Either an Odyssey 2 with more intricacy to it than just stomp this hump on the ground for free moon x100 of these types of little puzzles spread throughout the worlds. Way more variety in bosses, those bunnies were the lamest ever. And more challenging platforming levels cause the last level on the dark side of the moon wasn't anywhere near enough nor challenging
Or a new 3d Mario with said improvements. But really the dream wish would be a sequel to Sunshine. That game deserved and still deserves it
You are asking the impossible picking just one lol. I know you said you'd pick the 1st one if multiple choices so I'll just go with Engage the Enemy from Xenoblade but I love Where We Used To Be from Xenoblade 2 just as much
So many utterly fantastic songs in those 2 games tho it's so hard to just pick one from them nevermind having to pick from all of nintys 1st party. FE and Zelda also have great soundtracks
Was really hoping this wouldn't be a port of the censored psp/ps3 version. A damn shame there'll still be no way to experience the 1st game in it's entirety in the west yet
It just looks like a standard illumination movie with a Mario skin on it. That's not a bad thing but unless you love all things illumination or just these tropey 3d movies from your usual dreamworks, pixar, etc. in general, I fail to see how this looks amazing. Definitely the kind of movie you watch with friends and family just cause it's dumb fun from your usual 3d animation studios
Mario still looks uncanny to me with the weirdly rendered head and being a little more expressive than video games ever allowed him to be
Assuming he'd use his Persona style of music, it wouldn't work with Zelda at all. But I'd still rather listen to something like Life Will Change while exploring Hyrule than to hear the awful or rather non existent music that is BotW's ost
And yet when they release a Chocobo GP or publish a Balan Wonderworld, people immediately go to paint them as a shell of their former self and how they'll probably go under
They've always been great and that still hasn't changed as far as I can tell. Every company has their duds. But certainly, this stretch of constant releases is pretty insane for any one company. Especially since the vast majority of them look great
How'd this response come about? Did they pester them again with port begging? Cause there's only so many ways they can say they don't think the switch is the right platform for their series before they start making hilariously dumb responses like these
@strollin_stu Doubt itd be bad from a gameplay perspective. Ive never played one with gameplay I actively dislike at least, but I can definitely see the story turning out to be laughable going by the trailer
@strollin_stu lmao I mean yea. And as a result we got three houses which I found to be a big improvement over fates. I guess they just decided to drop the ball this time around over improving further
Terrible character designs, what seems to be integrating past MCs into the story which really only works as gameplay or dlc otherwise you get god awful fan service stories like the FE Warriors stories, and some pretty laughable dialogue?
Sounds like this one's gonna rival FE Fates as one of the worst FEs in terms of story
I liked it if only because it gave me lots of multiplats to look forward to on PS5 lmao. Now if Sony's state of play can deliver at least one more cool announcement, I'm a happy camper for today
In terms of ninty exclusives, I don't like Fire Emblems new art style but I love fire emblem so I feel obligated to play it anyway. Still not much to think about with Zelda when they showed absolutely nothing at all so yea...
This one was a pleasant surprise. I know curtain call released a little early into XIVs life but I hope it better represents it's music. XIVs music is phenomenal and the 3ds game poorly showed it imo
Lol how'd they managed to show us less than the 1st teaser. I still want to see what exactly they're gonna do different in Hyrule a place I've already explored every nook and canny
I don't know why they got rid of yusuke kozaki, his art is gorgeous and worked extremely well with fire emblem. Since then the art just keeps getting worse
I'd love a new fire emblem right about now. But if the leaked images of the supposed next fe turn out to be true then I don't know how I'd feel about the new art style
I really hope the last 2 cases in Trials and Tribulations turn the game around. I've been stuck on case 3 cause none of the cases have been doing it for me. I heard this was one of the best games in the series but personally I liked 2 a lot more particularly cause case 3 in that game genuinely hits like a truck
I'm pretty sure it was the 1st game but I was young so I didn't exactly make a lot of progress in that confusing over world lol. But I loved it anyway and it ended up one of my favorite series of all time and still is. I'm hoping they fix everything that made BotW so disappointing with the sequel as that's seemingly the only Zelda to look forward to within the next decade
@Ralizah maybe so, for some reason the war between keves and agnus just isn't clicking with me like the one in xb1 did. And that's especially disappointing because the worlds of 1 and 2 at war just sounds so good on paper. I'd say 3's conflict feels a little more artificial at the start because they just throw you into it without anything to go on other than the mcs tired of it. It wouldve been nice to have a little more world building cause I feel completely oblivious rn despite knowing some things from the other 2 games, but maybe it'll be like xb2 where it throws explanations left and right towards the end. But I'm still enjoying trekking along for the most part. The characters are getting a little more interesting than their designs let on. I'm invested enough where I absolutely do want to see where this story goes from here. But I think the beginning is a lot weaker overall than both 1 and 2
@Beaucine I have no doubt the story will eventually unveil the mystery surrounding moebius as it goes on. But there's a certain level of mystery a story should have at the beginning where you're kept in the dark from some things to reveal as twists later and still have enough for the you and the characters to have a little understanding of what their goal is and the antagonists why they're pushing back. XB3, I think keeps you way too much in the dark to where the characters' journey can feel sort of aimless. And 3 chapters in still feels like it's not moving closer to the truth. And with 1 and 2... idk they just had perfect starts lol. The way both of those games thrust their fairly regular MCs into their journeys with a clear goal just hit a lot harder and made sense, while still keeping it vague enough to keep the mystery going
@Beaucine I'm not sure if you've played 1 before but it does that villain being self aware thing a whole lot better thru metal face and part of why i think it's not done well in 3 is because, at least 3 chapters in, there's no real explanation given to neither the characters in game nor the players on why they're doing what they're doing despite one of them just randomly showing up to casually tell the group yea we're enemies and attacks them. I'd try to go a little more in depth but I don't know how without spoiling and I'm not even done with the game myself so things could change later on
@Ralizah metal face does cackle yea lol, but he serves an entirely different purpose to the story than these consuls that just show up to display their cockiness and quickly lose right after so far. He is a primary antagonist but in general it's the mechons as a whole that are the antagonists during the beginning
And they're a complete mystery, just these mechanical creatures that terrorize humans and thats pretty much all the players and the characters know about them. They're treated more a force of nature than an actual group of antagonists with a clear goal, in the beginning at least. Through metal face constantly attacking them, it reveals a lot more about the mechons which are genuine shocks to the characters. And he doesn't do it by babbling on like that 1st consul did where he explains they're enemies but doesn't actually explain anything other than that. He does it by acting smug about killing you know who. Showing that mechons can be sentient. He does it by bragging about their death in front of shulk. Showing that some mechons can talk. Ultimately he's a fantastic 1st villain meant to guide the players and characters towards the real objective and his sadistic, bad for the sake of it, nature compliments that unraveling mystery really well
Which is more than I can say for any of the consuls that have appeared thus far. But again, I'm still at ch.3. This only really applies to what I think is the beginning of the story despite being. Maybe the story will pick up soon and the villains actually do something other than literally cackle, say a few generic evil lines and then die/lose right after. Legit I have not seen them do anything else except for that 1st consul guy
Im only at chapter 3 still but considering there's apparently only 7 chapters that's almost about half way, and so far the story has made little to no progress. I don't understand how anyone can prefer a story where the villains just seem to be generic cackling baddies that are bad for the sake of it. Maybe they become more interesting towards the end but XB1 and 2 introduced great villains right from the start
I've only done a few as they're barely starting to open up but they seem pretty standard to me. Hero quests are like the blade quests in 2 where the specified character gets a little sub story and the standard quests are your usual quests which can range from fetching this, kill that but with a little bit of story attached to give you more incentive to do it and sometimes even lead to hidden areas
Not that it's a bad thing, I always enjoyed doing the side quests even in XB1 if only to give me an excuse to go out and take in the views and listen to the amazing ost. And there was just a weird sense of satisfaction seeing your affinity chart in 1 being filled to the brim with lines lol
Xenoblade 3. I'm barely into chapter 3 or at least it feels like it, it's a good game definitely has that Xenoblade-y feel when you're out exploring. But it's easily the weakest game in the series. At least so far anyway. But the start to this story is so generic with it's "war is bad" theme and so aimless as it tries to find any reason it can to bring the two parts of the main group together without explaining anything that's actually going on. Both 1 and 2 gave you the basic gist of whats going on while still keep some mysteries for later reveals perfectly. And the villains, dear lord, did they choose to go with the most cookie cutter villains yet. The main cast is already the most generic yet but would they really throw you some generic villains to fight on top too?
The music is by far my biggest gripe. It's a Xenoblade game, they're supposed to come with a phenomenal soundtrack. What happened? Apart from that, the landscapes aren't anywhere near 2's beautiful titans and don't seem to even hold a candle to 1's. Combat is extremely slow even slower than 1, and the orbs system in 2 was way more fun than the revamped chain attack system. There's a bunch more but honestly I'd be lying if I said I wasn't still enjoying most of my time with it, which is only about 20 hrs so I'm expecting it to get much better later on. So yea looking forward to playing more this weekend lmao
Finally dusted off the switch since who knows how long it's been since I used it. Gonna be playing through Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Still can't believe they ok'd all of these characters designs but I still managed to thoroughly enjoy xb2 despite how awful rex was so I'm sure I'll get thru 3 just fine. Looking forward to see how it all concludes
Skellige did have way too many in comparison to the rest of the world but i still had such a great time going through it especially the quests which is what Witcher 3 is obviously known for excelling in
As for botw, its definitely more empty with a lot less meaningful stuff to do. And the people going botw has you finding things more organically, lol. You'd have to be entranced by the completely redundant and often useless mechanics like "oh you can make winds by burning grass!" "holding a flame sword in the cold makes your temp go down", to not see that exploring by spotting obvious out of the ordinary things like a group of trees in between masses of empty lands, a rock on top of a hill, etc. becomes extremely repetitive itself no different than going through a checklist. Especially when the reward for even doing any of that is utterly meaningless which is one of botw's biggest problems. BotW is literally "See that mountain of there? You can climb it, but there's absolutely nothing there." The "journey" itself wasn't anything rewarding that's for sure and definitely gets repetitive but the reward itself wastes my time too? Geez... But maybe this isn't the place to ramble about how massively overrated botw is lol
I don't think I want another look at the characters. They're really ugly this time especially the orange scarf dude lol. Its a shame some of those 7th party member heroes have some decent designs but you can only choose 1
The weakest engage the enemy track yet but still sounds really good. And I imagine it'll sound even better with the set pieces it'll be used with. Looking forward to that. Seeing uraya like that hurts tho
@Itachi2099 who are you (and everyone else that might have such a silly mindset) kidding, you know you're gonna lap them up the moment they're announced
Looks good but pretty repetitive tbh. So long as the music is just as good. But too bad you'll still have to run around the whole 100+ hours as those awful character designs
@Bailey5000 I looked forward to that one but I dunno. The game play loop itself looks very repetitive. And I'd rather not buy what looks like a prototype game. If they're gonna use what they made in legends Arceus, and build and improve upon it. Then I'd probably be better off waiting for that game instead. And I'm hoping this upcoming gen finally churns out that game
I'm glad most other companies haven't tried to copy it, at least not yet. Personally I find it downright ugly especially in Octopath. While the DQ3 remake looks pretty good so far at least, it's still a shame that Square's the one who seems to be going all in on this style
I'd have to say the pirate warriors games are the best. One piece and Zelda are two of my favorite franchises but for some reason I couldn't get into the Zelda musous while I adore the pirate warriors series. The 1st Zelda warriors was pretty fun but gets mundane fast and all the little objectives everywhere don't serve to give the game more variety. It's just downright tedious to do. Pirate warriors is more of the usual straight forward gameplay but the maps kinda go by fast so it never gets too repetitive too quickly and the characters are just a ton of fun to control
Lol it's permanently available to download. But I've played a little bit of it just because it's a port on a 3ds of all things. But it's awful. Still keeping it cause it cost me nothing except storage space I guess
Getting this day 1. But damn the character designs are still the blandest ever. I really hope you can stay in those duo transformations for as long as possible so I don't have to look at the dude with the orange scarf. Can't believe that's a design that's come out of the xeno series. And it sounds like I'm playing this with Japanese dub again
I can't really be disappointed when they've shown almost nothing from the game so far and what little they did show just looked like more of the 1st game which I'm not really fond of
I thought gen 8's starters already looked hilariously bad enough but somehow they surpassed them. Idk what it is but the lighting and colors of the world just stand out a little more than gen 8's so that's good I guess
Also they showed off the hanging clothes moving as if there was a breeze yet the trees are all static lmao
So hyped especially since the dude said it's gonna tie the worlds of both blade 1 and 2 together. But dear lord, these are some of the blandest character designs I've ever seen. I thought it was a knockoff Xenoblade game at 1st before realizing, it's an actual Xenoblade
"Back in the day it used to be like every year there was a new Sonic game. And as a result of that, there were a number of times...because of that rushed production schedule, the quality of the games wouldn't quite be where they really needed to be." This should be gamefreak about pokemon
Here's hoping this supposed time was spent well. Sonic frontiers looks promising and has a lot of potential. I'm looking forward to seeing more
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Re: Poll: Bayonetta 3 Is Out Today On Switch, Are You Getting It?
Eventually yea but too many other games to play right now. I hope it turns out to be better than 2 and at least as good as 1
Re: Talking Point: Would You Prefer 'Super Mario Odyssey 2' Or A Totally New 3D Mario?
Either an Odyssey 2 with more intricacy to it than
just stomp this hump on the ground for free moon x100 of these types of little puzzles spread throughout the worlds. Way more variety in bosses, those bunnies were the lamest ever. And more challenging platforming levels cause the last level on the dark side of the moon wasn't anywhere near enough nor challenging
Or a new 3d Mario with said improvements. But really the dream wish would be a sequel to Sunshine. That game deserved and still deserves it
Re: Random: Former Luigi's Mansion Dev Is Now Heading Up The Silent Hill Franchise
As far as I'm concerned there's only one game in this series. So get that man back so we can finally have a Luigi's Mansion sequel
Re: Talking Point: What's Your Favourite Music Track From A Nintendo Game?
You are asking the impossible picking just one lol.
I know you said you'd pick the 1st one if multiple choices so I'll just go with Engage the Enemy from Xenoblade but I love Where We Used To Be from Xenoblade 2 just as much
So many utterly fantastic songs in those 2 games tho it's so hard to just pick one from them nevermind having to pick from all of nintys 1st party. FE and Zelda also have great soundtracks
Re: Random: Oh No, The Internet Thinks Chris Pratt As Mario Sounds Like Linda From Bob's Burgers
How'd you manage to make 10 articles about this movie in like a day
Re: Review: Chaos;Head Noah - A Great Localisation Of The First 'Science Adventure' VN
Was really hoping this wouldn't be a port of the censored psp/ps3 version. A damn shame there'll still be no way to experience the 1st game in it's entirety in the west yet
Re: Poll: So, What’s Your Verdict On The Mario Movie Trailer?
It just looks like a standard illumination movie with a Mario skin on it. That's not a bad thing but unless you love all things illumination or just these tropey 3d movies from your usual dreamworks, pixar, etc. in general, I fail to see how this looks amazing. Definitely the kind of movie you watch with friends and family just cause it's dumb fun from your usual 3d animation studios
Mario still looks uncanny to me with the weirdly rendered head and being a little more expressive than video games ever allowed him to be
Re: Random: Persona Composer Would 'Love' To Write Music For The Legend Of Zelda
Assuming he'd use his Persona style of music, it wouldn't work with Zelda at all. But I'd still rather listen to something like Life Will Change while exploring Hyrule than to hear the awful or rather non existent music that is BotW's ost
Re: Nintendo Introduces Marth In Fire Emblem Engage
Look how they massacred my boy
Re: Talking Point: What On Earth Is Going On With Square Enix?
And yet when they release a Chocobo GP or publish a Balan Wonderworld, people immediately go to paint them as a shell of their former self and how they'll probably go under
They've always been great and that still hasn't changed as far as I can tell. Every company has their duds. But certainly, this stretch of constant releases is pretty insane for any one company. Especially since the vast majority of them look great
Re: Yakuza Dev Still Doesn't Think Switch Is The Right Platform For The Series
How'd this response come about? Did they pester them again with port begging? Cause there's only so many ways they can say they don't think the switch is the right platform for their series before they start making hilariously dumb responses like these
Re: The New Fire Emblem Hero Was Created By A VTuber Designer
@strollin_stu Doubt itd be bad from a gameplay perspective. Ive never played one with gameplay I actively dislike at least, but I can definitely see the story turning out to be laughable going by the trailer
Re: The New Fire Emblem Hero Was Created By A VTuber Designer
@strollin_stu lmao I mean yea. And as a result we got three houses which I found to be a big improvement over fates. I guess they just decided to drop the ball this time around over improving further
Re: The New Fire Emblem Hero Was Created By A VTuber Designer
Terrible character designs, what seems to be integrating past MCs into the story which really only works as gameplay or dlc otherwise you get god awful fan service stories like the FE Warriors stories, and some pretty laughable dialogue?
Sounds like this one's gonna rival FE Fates as one of the worst FEs in terms of story
Re: Talking Point: What Did You Think Of The September 2022 Nintendo Direct?
I liked it if only because it gave me lots of multiplats to look forward to on PS5 lmao. Now if Sony's state of play can deliver at least one more cool announcement, I'm a happy camper for today
In terms of ninty exclusives, I don't like Fire Emblems new art style but I love fire emblem so I feel obligated to play it anyway. Still not much to think about with Zelda when they showed absolutely nothing at all so yea...
Re: Here's A Look At The Stunning Box Art For Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
If there's one thing to compliment about this game, it's the massive improvement in box art from BotWs NA box art at least
Re: A New Theatrythm Final Fantasy Makes A Symphony On Switch Next February
This one was a pleasant surprise. I know curtain call released a little early into XIVs life but I hope it better represents it's music. XIVs music is phenomenal and the 3ds game poorly showed it imo
Re: 'The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom' Launches In May 2023
Lol how'd they managed to show us less than the 1st teaser. I still want to see what exactly they're gonna do different in Hyrule a place I've already explored every nook and canny
Re: Fire Emblem Engage Unites New And Returning Characters, Out Next January
I don't know why they got rid of yusuke kozaki, his art is gorgeous and worked extremely well with fire emblem. Since then the art just keeps getting worse
Re: Talking Point: What Do You Want To See At Tomorrow's Nintendo Direct Showcase?
I'd love a new fire emblem right about now. But if the leaked images of the supposed next fe turn out to be true then I don't know how I'd feel about the new art style
Re: Feature: The History Of Monolith Soft - From Baten Kaitos To Xenoblade And Zelda
Every time I see a clip or screenshot of X, it makes me wanna play it that much more. Out of all the wii u games to port, why can't it be this one...
Re: Soapbox: Ace Attorney: Trials And Tribulations Is The Perfect Tragedy
I really hope the last 2 cases in Trials and Tribulations turn the game around. I've been stuck on case 3 cause none of the cases have been doing it for me. I heard this was one of the best games in the series but personally I liked 2 a lot more particularly cause case 3 in that game genuinely hits like a truck
Re: Talking Point: What Was Your First Legend Of Zelda Game?
I'm pretty sure it was the 1st game but I was young so I didn't exactly make a lot of progress in that confusing over world lol. But I loved it anyway and it ended up one of my favorite series of all time and still is. I'm hoping they fix everything that made BotW so disappointing with the sequel as that's seemingly the only Zelda to look forward to within the next decade
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Is July's Best-Selling Switch Game In NPD Results
@Ralizah maybe so, for some reason the war between keves and agnus just isn't clicking with me like the one in xb1 did. And that's especially disappointing because the worlds of 1 and 2 at war just sounds so good on paper. I'd say 3's conflict feels a little more artificial at the start because they just throw you into it without anything to go on other than the mcs tired of it. It wouldve been nice to have a little more world building cause I feel completely oblivious rn despite knowing some things from the other 2 games, but maybe it'll be like xb2 where it throws explanations left and right towards the end. But I'm still enjoying trekking along for the most part. The characters are getting a little more interesting than their designs let on. I'm invested enough where I absolutely do want to see where this story goes from here. But I think the beginning is a lot weaker overall than both 1 and 2
@Beaucine I have no doubt the story will eventually unveil the mystery surrounding moebius as it goes on. But there's a certain level of mystery a story should have at the beginning where you're kept in the dark from some things to reveal as twists later and still have enough for the you and the characters to have a little understanding of what their goal is and the antagonists why they're pushing back. XB3, I think keeps you way too much in the dark to where the characters' journey can feel sort of aimless. And 3 chapters in still feels like it's not moving closer to the truth. And with 1 and 2... idk they just had perfect starts lol. The way both of those games thrust their fairly regular MCs into their journeys with a clear goal just hit a lot harder and made sense, while still keeping it vague enough to keep the mystery going
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Is July's Best-Selling Switch Game In NPD Results
@Beaucine I'm not sure if you've played 1 before but it does that villain being self aware thing a whole lot better thru metal face and part of why i think it's not done well in 3 is because, at least 3 chapters in, there's no real explanation given to neither the characters in game nor the players on why they're doing what they're doing despite one of them just randomly showing up to casually tell the group yea we're enemies and attacks them. I'd try to go a little more in depth but I don't know how without spoiling and I'm not even done with the game myself so things could change later on
@Ralizah metal face does cackle yea lol, but he serves an entirely different purpose to the story than these consuls that just show up to display their cockiness and quickly lose right after so far. He is a primary antagonist but in general it's the mechons as a whole that are the antagonists during the beginning
And they're a complete mystery, just these mechanical creatures that terrorize humans and thats pretty much all the players and the characters know about them. They're treated more a force of nature than an actual group of antagonists with a clear goal, in the beginning at least. Through metal face constantly attacking them, it reveals a lot more about the mechons which are genuine shocks to the characters. And he doesn't do it by babbling on like that 1st consul did where he explains they're enemies but doesn't actually explain anything other than that. He does it by acting smug about killing you know who. Showing that mechons can be sentient. He does it by bragging about their death in front of shulk. Showing that some mechons can talk. Ultimately he's a fantastic 1st villain meant to guide the players and characters towards the real objective and his sadistic, bad for the sake of it, nature compliments that unraveling mystery really well
Which is more than I can say for any of the consuls that have appeared thus far. But again, I'm still at ch.3. This only really applies to what I think is the beginning of the story despite being. Maybe the story will pick up soon and the villains actually do something other than literally cackle, say a few generic evil lines and then die/lose right after. Legit I have not seen them do anything else except for that 1st consul guy
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Is July's Best-Selling Switch Game In NPD Results
Im only at chapter 3 still but considering there's apparently only 7 chapters that's almost about half way, and so far the story has made little to no progress. I don't understand how anyone can prefer a story where the villains just seem to be generic cackling baddies that are bad for the sake of it. Maybe they become more interesting towards the end but XB1 and 2 introduced great villains right from the start
Re: Soapbox: Yes, You Really Should Do All Of Xenoblade Chronicles 3's Sidequests
I've only done a few as they're barely starting to open up but they seem pretty standard to me. Hero quests are like the blade quests in 2 where the specified character gets a little sub story and the standard quests are your usual quests which can range from fetching this, kill that but with a little bit of story attached to give you more incentive to do it and sometimes even lead to hidden areas
Not that it's a bad thing, I always enjoyed doing the side quests even in XB1 if only to give me an excuse to go out and take in the views and listen to the amazing ost. And there was just a weird sense of satisfaction seeing your affinity chart in 1 being filled to the brim with lines lol
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 13th)
Xenoblade 3. I'm barely into chapter 3 or at least it feels like it, it's a good game definitely has that Xenoblade-y feel when you're out exploring. But it's easily the weakest game in the series. At least so far anyway. But the start to this story is so generic with it's "war is bad" theme and so aimless as it tries to find any reason it can to bring the two parts of the main group together without explaining anything that's actually going on. Both 1 and 2 gave you the basic gist of whats going on while still keep some mysteries for later reveals perfectly. And the villains, dear lord, did they choose to go with the most cookie cutter villains yet. The main cast is already the most generic yet but would they really throw you some generic villains to fight on top too?
The music is by far my biggest gripe. It's a Xenoblade game, they're supposed to come with a phenomenal soundtrack. What happened? Apart from that, the landscapes aren't anywhere near 2's beautiful titans and don't seem to even hold a candle to 1's. Combat is extremely slow even slower than 1, and the orbs system in 2 was way more fun than the revamped chain attack system. There's a bunch more but honestly I'd be lying if I said I wasn't still enjoying most of my time with it, which is only about 20 hrs so I'm expecting it to get much better later on. So yea looking forward to playing more this weekend lmao
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 6th)
Finally dusted off the switch since who knows how long it's been since I used it. Gonna be playing through Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Still can't believe they ok'd all of these characters designs but I still managed to thoroughly enjoy xb2 despite how awful rex was so I'm sure I'll get thru 3 just fine. Looking forward to see how it all concludes
Re: Witcher 3 Dev Admits He Overcrowded One Map With Too Many Points Of Interest
Skellige did have way too many in comparison to the rest of the world but i still had such a great time going through it especially the quests which is what Witcher 3 is obviously known for excelling in
As for botw, its definitely more empty with a lot less meaningful stuff to do. And the people going botw has you finding things more organically, lol. You'd have to be entranced by the completely redundant and often useless mechanics like "oh you can make winds by burning grass!" "holding a flame sword in the cold makes your temp go down", to not see that exploring by spotting obvious out of the ordinary things like a group of trees in between masses of empty lands, a rock on top of a hill, etc. becomes extremely repetitive itself no different than going through a checklist. Especially when the reward for even doing any of that is utterly meaningless which is one of botw's biggest problems. BotW is literally "See that mountain of there? You can climb it, but there's absolutely nothing there." The "journey" itself wasn't anything rewarding that's for sure and definitely gets repetitive but the reward itself wastes my time too? Geez... But maybe this isn't the place to ramble about how massively overrated botw is lol
Re: Bayonetta 3 Trailer Confirms Launch For This October
@Joker1234 good for you mate. Game itself looks fine to me too. Doesn't change how hilarious the characters look this time around lol
Re: Bayonetta 3 Trailer Confirms Launch For This October
Mayhaps this is an alternate dimension where the characters have horrible fashion sense and wear ugly make up in which case, go back. Please go back
Re: Gallery: Take A Closer Look At Xenoblade Chronicles 3's Characters And Combat
I don't think I want another look at the characters. They're really ugly this time especially the orange scarf dude lol. Its a shame some of those 7th party member heroes have some decent designs but you can only choose 1
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Unleashes A Beautiful New Track From Its Original Score
The weakest engage the enemy track yet but still sounds really good. And I imagine it'll sound even better with the set pieces it'll be used with. Looking forward to that. Seeing uraya like that hurts tho
Re: Rumour: Nintendo Leaker Shares Details Of A New "Finished" Fire Emblem On Switch
Gust and improved graphics? Lmao
Re: Persona 3, 4, and 5 Seemingly Confirmed For Everything But Switch
@Itachi2099 they will. Trust the Direct plan
Re: Persona 3, 4, and 5 Seemingly Confirmed For Everything But Switch
@Itachi2099 who are you (and everyone else that might have such a silly mindset) kidding, you know you're gonna lap them up the moment they're announced
Re: New Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Trailer Highlights The Gorgeous World Of Aionios
Looks good but pretty repetitive tbh. So long as the music is just as good. But too bad you'll still have to run around the whole 100+ hours as those awful character designs
Re: The Pokémon Company Delivers 'Staggering' Financial Results
@Bailey5000 I looked forward to that one but I dunno. The game play loop itself looks very repetitive. And I'd rather not buy what looks like a prototype game. If they're gonna use what they made in legends Arceus, and build and improve upon it. Then I'd probably be better off waiting for that game instead. And I'm hoping this upcoming gen finally churns out that game
Re: The Pokémon Company Delivers 'Staggering' Financial Results
I'm proud that I've bought exactly 0 Pokemon games on switch but also sad cause I'd gladly buy a good Pokemon game on switch. If there were any
Re: Triangle Strategy Producers Talk HD-2D And Why Other Devs Haven't Used it
I'm glad most other companies haven't tried to copy it, at least not yet. Personally I find it downright ugly especially in Octopath. While the DQ3 remake looks pretty good so far at least, it's still a shame that Square's the one who seems to be going all in on this style
Re: Poll: What's The Best Warriors Game On Switch?
I'd have to say the pirate warriors games are the best. One piece and Zelda are two of my favorite franchises but for some reason I couldn't get into the Zelda musous while I adore the pirate warriors series. The 1st Zelda warriors was pretty fun but gets mundane fast and all the little objectives everywhere don't serve to give the game more variety. It's just downright tedious to do. Pirate warriors is more of the usual straight forward gameplay but the maps kinda go by fast so it never gets too repetitive too quickly and the characters are just a ton of fun to control
Re: Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D Physical Prices Jump As eShop Closure Looms
Lol it's permanently available to download. But I've played a little bit of it just because it's a port on a 3ds of all things. But it's awful. Still keeping it cause it cost me nothing except storage space I guess
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Gets A Release Date, And It's Sooner Than You Think
Getting this day 1. But damn the character designs are still the blandest ever. I really hope you can stay in those duo transformations for as long as possible so I don't have to look at the dude with the orange scarf. Can't believe that's a design that's come out of the xeno series. And it sounds like I'm playing this with Japanese dub again
Re: Nintendo Updates Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Game Page With Stunning New Artwork
Urayas insides were quite beautiful. Sad to see it wounded by a sword that's pretty damn ugly lol
Re: Poll: C'mon Then, Did You Predict The Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2 Delay?
I can't really be disappointed when they've shown almost nothing from the game so far and what little they did show just looked like more of the 1st game which I'm not really fond of
Re: Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet Announced, Releasing Worldwide In "Late 2022"
I thought gen 8's starters already looked hilariously bad enough but somehow they surpassed them. Idk what it is but the lighting and colors of the world just stand out a little more than gen 8's so that's good I guess
Also they showed off the hanging clothes moving as if there was a breeze yet the trees are all static lmao
Re: It's Official, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Is Launching On Nintendo Switch This September
So hyped especially since the dude said it's gonna tie the worlds of both blade 1 and 2 together. But dear lord, these are some of the blandest character designs I've ever seen. I thought it was a knockoff Xenoblade game at 1st before realizing, it's an actual Xenoblade
Re: Sonic Frontiers Was Originally Planned For A 2021 Release, But Sega Wanted To "Brush Up The Quality"
"Back in the day it used to be like every year there was a new Sonic game. And as a result of that, there were a number of times...because of that rushed production schedule, the quality of the games wouldn't quite be where they really needed to be."
This should be gamefreak about pokemon
Here's hoping this supposed time was spent well. Sonic frontiers looks promising and has a lot of potential. I'm looking forward to seeing more
Re: Poll: What's The Worst Legend Of Zelda Game?
Probably Zelda 2. It feels very aimless, I don't like the 2d side scrolling especially for a Zelda game, and the art is ugly as sin
But BotW is pretty much just as much of a disappointment