The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

10 more mins pass "maybe try throwing an apple at it?"

i just got to hateno village. i've procured two horses, visited 14 shrines so far, and i've gotten fairly good at bow/arrow. i am enjoying this game immensely, but eight hours in it feel like i'm just bumbling the heck around. the game insists that i shouldn't be worried about melee weapons, but i break all of the good ones and i'm currently stuck with a rusty axe and whatever clubs fall from the moblins i occasionally explode.

Will be playing dis asap

I am feeling old because the idea of watching someone play a game you're going to play yourself is just so fucked up to me.

i just got to hateno village. i've procured two horses, visited 14 shrines so far, and i've gotten fairly good at bow/arrow. i am enjoying this game immensely, but eight hours in it feel like i'm just bumbling the heck around. the game insists that i shouldn't be worried about melee weapons, but i break all of the good ones and i'm currently stuck with a rusty axe and whatever clubs fall from the moblins i occasionally explode.

― kellyanne amway (remy bean), Sunday, March 5, 2017 3:46 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gear impermanence is something that is hard to get used to, but eventually you embrace. wearing through a weapon is a great opportunity for a free critical hit when you throw it right in a monster's face because it's about to break.

i'm also speculating that unbreakable weapons will be attainable at some point, though i'm assuming only at a pretty advanced point in the game. i just got access to a weapon that i can have repaired after it breaks, though it requires a trip to a specific NPC, so some permanence does come along eventually.

I think the gear impermanence is bad design. I run away from fights because weapon rationing is so tedious, thus the entire game mechanic of fancy swordplay, which they spend a lot of time in-game training you on and encouraging... just never happens.

WANT THIS

need a job tho

I mean you can be a virtual opal miner

:)

Fujibayashi and his team built a prototype of Breath of the Wild. They put together a starting area with a small field and a handful of trees, then stuck rupees all across the world, hiding them in places that the development team thought Miyamoto and Aonuma might explore. Then Fujibayashi presented their demo to the two Nintendo elder statesmen.

“We put rupees at the top of the tree to let them know that this is something we’re taking into account, but I didn’t tell them,” Fujibayashi said. “All I did was say, ‘Here, play the game.’ So the first thing [Miyamoto] did was start climbing, and he climbed the tree, and once he was able to do that and see that he can go anywhere within this small field, he got how this game will play out and that’s how I presented it to him.”

Then they watched and waited. And watched. And waited.

“When we first presented this to Mr. Miyamoto, he spent about an hour just climbing trees,” Fujibayashi said. “We left little treats like rupees on the trees, but we also left other things in other places we thought he might go. But he just kept climbing trees. Up and down. And so we got to the point where we go, ‘Do you want to look at other stuff?’ But he just kept on going. Once [he] got out of the Shrine of Resurrection, he spent an hour just within a 25-50 meter radius outside of that cave just climbing trees.”

http://kotaku.com/when-miyamoto-first-played-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-h-1793017234

THIS GAME IS SO GOOD. SO GOOD. SO SO SO GOOD.

It really, really is. Just completed my first 'Divine Beast' dungeon, and really loving it. It's hard, but doesn't feel unfair. I planned on going to bed right after the divine beast bit last night, then ended up doing another shrine, then activating a tower, wandering a bit, another shrine... etc.

where are yall buying the switch from like did you preorder it or what

you pretty much had to preorder it or show up at the store early on release day. i havent been able to find one myself yet, most places dont seem to think they'll have many more until april.

the Wii release was like this too iirc, you couldn't reliably walk into a store and buy one until long after release

its not uncommon for popular electronic products ramping up the production of new stuff is difficult

oh yeah I remember the Wii for sure. was pretty into the whole deal back then, iirc mrs. aero was trying to order it from her workplace while I was doing the same thing at home, doing a bunch of "it looks like it's going through! fuck...no, price went up!" shit. now I'm old though one huge advantage of being old is like oh there's a new deal? cool I'll get one maybe. oh I can't get it for six months? cool who gives a fuck maybe I'll buy it in six months or maybe I won't care then, all the same really *takes nap*

i stumbled in my way into the zora domain. lizards keep zapping me with wands. i feel like i'm massively underleveled/underprepared for its challenges. hell, i feel massively underleveled/underprepared at all times. i am distracted by taking photos of mushrooms, exploding every rock i see, collecting monster parts to no particular purpose, and my progress in the main quest occurs in fits and starts. there are all these little hints of bigger sidequests (reuniting lovers? finding special bugs?) that i am missing because i am careening through hyrule like a damn loon. i am constantly busting into areas filled with super-strong bad guys that can one-hit kill me, or falling off slippery mountain peaks, or getting chopped up in shrines. and the blood moon mechanic is legit frightening. the whole experience is weird and excellent –– like, i am delighted to run around but i am in constant-fear of insta-death. also, i misunderstood the function of the amiibo, and i gave myself a horse while i was on top of a tower. poor epona, all alone and nothing to do but jump to deah. :(

if I had to sum up the game mega quickly in the most reductive way possible and that doesn't actually sum up how fantastic it is, i'd say this is basically Ni No Kuni goes Soulsbourne.
which is probably everything i've ever wanted from a game?

hahahaha, i'm so old, i've never heard of either of those games

the last zelda game i played was "adventure of link". so far i think "breath of the wild" is better, but if soda popinski starts laughing at me the next time i die i might reconsider.

hahahaha, i'm so old, i've never heard of either of those games

― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 9 March 2017 13:48

The second one just meant Demon Souls/Dark Souls/Bloodborne

jamiesummerz may have just sold me a switch (once i get my financial/time life rebalanced)

i guess the souls comparison mainly comes from the fact that:

1. there's very little handholding, you're rewarded for curiosity, exploration and experimentation. i'm 15 hours in and only just worked out that sometimes money is hidden under rocks, that I can make a horse more friendly by patting its head, that i can parry projectiles. etc.
2. just like the second enemy i met in yarnham, i got wrecked to death by the second trash mob enemy i met in zelda
3. that GAME OVER red on black screen is very YOU DIED. and i've seen it a bunch.

fun article on Breath Of The Wild deaths at http://kotaku.com/legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-players-share-their-1793006745

also love the fact that after an hour or so, i could very quickly switch to play this with zero hud (other than seeing hearts on top left)... only time i need to know more than what the gameplay itself shows me (how much noise i'm making, how visible i am, link shivering shows me it's cold, etc) is when I need to check my map every now and then.

also, climbing a tower to reveal more of the map reveals noting other than topography. if you find somrthing and want to remember it, you tag that map yourself with an icon. no assassins creed jumble of side quest icons - you find that shit yourself through exploring.

aaaanyway, great game.

i kind of stayed away from dark souls because i heard it was "hard". maybe that's my fault, because when i think "hard" i think like battletoads or some shit. this game, i could get myself killed really easy but the game autosaves every two minutes and i can just spend all day cutting down grass and hunting for bugs if i want. and then i got the camera so i'm basically playing pokemon snap here.

dunkey vid makes it look like this owns. hard

It does. One of the monsters just picked up a smaller monster and threw it at me lol.

i ran into a couple archers on horses the other day and it was pretty tight

i've been dating a gamer for a few months and this is by far the best thing i've seen him play. it's really magical.

I fucked up the use of an amiibo today though.

There's a one time only bonus of a horse awarded for syncing an OG Link figure in game. Not knowing this, I used my amiibo in a dumb location. And my one-time-kickass-bonus horse spawned on top of a tower.

I gave it a Viking funeral because why the shit not.

so the real real question i have is if this game is worth the roughly $450 it would cost for me to buy the system, the spare joystick and zelda (when it's eventually available in wide release this summer) because i'm guessing there might be five or six more games I'll buy for this thing over the life of the system? so i kinda want to know that one of them will be among the very best games I've ever played.

This game looks great. I'll buy it on the WiiU when the price drops, and I might get a Switch when they bring out a Mario Kart that isn't just MK8 with 4 new coloured shyguys or whatever.

This game looks great. I'll buy it on the WiiU when the price drops, and I might get a Switch when they bring out a Mario Kart that isn't just MK8 with 4 new coloured shyguys or whatever.

― barbarian radge (NotEnough)

nintendo games are about the only games where i don't wait for the price drop. first because it doesn't come - if you're waiting for the price to drop you will be waiting a very long time - and second because unlike other companies' AAA games, nintendo games aren't completely buggy and broken on launch.

"so i kinda want to know that one of them will be among the very best games I've ever played.

― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses)"

i haven't played the same games you have so i have no basis for making that claim. all i can say is that i play games very, very rarely. the last game i played regularly was civilization v. before that it was rock band. i'm playing the shit out of this game, which is kind of a problem because i really should be packing. (if you don't already have a wiiu they seem like they're going to just rerelease all the best wiiu games for the switch, so you should probably get some of those too.)

I suspect that the WiiU version is going to have a limited print run and prices are liable to stay the same or go up as they did for Twilight Princess on Gamecube.
Was playing this last night and marvelling how seamless everything is, then thinking about how buggy Bethesda etc games are. The verticality in the world is also really good, feels similar to XCX in that respect and I believe some of the staff on that game also worked on this.

played this on Switch yesterday for the first time. very impressive! the graphics are really nice, like really really really nice! best-looking grass in a videogame yet. really goes a long way to capturing the feel of running over a sunny hillside. the wind blows and the grass moves like it would in real life. someone was playing Horizon next to it and while that game is a graphical powerhouse, it was still a little obvious that the plants and stuff were just assets stuck to the world mesh. the Breath in the title of this game is v significant: this may be the first open world game where it felt like there was actually wind in the air.

To hell with you, Ziga clan. Eighty bajillion deaths at your katana-wielding paws.

Just got this for my birthday. Now to kick the bf off the TV so I can play it.

Yiga Clan ain't nuthing ta fuck wit

i haven't had much in the way of problems with the yiga clan yet. lynels, on the other hand... i'm pretty sure they use an aimbot.

you can actually mount lynels and whack them in the head a bunch before they attack back...

completed the first 'dungeon' today - the final battle was greeeeat

hahaha, the spouse and i were just speculating this morning on whether you could ride a lynel... though the spouse wanted to tame them. :)

i definitely am having nostalgia for the old-school lynels who shot swords out of their mouths book of revelation style

I love how the Northeast of the map looks like New Hampshire in early October. Also, I bought a house and a lot of furniture and...? There is no benefit except I can dump extra weapons in the middle of my room.

i named my horses Mr Horsu and Horseface. i loves them.

oh my god, the fucking Trial of Wood, i'm going to have a sore throat tomorrow from screaming at my television

Possibly a dumb question, but how much does your left hand have to press buttons in this game? I'm slightly paralysed in my left hand - so games where you only have to move the stick are fine, but games that rely on constant left-finger-buttoning can be difficult.

the left hand buttons are primarily used to quickly switch equipment which you do pretty often. but you can do it by going into yr inventory only using right hand though (is obviously a lot slower).

also left hand triggers are used fairly often as well for guarding and abilities.

Thanks! Do you use your thumb for all of that or 2nd/3rd fingers? (My thumb is the good one!)

no problem, thumb for weapon switching, 2nd/3rd finger on the back trigger and bumper (this is on wii u i should say, dont know if its much different on the switch)

Is there any greater joy than firing arrows methodically from a great distance until you land one right into an enemy's head?

I don't think so.

i realized i never really explored thundra plateau, the area with all the huge mushroom plants. i kept climbing them and then gliding over to other ones and climbing up them, expecting eventually i'd find something cool (aside from the obvious shrine puzzle) but nope, just a bunch of bird eggs. disappointing.

it looks cool tho

something interesting but obscure about the thundra plateau: there are rainbow-colored birds flying above the trees that aren’t found anywhere else and are needed to complete the compendium

! I never knew that. I honestly thought I'd snapped all the birbs already.

Finished all of the side quests, now i’m wandering and filling in gaps on the map while wearing the seed mask.

One of the side quests involved a kid that wants a barrel to float so you tie some octorok balloon things onto it and he gives you a star chunk, I think. Anyways, he talks about these myths about people in the past living in floating cities. Which makes me wonder if Tears of the Kingdom involves going back in time? Does this floating city mythology pop up elsewhere in Zelda?

I always assumed that was a nod to Skyward Sword. Given BoTW is so far into the future, its now a myth anyway.

i fell off this game so hard, still haven't done two of the beasts or the castle and i'm not sure i ever will. my hero's path line is hilarious, like 2/3 of the map is completely covered in green and the other third just has a few big lines zipping around to some major landmarks

don't get me wrong this game world is a stunning accomplishment (and i feel bad saying anything negative about it) but i do wish it was smaller enough that it didn't have to recycle its interesting concepts. the most emblematic experience for me was finding the first labyrinth island, going "holy shit this so cool", then finding a second labyrinth island and going "oh this again?" and then finding a THIRD labyrinth island and saying fuck it i'm not doing this again, the first two were virtually the same
the world probably works better for people who are cool with leaving some content undiscovered and don't feel a need to overturn every rock. biggest thing i would change is the korok seed uhh economy... either make them rarer or gate more useful things behind them. in the beginning of the game those are your rewards for being an explorer, especially in the random patches of woods that don't really have anything unique going on aside from being named on the map. but they're designed to get less and less valuable the more you explore - both because it takes more of them to exchange for the same reward, and because you reach a point where you don't actually need more weapon or shield slots. eventually it didn't seem worth it to glide over ten feet to pick up a rock with an obvious korok under it. by that point the game just died for me.

― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Wednesday, September 2, 2020 1:44 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

been years but i finally finished it, had to really clamp down on some completionist tendencies to avoid falling into the same trap but i did do 120 shrines (albeit with help from google towards the end)

feel ready to make an annoying 2 hour youtube video of mostly complaints, skimming through this thread i honestly might agree with JiC more than not

but i'm overcome with hype for totk and ready to go through this again, need to actually acquire a nintendo switch though

Zelda: Please, make haste hero. The time of darkness is upon is. Only you can quell this great evil.

Link: *somersault* hueggh *somersault* hyagh *somersault* hyeep *somersault* hueggh *somersault* hyagh *somersault* hyagh *somersault* hyeep *somersault* hyeep *somersault* huegg

— Keifer (@DannyVegito) April 17, 2023

I've been kind of wondering if I should give this another try? Although I wonder if being indifferent towards fooling around in a physics playground and explain for its own sake (Nintendo: "See that mountain? You can climb it!" Me: "Why would I want to?") just means that I should accept that the game isn't for me.

i dont like sandbox games either but i still enjoyed the exploring and puzzles and atmosphere

yeah if you dont like finding out whats on top of the mountain then it might not be for you, the new one might have more reasons to do things tho, well find out soon

As I've said before my biggest concern with the new game is that it seems to deemphasize climbing

yeah my concern was that the new fuse ability looks like a push further into making physics sandbox goofing around the main attraction, i dont think i want to have to be building contraptions constantly to explore the map

reviews are out with a 96 on metacritic, looks like Aonuma has done it again

Pure Magic

I recently just started this. Only given it about an hour's play so far, so really not far in

This sez YES TOTK for people like me: https://www.gamegrin.com/articles/should-you-play-tears-of-the-kingdom-if-you-hated-breath-of-the-wild/

so what strategy did you all follow after finishing the tutorial stuff? follow the storyline? explore a concentrated area? head off into the distance?

there is a thread for the game fyi The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

my bad - i've been following that thread but just clicked on this one by accident bc it was higher up

i will say that i went back to BOTW a bit in anticipation of TOTK and i somehow have 32 shrines i still haven't found??? i've been like everywhere on the map, i do not understand how that many could still be hiding from me

have you done all the side quests a lot of those make a shrine pop out of the ground when you solve them like the riddle type ones

also some behind bombable walls etc that are hard to find unless you put the radar thing on