The GameXplain argument video over this DLC is hilarious.
I was so happy to be eating popcorn when it suddenly started up lol.
The GameXplain argument video over this DLC is hilarious.
Am I the only one really excited about the trial of the sword mode? The fact that you start it with no equipment makes it sound extremely fun and challenging.
I knew they'd do the Korok Seed finder somehow :
I want a Reward for doing it the Hard Way. Like a Man.
I'm on my second playthrough now, first run was 100 of just exploring, now I'm doing story and only around 70% map completion, but fuck trying to manually find all the korok seeds. The hero's path and korok mask give me an extra incentive to do 100%, and I might as well play the hard mode and see what all they hid in there. And it's only about half of the DLC, so I'm not sweating it. Kind of hoping the story DLC directly connects to the rest so I can do like a full 100% with it included.playing through the game just for hard mode seems barely worth it so I cant imagine wanting to 100% it a second time
I don't uderstand... the game already have one of the most flexible difficulty system.
-You don't accidentally recover your health, you have to activelly decide if you want to heal and how much. (you're not forced to cook, you can eat raw stuff)
-You don't level up just by playing the game
-You decide how much health or stamina you want to have and this doesn't mean you have to skip content (enjoy shrines, keep your orbs)
-You don't need to level up your armor and at half level they are fully unlocked
-You don't have to use champion powers (just disable)
Besides the master sword, you can basically accesss and enjoy the full game in the state you left the plateau
Is it really necessary to have a toggle to force this stuff upon you?
Do you understand the concept of difficulty modes in general?
You are forgetting another important thing.I don't uderstand... the game already have one of the most flexible difficulty system.
-You don't accidentally recover your health, you have to activelly decide if you want to heal and how much. (you're not forced to cook, you can eat raw stuff)
-You don't level up just by playing the game
-You decide how much health or stamina you want to have and this doesn't mean you have to skip content (enjoy shrines, keep your orbs)
-You don't need to level up your armor and at half level they are fully unlocked
-You don't have to use champion powers (just disable)
Besides the master sword, you can basically accesss and enjoy the full game in the state you left the plateau
Is it really necessary to have a toggle to force this stuff upon you?
You are forgetting another important thing.
In this game you can go for 100% completition and still have some control over the health bar. Let's say that in your very first playthrough you exchanged too many orbs and now heart level is so high the game's combat system became trivial. The player has the option to go to the evil statue and take as much heart or stamina vessels as needed.
i aproach Zelda game's combat casually, and at 8 hearts and doing fun stuff the game remains decently challenging and i need to cook often. Yet i completed all the shrines, basically it fixed a long standing difficulty problem shared by all 3D zelda games.
And best of all i regullary forget i did the downgrade. It's only when a conversation related to the challenge level araises that i remember doing that in the first place.
Correct.Nice, I didn't know that. I thought the statue onle gave you the option to trade 1 heart for 1 stamina and vice versa, it was one of the first if not the first quest I did in the game.
So you can get the MS and go back to glass state, cool.
99% are a few presets to make the game easier or harder to the player. In BotW and probably other games you have granular control of how hard you want the game to be without skipping content or going out of your way to achieve it.
I've seen a lot of posts in this thread and others with people saying they should have a timer on food or hunger system like the game is forcing them to stock super foods or even cook at all.
You can get all the cool armor and weapons, confront all bosses and enemies, do all side quests, explore everything and still be a 3 heart chump that dies in 1 hit.
I'm on my second playthrough now, first run was 100 of just exploring, now I'm doing story and only around 70% map completion, but fuck trying to manually find all the korok seeds. The hero's path and korok mask give me an extra incentive to do 100%, and I might as well play the hard mode and see what all they hid in there. And it's only about half of the DLC, so I'm not sweating it. Kind of hoping the story DLC directly connects to the rest so I can do like a full 100% with it included.
The GameXplain argument video over this DLC is hilarious.
I was so happy to be eating popcorn when it suddenly started up lol.
You're not answering the question. I'm not sure whether you comprehend the distinction between arbitrarily limiting yourself and having the game place it upon you.
The difference between the game putting limits on the player and the player putting limits on themselves is the following:
That kind of answers his question alright; you don't.
Just don't use those ingredients. I myself am currently doing a 3 heart run and I don't heal during battles. I know it's probably different people, but it's so weird seeing people calling for options to be removed from a Nintendo game.Now recipes should be downgraded and the OP ones should be reserved for rare ingredients (Dragon parts, etc) Also put a cool down between full blown cooked meals. This is something super easy for Nintendo to implement as it just be a tweak.
Nah, it's just the truth. Generally speaking the difficulty ups put in a game by devs can pretty easily be recreated through player choice. The only place I can think of where this isn't true is in leveling which is literally not a factor in the game. If you can think of a way that the game could be made harder outside of something that could be simulated though, by all means, please share.
The Nintendo page said it needs a download. Since WiiU is region-locked, the game likely has only the regional languages.Aren't all the languages in there already? Until know it just hasn't let us choose because reasons.
The difference between the game putting limits on the player and the player putting limits on themselves is the following:
The amount of horseshit in this one paragraph is amazing. People have been been providing details for weeks now if havent been willing to pay attention all this time youre not going to start now.
1) You still have learn take the time to learn how to perform a Flurry Rush against each enemy.One that should be immediately obvious is say the feasibility of abiding by a cooldown timer manually vs the game doing it for you. I don't even mean someone not sticking by it when things get tough, I mean literally keeping track of the timer while playing the game.
Another is that the player limited in how they can tune the game to themselves. Sure you can just go into fights naked with a weak weapon but that wont change the extremely telegraphed attacks enemies where it doesn't matter if you die in one hit when you can just perfect dodge>flurry their attacks.
There's a reason why Eventide Island is brought up so much despite the fact that the player can impose those restrictions on themselves outside of that one area.
1) You still have learn take the time to learn how to perform a Flurry Rush against each enemy.
2) Performing a Flurry Rush is, again, completely optional.
The difference is that it's hard to know as a player what would be a balanced way to limit themselves that keeps things enjoyably challenging but doesn't become frustrating with difficulty spikes or in some situations. The players ways of affecting difficulty is also quite limited. Just being more easy to die isn't too interesting. As I pointed out earlier, just upping damage numbers and enemy health can be a pretty boring way of upping difficulty in games unless that plays well into the systems of the game. BOTW that already has damage sponge enemies that are pretty boring to kill in the long run + the additional frustration of easily breaking weapons, so the hard mode just makes enemies even more damage sponge-y.Nah, it's just the truth. Generally speaking the difficulty ups put in a game by devs can pretty easily be recreated through player choice. The only place I can think of where this isn't true is in leveling which is literally not a factor in the game. If you can think of a way that the game could be made harder outside of something that could be simulated though, by all means, please share.
I just watched the GameXplain video on the Zelda DLC Pack 1. To hear Andre (ANDRE) take the better stance against poor DLC practices with Nintendo involved is something I never though I'd say until today. Wow.
Wow. *claps*
you mean the 50 minute video one? You sat through that? Ughh why they do make so many damn long videos. Is Andre that much of a narcisst that he really loves to hear himself talk for 50 minutes and expects everyone else does the same?
you mean the 50 minute video one? You sat through that? Ughh why they do make so many damn long videos. Is Andre that much of a narcisst that he really loves to hear himself talk for 50 minutes and expects everyone else does the same?
The difference is that it's hard to know as a player what would be a balanced way to limit themselves that keeps things enjoyably challenging but doesn't become frustrating with difficulty spikes or in some situations. The players ways of affecting difficulty is also quite limited. Just being more easy to die isn't too interesting. As I pointed out earlier, just upping damage numbers and enemy health can be a pretty boring way of upping difficulty in games unless that plays well into the systems of the game. BOTW that already has damage sponge enemies that are pretty boring to kill in the long run + the additional frustration of easily breaking weapons, so the hard mode just makes enemies even more damage sponge-y.
Well balanced & well designed difficulty levels do it like Bayonetta where the game introduces new challenges with each subsequently harder difficulty level and you can still be challenged even when you have all the weapons & skills & upgrades of the game, not having to artificially limit yourself from using features of the game. Kingdom Hearts II (Final Mix) is a good example of a game where the systems themselves support a straightforward STR increase for enemies. The game has actually been designed to accommodate a Lvl 1 playthrough for people who want to take on such a challenge and yet it can offer a decent challenge (so long as the player doesn't over-level himself too early) on the hardest difficulty level even if one plays it normally.
Stuff like switching enemy setups in at least some key locations (not just "enemy lvl goes up"), having enemies with new strategies & skills, making enemies more aggressive & otherwise more dangerous etc. are some ways to make things more interesting & requiring more of the player relatively easily without having to, like, create completely new content or having to create more indepth survival system. And that should be the bare minimum if one has to actually PAY for the harder difficulty level. I wouldn't mind if Hard Mode was as is if it had been included from the start. As is, it is behind a paywall and as such it feels too pedestrian of a difficulty level to warrant that paywall instead of being a free update.
The difference between the game putting limits on the player and the player putting limits on themselves is the following:
Where is the Minish Cap. Where is it.
There's some good ideas there, but the food going bad seems like micromanagement hell that I'd prefer to avoid.Here's what I wanted hard mode to be:
General enemies deliver more damage
Devine Beast end boss fights deliver and take more damage. Their difficulty also increases further depending on how many hearts you have.
Calamity Ganon has 5 health bars. Completing a Devine Beast takes away one of those bars. Ganon also delivers and takes more damage. His difficulty increases further depending on how many hearts you have.
Cooked food lasts 5 in game days before going stale.
Can only carry a maximum of 5 cooked meals.
Raw meat/fish lasts 7 in game days before going stale.
Items in shops are more expensive to purchase.
The powers you get from each Champion are nerfed. MG only restores 5 hearts, DP gives you one shield instead of 3 etc, and they take longer to recharge.
Consuming food or potions triggers an in-game animation of Link eating which lasts a second or two.
One hit kill protection removed.
Miphas Grace no longer heals Link to full health. 5 hearts seems like a reasonable number instead.
Daruks Protection reduced from 3 uses to 1.
Urbosas Fury damage halved.
Stasis+ still freezes enemies but damage done while frozen doesnt count.
Bombs no longer inflict knockdown, they cause a hitstun instead. Damage is unchanged.
The effects of hearty food no longer stack. If the player consumes a hearty item which gives +3 yellow hearts and then one which gives +4 hearts they end up with only +4 hearts. (Consuming them in the opposite order also yields +4 hearts, smaller values dont overwrite bigger ones.)
Link cannot carry more than one fairy at a time.
Manual saving is disabled outside of towns.
Autosaves are no longer triggered before enemy camps or minibosses. Making progress on quests, visiting a town, arriving at a full boss, unlocking or solving a shrine are the only way to trigger autosaves. This autosave change is explained to the player in a prompt before they start hard mode.
Night time is darker, visibility around Link is more limited.
Lizalfos more closely match the colour of their surroundings when cloaked.Their pounce when breaking cloak is more accurate.
Wizzrobes are no longer instantly killed by elemental arrows, however they do take additional damage. Wizzrobes immediately go back to their immaterial form when hit by a headshot.
Ancient arrows still do large bonus damage to guardians and high single target damage everything else but no longer instantly kill.
Arrows have max limits. Suggested values: 30 normal, 20 fire/ice/elec, 10 bomb, 5 ancient.
Lynel bows consume the number of arrows they fire. In other words a five shot bow uses five arrows from inventory.
Rain is not more common than usual but rain is somewhat more likely to be a thunderstorm in areas where thats possible.
Armor upgrade values are changed so that the level 4 upgrade value is now roughly equivalent to the level 2 upgrade value on Normal mode. Material requirements are unchanged and set bonuses are still granted at level 2. Example: If a piece of armour had the upgrade values 1 -> 5 -> 8 -> 11 on Normal it now has values like 1 -> 2 -> 4 -> 6 instead.
you mean the 50 minute video one? You sat through that? Ughh why they do make so many damn long videos. Is Andre that much of a narcisst that he really loves to hear himself talk for 50 minutes and expects everyone else does the same?
will wait for GOTY ed.
will wait for GOTY ed.
You'll be waiting for a while. Nintendo doesn't typically make those.
I really hope Trial of the Swords features the bosses too, I forgot to get an encyclopedia entry for the Vah Ruda and Vah Naboris bosses.