What are you playing this weekend? 6/9
What are you playing this weekend? 6/9
Hello Everyone!
Let's start a first ever, "What are you playing this weekend?".
I am still completely enthralled by The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I am about 50-60 hours in, and still have lots of explore. I don't want to mention anything that might be a spoiler, but I think I should be around 60% done with the story. I am on media blackout about the game, so I don't actually know how long it actually it is, but this is what it seems like. Of course, if I go by total amount of Shrines, or Koroks, I am probably just 10-20% of the total.
All my other games are on pause, probably not going to resume anything else until I have finished Zelda.
What about all of you? What are you playing?
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is my Switch game for this weekend. I still have so much of the Depths to explore.
I’m completely hooked. There’s so much to do and the amount of times I’ve gotten sidetracked I can’t even count.
Same here, I keep getting distracted with different things.
There is so much to explore in this game. The Land, the sky, the depths, and each of them have different resources, so you have to explore all of them.
I haven't even explored half of it.
I'm still playing Breath of the Wild because I never finished it on Master Mode. I can't believe I waited so long for the sequel, yet the release snuck up on me! In a way, it kind of prolongs the excitement. Thanks for holding back the spoilers!
How are you liking Tears of the Kingdom in general? Better? The same? Complementary? From the trailers, I was worried it might become a bit gimmicky, but BOTW also adds a good level of trust for me.
Besides that, I literally just finished my first real gaming PC build yesterday! I didn't even have time to do install anything, so work today felt like I was a kid having to go to school on Christmas afternoon. I'll soon install Star Wars Battlefront 2, one of the few games my non-gamer wife ever binged, that way we can play together.
BotW felt like a road trip across the entire United States. TotK is like watching an epic movie while revisiting the best parts of the road trip experience without all the grind.
One thing I wish I had been told/knew before playing TotK is to follow the main quest objectives as closely as possible from the start. Like you can go do your own thing, find a bunch of stuff, and the game will have built in responses to whatever you end up doing. However, you'll miss out on a lot of elements and story complexity if you go this route. There are a lot more puzzles and fun stuff to navigate if you do them when prompted instead of finding them on your own.
That's good to know about the main quest objectives. Thanks!
Congratulations on your gaming PC build. I can understand the feeling of getting a new "toy" and then not being able to play with it due to work or family responsibilities. Any special games in mind that you want to try?
I only played Battlefront 2 a little. Is there a co-op campaign? Or going to fight each other in the PvP?
As for the Zelda, for me, if Breath of the Wild was 10/10 then Tears of the Kingdom is 20/10.
Even though there are few places I recognize, everything feels new (it could be just because I played BOTW 6 years ago), the main structure of the land might be same, but there is so much more to explore. Not to mention a complete new underground layer, and the sky!
Also, the new abilities are a game changer, they gives you so much freedom. Don't want to spoil too much, but for me at least, this game is better than Breath of the Wild in every way.
Any special games in mind that you want to try?
Thanks! I really want to finally try out Skyrim. I've postponed it for years because I just know I'll get sucked into it hardcore, lol.
I only played Battlefront 2 a little. Is there a co-op campaign? Or going to fight each other in the PvP?
I'm not sure, didn't think about that! I never played it, only watched a roommate play, I'll have to check if we'll be able play in split-screen.
As for the Zelda, for me, if Breath of the Wild was 10/10 then Tears of the Kingdom is 20/10.
Now that is one high bar! You just got me even more excited for TOTK than I already was!
Same here, TotK all the way. ✌️ Same as you, haven't read anything to not spoiler myself, but seems that I may be at 70% done. Already start feeling a bit of nostalgia just in case I happen to finnish it soon, it is so good 😄
I have paused the main quest, and started focusing on exploring and on side-quests, will get back to main quest when I start getting bored with that.
Don't want the game to finish so soon. 😀
Still chewing through TotK when I have free time to. Hoping I can get to a point where I’m happy taking a break by the time Pikmin 4 releases.
Good luck! Pikmin 4 looks pretty fun.
I've been on and off playing Mario Odyssey for a while now. I think I'm going to give that a bit more attention this weekend!
It has been about 6 years since Odyssey launch, it's about time they announced the next 3D Mario game. I am hoping for an announcement sometime this year, and release by next year max. But you never know with Nintendo.
Are you going through the story / levels, or revisiting old levels to catch all the moons?
Yeah I’m going through the story! I started it ages ago and just never completed it. Really fun game to play!
TOTK can only play a few hours on the weekend, but loving the new story.
I am loving the new story. There's so much going on...
Tears of the Kingdom of course, but I've also started playing HI-FI Rush and am loving it so far
Tears of the Kingdom of course Ofcourse.
How are you playing HI-FI Rush? On Xbox or PC?
I am hoping for some good first party Xbox announcements in their upcoming showcase. They really need it.
maybe starting Tears of the Kingdom, been trying stay away from spoiler, idk what to expect, lol
That's the way to go. Just jump in and embrace the joy of discovery.
Currently playing Harvestella and loving it. I have TOTK but keep coming back to this one right now.
Ah, cool. Haven't seen many people mention it, but I liked what I saw, and it's on my wishlist.
How do you compare it with other games in same genre? Like Run Factory or Story of Seasons?
I haven't played either yet, but they're on my list. My significant other surprised me with a Switch a couple of weeks ago. I'm a pretty heavy WoW, Diablo, StarCraft player, so this has been my guilty little solo indulgence. It's gorgeous, very Korean feeling, and just fun with very low stakes. The fishing is the best, and so calming.
Still playing TOTK. Such a vast world. I still haven't completed many quests so far, I'm just running around exploring. There is something to see and do around every corner.
I am more of a quests guy, but I keep getting distracted by the different things.
Same as you: TOTK. I’m already 40h in and I feel like I’m just starting! This game is really massive imho .. for someone like me maybe who is just exploring and doing some quests but without structure.
In a way I’m looking forward to the paper guide to just bring some kind of structure and sense of “where the hell am I in the story, is this just 2pt or am I already at 50?”
Sometimes I miss the more linear Zelda’s
Side note: I must admit I still use the dupe glitch. I really like this relaxing way of playing. For me it has been a life saver, kinda like an accessibility option. Otherwise I would not be able to play at all (health issues). So now I’m very anxious 😬 that the game will install the update when I misclick Oh well, still lots of fun!
Question back: what was your first Zelda?
Mine was Links awakening on the game boy, I was 12. Couldn’t speak a word of English. No internet. Shit was haaaaard! 43 now. Still playing 😁 and….. Introducing Zelda to the next gen to: what did you think? Jup the remake of that one! Fully dubbed! So far my nephews and nieces love it!
Yeah, the game is huge.
If you want linear game-play, just do the main quests. They even mention which quest you should do before, as everyone will talk about it. And just do some explorations and side-quests along the way. Gives the game a lot more structure.
Personally, I haven't used the dupe glitch, didn't even know about it until it was patched and saw someone mention that patch fixes it, but I have nothing against anyone using it in a single player game. If it's how you enjoy the game (and this isn't effecting anyone else), you do you.
Unfortunately, I wasn't acquainted with Nintendo when I was young, more of a Sega kid myself. Got curious about Nintendo after PS3, and was wondering what to get next when they announced Switch, and I moved over.
So, while I did play a little bit of A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time somewhere, my first proper Zelda game was BOTW. Since then I have played the original Zelda, Link to the Past and Link's Awakening remake. Also going to try rest of the Zelda available on Switch.
Huge indeed, especially with the whole underground and the sky.
I actually made the mistake of going to Zora’s domain first. Don’t know how to put it in words but it was such a difficulty jump I felt like “omg I’m lost I miss the more linear Zelda” after dying yet again from one blow..
But now I circled back to Rito village .. and well that was easy 😏 I mean I’m still at the temple but the difference is huge. This feels more like “normal” curve wise.
Thing is I cannot play long sessions and I tend to forget things. And we do get sooooo much info now it’s easy to get sidetracked. But the NPC’s really steer you that way first don’t they? Guess I was just “screw that 🐸 suit I don’t want to do that now” and I went to Zora’s. Lol. Fun fact I still don’t have the frog suit.. I just flew … from very far😏
I really wish Nintendo didn’t patch the glitch. Sure it’s kinda cheating but for me it does kinda iliminate those things I really dislike in the game. Basically the grinding for rupees to afford cold resistant gear and arrows. And off course ingredients to top up hearts.
Haha it’s basically something I do to counteract the stupid glitches my brain does. Like pushing the wrong button, forgetting to jump or something else like yesterday I stupidly walked off a platform.🤭
I do find it much more relaxing knowing that those things my brain does not always kill me and I have to redo the same thing over and over again. Less stress = better. Now I can play to relax again. Until the patch goes through but by then I will have enough gear I think. 😉
As a Zelda fan I have played them all, except maybe those before the original Link To The Past on gameboy. But not all until the end. It depends on how the gameplay was and especially the saving. My brain you know?
I think portability for me has always been key and the fact that those systems always had “sleep mode” the DS that is and onwards.
Wind waker on Wii was awesome but torture: you had to remember those tunes .. ugh a nightmare for me. It was better on the Wii U, if I remember correctly they added some kind of log to that one. Skyward sword: not a fan either, saving was awkward (on Wii)
My favorites were mostly those on the game boys or DS/3ds. Like “the minish cap” “phantom hour glass” or “link between worlds” … 🤔 and now off course TOTK. I like it more than BOTW. I really really love the crafting element.
:-)
I dusted off the WiiU to play Windwaker HD again. I'm just killing time before Pikmin 4.
Taking a break from TOTK to play age of calamity. Skipped it way back and got the dynasty warriors itch again
Age of Calamity is a fun game. I was playing it before starting TotK, and it messed up with my expectation of TotK difficulty. Enemies decimated me. Specially the bigger ones. You do not play TotK like a dynasty warrior game. Took me a few deaths to readjust. Just keep that in mind when switching back.
Oh absolutely lol. I could also see AoC spoiling you for story telling. As much as I love TOTK, AoC story telling is better imo
Tears of the Kingdom if I can pry it from my daughter's hands
Hehe, that's a tough one.
What is she playing?
Just finished BOTW this weekend and taking a break from Zelda. Picked up Pokemon Violet again but got distracted. Does Pokemon Violet get more engaging? I'm on the 3rd gym and I feel like they're still holding my hand.
Botw gave me an experience that I haven't had since Skyrim was new - I wanted to go out of my way to explore the whole world. Leave no piece of the map untouched.
Man, what I would give to experience Skyrim for the first time again.
I haven't touched a Pokemon game since X/Y. Black and White 2 were where Pokemon peaked, imho. I checked out after X/Y.
I've played every Pokemon game since the original Red, and it's definitely getting staler. I enjoyed Sun/Moon a lot but I can't recommend Sword/Shield or Scarlet/Violet at all. Hope that ToTK scratches that open world itch that I have from games like Skyrim, BoTW and Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West.
I got to the school in Pokemon Scarlet and couldn't continue the game. The world feels almost like a massive Super Mario 64 world and it's super disheartening. I've decided the future of Pokemon is in the hands of the fans to make good games. What do you like about this new generation of Pokemon?
It is a pretty massive map. I used an online guide for determining the order of which gyms/star bases I would battle, and just explored from there.
I just migrated from Reddit and I was surprised and pleased to see a Dragon Quest Slime here to greet me!
I'm playing FFXIV now until the demo for FFXVI dops.
Haha, good to see another fan of Dragon Quest, and the blue slime!
I am on media blackout for FFXVI game, and haven't seen any of the extended game plays, but what little I have seen, it looks great. Yoshi-P seems to have outdone himself. Also the fact that there won't be a day 1 patch, just shows their confidence in the game.
Started Zelda but I may hop back into Dead Cells. I played Dead Cells a few years ago, didn't like it, and put it down. Tried it a week ago and got hooked. Bad time since ToTK just came out. But I'm reminding myself I don't have to binge a game I love and can always take a break from it. It's a good problem to have, I guess!
I had a similar experience with Dead Cells. I love it now! A good reminder that it's okay to let a game sit in your backlog for a while :)
Or for years and years (my steam library 😭) . Love Dead Cells though, I haven't let that one sit.
I have a love / hate relationship with Dead Cells. It is a very fun game, but I am just not very good at it...
Resident Evil 1 for Gamecube.
I've been playing Gamecube games lately. I finished Paper Mario recently. Amazing game
Nice! I have been meaning to get back into Resident Evil games, with the remakes, but was afraid the first one may not have aged well. How are you enjoying it?
I fell for star citizens promise, there's some cool shit in there, but after spending more time it feels more like a shallow kids pool, but I'll still be jumping back on
I don't even know what's going with Star Citizen anymore. Are they still developing it? I thought it was abandoned.
Far from abandoned. The other day I was doing a delivery mission and the moon's wind knocked me over as I landed and left my ship. My cargo happened to be round so I watched it hit the landing pad and start rolling away from me.
They call it "physicalized" when something has physics and works like you expect. This goes a long way towards making piracy feel authentic. If you take out a mining ship you have to steal their ore and have some way to go out into space, tractor beam all the stuff into your own ship, and go off and sell it.
It's very emergent, but basically all you can do is take stuff, fight, and sell stuff.
I'm about 20 hours in, in Zelda TotK. It's my first proper Zelda game, not counting what little OoT I played via emulator a long back. The game is stunning, so playable and atmospheric. It's a true adventure game.
I've dropped it for a bit to play D4, but can't wait to get back to Hyrule.
Welcome to the world of Zelda! It truly is a masterpiece.
If you start with TotK, it may be difficult to go back to BotW, but if you do play it later, I would love to hear your feedback.
If you want to play Zelda games, you can try the older ones through different NSO apps, SNES, Gameboy etc. but they are all very different from TotK / BotW, and not everyone enjoys older games.
I've just started Disco Elysium today and I'm loving it.
It is so witty and interesting.
It's on sale atm which is why I got it
It's on my wish list, but haven't gotten around to playing it yet. Have fun!
Spiritfarer. I'm a patient gamer and now that it is on sale, I finally picked it up.
Spiritfarer is a really nice and relaxing game. I started playing it expecting a small 4-5 hours game, but it's pretty much a full length game.
I paused and moved away from it, but it's a game I want to return to. Just take your time and enjoy the game.
Also, patient gamers FTW! I am also a patient gamer, but with some minor exceptions. 😀
Definitely still deep into Zelda. But I may flip over to Diablo 4 soon. I'm not too excited about the always online connection for that, though
Diablo 4 was one of my most anticipated game, but I try not to juggle multiple games at a time. So going to stick with Zelda before getting Diablo.
What class are you going to start your first play through as? Also, do you have any specific build in your mind? Or just going to explore the skill tree?
I usually start those games with the familiar barbarian and then slowly explore. I try to not really look at optimal builds and focus on the skills I think are fun. The sense of discovery is pretty cool when i "discover" a sweet combination or tactic, even if it turns out it's been a known build, I still feel like I discovered it
Splatoon 3. It's Big Run weekend.
Oooh! That's fun!
I picked up the Borderlands bundle not too long ago so I’m having a nostalgic blast with that.
Same, except I had never played them before. Completed the first one and just started the second one, honestly having a blast playing through them
They're so fun! If I have a rough day at work or whatever I know I can always fire up Borderlands and take out some frustration.
I'm obsessed with Smash Ultimate, trying hard not to be trash. At some point I will get to TOTK though, the game looks amazing
I am a very good Smash ultimate player, as long as I am not playing online... or playing World of Light...
What's your favourite character? My main is Marth, which I only use when I absolutely want to win.
I am also very good, as long as my GSP doesn't get too high and I'm not playing in my local tournament...
I think my favourite is Samus! I main them and grind them constantly, so you'd think they'd be my highest GSP. But no, that's Bowser.
Marth is a great character. Some of his early tipper kills are insane to see.
What part of the world are you in? If we're vaguely on the same continent we should do an arena some time. If we're not then the lag would make that decidedly un-fun. I'm in the UK.
I started Zelda but mehhhhh the Nuts n Bolts gameplay doesn't speak to me and it's sooooooooooo much of the shtick that I'm just.....meh.
I think it's good outside of that but yknow there's so much else I could be playing lol.
Taking a little break from TOTK for Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia. I've been itching to play through it again. I forgot how good the music is.
Xenoblade 2 up to ch9 just gotta finish the story instead of side quests and blades
Xenoblade is one of my favourite series, but didn't enjoy the gacha mechanics of 2.
Have you played 3? In my opinion, that's the best of the series, just don't start it right after 2, or you may feel a burn out.
Etrian Odyssey HD. It's been far too long since I've been absolutely ruined by an unfortunate FOE encounter, so looking forward to working through the rerelease of the series.
I have heard so much about Etrian Odyssey, but never had a 3DS to didn't get to play the original ones.
How does the HD collection compare to the original release? And how has it aged?
The gameplay loop is pretty faithful to the original as far as I remember (it's been a few years). I did notice a few differences compared to the Untold version of 1 which threw me for a loop (they added a "hint" system in Etrian Odyssey Untold to give you an audio cue that there is a hidden passageway nearby, which is absent in this version and the original DS version).
The map controls are a bit awkward and unintuitive for me, at least so far. I imagine they're more intuitive on PC with a mouse, but it's not that big a deal.
As far as how it's aged: the only thing which really makes it feel a bit aged to me is the rather high random encounter rate. If you're used to more recent dungeon crawlers like this, they have fewer, more meaningful encounters on average; the EO series has a lot of simpler encounters that are there to drain your resources, and to make it a bit of a gamble about whether you can avoid the FOE who's chasing you. It's not bad, but it's something to consider.
Really taking my time with TOTK, im refusing to upgrade hearts or stam so far
Wow, that takes dedication. The game is pretty tough without upgrading hearts, a single attack from a bokoblin can kill you.
Good luck for the play-through.
Another run-through of Bioshock Infinite with some Dead by Daylight matches sprinkled in.
I really need to try Bioshock Infinite. Have only played the first one yet.
Dead by Daylight just got the Nic Cage character, is he already in game or coming sometime in future?
Not feeling motivated to try anything new, so will continue rotting playing Mario Kart 🥲
Like every night, I’ll be raiding on Pokémon Violet. It’s just become a routine for me. I have the pokedex and everything. I raid just to wind down and have fun.
It's nice to have a game like that, which you can just use to wind down and relax.
Have fun raiding!
TOTK of course
I think I'm 30 hours in and I haven't even completed any of the 4 'main' early game quests, Zora's Domain is the only city I've even been to
too busy just explorin'
Yeah, the game is so fun just exploring. I am mostly a story guy, but even then I keep getting distracted by different stuff and going off the beaten path.
I'm still really deep into Tears of the Kingdom. Maybe 90 hours in and still only have gone through two of the regional/sage quests, because the side quests and adventures are really a lot of fun. Exploring the depths is super cool. While the sky islands seem to make up less of the game than I thought they would, they're still a cool part of the game and I'm still exploring, side-questing, and occasionally getting back to the main story quests. Given all of that, why did I buy Diablo II for the Switch? Because it's nearly 70% off right now and with some credit I had it was $10 and I got a lot of playtime out of DIII.
Wow, 90 hours and just two sage quests. I believe I would be fully done with the game when I reach such an hour count.
Sky islands are as big as depths, but some of them still have a kind of puzzle, on how to reach them, so it end up taking just as much time.
Diablo II is a classic, and at 70% off, it's a must have! What do you think about Diablo IV? I am really interested in it, if it weren't for TotK, I would probably be playing that.
There's just so much to explore...every time I walk 5 feet in any direction I feel like I just started some other side quest lol. Maybe the perceived discrepancy in sky islands vs the depths can be explained by observing that the parts of the depths where there's nothing really there would be the parts of the sky islands that are just sky? Haven't played Diablo 4 yet, but have some friends that are really really into that franchise and have been enjoying it a lot.
Probably going to be playing Steins gate elite, was able to get it on sale.
I have heard so much about Steins gate, but was never able to get into it.
Disco Elysium. Porting a game with such a PC centric interface to Switch was an interesting choice, but I'm glad that they went with it. Fantastic game!
I keep hearing about Disco Elysium, I should play it soon.
Pikmin 2. First time. Pretty fun!
I have only played Pikmin 3 demo, but want to play the full game before getting Pikmin 4.
Are you planning to get Pikmin 4? Or going to play (and finish) 2 and 3 first?
I tried out Advance Wars over the past week—as someone whose only played one series of turn-based strategy games (Fire Emblem), I think Advance Wars is really neat game that differentiates itself pretty well. I'm really curious to see how the GBA version compares to the Switch one, as I've got a DS Lite but never played the original GBA games lol.
I still need to finish Fire Emblem Engage, Xenoblade 3, Zelda BOTW, 3DS Rocket Slime, and a whole bunch of others, but I'm lazy lol.
Wow, that's a lot of games. If I start multiple games at a time, I have lots of trouble finishing any of them, so I try to play one game at a time. Not always successfully though.
I am still playing Fire Emblem Three Houses, but put it on hold for TotK. Will give Advance Wars a try after that.
I just finished Untitled Goose Game (2019). The game is surprisingly short (I would say around 4 hours?) but I had fun with it. Now that I'm in the indie game spirit, would you suggest any good indies for Switch/PC?
There are many great indie games on Switch, depends on what kind of game you are in mood for. If you can give some idea about what kind of game you want, I can give you some better suggestions. On top of my head, a few good indie (or indie-ish) games, in no particular order:
- Golf Story
- Axiom Verge
- Fight in Tight Spaces
- Undertale
- Everspace
- Baba is You
- Donut Country