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?
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Pikmin 4 baby! I’ve been waiting a long time for this
Yeah, people have been waiting for it for a loooong time!
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?
Yeah it is a good one, graphics are a bit dated, bur the game is super complete. I read some reviews of the newer games, but these appear to be repackaged mobile games, with the pay to play features stripped. The newer games also lCk management features that RT3 does have.
Thanks for the info, will definitely check it out.
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.
Gland you are enjoying TotK. TotK and BotW are some of the best modern games, no matter which console you generally play on.
You can check the hours in your profile. For first 10 days after starting the game, it shows “Stated X days ago”, after that it shows you your hours in increments of 5, “80 hours or more”, “85 hours or more”.
Wow, personally, I am not a huge fan of iguana species, but good luck with the thesis. And yeah, gaming is great, but it shouldn’t effect your normal life. So, keep working on that thesis, then you can take a break and play all the games. 😀
What do you mean “finish” MHW? Fashion Hunter has no ending
Haha, I mean the main story of the game 😛
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?
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.
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.
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…
Yeah, it’s very inconspicuous. I found out about percentage from other thread, but even then I didn’t notice it after finishing it. Just thought of it when replying to someone here, so looked it up.
I have played the game same way, that’s why it’s so low. And then after watching it, I completed the full Lurelin Village, it’s not overly long but not short either, and it didn’t increase even a single percentage (I didn’t pay attention to values after decimal point, so not sure how much that increased). Though with so much to do, it makes sense that one side-quest won’t increase completion rate by 1%.
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.
Heh, happens to the best of us. What are you going to pick in Splatfest?
Good luck with Zelda!
I picked vanilla ice cream flavour. Which is my favourite.
And thanks.
I picked vanilla ice cream flavour. Which is my favourite.
Uh oh.
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!
Breath of the Wild. Tears of the Kingdom is fine, but I prefer Breath of The wild.
Talking about the story? Interesting.
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.
Let’s go Mint Chip!
I don’t play Splatoon 3, but I am rooting for Mint Chip!
Booo, down with Mint Chip! Up with… whichever team I end up picking. (Maybe even Mint Chip!)
Not picking Mint Chip is a banable offense FYI
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.
Yeah, I don’t think next 3D Mario will be open world like this. They would need to make a world almost as big as Breath of the Wild or it will feel a step back from how much we had in Odyssey. Other than that, loved Bowser’s Fury though, and felt the same about the spoilery part. It started as really cool, and started to lend a bit towards annoying, but from what I recall I enjoyed it till the end.
Mario 3D World is also really fun, I had never played it before, so enjoyed playing with my kid.
Well, about TMNT, I don’t even try to remember all the moves. There are two types of attack: normal and super, and then there is jump, and dodge. You can attack, or jump and attack or dodge and attack. Where attack can be normal attack or super. That’s all I remember and that’s all I do 😀
Pikmin 4 Demo and Pikmin 2
Finished Pikmin 1? How are you liking the demo? Getting excited for the full release?
I’m new to Pikmin and started with Pikmin 2 because I personally find the 30 day time limit in the first part a bit stressful. I’ve already played through Pikmin 4 Demo and preordered it right away <3
I can understand that. I never got around to played Atelier games because of their time limits. The latest Atelier Ryza doesn’t have time limits so going to try that, though haven’t gotten the time to play them yet. 😀
@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!
Haha, that’s interesting. After finishing the game I have only done about 41% of the game. So still need to do a lot.
How are you liking the MK8 DLC? Any favourite new tracks?
I’m really liking Squeaky Clean Sprint! And the city tracks from Tour are pretty cool too.
Interesting, going to start playing it soon.
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.
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 @CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world , our resident mod and creator of !ps5@lemmy.ml, 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.
Hey, since I was pinged by @slimerancher@lemmy.world I wanted to chime in. Make sure you are using Chiaki4deck and not just Chiaki. Both should be available in the Discover store in desktop mode. The main branch of Chiaki does not properly support the touch pad for games like Ghost of Tsushima and there are other PS5 improvements to things like color reproduction, etc… There is even a steam deck controller layout template for it. I have links to these in the sidebar over on !ps5@lemmy.ml. The creator of chiaki4deck submitted their changes to the main chiaki branch but since it is in maintenance mode, it hasnt been accepted (at least since I last checked). Chiaki4deck is a fork. Let me know if you have any questions!
Yeah, Ni No Kuni was my first Pokémon game too, only later learned that this is what Pokémon games are like. Personally, I wasn’t a huge fan of this either, but got used to it.
I like to play all the games in order, if possible, so will start with first trilogy, and then take it from there. Fortunately it’s available on Switch, so no issues there.
Thanks for the info about Forspoken, I still have tons of games to play, so I am sure it would end up on PS+ before I am ready to buy it. Otherwise will get it on sale in a few years.
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.
Hmm… thanks for the detailed response.
I am loving the battles in FE: 3H, but the monastery parts are a bit boring. I have reached the paralogue
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The mission where you go to village where people are attacking each other
which I think isn’t that much into the story, but I haven’t been able to hire any single student from another house. Which also makes me think maybe I am not playing that part correctly.
