OT: HFPens Community Lounge: Party like its 1999

[Ogrezilla]

I didn't think the world map was that overwhelming TBH. The game does a pretty good job of not making you comb the entire countryside if you don't WANT to and there are some really cool ways that the game is always pointing you in the right direction.

okay well those other things are still in my way of playing it anytime soon, but I'll keep an eye out for a good sale, it does look really good.

Yeah the organic "sign posting" is really great. I never felt lost, like I sometimes did with the Switch Zelda games (which is half the fun there tbh), but more like I was playing an epic chambara film.

oddly enough BotW is one of the few open world games that I actually loved. But I think the key is that it is designed to just wander almost aimlessly, so I didn't feel like I was doing something wrong. And getting around the world was just fun itself.

I just finished Xenoblade Chronicles 3 the other day. I really like all 3 of those (haven't played X) but the combat can get to be a slog by the end. I think 3 took me about 70-80 hours and could have easily been 10-20 hours shorter without feeling like I missed anything important. And that's skipping a good chunk of sidequests. They aren't bad, there are just so many.

Time to roll a D100 and pick my next game from the pile