GigaBowser
The bear of bad news
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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom |OT|
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Starforce2005
Gold Member
Finally an OT
Trunim
Member
I don't know, yeah it's fully packed with content, but it's just the same moblin camps, and whyyy even clear them? There's no reward or xp for it except for baked apples and equipment that will break on third impact. Barely a 7/10 so far. Supporting president Hudson saves it a bit.
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GigaBowser
The bear of bad news
Mother of all that is merciful this game looks incredibubble on my new Switch OLED.
The colors were designed to pop on that purdy screen.
Game blows BOTW out of the water in every way imaginable.
The colors were designed to pop on that purdy screen.
Game blows BOTW out of the water in every way imaginable.
GymWolf
Member
You really love to use this gif uh?Mother of all that is merciful this game looks incredibubble on my new Switch OLED.
The colors were designed to pop on that purdy screen.
Game blows BOTW out of the water in every way imaginable.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
What’s the file size on this? I might have to delete a game or two.
Starforce2005
Gold Member
How do you know its not the man himself?You really love to use this gif uh?
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Golgo 13
The Man With The Golden Dong
Yes he did. He had a user poll with much better OT titles too.
GigaBowser
The bear of bad news
Ex Naughty Dog developer dammmmmmnnn hahaha
Just trying to help GAF out cuz they needed an official OT.
I says you snooze you lose. Mortal got tardy and it cost him, buuuuuuut I didn't spend a lot of time copy and pasting this OT so's if you guys wanna give it to someone else it's okay.
Just trying to help GAF out cuz they needed an official OT.
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Zathalus
Member
Well...Is Kotaku still crying about forever being on Nintendo’s shit list due to their own stupidity?
It's Good That There's A 6/10 Zelda Review Score
Unanimous praise is boring, and quite frankly unhealthy
kotaku.com
Seems they might be a touch salty.
Captain Toad
Member
I wouldn't suggest buying one at this point, if you've held off this long.
The new console will likely be out next year and will have an improved version of TotK.
Mister Wolf
Member
I tried to resist but ended up buying and initiating the download before heading to work. To everyone with a Samsung TV make sure you get use out of the Game Motion Plus feature. It was designed for games like this.
IFireflyl
Gold Member
~32GB
Captain Toad
Member
IFireflyl
Gold Member
Your delivery driver is playing your game on their OLED Switch.
01011001
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Thanks. I might have to make a little room on my memory card.
hemo memo
Member
Let the driver finish their shrine in peace.
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GymWolf
Member
What kinda of hellish shrine is he doing?
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mortal
Gold Member
That's fair. I got busy with work and was indeed running late.I says you snooze you lose. Mortal got tardy and it cost him, buuuuuuut I didn't spend a lot of time copy and pasting this OT so's if you guys wanna give it to someone else it's okay.
Just trying to help GAF out cuz they needed an official OT.
Although I just wished people would make proper thread claims in the OT claiming thread.
Fuck it, I don't even care anymore. I'm too tired and your thread's already up so keep it.
Just do me a favor and change the OT title to the winning title from the poll thread.
Some technical notes:
The game clearly looks better than BotW. The image quality is noticeably better thanks to FSR1, which I can tell as a 65” TV owner who plays lots of 1080p games. In most cases the 3D elements look similar to 1080p even though it’s 900p at best. The FSR algorithm is used very well here! The draw distance is very noticeably improved, too. You can tell they leaned into the Switch’s advantages over the Wii-U in how they improved it (especially the nearly 3x useable RAM).
Nintendo continues to squeeze blood from a turnip with their aging hardware. This is probably their best example yet. This really shouldn’t be possible on downclocked 15w mobile Maxwell tech. While the art team obviously dazzles with what mileage they get from the limited tech budget, the programmers have wisely updated the engine to tap into Switches’ advantages over Wii-U.
The game clearly looks better than BotW. The image quality is noticeably better thanks to FSR1, which I can tell as a 65” TV owner who plays lots of 1080p games. In most cases the 3D elements look similar to 1080p even though it’s 900p at best. The FSR algorithm is used very well here! The draw distance is very noticeably improved, too. You can tell they leaned into the Switch’s advantages over the Wii-U in how they improved it (especially the nearly 3x useable RAM).
Nintendo continues to squeeze blood from a turnip with their aging hardware. This is probably their best example yet. This really shouldn’t be possible on downclocked 15w mobile Maxwell tech. While the art team obviously dazzles with what mileage they get from the limited tech budget, the programmers have wisely updated the engine to tap into Switches’ advantages over Wii-U.
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Kilau
Gold Member
They really gave it a lower score to be contrarian? I hope they aren’t included in the meta.
Stitch
Gold Member
PuppetMaster
Member
Dusted off the old switch this week Had not played it more than 2 years. And I found the right joycon stick had gone dead...
But bought two brand new joycons and a physical copy of this game! Gonna be a good weekend!
But bought two brand new joycons and a physical copy of this game! Gonna be a good weekend!
Krappadizzle
Member
People saying it doesn't look better are disingenuous. That said, it is built on tech designed for ancient hardware at this point. Blood from a Stone is a good analogy. IF one was inclined to look up footage up ToTK running on emulation, the resolution boost to running it in 1440p alone really helps show the small particle work and the minutia of the environment that gets muddied up on Switch Hardware.
Regardless, I'll take this art direction and style all day if it means I get to keep the physics sandbox Nintendo have created.
Imru’ al-Qays
Member
This is what's giving me pause. I played the first one but gave up after I discovered the whole map - I just didn't see the point of exploring when all it seemed to result in were disposable weapons, shrines, and korok seeds. The combat isn't very good and there wasn't much enemy variety anyway.
The depths in TotK have piqued my interest because it seems like it might be more challenging than the overworld, but I know if I drop $70 on this and the depths is mostly empty I'm going to be pissed.
saintjules
Member
That's fair. I got busy with work and was indeed running late.
Although I just wished people would make proper thread claims in the OT claiming thread.
Fuck it, I don't even care anymore. I'm too tired and your thread's already up so keep it.
Just do me a favor and change the OT title to the winning title from the poll thread.
Considering this thread layout is exactly the same as the one on ERA
maybe the mods would allow yours since you claimed it.
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Badlucktroll
Member
Nintendo should have Disney/Jim Henson studios do a big budget dark fantasy puppet movie of The Legend Of Zelda
radewagon
Member
Link is broke. Think this one works:
https://kotaku.com/zelda-tears-kingdom-review-score-metacritic-opencritic-1850430540
I dunno man. Kotaku might have a point. BOTW was largely passed around as a perfect game. 10's and 9's across the board from a contingent of reviewers that seem to have lost all objectivity in regards to what is a HEAVILY flawed game. Look, it's fine. BOTW is a fine game. I bought it twice, even (WiiU first, Switch second), but I'd be lying if I said it was on par with most 9's and 10's out there. Now I get that, of course, taste is subjective, but such universally agreed upon taste gives me a lot of pause. If BOTW got such high praise regardless of how lacking much of it was, it's hard to look at TOTK's great reviews as an objectively positive thing. All it shows me is that TOTK either rights the wrongs of the similarly reviewed BOTW and delivers a borderline perfect experience OR... it's just as bad as BOTW and is being rated much higher than it actually deserves because reviewers are overlooking significant flaws. As it is, I can't see myself trusting the current reviews as it pertains to what my enjoyment of the game will be.
I'll play it at some point, but it'll be interesting to see a larger variety of impressions start to trickle in.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
Played for about an hour last night. It was great. I love the feeling of a big fantasy adventure that comes from this game.
MirageMew2
Member
Really wtf is that title lol
Miyazaki’s Slave
Gold Member
Yeah…you should play BOTW before you hop into this game (if you plan to)
This is what we get when an OT is late and trolls from other sites see an opportunity to ruin an OT on the site.
While I don’t blame them for taking advantage of us “old folks” the mods could easily course correct.
Hell they were quick to jump into the thread where everyone was “omggggg it’s dlc LUUUULLLL” but I guess they are too busy playing the game to watch the kiddies in the pool today.
Madflavor
Member
I was thinking this. TotK supposedly improves on BotW in almost every way, is bigger, has more features, but both games scored the same.
SCB3
Gold Member
Not only have I played it, I 100%'ed it twice (once on Master Mode) and played Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity a month ago, I just don't remember her accent being so prominent
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