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What are you playing this weekend? 2023-07-15

Hello Everyone!

I finally finished The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Took about 90 hours, and still have a lot left to do, but wanted to find out the full story, so finished the main quest. I liked the story a lot more than BotW. If you have already finished it, what did you think about the story? (without giving away any spoilers). Going to keep playing this as my primary game for a while though, while also thinking about which game to start next.

Secondary games:

  • Finished Marvel's Avengers. Nothing new to say about it. It could've been a very good game, if not for Live Service elements.
  • Almost finished Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge. I am at stage 14, so just couple of them left. Will check the trophies after finishing the game and see if I want to platinum it. Only playing it with my kid, so going a bit slowly.
  • Started The Order 1886, it's a very small games, 4-5 hours at most, but didn't get much time to play after starting it, would try to finish it. The games holds up really well visually and gameplay vise.
  • I have committed to Monster Hunter: World now. Going to finish it, no matter how long it takes. Until now, I was only playing it with friends, but would try to do some optional stuff solo too, now that TotK is finished.

That's all for now. What about all of you? What are you playing? And what do you plan to play next? And how are you enjoying them?

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  • Congratulations in finishing Tears of the Kingdom! To me, the story was definitely an improvement from the first game, with more memorable and epic moments.

    As for me, last week I broke down and got myself a Steam deck! I already installed several games to try out, with intention to give Ni No Kuni a real shot this time. Last time I played the game I dropped it after several hours because I found combat boring, let's see if this time will be different.

    On Nintendo Switch I am slowly getting through The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. Currently I am on case 4 of the first game.

    And lastly, on PS5, I am playing Forspoken. I finished main story last weekend, and right now I am just roaming the world and doing side activities.

    • Thanks!

      Steam deck is a great device, but I already have so many games to play, getting another "console" isn't going to help with that. And since you also have PS5, take a look at Chiaki for SteamDeck, to remote play PS5 games. Learned about it from @CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world , our resident mod and creator of !ps5@lemmy.ml, you can ping him for any help related to that.

      Ni No Kuni is a very fun game, played the first one PS3. A much better Pokémon game than some of the newer Pokémon game.

      How are you liking The Great Ace Attorney? I haven't started the series yet, but going to get the Phoenix Wright games soon.

      Same question, how are you liking Forspoken? I liked the demo, but the full game review haven't been that great. Though some of the people I know who have played the game have enjoyed it.

      • Thanks for the Chiaki recommendation! I tried it very first day the steam deck arrived, I might play few games this way when SO steals the TV.

        Regarding Ni No Kuni, first time I played it I liked the story, but the combat did not click with me (dropped it about 6 hours in). Never played pokemon, so it might be that I'm just not used to that kind of gameplay.

        Great Ace Attorney is... well, great. I played the first AA trilogy few years back and liked it a lot, so I knew I would like this games as well, and it definitely delivered. Which collection are you planing to start with? I would suggest the first trilogy, although you can't go wrong with either of these.

        Forspoken is a tough sell. I personally find it fun to play, combat and world traversal are the highlights for sure. The story, while it has it issues, is not as bad as people on the Internet are saying. I would say that if you liked the demo, you would also like the game itself. Not worth the 70$/80€ asking price though.

  • I didn't touch my Switch for a few weeks, so I'll be catching up by playing Splatoon 3 (splatfest) and some MK8 in between (wave 5).

    • What are you going to choose in splatfest? And why is it going to be Mint Chip?

      • Wow, I did chose Mint Chip haha 🫠 I really like cookies&cream, so it was the closest to that. Also, having played Splatoon since the first one, I shall follow Callie/Marie's catchphrase, "Stay fresh" haha 😆

  • @slimerancher we've been playing TotK for the same amount of hours every week 😆 I'm at 90 hours now, but haven't advanced the story much since last week. After getting all the dragon tears and the Master Sword I've kept exploring the map and I went back to the depths to explore more, find some armor pieces and follow one of the story quests related to the Yiga in the depths. I still haven't done at least two temples, the Zora and the Gerudo ones. Maybe I should get going with that...

    I've also played the new Mario Kart 8 DLC. It made me nostalgic of playing Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U with friends! I need to organize a Mario Kart night soon.

    Pikmin 4 should arrive a week today, so that'll be next I guess!

    • Haha, that's interesting. After finishing the game I have only done about 41% of the game. So still need to do a lot.

      How are you liking the MK8 DLC? Any favourite new tracks?

  • I bought Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 for switch, just to he able to play a slow pace game while on holiday.

    • I used to LOVE tycoon games. Haven't played one it a very long time. Is Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 a good one to start with? Or should I look somewhere else?

      • Yeah it is a good one, graphics are a bit dated, bur the game is super complete. I read some reviews of the newer games, but these appear to be repackaged mobile games, with the pay to play features stripped. The newer games also lCk management features that RT3 does have.

  • Almost done with Pikmin, only a few remaining ship parts to collect and I have plenty of days to do it.

    Edit: down to the last part but I'll finish it off in the morning.

    Minecraft Story Mode. My kids were too young to remember it the first time so I've been playing that with them. Not long started so I hope to finish episodes 1 and 2 this weekend.

    • I had forgotten about Minecraft Story Mode! My kid loves Minecraft, so looked it up and found out it's not available anymore, then I remembered why I had taken it out of my mind.

      Are you going to play Pikmin 2 next? Or going to wait for Pikmin 4?

      • Yeah mine have really gotten in to Minecraft this year and while searching for other games I remembered Story Mode and that I never finished all episodes.

        I'm going to move on to Pikmin 2 next. We are waiting for 4 but my wife is definitely going to get in there first!

  • Only 90?? I had about 230 in when I finally dove down that final chasm. Now I don't know what to do with myself.

    • Haha, yeah. I have lots of stuff left to do, that's why. Though I doubt I would reach even 150 hours. I am guessing I would switch it to a secondary game after 5-10 more hours. Going to wait and see.

      What are you playing now? Started anything new?

  • I had forgotten about this last week, but I actualy had Trails into Reverie preordered!

    Got it early in this week and started playing. Didn't have as much time as I'd like, but I managed to reach Act 2, and just got to the Reverie Corridor.

    Really want to play more as C since his party is the "new" one, but early-game is mostly focused on Lloyd and Rean.

    • Ah cool! I have only played the first part of Trails in the Sky. Don't play on PC much so the second part keep getting delayed. Hoping it would end up coming to Switch. And I want to play the whole series from start, so not playing any of the later games until I have finished Trails in the Sky 😀

      How are you enjoying the game? Have you played the rest of the series?

      • Have you played the rest of the series?

        I did, and it's a good thing because CS4 and Reverie depend a lot on you having played both Zero/Azure and CS1-3. Not a lot of Sky connections on the recent games though, just a few returning characters.

        And I want to play the whole series from start, so not playing any of the later games until I have finished Trails in the Sky 😀

        I'm one of the renegades that don't think playing in order is truly necessary. Sky has only one plotline that gets carried into Zero/Azure and CS1-2 is mostly self-contained, so it's perfectly fine IMO to play these out of order. Yeah, you lose some references and gets some spoilers, but nothing that will ruin the fun from the older games if you play them later.

        In fact, I believe I went Sky 1-2 -> CS 1-3 -> Sky 3 -> Zero/Azure -> CS4 -> Reverie, and the only time I truly felt "yeah, I should have played the earlier games first" was during the Crossbell section of CS3.

        How are you enjoying the game?

        The beginning was kinda mid because it starts with Lloyd's route in Crossbell and that part feels like we're just rethreading the plot of recent games, but gets much better once you open the other two routes. C's route being an all-new cast is really great in making the game feel "fresh", so much that I wish the game started with that one instead of having us go through the early sections of Lloyd's and Rean's route first.

        It also has a very strong "Sky 3rd" feel, which is good because I think that game is really underrated. The Reverie Corridor is almost Phantasma 2.0, and each of the main routes seems more streamlined than the average game with this series, with less sidequesting and more focus on the main story.

  • Pikmin 4 Demo and Pikmin 2

    • Finished Pikmin 1? How are you liking the demo? Getting excited for the full release?

      • I'm new to Pikmin and started with Pikmin 2 because I personally find the 30 day time limit in the first part a bit stressful. I've already played through Pikmin 4 Demo and preordered it right away <3

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