Pfff I can't do this, if I start spitballing ideas for off-the-wall Zelda game concepts I'll be here all day
But I do think that one of the improvements we'll see in the next Zelda title, due for 2020, is that we'll be able to do more things with domestic animals, at least
I very much doubt I'll ever want to play skyward sword ever again
I hated it too but MOST of those issues (if not all) would be solved by a motion-control-less version
Sadly, motion controls are tip of the iceberg of problems I had with that game.
It was built from the ground up to make me walk around with my hand being held while suckling on a pacifier.
I had to stop playing before even reaching the first dungeon because the hand holding and relentlessly useless interruptions by Fi pissed me off too much to want to go any further.
It's not often that a game goes out of its way to insult my intelligence as frequently as possible, but god damn that game was determined to do it.
I mean, Fi has some boneheaded, obvious stuff to say, but I would not have expected there was enough... well, dialogue at all to make someone get that put off by a sense of handholding before even reaching the first dungeon.
Different thresholds, I guess.
I mean, I somehow managed to not really notice the annoyance of Fi's obvious chime-ins until I played the game the second time.
So I played The Long Reach, this newish adventure game that came out on Switch (and I think ps4?) a while back
It’s... I dunno, the most complimentary thing I can think of for it is that it had an interesting weird atmosphere? But it’s weirdly buggy, the dialogue is not great (it feels like they did the Beat Cop thing of ‘more swearing = better dialogue’, though thankfully without any of the bigotry). Plus some of the puzzles are weirdly arcane and require you to just press the A button in the dark until you find the thing you’re looking for.
It’s just... Not good.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
What I want for the next Zelda game is a more elaborate cooking system
The ability to bulk cook from a list of already discovered recipes would be amazing
No! The beauty of BotW cooking is there are no recipes! Like, in the game there are no recipes, it's all systems driven where each ingredient has it's own properties it contributes to the final meal! It's a relatively simple procedure but all of the meals are procedurally generated.
It would be pretty good to be able to save a certain number of recipes that you like tho
All I wanted was a recipe book. Not "what makes this" but "what have you made"? Gimme a cooking compendium to fill out!
That would be completely counter to the systems based cooking though! Which is what makes the cooking fun! The catalog of possible meals would either be incomplete or unwieldly long and would be an incredibly arduous process for some poor sap at Nintendo to make
because Breath of the Wild does not have a list of recipes, it does not see what ingredients you have and say "yes that equals this meal" it takes the ingredients, puts their effects together, depending on the ingredients it chooses an image and name and whatever adjectives like "Hasty" or "Energizing" that apply
It's procedural, it's systems driven, it's following the same philosophy behind the physics engine where things have weight and therefor push down a button instead of older games where they have specific objects which can push down buttons
It wouldn't be difficult or long at all. Like half the shit I make with meat is the same fuckin' meat dish. Did I include a mushroom, oh it's a Mushroom Skewer now.
I don't need to know which particular combination of things gave me it (although that wouldn't be hard either--the same combination of things will always give you the same result. However the behind the scenes mechanics work, thats still consistency), I just wanna keep a list of unique things I've made. They absolutely care about this because they put a bunch of recipes for unique cooking stuff up all over the place and even had a few sidequests that revolved around making something specific.
I guess I just don't know what this would look like because depending on the ingredients you add it'll have different effects
Like, if you cook a Chillshroom you get a Chilly Mushroom Skewer that restores 1 heart and gives you heat resistance for 2 minutes and 30 seconds
Add a Hylian Shroom and you get a Chilly Mushroom Skewer that restores 2 hearts and gives you heat resistance for 3 minutes
Cook 3 Chillshroom and you get a Chilly Mushroom Skewer that restores 3 hearts and gives you double heat resistance for 7 minutes and 30 seconds
Would those be three separate entries in the cookbook? Different meats will yield the same name but with varying health recovery, would each one be an entry?
So what if they kept to the "only one food bonus at a time" rule, but relaxed the idea that each food could only provide one kind of bonus? Like, you could have both a speed and an attack bonus from the last thing you ate, but obviously not both maxed out because they're both fighting for space in the number of ingredients you have available.
My favorite musical instrument is the air-raid siren.
What I want for the next Zelda game is a more elaborate cooking system
The ability to bulk cook from a list of already discovered recipes would be amazing
No! The beauty of BotW cooking is there are no recipes! Like, in the game there are no recipes, it's all systems driven where each ingredient has it's own properties it contributes to the final meal! It's a relatively simple procedure but all of the meals are procedurally generated.
It would be pretty good to be able to save a certain number of recipes that you like tho
All I wanted was a recipe book. Not "what makes this" but "what have you made"? Gimme a cooking compendium to fill out!
That would be completely counter to the systems based cooking though! Which is what makes the cooking fun! The catalog of possible meals would either be incomplete or unwieldly long and would be an incredibly arduous process for some poor sap at Nintendo to make
because Breath of the Wild does not have a list of recipes, it does not see what ingredients you have and say "yes that equals this meal" it takes the ingredients, puts their effects together, depending on the ingredients it chooses an image and name and whatever adjectives like "Hasty" or "Energizing" that apply
It's procedural, it's systems driven, it's following the same philosophy behind the physics engine where things have weight and therefor push down a button instead of older games where they have specific objects which can push down buttons
It wouldn't be difficult or long at all. Like half the shit I make with meat is the same fuckin' meat dish. Did I include a mushroom, oh it's a Mushroom Skewer now.
I don't need to know which particular combination of things gave me it (although that wouldn't be hard either--the same combination of things will always give you the same result. However the behind the scenes mechanics work, thats still consistency), I just wanna keep a list of unique things I've made. They absolutely care about this because they put a bunch of recipes for unique cooking stuff up all over the place and even had a few sidequests that revolved around making something specific.
I guess I just don't know what this would look like because depending on the ingredients you add it'll have different effects
Like, if you cook a Chillshroom you get a Chilly Mushroom Skewer that restores 1 heart and gives you heat resistance for 2 minutes and 30 seconds
Add a Hylian Shroom and you get a Chilly Mushroom Skewer that restores 2 hearts and gives you heat resistance for 3 minutes
Cook 3 Chillshroom and you get a Chilly Mushroom Skewer that restores 3 hearts and gives you double heat resistance for 7 minutes and 30 seconds
Would those be three separate entries in the cookbook? Different meats will yield the same name but with varying health recovery, would each one be an entry?
I don't care about stats, I care about the food. Those are all Chilly Mushroom Skewers they're the same entry.
What I want for the next Zelda game is a more elaborate cooking system
The ability to bulk cook from a list of already discovered recipes would be amazing
No! The beauty of BotW cooking is there are no recipes! Like, in the game there are no recipes, it's all systems driven where each ingredient has it's own properties it contributes to the final meal! It's a relatively simple procedure but all of the meals are procedurally generated.
It would be pretty good to be able to save a certain number of recipes that you like tho
All I wanted was a recipe book. Not "what makes this" but "what have you made"? Gimme a cooking compendium to fill out!
That would be completely counter to the systems based cooking though! Which is what makes the cooking fun! The catalog of possible meals would either be incomplete or unwieldly long and would be an incredibly arduous process for some poor sap at Nintendo to make
because Breath of the Wild does not have a list of recipes, it does not see what ingredients you have and say "yes that equals this meal" it takes the ingredients, puts their effects together, depending on the ingredients it chooses an image and name and whatever adjectives like "Hasty" or "Energizing" that apply
It's procedural, it's systems driven, it's following the same philosophy behind the physics engine where things have weight and therefor push down a button instead of older games where they have specific objects which can push down buttons
It wouldn't be difficult or long at all. Like half the shit I make with meat is the same fuckin' meat dish. Did I include a mushroom, oh it's a Mushroom Skewer now.
I don't need to know which particular combination of things gave me it (although that wouldn't be hard either--the same combination of things will always give you the same result. However the behind the scenes mechanics work, thats still consistency), I just wanna keep a list of unique things I've made. They absolutely care about this because they put a bunch of recipes for unique cooking stuff up all over the place and even had a few sidequests that revolved around making something specific.
I guess I just don't know what this would look like because depending on the ingredients you add it'll have different effects
Like, if you cook a Chillshroom you get a Chilly Mushroom Skewer that restores 1 heart and gives you heat resistance for 2 minutes and 30 seconds
Add a Hylian Shroom and you get a Chilly Mushroom Skewer that restores 2 hearts and gives you heat resistance for 3 minutes
Cook 3 Chillshroom and you get a Chilly Mushroom Skewer that restores 3 hearts and gives you double heat resistance for 7 minutes and 30 seconds
Would those be three separate entries in the cookbook? Different meats will yield the same name but with varying health recovery, would each one be an entry?
I don't care about stats, I care about the food. Those are all Chilly Mushroom Skewers they're the same entry.
Oooookay, I get you. Sorry, I was incredibly caught up in the stats. I am very much about those food stats.
What I want for the next Zelda game is a more elaborate cooking system
The ability to bulk cook from a list of already discovered recipes would be amazing
No! The beauty of BotW cooking is there are no recipes! Like, in the game there are no recipes, it's all systems driven where each ingredient has it's own properties it contributes to the final meal! It's a relatively simple procedure but all of the meals are procedurally generated.
It would be pretty good to be able to save a certain number of recipes that you like tho
All I wanted was a recipe book. Not "what makes this" but "what have you made"? Gimme a cooking compendium to fill out!
That would be completely counter to the systems based cooking though! Which is what makes the cooking fun! The catalog of possible meals would either be incomplete or unwieldly long and would be an incredibly arduous process for some poor sap at Nintendo to make
because Breath of the Wild does not have a list of recipes, it does not see what ingredients you have and say "yes that equals this meal" it takes the ingredients, puts their effects together, depending on the ingredients it chooses an image and name and whatever adjectives like "Hasty" or "Energizing" that apply
It's procedural, it's systems driven, it's following the same philosophy behind the physics engine where things have weight and therefor push down a button instead of older games where they have specific objects which can push down buttons
It wouldn't be difficult or long at all. Like half the shit I make with meat is the same fuckin' meat dish. Did I include a mushroom, oh it's a Mushroom Skewer now.
I don't need to know which particular combination of things gave me it (although that wouldn't be hard either--the same combination of things will always give you the same result. However the behind the scenes mechanics work, thats still consistency), I just wanna keep a list of unique things I've made. They absolutely care about this because they put a bunch of recipes for unique cooking stuff up all over the place and even had a few sidequests that revolved around making something specific.
I guess I just don't know what this would look like because depending on the ingredients you add it'll have different effects
Like, if you cook a Chillshroom you get a Chilly Mushroom Skewer that restores 1 heart and gives you heat resistance for 2 minutes and 30 seconds
Add a Hylian Shroom and you get a Chilly Mushroom Skewer that restores 2 hearts and gives you heat resistance for 3 minutes
Cook 3 Chillshroom and you get a Chilly Mushroom Skewer that restores 3 hearts and gives you double heat resistance for 7 minutes and 30 seconds
Would those be three separate entries in the cookbook? Different meats will yield the same name but with varying health recovery, would each one be an entry?
I don't care about stats, I care about the food. Those are all Chilly Mushroom Skewers they're the same entry.
Oooookay, I get you. Sorry, I was incredibly caught up in the stats. I am very much about those food stats.
Oh yeah that whole thing is cool, I just want a little book with pictures of all the different types of meal that unlock the first time I make one. I need the game to acknowledge me and my works, y'know.
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WACriminalDying Is Easy, Young ManLiving Is HarderRegistered Userregular
Yeah, for a game that features Koroks, 100+ shrines, the Hyrule Compendium, and many different suits of armor (each with multiple levels of upgrade and set bonus), it seems fucking weird that I don't have a little checklist to tell me whether I had made all the food dishes yet, like
Heart Soup or Rice Pudding or Seafood Paella.
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FencingsaxIt is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understandingGNU Terry PratchettRegistered Userregular
I do like how the recipes are on posters around the world.
There is a dead man's switch that, so long as it is held down, prevents Animal Crossing from being announced, much less released.
I've been holding down that switch non-stop since E3 of 2014. I know that I'm going to have to let go at some point, but when I do, everything I love is lost to me
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KwoaruConfident SmirkFlawless Golden PecsRegistered Userregular
Swamp Temple done: the boss was annoying as hell but then the deku princess was rad as fuck and made up for it (but then chasing the butler with the awful 3DS circle pad was hellish and ruined it)
Went around and beat all the mini games I have access to that require a bow and reset time, tonight I head north I guess
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Mx. QuillI now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually...{They/Them}Registered Userregular
There is a dead man's switch that, so long as it is held down, prevents Animal Crossing from being announced, much less released.
I've been holding down that switch non-stop since E3 of 2014. I know that I'm going to have to let go at some point, but when I do, everything I love is lost to me
You monster
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Garlic Breadi'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm aRegistered User, Disagreeableregular
When they announce Animal Crossing Switch, all of those amiibo are gonna jump from $0.75 to $75
Just like Playstation Move controllers and PSVR
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Mx. QuillI now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually...{They/Them}Registered Userregular
Make every amiibo compatible with AC Switch.
Let me populate my town with Solaire, Callie and Marie, and Lucina.
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I almost got crushed by a horse once
I don’t recommend it
2020, huh.
Dogs? Sure. Birds and squirrels? I eat em. Let's move on
Let me pet birds instead
Eliminate combat. Create a unique system for interacting with each type of animal in the game
The korok seed collection was perfect actually
I'm an absolutely obsessive item collected and felt it was devoid of any challenge or feeling of accomplishment
And I got every question mark on wither 3
It's bad
Imo
Sadly, motion controls are tip of the iceberg of problems I had with that game.
It was built from the ground up to make me walk around with my hand being held while suckling on a pacifier.
I had to stop playing before even reaching the first dungeon because the hand holding and relentlessly useless interruptions by Fi pissed me off too much to want to go any further.
It's not often that a game goes out of its way to insult my intelligence as frequently as possible, but god damn that game was determined to do it.
I mean, Fi has some boneheaded, obvious stuff to say, but I would not have expected there was enough... well, dialogue at all to make someone get that put off by a sense of handholding before even reaching the first dungeon.
Different thresholds, I guess.
I mean, I somehow managed to not really notice the annoyance of Fi's obvious chime-ins until I played the game the second time.
It’s... I dunno, the most complimentary thing I can think of for it is that it had an interesting weird atmosphere? But it’s weirdly buggy, the dialogue is not great (it feels like they did the Beat Cop thing of ‘more swearing = better dialogue’, though thankfully without any of the bigotry). Plus some of the puzzles are weirdly arcane and require you to just press the A button in the dark until you find the thing you’re looking for.
It’s just... Not good.
that is a three megabyte image
I guess I just don't know what this would look like because depending on the ingredients you add it'll have different effects
Like, if you cook a Chillshroom you get a Chilly Mushroom Skewer that restores 1 heart and gives you heat resistance for 2 minutes and 30 seconds
Add a Hylian Shroom and you get a Chilly Mushroom Skewer that restores 2 hearts and gives you heat resistance for 3 minutes
Cook 3 Chillshroom and you get a Chilly Mushroom Skewer that restores 3 hearts and gives you double heat resistance for 7 minutes and 30 seconds
Would those be three separate entries in the cookbook? Different meats will yield the same name but with varying health recovery, would each one be an entry?
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Whoops. @Chincymcchilla please edit yours.
Steam Switch FC: 2799-7909-4852
It was super cool.
Didn't Sharla try to help Melia get Shulk?
Which was completely doomed from the start, but they were 2 of the only 3 party members to not know that?
Steam Switch FC: 2799-7909-4852
I don't care about stats, I care about the food. Those are all Chilly Mushroom Skewers they're the same entry.
Oooookay, I get you. Sorry, I was incredibly caught up in the stats. I am very much about those food stats.
3DS: 2019-9671-8106 NNID: RamblinMushroom
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Oh yeah that whole thing is cool, I just want a little book with pictures of all the different types of meal that unlock the first time I make one. I need the game to acknowledge me and my works, y'know.
It took me a while to realize that's what those were too
True, but that was probably the least of Melia's obstacles.
Mario Kaaaaaaaaaaaart
Animal Crossing already exists.
Coulda fooled me given that we haven't gotten a new one in HOW long?
I mean, does it?
I've been holding down that switch non-stop since E3 of 2014. I know that I'm going to have to let go at some point, but when I do, everything I love is lost to me
Went around and beat all the mini games I have access to that require a bow and reset time, tonight I head north I guess
You monster
Just like Playstation Move controllers and PSVR
Let me populate my town with Solaire, Callie and Marie, and Lucina.
A couple months ago?
A mobile game is not a new main series entry, which is what i meant
New leaf is the last real animal crossing game