The video game thread.

mca47

HesCalledDyer said:

Yeah, I do my best to accomplish things without assistance. And for the most part I have. But every once in a while my shrine radar just keeps going off despite me covering 110% of the area and not being able to find it. After about an hour of going "where the hell?!?" I just say fuck it and look it up.

Yeah, i've done that twice now. Radar going off, covered the entire fn area...even climbed to the top of cliffs to I could look around...and nothing. Had to look those two up. One was well hidden and another I climbed up to look around and it was basically right behind me. Ugh! hahaha

HesCalledDyer

Got all 4 divine beasts now. Defeated Vah Rudania last night (the lizard) and beat Fireblight Ganon on the first try. The dungeon was pretty simple. The whole thing rotates 90 degrees, that's it. It was a little tricky at first before getting the map, as it's pitch black inside and you have to carry a blue flame. But it's not difficult to find your way. The boss fight wasn't bad at all. First form is the typical throw elementals and melee attacks. All easy to defend & counter. The second form took me a minite to figure out. He throws a giant fireball at you and moves to another area, leaving no room for attack. But while he's building it up, he's sucking in air. Throw a remote bomb and when he swallows it up, boom! Then he'll fall to the ground stunned and you can attack.

All I have left for main quests is getting all the memories (I have 7 remaining) and defeating Ganon. Have 30 shrines left and a bunch of side quests, most are Gerudo & Goron related.

mca47

Nice man! What are you going to do when it's all over? I still have a long way to go!

mca47

In other news...Mario Kart comes out soon!!!

We should get some message board matches set up!

HesCalledDyer

mca47 said:

Nice man! What are you going to do when it's all over? I still have a long way to go!

Ya know, I haven't even thought of that. By that time summer will be in full swing, so I'll probably just get out of the house, haha!!

In the meantime, I do want to complete all the shrines and finish up the sidequests. I'm starting to have trouble finding shrines, though. I'd like to get more complete armor sets and upgrade them all, which will take a good bit of grinding. Not interested in getting EVERY piece of armor, but the ones I already have, I'd like to get the missing pieces and upgrade the sets. I might actually make that my current project, that way I have objectives to come back to later.

I also finished up the sidequest where you buy the house (which in turn opens the Tarreytown sidequest) and got all the upgrades. Pretty cool having a place to store really awesome/rare weapons and a free place to sleep.

HesCalledDyer

Definitely gonna get Mario Kart, but not on release day. Gonna wait til my birthday in a couple weeks.

jervin007

Been playing Horizon: Zero Dawn on PS4. Love this game. Also just picked up Dark Souls III Complete Edition. I have never played these games and have heard how hard they can be. I've been gaming for a long time so I feel as though I need test my skills. Heard you die a lot. Time to find out.

Jason P

jervin007 said:

Been playing Horizon: Zero Dawn on PS4. Love this game. Also just picked up Dark Souls III Complete Edition. I have never played these games and have heard how hard they can be. I've been gaming for a long time so I feel as though I need test my skills. Heard you die a lot. Time to find out.

Below is a link to some good starter tips for Dark Souls 3. I would suggest being a sorcerer because you have a staff that shoots magic. This makes the early game a lot easier because you can pick enemies off from a distance. And it will give you time to figure out how to fight with weapons.

There is this monk early in the game that is pretty tough, but with the staff he is a sitting duck and he drops a katana called Uchigatana that I still use at level 70.

kotaku.com/tips-for-playing-dark-souls-3-1770600428

mca47

jervin007 said:

Been playing Horizon: Zero Dawn on PS4. Love this game. Also just picked up Dark Souls III Complete Edition. I have never played these games and have heard how hard they can be. I've been gaming for a long time so I feel as though I need test my skills. Heard you die a lot. Time to find out.

I need to pick up Horizon. I've heard nothing but good things. I also want to pick up The Show '17. The older I get, the harder it is to find time to play these games and beat them.
Still never beat Dark Souls 3. I probably will have to restart that one. Odds are I left off at a really fn hard spot and going in having not played it in a long time, it won't be good! hahaha!

Not doing anything until I beat Zelda though. I hate not finishing games!

Jason P

I too have problems finding time. I've got Dark Souls, Zelda, Fallout 4, Witcher 3, Hit man, Metal Gear and a ton of other games. Problem is I forget the effing controls if I go over a month without playing. That is why I'm looking forward to Mario Kart.

DewieCox

I just pounded my way through the remastered Uncharted trilogy. In comparing it with games made for PS4, the content is super light. Dabbling with Far Cry 4 and the world is so expansive. I can see how people have trouble finding time, but I just chip away a mission or so at a time.

a5pj

jervin007 said:

Been playing Horizon: Zero Dawn on PS4. Love this game. Also just picked up Dark Souls III Complete Edition. I have never played these games and have heard how hard they can be. I've been gaming for a long time so I feel as though I need test my skills. Heard you die a lot. Time to find out.

That game is one of the next 2 I'm getting... eventually. My one friend has nothing but good things to say about the new Resident Evil too.

mca47

Jason P said:

I too have problems finding time. I've got Dark Souls, Zelda, Fallout 4, Witcher 3, Hit man, Metal Gear and a ton of other games. Problem is I forget the effing controls if I go over a month without playing. That is why I'm looking forward to Mario Kart.

Same here. Picking up and remembering the controls is a big reason I don't finish a game. I'll start a new game, then a month passes and its hard as shit to remember.

mca47

a5pj said:

jervin007 said:

Been playing Horizon: Zero Dawn on PS4. Love this game. Also just picked up Dark Souls III Complete Edition. I have never played these games and have heard how hard they can be. I've been gaming for a long time so I feel as though I need test my skills. Heard you die a lot. Time to find out.

That game is one of the next 2 I'm getting... eventually. My one friend has nothing but good things to say about the new Resident Evil too.

I thought about getting the new Resident Evil too. Heard it's ridiculous in VR and the disc you buy has the VR already on it. Woo!

mca47

HesCalledDyer said:

mca47 said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Finally got thru Vah Naboris yesterday. And Thunderblight Ganon was the toughest of the 3 I've fought so far, but I still beat him on the first try. He has a shield so you actually have to wait for him to attack and then attack back. No shooting bomb arrows from a distance to wear him down. His warp attacks are easy to block with a shield. Though I was never able to backflip & flurry rush them, I didn't take any damage with the shield up. The Master Sword made the fight a lot easier. 60 attack power!

Yeah, I faced that guy yesterday for the first time. It didn't go well. I really didn't have the equipment, food/potions, or the heart level to keep up with him. I went in to the fight with only one, one-handed weapon. Once that broke I was pretty much done.
Good news is that I can fast travel directly back to it once I level up a bit.

Definitely put on your best armor and have a few strong weapons. Claymores are good. In his second wave of attacks, he'll drop a bunch of rods around you and hit them with lightning. When he starts doing that, use magnesis on one of the rods and raise it up to him so that he shocks himself. When he hits the ground, he'll be stunned and you can attack. His third form is identical to the first only he's fully electrified. When he attacks you, he'll knock your damn weapons out of your hand. Unless you can pull off the flurry rush (which I can't), you'll just have to wait it out until he starts Guardian-beaming your ass. When he does that, if you can't shield parry (again, I can't) just stand behind a pillar, wait for him to get near, then attack.

On a different note, I've noticed that since they patched the infinite arrow glitch (which I never used) they've also capped arrow stock from all the damn merchants, too. It used to be when I'd start running low, I'd just warp to all the stables and buy everything Beedle had. Well, since the update, Beedle hasn't restocked and none of the village shops have any, either. Apparently now you cannot buy arrows until your inventory is below 50. What a crock of shit!! Supposedly you can still venture up the road to Zora's Domain and kill all the enemies as they each drop 5x bundles (some of them drop 2 bundles) and then repeat every blood moon. But I'd rather just warp to shops and buy the damn things. I get fixing the glitch, but leave the rest of the game alone! I rely heavily on archery to get around.

Finally got enough hearts to get the Master Sword. Had that, a decent shield, then went back to face off against that Thunderbolt Ganon dude...or whatever his name is.
Battle lasted about a minute. Destroyed that guy! I think he only touched me once.
I think I'm going to try to finish up all of the side quests that I've ignored up to this point.

HesCalledDyer

Yep, the master sword is great against the sub-Ganons! That double attack power & infinite durability make it pretty awesome. And I did the same thing after Thunderblight, went and cleaned up some side quests.

Uhh, so, I *accidentally* beat Calamity Ganon last night. I say accidentally because I did NOT mean to go into the final boss fight. I was at the Woodland Tower and thought to myself "Hmm, wonder if I can paraglide onto castle from here now that I have 3 full stamina wheels?" So just for shits and giggles, I tried it out. I didn't make it onto the castle, but I did get just right across the moat, directly across the back "secret" entrance. So I swam across then up the 3 waterfalls to the top of the castle and BOOM. Right there is the Sanctum where you fight Calamity. Since I was there, I figured I'd walk up and get a screen cap for the time being. Only problem is I took one step too far which triggered the boss fight. I ended up beating him but man, he handed my ass to me in the process. Had I not just beaten the lizard Divine Beast and got the Daruk's Protection special item, I would've easily lost the battle. I was lucky enough to get a perfect shield parry on my very last shield then wipe out the last of his health with the very last swing of the Master Sword before his defense went up again. (Daruk's Protection guarantees a perfect parry against the lasers, so I used it for the first 3 laser blasts to tear Calamity's defense down so I could attack. I managed to get one parry out of a shitty wooden shield I had in my inventory before it broke, then got the final parry on my last shield. If that shield would've broke, I'd have been done for.)
The second part, Dark Beast Ganon, was a bit more tedious than the few videos I've seen. For whatever reason, the damn horse would not run in ANY direction I wanted it to, and Dark Beast ended up killing it. I had to run around on foot to finish him off, but that actually proved to be easier than riding the horse. I also didn't realize (spoiler alert) you had to select the Bow of Light from your inventory. Figured it was just automatically equipped. So I shot the first 3 targets with my damn Royal Bow.

I didn't get the bonus ending as I'm still missing one of the Memories, but it still felt cool to beat the final boss. Even if I didn't intend to go into the battle. I went back and reloaded my save from before I descended down from the tower, so it looks like I didn't beat the game (no star icon beside my file). I'll come back to him again once I complete all the shrines and side quests and have more equipment inventory. Calamity destroyed every shield I had except for one because I'm terrible at parrying, lol.

mca47

Good to know. I'm going to stay away from that castle then! hahaha!
So, I can't parry for shit. My timing is horrible. Is that going to be a problem going forward? Sounds like it.

HesCalledDyer

Yeah, my timing is terrible with it as well. It almost seems like you have to press A closer to when they fire rather than when the beam is close to hitting you. I'm going to have to practice on some stationary guardians out in the wild before going back to the castle.

And to think I just snuck in the back way and didn't even go thru the castle at all. There are guardians all over that place - all four kinds, too! Parrying definitely seems like a good skill to develop if you're going to make an actual run through it. That or a shit load of ancient arrows.

And that seemed like the only way to take down Calamity's defense in his 2nd phase. He'll turn a glowing orange and you simply cannot attack him while he's orange. Bomb arrows did nothing to stun him. And I didn't want to waste any of the 4 ancient arrows I had. It was only when I parried his beam that he was stunned and I could attack. Then I'd just melee the shit out of him with the master sword.

mca47

Mario Kart arrives tomorrow! Woo!
There goes my weekend! LOL
If anyone wants to play, hit me up. Not sure how to do buddy lists on the Switch yet, so if you know, let me know.

drakeheuer14

Im still stuck on Black Ops 1 / PS3. GOAT.