I hadn’t thought about it, but citizen sleeper and road 96 actually do have quite a bit in common. However, they are very different tonally and in the moment to moment gameplay. I haven’t finished road 96 yet but while I agree that citizen sleeper is a better game, they are also both enjoyable for different reasons
Halo MCC unfortunately doesn’t have splitscreen support on PC unless you use a mod to run the game twice and connect the two instances via online (maybe also LAN) co-op.
Many PC games support online co-op but have no splitscreen support. For a lot of these you can use a mod to run two instances at the same time and play them in splitscreen. Here’s a link to the supported games: https://hub.splitscreen.me/
I think it is a combination of multiple things.
The game is just too big for me. I have spent roughly the same amount of time on totk as I did on botw, but there is so much left to do.
Then, 2/5 of the world (the surface) is recycled which removes some of the joy of exploring, although I was pleasantly surprised by how different it was. Another 2/5 of the world (the depth) just aren’t that appealing to me. What made me enjoy exploration in botw was constantly seeing something on the horizon that piqued my interest, which just doesn’t work if the world is super dark.
Lastly, I am not really the creative type. I don’t get much joy out of building cool stuff with ultrahand, and other than that the gameplay is largely unchanged from botw, which made it feel a bit stale. For example, I really think they should have overhauled the combat mechanics more. Even in botw combat felt rather simplistic, and after another 100 hours of the same it got really boring.
I am on 121 shrines and have about 3/4 of the depths unexplored but I am really feeling the “just get it over with”. Which is what I am planning to do now. It’s just very sad because I enjoyed every second of BOTW and did all shrines and even did a bit of random exploring after just because I didn’t want to leave the world yet.
The problem is that the One X has a very weak CPU. To keep supporting it there would have to be significant compromises in terms of world complexity etc.
To be fair, you’re the one to blame for blindly trusting an AI.
The only game from the SNES era (or before) I have played so far is super metroid. That game was a lot of fun though and I really enjoyed the exploration there. Other than that I have played the remake of link’s awakening, but I have an inkling that it may have been easier than the original?
I have actually played through a link between worlds without realising just how heavily it is inspired by alttp.
If you watch YouTube videos on a small smartphone screen, sure, the bitrate does not matter that much. But whenever I watch it on my 55" 4k TV I cringe every time the image gets a bit busy and suddenly there are blocking artifacts everywhere
I only support one channel on patreon because it is quite niche and at this point I am pretty invested in that parasocial relationship. I find it difficult to justify supporting many different content creators, but I am also still a student so I don’t exactly have money to throw away.
Yeah I think I initially signed up for a free month because I wanted to watch some nebula exclusive content and was pleasantly surprised by how many creators I was already subscribed to release their stuff there. It made it a no brainer to subscribe to nebula.
The 3D Zeldas rely a lot less on aimlessly wandering I think. And up to this point I was actually delighted at how easy it was to find the next objective, it just seems now that the side content is kinda necessary due to the difficulty. In a sense that is a nice thing because it makes finding heart pieces more rewarding, but it also makes it less appealing to those that want a bit more of a guided experience. Personally, I really love exploring in games, but only if I am absorbed in the game world and atmosphere. So far, a link to the past did not achieve this for me.
Thanks for that, I already learned more about the story (and realised how it’s essentially identical to the one in totk!) Just from the first few pages. Will give it a read before continuing my playthrough :)
Oh yeah tunic was a lot of fun. I did have to look up the solution to one or two of the more obscure puzzles but even then I wasn’t really frustrated. The soundtrack is also a blast and I still listen to it occasionally
Thanks for that link, I do think part of why the guide seems tedious is figuring out where things are in the game world and I vastly prefer just checking out the places with a map
Edit: wow, I just realised the map even lets you select which items you have picked up and then displays which places are actually accessible, that is extremely neat! I think this is the tool that will save this playthrough lol
Afaik the DS basically has GBA hardware built in, right? So I don’t see why there was a chance of it not working
Yes. In fact I am not aware of a single Xbox published game from the last five years or so that isn’t also available on pc
There is Nanodefender for Firefox. Just be aware that there are different versions of this for Firefox and chome but those will actually track you. The original developer sold their code to people with bad intentions, this is a fork.
Wait you use reddit posts to inform yourself on things where misinformation is possible? I also was mildy inconvenienced by the blackouts but it was mostly related to programming stuff, where it is very obvious if an answer is wrong. I don’t think I would even consider using reddit as a source for anything factual
The need for decentralised identities stems from the same problem you are describing in your second paragraph. A decentralised identity would imply that your content will also stay if the instance goes down. I don’t really know however if there is a feasible way to implement this. An easier solution to me seems to be to enable account backups that can be used to recreate your account on a different instance.