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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Preview Thread
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DecoReturns
Member
Who cares about the meta scores.
Its been 6 years since the last Mainline game, 10 for me since I skipped SS. Those spinoffs were aright, but I need my Console Zelda now.
Its been 6 years since the last Mainline game, 10 for me since I skipped SS. Those spinoffs were aright, but I need my Console Zelda now.
Because Link is a different person in each game and one of these times could even be a g-g--ggirl
NipplesAndToes23
Member
I thought the Triforce Heroes just came out last year. The last spinoff I think was Hyrule Warriors.
This isn't Doctor Who Jobbs eventually Link could be a (blush) girl.
Admiral Woofington
Member
probably because they must've felt that there is nothing stopping Link from being right handed.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Thanks alot wii
Richard George did the IGN SS review; Jose Otero is doing the IGN BotW review. Different people. For reference, Jose gave SS an 8.3 when he reviewed it for 1up.
brandonh83
Banned
Way more than a couple. There's MIDI tracks but plenty of much better ones.
Romance Theme
Skyview Temple
Miniboss
Ancient Cistern
Skyloft
Fi's Theme
Boss theme
Loftwing? theme
Final Boss
Lanayru Sand Sea
Main theme
Ghirahim battle
Staff Roll
Scaldera battle
Those just came to mind immediately, I'm sure there's more. There were also MIDI tracks that were very, very good.
LinkSlayer64
Member
Because Nintendo hates how I idolized Link because he was a lefty like me.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Whatever happened to actual good reviewers like Greg Kasavin???
Venom "Punished" Link
He plays DOTA 2 now.
ASHES IN THE HOURGLASS
Banned
He became a dev to show people how it's done.
UnemployedVillain
Member
Our very own MHWilliams did!
JaseMath
Member
Because even lefty's must be discriminated against in Trump's America.
ReyVGM
Member
You must be fun at parties.
People with fewer subs on youtube than *I* have (which is almost nothing) somehow got Switches and Zelda to preview. I should have asked for one.
I legit asked for one and was denied ;_;
why does nintendo forsake me
Digital Chumps preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH3SqY8Ujs4
(140 subs)
And this isn't salt, btw -- I'm glad they're paying attention to the little guys and I think their total saturation strategy is probably a good move on the whole.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Jose Otero is reviewing Breath of the Wild. He didn't review Skyward Sword for IGN. He reviewed it for 1UP, where he gave it the equivalent of an 83%.
People need to stop treating review sites as some monolithic entity. Different reviewers score these games.
He went and made Bastion and Transistor.
NorthAndSouth
Member
^this!
I will never understand why some people demand for inter organizational consistency, or that somehow scores should be analyzed relatively. Different reviewers, social contexts, industry attitudes etc etc all affect a score that a game is given at the end of the day.
The obsession over metacritic is also similarly fascinating tbh as a junior member on Gaf who has never witnessed a game launch on this site before.
Conkerkid11
Member
They're also on Metacritic though: http://www.metacritic.com/publication/digital-chumps
So they're up there high enough to the point where they're receiving review copies of games and whatnot.
They look like a website first, and a YouTube channel second, third, or somewhere else at the bottom of the list. Just keep that in mind when you stumble upon low view count or subscriber count YouTube channels with a Switch. Their YouTube channel isn't indicative of their success as a website.
They've also managed to hit 1,479 reviews. That's pretty impressive. I only hit like 15 on my website before I gave up and stopped.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
People with fewer subs on youtube than *I* have (which is almost nothing) somehow got Switches and Zelda to preview. I should have asked for one.
I saw a channel with just a few hundred subscribers get a Switch. It's crazy.
Also I just need 24 hour updates from everyone playing that basically just say "It's still amazing"
Can you do this in the game
I read earlier in this thread from someone who had the game that
yes you can but you'll die
Happy and sad.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
The obsession over MC is always insane to me... but you do you. I think it's been years since I actively participated in a review thread.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Yeah, remember that now.
How'd they turn out???
Yeah I'd like some updated feelings on the game from all these guys gushing in the previews. Does that magic hold up the entire game or does it show most of its cards early?
Jeffrey Grubb 2,263 subs
Fox Ribon 288 subs
I'm not sure what the requirements were but there didn't seem to be many, which I find surprising. Again -- Good for them. I think it's neat seeing a variety of videos from different youtubers showing the game rather than just the expected big dogs.
OrbitalBeard
Member
They're both pretty good. Most people like them a lot more than I do though.
RareFantasy64
Member
I try to read/watch any interview with Aonuma, Miyamoto or Fujibayashi on this game that I can. It is just so fascinating to me that Nintendo said "you know what? Let's make an open world game".
I've never been more interested in the story behind a game than I have been for BOTW
I've never been more interested in the story behind a game than I have been for BOTW
Fantastical
Death Prophet
I guess technically they're not allowed to say anything. The embargo only covers the first 5 hours but you can tell from the impressions, Twitter posts, and podcast chatter that they're speaking to more than the 5 hours.
In gamexplain discussion they mentioned running to the final boss immediately and i think saying it works. Just 100% expect to die just trying to get there.
Just Logo.
I'm absolutely not watching any reviews before I play it because they absolutely will show more than I want to see.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Yeah, I'll be hanging out in the review topic, but I'm not reading any review text beyond what's highlighted in that thread until I'm finished with the game.
It's not wrong, though you have to
finish The Great Plateau first.
civilstrife
Member
Yeah, but then what would Zelda do?
OMFGGGGGGGGGGGG YA$$$$ QUEEN SLAIY 🔥👌😍😍💦💦
Just look for the numbers. I can almost guarantee it'll look like binary.
1010101010101010101010101010109(damn it IGN! You had one job!)
something unnatural that god hates
Those were just three quick examples. There seem to be many videos previewing the game from people with 30k or fewer subs --- Again, not complaining, just observing that Nintendo had a really aggressive strategy for getting word out over youtube.
RTJamerson
Banned
I know. I have much more trust in Jose. I love that man.
Because we lefties can't have nice things.
In reality, they probably decided after twilight princess and skyward sword that link being left handed was not needed anymore. Which is a shame, since it was fun having a left handed hero like myself.