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The nightmare may be taking a turn for the worse? Trump last night authorised the firing of almost 60 cruise missiles on an air base in Syria believed to be where the Sarin attack was originating from from what I understand. I also understand that No.10 have released a statement 'fully supporting' Trump within the last half hour. Now ofc I understand the fact that a Sarin attack is hideous and there's a reason certain 'weapons' of 'war' are banned(how ludicrous that seems in itself lol) so I agree something had to be done globally to say that Sarin and other nerve agents are NOT cool - but with Russia being an ally to the Syrian regime I'm wondering quite just how or why this has to be done so quickly, and I wonder almost with worry how Russia might next respond. I've joked about war since Trump came in, but with Michael Howard talking of going to war with Spain, with Trump's recent activities and Brexit; I feel the political climate is getting riper and riper for said war and it's actually scary to think it's not just one big joke. I don't think anything will happen anytime too soon mind - but I do feel this has been a bit silly/rushed. Curious for Russia's response - but I actually expect we might not hear from them straight away; probably keep the rest of us stewing after the US's action as the ball is effectively in their court now. EDIT: seems that Putin's administration have commented in last half hour and Putin is possibly considering it as an act of aggression against international law.

I heard there was a trolley robot from Kent? So southeastern lol. Watched/catched up on this with my mate the other night - I fell asleep during the last episode tho and gotta catch up on that(believe it was Pulsar's too) but I've been quite happy from what I've seen of the series so far! Some very enjoyable battles in places, if a little controversial(here's looking at you, Cherub!). For me being a bit of a nerd(as I'm sure I've said before) - it's really quite interesting to see the robots of today compared to the ones of old. Even Thor coming in on this series with a complete re-design leading to a smaller body with the same size weapon - would you have seen that before? Thor's a one man army, similar in some ways to Pulsar's lead designer - what accessibility would they have had to these sorts of advances and technology 20 years ago? I find that side of things really interesting and enthralling to see. The meta evolution into more of the super spinner drums is also interesting - it's like the S2 SHREEMECH innovations etc all over again. Despite all this love for innovation I do have to say it was also fun to see proper old school roboteers Behemoth back in the competition too.

The delightful irony of it is that you're still probably having a relatively easy ride given the chain-free circumstances! Just pressure your conveyancers/solictors to keep chasing things up against their ends. Hopefully you'll be out of the hard parts soon and it'll all pale into insignificance until you do it again!

I'm not sure if I can recall any block puzzles in the water temple??

I think it was for me too! Amazed when I think how much I struggled as a child to play it; I imagine I could ace it pretty quick these days(he says...getting tempted...). I agree on the tunes too - I used to love the kick in of the World 2 theme and one of the reasons I wanted to beat World 3 so hard everytime was just to get to the awesome asian theme of World 4! Given that I'm playing a lot of Mario Run atm it feels a very apt game to think about going back to considering it was probably my first introduction to our favourite italian plumber!

Oh really? How interesting! I just thought Sony or MS would have pushed against it given the capabilities of their systems to surely handle much shorter times? Wouldn't you even want to do it as dev/publisher knowing it was one of the biggest criticisms of the original release? I realise you said they're shorter though and I don't know exactly how much shorter but I'd imagine they're still going to be a bit annoying. Good news for the Switch if it's on-par though, and makes me feel even more better about my Wii U version :p!

I may be asking a stupid question - but is one's light level somewhat limited according to what expansion they have? Like I wanted to get RoI but didn't cos I didn't feel I had anyone my level to play it up with - so I recall just trying to get back into it WITHOUT RoI and it felt like unless I paid to upgrade I wasn't going to get much more than I was before in the way of higher light items etc. The constantly evolving nature of updates(which is good) just throws me off a bit.

I realise I'm always doing this but if you're gonna trade in the PS4 let me know the value you're getting for it as I might be able to beat it on cash (not for myself so no promises but if I can fix a good deal for both you and someone else then why not!). Also do let me know how the backup/restore between then two goes as I've still not upgraded my own PS4 drive and interested to see how easy/well it all transitions across. Did you go through the process for the 2TB upgrade or did you just upgrade before you had too much on the PS4 to save the hassle?

Weirdly there is something I'm finding quit enjoyable about the camera and finding new stuff framed by it in orange! I like that pictures you take go in the compendium - and I try to get at least a decent one(or retake it if not) but I don't always go for perfect framing on enemies and wild beasts - but I kinda like that too. Feels quite genuine. I've been caught on the raw side of death and forgetting to retake a picture for a couple times now tho.

Do agree it's probably a poor/lazy port job - really expected them to fix it though. I imagine we won't be seeing it with the XBone/PS4 versions but it does make me feel a little happier knowing it's not completely kicking the shit out of my wii u version :p

Gotten all the pink coin challenges as of yesterday(couldn't stop playing the damn thing!) and unlocked a lot of buildings etc through Toad Rally(the ticket limit at 99 is a bit shit, hit it a few times without realising) so I find myself trying to burn through runs on that - though I still do fairly enjoy it albeit playing mostly the same 'levels'. Need to see what my reward is for getting all them pink coins next!

That's why I put 'respawn' in quotes and explained the problem - they're not technically respawning because they were never dead to need it; they literally just fade out halfway through a battle from a distance sometimes and return back to their original point fully healed. Whatever criteria they've chose to decide whether this needs to be done is imo much too narrow; as I haven't felt as if I drew them miles away from where they were or anything. I imagine it's been done via drawing a boundary of sorts for them rather than a loci of movement from their spawn point(in which case they'd presumably turn around and return and isn't without its faults itself) but it's annoying that it's happened to me a few times. I'd mostly been putting my orbs into stamina over hearts and so I ended up trying to fight a fair couple things at distance with bombs and bow+arrow - it's annoying that in a few circumstances me choosing to fight at a distance has cost me because of the game's implementation of it.

So I totes just bought it so if you need a friend then feel free to add me! Didn't realise this was a bit friend codey but apparently my player ID is 4971-5213-0702.

Apparently about ~170MB and on both Switch and Wii U from a quick google round. I'll download it before I go to work and hopefully get a look in at the weekend - tbh still on Wii U I've only noticed it most crucially during fights with certain enemies and depending on my weapon. I get a bit of it at other times but if it's general exploring it doesn't do me much harm. Not framerate related but a couple times I have noticed enemies randomly 'respawn' when I'm fighting at a distance - full healing and they literally disappear and reappear in their spawnish area. I've had it happen maybe 3/4 times now and it's tedious; one time I also had an enemy moblin spring out of nothingness and charge at me. Not sure but I think it was the same sort of thing in reverse(where I was at the spawn point like).

Mod Note: Remember to stop complaining about complaining/praise guys. Everyone's entitled to their views - positive or negative and everyone has a right to express those views in a thread about the game. Complaining about complaining is NOT what the thread is for. Next time I'll issue an infraction.

Personally I think this is unlike any other Zelda we've seen so far - but I find that both a good and a bad thing. I *know* it's Zelda, but then if I step back and consider it more - is it? I dunno. I find this game really tears me down both sides of it, it's good when I'm into it and get going but sometimes I just can't be arsed to - and sometimes I feel like I've done nothing but waste my time on it too. It's got so many niggles, but it's also got a number of plus points - and it's just a bit frustrating really. I think I felt a bit better yesterday as I went much further afield and found a few shrines+map towers rather than just wandering aimlessly but part of me's almost waiting for the next 'lull' in things.

A few of my mates seemed to love Gwent and whilst it was definitely an aspect of the few hours I gave The Witcher that I may felt made most sense and I enjoyed I can't say that I found it especially enthralling. I wonder if it evolves a bit more later as you get more cards etc - but why would anyone who had The Witcher want to turn over to this particularly? I assume it'll have some online/multi options etc? Having said all that I'll probably still try and give it a test on the PS4 if that happens, if the online's good and enough of my mates get it(and the price is right) I might get sucked into it.

I only gave it a few hours(got hooked on Overwatch instead) but I have to say I did quite enjoy Just Cause 3's ART STYLE. I like how they're given it a generally vibrant look rather than the darker/duller realism you might get in those sort of games these days. Something about doing so much random destruction and chaos in the sunshine and vibrance of the world feels really quite fun. Like you're just fucking up some poor bastard's absolutely banging sunday afternoon constantly trying to overthrow the powers that be.

Getting tempted by this dammit! The events/golden goombas and the general nature of the game seems to have my intrigued - so I think I'm gonna buy it by the end of today! Got lots of work to do so don't wanna do it quite yet, but I can see myself dropping something on it by the end of the weekend lol. @Kounan as far as I understand, if it's just a legit mirror of the original APK, you shouldn't have any issues. With my older phone I had to get a Pokemon Go mirror cos the store said it didn't support my device - but I didn't find myself having any issues with it bar the fact my phone sucked :p Ofc I wasn't paying any money for that but I'd say you should be fine. EDIT: Woops just seen you bought it - how are you finding the extra content? Maybe I will buy it now...GOD DAMN YOU NINTENDO

For those of you it's happened to once so far - has it happened again or does it at least seem to be a one off thing so far?

Personally I'm very interested in that arguable modular design with the joy cons - that you might be able to attach other peripherals such as GC ones with triggers/sticks to it. I don't think we'll see it in reality though due to the potential clunkyness of the GC 'halves' on each side of the Switch - though I haven't touched a Switch since the 3rd so I'm not best placed to judge that now. I think rather than having Switch remakes an up-scaled emulation of GC title will really be a pull for some people. The GC had some classic titles(including, as you mention TTYD, though I still place SMRPG above all) and the idea of GC gaming on the go could really pull me in - depending on the PRICE POINT of GC games for the system. Where would people's acceptability on costs be? N64 was ~£7 iirc with the Wii, and I wouldn't be willing to break too much more than £10 a GC game these days myself tbh. However it'd certainly be something to draw me towards Switch - especially if there were multiplayer titles going for it. I guess the real challenge on all of this moving forwards however is the internal storage - with just 32GB presumably not all of which is available exactly how many of these titles might one be able to acquire before resorting to deleting and shuffling etc? Easy access GC HD remakes however would definitely get me drawn in - give me some HD(even 480p) Melee with at least local multiplayer(maybe a grand excuse for GC-style joycons) or even with online multiplayer and you'll definitely sell a few more systems with it imo.

Maybe consider discussing the actual potential of a Direct given the recent release of the Switch? It's hard to expect people to be positive about Nintendo on this forum if you're going to shut them down on semantics of days/dates for a Direct rather than actually having and fostering a conversation around the subject matter. Why should people bother to even post something potentially positive and speculative if they're going to be told it's not even likely possible before it's even had a chance? Why even bring it up - is it going to further discussion or just satify egos in being correct? Let's suppose it's true - what are you guys looking forward to potentially hearing about? Or not? What are thoughts of TTYD as a supposed HD title? Do we think it might be a Switch specific remake or potentially an up scaling of Gamecube games/emulation? I know ofc that Dolphin has the capabilities as an emulator of outputting greater definition than the GC actually did - so I wouldn't consider it technically impossible and in fact I think it might actually be quite a good draw for them if they can upscale the old GC titles without too much work.

Ohohoho - I'm very easily entertained. Nonetheless - whilst I'm still continuing on my quest(few more shrines today, think 3 more than my post this morning before I went to work) and two more map towers down I'm feeling a bit more...reassured? I disagree on the stamina, as that's what I've maxed most and I do find myself occasionally running out just as I'm almost hitting a peak(without an X jump making the difference) but I do agree that if I was such inclined - an elixir or something could probably sort me out in a lot of occasions where I'm opting for a different choice. That's some of the great stuff about the game though - there are various choices(even in the cooking/crafting aspect, though I agree interfacing for the game generally feels quite clunky) - I recall doing the 'Impeccable Timing' shrine earlier and I fucked up with the thing - ended up just doing it via cryonis in the end which admittedly felt exceptionally cheap but I'd also clearly already understood the puzzles anyway. So I possibly disagree on the stamina/hearts thing but that's probably just how I'm playing - I do very much enjoy my time with the game when I sit down to it but I often feel like I cba to actually take that step to sit down with it(possibly more WiiU related) - but on the whole I constantly find the game rather constantly tedious in small ways that are always bothering me despite the goodness. I thought it even in my first few hours but even still now I can't see myself personally giving this over 7-8/10 though I'm still hopeful sometime might blow my mind as I haven't done any bosses/dungeons really yet. Still yet to find that prick Hetsu too - which just isn't conducive to the experience imo.

Done a few more bits yesterday - gone wandering a bit more than I previously had. Somehow found 2 more stables, and done either one or two more map towers(think I was en route to the next one). I found a stalfhorse at some point that I nicked off a stalchild and got excited too! Sadly he disappeared shortly later from right underneath my haunches Killed a Stone Talus or two on my adventures - quite fun. Also trying to use my weapons a bit more and got 7 orbs for a spending(probs going stamina+heart or double-stamina for moving around more). Think I got to the edge of the map at one point - bit disappointed to see the weak way they've enforced it after making the world feel so naturally there - a simple pop-up message and you falling off walls with it telling you can't go any further -.- I actually didn't properly realise it was because it was a boundary at first! I've still yet to find Hetsu, and done some dying amongst groups of mobs(a few I gave up on eventually). Think I'm gonna go for the next map tower I can see and hopefully find a shrine a long the way...