The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

no problem, thumb for weapon switching, 2nd/3rd finger on the back trigger and bumper (this is on wii u i should say, dont know if its much different on the switch)

Same on switch, use thumb to click on L stick to crouch/sneak, use thumb to press buttons to change weapons and skills quickly (handy tip: hold down ZR and you can cycle through arrows), use finger on L button to activate skills (most of the time during puzzle solving), use finger on ZL to lock on to enemies/raise shield. Depends on your play style I guess, I play without locking on/raising shield and game is perfectly playable this way.

So, I started this yesterday and it took me basically all day just to get off the fucking plateau. Comedy of errors really - when I realised I needed to get that Warm Doublet I was pissed off to realise I'd accidentally eaten the only raw meat I had on me. I then managed to kill a bird - but then promtly died 3 mins later and lost my save. I then spent TWO HOURS stalking/creeping in the forest trying to catch a fucking bird/squirrel/boar. &*$%^%^$%$!!

Rest of the level was a cakewalk in comparison lol.

Still I suppose I'm real good at hunting animals with a bow now, haw :(

The doublet was the only thing I got on the plateau before I took off with the paraglider btw - have I missed anything else? I take it you cant get back there?

didn't know you could get the doublet on the plateau, just cooked loads of spicy meat. you can always go back, stamina and extreme temperature the only things limiting you from going anywhere.

Yeah you make the spicy meat/ seafood fry for Old Man and he gives it to you.

my girl and i have made a pact that we are going to get a switch/zelda if we hit some specific money goals. this game is helping me budget!

i love this game, but it can definitely be frustrating. but frustration is used as a feedback tool in this game, i think? when i am frustrated it has come from the knowledge that i am doing something ineffectively, not that the game is holding back or setting up artificial difficulty barriers. so far i have been annoyed w/ the warm doublet quest (b/c there were a million ways to solve it, and i was looking for the "right" one, though i eventually switched tactics and solved it easily).

the lynel in the zora domain
getting zapped while hiking into the zoras uglyass domain
the one tower i *still* can't climb due to electro guys swimming nearby
another fucking lynel
a boring shrine quest where i had to kill three giants
a horse-taming quest
some bullshit in the lost woods
the goron quest
gathering wood to build my effing house

Apparently having metal items mean you get struck by lightning during rain? Fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXMlXSDwzU8

I'm already overwhelmed looking at how much map there is to cover. Its not just that its large - its that so much of it is only accesible in really gruelling ways like slowly climbing cliffs. I feel like I'll be playing this game for years at this rate.

cliff-climbing gets much easier by mid-game, once you gain some stamina and other stuff that makes you climb faster/longer.

One of my workmates recommended gunning for stamina over health in the early stages of loading up on upgrades, I wonder if thats a good idea? Ive just been gathering a lot of staminella shrooms and the fish that do stam and storing a ton of meals.

Oh and Ive already hit a snag - I'm trying to do the sheep rustling side quest on Hatero beach and those monsters are really hard to kill - and Ive only got piddlepuff weapons :( I need to find somwwhere that sells bows.

...aaaand apparently I now find out weapons cant be purchased. Gah! The breakability of weapons is the most frustrating part of the game.

You can buy some weapons, but I think it's only Guardian weapons and the like up at Akkala Ancient tech lab. Don't remember seeing any others for sale elsewhere.

None of the side quests proved to be super essential, and some were downright tough at low levels. I'd focus on uncovering the whole map, walking everywhere you can, and finding shrines over Official Questing during the first 20-30 hours. Sell ALL of EVERYTHING at first for new armor, and remember that after blood moons you can re-obtain armor from the shrines that have it.

Re-obtain good weapons at shrines. Also, silver hinox is super hard.

Cheers - yeah I'm aiming to get to all the towers - though that fucking central tower is brutal and I dont see how I'm possibly going to get to it with all the Guardians around it.

after blood moons you can re-obtain armor from the shrines that have it.

I didnt know this! Thats good to know. I've also of course discovered that my amiibo gives me weapons once a day (I have Archer Link) so theres that too.

stealth armor is worth the high price, it makes all sorts of tasks easier

https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/12/15223338/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-nintendo-amiibo-hacking-ethics

I would love to get my hands on the Guardian amiibo but it seems like that was rarer than hens teeth.

Whether that constitutes cheating in the true sense of the word is debatable

Lol this is the least true sentence on the internet.

Finally got up Central Tower because I managed to kill both the Guardians ! Using parry with a Guardian shield. Hard to do but I got there in the end. And blowing them up rather than avoiding them means extra robot loot like cores and springs.

only just started this and i'm sure someone has mentioned this itt already but the moment i realised that i could climb every single thing in the overworld was one of those 'holy shit' gaming feelings that will make it hard to look at other games the same way again

It really is brilliant. The game seems very cleverly paced/balanced too, and I dont quite know how they do it, given how sandboxy it is - but despite my going about things in quite a random manner (I'm barely approaching the main questline at this point, Zora village aside), the game somehow knows how much Ive done and the monsters are getting harder and more frequent accordingly.

PS fuck u wizzrobes you little giggling bastards.

PS fuck u wizzrobes you little giggling bastards.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce)

the only ones that bother me are the lightning wizzrobes, because i don't think lightning has a one-hit-kill elemental weakness. i nearly always have a fire weapon and an ice weapon, or at least arrows.

Ive tried ice arrow followed by bomb, but it doesnt always seem to work. Plus they move around so much!

Like how would one hit them with a weapon aside from an arrow anyway? Theyre kind of floating in the air.

put some solid hours into this yesterday and this is basically the best open world in videogaming history, right?

it's really throwing some harsh light on stuff in other games i should actively hate but i've grown wearily accustomed to - invisible barriers thrown up because designers can't work out a way to prevent players from poking at the edges of maps, massive worlds with huge buildings which are only very selectively interactive, hemmed-in missions where you absolutely have to complete it the way it's structured instead of the risky plan of your own devising you'd prefer to follow...

being able to explore anywhere in a world with a physics engine this robust and fun is incredible, and that nintendo are doing all this on a system which is considerably less conventionally powerful than ps4 or xbone is all the more impressive. honestly if i only play a handful of other games on the switch i kinda feel like it'll be worth it

What's on the edge of the Breath of the Wild map, if everything can be climbed? The ocean? A giant vertical wall? Can you just walk to new donk city?

Ocean, ravine, endless dusty desert, impassable glacial thing iirc

i will say i have flat out gotten a "you can't go any farther in this direction" message from botw, so the barriers aren't as totally mimetic as they appear.

well fuck, this switch is getting sledgehammered soon as i get home

Woulda been cool if instead they had implemented barriers via, like, you can only carry a finite amount of water into the desert.

They have something a bit like that in ElderScrolls online - if you swim too far out into an ocean area not "allowed", you get attacked and killed by razorfish.

they shd let u form a new civilization

would be a cool idea if an open world game started using procedurally generated terrain/AI and sparse random events as soon as you left the map bounds

but that's a probably tremendously expensive and time-consuming solution to a problem that can be solved with invisible barriers

at the edge of the earth their shd be a waterslide and u slide down to hell

would that be like a game over or would hell have to be fully designed and traversable

hell wld just like suck i guess it wld be bad its hell

i want to become the devil, will you let me do that

u can be the devil but itll come at a price, youre soul

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Re-obtain good weapons at shrines.

So I went back to a shrine and managed to wangle my way back to the chest in it, and it was open and empty!??

Hows this sposed to work then?

maybe the person who said that was talking about the ancient swords, etc? because the enemies that carry them do respawn.

This is going to be pretty tough on my "Carry every potion I ever saw into the final FF boss" ass, isn't it?

Rusho: so like, the weapons carried by the mini-guardians in the strength tests, then?

yeah, those things. they do some pretty serious damage to regular enemies as well, particularly when they start coming with awesome bonus modifiers.