Manny Calavera
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It's a great feeling to know that this might actually live up to our expectations. Should be an interesting (and long) week ahead with all the previews and reviews coming up.
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Zelda Breath of the Wild Previews
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Poimandres
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Are there any impressions at all from people who have played the game for 20 hours? There are certain types of flaws that only become apparent after spending a long time with a game (and getting a good feel of its overall progression).
Is the level design consistently good? Is the story satisfying? Does it get repetitive? These are the sorts of things that seperate good from great. Or realistically with this game, great from amazing.
Haha fair enough? No game can be GOTY before its release date.
SinCityAssassin
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I can only tell you this before previews go out. Most of these reviewers have played the game for more than 20 hours. And many of them can't wait to tell you about it.
Jailer of Hope
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Did the preview even do that? I don't actually expect it to be comparable to Souls. It's GAF making declarations as usual.
The polygon preview explicitly says that he's played the game for 20 hours, lol
Left eye twitching furiously.
This is less a question of difficulty and more a question of frustration. It can be handled well. In that case I imagine that Zelda will force you to go to lower-difficulty zones in order to increase your power/weapons/skills so that you can go afterwards in the zone where you died. Good checkpoints and no loss of inventory also help a lot.
It might be an issue for childs or people that aren't gamers though, it's hard to make a game that fits everyone's path of learning and ability to live with challenging ennemies.
Maybe wait for reviews from places other than the infamously terrible at video games polygon.
The preview made a comparison to Dark Souls, but said it wasn't quite fair as death doesn't come with a punishment other than needing to walk back to where you were.
It do hope the game has an easy mode. The last several Zelda games were very approachable to most players. Not sure my wife is gonna enjoy her copy too much :-/
The problem with Zelda 1 is that the game is almost always constantly on brute force insta-death mode.
For example, I never got past the first temple on console, but with an emulator I was able to save-scum my way through everything. This probably was perpetuated by the fact that I didn't know there were heart containers outside of dungeons and that I completely missed the second temple making me progress through dungeons 3-8 with no boomerang. I want to say that the way to get bonus items and equipment is 'bad' but apparently the game makes a lot more sense if you have the manual and solve the game with a community of players.
I've never beaten Zelda 2 though, I always get fed up with the enemy types in the later temples because it feels totally random and not skill based to try to fight them.
I also got through 2 of the wardstones in Demon Souls before I figured out that you could roll faster with less stuff.
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The preview said there will be inevitable comparisons to Dark Souls, but they would not be fair. He did not compare them himself.
Damn it reminds me of old school games like the first Metroid and Zelda, Faxanadu, Battle of Olympus, in a modern twist.
In that games if you walked in certain areas when you were not ready, you were immediately destroyed. You can't play random in this new Zelda,my most anticipated game from like..a LOT of time.
In that games if you walked in certain areas when you were not ready, you were immediately destroyed. You can't play random in this new Zelda,my most anticipated game from like..a LOT of time.
The game is hard, but it's not Dark Souls. This is more about being smart with what you have as opposed to repetitive technical skill. I guess the real question is how often do they guide you into some order for the main quest so that you aren't constantly out of place. Which I don't think they do after the main plateu, but I'd bet Zelda's voice gives you a direction like other Zelda games if take too long in finding the main quest.
Once you leave the Great Plateau...
(I know the comparisons aren't fair but I thought it'd be fun to make)
Haha, that's fantastic, and painfully
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Minor spoilers about leveling
the game's puzzle area's (shrines) give you rewards that increase your health and stamina. Casual players will likely just play more of these until they feel significantly leveled up to face the next challenges the game offers
Znedd1
When I was your age, I had to copy BASIC commands line-by-line out of a magazine to make a game.
I'm serious. If a reviewer can't complete Nioh in time for review due to difficulty, what perception of the reviewer does that give? The game may be difficult - but coming from Polygon, we don't know whether that means "Difficult to a person who couldn't complete Nioh", or just "Difficult".
Now, we can't generalize, and say that all Polygon reviewers are bad at video games. However, we have to consider that they must have some sort of benchmark for difficulty, and it is probably much lower than other outlets, or the general public.
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Is there some information on what these previews can and can't report on? Will I be safe of spoilers and story beats, maybe bosses and such?
I can't see myself surviving a whole week on GAF without peeking into any Zelda threads :/
I can't see myself surviving a whole week on GAF without peeking into any Zelda threads :/
CEJames
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Oh my...
Poimandres
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This is really promising...
And thid makes me look like a total tosser!
Alright, continue hyping! Looking forward to the previews and reviews (and grabbing the game in a week)
SinCityAssassin
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This talk about difficulty
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We don't even need to take Polygon's word for it, all of the gameplay shown so far shows that it's harder than you'd expect from a Zelda.
Ocarina_117
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99 metacritic incoming.
well... One more week.
Exciting, but I hope his comments on the hardware being undercooked are speaking more to the software (OS, features), than the hardware itself .
SinCityAssassin
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Considering he says "like most launch hardware" it's probably just the features and such.
Good, Mr.Schreier. Good.
Dark Cloud
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3 hours until legal Zelda previews go up!
OverturePT
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Man, the wait for this game was already painful enough. It all sounds so good...
My prediction is that
we'll use the spirit orbs at goddess statues and claim either heart containers/pieces or stamina upgrades. I wonder how many shrines you have to do, to get that first upgrade and if that amount scales (as in more spirit orbs that longer you play) or if its all one flat fee of so many spirit orbs per thing.
We only have 1 preview so far.
Dark Cloud
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That won't be mentioned for this Zelda preview. Others have had problems, but that will be in the Switch preview topics.
I feel you, I have 93 in the metacritic score contesting, wishing I could raise it by a point or two atm.
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Impulsor
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Stop lol. Game is incredible, but you are gonna have people who hate difficulty and open worlds by default
Can't believe my spring break aligns with the release of Zelda.
Don't know how I feel about it being "difficult" though. It may not be "souls hard" but the fact that its stupid huge will probably make it feel as though progress is incredibly slow. I've never played behemoth games, so I don't know how I'll go about this one.
Don't know how I feel about it being "difficult" though. It may not be "souls hard" but the fact that its stupid huge will probably make it feel as though progress is incredibly slow. I've never played behemoth games, so I don't know how I'll go about this one.
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