Current Events > BotW is kind of boring in a way

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All the creatures are just real world animals and there's not a whole lot of enemy variety. Also most of the stuff you can forage is real world stuff

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Big empty world and you need to drink a potion or change outfits to access half of it. Terrible world design.
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BotW is one of the few open world games that actually feels like an open world game, but it's mostly boring because of that.

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I like killing the animals. It's funny and they drop meat.

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It's just another "huge open field" simulator. The world could have been half the size without losing any of the cool shit.

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

It's just another "huge open field" simulator. The world could have been half the size without losing any of the cool shit.

In all sincerity, have you actually played the game?

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WeeWeiWiiWie posted...

In all sincerity, have you actually played the game?

Yes. Dozens of hours.

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Guys I don't mean I find the game boring, just that the stuff is all real world stuff.

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i made it about 90 minutes in botw over 3 different playthrus. game sucks.

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BloodMoon7 posted...

I like killing the animals. It's funny and they drop meat.

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Lol no
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Prestoff posted...

BotW is one of the few open world games that actually feels like an open world game, but it's mostly boring because of that.

It actually makes you feel like you're walking across an empty field. With all the mundane nothingless you feel while doing that intact.

I can't talk tho. I played Outward for a while and that's 10x more empty. Plus enemies don't come back right away and you can't fast travel. So there's times you're literally running across fields for 10 minutes.

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I think people misinterpreted what I was trying to say. It's boring in the sense that everything is real world stuff and not very fantastical.

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nfearurspecimn posted...

I think people misinterpreted what I was trying to say. It's boring in the sense that everything is real world stuff and not very fantastical.

Eh Zelda has never been so crazy that most of it wasn't comparable to the real world

Well at least some of it

Part of it

A bit

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mattymad posted...

I got what you mean - I still wanted to shit on BotW tho

oh well Im replaying it again I love it

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It is not a very good game sadly

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Still love BotW.

The only gripe I had with the game was the dungeons and lack of any real reward for big items.

Also wouldn't mind if they tweaked crafting a bit. Game had all of these recipes, but overall it was like...why? 10 recipes that did relatively the same thing? I'm sure we can improve on that.

Don't get my post wrong though, love the game. But hoping BotW 2 tweaks the flaws BotW had.

My experience with the game was roughly 80% wandering aimlessly and 20% actually doing cool stuff. Cut the world in half, but keep all the content in terms of puzzles and 'good' shrines, and you'd have a pretty fucking great game. The real problem (apart from the god-awful weapon durability mechanic that never should have existed) was the amount of dead air and filler shrines. Combat shrines with one or two enemies sucked; the longer, 3-4+ room puzzle shrines were too rare. Condense the shrines from having like 100 (or however many) to having maybe 35-40, just combining smaller ones into larger ones with the same puzzle theme...and then maybe we'd be talking.

Though, the fact that the shrines pretty much only ever gave rewards in the form of hearts and stamina segments kind of made them less satisfying. The good ones were the ones that gave specific armor pieces toward good set bonuses, but even most of the set bonuses were lame and/or unnecessary.

It was a game with a lot of cool ideas but not nearly enough density. The reward structure sucked, too. The fact that the korok seeds were only useful for adding one inventory space at a time made them...super unsatisfying.

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OVERGOATED posted...

You're posts are boring.

but tc is correct

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More then anything in the sequel, I want to have to not change outfits every few minutes just to go somewhere new.

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nfearurspecimn posted...

I think people misinterpreted what I was trying to say. It's boring in the sense that everything is real world stuff and not very fantastical.

It's mostly just wildlife and random food though. I guess they could've made it so monsters drop meat too but can you imagine? They probably taste bad.

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BloodMoon7 posted...

It's mostly just wildlife and random food though. I guess they could've made it so monsters drop meat too but can you imagine? They probably taste bad.

Technically they do drop meat like bokoblin guts, and also their horns and such used for elixirs.

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At least it's pretty. The artstyle for nearly every open world game is ugly or boring. Botw's the only open world game I've beaten (100% too) because it doesn't look like shit

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BloodMoon7 posted...

It's mostly just wildlife and random food though. I guess they could've made it so monsters drop meat too but can you imagine? They probably taste bad.

they could have made up their own wildlife forms I mean cmon

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nfearurspecimn posted...

they could have made up their own wildlife forms I mean cmon

I have seen blue bunnys but they magically disappear very fast.

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you're supposed to shoot them with arrows

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

Yes. Dozens of hours.

And you didn't get the feeling that traveling was like solving one big continuous puzzle?

I don't generally like open world games, but I felt like BoTW really utilized its world to enhance the gameplay.

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nfearurspecimn posted...

you're supposed to shoot them with arrows

If I ever see it again I will try that. I was like what the fudge is that?! Then it was gone.

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nfearurspecimn posted...

they could have made up their own wildlife forms I mean cmon

Why tho?

Mistere Man posted...

I have seen blue bunnys but they magically disappear very fast.

They probably taste like coins.

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BloodMoon7 posted...

They probably taste like coins.

I was hoping they were magically delicious, but that is leprechauns.

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WeeWeiWiiWie posted...

And you didn't get the feeling that traveling was like solving one big continuous puzzle?

Not really. The climbing stamina mechanic was so safe and 'designed' that it was rare to find any difficult terrain to cross. It usually boiled down to popping Revali's Gale and then floating down to wherever I needed to be.

The occasions with actual puzzles were usually pretty good, but they were rare compared to the filler content.

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