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Yeah that magazine arrived yesterday. Haven’t read the reviews yet but looked at the scores. I think Trianglr could have been a 9 from me (if I scored in 10s) if some of the cut scenes were more abridged. The story is good but it takes a hell of a lot of time to get off the ground.
There's a reference to BOTW's opening after the first boss lmao.
BOTW get the sprawling "view the entire open world shot" 5 mins into the game.
This game: see it 35 hours in
Kirby is good. Not sure how long it is but it seems much bigger than most other Kirby games I’ve played. The demo gives a good taste of it but definitely doesn’t include the best the game has to offer.
I’m also surprisingly enjoying Elden Ring a lot. Even if I’m too crap to beat the first boss and too scared to do much else.
Damien wrote:I’m also surprisingly enjoying Elden Ring a lot. Even if I’m too crap to beat the first boss and too scared to do much else.
If you're referring to Margit, along that river in the middle of Limgrave is a cave where you can find Patches. Spare his life and he'll open a shop that sells an item which locks down Margit for several seconds during his first phase and can be used repeatedly in that phase. There's also an NPC by the entrance you can summon for help if you need it.
If you're referring to Godrick, there's no special gimmick to the fight like Margit but if you go the opposite direction of the boss door you'll find a room with an NPC lady you can talk to. Exhaust her dialogue options and she'll become available as a summon in front of the boss door. In either case the fight is very frontloaded so if you can get the timing down for dodge rolling the first phase's attacks the second is incredibly easy. He just slowly shoots fire and leaps at you occasionally.
And of course you can always summon other players for help as well.
Also if you're going to Magrit before you've explored, I would suggest, just go explore. They show you the golden path, but not as an immediate, this is where you need to go now.
I just looked at the map's for anomalies and went there and had tons of fun.
Just like I played BOTW basically.
At this rate those two games are my favourites since maybe Metroid Prime in 2G2. I've all but abandoned my HZD replay in favour of ER, just like i did when BOTW came out.
I've already tired summoning other players and using other summons for the boss as well. i think i just lack the patience to work out attack patterns and stand back. Always have. I've explored quite a lot of the map off the path though but would like to get this boss done at some point.
Damien wrote:Not using magic at all. It’s okay though. I’m not frustrated about it and will work it out myself.
Ok, well good luck! I'm using the same pure str melee build with a greatsword and it can certainly make some situations more annoying than usual but it's worth it to look badass.
It's just impossible for a Souls game to be GOTY period. There was a Kirby game that came out this year too. I haven't even played it and may not, but it's probably a stronger contender.
Damien wrote:Both Elden Ring and Kirby are great. I actually think you might like Elden Ring though.
EDIT: Streamed Kirby on Sunday
To be fair, I've seen some of it being played and it looks like it could be kind of fun to play ... for awhile. Two things that I think could lead me to getting bored with it quickly are excessive difficulty and lack of much narrative. Still BoTW didn't have much narrative either and I enjoyed it pretty well to the end. I probably need some cooldown from massive open world games before I could appreciate it at all though, having just spent quite a chunk of time on Horizon.
It sure is.
But to me the importance is that the grinding possibilities are far more endless than previous souls game.
If you're stuck, there's almost an infinite amount of stuff to do while you level up. Other souls game were more constrained on that front, or relied on you to git gud.
Haven't played games lately due to power outage, but has anyone noticed how yet another Horizon Game got completely overshadowed by a much better open world game.
I just play a little bit some days of the week. Been roadblocked at the Fire Giant boss for over 3 weeks now. Found plenty of side stuff to do in the meantime though.
Disco Elysium is way more fun than I thought it would be. It really is living up to the hype, but I also know that a lot of people who play it without really knowing what kind of a game it is could absolutely hate it.
Murder-mystery dialog RPG where the way the game plays is very markedly affected by how you build your character in the beginning.
