Hello Everyone!

Let’s start a first ever, “What are you playing this weekend?”.

I am still completely enthralled by The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I am about 50-60 hours in, and still have lots of explore. I don’t want to mention anything that might be a spoiler, but I think I should be around 60% done with the story. I am on media blackout about the game, so I don’t actually know how long it actually it is, but this is what it seems like. Of course, if I go by total amount of Shrines, or Koroks, I am probably just 10-20% of the total.

All my other games are on pause, probably not going to resume anything else until I have finished Zelda.

What about all of you? What are you playing?

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Same here, TotK all the way. ✌️ Same as you, haven’t read anything to not spoiler myself, but seems that I may be at 70% done. Already start feeling a bit of nostalgia just in case I happen to finnish it soon, it is so good 😄

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I have paused the main quest, and started focusing on exploring and on side-quests, will get back to main quest when I start getting bored with that.

Don’t want the game to finish so soon. 😀

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Chalk another one up for TOTK.

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TOTK taking over the world!

Did any quests yet? Or just exploring the world? Or a mix of both?

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3 temples down, 1 to go.

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Ah, same here. But now I am going to take care of some of the side-quests, and do some exploring along the way.

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I’m about 20 hours in, in Zelda TotK. It’s my first proper Zelda game, not counting what little OoT I played via emulator a long back. The game is stunning, so playable and atmospheric. It’s a true adventure game.

I’ve dropped it for a bit to play D4, but can’t wait to get back to Hyrule.

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Welcome to the world of Zelda! It truly is a masterpiece.

If you start with TotK, it may be difficult to go back to BotW, but if you do play it later, I would love to hear your feedback.

If you want to play Zelda games, you can try the older ones through different NSO apps, SNES, Gameboy etc. but they are all very different from TotK / BotW, and not everyone enjoys older games.

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I’ve dabbled a bit with OoT, TP and some other ones too, always found the games very intriguing with no lack of quality. Other games / things took priority so I never got far enough with any of them to actually say I’ve played a Zelda game.

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Fair enough. There are so many good games coming out these days, if you want to play older games too, the list just keeps on increasing.

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Just finished BOTW this weekend and taking a break from Zelda. Picked up Pokemon Violet again but got distracted. Does Pokemon Violet get more engaging? I’m on the 3rd gym and I feel like they’re still holding my hand.

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Botw gave me an experience that I haven’t had since Skyrim was new - I wanted to go out of my way to explore the whole world. Leave no piece of the map untouched.

Man, what I would give to experience Skyrim for the first time again.

I haven’t touched a Pokemon game since X/Y. Black and White 2 were where Pokemon peaked, imho. I checked out after X/Y.

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I’ve played every Pokemon game since the original Red, and it’s definitely getting staler. I enjoyed Sun/Moon a lot but I can’t recommend Sword/Shield or Scarlet/Violet at all. Hope that ToTK scratches that open world itch that I have from games like Skyrim, BoTW and Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West.

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@cali @spicytuna62 TOTK is amazing. I could wander the world for hours

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I got to the school in Pokemon Scarlet and couldn’t continue the game. The world feels almost like a massive Super Mario 64 world and it’s super disheartening. I’ve decided the future of Pokemon is in the hands of the fans to make good games. What do you like about this new generation of Pokemon?

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It is a pretty massive map. I used an online guide for determining the order of which gyms/star bases I would battle, and just explored from there.

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Currently playing Harvestella and loving it. I have TOTK but keep coming back to this one right now.

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Ah, cool. Haven’t seen many people mention it, but I liked what I saw, and it’s on my wishlist.

How do you compare it with other games in same genre? Like Run Factory or Story of Seasons?

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I haven’t played either yet, but they’re on my list. My significant other surprised me with a Switch a couple of weeks ago. I’m a pretty heavy WoW, Diablo, StarCraft player, so this has been my guilty little solo indulgence. It’s gorgeous, very Korean feeling, and just fun with very low stakes. The fishing is the best, and so calming.

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Ah, cool. Hope you have keep enjoying it!

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