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Breath of the Wild: 2 years have passed since its release, how do you feel about the game today?
- Thread starter Ikaruga
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I still haven't beaten it. Every few months I load it back up for a few sessions then it goes back down. But I still freaking love it.
A solid 7/10 for me but I haven't played the last DLC yet.
The next one though, I feel it'll be a classic.
The next one though, I feel it'll be a classic.
I borderline hated FFXV's world initially because of this. Too much of a focus on what it was not (BotW-Esque) to appreciate some of the good aspects - it was actually a lovely but flawed world.
The same thing happened with Horizon but to a far lesser extent as I waited a few months longer.
Borrowed the switch copy of it (I had the WiiU version, but didn't want to ever comment on it until I played it on the Switch), and unfortunately ended up not playing after just a few hours because my just-unboxed pro controller had a faulty right analog stick. I've since swapped it for one that isn't broken, might have to pop it back in today.
I'm replaying it after a break of a year and enjoying the heck out of it (again). I've put over a hundred hours in, finished all the shrines (on a different save), and I'm still bumping into stuff I haven't seen before: quests, vendors, little scenes and interactions...
Oh, and making an early run to Hyrule Castle is the bomb.
Oh, and making an early run to Hyrule Castle is the bomb.
It's one of the big games of my life, seriously. One of those things that releases at just the right moment. I'll never forget the first time I started scaling the Dualing Peaks after the starting area. I panned the camera around and realized just how open the game was, and that the entire path through that world would mostly authored by my own curiosity and pathfinding. Since it was pre-spring when it released, I'd left the front window open, and an uncharacteristicly warm stream of air came through the curtains. It's sentimentalist, but in that moment I knew I had a game that went beyond stats and graphics. This was a classic.
Luke warm take* based on some of this thread. "Ruins other games" is almost saying the same thing :P
It's certainly up there for me, flaws and all. Almost time I get a new game part of me just wishes i was instead exploring another continent in BotW.
The discussion around the game always makes me feel like a crazy person. I thought the game was fine but overall it wore on me pretty quickly. I went from thinking I was going to do everything to just getting tired of the whole thing and just finishing the "story".
Im like 90% done with all the side quests/shrines/seeds and just need to do final part of the castle in the main quest and for some reason I just dont care to finish it.... its been sitting in my desk drawer for months now. The first 15 hours or so of the game was the best IMHO
I generally try to stay away from things like definitively ranking games, "such and such was number 1 this year/this gen/all time" etc. ... too many variables, too hard to compare things from today to things from the 80s/90s/00s, etc.
But the time I spent (over two hundred hours) just exploring that enormous world, back when it was all covered in detail-less shadow on the map screen, never knowing what I would find around the next corner, over the next mountain, across the next river ... is really unlike anything else I've ever done in a video game. It was only 2 years ago but I already have as powerful nostalgia for that feeling as anything from my childhood and I wish I could experience it again.
So yeah I'm a fan of the game.
But the time I spent (over two hundred hours) just exploring that enormous world, back when it was all covered in detail-less shadow on the map screen, never knowing what I would find around the next corner, over the next mountain, across the next river ... is really unlike anything else I've ever done in a video game. It was only 2 years ago but I already have as powerful nostalgia for that feeling as anything from my childhood and I wish I could experience it again.
So yeah I'm a fan of the game.
How absolutely perfect everything feels in action. The physics of everything, the animations of everything, the response of everything as you press buttons, it's all incredibly solid and just right.
Contrast it to basically any other open world game ever. There's always varying degrees of jank. Breath of the Wild has the satisfying feeling and polish of a major japanese action game, except it's an open world RPG and it applies to relatively complex physics systems as well.
Need to go back and play it through properly, basically skipped the entire final dungeon (hyrule castle) by airdropping into the boss trigger.
And this was before the DLC, which I didn't stick around to see.
And this was before the DLC, which I didn't stick around to see.
Yeah, I'll say that the moment to moment gameplay itself is very well tied together. Throwing weapons, picking them up, gliding, climbing, all of that was pretty seamless.
Was overrated then, continues to be overrated now. It's good but not a masterpiece or anything.
I picked up BOTW last year when I got a Switch. I ignored the game from the media because I didn't think it would interest me. My favorite genre is open world and RPGs but the last Zelda I played was Twilight Princess and that didn't hold my interest. Before that, I played Wind Waker which I loved and before that, Ocarina on the 3DS but I never got very far in it.
BOTW is incredible. I love the art style and how real the world feels with NPCs living their daily lives and traveling. I still have not beat the game because I keep starting over, but I have high hopes they will create a sequel in the same style.
BOTW reminds me of the magic from when I first experienced Morrowind as a kid, which is my absolute favorite game of all time.
BOTW is incredible. I love the art style and how real the world feels with NPCs living their daily lives and traveling. I still have not beat the game because I keep starting over, but I have high hopes they will create a sequel in the same style.
BOTW reminds me of the magic from when I first experienced Morrowind as a kid, which is my absolute favorite game of all time.
It's a fun game. I had a lot of fun with it. It is a very well-crafted game.
But the way it was treated as the pinnacle of gaming, as if every game ever made has led us to this masterpiece, as if this is the game to define video games, it really makes me roll my eyes.
It makes me feel bad honestly, I don't enjoy crapping on someone else's fun, and I can't reiterate enough that it IS a good, fun game. But it is far from the pinnacle. It's really just a Nintendo version of a Ubisoft game if you ask me.
It's the first time I really had to agree that there is a MASSIVE Nintendo bias. Replace the Zelda characters and art style, the Nintendo name, and pass it off as a new IP, and it wouldn't get anywhere near the same amount of praise.
But the way it was treated as the pinnacle of gaming, as if every game ever made has led us to this masterpiece, as if this is the game to define video games, it really makes me roll my eyes.
It makes me feel bad honestly, I don't enjoy crapping on someone else's fun, and I can't reiterate enough that it IS a good, fun game. But it is far from the pinnacle. It's really just a Nintendo version of a Ubisoft game if you ask me.
It's the first time I really had to agree that there is a MASSIVE Nintendo bias. Replace the Zelda characters and art style, the Nintendo name, and pass it off as a new IP, and it wouldn't get anywhere near the same amount of praise.
I STILL think about my experiences with the game, and currently replaying it. It deserves all the praise it gets. Incredible experience and I cannot wait for the next one to fix up the issues of the first.
I still feel the same way I did when it released- BotW is a deeply-flawed game that has flashes of brilliance. I see the greatness of this game, but the flaws in the fundamental design, narrative and characters, dated tech, shallow combat, and other things drag the game down on the whole. Plus the user interface is probably the worst in a modern game. And you are forced to interact with it all the time! It brings to mind the controls and animations of RDR2 in that it's a glaring problem which most reviewers overlooked or dismissed. However the overall package is very inferior compared to Rockstar's title.
I would put Breath of the Wild as the 4th or 5th-best open-world game of this generation despite my disappointment in its design. I think it feels rushed and some of BotW's faults could have been fixed easily, resulting in an improved final product.
I would put Breath of the Wild as the 4th or 5th-best open-world game of this generation despite my disappointment in its design. I think it feels rushed and some of BotW's faults could have been fixed easily, resulting in an improved final product.
The one thing I'll say about BotW is that even though I thought it was merely good and not great, I can at least sorta see how people would feel that way. At least much more so than a game like RDR2 which has glaring control/gameplay issues but still recieves the same sort of praise.
Judging by the poll? Not remotely. It's proven that it's not a flash in the pan game. It's fantastic, and it's here to stay.
I like so much about it, I think it's a fantastic reboot to the series, and the best exploration game I've ever played.
But I dislike almost everything about the shrines.
But I dislike almost everything about the shrines.
played it this year. great game but its not perfect. That said, the engine and depth of the mechanics + system makes this one hella of a game.
Flawed masterpiece. Lousy final act.
Flawed masterpiece. Lousy final act.
The negative vocal minority really makes you think this game has a mixed reception.
But then, you take a look at the poll :)
But then, you take a look at the poll :)
- Yes and it deserved the praise it got.
Votes: 1,175 76.0% - No, the love has slowly faded away.
Votes: 67 4.3% - No, never liked the game in the first place.
Votes: 138 8.9% - The game was pretty good but I was never hyped for it.
Votes: 166 10,7%