The "sense" of exploration meaning wandering around for an hour hoping to find something?
this is nintendo fans all over, sorry what gameplay was so great.
and especially that the master sword is supposed to be the big i am, yet it breaks.
It doesn’t break. It loses its power. Maybe Fi is sick or something.
It's not exclusive to Nintendo fans. It's more an issue of hype selling and obviously biased and poorly written praise filled reviews. So few reviews actually give you reasons why something is good or bad amd just rely on buzz words ("polished" is one you hear a lot, "breath taking", "innovative" is one you hear thrown around a lot too but so few games actually innovate, it's fair to call something like Splatoon innovative because it's completely different from most shooters, but a game that does what a lot of other games do only slightly differently is not being innovative. "Generic" is one you hear when someone doesn't like something. I consider this a buzzword because It's overused when the game isn't actually all that generic and people just over simplify something to the point you can make it sound like some cookie cutter formula. You can make anything sound bad that way. I can say "Skyrim is a game where you're a hero who kills dragons" and that makes it sound like some cookie cutter fantasy story).
I know there's things like capture the flag, but Splatoon is quite a bit different from that, at least in the normal online mode. But that is a fair point.
BoTW is an homage of the first TLoZ for the NES.
Gotta completely disagree. Breath of The Wild specifically tells you were to go a lot. There are markers for the quests that show your destinations including the divine beasts so that's not a very valid point. I found the game to be mind numbingly boring and really tedious, the lack of story actually made this feel worse because I feel no reason to do anything. Why should my actions matter if there's no story? Why should I feel like stopping Ganon if there's no reason other than "because I'm the hero"? The lack of story actually hurts your point about it being about the journey because there's barely a journey, with no story nothing takes place. I have no reason to care about anything in the game. Going into something with no information isn't fun to everyone either. I actually consider that to be poor design. You're just wandering around until you find something. That takes no skill, no intelligence, or anything of the sort. It just takes the ability to hold the movement control. The roadblocks in past Zelda games make you think. "Hey, I might need an item to get past here. I'll come back later" which in my opinion is a much better incentive to explore than wandering around a mostly empty world with no information. This is my problem with a lot of open world stuff, not just BOTW. Skimping on the story to prioritize wandering around a big area that little is done with. I don't want to watch a movie with no plot so why should I play a game with no plot? (Excluding obvious things like 2D platformers, arcade games, etc.) I want my story telling medium to have story.
It is not capture the flag, though it is commonly seen in the same games that aspire to be more than deathmatch, but area capture/denial. Seen in any number of things including Tony Hawk games of all things where it gets called graffiti mode.
I disagree. Personally, I thought the open world was executed brilliantly, with something to discover around every corner. I loved their design approach of setting playtesters loose in the world, seeing where they travel to and explore most, then placing interesting things -- shrines, korok seeds, etc. -- in places where people don't travel to as much. In that way, the game rewards true exploration in a way that very few games ever could. I believe the critical and fan reaction back me up on this. Games are often more than the sum of their parts, and no truer words could be said about Breath of the Wild. If I were to pick each piece apart, I think I'd agree with you on much. Bosses could be quite easy, climbing in the rain was annoying, and durability too. But put it all together, and the experience elevates it to a very high level.
I think your caps lock button is broken.
I'm not really wanting an open world game (at least the size of BOTW), and I am not the biggest fan of DLC either, so I'm sad they are considering that already
I wouldn't consider this trolling. Although BOTW was great in many aspects, the story line was pretty weak. The game felt like it was 95% exploring and gathering, and 5% story. Often, the story was so far in the back seat that I would be hard pressed to remember any details of it if someone asked me. The ending of the game was especially disappointing. It's as if the developers put so much work into making the game, that by the time they had to develop the ending, they were just burnt out, and did a rush job on the ending. More story cut scenes, and more points in the game that reveal the story would make any BOTW sequel much better.
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