You have to keep in mind that the 900 Korok seeds account for a great chunck of the completion ratio (60 % or more, I don't have the exact figure).
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Switch does seem to record activity data, unlocks after a week.
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You have to keep in mind that the 900 Korok seeds account for a great chunck of the completion ratio (60 % or more, I don't have the exact figure).
Ohh ok, that puts things in better perspective.
50 hours in Zelda, 53 shrines, no Divine beasts lol. I've only been to four villages, Zora, Hateno, Kakariko, and Lurelin. I've unlocked the entire map though, did all the mazes, and took care of the three springs/dragons. Hunting down Mindy parts to upgrade some gear right now, as well as getting a few memories.
70 hours, 0 divine beast... I get sidetracked easily
Jaded Alyx
Member
You could kinda... Spoiler tag one or two things there...
:Motorbass
Member
The other factor is "locations". Like when you enter an area, village or even bridge and it displays the title as text in the lower left side of the screen. If I remember correctly, there are about 700 locations...
Gorilla Shark
Member
25 hours, 1 divine beast, 20 Shrines. I need to find more time to play...
Where does the game show completion percentage?
EDIT: ignoring the obvious question which is "how did you play 110+ hours?".
NeptunePirate
Member
I was going to ask the same thing.
When you beat Ganon.
I'm at 70+ hours: 99 shrines all 4 beasts. Beat the game around hour 50.
Cool, thanks. It will be a while before I get to that point, I'm at 55+ hours and have about half of the map unlocked.
Naked Snake
Member
So you can continue playing after you beat Ganon? :O
I'm still curious if the activity tracker will pick up from where you left off if you play on a friends system, or if it's tied to a device. Considering I can see other's activity, I assume that it's logged on the servers rather than on the device, but I'd like confirmation.
My follow up question would be: does it track activity when you aren't connected to the internet?
My follow up question would be: does it track activity when you aren't connected to the internet?
You can reload your save before you beat ganon and it will show the % plus unlock a new category of pictures to pull from at the hateno lab.
added_time
Member
Apparently I have only played Bomberman
snowsabre93
Member
Really hoping for a proper activity app soon. I don't mind the 5 hour increments you can view on your profile when it pertains to games I've played a lot (ex. 50+ on Zelda), however when I've played a title like Fast RMX for around 3-4 hours and it says "played for a few minutes", its not a good system.
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
It updates in 5 hour increments so it's still accurate.
Inferno313
Banned
The thing only measures in 5 hour intervals. It's pretty dumb, but it says "played for a few minutes" until you hit 5 hours.
zenspider
Member
It's funny - the lack of a proper activity log has encouraged me to play, errmm... not-Zelda games more to get those "few minutes" to "5 hours". Was that Nintendo's plan? Shame-chievements?
Playing more FAST RMX actually sold me on Mario Kart 8 and possibly Redout - I kind of hate FAST - the obstacle out of nowhere is not very fun to me, and I don't understand car on car impact - it feels like a 50/50 who spins out yet it's always me - but I'm having fun playing racing games on Switch.
Graceful Explosion Machine is my new drug - if I don't have "5 hours or more" when it rolls over tomorrow, my feelings are going to be hurt and I don't understand why.
Playing more FAST RMX actually sold me on Mario Kart 8 and possibly Redout - I kind of hate FAST - the obstacle out of nowhere is not very fun to me, and I don't understand car on car impact - it feels like a 50/50 who spins out yet it's always me - but I'm having fun playing racing games on Switch.
Graceful Explosion Machine is my new drug - if I don't have "5 hours or more" when it rolls over tomorrow, my feelings are going to be hurt and I don't understand why.
Naked Snake
Member
Crossed the "80 hours or more" mark on Zelda last night, and still have a loong way to go (only defeated one Divine Beast so far, and lots of areas unconvered yet, let alone thoroughly explored). What a juggernaut of a game, I haven't played any game for this long since the PS2 days, and I'm so loving it.
It counts the time by every 5 hours I'm pretty sure
Diablohead
Member
It's about the same for me, no devine beasts done and easily 55+ hours by now.
QuixoticNeutral
Member
Not sure if this is already well known, but you know how when you inspect the play activity of friends who are online, it tells you which game they're playing and (in the case of Breath of the Wild) marks them as "Online"? It turns out the status message can be more specific than that: I just clicked through to the profile of a friend in the midst of playing Puyo Puyo Tetris and the status displayed precisely which adventure mode stage he was on.
Jaded Alyx
Member
Yes, and it shows what the person is doing in MK8 as well. The Wii U did this for a few games but I don't think Nintendo ever used it.
Naked Snake
Member
120+ hours in Zelda motherfuckers! And still a long way to go. <3 this game
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
Yeah this is cool though a shame you have to enter a profile to see it, makes it less useful than it could be.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
50 hours or more in Mario Kart 8 in 10 days.
Oof.
Oof.
QuixoticNeutral
Member
I wish there were at least some way to clear out individual games instead of wiping your playtime data all at once. I thought downloadable demos wouldn't show up (Snipperclips and Puyo Puyo Tetris didn't) but it seems this is software-dependent: the Blaster Master Zero demo was logged, and it's now just clutter on my activity list that won't get cleared out until I've played twenty other titles.
Zee_truly evil
Member
I turned on parental controls only now after playing BOTW for about a month. Does this mean, it won't track my play time prior to today?
The parental controls app tracks playtime separately from the system itself: after 10 days the system itself unlocks the playtime (which is shown in increments of 5 hours), which you can find in your profile page on the Switch. It tracks this regardless of whether the parental controls app in connected, but the Par. con. app does only track data once it's been connected.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
I find it hilarious and a bit sad that to ge the auto tracking I like to see, and DSi and 3DS gave me, I need to set parental controls on myself... lol. The default activity tracking for the profile is barebones almost to the point of not being usable.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Setup parental controls and link it to the smartphone app... sad and hilarious, but it works...
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
Pretty sure we'll get a real activity log at some point. It wasn't just a priority first. Which is understandable, because features are added after fixes / core functions.
How can you be pretty sure about that? I personally doubt it very much. It's not something that will sell consoles or even that people are loud about it.
Mr. Pointy
Member
At the moment, I got Zelda at 85 hours, Mario Kart 8 at 15 hours, FAST and Bomberman at 5 hours, and everything else (Neo Geo games and Kamiko) at a few minutes.
It only tracks titles with save data.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
I will believe it when I see it
. Seriously, I think that if they do not get enough vocal customers complaining about non gaming features they will not spend a dime in anything that is not just letting you play a game. For all we know multiplayer service is letting people playing online and blocking multiplayer for people who do not pay regardless of how barebones the online offering is.Zee_truly evil
Member
Thanks
Toadthemushroom
Member
Latest system update has changed the wording for games played below 5 hours, previously "for a few minutes", to "played for a little while".
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
Activity tracking on the switch is eons behind other prior Nintendo devices, and I see no possible explanation of that other than somebody high up in Nintendo not giving a damn. Which is a bloody shame.