What are you playing this weekend? 2023-07-15
What are you playing this weekend? 2023-07-15
Hello Everyone!
I finally finished The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Took about 90 hours, and still have a lot left to do, but wanted to find out the full story, so finished the main quest. I liked the story a lot more than BotW. If you have already finished it, what did you think about the story? (without giving away any spoilers). Going to keep playing this as my primary game for a while though, while also thinking about which game to start next.
Secondary games:
- Finished Marvel's Avengers. Nothing new to say about it. It could've been a very good game, if not for Live Service elements.
- Almost finished Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge. I am at stage 14, so just couple of them left. Will check the trophies after finishing the game and see if I want to platinum it. Only playing it with my kid, so going a bit slowly.
- Started The Order 1886, it's a very small games, 4-5 hours at most, but didn't get much time to play after starting it, would try to finish it. The games holds up really well visually and gameplay vise.
- I have committed to Monster Hunter: World now. Going to finish it, no matter how long it takes. Until now, I was only playing it with friends, but would try to do some optional stuff solo too, now that TotK is finished.
That's all for now. What about all of you? What are you playing? And what do you plan to play next? And how are you enjoying them?
I think I'm close to the end of Bowser's Fury, so I may be able to finish that in a sitting or two. I'm also playing Shredder's Revenge in a co-op setting, and the DLC announcement was a good reminder to get back into that (think we're also nearing the end of the story). And there's a Splatfest, so I feel somewhat obligated to choose a team and play a little, though I've definitely been on a Splatoon 3 break lately.
Bowser's Fury was really fun, how are you enjoying it?
Good luck with TMNT and Splatoon 3!
Thank you! Bowser's Fury is a fun experience, and the open-world concept is a cool one. I actually bought this Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury pack on the strength of Bowser's Fury alone, after reading people speculate that it might be the future of the 3D Mario series. I'm not sure how it would scale to a full game, though... I guess it might also be a little less "whoa dude" in a post-Mario-Odyssey world, since some of those levels were almost such environments in their own right (desert level comes to mind here, with its town area and other areas). The
spoiler
ongoing boss battle
is equal parts cool and annoying, with the way it gets less avoidable as the game progresses. But on the whole, it's good stuff... I haven't even looked at the main title yet, and I feel like I'm close to getting my $40's worth.
What has the TMNT experience been like for you? I'm a little frustrated at all the button-combo moves I can't seem to memorize, but that might just be a me-thing. Still having fun with this one, even with the struggles.
Still playing totk, 175 hours so far. I need to do Gerudo’s quest and explore both desert areas and that’s it, finally I’ll move on to something else, probably Diablo 4 or something on Gamepass, haven’t decided yet.
There is still quite a bit of story after the Gerudo's temple. If you keep that pace, it would be 250+ hours before you are done. Or just 180 - 185 if you ignore everything and stick to the main mission.
I would suggest taking your time.
That’s the plan, I want to take my time, there’s no game that I wan to play in the moment (besides one missing chapter in Celeste) so yeah, I think I’m going to explore everything that’s left.
Similar hours, I did Gerudo but skipped Goron area entirely so far. Wrapping a couple side quests (just finished the Laurelin Village water stuff).
Been using Heros Path to see areas I've missed and exploring but I'm starting to dial back. Decided I wanna leave a few things untouched for when I do a DLC re-play in a year or so.
That’s a good start, haven’t thought about the dlc but yeah, perhaps is a good idea to leave a couple of things to do and explore at that moment.
MK8 5th DLC just came out :-)
I still haven't tried any of the booster pack maps. Which one is favourite? And which one least favourite?
Congratulations in finishing Tears of the Kingdom! To me, the story was definitely an improvement from the first game, with more memorable and epic moments.
As for me, last week I broke down and got myself a Steam deck! I already installed several games to try out, with intention to give Ni No Kuni a real shot this time. Last time I played the game I dropped it after several hours because I found combat boring, let's see if this time will be different.
On Nintendo Switch I am slowly getting through The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. Currently I am on case 4 of the first game.
And lastly, on PS5, I am playing Forspoken. I finished main story last weekend, and right now I am just roaming the world and doing side activities.
Thanks!
Steam deck is a great device, but I already have so many games to play, getting another "console" isn't going to help with that. And since you also have PS5, take a look at Chiaki for SteamDeck, to remote play PS5 games. Learned about it from @[email protected] , our resident mod and creator of [email protected], you can ping him for any help related to that.
Ni No Kuni is a very fun game, played the first one PS3. A much better Pokémon game than some of the newer Pokémon game.
How are you liking The Great Ace Attorney? I haven't started the series yet, but going to get the Phoenix Wright games soon.
Same question, how are you liking Forspoken? I liked the demo, but the full game review haven't been that great. Though some of the people I know who have played the game have enjoyed it.
Thanks for the Chiaki recommendation! I tried it very first day the steam deck arrived, I might play few games this way when SO steals the TV.
Regarding Ni No Kuni, first time I played it I liked the story, but the combat did not click with me (dropped it about 6 hours in). Never played pokemon, so it might be that I'm just not used to that kind of gameplay.
Great Ace Attorney is... well, great. I played the first AA trilogy few years back and liked it a lot, so I knew I would like this games as well, and it definitely delivered. Which collection are you planing to start with? I would suggest the first trilogy, although you can't go wrong with either of these.
Forspoken is a tough sell. I personally find it fun to play, combat and world traversal are the highlights for sure. The story, while it has it issues, is not as bad as people on the Internet are saying. I would say that if you liked the demo, you would also like the game itself. Not worth the 70$/80€ asking price though.
Oh yeah this is the Nintendo sub, but anyhows: Arknights has a new event and Fate/Grand Order has released the final part of it's latest story chapter, I am looking forward to playing through the story in those two mobile games as soon as I have time.
Then after that possibly try to find the rest of the armor pieces in Tears of the Kingdom, unless I get too tempted to get started on Master Detective Archives: Rain Code instead.
Yeah, it's a Nintendo community, but we don't mind discussing other games in this weekly thread. Half the games I mentioned in main post, don't even exist on Switch.
I have been hearing good things about Master Detectives Archive: Rain Code. I have trouble staying away from a game if I already have it, so nice work on that! 😀
What is your percentage completed of TotK? I am still at 41%. I thought I might be at least 50+, so was slightly shocked to see it so low.
Haha right!
I missed that there is a percentage after beating the game, will have to check when I get home.
I am probably also quite low. I feel like I have skipped over a lot of the map because I would constantly use the towers or just teleporting to the sky islands to glide directly to locations instead of traveling over land and discovering stuff...
Skyward Sword HD! The visuals and dungeons are so fun. Also, it turns out it's the only Zelda game that's HD and 60FPS. I hadn't realized this before. I really hope they remake other Zeldas.
Ah, didn't know thats. Though now that I think about it, it makes sense. I think Link's Awakening remake would be an exception too, but it was a 2D one.
I haven't played Skyward Sword yet. I may play Minish Cap on NSO before the Skyward Sword.
Edit: Minish Cap, not Cup.
I'm really hoping for a switch release of windwaker HD. Sadly I believe it will not happen... 😕
I didn't touch my Switch for a few weeks, so I'll be catching up by playing Splatoon 3 (splatfest) and some MK8 in between (wave 5).
What are you going to choose in splatfest? And why is it going to be Mint Chip?
Wow, I did chose Mint Chip haha 🫠 I really like cookies&cream, so it was the closest to that. Also, having played Splatoon since the first one, I shall follow Callie/Marie's catchphrase, "Stay fresh" haha 😆
Fire emblem engage
Nice! How are you liking the game? I am still playing three houses, and am on my first house. (Well technically, the game is paused, and haven't touched it since TotK released, but will get back to it eventually).
Have you played three houses? How would you compare the two?
FE engage is great. It feels really strategic, compact maps with powerful terrain effects and chokepoints to take advantage of, units don't have a lot of movement, positioning and formation can let you do a lot of cool plays.
The new mechanics, chain attack and break, are very powerful and interesting to play around both on player phase and enemy phase.
The Emblems have some really powerful effects between AoE dance, AoE warp, a billion range nuke, +500 movement on one of your characters, and some other combat steroids. There are a lot of options and I think the game is fun on any difficulty.
The story... uhhh, I liked when the Fire Emblem: Engaged. The plot is very generic and pretty much the same as a plurality of previous fire emblem plots. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
@slimerancher we've been playing TotK for the same amount of hours every week 😆 I'm at 90 hours now, but haven't advanced the story much since last week. After getting all the dragon tears and the Master Sword I've kept exploring the map and I went back to the depths to explore more, find some armor pieces and follow one of the story quests related to the Yiga in the depths. I still haven't done at least two temples, the Zora and the Gerudo ones. Maybe I should get going with that...
I've also played the new Mario Kart 8 DLC. It made me nostalgic of playing Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U with friends! I need to organize a Mario Kart night soon.
Pikmin 4 should arrive a week today, so that'll be next I guess!
Splatoon 3. The mint chip atrocity ends here and now. No more will our children suffer at the hand of such degeneracy.
How dare you!? No blaspheming against Mint Chip!
I took a break from Zelda to play Final Fantasy 16, went back and I finished TOTK as well. Taking a break from Switch for a bit to play my group Ironman account on old school RuneScape some more. Then I’ll probably start to work through the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters.
How did you like Final Fantasy 16? Finished it? I am hearing great things about it, also that it's more of an action game than RPG. What do you think about that?
I played RuneScape for a little while, or at least some game that I believed to be RuneScape, it was ages ago. Really interesting to find out that people are still playing it.
Which Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster are you going to start with? Any favourite? or going to start from the 1st one and play them all?
I am a massive Final Fantasy fanboy so, my totally unbiased opinion, it is a masterpiece. The story made me cry like 6 times. It’s excellent story telling. The game play is engaging. Not terribly challenging but it could be for folks less familiar with action games. There are ways to decrease the difficulty on a few different axis by equipping certain accessories. The side quests can be a little fetchy but I think even the worst ones add some depth to the world. There’s plenty of optional bosses too. It’s my personal game of the year although Tears of the Kingdom is probably more deserving overall for more broad appeal and polish.
There are two versions of Runescape - old school and RuneScape 3. RS3 is the older of the two. It’s been the natural continuation of the game with a controversial overhaul of the combat system to make it more traditionally mmo adjacent. Old school started in 2013 from a back up copy of the game pre-2007 when the change occurred. Jagex now runs both simultaneously. Old school is the game you would remember if you played back in the day. It’s bigger than ever. At any given time there are well over 100k folks playing. Regular new content and updates. It’s amazing.
I’ll probably start with FF1 and go from there. I’ve played them all before in other versions so I might as well go in order.
I bought Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 for switch, just to he able to play a slow pace game while on holiday.
I used to LOVE tycoon games. Haven't played one it a very long time. Is Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 a good one to start with? Or should I look somewhere else?
Breath of the Wild. Tears of the Kingdom is fine, but I prefer Breath of The wild.
Talking about the story? Interesting.
Almost done with Pikmin, only a few remaining ship parts to collect and I have plenty of days to do it.
Edit: down to the last part but I'll finish it off in the morning.
Minecraft Story Mode. My kids were too young to remember it the first time so I've been playing that with them. Not long started so I hope to finish episodes 1 and 2 this weekend.
I had forgotten about Minecraft Story Mode! My kid loves Minecraft, so looked it up and found out it's not available anymore, then I remembered why I had taken it out of my mind.
Are you going to play Pikmin 2 next? Or going to wait for Pikmin 4?
Yeah I shelved TotK about 2 weeks ago I'd say. 90 hours as well.
Nothing on Switch at the moment. Debating starting Pikmin as I've never played.
Working my way through FF16 and Batman Arkham City outside of Nintendo consoles.
Finished TotK, or just got tired of it?
Are you playing Batman Arkham City for the first time? Or have you played it before?
How are you liking FF16?
Yeah finished TotK. Well, finished as much as I'm willing to do anyway. Story, tears and all the shrines is enough for me.
Surprisingly, yes. First time for Arkham City. Played Asylum earlier in the year and picked it the bundle cheap on steam summer sale.
16 is incredible. Having an absolute blast. My GOTY so far.
Still grinding my way through the endgame of Diablo IV with my wife. Starting to slow down though, just in time for Pikmin 4 to keep things fresh next week!
Nice! What classes are you playing as? And how are you liking the game? Also, have you seen the trailer for the first season? What did you think about it?
I always start a new Diablo game with spin2win Barbarian, so that’s what I’m doing to start with; I’ll probably switch to Sorcerer or Necromancer for the season. My wife is doing a Pulverize Druid, and we’ve both been enjoying it! We put hundreds of hours into D3 together, so we’re just happy to have something fresh but familiar to dig into.
As far as the trailer goes, I like that there’s new quests and story to go with it, but it’s hard to get too much from it without any significant gameplay reveal. The description the devs gave sounds interesting though!
I have been playing slice the spire for a couple of weekends, but I think I got tired of it now and the fking spire is way too hard too beat (feel free to leave tips here)
Anyway I will play either the recent zelda skyswords or mario 3d plus browsers fury
You mean Slay the Spire? I never finished it. It's a really fun game though. Don't have any tips, hopefully someone else will leave some.
Good luck with whatever you choose, both are very good choices.
Congrats on TotK! Let me know how you like Monster Hunter! I've always been intrigued
I've got 1,000+ hours in MonHun if you wanna ask any questions!
Just TotK. The only other game I play on Switch is Chicken Horse with friends. Unfortunately, I have a thesis to finish.
How far along are you in TotK? And how are you liking it?
I don't pay attention to party games much so never looked into it, but Chicken Horse look like a very fun party game. Will make a note of it, if I ever need a party game.
What are you writing a thesis on? If you don't mind sharing?
I don't remember how many hours, but quite a few. I've done three temples and most of the quests you get from townsfolk before/after the temples, minus the Gerudo region (haven't been there yet). I enjoy it a lot. I'm not a huge Nintendo person, but I quite liked BotW, and naturally TotK is a great follow-up.
Chicken Horse is awesome and very repayable with friends as you unlock more characters and places. It takes some time to unlock more stuff (kinda like Smash), but we don't find it too boring or tedious in the process.
Broadly, my thesis is in ecology of an iguana species. Nearly done, but trying not to just play games all day, heh.
I had forgotten about this last week, but I actualy had Trails into Reverie preordered!
Got it early in this week and started playing. Didn't have as much time as I'd like, but I managed to reach Act 2, and just got to the Reverie Corridor.
Really want to play more as C since his party is the "new" one, but early-game is mostly focused on Lloyd and Rean.
Ah cool! I have only played the first part of Trails in the Sky. Don't play on PC much so the second part keep getting delayed. Hoping it would end up coming to Switch. And I want to play the whole series from start, so not playing any of the later games until I have finished Trails in the Sky 😀
How are you enjoying the game? Have you played the rest of the series?
Have you played the rest of the series?
I did, and it's a good thing because CS4 and Reverie depend a lot on you having played both Zero/Azure and CS1-3. Not a lot of Sky connections on the recent games though, just a few returning characters.
And I want to play the whole series from start, so not playing any of the later games until I have finished Trails in the Sky 😀
I'm one of the renegades that don't think playing in order is truly necessary. Sky has only one plotline that gets carried into Zero/Azure and CS1-2 is mostly self-contained, so it's perfectly fine IMO to play these out of order. Yeah, you lose some references and gets some spoilers, but nothing that will ruin the fun from the older games if you play them later.
In fact, I believe I went Sky 1-2 -> CS 1-3 -> Sky 3 -> Zero/Azure -> CS4 -> Reverie, and the only time I truly felt "yeah, I should have played the earlier games first" was during the Crossbell section of CS3.
How are you enjoying the game?
The beginning was kinda mid because it starts with Lloyd's route in Crossbell and that part feels like we're just rethreading the plot of recent games, but gets much better once you open the other two routes. C's route being an all-new cast is really great in making the game feel "fresh", so much that I wish the game started with that one instead of having us go through the early sections of Lloyd's and Rean's route first.
It also has a very strong "Sky 3rd" feel, which is good because I think that game is really underrated. The Reverie Corridor is almost Phantasma 2.0, and each of the main routes seems more streamlined than the average game with this series, with less sidequesting and more focus on the main story.
Only 90?? I had about 230 in when I finally dove down that final chasm. Now I don't know what to do with myself.
Haha, yeah. I have lots of stuff left to do, that's why. Though I doubt I would reach even 150 hours. I am guessing I would switch it to a secondary game after 5-10 more hours. Going to wait and see.
What are you playing now? Started anything new?
Splatoon 3. Maybe once strawberry wins, people will understand that it's just better than plain vanilla or whatever mint choco is supposed to be X)
Pikmin 4 Demo and Pikmin 2
I start my second week playing totk in my holiday. :)
Nice! How are you liking the game? It's a long game with lots to do, you can play it as long as you want (or if you want to finish quickly, you can just do the main quests and ignore all the side stuff).
This week in TotK I cleared the first temple (Wind Temple) and have been working on mopping up everything I can in the Hebra region so I have to spend the least time there possible moving forward. It was my least favorite part of BotW and TotK didn't really change my opinion. One related question though: guides I've found say you don't need to do the geoglyphs in order, but I've found the one in the northern snowfield and have combed the entire thing multiple times, including where the guides say you find the tear, but the tear is nowhere to be found. I got the one just outside Rito Village, which is supposed to be second, right away, it was readily available. Are the guides wrong, are you forced to pick them up in order?
I am currently playing TotK with three temples done but haven't gone to the Gerudo region yet. I have most of the geoglyphs done on the central/eastern part of the map and haven't followed any order. I did do the Hebra geoglyph. It's a big one, but the tear should be there! It's smaller than others I feel.
No, there is no need to do geoglyphs in the order, but sometime the Tear doesn't show until you are right above it. There were a couple where I am sure I went past the tear one time and it didn't show, and only found it when I slowly moved through that place again.
Slowly move through whole geoglyph, you will eventually find it.
Pikmin 4 baby! I've been waiting a long time for this
Yeah, people have been waiting for it for a loooong time!
This weekend I'll play the new splatfest in splatoon 3. I made a mistake last week and thought the splatfest was then, and I spent about 5 minutes in the game wondering where the splatfest was. Felt so dumb.
Congrats on finishing the story of Zelda. I finished the last temple yesterday and I will finish the story next week.
What do you mean "finish" MHW? Fashion Hunter has no ending
Haha, I mean the main story of the game 😛