General Gaming thread

CavemanGrogg

RaymondLin said:

CavemanGrogg said:

BOTW gets a huge thumbs down from my cousin, he managed to 100% the game in less than 2 days, though to be fair, he really likes his huge open world sandbox games, like No Mans Sky, which due to the hospital he's in being in a mobile dead zone, so he can't get any mobile reception for making or recieving calls, never ind mobile broadband.  So I've picked up Stranded Sails Explorers of the Cursed Islands and Immortals Fenyx Rising, to dop off for him when I visit him later today.

100% are you sure? did you just take his word on it?

Did he collect all 900 Korok Seeds?
Did he check his footsteps to make sure he went to every part of the map?
Did he complete all 120 shrines and its puzzels?
Did he do Master Mode?
Did he finish the photo quest with all the photos?
Did he get the white horse from Zelda?
Did he do all the side quests?
Did he figure out every recipes out there?

What he probably has done is did the 4 main dungeons and missed about 75% of the game.  You can in theory finish the game in about 30mins as well.

Being pedantic here, he beat the final boss but there is no chance he 100% it.

Yes he has, I saw it yesterday evening when I visited him in hospital, he's been in hospital for a few monhs now, the guy has nothing to do barr watch the shitty 14'' TV in the 6 person room he's in, or play his Switch.  So he's playing his Switch like it is going out of fashion.

ThePrettyDamned

TeleMaster said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

TeleMaster said:

Hmm that's a shame. I loved it but final boss was a killer for me. 

It was just a bit repetitive. Something I didn't feel with ds1, ds3 or bloodborne. 

I didn't feel that, I found it immersive and incredibly unique and diverse but we experience these things individually. 

That's fair. There were great bits, and I could feel when it was great, but the in-betweens and the extra dungeons felt very much like the worst part of bloodborne - the chalice dungeons. 

But that's fine. It's an amazing game, and the mechanics are absolutely brilliant. I just didn't enjoy it in the same way as the other games. I don't really enjoy open world games, to be honest, it puts the onus of game pacing on me - and I don't like that. Perhaps my failing! 

MagicPigDetective

Been playing 'Stray' on the PC. A third 'person' game where you control a cat lost in a city in the future populated by robots.... I played every minute of this with my two daughters aged 6 and 9 watching and helping me with decisions and puzzles and it was a thoroughly good experience for us all, proper bonding stuff. Not the biggest and most challenging of games, but it has bags of charm and a good narrative, and controlling a cat is very cool.

 I've also been playing Dirt Rally 2.0. I used to play Colin McCrae Rally 2 back in the day and this is the latest descendant.... a totally superb rally game, challenging but such a rush when you're driving well and tearing it up around the dirt tracks.

Sporky

There is absolutely no way anyone can 100% BOTW in under 48 hours. 

strumjoughlamps

Sporky said:

There is absolutely no way anyone can 100% BOTW in under 48 hours. 

Absolutely.. my lad has proper 100% it and it took a fair while. I would go bed 10pm ish and he'd be playing it, up at 6am ish and he'd still be up playing it.

guitargeek62

MagicPigDetective said:

Been playing 'Stray' on the PC. A third 'person' game where you control a cat lost in a city in the future populated by robots.... I played every minute of this with my two daughters aged 6 and 9 watching and helping me with decisions and puzzles and it was a thoroughly good experience for us all, proper bonding stuff. Not the biggest and most challenging of games, but it has bags of charm and a good narrative, and controlling a cat is very cool.

Aye, Stray is fantastic!

ThePrettyDamned

strumjoughlamps said:

Sporky said:

There is absolutely no way anyone can 100% BOTW in under 48 hours. 

Absolutely.. my lad has proper 100% it and it took a fair while. I would go bed 10pm ish and he'd be playing it, up at 6am ish and he'd still be up playing it.

Seems crazy, but there is a community. To get this speed takes a lot of dedication and practice though - I can't imagine 100 percent in two days of a first play through without a guide.

https://www.speedrun.com/botw/full_game?h=100-Original&x=xk9jv4gd-onv6v6m8.013vo7xl

A 48 hour run is top 40 in speed - get it submitted! 

Sporky

I should indeed have included "on their first go" in my statement. 

ThePrettyDamned

Sporky said:

I should indeed have included "on their first go" in my statement. 

Context means it wasn't really needed.  

TeleMaster

CavemanGrogg said:

RaymondLin said:

CavemanGrogg said:

BOTW gets a huge thumbs down from my cousin, he managed to 100% the game in less than 2 days, though to be fair, he really likes his huge open world sandbox games, like No Mans Sky, which due to the hospital he's in being in a mobile dead zone, so he can't get any mobile reception for making or recieving calls, never ind mobile broadband.  So I've picked up Stranded Sails Explorers of the Cursed Islands and Immortals Fenyx Rising, to dop off for him when I visit him later today.

100% are you sure? did you just take his word on it?

Did he collect all 900 Korok Seeds?
Did he check his footsteps to make sure he went to every part of the map?
Did he complete all 120 shrines and its puzzels?
Did he do Master Mode?
Did he finish the photo quest with all the photos?
Did he get the white horse from Zelda?
Did he do all the side quests?
Did he figure out every recipes out there?

What he probably has done is did the 4 main dungeons and missed about 75% of the game.  You can in theory finish the game in about 30mins as well.

Being pedantic here, he beat the final boss but there is no chance he 100% it.

Yes he has, I saw it yesterday evening when I visited him in hospital, he's been in hospital for a few monhs now, the guy has nothing to do barr watch the shitty 14'' TV in the 6 person room he's in, or play his Switch.  So he's playing his Switch like it is going out of fashion.

Nah lol. No way. 

Barnezy

Got my Steam Deck yesterday. I realised I don’t have any Steam Friends. I was wondering if people on the forum would be interested in adding one another? 

Also anyone up for creating a WarZone clang/team? 

TeleMaster

I would but I completed it. Got 100% sorry. 

PolarityMan

There's a channel where some guy 100% games before the steam refund window closes. 

TeleMaster

PolarityMan said:

There's a channel where some guy 100% games before the steam refund window closes. 

Try it with Elden Ring... 

PolarityMan

TeleMaster said:

PolarityMan said:

There's a channel where some guy 100% games before the steam refund window closes. 

Try it with Elden Ring... 

The thing I like about that game is you kinda get the full experience right at the beginning when you get jumped by the grafted scion.

The rest is jsut seeing the you died screen from a slightly different background.

Sporky

TeleMaster said:

PolarityMan said:

There's a channel where some guy 100% games before the steam refund window closes. 

Try it with Elden Ring... 

Grogg's mate already has. 

TeleMaster

Sporky said:

TeleMaster said:

PolarityMan said:

There's a channel where some guy 100% games before the steam refund window closes. 

Try it with Elden Ring... 

Grogg's mate already has. 

Probably the same guy. That would make sense. 

TeleMaster

PolarityMan said:

TeleMaster said:

PolarityMan said:

There's a channel where some guy 100% games before the steam refund window closes. 

Try it with Elden Ring... 

The thing I like about that game is you kinda get the full experience right at the beginning when you get jumped by the grafted scion.

The rest is jsut seeing the you died screen from a slightly different background.

Exactly. The sentinels at the gates in Leyndell must have killed me 300 times. Fun times, right. Right? 

PolarityMan

TeleMaster said:

PolarityMan said:

TeleMaster said:

PolarityMan said:

There's a channel where some guy 100% games before the steam refund window closes. 

Try it with Elden Ring... 

The thing I like about that game is you kinda get the full experience right at the beginning when you get jumped by the grafted scion.

The rest is jsut seeing the you died screen from a slightly different background.

Exactly. The sentinels at the gates in Leyndell must have killed me 300 times. Fun times, right. Right? 

I havent played it for a couple of months as got a bit frustrated..managed to take down margitt but thats about as far as i got. 

Have been playing vampire survivor this past week which is  adef change of pace where you end up murderising tens of thousands of baddies per play session. 

ThePrettyDamned

Anyone played signalis? Looks right up my street...