General gaming discussion

Personally I really disliked BoTW and I love exploration based open world games, I'm not saying this to prove a point, I recognise it has a huge following and this is just my opinion. Usually after the first few hours of getting into an open-world game proper I just pick a direction and head off blindly for the next 20 or so hours and then just pop back to main quests every now and again when I need some focus. BoTW to me was super simplistic, the world wasn't interesting, the audio (and I am a big audio-nerd) was weak imho with medocre to decent music but empty sound effects and that god-awful noise generator for conversations (mute would have been better) with the final insult being you couldn't modify the volume of any of it independantly. Combat was ok but the little islands of bouncing cartoons that just basically ran in a straight line towards me soon got old. The puzzles were a near redeeming factor but still not enough for me to not stop after 20 hours of what felt like forced effort, and I had bought the Switch just to play this. I love exploration, seeing something on the horizon and wondering what it is, setting off and having adventures on the way. It's what drew me into Morrowind way back, that Oblivion lacked and Skyrim thankfully added back, those 'WTF is that?' moments and the treks to find out. BoTW never really felt like it rewarded me for that, again though each to their own.

Treated myself to an early Christmas present today and bought The Forgotten City. Looking forward to this.

That sounds pretty cool. Netflix dod something similar a year or two ago and it was alright, 'Mericanisms aside.

The reason breath of the wild and in extension Fenyx rising worked for me was how the exploration mechanic was delivered. You see something interesting, you go there and the reward is at that point, be it a mini dungeon, puzzle or loot. The reward was immediate meaning that you felt progression even if you were not advancing the story.

The rockstar games points of interest usually lead you to a mission in which entailed of travelling for 5 minutes then fight for 3. The travelling was needless filler that eventually I got bored of.

I also did not hate the weapons mechanic in Zelda. It encouraged experimentation with weapons that normally I would ignore such as the lance or heavy weapons.

A chef in the local towns would remove the churn of the cooking mechanic as well, where you give the ingredients and the chef will supply the food.

Yeah I got a fright a few users ago when my sister said she picked up one of her son's Xmas presents in "the CEX shop" and it took me a few seconds to realise not everyone calls it C-E-X like I'd always assumed.

NFSU 1&2 are the only proper racing games I ever liked.

I think he only plays on PlayStation.

People come on the internet to sh!t on everything regardless of whether they were part of it or not. Opinions don't need experience anymore. Also, not sure about the PC Gamer forums, but I'd imagine they were probably rife with pc master race crap? The PS forums used to be good, spent a lot of time on there in my early 20s.

I think CEX is good for recycling games that might otherwise sit unused in attics across the land. It would be nice to have more places like this at more reasonable second hand prices. But really, the population here probably doesn't warrant it and 2nd hand games, especially Nintendo have gone stupid in price, and everything else going digital.

But I wonder how good are they on that 2 year warranty if you buy some hardware there. And who pays more in cex for second hand Vs new ? Unless you have some vouchers ? Even for stuff readily available in shops or online.

I brainfarted for a moment and read freespace instead of freelancer and googled it excited and was about to come back and give you an earful on it looking nothing like freespace.

then realized I misread and was like oooooooooh yeah freelancer was kinda weird 3rd person pseudo space sim.

carry on.

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