Going to try to be as non inflammatory as possible

Going to try to be as non inflammatory as possible.
How the hell is this game rated so high and being so lauded?I finally got around to downloading it and playing about 4 hours and I'm already bored. It's not terrible and there is some really cool stuff here, It's TECHNOLOGY the game but that doesn't make a great game.

I'm going to leave my nitpick complaints out for the most part but as far as nitpicks, I want to bring up that the stamina system for running is terrible, It's another game where you can run 10 feet then have to stop.Weapon durability borders on nitpick and major issue but that's been complained about to death

As far as major complaints, I have a bit just from the few hours I've played. First off, the game's combat is neither intense or challenging, You can pause the game at any moment to eat food to replenish health, Combat amounts to just mashing the attack button and circling around with enemies being extremely predictable or passive. A lesser complaint but combat is entirely useless, There's no reward other than weapons (To replace the weapons you broke in the same encounter)

Second off, when you DO die, there is 0 punishment, You start almost exactly where you died because the game checkpoints constantly. On the other hand, If you do happen to respawn farther away than you would like, your only punishment is more walking to the next shrine or wherever you're going.

This post already too fucking long so I'll stop at that.
I do have a question though, To people who LOVE this game,why? What is there really to it? There's no substance. Chopping down a tree or lighting a stick on fire and setting the grass on fire is cool but what else? Where is the long,challenging and well designed dungeons? The fun,challenging bossfights?
It's good, but jesus is this massively overrated

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Ok

well you have played this 100hr game for 4 hours so I guess I'll just have to re-evaluate the fun I've been having.

Combat is serviceable but its more about making a plan of attack and having an "aha!" moment about how to progress. Same thing in the shrines, realizing what it wants you to do or awkwardly assembling your own solution is satisfying.

But mostly its just the sense of scale and discovery as you bound and climb and sail your way across the landscape. We're only 10 hours or so into the game but it hasn't gotten old yet. Time will tell if it holds up but I can honestly say I haven't played an open world game that feels like this one.

/obviousblatantnintenshill

Honestly these are some good points and I can empathize with you a bit but judging by your responses you won't get a good conversation because this game isn't allowed to have negatives.

Honestly just sounds like the game isn't for you. Nothing wrong with having different tastes I guess

>It's TECHNOLOGY the game but that doesn't make a great game.

Actually it does. Fuck your shit.

You missed out the biggest feature that is lacking in this game.

THERE IS NO FISHING ROD.

I used to spend hours on OOT fishing. For a game set in a wild setting about survival, it really rustles my jimmies that i cant plonk a fishing rod out.

Bomb the water.

Post your face when

lmao how is the stamina complaint even real ride a horse nigga lmao just fly off a mountain

Its not the same. Getting different lures, trying to entice the biggest fish.

For all its other charms, you would of thought this would of been included, not to mention another skill tree to develop as it were.

Considering the fish are effected by weather and location you'd think you could fish, yeah

But also you can bomb the water so it would remove the purpose to fish, the game's designed around doing as much as they can without bogging the game down in mechanics and skill upgrades

I can sort of see your argument even if you are being a bit cuntish about it.

for me the appeal is the freedom. there are like no tutorials or hand-holding, making you experiment with shit. I also had no hype for this game, which probably helped giving me a suprisingly positive impression. I guess I can see the gameplay getting somewhat repetitive over time, but overall I find the game very refreshing on the whole.

music is my only big disappointment though. Did Koji Kondo and Hajime Wakai die or something? this soundtrack is not memorable in the slightest.

congrats you went into the game with the mindset of not wantting to like it, because you saw the review scores and as a result you dont like it. You chose to nitpick the entire experience, ruining it for yourself and now you're shitposting to get other people who did the same thing to agree with you

>Pause to heal
Nigga you instantly heal in other Zeldas in a stopped time moment when drinking potions and eating fairies, this after pressing a button once you leave your inventory pause. It's the same easy peasy shit in the series, please don't tell me you expected BOTW Link to heal and flex in real time like MH does

Hey sonygro, 98.
Stay mad.

people have to justify their $500 purchase, the ones that bought the farm with the switch

I was expecting it to be okay and I've ended up loving it. I like the sense of adventure from exploration, feel rewarded for actually trying things out and looking in little corners. Just thinking to myself 'If I try this and that, could something happen?' and the answer is yes every time I can remember. My experiences with death so far has been that I reload and what I used during the fight is gone. I thought weapon degradation would be a big issue for me but it turns out you get littered with weapons and have to be a little less idiotic with your use of them. It feels balanced at least, and deciding to confront a tougher enemy does feel like I'm putting effort in to it.

I'm not much of a LoZ fan, really enjoyed the first and MM, the rest were average games to me, but something about this has a classic feel to it. I honestly haven't felt this immersed in a game since Morrowind. At times I feel like I'm playing Dragon's Dogma: Link's Adventures Edition.
You know how people justify Skyrim being shit with 'its about exploration', but you think 'but there's no real reason to explore beyond getting exp'? It's like that, but there's a reason to explore and no exp, it can feel like a gamble.

The negatives so far; Stamina management for exploration really hinders your ability to explore early in the game, it almost put me off, but I just slowed down and eventually it caught up with me. The shrines are very basic puzzles, and follow a similar pattern throughout. I'd have taken less, personally. Needs just one really great piece of music.

Can I get a quick rundown on this guys threads?

They do ironman numbers

little exploit you can do with running is hold whistle and spam b, otherwise get a horse

The whole point of limiting your stamina is so that you can't just climb over everything at the start. As you upgrade it you start to get better at going round cliff faces and that.

This game's climbing system has ruined every other open world game for me.

Why do grown men constantly forget Zelda games since ALttP have been designed to be accessible to adults and children?

Also OP, the stamina guage is low to prevent you from scaling every mountain at the start, or glide to the other end of the map

I remember putting on the Water Temple gear so I could stand on the bottom of the fishing pond and try to spot where the biggest fish hung out, so I knew where to cast.

As I said, it was a problem for me early but I slowed down. I expected to have more, and to be able to do more, but I quickly realised that wasn't the case and it didn't take long for the game to reach a really good pace. The game feels very well thought out, which I appreciate massively. Open worlds aren't my thing, so I wasn't expecting to like it this much.

>defeat the 4 beasts
>waiting for the "BUT ACTUALLY YOU HAVE TO" moment
>never happens
>walk into Hyrule Castle
>accidentally walk into Ganons lair
>he's a spider man and loses half his health in a cutscene (fair enough)
>kill him
>kill him again
>Zelda shows up and uses the triforce which I might have probably?
>get the vague ending since I didn't do anything other than explore for shrines and tame the beasts
And now I feel super empty and no longer want to play. This Zelda is balls too with her shitty voice and ugly appearance.

tfw you caught a lunker

>A lesser complaint but combat is entirely useless, There's no reward other than weapons

Hold the fuck up

I don't have the game yet, but are you telling me enemies don't even drop rupees?

The real answer is that Zelda is every reviewer's darling that can do no wrong. Even DS games which were maybe 6/10 got 90 and 87 on metacritic.

No, though they drop materials which you can sell. Or use to upgrade clothing or cook with

Nope. Ninjas do but you have to do their part of the story before they even show up.

Casuals dig open world.
Caduals dig Zelda.
Caduals dig Nintendo.

Put those together.
????
Profit!

Nah, they just drop their own weapons and maybe a material or 2. I'd you find a group of them at a camp, there's usually a treasure chest that gets unlocked after beating them all. The loot is shitty though as you only get a material anyway.

I hate to admit it but I began skipping passed enemies because there was just no point in breaking my weapons for shitty materials that are everywhere.

I also didn't even know this game had rupees in it for quite a while. Weird I know but you'll probably not see a single one until you're like 6 hours in?

> It's TECHNOLOGY the game
Lol not even that, its graphically a 2000 game at best.

This is exactly how the fuck I felt. I watched the after credits for closure, and still no cigar.

Like, what the fuck? Zelda gave me that warm feeling inside for finishing a grand adventure. I enjoyed the gameplay definitely, but there was nothing to show for it.

For the hell of it, I'm trying to go straight into the calamity ganon as a speedrun. There's no point in the story.

>Needs just one really great piece of music.
wait for the castle [\spoiler]

Please don't reply if you don't know what you're talking about

The irony is staggering.

Well it's official, Sup Forums has become Reddit at this point.

>Only 15 enemy types. Literally recoloring enemies.
>Of those fifteen you are going to be fighting moblins, bokoblins, and lizalfos 80% of the time. The other 10 percent are Keese that die in one hit or the occasional wizrobe.
>Empty boring world with nothing in it aside from shrines, the aforementioned enemies, a few korok seeds, and the mandatory Zelda towns.
>Combat is worse than other Zeldas, removed the directional input attacks
>Weapons are just reskins of other weapon types.
>After you have good weapons, there's no incentive to fight enemies EVER because in doing so you are just breaking your weapons for worse weapons
>Dungeons literally took me 35 minutes to beat each, the only one that didn't was the Gerudo dungeon which took me an hour. I was sleep deprived and hungry though.
>Music is terrible, even when it's present listen to youtube.com/watch?v=J_TzYGd9pjk
>Shrines get old fast, reusing the same 4 tools to beat them is boring. It's like creating 8 dungeons worth of Dungeons where all the puzzles are centered around the boomerang.
>Any "difficulty" the game has is removed by just pausing and eating food, or fairies.
>Damage sponge enemies, particularly the highest tier recolors and Lynels
>Story almost entirely absent, told in flashbacks, no sense of story progression.
>Terrible English voice acting
>Half of the side quests are literally fetch quests. Worst offender I found was when I had to gather a good 100 pieces of wood just to unlock a town that sold shit I didn't need or want.

The only good thing about this game are the towns, some of the typical Zelda tier sidequests associated with them, and the "charm" for some of the characters. When people are hyping it up as the "BEST GAME EVEAR SO MUCH TO DOOOO" it really brings to mind underaged Redditors with no taste.

Please for the love of God tell me I'm not the only one who sees this game for what it is.

I disagree with your "they think it's good so they're reddit" mindset as if that means anything, I agree with all your other points though. Thinkin about taking it back, DLC doesn't seem TOO promising at this point.

>I like nascar and global warming is a hoax
yeah you're the only one
wait i take that back look at Sup Forums

Reddit loves boring open world games.
Reddit loves Zelda.

Combine the two and you get Breath of the Wild. That's why you have people here on Sup Forums calling it the greatest game of all time, one "for the ages" a true masterpiece.

Not an argument.

Everything in that greentext is factual. I'm only 20 hours in and I'm ready to just say fuck it and go straight to Ganon. Only thing stopping me is I wasn't to see all the places remade. I always liked Gorons so I think I'll go to the mountain and depending on how I feel finish off the game. I've pretty much seen everything it has to offer really..

And yes wtf is up with the voice acting. Why even put voice acting to begin with if it was going to be done like that? Zelda and the Zora Princess both have British accents and it just doesn't fit them at all.

Speaking of Zelda, are you ever going to meet her or is it only at the end of the game?

Ah, so you haven't even finished the tutorial and you think you know everything about the game.

Good one, almost had me with that "non inflammatory" start.

Normalfags like that shit, don't have to use the reddit boogeyman anymore.
>inb4 normalfags only use reddit

I don't like open world games, would even claim they ruined The Witcher. But BotW is enjoyable, not GOAT, but good. Acknowledge the fact you're on Sup Forums, though. I can't say what Reddit is like because I don't go there, but I can say that Sup Forums always seems to be 'x is the WORST GAME EVER' OR 'x is the BEST GAME EVER' until something else comes along to replace x. Moderate opinions get lost in that. Wait a few months, avoid the discussion, play what you enjoy, see how the discussion is in the short period of time there is less to shitpost about. I'd swear you guys have only been around a couple of years to not be aware of this already.

Yeah, same here. Didn't even know you could get rupees until I went to one of the shops

>Planning on buying a Switch and BotW
>read all this
>it's literally all the stuff I was worried about while watching people play it

I think I might just watch the rest of Peeve's stream of the game and call it even

SCREEEEEECH: The post

Op here, just went through Zora area. Definitely really getting fucking annoyed by the weapons, takes so many hits to kill enemies that it only makes sense to run past them instead of breaking all your shit or using up your decent weapons.I just used bombs to blow enemies away then ran.

What if I told you that you can upgrade your stamina by a LOT?

This. Still gonna finish the game but it feels rushed. It seems they spent most of the 6 years conceptualizing. Would've given them an extra year for development

yikes

What a fucking disappointment