brandonh83
Banned
I liked all the divine beasts just wish there was a bit more to them. The scope of the flying one was immense and just epic. I loved it.
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You guys suck. The camel beast is the most complex one in the game and actually made me think. Plus it has the best dungeon boss. All of the beasts should have been like the camel.
Thank you.
The Hermit
Member
he was the best one
I feel Nintendo had a lot of influence from Shadow of the Colossus... now you are imagining a game from Ueda + Myiamoto.
brandonh83
Banned
I think so too. That and the Gerudo were great. I think the Death Mountain was my least favorite but still fantastic. Ruto was the first I did and loved that too, I was stumped for a while and probably would be on a replay too haha
Skeletos311
Junior Member
Is there a list of all the names of locations that show up on the map or a map with all the names on it? I need to discover a few locations, but I don't know where they are.
A lot of it is learning the enemy + weapon type wind-ups/telegraphs. I took a lot of lumps learning how that worked.
For example, I couldn't hit flurry rushes for shit until I realized that horizontal slashes required a backflip, while vertical slashes and stabs required a side-step.
That was confounded by not knowing what weapons did what. I just took hits for a good minute.
What I learned: to watch the attack animations and dodge at the last second. One benefit of the fairly low amount of enemy types is that you eventually learn how they attack with all weapon types. Afaik, each enemy has three wind-ups for melee attacks, and once I faced enough of them, I developed a sense for the timing of their various attacks.
Using a shield helps, too. That way if you are late dodging, you can still block.
Parrying is another beast altogether, though I will say that matching up the defense animation with the attack animation almost always works for me.
absolutely nothing tough about that dungeon at all..
I remember when everyone was telling me '' yeah vah ruta is bad but just wait until the gerudo one, its really good! Feels like a zelda dungeon'' I was hyped
then i came into the beast and... I finished it in like 25-30mins, just like every other beast. Extremely disappointing
I still maintain that if the next zelda was BotW 2 with improved dungeons ( and more of them) and nothing else it would probably be the GOAT game
Heck, Hyrule castle itself was a really nice ''dungeon''. Sure you can rush to ganon but otherwise there is soooo much to explore in there, hidden stuff, and exploring it all takes a while too. The divine beasts should've been something like that too.
all divine beast nail the atmosphere
victreeb3l
Member
I dunno man I was legit stumped for a good while. I found it complex and reaching each terminal felt rewarding. It also had the hardest boss in the game.
well I will admit that I had no clue what to do in the first 5 mins, I just
rotated every part a bunch of times randomly and got lucky that they all ended up on the ''top'' which made me realize the gimmick
but after you discover that it's pretty much smooth sailing for the rest of it
I'm guessing you had Revali's, which totally breaks the dungeon. They should have turned off champion abilities in dungeons like in shrines.
kunonabi
Member
I didn't use his ability and the dungeon was still piss easy.
Nope! I actually had Revali's power but I never used it, I actually never use it even in the overworld simply because I forget about it all the time ( using the pro hud)
actually it's pretty dumb a power like that isn't turned off by default in a dungeon lol... That's pretty dumb
Congratulations you guys are very smart. I'm not so I got stumped repeatedly and that dungeon ended up taking me pretty long.
I found the no-puzzle shrines to be inconsistent. That was my main issue with them. They were also used more often than it felt they should have been, but that comes about because of how inconsistent they were.
Sometimes it seemed you would do very little to get into the shrine, and it would just give you an orb, and other times there was a lengthy bit of effort to get in, and then a puzzle inside the shrine as well.
Chezzymann
Member
Problem is that there's several complicated shrine trials/quests that end with a full on shrine, so the easy shrine trials/quests that end with a blessing feeling kinda cheap, like the development team didnt have enough resources to fill those out into full on shrines so they just didnt put anything inside
Finished the story with 76 shrines done (four orbs unused), all the divine beast dungeons done, Master Sword and 104 seeds found (60+ of them unused...). People weren't kidding when they said the ending was underwhelming. It's not that the final boss was all bad (especially the first phase) and even the final phase had some epicness going to it, as easy as it was but it was just so rushed & barebones as hell. Just felt very much "that's it?"
Have to take some time to ponder my final thoughts about it, but as of now my feelings are somewhat mixed. There's no doubt that this is a very high quality product in a lot of ways, most ways (story sucks, most everything else is mostly good), but I can't help but think that a lot of the design decisions hold it back from rising to the level of my favorite games in the franchise (ALTTP, OOT, LA, MM).
I think the premise of
but this barebones approach to building up the story & characters sucks ass, at least as done in BOTW. I don't like the weapon system at all. The rewards for a lot of the content you do are shit. As much as there is lots of great, unique stuff around the world, it does suffer from open world bloat, a few too many time-consuming fetch quests & lots of repetition as well, made to feel even worse by the mostly horrible rewards you get for doing them a majority of the time. 100+ shrines, few enemies recycled everywhere, 900 seeds, enemy camps etc. just start dragging after awhile and I could've done with less of them (but each one offering more unique, NON-BREAKABLE rewards). There are a lot of pretty fun shrines but also some sucky ones & some repetition.
At the moment I feel like the first 10-15 hours were the best. Everything is still fresh, the game feels challenging and even the most mundane enemies feel fun to fight against when you haven't confronted a 1000 of them yet. Past that between finding the coolest moments & content you have to go through quite a lot of repetition, some tedium, the annoyance of all the cool weapons you find breaking with the hint of enemies looming in the horizon and coming to the realization that most every reward except a select few are total shit that it takes some shine away from the experience.
Have to take some time to ponder my final thoughts about it, but as of now my feelings are somewhat mixed. There's no doubt that this is a very high quality product in a lot of ways, most ways (story sucks, most everything else is mostly good), but I can't help but think that a lot of the design decisions hold it back from rising to the level of my favorite games in the franchise (ALTTP, OOT, LA, MM).
I think the premise of
waking up 100 years later was interesting (seeing all the ruins & marks of epic battles everywhere was cool)
At the moment I feel like the first 10-15 hours were the best. Everything is still fresh, the game feels challenging and even the most mundane enemies feel fun to fight against when you haven't confronted a 1000 of them yet. Past that between finding the coolest moments & content you have to go through quite a lot of repetition, some tedium, the annoyance of all the cool weapons you find breaking with the hint of enemies looming in the horizon and coming to the realization that most every reward except a select few are total shit that it takes some shine away from the experience.
kunonabi
Member
Yeah, I had the same issue with them. I think the shrines ended up being another victim of scrambling to get the game finished.
Playmaster
Banned
Wow 3 divine beast in and just got my first 4-star speed horse. Gonna be using him from now on. I thought
was the best :/
zelda's white horse
tauroxd
Member
I thought it was the bestt all around.
Or they just wanted all players to get an easy set of orbs to distribute as hearts/stamina?
Playmaster
Banned
Feels like speed trumps all with horses now. That extra star makes a hell of a difference.
aparisi2274
Member
I thought the lead up to the camel beast was awesome, with the sand seal surfing and what not, but the actual design of the beast was one I just could not get behind... The boss was fun though
It's annoying as you approach the endgame because you have a higher concentration of Blessing shrines, although as Lilo_D said, you do have to go through hell to get to a lot of them, and some of the Quest Shrines still aren't Blessings.
I mean, i had to fight three Hinox to get into one shrine, in another a Guardian-infested labyrinth, in a third a paraglider gauntlet with at least four guardian-lasers training on me at all times. Some intense stuff in some cases.
Conor_Fool
Banned
The word that is constantly on my mind when I play this is "how"
How did they make this game so fucking fun? How did they make this so much better than every single open world competitor, despite the graphical difference? How did they make this game look so beautiful with limitied graphical capabilties?
Every single time I turn this game on I'm sucked in just like the first time I played. I'm 91 shrines deep and in the last ~8 hours of playtime, I've only found a single shrine. Yet somehow I can still just wander around in pure bliss. Finding Hinox's I hadn't discovered yet, climbing peaks and finding Korok seeds, fucking up some Lynels after a blood moon. It's just pure gaming bliss, plain and simple.
The Witcher 3 was by far my favorite open world game before this, and I haven't touched it since this game out. In Witcher 3, finding a new town and finding all the merchants to play in Gwent was my favorite part. Traveling was fun, side quests were better than Zelda, but...it just doesn't compare to how Zelda makes me feel. It's just absolutely phenomenal in every way, shape, and form.
How did they make this game so fucking fun? How did they make this so much better than every single open world competitor, despite the graphical difference? How did they make this game look so beautiful with limitied graphical capabilties?
Every single time I turn this game on I'm sucked in just like the first time I played. I'm 91 shrines deep and in the last ~8 hours of playtime, I've only found a single shrine. Yet somehow I can still just wander around in pure bliss. Finding Hinox's I hadn't discovered yet, climbing peaks and finding Korok seeds, fucking up some Lynels after a blood moon. It's just pure gaming bliss, plain and simple.
The Witcher 3 was by far my favorite open world game before this, and I haven't touched it since this game out. In Witcher 3, finding a new town and finding all the merchants to play in Gwent was my favorite part. Traveling was fun, side quests were better than Zelda, but...it just doesn't compare to how Zelda makes me feel. It's just absolutely phenomenal in every way, shape, and form.
I'm actually surprised you can't use the sensor+ to find them. Wait, has anyone even thought to give it a shot? Is it even something that's possible? Can you search for creatures using the sensor+?
OrbitalBeard
Member
For me personally, The Witcher 3 is a great experience, but Breath of the Wild is a great video game. I'm sure plenty will disagree with me, but while I found The Witcher 3 to be incredibly impressive, I didn't find it all that fun to actually play. For me, Zelda is just pure fun. Just climbing around and using the paraglider is more satisfying than the entirely of 95% of other games out there.
ffejeromdiks
Banned
It would probably be suuuuuuuuuuuuper annoying, it would never NOT beep.
Around 60-65 hours. Missing three towers. Found a big island covered in fog that kicks me away with a laugh every time I approach. Can't glide down to it, can't climb into it. This diverted my journey to the next tower, so to avoid frustration I headed to the northern labyrinth. Found an edge of duality, and quit the game for the night.
Got a question about korok puzzles:
ive noticed a couple of areas where there is some unusual object (an odd shaped rock, a lone dead tree), which seem to mark a korok location. But instead of a korok puzzle, walking nearby triggers a circle of chus to charge toward Link. Is this a korok challenge? Am I meant to take all the chus out at once?
Reposting if anyone can help:
Questions for gerudo town - there are two moments when it seems like you'd want to hand something over, but I don't seem to be able to. One is someone
, the other is someone needing
I tried holding them like you'd feed a horse an apple, tried dropping them on the floor, nothing.
Questions for gerudo town - there are two moments when it seems like you'd want to hand something over, but I don't seem to be able to. One is someone
lookimg for poultry. I have big and small, raw and cooked
two heart shaped vegetables. I have hearty radishes which I guessed was right?
I tried holding them like you'd feed a horse an apple, tried dropping them on the floor, nothing.
Those aren't quests.
Not sure about the second one but I'm pretty sure the first is nothing.
Mike Double U
Banned
Can you break down armor from Amiibo items? I would love to get star fragments from the duplicate
gear that I have...
Wind Waker
Patrick Bateman
Member
I'm currently at the point of the game where I have to look for the areas depicted in the 12 photos or I have to look for the four titans.
Both are supposed to be side quests. Is there a certain main quest I can trigger?
Both are supposed to be side quests. Is there a certain main quest I can trigger?
Those are main quests
You already had your main quest at the beginning defeat ganon
There was one in gerudo that involved
electricity
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Playtime?
The one on
Tingle Island
box on the ledge
145+ hours
wow you're good
i'm at 130hrs and just beat the desert Divine Beast, not to mention only around 250 seeds and 90 shrines
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
175 hours and 162 seeds.
What guide did you use ?
I have very good positioning skills. I'm also extremely efficient. Once I do one thing in a line of objectives (Towers, Quests, etc.) I tend to do them all until I finish them. It helps me get back around the map quicker after a period of time. They sort of go hand-in-hand, I suppose.
Etrian Oddity
Member
Is it bad I want a Sheikah Slate case for my Iphone 7?
there are none that I can find 
Is it bad I want a Sheikah Slate case for my Iphone 7?
there are none that I can find
Make one on redbubble?
CharminUltra
Member
About to hit dat 170 hour playtime...
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