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Zelda Breath of the Wild... pretty awesome.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: thomas_surles on March 20, 2017, 08:09:38 pm ---So is this game not like skyrim meets legend of zelda? Because that is what i was hoping for for over a year.
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I'm not sure I can answer that because I passed on the whole Skyrim craze.... far too rpg-like.
Do you like Assassin's Creed?, Do you like Zelda? Particularly Ocarina of Time and the original?
Well this is Nintendo's take on a AC game, only with the isolated, vast, feel and many of the monsters from the original Legend of Zelda along with all the regions and races from past games, particularly OOT. Does it have the ability to interact freely with your environment and use materials in logical ways like Skyrim? Sure, but I don't think that's the main draw. The biggest pro is...well.... the bigness. It might be the largest game map I've ever seen in any game, and every nook and cranny is filled with stuff. There are somewhere around 120 shrines, 4 divine beasts, three labyrinths, 4 or 5 secret area challenges, 3 dragons, 600 seeds and Hyrule castle. That isn't even counting much of the over world and side quests. Many of the shrines feel like Portal... so yeah, throw that game in the mix as well.
The way to summate it is kind of like Nintendo, which generally operates in a creative vacuum, discovered modern video games, they played the best ones, and somebody said "Why choose? Let's make 'em all!" (And flipped over a tea table of course)
The game isn't without flaw though.... there are some questionable control mechanics, a general lack of boss variety and when it rains you can't climb well, which, while realistic, is damn annoying.
I *ahem* acquired this one, but it's so good that Nintendo has my money. I'll go ahead and purchase it with the switch so when I revisit the game I can play it on a newer console.
opt2not:
It's kinda Skyrim/GTA/Red Dead if by way of open-worldness. But I'd say it makes open world games look limited, due to simple fact that you can go practically anywhere with climbing and gliding. There aren't many restraints on where you can go or how you go about it. It also flips all Zelda conventions on it's head by allowing you to solve circumstances any which way you can creatively come up with, non-linearly, and at different times.
For example, I was telling a co-worker how I acquired my warm clothing for the mountains by meeting the old guy at the top of this one peak (you'll know what I'm talking about when you play the starting area), and he was saying he got it by another means. Multiplicity in pathing!
The meta game is incredibly deep, and mainly fosters the player to explore more. Which is perfect for this genre of game. It's actually brilliant and I'm finding more and more facets to the game and the engine at every play I get.
Howard_Casto:
Well that's true as well. That's why I mentioned the original LOZ.. there weren't really any rules to it either.
I know I got fed up with the slow pace of finding appropriate clothing so I got lined up with the volcano's center at death mountain, maxed out on elixirs, and ran full gate, eventually running while on fire until I made it into a town at the last heart and bought some flame retardant clothing. The same deal with Hyrule castle... like I mentioned earlier you can run like nuts and bypass 90% of it if you have the right gear.
The open physics is indeed impressive. People have been doing all kinds of crazy stuff with it, like turning a raft into a motor boat by using the magnet on a sword and pushing it against the mast. Myself I've gotten pretty good at exploiting the physics of the walking tanks by chopping of a leg and then hitting them at the right moment from underneath to glitch out their targeting system.
I still think that the Zelda part of the equation is what makes it fun. There have been impressive sandbox games before, but they've never had such interesting places to visit or have had the world polished to perfection. Plus seeing guys like Wizrobes again just hits me in the feels.
thomas_surles:
--- Quote from: pbj on March 20, 2017, 08:58:29 pm ---Eh....
Do you not have a WiiU? Not that I'd encourage piracy on a board devoted to piracy but it's like a 12gb download...
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I do and its modded. Thats like a 12 hour download in the boonies.
EssexMame:
--- Quote from: thomas_surles on March 04, 2017, 12:56:55 pm ---Im still on a link to the past. Just started it. Then n64 is next. I might be a ways of from playing. But i will pick it up for the wii u
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Been working through all the versions to completion? Did you complete the NES original version? Trying it on the NES classic - very hard!
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