Ok, Wet/Dry World, Snowman's Land, and Tall Tall Mountain are 100% complete. Just need to finish Tiny/Huge Island and then I can move up the stairs.
This will be a long time coming finally finishing this game 100%.
Also, getting 100 coins in some of these worlds is pure garbage, especially when you get in the 90's and die. Almost soul crushing when that happens. :mad:
Here's a protip from the 90's:
Get the hardest ones first.
This tip brought to you by Captain Obvious and his sidekick, No-Shit Sherlock.
"The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
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"Pay your bill." "No."
"Destroy this thing." "No."
It's just a silly name. It really doesn't freakin' matter.
Personally I only roll my eyes when your pun/funny name is lazy. For example when I found out there was a monster in Monster Hunter named Rajang. I half expected a monster called Ahn'ghri at that point.
Usually they're better about name, but...
Let me tell you about Gobul and Nibelsnarf. Guess what the most prominent parts of their bodies are.
Look, those two are fine. Because they're ridiculous and silly anyways. I want Gobul to come back but it doesn't work without underwater.
I really want Gobul back, too. Hunters could stay underwater for 5+ minutes because they had "good lungs"; having water monsters back doesn't need to be realistic, you just need a fun excuse to keep Hunters at the surface. Such as:
1. Cover Flooded Forest's watery areas with large, walkable lily pads that depress shin/waist-high as a hunter steps on them. Now you have a walkable surface with visibility into water, without impeding hunter movement.
2. Give monster AI strict submerged/exposed states (not full 3d movment) in watery areas, similar to Nibelsnarf.
3. Let them use in-water attacks when submerged and rework them so hunters are never pulled fully underwater.
Royal Ludroth, Lagiacrus, even Plesioth could be pursued into water like this. Only Ceadeus wouldn't work, since it's so big a half-meter depth only reaches its back.
They could have even expanded the maps with available water along the same lines:
D. Island - Cover the surface of zone 10 and 11 with dense vines from cliffs, massive floating seaweed, driftwood, etc.
Tundra - Rearrange one of the zones to have water covered with floating ice chunks
Volcano - Expand the water in zone 4 and cover it with pumice/cooled lava chunks
Control runs pretty great actually. I certainly have too much of a backlog to justify forty bucks to keep playing but I was pleasantly surprised at performance. I played docked over WiFi on the better graphics mode and it was good.
Yeah streaming games on Switch have been a thing in Japan for a couple years, you can get Resident Evil 7, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and Phantasy Star Online 2 streaming
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why was it called deserted island when the village is right there
For the same reason that it's also called Moga Woods despite only having one area with trees.
Moga floats on the water so no one actually lives on the island, they live offshore. The ruins show someone once did, likely whoever left behind the legend of Ceadeus. That's how it's deserted.
Though, technically, Felyne and Melynx do seem to live there, so I guess it's still not quite accurate.
Edit: The woods bit was always a bit weird, wonder what it was in Japanese.
Zelda's kit in Age of Calamity is a bit awkward (her combos are shorter), but it has some more open ended silliness since her special action is "activate runes", which sets off all rune effects in play at once. Like... anything stasis'd gets a big jolt and launches. Bombs and ice all blow up at once. And she can litter a lot of those around a battlefield.
Also, I will never not love the walking bomb turret. That is also a bomb.
So I grabbed Steamworlds Heist and Dig 2 (already played 1) does the order of play matter at all?
Nope, not at all. Dig 1 before Dig 2, both for story and gameplay improvements, but Heist is a different part of the universe.
Well, it doesn't really matter, but Heist is after Dig 2, because a character from 2 is in Heist, and you'll get just a little bit more if you know who they were in 2.
"The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
Well, that was a nice surprise! I had 3,722 points on hand so now I have No More Heroes and No More Heroes 2 for “free” with some points left over!
I also bought a 1 terabyte memory card during Prime Day that I need to install. I can just copy the data from my 512 GB to the 1 TB in Windows, right?
Holy-fucking-goddamn man, that is a lot of points!
Also yeah, transporting information off one memory card onto another is real easy.
I just use the points from my previous purchase for every purchase. No reason to bank them that I can tell.
We had this discussion a couple of times in previous iterations of this thread. It’s all psychological. There’s little difference between, say, using Nintendo Points or using $5 reward coupons or credit card reward cash. I personally like to bank them toward a major purchase rather than smaller discounts. Like it feels more meaningful to get a free major purchase than a bunch of free or discounted smaller ones. To me, anyway.
It may actually be smarter to do that but I prefer this way. Like, it’s smarter to figure out as close as possible to what you actually owe in taxes every year rather than having a larger portion taken out throughout the year and then getting a huge refund at the beginning of the next year, but I would prefer to have a huge influx of cash come back to me at tax return time that I don’t have to worry about managing the logistics of. Kind of the same thing.
Well, that was a nice surprise! I had 3,722 points on hand so now I have No More Heroes and No More Heroes 2 for “free” with some points left over!
I also bought a 1 terabyte memory card during Prime Day that I need to install. I can just copy the data from my 512 GB to the 1 TB in Windows, right?
Holy-fucking-goddamn man, that is a lot of points!
Also yeah, transporting information off one memory card onto another is real easy.
I just use the points from my previous purchase for every purchase. No reason to bank them that I can tell.
We had this discussion a couple of times in previous iterations of this thread. It’s all psychological. There’s little difference between, say, using Nintendo Points or using $5 reward coupons or credit card reward cash. I personally like to bank them toward a major purchase rather than smaller discounts. Like it feels more meaningful to get a free major purchase than a bunch of free or discounted smaller ones. To me, anyway.
It may actually be smarter to do that but I prefer this way. Like, it’s smarter to figure out as close as possible to what you actually owe in taxes every year rather than having a larger portion taken out throughout the year and then getting a huge refund at the beginning of the next year, but I would prefer to have a huge influx of cash come back to me at tax return time that I don’t have to worry about managing the logistics of. Kind of the same thing.
But don't you forfeit any unused Gold points after a year, and you use oldest points first? So just make sure you spend them before that.
Got No More Heroes, performs well on the pro controller.
All gesture commands are mapped to the sticks now, mostly to the right stick. You can still shake the controller to charge your beam katana if you like.
I'd forgotten that Travis is a complete grade A wanker, and that the game is mocking him as much as anything else. The wii version recharge was such an "on the nose" gag.
I really enjoy Suda 51's sense of humour, it really carries his games for me when the gameplay stalls.
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So wait Nintendo just announced "Hey you can cloud-play Control on your Switch, whatever, why not right?" like it's no thing?
Apparently people found evidence of a Resident Evil 3: Cloud Edition coming for Switch, so it looks like they may have been lining stuff up for this assuming it doesn't collapse into a horrible mess.
(Though trying to beat the final boss on the harder difficulties with any amount of lag is going to be hilarious agony)
Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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I wonder if Doom Eternal will end up as a Switch cloud game.
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Pikmin 3's getting great reviews, with most of them noting there's loads of improvements to how Pikmin behave and how you can sort them that makes things easier to handle.
I looked at the link and only saw a few splash pages of character art. No idea what the game is like beyond "RPG", so I looked for a video online. Ah, here's a gameplay trailer....
Just wanted to say that Part-Time UFO is absolutely as charming as it looks! Got it and the Demo to Hyrule Warriors. I expected my daughter, who played all of Breath of the Wild with me, to be more excited about Hyrule Warriors and not give a shit about the UFO game, but no sooner did I boot up the Demo did she go "No dad, go back to the pick-up stuff game!"
Also, that theme tune / victory fanfare is infectious. I've already given it lyrics:
Good Job! *jingle*: "Doo do do do doo doo, doo dooooo"
That trailer had about 5 seconds worth of what looked like player controllable gameplay, which is about 5 seconds more than your typical Japanese game trailer.
I've heard very good things about the Trails games. Apparently they are traditional JRPGs with a pretty good story. I own a couple on Steam that I've been meaning to play.
i tried the most recent trails demo and it just dumps you into battle and is like "ok you're good right? anyway, later" while you're staring at 3-4 different combat mechanics and a pseudo movement system and none of it is explained or anything.
also wait, how the hell is control gonna be on switch
I've heard very good things about the Trails games. Apparently they are traditional JRPGs with a pretty good story. I own a couple on Steam that I've been meaning to play.
They have a lot of text. The actual quality of the story depends highly on your tolerance for... well, for anime. Like, it's just taken as a given that all step siblings coyly want to fuck each other, and virtually every chapter ends with "Boy, this sure seems like the start of a big conspiracy that someone should be looking into. Welp, let's just ignore that and let these genocidal maniacs go off to do their own thing until it all comes together at the very end of the game."
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Here's a protip from the 90's:
Get the hardest ones first.
This tip brought to you by Captain Obvious and his sidekick, No-Shit Sherlock.
1. Cover Flooded Forest's watery areas with large, walkable lily pads that depress shin/waist-high as a hunter steps on them. Now you have a walkable surface with visibility into water, without impeding hunter movement.
2. Give monster AI strict submerged/exposed states (not full 3d movment) in watery areas, similar to Nibelsnarf.
3. Let them use in-water attacks when submerged and rework them so hunters are never pulled fully underwater.
Royal Ludroth, Lagiacrus, even Plesioth could be pursued into water like this. Only Ceadeus wouldn't work, since it's so big a half-meter depth only reaches its back.
They could have even expanded the maps with available water along the same lines:
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Really cool to see this happening to make more demanding games available* to those who might only have the Switch.
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They were doing this in Japan a couple years back with RE7 and (I think) Monster Hunter World. First time it's come this way, though.
For the same reason that it's also called Moga Woods despite only having one area with trees.
Holy-fucking-goddamn man, that is a lot of points!
Also yeah, transporting information off one memory card onto another is real easy.
I just use the points from my previous purchase for every purchase. No reason to bank them that I can tell.
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Those Switch Pros aren't going to sell themselves!
Though, technically, Felyne and Melynx do seem to live there, so I guess it's still not quite accurate.
Edit: The woods bit was always a bit weird, wonder what it was in Japanese.
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Also, I will never not love the walking bomb turret. That is also a bomb.
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Nope, not at all. Dig 1 before Dig 2, both for story and gameplay improvements, but Heist is a different part of the universe.
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Well, it doesn't really matter, but Heist is after Dig 2, because a character from 2 is in Heist, and you'll get just a little bit more if you know who they were in 2.
We had this discussion a couple of times in previous iterations of this thread. It’s all psychological. There’s little difference between, say, using Nintendo Points or using $5 reward coupons or credit card reward cash. I personally like to bank them toward a major purchase rather than smaller discounts. Like it feels more meaningful to get a free major purchase than a bunch of free or discounted smaller ones. To me, anyway.
It may actually be smarter to do that but I prefer this way. Like, it’s smarter to figure out as close as possible to what you actually owe in taxes every year rather than having a larger portion taken out throughout the year and then getting a huge refund at the beginning of the next year, but I would prefer to have a huge influx of cash come back to me at tax return time that I don’t have to worry about managing the logistics of. Kind of the same thing.
But don't you forfeit any unused Gold points after a year, and you use oldest points first? So just make sure you spend them before that.
All gesture commands are mapped to the sticks now, mostly to the right stick. You can still shake the controller to charge your beam katana if you like.
I'd forgotten that Travis is a complete grade A wanker, and that the game is mocking him as much as anything else. The wii version recharge was such an "on the nose" gag.
I really enjoy Suda 51's sense of humour, it really carries his games for me when the gameplay stalls.
Beat me on 360: Raybies666
I remember when I had time to be good at games.
(Though trying to beat the final boss on the harder difficulties with any amount of lag is going to be hilarious agony)
It's fun getting entire games for free during e-shop sales.
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I looked at the link and only saw a few splash pages of character art. No idea what the game is like beyond "RPG", so I looked for a video online. Ah, here's a gameplay trailer....
...that shows virtually no gameplay.
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Also, that theme tune / victory fanfare is infectious. I've already given it lyrics:
Good Job! *jingle*: "Doo do do do doo doo, doo dooooo"
aka:
"Aaand I have to pick up, no moooore!"
also wait, how the hell is control gonna be on switch
I tried it out, works pretty well.
They won't even let you buy the game until you try it.
They have a lot of text. The actual quality of the story depends highly on your tolerance for... well, for anime. Like, it's just taken as a given that all step siblings coyly want to fuck each other, and virtually every chapter ends with "Boy, this sure seems like the start of a big conspiracy that someone should be looking into. Welp, let's just ignore that and let these genocidal maniacs go off to do their own thing until it all comes together at the very end of the game."