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Let's Chat about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Taketheword:
Now that BotW is released, this thread is about anything and everything BotW.
wiggy:
I'm afraid I know virtually nothing about it and what makes it non-traditional.
I tend to not look into the new Zelda games too much before I play them. The modern "see the entire f#cking game before it even comes out" generation that we're in really irks me. It spoils the surprise and excitement of a new game for me.
In the end, it's Zelda. I'm going to buy it. As long as it's not another Skyward Shit, then I'll be ok.
TDIRunner:
--- Quote from: wiggy on January 28, 2017, 06:47:02 AM ---I'm afraid I know virtually nothing about it and what makes it non-traditional.
I tend to not look into the new Zelda games too much before I play them. The modern "see the entire f#cking game before it even comes out" generation that we're in really irks me. It spoils the surprise and excitement of a new game for me.
In the end, it's Zelda. I'm going to buy it. As long as it's not another Skyward Shit, then I'll be ok.
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This here. For that same reason, once I saw the original trailer for The Last Guardian, I refused to read or watch anything related to it. I wanted to play the game knowing as little as possible about it. I think that payed off for me.
I will definitely get Breath of the Wild. But for me, as much as I hate to say this, I'm planning on making this the first Zelda game that I've played through to the end.
PX0:
I am not an early buyer.
I usually wait for reviews to get at least a general idea of the games quality.
There are so many good games, that I do not want to waste my time and money on a bad one. ;D
As for the next Zelda:
So far my only concern is the "open world"-like concept.
In the demo-gameplay footage the world seemed too big and too empty. There were a few individual places of interest (like a lone building or a camp), but with a lot of empty fields, forests or rubble in between.
There were no hordes of enemys like in WOW to fill the massive places.
There were no killer graphics like in Firewatch, where you can just walk around and marble at the environment / atmosphere. (Although the graphics are OK and fitting for a Zelda game.)
I don't see how Zelda is going to fill this huge world.
It might get annoying very fast, when you constantly have to rush through boring nothingness to get to the next interesting spot.
Taketheword:
--- Quote from: wiggy on January 28, 2017, 06:47:02 AM ---I'm afraid I know virtually nothing about it and what makes it non-traditional.
I tend to not look into the new Zelda games too much before I play them. The modern "see the entire f#cking game before it even comes out" generation that we're in really irks me. It spoils the surprise and excitement of a new game for me.
In the end, it's Zelda. I'm going to buy it. As long as it's not another Skyward Shit, then I'll be ok.
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I am in total agreement with this too. I have watched about 15 minutes of demo, and it was enough to show that this Zelda is far from traditional. Breath of the Wild looks much more like a modern RPG, and it takes place in a MASSIVE open world. You may want to just spend about 10 minutes watching some demo, so you're not completely in a state of "WTF?" when you buy it. The ounce of research I did spoiled nothing.