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[.Pennywise]

This match is part of the Game of the Generation Tournament. For rules, details and current brackets go to the Tournament thread (Click)

 

[Grumpy Toe Nail]

Havent heard of either

 

[Hostile_18]

Anyone know anything about these games? Are they out yet?

 

[Roufianos]

Hmmm

Hmmm

Piss

The game with that line.

 

[AV]

As much as I loved BotW this is still the most boring and predictable finale ever

Voted for The Quiet Man, screw you all

 

[MadYarpen]

Winds howling

 

[teezzy]

 

[oagboghi2]

And it begins

 

[TKOFromTokyo]

BotW

 

[theHFIC]

Hmmmmm a gameplay system based on weapons constantly breaking or a story system that relies on inundating you with quests and sub-quests on top of more quests and sub-quests.

I'll stick with The Last of Us Part 2, but thank you for the effort of coordinating this whole thing. It must have been quite an undertaking.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

.

 

[Kokoloko85]

Bloodborne fans you know what to do lol

 

[Iced Arcade]

3rd party game slaughtered all 1st party games

 

[rofif]

Witcher 3 gets it for trees bending on the wind, forest noise and skellige atmosphere alone

 

[Astral Dog]

Breath

 

[teezzy]

Witcher 3 is the game I built a PC for and made me fall head over heels for the platform

BotW is the game I bought a Switch for and made me realize that I prefer narrative to just pure open ended gameplay.

This was the generation where I fully converted from Nintendo fan boy to PC Xbox mastermind and these two games were the deciding factor in that. Witcher 3 gave me the experience I wanted so badly from BotW, that when I finally played it and experienced its piss poor dungeons I couldn't help but love Witcher 3 even more.

Thanks CDPR

 

[Kokoloko85]

Dragon Quest XI

Was it even in the competition? Deserved to be

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

 

[R6Rider]

Witcher 3

 

[Walter Matthau]

edit

 

[Yoboman]

Witcher 3 was great

Breath of the Wild was good but it got really repetitive after awhile

Neither are really GOTG IMO. Both are far too weak in core mechanics

 

[bender]

The battle of polar opposites.

 

[whitesugar]

zelda is good but is overrated and has a number of issues that stop it from greatness. went with witcher 3

 

[Trogdor1123]

I'm playing botw right now, seems good so far. I'm just at the beginning plateau but I'm not too wild (no pun intended) about the controls. I'm sure they will grow on me.

Also, the performance out doors isn't really the best either is it?

I'll vote once I have a chance to get further into it.

Playing it docked.

 

[kruis]

The Witcher 3 set a new baseline for graphics and story telling and its gameplay ideas influenced countless games, BotW's influence on the industry was limited to one direct Chinese clone.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Wrong.

This is wrong.

42 of you are WRONG!

 

[Barry Burton]

Witcher 3 was very much of the same, tired open-world game design we'd been getting for years and years. It still manages to be a great game on the strength of its writing and world-building, but it's not in the same class as Breath of the Wild.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

I need to try the Witcher 3 again, thought it was clumsy and awkward the first time I gave it a try.

Loved BotW from start to finish.

 

[engstra]

Played Zelda first week of getting a Switch, really need to give it a second try. Witcher just does not interest me whatsover, fantasy settings do not click with me. Between God of War and Last of Us 2 for GOTG for me.

 

[CorruptShadow]

I’m going with the Witcher 3. Breath was fantastic but, I don’t consider it to be even the best in it’s own series. I preferred Ocarina and A Link to the past.

 

[hemo memo]

W3 all the way. Both great.

 

[Arkam]

This is a vote for Content vs gameplay mechanics. Looks like content takes an early lead.

I voted BOTW. Love me some W3 (own it on 3 platforms) but BOTW is on another level. You could add content to BOTW to make it as large/deep as W3.... WAAAY larger effort ask them to bring those mechanics(physics, electricity, magnetism, heat/cold, fire) to W3. Crazy part is, despite the much more robust content in W3, I player BOTW more (by an order of magnitude) because it was just fun to play.

 

[Damigos]

Witcher 3 must win. No contest

 

[Kamina]

Both phenomenal games.
Witcher 3 however wins for me as the whole package is just better

 

[teezzy]

Witcher 3 was very much of the same, tired open-world game design we'd been getting for years and years. It still manages to be a great game on the strength of its writing and world-building, but it's not in the same class as Breath of the Wild.

 

[ZZZZ]

Witcher 3 is an incredible game, the only flaw is in it's combat, everything else about the game is a 100/100 or close to it.

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

Vote them into oblivion!

 

[Yoboman]

Witcher 3 was very much of the same, tired open-world game design we'd been getting for years and years. It still manages to be a great game on the strength of its writing and world-building, but it's not in the same class as Breath of the Wild.

I love when people accuse games who popularised genres or gameplay staples of being generic because every other dev went on to copy them

 

[Javthusiast]

Alpha chad Geralt vs that twink Link? xD

In all seriousness though, I only played The Witcher 3, so that's my choice.

 

[manfestival]

Genshin Impact wins.

 

[Neko Mimi Mode]

I love BOTW and I'll always be a Zelda fan, but TW3 is in a league of one.

 

[GeorgPrime]

This match is part of the Game of the Generation Tournament. For rules, details and current brackets go to the Tournament thread (Click)

Witcher 3. No Contest. Zelda is fucking boring after while and just feels like a chore to finish if you want to play it 100 %

 

[Bladed Thesis]

Witcher 3 was very much of the same, tired open-world game design we'd been getting for years and years. It still manages to be a great game on the strength of its writing and world-building, but it's not in the same class as Breath of the Wild.

Hahahahaha

 

[GeorgPrime]

Hahahahaha

I first thought he was talking about Skyrim, Odyssey or Horizon Zero Dawn.... or all the other standard generic Assasins Creed Style open worlds like Zelda.

 

[turtlepowa]

I knew a game with let's say mediocre gameplay would win, but i would have put my money on a Sony game here on GAF. Loved Zelda, but Witcher 3 was just so perfect in most aspects of the game, i had to vote for it.

 

[martino]

zelda for me because good about it is about interactivity in games.
but difficult choice.

 

[-Arcadia-]

BotW is a phenomenal videogame.

Witcher 3 is a phenomenal story and set of quests on top of gameplay that's a pleasant hum, but not worldshaking.

I love W3, but this one couldn't be easier.

 

[Mhmmm 2077]

Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all.

But in this case voting for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is not evil, so I did that.

 

[GeorgPrime]

I knew a game with let's say mediocre gameplay would win, but i would have put my money on a Sony game here on GAF. Loved Zelda, but Witcher 3 was just so perfect in most aspects of the game, i had to vote for it.

Aside all the average Assasins Creed Generic Open World Copy and Paste Content... delivers Zelda only a nice phyiscs based open world. Thats all. The weapons system is annoying after a while and the Story has some good points for a Zelda game but thats it. Everything else like Dungeon Design and Boss Fights are just average and weaker than ocarina of time for example

Witcher 3 raised the bar for Open World design and no other game came close to it now. As soon as a game focuses on Assasins Creed Style Gameplay the open world turns to shit.

 

[Bladed Thesis]

I first thought he was talking about Skyrim, Odyssey or Horizon Zero Dawn.... or all the other standard generic Assasins Creed Style open worlds like Zelda.

When he said tired open-world I thought for sure he was talking about Breath of the Wild. You know, the boringly-empty-devoid-of-any-life-50-shrines-that-all-play-basically-the-same-as-the-only-adventure-your-sword-is-made-of-glass-oh-hey-look-we-put-a-shooting-mechanic-from-every-other-game-isnt-our-combat-so-deep mechanic game. I think I spit out my coffee on that.

The BOTW fans are so close, they're almost self-aware, in their criticism throwing out words like "tired" and "boring" or "bad game mechanics" as they stan for BOTW. It's fucking laughable.