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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by Rax » Tue May 09, 2017 4:30 pm

Its not perfect, as Devlin said it could use some proper dungeons and some monster variety but for me I think it is the best game ever made. I got it on launch day and I havent played anything else since. I will likely stop playing in the next week or so once I have the last 4 shrines and a few more side quests done but I have loved every second of my time with it and Im already looking forward to playing through it all again on the Switch.

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by OrangeRKN » Tue May 09, 2017 4:30 pm

Cheeky Devlin wrote:Though one thing I've noticed a complete lack of is caves. Seriously. There are a couple of small "indents" (For want of a better word) but not once can I remember finding a proper cave. Seemed like a strange omission to me.


There are a fair few.

Across the bridge at duelling peaks stable there is a shrine inside a cave that is a classic zelda "blow open the wall with a bomb" cave. Just further up that river there is the cave at the top of the waterfall that is found in the treasure hunting quest given at the stable.

In hebra there are two caves both behind stone doors that have to be knocked open with snowballs - one is very large with the remains of a leviathan in it. There is also a cave in the side of a mountain that is part of a shrine quest from rito village.

In the far west at the end of the ravine there is a cave accessible through a hole in the ground covered by a stone slab.

There are caves underneath Hyrule castle, although they are part of the "dungeon".

There is another cave I remember I think in central hyrule(?) where you have to burn down some brambles to be able to climb up into it.

In Faron there is a cave behind a waterfall.


There are more I'm certain. And, of course, the game /starts/ in a cave ;)

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by Rax » Tue May 09, 2017 4:36 pm

I think he means Skyrim style caves that are like mini dungeons.

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by OrangeRKN » Tue May 09, 2017 4:40 pm

I mean there are shrines inside the caves

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by Denster » Tue May 09, 2017 7:53 pm

Greatest game ever.


I've been doing business at the Fang and Bone. Got a lynel mask and moblin,bokoblin and lizalfos ones.

Walked up to a lizalfos (wearing the latter) it walked up inquisitively, licked me then held up a finger in a 'wait a minute' fashion while it ran the taste around it's mouth.

Just genius animation and thinking to come up with that little vignette.


Beautiful.
The game has so many little touches like that. It's so strawberry floating good!

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by Hypes » Tue May 09, 2017 8:00 pm

Denster wrote:I've been doing business at the Fang and Bone.

I never did find that

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by Victor Mildew » Tue May 09, 2017 8:09 pm

People saying this is the best game ever :dread:

I mean, it was brilliant, but the best game ever? really?

Now if there is a sequel in the same style but with some actual Dungeons and not blatant test rooms for Dungeon sections, and a proper story, then you might be on to the best game ever.

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by Denster » Tue May 09, 2017 8:13 pm

You're just one of those never going to be happy people.

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by OrangeRKN » Tue May 09, 2017 8:25 pm

Ad7 wrote:People saying this is the best game ever :dread:

I mean, it was brilliant, but the best game ever? really?

Now if there is a sequel in the same style but with some actual Dungeons and not blatant test rooms for Dungeon sections, and a proper story, then you might be on to the best game ever.


I can think of no other game that achieves so much in terms of pure gameplay, detail and interactivity of layered mechanics. The only game that comes close is MGSV. Both are flawed games with plenty of obvious room for improvement yet they offer so much more than almost anything else out there.

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by Super Dragon 64 » Tue May 09, 2017 8:25 pm

I'd like to have seen some labyrinth style dungeons and more variety in the enemies but it's still very much my favourite game ever.

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by That » Tue May 09, 2017 10:14 pm

Ad7 wrote:People saying this is the best game ever :dread:


What is the best game ever in your view?

I think Breath of the Wild is a decent shout for best game ever. It's for sure not perfect but it crafts an experience of a quality no other game has ever produced IMO.

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by Victor Mildew » Tue May 09, 2017 10:39 pm

Karl wrote:
Ad7 wrote:People saying this is the best game ever :dread:


What is the best game ever in your view?

I think Breath of the Wild is a decent shout for best game ever. It's for sure not perfect but it crafts an experience of a quality no other game has ever produced IMO.


Tetris DS probably. Utterly perfect and timeless.

I strawberry floating loved breath of the wild by the way, I spent nearly a hundred hours playing it and there's probably another 30 or so left for me when I go back. I just don't see how people can claim it's the best game ever made when it's got some major flaws and ocarina of time did many things better.

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by Green Gecko » Wed May 10, 2017 1:02 am

I think this game is probably best described as the sum of its parts. Of course, there are parts you'd like to see but there's no denying that the combination of all the systems and what they've managed to include results in something tremendous.

I think in terms of caves etc, it might have been interesting to see something like what was in Xenoblade (there were loads of those), but I think Nintendo were wary of just making another game like that, with so much hidden content that 90% of players would never bother finding it, so what's the point from a development perspective? So instead they focused on the small flourishes, animations etc. which are pretty terrible in Xenoblade and most RPGs in general, including Bethesda stuff. I feel like in those games there is just so much content none of it in particular feels good. And I never play them for more than 10 or 20 hours because I just get bored of thinking "what the strawberry float gooseberry fool do I collect/investigate next?" There's something fundamentally enjoyable about playing BotW that makes it different.

tbh if I wanted an experience like a big RPG/adventure game that somehow wasn't this game, with a gazillion enemies and towns etc. I would just play that game and pretend it's called "Zelda". There would hardly be any difference. With Nintendo it's always been about the small details and I think they've pushed this concept of Zelda about as far as it can go without another 2 years in development and the entire company working on it.

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by Denster » Wed May 10, 2017 11:52 am

I think this game should be lauded because it's delivered something that no other Zelda has managed since OOT. That game raised the bar but had a big help in that it was the first 3D one and that it pulled off that translation from 2D is a big part of its appeal. This has lead to several more wonderful Zelda games but they have all followed that dungeon, side quest template.

This one has turned that template on its head. So many of us wanted that to happen - were crying out for a new kind of Zelda adventure but feared the consequences. That they've retained so much of what I'd call essential Zelda ness but cast into such a fresh, open and brim full of potential adventure is an absolute work of genius.
Edge said they weren't sure how they'd actually managed it. I'm still not sure how either. But they have.

If it was new IP it would still be amazing and groundbreaking and just a sheer unadulterated joy to immerse yourself in. The fact that it's Zelda with so many new ways of playing and different dynamics.

It's just mind blowing.

Want dungeons? 120 shrines worth of combat is more puzzles and dungeonesque activity than you'll get in any one other Zelda. Someone asked for labyrinths? There's at least two that I know of. Combat is a revelation and is constantly challenging. Fishing is still great. Side quests are marvellous.
The horse riding and combat.
The story.
The aesthetics.
The paraglider.
The cooking.
The climbing.

The hours you spend just revelling in the atmosphere and wonder of an enormous fully realised, fully explorable world.
The biggest ever Hyrule that is so chockful of things to do.

The greatest Zelda and the greatest game I've ever played. For anything to beat it - it would have to be perfection itself.

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by AndyXL » Wed May 10, 2017 12:26 pm

Denster wrote:I think this game should be lauded because it's delivered something that no other Zelda has managed since OOT. That game raised the bar but had a big help in that it was the first 3D one and that it pulled off that translation from 2D is a big part of its appeal. This has lead to several more wonderful Zelda games but they have all followed that dungeon, side quest template.

This one has turned that template on its head. So many of us wanted that to happen - were crying out for a new kind of Zelda adventure but feared the consequences. That they've retained so much of what I'd call essential Zelda ness but cast into such a fresh, open and brim full of potential adventure is an absolute work of genius.
Edge said they weren't sure how they'd actually managed it. I'm still not sure how either. But they have.

If it was new IP it would still be amazing and groundbreaking and just a sheer unadulterated joy to immerse yourself in. The fact that it's Zelda with so many new ways of playing and different dynamics.

It's just mind blowing.

Want dungeons? 120 shrines worth of combat is more puzzles and dungeonesque activity than you'll get in any one other Zelda. Someone asked for labyrinths? There's at least two that I know of. Combat is a revelation and is constantly challenging. Fishing is still great. Side quests are marvellous.
The horse riding and combat.
The story.
The aesthetics.
The paraglider.
The cooking.
The climbing.

The hours you spend just revelling in the atmosphere and wonder of an enormous fully realised, fully explorable world.
The biggest ever Hyrule that is so chockful of things to do.

The greatest Zelda and the greatest game I've ever played. For anything to beat it - it would have to be perfection itself.


Wow! I guess I should start playing it...I still haven't got around to it. I started then gave up after 15 minutes. :fp:

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by jawafour » Wed May 10, 2017 12:44 pm

AndyXL wrote:...I started then gave up after 15 minutes. :fp:

:o . Andy, you are genuinely *worse* than jawa.

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by Squinty » Wed May 10, 2017 1:40 pm

Thanks for all the folks who answered my question. I'm looking forward to giving this game a good go whenever I get a Switch. So good to hear that the critical response to the game seems largely justified.

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by The Watching Artist » Wed May 10, 2017 3:45 pm

Denster wrote:Want dungeons?

Yes please :D

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by blackoutHERO » Wed May 10, 2017 5:46 pm

It's the greatest game I've ever played when I take nostalgia out of the equation. I've enjoyed other games more but that was a time of my life when games were a huge part so I enjoyed all games more. This is the first game since Skyrim to actually give me enjoyment from playing and the first game since Fallout3 that I've been itching to play it when I'm not.

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PostRe: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild GOTG
by darksideby182 » Thu May 11, 2017 9:20 pm

Just done the Stranded on Eventide Shrine quest what an arse that was.

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