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Re: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

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Post by AdamJacobMuller » Fri, May 12, 2023, 6:24 PM UTC

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #503

basisword wrote: post #161

I caved and bought a Switch last week. It’s the best tech purchase I’ve made in years! The games on it are fun, the versatility of the Joycons is incredible, and the loading speed is a breath of fresh air. My main console is an original PS4. I upgraded to PS5 last year and returned it. It’s just more of the same. Huge game downloads, huge update downloads, a huge console, and long load times. And tbh, I didn’t see a…

> Huge game downloads, huge update downloads I have uncapped gigabit internet. (Like many of us, I WFH, and want the most "internet" I can get.) I recall redownloading a game I wanted to play recently. It was 40GB. I thought I would go get a coffee while I waited. It was done before I rounded up and got my shoes on. I don't think the game and update sizes really matter to most of the target demographic of a current-g…

Back in the PS4 era when I had FIOS gigabit it was incredibly frustrating to have that internet speed with a console which would download things at 10-15Mbit. There were some tweaks which would double it plus or minus a bit, but, it was fundamentally incapable of using anything close to line rate.

PS5 is incredibly faster. Sony is using Akamai CDN now (they didn't when I checked in the PS4 era) and I consistently max out the PS5s gigabit port (I have 10G symmetric at home).

Re: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

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Post by AdamJacobMuller » Fri, May 12, 2023, 6:25 PM UTC

OkGoDoIt wrote: post #580

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #503

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> Huge game downloads, huge update downloads I have uncapped gigabit internet. (Like many of us, I WFH, and want the most "internet" I can get.) I recall redownloading a game I wanted to play recently. It was 40GB. I thought I would go get a coffee while I waited. It was done before I rounded up and got my shoes on. I don't think the game and update sizes really matter to most of the target demographic of a current-g…

Unfortunately having uncapped gigabit Internet isn’t an option for most people. I would gladly pay for that if I could. But I’m stuck with Comcast. I’ve lived in 4 different cities in the last decade and I’ve always been stuck with Comcast. You should absolutely not assume that massive downloads don’t matter to most people.

I have comcast and I have uncapped 10G internet. I'm sorry you don't and I don't love comcast as a company and years ago comcast was definitely synonymous with poor network quality and certainly they still are in some locations, but, it's hardly universal anymore.

Re: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

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Post by AdamJacobMuller » Fri, May 12, 2023, 6:28 PM UTC

basisword wrote: post #161

I caved and bought a Switch last week. It’s the best tech purchase I’ve made in years! The games on it are fun, the versatility of the Joycons is incredible, and the loading speed is a breath of fresh air. My main console is an original PS4. I upgraded to PS5 last year and returned it. It’s just more of the same. Huge game downloads, huge update downloads, a huge console, and long load times. And tbh, I didn’t see a…

I've had a switch for years and I agree I do love playing it, but, there are some really great games in the playstation ecosystem. It's definitively a less casual environment but I personally would not give up on playing games like The Last of Us and Horizon and the new God of War games. Really incredible gameplay with incredible story as well.

Re: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

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Post by threeboy » Fri, May 12, 2023, 6:28 PM UTC

Tainnor wrote: post #357

I cannot describe in words how impactful Ocarina of Time was to me as a kid, how intensely I got sucked into that world to the point that I even wrote some (bad) fanfic set in that universe back in the days. When Majora's Mask came out I was almost bursting with excitement until I was actually able to play it and was again totally blown away by a unique experience. When I played Breath of the Wild, I felt ... nothing…

If you want more of that kind of Zelda seek out the earlier Ocarina-like games. Wind Waker & Twilight Princess were remastered in HD on the Wii U and Skyward Sword was remastered for the Switch.

Re: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

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Post by jghn » Fri, May 12, 2023, 6:28 PM UTC

somebehemoth wrote: post #617

eslaught wrote: post #552

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I loved Star Wars as a kid. Then the prequels made me jaded that there could ever be anything as good as the originals. The sequels and other content did nothing to dissuade me from this. Then Andor showed up and it's like, holy cow, this is actually good. Sometimes when the follow-on content is bad... it's because the follow-on content is bad.

Check out Clone Wars and Bad Batch. These brought me back to star wars fandom. Don’t be put off by animation. The stories are excellent and there is lots of character development.

Rebels as well, which IMO was the best of all 3.

Clone Wars & Rebels both suffer at first from being a bit too kid-oriented, but both wind up getting pretty serious over time.

Re: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

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Post by threeboy » Fri, May 12, 2023, 6:30 PM UTC

qbasic_forever wrote: post #14

I was listening to a gaming podcast last week and they were talking about how this release was pirated and available for the last week or so on torrents. That in itself wasn't surprising, but the interesting point they talked about is that the game is much more enjoyable when played on PC with an emulated copy because modern gaming PC hardware is much smoother and higher resolution than the stock Switch. It really ma…

Sega tried something along those lines - with proper PC hardware you could play Saturn games... I don't think it worked out for them.

Re: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

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Post by xnx » Fri, May 12, 2023, 6:31 PM UTC

Nintendo proves over and over that it's not the computing power of the system, or the "realism" of the game, or blood and guts that makes a game fun.

Re: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

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Post by kabdib » Fri, May 12, 2023, 6:32 PM UTC

deskamess wrote: post #579

eslaught wrote: post #552

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I loved Star Wars as a kid. Then the prequels made me jaded that there could ever be anything as good as the originals. The sequels and other content did nothing to dissuade me from this. Then Andor showed up and it's like, holy cow, this is actually good. Sometimes when the follow-on content is bad... it's because the follow-on content is bad.

Ok... that was my path and since I was not interested I did not know of Andor. Will have to take a look at it.

Andor is the first SW content I have re-watched since Jedi.

[spends a few minutes on a mental inventory]

Well, okay: I watched all the SW eps with my son. (His words after seeing Ep1 were "Daddy, that wasn't a very good movie.")

Still, I rest my case. Andor is the first content that I would actually miss if it went away.

Re: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

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Post by djur » Fri, May 12, 2023, 6:32 PM UTC

afterburner wrote: post #281

prohobo wrote: post #150

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No, BotW is more like a theme park than a game, and I don't understand the love for it. The game is sparse and sterile, the characters are boring and generic, the story/dialogue is cringe inducing, the world is empty and plain, and there's nothing to do. It borrows heavily from open world game tropes, and it doesn't add anything. Once you've played about 5-6 hours you've seen the entire game, just not all of its perm…

The people who liked BotW the most are likely people who never really played many open world games, or none. To long time PC gamers it's nothing new of course. I liked the style, I generally enjoy world exploration and that was fun in BotW, and there were many cool experiences scattered around, but it does end up feeling a little empty. I still played it a ton mind you, but I don't consider it an important or ground…

I have played plenty of PC open world games and I think BOTW is better than any of them.

Re: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release

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Post by thatfrenchguy » Fri, May 12, 2023, 6:32 PM UTC

eslaught wrote: post #552

JediWing wrote: post #360

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I think "as a kid" is the operative phrase here. Nothing will ever live up to that nostalgia. That's not to discount the criticisms or "feel" you get from the game, but it's worth noting that nothing lives up to our childhood favorites.

I loved Star Wars as a kid. Then the prequels made me jaded that there could ever be anything as good as the originals. The sequels and other content did nothing to dissuade me from this. Then Andor showed up and it's like, holy cow, this is actually good. Sometimes when the follow-on content is bad... it's because the follow-on content is bad.

Breath of the Wild is objectively a masterpiece though.