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foolm0r0n posted...

You contradict this in your very same paragraph. Which is more important? Feeling more powerful, or constantly resetting your power to be in-line with your current area? It's ok if you can't decide, because the game can't decide either.

The tension is the point, I think? Like they're clearly both important.

By far the biggest upgrade in terms of weapons not breaking is opening more inventory slots, not finding more durable weapons (though that's obviously helpful too). You can do that pretty steadily throughout the game once you first get access to it, so it feels like the intent there is that over time the game shifts from balancing you down to neutral to letting you be overpowered. At the same time, you're taking on stronger and stronger enemies so there's still tension, it's just more like a regular Zelda game's tension than worrying about running out of supplies.

(The inventory slots thing is also why the guy with 100 hours in the game is gonna be absurdly more powerful than the guy with 2 hrs who did a Hyrule Castle run btw)

foolm0r0n posted...

FPS games don't reward progress and exploration with a 12 pack of shotgun shells. They give you new guns entirely. Every weapon in BOTW is just ammo for the same old shotgun.

Boomer shooters absolutely reward exploration with shogun shells lmao

I mean honestly the newest FPS I've played might be Halo 3 so I dunno where the genre is at at the moment. Which games reward your exploration with entirely new guns? That sounds great and I wanna play it (unless this is a reference to looter shooters in which case no thx, I probably have the same aversion to those that people have to weapon durability in BotW)