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?
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.
I’m completely hooked. There’s so much to do and the amount of times I’ve gotten sidetracked I can’t even count.
Same here, I keep getting distracted with different things.
There is so much to explore in this game. The Land, the sky, the depths, and each of them have different resources, so you have to explore all of them.
I haven’t even explored half of it.
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.
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.
That’s good to know about the main quest objectives. Thanks!
Congratulations on your gaming PC build. I can understand the feeling of getting a new “toy” and then not being able to play with it due to work or family responsibilities. Any special games in mind that you want to try?
I only played Battlefront 2 a little. Is there a co-op campaign? Or going to fight each other in the PvP?
As for the Zelda, for me, if Breath of the Wild was 10/10 then Tears of the Kingdom is 20/10.
Even though there are few places I recognize, everything feels new (it could be just because I played BOTW 6 years ago), the main structure of the land might be same, but there is so much more to explore. Not to mention a complete new underground layer, and the sky!
Also, the new abilities are a game changer, they gives you so much freedom. Don’t want to spoil too much, but for me at least, this game is better than Breath of the Wild in every way.
Any special games in mind that you want to try?
Thanks! I really want to finally try out Skyrim. I’ve postponed it for years because I just know I’ll get sucked into it hardcore, lol.
I only played Battlefront 2 a little. Is there a co-op campaign? Or going to fight each other in the PvP?
I’m not sure, didn’t think about that! I never played it, only watched a roommate play, I’ll have to check if we’ll be able play in split-screen.
As for the Zelda, for me, if Breath of the Wild was 10/10 then Tears of the Kingdom is 20/10.
Now that is one high bar! You just got me even more excited for TOTK than I already was!
Skyrim is one of my favourite game, last played it couple of years ago on Switch.
For first play-through, I would recommend playing without mods, or as few mods as possible. And do share how you like it.
Now that is one high bar! You just got me even more excited for TOTK than I already was!
I was afraid that game won’t match the hype, but it has exceeded them. But I won’t recommend going straight to TOTK after BOTW. You may end up feeling burned out. So give it at least a few months’ space before jumping into it.
Good point. Then it’s fortunate that I just got my PC build done!
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Anything in mind for what’s next?
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I’ve been on and off playing Mario Odyssey for a while now. I think I’m going to give that a bit more attention this weekend!
It has been about 6 years since Odyssey launch, it’s about time they announced the next 3D Mario game. I am hoping for an announcement sometime this year, and release by next year max. But you never know with Nintendo.
Are you going through the story / levels, or revisiting old levels to catch all the moons?
Yeah I’m going through the story! I started it ages ago and just never completed it. Really fun game to play!
Chalk another one up for TOTK.
TOTK taking over the world!
Did any quests yet? Or just exploring the world? Or a mix of both?
3 temples down, 1 to go.
Ah, same here. But now I am going to take care of some of the side-quests, and do some exploring along the way.
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 😄
I have paused the main quest, and started focusing on exploring and on side-quests, will get back to main quest when I start getting bored with that.
Don’t want the game to finish so soon. 😀
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.
Good luck! Pikmin 4 looks pretty fun.
I fell for star citizens promise, there’s some cool shit in there, but after spending more time it feels more like a shallow kids pool, but I’ll still be jumping back on
I don’t even know what’s going with Star Citizen anymore. Are they still developing it? I thought it was abandoned.
Far from abandoned. The other day I was doing a delivery mission and the moon’s wind knocked me over as I landed and left my ship. My cargo happened to be round so I watched it hit the landing pad and start rolling away from me.
They call it “physicalized” when something has physics and works like you expect. This goes a long way towards making piracy feel authentic. If you take out a mining ship you have to steal their ore and have some way to go out into space, tractor beam all the stuff into your own ship, and go off and sell it.
It’s very emergent, but basically all you can do is take stuff, fight, and sell stuff.
Sounds interesting. Hope they complete it one day soon.
Tears of the Kingdom of course, but I’ve also started playing HI-FI Rush and am loving it so far
Tears of the Kingdom of course Ofcourse.
How are you playing HI-FI Rush? On Xbox or PC?
I am hoping for some good first party Xbox announcements in their upcoming showcase. They really need it.
I’m playing on PC; that’s where I would prefer all my games. I had to buy a Switch for the exclusives tho haha
Actually, PC and Switch is a very good combination.
All Xbox games comes to PC, and Sony has also started porting their games. So, with Switch and PC you can play pretty much all the games.
maybe starting Tears of the Kingdom, been trying stay away from spoiler, idk what to expect, lol
That’s the way to go. Just jump in and embrace the joy of discovery.
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.
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.
I’ve played every Pokemon game since the original Red, and it’s definitely getting staler. I enjoyed Sun/Moon a lot but I can’t recommend Sword/Shield or Scarlet/Violet at all. Hope that ToTK scratches that open world itch that I have from games like Skyrim, BoTW and Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West.
@cali @spicytuna62 TOTK is amazing. I could wander the world for hours
I got to the school in Pokemon Scarlet and couldn’t continue the game. The world feels almost like a massive Super Mario 64 world and it’s super disheartening. I’ve decided the future of Pokemon is in the hands of the fans to make good games. What do you like about this new generation of Pokemon?
It is a pretty massive map. I used an online guide for determining the order of which gyms/star bases I would battle, and just explored from there.
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.
I am more of a quests guy, but I keep getting distracted by the different things.
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.
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.
I’ve dabbled a bit with OoT, TP and some other ones too, always found the games very intriguing with no lack of quality. Other games / things took priority so I never got far enough with any of them to actually say I’ve played a Zelda game.
Fair enough. There are so many good games coming out these days, if you want to play older games too, the list just keeps on increasing.
Tears of the Kingdom if I can pry it from my daughter’s hands
Hehe, that’s a tough one.
What is she playing?
Taking a break from TOTK to play age of calamity. Skipped it way back and got the dynasty warriors itch again
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.
Oh absolutely lol. I could also see AoC spoiling you for story telling. As much as I love TOTK, AoC story telling is better imo
