Who here likes video games? Anyone?

[Joe_5859]

Nice, you got all three of the climbing gears! Where was the last one? I looked all over and never found it for some reason.

One was on Dueling Peaks. Another was on a little island in the Hateno Bay region. The last was on the east side of Mount Lanyru. That one was a pain to find and get to, but was part of a side quest initiated by someone in Hateno village. It was so hard to find that there was no test inside the shrine. They just gave you the chest. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Oh man, Eventide Island. That was a fun one. I was unlucky though, in that right after I had finally cleared the island of all the monsters, a stupid blood moon rose and brought them all back. I don’t think anyone has dreaded that foreboding music more than I did at that moment lol.

P.S. You probably already guessed, but I’m the same Robyn p that posted here on the old forum. My old account didn’t transfer over sadly, so I had to make this one.

That stinks! That happened to me the first time I went to the island, but luckily I had only just landed and cleared away one small group of enemies. So not nearly as bad as it was for you. After I died, I waited for the blood moon to pass before going back. After I finally beat the island, my wife had gone and looked online and said, Oh there is a trick where you can drop any items you want to keep the second you land on the island before the voice takes everything and then you can just pick it right back up. A little late to benefit from that.

 

[balto]

Yes, I went through the Zora story, but that’s the only one so far. I ended up there pretty quickly, but I’ve been easily distracted since then. I went up near Death Mountain, but ran out of the elixir that prevents me from catching fire. I was just going to warp out, cook some more, and go right back. But I’m easily distracted. Most recently I decided to just get to all the towers. I’ve activated all but one and actually just found a second fairy fountain. I have found two of the memory locations so far. Usually I try to find everything before going up against Ganon, but this game plays so differently that I’ll have to see how it goes.

Thanks for the tip about the Windwaker-esque game. I did like Windwaker a lot. So did my daughter. I’m fortunate that she likes to watch me play Zelda. It’s a bonding experience. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Oh nice, then you have the super useful special powerup then. I used that way more often than I should have . I only found one of the Great Fairies. I was actually a little nervous because I thought that thing was going to turn out to be one of those Deku Baba bosses, so I approached it apprehensively and tried gently disturbing it to see if it would wake up lol (assuming they are all the same, I don’t actually know).

Is there anything else that’s good on the Switch? I don’t know if I’ll end up getting one, probably not now since they are scarce and overpriced. I was reading about how Nintendo is about to release another one of those classic consoles, this time for the SNES. People were speculating about how they might do the same for the N64 next year. That would seriously be awesome, I really miss the N64 a lot. We still have our old N64 but none of the games.

A couple of years ago GameStop started selling retro games/consoles, so I managed to get a copy of Pokemon Stadium II, thinking I could replay it since we still had that adapter thing that fit in the back of the controller that you could put a GameBoy Pokemon cartridge in and play GB Pokemon through Stadium (I was not allowed to have handhelds at that age, but somehow managed to convince my mother that this was different back then). The Pokemon Silver cartridge was still in it . Well the thing is so old it will only read the N64 cartridge if you push it down forcefully and then push the top of the cartridge back a bit so it is slightly tilted I guess, otherwise the connections aren’t made. Actually my first problem was that the memory expansion slot was empty. Apparently you have to have some dummy cartridge in there even if there is no expansion cartridge, so I had to order one of those from Amazon. And then the Pokemon Silver game was corrupted and couldn’t be read The battery unsurprisingly was dead, so I had to pry that cartridge open, pry the old battery out and replace it with a new one to get it to work. This was very much a chewing-gum-and-Scotch-tape affair lol. It will be nice not to have to do that anymore.

 

[balto]

Did you know that old painter guy who is at Kakariko village and also usually hangs out at the stables will actually tell you right where the memories are? That was the only reason I could find that tree one. I spent hours looking for it, then finally decided to talk to that guy and he was just like “oh yeah I know that tree, thats in such and such forest.” Made it a million times easier to find.

Interesting, no I didn’t know that. I think I may have talked to that man though at some point. Yeah that would help a lot. I would just look at the picture and say “well if the castle is facing that direction then the camera must be somewhere in this area” and then go there and try to get the camera angle and distance just right. And even then it was hard to find that glowing aura. There was one with the castle in it and you were in the mountains looking down at it with a body of water just past the edge of the cliff the photographer was standing on. I had the exact image on the main screen and yet I could not find that aura. I kept opening the camera and looking at the image and thinking that this is the exact thing I am seeing but no aura

 

[RobynP]

Interesting, no I didn’t know that. I think I may have talked to that man though at some point. Yeah that would help a lot. I would just look at the picture and say “well if the castle is facing that direction then the camera must be somewhere in this area” and then go there and try to get the camera angle and distance just right. And even then it was hard to find that glowing aura. There was one with the castle in it and you were in the mountains looking down at it with a body of water just past the edge of the cliff the photographer was standing on. I had the exact image on the main screen and yet I could not find that aura. I kept opening the camera and looking at the image and thinking that this is the exact thing I am seeing but no aura

Yeah that was a glitch I noticed a couple times too. One time I swear I was standing in the right spot, no aura. Left and came back to the exact same spot a few minutes later, and there it was finally. Made me feel like I was going crazy haha.

But that’s really the only glitch I ever encountered in the game, so can’t really complain.

Did you ever do the combat trial from the DLC? I still haven’t beaten it. I got up to about level 15 but took a break from playing video games for a while. Kind of tempted to try it again.

 

[Joe_5859]

Oh nice, then you have the super useful special powerup then. I used that way more often than I should have . I only found one of the Great Fairies. I was actually a little nervous because I thought that thing was going to turn out to be one of those Deku Baba bosses, so I approached it apprehensively and tried gently disturbing it to see if it would wake up lol (assuming they are all the same, I don’t actually know).

Funny.

Is there anything else that’s good on the Switch? I don’t know if I’ll end up getting one, probably not now since they are scarce and overpriced.

So far, I just have Zelda and Splatoon 2. I really enjoy Splatoon. I spent far more time playing the original Splatoon than any other game on the Wii U. Up until I got the Switch, I was still playing it regularly. There’s just something about rolling over people with an over-sized colorful roller. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: Super Mario Odyssey is just a month and a half away. I’m excited about that one.

I was reading about how Nintendo is about to release another one of those classic consoles, this time for the SNES. People were speculating about how they might do the same for the N64 next year. That would seriously be awesome, I really miss the N64 a lot. We still have our old N64 but none of the games.

Yeah, I’ve heard that, too. I get excited about the news, but then I think of how I still have my N64 and all my old games and I still never play them. Mario Kart 64 and Goldeneye pretty much defined half my college years.

That’s a lot to go through to play a game. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: It makes me wonder how the batteries are doing in my old cartridges.

 

[balto]

Yeah that was a glitch I noticed a couple times too. One time I swear I was standing in the right spot, no aura. Left and came back to the exact same spot a few minutes later, and there it was finally. Made me feel like I was going crazy haha.

But that’s really the only glitch I ever encountered in the game, so can’t really complain.

Did you ever do the combat trial from the DLC? I still haven’t beaten it. I got up to about level 15 but took a break from playing video games for a while. Kind of tempted to try it again.

No I haven’t done it yet, but I may get to it this weekend. I have this self-imposed rule that I am not allowed to play a video game unless I spend an equivalent amount of time reading a spiritual or theological book, and I haven’t been doing that as often recently. Obviously I did a lot of reading back in March when this game came out . It’s probably why I didn’t do as much exploring because I was easily “going into debt” with this rule applied to this game. I have a tendency to “buy time” during the week and then spend it all on the weekend, so maybe I’ll finish Okami finally this weekend and then I’ll at least try the combat trial, assuming I can still play the game with any degree of skill haha.

I may end up using the PS3 again soon. Lately I have been into playing older games that I used to play when I was younger. So I picked up a Ratchet & Clank HD remake for PS3 recently. I never had a Playstation when I was younger, so it’s not for nostalgia, but it seemed like the kind of thing that I would have liked back then, so we’ll see how it goes. And it will produce more beneficial spiritual study lol (I love how I seem to have found a way to turn a video game purchase into an indirect spiritual investment). A couple of years ago I played a Spyro series and enjoyed it well enough despite never having played any Spyro in my youth. Sony seems to do a better job of capitalizing on their older IP than Nintendo does for whatever reason.

 

[balto]

Yeah, I’ve heard that, too. I get excited about the news, but then I think of how I still have my N64 and all my old games and I still never play them. Mario Kart 64 and Goldeneye pretty much defined half my college years.

That’s a lot to go through to play a game. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: It makes me wonder how the batteries are doing in my old cartridges.

Yeah it will be interesting to see the catalog of games they have if they do a classic N64 remake. I always look for N64 titles on the Virtual Console but they almost never add any new ones. I did like Mario Kart 64 a lot as well but never played Goldeneye. Back when I was trying to rehabilitate the N64, my previous landlord had to come over so that I could resign my lease and noticed the N64 and wanted to talk about Goldeneye haha.

Speaking of Mario Kart (which I know you like a lot from your previous posts ), I suppose I have another good recommendation for you . OCRemix just published a 15-minute Mario Kart medley: ReMix: Super Mario Kart "A Road That You Go" - OC ReMix. If you haven’t ever discovered OCRemix it’s one of the Internet’s best-kept secrets.

 

[Joe_5859]

Yeah it will be interesting to see the catalog of games they have if they do a classic N64 remake. I always look for N64 titles on the Virtual Console but they almost never add any new ones. I did like Mario Kart 64 a lot as well but never played Goldeneye. Back when I was trying to rehabilitate the N64, my previous landlord had to come over so that I could resign my lease and noticed the N64 and wanted to talk about Goldeneye haha.

Yeah, I get that it likely wouldn’t be a good business strategy to just simultaneously dump all of their old games on Virtual Console, but they do seem a little too sparse with their releases. I think they just have a different business philosophy than most of us in the U.S. are used to. Like with Splatoon, they rotate with courses and modes you can play so you can only play them at certain times. For us Americans, we want to be able to play whatever we want whenever we want.

Goldeneye made my brother and I really popular at our dorm that year. Sometimes the game would be going for literally 12 hours straight with people coming and going and only the winner keeping their controller while the other 3 passed. I found myself deliberately holding back so as not to get the other guys too upset. But then when I wanted to clear the room so I could study, I would kick it up a notch and they’d all leave in frustration. Good times.

Speaking of Mario Kart (which I know you like a lot from your previous posts ), I suppose I have another good recommendation for you . OCRemix just published a 15-minute Mario Kart medley: ReMix: Super Mario Kart "A Road That You Go" - OC ReMix. If you haven’t ever discovered OCRemix it’s one of the Internet’s best-kept secrets.

Cool! I’ve never seen that site before. Mega Man metal. Where have you been all my life? The music for Mega Man 3’s second Dr. Wily stage has always been one of my favorites. They have an orchestral version, a techno version and a metal version!

 

[balto]

Yeah, I get that it likely wouldn’t be a good business strategy to just simultaneously dump all of their old games on Virtual Console, but they do seem a little too sparse with their releases. I think they just have a different business philosophy than most of us in the U.S. are used to. Like with Splatoon, they rotate with courses and modes you can play so you can only play them at certain times. For us Americans, we want to be able to play whatever we want whenever we want.

Goldeneye made my brother and I really popular at our dorm that year. Sometimes the game would be going for literally 12 hours straight with people coming and going and only the winner keeping their controller while the other 3 passed. I found myself deliberately holding back so as not to get the other guys too upset. But then when I wanted to clear the room so I could study, I would kick it up a notch and they’d all leave in frustration. Good times.

Nice! I was not the popular guy in college, despite going to college at an institution where video gaming was treated like a professional sport by most of the student body. They did release Bomberman 64 on Virtual Console earlier this year. I noticed it on the Wii U main menu while getting ready to play BotW. I loved that game when I was 7 years old.

Cool! I’ve never seen that site before. Mega Man metal. Where have you been all my life? The music for Mega Man 3’s second Dr. Wily stage has always been one of my favorites. They have an orchestral version, a techno version and a metal version!

OCRemix is seriously one of the best places on the Internet. I think I found it by accident 5 years ago and now I periodically check it to see if anything new looks good. They even have a 20.5 minute Link to the Past medley. I especially like seeing how these artists interpret older VGM whose original source was lower quality due to being on ancient console hardware.

 

[RobynP]

I haven’t done it yet, but I may get to it this weekend. I have this self-imposed rule that I am not allowed to play a video game unless I spend an equivalent amount of time reading a spiritual or theological book, and I haven’t been doing that as often recently. Obviously I did a lot of reading back in March when this game came out

That’s a great rule to have! I wish I had that much discipline. The Switch keeps a log of how many hours you spend on each game, and I apparently spent around 150 hours on Breath of the Wild . I could have read a boat load of theology books with all that time

 

[balto]

That’s a great rule to have! I wish I had that much discipline. The Switch keeps a log of how many hours you spend on each game, and I apparently spent around 150 hours on Breath of the Wild . I could have read a boat load of theology books with all that time

Thanks, oddly enough I actually enjoy having this rule. I did finally finish Okami this weekend. Apparently PS4 is getting a remake of it in December. It needs to do well so we can get a sequel

I also finally try the BotW DLC. I haven’t played this game since end of May I think and predictably did not do too well . I think I only got to the 9th floor or so of that sword trial (the one with all the water and the Lizalfos that knock you down into it). I had forgotten how fast those enemies can be. And evidently I still have not learned that the Leeroy Jenkins strategy is not very effective in this game . I also have this tendency to start hurling bombs everywhere when I can’t think fast enough, and that doesn’t usually end too well either.

 

[RobynP]

Thanks, oddly enough I actually enjoy having this rule. I did finally finish Okami this weekend. Apparently PS4 is getting a remake of it in December. It needs to do well so we can get a sequel

Oh cool I’ll keep an eye out for it!

I also finally try the BotW DLC. I haven’t played this game since end of May I think and predictably did not do too well . I think I only got to the 9th floor or so of that sword trial (the one with all the water and the Lizalfos that knock you down into it). I had forgotten how fast those enemies can be. And evidently I still have not learned that the Leeroy Jenkins strategy is not very effective in this game . I also have this tendency to start hurling bombs everywhere when I can’t think fast enough, and that doesn’t usually end too well either.

Ohhh yes I remember that level. I think I died there about 6 times before I figured out the trick is to immediately jump in the water and swim to the platform off to the side before those things see you. If you can get the lightning rod that’s also helpful because you can zap them while they are swimming and not have to waste any precious arrows.

On another note, Discourse is telling me I’ve replied to you three times and should talk to someone else in the thread so…hey @Joe_5859 how’s the game going? (Seems like we’re the only three people still replying to this thread)

 

[Joe_5859]

Thanks, oddly enough I actually enjoy having this rule.

I too greatly admire your rule. It’s a good exercise in discipline that can bear spiritual fruit on multiple levels. I should do that. (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)

I also finally try the BotW DLC.

I broke down and got that as I figured I would want to get it eventually and it would be more beneficial to do it now rather than later. So far, I’ve only taken advantage of the “hero’s path” that shows on the map the path you have walked for the most recent 200 hours of gameplay. It really helped me to see the large open areas I had completely skipped over. It also helps so I know if I already climbed that really tall mountain or not.

the Leeroy Jenkins strategy

Okay, I have to ask what this is. I did just pick up the Master Sword, but I haven’t braved the trial yet. I know I like using the bombs a lot, too. Did you ever go through Eventide Island? Is it similar to that or way harder?

so…hey @Joe_5859 how’s the game going?

Going well. I still haven’t pursued the story beyond the Zoras, but I’m up to around 50 shrines and I’ve activated all the towers. I’m still giving Hyrule castle a very wide berth, and I haven’t been able to defeat one of the centaurs yet. I’ve gotten the giants and the big stone guys, but not the centaurs. Those other two mini-bosses are slow, which I can handle. The centaur moves so fast and then he starts calling down lightning and then I’m outta there! I still need to think through my strategy there.

 

[balto]

I broke down and got that as I figured I would want to get it eventually and it would be more beneficial to do it now rather than later. So far, I’ve only taken advantage of the “hero’s path” that shows on the map the path you have walked for the most recent 200 hours of gameplay. It really helped me to see the large open areas I had completely skipped over. It also helps so I know if I already climbed that really tall mountain or not.

Yeah I had read about that map tool a few months ago and I had to take a look. That would have been very useful back in the spring! There’s a good deal of the map that I haven’t visited. It was also funny to see the areas where I ran around in circles endlessly. That was probably me trying to calibrate the location of the memories

Okay, I have to ask what this is.

Joe you don’t know your memes! IIRC it came from some viral video ~10 years ago involving a World of Warcraft guild that was discussing how to conquer a large horde of enemies. The person playing as the character named “Leeroy Jenkins” had stepped away from the computer to make dinner or something, and was not privy to the discussion. Upon return, ignorant of the battle plan, he suddenly rushed out to face the horde yelling his name as a battle cry, which ended in the whole party being wiped out in the ensuing battle. I have a tendency to not have a lot of patience to stealthily sneak up on the enemies and instead just rush through, blowing them away with bombs and then picking up their weapons. But the Lizalfos are too fast for this strategy and the big Moblins aren’t staggered easily

I did just pick up the Master Sword, but I haven’t braved the trial yet. I know I like using the bombs a lot, too. Did you ever go through Eventide Island? Is it similar to that or way harder?

I did stumble on Eventide Island but didn’t complete it. But this trial does seem similar to it in that it again takes away all of your equipment and Link has to face enemies initially with no weapons in his underwear. It also seems like those “Pit of Trials”, or whatever they were called, from the previous games. In Windwaker I think it was on Outset Island under a rock, where you’d keep falling down holes and fighting progressively stronger enemies. I think there was a Triforce map in there and a Piece of Heart if you went all the way? And then they had one in Twilight Princess in Gerudo Desert on that plateau that the Bridge of Eldin gets dumped onto. This DLC trial has levels like those trials did.

 

[SuperLuigi]

WAT??? You didn’t like Ocarina???

 

[Rhubarb]

I mean, I didn’t hate it. But it was soooo boring sprinkled with some bits of fun.

 

[Joe_5859]

It was also funny to see the areas where I ran around in circles endlessly. That was probably me trying to calibrate the location of the memories

Joe you don’t know your memes!

No, I don’t. That’s funny, though. It depends on the game for me. In Zelda, I can manage stealth. In Splatoon, I move forward with utter abandon and complete disregard for the consequences.

This DLC trial has levels like those trials did.

Ah, that’s sort of what I was expecting. I’ll have to psych myself up for it. And make a meal that maxes out my hearts. And make a meal that increases my defense. And make sure Mipha’s grace is ready to go.

 

[Joe_5859]

I mean, I didn’t hate it. But it was soooo boring sprinkled with some bits of fun.

Heresy!

Maybe it depends on when you played it first. For me, going into “Ocarina of Time” from “Link to the Past” conjured the same type of awe as going from “Super Mario World” to “Mario 64”. Stepping into the 3D world for the first time was a game changer. Literally. And the music. Ocarina of Time introduced so many great pieces of music.

With the HD remakes of Windwaker and Twilight Princess on the Wii U, I kept hoping they would do the same for Ocarina of Time and/or Majora’s Mask. But they redid them on the 3DS instead. Maybe now with the Switch, we’ll see that happen.

 

[Rhubarb]

Sequelitis summed up my thoughts pretty well about Zelda. BUT it has some pretty salty language. The arguments are solid, even if the presentation is sophomoric.

 

[JohnC_1571]

Heh, Holy Old Thread, Batman!

I used to be seriously into games (my Steam library is on the right side of the curve), but not so much as of late. At the end of the day, you get to realizing that they are simply some 3D models being pushed around by some code, mixed with some media elements. At most, you’re left with a good story, but one that really could be told in basically any medium. At worst, it’s either an insult to your decency, or your intelligence, or both. I have not been too keen on the larger culture trickling into gaming these days as well, with the forcing of LGBTQ themes into games due to pressure being put on game studios. The fact that studios by and large feel it’s almost necessary to have these characters and messages in a game, to avoid negative press, is just bringing the leftist witch hunt into yet another area of public life. (Gamergate, best described as an intramural scrimmage between SJW atheists and neckbeard atheists, needs no discussion here)

At the end of the day, too, games are not anything real. If you want to do well in a game, put in a cheat code, and instant win. Zzzzzz… No cheat codes for learning how to play the piano, watching birds, or doing something to help people in your community (or the world, for that matter). No cheat codes for fixing your car or something on your house. No cheat codes to see the Grand Canyon. No cheat codes for spending time with your spouse and kids. Etc. I won’t even get into what a life sucker WoW or related things are.

I guess just keep it in perspective and understand what you’re actually spending your finite life on. Probably still better than watching some brainless TV show with a recycled plotline that was cribbed from Euripides.