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22 mins of Windbound (obvious BotW clone) gameplay:

Terrible name, sounds like me after a night on the real ale.

Fisher wrote:shyguy64 are you gonna download eshop games this week.

most likely not

Drumstick wrote:22 mins of Windbound (obvious BotW clone) gameplay:

Obviously there are definite BotW vibes about this (particularly in the art style) but I think it looks unique enough and I'm quite intrigued to pick it up!

I don't mean it in a negative sense, there aren't many better games to copy.

The preview of Windbound in the latest OPM is really impressive for not mentioning BOTW once

Drumstick wrote:I don't mean it in a negative sense, there aren't many better games to copy.

I’m not sure I agree with this. I think games trying to emulate BotW, a massive sprawling game that presumably had a huge budget and was years in the making, need similar time and budget to approach the quality. They can make large empty worlds with a few outposts easily enough, but making the large empty worlds memorable, giving those outposts enough character, making the enemies enjoyable to fight, and integrating exploration mechanics that are as fun as BotW’s...

Don’t get me wrong, I think a good BotW copy would be better than most game copies! I just think it might be harder to get there. If I recall correctly we’ve already seen a couple of failures.

From the reviews I read it was performance that really let games like Decay of Logos and Pine down. Them sounding pretty unplayable is why I avoided them rather than a lack of mechanical polish - hopefully Windbound doesn't suffer the same fate

Windbound seems like it is not aiming for the same sort of scale as BotW which is promising because it is certainly the case that many games try to give you an epic world to explore and it just ends up seeming boring and half empty.

Likewise the greater emphasis on survival mechanics is something I like the look of, that BotW never drilled down on those aspects was an area that disappointed me somewhat - there was scope for something much more interesting to come from the some of the mechanics they had in play that was never realised and I'm hoping Windbound might scratch that itch!

Drumstick wrote:22 mins of Windbound (obvious BotW clone) gameplay:

Wow I think it actually looks better than botw.

OrangeRKN wrote:From the reviews I read it was performance that really let games like Decay of Logos and Pine down. Them sounding pretty unplayable is why I avoided them rather than a lack of mechanical polish - hopefully Windbound doesn't suffer the same fate

They even copied BotW shitty performance? That's dedication to copying a game that.

OrangeRKN wrote:The preview of Windbound in the latest OPM is really impressive for not mentioning BOTW once

This is coming out on Playstation?!

Pedz wrote:

OrangeRKN wrote:From the reviews I read it was performance that really let games like Decay of Logos and Pine down. Them sounding pretty unplayable is why I avoided them rather than a lack of mechanical polish - hopefully Windbound doesn't suffer the same fate

They even copied BotW shitty performance? That's dedication to copying a game that.

We can all wish BOTW could be classed as shitty performance

OrangeRKN wrote:

Pedz wrote:

OrangeRKN wrote:From the reviews I read it was performance that really let games like Decay of Logos and Pine down. Them sounding pretty unplayable is why I avoided them rather than a lack of mechanical polish - hopefully Windbound doesn't suffer the same fate

They even copied BotW shitty performance? That's dedication to copying a game that.

We can all wish BOTW could be classed as shitty performance

It wasn't constant, but performance wise it is one of the only games I have played where it would lock up for seconds at and the framerates would run in single digits.

Tomous wrote:I'm struggling with the idea of someone needing Odyessy to be similar to Crafted World before taking the plunge on buying it

My point was I didn’t want it to be similar

gaminglegend wrote:

Tomous wrote:I'm struggling with the idea of someone needing Odyessy to be similar to Crafted World before taking the plunge on buying it

My point was I didn’t want it to be similar

Ah, that makes a lot more sense

Tomous wrote:

gaminglegend wrote:

Tomous wrote:I'm struggling with the idea of someone needing Odyessy to be similar to Crafted World before taking the plunge on buying it

My point was I didn’t want it to be similar

Ah, that makes a lot more sense

Gonna take the plunge this weekend p

You won't regret it.

Still my favourite game on Switch. And there's some pretty strawberry floating stiff competition!

Odyssey

mysteriousdave wrote:

SerialCeler wrote:

mysteriousdave wrote:Any thoughts on Switch Online issues...?

Mrs MD has a user profile on my switch, and has an existing nintendo account. I'm in a family group for switch online administered by a friend. There is space for more, so he has added her email address and it confirms that an email has been sent. However, nothing ever arrives. We can't figure out what's going wrong... anyone experienced similar?

Is it a hotmail/outlook address? I had my Nintendo account linked to my hotmail account, but it would never send me an email. Switched it to my gmail address, and that works fine. No idea why

Oddly enough this worked, so thanks!

No worries, happy to have helped.