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@peemasons @hymenreaper is that even a question on fedi

@fizrot@baraag.net aww man that's a bummer. You're one of the best in my opinion. I wish you luck in whatever you decide to do next though! I'm sure you'll knock it out of the park.

@berkberkman I am VERY worried about the Zelda movie. They have a million ways to mess it up and only a couple ways to do it right. They've already messed up by following the whole live action trend.

I'm expecting it to be moderately better than the cartoon and have a bunch of callbacks to the games to appeal to fans.

@LukeAlmighty it does make them more money, but it starts to deplete goodwill over time and eventually it just becomes slop that nobody loves. Just look at what happened to Bethesda.

Zelda is like my Lord of the Rings. There is so much rich history there. Is it any wonder anyone but general audiences hated Rings of Power? If someone completely detached from the original writings of Tolkien came out with a new book set 10,000 years into the future that rewrote certain things and left out others, how do you think the fans of LotR would react? It doesn't make a difference that Middle Earth was deliberately crafted down to every detail and that Zelda wasn't necessarily. The writers and director still have to uphold the lore that does exist for it to be successful with its core audience. So I think a lot of the problem in general is that the core audience may no longer be the target audience because it isn't as lucrative. Younger kids and general audiences are more important because, now that gaming is a massive industry, companies stand to gain more by trimming off that core audience and appealing to a much wider demographic.

@LukeAlmighty @Awoo i used a pretty good variety of stuff, i think. the star was a massive letdown. anything water related sucked. most of what i used was either fire or ice. definitely a lot of eyes.

that was until i was ready to stop playing so i just started duping lynel horns. didn't give a single fuck at that point, just wanted good gear to go beat the game with.

@LukeAlmighty @Awoo the fact that there is still no durability meter or how much each item will add to durability is criminal. the UI in general is pretty bad, it's clunky and doesn't even loop. i mean, if someone has to make a video about wtf the number on the armors and shields actually means, you've done something wrong. there's this massive equation that goes into it and the number the player sees is kind of like just a guess on how good it is. it's that way in botw too, it's kind of crazy they didn't improve on that whatsoever.

@LukeAlmighty @Awoo a channel the thing people will remember most about tears of the kingdom isn't the story, or the world (because it's more or less just associated with botw instead), or the side quests, or the dungeons, etc.... it'll be making crazy shit to kill koroks with. the building was undoubtedly the main focus of the game and everything else became either secondary or tertiary, to the point of borrowing elements from older zelda games and doing them worse.

@LukeAlmighty @Awoo i liked the depths for a long time, but it really wore off on me when i was more or less fumbling around in the dark and the only reward for it was zonaite to upgrade battery cells (which i had tons of by then) or really shitty easter egg armors that i was never going to use because they suck. i liked the initial gameplay loop down there, and there were moments that caught me off guard, but yeah it really got old after a while.

and that's my biggest criticism for the gameplay, is that the game is just too expansive for anything to remain fun once you've gotten to the end of the game.

@LukeAlmighty @Awoo hmm that's a good point, it's all wooden sticks and stuff so it's going to break almost immediately. what i did for the most part was fuse sticks to other sticks to make spears and stuff because spears are super broken.

@LukeAlmighty @Awoo yeah it does require a LOT of tinkering. the sad thing is that by the time you're 30-40 hours into the game, you're not really required to think about any of it much because you have the blueprints and can just make airbikes to go anywhere you want. the fire temple is probably the most complex one in the game, but only if you don't just climb and fly around everywhere. then it becomes the worst one. that's why i said the novelty kind of wears off, because here i am at this awesome dungeon and oh.... i've just skipped the whole thing. in the case of the shrines, at least they really accounted for all the possibilities and if you wanted to cheese something it would often be harder than if you did it the intended way, but especially with that dungeon it really did feel like i was cheating.

@Awoo @LukeAlmighty yup i believe so, everyone was thinking the zonai were an ancient hyrule race that were sort of barbarian in nature. that ended up not really being the case? a lot of people thought they were the interlopers. after the whole sky islands reveal for totk, some people took to thinking that they were either ancient skyloftians or that the sky islands were actually part of the sacred realm and the zonai had ascended at some point but were going to be coming back due to the sacred realm merging with hyrule or cracking, something along those lines. that was probably the closest theory, considering they ended up being descendants of gods.

the frustrating thing is that the barbarian set seems to indicate that they did belong to the zonai, back when we didn't have totk. it talks about them being a warlike tribe in faron. but then the zonai actually came around and that wasn't who they were. i mean, MAYBE there were some that ended up being that way? but we only ever see two of them and one is the king (""founder"") of hyrule and the other is a mystic of sorts. not to mention, the zonai weren't even in hyrule for very long... a few decades at most. it's hard to believe they would have split up into tribes and had specific warring ones, unless it was talking about a subsection of zonai warriors who fought against ganondorf.

to me, it's far more likely that the barbarian set is just some random tribe in ancient hyrule that liked fighting. or, hear me out... it's just dumb flavor text because they didn't think that hard about it. they wanted barbarian armor so they just came up with something. it could very well be an issue due to the lack of a lore master or something, where the team tasked with making the outfits just kind of had to come up with crap.

@LukeAlmighty @Awoo there were no physical zonai, but they had ruins all over the southern province.

@LukeAlmighty yeah, all of the towers, divine beasts, shrines, guardians, anything made by the ancient sheikah... just evaporated. i think there's one ruined guardian on top of robbie's lab and that's it. we got more shit about the fucking yiga clan than we did the sheikah.