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Nope, I talked to every NPC at all the towns, and on the roads. But, I didn’t stop at any of the horse stables since I never had need of a horse. It’s all cliffs and teleportation!
Edit: The fireproof armor NPC was only one part of the armor needed to make yourself fireproof, and of course he was at the base camp I had to teleport away from since I was on fire.
It’s not just the tree guy. The whole game’s like that.
Here, let me give you another example of the counter-intuitive gameplay I encountered:
The volcano. It’s hot. I need to travel up it.
First attempt: Check my available tools for something. Bombs, no. Timestop, no. Ice pillar, maybe? no. Swords, Shields, Bows… no.
Second attempt: Explore the area, see a hotspring. Try to map out a route using hotsprings as a cooling source. No dice.
Third attempt: Visit all the major cities for info, nothing found other than the volcano is hot. No vendors selling any items that can help.
Fourth attempt: Circle around and try to find a tunnel, putting on all my desert gear to reduce heat damage. Catch fire regardless, no cave found.
Fifth attempt: Load up all my food and make meals, brute force my way to the base camp. No assistance there, have to teleport out.
Sixth attempt: Doing a completely unrelated hunt for a shrine, bump into the NPC selling fire resist potions at a horse stable. A horse stable I mostly ignore because the game lets you teleport everywhere!
Do I feel accomplished, finally finding this only way up the volcano? No! I feel like Nintendo just wasted my time!
Even worse, when I finally make it to the Goron city and buy the fireproof armor, I bump into a Goron who gives me half the recipe to make the fire resist potion. Not even the whole recipe. And he was far far beyond the base camp I brute forced to. If he had been in all the other cities, and with the full recipe, maybe this wouldn’t have been such a challenge of dumb luck.
If I recall correctly, I turned off all the driving assist aside anti-lock brakes and still breezed through… simply because they don’t let you buy the wrong car for a race. It felt like the game lost an entire aspect to it. The restaurant menu or whatever system it was only let you buy exactly the cars it took to win the next race, with everything else locked.
Back in one of the previous GTs (4?) I accidentally bought a Prius as a starting vehicle. It was, in theory, everything you’d need for a beginner car… but yikes was it bad. And I quickly learned about sunk cost fallacy trying to upgrade it. I made a similar grievous error in GT2 buying a Daihatsu Mira as my beginning car during a second run. I was targeting the K Cup and didn’t think beyond those requirements. So I was stuck with something like 78hp going into the Clubman Cup, which didn’t work at all.
Another mistake was buying a Chevy Nova (or maybe Camaro?) in GT6 for the legacy races, only to find out the heavy weight and rear-wheel drive made it impossibly difficult to turn without losing traction and having the tires kicking out from underneath. It was even too heavy to compete in a basic FR race. There was no fixing it. My driving style was too aggressive and I had to choose another vehicle.
All of those errors were learning moments that I brought forward in choosing my future cars. Learning what was in my budget, what upgrades I targeted first, and adapting when I got it wrong… all of that seemed gone in GT7. I don’t even remember money being a consideration.
It’s possible that I could have unlocked more of the “game” when I finished those tutorial-esque menus, but I had rather boot up the older games and just jump into a Sunday Cup with a fresh Silvia Q.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
I don’t find my weapon breaking every 10 minutes fun, nor do I find the endless wandering with no context clues very engaging. I swear 90% of the stuff you have to stumble onto by dumb luck. It took me months to accidentally bump into that stupid maraca tree thing and expand my inventory. That’s just dumb design.
I swear 95% of the stuff Steam recommended is reasoned with because it is popular and not because it’s something I would play.
Even when they say it’s related to a library item, it’s not even tangential. Like… Escape the Backrooms is not like Terraria. In any sense. They put that there because Youtubers are selling it.
I lament it, but I understand it. Last year’s reports showed that GoG was barely staying afloat. Their rival shows Linux is only 3% of current market, so GoG probably doesn’t want to spread themselves any thinner until they get some surplus cash to test the waters with.
Thank goodness for Heroic launcher.
I take issue with the clickbait title and am ready to perform an “Umm… actually”. Morrowind featured controller support for years via the Xbox. It didn’t just get it. Heck, it still doesn’t officially support controllers on PC. I wouldn’t even call OpenMW devs “modders”.
My stupid gripe aside, for those who don’t know, you can pop in an OG Morrowind Xbox disk into any generation of Xbox console and it’ll play. Series X will even boost the resolution up to nearly 4K (1920p).
28 years and there is still nothing close to it. Either they focus too much on flight like Zone of Enders and Daemon X Machina, or they ground it too hard like Front Mission Evolved. No happy middleground.
I really thought with the success of Fires of Rubicon that we’d get a decent attempt at a clone.
I’m betting the Bluetooth ID given by the controller advertises that it is a speaker, and Windows is assuming a newly connected speaker is where the person wants to output audio. I mean, why else would you connect a speaker? /s
Fun fact: The PS5 controller also includes a microphone. My circle didn’t know a hot mic was listening in on everything until we noticed background audio in one of our captures.
Solid?? I can accept Fun… but solid is not a word I would use. The game was falling apart on it’s debut. I had to go dig up one of my first youtube favorites:
I recently played Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox Series X. I was amazed at how great it looked when output at modern 4K with 60fps and 16x anisotropic filtering. The gameplay was still crap, but amazing to look at given it was on 360 originally.
Because of that experience, I am a little more forgiving for 360/PS3 generation. Those games were mostly running 720p frame buffers (or worse) and seriously gain a lot when given some shine.
(This completely ignores the fact that PC would naturally have these abilities without an additional purchase)
Sw/Sh were a real low point. They boiled the story down to “Let the adults handle it” and left you just running between gyms the entire game.
It’s honestly been too long since I’ve played the older games to judge their writing… but I did play Scarlet recently, and have to give props to Arven’s storyline. It is a shame the game is at Resident Evil 6 levels of unfocused, and brain-dead levels of easy.
Yeah, that’s plausible for sure given how humble Ross is… but for some reason I recall him saying quite early into the campaign (which I may be recalling incorrectly since it was almost a year ago, in many 2+ hour videos) that the EU had very strict political lobbying laws.
Receiving funds was a no-no, and even putting up a billboard would have ran foul of the rules and invalidated everything.
it’s true!
But the game has established multiple times that a set only gives a bonus on full equip!