OrbitalBeard
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Oh, I am too, but I think that poster I replied to is worried they'll pop up again after you load a saved game.
But yeah, they went out of their way multiple times to address this, so I don't think that's going to happen.
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Breath of the Wild is the official subtitle for Zelda U/NX, first gameplay trailer
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Oh, I am too, but I think that poster I replied to is worried they'll pop up again after you load a saved game.
But yeah, they went out of their way multiple times to address this, so I don't think that's going to happen.
They should just get rid of the timeline all together. Never made a lot of sense to begin with.
Huge Succeeded
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Swords and other items can also cut down trees, they're just much slower at it. If you hit a tree with a sword, you'll just 'nick' it, I'd imagine it'd take 10+ cuts like that to cut down a tree
ReyVGM
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Haven't played the HD versions yet. Glad to hear that.
And yeah, luckily they would just release a patch. But I'm honestly already saving up to buy the NX with Zelda and I really really don't want to wait for a patch to fix minor annoyances like that. But if the HD ones are any indications, it will be the same with this one.
Neoleo2143
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He's talking about the tower. Towers seem to be indestructible, probably to have pieces of level/encounter design that the player absolutely has to deal with. If we go by the first trailer, I think we can expect destructible objects in the environment, just not those. Let's hope those objects are consistent.
They went to rather painful lengths to continually assure viewers that the popups would only happen the first time you got an item ever, not after every reload.
I don't think those custom saves were actually that, but custom startups. Especially because demo players played that section before the story section, so they likely wanted those popups to come up since that would be the first time those people would be seeing all of that. And the Treehouse presentations were the same thing, the demo but with a cheat code to disable the time limit.
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
Hurling a weapon at an enemy's face and seeing it explode into a million shards is gonna feel so rewarding. Turning damaged weapons into exploding missiles is a very clever kind of punchy action.
I just can't stop watching footage of this game. It's like a virtual playground and every video is different despite taking place in the same place. Also looking at footage of the plateau and then looking back at Twilight Princess really shows just how basic the overworld is in that game.
gamerMan
Member
When Nintendo first showed off this game, I had all these images in my head of what this game could be. How in the world did Nintendo manage to surpass them?
For the last 5 years, we have all be asking what does "next gen" gameplay look like. What does that even mean? Some of have been convinced that no improvements to gameplay could be made. That somehow we have reached the pinnacle of 3d gaming and all that was left to be achieved were better stories, better resolution, better aliasing, and more shaders. We were happy with open worlds that were broken, buggy, and had janky systems.
Before this game came out I always wondered when someone would come along and use the more powerful hardware to create better AI, better physics, better systems and better gameplay. Nintendo has finally answered that question with a system that is not even supposed to have the power to this.
When Iwata said, "The fate of a video game system is often influenced greatly by the introduction of a single title" I laughed at him. Yet, I don't even know what the NX is about and I want it. This is only the beginning isn't it? Next gen has finally arrived.
For the last 5 years, we have all be asking what does "next gen" gameplay look like. What does that even mean? Some of have been convinced that no improvements to gameplay could be made. That somehow we have reached the pinnacle of 3d gaming and all that was left to be achieved were better stories, better resolution, better aliasing, and more shaders. We were happy with open worlds that were broken, buggy, and had janky systems.
Before this game came out I always wondered when someone would come along and use the more powerful hardware to create better AI, better physics, better systems and better gameplay. Nintendo has finally answered that question with a system that is not even supposed to have the power to this.
When Iwata said, "The fate of a video game system is often influenced greatly by the introduction of a single title" I laughed at him. Yet, I don't even know what the NX is about and I want it. This is only the beginning isn't it? Next gen has finally arrived.
Jawbreaker
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The attention to detail is so good.
Slurpy2k20
Member
No kidding. Every other "open-world" game I've seen has looked boring and awkward as fuck compared to this. Nintendo's dev teams manage to always work miracles with the hardware, and accomplish things that developers who have access to much more powerful hardware couldn't dream of.
LurkerPrime
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It just hit me that BotW is the first open world game where I want to visit "that mountain."
You've done good, Nintendo.
You've done good, Nintendo.
FlashbladeGAF
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LurkerPrime
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And you can actually climb it! Nintendo just won't stop swinging!
This may explain the CPU we've been hearing about, if Aonuma has been involved with the NX, and BotW, and the physics engine they've been building between EPD and MonolithSoft, I can easily see them running into CPU bottlenecks and wanting those solved definitively with a more robust CPU.
You didn't get those feelings from Xenoblade X? That's crazy.
Omega Kirby
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Crazy that already have a nearly cracked alphabet after only a single showing. RagnarokX and the other internet cryptographers are crazy efficient.
Inquisitive_Ghost
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Just realized this game has hit yet another thing on my Zelda wish list: it's presumably fixed the annoying stealth sections. It's now an omnipresent mechanic that you can use to get the upper hand in battle. I'll actually want to use it now.
Neoleo2143
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The Amazing thing is that it's much more than the standard stealth mechanics. It's audio based, which just isn't a thing outside the dedicated stealth genre which are mostly visual oriented with the scripting towards thrown bricks. It's far beyond most action adventures. It's also probably why the sound design in this game is incredible. It had to be good for this system to work.
BigApple3AM
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This looks like a world I'd love to get lost in, but I am having a tough time getting excited for this game. The main reason being I don't own a Wii U and don't see the NX being something I will want to invest in based on recent rumors/etc. I love Zelda but I'm tired of Nintendo being basically a full generation or more behind the others. This game, as fun as it looks is still only as visually appealing to me as an XBOX 360 game even with it's partially cartoon-ish art style. I'll reserve final judgment until I see it running on NX, and actually find out what NX is.. but I'm a bit too down on Nintendo right now to feel the same hype as everyone else. I hope it changes, I hate to skip yet another game in this series because the last game I played (not counting HD remakes) was Twilight Princess.
FloweryMarston
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Before seeing the game, i was concerned how they would fill treasure chests in this game. There can't be a lot of heart pieces, or other smalls items, and then the rest would be rupees. But they actually overhauled the concept of items in the game and now you can find shit like ice and fire arrows, the fire rod in a treasure chest in the world. this makes exploring the world so much more interesting to me.
Always-honest
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Yes. NPc-s and towns were left out of the demo.
LurkerPrime
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Well... not for a mountain.
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Deleted member 10571
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I could watch Zelda gifs all day. This game is SO PRETTY my god.
Based on what?
Maybe that's what Aonuma meant when he said that we'll want to revisit TP once BotW is out.
Takahashi said his team wanted to make XCX full action but they didn't want to overstretch themselves what with it being their first HD game, so I'm guessing they'll move towards a full action combat system for their next game. XCX's combat was more action-based than Xenoblade's and that because of the teams desire for an action combat system.
victreeb3l
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Yup. The colors of the Bokoblin and Link's outfit really pop in contrast to the background. Just gorgeous @_@
Dagobert Duck
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Another Point for villages just turning up later or rather not on The plateu, the lack of rupees. When there Are No people why should there be rupees or a currency in general, it wouldnt make sense to have currency laying around. Once the world evolves a bit and gets revitalized a currency will make more sense 
Mystery-white-boy
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Just to clarify, I don't believe anything was removed from the Plateau itself for the purposes of the demo; rather, that limiting the demo to this one area allowed them to avoid showing any other characters or communities (save for the old man, whose cabin can be seen in the video quoted above). Aonuma talked about how the Plateau is a sacred place, and that people and monsters alike are supposed to be kept out.
It's not 100% clear yet, but I'm pretty certain that the Plateau you see in the final game will be similarly absent of NPCs and structures, and that it won't be until you complete the first four shrines, obtain the glider, and jump off into the world at large that you meet anybody else or stumble upon any towns.
OrbitalBeard
Member
You're probably right. Makes a lot of sense.
I'm pleasantly surprised they went British with Zelda, but I guess they looked at its high fantasy roots and decided to cast through that lens.
The guide sounds lovely as well. Can't wait to see who eventually voices Ganondorf.
Refreshment.01
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By all means, in terms of "technical" features (to word it somehow) this game is a generation behind the 8th generation or equivalent to the level some open world games reached in 7th gen hardware (360/PS3).
But this shouldn't be new to you, after all this has been the way Nintendo operates since to cycles ago. Also according to what you write above, you are/would be better served with either one of the other 2 manufacurers or better yet with a capable PC. Guess, it's time for to move on from anything Nintendo related.
The game is barrowing alot of ideas of other games an applying it to the world of Zelda so it might feel fresh to other gamers that haven't experience many open world games on other platforms. And it has lots of small details and care put into it.
i got the opposite impression from the demo. For a game with so much time in development the interface seems too rough and there are some performance issues.
Also the person you replied to, thinks that the team will have 9 months extra. That would be the case if the NX is unveiled by september. If it's revealed further down the line, they could have more time. My reasoning is that i think Nintendo will have a 6 month gap between unveil and release of the system.
Game looks finished to me. Wouldn't be surprised if they move on to something else, or at best get it to work on NX.
I would say MGSV is getting there too. The gameplay is superb!
EDIT: Actually, I think the combat in BotW still looks really inconsequentially easy, despite there being a lot of options. It would be cool if the enemies were a bit more Dark Soulsy. It's a fighting mechanic that takes huge cues from Zelda, just that they upped the difficulty.
There's really no way of telling how much of the game is finished based on the limited insight an E3 demo offers. After all, they obviously only show what is already ready to be shown with no way of telling what needs further work beyond that.
https://youtu.be/jPgtJKZS0cM?t=90
if anyone is ever worried about that again, just show them this
first time picking up steak in the session, no popup
Game looks finished as far as content and systems.
Id imagine they're spending the next 9 months polishing the game performance and tweaking the interface.
OrbitalBeard
Member
This already looks more challenging than the last three or four 3D Zelda games, which is great. However, Zelda should never become as challenging as Dark Souls, as Nintendo wants it to appeal to a wider audience.
Oh cool, thanks!
Ulysses 31
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If by content you mean the 1-2% that is the starting area then yeah that part looks finished.
OverturePT
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Depends on who the old man is.