Hot take: Zelda BotW is ass

Cyberpunkd

Cyberpunkd

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So with kids I gave up on playing on PS5 for the foreseeable future. So I embraced my Switch.
Recently I borrowed BotW, played for a few hours.

1. Graphics are bland. I guess it's due to the art style.
2. Hyrule is empty AF.
3. Lots of busywork - hoard ingredients, make recipes (which are not listed anywhere so you need to memorise them and then manually add ingredients to make each dish separately, hoard weapons.
4. Traversal was novel for a few hours, then finding a temple with each basic puzzle inside becomes very tedious. Wow, I had this idea to run around the mountain for 10 minutes while trying to climb it to finally get to the top. Incredible experience.
5. Main gripe: story is non-existent, side quests are terrible.

So I gave the game back and installed Witcher 3.
 
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Cyberpunkd said:
So with kids I gave up I will be playing on PS5 for the foreseeable future. So I embraced my Switch.
Recently I borrowed BotW, played for a few hours.

1. Graphics are bland. I guess it's due to the art style.
2. Hyrule is empty AF.
3. Lots of busywork - hoard ingredients, make recipes (which are not listed anywhere so you need to memorise them and then manually add ingredients to make each dish separately, hoard weapons.
4. Traversal was novel for a few hours, then finding a temple with each basic puzzle inside becomes very tedious. Wow, I had this idea to run around the mountain for 10 minutes while trying to climb it to finally get to the top. Incredible experience.
5. Main gripe: story is non-existent, side quests are terrible.

So I gave the game back and installed Witcher 3.
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I liked the graphics since i like Cell Shaded graphics but other than that it was a disappointment for me. It's not a bad game no that not, but i didn't like it as a Zelda game.
 
Cyberpunkd said:
So with kids I gave up I will be playing on PS5 for the foreseeable future. So I embraced my Switch.
Recently I borrowed BotW, played for a few hours.

1. Graphics are bland. I guess it's due to the art style.
2. Hyrule is empty AF.
3. Lots of busywork - hoard ingredients, make recipes (which are not listed anywhere so you need to memorise them and then manually add ingredients to make each dish separately, hoard weapons.
4. Traversal was novel for a few hours, then finding a temple with each basic puzzle inside becomes very tedious. Wow, I had this idea to run around the mountain for 10 minutes while trying to climb it to finally get to the top. Incredible experience.
5. Main gripe: story is non-existent, side quests are terrible.

So I gave the game back and installed Witcher 3.
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1. Graphics are bland. I guess it's due to the art style.
- Art style is great, playing on Yuzu at 4k is great, problem is Nintendo hardware is weak then my phone.

2. Hyrule is empty AF.
- Agreed

3. Lots of busywork - hoard ingredients, make recipes (which are not listed anywhere so you need to memorise them and then manually add ingredients to make each dish separately, hoard weapons.
- i like prep food, weapons stash and durability is ass.

4. Traversal was novel for a few hours, then finding a temple with each basic puzzle inside becomes very tedious. Wow, I had this idea to run around the mountain for 10 minutes while trying to climb it to finally get to the top. Incredible experience.
- Agreed

5. Main gripe: story is non-existent, side quests are terrible.
- Every Zelda game aside from Twilight Princess imo.
 
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This isn't a hot take, it's an opinion and that's more than fine, lol. I actually enjoyed BotW when I revisited it a couple of years later after not digging it at all. But after revisiting it, I enjoyed it so much so that I beat it.

Witcher 3 I played at launch, ran into a number of bugs, and put it down. I heard it got better and better as time went one with QoL features and fixes. But I just never cared enough to go back as the game didn't really hold my attention as a whole. 🤷‍♂️
 
Na it's pretty great. I will say though, both BoTW and ToTK are massively overrated. They are great games, but neither are top 5 Zelda games.

Really wish Nintendo still made classic Zelda games and BoTW/ToTK were just a new IP.
 
Cyberpunkd said:
So with kids I gave up I will be playing on PS5 for the foreseeable future. So I embraced my Switch.
Recently I borrowed BotW, played for a few hours.

1. Graphics are bland. I guess it's due to the art style.
2. Hyrule is empty AF.
3. Lots of busywork - hoard ingredients, make recipes (which are not listed anywhere so you need to memorise them and then manually add ingredients to make each dish separately, hoard weapons.
4. Traversal was novel for a few hours, then finding a temple with each basic puzzle inside becomes very tedious. Wow, I had this idea to run around the mountain for 10 minutes while trying to climb it to finally get to the top. Incredible experience.
5. Main gripe: story is non-existent, side quests are terrible.

So I gave the game back and installed Witcher 3.
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ToTK fixes all these complaints and is the true GOTY.

BOTW feels like a ubisoft game in comparison.
 
Personally loved the game, both the visuals and gameplay.....I take this over Witcher 3's crappy combat any day.
 
So you want us to believe you bought and somehow returned it. Opened.. and Then… came to rant about it?


Nah don't believe it..


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Im disappointed that TOTK will win GOTY when Baldurs deserves it more. Actual story, meaningful choices, side quests that look like main quests, etc.
 
Mythoclast said:
Im disappointed that TOTK will win GOTY when Baldurs deserves it more. Actual story, meaningful choices, side quests that look like main quests, etc.
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Eh, there's lots of GotY awards. The big TGA one is basically a popularity contest anyway.

If it wins, then fair enough, I don't really care.
 
Mythoclast said:
Im disappointed that TOTK will win GOTY when Baldurs deserves it more. Actual story, meaningful choices, side quests that look like main quests, etc.
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I dont get why should you care? Even ToTK wins GOTY, that not gonna change how feel about Baldurs Gate, If you enjoyed that game more then thats gonna be your GOTY.
 
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Danjin44 said:
I dont get why you shoud you care? Even ToTK wins GOTY, that not gonna change how feel about Baldurs Gate, If you enjoyed that game more then thats gonna be your GOTY.
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You have a point, yes, but ultimately GOTY gives a game more recognition and more sales, more revenue to recognize the developers to put an even bigger budget on their next game
 
Cyberpunkd said:
So with kids I gave up I will be playing on PS5 for the foreseeable future. So I embraced my Switch.
Recently I borrowed BotW, played for a few hours.

1. Graphics are bland. I guess it's due to the art style.
2. Hyrule is empty AF.
3. Lots of busywork - hoard ingredients, make recipes (which are not listed anywhere so you need to memorise them and then manually add ingredients to make each dish separately, hoard weapons.
4. Traversal was novel for a few hours, then finding a temple with each basic puzzle inside becomes very tedious. Wow, I had this idea to run around the mountain for 10 minutes while trying to climb it to finally get to the top. Incredible experience.
5. Main gripe: story is non-existent, side quests are terrible.

So I gave the game back and installed Witcher 3.
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Mythoclast said:
You have a point, yes, but ultimately GOTY gives a game more recognition and more sales, more revenue to recognize the developers to put an even bigger budget on their next game
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There are games who never won any GOTY and still sale tones of copy. I don't get people who stress over what games wins GOTY.

This year Armoured Core VI could very well be my GOTY, it doesn't matter if popular media recognize it or not.
 
Is that such a hot take though? I've always felt that both BotW and TotK are very decisive with a lot of people absolutely loving it, but also a lot of people who really don't. And that's fine. I understand most of the criticism, even if those points don't bother me personally. I'd rate BotW one of my top 10 games of all time, and TotK a solid 9/10.

And honestly, the same could be said for a lot of big games. You mention the Witcher, and although I've tried to get into those games three different times, all three times I gave up from boredom in less then 3 hours. Even though I'm sure they're great games, the slow, boring combat and ugly aesthetic just kills it for me. And that's fine. Plenty of games to play.
 
Cyberpunkd said:
So with kids I gave up I will be playing on PS5 for the foreseeable future. So I embraced my Switch.
Recently I borrowed BotW, played for a few hours.

1. Graphics are bland. I guess it's due to the art style.
2. Hyrule is empty AF.
3. Lots of busywork - hoard ingredients, make recipes (which are not listed anywhere so you need to memorise them and then manually add ingredients to make each dish separately, hoard weapons.
4. Traversal was novel for a few hours, then finding a temple with each basic puzzle inside becomes very tedious. Wow, I had this idea to run around the mountain for 10 minutes while trying to climb it to finally get to the top. Incredible experience.
5. Main gripe: story is non-existent, side quests are terrible.

So I gave the game back and installed Witcher 3.
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Same. Don't know what people like about this game and so many of them too, But Flies like poop too and i don't question it. It is what it is.
 
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But okay, let's be honest, the series can't rest on Botw/Totk achievements now.

The next episode must drastically change the "Witcher 3-like + sandbox mechanics".
 
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