General gaming discussion

You can't manually save until you have your bike.

Buy the suppressors for your guns and only go for headshots, you'll kill all the small zombies and normal enemies in one and won't attract other enemies. Then just pick them off one at a time.

I repair and refill my petrol everytime I go back to a camp. It's an awful mechanic though.

I saved from the pause menu after the cutscene where you discuss with the camp leader. Didn't realise I was technically still in the mission. I was supposed to just go back to the mechanic and he'd give me a bike, mission over job done. Instead when I loaded the game it put me back to the radio tower where you drop off Boozer, meaning I had to take down the nearby guys with gun, then go through some freakers to where my bike should have been again etc. It might have still saved the things I'd collected/scavenged, but I'm not sure. Once I did get the bike though, the quicksave option is now there. Have made sure to complete whatever I was on before turning off just to be on the safe side though.

I think the guardians and lynals are suitably ominous and threatening in BOTW. Sound and atmosphere also helps.

Then again, Inky, pinky, ... in pacman were ominous to me 😀😀

I think AC Odyssey is a good compromise art style wise. But as retro says, that's an icon vomit game. 😀

But I absolutely love the art style in BOTW. Because it's not trying to be real it's way more believable to me. Eg no uncanny valley.

I'll take the piss filter over the Fortnite 'wacky animation' look that's currently turning me off numerous games. At least the piss filter gave us Demon's Souls.

Poor Team Fortress.

Yea, that was exactly my point.

Fenyx Rising tries to ape BOTW but it looks mobile phoney, at least from what I've seen. And that's enough to turn me off the game.

Also, Mario and Rabbids, which I've played does not come near the polish of Super Mario Odyssey for example, even though it's the Mario universe and a less taxing game on the same platform. It's also got that cheap mobile phoney game look in places. Especially in that dumb over world section. But, still it's a very good game and I guess the Devs had ubisoft and Nintendo watching their every move.

Likewise, New Super Lucky's Tale, in 4K, looks and plays pants compared to even Mario Galaxy on Wii.

It's amazing how amazing those Nintendo games look. I think it's because they have the legacy and Japanese video game culture of creating great art with limited resources since the 80s.

I'm wondering what that new Mario movie will look like. More run of the mill stuff or something special with Miyamoto involved.

What I played was ok, but seemed bland compared to e.g. Mario Odyssey/Galaxy/World. The game is "free" on Xbox Game Pass, and done by a team and budget a lot less than what Nintendo has for its Mario AAA games, so I'm definitely comparing apples with oranges. Also I don't have much time to play games, so didn't run this game through fully.

Given the above ... this is where it falls down for me: flat, unrealistic animations, maybe less frames in the animations, dumb/annoying sound effects, colours that don't pop, floaty character movement, no weight to the actions, music definitely not at the same level, ugly character design, ... no surprises or mystery or magic.

I'll give it another go at some stage. It does 120 FPS I believe, so it'd be interesting to see how that plays.