Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Yeah alot of previews done broke embargo though. Want to watch it?
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Preview Thread
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Sure, and if you were going around showing game previews to random people it might be a jerk move. But in a thread explicitly about previews for a game...
enoirmeplz
Member
Hmm, just as a reminder:
You can turn off images.
I'm don't really care about spoilers, but I would like to retain some surprises. On mobile you can just turn off gifs or/and photos.
You can turn off images.
I'm don't really care about spoilers, but I would like to retain some surprises. On mobile you can just turn off gifs or/and photos.
I had no idea. Thanks!
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
It's a risk that you just have to take when you enter a preview thread. *shrugs*
What is funny is someone proclaiming to not wanting to know anything about the game in order for a fresh experience but then without anyone pointing a gun in their head they entered a preview thread and then got mad when people are discussing the content contained in a preview. What's even worse is that it seemed like the "spoiled" content was very inconsequential anyways, it's not like people spoiling any major elements of the story or anything like that. Seemed so silly to lose your head over such things.
If you really hate to be spoiled about anything, then what are you doing here?
Permanently A
Junior Member
Okay, then maybe playing Horizon first is a better idea, so I can be wowed by Zelda even more and not have my expectations raised for Horizon
why the fuck didn't i think of that? thanks man!
Smooth Operator
Member
When i want to be surprised by a game, i'm not looking at / posting in the preview thread.
WiiRevolution1
Member
Sure, but theres nowhere elseto go to hype BOTW...
ALSO THIS PEOPLE!
On mobile I have had images and gifs disabled for a week already lol.
Edit:
But as already stated theres nowhere else to hype the game and the game must be hyped. Want to avoid spoilers yet can't get off the Zelda threads. @_@
But for me personally this thread has been alright for the most part.
Some people also want to discuss the stuff that's shown in the preview that is under clear embargo. Usually the distinction between what's spoiler or not varies, but BoTW has a clear guideline for what can or can't be talked in the previews coming from Nintendo themselves. It's fine if they want to have more blackout on the game, but this is a public place with an accepted consensus.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Supposedly the map is easily larger.
It's bigger.
Bigger.
Neoleo2143
Member
It's bigger than Skyrim, plays better than Skyrim and probably has more variety than Skyrim. and is better designed in general than Skyrim. I'd imagine Skyrim would be a joke compared to this game currently.
Dagobert Duck
Member
No reviewer got the Wii U version, seems like all of them got a switch and Zelda. The Edge review states that it's a a review for both versions.
Eyemus Lutt
Member
If I buy the game now on the Wii U, Will it let me preload it so I can start playing on release?
KojiKnight
Member
Nothing about the under sea looked like it was meant to be explored. Going out of bounds shows how it was entirely designed as a set piece. The two missing dungeons were almost certainly above the water just like all the others.
On what basis are you saying this? Have you played the game yet to form these opinions?
Or is this post just pure 100% hype?
KojiKnight
Member
Nope, the wii u CAN do preload, but it seems intentionally disabled, likely on piracy concerns with how broken the wii u is right now.
Hyperbole at its finest.
Broken Hope
Member
Have we seen any sort of musical instrument yet? Or has that been removed or cut away like the dungeons?
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Just an accordion played by the bird minstrel Kass.
I thought the Gerudo girl was holding something that looked like a harp in the trailer? Might've been imagining that.
I'm pretty sure there must be an instrument and if it's still under embargo it might be spoilery.
Speculation:
Totally the Ocarina of Time.
Is the story worth finishing?
PepperedHam
Member
Two different types of open world games. Why you gotta do this?
Probably. But from all the previews they talk about how all the people in the game have their own lives and wander the world and towns, that the world is dense and alive despite how it may look in what they're allowed to show, previews have talked about variety, Stephen Totilo said that the designer's touch was subtly everywhere in the world, Austin Walker talked about how if you think you can do something 99% of the time you actually can. Some have even made comparisons to other open world games and how BotW feels more complex and layered.
There's actually quite a lot of glowing praise from the previews. There's also some bits from the Edge's review as well including their post script here.
spazchicken
Member
I would agree with him if this is on the same quality level as past Zelda games. He probably didn't have to dis Skyrim to make his point but:
-The map is huge. It actually is bigger than Skyrim's map, from what I understand.
-Skyrim's combat has been complained about as one of it's worst features. Zelda's combat has always been better.
-Zelda typically has more veriety in it's dungeons and enemy types, puzzles, mini games, weapons, useful items.
-Going by Nintendo's track record, it probably won't have as many bugs and glitches that Skyrim has but we'll see about that as they have never made an open world game this big either.
Neoleo2143
Member
I've given Skyrim enough time to know what it does well and it's a rather mediocre experience in the end. It was purely impressive for the time because what it tried to do was based in the technology rather than much good game design.
The best part of Skyrim is the soundtrack.
Balancing is atrocious and not in a fun way most of the time and if you screw up balancing variety tends to goes out the window. I supposed you could do things like Thievery or magic but those core mechanics have no depth in themselves and therefore have no variety. There's nothing to really learn about pressing a button to blow away enemies. Thus, Skyrim has to rely on roleplaying elements but these are quite weak ultimately compared to better efforts in the genre such as its own predecessor in Morrowind.
Skyrim was a memorable experience, but it was a hardly a well designed one.
A single look at Zelda shows more demands of the player, depth in its gameplay systems, and variety in its scenarios that frankly the two seem incomparable in terms of quality.
I would argue that what they both set out to do and how they attempt to make the player feel in the world is actually very similar. There's a similar line of open ended adventure that both try to do. Mark my words, everything that Skyrim tried to do, Zelda will do better.
yeah but I haven't seen a single gif of a bucket on an NPC's head yet
Evil's Bane
Member
So can we actually discuss the footage in here or is it just a hype thread now?
The latter seems kind of pointless.
The latter seems kind of pointless.
PepperedHam
Member
I mean, if you say so. Elder Scrolls games have you create your character and set out on an adventure based on what type of character you've created. Whether that's mass murder every human being alive or collecting pots and pans.
Zelda is open world Zelda, which isn't detracting from what BotW is doing so amazingly well, just that at its core it's a Zelda game with an impressive next gen sandbox to support it. I wouldn't say you're wrong but The Elder Scrolls and The Legend of Zelda set out to offer entirely different experiences.
SweetDonuts
Member
I'm guessing they got rid of horse riding mechanic where you draw on the game pad and the horse will go to said destination? that was a thing from the Gamw Awards right?
All things related the the Wii U Gamepad unfortunately seems gone.
I don't have the game yet. Didn't mean to imply otherwise with my post, sorry.
ReyVGM
Member
Skyward Sword was extensively compared to Skyrim back then and those two really had nothing to be compared about, so now we can't compare Zelda open world with jank open world?
Jawbreaker
Member
It was also in Wind Waker already, so it's not like it's unprecedented.
ReyVGM
Member
That was never ever a thing. Are you sure you aren't mixing it up with Phantom Hourglass for the DS.
No one said that explosions aren't "fucking cool". Sorry again for trying to discuss basic game design where you need a proper challenge before having the cool reward (explosion, fun). In that case having a placement that is too convenient for the player kills 90% of the challenge (because you still need to have the fire Arrow and to shoot the barrel, or put a bomb near them). Red barrels are too often used to give fun in a simple way instead of building a complex level design that would be more challenging for the player but as or more rewarding (because it can involves explosions). It's cool that they can use them to kill you but that doesn't solve the issue that you can easily kill half a camp or the whole camp (in the original gif) with just one shot because of a chain reaction.
Anyway it's easier to be of bad faith and not to give all of the context and arguments that people tried to made to make fun of them, lolz. lololol
SweetDonuts
Member
Oh, I must be remembering what Aonuma and Miyamoto said very wrongly, but I think horses not running into trees is still there (if you let go of the control stick).
Can't believe that was 2014!
Lord Ghirahim
Member
77 hours to go, still no preload info.
This is Zelda week. IT'S HERE.
