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[Cyberpunkd]

So with kids I gave up on playing on PS5 for the foreseeable future. So I embraced my Switch.
Recently I borrowed BotW, played for a few hours.

1. Graphics are bland. I guess it’s due to the art style.
2. Hyrule is empty AF.
3. Lots of busywork - hoard ingredients, make recipes (which are not listed anywhere so you need to memorise them and then manually add ingredients to make each dish separately, hoard weapons.
4. Traversal was novel for a few hours, then finding a temple with each basic puzzle inside becomes very tedious. Wow, I had this idea to run around the mountain for 10 minutes while trying to climb it to finally get to the top. Incredible experience.
5. Main gripe: story is non-existent, side quests are terrible.

So I gave the game back and installed Witcher 3.

 

[R6Rider]

So with kids I gave up I will be playing on PS5 for the foreseeable future. So I embraced my Switch.
Recently I borrowed BotW, played for a few hours.

1. Graphics are bland. I guess it’s due to the art style.
2. Hyrule is empty AF.
3. Lots of busywork - hoard ingredients, make recipes (which are not listed anywhere so you need to memorise them and then manually add ingredients to make each dish separately, hoard weapons.
4. Traversal was novel for a few hours, then finding a temple with each basic puzzle inside becomes very tedious. Wow, I had this idea to run around the mountain for 10 minutes while trying to climb it to finally get to the top. Incredible experience.
5. Main gripe: story is non-existent, side quests are terrible.

So I gave the game back and installed Witcher 3.

 

[DevilMayFlyForAWhiteGuy]

Alternate Title

Hot: Zelda’s Ass

 

[TheDraconian]

 

[amigastar]

I liked the graphics since i like Cell Shaded graphics but other than that it was a disappointment for me. It's not a bad game no that not, but i didn't like it as a Zelda game.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

So with kids I gave up I will be playing on PS5 for the foreseeable future. So I embraced my Switch.
Recently I borrowed BotW, played for a few hours.

1. Graphics are bland. I guess it’s due to the art style.
2. Hyrule is empty AF.
3. Lots of busywork - hoard ingredients, make recipes (which are not listed anywhere so you need to memorise them and then manually add ingredients to make each dish separately, hoard weapons.
4. Traversal was novel for a few hours, then finding a temple with each basic puzzle inside becomes very tedious. Wow, I had this idea to run around the mountain for 10 minutes while trying to climb it to finally get to the top. Incredible experience.
5. Main gripe: story is non-existent, side quests are terrible.

So I gave the game back and installed Witcher 3.

 

[TexMex]

This isn’t a hot take but you’re definitely trying too hard

 

[Lokaum D+]

1. Graphics are bland. I guess it’s due to the art style.
- Art style is great, playing on Yuzu at 4k is great, problem is Nintendo hardware is weak then my phone.

2. Hyrule is empty AF.
- Agreed

3. Lots of busywork - hoard ingredients, make recipes (which are not listed anywhere so you need to memorise them and then manually add ingredients to make each dish separately, hoard weapons.
- i like prep food, weapons stash and durability is ass.

4. Traversal was novel for a few hours, then finding a temple with each basic puzzle inside becomes very tedious. Wow, I had this idea to run around the mountain for 10 minutes while trying to climb it to finally get to the top. Incredible experience.
- Agreed

5. Main gripe: story is non-existent, side quests are terrible.
- Every Zelda game aside from Twilight Princess imo.

 

[GigaBowser]

One of the greatest games ever buuuuuuuut TOTK made it obsoletes so I will never play it again

 

[Punished Miku]

So I gave the game back and installed Witcher 3.

I was willing to put up with all your bullshit until this last sentence.

 

[Mythoclast]

I agree with you, BUT Witcher 3 is also boring and bloated AF.

I just can’t stand 200 hr Ubisoft open world games anymore.

 

[MiguelItUp]

This isn't a hot take, it's an opinion and that's more than fine, lol. I actually enjoyed BotW when I revisited it a couple of years later after not digging it at all. But after revisiting it, I enjoyed it so much so that I beat it.

Witcher 3 I played at launch, ran into a number of bugs, and put it down. I heard it got better and better as time went one with QoL features and fixes. But I just never cared enough to go back as the game didn't really hold my attention as a whole.

 

[jasondefaoite]

So with kids I gave up I will be playing on PS5 for the foreseeable future.

You gave up kids for the PS5?

 

[Chuck Berry]

What year is it?

 

[John Bilbo]

Nothing wrong with being a tits man.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

To appreciate Breath of the Wild you must Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

 

[Robb]

I disagree but you do you.

 

[TropicanaTwista]

Na it's pretty great. I will say though, both BoTW and ToTK are massively overrated. They are great games, but neither are top 5 Zelda games.

Really wish Nintendo still made classic Zelda games and BoTW/ToTK were just a new IP.

 

[SlimySnake]

So with kids I gave up I will be playing on PS5 for the foreseeable future. So I embraced my Switch.
Recently I borrowed BotW, played for a few hours.

1. Graphics are bland. I guess it’s due to the art style.
2. Hyrule is empty AF.
3. Lots of busywork - hoard ingredients, make recipes (which are not listed anywhere so you need to memorise them and then manually add ingredients to make each dish separately, hoard weapons.
4. Traversal was novel for a few hours, then finding a temple with each basic puzzle inside becomes very tedious. Wow, I had this idea to run around the mountain for 10 minutes while trying to climb it to finally get to the top. Incredible experience.
5. Main gripe: story is non-existent, side quests are terrible.

So I gave the game back and installed Witcher 3.

ToTK fixes all these complaints and is the true GOTY.

BOTW feels like a ubisoft game in comparison.

 

[Lokaum D+]

ToTK fixes all these complaints and is the true GOTY.

it dosnt

 

[Gudji]

 

[Danjin44]

Personally loved the game, both the visuals and gameplay.....I take this over Witcher 3's crappy combat any day.

 

[Moses85]

And

 

[RoboFu]

So you want us to believe you bought and somehow returned it. Opened.. and Then… came to rant about it?


Nah don’t believe it..

 

[Represent.]

I personally think it’s the second most overrated game of all time right next to Bloodborne

 

[Magic Carpet]

Something something Zelda's Ass.

 

[EviLore]

Better than TotK

 

[Mythoclast]

Im disappointed that TOTK will win GOTY when Baldurs deserves it more. Actual story, meaningful choices, side quests that look like main quests, etc.

 

[R6Rider]

Im disappointed that TOTK will win GOTY when Baldurs deserves it more. Actual story, meaningful choices, side quests that look like main quests, etc.

Eh, there's lots of GotY awards. The big TGA one is basically a popularity contest anyway.

If it wins, then fair enough, I don't really care.

 

[Danjin44]

Im disappointed that TOTK will win GOTY when Baldurs deserves it more. Actual story, meaningful choices, side quests that look like main quests, etc.

I dont get why should you care? Even ToTK wins GOTY, that not gonna change how feel about Baldurs Gate, If you enjoyed that game more then thats gonna be your GOTY.

 

[lughnasadh123]

If we're allowed to love something, then we must be allowed to hate things as well.

 

[Thief1987]

It's not even a hot take. I'll add that it's not just ass, it's astonishingly boring ass.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Zelda BotW is ass​

Is that a compliment?

 

[Mythoclast]

I dont get why you shoud you care? Even ToTK wins GOTY, that not gonna change how feel about Baldurs Gate, If you enjoyed that game more then thats gonna be your GOTY.

You have a point, yes, but ultimately GOTY gives a game more recognition and more sales, more revenue to recognize the developers to put an even bigger budget on their next game

 

[Fermbiz]

Both games are shit. Turns out a lot of people like shit

 

[Bo_Hazem]

So you want us to believe you bought and somehow returned it. Opened.. and Then… came to rant about it?


Nah don’t believe it..

 

[Robb]

Better than TotK

The hot takes just keep coming!

 

[Impotaku]

So with kids I gave up I will be playing on PS5 for the foreseeable future. So I embraced my Switch.
Recently I borrowed BotW, played for a few hours.

1. Graphics are bland. I guess it’s due to the art style.
2. Hyrule is empty AF.
3. Lots of busywork - hoard ingredients, make recipes (which are not listed anywhere so you need to memorise them and then manually add ingredients to make each dish separately, hoard weapons.
4. Traversal was novel for a few hours, then finding a temple with each basic puzzle inside becomes very tedious. Wow, I had this idea to run around the mountain for 10 minutes while trying to climb it to finally get to the top. Incredible experience.
5. Main gripe: story is non-existent, side quests are terrible.

So I gave the game back and installed Witcher 3.

 

[Danjin44]

You have a point, yes, but ultimately GOTY gives a game more recognition and more sales, more revenue to recognize the developers to put an even bigger budget on their next game

There are games who never won any GOTY and still sale tones of copy. I don't get people who stress over what games wins GOTY.

This year Armoured Core VI could very well be my GOTY, it doesn't matter if popular media recognize it or not.

 

[Hero_Select]

Tldr

 

[dano1]

I think the graphics are fine but I agree with everything else.
I’ll take old Zelda any day!!

 

[M.W.]

I agree, Zelda fucking sucks.

 

[Nankatsu]

 

[Chastten]

Is that such a hot take though? I've always felt that both BotW and TotK are very decisive with a lot of people absolutely loving it, but also a lot of people who really don't. And that's fine. I understand most of the criticism, even if those points don't bother me personally. I'd rate BotW one of my top 10 games of all time, and TotK a solid 9/10.

And honestly, the same could be said for a lot of big games. You mention the Witcher, and although I've tried to get into those games three different times, all three times I gave up from boredom in less then 3 hours. Even though I'm sure they're great games, the slow, boring combat and ugly aesthetic just kills it for me. And that's fine. Plenty of games to play.

 

[Inanilmaz]

So with kids I gave up I will be playing on PS5 for the foreseeable future. So I embraced my Switch.
Recently I borrowed BotW, played for a few hours.

1. Graphics are bland. I guess it’s due to the art style.
2. Hyrule is empty AF.
3. Lots of busywork - hoard ingredients, make recipes (which are not listed anywhere so you need to memorise them and then manually add ingredients to make each dish separately, hoard weapons.
4. Traversal was novel for a few hours, then finding a temple with each basic puzzle inside becomes very tedious. Wow, I had this idea to run around the mountain for 10 minutes while trying to climb it to finally get to the top. Incredible experience.
5. Main gripe: story is non-existent, side quests are terrible.

So I gave the game back and installed Witcher 3.

Same. Don't know what people like about this game and so many of them too, But Flies like poop too and i don't question it. It is what it is.

 

[Oberstein]

But okay, let's be honest, the series can't rest on Botw/Totk achievements now.

The next episode must drastically change the "Witcher 3-like + sandbox mechanics".

 

[DeepEnigma]

Better than TotK

 

[Icymanipulator]

Genshin Impact is better imo

 

[German Hops]

BotW and TotK are literally the same game.

 

[Chastten]

Genshin Impact is better imo

I agree with you that Genshin is a great game, but I wouldn't tell GAF that you like a f2p gacha game. They'll skin you alive for liking 'unplayable trash'