Video Games and Gaming Technology (In A Positive Light)
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I have also played BoTW for about 25 hours and am having a hard time coming back to the game now to finish the story. The dungeons were the best part of the game for me while the weapons breaking is about the biggest controversy the game has. It adds no combat depth and its taxing and takes away the fun of combat. Your mod sounds like a huge boon to your playthrough.
The mod made the game playable and eliminated a lot of tedium/frustration but it also revealed a deeper underlying weakness in the game's design - namely that the vast majority of the loot you find is simply meant to replace the weapons and shields you are breaking in a kind of loot treadmill. It becomes very apparent when you aren't breaking weapons constantly how useless most of the bandit camps, treasure chests etc are. It's busy work that doesn't even make you feel like you're accomplishing something but rather grinding just to stay in the same place.
Plus they totally missed that the whole enjoyment of exploring in open worlds is the idea that you never know what you might stumble across - it's like gambling. When you are all but certain what you're going to find, it's much less appealing. There's some really convoluted and challenging shrine quests that I had zero motivation whatsoever to try and solve for a pithy fraction of a health/stamina upgrade that I didn't even need. To the designers' credit, they don't force you to do these tasks if you're not interested.
I don't want to be too harsh on it, frankly the best parts of the game are simply roaming around and experiencing the environmental design and music, the freedom to traverse is really spectacular. I loved the influence it took from Shadow of the Colossus which was one of my favorite games back in the day. It is also overall very wholesome and uplifting in themes and messaging as is usually the case for Zelda.
The early Assassins Creed games teach a good bit about history and architecture. The one set in Florence is probably the best. The later ones aren't terrible. I have played them all through Odyssey (where they introduce gay characters hitting on you as if that would EVER happen casually encountering strangers hundreds of years ago) but considering we are in current year, I just expect everything to be fake or gay and at least the games aren't terribly fake. It's fun wandering around ancient Egypt or jumping from the Duomo.
There were even some cool subversive ideas in the earlier games, like the concept of the Assassins vs. Templars, illuminati pushing the "do what thou wilt, everything is permitted" ideas. There was even a DLC about The Tyranny of King George Washington. I don't expect we will see many games with truly subversive or exciting themes like that. Maybe some japanese titles can still be creative, but it's hard to find out about them and they won't be published on Steam if they are anti-woke / normal.
There were even some cool subversive ideas in the earlier games, like the concept of the Assassins vs. Templars, illuminati pushing the "do what thou wilt, everything is permitted" ideas. There was even a DLC about The Tyranny of King George Washington. I don't expect we will see many games with truly subversive or exciting themes like that. Maybe some japanese titles can still be creative, but it's hard to find out about them and they won't be published on Steam if they are anti-woke / normal.
Greeks were well known homosexuals. And Odyssey was terrible. Couldn't play more than an hour.
I can see why people hate the weapon break system, but I personally really enjoyed it. It forced you to try out all the weapons in the game and I enjoyed finding new weapon farming spots, where I knew that after bloodmoons, there would be a decent ownerless weapon just lying there, or a bunch of strong enemies wielding good weapons waiting for me (which allowed for very intense and fun fights against entire enemy camps when my weapons were shabby). I didn't do the rushing Hyrule Castle's black weapons thing because it seemed like it would trivialize the game's difficulty.
I agree that the shrine quests get old fast, and I also agree that the open world lacks content and variety. Luckily, I went into the game 100% blind, so I ended up discovering enough surprises on my own to make it enjoyable, like when I first saw that massive wind dragon rising out of the lake, or when I first found rare mounts like the spirit deer thing, and I would try to take them to the stable to see how the guy would react. I got a lot of enjoyment out of just defeating guardians over and over in order to get guardian armor and weapons from that scientist guy.
My favorite part of BoTW by far was the sidequests, and while a lot of them were boring fetch quests, there were also a lot of fairly interesting ones. The rewards for sidequests were nearly all pretty useless, but I mostly did them because it was fun to interact with the NPCs, they felt a lot more alive than NPCs in most games.
I enjoyed most of the game a lot. I think I completed absolutely all of the content, with the big exception of completing all the shrines or finding all the koroks. Those things I did not do, because I don't hate myself. I never touched the game again, since there was nothing new to see. Well, actually, I suppose I played only the base game on Switch without DLCs, so maybe one day I will play on Cemu at 144fps with all the DLCs and see what I missed out on, I've heard there's a guardiantech motorcycle.
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I don't think you're wrong about much of your commentary on RDR2, but I also don't think it's fair. Because RDR2, like the GTA series, isn't really about having depth. It gives you a ton of things to do at the cost of depth, but it just is what it is, and I think people should know that coming in. No game is going to give you everything. IMO RDR2 does what it sets out to do very well. It just depends on if we appreciate what it is that it set out to do.
That game is full of demonic imagery, and apparently even actual paranormal audio. Why would you play something like that? It really does not matter very much that you play as a priest and the demons are the bad guys. There's things you should not feed your senses with.
Why is there so much outright demonic stuff in popular media these days? Asian stuff especially. These yellow menaces actually name anime girls after actual, real demons, and extra points if they are the good guys. They do it all the time, it's actually insane, it's exhausting. I can name five pieces of Asian goyslop off the top of my head where this happens, and they are all very popular IPs and not some obscure stuff. They take the names of angels and saints and put them on anime girls too, they are not Christian so they don't care.
Whatever, not like the west is offering anything better or more Christian. These days I just stick to videogames that I know don't have these situations. I no longer watch movies or series ever, I almost never watch anime anymore, I just play videogames (mostly indie or many years old) that I know are of high quality and do not have anti-Christian content, and wait the horrors out. Either glorious Czar Putin will defeat them, or they will finally dominate the world and then come and throw me into a gulag, or maybe they'll just do the gulag thing literally tomorrow, it's kind of whatever at this point, God's will be done.
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It is.
I enjoy playing games with a horror element to it once in a while.
Finished the original Half Life for the first time a while ago. It's a bit outdated for some people but I'm thankful they updated the game around last year. Some of the guns feel way better to use. Black Mesa has a more polished version of the later levels (Xen), but I preferred the original.
I still really liked Far Cry 1 more. It feels even more outdated (even for me) but the gameplay more than makes up for it. Awkward boss fights sadly.
Also playing Spelunky a ton. Used to play it religiously when I was a kid, bolting it to the PC after school.
I still really liked Far Cry 1 more. It feels even more outdated (even for me) but the gameplay more than makes up for it. Awkward boss fights sadly.
Also playing Spelunky a ton. Used to play it religiously when I was a kid, bolting it to the PC after school.
This is looking awesome
The first game is the only true rpg that’s come out in years, it’s fantastic even though I’ve barely scratched the surface. The world feels real, decisions matter, it completely disrupts how you would normally approach a game as “the main character” when you realise even lv 1 bandits are going to leave you bleeding out in a ditch, because you are just a blacksmith’s apprentice.
When you finally manage to take down one or even two enemies it’s so rewarding. The fact that you have to learn to read is brilliant, and I absolutely loved it that I broke my character’s ankle when I foolishly traversed through a town like I would in an Elder Scrolls game, jumping down some steps to get to my destination quicker.
If I had a PC this would definitely be on my list.
The next Assassin's Creed game is set in Japan and features female and black Samurai. The Japanese are not impressed. This is D.O.A.
Hopefully, the imminent failure of this game will bring down Ubisoft.
Meanwhile, Ghosts of Tsushima has come to PC and is supposedly a good port, and a brilliant, proper samurai game. Everything the Ubi game is not. No race and gender swapping.
The only downside is that MP requires a PSN account. I would stick to SP, anyway.
Activision is massively ramping up the DEI in the COD series. The emails have gone out to all the dev teams. It would not be a bad thing if this GAE promo series got wiped out.
Hopefully, the imminent failure of this game will bring down Ubisoft.
Meanwhile, Ghosts of Tsushima has come to PC and is supposedly a good port, and a brilliant, proper samurai game. Everything the Ubi game is not. No race and gender swapping.
The only downside is that MP requires a PSN account. I would stick to SP, anyway.
Activision is massively ramping up the DEI in the COD series. The emails have gone out to all the dev teams. It would not be a bad thing if this GAE promo series got wiped out.
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This is what greed gets you. Psychopaths who will ruin franchises so their bank accounts can maybe get a bit larger
It's a bizzar concept but hear me out. Just make a good game. It will make its own profits....