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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Preview Thread

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Redd

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Lights and Waves said:
I'm so excited to play this game. It's taking everything in my power to not click that spoiler thread. I gotta make sure I stay strong so every surprise in this game is worth it!
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I accidentally clicked the thread and immediately closed my eyes blindly trying to poke the neogaf symbol.
 
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Listonosh

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The Last One said:
Reading all of the previews I'm feeling this game will really surpass The Witcher III as the most impressive game of the gen. It's a hell of start to the Nintendo Switch.

This even makes me even more excited for Mario Odyssey since that game also seens to be taking lessons from open world games.
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Hmmm, the game is great don't get me wrong, but holy shit dial down those expectations
 
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OrbitalBeard

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MrOogieBoogie said:
All of these glowing and hyperbolic impressions of Breath of the Wild remind me EXACTLY of the previews of Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword before and during their release. Every fucking person claimed each one was the greatest Zelda game since Ocarina of Time only for the backlash to hit HARD six months later. It feels like the same shit all over again.
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Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword are both great games, so I'm not really seeing the issue.
 
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MrOogieBoogie said:
All of these glowing and hyperbolic impressions of Breath of the Wild remind me EXACTLY of the previews of Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword before and during their release. Every fucking person claimed each one was the greatest Zelda game since Ocarina of Time only for the backlash to hit HARD six months later. It feels like the same shit all over again.
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What you're saying here isn't even true, though. Twilight Princess didn't have some sort of immediate post-release backlash like you're imagining, and Skyward Sword wasn't hyped in previews to anywhere near the same degree as Twilight Princess or Breath of the Wild to begin with.
 
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ika

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Just back from work and ready to read this thread. I wanna get general impressions about the game without spoilers (story, new mechanics, map size, items,...). I don't wanna see video-previews or new gifs because they'll surely show new areas and enemies.

So far keeping that in mind, between 1-10, how spoiler-ish this thread is?

Thank you for your help! *^_^*
 
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LordKano

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I've watched a french preview and the journalist talked about how the game was taking a shit ton of things from Shadow of the Colossus and now my hype thrusters have fucking exploded.
 
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victreeb3l

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DNAbro said:
You know I didn't know that people hated Skyward Sword until I started reading opinions of it on GAF. Game is fantastic.


But BOTW looks like on a very very different level when it comes to interactivity with the world and enemies. It looks like MGSV except good.
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SS is the best Zelda game to date IMO. I really hope a future Zelda brings back motion control combat.

I loved the characters, the story, the glorious soundtrack and how dense the overworld was. It didn't have an "open world" like previous games but I enjoyed how even getting from point A to B felt like mini dungeons. The regular dungeons and bosses were also fantastic and the
time travel
weapon and how interactions were designed around it was the stuff of genius.

It was awesome and I miss that game like crazy.
 
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Kissenkopf

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Wow didnt know I was in a Skyward Sword thread.

Can somebody amswer me this: is there music in towns and villages? I mean real themes like in other Zelda towns in the older game and not just the few piano pieces of atmospheric ambient music like in the overworld.
 
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7roject28

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Da-Kid said:
Let's gooooooooooooooooo!!!

zelda-cartoon-link-bomb-jump-bomb-shield-jump-14303882890.gif
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Dang, now I want to try that in the game lol.
 
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spekkeh

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ika said:
Just back from work and ready to read this thread. I wanna get general impressions about the game without spoilers (story, new mechanics, map size, items,...). I don't wanna see video-previews or new gifs because they'll surely show new areas and enemies.

So far keeping that in mind, between 1-10, how spoiler-ish this thread is?

Thank you for your help! *^_^*
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[gif from a few pages back .gif]

Abandon thread.
 
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Magicpaint

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Spinluck said:
Those games were linear, but they tried masking it in their design. MM did a decent job.

Wind Waker came closest.

But none of them really had that sense of wonder and exploration.
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I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. I thought all three captured the sense of wonder and exploration. I also thought OoT did it best. That said, BoTW looks like it's on a whole different level.
 
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VistraNorrez said:
I can't imagine SS doesn't get one. It doesn't use IR outside of initial calibration. And they will no doubt fix some easy issues with the game such as the pop up explanations for items and lessening Fi. They also need to speed up text scroll. It should look gorgeous in HD with texture work.

Plus I imagined they'd add in a no-motion mode.

And it would be a great excuse to release SS Amiibos.
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An SS remake might not really need the IR at all. The IR helped the Wii Remote passively re-calibrate itself during play (if you swing your Wii Remote in such a way that it 'sees' the IR for a moment - well, during that moment, the Wii Remote suddenly has a reference point for its location and orientation in 3D space, helping the gyro controls remain steady), but I imagine that that might not be necessary on platforms with more advanced motion control tech.
 
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LordOcidax

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Neff said:
Best 3D Zelda imo (so far).
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Played once when comes out the first time in Wii, by that time the game doesn't hook on me because the motion controls... Tried again past year when comes out on Wii U, damn i was wrong about this game, now is one my favorite Zelda games.
 
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Common Knowledge

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JimJamJones said:
Oh hello
potential waifu
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That other picture on that Twitter feed shows a diary in a house you can read. I wonder if there's a lot of "lore" items like that you can read, like in Witcher 3 or Elder Scrolls games. Not that I expect as many as in those games (I actually think they go overboard with it), but a decent amount can really help with the world-building.
 
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Kissenkopf

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blly155 said:
yep gonna take a lot to surpass witcher 3. imo it's the best game of not only this generation but that i have ever played.
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When I look at those videos the world is already 10 times better than the one from Witcher 3. If you scrap all the dialouges from the game you don't have much left tbh. The world is 0% interactive besides some fences you can climb over. So the comparison is mot really fair. This game is about exploration with, i would say, a little bit of story here and there and the other is a story driven experience with a very basic gameplay part.
 
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Spinluck

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MrOogieBoogie said:
All of these glowing and hyperbolic impressions of Breath of the Wild remind me EXACTLY of the previews of Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword before and during their release. Every fucking person claimed each one was the greatest Zelda game since Ocarina of Time only for the backlash to hit HARD six months later. It feels like the same shit all over again.
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It's fun to make up scenarios in your head
 
Astral Dog

Astral Dog

Member
Lights and Waves said:
I think the emotional highlights of SS would be when Zelda
seals herself into the stone, especially with that beautiful rendition of Zelda's lullaby
.

And the ending scene where
Impa is revealed to be the old woman, having waited all this time for Zelda and Link
. That really got me sobbing.
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The problem with SS is that it feels more like a 3D platformer with puzzles than an adventure game. Too generic at times

The new "races" were annoying and just there to explain the controls,Fi was a glorified tutorial.

Girahim was a not menacing lackey. Demise was boring and ancient Hyrule was undeveloped except for the cute robots.

The only character they give space was Zelda herself,but she was not enough to carry the game,the main was cool though,unlike Twilight Princess
 
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Martinski43

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Got myself a used Wii U in order to play this game and a number of Nintendo games i have previously not played. Seems like it might pay off! :)

Played TP for the first time couple of weeks ago as well to 'prepare' myself. First time i have finished a Zelda game since WW on Gamecube back in the day.
 
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Omnistalgic

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Peltz said:
I meant it doesn't have clean IQ and as lush detail. But it also seems like every surface area of the game is interactive and there's no graphical non-interactive window dressing like with Horizon and many other open world games.
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Oh yeah, the mechanics looks crazy, I definitely think it'll be a more well crafted game than anything made this gen. I'm just talking purely about the visual wow factor, and specifically if this will be talked about like Mario 64 without having that immediate impact of " best graphics ever" going for it.

I think this might be the new open world standard going forward. Like Horizon was the perfection of open world standards with a great twist, and now Zelda is about to change what those standards are, and then Rockstar capitalizes on it and says they're first!!

Just j/k guys don't kill me
 
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