Weekend Chatterbox

Top 5 deceased TV personalities;

1) = Clive James
1) = Keith Floyd
3 - 5) Who cares?

It's too late in the evening to respond to this, but what the hell. We can't have that.

I'm not saying that the weapon degradation in BotW isn't a source of irritation. Let me tell you, there's nothing "realistic" about weapons breaking in that game: they break like glass. Well, not quite as bad, but Hyrulean weapon blacksmiths need to hang their head in shame for their shoddy handiwork.

However! It is quite clear that the developers let weapons break because they thought it was funny. Like in many other Zelda games they just love trolling the player. This is why one can do extra damage to an enemy by throwing a damaged weapon at them. The other reason is that they wanted to make combat more interesting; in that they were very successful. Instead of finding the game's strongest weapon and then sticking to it you are forced to work with a large variety of weapons that are suitable for different types of situations and enemies. I have 450 hours in that game, but I think my strongest weapon only broke once during that time because I only used it when I had to instead of squashing every low level enemy with it. And weapons, even very good ones, can be found everywhere, but even if you run out you can use a branch or a leaf to good effect. There are players who had a lot of fun fighting the final boss armed with a broomstick and a pot lid and now that I'm writing that I feel like going and trying that myself.

For example, the DLC boss fights had to be done with only one weapon - you broke it during the fight, well that's too bad. This posed a nice challenge, you needed to fight smarter, more efficiently, instead of hacking away at the enemy until their health bar was at zero. The DLC had also one of the most interesting weapons, the One-Hit Obliterator: killing any enemy in one hit and at the same time making you vulnerable so that you yourself will die in a single hit. It doesn't sound good on paper, but working with this was a magical experience, I loved it.

In any case, the Master Sword is the one weapon in the game that won't break once you managed to obtain it. There are also weapons that can be repaired, but most of the time I didn't bother with that because better ones were freely available. Some weapons have properties that are useful outside combat.

What I'm saying is that depriving yourself of that game because of weapon degradation is silly.



Oh, and another thing that games sometimes do and that I hate are missable items.

Tldr?

Tldr: Felice is being silly.

Shut it down, Destry/Boris/Keef.

For tenthenemy *


*I do 4.5/6 of these.

5.5/6.

Why aren't they mentioning crafting every possible item and unlocking every recipe? Are these people even trying?

Ooh, look, I can now make a broken crate instead of whole one! I'm sooo glad this is in the game.

Morning all.

An early start to the day courtesy of a boy waking early - time to get that blackout-blind back up in his room.

Gamesblog - my settlers are still working on the blueprint, which requires the aforementioned broken crates (of which I have none of). I also need blue, white, and orange blocks, and haven't a clue how to make those either.

TVblog - caught a bit of Kingdom, which has fantastic fight choreography.
This was followed by Jack Ryan. Why can't they make a Ghost Recon series? One actually set during the original game, none at of this modern drone nonsense.

Amigablog - got all the components back in the box last night. Time to set up a new hard disk.

We're off to the Scilly Isles mid-April. Just had an email from our lodgings saying to come along regardless, as they can't refund us. So if we don't go, it'll be a travel insurance claim I think.

Why would you take down blackout blinds in a child's room? Ever.

Hello.
TV. Succession.
Games. Started uncharted 3.

Making soup. Yes.