The worst part of strategy games is shuffling. I forgo most 4X in the mid game because shuffling more icons is too tiring. No Total War since the Middle Ages has really thrilled me, because finding a path for each army has added nothing but hassle.

That’s why I love the model of imperialism, where everything is one turn, not a shuffle. Which is why I’m a little surprised at how addictive Foxhole is as a strategy game. Most players (Brandy included) will tell you that this is a game. everything about shuffling, t. logistics. But after I finally found the time to do it, I realized that most of them, even some “logs” oriented players, don’t know what it really means.

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With four weeks to go before the Summer Game Fest Live presentation, Geoff Keighley has announced the full list of partners for this year’s Summer Game Fest campaign, which includes 40 more developers and publishers.

A notable entry on the list is PlayStation, which has yet to officially announce either a presentation or a State Of Play for the summer months. However, PlayStation has participated in Summer Game Fest Live in the past, and The Last Of Us Part 1 was the latest announcement from last year’s SGF Live broadcast.

Xbox, which also appears on the SGF list, has confirmed both the Xbox presentation and the Starfield demo for June 11th.

The full list of Summer Game Fest partners is as follows:

• Activision
• Amazon
• Annapurna Interactive
• Bandai Namco
• Behavior Interactive
• Capcom
• CD Project Red
• Devolver Digital
• Digital extremes
• Disney
• electronic arts
• EpicGames
• Focus Entertainment
• Gearbox Entertainment
• grinding games
• Hoyovers
• Kabam Entertainment
• Larian Studios
• level is endless
• Magic: Gathering
• newiz
• Netflix
• nexon
• niantic
• north beach
• Paradox Interactive
• pearl abyss
• Phoenix Labs
• playon
• Game console
• Pocket Pairs
• razor
• samsung game center
• second dinner
• Sega
• Smilegate Entertainment
• Square Enix
• Steam
• techland
• Tribeca Festival
• Ubisoft
• Warner Bros. Games
• Xbox

Summer Game Fest Live will be streamed from the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 8 at 12:00 PM PT / 3:00 PM ET.

There’s always something new to find in Hyrule

It has now been six years since the release in 2017 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The Switch launch name and Nintendo’s swan song on Wii U left an indelible mark on the industry with their approach to open-world space.

Tomorrow, May 12, its continuation The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Will be released. In fact, our review of it should already be live right here and now. This is an updated version of Hyrule that we saw in Breath of the Wildonly now with floating sky islands and a hot new villain in town.

it doesn’t erase Breath of the Wild at least from the history books. I didn’t play myself Tears of the Kingdom at the time of this writing, so who knows if I like it better. But Breath of the Wild was a pretty big change for the industry and I don’t think it will be forgotten. In fact, on the last day before we all skydive into the new Hyrule, I wanted to have a little celebration. Breath of the Wild here on Destructoid.

So I asked the Destructoid staff to share their favorite moments, big or small, from their playing time. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Please share yours in the comments below and let’s thank them for that.

Eric – Seeing the dragon

It has a lot of exciting moments. Breath of the Wild it made me appreciate the scope of what Nintendo has created. Even just jumping off the Great Plateau and descending into Hyrule for the first time was amazing. But the dragons were the moment when I felt like I was seeing something really amazing.

The first one I saw seemed to be miles away, drifting with the wind. I thought to myself, “Ah, that’s a cool background effect.” Then, playing later, I climbed a snow-covered mountain and found a massive ice dragon in the fog right in front of me. It really started. Naidra as I find out what was corrupted and needed help to free herself to roam the skies of Hyrule like other dragons. And the more I played, the more I understood these dragons, like everything else in Breath of the Wildare part of the world. Everything interacts, and everything is one living virtual ecosystem of interacting rules and ideas.

Even when I got a screenshot of Nydra now, years later, for this part, I had to appreciate the feeling of sliding around and seeing all the ice explosions ripple outward. It’s not some kind of secret boss or scenery. They are part of Hyrule, the world that Link and I travel through, but that lives and breathes separately from Link.

Zoey – Introducing Hyrule Castle City

Enough Breath of the WildThe world is made up of wilderness and long forgotten ruins. It often feels like the whole world has simply gone and is on its way to healing the scars that Hyrule once sat on. However, when you finally muster up the courage and approach the castle dominating the landscape, you will find that something brings you closer to home.

Hyrule Castle City is the utterly gutted remains of the largest settlement on the map. All that was left was burned beyond recognition. However, despite this, you can still see the fine details that go back to ocarina of timea particularly ruined version of the Castle City depicted in the second act of this game.

This is a dangerous place for delays, as guardians are still crawling through the ruins. However, it is one of the few places where Breath of the Wild trying to bring home the destruction that was caused when everything went wrong.

Holmes – Party with Prince Sidon

Games either work hard to be playgrounds or obstacle courses. Roblox another Fortnite are playgrounds. Final Fantasy IX another advance wars are a series of obstacle courses, with little conversation or free will. Of course, many games try to mix and match, and the original Zelda was one of the first to put one into the other. Specifically, it’s like a series of one-screen playground obstacle courses. Sometimes you need to defeat enemies, solve puzzles, or use certain items to complete the course. These are the more closed parts. The other courses are open to you from the start to roam as you please. This tension between opposites, free and strict, open and closed, free and entangled, has made Zelda a genre-defining hit from the start, and most of its sequels have followed suit.

Breath of the Wild made the playground much, much larger than ever before, and the obstacle courses, for the most part, have not grown in volume. you can play Breath of the Wild for several hours, never hitting an obstacle that you cannot simply climb over, go around or go around in any other way. It still has some really fun, focused objectives like shrines, and a part where you have to invade the banana-obsessed Yiga clan’s home base. But for the most part what did Breath of the Wild stand out how much you didn’t have to do in it. Those who felt like before Zelda holding hands became excessive, and the trainees were delighted at how this one simply threw you out into the street and said: “You yourself understand.”

As an older person who constantly has to “figure out” life, this was a huge repulsion. the freedom to do what you want, and more about the series of choices you have to make in order to do things as well as you can. It’s up to you to remember to pay your bills, make sure your child gets to school on time, find out about the best deals on groceries, consider refinancing your mortgage when interest rates change, convince your sick but defiant older parents to go to the doctors, the list is here. continue. Once you’re old enough to be the one who’s supposed to take care of yourself and guide others instead of guiding yourself, it can be exhausting to play a video game that requires you to navigate a giant open map on your own.

That’s why my favorite part Breath of the Wild it’s when it suddenly turns into a high-stress, linear obstacle course where you never have to ask where you should be going, but instead you have to focus on some Resident Evil 4combat in survival style. After Prince Sidon the Shark Man encourages you to follow him to his Zora domain, it starts to rain. like anyone Breath of the Wild the player knows that wet ground means no climbing, so there’s no way to get off the trail in front of you. It’s slippery and full of monsters, so slashing, shooting, and sneaking up on enemies is a must. The strategic use of time-limited electroelixir is also close to mandatory.

If you want to have the freedom to go where you want and do whatever you want, all the time, I’m sure this part has been a chore for you. But to me, a guy burdened with many real-life choices (and responsibilities), this gallery of elaborate, exquisitely crafted challenges feels like the right combination of handcuffs and fistfights; a small oasis of binding challenges in an unstructured adventure.

Timothy – Between Moments

Many games are fun to play, but fewer are fun to watch. I’m sure that I don’t have to tell you this. Breath of the Wild surely falls into the latter category. Even after spending over 100 hours in Hyrule, watching people research or break the physics engine never gets boring. There’s a reason the online content never stopped for this six year old game with no live service elements.

However, for me, it’s not the wild and wacky feats that make exploration fun. These are ordinary, unremarkable stories that stay with you because they are so unique. is yours. For example, when I visited again Breath of the Wild This last holiday season, I was on my way to the magnificent temple on Evening Island. However, while on a boat ride, I accidentally spotted a chest floating in the water. Guided by the pure instincts of completion, I unrolled my vessel to grab my treasure. What followed was a comedy of errors in which I just could not go to the chest for the life of me. It was the same slight inconvenience you might experience when trying to find your keys in the morning despite only having them in hand.

When I finally received my prize, I boldly declared to my audience, “After all, it’s better not to have five arrows.” It was technically correct. What’s this ten arrows.

But you know what? This my ten arrows now. The fact that I remember it clearly six months later shows how easy it is Breath of the Wild creates lasting memories.

CJ – From the shadows

I’ve been wrestling with this clue every week because even though I adore Breath of the WildI don’t know if I have even one favorite moment from it. Because there are so many thrilling moments in this game, from the first time you step out of a cave, or the first time you see a dragon, or the first time you wander around the Isle of Evening Dawn, completely unprepared for what you’re about to face. . The game is an outstanding collection of outstanding moments. So instead of trying to figure out my favorite, I want to talk about something that stuck in my memory.

So I played Breath of the Wild about 40 hours at the moment. I have seen so much in this world, but there are still parts of the map that are not yet filled. And there is one place that especially calls to me: the Ruins of Tiflo. I’m going there thinking that’s how you get to the Master Sword. What I find is a sanctuary quest shrouded in darkness. I’m confused and a little scared as I grab the nearest torch and start lighting the torch stands. I don’t know if I should. I don’t know where to go. I just keep moving forward until I hit a dead end.

I don’t usually feel fear when I play. The Legend of Zelda game, but the ruins of Tiflo awaken my deepest childhood fear of the dark. I am absolutely on pins and needles going through this place. A few minutes later I find the pedestal. Just as I’m starting to get frustrated, thinking I’ll have to run through these ruins looking for the orb again, I turn Link around and Hinox flies out of the shadows, charging towards me.

I don’t remember screaming at that moment, but I probably did. I probably beat the controller as well as I usually do when the jump scare lands so well. The Legend of Zelda The show has leaned towards the dark and gloomy before, but nothing about this show scared me more than this giant fucking Hinox popping out of the dark like it was Slenderman.

Again, this is not my favorite moment in the game, but damn it, it remains the most vivid in my memory today.

Eric Van Allen

Senior News Reporter. Although Eric has been writing about games since 2014, he has been playing them for much longer. Usually found in RPG battles, digging into indie gems, or hanging out at Limsa Aethryte.