The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is IGN's Game of the Show for E3 2016

spectator said:
This is a sincere reply, not a thread-crap, but I genuinely don't see what people are seeing from this demo. Based on past Zelda's, I'm sure it'll be a great game and I totally love the art style, but those are things I knew before E3 and what they showed here just didn't do anything for me. I guess I'm the only one who saw this and just thought "Ok... open-world, but it just looks like Zelda".
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There hasn't been a Zelda this wide open and exciting since the original. I love open-world stuff from other companies but really it's Nintendo's polish and attention to detail that make me extremely excited for this.
 
spectator said:
This is a sincere reply, not a thread-crap, but I genuinely don't see what people are seeing from this demo. Based on past Zelda's, I'm sure it'll be a great game and I totally love the art style, but those are things I knew before E3 and what they showed here just didn't do anything for me. I guess I'm the only one who saw this and just thought "Ok... open-world, but it just looks like Zelda".
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It's understable if you didn't watched during 5 hours the Tree house stream. That's why we made a topic on GAF that compiled everything we saw: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1233823

Take your time to read, there're a lot of infos written and it doesn't contain what the gifs are about which are themself other features that are from the Treehouse and other videos. And I'm not even talking about the subtile stuff like random generated items in chest that a mod spoted.

To resume, I think what make people happy about this game is that even after 5 hours of show casing we're still discovering "new" stuff to do.

Like for example this gif:
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UberTag said:
The Zelda vs. Horizon debate is going to boil up repeatedly in the months to come.
The "Best of E3 2016" showdown is merely the first of many.
They will also battle for GAF's Most Anticipated Game of 2017 and Game of the Year 2017.
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A battle between what will presumably be two very high quality games. I'm down.

Horizon: Zero Dawn has been my most anticipated PS4 exclusive since it was announced last year and Zelda looks so damn good it made me momentarily consider a Wii U/NX.

Great stuff.
 
ElectricBlanketFire said:
I understand what you mean but Kart and Smash were hardly "shoved out."
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Well maybe shoved out wasnt the best term but they were both underwhelming to me but I thought a majority of Nintendo's output on the WiiU was pretty disappointing outside of maybe Splatoon and a few other titles. I'm really hoping Ninty pulls it together with NX but man they burned me bad with the Wii and then the WiiU.
 
Not surprising. A lot of us have been impressed with what Nintendo brought to the show, and in some ways, the line of thought that they were bringing a game so massive that it took up their entire presentation is slightly warranted.

I'm still slightly worried that the emphasis on open world exploration will undercut some story elements, but at the same time, if we are going to swing either way on the scale, I'm grateful that Zelda is ending up more on the gameplay video of things than hammy, anime-esque story-telling (that Skyward Sword began to encroach on).
 
Hcoregamer00 said:
Nintendo has always been good at making games, and making damn good games. The problem, at least for the latter two generation is getting third party companies to fill in the holes between these amazing games and getting its console owners to buy them.

Will the NX out do the Wii U and be a big seller? it is possible, especially if they do something like enhanced ports of Wii U classics for those who didn't buy a Wii U. Having this amazing Zelda Day 1 will at least be a vote of confidence for the system the same way Twilight Princess was a vote of confidence for the Wii, and a thank you letter to the GameCube fans,
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The NX will handidly outsell the Wii U for the simple fact that, as far as we know, it's also some sort of handheld device. A Nintendo handheld device is good for 50 Million units sold worldwide, minimum, even in this day and age of smartphones and tablets.

I said it in another thread but I think Nintendo will have 5-10 published games at launch with Zelda NX being one of them. It may not even be the biggest selling if we factor presumptive launch titles like SSB NX or Spla2oon.
 
Ck1 said:
Considering that Aonuma has recently confirmed that the NX version will have different graphics but the experience will be the same. This is a good indication that the next time we see this game, it will be the NX version with improved visuals...
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The difference could literally be 1 pixel on 1 texture that appears in 1 scene in the game...
and I'm still buying an NX just for this game.
 
spectator said:
This is a sincere reply, not a thread-crap, but I genuinely don't see what people are seeing from this demo. Based on past Zelda's, I'm sure it'll be a great game and I totally love the art style, but those are things I knew before E3 and what they showed here just didn't do anything for me. I guess I'm the only one who saw this and just thought "Ok... open-world, but it just looks like Zelda".
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It's going back to when Open World games were called "Sandbox" games. It has a bunch of systems that are just fun to play around with, first and foremost.
The last game that did this - and also generated a bunch of gifs of just screwing about with systems and having fun doing so - was probably Just Cause 2
 
spectator said:
This is a sincere reply, not a thread-crap, but I genuinely don't see what people are seeing from this demo. Based on past Zelda's, I'm sure it'll be a great game and I totally love the art style, but those are things I knew before E3 and what they showed here just didn't do anything for me. I guess I'm the only one who saw this and just thought "Ok... open-world, but it just looks like Zelda".
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Here's my reason why.

Gsnap said:
Well that's the best thing about the game to me. Almost every natural element of the world, and every object that isn't nailed down (and even many that are), is a real tool for the player to use – to have real control over. Sometimes it'll be physics based, creating that crazy open world destruction and mayhem we're all used to. But so far, everything is also discrete and unique, just like the tools in Link's toolbelt. Every body of water is a tool. Every patch of grass. Every rock and tree. Every piece of metal. Even time and energy. Each one of them has a specific function just like the hookshot had its specific function. Just like the spinner had its functions. Just like the Paraglider has its specific function. That's real open world gameplay to me. The entire world is a functional zelda item, and link is given all the tools he needs to use this item just as he would use any other classic zelda item. And then you add the numerous traversal options, the interesting enemy interactions, and everything else, and we're free to explore the possibilities. And this doesn't even take into account the fact that we're also going to get a significant amount of classic level design to take advantage of all these tools in more structured ways, giving us the best of both worlds.

It's amazing, and it really does make me feel like most open world games are not taking advantage of the possibilities.
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It's very clearly is not just Zelda, and if you can't see that, then I'm afraid you aren't actually looking.

(now, that doesn't mean you have to like what you see, but it's obviously a big shift for Zelda games, and a pretty big deal when it comes to how to build an open world game as well)
 
PKrockin said:
We need footage of Link sniping enemies while snowboarding. We know it's possible, I just really want to see Link ramp it, snipe an enemy in slo-mo, and do an indie 900 before landing. I need this
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We also need the names of the stunts popping up as Link performs them, just as the Tony Hawk successor it was originally conceived as
 
You done good Nintendo, you done good.

One interesting thought, does anyone here remember what IGN's Game of the Show for E3 2010? Was it Skyward Sword?
 
I still get surprised every time I see this game or the gifs floating around. The different approaches of different people experiencing the game were really interesting to watch. I also thought the monsters' reactions to different combat situations were great. I still laugh at that bokoblin who lit his club on fire lol. Anyways, much deserved and I can't wait to play it next year!

Edit: Lol even in this thread I'm still learning new things. The laser parry is awesome! Thanks for showing,Chaos17!
 
this E3 has been so incredible that there are multiple games which deserve to win Game of Show.

Zelda was one of them, congrats.

I don't think as fans of gaming anyone can be upset by this.
 
From IGN? I'm... legitimately shocked. Back when I followed them and posted on their boards, it seemed like everyone besides the Nintendo specific editors couldn't give Nintendo games the time of day at best, or actively hated them at worst. For instance, I distinctly remember the year the Wii and Twilight Princess came out, there were GotY discussions, and all the non-Nintendo editors were literally bragging about the fact that they hadn't played Twilight Princess and therefore weren't voting for it.

I haven't followed IGN for years now, but everything I've happened to see from them has given me the impression that that hasn't really changed, and may possibly have gotten even worse.

So... yeah. Shocked.
 
spectator said:
This is a sincere reply, not a thread-crap, but I genuinely don't see what people are seeing from this demo. Based on past Zelda's, I'm sure it'll be a great game and I totally love the art style, but those are things I knew before E3 and what they showed here just didn't do anything for me. I guess I'm the only one who saw this and just thought "Ok... open-world, but it just looks like Zelda".
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I'm not sure how you could watch this games footage and deduce it was just regular Zelda.
 
It will be my Game of the Show as well, with Fractured but Whole, God of War, Horizon, Sea of Thieves, Last Guardian and Persona as my runners up in no particular order. I am mega hyped for Battlefield as well but we knew about that game prior to E3.

Going over that list in my head....Good god 2015/16 have been fucking insane for games. If Nintendo can hit the NX out of the park (they're off to a good start with Zelda), this could be a golden age for gaming.
 
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