[POLL] IS THE BREATH OF THE WILD (THE ZELDA) REALLY THAT BAD?

Its great. go play it.

It's not bad, it's just the worst open world action RPG released yet this month. It picked pretty much the worst possible time to launch. Compared to Horizon and Nier, it just feels... clunky and lifeless and boring.

I've played almost every Zelda game in existence. No, BOTW is not bad.
I'm enjoying it. I would say its one of the better games in the series. I haven't beaten it yet but I'll likely still consider Majora's Mask my favorite. Majora has a more interesting world I think.
That said BOTW is refining a number of things from previous Zeldas so I dig it.

Worst Zelda Game =

Breath of the Wild is absolutely a video game. You can even play it on a television.

Maybe there's a market for open world games. But if so, they must be appealing to some part of the human psyche that I lack. I don't want anything to do with them. They barely even qualify as games to me.

They'd bother me a hell of a lot less if they were just a genre I could ignore, like sports games or first person shooters. But lately all my favorite game series keep getting new games that are open world games, abandoning the genre of games that the rest of the series was. In the last few years this has happened to Arkham, Dragon Age, Final Fantasy, and now Legend of Zelda. I can't fucking stand it. I want to set all of these producers on fucking fire and murder their children in front of them while they burn.

Going to second wip on this. I heavily play jrpgs and action rpgs and barely ever touch open world games. The newest open world games I tried (other than botw) were were skyrim and dragon age. I played skyrim/dragon age for probably around 20h max, and that's combining the two. With botw I've probably played about 60h so far, which is triple the amount of the other two combined.

That said, I've enjoyed botw in that it does feel like zelda, but it does have some flaws as well. My personal gripe with the game is that it only has 4 dungeons and you can probably complete a dungeon in about 5-10 minutes if you know what you are doing. I miss the lengthier dungeons as well as their complexity. The enemies also don't feel very diverse.

I'm not against them taking a new approach despite not being a fan of open world games since I've enjoyed this one. I just wish the game had some memorable dungeons, puzzles, and bosses. as I've gotten far more enjoyment out of the overworld itself than doing any story stuff (which is sad because I usually enjoy story stuff the most). That said, the shrines aren't bad for puzzles, but they are also really short.

I haven't said much on bosses until now but for me they aren't the greatest. Attack patterns are predictable, and so far the actual main bosses don't have a set weakness. You just knock them down via either melee attacks or arrow then hack n slash away. The overworld bosses (only counting enemies with a boss health bar for this) are also extremely easy. There are only three types that I've seen. The two giant sized land based enemies have a weakness that I found to be extremely obvious, and the one boss I might have had fun trying to find a weakness for I had an npc ruin it for me. An enemy that moves through the ground and reacts to vibrations. I didn't even need to meet the enemy to know his weakness after that. You used to have to think about how to beat zelda bosses, but I haven't had to in this game.

Last good zelda game I've played before this was twilight princess. I hate motion controls so I just pretend skyword sword doesn't exist. Not a fan of fi either. I tried to like skyword sword...really tried...but by time I reached the first temple I just couldn't go on. This is just my opinion though, and I have enjoyed the game despite the story bits feeling extremely underwhelming. Overall if you enjoy zelda, and if you can overlook some of the flaws, it is an enjoyable game overall.

author=LockeZ
Oh yeah I had to go back and edit "that Nintendo made" into my comment.

I like looking for all the YouTube videos that say BOTW is the first Zelda game that has voice acting. Those people are just straight up liars who deserve to be beaten.

But there's also this:

I haven't played it yet because I'm a busy poor person, but I've mostly been hearing positive things. It comes as no surprise that others hate it to death!

With my limited understanding of what I've heard about it and what I know about Zelda, it seems like this game was meant to get back to Zelda's roots with the whole open world, choose-your-adventure-do-what-you-want thing. I know there are hardcore fans who've been butthurt about the series since A Link to the Past, so maybe they finally have something to rejoice about?

I dunno. I get the appeal of open world stuff for others, but it doesn't usually suit me personally. I'm a structure guy. I like having clear goals and a narrative that supports them. I like having the ability to dick around on a whim, move forward and make progress, or both at once. I can see why some people feel stifled in certain Zelda games, but I don't think it has to be all one way or the other.

I'm talking out my ass because I don't actually know anything, but I hope this had some relevant substance anyway.

It's just a different animal than the item -> puzzle using item -> boss vulnerable to item -> next dungeon thing. I immensely enjoy a genius designed linear experience like that, just like I immensely enjoy BotW's departure from the norm, in which you can just dick around and consider yourself playing the game.

author=Mirak
I liked what they did with Zelda's character though.

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