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Hello Everyone!

Let's start a first ever, "What are you playing this weekend?".

I am still completely enthralled by The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I am about 50-60 hours in, and still have lots of explore. I don't want to mention anything that might be a spoiler, but I think I should be around 60% done with the story. I am on media blackout about the game, so I don't actually know how long it actually it is, but this is what it seems like. Of course, if I go by total amount of Shrines, or Koroks, I am probably just 10-20% of the total.

All my other games are on pause, probably not going to resume anything else until I have finished Zelda.

What about all of you? What are you playing?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same here, TotK all the way. ✌️ Same as you, haven't read anything to not spoiler myself, but seems that I may be at 70% done. Already start feeling a bit of nostalgia just in case I happen to finnish it soon, it is so good 😄

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Chalk another one up for TOTK.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still playing TOTK. Such a vast world. I still haven't completed many quests so far, I'm just running around exploring. There is something to see and do around every corner.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm about 20 hours in, in Zelda TotK. It's my first proper Zelda game, not counting what little OoT I played via emulator a long back. The game is stunning, so playable and atmospheric. It's a true adventure game.

I've dropped it for a bit to play D4, but can't wait to get back to Hyrule.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Welcome to the world of Zelda! It truly is a masterpiece.

If you start with TotK, it may be difficult to go back to BotW, but if you do play it later, I would love to hear your feedback.

If you want to play Zelda games, you can try the older ones through different NSO apps, SNES, Gameboy etc. but they are all very different from TotK / BotW, and not everyone enjoys older games.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still chewing through TotK when I have free time to. Hoping I can get to a point where I’m happy taking a break by the time Pikmin 4 releases.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Good luck! Pikmin 4 looks pretty fun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is my Switch game for this weekend. I still have so much of the Depths to explore.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently playing Harvestella and loving it. I have TOTK but keep coming back to this one right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah, cool. Haven't seen many people mention it, but I liked what I saw, and it's on my wishlist.

How do you compare it with other games in same genre? Like Run Factory or Story of Seasons?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dusted off the WiiU to play Windwaker HD again. I'm just killing time before Pikmin 4.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have never played Windwaker, hoping for a Switch remake / port. Or they can just add it in NSO.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Porting windwaker and twilight princess from WiiU to Switch would have been easy. I wonder why they have not done it yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Saw some random comment online, that they are Nintendo's emergency backup games, when they have nothing else, they can quickly release them to fill the gap.

Personally, I can never understand how Nintendo thinks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just finished BOTW this weekend and taking a break from Zelda. Picked up Pokemon Violet again but got distracted. Does Pokemon Violet get more engaging? I'm on the 3rd gym and I feel like they're still holding my hand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Botw gave me an experience that I haven't had since Skyrim was new - I wanted to go out of my way to explore the whole world. Leave no piece of the map untouched.

Man, what I would give to experience Skyrim for the first time again.

I haven't touched a Pokemon game since X/Y. Black and White 2 were where Pokemon peaked, imho. I checked out after X/Y.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same as you: TOTK. I’m already 40h in and I feel like I’m just starting! This game is really massive imho .. for someone like me maybe who is just exploring and doing some quests but without structure.

In a way I’m looking forward to the paper guide to just bring some kind of structure and sense of “where the hell am I in the story, is this just 2pt or am I already at 50?”

Sometimes I miss the more linear Zelda’s

Side note: I must admit I still use the dupe glitch. I really like this relaxing way of playing. For me it has been a life saver, kinda like an accessibility option. Otherwise I would not be able to play at all (health issues). So now I’m very anxious 😬 that the game will install the update when I misclick Oh well, still lots of fun!

Question back: what was your first Zelda?

Mine was Links awakening on the game boy, I was 12. Couldn’t speak a word of English. No internet. Shit was haaaaard! 43 now. Still playing 😁 and….. Introducing Zelda to the next gen to: what did you think? Jup the remake of that one! Fully dubbed! So far my nephews and nieces love it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah, the game is huge.

If you want linear game-play, just do the main quests. They even mention which quest you should do before, as everyone will talk about it. And just do some explorations and side-quests along the way. Gives the game a lot more structure.

Personally, I haven't used the dupe glitch, didn't even know about it until it was patched and saw someone mention that patch fixes it, but I have nothing against anyone using it in a single player game. If it's how you enjoy the game (and this isn't effecting anyone else), you do you.

Unfortunately, I wasn't acquainted with Nintendo when I was young, more of a Sega kid myself. Got curious about Nintendo after PS3, and was wondering what to get next when they announced Switch, and I moved over.

So, while I did play a little bit of A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time somewhere, my first proper Zelda game was BOTW. Since then I have played the original Zelda, Link to the Past and Link's Awakening remake. Also going to try rest of the Zelda available on Switch.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Taking a break from TOTK to play age of calamity. Skipped it way back and got the dynasty warriors itch again

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Age of Calamity is a fun game. I was playing it before starting TotK, and it messed up with my expectation of TotK difficulty. Enemies decimated me. Specially the bigger ones. You do not play TotK like a dynasty warrior game. Took me a few deaths to readjust. Just keep that in mind when switching back.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Splatoon 3. It's Big Run weekend.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really taking my time with TOTK, im refusing to upgrade hearts or stam so far

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wow, that takes dedication. The game is pretty tough without upgrading hearts, a single attack from a bokoblin can kill you.

Good luck for the play-through.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

maybe starting Tears of the Kingdom, been trying stay away from spoiler, idk what to expect, lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's the way to go. Just jump in and embrace the joy of discovery.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spiritfarer. I'm a patient gamer and now that it is on sale, I finally picked it up.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Etrian Odyssey HD. It's been far too long since I've been absolutely ruined by an unfortunate FOE encounter, so looking forward to working through the rerelease of the series.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Xenoblade 2 up to ch9 just gotta finish the story instead of side quests and blades

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Xenoblade is one of my favourite series, but didn't enjoy the gacha mechanics of 2.

Have you played 3? In my opinion, that's the best of the series, just don't start it right after 2, or you may feel a burn out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not feeling motivated to try anything new, so will continue rotting playing Mario Kart 🥲

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm still playing Breath of the Wild because I never finished it on Master Mode. I can't believe I waited so long for the sequel, yet the release snuck up on me! In a way, it kind of prolongs the excitement. Thanks for holding back the spoilers!

How are you liking Tears of the Kingdom in general? Better? The same? Complementary? From the trailers, I was worried it might become a bit gimmicky, but BOTW also adds a good level of trust for me.

Besides that, I literally just finished my first real gaming PC build yesterday! I didn't even have time to do install anything, so work today felt like I was a kid having to go to school on Christmas afternoon. I'll soon install Star Wars Battlefront 2, one of the few games my non-gamer wife ever binged, that way we can play together.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BotW felt like a road trip across the entire United States. TotK is like watching an epic movie while revisiting the best parts of the road trip experience without all the grind.

One thing I wish I had been told/knew before playing TotK is to follow the main quest objectives as closely as possible from the start. Like you can go do your own thing, find a bunch of stuff, and the game will have built in responses to whatever you end up doing. However, you'll miss out on a lot of elements and story complexity if you go this route. There are a lot more puzzles and fun stuff to navigate if you do them when prompted instead of finding them on your own.

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