What do people think of playing a remake/remaster of a game you've already played the original of? Like one of the Switch Zelda remakes when you played it on GB/Wii, or Paper Mario when you played the GC version? Personally, I just don't feel like buying the game again, even it's been 20 years since I last played it, because I know I'll remember parts of it and won't have that feeling of playing a great game for the first time. Is that just a me thing, or a more widespread attitude?
I don't necessarily think remakes are a bad thing, since it gives people a chance to play classics that they missed.
If you have the energy to jump through the hoops to get a deal, then great. I can't face it. When I feel my current deal isn't right, I just text the number, get the PAC, and disappear, and I love the freedom. I pay £6/month for 5GB and it's more than enough for me.
It's weird how it even became a thing. At least I don't remember it being a thing for my broadband contracts until a few years ago.
Over the past few weeks:
- Did the final battle(s) in LoZ OoT. Not actually that easy - for the first part, I thought I was dealing damage, but it was going on literally forever. As a recurring theme for me, I had to read how I was meant to progress.
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Turns out hitting the energy balls back at him isn't enough! Got to shoot him and run and hit him. But if you'd already raided the all pots below for magic top-up and hearts, you're going to run out of magic before you can beat him...
The final final battle seemed hard, but was easy enough once I turned off z-targeting.
- Started playing LoZ ALttP, but I just couldn't really get into it. I loved Link's Awakening (GB version), but maybe I'm just not in the mood for 2D Zelda right now.
- I bought Need for Speed Paradise City on sale before. It's alright for a while, but you often end up doing a race and then immediately driving the same race in reverse, so it's a bit repetitive. Also the city environment is quite industrial, which is maybe the point, but I usually miss the turns because it's mostly a grey blur. Unlocked the fastest motorbike. It's fast.
- Bought Skyward Sword HD, mainly for my son. Too early to say much about it, but there's this move where you point your sword at the sky to charge it, and it's quite difficult to actually hold the joy con in the right position for the game to recognise it. It's kinda annoying.
Edit: also did a run through of pokemon blue (emulated, with random battles turned off) because it's so quick. It's one of my all-time top games, and I still play it every now just to enjoy it again
I wait for a good discount (because they always come eventually) and buy the flagship. I'm too embarassed to give the figure based on the other answers here, though. I've just always had bad experiences with the lower end that when looking over a long period, I've barely saved, since I'd had to upgrade it more often. I guess I haven't given the lower end a chance for about 12 years, so things might have changed.
Last election was like a last-chance Brexit vote by proxy, which a lot of people felt very strongly about.
Can't tell at this point if his eating preferences are a bit odd or if he actually eats foie gras and wagu steaks every day, but he knows he can't share that with the electorate.
I wondered about that, but then I think expired ID is valid, and your passport doesn't have your address, so I figured it would be fine
If you zoom in to see that it's black and white, and then zoom back out again, it stays black and white. But if you look away for a bit to forget, maybe change the angle you're looking at it, it turns red again.
I'll probably finish OoT this weekend. I didn't play the N64 original, but I had the disc that came with Wind Waker on Gamecube, so I'd played it once before. I find the controls on the Switch really awkward at times, particularly using the right analogue as the c buttons and the desire to use that as a way to move the camera instead. But still an enjoyable play. I had to look up a guide when I was stumped on how to progress sometimes as well.
If this was the anti-AIDS poster, imagine how sexy the pro-AIDS poster was
Okay, yeah, if it's a voluntary scheme, it's completely different. But the BBC are saying mandatory.
Old people often have grandkids, though. Sure, there will be some that will think that it will do them good, but surely some others will not like the idea of their grandkids having to give up a year of their life.
Not you, silly. Like you.
Looks like they have space for one beach between Ploce and Dubrovnik
Does anyone know a keyboard where you swipe up on a letter to capaitalize and swipe down on it to do the underlying number/symbol? That's what I've got at the moment on my keyboard, but it was removed from the play store years ago, so would like to move on
I listen to the Sara Cox/Vernon Kay shows while driving - it's pretty much idle chitchat between tracks, but I guess it's not like that throughout the day.
Sometimes it doesn't embed in lemmy for me but I can still see it via the direct link https://files.catbox.moe/0ff05x.gif
Well, it is easy for me to say. I haven't watched a UCL game for years.
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> This is a post about placenames because I find these kinds of things interesting. Fill in any blanks or make corrections if you can. > > For whatever reason, Korea likes to refer to a connection (usually a railway or road) between two places by taking the first part of each word and combining them. When one of those places is Seoul, the syllable used is gyeong - for example Gyeongbu to refer to a rail line between Seoul and Busan, or Gyeongin to refer to the collective area/connection of Seoul and Incheon. Gyeonggi-do, the province surrounding the capital, literally means that. But why is "gyeong" used in place of "Seoul" or "Seo"? > > Seoul is, as far as I know, the only native Korean placename in use. Everywhere else has over the course of history been converted to a Sino-Korean name, which can be written using Hanja (Chinese characters). For some places, the old native Korean name is still known, but is never used. > > Seoul as a word simply means the capital. It's a word that has transformed from being a general noun (e.g., "the seoul of England is London") to being a proper noun referring to the city of Seoul. (Aside: I think 수도 is now the term to refer to a capital in general sense). > > Seoul only became known as Seoul following the end of Japanese occupation. Prior to that, it had a few different (Sino-Korean) names, most recently Gyeongseong - a Sino-Korean word meaning capital city (gyeong/경/京 means "capital"). When Seoul Station was built, it originally took the name Gyeongseong Station. So it makes sense that when they named the railway line between Seoul and Busan, they called it the Gyeong-Bu line, right? > > So when you see 경 in relation to Seoul, you might have a slight appreciation of why it's there. But just because you see it, it might not be related. For example, Gyeongnam province or Gyeongju city both have "gyeong" but have a different Hanja and a different, totally unrelated, underlying meaning.