamonds to fuse to weapons. any busy work collectathon shit like photos and caves and wells and upgrade materials. enjoyment: towns and npcs. helping those monster clean up squad guys out there. just getting to any new place on foot, no magitek machines or hang gliding the way there. the zelda backstory/tears quest/master sword retrieval was kind of moving, weirdly so compared to anything else in the game. not really knowing what to do exactly on a lot of quests. I never did the next quest from the scientist gal cause I had no idea what they even wanted. they were just vaguely talking about statues pointing somewhere in the depths but I didn’t see anything notable down there. kind of felt like I was enjoying it more once I got my equipment sorted but also I figured once I’d been to every town or notable place on the surface I’d probably lose interest.
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I believe I have diagnosed your disease as Zelditis. This game just isn’t significantly different from BotW, it’s more like a big fancy xpack, and you already got everything you wanted out of BotW so you were sick of this game before you even started playing it. My prescription is an immediate Zeldectomy.
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yeah, and I personally only put about 30-40 hours into botw at the time because I was skeptical of it and playing in an emulator so I’m glad that I inadvertently saved myself for this being like 40% better across the board
I agree that the depths are like a slightly undercooked fromsoft homage (the sky is neat though) and the minor quests are not very interesting but I still find that all the ~content~ in here is juxtaposed very enjoyably
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imo don’t binge these kinda games, just dip in and out and relax, they’re too goddamn long to play any other way
elden ring is the hardest one to play this way unless you keep notes but keeping notes adds to the experience
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yeah I played BOTW over the course of six months and I expect to do the same here
I binged Elden Ring like it was my second job and it was frankly very bad for me haha
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I honestly never beat BotW. I played it first on Wii U and took a swing at ganon after doing 3 Divine Beasts and got really close to the final phase with minimal resources and kinda felt like I was ready to call it done. Then I got a switch and got it again with the DLC and only pecked at it afterwards.
TotK just managed to fill in enough of the empty parts that I just went in and found it hard to stop.
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The consensus in the recent BotW thread was that everyone should hit up the castle before quitting. Nothing revelatory if you play From games, but it’s a cool space with a nice tune.
Is there anything similar in TotK? If you’ve seen the depths and explored the sky a bit, you might have the gist, especially if you already played BotW. I might nominate the sky bits with the funky gravity, but only barely.
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I honestly feel the sky was under populated. The wonder kinda died after the first 5-10 hours once you get a handle of your flight options.
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I like how for most people this will require both getting autobuild and doing the fire temple though to get to the point where you can semi-trivially build aircraft, that ramp is nice and incidental-feeling
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Before i got autobuild I mostly had a few shrines in the sky done just after finding the vending machines with wings, fans and control sticks.
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i barely use autobuild, i’m annoyed that it doesn’t pull from my zonai parts inventory automatically, and also i just build different things almost every time, or i forget to save things
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you can hit the little reply arrow on the post you wanna reply to
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I’m talking about when I edit an already published post. I’m on KBM, thanks.
I love the sky so much, but I did a whole region’s sky all at once every time I unlocked it through the launch pad/map thingy (if the whole sky was reachable). Loved the shit out of everything I found up there so far and I’m hungry for more. I don’t know if it’s good or bad that I was able to do a whole region’s sky in pretty much an hour or less most of the times I got launched up there… on one hand, it was not a billion hours of sky. On the other hand, I think it’s pretty cool that you can just go live up in the sky and accomplish some shit and then go back down when you’re done. Feels a bit like an open ended dungeon up there.
Haven’t gotten into some of the “storm” regions on the map yet so I dunno if I am just gonna be disappointed once I do. For me, those are still the content horizons dragging me into the sky, haha. That and the Big Cube I have not reached yet
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for some reason knowing that if you fall you will plummet to the earth instead of just die bottomless pit style makes the sky sections very thrilling. my palms get so sweaty when i’m up there!
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Been playing this for over 35 hours now and I still don’t have autobuild and I have no idea what I have to do to get it but also I don’t really feel like I need it yet because I haven’t built anything I want to rebuild. I also haven’t hit those other two dungeons yet so I still just have the two sages I had the last time I posted. I got distracted going off and finding all the towers.
Now I’m just wandering around doing side quests. I tried to do that depths side quest for Josha that someone on youtube said I should do that asap but I got down there and couldn’t find the statues or whatever but to be fair I also wasn’t paying a whole lot of attention to what I was supposed to be looking for and I got distracted when I got down with exploring and picking up lots of zonaite. The stuff is everywhere down there, in the rocks, falling out of defeated enemies, you can’t walk ten feet without tripping over it.
I think maybe I should figure out how to upgrade my battery power. I still have just the one battery and sometimes when I build stuff I wish it lasted a bit longer so maybe that will something I do soon.
I’m disappointed that I have no more towers to find because it was trekking my way to the towers and letting myself get distracted along the way that was my primary way of enjoying the game. Now I have to substitute trekking to a tower with trekking to a quest marker or something. I basically avoid fast travelling in this but I’m really thankful for the wealth of fast travel points from all the shrines I’ve been doing and stuff. Sometimes it’s really convenient.
I don’t know. It’s a really good open worlder but at the end of the day that’s kind of all it is. I really like the story in this one and I almost never care one whit about the story in a Zelda.
Edit-well okay I got auto build lol
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