Breath of the Wild is the official subtitle for Zelda U/NX, first gameplay trailer

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very rough looking, but at the end of the day I dont care, its Zelda so I'll play and have fun.



...But I sitll hope the NX version looks a lot better. Art style is great, Image Quality is horrid.
 
zoukka said:
I don't mind it at all. My favourite open world game is SotC precisely because of the "emptiness" which in fact isn't emptiness at all, it's called focus. Focus in important things. Modern open world games are full of useless filler in both the game world and game systems. Keep that as far away from zelda as possible.
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I think focus is the right word but I'm seeing the opposite of focus.

You know how Nintendo always designs a section with a little stand of trees that gets shown sometimes in a new 3D Zelda and is eventually jettisoned? We saw it in OOT screenshots, TP's trailer, and the Zelda Wii U game awards. They eventually get rid of it because, I think, they can't figure out anything fun to actually do with it. Because it's too diffuse to actually create some kind of gameplay for the player to have fun with.

And that's what this game world reminds me. Sort of purposeless. Grand for its own sake.

Even TP's fields which get so much criticism had clearly distinctive elements that the player could focus on, and at least served as arenas for the horse combat to play out in.

This game seems a little too worried about creating an experience for my tastes.
 
I don't know what to do with the emotions running through me right now. Breath of the Wild looks beautiful. Link uses a spear, and parries with his shield. He chops down trees, cooks, and climbs above the level of a toddler. There are ducks. There is a stealth mechanic that doesn't require barrels. Nature. Ducks. Horses. Ducks. Ruins of an advanced civilization. Princess Mononoke.

THIS WAS GOOD STUFF.
 
The game looks beautiful, but I am afraid.

Maybe they should have shown the NX version and gone full in with that.

I also fear that Nintendo's "behind the curve" mode will come into play here and we the open world we get will not be as good, creative, original and will be weak.

All in all I am optimistically excited, but I wanted the NX a lot more and wanted a Zelda/NX launch similar to how it went with they Wii.
 
rex said:
Even TP's fields which get so much criticism had clearly distinctive elements that the player could focus on, and at least served as arenas for the horse combat to play out in.

This game seems a little too worried about creating an experience for my tastes.
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That's an incredible amount of extrapolation based on a couple of minutes of trailer.
 
rex said:
I think focus is the right word but I'm seeing the opposite of focus.

You know how Nintendo always designs a section with a little stand of trees that gets shown sometimes in a new 3D Zelda and is eventually jettisoned? We saw it in OOT screenshots, TP's trailer, and the Zelda Wii U game awards. They eventually get rid of it because, I think, they can't figure out anything fun to actually do with it. Because it's too diffuse to actually create some kind of gameplay for the player to have fun with.

And that's what this game world reminds me. Sort of purposeless. Grand for its own sake.

Even TP's fields which get so much criticism had clearly distinctive elements that the player could focus on, and at least served as arenas for the horse combat to play out in.

This game seems a little too worried about creating an experience for my tastes.
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That opinion is brought to you by someone who saw less than 3 minutes of edited gameplay sequences.

4/10
 
mario_O said:
Graphics look outdated by today's standards, and the world looks kinda lifeless and empty. Hopefully the dungeons will be good.
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Yep, completely agree. Some people in this thread are saying it's the best trailer they've ever seen... which leads me to believe that this may have been the only video game trailer they've seen since 2011.

The graphics situation can still be remedied by the NX port. The barren problem cannot. Despite it's second-to-none gameplay, MGSV's open world was also barren and it somewhat spoilt things for me coming off games like Witcher and Skyrim.

Need to see footage of the dungeons and the actual meat and potatoes of the game before I decide to make a purchase.
 
Really looks terrible, and un-interesting.

Well, this is it for me, no more Zelda games.
I'll cherish the memories of my childhood tenderly and avoid all games in the series like the plague.


Guess I'll get my Zelda fix with the next Smash game :(
 
duckroll said:
So far in the trailer here's what I can count...
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Weapons and clothing are what caught my eye. Different options have appeared in previous games but it would be interesting to see them go further with it. Particularly with different weapons I feel like they could add a lot to the gameplay without changing the formula people are used to.
 
maxcriden said:
I mean, I don't play any games where you shoot people or animals, so...it's a big surprise to me and I'm trying to figure out how I feel about it. I love Zelda but I'm not keen on this development so I'm trying to parse out the cognitive dissonance.

Posted some thoughts on it here:

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1233431

So I don't know if it's a deal breaker. My gut feeling says yes. The thought of it is uncomfortable to me. Your response reads as bit harsh. Everyone has their own hang-ups, whether easily explainable or easily understood or not. I respect that it doesn't bother you, please show me the same courtesy.



Ah, I see. Up in Vermont bow hunting was still pretty popular.
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I kind of just don't understand not being comfortable with hunting here when we all know it's going to be littered with as many abstractions as the combat is.

When you fight a monster, with your sword, are you violently dismembering it, until it's on the ground, bloody and dead?
nah you wack at it a couple times till it pops in a puff of smoke. and drops a heart or money or some shit.
I don't expect hunting to be much different in this regard. In the video, your arrow doesn't even penetrate your 'hunt'. It kind of just strikes your target and appears to knock it out.
but to each his own, I guess
 
Griss said:
And there was just a lack of exciting moments, of pacing and intrigue. It was like the trailer was for the world itself rather than the game.
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Based on the trailer, and the name of the game itself, I think in large part, it was.
 
Weirdly inconsistent art style here. You've got cel-shading but then oddly detailed environments, water looks like it doesn't fit too. Can't really say it wows me.
 
Not said:
You don't think Nintendo's gonna go all out for that shizzz? This their flagship game.

I bet there's a "classic" mode where you can turn them off anyhow
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I'm sure they will. Doesn't matter. It's like smacking the game from a mystic peak down to earth.
 
[Fugo];207024589 said:
As a long-time nintendo fan, I'm not impressed. The graphics are nice for WiiU, sure, but while the artistic direction is cool and all, the world looks too empty and barren. Like TP Hyrule Filed barren^100000.
The bar has been raised so much for open world games in the recent years, this would have been impressive like 5 years ago, not today. Not talking about tech, I'd never expect a WiiU game to run like The Witcher 3 on a 970+ class of video card; just about stuff going around and such. Xenoblade X did that manyfold better on the same hardware than what we could see in that demo.
Crossing finger for some amazing gameplay
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Xenoblade X was littered with creatures but you could only see them when you got close. Maybe due to hardware limitations its similar here?
 
PhoenixDawn said:
Pretty sure it is Wii U footage. Nintendo doesn't really seem to do a lot of bullshitting on their trailers for the most part and I doubt they'd show gameplay from something they haven't even announced yet. Especially since they're live demoing it all E3 so it'd be kinda terrible PR to have a trailer and then have the game look significantly worse when the press actually plays it.
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Skyward sword actually had bullshots so I wouldn't be surprised if they did it again
 
papo said:
The game looks beautiful, but I am afraid.

Maybe they should have shown the NX version and gone full in with that.

I also fear that Nintendo's "behind the curve" mode will come into play here and we the open world we get will not be as good, creative, original and will be weak.

All in all I am optimistically excited, but I wanted the NX a lot more and wanted a Zelda/NX launch similar to how it went with they Wii.
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This is going to be like that, latter they will show the NX version with a few clear improvments.
 
This does not look terrible but it is also not the GREATEST TRAILER OF ALL TIME. Its a good showing for what will probably be a very god game.
 
So wearable items are equipped from a single menu? Would enable magical rings and similar to be equipped without a special inventory slot.

Nice with climb button as well.
 
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