Why are all of the reviews for this game so high? It's

It's barely a zelda game and barely an RPG. If you don't like to explore than it does not have much to offer. All of the shrines/divine beasts/bosses are too easy

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>>380911656
Its a great game.

Just
REALLY unsatisfying.

>>380911656
I think this has been the 200th thread ive seen saying almost the exact same thing

>>380911656
Because it's legitimately a 10/10.

>>380911656
>you can climb shit and explore a large world full of copy pasted collectibles and enemies
10/10 GOTY

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>>380911656
v/ will never get over Breath Of The Wild.

The ass sting will reverberate for the ages.

I will always remember the past 12 months on this board. Watching the same people who devoted so much time and energy to discrediting the switch and Breath Of The Wild - from spreading lies to cherry-picking screenshots - doing everything within their ability to make the console and the game seem bad.

Only to watch their jaws drop in absolute fucking horror as the Switch burst out the gate as a massive overnight success and BotW turned out to be, not just Game Of The Year, but one of the best games ever made.

Fucking glorious. Over 100 days later and I am actually sore with laughter.

>>380913584
>haters are salty liars
>fans are arrogant assholes
i see that /v/ runs on grey and grey morality.

>>380913769
what?

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>>380911656
Most the people who don't understand the fuss over BotW are usually clueless kiddies who know nothing about game design.

http://www.gamesradar.com/were-all-talking-about-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-developers-explain-how-its-shaping-the-future-of-games/

Benjamin Plich was the lead designer on Assassin's Creed: Unity and For Honor, and is currently employed as lead game designer at Montreal's Reflector Entertainment.
>Breath of the Wild showed something most designers already know, but which is hard to achieve... [these games are] evolving from classic open worlds to an open-game model - open progression following each player's intrinsic motivations, adaptive challenge curve and economy, open narrative structures, and so on.
Damien Monnier served as senior designer on The Witcher 3 at CD Projekt RED
>Breath of the Wild has managed to bring classic open world mechanics together while not relying on them to guide the player through its world. You go and explore it because you wonder what's out there, not because a loot icon tells you to.
>My expectations, and I mean for me as a Zelda fan, have changed for sure - they've raised the bar when it comes to world crafting and this sense of total immersion I get when I play it. While its world includes classic open-world activities, collectibles and loot-filled mobs, it definitely doesn't feel overloaded and allows the focus be on the exploration. You want to explore this land whether or not you are on a quest, or being tasked to collect/gather something. You know, If you were to remove all NPCs, quests and mobs, I would still take pleasure in exploring that beautiful world.

Tommy François, Ubisoft's franchise director.
>For every creatives, it's a lesson. The game [BotW] seems to tell us : put yourself in question. We realize that we are far from excellency.


http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2017/03/17/pourquoi-the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-fait-progresser-le-jeu-video_5096048_4408996.html

>>380911656
It makes a really good first impression, has some interesting concepts that are simple to talk about in the abstract, pretends to be difficult but is actually very easy, was absurdly hyped before release, and is a Zelda game.

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I don't know, but I want to hug a Guardian now.

>>380911656
Because it's a pretty damn good game, full of small details and fun and interesting mechanics. It's non-linear, it's fun to explore, it has more content than any Zelda game before it, and the art style is fantastic.

>>380911656
It's overrated, but come on, it deserves an 8/10 at least. It's one of Nintendo's best games in years.

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>>380911656
>Why are all of the reviews for this game so high?
Maybe because Nintendo made a good game? They're known to do that. You should google 'Nintendo' sometime.

It has a severe lack of enemy diversity.

The new ones like the machines are good additions, but aside from that it's just Bokoblin/Moblin/Lizalfos reskins.

Was hoping there would be Darknuts, Like Likes, Armos, Poes, ReDeads, etc.

>>380911656
is this how we're gonna start every botw thread now?

anyway I'm hyped for the DLC. The trials look fun and having a new save file to work on is great.

>>380914464
/thread.

>>380914464
They made a good game finally after about 13 years, hence why people are going nuts over it and giving it 10/10s.

It's still cool to hate on this game or something?

10 years from now you guys will be acting like you all do towards OoT today

>>380911656
Starts off great, but becomes stale really fast.

>>380914302
>it has more content than any Zelda game before it
Copy pasta doesn't count

>>380915446
Nintendo make good games quite often. Problem is, people expect each Nintendo game to be a genre-defining masterpiece which elevates the industry's expectations of what video games can be.

They can't do that ALL the time. although they DO have a track record of such accolades[/spolier]

>>380915875
>collecting 100 skultullas
>collecting figurines
>being forced to collect tears of light 3 times

fag

>>380916136
>>collecting 100 skultullas
>>collecting figurines
These are minor side content and not the main meat of the game, unlike BotW
>>being forced to collect tears of light 3 times
TP and SS are bad games, BotW being better than them doesn't make it a masterpiece

>>380911656
why does OP keep making the same thread? he doesn't even bother changing his file

>>380916287
what the fuck? collecting korok seeds is literally side content, faggot

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>>380915875
You will deny. And you will be laughed out the room like in every BotW thread.

>>380911656
Well I was very disappointed, and I love Nintendo and Zelda. It's nice that people love it. I definitely had some fun, particularly at the start, but it has a blah story, surprisingly few memorable characters, lack of variation in environments and monsters, a merely fine battle system that kinda fucked up lock-on targeting, very little sense of surprise after a point, but most importantly, it abandons what made Zelda unique and tries desperately to ape current popular games without enough creativity of its own. Even the visual style was like, lesser/later Studio Ghibli, no Miyazaki-level spectacles to be seen. The game never commits to a theme, it doesn't delve deeply into any concept or gameplay element at all. The Sheikah stuff and the whole cataclysm thing never came together to make something satisfying. A lot of the game you spend climbing, but there's no grappling gear or walltulas, nothing to spice it up. A lot of shrines, all look and sound the same. So much menu, yet the menu is nothing special and they could've even be bothered to make a proper start or file select menu.
Yeah, there's a lot of things to appreciate, but overall it felt like half a game, despite the huge map. It's my fault for hyping myself up for something really special, not realizing that what they showed at E3 last year was pretty much the whole gist of it.

Cool to see Gerudo and Lynels though.

>>380916136
Two of those are sidequests. Only the third is a legitimate flaw. BoTW revolves entirely around doing the same things over and over again. The only difference is you have a pretty world to run around in as you hunt them down.

>>380916436
And shrines

>>380911863
>It's barely a zelda game and barely an RPG
Thank you

>>380916568
>someone actually made an image out of that shitty padded out the ass pasta

>>380916616
>surprisingly few memorable characters

Why do people say this? The amount of porn and fanart determines whether a character is memorable or not and Breath of the Wild is getting way more fanart and porn than recent Zelda games.

>>380911863
fpbp

>>380911656
Skyward Sword was a steaming pile of handholding shit and it got 9s and 10s so by precedent a better game also named Zelda deserves high scores

>>380916616
>it abandons what made Zelda unique and tries desperately to ape current popular games without enough creativity of its own.

Not to sound like a fanboi, but BotW perfectly captures what made the original NES Zelda unique - a game which existed many, many years before those current games you mentioned.

>>380911863
>Zelda means it has to have puzzles out the ass

Lol ok kiddo.

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>>380916851
Forever Assblasted.jpg

>>380911656
Why are all shitposts for this game the same? Seriously, is /v/ this dead now that even trolling is nothing but regurgitated memes and shit?

>>380917006
Not him but no it doesn't and I hate that people keep trying to make this comparison. LoZ isn't shoved full of filler, LoZ has nine dungeons, LoZ has items that are required to complete the game, LoZ doesn't have towers. I refuse to believe that people make this comparison for any reason except the marketing told them to.

>>380916616
This guy gets it.
I'd go even further and say the combat wasn't even fine. It was downright lackluster and quickly became a chore.

>>380917165
Yeah, they really need to make a new video game board for more mature gamers who aren't stupid moronic kids in underoos still living with mummy and daddy.

>>380916912
75% of it is unbridled faggotry because of Link's crossdressing. Not to mention all the furry shit, which will get a ton of porn merely by virtue of being furry.

>>380913986
This.

It's every open world game ever, but done so fucking well and with so much talent, that it's basically mind-blowing. It's Bloodborne tier for it's game design and general quality level.

>>380917228
LoZ (NES) was about non-linear gameplay. About discovery. About secrets. About letting the player forge their own adventure. About asking your friends what they found, what they discovered.

BotW brought that in droves.

>>380917605
So you care more about concept than execution. Like everyone else that makes that comparison.

>>380913986
This right here is the truth!

>>380917165
>criticism =/= trolling
Learn to accept that people won't always like the things you do.

>>380917006
Well, I strongly disagree. I don't think it even has the sense of mystery and discovery the original had at all. Treasure a big a part of Zelda too, finding items that feel special and useful. After you play Wild for a while you realize that you will never come upon anything that feels particularly special, beyond new armor. Even the Master Sword is busted.

It just doesn't feel like a grand fantasy quest, at all. It's oddly quaint.

>>380917448
I'm talking about NPCs like Paya and Sidon. You didn't see this amount of fanart for Groose or Ilia

>>380917704
No idea what you're talking about. But I know you've already made your mind up and just want to hate pointlessly. Bless your heart.

>>380913986
>adaptive challenge curve and economy
what does that mean
does that mean that durians make you invincible and allow you to sell every other worthless ingredient in the game, giving you unlimited money?

>>380916616
wow, nice blogpost, faggot.

>>380916912
>The amount of porn and fanart determines whether a character is memorable or not

By this logic characters like Lucina are incredibly memorable, and I would strongly disagree. How popular they are or how devoted their fanbases are have nothing to do with the actual quality of the character. Personally I did not give a rat's ass about any of the champions because their characters were too stock and too divorced from the actual plot. Why should I care about theme park characters that died 100 years ago? Yet the game expects you to care about them and makes them a big deal. I think the problem is the 100 year gap itself, it didn't really add anything to the game and made the story worse than it needed to be.

>>380917926
Groose is ugly and he still has as much, if not more, porn than Paya. I could count the number of quality images of Paya on one hand. Ilia has more porn than both, easily.

Sidon fills that special quota of being both extremely gay and furry.
We both know most of the porn from BoTW is Link himself.

>>380917904
>Treasure a big a part of Zelda too, finding items that feel special and useful

Good thing collecting various parts of armor sets was very rewarding and worthwhile right?

> After you play Wild for a while you realize that you will never come upon anything that feels particularly special, beyond new armor

What but new armor doesn't count? Spawn points for your favored weapons don't count? New minigames and sidequests don't count?

>>380918020
>No idea what you're talking about

Of course not. Listen, there's a difference between concepts and ideas (what you were talking about) and the actual gameplay mechanics and content (what actually matters).

>>380918287
>storyfag

Kill yourself faggot

>>380918262
wow nice shitpost, faggot.

>>380917558
>but done so fucking well and with so much talent, that it's basically mind-blowing.
Jesus christ, these mental backflips. Anyone with talent would look at the cooking system and say
>this is pointless and broken and really easily fixed

>>380918424
If it's in the game I can criticize it. Period.

>>380918442
back to redd*t with ye

>>380918119
It means the game has to be balanced based on what the player has decided to do, where they decided to go and what items they have discovery.

It's the reason most devs would never attempt to make a game like BotW.

>>380918343
No, it wasn't very rewarding, for me anyway. Not at all on the same level as getting a new item in a traditional Zelda dungeon. That's my point.

>>380918507
Okay well they've clearly failed at that because as soon as you go to the rainforest you now know where to get 20-30 full heals whenever you want

>>380918465
>Anyone with talent would look at the cooking system and say
You're a retard and don't know what you're talking about. The ENTIRE game dev community was fucking blown away by what BotW showed them.

They know more than you. Armchair gamedev fuck.

>>380918343
>Good thing collecting various parts of armor sets was very rewarding and worthwhile right?

If I didn't know the context I would think this question was sarcastic. No, it wasn't.

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>>380918287
People and artists have spoken, retard. Memorable characters in media become memorable due to popularity. You being a smelly contrarian won't change that.

>>380918638
Not him but the average casual knows more about good game design than most of Ubisoft does.

>>380918586
You're insane. New items in traditional Zelda dungeons are almost always a letdown. That whole dynamic is carried entirely on the back of their designs in the dungeon. They make a dungeon an irritating slog to traverse without the special item and then you get to feel great about trivializing all the difficulties you faced leading up to the item.

It's a tired feedback loop.

>>380918287
>I think the problem is the 100 year gap itself, it didn't really add anything to the game and made the story worse than it needed to be.
This. Nothing ever felt urgent or necessary. Nobody seemed to give a shit about Ganon at that point, even the Sheikah, who knew he was close to destroying the world. It was all ancient history and the character interactions felt forced and meaningless because they had all happened 100 years ago, and all we got was a brief glimpse of them in short cutscenes.

>>380918638
Yeah because there's no way they'd benefit from saying nice things about the newest flavour of the month, as evidenced by the fact you've literally brought them up now when you wouldn't have even been saying their names before
>They know more than you. Armchair gamedev fuck.
"appeal to authority" aka not an argument

>>380918752
Oh so you're just appealing to popularity? You don't actually have an argument? Okay then.

>>380918343
>this entire post
lol

I think 7/ 10 is a fair rating. It's a good game for sure and probably the best of its kind but it falls flat in so many ways and it doesn't quite reach absolute greatness though it comes so close to having that greatness in its grasp.

>>380918321
groose is from a 6 year old game retard. kass and sidon are tracking way higher than him and well all is said and done they will have way more porn than him

>>380918379
Okay, I'm going to stop being polite to you because you're cleary a stupid deluded in-denial moron. There isn't a single game - NOT ONE - which comes anywhere close to offering the utter exhilaration of exploration that BotW does. Everybody knows this. It's the reason the game has people foaming at the mouth, it's the reason rival devs are in awe, it's the reason the game was a phenomenon on social media with gamers feverishly trading secrets and experiences of what they individually found and discovered.

You'll continue to live in denial and you'll continue to stomp your feet for the next decade every time the game is constantly referenced as milestone in gaming.

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>>380918876
>Yeah because there's no way they'd benefit from saying nice things about the newest flavour of the month
I don't remember any of the names. I just know that basically every major professional game dev is taking notes from BotW.
>"appeal to authority" aka not an argument
Game devs don't have "authority" though you miserable retard. They have years of schooling and professional experience. This is like saying you're more qualified to be a Head of State than a career politician.

>>380919045
This. I wanted to love it, and I really enjoyed it for the first 10 or so hours, but once you realize you're just doing the same things over and over again and all the discoveries only amount to more shrines or korok seeds it becomes a chore. It doesn't help that the combat is mediocre at best.

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>>380918605

>>380911863
It's by far one of the best open world games in years.

>>380919105
Don't assume anything until it happens. I also never said Groose had more porn than Sidon. You focused on a single thing I said and didn't even refute it properly.

>>380919141
Not even them, but jesus christ, grow up.

>>380919258
Havnt' played it, what makes the open world so great

>>380918605
I don't know what the hell they were thinking with hearty ingredients. Almost completely invalidated everything else you could cook.

>>380919415
lol im not even him, but he's right.

>>380918896
You're literally bitching about the characters not being memorable you autistic faggot and then I brought up the fact that the NPCs in BOTW are getting more art than other NPCs in previous games which is a good metric for these sort of thing. You being in denial won't change that.

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>>380916912
I know who there isn't enough porn of.

>>380919258
This is a testament of how terrible that genre is. I hope BOTW shows that everyone should stop wasting time on that shit

>>380918685
>Armors that let you climb faster or ignore lightning damage among other things
>Not rewarding

Yeah. You're just an angry retard who won't listen to reason.

Maybe read or watch the reviews. Im sure there are a few decent ones that try to explain it to you.

>>380919558
>he's right because he threw a shitfit with absolutely no substance at someone who was merely expressing their own perfectly valid opinions
No

>>380919258
That may be true. It's also not saying much.

>>380918321
What? the only character with good fanart in Twilight Princess other than Link and Zelda is Midna. Ilia didn't get shit until that 3d porn recently.

>>380919849
Still has more than Groose and Paya. If I was going by quality I'd say the three of them have less than ten total images combined.

>>380919738
If its the same anon it seemed like he made his previous points pretty well. It's hard trying to argue with haters of botw because their angles of criticism are usually dumb as fuck.

>>380911863
>It's barely a zelda game and barely an RPG
so it's good

>>380919738
>no substance
Typical fucking child who wasn't even born when LoZ on NES was released and can't process the similarities on a cultural level.

Get fucked kiddie.

>>380920317
Anyone who unironically enjoys LoZ without a guide has autism. It's a shit game. That only gets a pass because of its age and the name of the developer behind it.
Also, making the point that BoTW is like LoZ because of secrets alone is asinine.

>>380913986
Ir gets praised line that because it has "Zelda" in the title.

If it was called "Johnny and the search for the 900 seeds" they would shit all over it.

the only problem with botw is you can't marry sidon