Video Game General 2: Definitive/Remastered Edition

Next goal: Beat RE3 remake on increasing difficulties til I memorize all the “important” places that I need to go to when I do the speedrun trophies.

The one trophy I MIGHT have the hardest time would be the one for beating the game without opening the item box since I won’t be able to use the infinite rocket launcher. At least Assisted mode will keep me alive.

All in all…this may be the first RE game I’ll get a platinum in this year. And maybe Resident Evil 2 as well.

The rival/friend mechanic was one of the best things in Dragon Age, and they threw it away because “NObOdy LIkES DragOn agE 2.”

It’s easy. The next important place is right in front of you.

No really, jumping from REmake 2 to 3 and you really notice how little backtracking you do in 3. It’s not quite a singular corridor, but there is a surprisingly lot amount of just running forward.

That it was.

Speaking of weird Bioware designs:

Sidequest acquisition in ME 3 sure was strange. I don’t know if I like Voyeur!Shepard, but I don’t know if I don’t like it.

@Dustcan
ME3 had more than a few questionable designs and elements, like the edgy ninja assassin who uses a sword instead of a gun.

He is bae.

It is really easy to get side tracked in BotW.

@Mikey Remember you can put waypoints down, whether on the map itself or by using your camera.

Really useful to get back on track after the latest detour.

@Dustcan
I’m really just looking for korok seeds and shrines now. I have 16 shrines left but like a 300 or so seeds to max out my inventory.

@Mikey
Just like in Skyrim.

I forget where but you can find a korok mask that’ll shake when near seeds. Not that useful but any bit helps.

Mostly though after a while you begin to notice little peculiarities that tip you off to koroks.

@Dustcan
Yeah I always notice where a puzzle is. A random rock, three trees with the same design, a pattern of rocks, a block puzzle, apple statues…
Also I play with the pro hud enabled. It makes exploration much more fun and interesting.

I hate how much people mistake wandering for getting lost. Getting lost is having no idea where you are, wasting time going nowhere, and having a bad time. Wandering is moving away from your destination because something has caught your attention.

It’s okay to admit you got lost. Nobody’s judging.

@Dustcan
I was thinking more of people acting like getting lost in video games is fun, when it isn’t. At all.

@Meanlucario
Wandering: Alright just need to go deliver these bolts of cloth and… Oh hey i wonder what’s in this cave!

Lost: OK so i am looking for something northwest of the most south eastern point of the map surely this will not take forever while i have all my gear ruined fighting the same 3 enemies over and over because of overzealous respawn timers!

I do a lot of wandering in BotW.
In fact, most of the game is wandering because you’re discouraged from doing the main objective. So you set your own objectives, like going to an area to do a quest and then seeing a monster camp, or some interesting ruins with a shrine around.

@Meanlucario
It was,

@Meanlucario
Being fair, in the lore melee ignores shields, and if it ha been a decent villain like it was supposed to be(Saryn) the sword thing would have been fine, Kai is just a loser though,

@Thanotos Omega
He’s a teenager’s edgy anti-hero given life and made a full villain. At least they didn’t try to make us like him.

@Meanlucario
yeah he is meant to be a hate sink, and even the game calls out how he always runs away the second he is even slightly in danger, would have helped if he was in 2 as a antagonistic squadmate or at least rival, then the idea he’s a big threat would have carried more weight,

@Thanotos Omega
If things were well planned, he would be a brown-nose in ME2 who always found a way to bitch to Shep about what they’re doing, making having to kill him more satisfying than annoying.

@Meanlucario
Eh, i would prefer to salvage the concept, he’s not Jaune Arc levels of terrible after all,

@Thanotos Omega
Thanotos plz

@Thanotos Omega
I mean that he appears in ME2 as someone close to the Illusive Man and always has something to complain to Shep about, trying to get under Shep’s skin. It’s not until 3 can they let out their anger on him.

Jaune Arc is like the best character in the show. The only problem with him is that he does that while the series is named after someone else.

@Dustcan
Dusty plz don’t