The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

diving mechanism is pretty

You folks are crazy, the Beasts are great, the puzzles were super satisfying, and the emo bits rule

Except the camel - agree - fuck that guy

Tell me about the DLCs! I’ve never DLC’d before. Are you supposed to add them after killing Ganon or before?

All the extra content appears before you beat Ganon.

I’m just farting around side-questing now the beasts are done - maybe a good time then. It doesn’t do anything radical or weird to break the world-building, does it?

well…

tbh some of the DLC is worth having well before you finish the game imo! The ancient horse armour and the map where-youve-been thing in particular.

Okay this is one of the craziest things i've done in BotW. I used a slab to do a quadruple launch finished with a super launch all the way to the top of Hyrule Castle.

The fact that this is possible illustrates the power of modern BotW tech. pic.twitter.com/55RO9CGabR

— Zant (@Zants) August 15, 2018

Breath of the Wild’s basic physics must be an incredible piece of software. It’s likely that there’s very little special-casing of anything. Everything has a mass and material and materials have certain interactions with runes and electricity and fire and so on and the game somehow doesn’t crash.

xp crazyyyyyyy

Ive seen a few similar tricks! One guy stasis-slammed a TREE TRUNK up to the castle with him on it, and he just sailed right on into that sucker standing on a fucking flying log.

youzses were of course otm about getting stronger for bosses. after 115 hrs of play and 15+ hearts and levelled-up armour i flattened waterblight in 90 seconds. now i'm up to 145 hrs and have done all the divine beasts.

i did not enjoy any of the divine beast stuff btw, especially the camel lead-up which was just total garbage, especially with the sand seal/thunderhelm bit being straight-up broken (couldn't stay on a seal for more than one (1) second, whatsherface kept stopping me every 14 seconds just to ask if i wanted to retreat, i ended up getting through it out of sheer luck apparently). with 25 hearts thunderblight was just a load of master sword slashing and a couple of full-health meals. apparently calamity ganon is a doddle so i might as well get it over with.

but in general this has been a pretty fun game. i left a horrible job this month, and getting lost in this game was the perfect distraction.

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it's just so satisfying to go tramping off in the snowy mountains for what feels like days and suddenly stumble on a load of korok seeds, the game designers reminding me i'm supposed to be there.

calamity ganon was indeed a doddle but what the simmering fuck was dark beast ganon? fire arrows at targets all the way up a giant monster while riding a horse while constantly battling the shit camera while dodging all the trees some idiot game designer put there while zelda is barking instructions at you

serious question, did anybody play test this

also the ending is… weird

I just wanted to keep that light arrow :(

btw even with full hearts and maxed out armour the guardians never stop being annoying, especially when you can just keep reloading your game until you beat each one. totally pointless. a hell of a lot of stuff prevents this being the best zelda game.

i mean, right now i’m stuck in a tiny gatehouse with a lynel, and not only are its attacks fucking ridiculous, some goopy eyeball on the ceiling is sending down rhino heads at me just to be annoying. and i can’t even see any of this because the camera is a complete disaster. older 3d zeldas were never bad at any of this.

I cant say Ive ever had camera issues like I always did with Occarina. Maybe its what a person gets used to?

No, the cameras were much, much worse during the N64 era, it's true

ocarina’s lock would keep the enemy in view completely reliably. botw is a mess in this regard.

btw even with full hearts and maxed out armour the guardians never stop being annoying

have you considered the possibility you are .. bad at video games

also the clip above is a demonstration of the physics being broken, not of it being robust

have you considered the possibility you are .. bad at video games

i can kill the guardians, it’s just annoying rather than challenging after the 200th guardian

also the clip above is a demonstration of the physics being broken, not of it being robust

all the bits seem to be doing their job tbh, maybe apart from the slab not flipping as it flies

also the clip above is a demonstration of the physics being broken, not of it being robust

― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp)

it's a physics engine abuse to be sure, but it's an entertaining one, like rocket jumping in those old fps games

U kno the guardians are easily slayed in one of 2 ways:
- savage lynel bow and ancient arrows. They will go down in one hit.
- ancient sheild. This'll bounce the guardian laser without having to parry, and it is quite durable. Takes 2-3 hits but works well.

yeah but when you kill something with an ancient arrow, it doesn't drop anything does it? just vaporizes

Anything that isn’t a guardian, ancient arrows just do regular damage to them.

xps thanks trayce, i do the shield thing but if the timing isn’t exact your shield breaks, and reloading the game until you get it right feels like a cop out but that’s how you have to do it. ancient arrows are rare enough that i don’t want to burn them off on every guardian.

Anything else you kill with ancient arrows, yep it just vaporises, but not guardians! They still drop stuff. Its how I farmed for giant ancient cores.

Adam: what I mean is with an ancient shield you dont have to do the parry timing trick. It auto-parries.

The catch is, ancient shields require a giant ancient core to buy.

And ancient arrows you can buy too. Well I found em easy enough to buy later in the game as by then I seemed to have a jillion sprogs and screws and whatnot.

This game is pretty wonderful with allowing you to find "other" ways to do things

otm. I don’t think there’s a single thing in the game where Octorok balloons are the “intended” solution but they’re there for if you wanna try

put on the radiant armor, do some octorok whipits, and go to gerudo rave imo

omg I have tried so hard to use the octo balloons on rafts but they just tip everywhere and I fall off!

Adam: what I mean is with an ancient shield you dont have to do the parry timing trick. It auto-parries.

hey that's pretty cool

wait what. i didn't realize that!

It was a lifesaver for me!

So: (please bear with me) - a few years ago I came back to a semi-completed game of Wind Waker, and was able to finish it all (as in clear every island get every heart) by following the on-screen hints about what had been completed and what hadn't, which maps I'd completed etc etc.

I'll be getting a Switch, and Breath of the Wild, probably within the next year or so, so I was wondering - is it similar in that I'd be able to take a break and come back, or is it "if you want to complete it, you have to remember which parts you've done and where, you might as well just stick with it"?

the narrative of the game is (after the first few hours) mostly incidental. basically, you're just provided with an intricate zelda-sandbox featuring lots of bite-sized waypoints, upgrades, sub-quests, and 120 shrines (mini-dungeons). theoretically, you might finish the main quest in fifteen hours, or take upwards of 150 to explore. components of the main quest, such as they are, have a separate menu-screen w/ map-points that are useful at any point.

Yeah no, I should've been clearer that I don't mean complete as in 'beat Ganon' - the 150 hour is more what I was wondering about.

If you're looking to 100% it, every shrine you visit is marked on your map and color-coded as to whether you've completed it, and you obtain a device that helps you find undiscovered shrines. I have a 200+ hour save where I've found 112 of the 120. There are only four divine beasts (the main dungeons), which are waypointed, so those are easy to keep track of. There's also a somewhat opaque meter on the map that tells you what percent of the game you've "completed." Don't bother trying to find all the Korok Seeds; there's like 900 of them. I've only gotten about a third of them.

Tempted to use a guide to track down those last 8 shrines, but idk, I kind of want to be surprised when I find them.

heh. i eventually gave in to a guide to find those final missing ones, it was also around 8 iirc

Don't bother trying to find all the Korok Seeds; there's like 900 of them

...and the reward for it is... erm...