I’ve never played any Zelda game, is breath of the wild a good start?

I’ve never played any Zelda game, is breath of the wild a good start?

Sure. You won't bitch about the dungeons that way, since there are no dungeons is any other games of this genre you have played.

It will ruin the other Zeldas for you.

No, it's wildly different to the other games in the franchise.
Much like MGSV if you play this game first you might not be interested in playing the older games.
Ideally i'd say start with a 2D game, Link Between Worlds or Link To The Past then move on to 3D titles.

BOTW is a fan service extravaganza, so be a fan first then soak it all in.

everything after will be an improvement so sure why not

No. Start with A Link to the Past. BOTW is missing nearly everything that makes Zelda Zelda.

OPINIONS ARE NOT ADVICE

ok then. Don't play it. It's the worst one tied with SS, which you should also never play.

I agree BOTW is the worst one, but Skyward Sword, despite having a shit overworld and mandatory motion control, had great dungeons. It's definitely worth a play, but never as a first Zelda.

The amount of freedom you have in the game will make LTTP onward look bad.

Definitely a good game, not sure a good "start". I'm not a big fan of the Zelda series but I loved BotW. Only other one I've ever beaten was ALttP as a kid. I don't really like any of the other games.

BotW is a very cool game, you'll enjoy it.

no, botw is a huge departure from other zelda title. if you start with this one, you will not get a feel of what the majority of the series is like.

i would recommend starting with ''a link to the past'', ''ocarina of time'' or ''twilight princess''

after them, try ''link's awakening DX'' and ''wind waker''

dont bother with ''skyward sword'' its garbage

No, it's nothing like modern Zelda. Even though it's arguably closer to the very first game of the franchise it still manages to be fargone from that.

Link to the Past or Links Awakening is a good start for 2D Zelda and OoT or Majora's Mask for 3D.

>never as a first zelda
I mean the handholding might not seem so bad if its their first

Fuck no, it's an awful misstep from the previous Zelda games. They spread themselves too fucking thin like with literally every open world sandbox, it's not Zelda anymore it's a fucking abomination. Here's hoping Nintendo never attempts this experiment ever again.

Majoras Mask is a terrible start though

I'd say start with Wind Waker since it's the easiest game in the series and feels like a good introduction to the core gameplay concepts and mechanics.

I mean you COULD start with BotW too but it might retroactively ruin the previous Zeldas' overworlds for you since they're so much more constricted and linear. You'll still probably enjoy the dungeons of past games though.

Latest game in the series and template moving forward is "nothing like modern Zelda". It's not a A Link to the Past clone is what you wanted to say.

>had great dungeons
Which were unfortunately undermined by Fi holding your hand throughout all of them.

I say this as a big Zelda fan, BotW sucks eggs. If you've played any of the generic open world games that have been coming out the past few years, like MGS5, you've played this game.

Play Ocarina or Link to the Past first and see what you think. Twilight Princess is the best game in the franchise imo

links awakening

>it still manages to be fargone from that

Obviously, since LoZ wasn't exactly brimming with content. It's clear that it maintains the same free-roam spirit of the original though, and that's what shines through the most.

I think it goes without saying that, since this poster just compared MGS5 to BotW, you can roundly disregard his entire post

How do you figure? BotW is pretty different from any other Zelda game. You can enjoy both equally, or one more than the other.
It's fine. It's not like you'll fail to understand anything. As I said above, BotW is pretty distinct from the others.

But it really is nothing like its contemporaries, not that there's anything wrong with that since I actually enjoy BotW. I just call the other games "modern Zelda" because Zelda 1 and 2 are things that exist and are also nothing like how the franchise has mostly become.

I say this as a big Zelda fan, your opinion sucks eggs.

>Even though it's arguably closer to the very first game
In a very vague and very loose sense. The reality is that ALTTP or even OOT has more in common with the original than BOTW does.

They're extremely similar games.
Use resources to clear camps for miniscule reward. Large open world with very little interesting things going on. Almost no story, and whats there is stupid. No music. They're more similar than they seem at a first glance.

>BOTW is a fan service extravaganza, so be a fan first then soak it all in.
That's Hyrule Warriors

You can do this with anything, boil things down to make them sound more similar than they are. This is autistic pedantry.

oh he's baiting lol

Start with OOT or ALTTP

>any generic open world game
Proceeds to cite specifically MGS5 which isn't generic at all and the closest to BotW you can find

As a huge flaming famboy faggot for zelda that's been playing the games since the late 80s, the best advice I can give is to play them in release order, starting from LoZ on the NES.
At least try Zelda 2 but it's ok to skip it if you don't like it.
The Oracles games are optional, if you like Link's Awakening then they're more of the same.
The 4 swords games are optional, they're meant to be co-op and while you can play alone they're lame that way.
Spirit tracks is a fun spinoff but optional.
The cd-i Zeldas shouldn't even exist.
Link's Crossbow Training is kino.
The worst game in the series is Phantom Hourglass, but even then it's solid because the ip is just that good.
Don't listen to the Sup Forums shitposting, play them yourself and form your own opinions. There's a reason the series has the highest average review scores of any ip for the past 30 years.
If you want the cliff notes of the ip, just play ALttP, OoT, TP, and BotW.

>it's nothing like modern Zelda
but its the most modern zelda

true, didn't think of this.
though main line zelda franchise i'm right desu

The amount of people who feel the need to post their opinions on BotW despite never playing it is astounding.

Yeah, I keep seeing people post this same idea in different forms everywhere now and it doesn't make much sense unless it's just coming from people who never played the first game. The first game is very cryptic and doesn't hold your hand and allows you to do many of the dungeons out of order, but there is a very clear intended order (so much so that the dungeons are numbered 1-9) and a very clear sense of structure in the original that's very much lacking in BotW. ALttP and OoT both feel like refinements of the structure that was present in the original game, whereas BotW does away with that structure almost entirely for better and for worse.

Not OP but am person you replied too.

I think you're wrong, sorry. spirit tracks is worse than SS fuck you I liked BOTW

Oh yeah completely forgot: Hyrule Warriors is hit or miss if you don't like warriors games. If you do, it will make you ooze precum and never want to touch another game again. Literally 700+ hours of content with all the dlc. Top tier waifus, most interesting Link backstory (despite being non canon), and amazing sfm porn.

yup, if 3D Zelda go OoT or Wind Waker for an all-round pleasant experience.

It's not even just about structure in terms of order, it's about the entire system of priority. The original has an overworld that you spend a lot of time exploring and finding stuff in, but the meat and potatoes of the game -- where the game tests the player's mettle and where the player spends most of his time -- is in the dungeons. BotW isn't really about dungeons. The title reflects that.

they're similar in how they provide that sandbox feel. When you're in range of enemies and with the tools you're given so early BoTW quickly feels like late game MGSV fucking around with guards and the mechanics and physics of the game.

That's how i'd boil it down, there're other similarities but I feel this is the core idea of comparing them.

>If you've played any of the generic open world games that have been coming out the past few years, like MGS5, you've played this game.
Nah. BOTW actually held my interest to the end. I'm still playing it, too.

>Twilight Princess is the best game in the franchise imo
Don't listen to a word this faggot says.

Play in release order for the 3D ones. For 2D start with ALttP then go release order onward. BotW is super different from every other Zelda. If you like the series, the first and second games are good, just quite old.