General gaming discussion

Yes, I know at least one of them is supposed to be great. It's just the dark, dreary, art style gets to be me. It's what's stopping me playing Elden Ring too. And Hollow Knight was just too depressing to continue with. Fallout has the same effect on me.

That's why I can spend ages in BOTW/TOTK for example. It's like a tonic.

What about Oblivion? That has a mixture of dark and not dark game world.

Have not played Oblivion.

I love Skyrim and it's underground is quite bleak and sinister. But the detail on the items, and in 4K 60 FPS HDR it looks wonderful. And the overground + the music to return too, is just uplifting. And that's the vanilla special edition on Series X. Wonderful game.

Still a great game for it's time.

Same as GTA San Andreas. Great game for it's time but play it now and you wonder what the hell was I thinking.

I've only played a few hours of Fallout 4. I believe 3 is a better game. There was supposed to be a current gen upgrade for 4, free, last year. But it never happened. Obviously they are waiting for the TV show to drop.

Well, that's TOTK main game done. It's one of those games that when you finish it, you realise you won't see a game like that for a long time. Including BOTW and its DLC here too since they've pretty much said they've done all the can do with that incarnation of Zelda.

Also, a game that makes many games of it's type redundant. So, for 50 quid you get hours and hours of a great game and you save time and money not ever wanting to play a lesser game.

Was extremely trepidacious about it myself. Looked cool but could be style over Ubisoft-substance. But from all the previews, demo and reviews.... really seems like they nailed it. I'll definitely be giving it a go.

For me it was worth it. A lot of excellent and varied content in there. Also, I played it much like BOTW, and didn't build much or spend that much time in the Depths. Still have a load to do in the game. Must check how much time I spent on it and what % completion.

I know Nintendo have said they will keep their open world, non-linear approach for Zelda for the foreseeable future, but one thing I’d love to see them bend that rule for are main dungeons.

Those areas are the weakest across all Zelda games in BotW/TotK imo - the benefit of designing dungeons knowing exactly what abilities the player will have outweighs the cost of having to have them completed in a linear fashion.

I think thats why your positivity for it still shines through, as wonderful as both games are when your are trudging round the depths in TOTK it gets as tedious as any open world game out there and also having the same variants of boss gets really tiresome.

I was delighted to just get it done by the time the credits rolled and unlike BOTW I cant see myself returning

Yep, the Depths were interesting for a short while and then tedious. The caves and wells are much more interesting underground experiences. Anyway, just checked my stats on it. 47% done. 117 hours. Will probably do most of the side quests over the next year and be done with it. They are all quite varied and little copy/paste stuff.

Just looking at the credits last night, there were just 4 physics programmers. Unreal. Tons of landscape designers, which shows, as the landscape are genuinely interesting to explore, and tons of testers and QA, which also shows in the final super polished bug free game.

Mario Wonder really shining with this LED light set up I picked up on sale on Amazon.

I've been tempted by this, but I hear these yokes introduce some lag while gaming? Was looking at the Govee but reviews for gaming ain't great.