Captured a spirit of adventure no other game has fully realized, and has actively ruined a lot of similar open-world games
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Breath of the Wild: 2 years have passed since its release, how do you feel about the game today?
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Still haven't played it. I had a switch preordered and everything, but I had to cancel it because of money issues.
Gonna parrot what a lot of others are saying: it's probably my favorite game of all time now. It's an inspiration.
It was pretty much identical. The Switch version of BotW ran at a higher resolution and it had a slightly better frame rate. So yeah. Plus Switch had actual portability so it is indeed the definitive version of the game.
Anyway, yeah. Breath of the Wild is my favorite game of all time. It is so darn good, and it truly is something special.
Got the game when I got my switch in the year it released. I understand why it got so much praise but it has never been able to grab me. Have started it twice now buy dropped it after about 10 hours and the second time. I'm a weirdo and prefer ubisoft type open games with a map full of icons to explore . Games just Not for me
Those were different times. Had BOTW come out in the 90's, it would've DESTROYED OoT.
One of the best games ever made.
Just like the existence of Tetris makes Columns look worse than it otherwise would, everything in BotW's general area is lessened by comparison.
Exactly.
Just like the existence of Tetris makes Columns look worse than it otherwise would, everything in BotW's general area is lessened by comparison.
But I never play/care about nintendo games before. Now it in my GOATs list.
Personally, I find the Wii U GamePad to be far more comfortable to hold than the Switch in handheld mode, but because range is so terrible with the Wii U, playing that version in handheld mode is very limited. Switch version is better visually, and if you're playing on a TV, then it's a no-brainer on there, especially with a Pro controller. No real reason to play on Wii U unless that's all you have. I played it there the first time because I wasn't sold on getting a Switch at launch due to the weak lineup. That's ancient history now. :)
Incredible game at what it sets out to do. Easily the best exploration game of all time, and in my top 3 this gen.
It's not without flaws though. I do miss the dungeons and boss battles and hope they return in the future along with better combat.
It's not without flaws though. I do miss the dungeons and boss battles and hope they return in the future along with better combat.
Best open world game ever made in my opinion. Anxiously waiting to see what Nintendo can do with a follow up building on that engine not hamstringed by the Wii-U.
I think it was great! It's one of the few open world games that has kept my attention.
It has flaws, though: there's not a lot to find in the world itself. It's memories, Koroks, and shrines. I'd love to see more things scattered around, especially in deserted areas. Give us more world-building, NPCs with small storylines, easter eggs of other games, things like that. There were bits and pieces, but it would have been nice to have more.
Enemies, too--it was mostly just a few with some variations on color. I'm sure it was hard to program them, but it would have been neat to add more variety.
It has flaws, though: there's not a lot to find in the world itself. It's memories, Koroks, and shrines. I'd love to see more things scattered around, especially in deserted areas. Give us more world-building, NPCs with small storylines, easter eggs of other games, things like that. There were bits and pieces, but it would have been nice to have more.
Enemies, too--it was mostly just a few with some variations on color. I'm sure it was hard to program them, but it would have been neat to add more variety.
The Ganon fight was disappointing, too. Everyone combined their powers and just killed the first few phases... and that was it? I'm not great at games and I had zero trouble after that. It would have been cool to at least see the Blights and maybe fight a super-weakened form of them individually, then have the Beasts combine their powers and take down part of Calamity Ganon but still keep him challenging. For such a long journey, having the Champions show up once and then have such an easy boss fight was anticlimactic imo.
I think you are part of a minority with this, nothing wrong with that.
Since OoT I´ve always wanted for a game to give me that feeling of adventure again. I can only think of Dark Souls ever being close to achieving it, until BotW came and, even though I was hyped for the game like I´ve never been for anything, it somehow managed to completely blow my expectations out of the water.
If I could have one game completely erased from my memory so that I could play it again like the first time, it would be BotW.
If I could have one game completely erased from my memory so that I could play it again like the first time, it would be BotW.
I think I genuinely love it. From a game design perspective, its chemistry engine and physics engine were a revelation. They are something I had been clamoring for for years, something I'd wanted to see for a loooong time. Its art style and music are soothing. I love how it lets you approach combat encounters. It's... beautiful.
This!
I started the game recently (like a month ago) and I put around 100 hours on it. I'm having a total blast! I got the season pass and it's one of the best experiences I've ever had in video games.
Playing other open worlds games after this one will be a problem!
It is a good game, but it is very overrated Zelda game.
For me, it is the worst 3D Zelda ever released, despite being a good game and despite having the best gameplay loop out of all Zelda games.
Problem is..... it has the worst bosses, it has the most lame "temples", the most lame and repetitive enemies design, the most lame final battle, boring progression system {having all the abilities unlocked after the tutorial was boring}, meh plot.
But, being objective, this Zelda offers the best freedom, game play is smooth and solid, the inventory system was the right place to go.
For me, it is the worst 3D Zelda ever released, despite being a good game and despite having the best gameplay loop out of all Zelda games.
Problem is..... it has the worst bosses, it has the most lame "temples", the most lame and repetitive enemies design, the most lame final battle, boring progression system {having all the abilities unlocked after the tutorial was boring}, meh plot.
But, being objective, this Zelda offers the best freedom, game play is smooth and solid, the inventory system was the right place to go.
I still greatly prefer it over the old, overused formula of the past games. That said it's not without flaws, enemy variety is incredibly weak, side content is incredibly lacking (pretty much all the side quests are fetch quests and apart from that there's just the shrines that get dull after awhile), the "Dungeons" are dull and boring, and the bosses all look the same.
Pretty much.
People ignoring the technical issues, any other game would've been severely punished for that.
Nightmares of that 10 FPS Korok forest. Yikes.
This. If you take apart BotW and analyze each individual system and element you can find a lot of shortcomings. If you judge it merely by subtracting points for these flaws you can objectively say it's not more than a 8/10 game.
But, when everything comes together, oh boy, it's like having various, sometime crude, pieces of a puzzle coming together to form an astonishing result that leaves you dumbfounded. For a time l thought it's impossible to replicate the feelings you have as a child playing some games for the first time and getting lost in their fictional worlds. It's just something that fades with age and experience, a result of how your mind and imagination works. Of course there are still lots of excellent and probably better games coming out nowadays which you can thoroughly enjoy and appreciate, but still, it just feels like you now view things under a different prism.
But with this game, I still can't properly explain how or why, l felt it once more, this sort of mystical level of immersion and sensation games once conveyed to me. So yeah, reading what l typed l feel like a cultist but what can l say, l think it's a masterpiece.
TL;DR: I played BotW and it was like
Good but I could never see the hype that others saw. I also really missed having big, themed dungeons rather than the shrines. The enemy variety/recolors was a let down for me; the bosses basically all being the same enemy was kinda lame, too. I'm also someone disappointed with the music usage.
I bought the dlc with the game but never played it. After a while I realized I just wanted to finish the main campaign and get the game over with ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I bought the dlc with the game but never played it. After a while I realized I just wanted to finish the main campaign and get the game over with ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
About the same as I did at launch. Phenomenal base and systems, but held back by some weak execution on some areas like story and being bigger then the devs could handle. So, a good game, but one that will benefit greatly from a sequel.
Did you also complain about the technical issues of Bloodborne and The Witcher 3 being ignored?
Did not like it at launch, still don't like it now. Don't say I didn't play enough of it, I did about 40 shrines (including some of the bigger ones like Eventide and the Lanaryu Mountain) along with the Zora Divine Beast. I gave up in Hebra after getting 2 Shrines of Strength in a row (Oh joy, it's the same enemy as the last 5 shrines with just this one enemy, all there is now is Water on the ground, guess that means Cryonis! Because puzzles are really stupidly easy in this game, if there's Water, it's Cryonis! If there's Metal, it's Magnetism! If neither of them are in, it's one of the remaining runes, of which there is 2 left! And it's pretty easy to see if something can be bombed!)
The only thing I liked were the Lynel Fights, if there were more enemies like them in the game, it would be interesting, but there isn't. Even the big health bar bosses are jokes. That's before even basically being unkillable when you have armour set up and the pause to eat your mountain load of food to heal to full health + without doing anything (Yeah I really want to do 4 of those Strength Shrines to get a heart container over getting 6 golden hearts from this one really easy meal to make).
Oh and the game get's less fun the more you play as the enemies level up and your goofy gimmick strategies you do to mix things up because they only put like 15 enemy types become less viable as they do not scale accordingly. Only the weapon combat that hasn't changed at all scale. I guess they don't break as fast? Weapon Breaking kills the flow of the combat anyway since it's "Pause Game, Change to next weapon." Doesn't even keep the combat going fast with getting out your next available weapon, nope, have to kill all the flow with a menu switch.
Thanks game. I guess the next ones going to be in this formula. I hope not and then mix it up again, do something different entirely. Never want to slowly, agonizingly, scale a mountain again, only to have to stop because of RAIN. Gimme Dual Clawshots next time, faster movement alone would make eveything better.
The only thing I liked were the Lynel Fights, if there were more enemies like them in the game, it would be interesting, but there isn't. Even the big health bar bosses are jokes. That's before even basically being unkillable when you have armour set up and the pause to eat your mountain load of food to heal to full health + without doing anything (Yeah I really want to do 4 of those Strength Shrines to get a heart container over getting 6 golden hearts from this one really easy meal to make).
Oh and the game get's less fun the more you play as the enemies level up and your goofy gimmick strategies you do to mix things up because they only put like 15 enemy types become less viable as they do not scale accordingly. Only the weapon combat that hasn't changed at all scale. I guess they don't break as fast? Weapon Breaking kills the flow of the combat anyway since it's "Pause Game, Change to next weapon." Doesn't even keep the combat going fast with getting out your next available weapon, nope, have to kill all the flow with a menu switch.
Thanks game. I guess the next ones going to be in this formula. I hope not and then mix it up again, do something different entirely. Never want to slowly, agonizingly, scale a mountain again, only to have to stop because of RAIN. Gimme Dual Clawshots next time, faster movement alone would make eveything better.
It's been two years, long past any honeymoon period, and I still think it's the best game ever made.
I have very high expectations for the sequel, especially if it's iterative.
I have very high expectations for the sequel, especially if it's iterative.
I'm almost entirely positive that the sequel isn't going to be able to live up to Breath of the Wild for me, no matter what. It'll need the next reinvention for Zelda to come close to doing that for me again.
I loved the game but the main dungeons were bad compared to previous zelda games, i hope BotW2 dungeons are as good as the previous zeldas also i hope the world is not in post apocalyptic setting, i want it to be alive and filled.
It's not as perfect as some of the praise makes out, the story sucked and dungeons weren't as good as past games but the freedom it offered was still great, so the gameplay does help make up for some of it's shortcomings.
I still like the game a lot though but it's not a 10/10 game for me, more of an 8.5/10.
I still like the game a lot though but it's not a 10/10 game for me, more of an 8.5/10.
I mean yeah lol, I don't think anyone REALLY believed most people don't absolutely love the game... at least I hope they didn't. The sheer number of polls and contests the game has won at this point is ridiculous.
it's funny too, era is likely one of the more negative places for breath of the wild and yet these are the results
really puts into perspective what an achievement the game is. really happy for aonuma and the zelda team. you can tell they really wanted to hit one out of the park. seeing them get the game awards goty was really awesome.
BotW got me back into console gaming after years of hiatus. Exploring became fun again simple put.
I didn't own a Switch on launch and bought it on the WiiU. Now that I do own one, this is the first game that makes me want to double dip just to replay it even if I can do so on the WiiU lol.
I didn't own a Switch on launch and bought it on the WiiU. Now that I do own one, this is the first game that makes me want to double dip just to replay it even if I can do so on the WiiU lol.
I think BotW is one of the top two most beloved games on Era with Bloodborne. It's really just that those who don't like it are kinda shrill about making sure that others know they don't.