to me it's funny that people still care about graphics in 2023...I though that from the 90s we would have grown past thatIt's funny to me that people are ok with Wii U-level visuals in 2023. It's even funnier that some *defend* it like it was some sort of artistic choice. You could literally cut bread with these jaggies.
Yea the "ocean of weapons" isn't the issue, this is a very unZelda like gimmick, it adds nothing and it devalues getting weapons in chests to ZERO. It destroys what made ZELDA ZELDA.
Weapons still break and shit is a reskin…another wasted op.
Given what we've seen, I wonder if you can build a hookshot.
back in the day backup of owned software was legal in Europe, or at least that was the accepted opinion.
My point is this "moral stand point" is not planted on solid ground.
Precisely what I'm saying, it destroyed the entire essence of what made Zelda games amazing hearing that SOUND, that SOUND meant "great you did a thing now here's a great reward", opening a chest and getting something that genuinely was a game changer and made you feel more powerful, or gave you access to a different area.
This. I'll take Stardew Valley and Hollow Knight over the likes of The Last of Us and God of War every time.
Obviously I can't speak for every Zelda fan but there was quite a bit of fatigue with that classic LOZ/LTTP structure after Skyward Sword. Nintendo needed to switch it up.
Counter-point: If you think it looks good in a world where GoW Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, Halo Infinite (campaign), and Forza Horizon 5 exist, it is you who needs the eye doctor.
Can this even be called logic at this point...
After a combat shrine you mean? eh. And all weapons you find in chests are weapons/items you can already find on the world. Sometimes with better stats.
Can we not please with these low effort bait posts?loooooooooooool you like gameplay
It was a joke. jesus. I was mocking graphic whores.
You know the real issue is Breath of The Wild introduced so many interesting aspects, so our expectations are very high for the newest Zelda game, looks like Nintendo found a cure to that.On the one hand I really liked what I saw.
The fuse ability looks awesome and seems like it has the potential for a lot of fun interactivity and experimentation, not to mention puzzles. I really like elements like this that make the world feel more interactive and fun to explore, THIS is the sort of stuff I want to see more in open world games rather than the same old static worlds but with better graphics.
While I'm not thrilled to see the weapon breaking return, at least this time around the focus seems on creating weapons on the spot with things you find around the world. IMO that will make weapon durability less annoying than having to go out of your way to find cool weapon only to have them break after 2 fights.
On the other hand it still just looks like BOTW with some new tools and abilities. I'm seeing none of the changes and improvements I wanted from a sequel like proper dungeons, more rewarding exploration, cool boss fights, better side quests, a better loot system, more varied shrines, etc
So durability is great because "it forces you to adapt" but the game also throws an ocean of weapons at you so you don't really have to adapt.
Also I never got why people talk as if the weapons in BOTW were like Nioh or Monster Hunter with completely different skill trees and vastly different move sets depending on the weapon type. The combat in BOTW largely stays the same regardless of which weapon you are using, it's just that some deal more damage.
Sure, Horizon looks amazing, but the world isn't interactive like BotW. I can manage to suffer through the Horizon games and think "wow, this looks so pretty" and then move on, but with games like BotW I can get lost in a multitude of ways to do things, therefor spending hundreds of hours having way more fun in the process.
that it doesn't add anything is a straight up lie...if you can't think like a game designer is not the game'ès issue, it's yours.
They're good games, all of them. But it's fine to acknowledge that plenty of these super pretty games have pushed engine technology forward and made an open world game like Breath of the Wild possible on the Switch's mobile chipset. Nintendo haven't really been part of that push - unless you include Windwaker. BotW was Nintendo's first foray into open world design, and it was excellent, but it was developers like Rock Star, Ubisoft and Bethesda that paved the way for that.
The single biggest issue it addresses is the lack of reward in the game. Most games can fill weapons with chests and armour pieces because they scale across the playthrough and more powerful ones replace old ones, while old ones are sold on or dismantled. BotW doesn't really have a system like that, so weapons would soon because meaningless if you found them in every chest. Making them breakable means that they can keep handing them out as rewards indefinitely.
Would you take them over Twilight princess or ocarina of time though.
I find it weird the durability question is even a thing when elden ring literally just came out and proved without a doubt that having lots of handcrafted unique interesting weapons and armor is a million times better than the 3 chop sword that is meaningless and is just a burden on the playerOn the one hand I really liked what I saw.
The fuse ability looks awesome and seems like it has the potential for a lot of fun interactivity and experimentation, not to mention puzzles. I really like elements like this that make the world feel more interactive and fun to explore, THIS is the sort of stuff I want to see more in open world games rather than the same old static worlds but with better graphics.
While I'm not thrilled to see the weapon breaking return, at least this time around the focus seems on creating weapons on the spot with things you find around the world. IMO that will make weapon durability less annoying than having to go out of your way to find cool weapon only to have them break after 2 fights.
On the other hand it still just looks like BOTW with some new tools and abilities. I'm seeing none of the changes and improvements I wanted from a sequel like proper dungeons, more rewarding exploration, cool boss fights, better side quests, a better loot system, more varied shrines, etc
So durability is great because "it forces you to adapt" but the game also throws an ocean of weapons at you so you don't really have to adapt.
Also I never got why people talk as if the weapons in BOTW were like Nioh or Monster Hunter with completely different skill trees and vastly different move sets depending on the weapon type. The combat in BOTW largely stays the same regardless of which weapon you are using, it's just that some deal more damage.
The animation swimming through the ceiling looks dope!
If this looked like Twilight Prince art style it would be far easier to get a higher FPS, it's like Blizzard when they made WoW they knew they wanted people to have a good looking experience with a shitty spec machine, Nintendo are doing the complete opposite. Blizzard understands making things function for everyone, Nintendo has bad hardware and still doesn't get it.
I would add that enemies were so retarded and combat so easy that even not having your favourite weapon was hard to call "adapt", at worse it was very minor annoynce.On the one hand I really liked what I saw.
The fuse ability looks awesome and seems like it has the potential for a lot of fun interactivity and experimentation, not to mention puzzles. I really like elements like this that make the world feel more interactive and fun to explore, THIS is the sort of stuff I want to see more in open world games rather than the same old static worlds but with better graphics.
While I'm not thrilled to see the weapon breaking return, at least this time around the focus seems on creating weapons on the spot with things you find around the world. IMO that will make weapon durability less annoying than having to go out of your way to find cool weapon only to have them break after 2 fights.
On the other hand it still just looks like BOTW with some new tools and abilities. I'm seeing none of the changes and improvements I wanted from a sequel like proper dungeons, more rewarding exploration, cool boss fights, better side quests, a better loot system, more varied shrines, etc
So durability is great because "it forces you to adapt" but the game also throws an ocean of weapons at you so you don't really have to adapt.
Also I never got why people talk as if the weapons in BOTW were like Nioh or Monster Hunter with completely different skill trees and vastly different move sets depending on the weapon type. The combat in BOTW largely stays the same regardless of which weapon you are using, it's just that some deal more damage.
I agree, and the games you mentioned weren't cinematic walking sims like the ones I mentioned.
We didn't even needed elden ring to prove that interesting weapons beat throw away weapons any day of the week.
Easiest block list addition ever.
Yep. Old Zelda games, with the exception of MM and WW, were stale as fuck. And TotK is exactly what I want: more BotW to play around in.
I misread it then. Sorry.
