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static111

Is it bad that I have had money set aside for 3 years awaiting BOTW II?

HughFreakingDillon

Jason P said:

Ghost of Tsushima ... yes this game came out several years ago, but I had a rare snow day and saw this game on sale.  I initially passed because Sekiro had just hit the scene and I needed a break from the action game genre and ended up forgetting about it.  I am very impressed with this game in the early hours.  Top notch production.  It's like playing a good movie that feels organic if that makes sense.  I know others here raved about this game and I'm now a believer.

There is a scene in the opening prologue that sets the tone for the main bad guy that was shocking.  Like early Game of Thrones shocking.  That is pretty rare in video games.

I bought this a couple months ago as I was getting tired of beating Spider Man over and over again. I'm starting to wonder if I no longer have the "video game brain" (bought a PS4 after not playing video games for about 20 years). I've been riding on my damn horse for what seems like forever to try to find where the hell I'm supposed to go. 

HesCalledDyer

static111 said:

Is it bad that I have had money set aside for 3 years awaiting BOTW II?

If it is, we’re both going to hell. 

HesCalledDyer

a5pj said:

Daughter and I have been playing Rayman Legends . It is really one of my favorite games, even before we started playing together. It's so well done, mechanics that work for advanced and young players, details, levels that work with songs. And it's fun!

Played a demo of that when I first got my Switch. It is really good! Don’t know why I never bought the full version. 

HesCalledDyer

Spiritual_Chaos said:

I'M ON MY WAY TO FIND IMPA!

Where are you now? I actually started a new profile on Sunday, played thru the Great Plateau then did a tower run and activated them all. Did about 40 shrines or so along the way, and a few other things. Don’t want to go into too much detail as to give away spoilers. 

Spiritual_Chaos

https://twitter.com/stalker_thegame/status/1496841904507559942?s=20&t=TNc8bnr26tbAek4OFQh3uA

Spiritual_Chaos

HesCalledDyer said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

I'M ON MY WAY TO FIND IMPA!

Where are you now? I actually started a new profile on Sunday, played thru the Great Plateau then did a tower run and activated them all. Did about 40 shrines or so along the way, and a few other things. Don’t want to go into too much detail as to give away spoilers. 

I've picked up 20 electric arrows.

mca47

Picked up Horizon Forbidden West.  Maybe an hour in and it's fun.  I really enjoyed the first one and this one is a blast so far.
I'm def going to finish this first before picking up Elden Ring.

HesCalledDyer

Spiritual_Chaos said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

I'M ON MY WAY TO FIND IMPA!

Where are you now? I actually started a new profile on Sunday, played thru the Great Plateau then did a tower run and activated them all. Did about 40 shrines or so along the way, and a few other things. Don’t want to go into too much detail as to give away spoilers. 

I've picked up 20 electric arrows.

Ahh, the Vah Ruta quest, I assume. Nice.

Jason P

My Assetto Corsa Competizione Xbox Series X Upgrade Review ....

I had to double check to see if it accidentally installed a last gen update.  Nope.  Everything seems worse.  Too bad, I had high hopes for an actual sim racer on a console.  Maybe some day.

However, I don't have time for this game anyway because ...

Jason P

Time to dust the sticks off and head into The Lands Between of Elden Ring!   This game is getting massive reviews and is sitting at 97 on metacritic.

I'll probably spend the next six hours obsessing over character creation which I actually am looking forward too.

Jason P

My spoiler-free impressions of Elden Ring after playing for 8 hours …

 

Outstanding.  Taking the Dark Souls gameplay and formula and coding it from a linear (but amazing) world to an open world is a pretty tall task for a game developer to do and they somehow pulled it off.  It's not often a game with this hype not only lives up to expectations, but exceeds them.

And there are so many small things they have done that anyone who has played the Dark Souls series will appreciate …. It’s hard to put a comprehensive list of them, but there are a lot of times I’m like “oh, thank god they did that or got rid of that”.

As for new players, this game is more approachable than the Dark Soul series from the opening due to the open world allowing players to avoid combat by taking a wide birth.  A few other early game discoveries can help with enemy crowd control too.  But once you get in dungeons, it is back to head-on-a-swivel gameplay.   So I think this is a good game for someone who has never played Dark Souls to jump into. 

For seasoned Dark Souls players, there is so much to dive into in this game. A mystery waits to be explored.

 

Game of the Year drops in February???  I have no reason to doubt …

mca47

Jason P said:

My spoiler-free impressions of Elden Ring after playing for 8 hours …

 

Outstanding.  Taking the Dark Souls gameplay and formula and coding it from a linear (but amazing) world to an open world is a pretty tall task for a game developer to do and they somehow pulled it off.  It's not often a game with this hype not only lives up to expectations, but exceeds them.

And there are so many small things they have done that anyone who has played the Dark Souls series will appreciate …. It’s hard to put a comprehensive list of them, but there are a lot of times I’m like “oh, thank god they did that or got rid of that”.

As for new players, this game is more approachable than the Dark Soul series from the opening due to the open world allowing players to avoid combat by taking a wide birth.  A few other early game discoveries can help with enemy crowd control too.  But once you get in dungeons, it is back to head-on-a-swivel gameplay.   So I think this is a good game for someone who has never played Dark Souls to jump into. 

For seasoned Dark Souls players, there is so much to dive into in this game. A mystery waits to be explored.

 

Game of the Year drops in February???  I have no reason to doubt …

That's awesome!  Can't wait to play it.
Still playing Horizon.  I ran into a serious framerate glitch yesterday, making that part of the game almost unplayable.  I hope when I return it's fixed.  

JojoRice

Got my new gaming PC last week.  Been kicking 10 year olds asses on Fortnite  >:)

tempo_n_groove

Spiritual_Chaos said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

tempo_n_groove said:

OK Mariocart 8 experts!!!

Question?

When I am turning right if I don't start my drift just right I always crash.  Is the game built to not let you turn late?  You have to hit a certain mark?

2nd?
When hitting the turn perfectly and into a drift I always have 2 problems. 1 is brushing up against another driver.  When I do I lose control and slam into a wall.  

The other is when drifting right and a left turn comes up I can't get a drift down.  I can't do a clean right drift into a left drift.

Looking for pointers.

Is it a timing thing?

Thanks

I don't have my WIi-U connected anymore... but you don't need to hit a certain mark. Mario Kart is very forgiving. Just steer in the right direction... and you can't go to a right to left drift, without "reseting" first by releasing the drift button. As I remember it.

Yeah that don't work.  If I don't start a drift early I am in the wall...

Maybe thois doesn't help, but I tried:

https://youtu.be/McDZJXEiRYw

I did more digging into this and apparently on the 200c version I need to learn how to use the break because I am going to fast.

Went back to 150cc and no problem.  It's the 200cc where I have loads of problems...

tempo_n_groove

I looked up "best wii-u games and Bayonetta 2 was one of them.  This game is terrible..

Spiritual_Chaos

tempo_n_groove said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

tempo_n_groove said:

OK Mariocart 8 experts!!!

Question?

When I am turning right if I don't start my drift just right I always crash.  Is the game built to not let you turn late?  You have to hit a certain mark?

2nd?
When hitting the turn perfectly and into a drift I always have 2 problems. 1 is brushing up against another driver.  When I do I lose control and slam into a wall.  

The other is when drifting right and a left turn comes up I can't get a drift down.  I can't do a clean right drift into a left drift.

Looking for pointers.

Is it a timing thing?

Thanks

I don't have my WIi-U connected anymore... but you don't need to hit a certain mark. Mario Kart is very forgiving. Just steer in the right direction... and you can't go to a right to left drift, without "reseting" first by releasing the drift button. As I remember it.

Yeah that don't work.  If I don't start a drift early I am in the wall...

Maybe thois doesn't help, but I tried:

https://youtu.be/McDZJXEiRYw

I did more digging into this and apparently on the 200c version I need to learn how to use the break because I am going to fast.

Went back to 150cc and no problem.  It's the 200cc where I have loads of problems...

Yeah, 200cc is faster than the game was built for. That was a bonus thing that came later.

I remember having to brake alot on 200cc.

Spiritual_Chaos

tempo_n_groove said:

I looked up "best wii-u games and Bayonetta 2 was one of them.  This game is terrible..

Couldn't get into it. Tried a demo. Not my kind of game

Spiritual_Chaos

https://twitter.com/romero/status/1499172470330437633?s=20&t=eYqi1LPY0SRTk8XEpjEE-w

dankind

Spiritual_Chaos said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I looked up "best wii-u games and Bayonetta 2 was one of them.  This game is terrible..

Couldn't get into it. Tried a demo. Not my kind of game

Is that the one with the Sarah Palin lookalike as the main protagonist?