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Did you enjoy Breath of the Wild's weapon durability system?
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Sleepwalker
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No, I hated it.
Ulysses 31
Member
Not at first but I appreciated it more on Master Mode making me think ahead if I wanted to get into fights and I had to use a lot more stealth.
Banjo64
cumsessed
It neither made the game richer not worse. It was an interesting mechanic that formed part of the game/game play. I loved the game. Didn’t give a shit about having to swap weapons, it just made each fight more strategic in my opinion. The people that go on about it are pretty weird IMO.
01011001
Banned
I can't find a single issue with it...
they should have had a way to make weapons unbreakable maybe, with a shop upgrade or something, or maybe have a few unbreakable weapons to find, but I never had issues with it.
if you run around with 3 of each type of weapon, I don't see how it's an issue that you have to pick up another one after a while
these days everyone just wants to get everything in a game handed to them it seems.
they should have had a way to make weapons unbreakable maybe, with a shop upgrade or something, or maybe have a few unbreakable weapons to find, but I never had issues with it.
if you run around with 3 of each type of weapon, I don't see how it's an issue that you have to pick up another one after a while
these days everyone just wants to get everything in a game handed to them it seems.
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I've said once I'll say it again. It didn't bother me that the weapons broke. What I didn't like was there was no way to get information on how much durability a given weapon had. I wished that they had done something like every time Link broke a weapon the game would do a roll and if it was successful you'd "learn" the weapon and then there'd be some sort of durability indicator. (Like a number or a bar indicating how much health the weapon had.)
01011001
Banned
that's a terrible broad stroke take
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
I like throwing my weapons before they break.
Gameplay Gods Bless
Member
Loved it, was a big improvement over Windwakers weapon pickup mechanic.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
No. Fuck no. I hope it dies a painful death and never returns. Fuck that weapon durability system. Fuck it for good.
april6e
Member
In the majority of games that have these sort of systems, you could completely remove it and it wouldn't affect the game at all. There is a time and place for them in games such as Fallout but they are tacked onto games that don't need them and it actively slows down and hurts the gameplay. Obviously Breath of the Wild is the premiere example considering the fact that nobody played OoT and was like "I want an entire combat system based around the Biggeron Sword". Nintendo added a system nobody asked for and solved a non-existent problem the franchise never had.
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Punished Miku
Member
I thought it was fine. All I'd change is make the master sword better. Keep all the rest. It promotes variety, adaptability and using things in the environment. Kinda the whole point of the game.
Ulysses 31
Member
Guess they all got the Master Sword very late in the game.
Schmendrick
Member
Wouldn't have finished the game without that infinite durability mod.
I hate that system.
I hate that system.
Didn't ruin BotW by any means, but no, I didn't care for it. Everything is disposable, so most of what you find doesn't matter. Maybe it's an improvement over finding five rupees in treasure chests, but it's a far cry from top tier.
BotW is dead easy, though, so the artificial resource scarcity helps to keep you on your toes a little bit.
BotW is dead easy, though, so the artificial resource scarcity helps to keep you on your toes a little bit.
Crayon
Member
Whoa I was just typing basically this when your message appeared. The strange part is that I had actualy typed the word "hucking".
ThatOneGrunt
Member
It kept things interesting. Didn't bother me at all.
Now encumbrance... There's something I hate.
Now encumbrance... There's something I hate.
Torrent of Pork
Banned
There are dozens of places in the game to be a loot goblin that if you ever ran out of good weapons it's on you.
Punished Miku
Member
I was decorating my house with overflow magic and ancient weapons. Had way too many to carry.
It's not strange. We're just a couple of hucksters.
TikiLagoonSam
Member
Hated it.
Rockondevil
Member
It actually made me dislike the game more than I should have as a big fan of Zelda games.
If it’s just as bad in Tears of the Kingdom I may consider not getting it.
If it’s just as bad in Tears of the Kingdom I may consider not getting it.
NorthernSword
Member
Super no. Should've made the best class weapons at least repairable.
KungFucius
King Snowflake
It didn't break the game, but it added a level of useless bullshit stress to the game. I mean shit you get this nice fiery sword that makes quick work of most enemies, but you don't want to waste it on easy stuff so you basically don't use it until you absolutely have to. Then you have to mourn it's loss when it fucking breaks. I'd rather they kill Zelda in the story then kill my coolest weapons. The odd thing is that they almost perfectly tuned the loot and Master Sword so you'd always have something good enough to fall back on. The second time I played it I wasn't phased by it but it did still piss me off. It basically became some over the top way of making loot important without having to keep jacking up the power of late game weapons and enemies.
fart town usa
Gold Member
Wasn't really an issue for me. You get so many weapons and after a certain point you're basically a tank. I had so many OP weapons on hand for the last 40 hours of the game.
Most annoying thing to me was waiting for the rain to stop so I could continue climbing.
Most annoying thing to me was waiting for the rain to stop so I could continue climbing.
Johnny Concrete
Member
Yes, you were collecting and using all kinds of weapons and saving the best for the biggest enemies.
I don’t get why people complain about these things. Just like inventory limits: these are the rules of the game, you can play within them.
You don’t hear football players complaining every match about how inconvenient the off-side rule is..
I don’t get why people complain about these things. Just like inventory limits: these are the rules of the game, you can play within them.
You don’t hear football players complaining every match about how inconvenient the off-side rule is..
Yoboman
Member
No it's an absolute garbage system designed to make you use different weapons rather than intelligently designing the gameplay around different weapons. Easily the least thought out component of BOTW
Durability on sticks and such makes sense. It makes little sense on the amazing sword I found hidden in a temple. If you have durability on that it should just diminish the attack strength after a long time of use like the Souls games with an option to then repair
A better system would encourage weapon experimentation with different attack patterns and effectiveness on different enemies, intelligent AI etc. BOTW goes the cheap and nasty path
Durability on sticks and such makes sense. It makes little sense on the amazing sword I found hidden in a temple. If you have durability on that it should just diminish the attack strength after a long time of use like the Souls games with an option to then repair
A better system would encourage weapon experimentation with different attack patterns and effectiveness on different enemies, intelligent AI etc. BOTW goes the cheap and nasty path
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ClanOfNone
Member
A terrible system that sucked all the joy out of finding a badass weapon cause you knew it was going to break.
That and the lack of proper dungeons were my two main gripes with the an otherwise stellar game.
That and the lack of proper dungeons were my two main gripes with the an otherwise stellar game.
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
01011001
Banned
same, at some point you just run around with a full inventory of ancient weapon variants and the odd elemental weapon mixed in.
I eventually decorated my house with fire weapons
I am so confused at the people that had even the tiniest issue with this system.
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Ocean Dweller
Member
no
Holammer
Member
Yes and no, the weapons are a little bit too brittle. It gets a bit annoying later into the game when silver mobs start appearing as they are stupidly tough, so you have to make a decision of what two'ish weapons to use up and they often drop shit, turning the process turns into cost-benefit analysis.
Still, I spent 137h enjoying myself, so it's not a deal breaker.
New abilities like Ascend in TotK worry me more than durability. I enjoyed the travel and would hate to see it trivialized.
Still, I spent 137h enjoying myself, so it's not a deal breaker.
New abilities like Ascend in TotK worry me more than durability. I enjoyed the travel and would hate to see it trivialized.
Johnny Concrete
Member
That’s because this system is actually novel and people keep treating the weapons in the game as conventional weapons, while they are more like ‘potions’ that add damage to your attacks for a limited time.
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