Rage quit this for the final time last night. For anyone interested, it was after the third attempt at getting the big fucker to dive down through that hole. Went straight to Uncharted 4 afterwards and had about ten times more fun.
Yep, pretty much, I've been following a walkthrough for the last hour or so. Without being too spoilerish, it's turning right right at the last minute and re-surfacing, three times.
Much of this is because it's not a game for someone in a rush - I'm trying to get through this and a couple of others in time for Horizon and the Switch, and it does like to take its sweet fecking time.
I didnt get on with this game, but I did finish it as a matter of principle.
Playing BOTW now I can see now how it must have felt for people like Cinty who had been longing for it and found something special with the game.
Getting to play a game that hits those highs is a rarity in this day and age. Is it a function of getting older or more cynical? Having seen it all and being able to know what's going on behind the curtain? Is it no longer being able to see it for the first time as a young child and be astonished by your first big adventure game? Or is it a function of just being in the right mood and on the right wavelength to enjoy a game and ignore all the complaints that other people might have about it?
Whatever it is that contributes, it's lovely to be able to play a game like that even if they only seem to come along once a decade or more from the individual's perspective.
I think that is why this thread seems appropriate to me to put these comments in, even if its strictly not about TLG.
It would be nice if more people could experience games (or books or comics or films etc ) that have this impact and remember that feeling before pissing on someone else's parade. I'm as guilty as anyone of that.
"Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness." ― Terry Pratchett
Nice thoughts, dude - I've been happy to see how much people are loving BotW and yeah...it reminded me of how I feel about TLG.
Chuffed you've found an experience like that - maybe you're right about age and, I dunno, jadedness (?) meaning those experiences are fewer and further between. But when you get it, that's not something I'd trade in a million years. I'd rather never watch a movie again than give up TLG.
I started this yesterday. Lovely so far but that camera is a deal breaker.
It's like a extremely obtuse cat is actually controlling it. Whoever programmed it is a bad (or sick) guy.
Pick the thing up, get grabbed, wiggle, run away, kite the guard, run back pick the thing up, throw, bonk, it lands back at your feet, get grabbed, wiggle, run away...
Aaaaaaarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh.