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SkynyrdRocker posted...

I saw that movie where the German Shepherd was possibly/probably treated poorly during the water scene today. I cried like a bitch.

Scooby-Doo?

We all have holes in our brains and that's why we still come to this site.

Jeez, Jordan Cameron retired due to concussions. So many of these guys have to choose between millions of dollars and a fully functional brain

Yeah I get my ass kicked a lot. I don't know if there's any way to track how much you've played on Switch but I would really like to see what I've done. I put in about three and a half hours today and that was probably the least I've played in a day outside of that Friday.

I think I've got like 16 or 20 more shrine clears than that. I'm probably in first place among us. Still feels like I have shit tons left to do though

DorkLink posted...

I have the HUD on normal, but I think it's already a lot more minimal than other Zelda games that way. Maybe I should consider turning it onto pro since I usually just have to check the map a bunch anyways.

You're ahead of me? I gotta pick up the slack, I don't even have an excuse since I still don't have a job. Have you generally been staying on the main quest or do you mess around and explore things a lot? I probably could pick up the pace a little, but I prefer to space things out. Also, I generally try to explore a decent amount of each area once I uncover it, rather than just going to a bunch of the towers in a row.

II've been progressing extremely slowly in the plot. I have more of the map than you though and I've done one of the dungeons. I'm just playing a ton.

@DorkLink haha sorry for the rude shout out, I was making fun of Eric but I guess you have him on ignore so you didn't get the joke.

Anyway it seems like I've made a little more progress than you but I still have tons to uncover. It's really great. To your point about climbing the mountains though I think that's definitely a good thing at least for a first playthrough. It might wear off by your second or third time through but I think they did an amazing job of making random exploration feel rewarding. The worst case scenario for a long climb is that you get a potentially useful view of the region but there's almost always something else up there too.

Also as a pro tip consider turning the HUD into pro mode if you haven't yet. You'll have to check your map from time to time but it makes the game much better with less screen clutter and less staring at your mini map.

And don't get me started on fake friends

You're too mean Erik Pee. I hate mean/fake people

Hey @DorkLink you better not ignore this you piece of shit. Have you been playing Zelda a lot + what are your thoughts so far?

Does he have a bunch of baby mamas? I guess he probably does which means yeah hes probably paying half a million a month

I wouldn't wanna be Adrian Peterson's son's testicles when he gets less than he wants

A humiliating defeat for the Minnesota Wild.

Noah Syndergaard joined Conor MacGregor as professional athletes who shot cameos for the next season of Game of Thrones.

I thought I posted about that already but it must not have gone through. I wrote "The Cardinals have canceled the season after suffering a 2-1 shellacking from the Minnesota Twins"

Don't worry @DorkLink once every streamer gets fired for antisemitism we will be able to make millions playing video games and going "ah!" and "oh no"

In a weird way it reminds me of Arkham a little because you have so many things you can do that you sometimes have to think about the button input before you do. It feels good to play though. It also feels surreal to play it in a lot of ways. Playing a new Zelda probably always feels a little surreal but playing one where you can just climb a mountain because you want to see what's on top is crazy. It's also crazy that you can play it on the bus or whatever.

I've put in a couple hours. Very interesting and enjoyable so far. Lots to do and discover.

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

STLCards1991 posted...

Did that really happen......

It's true. I heard the other guy then said, "Well at least Shadow of the Colossus is better than Dark Souls"

If I was watching a sporting event with some people and the play by play guy said this I would be like "haha that's so weird. Haha why would he say that. It's not even true haha. This is funny to me because it's weird to say and not true, and here's why"

Dark Souls is 1000x better than Shadow of the Colossus.

SotC might be a good comp for how Zelda could handle minimalist storytelling though. Dark Souls lets you go and find the story if you want it, but SotC is at least still a story driven game to an extent while Souls is mechanics and setting driven.

I'll jusr say this: you said a lack of exposition and narrative no longer flies when it absolutely does, and in the case of Dark Souls it was actually the answer to a problem they were having where people would skip the cutscenes and get lost. Just like Johnny Walmart doesn't finish Mass Effect, Johnny Walmart skips the cutscenes in Zelda.

I was saying I could see the Dark Souls DNA during E3. I brought it up here because I found your fear completely inexplicable just like many of your weird gaming takes

The game has cutscenes. But you're right, the last thing we want is a connected world with minimalist storytelling. Look at how that strategy worked for Dark Souls.

I haven't read any reviews because reviews always spoil shit but I'm sure this'll be the next big Metacritic game for whatever that's worth (not much). I'm hopeful that it'll be my favorite Zelda but I am suddenly struck by the thought that it's probably going to have the lowest completion rate of any 3D Zelda since it's imitating Western games in some ways and big open Western games have extremely low completion rates. It doesn't matter to me personally but it'll be interesting to see how the normies respond to the game.

PECOTA is just for fun and it was created by Always Incorrect Genius Nate Silver so who cares but they have the Twins at 80-82 and second place in the Central + just 5 games out of the second wild card. I don't know enough about their roster to say if I think they'll be any good but that's better than the Cardinals who I think will be decent but not great.

They won't be good again until they hire Torii Hunter as their manager and randomly win 88 games to earn him manager of the year honors

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

CaptainHammer posted...

So the Blues have basically given up I take it?

not necessarily. Shattenkirk was never gonna re-sign, so better to get something for him now rather than later

the west is pretty weak, so giving up Shattenkirk isn't a crushing blow, either

Maybe so but (applying baseball thinking to other sports) isn't it better to hang onto your best guys if the goal is to win the Stanley Cup? Sure they could still make the playoffs but just making it in stopped being the goal for the Blues a long time ago.

So the Blues have basically given up I take it?

MNTwins1991 posted...

I joined an adult hockey league and we get to nominate team names. Which name is better

A. The Mighty Nuggets
B. The Fighting Nuggets

For me, the best name choice of all, is, the dank nuggets.

That solves it. Thank you Erik.

Erik it's money. They get more money from having the Yankees play the Red Sox 78 times a year. Just wouldn't be the same with 9 a year against them and 9 a year against the Brewers.

Rob Manfred's proposed rule changes really do foretell the dawning of Blernsball