Quote from: Hiro on August 19, 2018, 07:32:02 AMtbh 2 was the best and its been downhill since

true plus nostalgia helps

It's obvious they don't put actual top tier deveopement attention to it these days.

Quote from: reeper on August 19, 2018, 11:19:46 AM

Quote from: Hiro on August 19, 2018, 07:32:02 AMtbh 2 was the best and its been downhill since

true plus nostalgia helps

It's obvious they don't put actual top tier deveopement attention to it these days.

very true, the team that's been in charge of Mario party is probably Nintendo's worst

beat mega man x4, which was the easiest mega man game i've ever played

Quote from: Nyerp on August 20, 2018, 02:38:03 PMbeat mega man x4, which was the easiest mega man game i've ever played

they get easier from there. 5 and 6 are stupid easy. and also a lot worse than 1-4 tbh.

also speaking of Mega Man,  I got Rockman and Forte in the mail today

Quote from: Samus Aran on August 20, 2018, 03:10:58 PM

Quote from: Nyerp on August 20, 2018, 02:38:03 PMbeat mega man x4, which was the easiest mega man game i've ever played

they get easier from there. 5 and 6 are stupid easy. and also a lot worse than 1-4 tbh.

I remember 6 being hard, but in a dumb way.

last purchased: wii fit u

it's currently $17 complete w/ balance board i couldn't resist owning such a novelty

Quote from: Magyarorszag on August 24, 2018, 11:55:03 AMlast purchased: wii fit u

it's currently $17 complete w/ balance board i couldn't resist owning such a novelty

lol i think i bought it around the same price and reason a few years back and then i was like shit
now i have to put this fucking thing somewhere dont i

i have it for the OG wii lol

Quote from: Detective Spatchcock on August 16, 2018, 03:35:36 PMTHE BAD:
Unfortunately most of the items are useless for 90% of the game. Did you know there's a boomerang in this game? Why? Sand rod? Tornado rod? Fire rod? Ice rod? They help you get maybe one or two alien babies outside of their intended dungeon and that's it. I barely even used my bow in this game. Pretty much the whole game is built around hitting shit with your sword, plus the occasional "aw shit I forgot to grab the hookshot so this guy's gonna be a pain" enemy. You have every item available to you from the beginning. Build some overworld puzzles around that. Theme entire sections around certain items. There's no excuse not to. There's so much wasted potential here it honestly upsets me. This is what they needed to do to make it feel like its own game.

unfortunately this problem seems to have become hereditary in zelda, but yeah, it's particularly pronounced in albw because even essential series mainstays like the boomerang and bow are notably underutilized

i'm assuming the developers reduced the occurrence of special item-dependent puzzles because they couldn't exactly predict when you'd have any given item due to the more open design of the game, but like you said, you can buy/rent any item at any time anyway, so it shouldn't have been a problem

if anything, this game could have had an ever greater variety of special item puzzles than is typical of zelda precisely because you have access to everything at once

Quote from: Detective Spatchcock on August 16, 2018, 03:35:36 PMTHE PRESTIGE:
I get that they're trying to pay homage to the original game, but I'd rather feel like I'm having a whole new experience rather than a soft remake.

this is easily my #1 complaint about albw

it does disappointingly little to expound upon or otherwise differentiate itself from the world of alttp, rather it just 3difies and tweaks it, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse

albw essentially rides alttp's coattails to success, and as a consequence it only barely has its own identity at all, and still alttp remains the superior game anyway

also i think it's generally agreed upon that zelda has been getting easier on average, but it is also true that you are older and by now probably know all of the typical zelda tricks that would have been novel to you 15 years ago lol

general player familiarity is not a good excuse for the game being easy though

Quote from: Detective Spatchcock on August 16, 2018, 03:35:36 PMSPOILERS: HIGHLIGHT TO READ:
Hilda being evil was telegraphed so hard that I kind of rolled my eyes when it happened. Her motivations were actually great though, and that surprised me. I can't remember if there has been another truly sympathetic villain in a Zelda game. Ravio being the Lorule version of Link fucking blindsided me and I loved it. He's a bunny! It's right there!

spoilers: i like that they finally addressed what the purpose of the triforce is beyond causing war and chaos, and i admire hilda for having been brave enough to destroy the stupid thing to put an end to the suffering it had caused lorule even if in the end it didn't quite work out as anticipated

But I also think she got off way too easy. Isn't it just a little too convenient that a Triforce can be used to simply will another Triforce into existence?

the game's conclusion just seems way too tidy and consequence-free for that reason lol, a wish like that should be a monkey's paw


anyway i think 8/10 is a fair score for the game, but it's good mostly because it's alttp with some twists

Quote from: C.Mongler on August 24, 2018, 11:55:58 AM

Quote from: Magyarorszag on August 24, 2018, 11:55:03 AMlast purchased: wii fit u

it's currently $17 complete w/ balance board i couldn't resist owning such a novelty

shit
now i have to put this fucking thing somewhere dont i

yeah, hmmm

i'm not even sure i can make effective use of it because my room is thickly carpeted, and there's only maybe 3 feet of space between my tv and bed lol

Quote from: Thyme on August 24, 2018, 12:59:22 PMi have it for the OG wii lol

thots

it's cute but mostly useless

a lot of the exercises feel like they don't actually do much

and some of the minigames are probs rather irritating for downstairs neighbors lol

I'm too lazy to google but I remember reading a study that using wiifit is less effective than just going for a walk lol

welp

so much for that $17

Quote from: Magyarorszag on August 24, 2018, 11:55:03 AMlast purchased: wii fit u

it's currently $17 complete w/ balance board i couldn't resist owning such a novelty

Quote from: C.Mongler on August 24, 2018, 03:25:35 PMI'm too lazy to google but I remember reading a study that using wiifit is less effective than just going for a walk lol

This reminds me of http://bluaki.tumblr.com/post/175124535984